Have you been searching for the tools to level up your life? Are you unsure how to turn your most challenging stories into purpose, power, and choices that work for you? Or perhaps the biggest question of them all: is it possible to overcome your negative thoughts, reduce your anxiety, increase your mental health and well-being, stand in your power, and create the life you have always desired? You are not alone if you’ve ever found yourself asking these questioning!
Welcome to The Get Your Life Together, Girl Podcast: a mindset and life revolution, where we answer ALL of these questions and so much more! Each week Cognitive Behavioral Therapist, renowned Life Coach to women, Mindfulness expert, author, and host Danielle A. Vann takes you on a deep dive through all things personal development, mental health, self-improvement, and just about anything else that keeps you trapped in your comfort zone, and “stuck” on the sidelines of your life. Whether it’s through unscripted conversations with women, just like you, who have walked through significant life events and have overcome or intimate one-on-one conversations, between you and her, Danielle hands over the tools she has used to help thousands own their stories.
By doing so, she reveals how to live a healed, mentally well, mindful, and joyous life. A powerful, purposeful person lies within each of us, and The Get Your Life Together, Girl Podcast is here to help you find just who that girl is!
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Is your life owning you or do you own it?
Big question, right?
After years of studying our experiences, emotions, and behaviors, there’s one thing that I know with absolute certainty and clarity, our personal history, our stories, have incredible, therapeutic healing power.
The problem is most of us do not use this power to our advantage. There is a tool that each of us has access to that is self-directed and requires nothing more than your thoughts, a pen, and a piece of paper.
What is it?
It’s journaling.
This week we are diving into a deeper form of journaling called subconscious journaling. When done correctly it soothes the soul, unlocks the subconscious, and opens the door to a genuine, non-judgment conversation with the self. You DO have the power to change your life by using your own words and life experiences.
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
01:45 The power of journaling and how we are not using our experiences to our advantages
04:35 A vulnerability moment: How journaling served me in my own healing journey
07:07 How journaling serves your personal history and healing journey
08:53 Listening to the urges around you. Sometimes others can see what you cannot
10:48 Picking up your pen is one of the bravest things you can do
13:57 How to dive into your subconscious mind
15:18 Looking at the subconscious impact once you dive in
17:52 How the ego acts as the voice (the spokesperson) of the subconscious
20:42 Rule to adhere to while journaling through the subconscious
22:03 How devices disrupt journaling
23:28 Return to a beginner mindset and how to get started
24:04 Step #1 Set an intention. What is your why?
24:54 Therapeutic journaling is not only for healing, but also for growth, too
25:48 Step #2 Set a scheduled routine. The importance of creating an appointment with the self
29:15 Step #3 Find your space
31:26 Start where you are right now and give yourself permission to meet who you truly are
32:44 Give yourself permission to drop into your feelings
35:17 Move into conscious thought to review what came up in your writing
37:04 Be willing to receive the wisdom of your story and words
38:11 Release a time limit on telling your story and how to do a Brain Dump. (For step-by-step instructions, visit the link or www.danielleavann.com/the-art-of-a-brain-dump)
39:08 How to create prompts that are self-directed instead of the generic prompts on the internet
40:23 Journaling techniques to try. #1 Springboard Technique
41:40 Technique #2: Inner Conversation with self
42:58 Technique #3: Stepping Stones
44:14 Technique #4: The Brain Map/Mind Map
46:27 Signs you are not in the subconscious
48:51 Other Benefits of Journaling
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In a world where challenges seem to multiply daily, finding peace can feel like an uphill battle. Hopelessness is more than just a fleeting emotion; it's an overwhelming state that engulfs individuals in feelings of sadness, isolation, and despair. In this week’s deep dive, we examine how our brains often fabricate untrue narratives that intensify these feelings—stories we tell ourselves about being inadequate or unable to change our circumstances.
Breaking free from this cycle by nurturing hope—a zest for life characterized by anticipating positive outcomes and feeling safe within oneself takes the emotional turmoil out of the picture. Instead of saying, screw it, it’s hopeless, you have the power to lean into hope through a few practical mindset tools.
Key Takeaways: * Understanding Hopelessness:
+ Exploration of emotions like despair, sadness, sorrow, depression.
+ How our brain creates stories that reinforce negative thoughts.
The Role of Hope:
Strategies to Cultivate Hope:
Identifying when your brain is lying; challenging cognitive distortions.
The SHINE Framework for Building Hope:
Stress Skills: Techniques like breathwork or activating the vagus nerve to manage stress responses.
Practical Exercises: 1. Create happiness habits by identifying simple joys in daily life (e.g., morning coffee ritual). 2. Develop inspired action plans using micro-goals (e.g., breaking down tasks into smaller components). 3. Engage in mindfulness practices such as meditation or gratitude journaling.
By becoming investigators truth challenging distorted narratives created within minds reevaluating approaches generating renewed sense optimism possibilities unfold before us even amidst difficulties encountered along way!
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Feeling connected to yourself and the five master areas of your life is essential as it shows the value you place within yourself. With disconnected, there’s a tendency to lose sight of who you are, what you want, and most certainly what you need.
That’s why you and I are taking a one-on-one deep dive into what it means to feel disconnected, and we’re taking small steps to take the journey home to the self.
Let’s get right to it.
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Intro
03:12 The 5 masters of your life
05:11 Disconnection and how it shows up
05:33 Why disconnection happens
07:16 Saying that we often say when we are disconnected
09:04 Holding space for the self is different than being emotionally detached
10:38 Step 1 in returning to yourself
12:43 Step 2: Date Yourself
14:53 Step 3: Self-Compassion
17:24 Step 4: Follow your energy
19:37 Step 5: Stop the negativity and nasty thoughts
21:32 Step 6: Give yourself “little loves”
22:28 Today is “the” special occasion, and that’s about connection
28:25 Mental and emotional dangers of disconnection
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What if you could rebuild your life from scratch? In today's fast-paced world, it's easy to lose sight of our personal truths amid the chaos, which also means we easily lose ourselves. This week we are deep diving into the necessity of confronting your current state of living with unflinching honesty. It's about understanding where you stand today without sugar-coating your circumstances—a practice that can be both liberating and daunting. In facing your personal truth, I had over 17 things I would personally do if I woke up tomorrow and I had lost everything or I needed to start over.
The steps listed are hard and fast steps needed to move forward, no matter if this is a total reboot or not.
The Reality Check
Self-Reflection and Acceptance & Rebuilding from Scratch
What Would You Change?
Steps to Consider to Start Over
Mourning the Past
Go Back to Basics
Identifying Obstacles
Breaking Free of the Rut
The Illusion of Age
Sharing the Load
Refusing Victimhood
Establishing New Values
Discovering Desires
Set Practical Goals & Intentions That Match Where You Are Now
Learn To Cope with Anxiety
Pushing Comfort Zones
Mindset Makeover
Embracing Failure
Learning to Supporting Yourself
If there's 1 thing that you could do, What would it be? Don't worry about failure., Just do., That's what I'm leaving you with today—Just do. Start where you are today and decide where you want to place your focus. Take control and live in a commitment to myself.
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In the latest episode of "Get Your Life Together Girl,"we delve into how we can ease the burden of life's challenges to rediscover joy and peace, because not everything has to be difficult. While most of us are busy living, healing, and experiencing the journey of life, we often focus on what's wrong (the 10% negative experiences), instead of looking at the 90% that's good. Recognizing this balance helps prevent feeling completely overwhelmed by life's complexities. In order to fully take control over your life, we look toward your thought patterns and how we can brain hack the patterns you created.
Brain Science in Thought Formation Understanding how our thoughts are formed is pivotal:
Negative loops reinforce themselves over time if left unchecked. Therefore, mindfulness about what thoughts we nurture becomes critical for maintaining mental well-being.
Role of the Reticular Activating System (RAS) The RAS acts as our brain’s bouncer:
By giving specific instructions focused on positivity or joy rather than stress or negativity, you can effectively reprogram your perception towards more uplifting aspects of life.
Strategies for Shifting Mindsets Towards Joy — the 90% Here are some actionable steps:
Concrete Steps Against Negative Experiences To counteract negativity effectively:
Strategies for Shifting Mindset & Promoting Joy Here are some actionable steps:
Identify Intentions Ask yourself these questions regularly:
Validate your thoughts against these intentions consistently.
Understand Triggers Recognize what triggers both your joy and stress:
Concrete Steps Against Negativity To counteract negative experiences:
Accept Support Break cycles of isolation by accepting help from others when needed—it’s okay not always being self-reliant!
Connect with Like-Minded People Surround yourself with people who reinforce positive thinking—they become anchors during turbulent times!
Engage With Feelings Understand your feelings deeply; don’t overcomplicate things unnecessarily—simplicity often holds clarity!
Focus On Self-Care Avoid harmful escapism like substance abuse—instead indulge responsibly in activities bringing genuine pleasure such as nature walks or connecting closely with friends/family members etc..
Allow breaks akin reflecting upon concept an overflowing wine glass—to manage healing without becoming overwhelmed completely…
Remember, what you think and what you focus on grows. You must be careful with your mind and thoughts.
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Feeling stuck is a common experience that many of us face at various points in our lives. Whether it's in our careers, relationships, or personal growth, the sensation of being unable to move forward can be incredibly frustrating and disheartening. In a today’s episode, we are delving into what you may be doing to cause yourself to feel and be “stuck.”
Understanding Why We Feel Stuck The feeling of stuck often stems from self-sabotaging behaviors—actions and mindsets that keep us trapped in cycles of negativity and stagnation. It's not unusual for these behaviors to go unnoticed until we take a step back to evaluate ourselves critically.
There are 17 Common Self-Sabotaging Behaviors: * Constant Complaining:
+ Chronic negativity drains emotional energy and perpetuates a victim mentality.
Giving Up Easily:
Ignoring Feedback:
Dismissing external perspectives prevents valuable improvements.
Excuse Making:
Focusing on reasons not to act rather than addressing fears or insecurities.
Overanalyzing:
Paralysis by analysis leads to missed opportunities due to fear of decision-making.
Procrastination:
Delaying important tasks results in emotional exhaustion and halted progress.
Overcommitment:
Spreading oneself too thin without boundaries causes burnout.
Negative Self-Talk:
Destructive thoughts drain motivation and foster harmful patterns.
Poor Time Management
Filling days with low-value tasks; perpetuating a cycle of feeling overwhelmed.
Short-Term Thinking
Focusing on immediate gratification rather than long-term planning.
Unclear Goals
Lack of direction leads to scattered efforts and minimal progress.
Neglecting Self-Care
Ignoring physical and mental health; misinterpreting burnout as dedication.
Lack Of Self-Reflection
Refusing to see yourself, your emotions, or your actions
Blaming Others
Refusing responsiblity and putting blame on outside environments, people, and actions
Avoiding Problems
Hiding or not addressing the issues in hopes it goes away.
Fear Of Risk
Being risk adverse.
Perfectionism
Holding yourself in place so you do not have to worry about things not meeting an unrealistic standard.
Overcoming These Behaviors To break free from these self-imposed chains, it’s crucial first to recognize them through honest self-reflection:
Practical Applications: Here are some actionable steps:
Start Journaling: Writing down thoughts helps clarify emotions & identify recurring negative patterns.
Seek Therapy: Professional help offers personalized guidance & strategies suited uniquely towards individual needs.
Pursue Education/Career Changes If Needed : Don’t hesitate making necessary shifts ensuring alignment between personal aspirations/professional endeavors
Evaluate Relationships Honestly Make informed decisions about continuing/ending connections impacting overall well-being either positively/negatively
Remember—the goal isn't perfection but consistent improvement! By taking small yet deliberate actions every day aimed at overcoming these detrimental habits/mindsets—you'll gradually notice significant positive changes within yourself/life circumstances!
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In the latest episode of the "Get Your Life Together Girl" podcast, we are diving into an invaluable tool I call the Growth Factor. The episode is packed with insights on how to manage those pesky moments that can derail your day and offers practical advice for maintaining inner peace.
Understanding A Common Problems We’ve all been there—those small aggravations like a rude cashier or traffic jam that somehow ruin our entire day. It’s not the isolated incidents themselves, but rather our reaction to them that holds significant power over our mood and overall well-being.
The Rule of 6 Explanation: Imagine having a bad interaction at the grocery store which leaves you irritated. That irritation could then affect your interactions throughout the rest of your day—potentially impacting six other people negatively as well as yourself multiple times over.
This ripple effect illustrates why it's crucial to control initial negative reactions before they snowball into larger issues affecting others around us.
Rule Of Six Explained: 1. A small event triggers an emotional response.
This response influences subsequent actions and reactions.
These reactions create a ripple effect impacting multiple people (up to six in this example).
This understanding shows us how a singular unfavorable encounter can potentially multiply into half-dozen sequentially impacted parties due to how things spread when we do not address them. The way to stop these triggered downslides of events is to look at the Growth Factor.
THE GROWTH FACTOR: The “Growth Factor” is looking for potential outcomes. If I lean into this emotion, this moment, what could possibly happen? When we evaulate, we look to the statement: “The energy that breaks you has the power to repair you." Your brain craves resolution; they need complete stories with clear endings—even if they're fabricated based on perceptions rather than facts! By consciously choosing calm responses instead of letting emotions run wild, we provide ourselves much-needed mental closure without unnecessary drama.
The question is how do we get there?
Practicing Mindfulness and Emotional Regulation Mindfulness is the key to moderating emotional responses effectively. By staying present and understanding that most people's actions aren't personally targeted at us, we can better regulate emotions and prevent unnecessary stress from dominating our lives.
Detailed Breakdown: The Growth Test Questions To apply this method practically, we turn to four critical questions under Growth Test framework:
What is this moment worth?
Is this how I want to feel?
Reflect on whether your current emotion aligns with how you wish to feel.
What is within my control?
Distinguish between aspects you can control (your response) versus those you cannot (external circumstances).
What am I hoping to get out of this?
Focus on desired outcomes instead of being swept away by immediate frustrations.
These questions guide us towards more thoughtful responses rather than knee-jerk reactions driven by fleeting irritations.
Enhancing Emotional Intelligence Through Practice A growth mindset balances logic with emotion—a skill essential for developing high emotional intelligence (EQ). By practicing presence and mindfulness regularly using tools like the Growth Factor test, we gain greater command over both ourselves and situations around us without relinquishing control unnecessarily due to heightened emotions.
When faced with heightened emotions:
Pause - Be mindful.
Check-in - Understand what you're feeling.
Evaluate - Is this emotion worth it?
Conclusion & Call To Action Minor inconveniences should never dominate one’s mental state; perspective matters greatly! Using this tool allows you to better handle your feelings, which leads to improved mental health overall!
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In today's fast-paced world, many of us find ourselves grappling with feelings of discontent, anxiety, or general unhappiness. But have you ever paused to consider that these emotions might be stemming from unmet needs in various aspects of your life? Today, we are deep diving into what unmet needs are, how they impact you, and the way you can course correct to help yourself feel connected to yourself, something bigger than you, and the relationships you deem most important.
Understanding Needs Our needs range from basic physical necessities like food and water to more complex emotional and spiritual requirements such as love, self-esteem, and inner peace. When these needs go unmet, they manifest as negative emotions—sadness, anxiety—and coping mechanisms that often do more harm than good.
The Five Master Areas of Life Categorizing our essential needs into five master areas:
Understanding these categories helps us pinpoint where we may be lacking fulfillment.
Signs of Unmet Needs Physical Needs: * Fatigue * Frequent illnesses * Stress * Brain fog
Safety Needs: * Constant anxiety * Trust issues * Paranoia
Emotional Needs: * Loneliness * Emotional exhaustion * Difficulty expressing emotions
Esteem Needs: * Insecurity
+ Self-doubt
+ Fear of failure
Spiritual Needs: * Feeling adrift * Lack of purpose
Recognizing these signs is the first step towards addressing them effectively.
Coping vs Safety Mechanisms Safety mechanisms are preventive actions we take based on past experiences (e.g., avoiding alone time with strangers after trauma), while coping mechanisms are reactive behaviors like overeating or substance abuse when faced with stressors. Both can become maladaptive if not properly managed.
Steps to Identify & Address Unmet Needs 1. Reflection: Examine areas causing frustration. 2. Listen to Emotions: Understand what your feelings indicate about unmet needs. 3. Seek External Insights: Consult friends or professionals for new perspectives. 4. Try New Experiences: Engage in activities outside your comfort zone. 5. Take Small Steps: Gradually address each need without overwhelming yourself.
We must emphasize the need for patience throughout this journey; understanding one's unmet needs is a complex process requiring gradual implementation rather than drastic changes overnight.
Imposter Syndrome Episode may be helpful to understand this process and how it may be showing up.
In conclusion:
Addressing your unmet personal needs isn't just about achieving short-term happiness but fostering long-term well-being through proactive steps:
1 . Practice self-care regularly . 2 . Set realistic goals . 3 . Express emotions freely . 4 . Build supportive relationships .
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Negativity from another person is bad enough, but when it comes from inside your head, it’s tough to hear! Your inner conversation, the monologues that run through your mind and generally right out of your mouth, can cause heartache and a spiral of negativity.
Today, you and I are taking a one-on-one deep dive into why how you speak to yourself matters, the toxic impact of negative self-talk, and then, we will talk about how to change the negatives into neutrals, then positives once and for all.
Let’s get right to it.
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Intro
02:03 If we are constantly criticizing ourselves, we create a negative mindset
03:07 What negative self-talk is
04:06 The levels of negative inner conversation & simple negatives
06:41 The impacts of negative self-talk
10:10 How the “bouncer” of the brain takes your negative instruction and uses it
11:29 Name your inner critic
13:29 Your brain has a negativity bias, which defaults our thinking
14:35 Moving your thoughts from negative to neutral
16:45 Step 1 in changing your negative thought pattern/conversation
18:20 Step 2
19:14 Step 3
21:23 Step 4
24:14 Step 5
25:32 Step 6
28:41 Say it out loud!
30:03 Visualization exercise to stop the thoughts
31:48 Next-level tools to step up your mindset game
34:09 What you gain when you think and conversate with yourself in a healthy way
35:34 How you talk to yourself is the instructional manual to your life
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In the latest episode of the Get Your Life Together, Girl podcast, we are kicking your excuses out of your mindset as we delves into the pervasive nature of excuses and their detrimental impact on your life. Excuses are an all-too-common human behavior that significantly hampers progress and personal growth and the excuses you make need to be addressed head-on to help you shift your mindset for a better outcome in every experience you come across.
This insightful conversation dissect why you make excuses, how they affect you, and offer actionable strategies to overcome this negative behavior.
Defining the Problem Questions That Matter Why do you act against your best interest despite knowing that making excuses is harmful?
Core Drivers of Excuses Three primary drivers behind excuse-making:
Consequences While making an excuse might offer short-term relief, it ultimately prevents long-term growth and success. The consequences include:
How to Overcome Excuses Actionable strategies:
Take Responsibility
Develop Self-Control
Practice self-discipline through small daily habits aligned with your goals.
Combat Procrastination
Identify deeper issues causing procrastination such as fear or lack of motivation.
Track Behavior
Monitor actions regularly using journals or apps designed for habit tracking.
Alter Perspective
View challenges as opportunities rather than obstacles blocking your path forward.
Emphasis On Lifelong Growth The focus remains steadfastly upon continuous personal development regardless end outcome expected. Acting unconditionally allows individuals grow beyond limits previously imposed themselves thereby achieving greater sense fulfillment overall .
Conclusion Excuses may seem harmless but are toxic towards realizing one’s full potential.
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In this transformative session, we are drowning out the outside noise, rejecting negative thoughts and behaviors, and embracing opportunities with realistic optimism. How? By betting on yourself, especially when it scares you the most! Betting on yourself often seems daunting; we fear failure and prefer comfort over risk. But taking that bet is crucial for success.
Let’s break it down.
Key Points Discussed: 1. Assuming Negative Thoughts are Wrong and how to challenge them.
Open doors to new possibilities by questioning initial assumptions about yourself and situations.
Worthiness & Personal Responsibility:
Embracing Failure & Risk:
Recognize failure as part of the journey.
Taking Calculated Risks:
Shift mindset towards potential gains rather than focusing solely on risks or losses.
Raising Standards:
Increase personal value through positive habits and decisive actions in pursuit of success.
Opportunity Mindset vs Scarcity Mindset:
Cultivate an outlook that sees potential growth in every situation rather than limitations.
Truth & Personal Responsibility:
Own up to one's role in their circumstances. – Stop blaming external factors for personal dissatisfaction or lack of progress.Examples of Betting On Oneself:– Continuous learning – Career changes or starting businesses – Committing to personal development – Prioritizing physical health – Investing financially for future independence – Strengthening emotional intelligence
In all of it, I share my personal experiences with limiting beliefs instilled during childhood and how she overcame them by choosing to bet on herself above average expectations set by others. In the end, you are offered a powerful tool to empower yourself into placing the bet. But, grab a piece of paper! You’re going to want to write this down.
In conclusion, do not just dream big, put those dreams into action regardless of fear or uncertainty. Those that bet on themselves lead richer, more fulfilling lives.
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Today we're exploring hidden opportunities – those gems within challenges that successful people leverage for growth in all areas of their lives: mental, emotional, physical, spiritual, and financial. We'll uncover how being specific about goals and seizing moments can propel you towards success.
You see, success is not a stroke of luck; it’s an art and science that can be mastered with the right mindset and approach. In this enlightening episode, we are breaking down the anatomy of success into digestible pieces so that you can apply a new approach for any transformational change.
The Blueprint of Intentional Success Imagine success as a complex structure—every beam or brick represents an attribute or habit cultivated by those who consistently achieve their goals. Unlike what many believe, successful people don't just stumble upon good fortune—they build it with intentionality and precision. This is the path:
Specific Goals Lead to Specific Results Setting vague aspirations is like trying to hit a target blindfolded. Successful individuals know this all too well; they set clear-cut objectives because clarity breeds motivation. When you define your destination in specific terms, every step you take has purpose and direction.
Seize Each Day Like It's “The One” that changes everything! Opportunity doesn’t wait around for anyone—and neither do those on the path to greatness. They seize moments big or small because each one holds potential for progress—even if it means stepping out of comfort zones.
Keeping Score: Tracking Progress Without knowing where you stand in relation to your goals, how can you strategize effectively? Regularly checking in on progress isn't obsessive—it's strategic. It ensures you're always steering your ship towards uncharted waters instead of circling familiar islands.
Realistic Optimism: Hope Grounded in Reality Blind optimism leaves one vulnerable; realistic optimism equips them for battle. By expecting positive outcomes while accounting for potential hurdles, successful folks maintain productive mindsets even when skies are gray.
Grit Over Glamour Every Time It’s easy to overlook gritty perseverance when celebrating someone’s achievements—but grit often makes all the difference between fleeting interest and lifelong passion-fueled pursuit through thick and thin.
Hidden Opportunities: Turning Setbacks into Comebacks Life will inevitably throw curveballs at us—in these moments lie hidden opportunities waiting to be unearthed by those willing enough to dig deep. Failures aren’t dead ends but detours leading potentially toward more scenic routes—if we choose resilience over resignation.
A Daily Practice That Fuels Growth Four introspective questions as part of our daily ritual:
By answering these regularly, we align our actions with our deepest desires—crafting a life script where we're both playwrights and lead actors.
Conclusion: Crafting Your Masterpiece In essence, success is akin to crafting a masterpiece—it requires foresight, discipline, creativity within constraints—and above all else—the willingness to find beauty amidst imperfections by seizing hidden opportunities everywhere.
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Have you heard the term “Inner Child Healing?” It’s a popular topic on social media, but do you understand what it is and the impact it has on a healing journey? In today’s episode, I walk you through the common misconceptions and provide you with practical tools to help explore your inner child wounds.
Key Points Discussed: The Impact of Childhood Trauma: How unresolved trauma from childhood can resurface in adulthood affecting our behaviors and relationships.
Four Core Wounds:
Unaddressed childhood trauma resurfaces in adulthood but recognizing these patterns allows us to heal past neglect or emotional pain. From ages 0-9 we learn safety; when this is disrupted without adult support, shame lingers long-term.
Carl Jung introduced "inner child" as part of our psyche linked to younger years affecting adult perceptions—especially after trauma which alters our sense of security.
Abandonment makes us repeat cycles of rejection; guilt leads to boundary issues; trust deficits create validation needs; neglect causes dissociation from self-needs—all impacting relationships deeply.
Inner child healing involves confronting our deepest wounds—those feelings of being unsupported, unseen, or unheard. By acknowledging and working through these traumas transparently with ourselves, we open the door to change and happiness. Imagine accepting every part of yourself, including those neglected pieces craving love. This self-acceptance is powerful; it leads to a fulfilling life. * Healing Strategies:
Tools for Supporting Inner Child Work:
Hugging oneself as a form of physical comfort
Notable moments: "When we begin to acknowledge our hurts…we open the door to connect with ourselves."
"Every time we get to a new place [in healing], it’s likely that you open something else."
"…inner child healing is about identifying the core wounds where we didn't feel supported, seen or heard…"
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We are exploring balance – how it impacts every aspect of our lives and finding a version that suits you. We dive in with work-life balance expert Alison Mandell, who shares her journey from an unfulfilled executive producer to discovering true harmony between personal satisfaction and professional success.
Alison opens up about her past struggles and reflects on the pivotal moment she chose authenticity over external validation—a decision that led her down a path of profound change. discuss practical steps towards balance like starting your day phone-free to cultivate presence before facing daily demands. It's not just about time management but aligning actions with internal values for joy-filled days that feel genuinely yours.
KEY TAKEAWAYS: Realizing no one else will save you; it’s time for change. – The power of envisioning future outcomes if no changes are made.
Defining Balance:
True balance stems from self-belonging and an inner knowing that aligns with your flow of life rather than fitting into prescribed ratios or schedules.
The Experience of Time: – Discusses how time feels different when rooted in the self versus caught up in reaction mode or chasing after tasks.
Practical Advice for Creating Balance: – Emphasizes starting the day without checking your phone as a way to keep centered before letting the world in through social media or emails.
Self Advocacy at Work: – Differentiating between reacting out of frustration versus advocating based on understanding what you truly want out of your career and life.
SHIFTING AWAY FROM SOCIETAL VALIDATION Our culture often equates productivity with worthiness, but Allison challenges this notion head-on. She advocates for compassionate shifts towards living genuinely rather than adhering strictly to discipline as the path to balance.
MINDFULNESS OVER TECHNOLOGY One practical tip she shares is starting your day phone-free—a small change that can have a big impact on stress levels and inner peace.
SUSTAINABLE CHANGES FOR LASTING IMPACT A reminded that it's not about overhauling your entire routine overnight; it's those incremental changes that cultivate presence over reactivity—reorienting our days around what truly matters instead of external demands.
This conversation delves deep into emotional regulation within professional dissatisfaction while encouraging personal growth through intentional practice:
STRATEGIES FOR EMOTIONAL REGULATION: 1. Daily Self-checks: Begin your day understanding your current needs. 2. Facing Discomfort: Confront internal discomfort directly. 3. Grace Periods: Allow time before reacting emotionally. 4. Understanding Reactions: Identify core wounds influencing reactions. 5. Navigating Complexity: Time aids in reorienting emotional responses. 6. Micro Shifts & Joy Incorporation: Integrate joy-inducing activities daily. 7. Continuous Self-examination & Adjustments align with personal satisfaction.
APPROACHING CHANGE WISELY: 1. Avoid radical lifestyle upheavals based on fleeting feelings. 2. Commit to manageable steps forward despite fear or uncertainty. 3. Recognize stillness as vital in understanding oneself deeply. 4. View experiences as lessons shaping individual metrics of acceptability.
Ultimately, this conversation serves as an inspiration for cultivating balance by integrating mindful practices, setting technology boundaries, fostering authenticity—and most importantly—allowing ourselves the grace period needed for transformational growth without succumbing to guilt or societal pressures.
💡 Inspiration Alert: "Balance isn't just dividing time evenly; it’s also ensuring our hearts feel light." - Allison Mandell
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Sometimes our problems stem from taking things too personally. Today's episode is about learning not to see everything as an attack or personal affront. We'll explore how to shift away from negative self-talk often rooted in trauma and lacking emotional support. For those who are quick to feel hurt or responsible for others' actions, this one is for you. This tendency can lead to anxiety and stress which leads to low self-esteem. It's crucial that we understand the difference between what belongs to us emotionally and what doesn't.
We’re breaking it all down!
Strategies Discussed:
Actionable Tips:
To combat taking things too personally:
Challenge assumptions: Was this really directed at me? Am I being oversensitive?
Consider if feelings will pass naturally.
Improve self-esteem: Work on how you perceive yourself.
Reflect on insecurities: What triggers sensitivity?
Embrace positive aspects of sensitivity like compassion.
Practice emotional resilience by asking questions instead of reacting impulsively.
Don’t dwell on every situation; seek clarity rather than assuming the worst.
Remember that being sensitive can have benefits like deeper relationships but don’t let it overwhelm you—seek help if needed so minor criticisms don't disrupt daily life disproportionately.
Lastly, practice self-compassion by acknowledging feelings without dwelling negatively on them—focus on growth over control since we cannot dictate others' behaviors or reactions but only our responses.
Additional Resources Mentioned:
Positive Affirmations Course: Learn how positive affirmations combined with brain chemistry can enhance emotional regulation.
Empath Burnout Episode: Understand if you're an empath and learn strategies for managing burnout
After years of prioritizing others, you may feel too drained to care when they start treating you better. You might not believe them because it's different from your past experiences. It's normal but remember, self-awareness can change everything. Focus on what you want to feel and how you want to live.
Ask yourself if the approval of others is truly important or if apologizing constantly is worth it. Are anxiety and poor self-esteem defining your life? To move forward, don't take on burdens that aren't yours. Practice the tools I've shared; change takes time.
One key question to ask in any situation is: "Is this about me?" If yes, explore deeper; if no, let it go. Recognize that not everything involves us and owning that helps put our lives together.
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Let me ask you a question: What do you see when you stand in the mirror? Do you like the way you look? Do you immediately notice your perceived flaws and begin to feel upset with what is before you?
Body image is not merely superficial. It can be so intense that it dysregulates your emotional well-being and mental and physical health, while it creates a storm so big that you struggle to find balance, self-love, and inner peace.
So, today, we are taking a one-on-one deep dive into loving ourselves from the outside in! First, we’re unpacking the one mistake most women make when loving their physical form, and it’s different than you might think. And then, we’ll talk about how to change your relationship with yourself so that you can elevate your life.
This deep dive is filled with big a-ha moments.
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
01:49 A question that all of us must ask ourselves
03:25 Approaching your life from a mind, body, and soul aligned mindset & truth #1
05:40 The biggest mistake most women make when it comes to being at war with their bodies
08:22 Our thoughts impact our physical form
09:00 Releasing the tapes that play in your head—an example of their impact
12:15 Truth #2: If you can find reasons to hate your body now, you will always find reasons to be dissatisfied
14:53 The way we change the war is to access your relationship with your body
17:35 Truth #3: The thoughts about your body is the relationship you have with your body
18:01 What a scarcity relationship with yourself looks and sounds like
20:13 Positive thoughts support neuropathway change
22:11 Step 1: Challenge the narrative
24:15 Truth #4: If you genuinely and wholly believed the negative narrative, you would not have moments of positive feelings
24:32 Step 2: Reflect on your beliefs and values
26:38 Step 3: Move into the value of likeness
28:00 Step 4: Practicing body gratitude: how and why it’s needed
31:49 Step 5: Focusing on body functionality
35:04 Truth 5: Just because the world’s view on exercise and diet has shifted does not mean that your thought patterns and habits have
35:48 Step 6: Reframing your thoughts around diet and exercise to best benefit your body image
37:19 Using Approach Goals/Approach Mindset
42:20 A list of ways to stop the war beyond the steps
Challenge yourself, my dear. Because in the end, you’ll be amazed at how proud you feel when you change the narrative. And do you deserve to change the narrative; doing so is an essential step in getting your life together, girl.
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In this episode of the Get Your Life Together, Girl podcast we delve into the revolutionary benefits of slowing down for our mental and physical health.
This conversation was sparked by my own step back from constant busyness. The insights I share here are the ways I did less to gain more!
Key Takeaways: 1. Presence Over Productivity: Prioritize being present in each moment rather than ticking off tasks. 2. Mindfulness Encouragement: Slowing down fosters mindfulness which allows us to be more aware without judgment. 3. Gratitude & Contentment: Embracing slowness can cultivate gratitude for simple pleasures leading to increased happiness. 4. Improved Decision Making: A slower pace helps clarify thoughts for better decision-making aligning with personal needs. 5. Enhanced Relationships: By reducing rush, we nurture deeper connections with loved ones. 6. Health Benefits: Slowing down reduces stress on our mental and physical well-being while potentially boosting productivity through restorative breaks. 7. Setting Boundaries & Accepting Limitations: Recognize your limits and set boundaries accordingly without guilt. 8. Fun & Joy Importance: Make time for activities that bring joy as it recharges you emotionally and physically.
Silence Practice & Journaling Reflections: Utilize quiet moments for introspection; journaling can help process emotions like guilt related to slowing down.
Mindfulness Habits Establishment: Anchor points such as meditation or breath work are crucial habits for returning focus during busy times.
You are invited to slow down through the simple tools I applied. Step one: grant yourself permission. Listen to the full episode to uncover more...
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1200Do you ever feel like you are a different person to different people in your life? Do some people see one side of you while others do not? Or, do you ever feel like you struggle to express yourself fully? Maybe you knowingly hide behind who you truly are deep inside?
If so, you are not fully engaging with and living through your most authentic self.
Many women are on a quest to live a more authentic life, yet to do so, you must be clear about what being authentic means to you.
This week we’re taking a one-on-one deep dive into authenticity. First, we’ll dive into what it means to be authentic, then how it’s built, experiences and feelings that keep us away from it, and then I’m going to give you eight strategies you can use today to start living and trusting yourself and others with the most genuine version of yourself.
So, let’s shift our perspectives and our ability to show up.
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
01:40 What it means to be authentic
04:58 Why we hide aspects of ourselves and let go of our authentic self
06:55 Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson is the baseline to authenticity
09:42 If you have a desire to be more connected to your life, you are seeking authenticity
10:41 Authenticity requires vulnerability and how that challenges us
15:43 Why is it so hard to be who you are?
16:34 Understanding the Adaptive Self
19:05 Strategy 1: Get to the baseline of who you are
26:00 Strategy 2: Open a dialogue with yourself
30:53 Strategy 3: Making an active decision to be present with yourself
32:38 Strategy 4: Owning your gifts is a baseline for authenticity
35:00 Strategy 5: Speaking our truth
37:03 Strategy 6: Work towards daily actions of authenticity
39:00 Strategy 7: Allow yourself to gain perspective anytime you need
42:49 Strategy 8: You must love yourself
44:10 Bonus Strategy 9: Connect yourself within an authentic circle
46:19 Recap of the strategies
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Most of our suffering and upset come from how tightly we hold onto our perspectives as truths and the emotional, mental, and physical behaviors we cling to that never serve us, such as perfectionism, procrastination, negative self-talk, and avoidance. When we live from a space that prevents us from experiencing our life to the fullest, where we are closed to everything and open to nothing, we keep ourselves in a cycle that pushes against growth and ourselves.
There’s a term for this behavior, and it’s self-sabotage.
Today, you and I are taking a one-on-one deep dive into self-sabotage, what it is, and how it impacts us. Then we will move into a space where we learn to be observers of ourselves and our behaviors so that we may grow, find self-love, rest in inner peace, and fully thrive as the souls we are in our human experience.
So, let’s dive right in.
Key Takeaways
00:00 Introduction
01:59 We’ve all engaged in self-sabotaging behaviors
04:06 What is self-sabotaging?
05:18 Behaviors that show up when we are in full sabotaging mode
06:33 Signs you are self-sabotaging
16:01 Why do people sabotage themselves?
Episode 71: Limiting Beliefs
19:07 The four areas sabotage causes us the biggest issues
22:14 The type of sabotage
22:47 The impact of procrastination. Epi 37
24:51 The impact of perfectionism
25:24 The impact of self-criticism
26:00 The impact of resisting change
27:00 The impact of poor self-care
27:47 How to become the observer
34:40 Emotional scale and the importance when it comes to self-sabotaging
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1200Welcome to Pause & Affirm! This quick hit of inspiration is meant to remind you of your greatness, inner light, and peace!
TAKE A MOMENT TO RELAX AND ALLOW THESE WORDS TO SETTLE IN YOUR MIND, HEART, AND SOUL.
Affirming with me:
It’s time for some radical life ownership! My voice matters. My words matter. My emotions matter.I am the definition of strength built by fire and desire.
I am surrendering and welcoming abundance in a way I’ve never known possible.
I am everything I am because that is who I want to be.Every little piece of my soul matters.
And from now on I will not let one piece of living slip through my fingers because nothing will be lost again.
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1200In this episode of the Get Your Life Together Girl podcast, we are diving into the complex emotions surrounding feelings of invisibility. We all have times were we feel unheard and unseen; it’s a natural experience in life, sadly. But there is always a reason why overlooked and unheard. The discussion includes personal experiences with feeling invisible, the impact it has on self-esteem and confidence, as well as actionable steps to break out of this cycle.
Key Topics Discussed:
Practical Tips Shared:
Takeaways: There's no one-size-fits-all solution to overcoming feelings of invisibility, recognizing its root causes is essential for change. With these tools you can work towards internal validation while actively seeking connections where you feel valued.
Remember that seeking help from professionals like therapists when struggling with deep-seated emotional challenges is always a viable option.
Join us next week as we continue our journey toward reaching your greatest potential!
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Welcome to Pause & Affirm! This quick hit of inspiration is meant to remind you of your greatness, inner light, and peace!
TAKE A MOMENT TO RELAX AND ALLOW THESE WORDS TO SETTLE IN YOUR MIND, HEART, AND SOUL.
Affirming with me:
This is the last moment, day, week, month, and most certainly, the year that I willingly accept anything less than what I deserve. I’m claiming it now and refuse to go back on my word. What I deserve is far greater than what I’ve allowed, and that stops now. From now on, what I create and accept is written by my standards and no one else’s. This is my season of reawakening. This is the season of honoring myself. This is the season that I toss out the limits and unwind my anxious mind. This is the season of me, and there’s not a single person, feeling, event, or thought that is going to get in my way. As of today, I WILL no longer accept anything less than what I deserve!
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Welcome to another enlightening episode of the Get Your Life Together Girl Podcast. Today's episode is a must-listen as we explore the complex world of validation – both internal and external – and how they coexist in our quest for self-acceptance. We all seek validation—to feel accepted and understood. Social media bombards us with ideas of what validation should look like but remember it's both an inner and outer process.
Today we'll explore how validating yourself can reduce dependence on others' opinions. Let’s dive into why both internal and external validation are necessary for a fulfilling life.
Let’s dive right in!
Key Points:
Remember:
No amount of outside approval will fill you up if there's an absence inside; true fulfillment comes from syncing internal acknowledgment with positive external feedback.
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Welcome to Pause & Affirm! This quick hit of inspiration is meant to remind you of your greatness, inner light, and peace!
TAKE A MOMENT TO RELAX AND ALLOW THESE WORDS TO SETTLE IN YOUR MIND, HEART, AND SOUL.
Affirming with me:
I deserve to feel my best, and it's now my focus!I deserve the life of my dreams, and I'm taking daily action to create it.I am capable of creating everything I desire without blocks or getting in my own way.I am prepared to take advantage of the opportunities before me, because I deserve to do just that!I will never give up my dreams to make others happy, because I am giving myself permission to be happy!I am focused on me. I love me. I am strong. I am confident. I am grateful for my life.My thoughts are becoming my reality as I say YES to everything I am, have been, and am wildly becoming! From today forward, I am living a life of HELL YES, and I'm doing it for me!
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No matter where we look in life, there are expectations. It's when the expectations become a problem that we begin to build anxiety. How we deal with it can lead to our overall mindset and life satisfaction. That's why today, you and I are taking a one-on-one deep dive into expectations and high-functioning anxiety. That space where we look like we have it all together, yet inside, we can be frozen with fear and self-doubt. We're breaking it. All down and I'm giving you some tools. And tips to help. You win at your mindset and learn to set your expectations. While dealing with some form of anxiety. So, let's not waste another second.
KEY TAKEAWAYS:
00:00 Introduction – Expectations and high-functioning anxiety
01:40 The 3 things that most people come into therapy for
03:05 Definition of expectation
05:30 How expectation and anxiety go hand-in-hand and high functioning anxiety
08:43 The wins and loses of high-functioning anxiety
11:54 Safety mechanism vs Coping mechanism
14:16 When anxiety creates issues
16:00 How to cope with expectations
19:20 Dealing with anxiety in a healthy way – tools
22:03 Looking at your thought patterns
24:18 Grounding exercise – 5-4-3-2-1
29:25 Connecting to your body – breath, mantras, affirmations, talk to your fear
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Welcome to Pause & Affirm! This quick hit of inspiration is meant to remind you of your greatness, inner light, and peace!
TAKE A MOMENT TO RELAX AND ALLOW THESE WORDS TO SETTLE IN YOUR MIND, HEART, AND SOUL.
Affirming with me:
The old version of me is proud of the person I am today. I realize now how far I have come. I know that the weight of not being good. Enough and not there yet are self-imposed roadblocks that have kept this version of me standing on the sidelines of my life. Those sidelines are not covered in peace. They are battlefields tIhat destroy me from the inside out. So, today I'm making a choice, a decision, a choice to no longer stand there. I will no longer be hindered by judgment, fear, or lack. I give myself permission to be prosperous. I allow myself to step back and step forward and give myself joy. I am on the path of discovery that ultimately builds and rebuilds the very best of me in this whole, happy, complete life. Yes, those old versions of me are proud. I know today that I am a beautiful, wonderful soul.
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So, you play a number of roles in your life, all with expectations, from partner, mom, friend, colleague, child, perhaps sibling, and more. With so many roles, your attention and needs are often scattered, which can lead to you living in an internal storm of turmoil.
There is a path out of such feelings and behaviors. I sat down with mom guilt expert Melissa Peduzzi to talk about her method and tools to help mom’s everywhere show up as their best selves and create solid relationships with their children.
Let’s dive right in.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
00:00 INTRODUCTION
01:51 Why Melissa sought answers when it comes to mom guilt
03:52 Defining mom guilt
05:58 The Mom Manual – what it is and how you have one as a parent!
09:25 Creating a collaborative relationship with your children to ease the guilt
13:46 You cannot thrive holding shame inside of you
17:53 Allowing your children to be who they are without placing your expectations
25:31 A tool for getting out of the emotional responses that cause guilt
31:54 Tense and release is a great secondary tool
33:50 Pathway to personal freedom and solid relationships with your children – step 1
38:13 Step 2: Identify what you want to change
40:35 Step 3: Redefine the manual
51:00 Getting feedback from a grounded place
57:00 Melissa’s three
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Welcome to Pause & Affirm! This quick hit of inspiration is meant to remind you of your greatness, inner light, and peace!
TAKE A MOMENT TO RELAX AND ALLOW THESE WORDS TO SETTLE IN YOUR MIND, HEART, AND SOUL.
Affirming with me:
I am pursuing my needs by being true to each and every experience that finds me. In this truth, I allow myself to say no when I mean no. And yes, when I mean yes, I do so without worry or question that using my voice is wrong or makes others uncomfortable. I know what I want and I know what I need and I'm proud to finally allow myself to witness these fundamental pieces of myself. From today forward, I'm actively honoring this to its fullest capacity because I deserve to cherish myself in the same way that I respect and honor others with my thoughts geared in the best direction for me. I know I'm powerfully creating and I welcome more.
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Do you hold grudges?
While the dictionary definition of a grudge is simply being mad at someone for something they did, holding a grudge is much more profound. It’s this unequivocal anger that is beyond something. Healthy last week we talked about what to do when someone hurts you and not processing. Today, we’re taking a deep dive into what it means to hold a grudge, how it impacts you, and how to finally let it go. Let’s not waste one single moment and dive in!
KEY TAKEAWAYS:
00:00 Intro
01:45 What a grudge is
02:17 Episode 319: When Someone When Hurts You
04:30 Examples of grudges
05:59 Six common traits of grudge holders
08:21 The ways grudges are formed
09:25 Victim mentality is an open door to grudge-holding
10:30 Grudges energize the negative
12:30 The health, emotional, and mental risks of grudges
13:07 What forgiveness is and isn’t
14:27 Becoming aware of the upset – getting to the why
15:30 Some people are not capable of meeting our needs – asking for what we need
16:14 Tuning into the feelings – feel the triggers
17:50 Having a hard time letting go
18:18 Asking for a better apologize
19:15 A tool for giving yourself an apology
21:01 If there is a villain in the story, there is a victim
22:45 Change the thought if we have tunnel vision
25:15 Devoting time to let go – getting down to the facts
28:15 When you need to talk to someone to get help
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Welcome to Pause & Affirm! This quick hit of inspiration is meant to remind you of your greatness, inner light, and peace!
TAKE A MOMENT TO RELAX AND ALLOW THESE WORDS TO SETTLE IN YOUR MIND, HEART, AND SOUL.
Affirming with me:
I am capable of all things, in all ways, and in every single aspect of my life.Today, I willingly own my ability to show up and make this life work for me, because I AM WORTH my time and effort.
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A question was sent in asking how someone may identify repressed anger. It’s a great question, and the subject of this week’s Mindset Reset. While working with a licensed professional is the best way to uncover, accept, and process the things that make you angry, there are a few things you can do to help yourself get a jump start on uncovering what you’ve not yet worked through.
Learn more as we move through what repressed anger is, how to spot it, what triggers feel like, and how to move through it.
Repressed anger is a type of anger that you unconsciously avoid, deny, and hid from that can lead to mental, physical, and deep emotional issues, relationship problems, anxiety, depression and so much more.
I challenge you to listen and see where you fall in this scale of anger. Doing so is an essential life tool that helps elevate and reset your mindset.
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We have all been hurt by someone we love. Engaging in relationships puts you at risk of heartache simply by the nature of giving of one’s self. Yet, when this occurs, do you know how to get over it? Do you know how to allow yourself to feel and move on? Many don’t; that’s why you and I are taking a one-on-one deep dive into what to do when someone hurts you, and the steps you may need to take to get over the things that have caused you pain. This week is part one of a two part series.
Let’s get right to it.
KEY TAKEAWAYS:
00:00 Introduction
02:40 What it looks like to hurt because of a relationship
04:08 A definition of emotional pain
05:11 An example of emotional pain in broken friendships
07:52 First step in getting over emotional pain is being able to express yourself
09:34 Distance yourself from the moment
10:45 Continued contact with someone who hurts you keeps the pain going
11:39 Allow yourself to feel
13:16 Talk to someone who gets you and understands your feeling
16:50 All the elements of an experience are individual
17:10 The past is not always the blueprint for the future
18:45 You will not always get an explanation or an apology
20:16 Ditch the need to be right
21:50 Practice radical acceptance
23:20 Forgiveness includes the self
25:00 Asking yourself: Where is centered now?
28:38 What can you measure in gratitude?
31:25 If you want to love, you must know pain is possible, too
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Welcome to Pause & Affirm! This quick hit of inspiration is meant to remind you of your greatness, inner light, and peace!
TAKE A MOMENT TO RELAX AND ALLOW THESE WORDS TO SETTLE IN YOUR MIND, HEART, AND SOUL.
Affirming with me:
Today starts a new chapter. A new chapter of me. One that I write from the place of limitless love and the greatest and fullest expression of all that I’ve been, all that I am, and all that I am working to become. This new chapter is being written in an entirely different book now. A new collection of stories written in and through gratitude. This new story thrives in possibility because I now know that everything is possible and available to me. I am openly choosing this story. I am openly choosing me. This is my time, and I’m inking this day through self-love, joy, and happiness. I am a master storyteller, and I am ready to live this grand, healed, motivated, and moving story of me.
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Find a comfortable position and take a full deep breath. Let your body settle from the crown of your head to the tips of your toes. Allow tension to flow from you with each exhale you take. Roll your shoulders down your back, settling in a space that feels natural and relaxed. If comfortable, place one hand over your heart and the other below your belly button—feel your chest rise with a slightly deeper inhale, holding its fullness for a moment, and let the air gently slip away. Find the rhythm of your breath, moving it into a slower, easy, gentle, and effortless pace.
As your body settles, invite your mind to slow down, too. No matter what has occurred today, yesterday, this week, or last, remember that you can choose to hold space for yourself and honor what you need every moment. When you give yourself permission to settle in stillness, in the anchoring of your breath—in and out—you give yourself to release stress, worry, and anything inside or outside of you.
Take another full deep breath and let it go.
Slip away with my words, allowing them to guide you into a space of inner calm, the subconscious mind, the gap between where you’ve been and where you're going—that gap is the here and now.
Take another full deep breath and let it go.
We often forget that our lives are lived in moments, in the now. We allow yesterday to own us—find its ways into our thoughts, emotions, and actions. We bring forth broken pieces while we refuse to hold on to the good. When we are in the good, we easily concentrate on where we want to be—the goals, intentions, and the pieces that drive us forward while failing to remember that we need today to prosper.
The reality is each day is a teacher. Each moment has something for you inside of it. When we are unaware, focused on everything but the moment, we are likely to miss the magic in which is the key for our abundance, ability to thrive, the very opening of our purpose, courage, and highest, truest, most authentic, greatest self.
To fully claim your life, you must be IN your life. And your life is now.
Take another full deep breath and let it go.
Repeat after me if it serves you:
I exist and live in the here and now. This beautiful understanding reminds me that I have the power to live within this moment instead of all the moments that have been or have yet to be.
While my existence in this world, in the space I’ve created for myself, is the total of many things, my physical makeup, the people I’ve grown with, my culture, my community, education, thoughts, background, feelings, the past, in all of that, there is a universal truth, I am the embodiment of all of my experiences and each day offers something new to add to the whole of me.
Whatever I feel, do, think, and experience is done in the present moment. I cannot live in the past or the future. I may think about the past and plan the future, but the present is the only place my existence creates change.
From now on, my aim is to accept my life as it is, in each moment, without judgment, overthinking, or concern. Because what is, is what is meant to be. Everything I’ve encountered can be used for my highest good. Everything I know has the power to shift me into something better, into more in a way that pulls forth every lesson and action. The only way to do that is to make the choice today. Now.
Take a full deep breath and let it go.
In this now, I am shifting my mindset. I know that everything I need is already inside of me. I also know I cannot escape the past. I realize I cannot evade the outcome of the future. Instead, I intend to live with my highest value at the forefront of everything I do.
I am an intentional creator with the pursuit of my greatest happiness and interest at hand. This interest is my purpose—my reason for being. I am the author of my story. My mission today is to pick up my pen and write the story of now. Each page, each day, builds into a full life story that I’m simply not ready to write the last page.
I am no longer willing to spend all my time forecasting how the story will twist and turn or even end. Instead, with my heart, mind, and soul aligned and tied to each moment, I freely let go of any perceived limitations and move into a constant state of peace called acceptance.
I accept the now. I accept changes in direction. I am courageous in a way only the present moment allows me to be. I am building a legacy in the fullest alignment of my story.
Each time my acceptance fades, I will call myself home, back to the present. As I know that within any given moment, I can notice the many things happening around me. I have the power to feel my heart beating, listen to my breath move in and out, and feel the small movements of my inner and outer being. I will not push against discomfort. This is present moment awareness. I meet it often, but now I realize I have the power to live in it too.
Take a full deep breath and let it go.
I am choosing to dance with the now. I am choosing to anchor myself in the most beautiful place there is…today.
From today forward, my life will no longer be compromised by wishes, unreasonable expectations, or restrictions, whether self-induced or not.
I am living for me today. This step into self-awareness is one of the boldest I can take. I am the author of this life, and it’s the most beautiful opportunity I will have on this vast, beautiful earth.
Take another full deep breath and let it go.
Allow resistances to flow from your lips and say, “I am here to live my life as it is, as I am, and in whatever comes and will be. This is the state of change, and I honor this beautiful way of life.”
Take another full deep breath and let it go.
I AM
I am…Two of the most powerful words in any language. Words that direct our emotions and thoughts into movements that support us.
I am here, right now.
I am on solid ground.
I am here to live my purpose and my life as I see fit.
I am free to make my own choices.
I am writing the details of my story each and every day.
I am accountable for my actions and reactions in each moment and will not force the past to carry into my now.
I am in full acknowledgment that what is in my life is a teacher.
I am accepting of each day and each lesson that comes with it.
I am growing.
I am my legacy.
I am releasing what no longer serves me.
I am free.
I am here.
I am living in this beautiful place called the now.
Take another full deep breath and let it go.
Allow this understanding to be your guide. Allow yourself to seize the beauty of what is. Today is the day you let go and find a place of peace.
This clarity is yours.
Feel your breath. Take a full inhale as this air is your present. It is flowing through you. As you let it go, it leaves and enters the past. Every thought, feeling, and action is the same. It moves through you; the minute you let go, it’s the past. Your time is now. Pick up your pen and create a story, unlike anything anyone has seen yet.
Anytime you need a moment to come back to center. Repeat these words and lean into your inner truth: You are a beautiful, soulful being whose purpose is to create life one day at a time.
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What does it mean to be in balance? That’s a question many have been seeking the answer to, and more importantly, the feeling and overall life impact of finding that balance.
While there are many ways to get there, one ancient medicine and lifestyle may hold the secrets and tools you seek.
That’s why I sat with Ayurveda expert and teacher Emilie Berger to chat about balance and how our lives interconnectedness, mindset, body, and harmony are found and created in small, purposeful increments. Emilie’s insights and daily tools can change your relationship with calm.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
01:55 Emilie’s story and why
04:54 What Ayurveda is and its roots
06:42 Balance is a tricky word and life action
09:10 Balance through the lens of Ayurvedic practices – where to start
11:00 What it means to live seasonally and how
16:06 Daytime and Evening time cleansings that nourish the mind and body
24:55 How self-compassion and kindness can bring guilt into your thought process if not done correctly
25:45 Sleeps job when it comes to balance
27:57 Tools of Ayurveda
34:28 The importance of touch
37:44 The desire to be taken care of by the self and others
40:05 The self-assignment list
45:50 The resilience of center and balanced
52:18 Google the Ayurvedic clock and check out the overall benefits
55:20 Emilie’s three
To connect with Emilie, her website is the www.holisticinitiative.com. You can also follow her on Instagram or Insight Timer @holisticinitiative or by searching her name Emilie Berger. You can also find a variety of classes and meditations on Insight Timer.
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Welcome to Pause & Affirm! This quick hit of inspiration is meant to remind you of your greatness, inner light, and peace!
TAKE A MOMENT TO RELAX AND ALLOW THESE WORDS TO SETTLE IN YOUR MIND, HEART, AND SOUL.
Affirming with me:
I am an unstoppable human who is fearlessly and incredibly living her truth. The mirror of my life is a stunning reflection of who I am inside and out. My authenticity is at the forefront of every interaction, regardless of how others may react. I have this life, this chance, to give it my all. In this wholeness, I know I am to love, learn, grow, create, and live my legacy. I choose me with my entire being. I choose to sacredly live on a whole new level of trust without fear, love without judgment, faith without question, and joy without engineered perfection. I am a reflection of all that is good and true. Amen.
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Welcome to Pause & Affirm! This quick hit of inspiration is meant to remind you of your greatness, inner light, and peace!
TAKE A MOMENT TO RELAX AND ALLOW THESE WORDS TO SETTLE IN YOUR MIND, HEART, AND SOUL.
Affirming with me:
The world is filled with endless possibilities, and so am I. My true nature is passion, unbridled appreciation, joy, strength, and wisdom. As I make my way through this day, I open my arms and mind to new ideas, truths, and an elevation of my emotions because I know that anything is possible at my core. Most importantly, I know that I am possible, and my dreams and desires are too. Within possibility, I know that I belong in this world and am here to create scared beauty. From now on, I am aligning with this freeing greatness that allows me to know that what has been no longer has to define me. My past may have brought me here, but my desire for more will move me forward. I am using this desire and willingness to carry me into energized vitality for the rest of my days. I surrender what was and consciously become more. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for allowing me to meet myself in a new place of emotional, mental, spiritual, and physical well-being.
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We all know what a comfort zone is and live within it. But, have you ever really thought about what a comfort zone actually comes down to, how it impacts you, or the fact that they’re pretty much a dream-like reality that we create to keep ourselves safe? They are boundary lines that tell us what we’re willing to do and are not willing to do. However, everything can be pushed and changed when it comes to our comfort zones. That’s why we are breaking down ways to step out of our comfort zone, and everything we are talking about is something we’ve yet to uncover. So, let’s get right to it.
KEY TAKEAWAYS:
00:00 Introduction
01:38 Breaking down the comfort zone when it comes to brain
05:22 Why we keep ourselves in our comfort zones: 3 reasons and permissions
08:48 How comfort zones are helpful and how auto-pilot plays a role in them
12:40 A new twist on failure
14:52 Learning to trust the snap decisions
16:55 Escaping your comfort zone: Step 1
19:18 Step 2: Learn to observe your zones
21:07 Step 3: Pre-create the fear
22:06 Step 4: Create a plan
23:10 Take the plunge into action
24:15 The mantra: “Win this one!”
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Welcome to Pause & Affirm! This quick hit of inspiration is meant to remind you of your greatness, inner light, and peace!
TAKE A MOMENT TO RELAX AND ALLOW THESE WORDS TO SETTLE IN YOUR MIND, HEART, AND SOUL.
Affirming with me:
I will no longer apologize for my boundaries, investing in myself, changing and growing, asking for help, finding my voice, owning who I am, taking a stance, craving connection, and distancing myself from people who use my intentions for their benefit. I will no longer manufacture worry and stress to make others feel their best. Instead, I am loving myself. I am taking up space. I deserve to own this life, and that’s what I’m doing for the rest of my days. In fact, this is what I’ve been waiting for my whole life—the day I gave myself permission to fully be me.
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We live most of our lives in our heads, thinking, calculating, edging our way to the next, and in doing so, we often fail to be mindfully present and live according to our heart and soul connection.
Today, we make an effort to start the journey away from the mind and into a deeper, more soul-driven connection. I sat down with mindfulness and meditation teacher Fleur Chambers to talk about meditation, mindfulness, self-permission, connecting with the self, and what it takes to live in growth.
This conversation is such a thing of beauty. Let’s get right to it!
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
02:01 Fleur’s mission and belief on meditation to connect into the sense of shared humanity
04:25 What people expect when it comes to meditation versus the reality of meditation
06:55 Opening the floodgates of the heart and rejecting mindfulness
10:06 The benefits of guided meditation versus becoming silent in your own awareness—the benefits and why it’s necessary
13:21 Why Fleur thinks meditation is NOT for everyone and what your ego has to do with it
16:33 Where to start with meditation and heart-centered connectivity
21:24 Using meditation for chronic pain relief, the ins and outs
32:32 How purpose is found in the mindfulness of your daily life
36:42 Spiritual Bypassing and why it does not benefit you
41:02 An active tool: Opening the lines of communication
42:11 Red hot connection with the heart – how Danielle does it
45:29 Your ego’s job and how it means to protect you
51:25 Fleur’s three gratitudes
You can find more from Fleur Chambers on Instagram, follow: @the happyhabitwithfleurchambers or visit her website at: Meditation for Happiness with Fleur Chambers | The Happy Habit. You can also find a variety of classes and meditations on Insight Timer.
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Welcome to Pause & Affirm! This quick hit of inspiration is meant to remind you of your greatness, inner light, and peace!
Affirming with me:
I am offering the best of myself today, in all ways and circumstances. In this best version of myself, I am feeding my worth and strength through deep inner focus, positive thoughts, and a peace-centered mindset. Today when others see limits and roadblocks, I see opportunities and open doors. Nothing will stop me as I surround myself with the beauty of everything, including my radiant beauty. I love me. I love my life. I love all the things that are in it and are on their way to me. I welcome everything that is because today is my self-ownership day.
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Welcome to this guided visualization meditation to clear your energy and return to center. Find a comfortable position and take a full deep breath. Allow your mind and body to relax.
With breath, focus, and permission, tension melts away and your energy is cleared. Join me on this journey…
Finding center has never been so peaceful.
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Growth and self-love are not mutually exclusive. Loving yourself takes effort, exploration, release, healing, and understanding there’s more to self-love than self-care. And, while the effort to promote self-love has become a hot topic across the internet and social media, there’s also been a push to define and push self-love in a way that absolutely does not support your mental and emotional health.
Today, you and I are taking a one-on-one deep dive into what self-love is NOT! It’s important to understand both sides of the coin so you can best serve yourself in the long run.
So, let’s dive right in.
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
01:25 A baseline understanding of what self-love is
03:29 3 foundations to self-love
06:29 Love is always conditional
08:17 Other elements of self-love that must be present in our lives
13:10 Toxic self-love #1: Using self-love to hurt others
15:29 Toxic self-love #2: Disconnecting from quality relationships
17:54 Toxic self-love #3: Putting the lens of positivity on everything
20:10 Toxic self-love #4: Excusing our behavior and calling it self-love
22:21 Toxic self-love #5: Selfishness
25:49 Toxic self-love #6: When we put excuses in the way of self-work
28:54 Toxic self-love #7: Refusing to validate feelings when they don’t align with our own
31:13 Toxic self-love #8: Refusing to care about others or anything
32:49 Toxic self-love #9: It is not about pushing yourself to be more
34:55 Toxic self-love #10: It is not one area of focus while ignoring everything else
36:26 Toxic self-love #11: Refusing real life
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Welcome to Pause & Affirm! This quick hit of inspiration is meant to remind you of your greatness, inner light, and peace!
TAKE A MOMENT TO RELAX AND ALLOW THESE WORDS TO SETTLE IN YOUR MIND, HEART, AND SOUL.
Affirming with me:
I am nourishing my needs by being true to each and every experience that finds me. In this truth, I allow myself to say no when I mean no, and yes when I mean yes. I do so without worry or question that using my voice is wrong or makes others uncomfortable. I know what I want and what I need. From today forward, I am actively honoring both to their fullest capacity, because I deserve to cherish myself in the same way I respect others. With my thoughts geared in the best direction for me, I know I am powerfully creating the rewarding life I do deeply desire.
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Janice Q. submitted today’s Mindset Reset. She wrote: “I love these (Mindset Resets.) I’ve learned so much about my thought process. I was wondering if there were any questions I could ask myself to help check in and reset instead of just being a specific thing. Is there something more broad that could help me find that center?”
Great question! Yes.
The best way to check in with yourself is obviously through pen and paper. You can do it mentally, but let’s talk about some questions. Ten simple questions that are meant to support your mental health and help you regulate your emotions. This exercise is simple and takes less than one minute per question to answer.
If you give yourself a redirection point, you can create a mindset shift. These ten questions are how to do it!
Thank you for the question!
I challenge you to hold space for yourself and put yourself in the first position! Doing so is an essential life tool that helps elevate and reset your mindset.
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Fear is a natural experience in our lives. It can be the most significant piece of baggage that many of us carry around because it’s associated with so many things, whether it’s trauma or emotional understanding, failure, rejection, or not being able to get out of the limiting beliefs; fear can be a tornado that takes us down and keeps us from fully thriving.
In fact, you can write a life blueprint and give yourself a beautiful path. However, the minute that fear puts a wall up, a boundary around you, there’s not much one can do until you move through seven skill sets that help you get out of fear and eliminate it. That’s exactly what you and I will do today in our one-on-one deep dive.
KEY TAKEAWAYS:
00:00 Introduction
02:04 Fear is not always negative. Fear can be a positive motivator
04:27 Brain processes everything through patterns. Your brain can reorganize itself
Episode on Negative Bias
09:45 Questions to ask yourself when fear is present
12:49 Becoming an advocate for yourself against yourself
13:45 Tool: Thought Shuffle
15:37 Identifying the components of your fear
19:03 Neutralizing the components of the fear
23:03 Change your thoughts, change your outcome
24:18 Your fear is continuous
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Welcome to Pause & Affirm! This quick hit of inspiration is meant to remind you of your greatness, inner light, and peace!
TAKE A MOMENT TO RELAX AND ALLOW THESE WORDS TO SETTLE IN YOUR MIND, HEART, AND SOUL.
Affirming with me:
I am living a heart-centered life by choosing what best fulfills me. I am planting seeds of peace in everything I do. In this moment, I choose acceptance over judgment and compassion over the voice of negativity. As I pause in these choices, I take a deep breath and allow new energy to flow within. This is the energy of celebration—the celebration of coming this far, choosing myself, and investing time in witnessing the good. I am becoming more as I realize I’ve been whole this entire time. My growth is not because I am less than others; it’s because I deserve to witness my wholeness. I offer gratitude for all the beauty and light that flows from me. I know there’s so much more coming my way. And for that, I say, “Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.”
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When was the last time you had great sex?
When was the last time you thought about what you wanted in the bedroom? Maybe this seems like it’s coming out of left field, but let’s face it, when we are getting our lives together, we must examine and talk about all elements of our lives, including the physical.
I sat down to have a riveting conversation with Psychotherapist Brook Bralove, who is a certified sex therapist. Get ready for a conversation that will open your mind as we break down how to have great sex, the female anatomy, the value of bringing tools into the bedroom, and we lean into what it means to be willing to try and how being open to having uncomfortable conversations could lead to a great sex life.
So, let’s have a little fun…this conversation could have you finding a bit more connection and pleasure in your life!
You can find more from Brooke Bralove on Instagram @brookebralovepsychotherapy, and you can visit her website at Home - Brooke Bralove Psychotherapy
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Welcome to Pause & Affirm! This quick hit of inspiration is meant to remind you of your greatness, inner light, and peace!
TAKE A MOMENT TO RELAX AND ALLOW THESE WORDS TO SETTLE IN YOUR MIND, HEART, AND SOUL.
Affirming with me:
I welcome this day in the flow of deep appreciation. As I sit in this gratitude, I am grateful for the opportunity to rise and choose wellness, be grounded, succeed, and do as I wish in the freedom of growth and safety. My momentum, thoughts, and movement all lead me to the knowing that I am all I want to be. I offer zero resistance, as this is the surface of all I have to offer. I’m diving in, shining my light, and gloriously living at the height of my desires and dreams. I am claiming my wholeness as this brilliant day of potential unfolds. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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Welcome to empowering your inner light meditation. A guided meditation to meet yourself and witness your internal power. It is time to ignite your inner strength. That light that shines from within and brings your fortitude and resilience to its fullest capacity. Settle in now. Finding a comfortable position. As you relax your body. Allowing it to settle. Paying attention to everything that's happening within.
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How was your childhood? Half the people listening said good, and the other half shuddered. The idea of the perfect parent or family is a myth—as humans, we are all flawed to some degree. Yet, when we grow up in households that can be deemed dysfunctional, the emotional, mental, and even physical impact on our adulthood can screw us in ways we don’t even realize. Today, you and I are taking a one-on-one deep dive into dysfunction’s lasting and profound impacts. We’ll discuss how to begin the inner journey to release what is not serving you.
KEY TAKEAWAYS:
00:00 Introduction
2:11 We all have experiences from our childhood that still impact us into our adulthood
05:18 What lived dysfunction feels and looks like in families
09:00 What a healthy and functional family feels like
10:11 Traits of dysfunction
15:04 Trust is a struggle when dysfunction is present
16:15 Learning to lie
18:03 Avoidance is a factor in our adulthood when dysfunction has been a part of our lives
18:36 Approval-seeking is normal in their growth pattern
21:11 Anxiety and Intimidation are found in adulthood after dysfunction
21:55 Guilt and overwhelm are often seen and felt
22:43 Healthy intimacy is often an issue
25:58 Your attachment style could be off because of dysfunction
26:51 You probably learned that conflict isn’t safe
31:50 The nine steps to change
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Welcome to Pause & Affirm! This quick hit of inspiration is meant to remind you of your greatness, inner light, and peace!
TAKE A MOMENT TO RELAX AND ALLOW THESE WORDS TO SETTLE IN YOUR MIND, HEART, AND SOUL.
Affirming with me:
No matter what finds me or how things shift and evolve, I rise. I do so willingly, purposefully, and with mindful integrity. I know I am important, and I matter. I add vast value to this world, and no one will ever convince me otherwise. I will forever be more than my outer identity, and I fully own and cherish this understanding. It is safe for me to be powerful, no matter who finds that to be a threat or a mistruth. I am beautiful. I am worthy. I am a fierce, amazing, unstoppable woman, and nothing will stop me from owning my abilities, presence, and gifts. I live through the motto, “No one will steal my peace because my peace is not up for grabs.”
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Have you ever heard the saying, “You’ve got to fall in love with yourself first?”
Many women reject this idea, but the truth is, the longest relationship you will have during your time on this earth is the relationship you have with yourself. Therefore, nurturing yourself is highly important, and if you want to have a life that is together, abundant, and truly in alignment, you must put yourself first.
Margaret from Austin, Texas, wrote in and said, “Danielle, in the year that I’ve been following your work, I’ve been working toward owning my life and caring deeply about myself. I’ve made my mental health, emotional well-being, sleep, nutrition, physical activity, and relationships a priority. However, I still struggle to put myself first in all areas of my life. I know you’ve said multiple times that we must hold space for ourselves and our needs, but honestly, I still find myself giving more than I should because I want to be a good person. How can we hold space for ourselves without feeling selfish or guilty? And, are there ways that I can check in with myself to know if I’m putting myself first?”
Fantastic question, Margaret. Many of us need a matrix to know if we have put ourselves in first position, and that’s exactly what we will work through and reset today!
Doing this work comes in a few different simple and easy ways. As for holding space for ourselves, I love this is a focus of Margaret’s, and I hope it’s one of yours, too. For those that don’t know what the means, holding space for yourself means to be present with yourself, without judgment. It means you are willing to listen to your own needs, act from a grounded place of self-love, trust, and respect, and ultimately practice empathy and compassion. This is the essential act of putting yourself first.
And before we dive into the rest of the question, I want to touch on quote “being a good person” quickly. First, understand that being a good person has different definitions for each of us. One may think that being a good person means doing the right thing at all costs, even the cost of yourself. You know, doing things you dislike. Others see being a good person as not speaking up for themselves, or staying small to make others comfortable with their own unwillingness to take control of their lives. Others believe it’s living as you are and trying to do your best. There are so many definitions. The problem with being a quote “good person” is that we often do unkind things to ourselves while we serve others without question and without realizing the long-term impact.
The deal is this; when we put ourselves first in a genuine way, we realize that being a good person starts with how we treat ourselves. When we treat ourselves well, we have the ability to engage with others in a grounded and heartfelt way. We also realize that no one else will save or do the work for you. With this understanding, you also realize that you cannot be the one who does all the work for someone else. It’s that a-ha moment that you are the knight in shining armor—the princess who has to pick up her sword and slay her own dragons, right?
With that understanding on the table, let’s jump to the next part of Margaret’s question. Are there ways to check in and know if you are putting yourself first? And the answer is, yes, absolutely there are! And, to be honest, there’s a simple practice that you may be doing
First, I want you to think of yourself and your life in the first position. The first position is the “I” perspective. I need, I want, I am.
This is getting into a place where you do not see your goals, needs, and desires as something separate then yourself, but instead in the mindset of how this impacts me, and only me. “I!”
To help you know if you are in the first position when you are doing something for others, they would be the second position. Instead of “I,” this is the “you” perspective of point-of-view, so you would say, “You are doing this.” Or “Are you doing that?” This you is someone else.
The third position is the “he/she/it/they” perspective. So, more of a collective group.
As to ways to check in and know that you are putting yourself first, we literally tune in and turn inward in the first position.
Anytime someone comes to you and says, “I need your help,” you would tune in and ask yourself a series of questions. Now, these questions are mere examples. You can certainly change them and make them work for you.
But I may ask myself, through the lens of the first position:
How do I feel today? Do I have space mentally, emotionally, and physically to help someone else?
If your immediate answer is no, you must hold space and boundaries with a simple “no.” So often, it’s here in the thoughts of being a good person that we push aside the first person, go into the second position, and make the second the priority over your own needs.
You can also ask: what is important to me today? Do “I,” in first position, have an agenda that will help support my life in the short-term and long-term. If I push it aside, will this impact me negatively or positively?
This is a great way to check-in and gauge your energy and time. We often do not do so when new things are offered, and then we become upset when we cannot focus on our original needs.
A few other questions that we can engage in while holding space and keeping in the first position are:
What do I need to do for myself today to make it the best experience? When was the last time you asked yourself this question? Most people never ask this question. Yet, focusing on how you can engage with yourself is a powerful tool that serves your self-esteem, self-love, trust, respect, and so much more beyond holding space.
