The Rooted Reinvention: Recent Episodes
Katy-Rose
We are told to reinvent ourselves by starting from scratch. But the roots of who you are already wait under the layers of ‘shoulds’ the world has given us. Katy Rose, MSc, teaches reinventors how to reinvent themselves without burning their life down, or burning themselves out. Because being yourself doesn’t need to feel so damn hard™. If you are tired of all the quick fixes, seek a “new you”, or want to level up your life, without losing everything you’ve worked to create, this is for you.
My entire journey as a lifelong learner and soul searcher has been fuelled by feeling ‘broken.’
Reading Untamed by Glennon Doyle last year really hit me, and an article by Terri Cole a couple of months ago have been adding together in my brain as I deal with some personal transition.
This episode is a reminder to myself as well as you that we are not broken because they tell us we should be/feel/do differently.
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“Broken means: does not function as it was designed to function. A broken human is one who does not function the way humans are designed to function. We all seem to function in the exact same way” - UNTAMED – Glennon Doyle ~
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– How to Understand the Void After a Lifetime of Depression – Untamed by Glennon Doyle
– Life is Allowed to be Hard, Without Being “Wrong” | #31 – Terri Cole’s Post about Overfunctioning
– Human’s Aren’t Meant to Find Life ‘Easy’ | #34 –Share This Episode on Twitter
Visit the full show notes at https://www.rootedreinvention.com/podcast for show links and further information.
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I’ve been really diving into ACT theories this month, and one aspect that really got me reflecting on my work as a life coach and wellbeing practitioner is that of being willing to go through the sucky parts of life to reach the more aligned sections. Today, that’s what we dive into.
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–Motivation to Change: Willpower and Asking Yourself Why
– Life is Allowed to be Hard, Without Being “Wrong” | #31 – Stuff That’s Loud - A Teen's Guide to Unspiralling When OCD Gets Noisy
– The Problem With ‘I’ll Be Ready When’ | #32 – Share This Episode on Twitter
Visit the full show notes at https://www.rootedreinvention.com/podcast for show links and further information.
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This week marks the deadline of a writing challenge I have entered. And with this deadline, I’ve been thinking a lot about constraints and limits – and how they can be HELPFUL for our creative projects.
It’s also my birthday this week, so hai, newfound wisdom.
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–Why We Are All Creative (Without Trying To Be)
– Stuff That’s Loud - A Teen's Guide to Unspiraling When OCD Gets Noisy
–The Medium Contest
– Share This Episode on Twitter
Visit the full show notes at https://www.rootedreinvention.com/podcast for show links and further information.
Support the show (https://ko-fi.com/katyrose)
Last night Ember didn’t come home, and I found myself going down the unwanted paths of ‘what if something bad has happened’ in my mind.
This became a ‘part 2’ of sorts to episode 47 (and a free handout): https://rootedreinvention.com/47-on-edge/
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–'The Journalling Techniques that Changed My Life' Video
– 4 Quick Fixes For When You Feel Completely On Edge | #47
– Share This Episode on Twitter
Visit the full show notes at https://www.rootedreinvention.com/podcast for show links and further information.
Support the show (https://ko-fi.com/katyrose)
Being human means always responding to our changing environment: both the outside world and in our own thoughts and feelings. But that doesn’t make those hard days any less hard to manage, so let’s talk through 3 ways to get into the ‘flow’ of life’s river again.
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–How To Stay Amazingly Productive On Low Energy Days
– When Your To-Do List Achievements Make You Feel Guilty For Existing | #14
–3 Ways to Find Flow in This ‘On Auto Pilot’ World
– Share This Episode on Twitter
Visit the full show notes at https://www.rootedreinvention.com/podcast for show links and further information.
Support the show (https://ko-fi.com/katyrose)
The ‘silent’ to-do list items are often unconscious and thus hard to manage, or notice the true influence of. Here’s my take on it, with a few tips to consider.
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– The Minimal Mom Youtube Video
–Finishing Projects (for those who start everything) Ecourse (£49)
– How to Train Your Brain Like you Would Teach a Child
– Share This Episode on Twitter
Visit the full show notes at https://www.rootedreinvention.com/podcast for show links and further information.
Support the show (https://ko-fi.com/katyrose)
I’ve been in the self-help space for over 2 decades, and the most common theme I see is people have a ‘stable’ life: perhaps a steady job, somewhere to live, good friends and a family. But you don’t feel good. You set the same goals without feeling you are improving yourself. And here you are: going through the motions again.
Since we’re not taught to define success or our ‘end game’, we never know if we’re actually making progress. And we tend to feel frustrated and lost.
So let’s see how we can get unstuck.
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– Not sure where to start? Check out my Everything list.
– The Missing Piece in your Self-Development Journey
– Share This Episode on Twitter
– Sign up for the Rooted Roadmap and access 7 Free Resources for your Reinvention
Visit the full show notes at https://www.rootedreinvention.com/podcast for show links and further information.
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Life Balance is one of those highly-valued aspects some people claim doesn’t even exist. After all, how is it even possible to ‘balance’ everything? Food, work, sleep, play, health, family, friends, creative pursuits and that pull of that potential best self… It’s overwhelming.
The word ‘balance’ itself doesn’t just refer to things which are ‘equal’ but can refer to being in the correct ‘proportions.’ Eight hours of sleep may be an aim while eight hours of eating would be too much. Well, for me anyway.
If you struggle with knowing how much is “too much” to expect of the human brain, check on out the 7 Things Rule. If you’re ready to explore bringing about more balance in your life, let’s dive in.
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– Not sure where to start? Check out my Everything list.
–Finishing Projects (for those who start everything) Ecourse (£49) – The Magical Number Seven (Plus Or Minus Two)
– Share This Episode on Twitter
Visit the full show notes at https://www.rootedreinvention.com/podcast for show links and further information.
Support the show (https://ko-fi.com/katyrose)
One of the techniques I’m trained in is called the Solution-Focused Approach, and has a bunch of questions designed to help us see the possibilities and potential ahead depending on our choices now. There are 3 basic questions that underpin the therapy, but when I’m looking at that ‘preferred future’ we might be dreaming or visioning, this is the one I start with.
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– Not sure where to start? Check out my Everything list.
– The Company who I trained in SFA With – Want to Write Daily? Here’s How I Do It
– Share This Episode on Twitter
Visit the full show notes at https://www.rootedreinvention.com/podcast for show links and further information.
Support the show (https://ko-fi.com/katyrose)
There are some things that we can control, and when we’re feeling super on edge, here are four tips to help manage the physical sensations.
I made a download with the 4 sections which you can grab from my website.
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– Not sure where to start? Check out my Everything list.
– Locus of Control
– Talking with Your Fear
– Skillshare Affiliate Link – Penguin Video
– Share This Episode on Twitter
Visit the full show notes at https://www.rootedreinvention.com/podcast for show links and further information.
Support the show (https://ko-fi.com/katyrose)
June has been a hard month, and today I am asking ‘when is enough?’ and exploring why we can do the FODMAP diet to look for food intolerances but when it comes to our behaviour, we’re expected to only change things if everything is broken or at rock bottom.
“You can get a new pair of jeans and this doesn’t mean you’re mad at your old pair of jeans – that they may not fit how they used to, or you want a different feeling today… Change is scary when things aren’t broken.”– Tiffany Han
“The secret to strength is the ability to hold yourself up when gravity is pulling you down. And it doesn’t matter if you modified, or made it easier, or you took a break. You showed up and you held yourself up even as gravity pulled you down.” – Sarah Beth
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– Episode 5 of We Can Do Hard Things: Addiction Transcript
– The Tiffany Han Show – Episode 359 – The Dirty Side of Change
– Sarah Beth Yoga Youtube Channel
– Not sure where to start? Check out my Everything list.
– Share This Episode on Twitter
How much harder are you making your life? How much pressure are you putting on yourself? And what’s ENOUGH for you?
Visit the full show notes at https://www.rootedreinvention.com/podcast for show links and further information.