The next question: How can I best care for myself today?
This is a straightforward way to tune in, put yourself first, and become mindful of what you need and want. When I’ve worked with women, they have brushed off this simple practice because it seemed a bit too easy. But, after some time, they have engaged with the practice and realized that sometimes the simplest things make the biggest impact. What’s the other old saying, “You can’t pour for an empty cup…” You can’t serve others if you don’t fulfill your needs and desires.
As to how to hold space without guilt—saying no isn’t really about the “no.” Instead, it’s about: standing up for your own values, principles, and needs. It’s also about prioritizing what’s most important to you, as I mentioned.
Once you have clarity around what you want and why and then create clear standards around them, it’s easier to say no. There’s deep meaning behind the “no.” With that, you’ll feel empowered instead of fearful and worried, which allows guilt to fall away. More importantly, you’ll be focused on what you’re saying yes to, which will be your priorities and values.
The way to approach a “no” that best keeps you in the first position is:
#1 Delay your answer:
If you hold space, you can allow yourself to remove the pressure. This gives you time to think about how the ask will impact you.
You can simply say:
I need to think about it. Can I get back to you in the next few days?
Or I need to check my schedule. Things are pretty full right now.
Immediate answers often put us in positions we do not want to be in and fill our time with things that do not best serve us.
#2 Make a counter-offer if this is something you do want to do but don’t have all the time to commit.
Offer to take on a smaller role.
Give the person time to ask questions or connect them with someone that can better serve them. This removes guilt, too.
#3 Be firm in your answer.
Meaning, that it’s okay to start with No. You don’t have to justify your answer or your reasoning. Just offer your firm answer. Guilt comes in when we offer doubt.
#4 If you need to explain, keep it brief.
Often when we are trying to be kind, we go into depth justifying and opens the door for wiggle room. Instead, keep it brief. One of my favorite things to say is:
I just don’t have the bandwidth for that right now.
We hold space for ourselves without guilt by:
Being honest
Don’t apologize for taking and owning our own space.
And we are firm in keeping ourselves a priority.
Holding space is necessary. Putting yourself first is a necessity, and there’s nothing wrong with it. You can offer to yourself in all the kindness you do for others.
Thank you to Margaret from Austin, Texas, for the question!
I challenge you to hold space for yourself and put yourself in the first position! Doing so is an essential life tool that helps elevate and reset your mindset.
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What happens when two women with similar backgrounds do the healing work and then set out on a mission to hold other’s hands while they transition from a place of being stuck and broken to finding a level of healing and transformation?
Let’s get right to it!
00:00 Introduction
03:05 Lauren of Love and how she came to her healing journey
05:55 What self-gaslighting is and how it impacts us
08:50 How our programming and generational carry impacts us to the core
12:01 Being yourself no matter what the self looks like
14:57 Who are you really?
17:52 Finding play in and after healing
22:17 Energy traps within the body and what’s released in healing
28:12 Finding the light in the lesson
38:18 The clearing of the path once the trauma storm blows in and disrupts everything
38:55 You are allowed to yourself. You're allowed to have things that are special for you. You're allowed to be fulfilled.
49:50 Lauren’s 3 gratitudes
You can find more from Lauren on Instagram @laurenoflove, and you can listen to her podcast the Lauren of Love Podcast where you listen to this show. You can also visit her website at www.laurenoflove.com.
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Welcome to Pause & Affirm! This quick hit of inspiration is meant to remind you of your greatness, inner light, and peace!
TAKE A MOMENT TO RELAX AND ALLOW THESE WORDS TO SETTLE IN YOUR MIND, HEART, AND SOUL.
Affirming with me:
I am content with where I am today because growth and my experiences have asked me to see myself here. In this contentment, I choose to live in a state of belonging and potential. This is my commitment to myself, and I am honoring it wholeheartedly. I love my life, and I’m so thankful to be alive!
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Find a comfortable position and take a full deep breath. Take the time you need to become comfortable. Allow your mind and body to relax.
The present moment holds the keys that unlock your freedom from anxiety, from suffering, from anything that works against you. You can only feel free, peaceful, content, safe and happy in this now moment. This is all that exist. The things you dream of, and the things you fear are nothing but a thought and a feeling combined in your imagination. There is no future in which we experience today. When we do experience the dream we want, it will not be in the future. It's in the now. You have a choice of how you show up in the now, how you live, how you create happiness and joy.
You can bring your awareness to the present moment by simply paying attention to your physical body, your breath, and the sensations happening within and around you. Rather than allowing your mind to judge the experience and conjure up things that are future based, bringing yourself into the present awareness. Increase this experience and connection within your mind, heart and spirit. In doing so, you can center around a thought and the experience of grounded gratitude.
The world inside of you, your perspective and your heart, is seeking peace. But in order to have peace, you must find peace and to truly enjoy your life. Once you learn to master this, you begin to settle. In the now. Without suffering. And without having to validate yourself by other standards. But instead you begin to recognize your own words. The trick is to learn to use your mind purposefully and peacefully.
This is a space where your mind is calm. Allow these words to carry you away with the practice of the red balloon.
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Did you know that emotions are contagious? We’ve all burst into laughter because someone is laughing, or maybe you cry when someone else starts to cry, even when you don’t have a reason to. We all take on the emotions around us—which is a different spin to catching feelings…
Today, you and I are taking a one-on-one deep dive into how easy it is to become the emotional energy around you and how the negatives impact you. I’m handing over a tool to help you know when an emotion is yours to carry and when it’s not. We’ll wrap it all up with how to shield yourself from catching feelings we would rather not touch.
This is a different spin on feeling our way through a moment.
00:00 Intro
02:05 What catching feelings really means
02:25 What an emotion is
04:19 How Emotional Contagion happens and your mirror neurons
06:45 Emotions are impulses. They need a stimulus
09:48 You mirror other’s emotions/energy
10:47 Emotional feedback plays a role in how we show up to a moment
11:50 You do become the energy/emotions you are around
13:41 How other’s negative energy impacts us
20:49 Who is most likely to be affected by other people’s emotions
21:37 The life lesson in all of this and the questions you must ask yourself
24:28 A tool for understanding how much emotion you take on from others
28:55 How we shield ourselves from other’s emotions
30:32 A tool to help you know if you are taking on other’s emotions
35:20 Six ways to shield yourself
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Welcome to Pause & Affirm! This quick hit of inspiration is meant to remind you of your greatness, inner light, and peace!
TAKE A MOMENT TO RELAX AND ALLOW THESE WORDS TO SETTLE IN YOUR MIND, HEART, AND SOUL.
Affirming with me:
The old versions of me are proud of the woman I am today. I realize now how far I’ve come. I know that the weight of “not good enough” and “not there yet” are self-imposed roadblocks that keep this version of me standing on the sidelines of my life. Those sidelines are not covered in peace; they are often battlefields that destroy me from the inside out. So, today I’m making a choice—a choice to no longer stand there. I will no longer be hindered by judgment, fear, or lack. I give myself permission to be prosperous. I allow myself to step forward and live a life of joy. I am on the path of discovery that ultimately builds and reveals the very best of me that is happy, whole, and complete. Yes, the old versions of me are proud. That girl has seen the world through so many different lenses and built the fierce, beautiful soul I am today.
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Self-doubt is something we all experience. It doesn't matter what our background looks like, how good we are at something or lacking, self-doubt still has a way of finding its way in. Kendell wrote: “I'm dealing with self doubt. I know that I can get myself out of it, but it seems to keep coming back. I was hoping that you could provide some kind of information as to maybe a secret or a way to deal with self-doubt that is different than what I'm finding on Google.”
Yes! There are five secrets that can stop self-doubt in its place!
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What does it mean to be radical and relentless? Once you know the definition, how do you get there? Being empowered is a full life shift and action. I sat down with therapist Allison Guilbault to talk about how we can step into our power and become radical and relentless with small shifts and focused attention that create massive movements toward loving yourself.
Let’s get right to it!
00:00 Introduction
01:30 Meet Therapist Allison Guilbault and the work she does with women
03:44 The subtle messaging that you are not enough and how it changes the day-to-day behaviors.
06:11 Releasing ourselves from the subconscious messaging
11:21 We don't measure our success in life on whether we screwed up or not; we judge by what we do in the aftermath.
13:27 Women diminished compliments—switching the thoughts that cumulatively make our lives entirely different
15:32 Switching your inner voice to receiving
22:31 Putting the correct energy into actionable steps
24:13 Anxiety is a fear response, and often, we create it with our thinking and doing.
29:43 An exercise to help you witness the impasses in your life
38:55 You are allowed to yourself. You're allowed to have things that are special for you. You're allowed to be fulfilled.
39:08 Best piece of advice I’ve given my daughters
Now that you know what it means to be radical and relentless let me ask you: are you? Are you living with these two operations as the framework of your life? If not, and you need help getting there, reach out to Allison, me, or any other licensed therapist willing to help you move through the thing standing in your way.
You can find more from Allison on Instagram @anotefromyourtherapist and you can listen to her podcast: Becoming Unstoppable, launching on Feb 21st, where you listen to podcasts.
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Welcome to Pause & Affirm! This quick hit of inspiration is meant to remind you of your greatness, inner light, and peace!
TAKE A MOMENT TO RELAX AND ALLOW THESE WORDS TO SETTLE IN YOUR MIND, HEART, AND SOUL.
Affirming with me:
Affirming with me today, I choose all of me. I choose to recognize the power of my mind. I choose to take control of my thoughts and my feelings. And live through my heart. Today I am building a wild and beautiful life with the exact vision I've always had for myself. I know that good things are on the way to me because I deserve good things today and always I focus now on my hope. Of joy and change. Today I focus on me unapologetically and without wavering.
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Find a comfortable position and take a full deep breath. Take the time you need to become comfortable. Allow your mind and body to relax.
In life, we often face uncertainty, the unknown. The best place to go is not into a spiral of thought or shame, but a state of connection within the mind and body. To do so, you must find a state of relaxation and welcoming.
Allow this mind and body meditation to guide you into the deepest inner connection. The unknown does not have to drive your mind wind; it can be a state of deep peace.
Let this take you there.
Anytime you need a moment to come back to center. Repeat these words and lean into your inner truth: you have the power of self-trust to guide you through any experience that meets you.
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Three words: emotional self-abandonment—it hits you right in the gut. Doesn’t it? Emotional self-abandonment happens when you feel neglected, ignored, or dismissed by the significant people in your life, such as a parent, partner, or your closest friend. When the feeling grows large enough, it takes over and leads to feeling alone, inadequate, small, disconnected, lacking self-worth and trust, and many other negatives.
So, today, you and I are taking a one-on-one deep dive into why we self-abandon as we piggyback on feeling disconnected and staying with ourselves over the last two weeks. We are building a better feeling you.
Let’s not waste another moment...
00:00 Introduction
02:28 What emotional self-abandonment is and its root cause
04:49 Signs of self-abandonment
07:23 How people-pleasing is a form of emotional self-abandonment
09:34 Hiding who you are is a major sign of emotional self-abandonment
10:34 Abandoning your values is a behavior of self-abandonment
11:54 What lack of boundaries has to do with letting go of ourselves
12:43 Perfectionism is a major sign of self-abandoning
15:31 Self-abandonment can be a method of survival—remove the guilt, blame, and shame
17:44 Changing this habit, the why and how
19:45 Reconnecting with the self –step 1
21:45 Self-compassion is step 2
27:27 Step 3, saying no!
31:18 Morning to-do list is actually a self-assignment
34:15 Overcoming self-abandonment means to love the self
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Welcome to Pause & Affirm! This quick hit of inspiration is meant to remind you of your greatness, inner light, and peace!
TAKE A MOMENT TO RELAX AND ALLOW THESE WORDS TO SETTLE IN YOUR MIND, HEART, AND SOUL.
Affirming with me:
I feel the rumbling of change. As it fills me, I open my arms to welcome it in. With this embrace, I acknowledge its purpose to teach me. Within this acknowledgement, I move my mindset to gratitude. I say aloud, “Show me how grand my life is through the frame of appreciation.” For the first time, change does not scare me, it exhilarates me. It pulls me in and captivates all that I am. I ask myself, “What has changed?” It’s then I realize, I am rooting for myself. I am willingly and purposefully grabbing my life by the hand and leading from the front. With beautiful uncertainty on my side, I whisper, “Hello change, thank you for guiding me. I humbly and willingly allow you to lead the way.” My unknown is exquisite because it's unscripted. Today, I am holding the mighty pen.
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Anxiety in any form can be taxing. It causes more disruptions than shaky hands or overwhelming thoughts. Living with anxiety doesn't always mean fixating on certain fears or having this constant state of worry or distress sometimes. Anxiety is less conscious. Mary Ann from Oklahoma City. OK wrote in and said, “I'm starting to think that I have anxiety, but I know people with anxiety and what I'm experiencing isn't necessarily the same. So my question is, are there different types of anxiety and are there different ways anxiety can show up?
This is such a great question! Yes, of course, there are multiple types and even classes of anxiety.
Listen to hear the hidden ways anxiety shows up mentally, emotionally, and physically!
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What does it mean to stay with yourself? Those are profound words with even more significant life implications. Staying with yourself involves personal integrity and self-respect. It means understanding and standing up for your beliefs and values and not yielding to the expectations of others. It’s a trueness that is raw, deep, and unquestionable.
But how does one do just that? I sat down with meditation teacher and coach Jessica Amos to talk about the ins and outs of self-discovery, staying with yourself, and leaning into the practices that feed you on every level, not just the one we show to the outside world.
It’s a riveting conversation filled with drops of wisdom and practices to create a more fulfilled you.
Let’s get right to it!
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
03:20 How Jessica learned to stay with herself
05:12 What it means to stay with yourself
08:14 Discovery the ‘Shadow Self’
10:24 Using meditation as an aid to shift your life
16:51 Finding a sense of self-possession
19:27 Staying with yourself breeds boundaries
23:11 Learning to trust the sense of “I”
26:36 A practice to move into staying
30:08 The impact on the 5 masters
32:22 Jessica’s take on the 1 thing that most get in the way of staying with yourself
39:80 Go discover who you are staying with
44:48 A new spin on failure and expectations
48:34 Tuning in to the self
To stay with yourself is a choice—a beautiful witnessing of permission, intention, and action. The wisdom in this conversation reminds we never know everything and it’s never too late to learn something new.
If you want to follow Jessica you can find her at www.staywithyourself.com or under Jessica Amos on Instagram and Insight Timer.
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Welcome to Pause & Affirm! This quick hit of inspiration is meant to remind you of your greatness, inner light, and peace!
TAKE A MOMENT TO RELAX AND ALLOW THESE WORDS TO SETTLE IN YOUR MIND, HEART, AND SOUL.
Affirming with me:
Today I choose me, all of me. I choose to recognize the power of my mind. I choose to take control of my thoughts and feelings. I choose to live from my heart center. Today I am building a wild and beautiful life with the exact vision I’ve always had for myself. I know that good things are on the way to me because I deserve good things today and always. Today I focus on hope, love, joy, and change. Today I focus on me, unapologetically and without wavering.
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ind a comfortable position and take a full deep breath. Take the time you need to become comfortable. Allow your mind and body to relax. With an inhale, move your shoulders up toward your ears. And with a deep exhale, release your shoulders into their natural position—relaxed and free of tension.
Bring attention to that place within you that is calm, centered, and in balance—the place where your inner light residences and shines.
Let these words guide you into a state of relaxation, true understanding, and self-connection while you honor your journey and most profound truth—the truth that you are a masterpiece of light, love, infinite beauty, and peace. This light is your energy, your soulful, most authentic self.
In this understanding, you can claim all that you are and honor your inner light that has helped you rise above darkness, hard times, and negativity. If you are not willing to give your very best, life is not going to offer much in return. Within each hour, day, week, and month, there is a time for everything. There is a time for letting go of self-destruction. There is a time for building and growing. There is a time for motion and rest. There is a time for wellness. There is always time for whatever is to be. That is if you make and take the time, and that begins with honoring your very being.
It’s from here, this witnessing, this honoring, this deep claiming of yourself, that peace is felt and built. It’s from here that you rise above life’s challenges with grace and a mind that is directed toward the lessons and purpose, instead of any amount of discomfort and disease.
Take another full deep breath and let it go.
Building your life from your inner light brings your mind, body, and soul into deep alignment.
The truth is—you are light. Light is your true self. You radiate peace because it is the foundation, the baseline, of who you are. You are joy. You are perfection because your soul is on fire with beauty.
Take another full deep breath and let it go.
Repeat after me if it serves you.
My inner light shines brightly, and I always have the choice to return to this inner place of beauty, purpose, and my calling. When I live from my soul, my inner light, I know there’s no need to struggle because who I am has always been meant to live in harmony with everything within and around me, regardless of the circumstances that find their way into my experience.
As I honor myself, I realize that I am a soul having a human experience. This amazing understanding reminds me that I will never fill fulfilled if I do not honor my soul.
As I lean into my light, I intuitively know that I am here to make a difference and be in service to something greater than myself. It is my intention to build harmonious relationships, beautiful experiences, and allow my soul to speak in everything I do, no matter how the journey unfolds.
Take a full deep breath and let it go.
My soul has always been meant to express itself. This inner urge is meant to keep me seeking, growing, and developing in my greater meaning.
Who I am longs for a deeper connection. My authentic self knows that nothing can genuinely obstruct my journey as long as I endlessly renew my light in the present moment by witnessing and remembering lightness is my true self. I know where I have been, what I have experienced, has never been to break me. Instead, it’s been meant to build me. It’s been meant to marry my heart, soul, and mind in each experience.
With my attention focused inward, I allow my emotions to flow freely and my thoughts to become unstuck. I hold lightly to the things around me as I know this creates space for peace to radiate through me. When I hold lightly, I give myself permission to live in a state of change.
In change, I allow stillness. I seek it. I find it. I allow myself to receive endless support on every level. When I shine as a whole being, I lack nothing. I give all that I am. I purposefully shine.
With my shine comes pure joy. With my shine comes grace. With my shine comes compassion to see how far I have come. I am strengthened beyond where I was yesterday, two days ago, last week, last month, and last year. I will continue to shine while I nourish my positive light and continue to grow.
Take another full deep breath and let it go.
I will never again forget who and what I am. I will never ignore my light, intuition, and self-awareness again. And if I do, I know I can return again and again because this place within never leaves. This light within me is my home base.
The longest relationship I will ever have is the relationship with myself. I am home, and I will continue to feel that connection of home each and every day.
When I arrived on this earth, I was unbothered by everything before and around me. This foundation of peace is my space of restoration, recovery, and healing.
From today forward, I am seeing myself on the path to lasting lightness. I am embracing my truest self and honoring my authentic wisdom. I trust myself. I trust my truest state.
I am awake. I am living in the richness of my power. I release everything that is holding me in place. I let go of anything less than light.
Take a full deep breath and let it go.
Now imagine your breath is clearing your body of emotions, thoughts, of pain, of discomfort, and anything that keeps you in a state of resistance.
Honoring your light allows for new beginnings.
Honoring yourself allows you to be authentically, soulfully, and beautifully you.
Breath in peace and allow it to settle within you.
And exhale. Shift into your center.
Breathe in self-love and self-trust.
Exhale anything that is holding you in place.
See yourself stepping into the fullest expression of your light. See yourself as the greatest expression of you.
Take a full deep breath and let it go.
I AM
I am…Two of the most powerful words in any language. Words that direct our emotions and thoughts into movements that support us.
I am light.
I am whole and limitless.
I am in the flow of peace and harmony.
I am living a love story with myself.
I am giving my very best each day.
I am allowing my life to build and grow in the foundation of my light.
I am mentally, emotionally, physically, and spiritually in a state of authenticity.
I am love.
I am calm, purposeful, and creating balance.
I am impeccable with my words because they are based in my light.
I am healed, and I am living a healed story from here on out.
I am simply unstoppable.
Take another full deep breath and let it go.
Allow this understanding to be your guide. Allow yourself to seize the beauty within you. Today is a new day. A day where you know the very best of you and all that you need is already available to you because it is already who you are. You are light. Light is your true self. You radiate peace. You are joy. You are perfection because your soul is on fire with greatness.
Anytime you need a moment to come back to center. Repeat these words and lean into your inner truth. You are beautiful.
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Feeling connected to yourself and the five master areas of your life is essential as it shows the value you place within yourself. With disconnected, there’s a tendency to lose sight of who you are, what you want, and most certainly what you need.
That’s why you and I are taking a one-on-one deep dive into what it means to feel disconnected, and we’re taking small steps to take the journey home to the self.
Let’s get right to it.
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Intro
03:12 The 5 masters of your life
05:11 Disconnection and how it shows up
05:33 Why disconnection happens
07:16 Saying that we often say when we are disconnected
09:04 Holding space for the self is different than being emotionally detached
10:38 Step 1 in returning to yourself
12:43 Step 2: Date Yourself
14:53 Step 3: Self-Compassion
17:24 Step 4: Follow your energy
19:37 Step 5: Stop the negativity and nasty thoughts
21:32 Step 6: Give yourself “little loves”
22:28 Today is “the” special occasion, and that’s about connection
28:25 Mental and emotional dangers of disconnection
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Welcome to Pause & Affirm! This quick hit of inspiration is meant to remind you of your greatness, inner light, and peace!
TAKE A MOMENT TO RELAX AND ALLOW THESE WORDS TO SETTLE IN YOUR MIND, HEART, AND SOUL. Affirming with me:
All that I desire, I receive. I take stock of my life, never wasting another minute on things that cannot and will not fulfill me. My reality is exciting. What I say I want, I attract. What I say I want, I achieve. In everything, there is joy, harmony, and peace. In everything, there is space for me, the real me, as I am. For the first time in a long time, I see that my life keeps getting better and better. My validation starts and ends with me; today, I am validating all I am. This is a new kind of high. This is a new kind of me.
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In this week’s mindset reset, we lean into self-boundaries!
I received a fantastic question: How does one create self-boundaries?
I love this question. Here are the 5 steps to creating a foundation of self-boundaries.
Epi 280: How You Speak to Yourself is Your Life's Instruction Manual
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Negativity from another person is bad enough, but when it comes from inside your head, it’s tough to hear! Your inner conversation, the monologues that run through your mind and generally right out of your mouth, can cause heartache and a spiral of negativity.
Today, you and I are taking a one-on-one deep dive into why how you speak to yourself matters, the toxic impact of negative self-talk, and then, we will talk about how to change the negatives into neutrals, then positives once and for all.
Let’s get right to it.
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Intro
02:03 If we are constantly criticizing ourselves, we create a negative mindset
03:07 What negative self-talk is
04:06 The levels of negative inner conversation & simple negatives
06:41 The impacts of negative self-talk
10:10 How the “bouncer” of the brain takes your negative instruction and uses it
11:29 Name your inner critic
13:29 Your brain has a negativity bias, which defaults our thinking
14:35 Moving your thoughts from negative to neutral
16:45 Step 1 in changing your negative thought pattern/conversation
18:20 Step 2
19:14 Step 3
21:23 Step 4
24:14 Step 5
25:32 Step 6
28:41 Say it out loud!
30:03 Visualization exercise to stop the thoughts
31:48 Next-level tools to step up your mindset game
34:09 What you gain when you think and conversate with yourself in a healthy way
35:34 How you talk to yourself is the instructional manual to your life
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1Welcome to Pause & Affirm! This quick hit of inspiration is meant to remind you of your greatness, inner light, and peace!
TAKE A MOMENT TO RELAX AND ALLOW THESE WORDS TO SETTLE IN YOUR MIND, HEART, AND SOUL. Affirming with me:
I came here to be aligned with my purpose, not my pain. Whatever I fight has the power to weaken me. Whatever I learn from has the capability to strengthen me. I refuse to forget that I am more than any limit I may perceive because I am unlimited in every way.I have clarity and answers within me. I am fearless, not fearful.I am trusting the process of my life. I am growing in my peace because it reflects my inner wisdom.From today forward, I honor all that I am because who I am is extraordinarily stunning. I am grateful to be living my life.
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Welcome to this new day. A day filled with peace and potential. As you find your breath and grounded center, allow the sunrise to inspire you into owning your inner light.
Find a comfortable position and take a full deep breath.
Allow my voice to guide you into your inner light.
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If drama has a way of finding you, everywhere you turn, perhaps it's the environment and the people that you are around. If you want the drama to stop, there are some key factors to witness and put in place to protect your mental and emotional health.
Today you and I are taking a one-on-one deep dive into detoxing the drama in your life so you may be happy! Let's dive right in.
KEY TAKEAWAYS:
01:29 If you have a ton of drama in your life, you could be a part of the problem
03:22 Three behaviors that cause us to produce drama
07:12 Reducing drama is an active choice by identifying and acknowledging our role
09:12 Looking at the people and environments we need to limit
10:14 Limit the people who thrive in chaos
11:21 Limit the people who stir the pot to reduce drama
12:20 Playing the victim causes and continues drama
13:19 Those who criticize create drama at every turn
14:41 Negative people create drama
16:04 Those who refuse to respect boundaries cause drama
17:14 Those you can’t trust drama is present
18:14 Self-centered individuals do not provide healthy, drama-free spaces
19:40 Holding grudges create drama
20:54 Promise-breakers create uncertainty, which creates drama
21:53 Those who cannot admit they are wrong create drama
23:03 Those who cannot apologize thrive in drama
24:33 Drama is found and created with those who are master manipulators
25:30 Those who will not validate your emotions, drama will be created
27:01 Key pointers to help step away from unhealthy relationships and drama
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Welcome to Pause & Affirm! This quick hit of inspiration is meant to remind you of your greatness, inner light, and peace!
TAKE A MOMENT TO RELAX AND ALLOW THESE WORDS TO SETTLE IN YOUR MIND, HEART, AND SOUL. Affirming with me:
I accept responsibility for my well-being. I am open to new ways and opportunities to love myself and my life. I chose to focus on the flow around me as I release the constant need to know how my story unfolds. In doing so, I am committed to seeing the good, being the good, feeling the good, and showing up as the limitless woman I am. Today is the day I claim my unstoppable nature! My thoughts matter. My voice matters. My story matters. I MATTER! I will never again forget that I deserve to take up space, be seen, and live in the wonder that is the whole of me. I am unstoppable! Amen.
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In this week’s mindset reset, we lean into life lessons we gain as we age.
I received a fantastic question from Lisa R: “Danielle, I listened to your podcast regularly, and I often hear you say, ‘Can you tell us something that you wish women knew?’ when you’re talking to a guest, It got me thinking, as a mom, because I know you are one, are there some life lessons or perspectives that you wish your daughters learned from you that perhaps you could turn over to us listeners so that we can get a more intimate look at what you hope they take away?”
I love this question. I’ve often thought about what legacy I want my daughters to have learned from me. In no particular order, these are the lessons I most value from my life experiences, what I hope to teach them, and what I hope you will learn along the way.
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Many of us struggle with the concept of being good enough. But, what if you are already good enough? While you may reject that idea in its entirety, I sat down with therapist Lisa Tahir to chat about connecting with yourself and proving your mindset wrong when it questions your worth and right when you are in alignment of what you need and want!
Let’s get right to it…
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
02:59 Lisa’s why and path to good enough therapy
03:57 Boundaries with our ourselves and others is necessary for self-confidence
06:43 How personal responsibility plays a role in our enoughness
11:40 Personal permission and safety are must for inner validation
12:41 Shifting focus into the good of planning—the how to get there
15:41 Asking ourselves, “What’s the cost?” is needed when we doubt ourselves
18:05 Thought pattern and question that helps us understand ourselves
20:48 Behaviors and tools you can use to increase self-confidence
32:10 Being intune provides benefits
What a great conversation. If you are interested in learning more about Lisa, visit her on Instagram @Nolatherapy or visit her website nolatherapy.com. You can also find the link to her book on Amazon.
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Find a comfortable position and take a full deep breath.
As the new year has begun, many are thinking about what they want to create within the next twelve months. Find stillness now, as this guided meditation helps you visualize what you want to manifest on your path in the here and now.
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The ball has dropped, the calendar has changed, and it’s 2024. There’s so much possibility, potential, and energy waiting for you in this new here and now. So much, in fact, that today, you and I are taking a one-on-one deep dive into kicking off the year with a forward focus. We are trashing any lack mentality you’ve developed, tossing out the word resolution, and we are getting intentional about what you need and want.
So, let’s dive right in…
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
02:26 Resolutions often create a sense of failure
03:12 5 Masters of Life and what a resolution actually is
08:14 Definition of Intention and why you want to set intentions
11:00 Breaking things into intentions gives you a boost of self-belief
12:41 Shifting focus into the good of planning—the how to get there
15:00 We tend to edit our success based on our feelings
18:15 400 repetitions to create a new habit and losing the lack mentality
23:09 You will always walk a line between success and failure
25:00 Intentions through the five masters
29:11 The steps to creating hardy intentions
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Over the last year, words such as triggers, emotional hijacking, safety, awareness, and growth have been blowing up social media. Have you noticed? These buzzwords have even found their way into this podcast and, most definitely, into my office.
And, rightfully so, but most do not realize that these words, or better yet, actions, all tie back to one central place in our bodies—our brains! As we navigate the world around us, our brain is actively working to keep us safe—safe from perceived danger, our past, and triggers, and in doing so, your brain can hijack your life.
So, today, we’re taking a one-on-one deep dive into why the brain is always on the lookout for trouble, how to stop being hijacked in hopes of providing a false sense of safety, and we’ll breakdown how to disentangle ourselves from our earliest patterns, wiring, and our triggers.
This big conversation will shed light on why you may be causing yourself more issues than you realize!
So, let’s dive right in…
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
02:24 What your supercomputer (aka your mind) is responsible for
05:36 Understanding the amygdala
06:52 Fight, Flight, or Freeze
09:07 Triggers are a liability for each of us and a trigger story
11:25 A definition of trigger
16:05 Some examples of common triggers
18:07 The purpose of the trigger
19:39 How to get out of a trigger and bringing the prefrontal cortex to the table
21:45 How to get into the observer part of your brain—movie theater practice
25:57 Step 1: Stay present in your daily life
27:11 Practice present moment awareness
28:29 Step 2: Step back and realize you are triggered
30:44 Step 3: Try to gain perspective
31:35 Step 4: Remind yourself you are safe
32:26 Step 5: Notice what need is not being met
34:10 Are you willing to grow through your trigger or avoid the trigger
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Welcome to Pause & Affirm! This quick hit of inspiration is meant to remind you of your greatness, inner light, and peace!
TAKE A MOMENT TO RELAX AND ALLOW THESE WORDS TO SETTLE IN YOUR MIND, HEART, AND SOUL. Affirming with me:
Today I choose to be kind to myself. In this kindness, I choose to love myself unconditionally, without walls, limits, and absent of any doubt. In doing so, I powerfully love and accept myself as I am right now. I internally know who I was yesterday served me, and the person I am becoming will serve me, too. As for now, I am in love with this version of me, as I am teaching me the lessons I need in my life. With this understanding, I vow to love myself a little more each day. I do so because I am the very essence of love.
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The new year is here, which means many people are thinking about new goals, resolutions, and intentions, but with this massive push to create change often comes a feeling of not being good enough as we are and the current state of our lives. But the great news is even when this mindset finds us, we always have a choice to shift our perspective.
And that’s just what Ava from Arizona wrote in and asked for. She said, “Danielle, I hate the new year! I’m not too fond of resolutions. I don’t like acting like everything changes because the calendar changes. I am struggling with being okay with where I am, and all the conversations about making the new year different are too much for me. Maybe I’m overthinking it, but I feel like I am supposed to be living differently because everyone else seems to be doing just that. So how can I be okay with where I am? I’m working on change, but I don’t feel it has to be set into everyone else’s timeframes. Please help!”
Ava, I completely agree! What you want, need, and are working to create never has to be in anyone else’s timeframe! As to the question of how we can be happy where we currently are—let’s dive right in and do a bit of evaluation. Because whether it’s the start of a new year or a day in July, being happy with where we are is about our state of mind and focus and appointing ourselves as the influencers of our lives.
Happiness is a choice.
Listen to the full mindset reset to find out how to be happy in the here and now!
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We all have ups and downs, and it’s no secret that life throws hard things into our path. After all, why do you think the saying, “Bad things happen to good people,” exists? Yet, when those hard things occur, how we connect to them and how we fix our mindset plays a significant role in the moment and our overall life satisfaction. It also impacts one other major element in our lives. Can you guess what it is?
If you guessed inner peace, you are right.
So, let’s take a one-on-one deep dive into our mindsets and whether or not you play the victim in your daily life. This is an extensive conversation about identifying the small daily behaviors and habits that create the biggest divide between feeling empowered and feeling negatively impacted, I’m handing over the signs that you are living in full victim mode, and of course, we’ll be talking about how to change course from victim to victor.
So, let’s dive right in.
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
02:26 There’s a massive difference between being a victim and playing the victim—we cannot change what we do not understand or witness
03:40 A set of questions to gauge your mindset
06:14 Trigger warning. This conversation often makes us feel
09:08 The definition of playing the victim and examples of the statements we say when in victim-mode
12:34 Behavior 1: Not taking responsibility
18:54 Exploring how to take responsibility
21:05 Behavior 2: Believing you are at the mercy of everything and everyone else
23:45 Examining your active role of control
25:07 Behavior 3: Holding grudges
27:25 Examining acceptance
29:03 Behavior 4: Lack of trust
30:30 Examining the evidence to build trust
32:32 Behavior 5: Not knowing when enough is enough
35:01 Behavior 6: Tend to argue over everything
36:33 Breaking down the need to fight back
37:30 Behavior 7: Self-pity
39:57 Finding a new perspective to get out of self-pity
40:13 Behavior 8: Comparing our lives to others
42:00 Leaning into gratitude to understand what is present
42:29 Behavior 9: Perfectionism
44:29 Behavior 10: Cutting people out of their lives
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Let me ask you a question I’ve been chasing the answer to for most of my life. Is there such a thing as broken people, or are there only broken moments?
Your answer may vary from the truth depending on where you are in your life, what you’ve experienced, and how you’ve processed what has been and what you believe will continue to occur.
Today, you and I are taking a one-on-one deep dive into redefining the idea of broken, and I’ll hand over something most of us are not taught, which is how to become comfortable with being uncomfortable. This is one conversation that shatters our traditional thinking and flips what you thought you needed to move forward on its head!
So, let’s dive right in…
Key Takeaways
00:00 Introduction
02:46 How a gift inspired this conversation
03:47 Are there broken people or broken moments?
07:07 Comparison is a theft of your experience and the definition of trauma
09:00 Beyond trauma, there are everyday behaviors that help us feel broken
09:29 Number 1: Following the rules
12:12 Number 2: Our definition of success
13:37 Number 3: Letting fear chain you to moments
16:16 Number 4: Destroying your body
17:29 How trauma makes us feel broken
22:41 How to sit in discomfort for gain
22:59 You must acknowledge that you are not broken
23:39 Learn to gauge your moments
25:53 Engage in radical compassion
26:42 Practice acceptance
27:37 Identify your strength
28:40 Explore new experiences
29:54 Get curious
30:33 List 5 things that push you
32:03 Once we move through broken and get into discomfort, we can find wholeness
34:57 What can you do to help yourself lean into a new choice?
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Find a comfortable position and take a full deep breath. Once you’re settled, close your eyes or soften your gaze and tune into your breath. Notice it without trying to change it. Feel the air move through your nose, finding its way to the base of your lungs and slowly allowing it to slip away with a soft exhale.
Place both hands over your heart and feel the heart space expand. Then, ask yourself: Am I willing to give myself love today as I am?
If you are, offer yourself permission to do just that and release any negative thoughts that may be lingering in your mind.
With your next inhale, fully settle into the words, “I am worthy.” As you let the air go, allow those words to transform into “I am enough.”
Allow these words to soak up your spine, landing in your heart space and filling you from the inside out as my words and voice become yours.
Being loveable is a perspective, a frame of mind that no one else can decide, but you. It’s the state of being content with where you are today because growth and your experiences have asked you to be here, right now, as you are. In this contentment, choosing to live in a state of belonging and potential creates space to be whole, loveable, and just be. As you wholeheartedly honor this state of being, offer yourself grace.
This life is one of open awareness. Awareness that all I receive is an opportunity to know, build, and share the energy of love. As I move into this day, I welcome truth to settle.
The truth that reminds me that I do not have to change who I am to be loveable. I do not have to prove myself to others to define my value. I am loveable the way I am, without shifting or changing to meet expectations or worn-out limits that were never mine to own.
I am love, and inside that love, I express infinite growth and strength through the light and calm that radiates through me and from me because of this love.
Take another full deep breath and let it go.
With this focus, I intentionally release anything that has made me believe that my past, reactions, or anything in between make me unworthy. Instead, I declare my independence from these thoughts and lean into love.
I deserve that. I own it. I am learning to love all of me.
With these guiding thoughts leading my way, I see the beauty of every moment, no longer waiting for the next moment to arrive but instead enjoying what is in the seconds, minutes, and hours they unfold, with love, through love.
I allow myself to give lovingly, spreading it and welcoming its return. I know what I give, I may also receive. I do so with open arms as I take full ownership of the love I am. I embody love as love, and I are one.
Take a slow, deep breath, and let it go.
I choose to prosper in this truth and remind myself that experience that finds me has magic within it. I welcome these powerful feelings and affirm that everything I am is right, just, and beautiful.
I am living a heart-centered life by choosing what best fulfills me and feeds my soul.
Learning to love myself plants the seeds of peace in everything I do.
At this moment, I choose acceptance of who I am over judgment. I choose heart-centered compassion over the voice of negativity.
As I choose these choices, I take a deep breath and allow new energy to flow within.
This is the energy of celebration—the celebration of coming this far, choosing myself, and investing time in witnessing the good of me.
I am becoming more as I realize I’ve been whole this entire time. My growth is not because I am less than others; it’s because I am whole.
Take another full deep breath, reflecting on all that is good and true and returning to our words, “I am worthy. I am enough.”
As we move into powerfully claiming these words, repeat after me:
I AM…
I am loveable.
I am worthy of everything I desire to create in love and through love.
I am capable of loving myself, even when it’s hard.
I am poised to attract the best in the most loving and beautiful ways.
I am complete and growing at the same time.
I am in awe of myself and the beautiful power I possess within me.
I am strong-hearted with a kind soul.
I am love and know love.
I am perfect in my imperfection.
I am valued and appreciated.
I am compassionate and loving.
I am the person who I need to be now.
I am grateful for my life.
I am unstoppable.
Anytime you need a moment to come back to center. Repeat these words and lean into your truth—the truth that you are loveable in all ways, always.
Namaste!
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Trauma, dysregulated emotions, high levels of stress and anxiety, all have a way of rewiring and changing your nervous system. The changes are so significant they can cause disease as you witness and carry your dis-ease; they cause coping mechanisms and self-harm, and a host of other significant life impacts. Yet, there is a way to retrain the autonomic nervous system and your relationship to your experiences.
I sat down with trauma and addiction therapist, Polyvagal Institute Course Developer, teacher, and author Jan Winhall to talk about how to shift out of flight/fight/fold and freeze, and how we can connect with ourselves and change the impending danger we feel that keeps us from relaxing and enjoying our lives.
So, let’s dive right in.
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
02:07 Jan Winhall’s discoveries during her forty-plus years as a trauma and addiction therapist
04:29 The body’s response to trauma
08:29 Breaking down coping mechanisms and their purpose to keep us alive and safe
11:00 Polyvagal Theory and your nervous system’s job
13:43 The hierarchy of fight, flight, fold, and freeze
16:42 Trauma feedback loop
18:17 Your nervous system determines how you experience moments
29:19 Two embodied practices
32:36 Focus in partnerships and connectivity to change the nervous system
35:09 Understanding your triggers
41:33 Attuning to your needs
43:19 The practice of Clearing Space Backwards
49:11 Jan’s 3 gratitudes
There are so many beautiful takeaways from this conversation. You can find the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model on Jan’s website at www.janwinhall.com. You can also find her on LinkedIn and Instagram @janwinhall.
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Welcome to Pause & Affirm! This quick hit of inspiration is meant to remind you of your greatness, inner light, and peace!
TAKE A MOMENT TO RELAX AND ALLOW THESE WORDS TO SETTLE IN YOUR MIND, HEART, AND SOUL. Affirming with me:
I am ready to be seen. I will no longer stop myself from living my life in the light of everything that is possible for me. In that possibility is a life that is lived through peace. It’s a space that creates and honors grounded, solid relationships, a love for myself, and mental and emotional health and wealth. What stopped me before no longer has a hold on me. From this day forward, I declare I am ready. I am ready to live my purpose. I am ready to be in motion. I am stepping up to give life to my dreams...to me…
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Find a comfortable position and take a full deep breath. Gently close your eyes if it serves you. Witness the thoughts that are flowing through your mind and simply invite them to pause. Take another full deep breath, releasing anything less than stillness. Allow my words to guide you into a grounded truth—the truth that you are more than your past and that you have the power to heal at any time, regardless of what has been.
Take a full deep breath, breathing in allowing, and slowly let it go.
The past often works to own our present and our future because what has been gone unhealed and unaddressed. We tend to believe that if we simply move on, what was will fall away.
Yet, this thinking robs us of a beautiful opportunity and great expansion. The events in our lives are lessons, building blocks that teach us what we came here to learn, ways of being, our desires. Our experiences teach us contrast. It shows what we want and what we do not. In this understanding, we can go deeper and explore our needs spiritually, mentally, emotionally, and physically.
Healing is not as some believe. The purpose of healing is not to erase our past; it’s to examine what has been, lean into the emotions and soften them so that we may turn them into experiences that work for us. Healing doesn’t erase; it elevates. It helps us understand our truest self—the real self—the soul self.
Take a full deep breath, and let it go.
Repeat after me:
My past has taught me emotions and thought patterns that are not my truth. What has been may have prevented me from owning my greatness, my worthiness for love, value, happiness, and true joy, but from now on, I am releasing these ideas. I know now that these thoughts do not serve me. I know now that I have the power to rewrite the story, not forget the story, but change my connection to it.
From today forward, I am leaning into healing this thought pattern by witnessing my emotions, by turning fear into strength, scarcity into abundance, misunderstanding into knowledge, disruption into a golden path, upset into power.
Every action has a reaction. Within this reaction, I have a choice. I can strengthen my power.
My past no longer has a hold of me. I offer great gratitude for the lessons. I offer appreciation for my life teaching me.
I am forever owning the power I have to direct my thoughts to what benefits my life. In this power, I seek forgiveness and offer it, too. Forgiveness, within healing, does not erase the story either. Instead, it reminds me to offer gratitude for the lesson.
Take a full deep breath and let it go.
I am actively releasing. Everything that has been, is, and will be in my life has been for me. What I may have perceived before this moment as negative has an opposite. I know darkness cannot be present without light. I cannot know negative emotions without the good. I allow myself to release resistance.
Take a full deep breath and let it go.
I release the past.
I forgive the past.
I forgive those that were a part of my hardest stories.
I forgive myself. I know now that I was the person I needed to be in those moments so that I could learn the lessons I needed to expand in my growth, nothing more, nothing less.
I release so I may purposefully step into my present with the purest intentions.
I release the struggle.
I release the pain.
I let go of the negatives.
I welcome in the expanding love of peace.
Breathe in healing, let go of anything less than love.
I AM
I am…Two of the most powerful words in any language. Words that direct our emotions and thoughts into movements that support us.
I am focused on creating a new healed story.
I am allowing my focus to be on my highest and greatest good.
I am offering forgiveness to one and all, including myself.
I am stronger than I’ve allowed myself to own.
I am releasing and cherishing that within every moment, there is something powerful for me.
I am here to write a beautiful story, to create a legacy of healed truths.
I am ready to do so freely, in the moment, in the most grounded ways.
Everything before now has taught me. I freely let it go….
I am free of my hard history.
I am focused on feeling good each and every day.
I am free to be me.
I am free.
Gratitude washes over me as I proclaim…
I AM FREE!
Anytime you need a moment to come back to center. Repeat these words and lean into your truth—the truth that you healed, and you are stronger than you’ve ever imagined yourself to be.
For this healing, I say, “Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.”
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As 2023 winds down, we are turning our intentionality, focus, and desires to what is next. In every new chapter, there is something that must come to a close or be grown upon to take you to the next experience, the next level of where you want to be.
In doing so, there are often a few hard pills that you must swallow to get to that place. While growth is not the most comfortable thing we do, it is one of the most powerful. Today, you and I are taking a one-on-one deep dive into those hard pills and what to do about them so that you can build a life of accountability and self-authority, refusing to abandon your needs and desires, and find a space of stability that you simply haven’t had the tools to touch before now…
So, let’s dive right in…the get your life together girl podcast starts right now.
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
02:32 Living an unabandoned life—the why of this inner conversation
05:21Hard Pill #1
06:33Hard Pill #2
08:35 Hard Pill #3
11:56 Hard Pill #4
12:35 Hard Pill #5
13:51 Hard Pill #6
14:36 Hard Pill #7
18:33 How can I push the limits?
19:37 Think about the definition of living. It's the pursuit. Are you in the pursuit of your best life?
20:04 What is 1 action you can take today to make changes?
26:21 What do you want to focus on in 2024? What can you leave behind? What can you elevate?
Welcome to Pause & Affirm! This quick hit of inspiration is meant to remind you of your greatness, inner light, and peace!
TAKE A MOMENT TO RELAX AND ALLOW THESE WORDS TO SETTLE IN YOUR MIND, HEART, AND SOUL. Affirming with me:
I choose to embrace who I am. In this embracing, I welcome and love the pieces of me that I never thought were possible to cherish. I understand that the longest relationship I will have on this earth is with myself, and because of this fact, I am freeing myself from all that I constantly negate. I am letting go of lack and owning radical self-love because that is what I deserve. I see myself, and what I see is beautiful. This ownership opens the door to proclaiming my power. On the other side of everything that has held me back, I realize the truth. I am divine. I am beautiful. I am unstoppable. I am everything I’ve always desired to be. Moving forward, I am allowing myself to think, feel, and live fearlessly.
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In this week’s mindset reset, we look at shifting your thoughts toward what you want to create in 2024. It’s important to not look at goals, but instead look at the systems of what is working and what isn’t. Today’s mindset reset breaks it all down through a few fundamental questions to ask yourself.
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Sometimes we crumble under the pressure of “toomuchness,” where you feel the need and desire to slow down but ALSO don’t feel like you can or simply don’t know how.
If you feel like you are constantly running into a wall, you are not alone! Slow living is a conscious, effort-driven choice. That many of fail to remember is always available to us. The thing is, even the most mindful person can still struggle with giving themselves permission to slow down.
Today, you and I are taking a one-on-one deep drive into some of the signs it’s time for you to take a break and I’ll offer some grounded ways for you to care for yourself when you need it the most.
Let’s lean in and make it work for you…
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
01:48 What slow living means
04:45 One essential question that you must ask yourself!
0:6:09 What living slow looks like
06:49 Signs you need a slow down
12:00 My 4 questions to engage in to clue into how much instability you are feeling
14:00 Solutions and resolutions to help slow everything down - Tool 1
17:01 Tool 2
22:45 Tool 3
23:34 Other ways to slow down
27:50 Breathe your way into a slow down
29:00 How will you slow life down?
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Welcome to Pause & Affirm! This quick hit of inspiration is meant to remind you of your greatness, inner light, and peace!
TAKE A MOMENT TO RELAX AND ALLOW THESE WORDS TO SETTLE IN YOUR MIND, HEART, AND SOUL. Affirming with me:
In everything, I rise.
In everything, I step forward.
In everything, I evolve.
In everything, I acknowledge and welcome change.
In everything, I stand tall.
In everything, I am beautifully me.
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Find a comfortable position and take a full deep breath.
Peace during the holidays can be difficult to find. Settle into these inner peace affirmations to clear your mind, find stillness, and enjoy the meaning of connection and the holidays.
Sit back. Release and restore.
Anytime you need a moment to come back to center. Your gratitude is always available for and to you.
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Anxiety, stress, and depression are all active in our world today, and none of us are actual strangers to any of these issues. Many people are living in fight or flight, in survival mode right now, and reaching inner peace feels nearly impossible, especially during the holiday season.
So today, you and I are going to take a one-on-one deep dive into turning inward and finding inner peace. It is not something that you can simply turn on. It’s not something that you decide to do, and then just do it. Inner peace is a state to be achieved.
It’s a lifelong journey and commitment.
And today, we want to talk about how to find inner peace and what it feels like.
Let’s lean in and make it work for you…
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
03:20 What inner peace is not
06:00 What inner peace is
09:11 Inner peace is about connection
10:54 Mental blocks that keep peace away
14:19 How “should” steals your peace
15:20 You don’t need to be happier to have peace
16:36 You don’t need more to be peaceful
18:15 Inner peace is a process
19:45 Self-blame will not lead you to peace
22:46 We do not have to connect to other people’s opinions and beat ourselves up
24:46 Healthy relationships support our inner peace
26:21 Practice 1 for inner peace
28:10 Practice 2 for inner peace
29:03 Practice 3 for inner peace
31:55 The beneficial part of peace
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Welcome to Pause & Affirm! This quick hit of inspiration is meant to remind you of your greatness, inner light, and peace!
TAKE A MOMENT TO RELAX AND ALLOW THESE WORDS TO SETTLE IN YOUR MIND, HEART, AND SOUL. Affirming with me:
Dear Me:
I’ve got you.
It’s funny how life unfolds—wrong turns, decisions, and moments I would rather forget, but in all of that, one thing has become clear: the only way for things to unfold as I intend is by taking care of myself. So, from now on, that’s my pledge. I pledge to see my beauty. I fully witness my importance and strength. I will no longer forget to prioritize my efforts and engage in my power. There will never be another moment where I turn my back on myself. Instead, I own that I am an unstoppable force here to live, thrive, and create the very best. I’ve got you. I believe in you, and I give humble thanks for everything you are.
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Sometimes we all need gentle reminders. Reminders that tell us to feel differently than we are feeling at the moment. Reminders that breathe life into us and remind us there's nothing wrong with us. There may be wrong situations that are occurring in our lives, but we ourselves are not broken. These gentle reminders are the subject of today’s Mindset Reset.
I received an e-mail from a listener that asked to not be named. She wrote, “There are days that I'm doing well. Other days I'm not. In the days that I am not doing well, I try to take your advice, Danielle. But sometimes that inner voice of mine still wins. Are there ways to remind myself that things are okay when I’m feeling this way?”
There are. It comes in these gentle reminders you can use as your thought directors.
00:03:25 Gentle Reminder 1
00:04:47 Gentle Reminder 2
00:07:21 Gentle Reminder 3
00:08:08 Gentle Reminder 4
00:09:23 Gentle Reminder 5
00:12:05 Gentle Remnder 6
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It’s no secret that trauma changes us. What is a secret is how it changes your behavior, thought process, nervous system, and how it helped you develop ways to keep yourself mentally, emotionally, and physically safe.
I opened my computer and logged in to find an article that caught my attention on MSN entitled 10 signs that Indicate a Person Has Lived a Hard and Challenging Life (msn.com)
The article confirmed many of the behaviors I’ve encountered both with clients and even myself from my trauma. That’s why I thought you and I should take a one-on-one deep dive into the interesting things you may be doing without realizing it’s telling more of your life’s story than you may realize.
So, let’s dive right in…
00:00 Introduction
03:19 The only way through something is through it. Trauma changes us
03:45 The article that inspired this conversation: People share 10 signs that indicate a person has lived a hard and challenging life (msn.com)
05:47 Your behavior and the things you do tell on your experiences
06:06 Behavior 1: Dualistic characteristics
09:32 Behavior 2: Not knowing how to react to kindness
11:15 Behavior 3: A great sense of humor
15:15 Behavior 4: Making jokes out of our trauma
15:58 Behavior 5: Being calm in stressful situations
20:31 Behavior 6: A strong presence of independence
23:23 Behavior 7: Responding out of the lack of trust
28:04 Behavior 8: Not asking for help
30:09 Behavior 9: Having a complicated answer for everything
33:30 Behavior 10: Having food issues
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Welcome to Pause & Affirm! This quick hit of inspiration is meant to remind you of your greatness, inner light, and peace!
TAKE A MOMENT TO RELAX AND ALLOW THESE WORDS TO SETTLE IN YOUR MIND, HEART, AND SOUL. Affirming with me:
I am who I need to be right now. What has been has taught me. What will be will reward me. As for today, I am standing in the awareness of the now. Everything I am experiencing shapes the essence of who I am. Because of this, I am recommitting to myself. That commitment is focused on creating blessings instead of falter. It’s shifting my present thoughts into supporting my endeavors instead of any form of doubt. It’s witnessing and fully grasping that I am the one which most impacts my world, not others. With this, I am showing up in ways that will never fade or be dimmed. I know I am worthy, and from now on, I am leading with my worth.
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As we move into the holiday season, many find themselves experiencing loneliness. Is that you?
Loneliness is interesting because it’s one emotion that can exist even if you have quality relationships. In fact, it’s a universal emotion, meaning we all experience it at one time or another.
So, this week we’re taking a one-on-one deep dive into what loneliness is, how it smothers our self-love, the difference between being alone and feeling lonely, and how to make small shifts to release feeling this negative emotion. Sometimes it’s as simple as realizing we are not as lonely as we think.
So, let’s dive right in…
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
01:26 A five-week plan to get your lives together
03:08 Taking on the universal emotion of loneliness
07:25 The difference between being alone and loneliness
08:40 Identifying if you are genuinely lonely
12:16 Determining why you feel lonely often gives us a solution to the loneliness
16:56 Doing introspective work is needed to come to an understanding of our feelings
17:44 A story of loneliness and its impact
20:38 Understanding the perception of loneliness and the blanket feeling we often place across our lives
23:57 Taking care of ourselves so connectivity is possible for us
25:22 Refusing addiction to fill the gaps in your life and overusing our support system
29:43 When we lean into the negative emotion of loneliness, we push self-love away
33:17 Be intentional about the results you want to create
36:56 If loneliness is overwhelming, it’s time to reach out to a therapist for support
35:50 Create a plan for connectivity
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Welcome to Pause & Affirm! This quick hit of inspiration is meant to remind you of your greatness, inner light, and peace!
TAKE A MOMENT TO RELAX AND ALLOW THESE WORDS TO SETTLE IN YOUR MIND, HEART, AND SOUL. Affirming with me:
In everything, there is a choice, and I am making the choices that best fulfill, ground, and center me. Within each of my choices, I am choosing healing and transformation. This beautiful change allows me to shift and welcome a fresh start. I will never again underestimate myself—my ability to choose what I want, need, and desire at any time, in any space, and within any circumstance. Today is the day that I am moving forward. What once was uncertain is now unfolding in miracles. I am my own catalyst. I am my own overcomer. I am my choice.
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There are many conversations about ways to find inner peace, and it’s this time of the year, the holiday season, where our inner peace is a focus. It’s something that we want, and yet it’s rocked by the experiences that we have. If we do not have a healthy family life, if we do not have a healthy boundary around our schedule and time, we can be lacking in peace.
Today’s Mindset Reset, Tiffany S wrote in and asked: “Danielle, I have heard you talk about the need to relinquish control and let go of the fight, but I’m not going to lie to you. Sometimes, I feel like doing so makes me a pushover or a doormat. I’m worried the people around me will abuse me because they know that I’m just going to let it go. I heard you also say that we want to get into a place where we’re surrendering, but again, that makes me feel like self-respect and self-love are not possible for me if I live in both spaces. Can you help explain—maybe I’m looking at it wrong?
Tiffany, that’s a really great question. I can see the confusion. Let’s break down what finding and feeling inner peace means and how boundaries must be involved!
00:02:56 If we do not have firm boundaries, then we will always struggle with feeling like a doormat,
00:04:16 Understanding boundaries and how they relate to peace
07:51 Know your definition of peace.
00:08:11 Inner peace is a selective action—a choice
0:08:55 Be selective with who has access to your energy
00:10:05 Tune in to your nervous system
00:11:05 Don’t over-explain yourself
00:13:58 Where inner peace and boundaries collide and empower you
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We have emotions for a reason – they’re there to tell us something. Ignoring those feelings doesn’t make them go away. They will eventually surface, and if you wait too long before addressing them, you’ll likely find yourself dealing with a sudden flood of emotions. By processing them as they come up, you allow yourself to find a healthier mindset and keep that all-consuming feeling of being overwhelmed at bay.
Today, you and I are taking a one-on-one deep dive into overwhelm and the dreaded experience of forecasting—this comes up often during the holiday season, and we will stop it right now!
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
02:32 Overwhelm during the holidays is normal and how to break it down
03:22 What overwhelm feels and looks like in your life
09:22 What overwhelm is—it’s definition
11:05 What forecasting is when it comes to anxiety
14:15 Tool 1: Is this necessary?
14:58 Break down your moments—what’s the #1 thing that will help serve me? One-focus mindset
17:15 STOP method
21:00 Emotionally process
26:22 Name your distractions
27:39 Time Boxing
30:47 Start where you are
30:58 Challenge your perfectionism
32:28 Challenge your assumptions
34:00 Other ways to help yourself
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Welcome to Pause & Affirm! This quick hit of inspiration is meant to remind you of your greatness, inner light, and peace!
TAKE A MOMENT TO RELAX AND ALLOW THESE WORDS TO SETTLE IN YOUR MIND, HEART, AND SOUL. Affirming with me:
"I declare that this is my week! I am giving myself permission to show up, be my best, and bring my focus into everything I want and desire. I am fearlessly unstoppable!"
This is my shift. Today is the day I declare this moment, these next seven days, for myself. It's the time where I seriously focus and select one thing that fills me on every level and hone into it. Let this singular focus guide my mindset, emotions, all of the pieces of me. If I find myself getting off-course, shifting into the negatives, or wanting to throw in the towel bring myself back to center with this declaration. Today is my shift. This week, this time, it's mine. Everything is available to me through the right focus.
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Find a comfortable position and take a full deep breath.
Welcome to this guided meditation. A moment to stop and practice gratitude. Gratitude is a powerful experience that allows your mind, body, and soul to feel happier, less stressed, and less anxious. It’s a space we begin to understand, being open to everything and closed to nothing. Gratitude practice is simply a journey of knowing that everything you need is always right inside of you.
Take a moment to settle and allow your body to come to stillness.
Sit back. Relax. Release and restore.
Anytime you need a moment to come back to center. Your gratitude is always available for and to you.
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Healing and beginning the journey of therapy is often a scary one for many—especially when unsure of which type of therapy to choose or what is involved. Knowing where to start and what to choose is a crucial element of any healing journey. Then add trying to approach your life, unless guided mindfully, can confuse, and then you may do what so many do, which is call this journal quits!
That’s why therapist Adalina East and I sat down to chat about mindfulness and therapy on her podcast, Cosmic Leadership. She was gracious enough to allow me to share it here with you. You are in for a real treat as we talk more about the five masters of our lives, the six elements of mindfulness that highly improve your life, calming anxiety through breathwork, EFT, and how to avoid stopping your self-growth journey!
If you have ever wondered what therapists talk about when they are alone, this is a great conversation to let you inside.
Sit back and listen.
Key Takeaways:
-What are the “5 Masters” of our lives, and how are we meeting them?
-Mindfulness in your finances and how to get to this place;
-Emotional numbing techniques and how to tell the difference between numbing and rest;
-6 different ways to improve your mindfulness;
-How to avoid hustle culture (and how to raise kids to avoid it too);
-Calming anxiety using breathwork, meditation, EFT tapping and more;
-Why we both practice cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and how behavior can lead to neural change;
Find Adalina on Instagram
Adalina on Facebook
Episode GYTLG 148: Changing the “Superhighway” in the Brain with Adalina East
The Sarah Wiseman: Writing the Divine.
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Welcome to Pause & Affirm! This quick hit of inspiration is meant to remind you of your greatness, inner light, and peace!
TAKE A MOMENT TO RELAX AND ALLOW THESE WORDS TO SETTLE IN YOUR MIND, HEART, AND SOUL. Affirming with me:
It’s time to form an alliance between my heart, mind, and actions. It’s time to declare: “I am ready! I’ve been tested. I’ve survived. I’ve learned. I’ve been lucky enough to see the beauty of thriving. I’ve touched it with the entirety of me. So, now, right now, I open my arms to receiving. In this receiving, I powerfully ignite my soul to be the gift I have always been meant to be!” Today is about ownership. Today is the day I witness and begin to use my voice, feel all the feelings, set fire to all of the ambitions, and show up unapologetically. Speak the words: “This is me, and I love who I am.” My life is waiting for me to level up. All I have to do is align within—this is the next step to propel me forward.
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How would you rate your confidence from one to a ten—ten being your confidence is in everything you do, think, and feel, or a one with confidence being something you wish you could create but certainly do not have it?
Today's Mindset Reset is inspired by a continued conversation with Karmen L. We've been working on confidence. When we talk about confidence, often people think of this façade of being able to walk into a room and own it. It’s even this idea that you never question yourself or have doubts. No matter what you think, what you've been told, or how many times you've used your inner voice against you, that is not confidence. That is ego.
Today, we are breaking down the layers of confidence and providing evidence that you are more confident than you think!
Dive in!
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Gratitude is more than practice. It is a true mindset, a lifestyle that impacts your mental health, relationships, and how you see and interact with the world around you. It truly is the secret sauce to everything that is good and keeps us moving forward in our lives.
So today, you and I are taking a one-on-one deep dive into gratitude. What it is, how it can be practiced, what it does to the brain and the nervous system, and how it can shift and mold the experiences that you have in your day-to-day. Grab a pen, and let’s shift into an attitude of gratitude.
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
02:42 A life-changing gratitude quote to live by
04:29 Breaking down genuine gratitude with a new perspective
07:11 What research says about a constant gratitude practice/mindset
10:23 Signs of genuine gratitude being active in your life
12:11 The negative “but” of dismissing gratitude and appreciation in your experiences
14:54 Discovery questions to look at how grateful you truly are
17:47 The three types of gratitude
19:17 The difference between stress, anxiety, and depression and how gratitude shifts each
23:07 Step 1 in building a gratitude practice
26:13 Step 2 and a practice/tool
29:24 Step 3 and its mindset
32:47 Step 4 and a tool
34:34 Step 5
36:21 Step 6
38:27 Step 7
40:51 What is it you are grateful for?
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Welcome to Pause & Affirm! This quick hit of inspiration is meant to remind you of your greatness, inner light, and peace!
TAKE A MOMENT TO RELAX AND ALLOW THESE WORDS TO SETTLE IN YOUR MIND, HEART, AND SOUL. Affirming with me:
I love you is more than mere words. I love you is effort, giving, forgiveness, grace, and growth. I love you is a feeling of being worthy. It’s the understanding of I want and need you. It’s mindful, truthful, courageous, and faithful. I love you is nurture and compassion. It’s holding you up when it would be easier to let you fall. It’s knowing that someone has your back every minute of the day. I love you is bravely moving into the wilderness with a dream and a blank roadmap. I love you is everything, and everything is built through the words you feed yourself, the thoughts you engage with, the actions you take, and the yeses you grant. I love you is a bold statement of truth. Affirm this:
I love myself for my effort, giving, forgiveness, grace, and growth. I love myself for being worthy. I love me for knowing my wants and needs. I am mindful, truthful, courageous, and faithful. I love the way I nurture and offer compassion. I love how I stand up for myself when it’s easier. I love my ability to throw caution to the wind and take the adventure that is my life. I love my yeses, my thoughts, my truths. I love who I am, and for that, I will always be grateful.
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Find a comfortable position and take a full deep breath. Let these words remind you of your humanness.
In everything that you do, there is an element of imperfection. There is the element of your humanness. As you embark on expansion and growth, any adversity and challenge offers a tremendous gift—a gift that says contrast is your friend. Learning through your experiences, through your humanness, creates a beautiful life. When we nurture ourselves through this understanding, we grow. This guided meditation offers an opportunity to honor that growth and find stillness in the release of things working to own you.
Sit back. Relax. Release and restore.
Anytime you need a moment to come back to center. Repeat these words and lean into your truth; the truth that you are imperfectly wonderful.
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"What if" these two small words significantly impact your mental and emotional health, yet the question isn't complete. What if you finished with the words, "you did…" Rounding out the sentence to sound like, "What if you did?" That simple exchange takes the mind in a whole new direction—from looking for the negatives in any given situation to looking for possibility, openness, and what could be.
I sat down with executive coach Julee Gracey to talk about opening ourselves up to possibilities, a way to shift out of impostor syndrome, and breaking down how to think in new patterns regardless of the situation. It's a fantastic conversation that is filled with little nuggets and tools to help you own your truest self.
So grab a pen and paper and let’s dive in.
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
02:50 Overcoming the fear of What if
05:02 Breaking down where freedom comes from in understanding your emotional self, mental capacity, and choice-making.
05:48 A methodical system of the question: What if I did?
08:29 The negative things can grow
15:28 Two things that you can't control in life.
17:26 Imposter syndrome and the framework that allows you to get out of it quickly
23:27 Why the method works
29:48 Confidence is built in evidence
34:19 Bring play into everything you do to make what if I did manageable and pleasurable
42:19 Unlearning is an important process to help yourself grow
47:48 Change starts with permission. What if I did?
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Welcome to Pause & Affirm! This quick hit of inspiration is meant to remind you of your greatness, inner light, and peace!
TAKE A MOMENT TO RELAX AND ALLOW THESE WORDS TO SETTLE IN YOUR MIND, HEART, AND SOUL. Affirming with me:
My focus is I acknowledge and take responsibility. For everything I express outwardly and focus inward to change all that comes my way into something of value and worth. I find great gratitude in the small and large movements because I know I have a choice and everything within my path. I know it's never too late. There are no true time limits for me. There are no rules I must follow to make others comfortable with my growth. My heart is filled with mercy. My mind is filled. With faith and. Calmness. I trust that every detail guides me into grace. Harmony and the wisdom I need. To prosper. I amplify these feelings with each action I take and give away. What I do not need? As I say yes to myself, life says yes to me. I honor this movement with gratitude, knowing everything.
Lock these words inside and repeat these words aloud as often as needed, and remember, you are worthy, and you have always been. Until next time, be kind to yourself and others.
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Our thoughts can and do own us. There are many ways to get ahead of that mind of yours, but you must do the work to get there. This generally leads most to ask: How?
In today’s Mindset Reset, Lauren from South Carolina wrote, “Danielle, I’ve heard you talk about breaking everything down into facts when you are going through a hard situation. I believe you said it’s important to ask questions to find the facts, but honestly, I’m struggling with the questions! Maybe that sounds dumb, but I don’t know what to ask. I can come up with facts, but even then sometimes I feel like they aren’t facts. They are opinions or how I feel about the situation. Can you help me with the questions to make the process easier?”
Discover how to get below the surface of any situation and down to the facts by asking the right questions!
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When you hear the word grief, does your mind immediately jump to the loss of a loved one?
Like joy, happiness, or even anger, grief is an emotion that is not limited to a single experience. Grief is a normal and natural emotional reaction to any change that finds you. Grief is about deep connection and the way you are processing.
Suppose you think about the many changes you’ve already experienced, whether from a job, a move, health, relationships, or whatever it may be. In that case, you may be able to see that you’ve experienced some level of grief at one time or another but may not realize that you are now using those experiences to your benefit.
Because of that, it's time we redefine grief, and learn to use it in a way that’s beneficial So, let’s take a one-on-one deep dive to do just that!
Key Takeaways:
01:00 Grief is a natural feeling and has benefits to the experience
06:07 Your brain looks for safety, and often grief feels unsafe
13:00 Grief changes us, yet it is important as it does serve us in the long run. Here’s how…
16:03 You must define your grief, find the hidden pain, and move toward self-discovery
22:27 Shame is a major part of grief
26:29 Asking questions of our grief and experiences is a powerful way to move forward
28:54 The most minor details sometimes are the most significant things in our hardest experiences
32:38 Normalize what grief feels like to you
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Welcome to Pause & Affirm! This quick hit of inspiration is meant to remind you of your greatness, inner light, and peace!
TAKE A MOMENT TO RELAX AND ALLOW THESE WORDS TO SETTLE IN YOUR MIND, HEART, AND SOUL. Affirming with me:
I am in a season of trust. I trust that my faith, belief, and love in and of myself will bring me all I need in life. I place positive, healthy energy into the world, which starts within my thoughts and feelings. In shifting my inner self into a place of centered trust, I become a magnet for positivity to return, abundance to thrive, and profound blessings to find me in all magnitudes. With my mind and intentions focused, I am ready. This is my period of growth. This is the period of learning to let go and lean in. I may not be able to see the full path, but I know I’ve been working to get to this place. Everything I want is and can be my reality. I offer deep gratitude for this knowledge and welcome all that must be. I refuse to chase. Instead, I am receiving all that is meant for me.
Lock these words inside and repeat these words aloud as often as needed, and remember, you are worthy, and you have always been. Until next time, be kind to yourself and others.
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Find a comfortable position and take a full deep breath. Let these words remind you of your brilliant inner light.
Gently close your eyes if it serves you. Consciously clear your mind and allow my words to guide you into your truth—the truth that everything you desire is within your reach.
Today is a beautiful day to allow yourself to shine, slow down, and return to center. We tend to live life at a frantic, stressful pace. Where our to-do lists and obligations control the way we see ourselves and the possibilities before us. But when we are willing to accept there’s more for us is when we are released from the grip of our endless doing, from our unwillingness to slow, and it’s from here that we find a natural flow that provides us with room to imagine, to grow, and to thrive. It’s from here we allow ourselves to go within, to move any lack of light, and shine in all that we are.
Take a full deep breath, breathing in allowing, and slowly let it go.
Opening ourselves to this willingness to shine is an act of empowerment and courage; it’s a conscious choice to create, to focus, and to be in a place of openness rather than resistance.
It’s in this state, this very day, that you have the choice to claim what serves you, and what serves you is tapping into the truest sense of self, the radiant being that you are.
Take another full deep breath and let it go.
Repeat after me:
I am a powerful light.
What has been done in rush, darkness, and doubt is now freeing radiance—a natural flow of my inner being.
Today is the day I step back into power, into my most natural, grounded state. That state radiates balance and ease. Today is the day I reset and welcome my inner light to shine from that state. Where there is rush and hustle, I consciously slow. I acknowledge that I am radiant and trust my brilliant ways. I know what flows from this state is a natural fulfillment of who I already am.
I align with this enoughness, in all that is and all that will be. From today forward, there is nothing outside of that will dull shine again. I understand experiences will come, but I do not have to engage in those that do not support my highest, truest, and best self.
From today forward, I am living a radiant life that is stronger, more prosperous, smarter, and more beautiful than anything I’ve ever experienced.
Everything I seek is already inside me, and I am focused on rising from within.
Take a full deep breath and let it go.
I AM
I am…Two of the most powerful words in any language. Words that direct our emotions and thoughts into movements that support us.
I am radiant.
I am embodying my balanced light.
I am aligned with my enoughness.
I am acknowledging that I have the power to create whatever I desire by going within.
I am a powerful being.
I am focused on living a stronger, more prosperous experience.
I am aware that darkness is nothing more than a lack of light.
I am aware that I never lack light. It is always within me.
My radiance and I are one…
I am shining from this day forward…
Anytime you need a moment to come back to center. Repeat these words and lean into your truth; the truth that you are joy, and at the center of joy is you.
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What would happen if you gave yourself permission to put yourself in the first position and prioritize yourself? Many deem the first position a place of selfishness. But it’s is really? When done correctly, it absolutely is not! What does that look like and how do you get there in a way that is sustainable and long-lasting?
I sat down with Karen Casitlon to talk about her journey to prioritizing herself that started with these words: Now it’s your turn. In this beautiful conversation, Karen guides each of us through making shifts in our lives, finding our inner stillness and power, and leaning into the growth you’ve always been meant to find from the top of your priority list.
Key Takeaways:
01:58 Karen’s story and the birthday card that became words of inspiration: Now it’s your turn
05:06 How spirituality served a purpose for Karen and can be a guide for you, too
06:52 An inside look at what it feels like to find yourself
10:09 Feeling your emotions is important, regardless of what they are
15:30 Stillness is only effective when balanced with action: the difference between action and being active.