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This month has been a difficult one in my life, and thus today I’ve got a short episode about the importance of caring for our seeds as they grow roots under the surface, and a reminder that things feeling uncomfortable are a sign you’re growing as a human being.
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– Tiffany Han – Article on Free Time and Pausing to Rest
– Episode 34: Humans Aren’t Meant to Find Life Easy
– Not sure where to start? Check out my Everything list.
–Skillshare Affiliate Link
Visit the full show notes at https://www.rootedreinvention.com/podcast for show links and further information.
Support the show (https://ko-fi.com/katyrose)
Today I’m interviewing the amazing, wondrous Leonie Dawson, complete with swearing. You have been warned!
Want to see the unedited video of us chatting? Click Here.
We spoke about:
- How we are animals (and zebras don’t base their worth on the width of their stripes)
- Leonie’s dad, a North Queensland sixth generation wild bushman cattle farmer could join David Attenborough on Nature Documentaries.
- Using cognitive therapy concepts to undo the conditioning of the patriarchy
- Why Leonie gave up “conforming to the standard view of being a woman” after 3 hours.
- Considering how you want to prioritise your time and energy, to actively create your life
- Why your inner compass should point to ‘fun’
- How she has implemented life rules that work for her family, such as “this is a working home” and “my kids (age 7 and 11) both go to bed at 630.”
- Separating business creativity and personal creativity
- How television can be beneficial to our creativity and her current favourite shows to watch
- “Discerning between projects” by considering the value/quality of the task
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– Leonie’s Anxiety Balm
– Pulled to reinvent who you are but don’t know how to stay rooted? Take The Quiz.
– Leonie’s Course to Finish your ‘Effing Book (in 40 days)
– All of Leonie Dawson’s Offerings
– The Video of this Interview
– Share This Episode on Twitter
Visit the full show notes at https://www.rootedreinvention.com/podcast for show links and further information.
Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/krgreen)
You may have heard of Pavlov’s Dog Experiment, and this tells us about how the brain works. I discovered Neurolinguistic Programming as a child and apparently I’ve been accidentally using this technique for decades. Today I share how you can use this superpower of the mind-body connection.
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– The book I discovered NLP through – A summary of Anchoring
– Dr James Gordon on Trauma – Not sure where to start? Check out my Everything list.
Visit the full show notes at https://www.rootedreinvention.com/podcast for show links and further information.
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I had so many plans for this weekend, getting my todo list done. I did all the “correct things” and yet, I didn’t even begin a lot of them. We’re officially now in June – 5 months into 2021, and it’s okay if you’re not where you expected yourself to be by now.
Today I talk about my foray back into rock-climbing after 4 years, and how I had to adjust my own expectations.
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– Pulled to reinvent who you are but don’t know how to stay rooted? Take The Quiz.
–Skillshare Affiliate Link
– Not sure where to start? Check out my Everything list.
- Episode 36: Our Inner Stories: Knowledge Alone is Not Enough
Visit the full show notes at https://www.rootedreinvention.com/podcast for show links and further information.
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I’ve had 3 separate conversations about how I manage my ‘life-projects’ and having all the different interests I do. Today, I share one of the foundations to my success: the rule of “7.”
If you want to know more about Miller’s Law, my Finish What You Start (For Once) ecourse, or how you can reinvent yourself from the roots of who you already are, check out the show-notes.
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– Not sure where to start? Check out my Everything list.
- Finishing Projects (for those who start everything) Ecourse (£49)-The Magical Number Seven (Plus Or Minus Two)
Visit the full show notes at https://www.rootedreinvention.com/podcast for show links and further information.
Support the show (https://ko-fi.com/katyrose)
Questions to Ask about Integrity When you’re Struggling | #40
This week I’m exploring ‘integrity’ and how this value can help us understand our decisions and how experimenting with tiny acts of integrity can aid us in living from our rooted self.
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– Tiffany Han – Not sure where to start? Check out my Everything list.
– Pulled to reinvent who you are but don’t know how to stay rooted? Take The Quiz.– Lessons in Being a Scientist from CBT | Podcast Episode #04
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I’m not 100% well this week, and I’m angry about the political landscape in the UK right now. So today, let’s explore how to handle an emotional whirlwind in the moment, and my 3 main strategies for looking after myself and processing strong emotions.
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– Not sure where to start? Check out my Everything list.
–Struggle to finish your projects? Want to know more about my ‘6 projects’ rule? Check out my course here.
– Pulled to reinvent who you are but don’t know how to stay rooted? Take The Quiz.
–Skillshare Affiliate LinkVisit the full show notes at https://www.rootedreinvention.com/podcast for show links and further information.
Happy May.April was a month of experimenting around my productivity and perfectionism, and I must say I was surprised with my results, and let’s just say, I have no idea what I’ll be doing in May.
If you’ve ever wondered what reflecting on an experiment is like “in real life” this is at least a glimpse into the process I use.
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- ‘Its Gonna Be May’ NSYNC cover by Jonathan Young
– Not sure where to start? Check out my Everything list.
- Struggle to finish your projects? Want to know more about my ‘6 projects’ rule? Check out my course here.
Visit the full show notes at https://www.rootedreinvention.com/podcast for show links and further information.
A month ago, my old best friend from my teens contacted me, and it’s been a grand month of reconnecting, learning who we both are now, over 15 years later, and reflecting on who we were and the paths we’ve taken.
Since we were both teenagers back then, and have an interest in human psychology, we’ve had a lot of discussions about emotions and how our understanding of managing them has shifted over the past two decades. So today, I figured why not talk a little bit about those observations.
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– Not sure where to start? Check out my Everything list.
– Lessons from Anger Management: The Strength of Commitment
– Article on Emotions and Suicide (TW)
Visit the show notes at https://www.rootedreinvention.com/podcast for show links and further information.
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Our experiences are neutral; it’s the stories we tell about them which causes us to feel positively or negatively toward them. I share a few tips from a book I recently read, and talk about despite being an ‘expert’ in some aspects ( according to some people), I’m still human, and knowing the right thing to do isn’t always (or actually, most of the time) enough to guide our behaviour.
|| LINKS MENTIONED|| - My Goodreads Page (including review for The Illustrated Happiness Trap)
- 3 Techniques to Stop Making Your Life So Damn Difficult
- Want to get emails from me twice a month? Sign-up for your free Rooted Roadmap here.
- Struggle to finish your projects and know that energy is part of that? Check out this course.
- Skillshare Affiliate Link
Visit the full show notes at https://www.rootedreinvention.com/podcast for show links and further information.
Support the show (https://ko-fi.com/katyrose)
As the 35th Episode of this podcast, I rant about how millennials don’t have the luxury of a stable sense of identity. Ember’s bell can be heard throughout the beginning half and I decided to just share the rant as it is – high speed cat chases and all.
We are driven by our core beliefs because nothing else made sense. We didn't have anything else to be out compass. We can only trust ourselves yet were never taught how to trust ourselves when we're still being told to trust the world around us.
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- Pulled to reinvent who you are but don’t know how to stay rooted? Take The Quiz.
- Skillshare Affiliate Link - Struggle to finish your projects and know that energy is part of that? Check out this course.
- Episode 33: Courage, Comfort Zones, & Mixed Feelings - Episode 34: Humans Aren’t Meant to Find Life Easy
– Not sure where to start? Check out my Everything list.
Visit the full show notes at https://www.rootedreinvention.com/podcast for show links and further information.
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We’ve had storytelling in our DNA for millennia, and there are some key teachings I want to discuss today. There is a core truth that life is difficult but worth it. It’s not meant to be easy.
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- The Video Game Lessons Inspiration Image- Want my free tips on reinventing yourself from your roots? Sign up for the Reinvention Roadmap here.
- A TED talk about how video game theory can help us reach our goalsVisit the full show notes at https://www.rootedreinvention.com/podcast for show links and further information.
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Here in the UK, lockdown is beginning to ease, and it’s raising some thoughts about comfort, courage, and anxieties. Beyond that, about how it is to be human, and to have mixed emotions about our life.