17:43 Fear isn't good or bad, it just is. It takes courage to let go of what we “think” is serving us
22:01 Balancing female and male energy is important and the art of being average. The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
29:25 Finding YOUR relationship with yourself
33:36 Defining your inner power and personal responsibility
38:21 Leaning into what grounds you in your definition of peace
41:54 Slowing down your life when needed is a massive push into putting yourself first
44:00 Time is not linear, and you are not out of it today
48:12 Karen’s 3 gratitude’s
There are so many takeaways in this conversation. So many bright spots born from the hard, unthinkable challenges that many of us face. No matter what you’ve walked through or will, understanding there is still something in it for you that is positive is so necessary to remember. I cannot thank Karen enough for this beautiful conversation. If you would like to follow her or know more, please follow her here:
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Welcome to Pause & Affirm! This quick hit of inspiration is meant to remind you of your greatness, inner light, and peace!
TAKE A MOMENT TO RELAX AND ALLOW THESE WORDS TO SETTLE IN YOUR MIND, HEART, AND SOUL. Affirming with me:
Today is a day of action and self-care, as I realize now that my actions can be guided through deep care of myself. In this care, I offer gratitude for everything guided to and through me. I show appreciation for the ideas, the goals, and the inspirations. I am thankful for the ability to do better and expand without resistance. As I look back across the timeline of my life, I see the evidence that I have done amazing things and conquered feats others said were impossible. I’ve shown up. I’ve held my own hand. I’ve walked in and through love. It’s now I offer this same respect and self-worth inward. I can. I am. I will. I do. Everything I am and need is here for me, and for that, I’m deeply, internally, and unendingly grateful. I honor all that is. Amen.
Lock these words inside and repeat these words aloud as often as needed, and remember, you are worthy, and you have always been. Until next time, be kind to yourself and others.
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The word safety comes up so often, whether in private sessions or here on the podcast, and there's a reason for it because everything starts and ends with your ability to feel safe. When you don’t have it, you can spiral.
In today’s Mindset Reset, I am walking you through the understanding of what happens when you don’t feel safe. There’s a true downward mental action that occurs. When you see and witness it, you empower yourself to change it.
02:11 What emotional safety is
03:32 First element of lacking emotional/mental safety
04:28 Lack of safety equals fear/uncertainty
06:42 Seeking solution and resolution goes one of two way: finding resolution or into a spiral
09:14 If we spiral, we lean into coping mechanisms, the behaviors that we know will ease anxiety/fear/negatives
10:59 From there, we seek validation or trying to find additional proof of safety.
12:49 Seeking validation lead us into the next category, which is heavy thinking
13:17 Which leads the cycle to starting over
You don't have to screw up your safety. In fact, you can actually elevate it, and I hope you will. I challenge you to do that.
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There’s a good chance that at one point or another, you’ve either been told you need to practice some form of self-care, or you’ve actively sought out some form of care to help you maintain your life, health, and overall well-being. The biggest issue is sometimes what we choose doesn’t help! Many of us think we know what self-care is and why we need it, but let’s face it: fake self-care will not solve your problems, help you find balance, and will not serve you in the long run.
So, today, you and I are taking a one-on-one deep dive into proper self-care, when and how it’s most beneficial, and I’ll hand over seven forms of self-care you may need to prioritize for your overall well-being.
Let’s get right to it.
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
01:29 How self-care has gotten twisted
02:35 The five masters of our lives that impact us and how we move through experiences
04:01 The definition of true self-care and how we get self-care wrong
05:53 Not all self-care is one-size-fits-all and what it honestly is
09:17 The first step to grounded self-care is getting honest with the self about your needs
10:54 Be willing to put your self-care practices into action with priority
12:00 The best self-care works when it’s preventive
16:41 7 areas of self-care that are important
20:49 Area 1: Emotional Self-care
22:36 Area 2: Physical Self-care
25:15 Area 3: Mental Self-care
27:06 Area 4: Social Self-care
30:22 Area 5: Spiritual Self-care
33:29 Area 6: Practical Self-care
34:52 Area 7: Professional Self-care
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Welcome to Pause & Affirm! This quick hit of inspiration is meant to remind you of your greatness, inner light, and peace! These quick notes to self are taken from the wildly popular Get Your Life Together, Girl daily quotes featured on Instagram.
TAKE A MOMENT TO RELAX AND ALLOW THESE WORDS TO SETTLE IN YOUR MIND, HEART, AND SOUL. Affirming with me:
I will no longer apologize for my boundaries, investing in myself, changing and growing, asking for help, finding my voice, owning who I am, taking a stance, craving connection, and distancing myself from people who use my intentions for their benefit. I will no longer manufacture worry and stress to make others feel their best. Instead, I am loving myself. I am taking up space. I deserve to own this life, and that’s what I’m doing for the rest of my days. In fact, this is what I’ve been waiting for my whole life—the day I gave myself permission to fully be me.
Lock these words inside and repeat these words aloud as often as needed, and remember, you are worthy, and you have always been. Until next time, be kind to yourself and others.
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I’m so excited to be a part of the Prioritize You virtual retreat. It’s 5 straight days of conversations, practices, and tools to give you ideas, inspirations, and practical tips about how to make time for yourself, even if you only have a few minutes a day!
The Prioritize You virtual retreat is completely FREE, but you have to save your seat to get access. Claim your ticket to the online retreat here: https://prioritizeyouretreat.com/danielle
And, remember, YOU are worth it!
Because, let’s get real — if not now, when?
Forgive me for name dropping, but the guest list in this virtual retreat is epic. (Psssst. Just between you and I, some of these best-selling writers and award-winning speakers charge upwards of $2000 to share their wisdom, but you can get it for free when you sign up for Prioritize You! https://prioritizeyouretreat.com/danielle
Here are a few of the incredible people you’ll get the chance to hear from:
Those are just a handful of the teachers, writers, and coaches involved. I would list them all, but you can just head on over to the registration page and take a look for yourself! Can’t wait for you to join and snag your free gifts, too!
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I also invite you to check out the new 15-day Affirmation Course, where I take you on a journey through how to your brain chemistry and your greatest desires to your benefits. It’s available to start right now!
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From the Get Confident Podcast with Johnelle Hoskings
We have an incredible guest, Danielle Vann, who shares her powerful journey of finding her voice and permitting herself to live authentically. Danielle opens up about her experiences, from asking for permission from others to the transformative process of giving herself permission. We'll dive into the five areas where we seek permission: emotional, mental, physical, spiritual, and financial and how they impact our well-being.
You'll hear about Danielle's struggles and how she recognized the need to let go of relationships that no longer served her. We'll discuss the challenges of building new friendships as adults and the importance of nurturing a supportive circle around us.
Danielle also shares her own health journey, including her personal struggles and her daughter's harrowing experience with kidney failure. We'll learn how she used these experiences as catalysts for her self-discovery and healing.
This episode will leave you feeling so empowered and ready to take on whatever challenge comes your way.
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Thank you to Johnelle for allowing us to reair this episode here on the Get Your Life Together, Girl podcast. We truly appreciate it!
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Welcome to Pause & Affirm! This quick hit of inspiration is meant to remind you of your greatness, inner light, and peace! These quick notes to self are taken from the wildly popular Get Your Life Together, Girl daily quotes featured on Instagram.
TAKE A MOMENT TO RELAX AND ALLOW THESE WORDS TO SETTLE IN YOUR MIND, HEART, AND SOUL. Affirming with me:
Dear self,
Today I am changing the words “I want” to “I am.” I want so much: change, expansion, stability, happiness, to touch joy, to fully know who I am and love her…but this want isn’t enough. I know I need action. So, I am purposefully moving into a space where I allow myself to show up, and that starts with “I am.” I am safe. I am creating a new place for myself. I am seeking and finding fulfillment. I am open to whatever comes my way. I am...
Lock these words inside and repeat these words aloud as often as needed, and remember, you are worthy, and you have always been. Until next time, be kind to yourself and others.
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How you view yourself matters, and the view equals your self-esteem. Self-esteem is an essential building block for your confidence, sense of worth, and how far you willingly permit yourself to thrive.
What’s so important to understand is that your self-worth and self-esteem are developed through evidence, through your experiences.
We tend to have lower self-esteem when attached to what isn’t working. When we bring ourselves into a place of genuine connection, meaning I can mess up without having to downgrade my worth, we give ourselves the ability to flow with our lives and not keep our emotions hostage only if things work in our favor immediately and without pushback.
Today’s mindset reset comes from Sarah in Michigan. She wrote, “I used to think I had healthy self-esteem, but recently I’ve been questioning myself. I do not feel confident I can do what I want and need. I am constantly comparing myself to others, especially friends in my group. I’m triggered by small mistakes. I feel like I’m failing in every area of my life. When I said this to my mother, she said, ‘Your self-esteem is shot.’ Then, she told me all the ways I needed to stop being hard on myself, which did not help. How do I know if low self-esteem is my problem, and how can I turn it around?
Listen to the full episode to uncover how to take a self-esteem audit!
Thank you, Sarah, for the question.
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You have an inner knowing and intelligence, and if you are not using it, you may be working against yourself. Today, you and I are taking a one-on-one deep dive into how to trust your gut and tune in.
It takes inner listening, trust, and faith in your internal guidance system. When we talk about trusting ourselves, the idea of gut feelings and intention often follows.
We’re breaking it all down so we know when to listen, and most importantly, I’m giving you a few tools to use that answer how to listen.
Let’s dive right in.
Key Takeaways:
0:00 Introduction
02:21 “If my gut is speaking, my brain needs to be quiet.”
03:20 Sometimes, the logical mind locks into our past experiences, and we shut out the gut
06:08 When you practice listening to your inner GPS/gut-knowing the stronger it becomes
07:10 The name “gut feeling” is an indicator of the brain/gut connection and the brain process
11:42 Gut feeling versus anxiety versus paranoia
14:48 Gut feelings only pass once the action has been put in place
16:14 When to trust yourself and gut: eight cues
26:20 How to tap in. Tool 1: Automatic writing
28:51 Tool 2: Review your mistakes
30:17 Tool 3: Practice nonjudgmental observations
35:49 Tool 4: Push against fear and a big aha moment
37:32 Tool 5: Get down to the facts and out of the emotional response
38:39 The things that stop your inner knowing
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Welcome to Pause & Affirm! This quick hit of inspiration is meant to remind you of your greatness, inner light, and peace! These quick notes to self are taken from the wildly popular Get Your Life Together, Girl daily quotes featured on Instagram.
TAKE A MOMENT TO RELAX AND ALLOW THESE WORDS TO SETTLE IN YOUR MIND, HEART, AND SOUL. Affirming with me:
“I do not require or seek the attention, validation, praise, or opinions of others to make myself feel good. I am in full ownership of who I am. My opinions and self-praise matters first and most. I know I am capable of validating my worth and I’m actively doing it with each thought and emotion that arises. I see the good within me. This is my life and I love who I am.”
Lock these words inside and repeat these words aloud as often as needed, and remember, you are worthy, and you have always been. Until next time, be kind to yourself and others.
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Welcome to this guided meditation, a space and time to move inward to allow yourself to connect with the most beautiful and important person in your world—you. This is a time and place to improve your relationship, a space to find kindness, your breath, and the emotional growth you need and desire. Loving yourself is never easy. As self-love is a practice, it takes time to grow. It takes time for you to invite yourself into the best pieces of you. This is a time to honor your truths, allow the words to gently echo in your mind, and consciously surrender to your greatness.
Namaste…
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What is the purpose of life? Big question. Some believe it’s to live humbly, have a few experiences, and do their best. For others, they think they’re here to leave a massive mark on the world. They believe purpose is found in the doing. While others believe the purpose of life is to be enlightened. Spiritual enlightenment is a state of awareness of the world and the true nature of oneself and the universe around them. It’s a conscious act of releasing pain, suffering, fear, and the ego. We find alignment, self-realization, and the real self in this ever-changing process.
But the question is how? How does one do this, especially if life has been fraught with hardships?
I sat down with Michele Blood, a singer from Australia with an international following, as she recounts moments after a car accident that changed her path and how her voice has helped thousands transform their lives through affirmation and find their way into the purpose of life—true enlightenment. Michele’s story reminds us that each of us has a purpose; our voice creates powerful movements in our lives, and we have an inner knowledge we have the power to tune into.
Key Takeaways:
0:00 Introduction
03:34 Michele’s Story and how her story shifted
06:57 Affirmations shifted Michele’s healing
11:37 Finding Enlightenment
15:40 How our dark experiences can become the enlightenment
20:00 Finding your own enlightenment
28:41 How visualization helps you get there
32:41 Stop complaining and blaming
38:58 “Do it scared!” Take the action you are more afraid of doing
49:53 Choosing your highest good and thanking your life
52:54 Michele’s 3 gratitude’s
Michelle offered some interesting perspectives and tools that you can use right now! From meditation, affirmations, and thought changes, no matter how your story changes and moves you, your purpose is found in finding your true, enlightened self.
Michelle and her team were so kind to offer many free resources. Head to www.micheleblood.com/LifeTogether.
You can also find her on social media @themysticalexperience.
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Welcome to Pause & Affirm! This quick hit of inspiration is meant to remind you of your greatness, inner light, and peace! These quick notes to self are taken from the wildly popular Get Your Life Together, Girl daily quotes featured on Instagram. I hope you enjoy this new Saturday morning moment together.
TAKE A MOMENT TO RELAX AND ALLOW THESE WORDS TO SETTLE IN YOUR MIND, HEART, AND SOUL. Affirming with me:
“I am ready.
I am ready to thrive in the glorious beauty of my life.
I am ready to marvel at what life has to offer me.
I am ready to see each new day as an opportunity.
I AM READY!
I am ready to not allow one single piece of living to be lost.
One step. One new thought. One new direction. One new moment of ownership. I open my arms and shout, “I am wildly ready for more!”
Lock these words inside and repeat these words aloud as often as needed, and remember, you are worthy, and you have always been. Until next time, be kind to yourself and others.
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Habits are important. They are important as they really do serve us in the long run. A habit is an action we've practiced into a routine, and it's important to know that your mind works in patterns. When we practice something enough times, our mind locks it into place. Your thoughts become beliefs. Your beliefs become actions. Your actions become habits, and that's all well and good until it doesn't work for you.
Meagan from Arizona wrote in and said, “Danielle, I have been trying to change my habits for quite some time, but I really think that I am struggling to understand what a habit actually is, and I'm wondering if you can give us a few steps that would help us change the connection to our patterns?
What a great question!
Listen to the full episode to uncover how to change the habits you are correctly practicing!
Meagan, thank you for your question! I hope this opens your and others’ eyes and helps you to mindful change what you wish to change.
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Emotionally sound people are deliberate about how they appear in the world. They understand their belief system and their core values. Understanding your value and belief system is so essential that you cannot become emotionally resilient without it. That’s why you and I are taking a one-on-one deep dive into understanding your emotions and values. Then, I’m handing over the inner conversation people with emotional resiliency tell themselves in moments of hardship. This internal dialogue is so important that it can change how you look at life. Let’s not waste another moment and dive right in.
Key Takeaways:
02:27 What’s for me? Who am I? One of the biggest questions you must ask yourself
03:30 Defining what a belief is and lasering into what value means
09:00 Common Positive and Negative Core Beliefs and a aha moment
11:53 Clearing out the beliefs is like cleaning the house
17:30 Phrases emotionally intelligent people say to themselves
20:00 Core pieces that must be in place for emotional resiliency
21:00 Statement 1 of emotional resilience behind the belief and value
22:56 Statement 2
24:35 Statement 3
25:38 Statement 4
28:26 Statement 5
31:30 Leaning into the one thing that matters and works for you right now
34:44 Statement 6 – One of the most important
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Welcome to Pause & Affirm! This quick hit of inspiration is meant to remind you of your greatness, inner light, and peace! These quick notes to self are taken from the wildly popular Get Your Life Together, Girl daily quotes featured on Instagram. I hope you enjoy this new Saturday morning moment together.
TAKE A MOMENT TO RELAX AND ALLOW THESE WORDS TO SETTLE IN YOUR MIND, HEART, AND SOUL. Affirming with me:
“I am ready to create and receive all the abundance and growth I deserve.
I am practicing living without limits, self-prescribed or learned.
I am free to be myself and no longer desire to live by everyone else’s rules and standards.
I release the need to control everything. I am cultivating a life of allowing.
I see myself in others. I am freely and willingly offering myself the same love and grace I openly give to those in my life.
My nature is kindness. I give it and welcome it in return.
I am in a constant state of gratitude—I seek it, find it, nurture it, and receive it in all ways.
My inner peace is the gauge I measure my accomplishments, not others’ opinions, successes, or belongings.
I know I have the power to create the life I desire and deserve. I know because I’m actively developing it with this very thought.
I am worthy. I am love. I am strength. I am the reflection of grace.”
Lock these words inside and repeat these words aloud as often as needed, and remember, you are worthy, and you have always been. Until next time, be kind to yourself and others.
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Welcome to this seated mindfulness meditation. This practice guides you into a deeper state of relaxation in your mind and body while allowing your mind to slow down and create a sense of calm by reducing that inner chatter.
Begin to focus on your breath, allowing your body to naturally feel the flow of air coming in and air leaving. Allow yourself to gently move away from whatever has found you. Move yourself into a state of calm, peace, deservingness, and consciousness.
Take a deep breath, breathe through your nose, and allow air to gently pass through your throat, grazing your chest and finding its way to the bottom of your lungs. Expanding your belly allow the breath to bring more life to every piece of you.
As you continue to breathe in this expansive, life-giving way, begin to settle, allowing your body to release tension. Letting yourself feel whatever you feel. If you're sitting on the ground, feel it under you. Feel your bones and muscles melt into the floor. If you're sitting in a chair, feel the fabric, the coolness, the texture under your legs. Wherever you are, bring your fullest attention to whatever you feel, both outside and within you.
With your next breath, let your mind be open.
Listen to the full meditation to find peace within your body, mind, heart, and soul.
Namaste…
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Trauma, dysregulated emotions, high levels of stress and anxiety, all have a way of rewiring and changing your nervous system. The changes are so significant they can cause disease as you witness and carry your dis-ease; they cause coping mechanisms and self-harm, and a host of other significant life impacts. Yet, there is a way to retrain the autonomic nervous system and your relationship to your experiences.
I sat down with trauma and addiction therapist, Polyvagal Institute Course Developer, teacher, and author Jan Winhall to talk about how to shift out of flight/fight/fold and freeze, and how we can connect with ourselves and change the impending danger we feel that keeps us from relaxing and enjoying our lives.
So, let’s dive right in.
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
02:07 Jan Winhall’s discoveries during her forty-plus years as a trauma and addiction therapist
04:29 The body’s response to trauma
08:29 Breaking down coping mechanisms and their purpose to keep us alive and safe
11:00 Polyvagal Theory and your nervous system’s job
13:43 The hierarchy of fight, flight, fold, and freeze
16:42 Trauma feedback loop
18:17 Your nervous system determines how you experience moments
29:19 Two embodied practices
32:36 Focus in partnerships and connectivity to change the nervous system
35:09 Understanding your triggers
41:33 Attuning to your needs
43:19 The practice of Clearing Space Backwards
49:11 Jan’s 3 gratitudes
There are so many beautiful takeaways from this conversation. You can find the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model on Jan’s website at www.janwinhall.com. You can also find her on LinkedIn and Instagram @janwinhall.
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I also invite you to check out the new 15-day Affirmation Course, where I take you on a journey through how to your brain chemistry and your greatest desires to your benefits. It’s available to start right now!
Looking for more? Visit: www.getyourlifetogethergirl.com, I also invite you to join the new Get Your Life Together, Girl Women’s Circle. This monthly membership gives you access to exclusive exercises, practices, tools, monthly live conversations where you can ask questions, 100s of techniques, and a community to support you. It’s just $9.00 a month. Connection can be complicated. Therapy isn’t cheap. The Women’s Circle bridges the gap. Visit the website to learn more and sign up.
Welcome to Pause & Affirm! This quick hit of inspiration is meant to remind you of your greatness, inner light, and peace! These quick notes to self are taken from the wildly popular Get Your Life Together, Girl daily quotes featured on Instagram. I hope you enjoy this new Saturday morning moment together.
TAKE A MOMENT TO RELAX AND ALLOW THESE WORDS TO SETTLE IN YOUR MIND, HEART, AND SOUL. Affirming with me:
“The past is my teacher, not the definition of everything I am.
My tomorrow is beautiful, but it’s not everything I am living for.
Today I am good enough without exception.
Today I am proud of myself, of my efforts and abilities.
Today I accept who I am at my core.
Today I am focused on my thoughts, words, actions, and reactions because I am making choices that best suit my life.
I am beautifully and wonderfully me, and that’s all I must be. ”
Lock these words inside and repeat these words aloud as often as needed, and remember, you are worthy, and you have always been. Until next, be kind to yourself and others.
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Sadly, we now live in a world where being offended by even the littlest thing is a standard. Yet, by not getting offended so quickly, you minimize your stress levels and open yourself up to new ideas, thought processes, emotions, and experiences.
Bella Jean from Portland, Oregon, wrote in and said: “Danielle, I have been working on growing and becoming a better person over the last year, but there’s something that I can’t quite grow out of yet. That’s not taking offense when someone questions my thoughts or feelings or when my family tells me I’m wrong because they haven’t done all the work on themselves that I have done. It’s tiring, and I want to let things slide off my shoulders, but I don’t know how. Can you help?”
Bella Jean, you know I can. We all need to learn the art of letting things slide!
Here’s the reality. Your ego doesn’t like to be threatened.
04:35 So, let's dive into a handful of thought changes that can and will take you into letting go of being offended.
04:50 The first thing that you have to look at and realize is why? Why is it you are offended?
06:44 Learn the difference between healthy constructive criticism and someone looking to offend
08:38 Embrace differences
10:58 Focus on listening.
What being offended comes down to is rightness. You are right, and there is a black-and-white frame to everything. That’s not true. There will always be more than one way to solve the same equation. There will always be more than one way to get to an answer.
When we are offended, we are grasping our beliefs too tightly.
Whether it’s something small like someone is rude at the grocery store or you have a heated discussion with someone, realize you can save yourself a ton of wasted energy by not connecting with things that don’t align and simply say “Interesting perspective” and move on. If it isn’t worth your energy, it’s not worth your mindset shifting.
Bella Jean, I hope this helps! I challenge you to open your mind and be unoffended. As I challenge everyone to do the same…
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When was the last time you listened to your inner conversation? Is it serving you, or does it take you down?
Most women struggle with their inner critic and tend to beat themselves up. Is this you? If so, there’s one essential life practice that can silence the inner critic, help you release the need to trash yourself and your worth, and is the ultimate foundation of self-love.
What is it? It’s self-empathy.
While you may be familiar with having empathy for others, turning this practice inward changes the inner conversation and opens the door to cultivating inner peace, happiness, and gives you the courage to be the woman who loves themselves fiercely.
This week we’re taking a one-on-one deep dive into the step-by-step, simple process of how to use self-empathy daily. It starts with two simple questions that have the power to silence the inner critic and change your mindset. Self-empathy is the gateway to self-love, and this conversation helps you in the throes of radical change.
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
01:16 Self-love is the most significant form of rebellion any woman can offer herself.
03:12 A life-altering question asked before a live audience
06:20 We never take a straight journey to self-love. We actually take a journey through self-empathy first
07:17 How and why self-empathy is the pathway to silencing your inner critic
07:37 The definition of empathy
09:00 Empathy can be transformed into two questions:
What is most alive in this moment?
What is at the heart of this matter?
10:35 A joint understanding of self-empathy
12:00 How the lack of self-empathy impacts us and dials up the inner critic
15:57 A former client’s story of lacking self-empathy that may mirror your story now
19:03 The habits of self-empathy that make all the difference
21:25 Awareness #1: Recognize Yourself as a Feeling Being
24:49 Awareness #2: Sensing Your Deepest Needs
27:00 Awareness #3: Life is Challenging. It’s All About How You Show Up
29:09 Awareness #4: Offering Yourself Kindness and Support
35:09 Sentences to use when self-empathy is lacking, and the inner critic/anxiety is raging
36:12 Awareness #5 It Takes Courage to Offer Yourself Grace
37:49 The step-by-step practice of using self-empathy daily: the how
44:35 Self-empathy is the tool to get you out of your head and into your heart
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Welcome to Pause & Affirm! This quick hit of inspiration is meant to remind you of your greatness, inner light, and peace! These quick notes to self are taken from the wildly popular Get Your Life Together, Girl daily quotes featured on Instagram. I hope you enjoy this new Saturday morning moment together.
TAKE A MOMENT TO RELAX AND ALLOW THESE WORDS TO SETTLE IN YOUR MIND, HEART, AND SOUL. Affirming with me:
“I see myself. I see all that I am and honor the person in the reflection. I know that I have the power to change my story and create anything I choose. I am grateful for this power and the opportunity to direct my life. I am never stuck or bound where I am, which is one of the most beautiful understandings I have ever been gifted. Today, I am choosing to shift my focus and honor all that is unfolding for me. Where I have been has taught me. Where I am is teaching and changing me. Where I am headed is extraordinarily moving me forward. I am humbled by the greatness within and around me. All I can say is: “Thank you. Thank you. Humbly and with deep appreciation, thank you!”
Lock these words inside and repeat these words aloud as often as needed, and remember, you are worthy, and you have always been. Until next, be kind to yourself and others.
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Find a comfortable position and take a deep breath. Now, close your eyes and allow your thoughts to soften. Bring your mind to a state of stillness and focus on two beautiful words. Those words are peace and Shanti. Shanti is a Sanskrit term that can be loosely translated as “peace be with you.” It’s a reminder that peace is always within your grasp.
Because being at peace is a choice. A daily choice that reminds us that we are on a journey—a journey of learning, of lessons and redirection, a journey of creating balance and deep inner understanding, and a journey that has always been meant to guide us to the humble state in which we arrived, in peace and embodying Shanti.
Take a full, deep breath.
Let the words guide you into deeper peace and repeat them aloud if it serves you.
I am at peace. My life is an echo of Shanti. I live in the unfolding of all the things that occur, no matter how I may first perceive them, whether good or bad, because I know that within everything peace exists. I seek peace. I acknowledge it, and I choose to live within it.
From now on, I am choosing to guide my inner thoughts through Shanti and allow them to be an echo of my peace. What I radiate grows and comes back to me, and it’s with this knowledge that I choose Shanti as my guide.
Breathe in. Breathe out.
I have also come to understand that my world does not have to be in complete harmony or stillness for me to be grounded in the humbleness that peace has to offer. I simply use it to protect my energy, to feed myself good-feeling thoughts, engage through a balanced mindset, and be the reflection of the good in my life.
I let go of my ego and its push for constant results. Instead, I walk the path of peace where more is unfolding for me. It’s a path that is bricked with only the highest, truest, and best.
Peace is my superpower. I am using it to shape my beautiful, unstoppable now. I am unlimited. I am the very definition of Shanti.
I AM:
I am peace.
I am at peace.
I am living in a state of constant peace.
I am the deliberate creator of my story, of my life, and it is my desire to guide my choices through peace.
I am accepting that not everything happens in peace, and yet, it’s still an option for me.
I am the protector of my peace and choose to hold space for myself.
I am living my life in a limitless state of abundance; that abundance is guided through peace.
There are simply no other words to say other than, “Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Om, Shanti, Shanti, Shanti.
Take a deep full breath in and slowly let it go.
Anytime you need a moment to come back to center. Repeat these words and lean into Shanti. Lean into the understanding that peace is always within you, if you choose to allow it to be felt, to be seen, and to grow. May peace be with you.
Namaste…
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What does the term “coping mechanisms” mean to you? The term has taken on an understanding that doesn’t fully explain what a coping mechanism is or how it can take you into dark places in your life. After all, they are more than just the things you do because at the base of every coping mechanism is a hope that you have a sense of safety and control, even if it isn’t a true security blanket.
When we use our coping mechanisms against ourselves, we create less than fulfilling lives. This is especially true if your coping mechanism is something that requires work. An example of that work is emotional eating.
While many of us do not look at our eating habits and relationship with food as disordered, it can be without even realizing it. Any disordered habits create disordered thinking, which upsets our emotional balance. That’s why I sat down with the founder and leader of Escape From Emotional Eating Jessica Procini to talk about the root of this coping mechanism and how to tackle it if this is a struggle for you. Jessica even hands over a priceless tool you can use right now!
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
02:01 Jessica’s story and her why
05:49 What emotional eating truly is at its core
09:35 Identifying if you are in denial and being at home in your own body
11:39 Emotional eating can be any type of food—the disordered eating can be anything
14:09 Creating a new pattern with your eating through consciousness
18:19 The dark pitfalls of this experience and Jessica’s research
19:50 Root 1 of emotional eating: Hypervigilance
25:02 Root 2 of emotional eating: Self-loathing
28:12 Root 3 of emotional eating: Self-abnegation
30:12 A self-serving tool
37:18 Creating emotional freedom and creating personal power through an outcome
40:34 Jessica and I share what fills out batteries
47:40 Jessica’s three gratitudes
What a great conversation! I love the presence of thought awareness that Jessica speaks of and brings to the table. Eating health is far more than just numbers on a scale or what you look like in your favorite pair of jeans. Food is fuel. If you are fueling your body in a way that isn’t sustainable, the entire body suffers in one way or another.
If you would like to learn more about Jessica:
https://www.instagram.com/jessprocini/
https://www.youtube.com/c/JessicaProcini
Roots Quiz and Beginners Guide: http://innerwork.me
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Welcome to Pause & Affirm! This quick hit of inspiration is meant to remind you of your greatness, inner light, and peace! These quick notes to self are taken from the wildly popular Get Your Life Together, Girl daily quotes featured on Instagram. I hope you enjoy this new Saturday morning moment together.
TAKE A MOMENT TO RELAX AND ALLOW THESE WORDS TO SETTLE IN YOUR MIND, HEART, AND SOUL. Affirming with me:
“I’m treating my mind like a friend.
I am honoring my body for the miracle it is.
I am lovingly giving each and every emotion an opportunity to speak.
I am one with my heart, mind, and soul.
I have this one chance, as I am right here and now, to live in harmony of my greatest desire.
I am living through and with my heart each and every day.“
Lock these words inside and repeat these words aloud as often as needed, and remember, you are worthy, and you have always been. Until next, be kind to yourself and others.
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Let’s face it; relationships can be hard. This is especially true when we are talking about long-term, romantic relationships. When we know our partners intimately, we often tend to forecast or assume we know what they are thinking, how they will respond, what they need, want, like, you get it, all the things. Yet, that assumption or lack of discovery questions is where we first trip up and cause our own problems.
Davida from Puerto Rico wrote, “Danielle, I’ve been married for twenty-one years. We love and respect one another. However, I’ve noticed in the last two years that our communication has changed. We both have grown so much individually and within our marriage. We both consider our marriage to be solid, but we’ve begun to notice minor disagreements on things like doing the dishes or what time our oldest child has to be home are turning into bigger issues than they should be. Is there something we can do to help guide one another through these moments? I find myself mad at him and want him to respond differently. He becomes mad at me. Sometimes we talk it out. Sometimes it sits and waits for a few days. It’s not a healthy cycle. What do you suggest?”
One of the most significant issues we have when communicating comes down to assumption! If we assume what someone else is thinking because we have a standard set of evidence that this is how someone responded in the past, we take away the “right now” factor.
What does that mean?
“Right now” factors are where you are in your mindset, what is occuring in the emotional body, what’s in the thought , these are the right now factors.
So, how can we turn a moment like getting upset about the dishes not being done into a moment of discovery and importance?
First, we ask questions to gather the “right now” information.
These are right now factors—the things that ALTER how you may or may not show up in a moment.
It’s here you will often hear the “right now” factors that lead to the frustration you are both experiencing at the moment.
You can also employ the scale of importance. This is where a conversation and understanding of this tool is needed for both parties or it may get lost in translation.
What is the scale of importance?
Think of it as a survey of emotions and feelings, even thoughts, and how you and someone else sees a moment.
When you have a pre-set scale definition with your partner, you can quickly move through this and understand how important something is without having to do much in the way of discovery questions.
How do we get there?
Sit down with your partner. Take a piece of paper and write out a scale from 1 to 10. Next to each number, come up with a definition of what that number means to you.
Number 1 may mean it’s not essential, just a topic of conversation.
Ten may mean the world is on fire, and something must be handled right now.
Five could be, “Hey, I’m putting it out there, and we need to handle or talk about this, but it isn’t immediate.”
When it comes to emotions, we can also give ourselves definitions to operate from.
1 I’m good. No support is needed.
10 is I’m not okay in the present moment.
This may feel like a relatedly small tool, but using this truly has a way to reset any moment. And if we allow ourselves to reset a moment, we keep ourselves in a good head space.
Davida, thank you for your question. I hope this helps ease the stain in your communication. Again, it’s simple, but this tool packs a ton of power! I hope this works for all that put it into practice!
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You’ve probably heard the saying, “Control is an illusion.” And for all points and purposes, it absolutely is. It is also one of the greatest paradoxes we experience in life. We are to be in control, but not try to control every situation, while finding a sense of control to keep ourselves safe. It’s no wonder we screw this up and use control in ways that often negatively impact us.
That’s why you and I are taking a one-on-one deep dive into control. We’ll take a journey into the three root causes of control, and we’ll talk about repairing your relationship with specific outcomes, no matter what situations you may be facing. By the end of this conversation, you’ll have a new understanding of why the art of surrendering is so damn important!
So, let’s dive right in!
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
01:43 Control is one of the biggest paradoxes of our lives
04:10 We must explore our relationship with control
05:00 What does control mean for you? Control = safety
08:10 How control drives anxiety
11:36 Which the word “feel” for “control” and see how things change, both positive and negative
12:47 The more you let go the more control you have and where control is rooted
19:19 Lack manifests into control, especially when it comes to self-esteem
26:48 Your brain operates through patterns and how safety is achieved
31:12 Formulate your definition of safety and what it means to surrender
33:33 The ins and outs of surrendering and the questions to ask yourself
38:00 The benefits of surrender and reevaluating our need for safety
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Welcome to Pause & Affirm! This quick hit of inspiration is meant to remind you of your greatness, inner light, and peace! These quick notes to self are taken from the wildly popular Get Your Life Together, Girl daily quotes featured on Instagram. I hope you enjoy this new Saturday morning moment together.
TAKE A MOMENT TO RELAX AND ALLOW THESE WORDS TO SETTLE IN YOUR MIND, HEART, AND SOUL. Affirming with me:
“My thoughts have power, and I’m leading with my intentionality, not limitations.
What I once thought were stopping points, barriers to my grand plans and success, are nothing of the sort. Instead, they are level-up points, asking me to step up and out of my comfort zone. I am confidently moving toward my dreams, ready to prosper at every turn. This day, this week, is mine, and I’m wildly making room for every ounce of unexpected opportunity to find me. I am something, and I am faithfully allowing that something to grow. My hours. My day. My week. My time. I excitedly shout, “Hell yes! I am ready!”
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Welcome to this guided, active relaxation meditation to welcome in silence and to give yourself permission to sit in what you need and want right now.
Many struggle with letting go and finding silence. Its boundlessness feels too expansive to explore, too quiet to sit in, while we fight against what may come up—the thoughts, the feelings, the unknown, and the known.
And yet, in meditation, silence is what we are seeking. Emotional release is the benefit of silence. It’s turning off the machine of the brain and allowing your consciousness to rise.
Your brain operates in patterns and does just as it’s told by its director—you. You arrived on this earth with minimal preset programming. But your soul knows its direction, purpose, and intention. You find it in the silence, active release, and relaxation.
We go inward, not to solve the problems of the mind, but to hear the answers of the soul. We came together here to relax to do just that.
So, begin to settle in now… allowing yourself to find a comfortable position. Be still in this place and let your body relax by softly deepening your breath. Let your arms reset comfortably in your lap or by your side. Draw your shoulders down and away from your ears while straightening your spine—allowing it to elongate comfortably.
Listen to the full meditation to relax and find stillness.
Namaste…
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One of the best things we can do for ourselves is dig deep and uncover why we do what we do. This work is an intentional act that takes getting to know yourself, releasing connections to things that do not serve us, and choosing the energy and practices we want to grow through. An unhealed life often feels like an overwhelming sense of danger, powerlessness, and fear. Healing creates safety and empowers self-authority.
And yet, the question always is: how do we get there?
I sat down with Dr. Jane Tornatore to talk about the “how.” She and I share our best-used tools for healing in a fantastic conversation that will leave you with many starting points and excellent practices and tools you can try right now to create or move you forward in your journey.
Grab a pen and a piece of paper! You’re going to need it!
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
02:02 Dr. Jane Tornatore and her work
03:20 Emotions are impulses, and Dr. Jane’s “Feeling Model”
06:20 Working with the body’s process feelings last less than 2 minutes
08:52 Are you naming your emotions the correct name by their actual definition to you? Curiosity’s role
10:40 Waiting until the end of the movie –a new perspective of feelings
12:20 Using your experiences as evidence to help you through moments and emotions
14:25 Separating our brains from our bodies is a limiting belief
16:12 A Tool: How does this feel in my body?
17:10 Intuitive wisdom and self-trust
25:15 Our thought habits change when we deal with them: the how
27:09 Witnessing your younger self
32:00 Your body holds on to trauma as a form of safety and protection
33:51 A Tool: Somatic shaking
35:44 A Tool: Ocean breath
40:10 A Tool: Is this story I want to feed?
44:45 A Tool: Replace the word “feel” with the word “control”
50:04 A Tool: “Hello, Gorgeous!”
55:01 Dr. Jane’s 3 gratitude
I hope you are inspired to take your self-journey to the next level! I cannot thank Dr. Jane enough for a fantastic conversation filled with laughter and many deep truths. I always learn from others, and I hope you learned from us.
If you would like to connect more with Dr. Jane, you can head to her website, especially for that free download, at www.everydaylove.me You can also find her on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Linkedin by searching Everyday Love. Or go to our show notes to be directly linked. You can also find her book Everything is Perfect, Just Not Me, on Amazon.
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Welcome to Pause & Affirm! This quick hit of inspiration is meant to remind you of your greatness, inner light, and peace! These quick notes to self are taken from the wildly popular Get Your Life Together, Girl daily quotes featured on Instagram. I hope you enjoy this new Saturday morning moment together.
TAKE A MOMENT TO RELAX AND ALLOW THESE WORDS TO SETTLE IN YOUR MIND, HEART, AND SOUL. Affirming with me:
“I am content with where I am today because growth and my experiences have asked me to see myself here. In this contentment, I choose to live in a state of belonging and potential. This is my commitment to myself, and I am honoring it wholeheartedly. I love my life, and I’m so thankful to be alive! I am thankful for this life as it. ”
Lock these words inside and repeat these words aloud as often as needed, and remember, you are worthy, and you have always been. Until next, be kind to yourself and others.
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What you carry, you must pay for in one way or another. That’s true whether it’s actual financial debt, physical debt of not respecting your body, mental debt from not thinking thoughts that serve you, or emotional debt from suppressing your emotions. We talk so much about trauma and impactful events, but what we often truly fail to address is how the debt, the weight, shows up in our lives as a symptom to something greater.
That’s why you and I are taking a one-on-one deep dive into emotional debt, what it is, and then we’ll examine one of the most significant symptoms we feel—feeling disconnected.
If you ever feel emotionally exhausted, weighted down by the stories in your head, or feeling disconnected, you are not alone, but this is the conversation for you.
Let’s dive right in.
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
01:47 What is “Emotional Debt?”
05:17 Why does emotional debt occur?
07:02 Exploring personal emotional debt
12:15 Disconnection is a symptom of emotional debt
15:25 Signs for disconnection thanks to emotional debt
22:09 Tools and exercises to get out of the disconnection
28:09 Emotional debt is the stacking of everything you refuse to deal with
29:39 Looking at growth and what it takes to get there
31:31 One question that changes everything when answered: What is the cost of this debt?
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Welcome to Pause & Affirm! This quick hit of inspiration is meant to remind you of your greatness, inner light, and peace! These quick notes to self are taken from the wildly popular Get Your Life Together, Girl daily quotes featured on Instagram. I hope you enjoy this new Saturday morning moment together.
TAKE A MOMENT TO RELAX AND ALLOW THESE WORDS TO SETTLE IN YOUR MIND, HEART, AND SOUL. Affirming with me:
“Above all else, I deserve to be happy. Not just happy, but deep down in my soul happy. The kind of feel-good that’s so strong it leaks from every ounce of my being. When I am so busy, I often fail to feel this beauty, so, now I am allowing yourself to slow down and offer it to myself. I give myself permission to find the simple pleasures of softness and ease. I am giving myself space from noise and distraction and center in joy. As I do, I am recharging in its wholeness. The truth is I am sunshine, a light that makes others smile, laugh, and feel at ease. And now is the time to allow that light be a source of my happiness, too? I deserve to live happily. Above all else, I deserve to shine. Above all else, I deserve peace. ”
Lock these words inside and repeat these words aloud as often as needed, and remember, you are worthy, and you have always been. Until next, be kind to yourself and others.
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Welcome to this guided meditation to increase abundance and prosperity.
When we think of prosperity, it often comes through the mindset of hope. We hope to have abundance; we hope to be successful. We hope to create prosperity in the five master areas of our life: emotionally, mentally, spiritually, physically, and financially.
Your brain is a marvelous place that is capable of so much. It absorbs moments and memories, new information, and fuels creativity and desire; it’s a place of pattern and evidence.
And yet, it knows no difference between positive and negative. It takes what you feed it and uses it as instructed…
I am abundant.
I have abundance.
I am creating prosperity easily and effortlessly.
I have effortless prosperity.
I am existing to have an abundant life that leads me to happiness and fulfillment.
I have an abundant life that is filled with happiness and fulfillment.
I am living in limitless abundance.
I have limitless abundance.
I am prosperous, and I will continue to be prosperous.
Take a full deep breath, and let it go.
I have prosperity and will continue to have prosperity.
I am focused, and now that everything I touch bursts with prosperity.
I have focus on knowing that everything I touch bursts with prosperity.
I am constantly taking action that creates a wealth of mind, spirit, and body.
I have a constant wealth of mind, spirit, and body because of my actions.
I am never without.
I have everything I need.
I am deserving of abundance.
I have abundance.
Listen to the full meditation to move through the affirmations and build abundance.
Namaste…
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Namaste…
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According to the World Health Organization, bipolar disorder is one of the top three causes of hospitalization in people aged 15 to 44. It’s estimated that 5% of the world’s population is on the bipolar spectrum and of that 5%, only 1 to 2% are diagnosed. And while those percentages may seem small, with over 8 billion people currently in the world, we are talking about over 400 million people with bipolar brains.
It’s far more common than you think. In the US alone, around 4.4% of adults deal with or develop bipolar disorder, and the numbers show it impacts more females than males.
I sat down with author and filmmaker Sara Schley to talk about her experience with bipolar disorder and how she has turned what she calls her broken into a blessing as she serves the world by spreading knowledge and resources for those who believe there’s little hope out there. In fact, that’s the furthest from the truth. So, whether you have a diagnosis, know someone who does, or has it genetically within your family, this moving, impactful conversation is filled with understanding, truths, science, and community.
Let’s dive in…
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
03:10 Understanding Sara’s why and the bipolar spectrum
08:11 Bipolar 1, 2, and why most doctors get it wrong
16:13 The stigma and research showing the positive of bipolar
22:07 The stamp of “I am broken…”
29:24 The 4 EMTs – Emergency Mental Health Toolkit
37:29 There are simple diagnostics available & the BrainStorm the Memoir
43:07 The practices that help calm the brain
47:29 Activating events that trigger bipolar and the research
48:22 Bipolar Pride! and how Sara got there
51:55 BrainStorm the Film
54:43 Sara’s three gratitudes
I sit in awe of Sara and her journey. She is truly the definition of what it means to take circumstance and turn it into power. If you would like to connect with Sara or purchase her book, her website is Saraschley.com. You can also purchase her book at all major retailers or click: BrainStorm the Memoir . You can also find the film at brainstormthefilm.com or on Ig @brainstormthefilm.
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Welcome to Pause & Affirm! This quick hit of inspiration is meant to remind you of your greatness, inner light, and peace! These quick notes to self are taken from the wildly popular Get Your Life Together, Girl daily quotes featured on Instagram. I hope you enjoy this new Saturday morning moment together.
TAKE A MOMENT TO RELAX AND ALLOW THESE WORDS TO SETTLE IN YOUR MIND, HEART, AND SOUL. Affirming with me:
“I am nourishing my needs by being true to each and every experience that finds me. In this truth, I allow myself to say no when I mean no, and yes when I mean yes. I do so without worry or question that using my voice is wrong or makes others uncomfortable. I know what I want and what I need, and I’m proud to finally allow myself to witness these fundamental pieces of myself. From today forward, I am actively honoring this movement to its fullest capacity because I deserve to cherish myself in the same way I respect and honor others. With my thoughts geared in the best direction for me, I know I am powerfully creating the rewarding life I so deeply desire and deserve. ”
Lock these words inside and repeat these words aloud as often as needed, and remember, you are worthy, and you have always been. Until next, be kind to yourself and others.
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Most of us experience times in our lives when we don’t feel good enough. We struggle with ourselves and wonder why life seems so much easier for everyone else.
Carolina F from Dayton, Ohio, wrote: “Danielle, I wish I could express how much I’ve learned from listening to your podcast. What I’m writing about is the one place that I can find myself back sliding into, which is the feeling of not feeling good enough. What do you suggest that we all have this thought in our heads to get out of it? Thanks for the work you do.” st is helping you get your life together! I love that you are already experiencing a difference, and to answer your question: yes! There are roughly seven key areas that have dynamic impacts on us. And you’ve already hit on one—sleep! So, let’s jump in and chat about those things. And there is good news for everyone, these impacts are some of the easiest things to change!
So, let’s dive into a few things you can do when the story of not being good enough is owning and dragging you down.
First thing: YOU HAVE THE POWER TO QUESTION YOUR INNER CRITIC.
If you find that what you’ve told yourself is actually true, there are ways to change the story from a negative to a grounded positive.
How?
Start small with one thing you know you need to change so that you feel and know you are capable.
The next thing to keep in mind is to celebrate all wins—even the smallest ones.
Next, remember that it’s important to talk about your feelings or get them out, as it changes our connection to the feelings.
Discuss it with a friend and be willing to take advice. Letting the people close to us offer perspective can be eye-opening.
Don't beat yourself up. There are much better ways to motivate yourself.
And the last thing, at least for now, to remember is to focus on and take responsibility for the process.
When you are struggling, remember the question am I good enough doesn’t define you. It’s just a question.
You have the power to change the story. I challenge you to start now. I challenge you to change what isn’t working for you.
Carolina, thank you for the question!
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Growth and self-love are not mutually exclusive. Loving yourself takes effort, exploration, release, healing, and understanding there’s more to self-love than self-care. And, while the effort to promote self-love has become a hot topic across the internet and social media, there’s also been a push to define and push self-love in a way that absolutely does not support your mental and emotional health.
Today, you and I are taking a one-on-one deep dive into what self-love is NOT! It’s important to understand both sides of the coin so you can best serve yourself in the long run.
So, let’s dive right in.
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
01:25 A baseline understanding of what self-love is
03:29 3 foundations to self-love
06:29 Love is always conditional
08:17 Other elements of self-love that must be present in our lives
13:10 Toxic self-love #1: Using self-love to hurt others
15:29 Toxic self-love #2: Disconnecting from quality relationships
17:54 Toxic self-love #3: Putting the lens of positivity on everything
20:10 Toxic self-love #4: Excusing our behavior and calling it self-love
22:21 Toxic self-love #5: Selfishness
25:49 Toxic self-love #6: When we put excuses in the way of self-work
28:54 Toxic self-love #7: Refusing to validate feelings when they don’t align with our own
31:13 Toxic self-love #8: Refusing to care about others or anything
32:49 Toxic self-love #9: It is not about pushing yourself to be more
34:55 Toxic self-love #10: It is not one area of focus while ignoring everything else
36:26 Toxic self-love #11: Refusing real life
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Welcome to Pause & Affirm! This quick hit of inspiration is meant to remind you of your greatness, inner light, and peace! These quick notes to self are taken from the wildly popular Get Your Life Together, Girl daily quotes featured on Instagram. I hope you enjoy this new Saturday morning moment together.
TAKE A MOMENT TO RELAX AND ALLOW THESE WORDS TO SETTLE IN YOUR MIND, HEART, AND SOUL. Affirming with me:
“I welcome this day in the flow of deep appreciation. As I sit in this gratitude, I am grateful for the opportunity to rise and choose wellness, be grounded, succeed, and do as I wish in the freedom of growth and safety. My momentum, thoughts, and movement all lead me to the knowing that I am all I want to be. I offer zero resistance, as this is the surface of all I have to offer. I’m diving in, shining my light, and gloriously living at the height of my desires and dreams. I am claiming my wholeness as this brilliant day of potential unfolds. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.”
Lock these words inside and repeat these words aloud as often as needed, and remember, you are worthy, and you have always been. Until next, be kind to yourself and others.
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Welcome to this guided, active, healing meditation. This is a space to gain clarity and a sense of what is available to you at any time, in any space, through witnessing what is happening within.
In the darkness, we falter; in the light, we arrive, we find ourselves, and we mindfully cultivate appreciation, compassion, and self-love. The light is waiting.
Gently settle in, finding a sense of peace as you connect with yourself. If your mind is busy, invite your thoughts to settle by placing anything that is not needed at this moment inside a temporary box in your mind’s eye. Whatever is placed in there will be available when you are finished. Because they are being held for you in safekeeping, there’s no need to rush now. Simply free yourself to find stillness. If your eyes are not already closed, please close them now as you
As you do, focus on your breath.
Listen to the full meditation to move through the healing, self-love, and growth.
Namaste…
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Confidence is an essential part of loving yourself. It’s a feeling of self-assurance arising from one’s appreciation of their own abilities and qualities. Yet, there’s often an aspect that gets in the way of true, sustainable confidence and that’s how we view and think of our physical form. When we are not happy with our bodies, our confidence tends to tank. I sat down with Esther Avant, sports nutritionist, personal trainer, health and weight loss coach, and owner of EA Coaching. Together, we move through building confidence, the important steps we all must take to properly care for our bodies and minds, and we even dive into how women over 40 can best change their mindset as they age.
So, let’s dive right in!
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
02:20 Esther’s background and her stance on health, mindset, and confidence
04:30 Letting go of the idea of All-or-Nothing
08:50 You must repair your self-reputation
12:19 Putting intent behind the action gives you the outcome
15:10 Creating the emotional connection behind your “why”
17:15 Consistency creates long-term change and motivation
21:33 “What’s more than nothing?” Giving yourself credit…
23:06 Decoupling exercise and nutrition
33:49 The rude awakening of white knuckling your way into weight and confidence
39:50 Celebrating yourself and wins is the way to build confidence
43:30 It’s not your verse the world! Accountability partners for health and confidence
46:28 There’s nothing magical about 10K steps. Check your facts
48:10 Women over 40, listen up!
50:28 Pushing through to create change
1:02 Esther’s 3
I hope you loved this conversation as much as I did! Esther is a true authority in this field! Confidence doesn’t have to be as complicated as we make it. The biggest questions: am I best supporting myself mentally, emotionally, and physically? Is my inner dialogue working to my benefit? What do I need to do to change my habits? These are important questions to be asking yourself.
If you want to grab your free weight loss cheat sheet or learn more about Esther, head to her website: estheravant.com or visit her on Instagram or Facebook at @estheravant.
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Welcome to Pause & Affirm! This quick hit of inspiration is meant to remind you of your greatness, inner light, and peace! These quick notes to self are taken from the wildly popular Get Your Life Together, Girl daily quotes featured on Instagram. I hope you enjoy this new Saturday morning moment together.
TAKE A MOMENT TO RELAX AND ALLOW THESE WORDS TO SETTLE IN YOUR MIND, HEART, AND SOUL. Affirming with me:
“I am all I want to be. I have all I need. Today is the turning point. It’s a day of opportunity to be well, be grounded, lead, do as I wish, and witness all the magnificence unfolding. I realize I’ve spent far too long resisting, pushing against myself, and keeping myself small. Finally, I am releasing those chains. I know I am creating more for myself. I know that I’m living my purpose each day through small steps which lead to significant shifts. I feel everything within me shifting as I step into my highest role. I am ready for all that I’ve been asking for as I deeply appreciate my life.”
Lock these words inside and repeat these words aloud as often as needed, and remember, you are worthy, and you have always been. Until next, be kind to yourself and others.
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Our habits have a way of defining our lives. What we don’t do is often as important as what we do.
This week’s question comes from Ash Moore in New York City, NY. She wrote in and said, “Hi, Danielle. I’ve been listening to your podcast religiously for six months now. I take notes and do my best to put what you teach into place in my life. I’ve had great success in many ways over those last six months. I feel happier. I can tell the difference in my attitude. My thoughts are clearer, and my emotions are much better. But, I’ve been thinking about all the things I shouldn’t do that could be impacting my physical, emotional, and mental health. I know not getting enough rest, at least for me, is one that I struggle with. That has led me to ask, “Are there habits that impact us that we should watch out for or should be quickly changing?”
Ash, thank you for your question. I’m so grateful to know that the podcast is helping you get your life together! I love that you are already experiencing a difference, and to answer your question: yes! There are roughly seven key areas that have dynamic impacts on us. And you’ve already hit on one—sleep! So, let’s jump in and chat about those things. And there is good news for everyone, these impacts are some of the easiest things to change!
So, let’s talk about the biggest factors:
Chronic stress
Unhealthy sleep habits
Lack of socializing
Sense of purpose
Physical wellness
These are some of the top areas I want you to start putting your focus on when it comes as that cause our mindset and those five masters of our lives that rule everything: mental, emotional, physical, spiritual, and financial.
There’s a much deeper conversation as to what to watch for and dive into, but start with the five masters and look at how you are supporting each of those areas.
Write them out. What are you doing for your mind each day? What habits do you have in place that help and/or hinder?
The same goes for the four other masters.
Get it all on paper, and you will be able to identify what needs to increase and what needs to go!
Recognizing is step 1. Step 2 is creating a plan. Step 3 take action.
Ash, I hope this is a great starting point for you, as I hope it is for everyone! Thank you for your question and for being a faithful listener. I’m interested to know what you decide to increase and what you choose to let go of! Let us know!
I challenge each of you to do the same! A healthy life starts with healthy habits.
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How many times have you heard the quote, ‘Communication is Key?’ It’s something we do every day in our lives, whether in spoken words or through our body language. But why is it so important, beyond the obvious? Maybe the bigger question is why does it gets us in so much trouble. With communication being the baseline of everything we do, I thought you and I should take a one-on-one deep dive into expressing yourself, our mistakes in communication, and how to build better relationships through the way you communicate!
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
02:16 What communication is at its most basic
04:44 Communication is intention, and the definition of intention
06:30 Being heard and using our voice are two different things! Hearing is automatic. Listening is different
08:03 How to use your voice - the steps
10:38 How trauma silences us
13:25 An exercise to help empower your voice
15:26 What it means to be heard
16:23 Emotions are communication and why you must listen to your inner voice as much as the outer voices
18:49 The only person who can take responsibility for your communication is you
19:28 The five-step process to be heard
29:29 Tone and language play a massive part in receiving communication and creating conversation
31:27 Understanding expectations and the word “You”
33:47 Active listening and asking permission
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Welcome to Pause & Affirm! This quick hit of inspiration is meant to remind you of your greatness, inner light, and peace! These quick notes to self are taken from the wildly popular Get Your Life Together, Girl daily quotes featured on Instagram. I hope you enjoy this new Saturday morning moment together.
TAKE A MOMENT TO RELAX AND ALLOW THESE WORDS TO SETTLE IN YOUR MIND, HEART, AND SOUL. Affirming with me:
“I am consciously working to lay down my shield, the wall I’ve built around myself in hopes of protecting my heart and mind. I know when I do, something amazing will occur. I know I will bring softness into my life. I will let go of old beliefs that were never mine in the first place. I will allow myself to pursue my true self, passions, and purpose and live without guilt or frustration. I will stop chasing and begin to allow. I know I have the power to make space and let go of controlling every finite detail. I am ready to disarm my shield and live as my most authentic self!“
Lock these words inside and repeat these words aloud as often as needed, and remember, you are worthy, and you have always been. Until next, be kind to yourself and others.
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Welcome to this active, guided meditation. This is a space we are not trying to solve any problems; instead, this is a space of release, calm, and building your self-love.
Please settle in now, finding a comfortable position as you relax your shoulders down your spine. With slow and steady breath, open your mouth, moving your jaw up and down, and letting go of any tension. Gently move your head from side to side while softening into the moment.
As you settle, deepen your breath, inhaling through your nose, allowing your breath to find the bottom of your lungs, and softly release it through your nose with a slow and steady exhale. Continue to breathe with both ease and effort.
As you find a peaceful state, let your mind drift and find space for only my words and seeing yourself in your mind’s eye, create an intention for yourself based on your self-love. What do you want right now in your life? How do you want to show up? How do you want to love yourself and allow that love to guide everything you do?
Whatever it is, set the intention beginning with the words I am…
And as you lock it in, allow your mind to drift away as you listen to my voice.
Listen to the full guided meditation to take the journey of releasing the past, the future, and actively live in the now….
Namaste…
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I often talk about trauma, what it is, and how it impacts our behavior. Still, unless you are sitting in private therapy sessions with me or someone else, you rarely get a glimpse of the small nuances of trauma, especially trauma that occurs in childhood.
I sat down with fellow trauma expert, therapist, and author Riana Milne to talk about childhood trauma, mindset, and how we can take control of our lives despite what has happened in our past. Riana helps us understand that many things we do result from something we may need to clean up.
So, let’s dive right in!
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
2:42 Big T and Little T trauma
04:45 Childhood trauma moves through 3 generations and reports show we all have trauma
05:17 Riana’s childhood trauma list and the ways it shows up
10:29 Seven areas of life impacted by trauma
14:12 Standard behaviors that show up in our daily lives due to childhood trauma
21:47 Mindset work is required to grow consciously out of trauma
25:34 Coping skills and why we have them
28:17 Conflict is created when childhood trauma is not cleaned up
32:01 Healing ourselves impacts our children, breaks cycles, and changes our daily life
35:10 The power of the 5 D’s
37:31 Riana’s 3 gratitudes
You find out more about Riana at: RianaMilne.com or on social media at: Coach Riana Milne LinkedIn YouTube Twitter. You can also grab your free copy of Riana’s book here: Have the Love You Deserve LINK
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Welcome to Pause & Affirm! This quick hit of inspiration is meant to remind you of your greatness, inner light, and peace! These quick notes to self are taken from the wildly popular Get Your Life Together, Girl daily quotes featured on Instagram. I hope you enjoy this new Saturday morning moment together.
TAKE A MOMENT TO RELAX AND ALLOW THESE WORDS TO SETTLE IN YOUR MIND, HEART, AND SOUL. Affirming with me:
“Today I choose me, all of me.
I choose to recognize the power of my mind.
I choose to take control of my thoughts and feelings. I choose to live from my heart center.
Today I am building a wild and beautiful life with the exact vision I’ve always had for myself. I know that good things are on the way to me because I deserve good things today and always. Today I focus on hope, love, joy, and change. Today I focus on me, unapologetically and without wavering. “
Lock these words inside and repeat these words aloud as often as needed, and remember, you are worthy, and you have always been. Until next, be kind to yourself and others.
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Happiness goes by many names for each of us. Some call things, possessions, happiness. Some call happiness travel and adventure happiness. Some find happiness in stillness and being in a state of peace. Whatever you call happiness, there’s always room to increase your happiness, especially when it comes to the small habits you do each day that may impact your overall happiness.
If you receive the Get Your Life Together, Girl newsletter each Tuesday morning, you may have seen today’s mindset reset as the tool of the week! Today, we’re taking it a bit further and expanding upon it. It seems fitting to talk about how our habits run against our happiness because I’ve received many questions about genuine happiness and how to be happier in the last few weeks.
So, that’s what you’re diving into in today’s mindset reset.
Now, let’s start with a quick assessment. Where do you fall on the happiness scale?
From one to 10, one being not happy at all, life is hard, things are far too heavy, and ten being you are at your happiest, where would you fall?
Allow yourself to answer honestly and without judgment. No one is judging you—so just be honest. You should probably always know that when people sit with me, and I ask that question, most people's answers fall between a 5 and 7. That’s the average ranking of happiness. Now, a five is considered neutral. You aren’t necessarily unhappy, but you aren’t super happy. A 7 is pretty great—there’s a baseline level of happiness and room for improvement.
That’s precisely our focus today—the room for improvement!
So, let’s break down how to stop acting from unhelpful habits, and then I want to give you actual practices that build happiness.
We can put in place healthy habits that serve us and help us be present and aware.
Step 1: PRACTICE NOTICING!
What is noticing? It is focus. When we practice noticing, we focus on how we feel, what we think, our reactions and responses, and what causes us to act.
Great focuses when practicing noticing come down to asking yourself questions:
What triggers me?
How am I acting and showing up in my life?
How do I feel daily?
Where am I feeling these things, and who am I with when I do?
What thoughts are centered in my life right now?
Step 2: Stop & Access
When we stop, we don’t immediately react. When we slow down, we realize how much our response has a massive impact on our happiness.
When we stop and access, we can slow our thought process. How do we do so? We can stop and be silent. We can go to paper and pen and write out our thoughts.
Remember, we can’t change what we don’t witness.
Step 3: Reassess and Respond
Ask yourself: What do I want to happen from here? What’s my intention, and how can I deliberately create new action? How can I choose a new response?
So, in the beginning, I spoke about habits that build happiness. A few are:
Exercise
Get plenty of sleep
Practice gratitude
Deep breathing
Acknowledge the unhappy moments
Keep a journal
Face stress head-on
Avoid comparing yourself to others
Declutter each week
See friends and family. Remember we are social community-based beings. We need one another.
Plan your week
Ditch your phone – seriously unplug when needed
Get into nature
Meditate —many meditations here sprinkled through the podcast episodes, or you can join me on Insight Timer for meditations.
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Increasing your happiness every single day is not only an options, it’s a necessity. Think about this—If you focused on becoming 1 percent happier each day between now and the end of the year, you would be over 200% happier. This is a huge jump.
So today, you and I are taking a one-on-one deep dive into happiness, some of the top things that get in our way, and how we can shift and define what happiness means to us, not happiness by the standard of others.
This is one conversation that puts happiness into tangible reachable terms. So, let’s dive right in.
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
1:41 Asking yourself: Am I really happy?
02:10 Two times of happiness: situational and genuine happiness
05:18 What keeps us from our happine ss…
06:34 Complaining kills happiness
09:05 Unrealistic goals that keep you from happiness
12:34 Letting go of other people’s opinions
13:19 Letting go of the inner mean girl to gain happiness
15:27 Resisting change and needing to be comfortable kills our happiness
17:30 Lacking gratitude causes a lack of happiness
18:18 You need others to be happy
20:05 How do we get to true happiness?
22:18 With your definition of happiness, what is active within your life?
25:46 We must stop giving away our genuine happiness to serve others first
30:40 Questions to ask yourself
32:09 Use focus to reach happiness
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Welcome to Pause & Affirm! This quick hit of inspiration is meant to remind you of your greatness, inner light, and peace! These quick notes to self are taken from the wildly popular Get Your Life Together, Girl daily quotes featured on Instagram. I hope you enjoy this new Saturday morning moment together.
TAKE A MOMENT TO RELAX AND ALLOW THESE WORDS TO SETTLE IN YOUR MIND, HEART, AND SOUL. Affirming with me:
“I’m done with the shadows of the past, of myself, of anything that is not mine or not right for me. Today I’m fully emerging every part of who I am into the light. I owe it to myself. I owe it to the promises I keep making but refuse to honor. My focus is changing. I am allowing myself to be happy. I am allowing myself to be kind to myself first and then to others. I am sincerely creating what I deeply desire. The shadows are too cold to remain there for another moment. I’m being warmed by my own glow! I’m ready and open to the abundance of my life. “
Lock these words inside and repeat these words aloud as often as needed, and remember, you are worthy, and you have always been. Until next, be kind to yourself and others.
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Find a comfortable position and take a full deep breath. Gently close your eyes if it serves you. Witness the thoughts that are flowing through your mind and simply invite them to pause. Take another full deep breath, releasing anything less than stillness. Allow my words to guide you into a grounded truth—the truth that you are more than your past and that you have the power to heal at any time, regardless of what has been.
Take a full deep breath, breathing in allowing, and slowly let it go.
The past often works to own our present and our future because what has been gone unhealed and unaddressed. We tend to believe that if we simply move on, what was will fall away.
Yet, this thinking robs us of a beautiful opportunity and great expansion. The events in our lives are lessons, building blocks that teach us what we came here to learn, ways of being, our desires. Our experiences teach us contrast. It shows what we want and what we do not. In this understanding, we can go deeper and explore our needs spiritually, mentally, emotionally, and physically.
Healing is not as some believe. The purpose of healing is not to erase our past; it’s to examine what has been, lean into the emotions and soften them so that we may turn them into experiences that work for us. Healing doesn’t erase; it elevates. It helps us understand our truest self—the real self—the soul self.
Take a full deep breath, and let it go.
Repeat after me:
My past has taught me emotions and thought patterns that are not my truth. What has been may have prevented me from owning my greatness, my worthiness for love, value, happiness, and true joy, but from now on, I am releasing these ideas. I know now that these thoughts do not serve me. I know now that I have the power to rewrite the story, not forget the story, but change my connection to it.
From today forward, I am leaning into healing this thought pattern by witnessing my emotions, by turning fear into strength, scarcity into abundance, misunderstanding into knowledge, disruption into a golden path, upset into power.
Every action has a reaction. Within this reaction, I have a choice. I can strengthen my power.
My past no longer has a hold of me. I offer great gratitude for the lessons. I offer appreciation for my life teaching me.
I am forever owning the power I have to direct my thoughts to what benefits my life. In this power, I seek forgiveness and offer it, too. Forgiveness, within healing, does not erase the story either. Instead, it reminds me to offer gratitude for the lesson.
Take a full deep breath and let it go.
I am actively releasing. Everything that has been, is, and will be in my life has been for me. What I may have perceived before this moment as negative has an opposite. I know darkness cannot be present without light. I cannot know negative emotions without the good. I allow myself to release resistance.
Take a full deep breath and let it go.
I release the past.
I forgive the past.
I forgive those that were a part of my hardest stories.
I forgive myself. I know now that I was the person I needed to be in those moments so that I could learn the lessons I needed to expand in my growth, nothing more, nothing less.
I release so I may purposefully step into my present with the purest intentions.
I release the struggle.
I release the pain.
I let go of the negatives.
I welcome in the expanding love of peace.
Breathe in healing, let go of anything less than love.
I AM
I am…Two of the most powerful words in any language. Words that direct our emotions and thoughts into movements that support us.
I am focused on creating a new healed story.
I am allowing my focus to be on my highest and greatest good.
I am offering forgiveness to one and all, including myself.
I am stronger than I’ve allowed myself to own.
I am releasing and cherishing that within every moment, there is something powerful for me.
I am here to write a beautiful story, to create a legacy of healed truths.
I am ready to do so freely, in the moment, in the most grounded ways.
Everything before now has taught me. I freely let it go….
I am free of my hard history.
I am focused on feeling good each and every day.
I am free to be me.
I am free.
Gratitude washes over me as I proclaim…
I AM FREE!
Anytime you need a moment to come back to center. Repeat these words and lean into your truth—the truth that you healed, and you are stronger than you’ve ever imagined yourself to be.
For this healing, I say, “Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.”
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Have you heard of Human Design? It’s a holistic self-knowledge system that is a tool to help you understand how you function and the individual conditions you need to thrive. When we have our human design, we can unlock our strengths and dive into our instincts, intuition, and personal empowerment.
I sat down with Dr. Veronica Anderson to walk us through the human design and the Kolbe Index in a fun, educational, and eye-opening conversation.
You’ll want to listen to the very end, as Dr. Veronica offers you the ability to learn about yourself through these fantastic systems, too.
Sit back and get comfortable; let’s dive right in…
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
02:09 Introduces herself and her path
04:00 Learning to listen to ourselves
05:58 What imprinting is and how it impacts you
08:43 How intelligence comes into play in our life
11:40 You have a spiritual M.O. and what that means
15:00 The different types of personalities
34:05 Type envy, we need all the pieces of the puzzle
36:23 The KOLBE -A Tool
40:00 Using these pieces to gain control of your life in all ways
45:26 The different famous people who fall under these energy types and why we are drawn to them
57:14 Getting unstuck and doing the work with this information
57:50 What changes when we have this understanding
1:05 Dr. Veronica’s free offer to you
1:08 Dr. V’s 3 gratitudes
What an interesting conversation. Since this conversation was recorded I was able to have my human design and Kolbe Index done. I was spot on with where I identified myself and the way I process. I encourage you to do the same. Head to Dr. Veronica’s website at www.drveronica.com to learn more about yourself.
You can also follow her on Instagram @drveronica.
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Welcome to Pause & Affirm! This quick hit of inspiration is meant to remind you of your greatness, inner light, and peace! These quick notes to self are taken from the wildly popular Get Your Life Together, Girl daily quotes featured on Instagram. I hope you enjoy this new Saturday morning moment together.
TAKE A MOMENT TO RELAX AND ALLOW THESE WORDS TO SETTLE IN YOUR MIND, HEART, AND SOUL. Affirming with me:
“Peace is my goal today. In this peace, I will not take everything personally. Instead, I put action to my needs and wants instead of stagnation. My mind is focused on seeing things as they are rather than how I want them to be, and I understand that every thought and feeling only has as much power as I give them. So, I decide my vibe and energy. And because of this, I know that being at peace has never meant my life will be without noise. It means I know that worrying about things I cannot change does nothing to create change. Worrying about the things I cannot change does nothing but steal your empowerment. So from today forward, I choose peace by choosing what is right for me. My peace comes from within, and I choose it with a whole and honest heart.“
Lock these words inside and repeat these words aloud as often as needed, and remember, you are worthy, and you have always been. Until next, be kind to yourself and others.
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In everything, there is something for you. This simple sentence is quite powerful as it reminds us that no matter what finds us, we can use it to our advantage.
Today’s mindset reset question comes from Georgia in Memphis, Tennessee. She wrote in and said, “Danielle, I am actively working on my mindset. I realized a few months ago that I have spent a lot of my life living through a negative mindset. Something was always wrong. I never felt like good things could or would happen to me. And, drama seems to follow me no matter where I go. I want to change it, but when I looked up what a growth mindset after listening to one of your podcasts I became confused. There’s so much information out there. I thought maybe you could make it simpler and perhaps offer a simple exercise that will help me get into a growth mindset.
The growth mindset truly resides in the wise mind. Grasping the mind’s inner workings beyond how thought is validated, or storytelling patterns of the brain is next-level-life-together mastery, and it starts with getting into the wise mind. The three active states of the mind are the reasonable mind, the emotional mind, and the wise mind. Whether we like it or not, we all actively use each of these states, but most of us tend to gravitate toward one specific area the majority of the time.
With the “Wise Mind” we can:
Retain or regain calmness in stressful or uncomfortable experiences.
Find clarity.
Create peace and pleasurable experiences.
Hone a deeper understanding of self.
Tame the beast of limiting beliefs, thoughts, feelings, and habits.
Recognize and regulate emotions.
Enhance our relationship with self and others.
Grow in emotional intelligence.
So, to go back to Georgia’s original question, what is a growth mindsey? We want to take the factors of the wise brain and then move them into growth-centered practices.
The person with a growth mindset accepts criticism and negativity not as something they are lacking, but instead as constructive feedback.
They equate rewards with their efforts and they celebrate their successes, big and small.
They see setbacks not as full stops, nor as failures, but as a way to grow in strength and reset where needed.
Persistence and an attitude to never give up is always high in their life operations.
Asks the question: How can I serve? What more can I do? Am I following my passion?
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There comes a time where each of us seeks true motivation to heal—a time where we work to release the baggage, the upset, the hard experiences of our lives, and reignite our inner spark. Yet, when that time comes, many of us ask how. How do I even begin to heal? This week we are taking a one-on-one deep dive into YOUR personal story, into YOUR life revolution through a process and path many of us are seeking right now—the process of emotional healing. So, sit back, grab a pen, and let’s take a mending journey together as we discover what true emotional healing is, the benefits, uncover a major “a-ha” moment, whether or not you are in need of walking through this process, and why we must get uncomfortable to thrive. Getting out of own way is necessary if we want to create the life revolution that inevitably amounts to freedom.
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Intro
01:20 Motivation and singular question we need to ask ourselves
02:30 Moving through healing
03:20 The “a-ha” moment and healing
05:54 What is emotional healing?
08:30 The “what” of healing
12:00 Do I need to emotionally heal?
13:36 How to let go – The 5 stages of healing
13:40 Step 1: Acceptance - We cannot change what we refuse to accept.
15:30 Step 2: Awareness - Bringing our awareness to our trauma, pain, and hard experiences requires effort and leaning in.
16:34 Step 3: Confrontation - What sits unconfronted, sits unconfronted. Healing is not a passive effort.
19:01 Step 4: Expression - Expressing what you feel is not only needed within the healing process, it’s necessary.
20:21 Step 5: Accept Again - Accepting change is just as important at the end of the healing process as it is the onslaught.
21:00 Healing is a process
23:02 Self-care and compassion through healing
23:47 Gratitude for the hard moments
25:17 Why we must get uncomfortable with ourselves and our pasts
27:01 Important questions to ask yourself
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Welcome to Pause & Affirm! This quick hit of inspiration is meant to remind you of your greatness, inner light, and peace! These quick notes to self are taken from the wildly popular Get Your Life Together, Girl daily quotes featured on Instagram. I hope you enjoy this new Saturday morning moment together.
TAKE A MOMENT TO RELAX AND ALLOW THESE WORDS TO SETTLE IN YOUR MIND, HEART, AND SOUL. Affirming with me:
"The past is my teacher, not the definition of everything I am.
My tomorrow is beautiful, but it’s not everything I am living for.
Today I am good enough without exception.
Today I am proud of myself, of my efforts and abilities.
Today I accept who I am at my core.
Today I am focused on my thoughts, words, actions, and reactions because I am making choices that best suit my life.
I am beautifully and wonderfully me, and that’s all I must be. “
Lock these words inside and repeat these words aloud as often as needed, and remember, you are worthy, and you have always been. Until next, be kind to yourself and others.
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Welcome to taming shame, a guided, interactive healing meditation to gently connect with yourself and let go so you may live within true harmony and self-acceptance.
Shame is an unpleasant self-conscious emotion often found through negative self-evaluation. Its inner workings cause you pain, distrust, powerlessness, and worthlessness. It causes us to hide and tell ourselves we are flawed. Shame is attached to your identity and how you see yourself. It asks us to validate insecurities, these feelings of lack, but we can tame shame and find our truth—that you are and have always been meant to live a life rooted in grace, inspiration, and ownership.
Let’s settle in now and connect with this center of truth, love, and light—the very center of you—your soul.
As you settle, softly deepen your breath, inhaling through your nose, allowing the breath to fill your lungs before slowly and steadily exhaling.
With your next inhale, relax your shoulders down your spine, releasing any tension you may feel.
This relaxation is meant to guide you into releasing shame and guilt and allow your mind to focus on the here and now while taking positive action for the future.
Breathe in again, slowly drawing air into your lungs
Feel yourself becoming more deeply relaxed.
Gently let go of tension, feeling your muscles surrender.
Close your eyes if they are not already shut, and allow them to become heavy.
Now, allow your mind to think about shame. Notice any thoughts, feelings, or memories that come up.
Shame’s purpose is to teach. It’s to show you how you connect to your life, to yourself, and to the moments you allow to define you.
With a steady and easy breath, bring awareness to where you feel shame in your body. What does this feel like to you?
If you can physically feel it, gently place your hand over this space. Honor its presence with a complete exhale, thanking it for teaching you.
As you breathe in, allow yourself to shift, to know that while not all past missteps can be corrected, what can be gained is the fact that you are a good person who wants to learn from their mistakes. Shame can only hold you as long as you continue to tell a past story that does not serve you.
You’ve felt shame and guilt for long enough. Now, you shift with understanding allowing the positive to flood you with every inhale and regret, shame, and blame to be released, taming its interaction with your mind, body, and soul.
I am human. I am capable of making mistakes as it is a part of my learning process. While I may wish I would have handled situations differently, I also witness that the person I am today is not the person who lived that moment, that feeling, through that mindset or thought. I can only show up as I am in each moment that is presented. While I cannot change what has occurred, I can find appreciation for my own change. I find gratitude for the insight any limitation offers me.
Insight allows me to make deliberate decisions based on truth and change. I am committed to showing up in ways that best serve me through compassion, understanding, and love.
With this commitment, I release and change my feelings of shame. With an exhale, I declare and acknowledge what has been. I lean into this moment and release.
From today forward, I will choose self-grace.
I am a beautiful soul that learns from the doing of my life. I own my actions. I offer myself forgiveness. I cannot know what I do not know. I accept all that I have done openly and willingly, with firm and unwavering accountability. I allow myself to be at peace now as I let go of the past. I realize that time teaches me to be better, do better, and better is how I show up. I know that I have been the person I needed to be so I can be the person I am today.
As I settle in this moment, I exhale all the pain, guilt, and shame that has been within.
I welcome in affirmations of this present time and space reality and affirm:
I am at peace.
I am living in the unfolding of all things, no matter how they may first be perceived, because I know that there is a lesson and peace within everything. I seek it. I acknowledge it. I live within it.
My inner thoughts will forever echo peace.
My world does not have to be in stillness in order for me to be grounded in the humbleness that peace has to offer.
I use my peace to protect my energy, to feed myself good-feeling thoughts, and I am the reflection of the good.
I step out of shame and walk in the path of peace. Shame doesn’t exist here as this path is bricked with only the highest, purest, and best.
With a deep inhale, release and repeat these affirming words after me:
I do not need to feel guilty anymore.
I do not need to blame myself.
I learn from my mistakes.
I cannot control 100 percent of everything that finds me.
I cannot control what other people choose to do.
Others are responsible for their own behavior.
I have felt shame for long enough.
I learn from my experiences and feel good about the life I choose now.
I am a good person.
I release myself from feelings that do not serve me.
I am whole. I am ready. I am letting go.
Take another full deep breath and release it slowly; imagine all the weight of shame leaving you. It fills the air around you and dissolves, never to find you again.
You are free…
Gently bring your breath back to normal. As I could to from five to one, slowly bring yourself back into your body and space.
Five…inhaling peace.
Four…exhaling anything less than peace.
Three…inhaling calm.
Two, exhaling the past.
One…say the words, “I choose to live openly and peacefully without my past driving my future.”
You no longer have to be defined by the past.
You are peace. Live as such.
Namaste.
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There’s a dirty side to growth. There’s a dirty side to choosing yourself that many of us refuse to witness and discuss. The dirty side is that once we begin to prioritize ourselves, relationships change, even the ones we thought would last forever. When we focus on ourselves, we naturally see what works and what doesn’t. From there, another natural process begins—boundaries are put into place. This can turn our relationships on their heads.
That’s why we are taking a one-on-one deep dive into the dirty side of growth: what it is, how it impacts us, and how to stop it right now!
So, let’s dive right in.
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
2:04 The dirty side of growth and two essential questions regarding growth
03:49 When we grow, the people in our lives can lose their positions in our lives
05:17 A personal story of personal growth that is the essence of the dirtiness of growth
09:32 When you go all in on yourself, you have to go all in
10:47 How uncertainty, forecasting, and what-ifs keep us away from new outcomes
13:07 Growth is about clearing, and we are tested to gauge our commitment to the self
17:30 The four questions of need, want, and desire
18:27 You are the one who creates meaning in each situation
19:22 Each experience/relationship adds to the relationship with yourself
20:24 We have seasons in our lives
22:51 What we can do to be okay with being in the dirt—step 1: witnessing when its time
24:18 Moving through the steps to allow yourself to get onto the path of change and out of the dirt
24:42 When people walk away, it’s not always about us
27:03 Take stock of what you want so you can let go
29:44 When we let go, our memories and feelings don’t disappear
33:03 Be kind to yourself
33:50 Let go to commit to the self
35:53 Mourn the dirtiness
36:48 Practicing the F word – forgiveness
38:05 Check in with where you are to know if you are still on the dirty side of growth
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Welcome to Pause & Affirm! This quick hit of inspiration is meant to remind you of your greatness, inner light, and peace! These quick notes to self are taken from the wildly popular Get Your Life Together, Girl daily quotes featured on Instagram. I hope you enjoy this new Saturday morning moment together.
TAKE A MOMENT TO RELAX AND ALLOW THESE WORDS TO SETTLE IN YOUR MIND, HEART, AND SOUL. Affirming with me:
“I am ready to be seen. I will no longer stop myself from living my life in the light of everything that is possible for me. In that possibility is a life that is lived through peace. It’s a space that creates and honors grounded, solid relationships, a love for myself, and mental and emotional health and wealth. What stopped me before no longer has a hold on me. From this day forward, I declare I am ready. I am ready to live my purpose. I am ready to be in motion. I am stepping up to give life to my dreams...to me…“
Lock these words inside and repeat these words aloud as often as needed, and remember, you are worthy, and you have always been. Until next, be kind to yourself and others.
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Uncertainty does a number on all of us, even the most mindful. It makes us question ourselves, our experiences, and how we navigate the world. It’s almost a given for many that once uncertainty settles within their thought process, second-guessing every thought that comes after every possible solution takes over and runs rampant.
This week’s question comes from a personal friend. She texted me, “D, I’ve been thinking about what you said to me the other day about second-guessing myself. You said, ‘Second-guessing yourself delays your decisions and never changes the ultimate outcome. When you release the need to figure everything out at once, you’ll open your mind, allow for actual possibilities and solutions, and break the need to stress a problem to death.’ I’ve been thinking about those words. I know you are right, but you didn’t tell me how to stop second-guessing. I know, you know. So, spill it!”
Okay, I’m happy to spill it! But first, let me lay some truths on the table.
You will never know everything.
There are not too many irreversible decisions.
We can go further and say there are very few catastrophic decisions.
How often have you said, “Did I just say that?” “Did I really just do that?” So, what is second-guessing exactly? Second-guessing means criticizing or questioning a decision before or after it’s been made.
So, let’s return to my friend’s original question – how do we stop this pattern?
The first step is to offer yourself permission to do what is right for you – the best version of what’s right for yourself.
Next, step two: Work to be as confident as you can.
Three: Trust what you do.
Fourth: Think about the long-term effect of your short-term decisions.
Fifth: Become more accustomed to making quicker decisions.
Lastly, Be kind to yourself.
Essentially, what it comes down to is being willing to leap. Be willing to make mistakes. Be willing to get out of the past. Be willing to see yourself and look at home things impact and affect you. Making choices is a part of life. No one is getting out of that.
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This one is for moms. Parenting is not for the faint of heart. It’s a delicate tightrope of never breaking a soul and being a thriving example of living as a complete soul. I said, delicate, because let’s face it, there’s not a single mom out there that hasn’t experienced mom guilt, shame, blame, upset, or stood in the mirror and told herself she is failing. How we talk to ourselves and any amount of negative measure impacts our self-love and how we show up for our children.
That’s why you and I are taking a one-on-one deep dive into mom guilt, what it is, how to release it, and giving ourselves the evidence that the kids will be alright.
So, let’s dive right in.
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
02:04 We all experience mom guilt
04:18 Parenting is a delicate tightrope, and a client that changed me
06:37 How to be a different mom, sans guilt, and the way to get there
07:30 Defining Mom Guilt
10:42 Identify where the guilt started
12:34 The “perfect” mom does not exist
13:19 Guilt tanks our self-esteem
15:05 Guilt holds anxiety over our heads
16:44 Guilt causes negative coping strategies
18:25 How superwoman tendencies cause guilt
20:18 Guilt is found in downgrading ourselves through comparison
22:26 To overcome, we have to understand the purpose of the guilt
24:39 Look for the evidence of your truth
26:17 Take your pen to the page and put your thoughts on paper
28:23 There is always an opposite emotion to everything. Leaning into compassion and empathy
29:42 Challenge the hell out of your negative beliefs
31:42 Ask discovery questions
33:33 Listen to your inner voice without guilt
36:17 Single mom guilt released, too
38:13 Conscious parenting
39:39 It’s never wrong to ask for help
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Welcome to Pause & Affirm! This quick hit of inspiration is meant to remind you of your greatness, inner light, and peace! These quick notes to self are taken from the wildly popular Get Your Life Together, Girl daily quotes featured on Instagram. I hope you enjoy this new Saturday morning moment together.
TAKE A MOMENT TO RELAX AND ALLOW THESE WORDS TO SETTLE IN YOUR MIND, HEART, AND SOUL. Affirming with me:
“I see myself—the person I am and the person I’m working to become. As I look into my life, there’s something abundantly clear. I do have my own back. Pretense falls away, and I realize that I AM my own influencer. What molded and shaped me before is nothing compared to how I shape myself now.
I understand my value, and I’m placing value on being my own game-changer. I welcome this level of ownership, because I now realize that I have more faith than fear. I have more grace and permission than doubt. I have a level of fierceness that is unequal to anything I’ve ever known. I honor all the parts of me with the deepest, truest, and most humble affection.
I’m ready to let my light be seen. I am ready to shine because I see me. I own me. I love who I am. “
Lock these words inside and repeat these words aloud as often as needed, and remember, you are worthy, and you have always been. Until next, be kind to yourself and others.
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Find a comfortable position and take a full deep breath. If comfortable, close your eyes and become aware of the rise and fall of your chest.
Feel the breath enter your nose and gently fill your lungs, expanding everything within. Hold it there and then slowly release, allowing your mind to settle in the moment. Allow yourself to remember your magic—the nuances, the subtle differences that make you, you.
Take another full deep breath and let it go.
It’s time to own that magic, one beautiful experience and one trait at a time.
Whether you’ve forgotten or are just now meeting yourself for the first time, the truth is, you are inventive. You are transformative. You are capable of owning the life you came here to create. You are unstoppable, beautiful, and the very definition of strength.
This power is unquestionable when you allow yourself to own it. This magic is unmistakable when you give yourself permission to grow within it and let it be your guide in everything you do.
You see, the day you decide to be on your own team is the day you unlock the door to your vast greatness. It’s the day you release the limits of everything you’ve told yourself you are not and everything you’ve been told you are but has never fully aligned. From here, you realize that you’ve spent far too long pushing against yourself, against your transformation, purpose, and ability to create. You’ve dimmed your magic.
When you witness this, you come to understand that you are worthy of the goodness within you. That magic has always been there, waiting, ready for you to tap in.
Take a full deep breath and let it go.
For just a moment, focus on your breath, concentrate on breathing energy and positive feelings in, and release any negative emotions out and away with your exhale.
When you own your magic, you allow yourself to love something within you every blessed minute of this day and every day that follows after.
Take another deep breath, and let it go.
Place your hand over your heart, feeling its rhythm, allow your breath to find this space, this center, and repeat after me if it serves you.
I am ready to be brave with my life. I am ready to lean into a sense of awe and wonder that can only be found when I fully show up and grow into and within my fullest potential.
I witness the things have happened in my life that have moved me off course, asked me to question my magic, greatness, ability, and desires. But moving forward, I reclaim all that I am through radical acceptance. I now realize those moments were teachers. And I offer gratitude for them as they only help me infuse profound strength within my life.
This kind of understanding, this magic, can only be found when I show up, lean into the doing of my life, and step out of the hustle. It’s found when I go within and remember that I came here to live a story filled with wonder, resiliency, peace, motivation, and balance.
With unwavering belief, I know that there is nothing that I cannot do. I am no longer willing to live my life through all the thoughts, feelings, and actions that have kept me small. I have a presence, a voice, and valuable energy, and I’m here to use it.
No matter what has been, what will be, I marvel at my existence, my vast understanding, and the challenges I’ve faced because I now realize that I am a part of something greater.
This deep movement pulsing through me reminds me that everything is a gift, including me.
This gift has proven to me that I have the power to create my own happiness because of the magic I have within.
I am so grateful to be alive.
From now on, I am holding this space, this magic, this blessed witnessing with the highest regard.
Take a full deep breath, breathing in acceptance, letting go of anything less than love.
This is the energy that serves me.
This is the energy of loving myself.
This is the energy that radiates a pureness that serves all that I am.
Take a full deep breath and let it go.
Inhale again – to the count of one, two, three, four. And hold it three, two, one, and release breathing out – as you do, visualize yourself wrapping your arms around yourself. You are worthy of embracing yourself and your life.
Inhale, one, two, three, four, and let it go.
I AM
I am… Two of the most powerful words in any language. Words that direct our emotions and thoughts into movements that support us.
I am pure magic.
I am standing in my power.
I am in full ownership of my life, abilities, and strengths.
I am radically accepting of all that I am, because all I am is exactly who I need to be right now.
I am releasing resistance and leaning into gratitude for all that has been, all that is now, and all that will be.
I am unstoppable.
I am my highest, truest, and greatest self.
Take another full deep breath and let it go.
Breathe in to the count of five, four, three, two, one, hold and release one, two, three, four, and five.
Inhale one, two, three, four, hold and release one, two, three, four.
One more time.
Inhale, one, two, three, hold. Release one, two, three…
You have the power to remember that everything you need is already inside of you. You are unstoppable. You are strength. You are love. You are able. You are pure magic. Settle within it and never allow it to slip from you again.
Anytime you need a moment to come back to center. Repeat these words and lean into your truth. You are pure magic and everything that has arrived has done so right on time.
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This life is a life of feelings. Each of us shows up to our day-to-day because we either feel a certain way or seek to change the status of our feelings. Either way, we are feeling our way through each moment. And, two actions that cause big feelings are rejection and self-confidence. While many believe feeling rejected comes solely from trauma, the most authentic understanding and operation of rejection is much deeper than that. With rejection, our self-confidence fades. With self-confidence, we take rejection for what it is, a teacher.
To go deeper in this understanding, I sat down with coach and author Amy Wong to take a deep dive into understanding our feelings, getting to the bottom of rejection, how to know what you stand for in your life, and we explore how you can own your self-confidence in a way that is not only long-lasting but is a true movement in your life.
It's a genuine conversation about life tools that will blow you away!
Let’s dive right in…
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
02:09 Amy’s why and inspiration
09:11 What it means to have purpose “breathed into you”
13:55 You have the power to change the channel on your thoughts
15:21 What is rejection?
21:26 How to step out of rejection and embody real confidence
22:19 What are you standing for? 4-step process to know
28:40 How true self-confidence shows up
29:25 The make-up of your spotlight
33:00 Key to success
35:05 Life is a feelings game—knowing how to direct the self through feeling
36:50 The “Shoulds” of life
39:35 Living the path of least resistance
43:35 Employing self-confidence and removing resistance comes from the present moment
Tool: Articles and Practices - Amy Eliza Wong | Professional Life & Communication (alwaysonpurpose.com)
47:15 Living on Purpose
50:15 Amy’s essentials for women
51:45 Amy’s three gratitude’s
So many fantastic insights can be taken away from this amazing conversation. If you know what you stand for and live intentionally, the road of least resistance is the road you travel. If you want to connect, read On Purpose, or have access to Amy’s text prompts, you can find more information on her website www.alwaysonpurpose.com. You can also follow her on Instagram @amyelizawong
Additional links are in the shownotes and on my website www.getyourlifetogethergirl.com
• Living on Purpose Book
• Free Workshop: Buy Amy’s book and send the receipt to info@alwaysonpurpose.com to receive a promo code to attend her virtual Conversational Intelligence workshop for free ($150 value)!
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Welcome to Pause & Affirm! This quick hit of inspiration is meant to remind you of your greatness, inner light, and peace! These quick notes to self are taken from the wildly popular Get Your Life Together, Girl daily quotes featured on Instagram. I hope you enjoy this new Saturday morning moment together.
TAKE A MOMENT TO RELAX AND ALLOW THESE WORDS TO SETTLE IN YOUR MIND, HEART, AND SOUL. Affirming with me:
“All that I desire, I receive. I take stock of my life, never wasting another minute on things that cannot and will not fulfill me. My reality is exciting. What I say I want, I attract. What I say I want, I achieve. In everything there is joy, harmony, and peace. In everything, there is space for me; the real me, as I am. For the first time in a long time, I see that my life keeps getting better and better. My validation starts and ends with me, and today I am validating all that I am. This is a new kind of high. This is a new kind of me, and with deep gratitude and my arms wide open, I say, “I love who I am and I willingly allow myself to be something every minute of every hour, because I deserve to live the most blessed and honorable life.” Amen.
Lock these words inside and repeat these words aloud as often as needed, and remember, you are worthy, and you have always been. Until next, be kind to yourself and others.
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You are in control of your thoughts. It may not always seem like it, but it is the truth. Staying in the present moment, thinking in the present moment, allows us to create control and helps us connect emotionally to the correct feelings, thoughts, and experience at hand.
Joy LeShay from Lubbock, Texas, wrote in and said, “Danielle, I listened to your most recent podcast about impatience. I haven’t missed a single episode, but this one has got me twisted! I can’t get your voice out of my head. All I can think about is how I don’t live in the present moment, and I feel like I have an Olympic gold medal in impatience! You walked us through a few things to help with impatience and present-moment thinking, but no matter how hard I’ve tried, I find myself thinking about the past or putting everything on tomorrow. Help! It’s actually making me frustrated and more impatient. I know that wasn’t your intention. I’m missing something! It all seems so simple until I try to put it into action. You’ve helped me in so many ways; please help! How can I keep my thoughts in the present?
Joy, first, breathe, sis! I feel you, and I’ve got you. For everyone else, I say the same to you, too! No, I never want you frustrated and certainly not more impatient. Let’s go straight to a more straightforward thinking strategy you can put in place right now that will hopefully help!
How can we get there?
Stop—make an effort to stop. Ask yourself: is this happening right now?
Take in your surroundings. Ground yourself through noticing.
Next, check in with your breath!
Get to the root of what is taking your mind offline.
GYLTG 163: Untangling from Impatience
And the bonus: Is there something more for me in this thought or moment to explore?
Joy, you have the power to stay patiently present. Once you stop the noise in your head, the thought process of frustration, “I can’t,” and “I don’t know how,” you have the power to return to the basics. Questions are your best friend! It’s how we learn and get to the bottom of what we need and want.
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Who isn’t impatient every now and again? We all experience hiccups and inconveniences from time to time, and the minute things don’t go quick enough or the way we hoped and desire, impatience seems to be cued.
Some of life’s moments are largely unavoidable, however, what isn’t is the way we deal with our behavior through our unpleasant reactions.
That’s why today, you and I are taking a one-on-one deep dive into impatience, what it actually is, and how to build the practice of patience into your daily life. Without it, you struggle to mindfully be present, in a positive place, and practice gratitude. We’re breaking it all down.
So, let’s dive right in.
Key Takeaways
00:00 Introduction—A journey of impatience
03:33 What impatience sounds like in your daily conversations
04:42 Defining impatience and what it actually is—hint: it has to do with triggers
08:20 What is emotional patience?
08:59 What is physical patience?
09:53 What is spiritual patience?
11:07 What is mental patience?
11:42 Perspective shift: Patience is a positive coping skill
13:22 Impatience starts in the brain & a tool to root it out
17:01 Where you feel physical pain is the same place you feel your emotions
19:33 Why using your breath is needed in impatient moments
22:34 Progressive muscle relaxation tool to release frustration and impatience
24:43 Releasing the “should” statements
27:40 Questions and validation statements to untangle impatience
30:04 Distraction tool
32:47 Takeaways of the conversation
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Welcome to Pause & Affirm! This quick hit of inspiration is meant to remind you of your greatness, inner light, and peace! These quick notes to self are taken from the wildly popular Get Your Life Together, Girl daily quotes featured on Instagram. I hope you enjoy this new Saturday morning moment together.
TAKE A MOMENT TO RELAX AND ALLOW THESE WORDS TO SETTLE IN YOUR MIND, HEART, AND SOUL. Affirming with me:
“I am nourishing my needs by being true to each and every experience that finds me. In this truth, I allow myself to say no when I mean no, and yes when I mean yes. I do so without worry or question that using my voice is wrong or makes others uncomfortable. I know what I want and what I need, and I’m proud to finally allow myself to witness these fundamental pieces of myself. From today forward, I am actively honoring this movement to its fullest capacity because I deserve to cherish myself in the same way I respect and honor others. With my thoughts geared in the best direction for me, I know I am powerfully creating the rewarding life I so deeply desire and deserve.”
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When was the last time you gave yourself a mental and emotional boost? Every once in a while, we need to reset and bring ourselves back to center. Feeding yourself positive affirmations allows you to elevate your mood, find a sense of peace, and shift your perspective to help you keep your life together, girl! The Get Your Life Together, Girl mini bi-monthly reset is here to help you reset and remember who you are.
Find a comfortable position and take a full deep breath. Our daily lives are often too busy, overwhelmed, and even loud. As this tense and stressed framework becomes our way, we often forget who we are. In doing so, we lean into the idea of chasing perfection. Today is the day you reclaim your authenticity and lean into resetting yourself for more.
Take a full deep breath, breathing in authenticity. Let it go, breathe out a sense of engineered perfection.
Repeat after me, if serves you:
I am an unstoppable woman who is fearlessly and incredibly living her truth. I honor all that I am. What I reflect in my daily life is a true and accurate reflection of who I am both inside and out. I also witness that as I grow and change, that reflection changes too. I welcome this understanding as it shows me how unstoppable I truly am.
As I witness my growth, I keep my authenticity at the forefront of every interaction, regardless of how others may react or oppose, because I know what is best for me.
I own my life. I am the director of my story. This story is written through one fundamental truth: I am worthy of everything I desire. This truth is weaved into my present moment—a present moment that is focused on love, learning, growth, creating, and living a life of legacy. Not a legacy of financial gain, but a legacy of making others know they are worthy too.
In the busyness of my life, I am slowing down. I am reflecting on what best serves me. What I bring into my awareness is of my highest and greatest truth as it reminds me to never stop growing. From now on, I release perfection and seek realness. There is nothing I cannot do. There is nothing that I cannot conquer. This is my day! My unstoppable moment of ownership is to show the world who I am, what I have the power to do, and radically allow my voice to be heard. This unstoppable me is choosing to stand in my power.
Take a slow, deep breath and let it go.
I choose to prosper in my truth, in my story, in this beautiful life.
I am the only one who has to love my story, to fill in the blanks, to thrive and to grow.
I am the reflection of all that is true and good in this world. I am honored to be so.
I AM
I am, two of the most powerful words in any language. Words that direct our emotions and thoughts into movements that support us.
I am unstoppable.
I am worthy of everything I desire to create.
I am the reflection of all that is true and good in this world. I am honored to be so.
I am thriving in the now.
I am sacredly living as the best version of me.
I am authentic in everything I do.
I am fearless.
I am unstoppable.
Anytime you need a moment to come back to center. Repeat these words and lean into your truth- the truth that you are capable of doing anything regardless of how noisy or busy your life becomes because you are unstoppable.
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Is stress your kryptonite? Stress is one of the body’s natural hormonal responses that can overload your body. Recent stats regarding stress are staggering. Worldwide from 2020 to now, Residents of England and America report the most stress, anxiety, and a greater sense of sadness. Canadians, French, and Australians report a greater increase of mental health issues related to stress. Roughly 77% of the workforce worldwide report physical effects of stress and 26% of the 77 say they are frequently burned out. Speaking of Burnout, the World Health Organization has now recognized burnout as a chronic condition. 48% of Americans report sleep issues caused by stress. 80% of millennials worldwide report they stress about money. In 2018 Greece topped the list of the most stressed country. Stress costs roughly $300 billion dollars per year due to health and health care cost in the US alone. You get it, stress is a massive issue no matter where you live.
I sat down with Dr. Gala Gorman, an authority in stress, to talk about the impact of stress, EU stress, which is good stress, 12 toxic elements that can put our immune system into a state of emergency, and then Dr. Gorman hands over a handful of helpful tips to get your mind and body out of the state of stress.
So, let’s dive right in…
Key Takeaways
00:00 Introduction
04:05 Different forms of stress broken down
06:45 The symptoms of stress
10:35 Generational trauma and the role it has on your stress
16:51 Why stress is Kryptonite
21:22 How to identify stress within you
21:50 Detoxing from stress–tools to use
27:09 12 Toxins
38:25 How acupuncture can help reduce stress
43:27 What woman are missing when it comes to their stress
47:43 Gala’s 3
What a fantastic conversation and tools that Dr. Gorman provided to us. You can find more information on her website at www.drgala.com. Her book: "What's Your Kryptonite?" is available on Amazon. And you can follow her on Instagram @drgalagorman.
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Welcome to Pause & Affirm! This quick hit of inspiration is meant to remind you of your greatness, inner light, and peace! These quick notes to self are taken from the wildly popular Get Your Life Together, Girl daily quotes featured on Instagram. I hope you enjoy this new Saturday morning moment together.
TAKE A MOMENT TO RELAX AND ALLOW THESE WORDS TO SETTLE IN YOUR MIND, HEART, AND SOUL. Affirming with me:
I am laying down my barriers and my battle wounds today. I am freeing myself from overthinking and what-ifs and allowing myself to shine. I am freely engaging with the present moment with wide-eyed wonder. Beautiful magic flows within and around me, and every breath I take fills my soul and grounds all that I am. Everything I do today, even the smallest gesture, has meaning. With this meaning, I am owning myself, each and every moment, and allowing myself to receive whatever this day has in store for me. With my arms wide, I say, “I am offering myself grace today. I am giving myself permission to be vulnerably me. I am showing myself that I am love.”
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Whether you realize it or not, you set the tone of how others will and do interact with you. When you respect yourself, it’s obvious, and most of the time, others around you show up with their respect for you on point. But what happens when you don’t trust yourself, when you don’t have self-respect? It seems pretty apparent that’s when trouble ensues.
Samantha from London, England, wrote in and said, “Danielle, I love your mindset resets, so I’m hoping you can help me with my mindset around self-respect. Here’s my backstory: I grew up with a great family. I don’t have a ton of trauma, at least not like what I’ve heard about on your show. I am married to a wonderful man. I’ve done okay in my career. My kids are healthy and seem pretty happy, but I still struggle with respecting myself. I’m not sure why. Maybe I don’t know what self-respect is. Can you help me see if I respect myself? I hope that doesn’t sound like a stupid request! What am I missing? Are there signs? If I could control this part of myself, I would have more space to grow, as you talk about.”
Samantha, first, there is never such a thing as a stupid request when you are seeking understanding. What we don’t know, we don’t know. Period. Until we seek answers or solutions, how are we to learn?
What is self-respect?
Self-respect is an admiration for yourself in terms of what you’re capable of, who you are, and what you can achieve.
It means honoring your principles before anyone and anything else. It means trusting yourself to say and do only what feels true and honors your core values, needs, emotions, and grounded thoughts. It’s developed and grown through listening to and respecting that voice inside you at all times, but especially when you feel fearful, reluctant, or unsettled. It’s humble pride and confidence in yourself grounded in dignity, resilience, and strength. It’s prioritizing yourself.
We can look at a few signs to know if your self-respect is lacking.
The first one is you are a doormat.
The second is you lose yourself in a relationship—either romantic or friendship.
Third, you do things for attention.
Forth, your self-respect is diminished or absent if you indulge in your bad habits in excess.
Fifth, you tolerate things in your life you know you don’t deserve.
Let’s change this story…
The love we often let go of first is the love of ourselves and if you want greatness to flow through you and into your life, you must love, honor, and respect yourself, too.
How?
Set boundaries!
Stop putting yourself down.
Learn to Manage your emotions.
Learn to stand up for yourself.
Do the right thing.
Be yourself and march to your own beat.
Samantha, I hope this helps you see where you may need to shift to elevate. You are not broken, my dear. You are not lacking. But maybe you are in need of making some small changes to create big wins! I challenge you all to do the same!
To hear the full breakdown and tools provided, listen to the full episode.
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ear, it’s a nasty word and an even nastier emotion. It keeps us caught in small boxes. It keeps us from showing up to our present life, future, relationships, jobs, families, you name it. If fear is present, you are not thriving to your fullest potential.
That’s why you and I are taking one-on-one deep dive into the fear of making the wrong choice! Fear is the biggest enemy to your decision-making, and it can hold you captive even when the stacks feel like life and death. So, if you have ever found yourself uncertain, feeling “stuck,” unable to move forward, or wishing someone else could choose for you, this is the conversation for you!
So, let’s dive right in.
Key Takeaways
00:00 Introduction
02:09 We are all forced to make big decisions
03:33 Do you have the telltale catchphrase “I don’t know” in your daily language? What it means if you do
05:24 What fear is and the real-life fear definition
10:59 The more challenging an experience, the greater the fear if we do not have our mindset and thought process in check
14:18 The “Law of Average,” according to my father, Dan
17:30 The five levels of decision-making
18:30 Level 1 - Freeze
18:53 Level 2 – Passive Pleasing
20:26 Level 3 – Sitting in the Middle
20:49 Level 4 – Assertive Action
22:32 Level 5 – Energetic, Enthusiastic Decision-Making
26:48 Make some actionable decisions
28:05 Reduce the number of decisions in the situation
30:47 Find the why
31:12 Shift your P-O-V
34:01 When self-trust is lacking, fear knocks
Listen to Epi 86: The Ultimate Guide of Self-Trust
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Welcome to Pause & Affirm! This quick hit of inspiration is meant to remind you of your greatness, inner light, and peace! These quick notes to self are taken from the wildly popular Get Your Life Together, Girl daily quotes featured on Instagram.
TAKE A MOMENT TO RELAX AND ALLOW THESE WORDS TO SETTLE IN YOUR MIND, HEART, AND SOUL.
Affirming with me:
This is the last moment, day, week, month, and most certainly, the year that I willingly accept anything less than what I deserve. I’m claiming it now and refuse to go back on my word. What I deserve is far greater than what I’ve allowed, and that stops now. From now on, what I create and accept is written by my standards and no one else’s. This is my season of reawakening. This is the season of honoring myself. This is the season that I toss out the limits and unwind my anxious mind. This is the season of me, and there’s not a single person, feeling, event, or thought that is going to get in my way. As of today, I WILL no longer accept anything less than what I deserve!
Repeat these words aloud as often as needed, and remember, you are worthy, and you have always been. Until next, be kind to yourself and others.
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Welcome to the crown chakra affirmation meditation, a guided meditation to powerfully connect with your higher self. Your crown chakra, or 7th chakra, at the top of your head, is responsible for spiritual connection to the Universe, God, Source, or whatever you call this magnificent force more significant than yourself. It’s the center of your self-knowledge. Transformation and enlightenment are found here, too.
Settle in now, and let’s connect to this center of truth, love, and light.
As you find a comfortable position, softly deepen your breath, inhaling through your nose, allowing the breath to fill your lungs before slowly and steadily exhaling.
With your next inhale, relax your shoulders down your spine, releasing any tension you may feel, bring your awareness to the top of your head, and feel the oneness between you and everything around you, moving through you and beyond. As you continue to breathe and allow my voice to be your guide, check your palms. Gently turn them upright, if confrontable, as this mudra helps you receive energy from the divine. Now, close your eyes, if comfortable, and visualize a white light appearing at the top of your head with your next inhale. Within this beautiful light is a lotus blossom. Its gorgeous tips are opening, blooming as you are now. As the energy of purity, transformation, and ascension cover you, allow your breath to guide the flower opening. Imagine every breath fills the flower with more energy to expand.
Listen to the full meditation to receive the fullest benefit.
As you exhale, focus on these affirming affirmations:
I am divine.
My existence is sacred.
My soul and physical form have come to this time, space, and reality to create, to live a legacy.
I honor my infinite nature.
I trust my inner knowing, my gut, because I know this is the voice that leads me.
I am connected and open to receiving guidance.
I coexist peacefully with everyone I meet.
I trust there is a divine plan for me, and it works on its timing, not mine.
I am love. I am light. I am joy.
I know transformation is always within my reach.
I am aligned with my soul’s purpose and truth.
I release my need to control my life and surrender to this openness that is far grander than my most complicated plans.
I am a spiritual being having a very human experience.
Internal peace flows to and through me.
I am walking my path in faith, love, and light.
In your own time, become aware of the sounds around you, near and in the distance. Become aware of the support beneath you, and notice how you feel. And hold yourself with loving kindness, for the beautiful, unique being that you are.
May love, light, and blessings come to you, as you deserve the very best.
Anytime you need a moment to reconnect, come back to these truths. They are always here for you.
May love, light, and blessings come as you soulfully live from the wisdom within and beyond you.
Namaste!
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Let me ask you, if you could rate your connection with yourself from one to ten, ten being the greatest, one being the worst, what would you say?
The only relationship you will have the entire span of your life is the relationship with yourself…but in order to level that relationship up to a place where it is thriving requires each of us to stop living in the space of energetic clutter.
You know, the limiting beliefs, old traumas, perceived busyness, and so much more. Yet, knowing you must clear your life is incredibly different from actually doing the work.
That’s why I sat down with therapist and life coach Tanya Cole-Lesnick to talk about the energy we allow in your life, alignment, letting go of what doesn’t work for you, and the small practices that make all the difference in your day-to-day experience!
So, let’s dive right in…
Key Takeaways
00:00 Introduction
03:15 How the question “Am I loveable” can change your entire life
07:24 Considering the “I” in all relationships and the methods in which we show up in the world
09:28 Two apps to help you connect with yourself
10:58 Energetic clutter that owns us & limiting beliefs
15:19 The practices to help us clear away what is not working
22:29 Let your clarity come from the grey areas
25:58 A spin on rock bottom & the desire to quit
33:51 How can I celebrate you today? Vulnerability and permission
37:00 What being in alignment is and how it feels
42:15 Learn to gauge your energy
45:15 Selfless or selfish
53:00 Tanya’s 3
What a fascinating conversation. Each of us can use these tools to elevate our lives! If you would like to know more, you can check out Tanya’s offering:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tanyathetherapist
Website: https://www.tanyacole-lesnick.com
You can visit the link in her bio to unlock the free 7-minute masterclass and more of her work.
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Welcome to Pause & Affirm! This quick hit of inspiration is meant to remind you of your greatness, inner light, and peace! These quick notes to self are taken from the wildly popular Get Your Life Together, Girl daily quotes featured on Instagram. I hope you enjoy this new Saturday morning moment together.
TAKE A MOMENT TO RELAX AND ALLOW THESE WORDS TO SETTLE IN YOUR MIND, HEART, AND SOUL. Affirming with me:
I see myself—the person I am, and the woman I am working to become. As I look into my life, there’s something abundantly clear—I do have my own back. Pretense falls away, and I realize that I AM my own influencer. What molded and shaped me before is nothing compared to how I shape myself now. I understand my value and am placing value on being my own game-changer. I welcome this level of ownership because I now realize I have more faith than fear. I have more grace and permission than doubt. I have a level of fierceness that is unequal to anything I’ve ever known. I honor all the parts of me with the deepest, truest, and most humble affection. I’m ready to let my light be seen. I am ready to shine because I see myself. I own me. I love who I am.
Amen.
Repeat these words aloud as often as needed, and remember, you are worthy, and you have always been. Until next, be kind to yourself and others.
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Let’s face it, the state of the world is less than desirable in many ways, yet there’s also much movement and change that’s empowering and life-changing. What is happening in the world at large echoes what happens in our lives. We see negativity and focus on it, but there is another option.
Melanie Lush, from Florida, wrote in and said, “Danielle, I recently found your podcast and listened to an episode where you were talking about focus. Before I listened to the episode, I thought I struggled with focus. But, now I realize I don’t struggle with my focus; I struggle with focusing on the wrong things! If something has a bit of drama to it, is negative, or I feel like I don’t have a choice about the situation, I will laser focus. I spend most of my day in negative thoughts. First, thank you for opening my eyes to this because now that I know, I want to change it. And two, how can I shift my focus to be on something positive or better?”
02:35 Some people have what is called a negativity bias
03:34 How do you know if this you?
05:29 Where Negative Bias Comes From
07:13 How do we change the negative focus?
10:02 How much of your focus surrounds negative self-talk
10:24 How to reframe a situation
11:58 How to establish new patterns
12:55 You must then make conscious efforts to savor positive moments
Thank you for the great question, Melanie! I hope this serves you.
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Have you ever questioned why healing hurts so bad? If you have, you are not alone. Healing from anything is a process and life dramatically transforms when we learn to let ourselves feel, accept, and grow through the things that happen to and through us.
When we offer resistance, we strengthen our pain and all the coping skills that come with it. Because this is so common, many refuse to do the healing work needed to help themselves heal and thrive.
That is why you and I are taking a one-on-one deep dive into why healing hurts, how to move through healing of any kind, and what must take place once we get to a place of acceptance and change.
So, let’s dive right in.
Key Takeaways
00:00 Introduction
01:36 The reason for the conversation & my healing story
07:05 Why does it hurt when we move into healing?
07:49 Breaking down what hurt means
09:45 Emotional pain is activated in the same area of the brain as physical pain
11:45 The more you resist pain, the greater it becomes—swimming upstream
15:16 Witnessing pain and our events we open the wounds
18:18 The suck-it-up mentality cause deeper pain
19:01 We have to allow the process of healing—stage 1 Grief and denial
20:26 Stage 2 is anger
21:32 Stage 3 is bargaining
22:23 Stage 4 is depression. A new definition of depression
24:15 Stage 5 is acceptance, and acceptance is not a happy place most times
25:55 You must be patient when in active healing
27:15 Can we go backwards during healing?
28:26 Go back to the four fundamental questions
29:39 Can you heal on your own?
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Welcome to Pause & Affirm! This quick, upbeat hit of inspiration is meant to remind you of your greatness, inner light, and peace! These quick notes to self are taken from the wildly popular Get Your Life Together, Girl daily quotes featured on Instagram. I hope you enjoy this new Saturday morning moment together.
TAKE A MOMENT TO RELAX AND ALLOW THESE WORDS TO SETTLE IN YOUR MIND, HEART, AND SOUL.
Affirm with me:
My focus is set. I acknowledge and take responsibility for everything I express outwardly and focus inward to change all that comes my way into something of value and worth. I find gratitude in the small and large movements because I know I have a choice in everything within my path. I know it’s never too late. There are no time limits. There are no rules I must follow to make others comfortable with my growth. My heart is filled with mercy. My mind is filled with faith and calmness. I trust every detail guides me into grace, harmony, and the wisdom I need to prosper. I amplify these feelings with each action I take and give away what I do not need. As I say yes to myself, life says yes to me. I honor this movement with gratitude knowing everything is possible.
Amen.
Repeat these words aloud as often as needed, and remember, you are worthy, and you have always been. Until next, be kind to yourself and others.
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Welcome to the third eye chakra affirmation meditation, a moving, guided meditation to gently and powerfully connect with your higher self. Your brow chakra governs visions and dreams. It’s the center of wisdom and self-reflection. The brow chakra resonates with the language of light and higher consciousness. It is the seat of our intuition and inner wisdom, and when open and balanced, it allows us access to ‘the bigger picture’ of our lives.
Settle in now, and let’s connect to this center of truth, love, and light.
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Fear is one of the most powerful emotions. It ranks right up there, at least in my mind, with grief. It’s a liar. It’s a thieve. And yet, its intention is good. It’s meant to keep you safe. But, for many, fear keeps them paralyzed, shut down, and living in a way that is strictly in survival and never touching the beauty of joy, which is, of course, a birthright to all of us.
Jill Gibson from New Hampshire wrote in and said, “Danielle, I’m not sure where to start. I suppose I should just say the word in my head most days—fear. I was talking to a dear friend a few months ago, and she pointed out that I am constantly fearful but also doing everything I can to avoid it. I’ve struggled with this thought since she spoke those words. I feel this is a truthful assessment of where I am, but I do not know how to get out of it. I would love to hear your advice.”
Thanks, Jill. Fear is interesting, and what Jill said at the beginning of her statement is on point. She said quote, “I should just say the word in my head most days—fear.”
Fear is absolutely experienced in your mind, but it goes beyond that, and I want to take a moment to let you know what happens because it points out how unsustainable and exhausting it is to live in fear. So, as soon as you experience fear in the mind, it triggers a strong physical reaction within the body. Your amygdala, the small organ in the middle of your brain, goes to work. It alerts the nervous system; like hey friend, we have a problem here, and that sets your body’s fear response into full motion.
Stress hormones like cortisol and adrenaline are released. Your blood pressure and heart rate increase. You start breathing faster. Your liver is triggered to produce and dump sugar into the bloodstream. Even your blood flow changes. Your blood actually flows away from your heart and into your limbs, making it easier for you to fight. Your body is preparing for survival. And yet, as parts of your brain rev up, other parts shut down. Your cerebral cortex, which is responsible for reasoning and judgment, becomes impaired. So forget clear thinking or good decision-making. Your brain is foggy. Your body is overactive.
With that being said, fear is something we need to help us understand our environment, but it is not something we want to live in.
How do we get out of fear?
The first place I start if you are sitting in session and you bring up you are living in fear, the first question out of my mouth will be: why? Why do you have fear?
The only way to confront fear is to get a grasp on it.
Once you identify that, you can move to the next phase of processing, which is understanding how this is impacting you. How is fear showing up in your life?
From there, you start challenging both the why and the how, you question the beliefs behind both.
Next, we lean into solution.
As the solution is in motion, we go back to the idea of safety. When your brain’s job is to keep you safe and that safety has been rocked, you must make it a point to be your safest place again.
Beyond these small pieces of beginning to explore fear, talk to someone.
Jill, thank you for your question. While these pieces may feel elementary, these are the first places we start with anything. We want to be able to address what is happening from different angles so that we make the change long-lasting.
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Let me ask you a question I’ve been chasing the answer to for most of my life. Is there such a thing as broken people, or are there only broken moments?
Your answer may vary from the truth depending on where you are in your life, what you’ve experienced, and how you’ve processed what has been and what you believe will continue to occur.
Today, you and I are taking a one-on-one deep dive into redefining the idea of broken, and I’ll hand over something most of us are not taught, which is how to become comfortable with being uncomfortable. This is one conversation that shatters our traditional thinking and flips what you thought you needed to move forward on its head!
So, let’s dive right in…
Key Takeaways
00:00 Introduction
02:46 How a gift inspired this conversation
03:47 Are there broken people or broken moments?
07:07 Comparison is a theft of your experience and the definition of trauma
09:00 Beyond trauma, there are everyday behaviors that help us feel broken
09:29 Number 1: Following the rules
12:12 Number 2: Our definition of success
13:37 Number 3: Letting fear chain you to moments
16:16 Number 4: Destroying your body
17:29 How trauma makes us feel broken
22:41 How to sit in discomfort for gain
22:59 You must acknowledge that you are not broken
23:39 Learn to gauge your moments
25:53 Engage in radical compassion
26:42 Practice acceptance
27:37 Identify your strength
28:40 Explore new experiences
29:54 Get curious
30:33 List 5 things that push you
32:03 Once we move through broken and get into discomfort, we can find wholeness
34:57 What can you do to help yourself lean into a new choice?
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Welcome to the throat chakra affirmation meditation, a guided meditation to clear and reclaim your fifth chakra. Your throat chakra is responsible for communication. When it’s balanced, you speak the truth, your truth, and understand your life purpose in a fuller and guided way. You communicate with others intelligently and efficiently. You are far more creative and expressive.
Settle in now, finding a comfortable position as you relax your shoulders down your spine, release your jaw, and let go of any tension, whether in your mind or body. As you fully settle, deepen your breath, inhaling through your nose, allowing your breath to find the bottom of your lungs, and slowly release it through your nose with a slow and steady exhale. Continue to breathe with both ease and effort. If your eyes are open, gently close them now.
Take a deep breath and bring your awareness to the center of your throat — your throat chakra. This chakra is the center of expression and your thoughts and feelings. It’s the place of truth and integrity.
Breathe and expand this space by inviting a brilliant blue light in, the color of the clearest sky, to form and spin without effort or blockage, only inviting ease. Breathe in, clearing, opening, and softening the need to control your words, expression, creativity, and voice.
Feel this chakra growing more intense as the blue light strengthens. Let it radiate and fill your head space as it traces up and down your entire form.
With your next exhale, feel this pure energy clear any blockages from the past, from any limiting beliefs, negativity, or any words that you’ve refused to speak. As you let go, feel yourself become fearless, courageous, and ready to be heard. Your voice is full now and no longer on mute.
As you allow yourself to speak the truth and accept your worthiness, own these words of affirmation, knowing they are for you and ready to support your truest and most authentic self-expression and voice. Allow my voice to become yours as you own each and every expression that follows:
I hear and speak my truth as I express myself freely and fully.
I am an essential voice in the world, and my voice is heard.
I clearly express myself with reluctance or barriers.
It is safe for me to trust others with my words.
Every time I speak, every word I utter is an expression of love and truth.
Creativity flows in and through me.
I always communicate honestly openly and clearly.
It is easy for me to communicate how I feel and what I need.
My words are my art form, and they support my greatest and truest desires.
What I speak expresses my creativity.
Being creative nourish my soul and my spirit.
As I use my voice, I live through integrity and authenticity.
I speak my mind truthfully with no borders.
I free myself by becoming more honest and using my words.
My honesty attracts what I deserve
My intent is always clear when I speak.
My voice is powerful.
I don’t engage in gossip or criticism as I know this diminishes my powerful intent.
I am confident in expressing my thoughts and ideas.
There’s great clarity in my communications.
I am emotionally resilient and use this to my power.
Speaking my truth is my right.
I am confident enough to say no.
I am focusing on the radiant blue light that radiates from my throat.
I am now opening my throat chakra.
My throat chakra is completely balanced.
My throat chakra is now healed.
I speak my truth clearly.
I am assertive.
Take one final deep breath and gently open your eyes.
May love, light, and blessings come to you today.
Anytime you need to rebalance, simply come back to this meditation. It’s always here for you. May peace be with you.
Namaste!
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As we continue to dive deeper into the five masters of our lives, we lean heavier into our well-being, physically and mentally. How we eat impacts us more than we realize, as our daily practices either own us or support us.
With so much evidence driving us toward eating with a plant slant or plant-based to support our mental, emotional, and physical health, I sat down with dear friends of mine, physicians on the leading edge of Lifestyle Medicine, Dr. Munish Chawla and Dr. Bandana Chawla.
Together we talk about the impact of diet, how to make micro changes toward eating more plants, and they hand over small shifts to help bring you forward into this healthier lifestyle.
This conversation is filled with ways to better your health, one plate at a time. So, let’s dive right in.
Key Takeaways
00:00 Introduction
03:46 What is Lifestyle Medicine and the pillars?
06:24 How and why Dr. B and Dr. M made the transition into plant-focused healthcare
13:17 My personal experience with Lifestyle Medicine and Dr. Chawla’s
17:24 You must be willing to do the work
17:44 Learning to eat in a plant-slant without being overwhelmed— add, not take away
21:54 Plant-based food goes beyond rare veggies and salad
26:55 The impact of the plant-based slant on our mental health
29:30 The biggest blockers Dr. M and Dr. B run up against with patients and the community
34:50 Self-compassion is a huge part of habit changes
35:40 Peaceful Planet and the work around mindfulness
40:57 What both doctors want people to know
45:11 How to contact with the lifestyle docs community
47:08 3 Gratitudes
If you are inspired to take your health into your own hands and do the work it takes to feel better on all levels, check out Dr. M and Dr. B’s website at www.embeelifestyledocs.com. There you will find resources, recipes, and links to join the community and even free weekend meditation and yoga. You can also find information on peacefulplanet.com.
You can also follow them on Youtube for tons of free lifestyle information and even classes and speeches I’ve made as a part of their organization.
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Terri Rynne wrote in and said, “Danielle, my eighteen-year-old daughter, is experiencing many of life’s ups and downs right now. After 22 years of marriage to her father, I left because the union no longer supported my needs and wants. She has also experienced a breakup with a long-term friendship, and my father passed away during all of this. She was extremely close to him, and all three events occurring when she is trying to establish herself as a young adult have been more than she can handle. While I’ve tried to help her navigate these experiences, I’ve realized I don’t have much emotional intelligence. To use your words, I’ve deep-dived into everything you’ve written about emotional intelligence, but I was hoping you could help me use all I’ve learned to deepen our conversations and validate her experience. It’s not helpful for me to simply say, “I understand.” She feels like I’m not acknowledging her feelings or experiences. Thanks for all you do! Without you, I know many of us would be lost, me included.”
First, we must be active listeners.
Next, allow empathy to be your guide and help identify their feelings.
If necessary, ask additional questions.
Build trust by reflecting back what has been offered.
Now, this is another a-ha moment for you. Most of us try to validate other people’s experiences by sharing our experiences. But, depending on the moment, this can be taken as self-centered or as if there is a lack of genuine care if you are only speaking about yourself. Ask for permission to offer your experience.
From there, help get to a solution, not a resolution.
Lastly, if you feel that the discussion is about to be completed, check how the person feels. Ask whether they would like to discuss more before moving on.
Avoid invalidating sentences:
Thank you Terri for the question. I hope this helps you and others elevate your relationships and your emotional intelligence.
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Most of our suffering and upset come from how tightly we hold onto our perspectives as truths and the emotional, mental, and physical behaviors we cling to that never serve us, such as perfectionism, procrastination, negative self-talk, and avoidance. When we live from a space that prevents us from experiencing our life to the fullest, where we are closed to everything and open to nothing, we keep ourselves in a cycle that pushes against growth and ourselves.
There’s a term for this behavior, and it’s self-sabotage.
Today, you and I are taking a one-on-one deep dive into self-sabotage, what it is, and how it impacts us. Then we will move into a space where we learn to be observers of ourselves and our behaviors so that we may grow, find self-love, rest in inner peace, and fully thrive as the souls we are in our human experience.
So, let’s dive right in.
Key Takeaways
00:00 Introduction
01:59 We’ve all engaged in self-sabotaging behaviors
04:06 What is self-sabotaging?
05:18 Behaviors that show up when we are in full sabotaging mode
06:33 Signs you are self-sabotaging
16:01 Why do people sabotage themselves?
Episode 71: Limiting Beliefs
19:07 The four areas sabotage causes us the biggest issues
22:14 The type of sabotage
22:47 The impact of procrastination. Epi 37
24:51 The impact of perfectionism
25:24 The impact of self-criticism
26:00 The impact of resisting change
27:00 The impact of poor self-care
27:47 How to become the observer
34:40 Emotional scale and the importance when it comes to self-sabotaging
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Welcome to your heart chakra balancing meditation, a guided meditation to clear and reclaim your fourth chakra. The center of love, compassion, forgiveness, and self-acceptance, as it governs our feelings in relationships and our humanness.
This is a continuation of our balancing charka series.
Settle in now, finding a comfortable position as you relax your shoulders down your spine, release your jaw, and let go of any tension, whether in your mind or body. As you fully settle, deepen your breath, inhaling through your nose, allowing your breath to find the bottom of your lungs, and slowly release it through your nose with a slow and steady exhale. Continue to breathe with both ease and effort.
You are taking a journey now inside your mind to meet yourself and rebalance the fourth chakra, the source of love.
Take another full deep breath and slowly let it go. If your eyes are not already closed, please close them softly now.
Clear your mind.
As you take the next inhale, visualize yourself in your mind’s eye. Do not try to change the image that comes in; instead, see yourself as you are. Allow yourself to take up space.
Having your heart open, unblocked, and unguarded allows you to be open to the beauty of the world.
Now gently breathe into your Heart space, letting it soften and expand with each breath. Invite the green hue, and as you visualize the beautiful ball of green energy, fill your heart center with nourishment, renewal, and healing. Allow your heart to feel. Allow yourself to feel purity and warmth. Allow your heartbeat to quicken and find a steady beat.
With another deep breath, refocus on the mirror. Send energy to yourself inside of it, and repeat these heart affirmations:
I am love.
I accept myself as I am.
I allow myself to give and receive love freely.
I am light and peace.
I deserve love and to be loved.
I live in balance with everything within and around me.
I am worthy of choosing myself.
I am aligned with the highest frequency of love
I am lead by love.
I am a beacon for love and compassion.
My heart is open, loving, and pure.
Love and compassion are my super powers.
Every day, I focus on loving myself and all of mankind.
I fully embrace love as I am, for who I am.
Love is the guiding truth in my life.
I live in a state of gratitude which is generated through and by love.
I release anything less than love.
Take another deep breath and bathe yourself in this bright green light.
Rest in this moment. Just be.
Offer yourself love in the mirror and gently allow the image to dissolve. What was in the mirror is within you. All of this radiant light lives within your physical self and your soul.
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As spring break and summer fast approaching, there seem to be ads about getting our summer bodies ready everywhere we turn. Stores are already shifting away from winter clothing and into shorts and skimpy swimsuits. Yet, this is the time of year most women dread. Why? Because their body image is not healthy. And, as you may suspect, when how we think about ourselves is not good, we tend to struggle across all aspects of our lives, especially in finding peace and self-love.
So, today, I sat down with Erin Tennant to talk about how each of us can increase our self-concept and body image, how to create rewarding habits and behaviors, how to cultivate a growth mindset around our eating, and she shares her story of growing up constantly on a diet and the steps she took to lose over 130 pounds and how she has kept it off!
If you are ready to consciously make changes to how you look and feel, this is one conversation you want to hear from start to finish.
Let’s dive right in.
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
02:17 Who Erin Tennant is, and what she does
04:08 Erin shares her why and what started her 130 weight loss journey
07:04 How your childhood can impact your eating habits and self-concept
10:21 Shifting your mindset from restriction to building your food uniform
12:36 You must build self-trust to build your self-image
17:30 You get to decide how you eat and how you process what you need and want
18:00 How our habits impact our emotional and mental safety
19:53 What needs are not being met and other questions you must ask yourself
23:17 Where most people trip up between food and need
25:20 Are you an emotional or rational thinker
28:24 Making a behavioral change look at what you are doing now
31:21 Increase your processes by two-minutes
38:00 Changing the mindset through learning
41:29 Remembering just because you have an experience does not mean there is something wrong or broken
44:18 Getting out of our own way and into choice
49:20 Be willing to question everything you think you know
52:55 Erin’s three
Erin is right. Each of us have the power to make a decision for ourselves and take full ownership of our lives. The minute we do, we consciously live as our best selves.
If you are interested in learning more about or from Erin, you can connect on Instagram or Facebook @growwellcoaching. Or you can check out her website at www.thegrowwellcoach.com
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Our lives are filled with habits and patterns. Some serve us. Some don’t. Depending on where the pattern originated, whether trauma or learned, these patterns can own us and become the coping mechanisms that are our everyday behaviors. People don’t necessarily cling to old habits because they want to beat themselves up but rather because we humans stick to what’s familiar.
Karen Crosby wrote in and said, “Danielle, I’ve been working with a therapist for a little over two years now. She has helped me realize I have many painful patterns in my daily life that come out in the things I do and through how my relationships have been. Yet, she hasn’t been able to help me change or let go of these painful patterns. It’s extremely frustrating. I’m hoping you can help! You’ve helped me in many other ways through your podcast, blog, videos, and Instagram posts. Can you please help me understand how to let go of painful patterns? I feel like I continually do things that cause more harm than good, even though I know that is not what I want!
Karen, first, thank you for your kind words. And yes, let’s dive right in and talk about patterns!
We go right back to our brain’s number one job.
How bad we may feel about doing the same thing repeatedly doesn’t matter. When these are our patterns, we often feel less anxious when we follow the pattern and respond according to what we have used to soothe ourselves rather than fight the behaviors. So these habits and behaviors are practiced, which is why we do them. Think of it like a reflex, your brain’s muscle memory, and they become how we cope.
First step in letting go of old or painful patterns is to name it. What is it? What are you struggling with?
Step 2: Understand that in everything we do, there are layers of behavior. So, choose just one element of the habit and focus on it.
Step 3: Create physical distance.
Step 4: Set up your why.
Step 5: Get your plan outlined and then do the work.
Step 6: Prepare to experience obstacles and also be prepared to overcome them, too!
Step 7: Take baby steps.
Step 8: Give yourself permission to talk about it.
Step 9: Access forgiveness.
That’s what this all comes down to is choice. Speak this words and use them as your mantra in the release process: “I no longer choose to keep patterns in place that do not serve my life. I choose different. I choose better. I choose me!” I challenge each of you to lean into your choices. Thank you so much for your question, Karen. Let go. It’s an essential step into gaining new experiences.
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Have you ever found yourself in a room of highly successful people and thought to yourself, “How did I get here?” Or perhaps look at your partner and wonder why they choose you? Have you ever felt that you were faking it and wondered when the bottom would drop out of the fake façade? Have you ever pretended to be someone you aren’t to fit in? Lastly, do you think of the wins in your life as “dumb luck?”
If so, you may be experiencing imposter syndrome. That’s the bad news. The good news is everyone experiences this from time to time. But, unfortunately, our mental and emotional health are impacted when we live this way 24-7.
So, today, you and I are taking a one-on-one deep dive into what imposter syndrome is, its characteristics, how it impacts us, and then we’re talking about flipping the internal conversation to get us out of untrue patterns that easily own us.
So, let’s dive right in.
00:00 Introduction
02:09 Imposter Syndrome hits all of us at one point or another
04:29 Questions to know if you are engaging in Imposter Syndrome
05:18 Breaking Imposter Syndrome down and defining
07:32 How Imposter Syndrome shows up
09:02 The five types of imposters
13:33 Thoughts that are fairly commonly connected to this syndrome
17:01 Using imposter syndrome as motivation only works if you don’t fall into the trap of negativity
20:10 The impact of this behavior
23:22 Why does imposter syndrome happen?
28:01 How we cope and round 2 of difficult questions
30:54 Tools to help you change the pattern
32:18 Focus on others
33:25 Access your abilities
34:03 Take baby steps
32:18 Question your thoughts
35:48 How to change the thought through the behavior
41:27 Go back to the four questions I always ask to know how you want to show up
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When was the last time you gave yourself a mental and emotional boost? Every once in a while, we need to reset and bring ourselves back to center. Feeding yourself positive affirmations allows you to elevate your mood, find a sense of peace, and shift your perspective to help you keep your life together, girl! The Get Your Life Together, Girl mini bi-monthly reset is here to help you reset and remember who you are.
Find a comfortable position and take a full deep breath. Once you’re settled, close your eyes or soften your gaze and tune into your breath. Notice it without trying to change it. Feel the air move through your nose, finding its way to the base of your lungs and slowly allowing it to slip away with a soft exhale.
Place both hands over your heart and feel the heart space expand. Then, ask yourself: Am I willing to give myself love today as I am?
If you are, offer yourself permission to do just that and release any negative thoughts that may be lingering in your mind.
With your next inhale, fully settle into the words, “I am worthy.” As you let the air go, allow those words to transform into “I am enough.”
Allow these words to soak up your spine, landing in your heart space and filling you from the inside out as my words and voice become yours.
Being loveable is a perspective, a frame of mind that no one else can decide, but you. It’s the state of being content with where you are today because growth and your experiences have asked you to be here, right now, as you are. In this contentment, choosing to live in a state of belonging and potential creates space to be whole, loveable, and just be. As you wholeheartedly honor this state of being, offer yourself grace.
This life is one of open awareness. Awareness that all I receive is an opportunity to know, build, and share the energy of love. As I move into this day, I welcome truth to settle.
The truth that reminds me that I do not have to change who I am to be loveable. I do not have to prove myself to others to define my value. I am loveable the way I am, without shifting or changing to meet expectations or worn-out limits that were never mine to own.
I am love, and inside that love, I express infinite growth and strength through the light and calm that radiates through me and from me because of this love.
Take another full deep breath and let it go.
With this focus, I intentionally release anything that has made me believe that my past, reactions, or anything in between make me unworthy. Instead, I declare my independence from these thoughts and lean into love.
I deserve that. I own it. I am learning to love all of me.
With these guiding thoughts leading my way, I see the beauty of every moment, no longer waiting for the next moment to arrive but instead enjoying what is in the seconds, minutes, and hours they unfold, with love, through love.
I allow myself to give lovingly, spreading it and welcoming its return. I know what I give, I may also receive. I do so with open arms as I take full ownership of the love I am. I embody love as love, and I are one.
Take a slow, deep breath, and let it go.
I choose to prosper in this truth and remind myself that experience that finds me has magic within it. I welcome these powerful feelings and affirm that everything I am is right, just, and beautiful.
I am living a heart-centered life by choosing what best fulfills me and feeds my soul.
Learning to love myself plants the seeds of peace in everything I do.
At this moment, I choose acceptance of who I am over judgment. I choose heart-centered compassion over the voice of negativity.
As I choose these choices, I take a deep breath and allow new energy to flow within.
This is the energy of celebration—the celebration of coming this far, choosing myself, and investing time in witnessing the good of me.
I am becoming more as I realize I’ve been whole this entire time. My growth is not because I am less than others; it’s because I am whole.
Take another full deep breath, reflecting on all that is good and true and returning to our words, “I am worthy. I am enough.”
As we move into powerfully claiming these words, repeat after me:
I AM…
I am loveable.
I am worthy of everything I desire to create in love and through love.
I am capable of loving myself, even when it’s hard.
I am poised to attract the best in the most loving and beautiful ways.
I am complete and growing at the same time.
I am in awe of myself and the beautiful power I possess within me.
I am strong-hearted with a kind soul.
I am love and know love.
I am perfect in my imperfection.
I am valued and appreciated.
I am compassionate and loving.
I am the person who I need to be now.
I am grateful for my life.
I am unstoppable.
Anytime you need a moment to come back to center. Repeat these words and lean into your truth—the truth that you are loveable in all ways, always.
Namaste!
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Our lives can be easily divided into sections that can be our masters, or we can be the masters of them. Those sections include: spiritual, mental, emotional, physical, and financial.
Many do not realize the financial aspect impacts them on every other level. If we don’t have control over our money, we worry, stress, and often lose sleep.
To go deeper, financial issues rank among the top reasons for relationship failure. And many women stay in abusive relationships because of their fear of money.
That’s why I sat down with the guru of all things money, Allison Baggerly from Inspired Budget. You’ve likely come across her videos on Instagram and TikTok, where she breaks down real people’s budgets. Today, she guides us through her best budgeting advice and how to become the masters of our money once and for all!
So, let’s dive right in…
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
02:15 Allison Baggerly’s why and her backstory
05:54 Creating a budget that works for you. One size does not fit all.
08:07 What’s realistic for you? Most people budget for “a version of ourselves that doesn’t exist.” Tracking expensives
10:22 The difference between an emergency fund and a sinking fund
12:30 Cash envelope system and how to make it work for you in a productive way—areas you tend to overspend
15:10 The weight of debt
18:24 How to create more money when you have a set amount of monthly funds
22:31 Some of the biggest mistakes we make—lifestyle creep.
26:15 Mute people on social media that shake your mental health
30:46 Top tips for your money
38:52 Money Made Easy and what Allison wishes most women knew
41:01 Allison’s 3
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Nothing gives you emotional freedom, inner peace, and balance, like releasing the outcome of any given moment and practicing non-attachment.
Demi from Berlin, Germany, wrote in and said, “I’m new to your audience as I just found your podcast six weeks ago. In the episodes I’ve listened to, you say our brains are wired to keep us safe. I’ve been thinking about this over the last few weeks and wondered if that is why I always feel I need control over things. I can’t enjoy a night out with friends without a schedule. I have ended relationships with romantic partners because I felt I needed to keep their agendas, which made me feel like I was out of control of how I spent my time. I like everything planned and spelled out. I don’t like the “control freak” label, but I know that’s what I am. So, my first question is: is control a form of safety? And secondly, is there something I can do to stop living this way? I know I make things harder on myself.”
The first question is so on point, and it’s a moment of realization I hope everyone can soak in and recognize. Is control a form of safety?
One thousand percent yes.
The craziest piece to all this is when you decide you will be present and let go of control; you gain control. You gain mental control of allowing. You gain emotional control to not be tied to what may not unfold. Non-attachment is freedom. The Dalai Lama said: “Attachment is the origin, the root of suffering; hence it is the cause of suffering.”
Practice non-attachment with this simple tool:
Practice these steps. Witness that you are already empowered to thrive in your life. You don’t have to control. One beautiful affirmation you can offer yourself while you build this practice into your daily habitual thinking is: I am willing to see how and where my life goes while I actively enjoy my moments.
Demi, thank you for the question. Challenge yourself, ladies! It’s essential to growth and getting your life together.
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Many live their lives through a background of unhappiness. While they feel okay in most moments, there’s also a general feeling of discontentment, resentment, irritation, and other negative emotions as they go about their daily lives.
While most of these feelings are subconscious thoughts that sound like, “I need or want this to happen before I can be happy or fulfilled,” or “Life is always so hard,” the stories that you tell yourself significantly impacts those background feelings and slowly become the factors that destroy your inner peace until you choose to leave the stories behind.
Today we are taking a one-on-one deep dive into what inner peace is, what many must let go of to gain it—and it’s probably deeper and different than what you think, and then we’ll take on how to know when you’ve begun to accept inner peace as your baseline center fully.
So, let’s dive right in…
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
03:23 How most define inner peace
04:29 Actual definition of inner peace
06:33 Inner peace is often a byproduct of letting go
07:15 7 things that naturally change when we seek peace
11:52 How you can create inner peace
12:34 Let go of uncertain needs and wants
13:57 Leaving behind the toxic changes your inner dynamic
15:16 You must stop forcing relationships
16:15 Leave behind self-blame
17:59 Releasing excess worry
18:03 Releasing the past
18:43 You can’t chase happiness; you must learn to allow
21:40 Learn to be uncomfortable
22:59 Other behaviors that are thefts to our peace
26:09 5-4-3-2-1 peace practice
30:39 Increasing your daily mindfulness
32:36 Challenge negative thoughts with the word “but”
33:05 Give meditation a try - Epi 67 is a great guide
Inner peace is the best form of happiness. Some battles aren’t worth fighting, and when you let go, you open yourself up to so much more.
Make inner peace a goal. You deserve it.
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Welcome to Solar Plexus chakra balancing meditation, a guided meditation to meet yourself and witness your wholeness through clearing and reclaiming your third chakra. The center of consciousness of being, personal power, self-definition, accomplishment and responsibility, will, and vital energy.
This is a continuation of our balancing charka series.
Settle in now, finding a comfortable position as you relax your shoulders down your spine, release your jaw, and let go of any tension, whether in your mind or body. As you fully settle, deepen your breath, inhaling through your nose, allowing your breath to find the bottom of your lungs, and slowly release it through your nose with a slow and steady exhale. Continue to breathe with both ease and effort.
You are taking a journey now inside your mind to meet yourself and rebalance the third chakra, the source of your strong willpower.
Take another full deep breath and slowly let it go. If your eyes are not already closed, please close softly close them now.
Clear your mind.
As you take the next inhale, visualize yourself in your mind’s eye. Do not try to change the image that comes in; instead, see yourself as you are. Allow yourself to take up space. We are journeying through opening each charka before we balance your center of creativity.
As you see yourself fully form, let your eyes trace up and down your body.
At the base of your spine, visualize a red ball of energy forming and shining from your first chakra, the root. See the red energy spin without stopping. Now, move slightly below your navel in the second chakra, the sacral charka, and let your eyes settle for a moment. As they gaze upon your form, welcome an orange circle of light to grow and glow. Let the lights spin beautifully, without inhibition, questions, or trying to control what comes or is. Now trace your eyes to the solar plexus above the navel, in the 3rd charka. This is the center of conscious being and your personal power. Let your belly ignite with a pure yellow light, the color of the rising sun.
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After the brilliant conversation around Heart Coherence and living a heart-centered life, I wanted to give you the ability to get into coherence yourself. While the technique is simple, this is not something we learn—though we should.
Getting into “The Zone” or bringing your attention to your heart rhythm and breath patterns allows us to tap into the heart’s intelligence. And it is so easy to do that after you practice this for just a few minutes each day, you can find coherence within about 60 seconds. In addition, by reaching this state, we release stress and stop draining emotions such as frustration, irritation, anxiety, and anger.
When you are coherent, your thoughts and emotions are balanced, and you experience ease and inner harmony.
So, if that sounds like something you are ready for, make sure you are in a quiet space where you will be uninterrupted for just a few minutes.
Place your feet on the floor and sit up tall. You want your body extended to allow the maximum air to enter your lungs and leave with each inhale and exhale. During this experience, you can close your eyes if safe and comfortable. This is a practice that can be done actively as well as a process of slowing down, so do what works best for you now.
I’m going to play some music to help slow your nervous system down now, but you can always practice without music, anywhere you can take a breath, which means you can use this practice anywhere, at any time.
Now, while we usually focus on our lungs when we engage in breathwork, this time, we focus on the heart, the heart space.
So, bring your attention there now. Place your hand on your heart if you wish.
Imagine your breath flowing into your heart and filling the space as you inhale. As you exhale, imagine the air living through your chest and returning to your nose. Breathe a little slower and deeper than usual.
Inhale, filling up your heart and broadening your chest. Exhale, letting the chest return to its natural space as the air leaves the heart. In and out.