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- Not sure where to start? Check out my Everything list.
- Struggle to finish your projects and know that energy is part of that? Check out this course.
- 5 Ways to Set Goals You Might Actually Accomplish (free article)
- Join my list to find out when community doors re-open
- Skillshare Affiliate Link
Visit the full show notes at https://www.rootedreinvention.com/podcast for show links and further information.
Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/krgreen)
I spoke with someone this weekend about the pull of “I’m not ready yet” and how we block ourselves off from progress by saying to ourselves “I’ll be ready when X happens.” I explore this pull and where it comes from, and also how it doesn’t serve us… as well as what I’m now finally doing to move through the obstacle.
|| LINKS MENTIONED||- My Interview on Crafty Ass Female in 2019
- Join my list to find out when community doors re-open
- Skillshare Affiliate Link
- Struggle to finish your projects and know that energy is part of that? Check out this course.
- The 3 Beliefs Holding You Back From Reinventing Yourself
Visit the full show notes at https://www.rootedreinvention.com/podcast for show links and further information.
Life is not easy, and it’s not meant to be. And sometimes the best person to help is someone climbing their own mountain.
We all have a narrator inside our heads, we all get stuck in inertia, and we all have hard feelings. You don’t need to like it, to change it, or to pressure yourself to feel differently.
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- The Two Mountain Metaphor
- Join my list to find out when community doors re-open - Struggle to finish your projects and know that energy is part of that? Check out this course.
Visit the full show notes at https://www.rootedreinvention.com/podcast for show links and further information.
Support the show (https://ko-fi.com/katyrose)
I view energy like a battery being charged and drained. One of the first steps in my free roadmap is actually to consider how your energy levels change throughout the day.
I had the idea of starting a community forum space a decade ago, and it’s taken a bit of to and fro before I prioritised making it happen. Which has been a reminder of that core motivational energy and the importance of managing your time.
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- Want to grab the free Roadmap, complete with journal prompts. Click here.
- Struggle to finish your projects and know that energy is part of that? Check out this course.
- Join my list to find out when community doors re-open
Visit the full show notes at https://www.rootedreinvention.com/podcast for show links and further information.
I mentioned last week that I’ve been exploring my wild delight, that natural sense of joy… and that one of the things I explored was SkilllShare.
I took an art class on there and found myself joining the dots for using those lessons for things outside of just art: including learning how to colour in and about thumbnail sketches.
I do have a free trial link if this sounds useful for you, but there is no sponsorship or anything here: https://skl.sh/3jCHHiL
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- Skillshare Affiliate Link
- Want my free tips on reinventing yourself from your roots? Sign up for the Reinvention Roadmap here.
Visit the full show notes at https://www.rootedreinvention.com/podcast for show links and further information.
Support the show (https://ko-fi.com/katyrose)
The most common evidence-based treatment for low mood and low motivation focuses on refocusing on achievements. As a somewhat-perfectionist who grew up in an environment where academic and ‘on-paper’ achievements were highly valued, this treatment was not the right one for me, long-term.
In the last few months I’ve been exploring ‘delight’, 'play’, and ‘joy’ or ‘fun’ and trying to explore what this means WITHOUT achievement. Apparently, watching other people doodle meets that need for me, without doing any art myself.
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- Take the Quiz!Identify where you can pull on your inner power. -Tiffany Han
-Skillshare [affiliate link]
-Want to support me? Here’s my Ko-Fi link [ko-fo.com/katyrose]
Visit the full show notes at https://www.rootedreinvention.com/podcast for show links and further information.
Support the show (https://ko-fi.com/katyrose)
We’re 6 weeks into 2021, and it’s important not to ignore the impact of the past 12 months on how we experience things (and how this may affect our perceptions moving forward too).
I also share my own systems and current routines for managing the ‘new normal’ of lockdown, including journaling, physical touch with my pets, regular movement and the tracking of habits.
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- An article about delaying your first caffeine hit.
- The actual study it cites.
- Want my free tips on reinventing yourself from your roots? Sign up for the Reinvention Roadmap here.