As your breath continues, begin to activate a positive feeling. Make a sincere attempt to experience a regenerating feeling such as gratitude or appreciation, or even picture someone you love.
Hold on to that feeling and continue breathing in and out through the heart.
When you feel settled and more aligned, slowly bring your breath back to normal—allowing yourself a moment longer to sit in these good feelings.
When you are ready, you can open your eyes if you closed them.
This is how you can guide yourself into quick coherence. It will bring your body back into natural alignment and calm your nervous system, but you will also experience reduced stress immediately and feel more positive and energized. In addition, many say they experience greater access to creativity, intuition, and higher-level decision-making.
I hope this simple yet powerful exercise works for you!
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As we usher in February, many will begin to focus on the heart, on love. As you may have heard me say, love is an experience that is meant to drive us forward and help increase our overall well-being. What’s below that experience is living a heart-centered life. So, what is a heart-centered life?
It’s a life where we live our daily experiences in true alignment with our values, purpose, inner morality, personal experiences, intuition, and connecting with everything that works for us. Doing so requires that we understand some basic principles.
That’s why I sat down with Cardiologist and Heart-Centered Living Expert Dr. Madalina Petrescu to help us understand how to live through the heart-center, how to get into coherence, and why we must allow intuitive directives to guide us; we even chat about overall health that impacts the heart, and end with the connections each of us needs to live a healthy, grounded, spiritually connected life.
This is a powerful conversation filled with tools and ways to create a beautiful heart-centered life.
So, let’s dive right in.
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
02:25 Dr. Madalina Petrescu’s why and the heart’s signals
08:29 How to live a heart-center life
11:59 Identifying with your heart and listening with the heart
17:40 The heart tells the truth; your heart is the guidance
19:10 Coherence and how to get there
25:16 How you are hijacked by yourself and the experiences you have
27:14 Get into a place to check in and get into your feelings
30:51 Giving ourselves permission to live heart-centered
33:23 A challenge for practicing this experience
35: 36 A cardiologist’s take on the heart and body diseases she sees
44:52 Dr Madalina’s checklist
51:00 Be in the moments of choice and take heart-aligned action
55:05 Dr. Madalina’s three
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There’s not a single one of us that escapes the ups and downs of life. It is the way we learn, after all. But, those moments are often given a label, and that label is trauma.
That’s what we are leaning into on today’s mindset reset. Kim from Detroit wrote in and said, “Hey girl, I am in an interesting place in my life. My father recently passed away. At his funeral, many of my family members began to ask me about my feelings regarding his passing. He and I had a long history. There was abuse, mental, emotional, and physical. As I got older, we both acted like it didn’t exist so that I could keep him in my life. But as my family has begun to open up more, I am discovering what I remember and what they know do not add up. It’s as if I cannot access it in my memories. However, since that day and many of those conversations, I have noticed my behavior has been different. It’s almost as if I’ve reverted to things I used to do, like needing to prove myself, feeling like I need to be right, and having a hard time keeping my boundaries. I read one of your posts about trauma and how it shows up on Instagram, and now I’m questioning myself. How can we identify if we have unhealed trauma guiding our behaviors?”
As to your question, how can we identify if we have unhealed trauma guiding our behaviors, this is a huge question, one that can lead people into years worth of therapy, and unfortunately, is not a one-size fits all kind of answer, but we can talk in generalizations. So, let’s dive right in.
Trauma is anything, for any reason, and it comes down to your personal emotional, physical, and even mental response to a distressing or dysregulating event. Unlike the challenging moments we experience, traumatic events often feel sudden and unpredictable and involve a degree of our personal control, sense of safety, and comfort to be rocked.
Listen for the full list of behaviors we often see from unhealed trauma.
Steps to start processing trauma:
Step 1: Get your experiences out. We want to do this piece-by-piece. You can write a generalized statement, but we want to get into the finite details. So, tell your story. Please put it on paper, put it in a record on your phone, just tell your story. And, don’t downplay it! Allow your feelings to arise and be what they are. So, step 1, get out all of your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.
Step 2: Begin to look at how it made you feel. An excellent way to lead yourself through this exercise is to look at the individual moments and write sentences that start like: This is how I felt when… This made me feel…dot, dot, dot. Stay with your feelings rather than push them away.
The first step was putting down your facts. Step two is putting down your feelings about the facts.
Step 3: Begin to explore how those moments impacted and affected your life. Explore how the moments shaped who you are now. What we are doing is looking at the connection between then and now.
Step 4: Give yourself space to state what you want from this point forward. Allow yourself to create a plan for your growth and change.
Kim, I hope that answers your question. Ultimately, if you see something within yourself that makes you uncomfortable or do not like, the question becomes why is it there and what will you do about it?
You are in charge of your mindset, no one else. I challenge each of you to give yourself space to be free of anything that hasn’t worked for you.
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We all have ups and downs, and it’s no secret that life throws hard things into our path. After all, why do you think the saying, “Bad things happen to good people,” exists? Yet, when those hard things occur, how we connect to them and how we fix our mindset plays a significant role in the moment and our overall life satisfaction. It also impacts one other major element in our lives. Can you guess what it is?
If you guessed inner peace, you are right.
So, let’s take a one-on-one deep dive into our mindsets and whether or not you play the victim in your daily life. This is an extensive conversation about identifying the small daily behaviors and habits that create the biggest divide between feeling empowered and feeling negatively impacted, I’m handing over the signs that you are living in full victim mode, and of course, we’ll be talking about how to change course from victim to victor.
So, let’s dive right in.
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
02:26 There’s a massive difference between being a victim and playing the victim—we cannot change what we do not understand or witness
03:40 A set of questions to gauge your mindset
06:14 Trigger warning. This conversation often makes us feel
09:08 The definition of playing the victim and examples of the statements we say when in victim-mode
12:34 Behavior 1: Not taking responsibility
18:54 Exploring how to take responsibility
21:05 Behavior 2: Believing you are at the mercy of everything and everyone else
23:45 Examining your active role of control
25:07 Behavior 3: Holding grudges
27:25 Examining acceptance
29:03 Behavior 4: Lack of trust
30:30 Examining the evidence to build trust
32:32 Behavior 5: Not knowing when enough is enough
35:01 Behavior 6: Tend to argue over everything
36:33 Breaking down the need to fight back
37:30 Behavior 7: Self-pity
39:57 Finding a new perspective to get out of self-pity
40:13 Behavior 8: Comparing our lives to others
42:00 Leaning into gratitude to understand what is present
42:29 Behavior 9: Perfectionism
44:29 Behavior 10: Cutting people out of their lives
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Welcome to Sacral balancing meditation, a guided meditation to meet yourself and witness your wholeness through clearing and reclaiming your second chakra. The center of developing relationships, self-gratification, creativity, emotions, sexuality, and nurture.
Settle in now, finding a comfortable position as you relax your shoulders down your spine, release your jaw, and let go of any tension, whether in your mind or body. As you settle, deepen your breath, inhaling through your nose, allowing your breath to find the bottom of your lungs, and slowly release it through your nose with a slow and steady exhale. Continue to breathe with both ease and effort.
You are taking a journey now inside your mind to meet yourself. A journey that allows you to rebalance the second chakra.
Take another full deep breath and slowly let it go. If your eyes are not already closed, please close them softly now.
Clear your mind.
As you take the next inhale, visualize yourself in your mind’s eye. Do not try to change the image that comes in; instead, see yourself as you are. Allow yourself to take up space. We are journeying through opening each charka before we balance your center of creativity.
As you see yourself fully form, look around. Take in what you see. Find peace in it, and then notice a mirror in the corner of your room. It’s a beautiful, ornate mirror calling for your attention.
Allow yourself to move slowly to the mirror and see yourself in the reflection. Notice the finest detail of your form. If the voice of negativity begins to sneak in, invite it to leave now. That mistruth is not welcome here now or ever again.
As you peer into the mirror, let your eyes trace up and down your body.
At the base of your spine, visualize a red ball of energy forming and shining from your first chakra, the root. See the red energy circle without stopping. Just be within it. Now, move slightly below your navel in the second chakra, the sacral charka, and welcome an orange circle of light. Let the lights spin beautifully. We’ll be returning here soon. Just allow the light to glow, and then trace your eyes to the solar plexus above the navel, in the 3rd charka, and allow a yellow circle to shine.
Take another full breath, holding on to the image of you and when you are ready, move to the middle of your chest, the 4th chakra, the heart. See this space filled with a brilliant hue of green. Feel its comfort.
Let your eyes trace to the middle of your throat, in the fifth chakra, the throat chakra, and see a vivid blue appear.
With the spinning of the red, orange, yellow, green, and blue wheels of energy, move to the center of your forehead, the brow chakra, the third eye, and the sixth chakra. Let the most beautiful light in the hue of indigo shine from your forehead.
Holding onto that beauty, move to the top of your head, letting a pure white light settle in the crown chakra—the 7th and final major charka.
Take a deep breath as you honor the exquisite colors and energy tracing up and down your body.
Take another deep breath and settle into whatever sensation is arising within you.
The health of your sacral charka is critical as this is the center of your creative energy. It’s the center of sexual orientation. It’s also the center of your perspectives surrounding food and nutrition. Finally, it’s the chakra of emotional intelligence, choice, movement, and pleasure.
Breathe into your Sacral Chakra. Let it gently soften and expand on your breath, taking in nourishment and life-force energy. As you do, invite the color orange --- the color of the setting sun to bathe all of you in its beauty. Let this balancing, empowering, and motivating energy settle.
When the Sacral is balanced, you will find you are creatively inspired, able to experience pleasure and balanced emotions, hold healthy boundaries for yourself, and are passionate.
With a deep breath, send energy directly below your navel.
Look back in the mirror, speak directly to yourself, and repeat these Sacral affirmations after me:
I am a creative force.
I possess the ability, power, and knowledge to create.
I am celebrating my creativity.
I live a passionate life.
I am emotionally balanced.
My emotions and feelings flow in and out freely.
I am releasing unnecessary emotions as they come in.
I am deriving pleasure from my life.
I embrace my sexuality.
I am worthy of being desired.
I deserve absolute and unconditional bliss.
I allow the flow of positive energy to effortlessly move through me.
I am vibrating pure light.
I honor my body and treat myself respectfully.
I am a being of light, open to the highest joy.
I love who I am, exactly as I am.
All that I am is in perfect harmony.
All that I am is in perfect harmony.
Take another deep breath and bathe yourself in this warm orange light.
You are right where you need to be, as you are, with the lessons and life you currently have.
You are creative and light. You are strong and emotionally sound. The flow of everything pure and good moves through you now. Your sacral chakra is clear and ready to support you.
Allow yourself to enjoy this tremendous energy of feeling safe and secure in your place in this world. Rest in a moment of just being. Rest in the rooting.
Offer yourself love, in the mirror and gently allow the image to dissolve. What was in the mirror is within you. All of this radiant light lives within your physical self and your soul.
In your own time, take a deep breath, begin to notice the sounds around you, and become aware of your physical body. Slowly allow yourself to come fully come back. Before you open yourself, know that having the intention to be root is enough. It’s a focus, and where your focus goes, so too does your mind, body, and spirit.
When you are ready, wiggle your fingers and toes, make slight movements with your shoulders, and notice how you feel. Hold yourself in loving kindness.
Take one final deep breath and gently open your eyes.
May love, light, and blessings come to you today.
Anytime you need to rebalance, simply come back to this meditation. It’s always here for you. May peace be with you.
Namaste!
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Relationships are tricky, but with the right tools, any couple can thrive! You’ve likely heard of The Gottman Institute and the pioneering work of therapist John Gottman, one of the world’s leading experts on relationships, teaching therapists and couples how to best show up. With relationships adding or distracting from our own self-love and inner peace, I sat down with Gottman-trained couple’s therapist, author, and expert on love advice, Laura Silverstein, about being vulnerable, communication, the rules of engagement that every couple should know, how to fight fair, and what do if you find yourself parenting your partner!
Our conversation is full of small shifts you can put into practice today to help your relationship grow and be as healthy as possible.
So, let’s dive right in.
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
02:35 Laura Silverstein and the Gottman Institute methods
04:12 The “Four-Horseman of the Apocalypse” in relationships
07:26 Why it’s impossible to repair a relationship when in discord
08:29 How to build fundamentally sound relationships
13:41 Why we must have safety in our relationships and how to create safety
17:00 Personal rules of engagement in relationships
19:10 The “Sound Relationship House,” bringing in trust and commitment
26:14 Diving into communication so that we can be seen, heard, and experienced in relationships
29:57 How to use active listening and “I” statements correctly
37:03 Do you have to be your best self before engaging in a relationship?
42:10 The mistake of parenting our partners
48:05 How we can have the best love experience
51:07 Laura’s three gratitude offerings
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The new year is here, which means many people are thinking about new goals, resolutions, and intentions, but with this massive push to create change often comes a feeling of not being good enough as we are and the current state of our lives. But the great news is even when this mindset finds us, we always have a choice to shift our perspective.
And that’s just what Ava from Arizona wrote in and asked for. She said, “Danielle, I hate the new year! I’m not too fond of resolutions. I don’t like acting like everything changes because the calendar changes. I am struggling with being okay with where I am, and all the conversations about making the new year different are too much for me. Maybe I’m overthinking it, but I feel like I am supposed to be living differently because everyone else seems to be doing just that. So how can I be okay with where I am? I’m working on change, but I don’t feel it has to be set into everyone else’s timeframes. Please help!”
Ava, I completely agree! What you want, need, and are working to create never has to be in anyone else’s timeframe! As to the question of how we can be happy where we currently are—let’s dive right in and do a bit of evaluation. Because whether it’s the start of a new year or a day in July, being happy with where we are is about our state of mind and focus and appointing ourselves as the influencers of our lives.
Happiness is a choice.
Listen to the full mindset reset to find out how to be happy in the here and now!
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Over the last year, words such as triggers, emotional hijacking, safety, awareness, and growth have been blowing up social media. Have you noticed? These buzzwords have even found their way into this podcast and, most definitely, into my office.
And, rightfully so, but most do not realize that these words, or better yet, actions, all tie back to one central place in our bodies—our brains! As we navigate the world around us, our brain is actively working to keep us safe—safe from perceived danger, our past, and triggers, and in doing so, your brain can hijack your life.
So, today, we’re taking a one-on-one deep dive into why the brain is always on the lookout for trouble, how to stop being hijacked in hopes of providing a false sense of safety, and we’ll breakdown how to disentangle ourselves from our earliest patterns, wiring, and our triggers.
This big conversation will shed light on why you may be causing yourself more issues than you realize!
So, let’s dive right in...
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
02:24 What your supercomputer (aka your mind) is responsible for
05:36 Understanding the amygdala
06:52 Fight, Flight, or Freeze
09:07 Triggers are a liability for each of us and a trigger story
11:25 A definition of trigger
16:05 Some examples of common triggers
18:07 The purpose of the trigger
19:39 How to get out of a trigger and bringing the prefrontal cortex to the table
21:45 How to get into the observer part of your brain—movie theater practice
25:57 Step 1: Stay present in your daily life
27:11 Practice present moment awareness
28:29 Step 2: Step back and realize you are triggered
30:44 Step 3: Try to gain perspective
31:35 Step 4: Remind yourself you are safe
32:26 Step 5: Notice what need is not being met
34:10 Are you willing to grow through your trigger or avoid the trigger
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Welcome to root chakra balancing meditation, a guided meditation to meet yourself and witness your wholeness through clearing and reclaiming your root chakra.
Please settle in now, finding a comfortable position as you relax your shoulders down your spine, release your jaw, and let go of any tension, whether in your mind or body. As you settle, begin to deepen your breath, inhaling through your nose, allowing your breath to find the bottom of your lungs, and slowly release it through your nose with a slow and steady exhale. Continue to breathe with both ease and effort.
You are taking a journey now inside your mind to meet yourself. A journey that allows you to lean into who and what you are, find acceptance, and reset and commit to yourself so that you know you are always home within yourself.
Take another full deep breath and slowly let it go. If your eyes are not already closed, please close softly close them now.
Clear your mind.
With your next inhale, visualize yourself in your mind’s eye. Do not try to change the image that comes in; instead, see yourself as you are. Allow yourself to take up space.
Now, visualize that a mirror is in the corner of the room you are in. It’s a beautiful, ornate mirror calling for your attention.
Allow yourself to move slowly to the mirror and see yourself in the reflection. Notice the finest detail of your form. If the voice of negativity begins to sneak in, invite it to leave now. That mistruth is not welcome here now or ever again. This is a journey of opening and release—a journey of finding your way back home.
As you peer into the mirror, let your eyes trace up and down your body.
At the base of your spine, visualize a red ball of energy forming and shining from your first chakra, the root. See the red energy circle without stopping. Let this light grow without question. Just be within it. Now, move slightly below your navel in the second chakra, the sacral charka, and welcome an orange circle of light. Let the lights spin beautifully. Next, trace your eyes to the solar plexus above the navel, in the 3rd charka, and allow a yellow circle to shine.
Take another full breath, holding on to the image of you and when you are ready, move to the middle of your chest, the 4th chakra, the Heart. See this space filled with a brilliant hue of green. Feel its comfort.
Let your eyes trace to the middle of your thought, in the fifth chakra, the throat chakra, and see a vivid blue appear.
With the spinning of the red, orange, yellow, green, and blue wheels of energy, move to the center of your forehead, the brow chakra, the third eye, and the sixth chakra. Let the most beautiful light in the hue of indigo shine from your forehead.
Holding onto that beauty, move to the top of your head, letting a pure white light settle in the crown chakra—the 7th and final major charka.
With your body now ablaze in exquisite color, trace back to your spine, the root chakra, as we affirm, clear, and balance.
The health of your root charka powerfully affects all of the other chakras. In order to grow spiritually, we must start at the root. A lack of balance can cause depression, addiction, hyperactivity, and fear.
The root chakra is responsible for self-preservation, movement, grounding, and self-esteem. It’s also the root of your safety—the base of your strength and survival. It’s a space of personal freedom and the flow of life.
When it’s balanced, there’s an innate sense of safety and freedom. There’s steadfast inner strength and vitality. You feel and know you are whole, regardless of what is or has been.
With a deep breath, send energy to the base of your spine. Fill this space with breath and welcome the bright, fiery red to take root.
Look back in the mirror, speak directly to yourself, and repeat after me:
I am safe. I am protected. I am grounded in the here and now. Anything that causes me to feel unsafe leaves me now because my life is filled with security and deep meaning.
I trust myself.
I love my life.
I am grateful.
I am stable, strong, and abundant.
I am courageous and own who I am.
My body is a safe space for my soul.
I am building my life on the foundation of faith, peace, love, and trust.
I am happy to be alive.
Even when the world feels chaotic, I remained rooted.
All my needs are met.
Everything I need comes to me exactly on time.
My body always takes care of me.
I do not need to worry as I am whole and complete.
I have everything I need.
Like a tree, I am rooted in my life.
I trust the blessing in store for me.
Take another deep full breath and visualize strong roots extending from you to the ground. With those roots in place, imagine a bright red lotus flower blooming from those roots, opening and sending energy down your spine, legs, and into mother earth. What has disrupted you before, no longer has space with you.
You are right where you need to be, as you are, with the lessons and life you currently have.
You are rooted beautifully as you are whole. Your root charka is clear and ready to support you. The flow of abundance is yours. Allow yourself to enjoy this tremendous energy of feeling safe and secure in your place in this world. Rest in a moment of just being. Rest in the rooting.
Offer yourself love, in the mirror and gently allow the image to dissolve. What was in the mirror is within you. All of this radiant light lives within your physical self and your soul.
In your own time, take a deep breath and begin to notice the sounds around you, and become aware of your physical body. Slowly allow yourself to come fully come back. Before you open yourself, know that having the intention to be root is enough. It’s a focus, and where your focus goes, so to does your mind, body, and spirit.
When you are ready, wiggle your fingers and toes, make slight movements with your shoulders and notice how you feel. Hold yourself in loving kindness.
Take one final deep breath and gently open your eyes.
May love, light, and blessings come to you today.
Anytime you need to rebalance and feel grounded within yourself, simply come back to this meditation. It’s always here for you. May peace be with you.
Namaste!
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As the calendar has moved to another new year, many rest their hopes and desires on creating something different for themselves. While this intention is beautiful, for most a new year does little to help them leave their feelings of being stuck or triggered in the past, and rightfully so.
As we focus our attention on resolutions and kicking this year’s tail, I sat down with Britt Frank, the Psychotherapist who literally wrote the book on being stuck in your life to help us see ourselves in a new light. In an open and honest conversation about triggers, feeling emotional stuck, Britt Franks shares the deep lessons she learned from her own “stuckness” from past trauma.
If you want to make this year the best year yet, you first have to identify where you are, what you want, and how you are willing to process it. This conversation kicks off the new year in a way that shows each of us anything is possible once we know where we are.
Warning: this episode includes language not suitable for children.
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
02:15 Britt’s story and her why
03:29 What a trigger is and how to know if you are triggered
05:22 Others are not responsible for our triggers
10:54 You can’t figure out the trigger when “your brain is on fire.”
15:15 Defining stuck
17:45 Fight, Flight, and Freeze and understanding why most people live there
25:45 A hard conversation about “healed”
27:12 Zoomed in focus keeps us stuck and how to still frame your life to look at what is working
29:45 Celebrate the small efforts when stuck is winning
32:45 We train our brains where to go
36:05 “I suck,” is the language of stuck and social media isn’t helping, but here’s a new perspective—what’s the whole truth
40:05 “Where do you think you are stuck?” And “Do you want to make changes in that area?”
41:25 The checkboard tool
43:35 “There’s no such thing as crazy!” All things make sense in context
45:05 Your brain is always motivated. “What is motivating me the most?”
47:25 Britt’s three things
What a brilliant conversation. You can follow Britt on Instagram @BrittFrank.
You also purchase the book, “The Science of Stuck” at all major retailers and online.
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This is the perfect way to start a fresh new year. Ignite your inner goddess for 2023 with 2022’s most downloaded meditation.
When was the last time you gave yourself a mental and emotional boost? Every once in a while, we need to reset and bring ourselves back to center. Feeding yourself positive affirmations allows you to elevate your mood, find a sense of peace, and shift your perspective to help you keep your life together, girl! The Get Your Life Together, Girl mini bi-monthly reset is here to help you reset and remember who you are.
Find a comfortable position and take a full deep breath. Let these words ignite the goddess within you. The root of the word goddess means “bright” or “shine.” As women, we tend to underestimate our divine feminine power—at best, we ignore it; at worst, we demonize it. Yet, this light and power within is the energy that creates our life. We have always been meant to harness it, own it, and use it for our greatest good.
Your femininity is your divine superpower. In this moment, we are connecting with and to her, honoring her, and reminding ourselves that the light within us shall never be dimmed again. From now on, I am honoring my truths and affirming my power.
Take a full deep breath and let it go.
Place your hand over your heart and make a pledge to yourself. Commit to being your true authentic self without sacrificing or working to fit into a mold that does not suit and serve you. Choose to live like the goddess you are—the ever-shining, ever-present, wildly beautiful light.
Take another full deep breath, and let it go.
Repeat after me, if it serves you.
I release the experiences that steal my light. I remove the circumstances that have worked to create resistance to the goddess within me. I know I am more significant than any moment, and my strength and light know no boundaries. From today forward, I am thriving within the greatness I have within my soul.
I honor myself with these truths, these affirmations of my soul and shine. I know these words are mine to own because they are connected to who I am on a soul level, and every word spoken is said through the frame of love, peace, and self-respect.
These are the affirmations that affirm the greatness of my inner goddess.
I exist within a universe of possibilities.
Everything in this world is filled with possibility, and that includes me.
I am powerful, beautiful, and unstoppable in ways I haven’t wholly- owned but am now focusing on.
I have incredible strength within me—a strength built and owned from moments that were meant to break me but instead made me.
I no longer allow my strength and worth to be defined by others or situations because I know my inner goddess is strong and always enough.
I follow my dreams with passion and certainty.
I can and have always been able to do anything I set my mind to.
Take a full deep breath, moving these words within you and locking them in.
I am right where I am supposed to be, and each day new energy unfolds around me that elevates my inner goddess.
I attract greatness and abundance because everything is always working in my favor.
I can handle anything that comes my way because I’m creating the very best for myself each and every day.
I am not my past. I am my now, and I’m creating the future I so wildly desire.
I trust my abilities and gifts.
I am confident and know that beautiful things are coming into my life.
My inner light shines every moment of my existence, and I honor its boldness.
I am worthy of all the good the world has to offer, and I attract it with no resistance.
I value myself and know what is best for me.
Take another deep breath, letting go of any thoughts that may be pulling at you other than these grounded truths.
I radiate beauty and self-approval every day.
I am worthy of love.
I am loved exactly as I am.
I am loved more than I can ever know.
I am at peace and live in joy.
I am worthy.
I am excited to move into this high frequency of positive emotions because I know this is where my soul wants me to be.
I am investing in myself, and my success is inevitable.
I am proud of the goddess I am.
I am free to be me.
I am free to connect with this inner shining light.
Take a full breath and let it go.
Rejoice in your sacredness, feminine power. Be responsible for your words, actions, and the reflection of your light into the world. What you give, you receive, as everything is a process. Allow the beauty of who you are to create your reality. Focus. Honor.
Move toward what best self. Lean into your greatest power. Retrieve your inner goddess and allow her to be your guide. You are powerful beyond measure.
You are ready to shine, and you have always been.
Anytime you need a moment to come back to center. Repeat these words and lean into your light. You were born ready to be your highest, truest, and greatest self.
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Balance and fulfillment go hand-in-hand. To be out of balance means to be at odds with yourself, to be in a space where what you want and need are out of alignment with where you are. Yet, most women will say they are fulfilled but don’t live balanced lives.
Valentina from Puerto Rico wrote in and said: Danielle, I am a member of your Women’s Circle and was working through the exercise: Getting to the Root of Anxiety. The first words you wrote are: Anxiety can own us. However, if we get to the root of our anxiety, we have the power to change the story that is happening within our minds. I have been sitting with this thought for a few days, and I’ve realized that the root of my anxiety generally comes down to never feeling like I have balance. While I see some exercises in the circle regarding balance, I was hoping you could help me know how to make changes to create more life balance.
Here’s the exercise mentioned: Getting to the Root of Anxiety — Danielle A. Vann - Get Your Life Together, Girl (danielleavann.com)
This is surprisingly straightforward. It all hinges on exactly what you mentioned, Valentina; sitting with it, asking yourself some firm questions, and committing to living the answers you uncover.
So, let’s dive into the five beginning steps to put balance in place.
Step 1: Ask yourself: “What do I want?”
Then, when you know what you want, sit with it for at least 48 hours and then move into step 2.
Step 2: Double check. Ask yourself: Is what I’ve said I want really what I want?
Our answers can differ when we give ourselves time to think about it.
When we know what keeps us out of balance, we can devise a plan to get us into balance.
Step 3: We ask ourselves the third question, and that is: What am I not paying attention to in my life right now?
What are you not focusing on that would unlock your sense of balance?
Sometimes the answer to this question impacts your answer as to what you want, so take time to make any necessary adjustments or modify the original thought or goal.
This part can be confusing for some, so let me give you another example. Let’s say you want more free time. You feel this is the way you’ll create balance. But you have a longstanding habit of taking on new things because you get excited about the possibilities and ignore the consequences of taking on something new—which is an even greater lack of free time.
Step 4: What is the easiest step I can take right now or this week to help me get to my want?
Having identified it, make an agreement with yourself that you will not take steps and actions toward making your “it” happen.
Create your plan. Imagine the next few steps you must take and look at the habits you must shift to keep the want in your center focus.
Step 5: Commit to staying focused and set up review times. So for some, they need to do this every two weeks in the beginning. From there, maybe you check in every quarter or six months.
Remember, balance is about feeling good. It’s about holding space for yourself. It’s about doing what you need and want to reach a place where there’s grace, self-love, inner peace, and a willingness to show up for yourself. And like anything we do together, this takes practice. So, get to practicing balance!
I hope this gives you some tools and insight into how you can make this shift!
Thank you so much for the question, Valentina! I challenge each of you to you reset your mindset.
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We so often speak about purpose in terms of finding it, the tools we need, and how to know when we are on our destined path, but what we don’t talk about enough are the small, seemingly insignificant moments that speak to us and have the power to create our life revolution.
This week we’re talking about purpose, the power of social media, and what it means to be a parent with Laura from Foster.Parenting. Every parent and child has struggled at one point another, and when that happens, we often seek resources to assist and empower ourselves.
If you have logged onto Tik Tok or Instagram in the last year, you’ve likely stumbled across one of Laura’s videos where she offers such resources to parents around the globe, especially those who are foster parents. What started as a way to fill the gap of resources during the pandemic has turned into a global advocate platform for foster children, parents no matter birth, adopted, or fostering, a place for teachers to learn about trauma outside of the classroom, as well as a way to show up for the children in our communities and homes.
For the first time, a face and voice that millions have watched, fallen in love with, and followed shares her personal story, her why, and her deep desires for the children in her personal care and yours.
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
03:00 Laura’s purpose begins as a teenager when a Christmas Special opens her eyes to a world she was unfamiliar with
07:09 Laura’s views on family and not needing a traditional or specific definition
08:20 A glimpse into the process of fostering a child home
10:18 Emotional regulation as a foster parent and the importance of emotional balance as a parent in any capacity
12:09 All parenting comes with struggles. Taking on what works for you
13:33 Why leading with kindness and compassion is essential in all situations
14:29 Laura’s motto is the perfect guideline for a balanced day
15:13 The biggest challenges Laura has faced and a brief view of the foster care system
17:50 Attachment is necessary and a new perspective of how all children are fostered in their growth regardless of their home life and situation
19:51 Giving yourself permission to change and grow while giving your desires a try
21:05 How Laura has been impacted by fostering and the good she has seen
24:20 How a servant’s heart has elevated Laura’s purpose
26:16 Witnessing and learning from the cycles of addiction, mental health, homelessness, etc. How this impacts every community, the children within it, and what we must do to create a safe space
30:07 You don’t need to be an expert to have compassion, lead, or be willing to serve and learn
35:16 Not every child returns home. A deeper understanding of how this works and how to create support
41:36 How Laura’s platform was created and the why behind it
47:35 What is happening in every community and how children are being impacted
51:10 Laura’s best tips for parenting
54:49 What Laura wants you to know about foster parents
55:51 Where you can learn, follow and support this mission
58:14 Laura’s three things
A few essential takeaways Laura shared are that each of us has a purpose, the ability to serve when we stay present, and we all have the power to make an impact. Yet, in the end, all we have is today, and we must live in these moments and give all that we can to make this day the best it can be. This is true not only for ourselves but also for those who need our support, love, and ability to see them in their most significant moments of need.
If you would like to dive deeper into foster parenting or learn more from Laura’s vast resources for parents, you can visit her website at www.fosterparentpartner.com or follow her on TikTok and Instagram @foster.parenting.
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Do you struggle with procrastination? What about the lack of motivation? So many do and even identify as procrastinators. This belief can overrun our lives! It can even cause higher levels of stress, anxiety, fear, and a host of other negative feelings. This week we are taking a different approach to procrastination as we examine what these habits are at their roots and how our mindset and thinking patterns are the true culprits. From there, we’re brain hacking our way out of our full stops and onto the path of true motivation in this week’s one-on-one deep dive.
So, let’s shift our perspective and our mindset toward thriving instead of habitually trying to survive…
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
01:35 Other names and behaviors procrastination goes by
02:52 A question many have asked themselves: “Is this just who am I?”
03:44 Truth #1: Procrastination is a habit—not a character trait
05:06 A workable definition of procrastination
05:30 An example of true procrastination and an understanding of unnecessary factors
08:13 When these behaviors move from mild disruption to life stopping issues
09:30 The number one culprit at the root of both procrastination and lack of motivation is our thinking: the ins, outs, and the impact
12:15 Changing our self-prescribed labels and how the words we say to ourselves cements our thoughts into beliefs
16:00 The progression of procrastination that can easily be witnessed each time it begins, and how to stop it before it gets started once you understand its pattern
18:08 The Pattern Explained:
If we don’t have a clear “how” and “why,” we don’t get started, and the snowball effect begins
20:16 Uncertainty rises, overthinking begins, and thus begins the negative thought cycle
20:55 Anxiety rises and takes over rational thought patterns
22:03 Deeper indecision occurs welcoming in forecasting and the dreaded “what ifs.”
22:55 Anxiety is a loop and cycle: procrastination induces the loop
24:40 Additional behaviors and patterns that cause procrastination: #1 Fear of Failure, which is an enemy to motivation
26:08 #2 Lack of purpose: shifting our mindset around purpose. Purpose is not a one-off element, an all-encompassing umbrella. Everything we do has a purpose that can be disconnected from overall life purpose.
28:02 #3 Urgency Driven Mindset: what it is and how you may be engaging in it without knowing this is your mindset mainstay
29:59 #4 Perfectionism: how this is rooted in full stops
31:21 #5 Black and White Thinking or Polarized Thinking
34:10 Brain hacking our way to action
Brain Hack #1: Get into the root cause: The “why” and seek the pattern
35:23 Brain Hack #2: Listen to your inner conversation: what are you saying to yourself and disrupt the conversation with truth
37:18 Brain Hack #3: Look at your physical activity and change your patterns
39:29 Brain Hack #4: The 20-Minute Chunk Down: Removing distractions and putting effort into 20 minutes of set time
41:23 Brain Hack #5: Putting rewards in place to get started: What do you have to gain through action?
42:39 Additional practical tools to help you act: A targeted, specifically focused to-do list, the 10-minute rule, and pair your most challenging tasks with a support system
48:12 Self-care in the most authentic form: When we burn out, we procrastinate as a form of self-preservation. Ways to engage in self-care: Adopting a mindset of physical and mental health a priority.
· Look at your thinking patterns and behaviors
· Saying “no” to extra obligations
· Showing up for yourself first
· Setting boundaries
· Standing up for yourself
· Being mindful
· Making your emotional health a priority
· Knowing your limits and capabilities
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We’ve reached the end of 2022. It’s been a year of MANY things. A year of growth and loss. A year of seeking and change. A year of revolution and finding ourselves to the point where many now ask: what next?
What is next? What would your ideal life look like if you could envision come this time next year? Have you ever taken a moment to clarify what you truly want? Have you taken a moment to break down the five pillars of your life and write a vision list?
From intentionality to a life mission statement to deep diving into what you want to create in the next twelve months, we are setting ourselves up for the most tremendous success possible, which always leads us to deeper self-love and inner peace.
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
02:26 What 2022 has been… How to create an empowering vision for yourself for 2023
03:47 Why we must delete the word “RESOLUTION” from our mindsets
05:48 Personal Vision Statement: what it is and why we want to know what our personal vision statement is
08:05 Avoiding the goal pitfall of a lifelong vision. Start small
10:15 Areas of life focus and growth
12:35 The difference between a vision statement and a mission statement
18:00 This is a practice of reaching and why reaching is important for growth
19:10 Your vision statement is an act of awakening
23:57 Questions to answer to help you craft your visions
25:30 Step 1: What do I want from this year?
26:45 Step 2: What are your beliefs around this focus?
29:45 Write your mission statement. Questions to help drive you forward
30:27 Step 3: Identity the why
32:45 Step 4: Your strategy is where your intentions live
33:33 Step 5: Put everything into one vision for the year and questions to help you create a path forward
37:44 The formula to write your mission statements
40:40 Can you have more than one mission statement per vision statement? And how to use your statements to your benefit
You have the power to have, become, do, and create whatever you so desire. What will you create this year? Will you allow yourself to have the best year of your life?
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With two weeks left in the year, most of us lean into a natural thought process of evaluation—what went right this year, what didn’t, how we can do better, and what we want for the new incoming year. And while this focus is so prevalent, often something stops us from genuinely diving into this much-needed thought process. What is it? It’s the unwelcome holiday guests that go by the names stress, anxiety, and depression.
As we continue our series to wrap up the year, we are taking on how to prevent the end-of-the-year stress and depression this week, and then next week, we’ll uncover the correct way to write your 2023 vision as it is broken down into the fundamental areas of life.
So, let’s dive right into tips to prevent the end of the year stress and depression…
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
02:19 It’s natural to feel stressed during the holidays
03:45 The difference between stress, anxiety, and depression
04:37 The definition of stress and how it impacts us
06:48 Anxiety is not the same as fear—understanding the difference
08:14 What depression is and how it affects us
11:58 You must acknowledge your feelings to be able to create emotional groundedness
16:54 Don’t compare your life to social media and doing what is right for you
18:54 How guilt creates stress, anxiety, and depression
20:47 Choosing ourselves to get out of stress can cause loneliness
23:51 Setting aside your differences can only be done if it works for you
27:03 Holiday physical stress around food and how to not engage
30:49 Holiday shopping and financial burdens that cause stress and anxiety
33:03 You have the power to descale the holidays if you give yourself permission
35:06 Getting your self-expectations in check
37:32 Get into the flow of gratitude to help ease stress and depression—a tool to help you feel and find that flow
41:57 Allow others to know what you need
46:11 There’s no judgment in needing help. Reach out
It’s one of the most important things to know, and it is an essential step in getting your life together, girl. Love this show? Please leave us a review here – even one sentence helps! Become a Get Your Life Together, Girl Insider! Sign up here! Free downloads are available right now!
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Each of us has a set of basic human needs that must be fulfilled for us to thrive in our humanness—feeling safe is second in our primal needs on the need hierarchy. So, if I ask you what it means to be safe, most people give me an answer based on physical safety. Yet, what most people do not understand is that safety also expands into our mental, emotional, physical, and even financial pillars of life, which means that safety must be present for the well-being of our minds and emotional bodies.
As we continue our building series to close out the year, we’re taking a one-on-one deep dive into what it takes to feel emotionally safe, why it’s so important to create emotional safety, and, as always, we’ll talk about how to start the process of building emotional security with a few daily practices.
So, let’s dive right in…
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
02:26 Why we are talking about emotional safety. Check out Epi 107 for an understanding of your emotions
04:08 A powerful quote we all need
06:12 The definition of emotional safety
09:32 Traits of emotionally safe people – Epi 114 to learn about self-validate
15:30 Emotional safety is relative and individual to all of us
18:50 If you have a long history of trauma, you may struggle with safety—a practice to try
22:58 Our emotional safety is often most disrupted by our behaviors—talking energy leaks and addiction
25:40 Accepting your emotions is the first way to build emotional safety within us
29:12 Active Listening is a must for emotional safety
33:36 Foster your accountability and follow through
37:08 Other benefits of emotional safety
Emotional safety is not too big or hard to tackle and create. It starts with what am I feeling? Am I safe in this feeling? I am…good…I know I can process it.
You can never suppress emotions and get to a state of feeling good. You just simply can’t. So what do you need? What will or does make you feel emotionally safe?
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Worry is an emotion that, although it can be helpful in working through certain situations when used to drive plan-based or result-based thinking positively, yet, when it’s done in excess and occurring multiple times throughout any given day that worry can be problematic to the mind, body, and soul on all levels. Stress from worrying affects the circulation of energy in the body. It disrupts the nervous system and impacts your liver to the point that it dumps excess sugar into the bloodstream and impedes your inner voice from allowing your wisdom to be heard and acknowledged.
Rebekah from Chicago, Illinois, wrote in and said, “Danielle, a few weeks ago, I listened to one of your podcasts where you created a simplified definition of anxiety and worry. You said worry and anxiety are when your thoughts and mind are solely focused on the future and trying to create solutions without having all the information you need.” I have never found more relief in anything than I do in those words. This understanding immediately made me realize that I was doing something else that you mention often called forecasting. I would like to know if you could speak a bit more about forecasting and offer some ways for all of us to worry less.”
Oh, Rebekah, I’m so glad that simple explanation found you when you needed it most. It’s so true. When your mind is focused on the future, it can deep dive into worry. The thoughts sound like: What will happen with this thing I’m worried about? Will it be what I want it to be? Will I be okay? Beyond all the issues I mentioned earlier, worry also creates confusion and stagnation. Let’s quickly move through a few things before I go into forecasting and how to stop worrying in our brief time together today.
So, first and foremost—if you stay in a negative mindset, such as worry or anxiety, your brain quickly adapts and creates patterns of thought that become the base that all thoughts are framed. When this occurs, even neutral, meaning events not good nor bad, become negative. We certainly do not want everything we think about, feel, or experience to be negative.
Forecasting, let’s get into a basic understanding. Forecasting occurs when we do not have all the necessary information or haven’t experienced a moment before. Remember, the brain’s number one job is to keep you safe. Safety means looking for potential threats and problems that may make you feel unsafe. Anything your brain does not have a pattern for can make you feel nervous, scared, and uncertain. We’ve all experienced this before, right?
So, how can we stop worrying, which was the original question?
Step one: Ask yourself if the problem at hand is solvable.
Step 2: Remember and recognize that thoughts are not facts.
Step 3: Delay the worry. Delay the worry. If worrying is interfering with your day-to-day life and you can’t stop, try putting off your concerns until a certain point in the day. Give yourself permission to have worry periods.
Step 4: Categorize and challenge your worries.
Step 5: Look at the shadow side of yourself.
Step 6: Come up with a tentative plan, not a set-in-stone plan.
Remember, as I always say, the only way through anything is through it. So, get to work. Stop worrying by using these basic steps. Practice them. I hope these steps work for you Rebekah. Thank you so much for the question! I challenge each of you to find balance in your mindset. Worry is a theft of your precious time. Instead, spend that time doing what works best for you!
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True self-love and inner peace are only possible when we have the ability to see ourselves and own our experiences without deep diving into a spiral of negativity, self-doubt, and emotional dysregulation. After all, self-validation is the ability to accept our internal experiences, thoughts, and feelings.
As we continue our building series through the end of the year, we started with loneliness last week, and today, we’re taking a one-on-one deep dive into self-validation. Being unable to validate our emotions, thoughts, and feelings keeps us from living an emotionally stable life, holds us in a state of perceived unworthiness, and keeps us from our emotional best.
This week we are breaking down and trashing the barriers that keep us from validating ourselves, our emotions, and our thoughts.
So, let’s dive right in…
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
01:33 Week 2 of our emotional understanding to help love ourselves—self-validation
04:31 The definition of self-validation
06:40 Internal Validation vs. External Validation
08:33 A self-validated person has certain qualities within their day-to-day behaviors, and a HUGE clarification about the qualities
11:23 There is a relationship between self-validation and self-worth. There are ways to quickly know if you are a validator and have a healthy sense of self-worth.
13:11 Six levels of self-validation broken down
21:21 Rejecting who you are is one of the deepest forms of self-invalidation
23:54 Learning how to lean into self-compassion as a form of self-validation and the steps of validation
29:18 The four questions that matter
31:35 Self-validation focus statements/affirmations to use right now!
32:30 For those already in the practice of self-validation, here are a few ways to increase the validation
Again, self-validation is not easy, but it’s beyond worthy of your time and energy. When it comes down to being good enough, feeling good enough, and validating your enoughness, ask yourself:
Am I willing to show up for myself?
Am I willing to show up for your life?
Am I willing to try your best regardless of an unknown outcome?
Do you care about yourself?
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As we move into the holiday season, many find themselves experiencing loneliness. Is that you?
Loneliness is interesting because it’s one emotion that can exist even if you have quality relationships. In fact, it’s a universal emotion, meaning we all experience it at one time or another.
So, this week we’re taking a one-on-one deep dive into what loneliness is, how it smothers our self-love, the difference between being alone and feeling lonely, and how to make small shifts to release feeling this negative emotion. Sometimes it’s as simple as realizing we are not as lonely as we think.
So, let’s dive right in…
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
01:26 A five-week plan to get your lives together
03:08 Taking on the universal emotion of loneliness
07:25 The difference between being alone and loneliness
08:40 Identifying if you are genuinely lonely
12:16 Determining why you feel lonely often gives us a solution to the loneliness
16:56 Doing introspective work is needed to come to an understanding of our feelings
17:44 A story of loneliness and its impact
20:38 Understanding the perception of loneliness and the blanket feeling we often place across our lives
23:57 Taking care of ourselves so connectivity is possible for us
25:22 Refusing addiction to fill the gaps in your life and overusing our support system
29:43 When we lean into the negative emotion of loneliness, we push self-love away
33:17 Be intentional about the results you want to create
36:56 If loneliness is overwhelming, it’s time to reach out to a therapist for support
35:50 Create a plan for connectivity
You are not alone. Loneliness is a state of your emotions. You always have the power to shift. Letting go of loneliness in favor of self-love and inner peace is essential to getting your life together, girl. on and conversation going? Join the 17.8 K members on Instagram, Facebook, and Tik Tok who are engaging in their own life revolution daily! Love this show? Please leave us a review here – even one sentence helps! Become a Get Your Life Together, Girl Insider! Sign up here! Free downloads are available right now!
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As many as 31 million people worldwide are dealing with some form of addiction, whether it’s drugs and alcohol, food or shopping, gambling, and a host of other behaviors that disrupt their lives and change their behavior. While addiction costs many emotional, mental, physical, financial, and spiritual well-being, the impact on the caretakers is not often accounted for.
The toll is tremendous and undoubtedly works to dim our spirit and often costs us our self-love. That’s why I sat down with Dana Golden, who wrote the book on the Road to Recovery, not only the addicted but also the caretaker. We chat about everything from the emotional cost to how to take care of yourself.
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
02:10 Dana Golden’s why and how she helps families get on the other side of addiction
04:35 The six family role quiz – Take it here
06:00 Types of addiction and how they are all connected to unhealed pain
08:35 A note to the caretakers
11:39 We must learn to separate our loved one from the addiction
13:00 How to not be an enabler
16:53 How we move the line in the sand when loving an addict
19:40 Being the disruptor: You are never the problem
20:43 Free resources available to you right now
24:29 Greatest piece of advice for the loved ones
29:16 Dana wrote the book on recovery: Find it here
33:35 We all have to change for recovery and healing to work
35:46 These relationships can fall into emotional and mental abuse
40:01 Change is possible with responsibility and treatment
42:42 Dana’s three gratitudes
Life is our ultimate teacher. Again, I will ask, what is your responsibility, and are you living the life you greatly desire?
If you are interested in learning more about The Road to Recovery and working with Dana, you can find more about her book and her on her website: Dana Golden.com. You can also find her book where books are sold.
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Find a comfortable position and take a full deep breath. Check-in with your body, moving your shoulders up and down, allowing them to settle in their natural positions. Close your eyes and welcome stillness while you let the racing thoughts of the day to slow and fall away for just a few moments. You deserve to be free of the whirlpools of the mind.
We are taking an active journey together…one of peace and owning your inner light. While most meditations ask you to allow yourself to stop, in this journey, we will be active in our thoughts, in the imaginary we pull forth.
Take a moment to set an intention for this time together… starting with the words: I am…
Once you have it, take a full deep breath, and let it go. Use your breath throughout this experience, it’s there to serve you. You do not have to force anything. Allow whatever arises to come.
Now, let’s get started.
Loving yourself is a gift. Owning your light is a gift. A gift that many reject in favor of past, hard experiences. We often forget that everything we experience is meant to be for us, not against us. And yet, every experience has the opportunity to leave its mark, even a stain, on how we feel about ourselves and how we ultimately love who we are.
With your intention, bring forth a moment you have not fully loved yourself. Perhaps it is an experience you’ve had; maybe you find yourself downgrading your physical form while standing in the mirror each morning; perhaps something has made you feel less than. Whatever has come up, bring it forth in your mind’s eye. See it and allow it to take shape. Do not push it away, be in it as you actively see the moment.
Stand on the outside, simply witnessing, and visualizing the experience. You are an observer of the moment, nothing more. When your vision is clear, take another full deep breath and let it go.
Now, recognize the emotions you’re feeling. Name them if you wish, but you do not have to do anything with them. Simply be aware of them. Is it sadness? Is it kindness, forgiveness, or upset…what is it?
As you hold the emotion in place, step forward in the vision. You are no longer the observe, but instead active in the moment. See yourself as you are then and now. Open your arms to yourself and offer whatever it is you need. Is it love? Is it forgiveness? Whatever you are in need of, allow it to flow within both forms of you. Open your arms wide, folding them around yourself.
Whisper the words: I’m sorry I did not love you the way you needed. I could only be who I was then. Now, I am allowing our light to shine. I am allowing myself to thrive.
When comfortable, imagine a small sparkle of light deep inside your chest, right in your heart center. See it. Feel it. When you do, allow it to grow brighter, consuming you in the best way possible. Feel the light expand, filling your chest, moving down your arms, and settling in the tips of your fingertips before tracing back up and moving through you to your stomach. Allow the light to spread…glowing brighter and brighter as it touches your hips and thighs and extends down to your toes. When it reaches the soles of your feet, it radiates up, touching the crown of your head. This beautiful light encompasses you.
This wonderful, shining light is you. It’s the brilliance in which you are; no matter what has been, this light is always within you. As you visualized before, no matter what you’ve experienced, you always have the power to meet yourself, love yourself, and reclaim the light within.
When you remember and own this light within, you remember the love in which you were made, have always been, have always had, and will always share. Sharing this light is what others feel when they are in your presence. It’s the goodness that allows you to be in the flow of your most authentic self and beauty.
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There comes a time where each of us seeks true motivation to heal—a time where we work to release the baggage, the upset, the hard experiences of our lives, and reignite our inner spark. Yet, when that time comes, many of us ask how. How do I even begin to heal? This week we are taking a one-on-one deep dive into YOUR personal story, into YOUR life revolution through a process and path many of us are seeking right now—the process of emotional healing. So, sit back, grab a pen, and let’s take a mending journey together as we discover what true emotional healing is, the benefits, uncover a major “a-ha” moment, whether or not you are in need of walking through this process, and why we must get uncomfortable to thrive. Getting out of own way is necessary if we want to create the life revolution that inevitably amounts to freedom.
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Intro
01:20 Motivation and singular question we need to ask ourselves
02:30 Moving through healing
03:20 The “a-ha” moment and healing
05:54 What is emotional healing?
08:30 The “what” of healing
12:00 Do I need to emotionally heal?
13:36 How to let go – The 5 stages of healing
13:40 Step 1: Acceptance - We cannot change what we refuse to accept.
15:30 Step 2: Awareness - Bringing our awareness to our trauma, pain, and hard experiences requires effort and leaning in.
16:34 Step 3: Confrontation - What sits unconfronted, sits unconfronted. Healing is not a passive effort.
19:01 Step 4: Expression - Expressing what you feel is not only needed within the healing process, it’s necessary.
20:21 Step 5: Accept Again - Accepting change is just as important at the end of the healing process as it is the onslaught.
21:00 Healing is a process
23:02 Self-care and compassion through healing
23:47 Gratitude for the hard moments
25:17 Why we must get uncomfortable with ourselves and our pasts
27:01 Important questions to ask yourself
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Life is filled with ebbs and flows, ups and downs, and how we approach our lives and daily practices hugely impacts our ability to be present and live in a state of flow. What is the state of flow? It’s living in the most optimal experience possible. It’s where we feel whole, aware of ourselves, and living in a state of focused awareness—many question how we can find this state and, most importantly, stay within it.
This week I sat down with peak performance coach, Kerry Fisher, to talk about the micro-practices each of us can do daily to help not only find our flow but stay within it and find a state of meaning within our lives.
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
01:39 The five pillars of life ownership and Kerry’s why
03:59 How to harness peak performance and mindset in your life
06:59 Using visualization to create performance, flow, and balance in your life
08:17 RAZ system is essential to bring what you want into your life and finding flow. Episode 79
10:44 Asking yourself what you want and how to do so
11:59 Practice 1: Meditation. If you are not sure how to set up a meditation practice, listen to Episode 67
14:51 Micro Practice 2: Taking a moment to notice the stream of thought
17:04 How to find flow and meaning in your life
21:08 Box Breathing. Click to watch a quick video to teach you how to do it
23:01 Quick practices to help you
25:56 The key to staying in the flow and identifying when you feel in the present, in Kerry’s opinion
31:47 Allowing yourself to live in the flow and live your best life
35:32 Living your meaning requires us to find our life purpose—using the brain dump is helpful. Here’s a blog post on how to practice the brain dump
39:20 Micro Practice 3: 1 breath
40:27 Kerry’s three pieces of advice
Thank you, Kerry, for reminding us that we are in constant control of how we show up and the practices that can help shape us without taking all of our time and energy.
If you are interested in learning more about Kerry, visit her at www.kerryfishercoaching.com or find her on Instagram at @Iamkerryfisher.
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Did you know that most people have a common failure pattern? Most people have strategies that they engage in that causes them to struggle or even fail, even if they truly desire to win or have a positive outcome.
Knowing your patterns are essential, and it’s the subject of this week’s mindset reset. Kayla from the UK wrote, “Danielle, I often feel stuck. I’ve read books. I’ve worked with a therapist. I’ve listened to your podcasts on being stuck, but I keep wondering if the problem isn’t actually me. I spend a lot of my time thinking about how hard it is to make changes, and then I stop myself from doing the work. I am unrealistic about how long change takes and constantly beat myself up. I am always failing. I can see this is a pattern for me, but I don’t know how to change it. Can you help?”
Knowing there are patterns in our lives that work against us is the first step to discovering how we can alter the practices.
Before we dive in, I want to say no one can fail all the time, at every moment, at everything. It’s not possible. The feeling of such is a belief you’ve created. And we want to remove that belief. The first step in doing so is to look at what I call anti-success strategies.
What is an anti-success strategy? They are patterns of behavior and thoughts that keep us in that sense of failure and away from meeting ourselves in our intentions and desires.
There are only three primary strategies that nearly everything falls into, and then I want to give you a quick reframing method to help you get out of this habit!
The first strategy comes down to belittling ourselves, our needs, and our achievements.
How many of us have an inner critic that loves to make drama in our lives? When we listen to the inner bad girl and refuse to own something we’ve done that supports our intentions and desires, guess what? We create a constant sense of nothing being good enough; we feel like we are constantly failing.
Carry a notebook for 3 to 5 days and write down all your negative thoughts about yourself. Write down when you belittle your efforts and your greatness or when you perceive that you are failing.
The next strategy is moving the goalposts.
What does that mean? It means you have a result in mind, you are focused on all the effort, knock down everything in your way and feel as if it was too easy, so you add more elements. You move the goalposts. While adapting your goal is okay when you’ve reached the desired result, you have to be careful to add to your desires in a realistic way.
Lastly, denial—not admitting what you want or need. Denial is actually a form of self-protection.
It’s beneficial to question the label of failure. We undoubtedly learn each time we quote “fail.” So the question becomes, is it good learning?
With this idea, let’s reframe failure and these anti-success strategies.
What does reframing do? It helps us see the experience from a new interpretation. We can reverse these patterns by first identifying where they may fail in our three areas.
We can break down the moment into a few questions:
For belittling – what about this thought or feeling is making me feel like a failure? What about this experience is making me uncomfortable?
For moving the goalposts – am I celebrating the first goal before I move forward? Will moving the goalpost benefit me or should I stop and allow the next part of my plan to unfold naturally instead of pushing?
For denial – am I keeping myself back in hopes of nothing causing more negative feelings or experiences? Why am I holding myself back?
When we reframe, we open ourselves up to the truth.
I’ll repeat it; you are not constantly failing. You may be using your greatness against yourself, but now you know. So, you can make small shifts and changes to help you move forward.
Thank you, Kayla, for the question. I challenge you to keep going in your growth journey, as I encourage you all to do the same! Honor where you are. Be in it. There’s greatness within and around you.
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Are you the boss of your emotions, or are they the boss of you? The ability to experience and express your feelings is far more critical than you may realize. Learning how to develop emotional understanding and control is a fundamental part of getting your life together, practicing self-love, and it’s the only authentic way to find a steady stream of inner and outer peace. This week we’re taking a one-on-one deep dive into the impact of your emotions, and then I’ll hand over a simple practice that will stop an emotional reaction in its track every single time. So, let’s dive right in…
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
01:15 Building emotional intelligence and using your emotions to your greatest benefit
05:32 A reassurance when it comes to your emotions—intense emotions are ok to feel
07:40 If you don’t understand why you are labeling your emotions, you rob yourself of an emotional experience
08:22 Emotions verse Feelings, understanding the difference
10:16 It only takes 90 seconds for an emotion to be felt and fall away
12:43 Examining the top negative emotions and how they impact us through their feelings
17:01 Learning how to be the boss of your emotions. Step 1 look at the impact of your emotions. What is your emotional norm?
18:34 Aim for emotional regulation, not emotional numbing
20:44 Dysregulation of emotions verse regulation
21:38 A list of questions to help you practice your emotional bossing up
29:36 How to accept your emotions full stop
34:02 Turn inward to understand the power of your emotions and your choice
34:40 Seek professional support if you are overwhelmed by your emotions
When we are dealing with emotions, we must feel safe. Remember, long-term or persistent emotional dysregulation and mood swings impact your mental and physical health. However, with enough practice, you can and will powerfully own your emotions, so they don’t own you. Doing so is an essential step to getting your life together. It’s an essential foundation for self-love and a life of peace.
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Can you honestly say you use your voice and live a life of yes? Many women struggle with allowing their lives to be what they desire and deem most important.
This week I sat down with Jill Hollander, a resiliency coach who teaches women to find and use their voice. Her unique story of heart failure, a heart transplant, and surviving cancer will move and inspire you as she explains where our voice is first developed, how to be our own advocate, find our unshakable courage, and what it feels like to live a life of yes!
Jill is a true inspiration and hands over so many profound lessons that I know you’ll walk away ready to give yourself credit for your experiences and begin to live out loud!
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
01:50 Jill’s story begins
07:59 Your voice matters, and the beliefs connected to your belief system
10:29 Finding your courage through saying yes!
13:02 Owning the power of yes!
14:48 Using someone else’s voice as inner support until you build your own and using your yes through naming
17:52 Learning to be a self-advocate and reframing
20:15 Expectations are stories and how to use your thoughts to your benefit
23:20 Allowing plans C and D to unfold too
27:43 Exercise: Voice record yourself walking through a memory through the facts. The undertones of the event will become clear
30:45 Leaning into active acceptance
33:28 Fear and begin afraid are two different things
43:44 Courage always shakes, but we can build it through practice
47:51 Courage is found in the inner voice and using your voice
51:31 Tapping into your self-grace
54:00 Jill’s three
I am in awe of Jill. If you are interested in learning more about her, you can follow her on social media @Iamjillhollander. You can also visit her website www.jillhollander.com. There you will find a free download and more ways you can connect.
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One of the hardest things to teach is self-connection—yet, connecting with yourself is the only way to create a sense of belonging and empowerment, and it’s the only way to find authenticity. With that much riding on inner connection, we have to build an inner relationship that starts somewhere, and that somewhere is within you.
Jillian from Bar Harbor, Maine, wrote in and said, “Danielle, I read a quote the other day that said, ‘If you do not feel like you have a place in the world, connect with your inner self.’ (End quote). That’s a fine statement, but what if you do not feel like you are connected with yourself, either? Sometimes I feel as if I’ve been asleep my entire life. As I do more work on healing and growing, as you suggest, I feel as though I need a few more tools to connect with myself. What would you suggest?
The words, “Sometimes I feel as if I’ve been asleep my entire life,” are extremely powerful words. That asleep feeling often makes us believe we are nothing more than our fears, shortcomings, and insecurities. We are the programming and lessons we were told should be our way, but everything in us bumps against those messages. It’s as though we are wearing a mask and living a life of pretending.
When we wake up and connect with ourselves, we say hello to the genuine person, the soul, that we are, and we find connectivity to our inner power.
The real you, the inner awareness, being, soul, whatever you want to call it, is peace. It’s freedom. It’s uncomplicated. It’s here that we are consciously alive.
And even if you feel that you have been asleep for years, do your best to get into the thought patterns of you’re too old, don’t know enough, aren’t sure, and the state that you analyze everything down to a granule level that further causes you to hide from your true essence.
Back to Jillian’s question: Are there tools to connect with myself? Let’s walk through them quickly.
To establish a profound connection to your authentic self, you must give yourself time to get to know yourself. That means you must be willing to shut down the outside world and listen to what is happening within you. It’s time to sit and breathe. It’s time to exist without expectation. It’s listening to your voice and heartbeat.
What I’m about to say next seems self-explanatory. Still, many people don’t realize that disconnection from yourself is extremely normal when you live with a ton of toxicity and distraction in your life.
So, a self-connection tool sounds like and feels like getting rid of the toxicity. But, to connect inward, you have to adjust outwardly, too. So, pay attention to the things, people, thoughts, emotions, and financial experiences that make you question or feel like you are struggling or just simply existing instead of enjoying the nuances of your life. What’s working, what’s not.
Next, seeking constant validation instead of leading with what is working in your life will always trip you up. Putting other people’s opinions ahead of your own will create those feeling like you are wearing a mask.
How can you stop seeking outside opinions? Stop when you feel like you need someone else to help you make the decision or guide you in your choice. Grab a piece of paper and write down just the facts. From there, write down all the scenarios you are struggling with and offer an opinion as if you were an outside party—meaning, be objective.
The next connectivity focus is to live your originality. There’s only one of you. Somewhere along the way, most of us are told not to be the fullest expression of ourselves. Shielding, hiding, or minimizing who you are becomes a way to dull yourself into no connection. The mind has a way of becoming mechanical if you let it. Your originality can only come from your truest, natural expression, not what you think someone else wants you to be.
How can you connect with your originality? First, ask yourself, who am I?
Next, comes down to choice. One of my favorite quotes is by Buddha, “Happiness is a choice, not a result.”
When we engage in the things that fill us up and make us smile and laugh, it’s the best therapy. Feeling alive is pure connectivity. When was the last time you asked yourself: Am I happy? What makes me happy? What am I choosing every day that fans the spark within me?
While there are so many different ways to connect or react with your true self, these are some of the top ways I’ve found to help us find that inner soul’s desire.
If you want a bit deeper or further, sit with yourself. Grab a piece of paper and answer these questions:
What impact would I like to make on the world?
What do I feel led to do each day that I have the privilege to wake up?
What inspires you?
From there, ask yourself:
What do I want?
What do I need?
How do I want to feel?
How do I want to present myself in this world?
How will I get there?
And, will I give myself permission to do the work to get to all I’ve uncovered?
I hope this helps you begin the journey to self-connection. Jillian, thank you for your question. I hope this gives you new insight. I challenge each of you to challenge yourself.
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What would you say if I asked you to name five things you’ve learned during your self-love journey? Could you do it?
It’s a huge question that makes most women stop and reflect. Self-love is an ongoing lifelong journey, but there are definite lessons to reflect upon because loving yourself is not something that only happens in your heart and mind; it’s also found in your actions, beliefs, and the way you show up to your mental, emotional, physical, spiritual, and financial well-being and health.
This week we’re taking a one-on-one deep dive into fairly universal lessons that loving yourself teaches you and how to recognize that you may love yourself a bit more than you’ve given yourself credit. We all practice some form of self-love, whether we realize it or not.
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
01:45 What self-love does for us
04:28 Why we are evaluating your self-love
07:19 The 30 acts of self-love
07:55 #1 You have a voice
10:24 #2 You stop giving chances to people who do not deserve it
12:36 #3 If you are moving away from toxic relationships, you are living in self-love
14:39 #4 When the voices are kinder and more supportive than they used to be, you’re living in self-love
17:18 #5 Not everything needs a reaction
19:17 Download the Emotional Scale to help you understand your emotional definitions to help you understand your emotional definitions
21:04 #6 You believe in yourself and your capability to achieve anything you desire
21:34 #7 If you are honing your skills and talents and do not need outside motivation, you are living in self-love
22:17 #8 You are actively taking care of your physical health and well-being for yourself, not others
22:53 #9 You are spending more time doing things you are passionate about
23:41 #10 You allow yourself grace and working on forgiveness
24:55 #11 Not afraid to say: “I’m sorry.”
26:10 #12 You don’t take rejection personally
27:05 #13 You practice gratitude
28:06 #14 You don’t wait for special occasions to feel your best
28:45#15 You are genuinely happy for other people
29:19 #16 When you become spiritual, and you trust that everything is working out in favor
30:31 #17 You allow yourself to start over
31:12 #18 You wake up every single day ready to do something incredible!
32:05 #19 You are calmer, and you stop letting the small things get to you
33:04 #20 You want to learn more and are always looking for new growth methods
33:39 #21 You do not chase people, experiences, or anything that downloads your worth and well-being
34:20 #22 You smile more than you cry
35:04 #23 You like or working on liking your reflection
35:52 #24 You know the importance of pushing through but also know how to pause and pace yourself
36:25 #25 You engage in something each day that makes you stay well on every level: mentally, emotionally, physically, spiritually, and financially
37:45#26 You trust the process
38:40 #27 You know that not everyone can stay, and not everyone will leave
39:30 #28 You face your fears, even when it’s uncomfortable
40:08 #29 You value slowing down
41:16 #30 You can actually say, “I love myself,” and meaning it
You invest in yourself. You feel your emotions. You follow your passions. You choose happiness. Of course, there are many other examples of self-love, but these are some of the top ways to know how you are doing. Loving yourself is a beautiful experience and an essential step into getting your life together, girl.
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Welcome to affirmations to quiet your mind.
Find a comfortable position and take a full deep breath. Shake away any tension and allow your body to settle.
Your mind craves stillness. It desires to feel good and be a peace. You find that peace right inside of you. It’s always been there and waiting for you to call it to the forefront. To find it, place your hand over your heart. Allow your breath to match the perfect beat inside your chest. Your heart is the center of peace—it’s your guide. When you go within and connect your heart and mind in one aligned source of energy, love, and light, you quiet the rumblings of your life.
When you use positive affirmations in that deep connection, you reset your thoughts and slow down your emotions. No matter what is happening in your life, whether in a state of ebb or flow, a quiet mind and a connected heart allow everything in your world to just be.
Take a full deep breath, and let it go.
Slip away with these affirmations, allowing them to guide you into a space where your mind is only the here and now. As each word enters your heart, lock them inside—they are forever yours.
The affirmations to quiet the mind:
Wherever I go, I bring the energy of peace and calm with me.
My mind is clear and grounded.
My heart center is open and ready to receive.
All I need to find my inner calm is my breath and my deep inner connection.
I am open to hearing my inner voice.
I use my inner voice to guide my life.
I trust my voice and know that because of it, I am able to embrace everything that comes my way.
With this embrace, I vibrate at a higher frequency—a frequency of love and light.
I breathe in peace and breathe out any resistance I’ve created or experienced.
All I need to be calm is my breath and my inner connection.
My life is filled with beauty, even when beauty is harder to see.
I embrace everything through the lens of love.
Through this lens, I focus on the things that matter most to me.
I know that there’s a time and season for everything.
I am releasing my concerns with each breath I take.
I am in control of how I choose to approach every moment and how I respond.
This focus allows me to draw in abundance and see it all around me.
When I breathe in slowly and steadily, and exhale just the same, I let go of stress.
I lovingly forgive the past. I know it has served its purpose.
Each day I practice grounded and peaceful thoughts so that my mind stays in the energy of calm.
I attract calm.
I attract loving, attentive people into love.
I attract loving experiences.
I believe I deserve beauty.
I believe I deserve space to create.
I believe I deserve to believe me.
Each day, I grow in my ability to take on challenging situations.
I am letting my life handle as it should be, as it is.
I release all my fears.
I am living in a way that best supports my mental, emotional, spiritual, and physical health.
I allow myself grace.
Calmness is the energy that surrounds me at all times.
Every cell in my body radiates harmony and peace.
I lovingly liberate myself so that serenity is mine.
I choose calm. I choose peace. I choose me.
I know that everything is always working in my favor.
I strive to change the things I can and accept those that I cannot.
In the harmony of peace, I trust the process of my life to bring only what I need and desire into my awareness.
All of my decisions and intentions are made through centered positivity.
Visit the shownotes for the full affirmation meditation.
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This week we continue the conversation with Emotion & Body Code Expert Jennifer Bradford in Part 2 of our dive deep into how emotions influence our daily lives. We’re taking you on a journey through understanding the subconscious and its power to release what may be trapped and what you may be broadcasting into your experiences without even realizing it. Jennifer even hands over a powerful practice that you can try today.
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
01:37 Listen to Esp 99 to understand the full scope of part 2
02:58 What Body Code is and want it does
04:51 Aha moment around resiliency
06:54 What the heart wall is and how we get stuck in our emotions and past
14:12 The beauty of this work is once you release, you are free from the experience
17:29 Experiencing the body code
19:36 Releasing through a simple practice that Jennifer not only recommends but personally practices daily
25:33 What we are exposed to impacts us and the frequency we emit
31:06 Neuroplasticity and the RAZ system and how we bring things into our awareness
35:22 Relationships are often the cause of our most significant issues
41:27 You can do the Body Code for yourself
52:22 Jennifer’s three
When you are ready to release what holds you back, so much changes from the inside out, I encourage you never to stop looking and never to stop growing. Find what works for you.
If you are interested in learning more about the emotion code, you can follow Jennifer @higher.love.reiki on Instagram or visit her website at higherlove.net. There you can find ways to work with Jennifer and how to sign up for her free masterclass. Love this episode and want to keep the inspiration and conversation going? Join the over 17 K plus members on Instagram, Facebook, and Tik Tok who are engaging in their own life revolution daily! Become a Get Your Life Together, Girl Insider! Sign up here! Free downloads are available right now!
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Do you make sound decisions and bounce back quickly when hard times occur? Unfortunately, most people struggle with doing so because they are missing one fundamental daily practice that helps them thrive when life brings a storm their way. What is it?
It’s the practice of daily resiliency building.
This week we’re taking a one-on-one deep dive into what resiliency is and how we can mindfully create a practice that helps us not only elevate our thinking and emotional stability but also helps us when we experience massive, unexpected changes like the ending of a relationship, the loss of a job, or even the death of a loved one.
Resiliency is more than bouncing; it’s a life skill! Today I’ll show you exactly how to build it, and it's so simple you can start using it today!
So, let’s dive right in!
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
01:41 Has your life been perfect?
02:35 How daily resilience building helps us love ourselves
03:45 A new definition of trauma
06:02 Resilience is not a trait; it’s a behavior
07:37 Your brain is the body’s supercomputer, and resiliency is your inner battery
10:02 The life span of a thought
12:35 Put resiliency in your calendar and schedule mindful stops
17:14 Reframing a situation
22:30 Reviewing your habits and disciplines helps us shift into knowing we can empower ourselves
26:09 Resiliency is built through our choices
27:40 A list of actions that help us become resilient
34:04 Breathwork helps build resilience and coherence
35:05 HeartMath Heart Breathing & Shift and Lift Technique
The truth is you are already resilient. Now, it’s time to own it and build it mindfully as it is imperative to a happier, more fulfilling, self-love and inner peace drive life.
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Oh, my goodness, this is the 100th episode of the Get Your Life Together, Girl Podcast! What an adventure this has been—I’m so grateful for everyone who has listened, written in, asked questions, and suggested topics. You’ve made all 100 episodes incredibly special. I’m excited to see what another 100 brings.
Today, I thought we would chat about purpose!
So, let’s dive in. First, I want us to shift our perspective. I believe we have gotten too narrow in our thinking when it comes to the idea of living our purpose or finding one life purpose. This conversation may go against popular belief, and I’m okay with that.
To help us, I’ve collected and combined a few definitions of purpose to support our mindset shift.
A purpose is the reason for which something is done or created. So it’s having an intention, aim, or objective for something you want to accomplish or attain.
Now, nowhere in those definitions does it say your purpose is a singular aspect of your life that everything you do, think, and say must be driven through or created from one intention, one goal, one reason.
Sit with that for a minute.
How many of us have been told that we have one purpose in life?
The word purpose is allowed to have an s at the end of it—purposes.
When I’ve spoken to women about this idea, many have taken a deep breath and realized they knew exactly what they wanted to do in their lives, which is rarely singular.
For others, they need a bit more push and understanding. Wherever you are, that’s okay! If you want confirmation or need to dive deeper into what will bring you ultimate fulfillment, let’s walk through the purpose-hunting process.
First, grab a pen!
This exercise is divided into two journaling experiences. The first is looking for some general answers in your life, and then we’ll dive a bit deeper into the times in your life that you felt alive, aligned with yourself and whatever you believe in, and truly making a difference. Then, once we get through the questions, I’ll explain what you are looking for within your answers.
So, the first set of questions are:
#1 What did you always want to do or be when you grew up? If you are currently doing this, great, write it down, too.
#2 What is something or multiple things that are you consistently drawn toward? Create a list and then write out what about them draws you to them,
#3 If you had zero financial concerns and every need and want was met, how would you spend your time? What would you do?
#4 Lastly, if you were on your death bed today, is there something you would say you wished you had done?
Please answer these questions without judgment. Be truthful and allow yourself to be open.
Once you have completed these answers, shift gears into the next part of this exercise and answer these questions:
#1 Can you identify and list the times in your life when you’ve felt most passionate?
#2 When are the times you’ve felt the most fulfilled?
#3 When have you felt like your life had the most meaning?
#4 When are the times you’ve felt the most aligned in your mental health, physical health, financial well-being, spiritual practices, and emotional regulation, and what were you doing in those times?
#5 When are the times when you’ve experienced the most flow or ease in your life?
The purpose of these questions is to help you see patterns. If you look over your answers, you will find commonalities and patterns.
So, let’s break down the patterns you are looking for:
Patterns in behavior. These would be the activities and things you do that make you feel your best. This is the easiest thing to root out.
Patterns of being. Look at your sense of self. What are the things you constantly do that add to your life that you may not even realize are connected to your purpose?
We often do things tied to our purposes, and we don’t even realize it. Purpose hunting allows us to get down to what is already happening in our daily lives and our thought process and root out and confirm what is already in our path.
Now, for those of you that say, I don’t know the answer or I don’t have anything I love. Yes, you do. You may have forgotten, gotten tied up with other things that you are “supposed” to be doing, and have moved away from the things that fill your soul.
And in that case, write down these questions and visit getyourlifetogethergirl.com to print them off and let them marinate for a bit. This isn’t a race to find an answer. An answer will come.
Each of us has reasons for being; the question is: What is yours?
I hope this gives you a new insight into purpose. We must stop overcomplicating the things that make us happiest and most fulfilled, and start living in and from a space that truly lights us up. That is and will forever be available to all of us! And so, I challenge each of you to you reset your mindset.
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Emotions give us humanity, and although we often make the mistake of classifying them into only negative and positive, every emotion is necessary and valuable as they influence every part of our daily lives. We make decisions based on whether we are happy, angry, sad, bored, or frustrated. We choose activities and hobbies based on the emotions they incite. Understanding emotions can help us navigate life with greater ease and stability.
But what happens when our emotions become trapped and are left unhealed? I asked Jennifer Bradford, an Emotion & Body Code expert, that question. Together we deep-dived into what emotions are, how they can rule our lives, and how each of us has the power to shift any emotional experience no matter how long ago the event took place.
The truth is sometimes time does not heal all wounds. What is not dealt with and healed has a way of returning as a reaction to something unrelated.
This is a conversation you do not want to miss!
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
02:57 What it means to be stuck in our emotional patterns
06:25 What the emotional code is, and how we can use it to heal
09:52 Triggers and how energy gets stuck
13:43 When we lock patterns inside, and we can use our patterns to address issues and heal
14:20 Three of the most constant emotions that become trapped are different than most think
21:43 Leaning into our energy and emotions can be done through a body scan
23:32 We are taught not to trust ourselves or our feelings
31:55 Your emotions are not good or bad; they just are
34:20 What do your emotions mean
37:15 Movement is essential with emotional processing
40:27 Allow the emotional release of tears
44:50 Our emotions are practiced
51:14 Use your emotions as guides
52:03 Jennifer’s three things
This conversation was so good and filled with so many emotional truths that I didn’t think ending the discussion was fair. So instead, you’ll want to tune into Epi 101 on October 11th as Jennifer, and I deep dive into the physical aspects of emotions and how the body code practice helps clear our feelings once and for all.
If you are interested in learning more about the emotion code, you can follow Jennifer @higher.love.reiki on Instagram or visit her website at higherlove.net. There you can find ways to work with Jennifer. Love this episode and want to keep the inspiration and conversation going? Join the 17.1K plus members on Instagram, Facebook, and Tik Tok who are engaging in their own life revolution daily! Become a Get Your Life Together, Girl Insider! Sign up here! Free downloads are available right now!
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Find a comfortable position and take a full deep breath. Settle into this moment, finding stillness and ease. Allow your mind to soften, releasing anything outside this moment with yourself.
Settle, close your breath, and close your eyes.
Change is the flow of life. It is the essence of life itself. We live and grow in seasons—the season of light and joy where grace and gratitude are born, the season of darkness and sorrow, where lessons are taught, and growth wraps its mighty presence around us in preparation for the moment we can and must spread our wings.
With every season, there is change. There is purpose. There is a rhythm we all have come to know and experience.
It’s in the season of change that we are shaken loose from our mindless motion and are required to be intentional, be open, and be a yes to and for everything.
Take another full deep breath and let it go.
What follows are affirmations to support and guide you through any season of change with grounded and beautiful intention. It starts with one thought: I am radically present and ready to live my life with the highest value at the forefront.
Freely let go of your perceived limitations, thought processes, and ideas and move into the knowing that the only way life teaches us is by granting us extraordinary change.
Repeat after me if it serves you or breath in these building affirmations, owning the words to settle within your heart space, owning them, and giving the thought permission to be your guide, not only now but in any season of change.
My life is changing, and I acknowledge a new season is upon me.
I am safe and protected in this motion.
I am making a conscious choice to live uncompromised and unrestricted.
I see myself in the purest expression of who I am and who I am growing to be.
I am flourishing in this flow of my life, in this new season.
I am doing what is right and welcoming all that is so that I may progress and learn.
I am on solid ground; I know I can and will always return to my center, even when life shifts and feels unsteady.
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Your thoughts are powerful. They create your reality, but if your thoughts are not based on truth, the reality you create is off-balanced and holding you back.
This week we’re taking a one-on-one deep dive into examining the common lies we tell ourselves, why these powerful misdirectors show up in our lives, how they run against our ability to love ourselves fully, and how to break up with these mistruths once and for all.
Key Takeaways:
01:28 Do you ever lie to yourself?
04:34 A new definition of lie and why we lie to ourselves
07:28 The top 10 lies that we tell ourselves are often the biggest factor as to why we feel stuck
07:45 Lie #1 My life is harder than everyone else’s
11:49 Lie #2 I have to be perfect
13:38 Lie #3 I don’t have a choice
15:35 Lie #4 If I avoid a situation, it will go away
16:53 Lie #5 An apology makes things better
18:30 Lie #6 If I take care of others, I am taking care of myself
19:31 Lie #7 I don’t know how to be happy, or I’m not the happy type
20:48 Lie #8 If I could just (fill in the blank) my life would be so much better
22:08 Lie #9 Everything is either 100% great or 100% bad
23:33 Lie #10 I can’t follow my heart
24:57 How do we change the lies?
Step 1: Examine the lie itself
26:53 Step 2: Create a new intention that is the opposite of the lie
27:44 Step 3: Create a plan/goal that allows you to shift the lie and creates actionable steps
29:20 Step 4: Practice the opposite of the lie
30:20 Step 5: Find comfortable in the risk
31:11 Step 6: Check in with your self-talk
34:22 Create a priority list
This is the blueprint to shattering the lies we tell ourselves. Meet yourself in the middle of grace and new thoughts. You deserve to live a life of authenticity, peace, and self-love, and it is an essential step to getting your life together, girl.
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Nearly everyone has heard the term “mindfulness,” but not everyone knows what mindfulness actually means. In fact, if you type the word Mindfulness into Google, you’ll be overwhelmed by the number of articles, books, videos, and content that appears. So I’ll save you two minutes—once you hit enter, over 739 MILLION results appear on Google alone.
Xander from Rhodes, Greece, wrote in and said, “Danielle, I have listened to every episode of your podcast, and you often mention being mindful or use the word mindfulness. I’ve heard a lot about mindfulness over the last year, but I’m not sure I know what it means or how to be mindful. Can you put mindfulness into simple terms that we can all understand? And is there an easy way to practice mindfulness that helps us in our healing and growth journey?
I love this question. I agree; the practice and ideas behind mindfulness can feel a bit confusing.
So, let’s break it down. First, mindfulness is the basic human ability to be present. It’s the practice of conscious awareness when it comes to our thoughts, emotions, and giving ourselves the ability to acknowledge and accept what is occurring around us, through us, and not overly react or become overwhelmed.
The Oxford English Dictionary defines Mindfulness as “a mental state achieved by focusing one’s awareness on the present moment, while calmly acknowledging and accepting one’s feelings, thoughts, and bodily sensations.
There are seven pillars, principals, or attitudes, whatever you wish to call them, in Mindfulness, and I want to touch on those briefly.
#1 Non-judgment
#2 Patience
#3 Beginner’s Mindset
#4 Trust.
#5 Non-striving
#6 Acceptance
#7 Letting go
These benefits are at the top of the list, but there are many others.
So, let’s jump right into a few extremely, nearly effectless ways to shift the busy mind into slowing down and coming into a state of now.
The first is the Mindful Hand Awareness Exercise.
Grasp your hands together tightly and concentrate on your hands for 5 to 10 seconds. Keep your attention focused on the feeling for as long as you can.
Next up: Full Sensory Awareness Practice.
This, too, is simple, but does take a bit more introspection.
Wherever you are, stop and look around, when it’s safe to do so. Become aware of your surroundings and allow your senses to take over. A reminder of your primary senses: what can you see, hear, taste, touch, feel and smell. As you take in your surroundings, begin to ask yourself present moment awareness questions:
How do I feel?
What do I hear?
What do I smell?
Take a mental note and keep observing without judgment. What is going on around you?
This is a practice that can be done throughout your day.
Another mindful practice is to use the power of your breath. Use the word CALM as a breathing exercise guide.
The C stands for Chest – Notice your breath entering your chest, and feel the rise and fall as the breath fills your body.
A – stands for Arms. As you breathe in, bring your shoulders up toward your ears, and as you exhale, relax your arms back into a neutral position.
L is for legs. As you continue to breathe in and out, gently squeeze your thighs and leg muscles together, holding the tension, and then release with your exhale.
M is for mouth. Gently open your jaw, bringing your breath in and out through your mouth. Then move your jaw side-to-side before your next inhale and exhale.
That’s it.
As you progress in your mindfulness practice, you can practice the body scan, work on holding space, and drawing your attention to your thoughts and emotions…there are many different ways to practice mindfulness. The key is to simply be aware, be present, don’t overthink it. That’s the foundation of mindfulness.
Thank you so much for the question, Xander! I challenge each of you to you reset your mindset.
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The road to self-love often comes with both endings and new beginnings. Yet, the ends tend to undo us and make us doubt our worth, abilities, and self-esteem, especially when talking about our most intimate relationships.
In continuing our search for building self-love, I sat down with my friend, Laura Patricia Martin, the host of the Happy and Healing Podcast, as she and I moved through what it takes to have full ownership of ourselves, self-love, steady relationships, and then we leaned into the important of self-inquiry.
This conversation is filled with tools to help you shift beyond the negative, trying relationships and ultimate ends to finding yourself in the greatest sense of self-understanding, and it originally aired on the Healing to Happy Podcast hosted by Laura Patricia Martin. It is my pleasure to share it now with you.
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
02:36 Laura asks me what I am personally walking through in this stage of my humanness
04:55 This is a year of significant changes for most of us, especially when we are growth-focused and how attachment does not serve our self-love and growth
08:03 What surrendering looks like and how to do it
11:00 How self-trust is the ONLY guide we have when we meet uncertainty
15:48 Trauma and self-trust that breaks our path to self-love
20:40 From ages 2 to 7 years in our lives is where we first create our definitions of safety
26:37 The difference between fault and responsibility
31:36 Relationships are 100% efforts of ourselves while meeting your needs first
33:51 Look at your relationships; how are you showing up and giving of yourself?
40:00 How to be the safe space for ourselves and others
45:06 Reparenting your reactions is a must when doors close and the new you steps through
46:30 Changing your language from “you” to “I”
50:17 The four questions for self-connection
The greatest thing we can ever do for ourselves is to know and honor who we are outside of any relationship. It’s truly the only way to build self-love, trust, respect, all the pieces that come into play with true life ownership and peace. I cannot thank Laura and the Healing to Happy enough for having me and allowing me to bring this conversation to you. Laura is no stranger to the Get Your Life Together, Girl podcast. You can listen to Episode 28 to hear more about her personal story and the work she does for and with women.
You can also find her on Instagram @healingtohappy and listen to her podcast.
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Find a comfortable position and take a full deep breath. Allow your body to find stillness and let your shoulders relax. Give yourself permission to slow your mind as your breath moves in and out. Allow yourself to soften into the moment. A moment of affirmation. A moment of body positivity. A moment to appreciate the whole of you, as you are, in your capacities, fierceness and splendor.
Draw in another breath, allowing it to expand your chest. As you relax, let any tension, thoughts, and emotion slip away.
This is a time of celebration—a celebration of you.
Take another full deep breath and let it go.
Now, gently close your eyes, if you haven’t already, and see yourself in your mind’s eye. See the fullest expression of your body. Finally, let your eyes settle on your shape. No matter what size you are, or the current state of your body, you are truly magnificent. Your curves are stunning. You are flawless, regardless of how you see yourself, your past, or any inkling of lack. The truth is you are beautiful.
As we move into this journey of affirmation, let’s take a moment of permission together. A moment to pledge to ourselves and offer ourselves respect. Repeat after me:
Today, I am offering myself kindness and respect. I am actively and attentively honoring my body as I move beyond body standards and embrace my physical form, as it has been, as it is now, and as it will be. From today forward, I pledge to speak words of affirmation to myself each time I look in the mirror. I promise to respect my reflection by feeding it healthy thoughts and emotions, as I know this is as important as the food I fuel myself with, too. I have the power to love myself without the conditions those around me have asked me to own and without the standards of anything I’ve been taught or told, and today I’m actively making this choice. I acknowledge that loving myself and the vehicle I have while on this earth is sometimes messy, and yet, from now on, I give the best of myself to honor the girl I am, from the outside in and vice versa. And if I mess up, take a side step, think or act out of alignment with this new frame of thought, I know I can start over right in the here and now.
Today, I affirm I love the whole of me.
Take another full deep breath and let it go.
Now, let’s take a journey of deeper affirmation. Let my words guide you through this journey of love, acceptance, and the grounded knowing that you are a magical, brilliant soul. If it serves you, repeat these words and honor their truth because they are your truth.
My body is a gift.
I honor and respect the signals it offers me.
I am releasing the insecurities that hold me back and am working to grow more comfortable in my skin.
This body is amazing—it breaths while I actively do and in times of rest. It fights fights I do not have to think about. It helps me pursue my wildest dreams. The vehicle allows me to be present in the here and now. It breaks and regenerates. It loves me and keeps going, even when I do not love it as I should.
I appreciate what my body does for me every day.
I shower this form in love as it’s a temple, and I am the goddess that resides within it.
My body is the perfect vessel to carry my unstoppable glow.
I am actively releasing my resistance, the past, and any barriers I have toward this radical ownership of myself so I may enjoy a strong body, mind, and soul connection.
Every day this illumination of who I am, physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually grows.
Without my body, I cannot exist. Without existing, I cannot create. I cannot build the magic and legacy I came here to do and write.
Today I am releasing, freeing myself of negatives. Today, I am allowing myself to freely be me in all my glory from the inside out and the outside in.
I see the truth. This body is a sanctuary.
I am welcoming this sanctuary to grow in its health, in this mindset, and within all that best serves me.
I own that I am beautiful.
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Let me ask you a question: What do you see when you stand in the mirror? Do you like the way you look? Do you immediately notice your perceived flaws and begin to feel upset with what is before you?
Body image is not merely superficial. It can be so intense that it dysregulates your emotional well-being and mental and physical health, while it creates a storm so big that you struggle to find balance, self-love, and inner peace.
So, today, we are taking a one-on-one deep dive into loving ourselves from the outside in! First, we’re unpacking the one mistake most women make when loving their physical form, and it’s different than you might think. And then, we’ll talk about how to change your relationship with yourself so that you can elevate your life.
This deep dive is filled with big a-ha moments.
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
01:49 A question that all of us must ask ourselves
03:25 Approaching your life from a mind, body, and soul aligned mindset & truth #1
05:40 The biggest mistake most women make when it comes to being at war with their bodies
08:22 Our thoughts impact our physical form
09:00 Releasing the tapes that play in your head—an example of their impact
12:15 Truth #2: If you can find reasons to hate your body now, you will always find reasons to be dissatisfied
14:53 The way we change the war is to access your relationship with your body
17:35 Truth #3: The thoughts about your body is the relationship you have with your body
18:01 What a scarcity relationship with yourself looks and sounds like
20:13 Positive thoughts support neuropathway change
22:11 Step 1: Challenge the narrative
24:15 Truth #4: If you genuinely and wholly believed the negative narrative, you would not have moments of positive feelings
24:32 Step 2: Reflect on your beliefs and values
26:38 Step 3: Move into the value of likeness
28:00 Step 4: Practicing body gratitude: how and why it’s needed
31:49 Step 5: Focusing on body functionality
35:04 Truth 5: Just because the world’s view on exercise and diet has shifted does not mean that your thought patterns and habits have
35:48 Step 6: Reframing your thoughts around diet and exercise to best benefit your body image
37:19 Using Approach Goals/Approach Mindset
42:20 A list of ways to stop the war beyond the steps
Challenge yourself, my dear. Because in the end, you’ll be amazed at how proud you feel when you change the narrative. And do you deserve to change the narrative; doing so is an essential step in getting your life together, girl.
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Have you ever asked yourself, “Why am I here?” “What is my purpose?” Or worse, “How did I get here?!”
Not knowing your purpose or how your life has been molded into something you cannot recognize as yours directly challenges self-love, inner peace, and overall life fulfillment. The truth is taking steps, no matter how small, to live in alignment with our soul’s purpose can drastically change our inner and outer world in ways we can’t even imagine.
To go a step further, to get your life together, you must know what you want and where you’ve been. That’s why I sat down with soul-centered mentor Clarie Campagna to talk about the long-term impact of feeling stuck and uncertain of your life’s path and how each of us can start to identify our needs, passions, and ultimate purpose.
The next hour will inspire you to dive deep, listen to what you need and want, and finally, take action.
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
02:02 How Claire started her journey as a soul-guided mentor
05:17 What is purpose, and how do we find it
08:59 What keeps coming into your mind? That’s purpose speaking.
09:48 How does fear get in our way when finding our purpose?
11:58 There are small ways to build trust in your path, purpose, and intuition, and it starts with stopping saying “yes” to everything you don’t want.
13:05 Exercises to build inner trust that help guide us to purpose
16:40 Getting into the “What Now” space in your life is not bad if you allow it to guide you. This is the path to clarity
18:20 Flipping your “I can’t” to permission
19:20 Clarie’s process to finding what you value
20:14 The difference between a value and a priority
22:20 Looking at what is in alignment verse what is out of alignment in your life right now
24:37 Benefits of healing attachment cycles
29:20 Where most people get stuck when seeking purpose. The door we are most resistant to open is the one we need to open most
33:11 A tool to help in this work
38:00 How mindfulness changes our purpose work and how our emotions can get stuck and get in our way
40:31 A deeper understanding of emotions
43:30 Why you must hold space for yourself and how to do it
44:45 Acting as if doesn’t work in your favor
45:30 Other ways to get into the motion of purpose
46:20 Create a mission statement for your life
47:28 Using affirmations for purpose: what are you waking up for each morning?
What does it feel like living a life of individual purpose
53:30 Being uncomfortable is actually a great thing!
54:16 Listening to yourself is the ultimate guide to purpose
57:00 Claire’s three things
What a beautiful conversation. As Claire reminded us, live boldly through courage, and take the steps needed to thrive in your life fully. Today can be your day 1. Get started.
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Balance and fulfillment go hand-in-hand. To be out of balance means to be at odds with yourself, to be in a space where what you want and need are out of alignment with where you are. Yet, most women will say they are fulfilled but don’t live balanced lives.
Valentina from Puerto Rico wrote in and said: Danielle, I am a member of your Women’s Circle and was working through the exercise: Getting to the Root of Anxiety. The first words you wrote are: Anxiety can own us. However, if we get to the root of our anxiety, we have the power to change the story that is happening within our minds. I have been sitting with this thought for a few days, and I’ve realized that the root of my anxiety generally comes down to never feeling like I have balance. While I see some exercises in the circle regarding balance, I was hoping you could help me know how to make changes to create more life balance.
Here’s the exercise mentioned: Getting to the Root of Anxiety — Danielle A. Vann - Get Your Life Together, Girl (danielleavann.com)
This is surprisingly straightforward. It all hinges on exactly what you mentioned, Valentina; sitting with it, asking yourself some firm questions, and committing to living the answers you uncover.
So, let’s dive into the five beginning steps to put balance in place.
Step 1: Ask yourself: “What do I want?”
Then, when you know what you want, sit with it for at least 48 hours and then move into step 2.
Step 2: Double check. Ask yourself: Is what I’ve said I want really what I want?
Our answers can differ when we give ourselves time to think about it.
When we know what keeps us out of balance, we can devise a plan to get us into balance.
Step 3: We ask ourselves the third question, and that is: What am I not paying attention to in my life right now?
What are you not focusing on that would unlock your sense of balance?
Sometimes the answer to this question impacts your answer as to what you want, so take time to make any necessary adjustments or modify the original thought or goal.
This part can be confusing for some, so let me give you another example. Let’s say you want more free time. You feel this is the way you’ll create balance. But you have a longstanding habit of taking on new things because you get excited about the possibilities and ignore the consequences of taking on something new—which is an even greater lack of free time.
Step 4: What is the easiest step I can take right now or this week to help me get to my want?
Having identified it, make an agreement with yourself that you will not take steps and actions toward making your “it” happen.
Create your plan. Imagine the next few steps you must take and look at the habits you must shift to keep the want in your center focus.
Step 5: Commit to staying focused and set up review times. So for some, they need to do this every two weeks in the beginning. From there, maybe you check in every quarter or six months.
Remember, balance is about feeling good. It’s about holding space for yourself. It’s about doing what you need and want to reach a place where there’s grace, self-love, inner peace, and a willingness to show up for yourself. And like anything we do together, this takes practice. So, get to practicing balance!
I hope this gives you some tools and insight into how you can make this shift!
Thank you so much for the question, Valentina! I challenge each of you to you reset your mindset.
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Every day we have an opportunity to start over—to dig our heels in, extract what is working in our lives and give ourselves permission to release what is not. As simple as that sounds, the radical act of starting over is far more entitled and can be paralyzing for some. Yet, no matter how many roadblocks we put in place or experience in our lives, the truth is: that each of us has the power to start over and begin again, no matter our circumstances, our age, or any other excuse we may use to keep ourselves trapped in the small boxes we were never meant to live within.
This week we’re taking a one-on-one deep dive into starting over, how we must confront what makes us uncomfortable, we’ll move through a plan on how to start over in a grounded, centered, and mindful way, and then we’ll uncover how starting over leads us into self-love and inner peace in ways we never thought were possible.
So, let’s shift our perspectives and ability to elevate our lives through a tested and grounded blueprint to get there…
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
01:45 Four questions that often get our minds thinking about a need for change
03:20 A significant truth about starting over that removes the negative connotation generally associated with the full stops in our lives
05:11 Painting the picture of starting over, illuminating your path
07:22 The pre-work necessary for developing a plan for change
15:14 Step 1 in starting over: Accept What Is
17:10 Step 2: Reevaluate your value system
20:01 Step 3: Get down to the why and how
21:00 An example of why understanding the “why” behind the change is so necessary
24:34 Step 4: Take stock of your successes and perceived failures—am I counting my blessing or failures
27:20 Step 5: Work up the courage to engage and commit to the change
28:21 Change your inner language
30:16 Step 6: Check in with yourself
31:30 Step 7: Celebrate your progress
33:19 How this plan creates self-love
Sure, sometimes we have to walk through hell to get where we want to be, but when we take control and do the work, heal, and create a plan, we turn the lights on in our lives. We move from the dark rooms, the space where things are unknown, scary, anxiety-ridden, and filled with tripping hazards, to spaces where we see our path, the light is radiant, and everything we need and want is first met by ourselves and then others.
Welcome change. Welcome discomfort because you always have the ability to turn on the light switch.
You’ve got this, girl, and this is an essential part of getting your life together!
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Each of us comes to a space and time in our lives where endings occur, things change, doors close, and new pathways open. While change, starting over, and finding new ground can be comfortable, it can also be the most revolutionary experience of your lifetime.
It’s in this time, this moment, that together we claim and honor where you are and where you are headed. It’s at this moment that we welcome a chance to start over.
As we do, being to slow down your mind. Take a deep breath, allowing the air to float down your throat and meet the bottom of your lungs. Bring your body to stillness, dropping your shoulders away from your ears and soften your expression. Listen to the noises around you while you clear your mind.
With your next inhale, prepare your heart and mind for a journey of welcoming new opportunities that are mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and physically gratifying.
Take another full deep breath and let it go.
Repeat after me if it serves you.
Starting over and allowing change is an act of radical self-love that I am now offering to myself.
Never before did I realize that owning change helps me trust who I am, what I have to offer, and the life I’ve created.
From now on, I am witnessing change as a refresh—an experience of being open to life, not as I wish it to be, but as it is.
There’s magic in change. There’s magic in starting over. There’s magic anywhere I seek it, and now I know it’s available to me in every experience.
In the past, when change has occurred, I’ve often fought it. I’ve allowed uncertainty and the unknowns to own my emotional health, thoughts, mind, and actions. But now I see the truth. Uncertainty is the opportunity I think about daily. It is the experiences I seek —it is the magic. When the unknown is before me, a new beginning is taking shape.
I have the brilliant opportunity to define how you will proceed—how I will be moved, molded, and created within the moment. I realize now that I have the ability to create the experiences I want.
Take another full deep breath and let it go.
For far too long, I lived in the mindset that life was happening to me—I denied the magic. Today, I understand that life is happening for me. With each new experience being for me, I humbly own the power to move toward what best serves me in everything I do from here on out. What has been is over. I no longer have to be in-service to those moments, nor will I base my today on them either. This is my radical stance. This is change. This is the space I’ve been beckoned to through my life’s story up until this point.
Change is all around me. I change each and every day. I am opening my arms to everything now, new beginnings, new opportunities, and the most extraordinary living that life has to offer me.
As I witness my growth, I keep my authenticity, my eye on change, and all that it allows me to be, at the forefront of every interaction, because I know what is best for me.
I own my life. I am the director of my story. This story is written through one fundamental truth: I am worthy of everything I desire. This truth is weaved into my present moment—a present moment that is focused on love, learning, growth, creating, and living a life of legacy—a life of magic—a life of brilliant new beginnings.
There is nothing I cannot do. There is nothing that I cannot conquer. I am showing the world what I have the power to do! I am unstoppable, and I’m choosing to stand in my power and unyielding magic.
Take a slow, deep breath and let it go.
I AM
I am…Two of the most powerful words in any language. Words that direct our emotions and thoughts into movements that support us.
I am magic.
I am living in a constant state of changing magic.
I am unstoppable and unyielding in the creation of my life.
I am worthy of everything I desire to create.
I am the reflection of all that is true and good.
I am thriving in the now.
I am in love with new beginnings.
I am in control of how I show up to change.
I am sacredly living as the best version of me.
I am authentic in everything I do, and everything that happens for me is a reflection of that authenticity.
I am fearless.
I am unstoppable.
I am living in my magic.
Change is for me. New beginnings are beautiful. I am ready to flourish in this new path before me.
Anytime you need a moment to come back to center. Repeat these words and lean into your truth—the truth that you are capable of doing anything regardless of what shows up in your life.
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This week we’re doing something a bit different. Life coach Rachel Varitimos from the A to B With Rachel V. podcast invited me on her show to talk about the long-term impact of negative thoughts and negative thought cycles. The conversation was so good that I had to share it with you. Together, Rachel and I uncover how your thoughts can own you, how to overcome anxiety produced by your thoughts, especially social anxiety, and how to discover your gifts by healing trauma and changing the thought cycle. Because, let’s face it, our thoughts can either support or break us, and without a solid thought foundation, the path to inner peace and self-love is an uphill, impossible battle. The next hour is meant to inspire you to take action to embody your greatest life and hand over the blueprint to ultimate self-love and inner peace.
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
02:10 Rachel introduces herself and talks about why she does the work she does—her personal story has had a significant impact on how she serves her purpose
03:44 How our thoughts change our reality
06:44 How to get out of the repetitive negative thought cycle
10:10 Why forecasting and telling ourselves unfounded stories is harmful to our mental well-being
11:18 Getting into the practice of understanding where the unhelpful thoughts originated from and how to do it
12:38 Rachel gives an excellent example of how her mother’s voice created limiting beliefs for her
13:48 How our thoughts are stamped into our memory and how we can use that to our benefit
16:23 Each of us has a different definition of our emotions, and we must know what our definitions are so that we can understand our thoughts and what our thoughts are creating within us
18:21 How to relabel your emotions
19:47 Four fundamental questions we all need to ask ourselves
21:00 How boundaries play a role in our thought process
22:08 The thought process behind people-pleasing that is thought driven
24:08 Using “I” language instead of “You” language
28:02 What you feel inside will always project into every interaction
30:15 Social anxiety, the thoughts behind it, and how to brain-hack your way into living your life
36:53 I AM practice when it comes to easing the thought process
39:19 How our habits influence our thoughts and our daily lives
45:05 Energy healing and our thoughts
54:05 Gauging your energy is essential for the thought process
What a beautiful conversation. Thank you again to Rachel for your great questions, for having me on the A to B with Rachel V podcast, and for allowing me to share with this beautiful audience. If you want to know more about Rachel, you can listen to her podcast on Apple and her website: https://rachelvaritimos.com. You can also find her on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook. Her private Facebook Group is called “Bye, Bye Mean Girl.”
Remember that your thoughts are the baseline for everything you do. So, take action and give yourself permission to think in a way that supports your greatest desires and personal vision.
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Do you lack patience? Being patient is a massive struggle for many people, but for women, especially. Some of our impatience is due to our many roles and responsibilities, and some lead back to our habits and routines.
Jill from Manchester, England, wrote in and said, “Thank you for creating the mindset resets, Danielle. I’ve been following the podcast and am a part of the Instagram community, and everything you talk about is helpful. But, there is still something I struggle with, and I am hopeful you can help give me some insight! My problem is: I’m incredibly impatient. It doesn’t matter what it is, I always want to be in the next place, doing the next thing, and I hate waiting! I want everything to happen on my schedule, and when it doesn’t, I get upset. I realize after listening to you that some of this is a trauma response from my past and perfectionism, but I need help to calm down and learn to wait. Can you help me?
Of course, I have a few tools to help with impatience! But, first, we can all experience impatience. Minor and significant irritations, disruptions, and slow-moving goals add to our discomfort, and that is often when impatience roars its not-so-pretty head.
The first place to start anytime you begin to feel impatient is to slow down your thought process and pick up on the thoughts and physical feelings of being intolerant.
Impatience has a language that all of us have said. So that sounds like: “This is taking forever.” “I wish this would hurry up.” “I’m so annoyed by this.” “I don’t have time for this,” to name a few. These statements probably sound familiar, and yet, if we don’t have an awareness of what these statements and thoughts are below the surface, we can’t do much to change them or the root, which is impatience.
So if you find yourself saying or thinking these statements or something similar, stop and check in with yourself. What is happening at the moment? Are you uncomfortable? Are you forecasting how something will play out? Do you feel displaced or infringed upon? What is truly happening?
Impatiences can also have physical symptoms too. That feels like tension in your muscles, restlessness or jiggling your feet and legs, clenching your hands, being short of breath, elevated heart rate, irritability, and even area.
Become clear about what is happening because we cannot address or fix what we do not know is happening.
Next, work to shift your perspective about the situation. Most situations that make you feel impatient are the ones that cannot quickly or easily be changed. So instead of focusing on what is not happening, feeling powerless, or concentrating on what needs to be changed, you can change the narrative of the moment.
A great tool is to ask yourself: Since I cannot remove myself from this situation or change it immediately, how can I improve the moment or work for me?
Getting into a space of mindfully creating active solutions breaks the tension and resets your thinking.
Another way to tackle impatience is to create a personal strategy to counteract any triggers you have when it comes to lacking patience. This pre-work will help you be mindful and aware of the things that tank your thought process. So, grab a piece of paper or a journal and write a list of things that trigger your impatience. So that list may be traffic or having to wait, or maybe a person in your life could make you feel emotionally impatient. Write the list, and then offer yourself a firm strategy for how you will deal with that individual situation. This helps us create a toolbox of behaviors that will always serve us.
So a solution could be that you are going to take three deep breaths, examine why you are frustrated and then explain how you feel using I language, not you language. So, I feel. I need. I want. I am. I think. Not, you always, you are, can’t you just, etc.
Another solution may be to say, “I’m feeling a bit off at the moment, and I need to take a break.” This allows you to walk away.
Whatever works for you, create your list of common triggers and then offer workable, viable solutions to which you know you can stick to, even in the heat of the moment.
The final way to address your impatience before I hand over another quick, easy-to-use strategy is to adjust your expectations. Let’s face it; you will always be frustrated and impatient if you are constantly upset with others, situations, places, or things that cannot possibly meet elevated or unreasonable expectations. On the other hand, if you continuously feel disappointed or let down, this leads to impatience, and it is time to re-think your expectations.
Some examples of this would be: if you feel impatient with, say, a weight loss goal, you must remind yourself that the weight you are working to shed didn’t come on overnight, and therefore, it’s going to take time for it to come off.
If you find yourself impatient in traffic, you may need to change your expectation of the time you need for your commute. For example, if you know you are leaving during a heavier traffic time and your destination is 35 minutes away. Still, you are only giving yourself 40 minutes, you are setting yourself up for frustration because the expectation cannot be met.
Or perhaps, you are easily upset by your partner’s lack of attention to detail, continually overlooking the dishes, the laundry piling up, or they are always late. Finally, suppose you are becoming impatient but not addressing the issue. In that case, the expectation of finding a resolution is nearly impossible because the other person doesn’t have all the information they need to help solve the impatience and meet the expectation.
With those factors of impatience on the table, let’s talk about reinforcing patience!
We live in a bigger, faster, more world. And to get out of the habit of impatient thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, we must slow down our responses. We build and practice patience by not giving into the urge to act and react to every moment.
In order to put all of this into practice, I want to offer you a practice called WAIT.
W in the wait practice stands for watch. Watch what is happening within; watch your thoughts, feelings, and actions. Give yourself a moment to pause and watch everything occurring internally and externally.
Now to the A in Wait. Accept. Accept the moment as it is. Accept your feelings and the situation without immediately pushing against it or trying to change or react. Accept.
The I stands for investigate. As I said before, get to the root of why you feel the way you do. Is this situation pulling forth something from the past? Is it that you are uncomfortable? Are you creating a story around the moment that makes you uncomfortable and impatient? Are you forecasting how something that hasn’t occurred yet and making yourself mentally and emotionally tank?
And lastly, the T, which stands for Tend. Tend your feelings, tend to the moment, and tend to others with compassion.
By learning to control your impatience, you enable yourself to approach situations with a greater sense of calm, balance, and ease than you do if you approach something with discomfort and impatience. In addition, by not giving in to the urge to react, you change the thought process and offer yourself emotional and mental rewards.
These little nuggets add up to significant results if you practice them! If impatience is your natural go-to, remember it will take a bit more time to change your habits, but it can be done with a small amount of effort and a lot of focus. Wanting to create change is always step 1.
I hope this gives you some tools and insight into how you can make this shift!
Thank you so much for the question, Jill! I challenge you to find the method that best works for you and helps you reset your mindset.
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A misconception about loving ourselves has been touted by self-proclaimed personal development gurus that is dead wrong. Many believe that self-love is a one-off thing that we are “supposed to do.” Yet, the truth is that self-love is the result of healing, growth, and putting all the pieces of greatest selves into place. So, loving ourselves isn’t a “thing” we are supposed to do; it is “THE” thing that is the evidence of our growth.
This week we are taking a one-on-one deep dive into an essential life practice that must be in place for us to reach self-love.
What is it? It’s self-trust.
Together, we’re breaking down what true self-trust is, how you have more than you already know, how our behavior diminishes our self-trust, and then I’m handling o ver the blueprint to build unshakable trust.
So, let’s shift our perspectives and our ability to TRUST ourselves…
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
02:00 An understanding of self-love and how self-trust is necessary to get there
03:21 What self-trust is
04:36 How the lack of self-trust impacts us
08:00 Where self-trust comes from
08:46 Why many women don’t trust themselves
14:47 Spending time in negative criticism kills our self-trust—how to unwind the habit
18:27 There is a link between a lack of self-trust and anxiety, sleeping issues, health issues, and depression
19:50 Blueprint Step #1 Tune into your needs and instincts. How to tune in.
24:30 Blueprint Step #2 You must feel your feelings – You can find the Emotional Scale within the Get Your Life Together, Girl Women’s Circle
30:03 Blueprint Step #3 Stop setting unrealistic goals.
32:57 Blueprint Step #4 Be kind to yourself. Listen to the Confident Episode to help you gain the self-kindness and confidence
35:17 Blueprint Step #5 Be open with what’s on your mind and heart
37:33 Blueprint Step #6 Listen to yourself
40:05 Blueprint Step #7 Take risks
42:10 Blueprint Step #8 Learn to forgive yourself
47:34 Blueprint Step #9 Be more responsible to yourself
48:01 Blueprint Step #10 Reward yourself
48:58 Blueprint Step #11 Witness your strengths
50:31 Blueprint Step #12 Be Yourself
This is the true blueprint to self-trust. Each of these elements has to be in place for you to thrive in this trust fully. Once you put all of them into action, you gave the understanding that you have the power to do anything, to overcome any complicated situation and the willingness and strength to think for yourself, live as yourself, and freely be an authentic person. All of these pieces are necessary for self-love.
Put your blueprint in place. Build your self-trust. It is an essential element to getting and keeping your life together, girl.
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Find a comfortable position and take a full deep breath. Allow your body to find stillness, letting your shoulders relax, and your mind soften into the moment. Listen to the sounds buzzing around you. Focus your attention there and take another full deep breath.
With your exhale, prepare your heart and mind for a journey of welcoming ease and deep relaxation that is mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and physically gratifying. In this time together, allow yourself to let go.
As you do, remember that you have never been meant to live a life of stress, anxiety, fear, doubt, and unease. Instead, you have always been meant to live from a grounded and centered place—a place of humble reset anytime you become uncomfortable, a place of self-exploration, a place of peace.
Take another full deep breath and let it go.
As your mind finds this calm state, allow your breath to find a pattern of ease, deepening every few breaths.
Remember that anxiety is characterized by feelings of worry, fear, doubt, and dis-ease.
These feelings can range from subtle to overwhelming and influence your life in ways that disrupt and do not serve you. As anxiety pulses through your nervous system, feelings of panic and helplessness, anger, agitation, irritability, and overwhelm can follow. Your heart can pound, making everything feel so much bigger than it is.
Anxiety manifests differently in each of us, yet there is a way to reset and regain calm and clarity. There is a way to find your way back home—to center.
This is the journey we are taking together now—the journey of release.
Take another full deep breath, bringing in the stillness and letting go of anything moving through you that is less than calm.
Allow your mind to be here, right now, only in this space.
Now, let’s begin our affirmations for anxiety.
Allow these words to guide you or repeat after me if it serves you.
My life is filled with experiences.
Each of these experiences are opportunities to teach me, to guide me into a state of constant learning and being, and open my eyes to my awareness.
With this truth, I am now learning that how I connect with these experiences dictates my perspective. Therefore, my perception dramatically influences how I feel and think.
If I believe a thought, feeling, experience, person, or relationship is trying, difficult, painful, or too much, this is the pattern I create in my mind.
The same is true if I believe the experience is meant to teach and help me open the pathway to my greatness.
I now understand that how I think impacts how I feel. To release anxiety, I must focus on my pathway forward.
Whenever an unhelpful, doubt-filled, anxious thought enters my mind, I will return to my fundamental truth. That truth is:
I am safe. I am safe to live my life openly, freely, and without fear, shame, doubt, or dis-ease.
I will remember that my brain and subconscious’s job is to keep me safe. Safe doesn’t always mean genuine danger, but it can also mean staying just the same, unmoved from the things that are harming you emotionally and mentally, because this is the pattern, I have fed myself for so long.
Today, I break that cycle.
Today I am using my thoughts, feelings, and actions to serve my life.
I begin again with I am safe.
My life is filled with brilliant opportunities.
Everything that happens within and around me are teachers, brilliant happenings to help me level up and enjoy my life.
I am strong.
I am stronger than I give myself credit for.
I can make my own choices and take actions that serve me.
Take another full deep breath and let it go.
I can easily see that I am brave.
I am no longer rejecting what I feel. Instead, I am leaning into each emotion that meets me.
I know my emotions are not bad or negative. They are to show me what needs to be changed, addressed, or leaned into. This is a beautiful and welcomed process. I am releasing the anxiety I have had around my emotions right now.
In this, I witness my powerful nature and know I can move through anything anytime.
I am attracting positive energy into my body.
My mind is clear, and I am in control.
I am worthy of a peaceful life.
I accept myself for who I am and embrace the uniqueness I was born with and have grown into.
There is nothing to be anxious about because I have everything I need for a happy, healthy, productive, grounded life.
Take another full deep breath and let it go.
I know that my natural state is balance.
I am willing to approach every situation with an open and curious mind.
I am taking everything one step at a time and living in the now.
I enjoy my inner calm.
I know what I value and place my energy there instead of on anxiety.
Take another full deep breath and let it go.
For the first time, I have faith that everything is working out.
I am not alone. I am not struggling. I can move the most significant mountain because every breath I take fills my soul with peace and ease.
I am confident.
I am in control.
I have everything I need.
When anxiety finds me again, I will breathe it away because I am no longer willing to spend my energy worrying about what will go wrong. Instead, I am excited to see what is going right.
I know that anxiety is temporary. It is not mine to own. I release it now.
Take another breath and let it go.
I love all that I am.
I am strong.
I am powerful.
I am peaceful.
I am ready to live a life of balance.
I am free from anything that does not have my highest, greatest, and most profound good at heart.
I have broken free from the shackles of anxiety.
When you are ready, let yourself bring your attention back to the current moment.
Notice how your body feels. Begin to notice the movement around you. Listen to the noises, and slowly make slight movements with your hands or mouth, moving ever so gently.
How you think matters as much as what you think.
Anytime you need a moment to come back to center. Repeat these words and lean into your truth— you are a brilliant, beautiful, balanced soul.
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For many women, confidence is a moving target. It’s something they want but don’t feel they actively have.
To give you the proven steps to build unshakable confidence, I sat down with the queen of confidence building Jacqui Letran. In the next hour, she hands over the roadblocks we experience, the grounded steps to change your lack patterns, and then she walks us through an exercise that has radically changed thousands of women’s confidence levels in a way that can be activated today!
If you struggle with feeling worthy, good enough, or going after your desires, this conversation is step 1 in changing your inner dialogue.
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
01:57 How Jacqui got started and what she noticed in her medical practice that made her seek additional tools for her patients
04:12 What a lack of confidence actually looks like in our daily lives
05:01 The FOUR core beliefs that get in the way of confidence. We all experience one or all of these at one point or another.
09:04 An example of why you must get to the root of what is holding you back
11:54 These four beliefs come from two pathways. What they are and how to uproot them.
14:25 Boosting confidence is done by celebrating the minor wins
16:22 Building awareness is an absolute must for confidence—this is done by identifying your thought process
20:47 Shifting your language, inner and outer, has a massive impact on confidence.
“I am determined to…”
“I am committed to…”
“Is far more motivating than “I am trying to…”
24:50 The subconscious mind keeps you safe, but that doesn’t necessarily mean “safe” in the way you think safe means.
29:34 The comparison game kills your confidence faster than you realize
31:35 The “key” to affirmations that most people forget and how it can swiftly change your confidence levels
38:27 The extreme power of the word “YET!”
45:12 How bravely doesn’t need to be a factor in active confidence
47:32 Clueing in. You are already exhibiting confidence daily—you just don’t realize it.
48:47 The Masterpiece Exercise—a practice that has helped thousands of women level up their lives
58:50 True confidence does not come from the ego
61:40 Jacqui’s 3 things
I absolutely love the Masterpiece exercise Jacqui gifted us today. Remember, no matter what has happened or the way you feel today, you do have the power to shift your experiences into pieces that work for you. Confidence is a daily, active choice.
If you would like to learn more about Jacqui or her fantastic books on confidence, you can follow her on Instagram @jacquiletran or visit shop.jacquiletran.com. The tools and steps she mentioned are available in her book, I Would, But My DAMN MIND Won’t Let Me.
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Do you ever feel like you are a different person to different people in your life? Do some people see one side of you while others do not? Or, do you ever feel like you struggle to express yourself fully? Maybe you knowingly hide behind who you truly are deep inside?
If so, you are not fully engaging with and living through your most authentic self.
Many women are on a quest to live a more authentic life, yet to do so, you must be clear about what being authentic means to you.
This week we’re taking a one-on-one deep dive into authenticity. First, we’ll dive into what it means to be authentic, then how it’s built, experiences and feelings that keep us away from it, and then I’m going to give you eight strategies you can use today to start living and trusting yourself and others with the most genuine version of yourself.
So, let’s shift our perspectives and our ability to show up.
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
01:40 What it means to be authentic
04:58 Why we hide aspects of ourselves and let go of our authentic self
06:55 Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson is the baseline to authenticity
09:42 If you have a desire to be more connected to your life, you are seeking authenticity
10:41 Authenticity requires vulnerability and how that challenges us
15:43 Why is it so hard to be who you are?
16:34 Understanding the Adaptive Self
19:05 Strategy 1: Get to the baseline of who you are
26:00 Strategy 2: Open a dialogue with yourself
30:53 Strategy 3: Making an active decision to be present with yourself
32:38 Strategy 4: Owning your gifts is a baseline for authenticity
35:00 Strategy 5: Speaking our truth
37:03 Strategy 6: Work towards daily actions of authenticity
39:00 Strategy 7: Allow yourself to gain perspective anytime you need
42:49 Strategy 8: You must love yourself
44:10 Bonus Strategy 9: Connect yourself within an authentic circle
46:19 Recap of the strategies
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Until next time…be kind to yourself and others.
Find a comfortable position and take a full deep breath. Sitting with your back tall and your shoulders relaxed, close your eyes. Prepare your mind and heart for a journey through the self to deliver loving-kindness to every ounce of your being—the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual self.
As your mind finds a calm state, allow your breath to find a pattern of ease, deepening every few breaths.
Loving-kindness or Metta meditation is the ultimate form of generous, selfless love toward the self. This is a traditional meditation combined with new affirmations and self-kindness. As it is said, hatred cannot coexist with love and kindness. It dissipates when supplanted with thoughts of love and compassion.
The longest relationship you will have during your time on this earth is the one you have with yourself. If the relationship does not reflect love, compassion, and kindness, you cannot reflect the same emotions and movements to those around you. What is happening within us is reflected out into the world through our actions and the way we show up. When out of balance, we find mirror relationships, experiences, and feelings, thus the importance of genuine loving-kindness.
Thus the reason why we must journey to befriend who you are, as you are, with self-love, compassion, and poise.
Take another full deep breath, bringing in love, and letting any less than love leave.
Allow your mind to be here, right now, only in this space. As your breath deepens and your heart slows, with calmness leading your thought process, bring forth a happy memory. Let it be a day that was filled with joy—a moment where your mind, body, and soul aligned and created pure bliss in the moment. Witness it. See yourself inside of it. Allow the small details of the day to fill your mind. Witness the colors, the smells, the people, the movement around you. If there’s music, hear it. Allow yourself to be inside this precious memory and feel it as much as you see it.
Allow the good feeling emotions to cover you and settle.
Take a full deep breath and let it go.
Bring your awareness back to your breath. In and out. In and out.
Place your palms on your heart and repeat after me if it serves you.
“I love and honor myself. I am grateful for this life. It is now my intention to give all of the loving-kindness I so readily give to others to myself.”
Now, Let’s begin our loving-kindness mediation. With each sentence, open your heart and mind. Then, connect your emotional body by allowing the same feelings you felt in your happy memory to be the frame in which you feed yourself deep, loving compassion and kindness.
Repeat after me or allow these words to settle within you while you take ownership of these truths and intentions that belong within and to you.
May I be well. May I always remember that wellness is soul deep. May I be peaceful. May I remember that peace is always within me and that I can always return home to the place, the center of me, that holds that beautiful harmony. May I be happy. May I see the lessons in my life for what they are—teachers. Movements to help me grow into whom I came here to be. May this understanding infuse happiness into everything I do. May I appreciate the gift of being alive.
I know that others will not end this day the same. This moment is precious, and I lovingly welcome the gift. I witness and live within the joy available to me and mindfully spread it others. I am filled with loving-kindness and know that I have the power to mirror this to everyone I meet. May I be comfortable.
May I understand that comfort is a state of mind, a form of being, that I have the power to create through the mindset of love. May I be healthy and strong. I know that my health is more than bound to my physical self. My health is also emotional, mental, spiritual, and even financial. I know I have the power to be healthy and strong in each of these aspects.
Today, I make a conscious effort to create a picture of my overall health, the picture that becomes my path to the fullest expression of my strength and health. May I be at ease.
Take another full deep breath and let it go.
I know that life can become overwhelming and feel like a struggle or a burden, but I also know that ease is always available. So I lovingly and kindly choose ease. May my heart radiate positive truths. I understand that my energy speaks volumes. I understand that how I show up is as important as what I say and do. From now on, I radiate only beauty. May I open myself to love and prosperity.
I am letting go of anything that has held me back before and open my arms to possibility. With my mind and heart open, I know that abundance can and is moving through my life in a way I’ve never imagined.
I am prosperous. I am love. I am kind. I am open to everything meant for me. May I be free of struggle and suffering. I live in a kind universe. So even when unkind actions occur, I know I do not have to give my wellness to the opposite of love, light, faith, beauty…
May I improve myself every day. I desire to increase in every area of my life, not only for myself, but for everyone around me. I boost my emotional wellness. I raise my physical health.
I increase my mental well-being. I enhance my financial strength. I increase everything good in this world for me and for all. I lovingly know I am blessed in my life.
May I see the positive in everything and everyone—if I am love, I know now that everyone is love, too. At the base of everything is loving-kindness.
May I work in harmony with others. May I know that the kindness I show is the kindness I will receive. Where showing this kindness may have felt like a burden before, it now feels like an open door, a new adventure, a new piece of me that knows everything that happens in my life is for my greatest good.
Take another full deep breath and let it go.
May all of my needs be met. May I wrap love around the beliefs that have kept me small. May I be kind and offer myself grace knowing that I’m stepping into a new space and time. May I be humble in this kindness, humble in this love, grateful for this beauty.
May I find harmony in all things and be better and better each day from here on out.
Take another full deep breath and let it go.
Repeat after me:
“I love and honor myself. I am grateful for this life. It is now my intention to live in this beautiful loving-kindness.” Take another breath and let it go. When you are ready, let yourself bring your attention back to the current moment.
Notice how your body feels. Begin to notice the movement around you. Off yourself love, compassion, and grace for all the journey you just took.
You are strong. You are powerful. You are peace. You are healthy, happy, and kind. I wish nothing but genuine loving-kindness for you always.
Anytime you need a moment to come back to center. Repeat these words and lean into your truth—you are loving-kindness in motion.
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If I were to ask you if you practice self-kindness or fierce loving kindness, could you honestly say yes? Practice as in this is a daily focus.
Most women struggle in this area.
And that’s why I sat down with Rosie Aiello, founder of the Love is Kind Network, to talk about how we can bridge the gap between where we are and where we want to be.
Rosie’s story spans the globe as she found herself in a foreign country married to an abusive husband. As the abuse escalated, their daughter Sunny helped Rosie hatch an escape plan that will leave you in awe.
Since returning to the United States, Rosie has built a network and a global movement to teach women how to fiercely be in loving, kind relationships, both with themselves and others. Rosie hands over some of those methods today. You’ll want to listen to the very end!
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
01:47 Rosie’s story begins and how her abuse was the root of her relationship
04:17 How Rosie’s daughter Sunny was her mother’s defender
06:12 Verbal abuse became Sunny’s boundary line. It’s time to go forward with the escape of their lives
10:29 As their feet hit American soil, physical freedom begins
12:12 Abusive partners do not give up easily—the switch was ready to flip
14:58 Physical freedom is the easiest part. The healing journey begins with self-affirmations
17:07 Complex PTSD: a normal reaction to a horrible situation
21:06 How the Love is Kind Network was born
21:56 You do not have to be healed to start a new life
26:00 How we help our children through this growth and change
28:13 Purpose is often found in pain. Where we begin moving through turning loving kindness on ourselves
30:46 Sometimes, we don’t know how to be our authentic selves or how to love ourselves. Yet, most of us know how to be kind. That’s where we start
34:08 Fear is a liar. There is always help
34:33 Steps to find loving kindness for the self
35:12 Step 1: Self-care is mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual care
36:00 Step 2: Look at yourself. What are your values? What’s important to you?
37:00 Step 3: Personal boundaries are not negotiable
38:00 Step 4: Showing up every day. You do not have to settle for anything less than what you want and desire
41:56 Understand that you will have a setback, but it’s a part of life and trauma
42:54 Do not do this hard work alone. There are resources. “This is just not work to do by yourself. This is a deep core belief.”
45:42 The life you want is possible, but first, you must believe you can change your life
47:05 To move forward, you must learn how to progress your emotions. If you are doing the “overwork,” you may lack emotional intelligence or understanding. What’s you know your red flags?
51:18 Put your life into practice
53:23 Self-grace is critical, and your vision can and does change
56:04 Half of the time your life won’t be great, and the other half will be great – accept this fact and stop pushing for constant happiness
58:14 Carry around a journal to understand the unhelp thoughts. It’s time to learn new truths about who you truly are
61:00 What Rosie wished she knew about shame during the years of her abuse
62:30 When we lean into vulnerable, we begin to realize that no one among us has not experienced shame
64:40 Rosie’s three powerful things
Sadly, since we recorded this episode, Rosie’s daughter Sunny passed away unexpectedly. Everyone in the Get Your Life Together, Girl family offers our deepest sympathy and love to you, Rosie.
We know that you will carry the torch that Sunny lit and will continue to serve women and free their lives and hearts from less than they deserve. If you want to join the Love is Kind Network, head to www.loveiskindnetwork.com. You can also find the Love is Kind Network on Facebook.
July 27th is Love is Kind Day—a day Rosie and her daughter founded together. It’s the day that they found their way home and into a life that was first about learning kindness and now spreading it.
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Your daily habits and routines are far more critical and impactful than you may think. One of the complaints or misalignments I hear is that many women feel their lives are not what they wanted them to be. They feel stuck, uninspired, off-balance, and certainly not peaceful. Yet, when I ask for them to walk me through their day-to-day life, we can often root out that they are simply not engaging in their lives in a way that is fulfilling or nurturing their rounded well-being. They have shifted into autopilot and lack a framework that helps them engage in the balance, inspiration, and peace they so deeply deserve and desire.
Regular Get Your Life Together, Girl listener, Fatima in Boston, Massachusetts, wrote in and said, “Culturally, I grew up with the majority of thought processes and teachings you teach. Yet, after my family and I came to the United States from India, I found it harder to live these principles. Life is faster, and I find it hard to slow down. I want to return to the peace you write about in your posts, and I see within you when you speak—the peace I have known before but feel as if I have lost. Do you have any daily rituals that you personally practice? If so, could you share? I guess I am asking for an inside look into your life that helps you stay peaceful.”
First, I will say, peace is never lost. Sometimes it lies in wait until we are ready to meet it again. And of course, I am willing to share my practices as they are a combination of things I teach.
Life is fast and hard to slow down, but once you create a framework for yourself, practice it, and hold yourself accountable, peace becomes second nature. Is it perfect? No. Are there days that start one way and end another? Always. But, if you have a framework built into your life, for your life, your day, you have the power to create the peace you desire.
You asked about my rituals, and I am happy to walk you through them. If anything stands out, I invite you to bring them into your practice. However, I will caution you; this is how I start my day. There is no expectation that anyone has to adopt or make all these practices work for them.
Pick what works for you if anything lands.
When I first open my eyes, I have trained my mind to offer gratitude for doing so.
Before I reach for my watch or phone, I offer three additional gratitudes. When we guide our minds to what is working in our lives, we immediately set the tone for how we will approach the day.
If you roll over and dread the day, you’ve guided your mindset into that framework. So, for me, I start with gratitude. It takes less than a minute.
I will add a quick practice in the mix if I’ve had a rough night’s sleep or the previous day was trying, and I need a bit more.
This practice is to place my hand over my heart and say to myself: I love you, Danielle. Doing your very best is all that is expected and required.
Of course, change this to your name and whatever sentence after the I love you. This practice is a beautiful way to connect with the self and offer reassurance, which builds peace, self-esteem, self-love, and confidence.
From there, I get out of bed and head straight for the kitchen. Coffee is a must for me, but first, I drink at least 8 ounces of water. Rehydrating your system is a must. There is a connection between dehydration and mental fog. When we feel off, we cannot find our center. So, I begin with water before anything else.
With water and coffee in hand, I head to my meditation space. I have a dedicated space in my home that is strictly for meditation, journaling, self-reiki, prayer, all of my practices. It’s a space of calm for me, and because I’ve been engaging with this habit for so long, the minute I enter the room, I know it’s time to find my breath.
The first thing I do is set an intention for the day. The intention can be set through a frame of whatever is in my highest and greatest good, or it can be more detailed as to something I want to feel or accomplish that day. Setting your intention is a powerful tool to help elevate your already positively directed mindset. I always choose the words “I am” as the starting point, add my intention, and as a dear mentor of mine reminded me; you can always add the words “or something better” to the end. Because sometimes our intentions are short-sighted. Sometimes we know what we want but haven’t put complete thought behind it in a way that allows us to form an active and energetic intention.
With the intention stated aloud and rewritten in my journal, I turn to my breath.
Reiki and meditation are sacred practices for me. Meditation has guided me through my personal story, emotions, and release and moved me into the person I am today. I know that as I continue to practice, it will also guide me into the person I am growing to be. I love the practices so dearly; I elevated my professional certifications to become practitioners in both, as that is how much power I’ve witnessed both in myself and those I’ve worked with when it comes to creating peace. If you are interested in Reiki, you can find thousands of articles online. It’s a beautiful art.
As for meditation, if you have never tried meditation or are leery, I invite you to listen to Episode 67: The Secrets Behind Making Meditation Work for You. In the episode, I break down what meditation is, toss out the myths and go to the basics. And, if you are like so many that I’ve worked with that say meditation doesn’t work, well, I double invite you to listen and work toward a practice of progress, not a practice of perfection.
I practice self-Reiki first set to the background of music on Insight Timer. If you do not have the Insight Timer app, it’s a must! There are thousands of teachers on the app who have beautiful offerings, including yours truly.
I move from Reiki to meditation. From there, I pick up my pen. Journaling is the language of my soul. My morning pages provide me with a space to write down anything I may have felt or uncovered while in Reiki or meditation. It allows me to speak my mind in a way that others do not have to hold for me, and it gives me a clear understanding of where my mind is at that time. Of course, this is available to you, too.
If none of the other practices speak to you, try journaling. This doesn’t have to be long or complicated. It’s simply a way to meet yourself where you are in that moment, that day.
How am I feeling today is a beautiful journaling prompt that I invite you to try.
When I have finished journaling, I offer gratitude once more. It’s from here I’m ready to start my day.
Some days I don’t need all these practices or simply can’t fit them all in because of my schedule, so I intuitively allow myself to be guided into what I need. But there are two practices I never release—the first is meditation, and the second is journaling. This is a 7-day-a-week habit. It is where I find my most grounded peace. That may be different for you, but for me, that’s it.
As I start the day, I focus on keeping my focus. Admittedly, I used to rush from one thing to the next. There was a level of desperation to fit everything in, and honestly, that is a lack mentality. A lack mentality will always keep your peace and happiness at arm’s length. Keeping my focus is all about intentional action. This is one of the most fundamental things you can do for yourself beyond the practices. Being intentional comes back to the four questions I continual ask:
What do I want?
What do I need?
How do I want to feel?
How am I going to get there?
If you are struggling that day, you can also add: Will I give myself permission to take action?
These things are my framework for daily peace. I regulate my nervous system and release anything less than what feels good. That is peace.
I hope this gives you some tools and insight into how you can and must create a personal framework for yourself. There’s a beautiful shift in your life when you engage in your life, make an effort, take action, be still, and most importantly, take care of yourself on every level. So, I’ll leave with a few questions. The first is: are you fully engaging in your life? And the second is: Is it because you do not have a framework?
Thank you so much for the question and the space to share my practices. I challenge you to find the framework that helps elevate and reset your mindset.
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In the years I’ve worked with women, one concept continually comes up. For some, it’s taboo. For others, there’s a deep curiosity and desire to understand how it works. For another group, there’s complete dismissal. No matter where you stand, you are likely using this principle in your daily life without even realizing it. What is it? It’s the Law of Attraction.
Maybe you’re scratching your head as to how behavioral therapy and the Law of Attraction have any connection, which is fair, so today, we’re taking a one-on-one deep dive into this universal principle that is the basis of everything I teach—what you focus grows.
We’ll go deeper than most conversations surrounding the Law of Attraction and dive into the relationship between your thoughts and how they create your reality, how your brain is at the foundation of this concept, and lastly, how to make the Law of Attraction work in your life.
Get ready because the idea of positivity and abundance is about to become as simple as focusing on your thoughts.
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
02:34 The Law of Attraction: Like attracts like
03:28 The yellow car game is the Law of Attraction: what we focus on grows
06:04 The fundamental principles of LOA are established both in science and medicine
09:27 The brain and the LOA – Mirror Neurons
12:24 The RAS is part of the brain responsible for the LOA
14:33 Our brains are wired to bring the most critical information to the surface of our consciousness first
15:38 The role our emotions play in the Law of Attraction
16:57 A brain hack to engage the RAS to our benefit – The “Secret” behind “The Secret.”
20:14 Visualization is a critical factor in bringing your desire into physical form
22:41 We cannot create what we do not think is possible
24:24 Get lofty with your intentions but make sure your goals are reasonable action
25:00 Warning1: Everything requires action
27:06 Warning 2: You must believe it’s possible
28:24 Warning 3: The brain does not know the difference between positive and negative
29:07 Warning 4: Release the “how” something will come into physical form
30:20 Terms to help you use the LOA
34:01 Misguided truths surrounding this principle
35:00 Step 1: Ask for what you desire
38:00 Step 2: Believing in what you want
39:07 Step 3: Become an emotional or vibrational match to your desire
40:55 The more you practice a thought, the greater weight it carries in your mind
41:43 Step 4: Visualize
43:11 Step 5: Create an inner dialogue
44:26 Step 6: Build affirmations that are tied to your desires
45:54 Step 7: Let Go
46:00 Step 8: Move into Action
47:17 Practice Gratitude while you are putting the LOA into action in your life
48:51 If it isn’t working for you, there’s a reason. The top reasons are vagueness, resistance, attachment.
We all can create what we want in our lives. Call it the Law of attraction, prayer, wishing, manifestation, desire; it doesn’t matter. Just know your brain works to give you want you ask for, without fail. You just need to know the steps and practice them in your life.
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Find a comfortable position and take a full deep breath. Let your body settle from the crown of your head to the tips of your toes. Allow tension to flow from you with each exhale you take. Roll your shoulders down your back, settling in a space that feels natural and relaxed. If comfortable, place one hand over your heart and the other below your belly button—feel your chest rise with a slightly deeper inhale, holding its fullness for a moment, and let the air gently slip away. Find the rhythm of your breath, moving it into a slower, easy, gentle, and effortless pace.
As your body settles, invite your mind to slow down, too. No matter what has occurred today, yesterday, this week, or last, remember that you can choose to hold space for yourself and honor what you need every moment. When you give yourself permission to settle in stillness, in the anchoring of your breath—in and out—you give yourself to release stress, worry, and anything inside or outside of you.
Take another full deep breath and let it go.
Slip away with my words, allowing them to guide you into a space of inner calm, the subconscious mind, the gap between where you’ve been and where you're going—that gap is the here and now.
Take another full deep breath and let it go.
We often forget that our lives are lived in moments, in the now. We allow yesterday to own us—find its ways into our thoughts, emotions, and actions. We bring forth broken pieces while we refuse to hold on to the good. When we are in the good, we easily concentrate on where we want to be—the goals, intentions, and the pieces that drive us forward while failing to remember that we need today to prosper.
The reality is each day is a teacher. Each moment has something for you inside of it. When we are unaware, focused on everything but the moment, we are likely to miss the magic in which is the key for our abundance, ability to thrive, the very opening of our purpose, courage, and highest, truest, most authentic, greatest self.
To fully claim your life, you must be IN your life. And your life is now.
Take another full deep breath and let it go.
Repeat after me if it serves you:
I exist and live in the here and now. This beautiful understanding reminds me that I have the power to live within this moment instead of all the moments that have been or have yet to be.
While my existence in this world, in the space I’ve created for myself, is the total of many things, my physical makeup, the people I’ve grown with, my culture, my community, education, thoughts, background, feelings, the past, in all of that, there is a universal truth, I am the embodiment of all of my experiences and each day offers something new to add to the whole of me.
Whatever I feel, do, think, and experience is done in the present moment. I cannot live in the past or the future. I may think about the past and plan the future, but the present is the only place my existence creates change.
From now on, my aim is to accept my life as it is, in each moment, without judgment, overthinking, or concern. Because what is, is what is meant to be. Everything I’ve encountered can be used for my highest good. Everything I know has the power to shift me into something better, into more in a way that pulls forth every lesson and action. The only way to do that is to make the choice today. Now.
Take a full deep breath and let it go.
In this now, I am shifting my mindset. I know that everything I need is already inside of me. I also know I cannot escape the past. I realize I cannot evade the outcome of the future. Instead, I intend to live with my highest value at the forefront of everything I do.
I am an intentional creator with the pursuit of my greatest happiness and interest at hand. This interest is my purpose—my reason for being. I am the author of my story. My mission today is to pick up my pen and write the story of now. Each page, each day, builds into a full life story that I’m simply not ready to write the last page.
I am no longer willing to spend all my time forecasting how the story will twist and turn or even end. Instead, with my heart, mind, and soul aligned and tied to each moment, I freely let go of any perceived limitations and move into a constant state of peace called acceptance.
I accept the now. I accept changes in direction. I am courageous in a way only the present moment allows me to be. I am building a legacy in the fullest alignment of my story.
Each time my acceptance fades, I will call myself home, back to the present. As I know that within any given moment, I can notice the many things happening around me. I have the power to feel my heart beating, listen to my breath move in and out, and feel the small movements of my inner and outer being. I will not push against discomfort. This is present moment awareness. I meet it often, but now I realize I have the power to live in it too.
Take a full deep breath and let it go.
I am choosing to dance with the now. I am choosing to anchor myself in the most beautiful place there is…today.
From today forward, my life will no longer be compromised by wishes, unreasonable expectations, or restrictions, whether self-induced or not.
I am living for me today. This step into self-awareness is one of the boldest I can take. I am the author of this life, and it’s the most beautiful opportunity I will have on this vast, beautiful earth.
Take another full deep breath and let it go.
Allow resistances to flow from your lips and say, “I am here to live my life as it is, as I am, and in whatever comes and will be. This is the state of change, and I honor this beautiful way of life.”
Take another full deep breath and let it go.
I AM
I am…Two of the most powerful words in any language. Words that direct our emotions and thoughts into movements that support us.
I am here, right now.
I am on solid ground.
I am here to live my purpose and my life as I see fit.
I am free to make my own choices.
I am writing the details of my story each and every day.
I am accountable for my actions and reactions in each moment and will not force the past to carry into my now.
I am in full acknowledgment that what is in my life is a teacher.
I am accepting of each day and each lesson that comes with it.
I am growing.
I am my legacy.
I am releasing what no longer serves me.
I am free.
I am here.
I am living in this beautiful place called the now.
Take another full deep breath and let it go.
Allow this understanding to be your guide. Allow yourself to seize the beauty of what is. Today is the day you let go and find a place of peace.
This clarity is yours.
Feel your breath. Take a full inhale as this air is your present. It is flowing through you. As you let it go, it leaves and enters the past. Every thought, feeling, and action is the same. It moves through you; the minute you let go, it’s the past. Your time is now. Pick up your pen and create a story, unlike anything anyone has seen yet.
Anytime you need a moment to come back to center. Repeat these words and lean into your inner truth: You are a beautiful, soulful being whose purpose is to create life one day at a time.
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One of the most significant questions each of us can ask ourselves is how may I serve?
With the unprecedented political changes in the United States after last week’s Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe vs. Wade, many women now question their options regarding their bodies—especially for couples who struggle with the inability to get pregnant or carry a baby to term.
With so much on the line, many are struggling to understand the future of families.
This week I sat down with my friend Kelsey Garrison, who has been at the forefront of serving a family as a surrogate. We talk about her calling to serve, how her experience changed her, and her advice for women who find themselves wanting to help others.
This next hour is a beautiful conversation of faith, family, and service.
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
02:00 Kelsey’s story begins
02:54 The push of purpose that called Kelsey to serve a family
07:03 Women’s rights, gay rights, and reproductive choice in the US and China
09:50 It’s a match—when purpose turns into action
11:05 The journey of surrogacy and emotional attachment
14:01 2020 shutdown and how you explain to another child
15:43 COVID changes everything, and Kelsey’s life becomes in danger
18:30 HELP syndrome causes early delivery
19:33 A plea for her own life and request
21:04 An odd disconnect between mind, body, and soul when hard things occur
22:40 Digest your moments—the power of progressing your story
24:27 Covid changes Kelsey’s plan. The next time Kelsey sees the baby is months later
27:53 Sometimes, the moments we hope for are not the moments we receive
29:29 Emotional awareness is what helps us move through life
31:39 A beautiful meeting and the moments we want come in their own way
34:50 Life always gives us uphill moments to help move us to where we need to be
38:53 Kelsey’s advice for anyone interested in surrogacy and supporting others in parenthood
40:39 Our support systems come from places we never expected
43:33 “Do things that bring you joy!”
45:37 Kelsey’s three things
Kelsey is an inspiration, a true warrior in a way that reminds each of us not to push aside what comes to us and won’t leave our thoughts. Because of Kelsey, a family is now complete.
If you are interested in serving couples who now have fewer options, I encourage you to do research, reach out in your local communities, and never reject anything you are genuinely being called and led to do.
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Have you ever uttered, “My heart hurts,” when you’ve been in a trying, stressful, or emotionally complicated situation? It’s common for people to relate to the idea that when things are hard that we experience heartbreak or pain in our heart center.
The heart communicates with the brain and body in four ways: the nervous system, hormones, pulse waves, and our electromagnetic fields. So, when we say our heart hurts, it’s actually true. Likewise, when our emotions become dysregulated, we feel it in our nervous system—in the heart space.
So much of our healing work requires us to feel, to take a risk, healthy risks while engaging our courage and self-permission while moving through what isn’t serving us. Without these elements, we have a tendency to get “stuck” in our emotions. We roll around in those feelings until they have taken control, and everything we do, think, and feel is then driven through the mindset of “stuck,” hard, and ungrounded emotions.
This is especially true when things are unpredictable, or we experience traumas or upsets collectively.
This week on the Get Your Life Together, Girl Instagram page, I shared the HeartMath Institute’s HeartSoak Technique during Monday’s Live Chat. So, if you aren’t tuning in, join us! It’s a beautiful gathering of women. So, shortly after, I received a message from Jennifer in Costa Rica, who was live with us, that asked me to give the steps to the HeartSoak Technique again during a mindset reset. So, here we are.
If you haven’t heard of the HeartSoak Technique, this heart-focused, heart-centered breathing and care practice helps you ignite your self-compassion, calm the emotional body and nervous system, and move any perceived stuck emotions. Much like the meditations I write and teach, this process has a surrendering quality. When we know that the heart is the source of care and compassion, we can bring love and acceptance to any moment, whether it be uncertainty, worry, anger, sadness, resentment, or other negative emotions.
Like all techniques and tools I teach, practice is required to make them work for you.
So, let’s move through the steps.
You’ll want to practice this technique when you are not disrupted or rushed, and you’ll want to find a comfortable position to sit in. You can practice lying down, but sitting is the preferred method. Anytime we are breathing purposefully, we want to have the ability to fully expand our lungs. You can also keep your eyes open or close them. We will be doing some visualization work, and most people find it easier to do so with their eyes closed, but do what works best for you.