Visit the show notes at https://www.rootedreinvention.com/podcast for show links and further information.
Welcome to the myth of either/or.There is a third way. It’s not that other things need 100% of our time and energy or we shut them out – it may be a 45-second hug, offering 5 minutes to see what your children want to show you, and then they move on and you move on to your thing.
I also quote a study about distractions in this podcast as "18 minutes" but having found the reference (see below) it's an average of 23 minutes and 15 seconds for us to get back to our task after an interruption.
Following a listener idea, I video recorded this episode and thus the unedited version with my cats on screen can be found HERE.
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- Blog post about Interruptions
- The Cost of Interrupted Work (23 minutes to get back on track after distractions) Paper
- Want to get on my mailing list without any free download? Click Here.
Visit the show notes at https://www.rootedreinvention.com/podcast for show links and further information.
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Inspired by the experience of a friend setting herself up to make a lot of different changes all at one time, I talk today about transitions and pacing yourself, including New Year’s Resolutions, and how to avoid Burnout when setting new goals for ourselves.
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- Free Self Care Checklist Download
- 5 Ways to Set Goals You Might Actually Accomplish
- Grab yourself the FREE Roadmap to a Rooted Reinvention without the Burnout!!
Visit the show notes at https://www.rootedreinvention.com/podcast for show links and further information.
It’s okay to not be creative right now. And it’s okay to be upset about your lost creativity.
Today, I’m discussing the frustration of not having our natural creativity, due to the high levels of stress we are under in this pandemic, even for those of us who have not personally been affected by the direct loss of someone through the Coronavirus.
And I share my experience of using vanilla milkshake on cereal. As you do.
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- Up for a fun quiz to help you identify where you can pull on your inner power? Click here. - The Truth about Resistance (NaNoWriMo) | #16
- The Finishing Projects eCourse (for people who start everything) Visit the full show notes athttps://www.rootedreinvention.com/podcastfor show links and further information.
Today we look at “what if?” anxiety thoughts, focusing on those “is this what I want?” and “what if I fail?” questions.
We ask more questions but also look at how to consider failures as being part of the road to success.
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- The Super Mario Effect - Tricking Your Brain into Learning More (TEDx) - How to Talk With Your Fear (Mine’s Called Kitten) - Want my free emails on reinventing your 2021? Sign up for the Reinvention Roadmap here.
- Self Worth Theory: The Key to Understanding & Overcoming Procrastination (TEDx)
Visit the full show notes at https://www.rootedreinvention.com/podcast for show links and further information.
This episode was recorded before last week’s events in the USA, and I want to acknowledge that this is not the first fortnight of 2021 most of us hoped for.
This episode covers having multiple reasons “why” for a change, and how this can fuel us (and how not having this energy can lead to failing). I speak about my understanding of motivation, a sense of progress, & that mental energy to take action and bring our goals to fruition, which a lot of us might skip in New Years Resolutions.
Visit the full show notes at https://www.rootedreinvention.com/podcast for show links and further information.
Ember and I explore my experience of setting a word-of-the-year since 2009, and Ember even shares her word of the year out loud during the episode.
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- Want my free emails on reinventing your 2021? Sign up for the Reinvention Roadmap here.
- Word of the Year - Susannah Conway
- One Little Word – Ali Edwards
- Glennon Doyle - Untamed
- Women Who Run with the Wolves – Clarissa Pinkola Estés, PhD.
- Earthing: The Most Important Health Discovery Ever? - Ober, Sinatra & Zucker
Visit the full show notes at https://www.rootedreinvention.com/podcast for show links and further information.
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It's the final episode of 2020. And I'm focusing on what things feel hard, when the path feels 'wrong' and when we don't know if this is the 'right' decision.
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-Want my free emails on reinventing your 2021?
-Episode 16 - The Truth about Resistance (NaNoWriMo) -Raise Your Hand Say Yes Podcast: On Being Enough (ep.347) -The Struggle of the Butterfly Story-Dabrowski’s theory of Positive Disintegration: Essentially his theory is that in the process of developing the self to full potential we have to go through stages of disintegration that can appear pathological to outsiders. We disintegrate in order to reintegrate at a higher level.
Visit the show notes at https://www.rootedreinvention.com/podcast for show links and further information.
Thanks so much for listening, Happy New Year, and leave a comment below with your thoughts!
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As we reach toward the end of the year, I talk about the importance of (and touch on some of the science around) crafting a life vision and designing how you’d like your life to be to boost your sense of clear direction and motivation.
We plan and prepare and review and check on everything… except our lives.
THE TWO STEP PROCESS:
-Keep a note / write it down/visualise where you are and where you want to be.
-Then ask yourself “are these daily habits taking me toward that goal?”
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- The Finishing Projects eCourse (for people who start everything) - Want my free emails on reinventing your 2021? Sign up for the Reinvention Roadmap here.
- 3 Techniques to Stop Making Your Life So Damn Hard
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I have a real issue with the 21-days-to-change-a-habit myth and I talk about that today, along with the first 3 steps to creating resolutions for 2021 that actually work for you, and will help avoid overwhelm and that grand sense of failure around the third week of January.
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- How to Use Psychology for Life Project Success - The Finishing Projects eCourse (for people who start everything) - Want my free emails on reinventing your 2021? Sign up for the Reinvention Roadmap here.
Visit the full show notes at https://www.rootedreinvention.com/podcast for show links and further information.
Support the show (https://ko-fi.com/katyrose)
I’m sharing a technique around ‘Narrative Crafting’ as reinvention is often internal, and in hindsight, this is us choosing where we focus our attention, and the impact of doing this on our lives. I also talk about my “yellow moment” exercise and how I had to reinvent my own perspective to use it.
Tiffany’s Quote: “The more content, fun, and level I am, the better it is for everyone in this household.”
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- Daylio - The Mood Tracking App I Use - Want my free emails on reinventing your 2021?
- Tiffany Han
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Happy December.
With one month left of 2020, and I find myself pondering creativity, resistance, national novel writing month, and my pressure to ‘complete’ achievements. Sorry if you don’t care about creative writing, I talk about it a lot today! Nanowrimo has taught me about resistance every single year.
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-Want my free emails on reinventing your 2021?
-The War of Art - Steven Pressfield -An Interview with Liz Gilbert -Episode 14 - When ToDo Lists Make You Guilty -My NaNoWriMo Profile
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It's the end of November, and that means the end of this year's challenge to write 50,000 words of new fiction in the 30 days of November. And in trying to 'get it all done' I've been thinking about the pressure we put on ourselves, following on from last week's episode on 'success'.
We are told to reinvent ourselves by starting from scratch. But the roots of who you are already wait under the layers of ‘shoulds’ the world has given us.
How To Use Psychology for Life Project Success
How to Finish Projects (for People Who Start Everything)
Tiffany Han (My Life Coach)
The Getting To Good Enough Podcast
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RambleAlert I’ve gotten good at showing up, playing the part, getting the ‘win’ but it’s hollow and during a recent conversation, my life coach called me out on it. So I shared the cognitive load, the pressure I put on myself, and the practicality of being dictated by the culture I grew up within.
Today’s Quote: “I'm not a shark, I won't die if I stop thrashing around for a minute.” #smashthepatriarchy #takeadamnrest #tadalist
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- Take the Quiz: Identify Your Personal Drive
- Ellie Di Julio who introduced me to the TaDa list tool
- My NaNoWriMo Profile
- What Is The True Point of Meditation
- Katy-Rose's Instagram (Meet the Cats)
- My article on self-esteem, guilt and proving myself... learned from a video game.
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I said I wouldn’t do this to myself again. And yet, I’m doing the 50,000 word challenge for the 11th year. sigh Today I’m talking about my love of the fiction-writing community, having multiple projects, and a little bit about how my writing process is part of my identity; and how I need that more than ever this year.
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I hate washing up. But the mental procrastination is actually taking more of my time and energy than the task itself would take. Today I talk about cleaning the kitchen and washing up and how I’m learning to just get those tasks done (particularly when they take up more time to worry about then it would to just do them.)