Step 1 is to take a full deep breath and begin to acknowledge what is happening in your thoughts, emotions, and heart space. When we acknowledge what is distressing us or welcome our feelings, we give ourselves permission to sit in and recognize what may be bothering or working against us.
Most people refuse to do this work. We want to move as quickly as possible through everything. Yet, if we slow down and acknowledge, we actually have a better chance of processing and finding resolve for each situation in a much more grounded and stable way.
Step 1: Acknowledge
Step 2: Take another deep breath. With this breath, place your hand over your heart. In your mind, begin to focus your attention on the area of your heart and imagine your breath flowing in and out of your heart area. With each inhale and exhale, begin to slow your breath. Make it a bit deeper than your normal breathing pattern each time, but do not force your breath. Instead, make it comfortable but slower.
As you continue to breathe, we move into step 3: which is to enfold our emotions, thoughts, and issue into an imaginary cloth.
In your mind, visualize a piece of cloth or paper, fabric, whatever you choose. Let it be the first thing that comes to mind. And if you have trouble coming up with something, visualize your favorite color and allow that to be the space you enfold your feelings. What do you need to move from your mind, your emotional body, and place inside this cloth? Imagine yourself pulling out anything not serving you and placing it there, then fold the edges. Finally, secure all the pieces you put inside so that nothing escapes.
And continue to breathe.
Moving into our last step, we want to soak the parcel in the heart. Visualize yourself placing the package in the center of your chest in a kind and loving way. Remember, the heart is the center for love and compassion. The only way to get through something is to go through the moment, the emotions, the thoughts. Instead of barring through, we hand this over to our heart in a regulated way. We let it soak in a balanced nervous system, in peaceful energy, and in an environment where we can focus on solutions and resolution rather than disruption, sadness, or any other negative emotions.
Take another breath and say, “I release this to my heart.” I also love to add, “I release control. I release concern. I release anything less than love.”
Step 1: Acknowledge
Step 2: Heart-focused breathing
Step 3: Enfold
Step 4: Soak
Holding space in your heart is necessary. This beautiful technique allows you to hold space for anything that finds you.
Thank you to Jennifer for the request.
I challenge you to try this method as it is a life tool that helps elevate and reset your mindset.
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We all want to be liked and loved—it’s a natural part of our desire and need for human connection. In fact, from the moment we are born, we begin seeking connection. However, while this desire is innate, there can be a tipping point where being liked and loved turns into seeking approval and validation through the assurance of others.
We all have that one friend, or maybe you are that friend, that appears to be quote “big-hearted,” always eager to lend a hand, and wants everyone around them to thrive, be happy, and fulfilled, even if it comes at their detriment.
This kind of connection seeking is a hallmark trait of people-pleasing. And today, we are taking a one-on-one deep dive into the truth behind people-pleasing, how it often begins, the cycle of attachment, and how we break up with the need to seek validation outside of ourselves.
So, let’s shift our perspective and ability to be who we are regardless of our past or others’ good opinions.
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
01:36 Do you struggle with people-pleasing?
04:00 A standard definition of people-pleasing
04:21 Common traits of people-pleasers
07:10 We must unpack the root of people-pleasing behavior – it’s an adaptive mechanism for our safety
13:29 The cycle of attachment and how this comes into play with please-pleasing: Needs, Expression of Emotions, Gratification, and Trust
15:58 Your brain will always look for the safest route in your thoughts, feelings, and actions
16:38 How the attachment cycle can hurt us when we people-please
19:30 The negative impacts of people-pleasing: self-betrayal, higher stress, anxiety, and so much more
22:40 We can break our relationships by not honoring our personal needs
25:11 Emotional health is essential, and people-pleasing puts you in a mental cage
27:07 We are all required to meet our own needs
28:15 Step 1: Acknowledgement will always lead to change
29:54 Step 2: Self-compassion and release of judgment
31:25 An exercise for people-pleasing ourselves when we are in the negative happen of doing it for everyone else
33:08 Step 3: Looking at what triggers you into “helpful behavior” or if it’s from a learned behavior habit – getting into the “why”
34:26 Step 4: Look at our daily practices and how we show up. Engaging in the pause and rejecting the automatic yes
35:31 Step 5: The questions to ask ourselves when we find ourselves wanting to jump in for others
37:08 Step 6: Practicing honesty in complete authenticity
40:09 Step 7: Gauge the people you keep close
42:21 There is some trauma work that cannot be done alone. Reach out and seek help. Sessions with me can be found: One-on-One Sessions — Danielle A. Vann (danielleavann.com)
44:20 The biggest question to ask yourself: What need am I trying to fulfill for others that I’m unwilling to meet for myself?
If you want to get your life together, you have to get serious about what you need and desire, and then work to shift the behaviors set in place so long ago. I dare you to be brave enough to do the work, and it’s an essential step into getting your life together, girl.
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Find a comfortable position and take a full deep breath. Let your body settle as you find the rhythm of your breath—slow and gentle, effortless as you welcome in calm and release tension.
As your body relaxes, tell your mind to slow down, too. There’s nothing to worry about, nothing to rush to; there’s no tension you must concern yourself with. There’s a time for everything; at this moment, it’s time just to be, to accept what is, as it is, as you are right now.
Invite yourself to come to complete stillness now with another gently easy breath.
Let these words guide you into a state of self-connection while you honor your journey and this moment of being.
Take another full deep breath and let it go.
There are times in our lives when we find ourselves struggling, even fighting with our thoughts and emotions. In times of change or stagnation, we can feel as if nothing is happening for us, and everything is happening to us. These feelings can cause turmoil, which upsets our emotional and mental balance. When we become aware that a struggle is within us, we become disrupted and uncomfortable. Our instincts push against the unfamiliar, the unknown, as we roll around with the discomfort, adding a mentality of lack, stress, and anxiety.
This mindset becomes our lens, how we see everything until we remember that we have the power to call clarity back to us.
We can always choose to open ourselves to understanding what is and all the options that lie within and around us. There will never be a moment that choice is not at your fingertips, and this understanding, this power, comes only from knowing you are never limited by where you are, by a moment and events that are moving through your life. The truth is you are only limited by how you see and feel about what is. Your power lies within your connection to every moment that finds you.
Take another full deep breath and let it go.
Repeat after me, if it serves you.
My life is a teacher. Every moment that finds me, whether it feels like an obstacle, issue, upset, disappointment, or uncertainty is a moment whose intention is to teach me what I need and must have to grow in this journey I call my life.
Today may not be what I envisioned for myself, but it is what I need. And within this need, I understand that everything that happens through me, around me, and within my existence is and will always be for me. Every moment I have the pleasure of living is a moment that can be a catalyst for something more, regardless if it first appears as a hurdle or an emotional and mental earthquake.
I know that life is not black and white—it’s made of shades of grey and all the vibrant colors that make up the landscape of my life. The landscape of different perspectives, outcomes, and understandings—all of which I need to be my best and most authentic self.
When I release the idea of how things “should be,” I give myself permission to own what is. When I look at all the possibilities, I willingly accept that there is room for more. There is room for growth. There is room for everything I need, want, and desire. There is room for me, in my life, actively, beautifully, and within a mindset of seeing how the world is always moving in my favor. When I engage with all that is, I allow life to serve me.
Take another full deep breath and let it go.
I know that I’ve never been meant to live in a linear way. There will always be ups and downs, the ebb and flow. I accept that my path and journey have always and will always take unexpected twists and turns. While these twists may cause feelings of loss, confusion, fear, joy, excitement, and love, I realize that these are the elements of life itself, the elements of what is. The elements of how I see, feel, and anchor things within my mind, body, and soul.
Within these elements, there is acceptance, and acceptance allows me to surrender instead of simply enduring life. Enduring never serves; it never helps me move into my best state. It only keeps me small and living inside a box that was never meant to be my shelter.
I know when I am in a state of enduring because I am out of alignment with what is good, grounded, and fulfilling. It’s in these times that I forget that I always have a choice. When there is no choice, there is resistance.
The opposite of resistance is an empowered choice, and that is my natural state.
Take another full deep breath and let it go.
From now on, I am engaging in choices that come from balanced perspectives. I have the power to choose. I have the power to live. I have the power to know that life is not happening to me. Life is happening for me. Accepting what is, is a gift.
I release my need to control what is. Instead, I am consciously living from a place of courage and personal power. I am giving my best mentally, physically, emotionally, and spiritually to each moment. This state of being and doing allows me to own my life, direct my energy, and know that I am a powerful soul having a very human experience.
This is my what is state—this is the power that peace affords me.
Take another full deep breath and let it go.
Allow resistances to flow from your lips and say, “I am here to live my life as it is, as I am, and in whatever comes and will be. This is the state of change, and I honor this beautiful way of life.”
Take another full deep breath and let it go.
I AM
I am…Two of the most powerful words in any language. Words that direct our emotions and thoughts into movements that support us.
I am change.
I am whole and capable.
I am in the flow of what is, at any time, in all ways.
I am living a life of peace because I know that everything that comes into my awareness has the power to shape me for the better.
I am honoring that I have the power of choice.
I am living in a state of acceptance.
I am mentally, emotionally, physically, and spiritually owning all of me, which means the blessings that come my way, too.
I am purposeful with my intentions.
I am allowing a gap between my emotions and my response.
I am seeing life differently now.
I am welcoming of the unknown.
I am powerful, and this power will always be used to serve my highest, greatest, and most grounded good.
Take another full deep breath and let it go.
Allow this understanding to be your guide. Allow yourself to seize the beauty of what is. Today is the day that you call back clarity, release tension, and know that everything is working in your favor.
Anytime you need a moment to come back to center. Repeat these words and lean into your inner truth. You are beautiful.
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A massive part of our overall life satisfaction comes down to the quality of our relationships, especially our most intimate ones. So often, women find themselves dissatisfied, overwhelmed, and feeling as if their partner does not meet their needs. When this occurs, life can feel as if it is lacking in passion, purpose, play, and genuine connection.
This week we’re taking our intimate relationships to increase our overall satisfaction in and out of the bedroom with Relationships Expert and Love Coach Gaby Sundra.
When we lack passion, intimacy, and relationship goals, our mindset and personal drive can become stunted. This is an adult-only conversation just due to its nature, but it’s filled with tips and tools to uplevel your relationship play, enjoyment, and connection. As Gaby says, “We’re keeping the fights clean and the sex dirty!”
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
01:48 Gabby is the Love Trifecta Coach—meeting each other’s needs in our love relationship
03:19 OCC: The elements of blaming, complaining, and shaming
04:44 How a reset summit can serve your relationship& the words, “Did I show up for you today?”
07:11 Loving by design and not default
09:35 The Love Trifecta: play, peace, and passion
12:12 The number one mistake we make is putting our relationship on autopilot or on the backburner
13:36 Intimacy is key to any relationship, and it goes beyond sex
16:17 Get to know your partner’s love language and honoring the space, word, and needs of your beloved
19:11 What was present at the beginning that is missing now?
20:21 We must model intimacy
24:09 Taking the negativity off the table and putting goals in place for our couple’s culture to thrive
27:35 We cannot make others accountable for our happiness and self-ownership
29:00 Marriage generally ends because of a million small things, not the big – removing the negativity
32:41 Know your partner’s fight and communication styles so you can be in alignment with one another – consent is key
34:00 Allowing the “so-so” moments
37:32 Caring about your beloved needs but not giving up your own needs
41:41 Intentionality in relationships is necessary
44:31 Upset is often a need that is not becoming met or communicated correctly
46:43 Take time to have a needs meeting to help you make sure both people are meeting their personal needs—this is a massive piece of trust
49:15 Keeping the romance alive removes the “roommate” vibe that many marriages survive within
52:44 Small shifts create significant changes—start with creating a vision for your relationship
54:54 Needs are not demands
56:40 What to do right NOW that will help increase your enjoyment
58:00 Uncovering Your Love Language
59:21 Gabby’s three things
Relationships don’t have to be so much work. They can be pure empowerment when we add the trifecta that Gabby so beautifully taught alongside the other tools that make loving fun.
You don’t want to miss the free offerings Gabby mentioned. Again, you can find the free downloads at www.forbetter.love/girl
If you would like to work with Gabby and rekindle your relationship you can find information at www.forbetter.love/meet.
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Have you ever heard the saying, “You’ve got to fall in love with yourself first?”
Many women reject this idea, but the truth is, the longest relationship you will have during your time on this earth is the relationship you have with yourself. Therefore, nurturing yourself is highly important, and if you want to have a life that is together, abundant, and truly in alignment, you must put yourself first.
Margaret from Austin, Texas, wrote in and said, “Danielle, in the year that I’ve been following your work, I’ve been working toward owning my life and caring deeply about myself. I’ve made my mental health, emotional well-being, sleep, nutrition, physical activity, and relationships a priority. However, I still struggle to put myself first in all areas of my life. I know you’ve said multiple times that we must hold space for ourselves and our needs, but honestly, I still find myself giving more than I should because I want to be a good person. How can we hold space for ourselves without feeling selfish or guilty? And, are there ways that I can check in with myself to know if I’m putting myself first?”
Fantastic question, Margaret. Many of us need a matrix to know if we have put ourselves in first position, and that’s exactly what we will work through and reset today!
Doing this work comes in a few different simple and easy ways. As for holding space for ourselves, I love this is a focus of Margaret’s, and I hope it’s one of yours, too. For those that don’t know what the means, holding space for yourself means to be present with yourself, without judgment. It means you are willing to listen to your own needs, act from a grounded place of self-love, trust, and respect, and ultimately practice empathy and compassion. This is the essential act of putting yourself first.
And before we dive into the rest of the question, I want to touch on quote “being a good person” quickly. First, understand that being a good person has different definitions for each of us. One may think that being a good person means doing the right thing at all costs, even the cost of yourself. You know, doing things you dislike. Others see being a good person as not speaking up for themselves, or staying small to make others comfortable with their own unwillingness to take control of their lives. Others believe it’s living as you are and trying to do your best. There are so many definitions. The problem with being a quote “good person” is that we often do unkind things to ourselves while we serve others without question and without realizing the long-term impact.
The deal is this; when we put ourselves first in a genuine way, we realize that being a good person starts with how we treat ourselves. When we treat ourselves well, we have the ability to engage with others in a grounded and heartfelt way. We also realize that no one else will save or do the work for you. With this understanding, you also realize that you cannot be the one who does all the work for someone else. It’s that a-ha moment that you are the knight in shining armor—the princess who has to pick up her sword and slay her own dragons, right?
With that understanding on the table, let’s jump to the next part of Margaret’s question. Are there ways to check in and know if you are putting yourself first? And the answer is, yes, absolutely there are! And, to be honest, there’s a simple practice that you may be doing
First, I want you to think of yourself and your life in the first position. The first position is the “I” perspective. I need, I want, I am.
This is getting into a place where you do not see your goals, needs, and desires as something separate then yourself, but instead in the mindset of how this impacts me, and only me. “I!”
To help you know if you are in the first position when you are doing something for others, they would be the second position. Instead of “I,” this is the “you” perspective of point-of-view, so you would say, “You are doing this.” Or “Are you doing that?” This you is someone else.
The third position is the “he/she/it/they” perspective. So, more of a collective group.
As to ways to check in and know that you are putting yourself first, we literally tune in and turn inward in the first position.
Anytime someone comes to you and says, “I need your help,” you would tune in and ask yourself a series of questions. Now, these questions are mere examples. You can certainly change them and make them work for you.
But I may ask myself, through the lens of the first position:
How do I feel today? Do I have space mentally, emotionally, and physically to help someone else?
You can also ask: what is important to me today?
What do I need to do for myself today to make it the best experience? When was the last time you asked yourself this question? Most people never ask this question. Yet, focusing on how you can engage with yourself is a powerful tool that serves your self-esteem, self-love, trust, respect, and so much more beyond holding space.
The next question: How can I best care for myself today?
This is a straightforward way to tune in, put yourself first, and become mindful of what you need and want. As to how to hold space without guilt—saying no isn’t really about the “no.” Instead, it’s about: standing up for your own values, principles, and needs. It’s also about prioritizing what’s most important to you, as I mentioned.
Once you have clarity around what you want and why and then create clear standards around them, it’s easier to say no. There’s deep meaning behind the “no.” With that, you’ll feel empowered instead of fearful and worried, which allows guilt to fall away. More importantly, you’ll be focused on what you’re saying yes to, which will be your priorities and values.
The way to approach a “no” that best keeps you in the first position is:
#1 Delay your answer:
#2 Make a counter-offer if this is something you do want to do but don’t have all the time to commit.
#3 Be firm in your answer.
#4 If you need to explain, keep it brief.
We hold space for ourselves without guilt by:
Being honest
Don’t apologize for taking and owning our own space.
And we are firm in keeping ourselves a priority.
Holding space is necessary. Putting yourself first is a necessity, and there’s nothing wrong with it. You can offer to yourself in all the kindness you do for others.
Thank you to Margaret from Austin, Texas, for the question!
I challenge you to hold space for yourself and put yourself in the first position! Doing so is an essential life tool that helps elevate and reset your mindset.
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If you have spent any time working toward personal growth or have read any personal development books you have likely heard the term “limiting beliefs.” While the conversation around limiting beliefs seems to be the “it” topic right now, many do not go deep enough into these psychological defense mechanisms to explain what they are, let alone where they come from.
Today, we’re taking a one-on-one deep dive into how limiting beliefs negatively impact your life, how we trick our brains into believing our limits are keeping us safe, and I’ll walk you step-by-step into identifying your limiting beliefs, and most importantly how to shatter them and ultimately eradicate them from your life!
If you are ready to get your life together, and grow in ways you’ve yet to even imagine, this is the conversation that may just put you on the path!
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
01:53 A series of statements that help you identify “normal” limiting beliefs—the speak of our limits
04:11 The brain is the gatekeeper and processor of every bit of information that comes into your awareness
05:15 We are mean making machines. We are the ones who place value on our thoughts and feelings. This is highly important when it comes to limiting beliefs.
06:30 An example of neutral thoughts and how we develop limiting beliefs by our value placement
11:30 Our working definition of self-limiting beliefs
13:00 Whatever limiting statement you feed yourself becomes the filter in which you see the world
15:00 Limiting beliefs drive fear, anxiety, and life dissatisfaction
16:35 Most of our limits can be traced back to our childhood: how these small moments create long-lasting issues
19:25 Trauma and past experiences lead to limiting beliefs, too
20:15 How to identify what limiting beliefs sounds like in our daily conversations
21:20 Doing an honest assessment is the first step in breaking limiting beliefs
23:07 Question #1 for self-assessment: What area of my life am I afraid or anxious to act on?
23:43 Question #2: What are the areas I wish were different or need improvement?
23:57 Question #3: Where do I want to be in each of these areas?
24:20 Question #4: Where did this limit begin? Whose voice is speaking?
26:32 Making a note each time a negative thought or limiting belief comes in will help you target what is happening within your mindset and inner conversation
27:53 Starting on the surface level, let’s shatter the beliefs in three simple steps. Step #1: Look for evidence that challenges the belief
29:41 Step #2: Experiment with our behaviors—acting in direct contradiction to the limit
30:38 Step 3: Reinforce positive beliefs
31:49 Cognitive restructuring: what it is, how we do it, and how it impacts us in the long term
32:40 We first root out any Cognitive Distortions. Listen to Episode 52: Negative Thoughts Running Your Life to learn more
33:33 We then work toward self-witnessing the thoughts that come in
34:11 With the self-witnessing process we can realize most of these thoughts are not within our personal ownership
34:57 We can then question the limits validity and truthiness
36:07 We then look for another angle–a counter thought
36:50 We then do a cost-benefit analysis of our thoughts
38:23 Once we’ve reached this place, we start generating alternatives
40:54 What occurs when we shatter our limiting beliefs!
Ultimately, when you give yourself permission to let go of the old stories and everything that is working against you, you begin to see how wildly capable you are of everything and anything you’ve ever dreamt of or desired.
It starts by saying yes to yourself and no to the limits. You deserve to shatter anything that is not working in your favor and it’s an essential step to getting your life together, girl.
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When was the last time you gave yourself a mental and emotional boost? Every once in a while, we need to reset and bring ourselves back to center. Feeding yourself positive affirmations allows you to elevate your mood, find a sense of peace, and shift your perspective to help you keep your life together, girl! The Get Your Life Together, Girl mini bi-monthly reset is here to help you reset and remember who you are.
Find a comfortable position and take a full deep breath. Take the time you need to become comfortable. Allow your mind and body to relax. With an inhale, move your shoulders up toward your ears. And with a deep exhale, release your should into their natural position—relaxed and free of tension.
Bring attention to that place within you that is calm, centered, and in balance—the place where your inner light residences and shines.
Let these words guide you into a state of relaxation, true understanding, and self-connection while you honor your journey and most profound truth—the truth that you are a masterpiece of light, love, infinite beauty, and peace. This light is your energy, your soulful, most authentic self.
In this understanding, you can claim all that you are and honor your inner light that has helped you rise above darkness, hard times, and negativity. If you are not willing to give your very best, life is not going to offer much in return. Within each hour, day, week, and month, there is a time for everything. There is a time for letting go of self-destruction. There is a time for building and growing. There is a time for motion and rest. There is a time for wellness. There is always time for whatever is to be. That is if you make and take the time, and that begins with honoring your very being.
It’s from here, this witnessing, this honoring, this deep claiming of yourself, that peace is felt and built. It’s from here that you rise above life’s challenges with grace and a mind that is directed toward the lessons and purpose, instead of any amount of discomfort and dis-ease.
Take another full deep breath and let it go.
Building your life from your inner light brings your mind, body, and soul into deep alignment.
The truth is—you are light. Light is your true self. You radiate peace because it is the foundation, the baseline, of who you are. You are joy. You are perfection because your soul is on fire with beauty.
Take another full deep breath and let it go.
Repeat after me if it serves you.
My inner light shines brightly, and I always have the choice to return to this inner place of beauty, purpose, and my calling. When I live from my soul, my inner light, I know there’s no need to struggle because who I am has always been meant to live in harmony with everything within and around me, regardless of the circumstances that find their way into my experience.
As I honor myself, I realize that I am a soul having a human experience. This amazing understanding reminds me that I will never fill fulfilled if I do not honor my soul.
As I lean into my light, I intuitively know that I am here to make a difference and be in service to something greater than myself. It is my intention to build harmonious relationships, beautiful experiences, and allow my soul to speak in everything I do, no matter how the journey unfolds.
Take a full deep breath and let it go.
My soul has always been meant to express itself. This inner urge is meant to keep me seeking, growing, and developing in my greater meaning.
Who I am longs for a deeper connection. My authentic self knows that nothing can genuinely obstruct my journey as long as I endlessly renew my light in the present moment by witnessing and remembering lightness is my true self. I know where I have been, what I have experienced, has never been to break me. Instead, it’s been meant to build me. It’s been meant to marry my heart, soul, and mind in each experience.
With my attention focused inward, I allow my emotions to flow freely and my thoughts to become unstuck. I hold lightly to the things around me as I know this creates space for peace to radiate through me. When I hold lightly, I give myself permission to live in a state of change.
In change, I allow stillness. I seek it. I find it. I allow myself to receive endless support on every level. When I shine as a whole being, I lack nothing. I give all that I am. I purposefully shine.
With my shine comes pure joy. With my shine comes grace. With my shine comes compassion to see how far I have come. I am strengthened beyond where I was yesterday, two days ago, last week, last month, and last year. I will continue to shine while I nourish my positive light and continue to grow.
Take another full deep breath and let it go.
I will never again forget who and what I am. I will never ignore my light, intuition, and self-awareness again. And if I do, I know I can return again and again because this place within never leaves. This light within me is my home base.
The longest relationship I will ever have is the relationship with myself. I am home, and I will continue to feel that connection of home each and every day.
When I arrived on this earth, I was unbothered by everything before and around me. This foundation of peace is my space of restoration, recovery, and healing.
From today forward, I am seeing myself on the path to lasting lightness. I am embracing my truest self and honoring my authentic wisdom. I trust myself. I trust my truest state.
I am awake. I am living in the richness of my power. I release everything that is holding me in place. I let go of anything less than light.
Take a full deep breath and let it go.
Now imagine your breath is clearing your body of emotions, thoughts, of pain, of discomfort, and anything that keeps you in a state of resistance.
Honoring your light allows for new beginnings.
Honoring yourself allows you to be authentically, soulfully, and beautifully you.
Breath in peace and allow it to settle within you.
And exhale. Shift into your center.
Breathe in self-love and self-trust.
Exhale anything that is holding you in place.
See yourself stepping into the fullest expression of your light. See yourself as the greatest expression of you.
Take a full deep breath and let it go.
I AM
I am…Two of the most powerful words in any language. Words that direct our emotions and thoughts into movements that support us.
I am light.
I am whole and limitless.
I am in the flow of peace and harmony.
I am living a love story with myself.
I am giving my very best each day.
I am allowing my life to build and grow in the foundation of my light.
I am mentally, emotionally, physically, and spiritually in a state of authenticity.
I am love.
I am calm, purposeful, and creating balance.
I am impeccable with my words because they are based in my light.
I am healed, and I am living a healed story from here on out.
I am simply unstoppable.
Take another full deep breath and let it go.
Allow this understanding to be your guide. Allow yourself to seize the beauty within you. Today is a new day. A day where you know the very best of you and all that you need is already available to you because it is already who you are. You are light. Light is your true self. You radiate peace. You are joy. You are perfection because your soul is on fire with greatness.
Anytime you need a moment to come back to center. Repeat these words and lean into your inner truth. You are beautiful.
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Once we reach adulthood, it’s almost guaranteed that we’ve run into or deeply experienced some form of trauma. This is especially true within our family units and our generational upbringing.
There’s an incredible moment of healing happening globally. We are in a time where so many are focusing on breaking cycles and finding healing that best supports their lives. This conversation and movement are so profoundly needed as one person’s healing changes everything beyond them once they put their healing story into action.
This week I sat down to have one of the most powerful conversations we’ve had on the Get Your Life Together, Girl Podcast with therapist Somiari Fubara. Together we talk about breaking family cycles, abuse, trauma, the pain, the hardships, the victories, and how we can own our path without it costing us who we are, and want we want to create for ourselves. This is raw, unfiltered conversation with the end goal of motivating you to start healing and ultimately build the life of your dreams regardless of the opinions of others, especially those that differ within your bloodline.
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
02:19 Somiari Fubara’s why and story begins
05:20 What most do not understand is that most therapist, counselors, clinicians, and coaches do their own healing work
08:07 Cycles, generational trauma, and breaking the system of how our trauma continues
11:00 The mind, body, soul: why spirituality must be within the healing
12:50 Two life-changing questions: “What has happened through you?” and “How is your heart?”
16:23 Holding space, emotional intelligence, and your definition of your emotions
18:42 “Borrowing trouble gap”
19:52 Where people get stuck in their emotional trauma within the cycles
26:00 The struggle of saying, “The cycle stops here!”
27:17 Unlearning the feelings, thoughts, and perceptions of what others expect of us – the element of people-pleasing.
30:57 What opinions actually are, and we have to redefine the definition
33:41 The punishment of rejection – the cocoon stage
37:11 Comfort zone stripping–don’t burn everything down
39:44 We are relational beings because the community is our safety
40:47 Boundaries are not always walls
42:42 Narcissism and its impact on us
44:21 The new definition of trauma
49:30 What we want to see in the world starts with the entire system
51:19 You first – where self-care starts
54:26 Trusting your intuition and gaslighting
60:50 The power of taking your own hand and how to do it
64:11 How we find deep ownership to be a cycle breaker
68:05 Somiari’s three things
Until we do the hard work and stop the cycles of abuse, pain, and trauma, we will never get to a place of complete healing. Without doing so, we will never arrive and meet our spiritual, mental, and emotional reasons for being. It is time for each of us to go into the silence as we discussed and find ourselves so that we may impact everything beyond us.
If you want to dive deeper and continue learning from Somiari, you can follow her on Instagram @Somiaribella. You can also find out more about her at Somiari Fubara - Erika Malm.
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In every action, experience, in every being, there is something for which we can be grateful. In fact, did you know that genuine appreciation and the practice of such in our lives can facilitate healing within our mind, body, and spirit?
It’s been scientifically studied and proven, as we know now, heartfelt appreciation uplifts our mood, creates mental balance, inspires our creativity, drives us toward our goals, helps us emotionally regulate our system, creates a mindset of self-control, and ultimately develops an attitude where we are reminded that what has been and what is arrives in our lives to serve us, not work against us.
In today’s mindset reset, we are leaning into four quick and easy gratitude exercises that take only a few minutes each and have incredible results when practiced. Think about how much your day-to-day would shift if you took a moment to count your blessings instead of glazing over them.
You can begin shifting into a heartfelt appreciation and gratitude-centered mindset by asking yourself a quick series of fundamental questions or statements at the start of your day.
These questions should be changed or shifted to meet your needs, but when you bring your mind into an appreciation and gratitude focus at the start of the day, it sets the tone for your thought process, emotions, and the overall day itself.
So, those questions could sound like this:
How do I want my day to go?
No one will say, I want to have a bad day. Right? But go deeper than just answering – good. I want my day to go well. Instead, I want to feel happy today. I want my day to be a collection of small victories. You get it; get detailed.
The following statement is:
Today I get to (fill in the blank), and I’m excited about this because…
We have a habit of getting up in the morning and taking for granted that we have new opportunities before us. So, stop, today I get to, not have to, but get the pleasure of doing, blank and I’m excited about it because…
This brings the mind to a state of positivity and appreciation.
The next statement is: What I am most grateful for right now is (blank), and then offer yourself why you are most thankful for what you’ve listed.
You can do this exercise verbally or written. This can even be done while in the shower if you are short on time.
Let’s move on to a few more exercises to help you increase your life satisfaction.
This next technique is done through mindful pauses throughout your day, but the collective time of each break is literally just a few minutes each time.
You have ten minutes of wasted time in your day that could and should be shifted into an appreciation break.
Here’s how an appreciation break works:
Look at your schedule for the day. These breaks do not need to be done at the same time each day, but there are benefits to constancy, of course. But look at your schedule. Create several blocks in the day – whether that’s early in the morning—I will pause and say, if you are using the first exercise, this could count as break one. You know, a two-for-one kind of deal! Back to the schedule, these breaks can be during lunch or between meetings; if you are a mom, during naptime would be excellent. On the way home in the car, while you are alone, at bedtime, it doesn’t matter; simply carve out set time and give yourself a moment to focus your attention on the moment.
Often, I will ask someone I am working with to place their hand over their heart area and breathe a little deeper than normal. This is because we are regulating our nervous system through the breath. Those deeper breaths would be taken in as inhales to the count of five or six seconds and released to the count of five or six.
With the slowed breath, you simply allow your mental, emotional, and physical self to slow and focus on feeling good. When you are there, recall a time in the day that made you feel good inside. When it comes to mind, try to re-experience the moment, the thoughts, and the feelings. We are activating our appreciation focus while feeding our bodies with good hormones and stimulants—pick-me-ups, if you will.
If you can’t think of something good that day, go to the day before, or even last week. The focus takes two minutes (120 seconds) to complete and helps us appreciate and find gratitude for what is happening around us.
This simple practice is a game-changer when it’s turned into a habit.
When you are finished, ask yourself: how do I feel now? Am I more relaxed? Do I need a bit longer to reset?
Another simple way to create greater gratitude in your life is through an appreciation list.
This is a weekly practice, but it can be done daily.
Personally, I prefer to do this practice on Sunday, but make it work for you!
What you’ll do is make a list of the thing you appreciate in your life right now. The list should include people, places, experiences, feelings, activities, pets, and small things that help you create a happier life. Anything that’s a positive that comes to mind put it on your list! If you do this one Sunday or Monday, you can then use the list as a focal point throughout your week. You could incorporate these pieces into your appreciation breaks by taking two items off the list and place your hand over your heart. From there, you would offer more profound thanks and gratitude for the thing or experience.
This again is a straightforward, simple practice. There are no rules other than writing what comes, don’t judge yourself, and feel the joy of your appreciation.
And the last easy practice is a journaling tool that helps flip the gratitude switch on in your brain.
I’m going to give you a list of prompts to get you started but write what comes to you. I promise you have more fitting questions that apply to your life—you simply need to focus on them.
So, question one:
Name one highlight of your morning or week – depending on whether you are doing the exercise daily or as a weekly wrap-up or week starter.
Number 2: Recall something that you are grateful for that happened this past week.
Three: What’s one skill you possess that you are thankful to have?
What made you laugh today?
What do you most love right now and why?
Name one thing you wouldn’t want to live without today.
Again, you can write down anything you wish, but these questions and statements are meant to get you started.
We often think of gratitude as something challenging to practice, but hopefully, now you see how simple it truly is. All it takes is focus and desire. Each of us has something, actually many somethings, to be thankful for. When you give daily thanks, your experiences change. Why does this happen? Because you are changing the filter through which you are thinking. So important. If your mind is healthy, your life is healthier. If your mind is focused on appreciation, you’ll find more to appreciate. Your brain works in patterns. Wouldn’t it be far more beneficial to think in the positive?
Gratitude and heartfelt appreciation are all around you. I challenge you to look for it.
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Our lives are constantly bombarded with endless to-do lists, obligations, and emotional ups and downs, events that can rock us off balance, which often has us searching for ways to unblock our lives, clear old patterns, and find some sense of balance and peace. That is especially true if we are on a personal development journey, healing and getting our lives together.
This week we are taking a one-on-one deep dive into a practice that allows us to do just that. What is it? It’s meditation.
This isn’t your typical conversation about breathing and quieting the mind. Instead, we’re taking a journey through the science and benefits, breaking down meditation myths, and I’ll hand over what most people do wrong when they practice. This is one conversation that gives you the tools to use your mind to your greatest benefit.
So, let’s shift our perspectives and ability to heal and create inner calm.
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
02:28 Meditation transforms lives
04:48 Putting down limiting beliefs and questions when it comes to meditation
05:40 Two important reminders and what your natural state of being actually is
08:35 A massive secret you must be aware of when it comes to meditation
09:25 What meditation is and the definition of a meditation practice
11:25 Some truths about meditation
11:41 False thought #1: The act of fostering calm or meditation goes against organized religious
12:34 False thought #2: The goal of meditation is relaxation
13:24 False thought #3: You must be able to silence your thoughts
13:17 False thought #4: Meditation is not for everyone
15:10 False thought #5: Meditation is a struggle
16:54 Deep diving into the brain science of meditation
17:30 How our grey matter is impacted when we are meditators
19:15 Our emotional regulations and ability to understand our emotions increase when we have a constant meditation practice
21:00 Other ways meditations impact our body
24:00 Harvard Medical School study shows meditation lowers our brain’s age
25:10 Real-life example of meditations impact
29:19 Life benefits meditation creates
32:34 How meditation affected me and how it will impact you too
38:47 How to avoid the pitfalls most beginners or long-time meditators experience
39:30 Pitfall #1: Meditation is not a place to sit with your problems
40:52 Pitfall #2: Find a time to meditate and be constant
42:06 Pitfall #3: Let go of the idea of instant results
42:14 Pitfall #4: Start small
45:28 Pitfall #5: Witness your thoughts and invite them to leave
46:09 Pitfall #6: Show up!
46:21 Pitfall #7: Let go of the judgment
47:00 A basic meditation practice
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When was the last time you gave yourself a mental and emotional boost? Every once in a while, we need to reset and bring ourselves back to center. Feeding yourself positive affirmations allows you to elevate your mood, find a sense of peace, and shift your perspective to help you keep your life together, girl!
The Get Your Life Together, Girl mini bi-monthly reset is here to help you reset and remember who you are.
Find a comfortable position and take a full deep breath. Let these words guide you into a state of relaxation, release, and the ability to actively observe and break free of the thoughts that no longer serve you.
Your mind is a wonderous place—a place of insight. It’s a place that has the power to serve you if you take the time to observe and notice the mental activity you give your attention to. When the mind gets lost in thought, you have the power to regain your focus, to shed light on the darkness, to offer yourself trust, and let go of negativity, anxiety, and leave overthinking where it belongs—outside of you. Checking in, going within the thought process gives you the power to be non-reactive to the thoughts that do not serve your life.
Take a full deep breath and let it go.
While most meditations ask you to calm your mind, in a conscious state of release, we start together now by noticing where the mind is; we start by noticing the thoughts flowing in and out.
As a new thought comes, mindfully breathe, observe, and let it be—
not attaching, not reacting, but instead, just sitting. Slowing down and witnessing is the only way to process and be mindfully within what serves you. The brain does not have a filter for negative or positive. It’s your attachment to the moment that provides the filter. Whether you know it or not, you have the power to change or use whatever comes into your awareness.
Take another full deep breath and let it go.
Now that you are focused and in a state of center, it’s time to witness your thought process.
Many believe their thoughts are real, that they are facts. However, our thoughts are impulses, and we are the ones who attach meaning to them. We are the ones who attach and call them facts, not our mind. Buddha called this “The Second Dart.” The first dart is when something actually happens; the second is when we relive the event in our mind.
We must stop responding to thoughts as if they are fact and allowing them to take deep root—especially when they are negative. When we attach ourselves to negative thoughts, they imprison us and lead to our suffering—no matter how long the situation shapes our minds.
Take another deep breath and let it go.
Repeat after me if it serves you.
My mind is a beautiful place. It is a welcoming environment that allows me to process and see the world around me. What I think about grows, and therefore my thoughts bring awareness, allowing me to see each moment unfold. When I observe, I have the power to shift anything that comes before me.
My thoughts manifest into beliefs, into emotions, and then swiftly become my action. Thinking is the only way things come to be… From now on, I will validate my thoughts through a non-hostile place. I validate truth through a framework of balance and self-love. What is never has to control me if I learn to actively observe.
From now on, each thought that holds my attention is attended to rather than given free rein to root down and stay longer than desired. When negativity and negative energy comes into my awareness, I will welcome it as negativity has as much to teach as positive thoughts and emotions do. When this arises, I will give myself permission to ask, “Why is it here?” “What do you have to teach me?” I will ask for its purpose and know that anxiety, stress, upset, overthinking, or any other negative moment is nothing more than a teacher—a moment to help me witness what is, own what I must, and move myself forward.
I know now that I cannot know what I do want unless I know what I don’t. Contrast in my life, emotions, and thinking is necessary.
Take another full deep breath and let it go.
When I feel anything, I know I have the power to observe and then release it if it doesn’t serve me. Just like the thought and feeling came in, it is free to go, too.
I am allowing myself to be open to what is. I do not need to force only positive thoughts and emotions. I do not need to force anything. I can witness and be open to the process of my life. I am allowing whatever arises to come and be released.
Take another full deep breath and let it go.
Take a moment to notice your thoughts now. Recognize the emotions you are feeling. You do not have to do anything with them – just observe. Be aware.
Instead of trying to push them away, allow them to pass through you. By simply noticing what you are thinking and feeling without judgment and attachment allows you to stay in balance.
Breathe in deeply through your nose and exhale out of your mouth, allowing everything to leave you.
Hold onto this calm. Let everything melt away, and let your centered balance take over.
With every inhale, you feel calmer. With every exhale, you are more centered and less reactive.
Every thought that comes, every emotion that is, belongs in a pause…that gap and space of recognizing, seeing, and letting it move through you.
Your mind is a calm, balanced place. It’s center has never been rooted in negativity. It’s always been centered in a space that is meant to serve you.
Breath in peace. Allow your mind to clear. Relax your muscles, especially the brain. Your thoughts are not controlling you. Your mind is not racing. Your emotions are not pulsing. Everything is still.
Just breath.
Just breath.
Just….breath.
Bring your mind to a new thought, a new mantra that is meant to serve you.
I am centered in peaceful thought.
Enjoy this relief for a moment.
Breathing, remembering that your mind is always there to support you. Just let go.
Just breath.
Repeat after me one more time:
I am centered in peaceful thought.
I am unattached to anything that does not serve me.
When you are ready, open your eyes and come back to your space. Feel the calm that is pulsing through your heart and mind—notice how what was on your mind before has now cleared without stress, without negative emotions, without attachment.
You have the power to witness. You have the power to release. Whenever negative thoughts and emotions begin to build, return to this exercise and allow them to come in and ask: Why are you here? What are you trying to teach me?
And then just breath.
You are centered in peaceful thought. You are unattached to anything that does not serve you.
Anytime you need a moment to come back to center. Repeat these words and lean into your truth. You were born ready to be your highest, truest, and greatest self in the most grounded, unattached, thoughtful way.
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Are you trading your time for money while denying your inner desires and purpose? So many women do. In continuing our conversation about full life ownership and getting your life together, we again focus on turning our passions into tangible, life-sustaining businesses. This time, we shift our mindset into making our social media pages into something more than a collection of staged photos and funny memes.
This week we chat with Instagram Guru and Strategist, the queen of everything IG, Brittney Batla. Brittney is all about permitting yourself to build your dreams. With this mindset, she takes us on a journey through her own leap into business, her struggles, the best tested IG strategies, and we talk about how women can help serve other women by doubling down on themselves! She’s been a personal help to me while building the Get Your Life Together, Girl community, and I know she will inspire you, too.
This next hour gives you the information to turn your purpose and passion into a thriving, mindful social experience. We’re getting our lives together from every angle!
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
02:19 Brittney Batla’s story
03:38 How a misalignment brought Brittany into her purpose
09:06 From “should” to “most” when it comes to stepping out of your comfort zone
12:03 The firsts suck, but you still must do it!
14:31 How to get started on IG and beyond
15:05 Create for a specific audience–niche down
20:50 You can create something out of nothing—here’s how
21:31 Instagram best practices
30:15 A slow growth is better than an overnight boom
34:05 You don’t own your IG account—there are ways around the lack of ownership. You must develop a list off the app
37:28 People don’t come to you for your products. They come to you for the benefit and a result
42:44 Instant connections online create colossal support. Engage in such a way
51:10 Stories, Lives, Reels, Post, where to start, and each element’s purpose
55:26 IG’s desire and intention to keep people on the app
57:24 The reason why you need a kickass bio!
61:29 Using your insights to your benefit
62:35 Brittney’s best advice to get started
64:35 Find Brittney’s free training
67:24 Let the imperfection be
71:42 Brittney’s three things
Social media often gets a bad rap. And it does have its weighted cons. However, when you leap, move into imperfect action to get your life together and be excited about what is unfolding for you, you never know what might be in your path. Life only gets better when we live within our purpose.
If you want to dive deeper and continue learning from Brittney, you can follow her on Instagram @brittneybatla. Brittney’s free training is available in the link in her bio or by visiting Hustle Less & Profit More. You can also find Brittney on TikTok or her website: go.brittneybatla.com
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Life is filled with ups and downs, twists and turns, and moments where we are tested. But, as the saying goes, the only constant thing in life is change.
01:23 For today’s mindset reset, we are leaning into how to build resilience in our day-to-day lives. Gabrielle from Dallas, Texas, wrote in through the Get Your Life Together, Girl Instagram page and said, “Danielle, I spent the last year practicing the healing and growth techniques you taught on the podcast and Instagram. They have helped me tremendously. As a result, my mindset has shifted from negative to much more positive, and I feel that my relationships are better than they have been in many years. However, I feel as though I’m still struggling to build resiliency or the ability to bounce back when things happen or when my parents criticize me, things don’t go as planned, or a most recent example, I was laid off because my company closed without warning. Are there practices for resiliency, or is that a trait I don’t have?”
What a great question! Many of us struggle with bouncing back when hard things enter our lives. Unfortunately, most focus on the problem instead of what it will take to move forward or the strategies they have already used in the past. The truth is the problem is more with our focus and inner belief than anything. Yet, this would definitely be different if we had a resiliency plan.
02:52 To answer the last part of Gabrielle’s question: Is resiliency a trait that some do not have—the answer is an overwhelming no. Resiliency is a behavior, not a trait. Some people are indeed more resilient than others, but we can all learn to be more resilient. Coming so is developed through our behaviors, thoughts, and actions.
One way to develop resilience is to draw on what you’ve already learned or been challenged through in the past and what you already know about yourself and your strength but perhaps have forgotten or don’t call upon in times of need.
03:48 We can build our resiliency through a practice called the 4 S’s. I love this exercise developed by Dr. Lucinda Pool and Dr. Hugo Alberts, as it’s had great success among the women I’ve worked with.
Let’s walk through it now so each of us can bounce back, be more adaptable in hard times, and overcome challenges and setbacks. This is how you can build a resiliency plan today!
Grab your pen now!
04:15 Our four S’s are:
04:27 Step 1: The first step is to recall a recent example of resilience.
So, think about a time when you have overcome a big moment like a job loss, illness, a negative comment that cut you deeply, or any other challenge. Take a moment to briefly write it out from all angles—how you felt, reacted, needed, etc. This is an exercise that builds as we move through it.
05:01 Step 2: We want to identify the supportive people in your life.
Take a moment to write down the people who keep you moving forward or turn to when you feel sad, hopeless, or lacking?
05:21 Step 3: What strategies or behaviors did you use to help yourself cope with the situation you wrote about?
What did you do to help yourself move through the negative feelings or thoughts? An example may be: you meditated, exercised, journaled, or called a friend. Write down how you helped yourself while in the thick of things.
05:50 Step 4: Identify sagacity
Sagacity is the wisdom and insight you hold onto and use in your most challenging moments. Maybe it came from a book you read, a quote you saw, something your best friend said, or even something from your past; it doesn’t matter where it came from—what wisdom do you have to call upon?
Put that down on your paper.
06:24 Step 5: Identify your solution-seeking behaviors.
What solution-seeking behaviors did you display to help you with the problem you wrote down in step 1? The examples you are seeking would be: did you problem-solve? If so, how? Did you seek out new information, plan ahead, negotiate, or voice your opinion to others? Write down whatever comes forward as your behavior.
07:08 Step 6: Write down the challenge you are currently facing?
07:21 Step 7: We want to pull all the steps together to write out a resilience plan.
We are using the 4 S’s now – social support, strategy, sagacity, and solution-seeking behaviors.
08:04 From everything you wrote down, extract all of the strengths and create a plan that:
Supports: what self-support do you have within you? What outside support do you have? Knowing who you can rely on keeps you in a connected state of mind. Our negative mindset kicks in when we feel alone, and our ability to thrive feels threatened.
Strategies – Give yourself workable strategies with the solution-seeking behaviors.
Sagacity – what wisdom gives you comfort that you can move through this moment just like you have others
Solution-seeking – what behaviors can you lean on.
Step 8: Put Your Plan into Action
When we move through these steps and put them into practice, we:
make connections and build a more robust social support network,
avoid the tendency to view any crisis as a learning moment and not an impossible task,
we take decisive action that helps us move forward in the face of challenges,
we keep things in perspective,
we look for opportunities instead of disappointments,
and we tend to take better care of ourselves.
Remember, each of us has the power to build our resiliency. It’s not a trait; it’s a behavior. And like any other behavior, it has to be practiced to become a habit.
Thank you to Gabrielle from Texas for the question! Don’t forget to submit yours, as it may be selected for the next Get Your Life Together, Girl Mindset Reset! Email them to getyourlifetogethergirlnow@gmail.com.
I challenge you to build a resilience plan! Doing so is an essential life tool that helps elevate and reset your mindset.
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Do you feel things deeply? Have you ever been told you are too sensitive? Are you the peacemaker amongst your friends and family?
If so, you may be an empath. Being an empath is a superpower if you know how to use it to your advantage.
This week we are taking a one-on-one deep dive into what it means to be an empath, the top 15 signs that you are one, how to regulate your emotional and mental wellbeing from today forward, the brain science behind the empathic feeling, and lastly, we’ll chat about grounding and necessary practices you need to make your life work for you!
If you aren’t sure why you behave the way you do, this episode will open your eyes and give you workable tools to best serve yourself and the people you love.
So, let’s shift our perspectives and ability to be our best selves.
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
02:22 Questions to help you determine if you are an empath?
04:23 The metric to know if you are an empath based on your answers to the questions
04:40 The difference between being an empath and being empathic
05:40 The mirror neuron system of the brain is part of the reason why you are an empath
06:51 A real-life example of how the mirror neuron system impacts your day-to-day life
08:22 A definition of what it means to be an empath
10:05 Words for anyone who has been told they are too emotional, too much, or to anything…
10:53 Are empaths real?
11:35 The differences between an empath and a highly sensitive person
13:17 Are empaths developed through trauma?
15:50 The cons of being an empath
19:11 The superpower, pros, of being an empath
24:59 How to support yourself or someone who is an empath
First must: boundaries
26:03 #2 must: Do you have emotional space for my problem right now? Holding space as an empath
27:21 #3 must: Take time to learn about energy and your emotions
29:03 #4 must: Giving yourself permission to unplug and practice self-care
30:33 #5 must: We must practice mindfulness and regulate the nervous system
31:22 #6 must: Learn to silence your inner critic
33:20 #7 must: Be careful of who you surround yourself with
35:05 Empaths must learn to detach
36:06 #8 must: Get to know your inner narrative
36:39 #9 must: Learn how to create balance and ground yourself
38:47 Practices that serve you as an empath
Shielding Visualization
40:55 Create a journaling practice to regulate emotions
42:33 Create a meditation practice to help release emotions and find grounding
44:08 Use your breath to regulate your system. Use the Box Breathing technique
46:49 The emotional body scan technique
49:09 Use affirmations for intentionality
Being an empathy is a superpower and helps create peace in the world. So, don’t deny your abilities!
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When was the last time you gave yourself a mental and emotional boost? Every once in a while, we need to reset and bring ourselves back to center. Feeding yourself positive affirmations allows you to elevate your mood, find a sense of peace, and shift your perspective to help you keep your life together, girl! The Get Your Life Together, Girl mini bi-monthly reset is here to help you reset and remember who you are. Find a comfortable position and take a full deep breath. Let these words ignite the goddess within you. The root of the word goddess means “bright” or “shine.” As women, we tend to underestimate our divine feminine power—at best, we ignore it; at worst, we demonize it. Yet, this light and power within is the energy that creates our life. We have always been meant to harness it, own it, and use it for our greatest good.
Your femininity is your divine superpower. In this moment, we are connecting with and to her, honoring her, and reminding ourselves that the light within us shall never be dimmed again. From now on, I am honoring my truths and affirming my power.
Take a full deep breath and let it go.
Place your hand over your heart and make a pledge to yourself. Commit to being your true authentic self without sacrificing or working to fit into a mold that does not suit and serve you. Choose to live like the goddess you are—the ever-shining, ever-present, wildly beautiful light.
Take another full deep breath, and let it go.
Repeat after me, if it serves you.
I release the experiences that steal my light. I remove the circumstances that have worked to create resistance to the goddess within me. I know I am more significant than any moment, and my strength and light know no boundaries. From today forward, I am thriving within the greatness I have within my soul.
I honor myself with these truths, these affirmations of my soul and shine. I know these words are mine to own because they are connected to who I am on a soul level, and every word spoken is said through the frame of love, peace, and self-respect.
These are the affirmations that affirm the greatness of my inner goddess.
I exist within a universe of possibilities.
Everything in this world is filled with possibility, and that includes me.
I am powerful, beautiful, and unstoppable in ways I haven’t wholly- owned but am now focusing on.
I have incredible strength within me—a strength built and owned from moments that were meant to break me but instead made me.
I no longer allow my strength and worth to be defined by others or situations because I know my inner goddess is strong and always enough.
I follow my dreams with passion and certainty.
I can and have always been able to do anything I set my mind to.
Take a full deep breath, moving these words within you and locking them in.
I am right where I am supposed to be, and each day new energy unfolds around me that elevates my inner goddess.
I attract greatness and abundance because everything is always working in my favor.
I can handle anything that comes my way because I’m creating the very best for myself each and every day.
I am not my past. I am my now, and I’m creating the future I so wildly desire.
I trust my abilities and gifts.
I am confident and know that beautiful things are coming into my life.
My inner light shines every moment of my existence, and I honor its boldness.
I am worthy of all the good the world has to offer, and I attract it with no resistance.
I value myself and know what is best for me.
Take another deep breath, letting go of any thoughts that may be pulling at you other than these grounded truths.
I radiate beauty and self-approval every day.
I am worthy of love.
I am loved exactly as I am.
I am loved more than I can ever know.
I am at peace and live in joy.
I am worthy.
I am excited to move into this high frequency of positive emotions because I know this is where my soul wants me to be.
I am investing in myself, and my success is inevitable.
I am proud of the goddess I am.
I am free to be me.
I am free to connect with this inner shining light.
Take a full breath and let it go.
Rejoice in your sacredness, feminine power. Be responsible for your words, actions, and the reflection of your light into the world. What you give, you receive, as everything is a process. Allow the beauty of who you are to create your reality. Focus. Honor.
Move toward what best self. Lean into your greatest power. Retrieve your inner goddess and allow her to be your guide. You are powerful beyond measure.
You are ready to shine, and you have always been.
Anytime you need a moment to come back to center. Repeat these words and lean into your light. You were born ready to be your highest, truest, and greatest self.
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Many women struggle with the question: What is my purpose? Of course, most of us know that we want to feel loved, successful, make a positive impact, and make enough money to feel satisfied, but we are often left with the following question: how?
This week we mindfully explore your unique purpose and go on a journey through how to move that spark into a thriving business. As women, we often hold ourselves back, but once you do the work to get your life together, little stops your purpose, passion, and ambition from igniting. To help you mindfully avoid the pitfalls of work/life balance, how to start a business, and what you need to be successful, I sat down with Attorney, Creator, and team USA Runner Rachel Brenke, who hands over the foundational steps necessary to get started in any venture, how to create balance along the way, and how to be free of imposter syndrome.
This next hour gives you the information to get started and how to thrive! So, be prepared to be fired up!
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
02:14 Meet Rachel and how she is empowering women to own their purpose the same way she was thrust into it
03:42 The first steps into owning and creating your dreams. A question that can change everything: “What do I want?”
06:08 The most prominent barriers women come up against
06:42 When fear of failure stops us in our tracks
10:25 How to not use your circumstances as an excuse: leaning into intentionality
13:13 Each day, you must do an RGA: Revenue Generating Activity
14:56 Getting into the “How” of putting your dreams into action. 3-tiered formula to get started
19:00 Getting out of imposter syndrome
26:17 Committing yourself and your goals: the ins and outs and the how
28:25 The art of niching down and why it’s important
31:05 How to stay focused: For every action, there needs to be a return
40:51 How to create balance and keeping burnout out of the equation
49:05 Taking the CliftonStrength Assessment is a significant player in understanding your leader/business style and strengths
53:05 You don’t have to take every opportunity presented, and how a beginner’s mindset is a winning mindset
57:08 What Rachel wished all women knew
60:12 Rachel’s viral example of how we can all add to the marketplace
60:37 “Imperfect action is better than inaction.”
65:40 The critical takeaways for anyone ready to jump feet first into business
67:30 Rachel’s 3
68:00 How to work with Rachel directly
One of the biggest takeaways, at least for me, is that the women that each of us inspire to be isn’t so much about our work ethic, it’s about our impact—the way we serve ourselves, our lives, our family, our communities, businesses, our purpose. As a result, each of us has the power to move into action, to create a legacy, and to do so imperfectly. Because as Rachel said, “Imperfection action is better than no action at all.”
Get started. Build your life through deep intention. Turn the whisper of desire into full-blown greatness.
If you would like to dive deeper and continue to learn from Rachel, you can follow her on social media at @RachelBrenke or visit rachelbrenke.com
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Stress comes in many forms, and too much stress, of any type, can feel overwhelming and all-consuming at times. It can even have us losing faith in ourselves and the world around us, because we all know that stress has a way of building to the point that even the simplest moments can become challenging and unmanageable, our health can be impacted, and it can even affect our relationships and our day-to-day happiness factor.
01:36 Kendra from Los Angeles, CA, wrote in and said, “Danielle, I’ve been dealing with unusually high stress since the middle of last year. I have trouble relaxing my mind, and sometimes I feel like the pressure is so overwhelming that it’s hard to sleep, causes headaches, and I’ve found myself avoiding things I need to do or even things I love because it’s hard to get everything in. Could you provide a handful of things that I can do to help deal with chronic stress? It’s negatively impacting my life, and I must handle it now!”
So many are with you, Kendra, from feeling overwhelmed by responsibilities, relationship stressors, parenting, financial worries, health concerns, you name it, and yes, to answer your question, there are a few essential practices you can implement in your life today to help you manage stress both in the short term and over the long term.
So, let’s jump right into three quick and easy-to-use tools to stop the overwhelm and deescalate the stress quickly.
Like anything you do, these exercises and tools must be practiced consistently for them to work. Please know that each of these tools is simple to apply and can be done anywhere, at any time.
EXERCISE 1: VISUALIZING STRESS REDUCTION 03:08 The first is to break the stress cycle by using visualization. Before you reject this idea, you use visualization all day long. For example, you visualize yourself taking a particular route when you leave the house. You think about and run through steps in your head when you are engaging with something that needs mental focus. You visualize daily, and you can use this to your benefit, especially to break stress.
The goal is to restore peace to your mind, so we break the cycle of overwhelming thoughts. There is no single correct way to use visual imagery for stress relief, but there are some general steps to take. And those are:
This is an excellent practice because it trains the brain to find comfort instead of stress. Your brain works on patterns. It seeks what it knows will calm itself, but the most potent understanding is your brain does not know the difference between negative and positive—that’s the job of your emotions. So again, this is an excellent tool for highly visional people. However, this may not be for you if you are not one.
EXERCISE 2: REFRAMING THE SITUATION 06:52 When we are stressed, we tend to engage in pessimism and self-sabotaging behaviors, which drive our stress levels even higher because we involve our emotions and negativity. However, we can look at the situation and break it down to just the fact to stop the stress and the overwhelm.
We reframe a situation through a writing exercise. So, grab a piece of paper. Now, you can do it mentally or aloud, but it does serve you to see what you’ve written.
First, look at the situation that is causing you stress.
Please do your best to narrow it down to one element and name it. So, naming it would be: I’m stressed because there’s never enough time to handle everything on my plate.
Ask yourself: What about this situation is causing me stress?
Write down everything that comes to mind. You will likely find that you will write sentences involving some element of feelings. Words like “I Feel” may pop up.
Once you have written down everything that has come to mind, I want you to eliminate the feelings and get down to just the facts.
Facts are neutral–not positive or negative.
A fact would be: My schedule is too full.
I am overcommitted.
Whatever the facts are, put them down.
The facts of any situation will always be: this happened, then this happened, and then this occurred.
Once you have the facts down, I want you to look at how many of your facts are actual “needs” that need to address to change your situation. Meaning, is there something in the experience that can be released, but you haven’t given yourself a chance to do so because you’ve never given yourself permission or a chance to look at the situation in a more focused way.
Sometimes, our overwhelm and stress come down to nothing more than being unfocused and being led by our emotions.
The next step in reframing your situation is to offer tangible solutions to yourself now that you have everything before you. What can be shifted? What can be released? What can be reassigned.? What’s worth your energy?
Reframing helps us shift and create workable experiences that are not as overwhelming and help us handle the load that we are carrying, whether mentally, emotionally, or physically! This exercise can be applied to anything we experience.
Just move through the steps and apply the technique.
EXERCISE 3: S-T-O-P TECHNIQUE. 09:58 The S-T-O-P technique is a bit of a combination of the first two, and it’s a beautiful mindfulness practice that does take effort but is highly effective. Stop is an acronym: Stop, Take a breath, Observe, and Proceed.
We use this technique to stop the overwhelm in its tracks. I will often ask the women I work with to say aloud, “STOP.” To help break the cycle of thoughts or stress. Here’s the more expended practice:
First, You will stop and allow yourself to take a moment to recognize that there are strong emotions involved are this situation. Regardless of what it is, we can take command of the moment by stopping, interrupting the thought, and pausing. Hitting the STOP button gives us a moment to disconnect and slow everything down. This is of mass importance when we are feeling overwhelmed.
From there, we move to the T, which is to take a breath. Your breath is your body’s way of regulating its nervous system. When we are overwhelmed and stressed, our nervous system is on high alert. As a result, we can feel panicked, have headaches, and our hands shake, to name a few. To calm the system, we must bring our attention to our breath and draw our attention back to our body.
The best practice here is to breathe in slowly through the nose, expanding the belly, and expanding slowly and deeply through an open mouth. Continue to breathe until you feel yourself slowing down.
Once you do, move to the O of Observe. To observe means to lean into what you are feeling at the moment. You can do this a few different ways, and depending on the situation one may work better than the other.
But, you can stop and observe your thoughts. Then, go back to technique two and look at what you are thinking. You can also examine your thoughts—is this true? Do I believe my thoughts?
You can observe your emotions – what am I feeling at the moment? What emotions am I feeling?
Or you can check-in physically. To check in physically, you can place your hand over your heart. Is your heart rate elevated? Are your palms sweaty? Do you feel tightness in your chest? If you do, you should return to the breathwork and continue to engage until the physical symptoms subside.
Next is the P, and that’s to proceed. Mindfully consider what is important to you right now and how you’d like to show up at the moment. What can you focus on that impacts today? Not tomorrow, but today? Narrow your focus until you have a pathway forward. This is also where loads of personal insight are realized.
Use these factors as the determination you need to shift your mindset and proceed effectively.
These three techniques are simple once you practice them. But what is so important to realize right now is that we often shift into patterns that do not serve us when we are stressed because we get in our own way. Taking a step back, engaging in new tools, and allowing ourselves to stop the moment, breaks the cycle of stress and overwhelm that can take us down on every level.
Thank you to Kendra from LA for the question! Don’t forget to submit yours!
I challenge you to STOP, use your imagination, and reframe anything that isn’t working for you! Doing so is an essential life tool that helps elevate and reset your mindset.
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Are you moving through something big right now? You are not alone! However, we often think we are when we move through significant moments. In this space, we struggle to let go of what is no longer serving us because fear and guilt trump our needs and our perceived worthiness to have a grounded, healthy, and happy life.
And thanks to fear, many believe that letting go is impossible, traumatic, or downright impossible. The truth is, there is a shadow side to healing. Yet, there are ways to soften the blow by doing deep preliminary work ahead of our healing.
This week we are doing just that through a one-on-one deep dive into the process of letting go. We’re entering a space where we consciously create a path for our deepest desires, the self-awareness process, and learning how to let go of people and relationships, heavy emotions and trauma, attachment, and the obstacles that stand in our way.
So, let’s shift our perspectives and our ability to heal, move forward, and own our most extraordinary, most empowered life.
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
01:32 A big question: Are you moving through something right now?
02:41 So many women are seeking change by letting go of what is no longer serving them right now!
04:39 Answering the top questions: How do we move on?
05:00 Three hard truths of letting go
#1: Holding onto anything that doesn’t serve you is a conscious, willing choice
#2: There’s a shadow side to healing
#3: You have the ability to move through or let go of anything once you stop getting in your own way
08:03 Look at the four areas of letting go we are most impacted in:
Letting go of a person or relationship
Letting go of an attachment
Letting go of trauma or difficult emotions
Letting go of the past
08:36 One “little” thing you must have in place before you can let go – self-trust
09:51 Self-trust goes beyond knowing you can do something. It’s about relying on yourself and knowing what you need.
12:09 Self-trust is formed through taking responsibility
14:36 Letting go of a person or a relationships – what is required before letting go
17:27 The exercise of stripping away the emotions to get down to the facts
21:45 Engaging in mindfulness serves us in this process, and then we call the emotions back in
23:00 Looking at how control keeps us in suffering
24:19 Letting go of attachment
25:36 Another hard truth: Our struggles come from our attachment
26:16 We must learn to justify less
29:40 We must use self-compassion when letting go, and the four questions that help us lean into it
31:13 The act of “holding lightly” is a beautiful practice
31:59 Letting go of trauma and hard emotions
33:58 Using our emotions for our benefit
36:35 Letting go of the past
38:18 How do we let go? Step-by-step
#1 Outline what you need and want
41:12 #2 Be prepared for the hard times. Create an intention, activity, or mantra to serve you
43:31 #3 Create distance
46:20 #4 Do your own work
46:51 #5 Give yourself space and time to grieve
47:20 #6 Allow your emotions to flow
48:39 #7 Lean into forgiveness
49:39 #8 Be willing to adapt
50:22 #9 Witness your experiences through a lens of gratitude
52:17 Actively move into peace through doing the work
53:20 Surround yourself with your tribe
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Find a comfortable position and take a full deep breath. Let these words guide you into a state of relaxation, true understanding and self-connection, and a deeper witnessing of your truth. The truth is that your life is working in your favor; everything that has arrived has done so to teach, elevate, and move you where you need to be.
In this understanding, you can claim yourself and this moment, today, piece-by-piece through every thought, feeling, and action you take. In witnessing this, you have the power to own the love story you came here to create—the unstoppable love story with and of the self. This starts by claiming your life.
Take another full deep breath, allowing the air to enter your nose, gently touching the back of your throat, and moving down to expand your lungs. Hold it there, and now gently let the air rise and leave you.
Clear your mind of only one thought, and that thought is: “I am ready. I am ready for new beginnings. I am stepping into the highest, truest, and most realized version of me.”
Take another deep breath, and let it go.
Appreciating where you have been, where you want to go, but mostly where you are today is the key to moving forward in this new beginning. Those moments have made you who you are and ready to divinely create something new. So as moments fill your mind, notice their usefulness, recognize how far you’ve come because of the obstacles and challenges that have changed you, and then let your fears, worries, doubts, disappointments, and any other form of negativity flow out with your breath.
Consciously release the old. Let it leave, pouring out of your body with the breath.
On the inhale, welcome the new. Welcome the understanding that there are wise answers to every question you have right inside of you, and there always has been. There are answers to every push and pull, barrier and roadblock, problem and idea, what if and uncertainty… As we tune in now, we allow what flows from within to come and remind us that there’s a time for everything.
There is a time to learn and to let go. There is time for building and growth. There is a time for stillness, motion, and rest. There is a time for wellness. There is time for every emotion to fill us. There is time for ownership, and that time is now.
Take a full deep breath, and let it go.
Repeat after me if it serves you.
As I free myself from the past, I open space for new, exciting opportunities to come into my life. As the old energy flows out, new vitality, strength, power, and clarity enter my mind and body. This opening allows me to make space for self-compassion, gratitude, change, forgiveness, health, prosperity, and success. This opening rebalances my emotional health and physical well-being.
I am consciously leaning into myself, welcoming this newness, this elevation, and wrapping my arms around a life filled with harmony.
I trust the natural flow that is happening within and around me. I see it. I feel it. I receive it. Where I would resist before, I own the new beginning.
This new beginning is marked with a deep, profound truth I am limitless in this new growth. This newfound love of my existence honors my worth and opens my heart.
Take a full deep breath and let it go.
I am dwelling in this new space and acknowledging my readiness.
I see myself for who I am and what I came here to do. I came here to thrive. I came here to create a legacy that is filled with grace. I am here to allow myself to be who I am, without judgment, without trying to be less or more than I am to humbly make others comfortable with my existence.
Confidence, empathy, self-assurance, and self-love flow from here on out, and I am aligning with my enoughness in this new beginning. Whatever meets me on my path will be seen through this frame of deep respect and receiving.
Take a full deep breath and let it go.
Now imagine your breath is the qualities you need on this new path, in this new beginning in your life.
Breathe in courage to always be authentically you.
Exhale anything that holds you in place.
Breathe in patience to allow growth to meet you in each new twist and turn along your path.
Exhale the urge to push and resist.
Breathe in spontaneity and joy.
Exhale the need to keep yourself small and in the comfort of discomfort.
Breathe in love and let it settle within your heart space.
Take a full deep breath and let it go.
Repeat these words once more:
“I am ready. I am ready for new beginnings. I am stepping into the highest, truest, and most realized version of me.”
I AM
I am…Two of the most powerful words in any language. Words that direct our emotions and thoughts into movements that support us.
I am ever-changing.
I am limitless and whole.
I am trusting the natural flow of my life.
I am grateful for all that comes my way.
I am releasing resistance and welcoming change at any time.
I am free of my past worries.
I am free of anything that no longer serves me.
I am unstoppable.
I am my highest, truest, and greatest self.
Take another full deep breath and let it go.
What decisions are you ready to make now?
Allow this beginning to be your guide. Let the answers you need rise from within you, connect to them, and start again. You are effortlessly powerful. You are wonderous free to do, create, and be anything you so desire. Today is a new day. A day where you proclaim: “I am ready.” “I am ready for new beginnings. I am stepping into the highest, truest, and most realized version of me.
You have the power to guide every little piece of life so that nothing is lost.
You are ready, and you have always been.
Anytime you need a moment to come back to center. Repeat these words and lean into your truth. You were born ready to be your highest, truest, and greatest self.
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Do you ever find yourself feeling stuck? No matter how different your life may appear from others around you, at one point or another, it’s likely that you will experience a hurdle, a kind of “stuckness” that rules you. Unfortunately, this is true for nearly every woman alive at one point or another. As the saying goes, life isn’t about what happens to you; it’s all about how you react—taking that a step further, it is also about how you make your life work in your favor.
This week we’re exploring just that with the six common hurdles women experience with Darcy Luoma of Thoughtfully Fit. Darcy takes us on a journey through the barriers that get in our way, how we often self-sabotage, and gives us the solutions to the hurdles that no longer have to make us feel small or hold us back.
This is an eye-opening conversation that leans into vulnerability, relationships, our personal efforts, and how to create balance.
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
01:30 Meet Darcy and her intention behind serving women who want to be high-performing, empowered females
02:30 The highest performing people all have one thing in common. Darcy explains what that common trait is and how it impacts us
03:32 Years of research and fieldwork open Darcy’s eyes to the common struggles most individuals encounter
05:55 The 6 Common Hurdles – 3 internal and 3 external.
#1 “There’s so much to do that I can’t even think.” The lack of stillness
07:54 How we fear stillness and how scheduling is necessary
10:15 A quick tip for stillness and creating boundaries in your life
11:47 Hurdle #2: “I don’t always handle myself the way I would like.”
13:28 At the core of not handling yourself well are three steps to help you show up as you would like:
15:50 An essential point of view that flips the script on any challenging moment
16:24 Hurdle #3: “I’m stuck!” Learning endurance and overcoming
19:32 Creating awareness through harnessing what is within the moment
21:36 The first of the three external hurdles, Hurdle #4: “I’d be fine if only you were different.” Learning how to stretch and accept others as they are
25:07 Hurdle #5: “My relationships are out of balance.” Step out of each situation and formulate a plan.
27:00 The 3 Cs of hurdle #5
28:34 Darcy’s brilliant take on compassion
31:57 Hurdle #6 “I react poorly when I’m blindsided.”
37:39 The #1 hurdle most people find holds them back the most
41:02 What true success means, and what it looks like, and no, it’s not perfection or a perfect life
45:37 Darcy’s 3 things
What stands to me most about this conversation is that while our lives may appear miles apart on the outside, we all experience similar emotions, roadblocks, and minor nuisances that can trip us up and hold us in place. And yet, with effort and thoughtfulness, we have the power to change our story.
If you are interested in taking the Thoughtfully Fit quiz or learning more about Darcy, you can follow her on Instagram @DarcyLuoma. Or visit her website at darcyluoma.com.
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Until next time…be kind to yourself and others.
We’re kicking off the first mini mindset reset with one of the topic situations I am most asked about: how to challenge negative thinking. So, let’s jump right in.
If you practice this exercise consistently, you’ll be amazed by how automatic it will become to challenge your negative thoughts and negative thinking loops. This practice is excellent for dealing with anxiety, too. So, give yourself 15 minutes and give it a try before you begin to work it into your day-to-day life. It does take practice.
02:22 Step 1: Become aware of your thoughts.
Literally, think about thinking. As you do, I want you to write down the thoughts that come in. With the thought on paper, look at the quality of your thoughts. Are they positive, negative, or neutral? Neutral being neither good nor bad. Then place whatever rating you have given the thought next to the sentence you’ve written.
03:03 Step 2: Decide whether or not you believe the thought.
Ask yourself: Is this thought true? Do I believe this thought to be my reality?
If the thought is positive, it will be easy to know the answer automatically. However, if the thought is negative, go deeper.
Ask: what is at the heart of this thought? Is it that you are forecasting how something will happen? Are you having a bad day, and what’s below that may change tomorrow?
Is the thought something you’ve been told? Ask yourself: Do I have proof of the thought’s truth? Or is this thought just something that I’m using against myself?
Once you know the answers and understand whether the thought is true or false, move into step 3.
04:44 Step 3: Leaning into whether or not the thought belongs to you.
So often, other people’s opinions, whether perceived or real, can cause us to think in negative patterns. So, ask yourself, does this thought belong to me, or has it spoken into me by someone else?