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Today, I'm sharing a tool to help manage overwhelm inspired by Leonie Dawson, who shared this question on her own podcast. She words it like this: “If ____ was out of the picture, how would you be feeling in your life right now?” I take this a step further and share how I've been using the question in traffic jams and after feeling overwhelmed by... what feels like everything... but actually turns out to just be a few key items.
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- Take the Quiz: Identify Your Personal Drive
- Leonie Dawsom - Podcast #37
- How to Unravel the Lie of Fearing Ourselves
I talk about emotional management, focusing on anger and our inner drive: why anger is important, how we are taught not to be angry and the issues with this, and ending with three 'getting started' tips for moving anger forward (and out of your body).
I had planned for this podcast episode to focus on 'doing something okay-ish' is still a way to make progress, and what began as trying to debunk myths about the "right" way to change your habits or improve your life, ended up as a summary of how to half-arse your progress instead of getting caught up in perfectionism.
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After having a lapse of my mood and progress in September, I share the ‘spiral’ concept, and talk about how as evolving-beings, we are never back at square-one, especially when it feels that way. I also explain my understanding of a ‘lapse’, and a simple exercise to stay in the present moment when we feel like we’ve just backtracked.
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Most self-help tools focus on teaching new concepts and skills, but half of the difficulty with reinvention of not understanding what we already know and do. Knowing that eating chocolate does this to my brain would enable me to make informed decisions. Did you know that ‘worrying’ is actually your brain working correctly? We are wired to problem solve, and we don’t know how much control we have over our lives because we are taught to suppress those natural instincts.
Today I talk through my approach of baby steps and tiny gains to cope with stress and exhausting days. I cover both the “traditional” and “healthy” self-help ideas, and why I let myself eat a packet of chocolate biscuits too.
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The first problem that self help books skip over with creating a 'new you' is that we are made of the old one. You don't want a new you. You want the you trapped beneath your expectations. We are told all kinds of things, but you don't want to be someone different; you want to feel like yourself, while being better.
|| SHOW NOTES || * Free Guide to Reinventing your Path * My Eat-Pray-Love reinvention discussion on Crafty Ass Female Podcast * Untamed by Glennon Doyle * The Middle Finger Project by Ash Ambirge on Goodreads * NLP for Dummies on Goodreads * 7 Days to a Magickal New You on Goodreads * Change Your Life in 7 Days on Goodreads
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We are told to reinvent ourselves by starting from scratch. But the roots of who you are already wait under the layers of ‘shoulds’ the world has given us. In many Western cultures, we are discouraged from failing. There is such a high price put on success and making that success look effortless, that any time we don’t reach our intended outcome, we feel bad for it. But we are wired to be scientists, and every step we take is evidence we can analyse and use to move forward.
|| SHOW NOTES || * Free Guide to Reinventing your Path * 6 Reasons You Don't Need To Know More on Medium
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Today I talk about decision fatigue, and setting up systems or algorithms to bypass the need for willpower. We often know which choice will make use happiest in the long run, but implementing it is hard in the moment.
|| SHOW NOTES || * Free Guide to Reinventing your Path * Stop Making Your Life So Damn Hard on Medium
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We are told to reinvent ourselves by starting from scratch. But the roots of who you are already wait under the layers of ‘shoulds’ the world has given us.
Today's episode focuses on being curious about what we've been subconsciously taught can help us make progress despite our own sense of resistance or other people's beliefs.
|| SHOW NOTES || * Free Guide to Reinventing your Path * Learn More About Resistance with The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
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We are told to reinvent ourselves by starting from scratch. But the roots of who you are already wait under the layers of ‘shoulds’ the world has given us. Today I talk about what a Rooted Reinvention is, why it matters, and introduce a little science of motivation to begin the journey.
|| SHOW NOTES || * Free Guide to Reinventing your Path * You Need To Stop Silencing Yourself on Medium * Interview about my journey & tips for reinventing yourself on Crafty Ass Female
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