If the thought does not belong to you and it does not work for you, you can give yourself permission to let it go.
However, if the thought is yours and it isn’t working for you, it’s here we move into step 4 of challenging our negative thoughts.
06:10 Step 4: Is this thought how I want to feel?
This is a big question that can often shake the thought pattern to a halt. Our thoughts drive our emotions, and our emotions drive our actions. If we think negative thoughts, we feel negative, and then we act accordingly. So, is this thought how I want to feel?
If the answer is no, we can say, what is this thought trying to teach me?
07:08 Step 5: Is there a lesson in this line of thinking?
Is it trying to show me that I have something I need to address, heal, or move through? It is trying to help me understand that I’m ready to move on from something? What is in this for me? Now, there are times that a negative thought is just a negative thought. So, don’t overthink it. You’ll know if there is something below the surface.
Once you know, move into step 6.
08:03 Step 6: Is there an opposite to this thought?
If the thought is, “I feel stuck,” and the opposite of that would be “I am ready to move forward in every area of my life.”
What is the opposite? Take a moment to write out the opposites.
With the opposites written out, we can move into step 7.
09:14 Step 7: Challenge the thought with a new thought.
If you know there’s an opposite, you can challenge the thought with the opposite.
That sounds like: “I feel stuck.” “No, I actually feel ready to move forward. I am ready to seek the tools I need to do so.”
You either challenge the thought by giving yourself permission to let it go and replace the thought with something new and better or offer self-grace for the thought and work to release the pattern.
You can ask yourself: Is there something of greater worthiness to focus my attention on. And generally, there is.
With practice, you can train yourself to automatically challenge the thoughts that may be preventing you from fully thriving in your day-to-day. This exercise can be used on any thought, anxiety-building situation, or stressful moment anywhere, at anytime.
I challenge you to challenge your thoughts. It is an essential life tool that helps elevate and reset your mindset.
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When was the last time you listened to your inner conversation? Is it serving you, or does it take you down?
Most women struggle with their inner critic and tend to beat themselves up. Is this you? If so, there’s one essential life practice that can silence the inner critic, help you release the need to trash yourself and your worth, and is the ultimate foundation of self-love.
What is it? It’s self-empathy.
While you may be familiar with having empathy for others, turning this practice inward changes the inner conversation and opens the door to cultivating inner peace, happiness, and gives you the courage to be the woman who loves themselves fiercely.
This week we’re taking a one-on-one deep dive into the step-by-step, simple process of how to use self-empathy daily. It starts with two simple questions that have the power to silence the inner critic and change your mindset. Self-empathy is the gateway to self-love, and this conversation helps you in the throes of radical change.
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
01:16 Self-love is the most significant form of rebellion any woman can offer herself.
03:12 A life-altering question asked before a live audience
06:20 We never take a straight journey to self-love. We actually take a journey through self-empathy first
07:17 How and why self-empathy is the pathway to silencing your inner critic
07:37 The definition of empathy
09:00 Empathy can be transformed into two questions:
What is most alive in this moment?
What is at the heart of this matter?
10:35 A joint understanding of self-empathy
12:00 How the lack of self-empathy impacts us and dials up the inner critic
15:57 A former client’s story of lacking self-empathy that may mirror your story now
19:03 The habits of self-empathy that make all the difference
21:25 Awareness #1: Recognize Yourself as a Feeling Being
24:49 Awareness #2: Sensing Your Deepest Needs
27:00 Awareness #3: Life is Challenging. It’s All About How You Show Up
29:09 Awareness #4: Offering Yourself Kindness and Support
35:09 Sentences to use when self-empathy is lacking, and the inner critic/anxiety is raging
36:12 Awareness #5 It Takes Courage to Offer Yourself Grace
37:49 The step-by-step practice of using self-empathy daily: the how
44:35 Self-empathy is the tool to get you out of your head and into your heart
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Find a comfortable position and take a full deep breath. If comfortable, close your eyes and become aware of the rise and fall of your chest.
Feel the breath enter your nose and gently travel down into the center of your chest. Visualize the air moving and out through your heart center, letting it flow in and out. Allow your mind to settle into this moment. Breathing in and out. Let the thoughts of what is, or what will be to, leave for just a moment and surrender to yourself, to this moment, to the space within and around you.
Take another full deep breath and let it go.
We live so much of our days outside of ourselves—engaging in what works for others, showing up, listening to opinions. We give our time and energy to those we love and want to see thrive. We prioritize things that do not fulfill us or make us happy. While serving others is a beautiful means of service, when our mental space is nearly always occupied, it’s challenging to check in with ourselves, give to ourselves, and fulfill our needs.
To do so, we must consciously and willing hold space for ourselves. Holding space is the ultimate act of self-acceptance, self-love, and worthiness.
Take another full deep breath and let it go.
Holding space means being with yourself, listening to what is happening within, leaning into your thoughts and feelings, and guiding your actions through balanced effort and focused well-being. To hold space means you accept what is happening in the here and now, acknowledging your truth, regardless of what it looks like or feels like while accepting it from every angle—this kind of space holding revolutionizes self-compassion and inner empowerment.
It goes a step further, too. It offers radical acceptance of the self, which reminds us that we are human. We have needs and those needs of equal importance to those we love, cherish, and look after, no matter what role they play in our lives. When we hold space, we can be honest with ourselves and give ourselves permission to meet those needs.
Take another full deep breath and let it go. Repeat after me if it serves you.
I have a profound choice before me. That choice is to continue to live my life only serving others, leaving myself out of the equation, or I can live my life for myself and then in service.
Today, I’m making the choice to honor my life and live it for me.
While others may claim this is selfish, I now realize that holding space is like an incredible journey home to my soul, to what feeds and nurtures it, and what allows me to be in the driver’s seat of my life. Holding space is never selfish; it’s selfless. I can only give what is within me. I choose me, so that I can be more for others.
Holding this space affords me the opportunity to check my direction and adjust my courses and choices when needed. It brings awareness into my life, ensuring that everything I do reflects my soul’s purpose and deepest desires.
Take another full deep breath and let it go.
My new mission is to meet myself with kindness, compassion, and love, just as I do for those I call my friend, lover, child, or any other label within my presence. As I hold space, I welcome in a level of self-intimacy, a relationship that so many long for, and I now am consciously creating in my life. I am empowering my mind, my body, my soul, my actions, emotions, and purpose by giving myself permission to be all that I came here to be.
Holding space is a way of being, this profound choice, to live in present moment awareness. In doing so, I am slowing down, choosing myself, and owning the truth. The truth is that if I want to truly serve, make a positive impact on the world, meet my purpose and create a legacy in my daily existence, I must befriend and love myself. I must hold the kind of space that allows me to witness my mistakes, offer myself grace, and try again each day with judgment.
I am making room for me—a sacred space where I can find myself over and over again, at every level, at every twist and turn my life takes.
I am impacting my life through openheartedly giving to myself.
I see myself for who I am within this space. And who I am is empathic, compassionate, kind, present, balanced, and at peace. And, now, perhaps for the first time, I am giving myself permission to own and take up this profound, beautiful space.
From here, I know that the light within me that shines upon everyone else has always been meant to shine upon me, too. I welcome it with open arms.
Take a full deep breath and let it go.
Actively release any resistance within you, and give yourself permission to be whole.
Take another deep breath, breathing in wholeness, releasing anything less than love.
Let your mind settle on these words:
I am ready to take up space.
I am ready to take up space,
I am fiercely ready to take up space.
This is my life, my ownership, and I am stepping onto my path with the freedom to live as I feel will best serve me.
Take a full deep breath and let it go.
I AM
I am…Two of the most powerful words in any language. Words that direct our emotions and thoughts into movements that support us.
I am worthy of being on my priority list.
I am loving myself by giving to myself first and foremost.
I am able to hold space for myself without guilt, fear, worry, or self-judgment.
I am giving myself permission to be selfless.
I am free from the need to give more than I have to offer.
I am authentic with my life, and that authenticity means I am a beloved in my own eyes.
I am free to hold my boundaries.
I am free to serve my soul, my needs, my purpose, and my desire.
I am free to me.
I am free to take up space.
Take another full deep breath and let it go.
From now on, trust yourself, give to yourself, and break the cycle of giving more than you have to give. Hold space. Hold abundant space. You are worthy.
Anytime you need a moment to come back to center. Repeat these words and lean into your truth- the truth that you deserve to be seen, valued, and heard. You are deserving of your heart’s desire. This truth starts within; it begins with you.
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We so often speak about purpose in terms of finding it, the tools we need, and how to know when we are on our destined path, but what we don’t talk about enough are the small, seemingly insignificant moments that speak to us and have the power to create our life revolution.
This week we’re talking about purpose, the power of social media, and what it means to be a parent with Laura from Foster.Parenting. Every parent and child has struggled at one point another, and when that happens, we often seek resources to assist and empower ourselves.
If you have logged onto Tik Tok or Instagram in the last year, you’ve likely stumbled across one of Laura’s videos where she offers such resources to parents around the globe, especially those who are foster parents. What started as a way to fill the gap of resources during the pandemic has turned into a global advocate platform for foster children, parents no matter birth, adopted, or fostering, a place for teachers to learn about trauma outside of the classroom, as well as a way to show up for the children in our communities and homes.
For the first time, a face and voice that millions have watched, fallen in love with, and followed shares her personal story, her why, and her deep desires for the children in her personal care and yours.
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
03:00 Laura’s purpose begins as a teenager when a Christmas Special opens her eyes to a world she was unfamiliar with
07:09 Laura’s views on family and not needing a traditional or specific definition
08:20 A glimpse into the process of fostering a child home
10:18 Emotional regulation as a foster parent and the importance of emotional balance as a parent in any capacity
12:09 All parenting comes with struggles. Taking on what works for you
13:33 Why leading with kindness and compassion is essential in all situations
14:29 Laura’s motto is the perfect guideline for a balanced day
15:13 The biggest challenges Laura has faced and a brief view of the foster care system
17:50 Attachment is necessary and a new perspective of how all children are fostered in their growth regardless of their home life and situation
19:51 Giving yourself permission to change and grow while giving your desires a try
21:05 How Laura has been impacted by fostering and the good she has seen
24:20 How a servant’s heart has elevated Laura’s purpose
26:16 Witnessing and learning from the cycles of addiction, mental health, homelessness, etc. How this impacts every community, the children within it, and what we must do to create a safe space
30:07 You don’t need to be an expert to have compassion, lead, or be willing to serve and learn
35:16 Not every child returns home. A deeper understanding of how this works and how to create support
41:36 How Laura’s platform was created and the why behind it
47:35 What is happening in every community and how children are being impacted
51:10 Laura’s best tips for parenting
54:49 What Laura wants you to know about foster parents
55:51 Where you can learn, follow and support this mission
58:14 Laura’s three things
A few essential takeaways Laura shared are that each of us has a purpose, the ability to serve when we stay present, and we all have the power to make an impact. Yet, in the end, all we have is today, and we must live in these moments and give all that we can to make this day the best it can be. This is true not only for ourselves but also for those who need our support, love, and ability to see them in their most significant moments of need.
If you would like to dive deeper into foster parenting or learn more from Laura’s vast resources for parents, you can visit her website at www.fosterparentpartner.com or follow her on TikTok and Instagram @foster.parenting.
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Do negative thoughts trip you up?
There’s not a single person who isn’t impacted by negative thoughts at some point in their lives, if not in their daily lives. Unfortunately, many do not realize that negative thought loops can swiftly destroy their mood, rock their confidence, and erode their self-esteem after mere weeks of practicing thoughts that do not serve them.
If we want to get our lives together, we must learn to embrace the opportunity to shift out of old pattern thinking. If old patterns and limiting beliefs are not the issues, we must examine whether we have a negativity addiction. Regardless of why, when we are open to the possibility of change, we can literally change our lives by changing our minds with daily practice.
This week we take a one-on-one deep dive into examining why negative thoughts occur, the thoughts patterns we find ourselves in most, and we’ll take on two simple practices that have the power to stop unhelpful thoughts in their tracks.
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
01:39 Having negative thoughts is normal
02:20 A statement of self-grace each of us needs as we do the work to root out negativity in our thoughts and lives
04:04 Over 4,000 people stated negative thinking affects them in the latest Get Your Life Together, Girl poll
07:56 What negative thoughts are and how they own us
10:57 Thoughts are not facts or truths; neither are emotions
12:08 Your brain’s first job is to keep you safe
14:28 The thought – feelings – actions process
17:23 We must look at the environment we have set up in our mind. Is your brain a friend or a foe?
22:23 What you think is just as important as how you think
23:47 The Thought Patterns that disrupt us. All-or-Nothing Thinking
25:32 Black and White Thinking
28:51 Mental Filter Thinking
29:59 Jumping to Conclusion Thinking
32:21 Low Frustration Tolerance Thinking
34:39 Minimization Thinking
35:59 Emotional Reasoning Thinking
38:11 “Should” Thinking Pattern
40:04 Labeling Thinking Pattern
43:20 Personalization Thinking Pattern
45:04 You can change your life by changing your mind
45:22 Minding the Gap: The Ins and Outs, How, and the practice that changes our thought process
49:38 How to take on and challenge the negative thoughts
51:14 Four Questions to ask yourself:
Is this thought true?
Is this thought helpful?
Is this thought worthy of taking up space?
Does this thought help create a healthy mental environment for better thoughts?
53:04 Moving your mind into neutral thought
54:00 Other benefits of reducing negative thoughts
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Find a comfortable position and take a full deep breath. If comfortable, close your eyes and become aware of the rise and fall of your chest.
Feel the breath enter your nose and gently fill your lungs, expanding everything within. Hold it there and then slowly release, allowing your mind to settle in the moment. Allow yourself to remember your magic—the nuances, the subtle differences that make you, you.
Take another full deep breath and let it go.
It’s time to own that magic, one beautiful experience and one trait at a time.
Whether you’ve forgotten or are just now meeting yourself for the first time, the truth is, you are inventive. You are transformative. You are capable of owning the life you came here to create. You are unstoppable, beautiful, and the very definition of strength.
This power is unquestionable when you allow yourself to own it. This magic is unmistakable when you give yourself permission to grow within it and let it be your guide in everything you do.
You see, the day you decide to be on your own team is the day you unlock the door to your vast greatness. It’s the day you release the limits of everything you’ve told yourself you are not and everything you’ve been told you are but has never fully aligned. From here, you realize that you’ve spent far too long pushing against yourself, against your transformation, purpose, and ability to create. You’ve dimmed your magic.
When you witness this, you come to understand that you are worthy of the goodness within you. That magic has always been there, waiting, ready for you to tap in.
Take a full deep breath and let it go.
For just a moment, focus on your breath, concentrate on breathing energy and positive feelings in, and release any negative emotions out and away with your exhale.
When you own your magic, you allow yourself to love something within you every blessed minute of this day and every day that follows after.
Take another deep breath, and let it go.
Place your hand over your heart, feeling its rhythm, allow your breath to find this space, this center, and repeat after me if it serves you.
I am ready to be brave with my life. I am ready to lean into a sense of awe and wonder that can only be found when I fully show up and grow into and within my fullest potential.
I witness the things have happened in my life that have moved me off course, asked me to question my magic, greatness, ability, and desires. But moving forward, I reclaim all that I am through radical acceptance. I now realize those moments were teachers. And I offer gratitude for them as they only help me infuse profound strength within my life.
This kind of understanding, this magic, can only be found when I show up, lean into the doing of my life, and step out of the hustle. It’s found when I go within and remember that I came here to live a story filled with wonder, resiliency, peace, motivation, and balance.
With unwavering belief, I know that there is nothing that I cannot do. I am no longer willing to live my life through all the thoughts, feelings, and actions that have kept me small. I have a presence, a voice, and valuable energy, and I’m here to use it.
No matter what has been, what will be, I marvel at my existence, my vast understanding, and the challenges I’ve faced because I now realize that I am a part of something greater.
This deep movement pulsing through me reminds me that everything is a gift, including me.
This gift has proven to me that I have the power to create my own happiness because of the magic I have within.
I am so grateful to be alive.
From now on, I am holding this space, this magic, this blessed witnessing with the highest regard.
Take a full deep breath, breathing in acceptance, letting go of anything less than love.
This is the energy that serves me.
This is the energy of loving myself.
This is the energy that radiates a pureness that serves all that I am.
Take a full deep breath and let it go.
Inhale again – to the count of one, two, three, four. And hold it three, two, one, and release breathing out – as you do, visualize yourself wrapping your arms around yourself. You are worthy of embracing yourself and your life.
Inhale, one, two, three, four, and let it go.
I AM
I am… Two of the most powerful words in any language. Words that direct our emotions and thoughts into movements that support us.
I am pure magic.
I am standing in my power.
I am in full ownership of my life, abilities, and strengths.
I am radically accepting of all that I am, because all I am is exactly who I need to be right now.
I am releasing resistance and leaning into gratitude for all that has been, all that is now, and all that will be.
I am unstoppable.
I am my highest, truest, and greatest self.
Take another full deep breath and let it go.
Breathe in to the count of five, four, three, two, one, hold and release one, two, three, four, and five.
Inhale one, two, three, four, hold and release one, two, three, four.
One more time.
Inhale, one, two, three, hold. Release one, two, three…
You have the power to remember that everything you need is already inside of you. You are unstoppable. You are strength. You are love. You are able. You are pure magic. Settle within it and never allow it to slip from you again.
Anytime you need a moment to come back to center. Repeat these words and lean into your truth. You are pure magic and everything that has arrived has done so right on time.
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As we dive deeper into the process of growth, we turn our focus to how to grow in our spiritual selves as we combine all aspects of our mind, body, and soul. When we examine healing from every angle, we open the door to discovering our true identity, purpose, and ability.
In this week’s episode, we chat with Transformational Shaman Kelle Sparta, who walks us through her journey of healing her childhood, leaving the life she has created but did not recognize as her own, taking a walkabout of self-discovery, creating a healing strategy and system that can serve each of us, and how we can find our true selves by doing the shadow work of healing.
Kelle expands our minds with the spiritual curriculum to growth and true-life expansion.
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
01:46 Kelle’s story begins to unfold
04:33 Kelle realizes her passion is serving others. The step she took to change her life drastically.
06:38 A hardcore path to healing
11:00 Kelle takes off in search of finding herself
12:06 The walkabout begins
13:00 The lessons Kelle learned on the walkabout. Lessons each of us needs to know within our lifetimes.
16:50 What a Transformational Shaman is and how Kelle helps people release limiting beliefs
22:33 Three stages of healing. Stage #1 Emotional Safety
24:24 Stage #2 Solidifying the sense of self
25:00 A quick test to know if you know your true self
28:35 The best definition of self-love
32:02 Stage #3 Doing the shadow work
37:07 It’s not our job to heal others’ pain and baggage
39:01 If we offer others their challenges, we often build walls that cannot be taken down; how this happens
40:09 Why we must all get out of survivor mode
41:26 Growth is the process of doing the shadow work
41:52 Ground zero of growth: “There has to be more to life than this.”
47:00 How we all go through the prove it stage of growth
47:53 Why we all must retreat self-study and what it has to offer us
48:00 How we admit that there’s no magic pill
48:42 The benefit of surrender
48:52 Stepping into our choice
49:20 A simple test to know if we are finished growing
52:05 The first step is the hardest
53:14 Kelle’s three things:
You are enough
Happiness is your birthright
You are loved even if you are pretending you are not.
What Kelle said is so true. The only time we arrive and the work is fully finished is when our lives are done. There’s always work to do. There’s always another way to grow and definitely more to discover.
If you want to learn more about Kelle and her programs, visit her website www.kellesparta.com. There you can find out more about her programs, her podcast, and her new book, Nailing Your Spiritual Growth in Record Time.
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Is your life owning you or do you own it?
Big question, right?
After years of studying our experiences, emotions, and behaviors, there’s one thing that I know with absolute certainty and clarity, our personal history, our stories, have incredible, therapeutic healing power.
The problem is most of us do not use this power to our advantage. There is a tool that each of us has access to that is self-directed and requires nothing more than your thoughts, a pen, and a piece of paper.
What is it?
It’s journaling.
This week we are diving into a deeper form of journaling called subconscious journaling. When done correctly it soothes the soul, unlocks the subconscious, and opens the door to a genuine, non-judgment conversation with the self. You DO have the power to change your life by using your own words and life experiences.
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
01:45 The power of journaling and how we are not using our experiences to our advantages
04:35 A vulnerability moment: How journaling served me in my own healing journey
07:07 How journaling serves your personal history and healing journey
08:53 Listening to the urges around you. Sometimes others can see what you cannot
10:48 Picking up your pen is one of the bravest things you can do
13:57 How to dive into your subconscious mind
15:18 Looking at the subconscious impact once you dive in
17:52 How the ego acts as the voice (the spokesperson) of the subconscious
20:42 Rule to adhere to while journaling through the subconscious
22:03 How devices disrupt journaling
23:28 Return to a beginner mindset and how to get started
24:04 Step #1 Set an intention. What is your why?
24:54 Therapeutic journaling is not only for healing, but also for growth, too
25:48 Step #2 Set a scheduled routine. The importance of creating an appointment with the self
29:15 Step #3 Find your space
31:26 Start where you are right now and give yourself permission to meet who you truly are
32:44 Give yourself permission to drop into your feelings
35:17 Move into conscious thought to review what came up in your writing
37:04 Be willing to receive the wisdom of your story and words
38:11 Release a time limit on telling your story and how to do a Brain Dump. (For step-by-step instructions, visit the link or www.danielleavann.com/the-art-of-a-brain-dump)
39:08 How to create prompts that are self-directed instead of the generic prompts on the internet
40:23 Journaling techniques to try. #1 Springboard Technique
41:40 Technique #2: Inner Conversation with self
42:58 Technique #3: Stepping Stones
44:14 Technique #4: The Brain Map/Mind Map
46:27 Signs you are not in the subconscious
48:51 Other Benefits of Journaling
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Is it possible to deactivate stress and anxiety by tapping the stressors away? Can we free ourselves of complex emotions through pressure points in the body?
The answer is YES!
As we continue discovering different modalities that aid in our healing and reduce stress and negative emotions, we turn our attention to Emotional Freedom Tapping and the Heart-Brain Coherence techniques.
If you have not heard of either, EFT combines the principles of ancient Chinese acupressure and modern psychology. The Heart-Brain Coherence technique uses our breath and brain to slow down the nervous system by bringing your heart and breath rhythm into coherence. Both are simple techniques with long-lasting physical, mental, emotional, and even spiritual benefits.
This week explore these tools with Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Psychotherapist, Speaker, and Transformational Life Coach Catherine Ewing.
We start with her own life story, and then she walks us through the foundation of her highly viewed TedX Talk, where she teaches Emotional Freedom Tapping and the Heart-Brain Coherence technique. This is an up-close masterclass on relieving stress and anxiety with the tools you already have—your body, breath, and mind.
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
02:10 Catherine’s story begins. Revealing her why
07:55 How private practice opened Catherine’s eyes to her purpose.
11:51 To expand, the butterfly must leave the comfort of the cocoon
18:00 A lesson in being a vibrational match
30:42 Owning our power and supporting the divine feminine
34:55 Introduction to Emotional Freedom Tapping
38:38 EFT Masterclass begins
44:50 Catherine guides us through a full EFT session
49:00 What happens within when we tap
54:28 Permitting ourselves to release stress and anxiety
59:58 The Heart-Brain Coherence Exercise from the @HeartMathInstitute
1:04 The science behind the exercise
A few takeaways that stood out during our conversation were: each has a purpose, deep inner power, and grounded strength waiting for us to meet it. While we often have to experience hard life lessons, or teachers, as Catherine and I both call them, ultimately, with the right tools, such as EFT and the Heart-Brain coherence, we have the power to use those lessons as the foundation for our most heartfelt growth.
If you would like to dive deeper into these techniques, I invite you to watch Catherine’s TedX Talk. You can also visit her website at https://sacredheartalchemy.com
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When was the last time you gave yourself a mental and emotional boost? Every once in a while, we need to reset and bring ourselves back to center. Feeding yourself positive affirmations allows you to elevate your mood, find a sense of peace, and shift your perspective to help you keep your life together, girl!
Find a comfortable position and take a full deep breath. If comfortable, close your eyes and become aware of your breath.
Feel the breath enter your nose and gently travel down into the lungs. Hold it there and then slowly release—allow your mind to settle into this moment.
Take a full deep breath and let it go.
Let your mind and body find center. Actively and consciously releasing tension and allow my words to guide you into your truth—the truth that everything that happens within your life is happening for you, not to you—the truth that everything that comes your way is a teacher, good, bad, indifferent; it has shown up so that you have the skills, knowledge, and ability to meet yourself in the moment. To be presently aware and meet your needs.
With this truth, you must acknowledge that there will be times of imbalance, rollercoasters of emotional and mental discord, highs and lows, ripples of greatness, moments of perceived failure, even anxiety, and uncertainty.
In all of this, you must remember to surrender.
To surrender to the moment.
To surrender to the resistance, you build into your life because you feel the need to control.
To surrender means to stop fighting, fighting yourself, your life, the natural flow of everything that is. When you stop resisting, you allow. In the allowance, control is no longer needed because nothing is out of control. Balance is found. The center is held.
In the surrendering, you remember that you have the power to accept, move through, and change with anything that comes. You see, surrendering isn’t about inaction; it’s about being within the energy of letting go, choosing what works for you, and being within conscious understanding of what you are and are working to become.
What’s important to remember is control is often an illusion. Plans often make us feel safe.
And yet the truth is, surrendering allows the plan to unfold far better than any amount of control could ever create.
Take a full deep breath and let it go.
Inhale again – to the count of one, two, three, four. And hold it three, two, one, and release breathing out – as you do, visualize yourself releasing any roadblocks and stressors that have been circling in your mind.
Inhale balance.
Release anything that has kept you off-kilter.
Now, allow your breath to deepen, and repeat after me if it serves you.
I already know how to surrender. When I surrender, I stay open to possibilities. I am actively surrendering when I allow new things to come into my life, even if it feels shaky and unsteady.
When I surrender, I come back to me, to all of me, without conditions, heavy judgment, and negativity. When I allow balance, I welcome faith.
Because I know that by being open and allowing in the faith of all that is, I explore whatever comes my way with the mindset that everything is supporting my highest and greatest good.
As I surrender now, I improve. I see things as they are, for what they are, and instead of swimming upstream against the currents of anything that may be trying to sweep me into rough waters, I slow down, meet the moment with intention, and let go of forcing my way into stillness.
I know this energy and ability resides inside of me.
When I actively surrender, I believe. I believe in myself.
When I surrender, I let love be my guide.
When I surrender, I find gratitude and beauty in everything, even moments where beauty and appreciation seem absent to the unmindful.
When I surrender, I listen to my thoughts. I meet them with openness, gently question them, and act from a grounded space.
When I surrender, I understand that my life will never be perfect, yet there is perfection in everything. What is, what has been, what will be is perfect for me.
When I surrender, I act on my passion and unite my body, mind, and soul.
When I surrender, I acknowledge that for every negative I experience, there are at least three positive experiences waiting for me to acknowledge them. With the acknowledgment, I lean into the positive and remind myself to recognize how good things truly are for me.
As I surrender, I let go of the thoughts of yesterday. I let go of the word “should.” I remember to just be—be here in the moment, in this now, in this breath.
Take a full deep breath and let it go.
I am reminded that my timelines are simply ideas, hopes, but that while I surrender, I welcome outcomes to arrive when my highest good is served. As I release the when I raise my vibration and find alignment within all that is.
Take a full deep breath, breathing in space to find yourself in the now and release obstacles.
With this release, I remember that I can have anything my heart desires. All of my outcomes have the ability to bring me true joy. Yet, when I forget to surrender, I miss out on what is before me.
From now on, I trust that every outcome is what I need.
Today, I break the cycle of anxiety, insecurity, what if, when, and I replace those feelings with the words of surrender.
All is well.
I am safe.
I choose to focus on the best parts of me.
I am centered.
I am in control of how I respond.
I am at ease with change.
I am ready to start again, centered and without attachment.
As I do, I find peace.
I AM
I am…Two of the most powerful words in any language. Words that direct our emotions and thoughts into movements that support us.
I am creating a joyful and meaningful life.
I am fulfilled
I am finding purpose in everything before me.
I am releasing resistance and building confidence.
I am free from the need to control.
I am authentic, mindful, and true to myself.
Take another full deep breath and let it go.
Breath in five, four, three, two, one. Hold. And release one, two, three, four, and five.
Inhale one, two, three, four, hold and release one, two, three, four.
One more time.
Inhale, one, two, three, hold. Release one, two, three…
You have the power to surrender and own your life, not just for today, but always.
Anytime you need a moment to come back to center. Repeat these words and lean into your truth- the truth that everything has arrived in your favor—surrender to what is because this is where growth is found.
Anytime you need a moment to come back to center. Repeat these words and lean into your truth; the truth that you are joy, and at the center of joy is you.
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When was the last time you took a full, deep breath?
I bet it’s been a while, and to be honest, you are not alone! Breathing is a vital part of life, yet most of us underestimate how a simple inhale and exhale can dramatically shift what is happening within. The shift is so significant it’s safe to say that proper, deep, therapeutic breathwork is the most potent and influential function your body has when it comes to regulating your nervous system, thought patterns, and bringing your mind, body, and spirit connection into alignment. The best part is that this ability is already within you and accessible. With such a great tool already at your fingertips, it’s time to use it to your benefit.
This week are doing just that as we expand our knowledge in a one-on-one deep dive into the power of your breath; what happens when you slow down and access your body’s natural way to heal and regulate itself, and we’ll walk hand-in-hand through half a dozen of easy-to-use exercises that can be done anywhere at any time. The ability to breathe your way into a calm state, minus everyday stressors and anxiety, is as close as a few minutes of concentration and a desire to change what’s happening within.
So, let’s shift our perspectives and your ability to breathe your way into center.
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
01:43 Opening new thoughts around our breath and how it is something we often ignore or dismiss
02:54 The worst and best words anyone can say when stressed and filled with anxiety
04:23 A promise and identifying how deep breathing can change everything
06:41 A massive a-ha moment revealed around the word exhale, and how it helps shift our perspective in our day-to-day lives
08:43 Redefining the definition of exhaling
14:34 The ultimate question: How can focusing on the breath change your life?
16:03 A quick biology lesson of the autonomic nervous system
20:41 How the brain and brainwaves are impacted when we engage in using our breath
21:29 Exploring the brainwaves and how they create peace or havoc in your body.
Brainwave #1: Gamma Wave
The Gamma wave is responsible for heightened perception and consciousness. They are essential for learning, memory and processing, and are used as binding tools for our senses to process new information.
22:23 Brainwave #2: Beta Wave
The Beta Wave is where most of us spend most of our awake time. Here, we derive our attentiveness, thinking, decision-making, and even problem-solving skills and ability. Unfortunately, it’s also where we experience stress, anxiety, tension, hyper-alertness, fear, and varying degrees of agitation. The Beta Waves are channeled through our cognitive reasoning, speaking, thinking.
24:24 Brainwave #3 Alpha Wave
This is the relaxed state, the more meditative state, and is responsible for present moment awareness. So, when we talk about mindfulness, this is the exact place all of us mindfulness teachers are trying to help guide our minds.
The Alpha Wave bridges our conscious thinking (Beta) and subconscious thinking (Theta). In times of stress, a phenomenon occurs in the brain called “Alpha blocking.” The Beta Waves restrict the production of Alpha because your body is responding to the increased Beta activity. This means you literally struggle to calm the mind and bring yourself back in balance because the brain is blocking the alpha waves from doing their job.
26:50 Brainwave #4: Theta Wave
Theta is an even deeper state of relaxation. Theta occurs when we daydream. This is the state where we are our most open, most creative, and generate new ideas effortlessly. We can deepen the Theta activity through meditation and breathwork.
28:55 Brainwave #5: Delta Wave
Delta waves are attributed to support our unconscious bodily functions. As a result of Delta wave function, we find ourselves sleeping better, waking up feeling refreshed, and building a healthy and robust immune system at healthy levels if we have balanced Delta waves.
31:35 What it means to take a deep breath
33:00 A test to check your breathing
39:29 Breathing Exercise #1 The 365 Method
Guiding you through each exercise
43:45 Exercise #2: 5-4-3-2-1 Naming the Issue
48:10 Exercise #3: Stand-up Exercise
50:35 Exercise #4: The Relaxing Breath Exercise
53:43 Exercise #5: Progressive Muscle Relaxation Technique
59:39 Exercise #6: Alternate Nostril Breathing Technique
62:15 Exercise #7: 4-7-8 and Color Exercise
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Slow down. Get comfortable and listen as Kate Semeniuk guides you through healing the inner child. If you missed Kate's story, be sure to check out Episode 44: Becoming an Active Observer in Your Life with Hypnotherapist Kate Semeniuk.
If you want to learn more about Kate and her offerings, visit her website www.katesemeniuk.com or follow her on Instagram @kate.semeniuk.
Special thanks to 'Music of Wisdom' for the music entitled Inner Calling.
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Let me ask you an important question. Do you feel that you are an observer or a reactor in your life? When we are reactors, it is often due to unhealed trauma. During March, we are exploring different methods and modalities to heal and create the mindset and life revolution each of us desires and ultimately deserves.
In this week's episode, we chat with Kate Semeniuk, an expert in Hypnotherapy—which has the power to help us move through inner turmoil and resentment, grow in our confidence and self-esteem, release fear and phobias, and so much more. Kate’s journey to her purpose began in Ukraine during the reign of the Soviet Union. The fascinating journey she took to find her most authentic self will open your eyes to how each of us can uncover the same for ourselves. Then Kate teaches us how to become an observer in our lives—a skill that shifts us from “stuck” to living our best and most abundant experiences every day.
Kate’s deep understanding of the subconscious mind will not only shift your mindset but will also open your mind to releasing what no longer serves you.
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
01:45 Kate’s story begins in the USSR
04:11 Kate walks us through life growing up in the Soviet Union, how people were fed limiting beliefs and were sheltered from the outside world. Kate's unhappiness leads to addiction.
05:44 Kate's inner knowing there must be more to life
06:20 An English book opens Kate’s eyes and mind to something she knew she had always been looking for, a sense of more
08:29 How her past had her building a family on top of emotional baggage
11:00 Post-partum depression lowers Kate’s self-esteem and increases her longing to live her current life
15:23 Kate’s husband seeks solutions. It’s time to leave the only life they have known and head for greater opportunities
16:43 Canada is not only a land of newness to Kate; it’s a space of mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual expansion, too.
20:47 Kate’s eyes are opened to her purpose through her own healing journey
24:15 An introduction to Hypnotherapy
24:15 How limiting beliefs can be chained to your past and then repatterned
27:22 The subconscious mind and how it can rule your life
29:51 A big truth about the subconscious mind
33:47 Changing the thought pattern is done by going inward
37:42 How Hypnotherapy works and the style which Kate uses for healing
41:30 How Hypnotherapy changes people’s lives by becoming observers of self
43:54 Using the practice “Whose Voice is Speaking”
46:07 The importance of expressing your feelings
48:42 What Kate wished people knew about their minds
52:09 The Q&A of Hypnotherapy
54:10 Kate’s three things
During our conversation, one of the most important takeaways, at least for me, is this: what has been does not have to remain in place. Each of us has a choice to do the work and change our relationships to our experiences and past, and with some work, we can rewrite our stories.
As a bonus, Kate kindly recorded a shortened hypnosis meditation. Be sure to tune to that episode next as she guides us through showing up for our inner child. It’s truly a beautiful experience.
If you want to learn more about Kate and her offerings, visit her website www.katesemeniuk.com or follow her on Instagram @kate.semeniuk.
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Find a comfortable position and take a full deep breath.
Gently close your eyes if it serves you. Witness the thoughts that are flowing through your mind and simply invite them to pause. Take another full deep breath, releasing anything less than stillness. Allow my words to guide you into a grounded truth—the truth that you are more than your past and that you have the power to heal at any time, regardless of what has been.
Take a full deep breath, breathing in allowing, and slowly let it go.
The past often works to own our present and our future because what has been gone unhealed and unaddressed. We tend to believe that if we simply move on, what was will fall away.
Yet, this thinking robs us of a beautiful opportunity and great expansion. The events in our lives are lessons, building blocks that teach us what we came here to learn, ways of being, our desires. Our experiences teach us contrast. It shows what we want and what we do not. In this understanding, we can go deeper and explore our needs spiritually, mentally, emotionally, and physically.
Healing is not as some believe. The purpose of healing is not to erase our past; it’s to examine what has been, lean into the emotions and soften them so that we may turn them into experiences that work for us. Healing doesn’t erase; it elevates. It helps us understand our truest self—the real self—the soul self.
Take a full deep breath, and let it go.
Repeat after me:
My past has taught me emotions and thought patterns that are not my truth. What has been may have prevented me from owning my greatness, my worthiness for love, value, happiness, and true joy, but from now on, I am releasing these ideas. I know now that these thoughts do not serve me. I know now that I have the power to rewrite the story, not forget the story, but change my connection to it.
From today forward, I am leaning into healing this thought pattern by witnessing my emotions, by turning fear into strength, scarcity into abundance, misunderstanding into knowledge, disruption into a golden path, upset into power.
Every action has a reaction. Within this reaction, I have a choice. I can strengthen my power.
My past no longer has a hold of me. I offer great gratitude for the lessons. I offer appreciation for my life teaching me.
I am forever owning the power I have to direct my thoughts to what benefits my life. In this power, I seek forgiveness and offer it, too. Forgiveness, within healing, does not erase the story either. Instead, it reminds me to offer gratitude for the lesson.
Take a full deep breath and let it go.
I am actively releasing. Everything that has been, is, and will be in my life has been for me. What I may have perceived before this moment as negative has an opposite. I know darkness cannot be present without light. I cannot know negative emotions without the good. I allow myself to release resistance.
Take a full deep breath and let it go.
I release the past.
I forgive the past.
I forgive those that were a part of my hardest stories.
I forgive myself. I know now that I was the person I needed to be in those moments so that I could learn the lessons I needed to expand in my growth, nothing more, nothing less.
I release so I may purposefully step into my present with the purest intentions.
I release the struggle.
I release the pain.
I let go of the negatives.
I welcome in the expanding love of peace.
Breathe in healing, let go of anything less than love.
I AM
I am…Two of the most powerful words in any language. Words that direct our emotions and thoughts into movements that support us.
I am focused on creating a new healed story.
I am allowing my focus to be on my highest and greatest good.
I am offering forgiveness to one and all, including myself.
I am stronger than I’ve allowed myself to own.
I am releasing and cherishing that within every moment, there is something powerful for me.
I am here to write a beautiful story, to create a legacy of healed truths.
I am ready to do so freely, in the moment, in the most grounded ways.
Everything before now has taught me. I freely let it go….
I am free of my hard history.
I am focused on feeling good each and every day.
I am free to be me.
I am free.
Gratitude washes over me as I proclaim…
I AM FREE!
Anytime you need a moment to come back to center. Repeat these words and lean into your truth—the truth that you healed, and you are stronger than you’ve ever imagined yourself to be.
For this healing, I say, “Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.”
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Do you know what love language you speak?
Do you know how you like to have your needs, emotional connectivity, and love style met?
Many understand that there is an unwritten communication of receiving, giving, and feeling love, but often how we express and expect love in return is lost in translation. This week, we’re breaking down the importance of love languages, the different types, recognizing your partner’s language, and we’ll connect the dots to asking for more when we’re not on the same page with our partners. Ultimately, if we understand our love language, we can strengthen all forms of communication, which results in happier, healthy, and far more grounded and productive relationships.
So, let’s dive in and shift our perspectives to form emotionally intelligent relationships.
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
01:43 Introducing the theory of Love Languages and their importance
03:50 How your love languages were developed
05:09 You are a meaning-making machine, and how this dramatically impacts your love languages
06:58 A new approach to the 5 Love Languages and a WARNING!
09:53 Love Language #1: Words of Affirmations
Words of Affirmation are positive and affirming words that build us up and encourage our spirit. Verbal compliments and words of praise are powerful communicators of love that have tremendous power to build relationships.
13:06 How Words of Affirmations are often confused with Validation. The two are not interchangeable.
15:14 Questions to ask yourself to discover if this is your love language
22:00 Love Language #2: Acts of Service
Acts of Service come down to a non-verbal form of communication and love shown through doing and time. To go deeper, what is appreciated is the effort someone gives.
23:02 How to identify if this is your love language
24:53 The questions to ask yourself to uncover your connection to Acts of Service
25:25 Tools to use in this language style
Pay attention to the small things
Pay attention to routines
Consider schedules and shared duties
27:31 Love Language #3: Receiving Gifts
This is an act of receiving, not materialism. Receiving gifts as a language comes down to sentimentality, being thought of.
29:43 How to know if language #3 is how you want your emotional and connectivity needs to be met
31:41 How to ask for your needs to be met by your spouse or partner
33:35 Love Language #4: Quality Time
This language centers around togetherness and true connectivity
34:54 The efforts of creating harmony between quality time and how it is felt by someone who thrives on language #4
38:49 Love Language #5: Physical Touch
This language goes beyond sexual intimacy. It’s about affection and feeling physically connected.
40:29 Ways to engage with language five when it isn’t your primary language, or it makes you uncomfortable
41:24 Answering the question if it’s possible to speak and operate through multiple language styles
42:07 What happens when our languages conflict, and how to create alignment with one another
Learn your partner’s style
Compromise
Never expect someone’s language to change to have your needs met
44:00 How the love language understanding helps your relationships grow—even the relationship with yourself
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With February being the month of celebrating relationships, it’s time to focus on creating the most robust connections we can, both inside and outside of ourselves. Yet, this is a different angle; today, we are looking at the shift in a relationship and what happens when we uncouple and even divorce, especially when children are involved.
We’re chatting with Resilience Coach Kimberly Smith, who walks us through the dissolve of her marriage, the conscious choices they made to create a safe emotional environment for their daughter, how self-love must be the root of all relationships, and how to co-parent in a way that serves not only the children but also the adults. In all of that, we break down how to mindfully create a new life after any significant transition.
Be prepared to shift your mindset, as Kimberly offers a new perspective on creating a family unit after calling the relationships quits.
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
01:50 Kimberly story begin, and the unfolding of how she found the courage to find herself and a new path
03:55 Uncovering the core of Kimberly’s stress and anxiety
05:01 How the marriage contributed to her breaking point
06:05 The common narrative that doesn’t serve us when it comes to marriage and how self-abandonment often occurs
09:10 The guilt of wanting more and handling intrusive thoughts
14:42 Emotions and attachments change and how that impacts connection
18:37 Creating and navigating a friendship after divorce
20:27 The creation of spheres and how this serves everyone
24:27 Self-care and creating a support system, both inside and outside
27:45 Habits that build self-compassion both internally and with an ex-spouse
28:40 Diving headfirst into the hustle and learning that we do need other people in our lives
31:00 Dealing with shame and judgment
32:29 The Ins and Outs of Co-Parenting
The spheres of operating within
Compassion is a safety net
Support System
Communication is key
Making decisions as a family
Allowing time for the child/children to have both parents available
38:34 A profound motto for any family
39:22 Our words matter in front of and to our children. Keeping wraps on negative communication in front of the children.
42:28 Empowering ex-spouses in their parenting styles and journey
48:47 Kimberly’s divorce and transition guidebook
54:26 Excellent tools to employ self-care, self-love, and self-support
57:37 Kimberly’s 3 things
What Kimberly said is so true. Our children are equal parts of the people we bring them into the world. We owe it to them to show as our best self, through our healed stories, and if possible, through the partnerships that support everyone involved.
If you want to learn more about Kimberly and her programs, visit www.emcompasscoachingservices.com or follow her on Instagram at @kimberly.brooke.smith.
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Find a comfortable position and take a full deep breath. Let these words remind you of your brilliant inner light.
Gently close your eyes if it serves you. Consciously clear your mind and allow my words to guide you into your truth—the truth that everything you desire is within your reach.
Today is a beautiful day to allow yourself to shine, slow down, and return to center. We tend to live life at a frantic, stressful pace. Where our to-do lists and obligations control the way we see ourselves and the possibilities before us. But when we are willing to accept there’s more for us is when we are released from the grip of our endless doing, from our unwillingness to slow, and it’s from here that we find a natural flow that provides us with room to imagine, to grow, and to thrive. It’s from here we allow ourselves to go within, to move any lack of light, and shine in all that we are.
Take a full deep breath, breathing in allowing, and slowly let it go.
Opening ourselves to this willingness to shine is an act of empowerment and courage; it’s a conscious choice to create, to focus, and to be in a place of openness rather than resistance.
It’s in this state, this very day, that you have the choice to claim what serves you, and what serves you is tapping into the truest sense of self, the radiant being that you are.
Take another full deep breath and let it go.
Repeat after me:
I am a powerful light.
What has been done in rush, darkness, and doubt is now freeing radiance—a natural flow of my inner being.
Today is the day I step back into power, into my most natural, grounded state. That state radiates balance and ease. Today is the day I reset and welcome my inner light to shine from that state. Where there is rush and hustle, I consciously slow. I acknowledge that I am radiant and trust my brilliant ways. I know what flows from this state is a natural fulfillment of who I already am.
I align with this enoughness, in all that is and all that will be. From today forward, there is nothing outside of that will dull shine again. I understand experiences will come, but I do not have to engage in those that do not support my highest, truest, and best self.
From today forward, I am living a radiant life that is stronger, more prosperous, smarter, and more beautiful than anything I’ve ever experienced.
Everything I seek is already inside me, and I am focused on rising from within.
Take a full deep breath and let it go.
I AM
I am…Two of the most powerful words in any language. Words that direct our emotions and thoughts into movements that support us.
I am radiant.
I am embodying my balanced light.
I am aligned with my enoughness.
I am acknowledging that I have the power to create whatever I desire by going within.
I am a powerful being.
I am focused on living a stronger, more prosperous experience.
I am aware that darkness is nothing more than a lack of light.
I am aware that I never lack light. It is always within me.
My radiance and I are one…
I am shining from this day forward…
Anytime you need a moment to come back to center. Repeat these words and lean into your truth; the truth that you are joy, and at the center of joy is you.
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How would you rate your relationships? Would you say they are stable, safe, and grounded in true connectivity? Whether it’s the relationship with a spouse or partner, family, or even friends, there’s one element needed for our relationships to thrive. What is it? It’s emotional safety and security. Yet, most don’t realize there are grounded, actual steps needed to create trust-filled relationships with those we are closest. This week we’re diving into connectivity, what it takes to create an emotional safety net, and we’ll examine the small habits that have the power to shift any relationship from surviving to absolute thriving.
So, let’s shift our perspective and ability to become emotional sound.
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
02:10 Examining what the word connectivity means
03:05 There’s a physical response within the body when observing authentic connection. The brain reacts and floods our nervous system with good hormones such as serotonin, endorphins, and dopamine. How this impacts our overall health.
04:35 An active experiment for connectivity
06:47 Each of us has different definitions of our emotions—which is one reason why connectivity is difficult to navigate
08:26 Revealing the 7 baseline ingredients needed for any relationship to be successful
08:52 Ingredient #1 Honest Communication. No relationship can survive, thrive, or become more if there is a barrier to honest, upfront communication.
09:40 How all four forms of communication impact our relationships: verbal, non-verbal, physical, and written
12:18 Ingredient #2 Empathy and Understanding. When we operate from a place of grounded understanding, we learn to meet others’ needs through a frame that not only works for them, but it works for us, too.
12:26 Ingredient #3 Mutual Respect. The starting point of respect is comfort. It’s feeling safe enough to say what you need, doing the things that best serve you, and giving the same openness and ability for whoever you are engaging with to do the same from themselves.
13:20 Ingredient #4 Trust. Trust, just like respect, is earned through actions and knowing that our emotions, thoughts, feelings, physical self, and even our spiritual selves are safe with someone we ask to care for them.
14:55 Ingredient #5 Compromise. Compromise is found in allowing others to be who they are, as they are, while meeting them in the middle.
18:07 Ingredient #6 Appreciation. Relationships must have a level of gratitude, approval, and awareness to and within them. If we keep appreciation in the forefront, we allow safety, security, and peace to flow within our interactions.
18:57 Ingredient #7 Effort. Effort is far more intimate of an action than any material good will ever provide. Effort is about paying attention, meeting needs, creating a safe space, and making someone else feel that there is a place for them regardless of what is happening at the moment.
20:23 Breaking down Emotional Security and Safety?
22:00 How emotional connectivity is rooted in belonging
23:34 The Matrix of Emotional Security:
You feel valued and valuable.
You can indeed be yourself without that risk of judgment.
You can show your weaknesses without being taken advantage of.
You can share boldly and express yourself freely.
You feel seen, heard, and understood.
You experience unconditional love and friendship – this is true in all relationships, even romantic relationships.
You feel respected, and you don’t need to prove yourself constantly.
You know you are seen for your whole authentic self, and when you make mistakes or have bad days, your character isn’t questioned.
There’s a confidence in the space to be you.
You don’t overthink the presence of the relationship in your life because you can work through any ups and downs that occur.
25:43 The pitfalls of emotional security
27:20 How and why emotional security and safety can be broken quicker than formed.
31:29 Identifying emotional security sabotaging behaviors that threaten our emotional wellbeing
32:36 Threat #1 Defensiveness. How this behavior chips away at our relationships.
34:07 Threat #2 Sarcasms. Why we build emotional walls when the truth is undefined.
35: 30 Threat #3 Throwing the Past in Someone’s Face.
36:27 Threat #4 How Being Quick to Anger Breaks Trust.
37:50 Threat #5 Overstepping Boundaries
38:33 Threat #6 The Silent Treatment
40:21 Abusive relationship patterns and habits that kill emotional safety from the get-go
43:28 The ins and outs of building a lasting emotional safety net
45:16 Step #1 Be Consistent
46:26 Step #2 Sharing our inner thoughts
48:22 Step #3 Being a positive influence for each other
49:15 Step #4 Expanding honesty
50:07 Step #5 Being open with our emotional baggage
51:00 Step #6 Taking responsibility for our actions
52:29 Additional habits to build emotional security in simple ways
55:10 Learning to lean into essential questions such as: What do you need at this moment? How can I support you?
58:25 5 simple interactions that change connectivity for the long-haul. Connect, Show interest, Notice little details, Be open to learning, and Give.
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What is the most authentic definition of beauty? Not the definition we've been told we should and must subscribe to, but the actual depth-filled meaning of inner and outer beauty? In a world that thrives on perfectionism, flawless looks, and materialism, one fashion model is flipping that faked-out image of beauty on its head. Yet, doing so has not been an easy task. In this week's episode, Christine Handy walks us through her harrowing battle with breast cancer, how it challenged her perceived self-value, her standard and definition of beauty, the journey to self-worth, healing the inner child, and how each of us must create a "courage net" in our lives. Then, Christine takes us inside her newest journey, walking in New York Fashion Week as a fifty-one-year-old breast cancer survivor with a concave chest. Standards are being shattered as she blazes a new trail on and off the runway. Be prepared to have your mindset pushed as Christine delivers truths every woman needs to hear. This is one life revolution that turns pain into purpose.
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
01:44 Christine's story begins
03:30 How "ideal beauty" handed down from the modeling industry can define each of us. Christine's self-value and worth have been tied to her modeling career since she was a small child, and how this required her to examine the desire always to be more.
04:39 Breast cancer pushes Christine's value to the edge
05:30 The journey to self-worth and how a little help from your friends goes a long way
07:15 Healing the inner child through the visual form
09:30 How Christine's biggest fear motivated her in her fight for her life
10:32 There's no prescription for healing, and how each of us must do the work at our own pace
11:05 Redefining what comes into your awareness. The obsession with materialism doesn't fulfill the soul
12:38 Self-work takes daily time, dedication, and determination. Christine's playbook for success
14:39 How pain turned to purpose and Christine's work with www.ebeauty.com, an organization that supplies free wigs to breast cancer patients. The importance of normalcy while battling illness
18:05 Relationships change in our battles, and how fear is often transformed into anger
19:00 Releasing co-dependency and the necessity to do so at any stage
20:21 Diving headfirst into the hustle and learning that we do need other people in our lives
25:09 The most important question any of us can ask ourselves: How may I serve? The small ways to engage in service that cost you nothing more than a simple effort
27:39 How to be a good friend
31:33 New York Fashion Week is calling, and how Christine is breaking the standard
37:55 Ragged pain turns to inspiration as Christine eyes fashion designing to serve women like her
39:52 The power of the collective uplifting of women
40:52 Pushing the envelope on the runway
42:55 Spanning the definition of beauty and rewriting your definition
45:16 Even with chronic pain, you can find authentic, grounded joy
46:11 Christine's vision for women
48:11 How badass courage is developed and the need for a "courage net."
49:55 Christine's three things:
#1 Self-esteem work is critical
#2 You must be your own biggest cheerleader
#3 There is no U-Haul behind the hearse. People matter, not things
If you would like to follow Christine's journey back to the runway, follow her on Instagram and Facebook @Christinehandy1 as she posts daily about the physical preparation and the mental and emotional journey. In addition, you can visit her website christinehandy.com to learn more about her involvement in her various charities, her book, and the upcoming film.
Ultimately, as Christine said, each of us must be our own cheerleaders.
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Do you struggle with procrastination? What about the lack of motivation? So many do and even identify as procrastinators. This belief can overrun our lives! It can even cause higher levels of stress, anxiety, fear, and a host of other negative feelings. This week we are taking a different approach to procrastination as we examine what these habits are at their roots and how our mindset and thinking patterns are the true culprits. From there, we are brain hacking our way out of our full stops and onto the path of true motivation in this week's one-on-one deep dive.
So, let's shift our perspective and our mindset toward thriving instead of habitually trying to survive.
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
01:35 Other names and behaviors procrastination goes by
02:52 A question many may have asked themselves: "Is this just who am I?"
03:44 Truth #1: Procrastination is a habit, not a character trait
05:06 A workable definition of procrastination
05:30 An example of true procrastination and an understanding of unnecessary factors
08:13 When these behaviors move from mild disruption to life stopping issues
09:30 The number one culprit at the root of both procrastination and lack of motivation is our thinking: the ins, outs, and the impact
12:15 Changing our self-prescribed labels and how the words we say to ourselves cements our thoughts into beliefs
16:00 The progression of procrastination that can easily be witnessed each time it begins, and how to stop it before it gets started once you understand its pattern
18:08 The Pattern Explained:
If we do not have a clear "how" and "why," we do not get started, and the snowball effect begins
20:16 Uncertainty rises, overthinking begins, and thus begins the negative thought cycle
20:55 Anxiety rises and takes over rational thought patterns
22:03 Deeper indecision occurs welcoming in forecasting and the dreaded "what ifs."
22:55 Anxiety is a loop and cycle: procrastination induces the loop
24:40 Additional behaviors and patterns that cause procrastination: #1 Fear of Failure, which is an enemy to motivation
26:08 #2 Lack of purpose: shifting our mindset around purpose. Purpose is not a one-off element, an all-encompassing umbrella. Everything we do has a purpose that can be disconnected from overall life purpose.
28:02 #3 Urgency Driven Mindset: what it is and how you may be engaging in it without knowing this is your mindset mainstay
29:59 #4 Perfectionism: how this is rooted in full stops
31:21 #5 Black and White Thinking or Polarized Thinking
34:10 Brain hacking our way to action
Brain Hack #1: Get into the root cause: The "why" and seek the pattern
35:23 Brain Hack #2: Listen to your inner conversation: what are you saying to yourself and disrupt the conversation with truth
37:18 Brain Hack #3: Look at your physical activity and change your patterns
39:29 Brain Hack #4: The 20-Minute Chunk Down: Removing distractions and putting effort into 20 minutes of set time
41:23 Brain Hack #5: Putting rewards in place to get started: What do you have to gain through action?
42:39 Additional practical tools to help you act: A targeted, specifically focused to-do list, the 10-minute rule, and pair your most challenging tasks with a support system
48:12 Self-care in the most authentic form: When we burn out, we procrastinate as a form of self-preservation. Ways to engage in self-care: Adopting a mindset of physical and mental health a priority.
· Look at your thinking patterns and behaviors
· Saying no to extra obligations
· Showing up for yourself first
· Setting boundaries
· Standing up for yourself
· Being mindful
· Making your emotional health a priority
· Knowing your limits and capabilities
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When was the last time you gave yourself a mental and emotional boost? Every once in a while, we need to reset and bring ourselves back to center. Feeding yourself positive affirmations allows you to elevate your mood, find a sense of peace, and shift your perspective to help you keep your life together, girl! The Get Your Life Together, Girl mini bi-monthly reset is here to help you reset and remember who you are.
Find a comfortable position and take a full deep breath. Let these words remind you of your inner beauty and brilliant inner light.
By nature, you are soulfully beautiful. The combination of your qualities, emotional awareness, powerful thoughts, shape, color, form, the nuances that make you, you have created a beautiful soul. This lovely light shines no matter how those qualities have merged and mixed to create an outside and inner form. Your beauty is soul deep. It’s a shining, brilliant feeling that is your presence. And, that presence will never be dependent on aesthetics because beauty is in everything, and it lies within you, too.
Take a full deep breath and let it go.
You see, owning your beauty is a choice. It’s a feeling, a thought, an experience, an action. It’s a sense of belonging and peace. Beauty is your laughter that is wrapped in your wholeness, regardless of what has been, what is, or what will be. Your beauty is happiness gifted in moments, whether they are small or life changing. It’s self-acceptance and comfort. Beauty is potential, ease, and feeling alive. Knowing your worth and moving through the world in full ownership of yourself is beauty.
Take a full deep breath and let it go.
Beauty is you. We tend to define beauty only through the vehicle in which we arrived—our bodies, yet thinking in this manner rejects the radiant energy of who you are. From today forward, this is a shift in your standards.
Repeat after me if it serves you.
I am committed to seeing my beauty, in the true definition of it, of all that I am. I intend to honor myself beyond my physical form. I keep beauty in my conscious thoughts and feelings because at the basis of it is self-love, joy, happiness, and a sense of thriving that only comes with this state of inner and outer appreciation. In this beautiful state of appreciation, I find gratitude for this shift in thought. In this ability to foster all that I am.
Take a full deep breath and let it go.
I AM
I am…Two of the most powerful words in any language. Words that direct our emotions and thoughts into movements that support us.
I am beautiful and own the truest definition of that beauty.
I am honoring my body through a state of beautiful appreciation.
I am unstoppable in this new awareness.
I am bettering myself through this new lens.
I am letting go of other people’s standards and owning only my own.
I am blessed to know that I have the power to live a beautiful life no matter what comes my way.
I am blessed and highly favored.
I am doing all things through self-love.
Anytime you need a moment to come back to center. Repeat these words and lean into your truth- the truth that you are extraordinarily beautiful.
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Ladies, it is time to revolutionize our thoughts around physical health! Let me ask you a question: do you understand the inner workings of your body? As in, the natural rhythm of your hormones or even the daily and monthly cycles? How about how many calories you should intake or even when you should actually be eating? How about what it takes to sustain your energy and keep your weight in check? With so much noise and the "do this, not that" culture, it is time to break down factual, honest answers to reach our ultimate health. In this week's episode, we do just that with Registered Dietitian Victoria Coglianese. This practical conversation is overflowing with topics and solutions to the elements that most impact women's health daily! You don't want to miss Victoria's brilliant yet straightforward explanation on how to regain your functional health and how to reset your body through food; all of which can be started today!
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
01:55 Unpacking January and an introduction to functional medicine
04:12 Victoria's story of binge eating and how she came to do the work she does and serving women
10:53 Triggers, distractions, and how we hide our feelings through unhealthy coping mechanisms
13:05 Victoria breaks down the most significant issues she sees in women's health right now
PCOS and inflammation
Stress Culture
Hormone imbalance and weight loss
Our current food environment
16: 45 PCOS: what it is, how it impacts women, and the underlying issues that most do not deal with
23:05 Breaking down the female cycles and how our periods are the crux of our health
26:22 Daily cycles and hormone balancing through returning to your natural circadian rhythm
31:32 How to get back to our natural state; the ins and outs
33:02 The importance of the PFF Method (Protein, Fiber, and Fat)
Are you eating enough healthy protein, fiber, and healthy fat per meal?
34:55 How meal timing impacts our gut health and weight loss or maintenance game: The importance of the 4-4-4 and our gut cleansing cycle
39:45 Shifting from counting a standard number of calories and into the understanding that calorie intake is individual: calorie deficiency, burning calories outside of food, and understanding our thresholds
44:44 The "How" of moving back to balance
#1 Shifting our perceived energy balance
#2 Identifying if there is a dysfunction within the body
#3 Understanding our stressors and their impact
#4 Resetting our gut health
49:12 Breaking down the 4-4-4 method
53:51 What Victoria wished women knew about their health
55:37 The energy struggle and the Faith, Food, and Function framework that can be applied today
62:38 Victoria's three things:
#1 How important it is to own your nutrition and health journey
#2 Permitting ourselves to work on the foundations of our health
#3 Having hope
64:58 Five solid starters to apply right now
Free download to help you on your journey: Free PCOS Weight Loss Guide (wonderfullymadenutrition.com)
Victoria laid it all on the line for us and gave each of us a firm path to ultimate health.
If you want to learn more about Victoria and her programs, visit her website at www.wonderfullymadenutrition.com or follow her on Instagram @wonderfullymade.rd. Don't forget that free download to help you reset your metabolism above! Ultimately, as Victoria said, we all have the power to take control of our health one slight shift at a time.
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There is one statement that can disrupt our lives and growth more than any other set of words out there! What are they? "I AM STUCK!" Those words are often the most significant barrier to our success, feeling our best, and creating positive action; they are the mental and emotional wall that halts most things! So, this week, we are ripping off the label of stuck, taking a hard look at how we often go looking for failure without realizing it, and how we must push ourselves out of our comfort zone to grow and have full life ownership.
So, let's shift our perspectives and our ability to become unstuck.
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
01:31 The intention of our conversation and a call to action: move out of your own way
03:24 I AM STUCK! How these words are a threat to your mindset
05:55 What it means to be stuck and how fear, indecision, and inactivity play a role in the lie of stuck
08:15 How stuck is an inner and outer cry for change
10:08 Truth #2: How our mindset and perception impact or increase our feelings of fear, stuck, and indecision >
14:01 How using this SINGULAR statement followed by this empowering question can shift everything back into action
17:06 Lie #3: You are not in control of your life
18:57 What the comfort zone is and how it impacts your life
20:14 We actually need comfort zones. Understanding the difference between helpful and harmful zones
21:57 A simple yet powerful visional exercise to determine your current comfort zone
25:55 How you know if you are in the discomfort of a negative zone; the warning signs
29:51 Answering the ultimate question: Is it possible to break free from our cycles?
30:41 A MAJOR TRUTH: We will never be able to rid our lives of fear, change, or discomfort
31:39 Using fear as healthy motivation
34:44 Expanding your circle, the comfort zone, and how self-permission plays a significant role in this effort
35:31 Why we must give our failures the credit they deserve
38:31 Using positive What ifs to push your perceived limits
41:15 Practice believing in yourself with a victory list: the how, the why, and the must-do!
44:14 Powerful statements of self-belief
47:21 Taking action
48:11 Ways to baby step your life into a new comfort zone
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When was the last time you gave yourself a mental and emotional boost? Every once in a while, we need to reset and bring ourselves back to center. Feeding yourself positive affirmations allows you to elevate your mood, find a sense of peace, and shift your perspective to help you keep your life together, girl! The Get Your Life Together, Girl mini bi-monthly reset is here to help you reset and remember who you are.
Find a comfortable position and take a full deep breath. You arrived in this world with a spark, a fiery ambition in your core, and motivation to live a defined set of purposes. When you align with your why, the world rearranges itself to offer you infinite possibilities. Yet, when you are out of alignment with your purpose, it works to arrange everything to bring you back—the hardships, the trails, roadblocks, detours, and attention-grabbers. All of which are designed to help guide you home, to guide you to your purpose. The truth is, you have the power to find your way to your purpose and into alignment by going within and listening to your inner voice.
Take a full deep breath and let it go. Let these words remind you of your inner power.
A great lie is generally accepted across the planet—the lie that we are here to live within and serve a singular purpose. Life is filled with many different ways to contribute and purposefully live. Within this understanding, we can accept that our ability to thrive, create, and consciously be is never singular. In our living, we inherently make a difference, whether it’s in one life or the lives of thousands, as long as we courageous listen to what we are being guided toward. In living within our purpose, we lead; we are creators of thoughts, emotions, and innovation.
Take a full deep breath and let it go.
When we question our why, what we are really questioning is our inner voice. Purpose is found within our thoughts; it’s within the pushes, the sometimes-unsettling gnawing in your stomach, your heart’s desire and wish for more—it’s the souls stirring that wakes us up tonight. It’s inside the words, “If things were different, I would…” “If I could do anything, it would be.…” “If only…” “One day…” “I wish…”
You see, purpose is always within you. It’s yours for the taking. You are capable of purposefully creating all of the pieces of how you want to show up, how you want to create your life, and how you deliberately live.
You are the powerful storyteller of your life, no one else. And no one can guide you or define your purpose. This is an inside job. In owning this truth, you must also acknowledge and own that your purpose can be two-fold, ten-fold, and even twenty-fold. Whatever it is, it’s time to reset your mind and give yourself permission to thrive.
You see, abundance thrives in joy. Purpose breeds freedom. You are not your plan B, C, D, or F. At any time, you have the power to edit and rewrite your purpose-driven story.
Take another deep breath and let it go.
Your purpose is waiting. Your why is calling. Reset. Give yourself the ability to catapult the doors of your life wide open by owning your purpose story.
I AM
I am…Two of the most powerful words in any language. Words that direct our emotions and thoughts into movements that support us.
I am the powerful creator of my life, and I create through my purpose.
I am the direction pointer of my life.
I am living to infuse my purposes into everything I do.
I am bettering myself through the work I am meant to do.
I am leaning into my sense of purpose each and every day to gain clarity, strength, and abundance.
I am purposeful and steadfast in my actions.
I am blessed and highly favored.
I am purpose.
Anytime you need a moment to come back to center. Repeat these words and lean into your truth. the truth that you are the creator of your life. Everything starts and ends with you.
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Life is best lived when in balance, but for most women, achieving balance is the equivalent of walking a tightrope without a safety net underneath, tricky at best and, for many, a definite struggle. This is especially true for working mothers. In this week's episode, we take on our relationship with work and family while trying to achieve and be quote "good enough mothers" with retired neonatologist Dr. Susan Landers. She walks us through the lessons she learned about work/life balance as a high-achieving physician. Those lessons have now been parlayed into a mission to educate women to show up as their best selves, be present, and own their accomplishments as wives, mothers, and career-driven women.
Dr. Landers takes us on a journey to nourish our souls through family and work.
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
01:15 Dr. Landers reflects on her career, her passion for serving working mothers, and how mother's strikeout
03:54 Understanding of kids needs at different stages
06:04 Being a "good enough mother": what that means and how we have to allow ourselves grace
08:40 Choosing yourself is highly important and the fullness and pleasure of our work
09:44 What women can do to hold their identity as wife, mother, and employee
09:57 Understanding your needs and the importance of grounded self-care
12:05 Learning how to work on your marriage while in the throes of juggling family and work
14:24 Find your boundaries, learn to say no, and engage with a mentor
16:26 Communication is vital in all things, especially marriage and work
18:08 Find your key group and great girlfriends add to your happiness
19:57 Balance is found within: what balance is and where to find it
22:50 Admitting what we need
24:42 The power of guilt and how to find meaning in letting go
28:20 Being good enough is about self-care
31:48 The energy struggle
34:03 Find your nurture points
37:45 Support other working moms
47:43 Get to know yourself and what you need
49:48 The importance of Dr. Landers work
51:47 Dr. Landers' 3 things
A reminder of Dr. Landers' most brilliant takeaways: Do what you can because that is always enough. Be present in each task you are taking on, whether in the office or the home. Remember to review your accomplishments as you are in them, not just at the end. Balance comes from self-care, nurturing yourself, and then your relationships. Use your resources and connections to your benefit. And finally, be curious and continue to learn as this keeps you focused on your passion. Brilliant advice.
If you would like to know more about balancing career and motherhood, follow dr. Landers @susanlandersmd and visit susanlandersmd.com for more information about her book So Many Babies.
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It’s that time of year again where we begin to shift into the new year and begin to put pen to paper as to what we’d like to create. Last week we ripped back the veil of personal permission in order to move our mindset into that desire in part-one of this two-part series to enhance our overall quality of life. If you listened last week, you’ve come to understand that permission is the foundation to creating our highest and greatest intentions.
This week, we’re pulling everything together in part-two where we take a one-on-one deep dive into the exact strategies you can use to create achievable, permission-based goals and intentions—outside of the typical resolutions, that often fall short, fizzle out, and rarely come to fruition. If there has ever been a time to spark a new phase of growth, accomplishment, and shift your focus into enhancing your overall quality of life…now is it!
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
01:30 The end of the year and a new focus
04:00 A series of questions:
What do I want to create in this coming year?
Where do I want to create a shift in my life?
Where do I want to place my energy, lean in, and create priorities from that energy?
What’s my focus?
05:11 Creating a definition of what you want in the new year #goalmindset
07:10 Being goal oriented does not equal success
07:54 Examining the difference between intentions, goals, and resolutions
08:40 Why goals matter
10:29 Goals and the tie to our mental health
11:14 Why resolutions fail: lack syndrome
15:29 Looking at intentions and why we must have them
17:00 How potential must be reviewed and the steps to witnessing it in any goal
21:14 An exercise to employ for every goal you set
24:12 The difference between setting a goal and setting the right goal
27:09 Goal setting is not a linear process
28:16 Step 1: Define your goals through the “I” focus
30:58 Step 2: Write the goal down and how to “Anchor.” Read more about Anchoring: How to Use Emotional Anchoring to Your Benefit — Danielle A. Vann (danielleavann.com)
33:57 Step 3: Examine how realistic the goal is—a measure for success
35:09 Think small: goals are about the journey
37:20 Step 4: Create Targets/End frames
40:02 Step 5: Review the sustainability
41:00 Step 6: Create goal check-in periods
42:00 Step 7: Creating deadlines
44:01 Flexible verse Rigid goals
46:49 See it. Believe it. Create it!
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When was the last time you gave yourself a mental and emotional boost? Every once in a while, we need to reset and bring ourselves back to center. Feeding yourself positive affirmations allows you to elevate your mood, find a sense of peace, and shift your perspective to help you keep your life together, girl! The Get Your Life Together, Girl mini bi-monthly reset is here to help you reset and remind you that you are the creator of your story.
Find a comfortable position and take a full deep breath. Our lives are a testimony to our stories, to the lessons we've learned, the thoughts we've crafted into emotions and actions. Our lives are what we've created and attracted to us through all we have been and are working to become.
Take a full deep breath and let it go. Repeat after me if it serves you.
I attract and create what I believe. If my thoughts and feelings are centered on negativity, I bring the same into my life. From now on, I am choosing to be courageous in my thoughts and actions so that I may open an unyielding path of beauty, love, and peace. I am choosing to create and attract what is good, what is for me, and what will honor my purpose and way of being. I am a creator, and I am creating goodness not only for me but for the world at large.
I am living my life through the energy of creation with everything I do. This energy is found within an open heart; one that guides me to and through every experience with an understanding that I am worthy of creating whatever I desire. An energy that helps me understand that every thought has the power to help me or hinder me. I realize that if I create what is around me, I must choose to strengthen my life by infusing action, self-awareness, self-assurance, and boldness.
Take a full deep breath, breathe in greatness, and let go of anything that does not serve you.
I am amazed by all that is already inside of me. I am in awe of my life and my story. I now understand the significance of me, and it is greater than I have ever known before. I am honoring this understanding humbly, and choose to create a new and better day each day of my life.
I AM
I am… Two of the most powerful words in any language. Words that direct our emotions and thoughts into movements that support us.
I am the powerful creator of my life.
I am the creator of my thoughts, feelings, and actions.
I am the attractor of what is in my life.
I am amazing, and this amazement flows into everything I do, say, and feel.
I am in charge of the life I create. No person, no condition, or moment can change that.
I am choosing to live my best life from here on out.
Anytime you need a moment to come back to center. Repeat these words and lean into your truth- the truth that you are the creator of your life. Everything starts and ends with you.
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As we begin to close any year, it is natural to move our mindset into what we desire to create for ourselves in the next 365 days. After all, that is why we set intentions, resolutions, and goals, but there is one factor that must come first; a factor that most people bypass and then stand back and cannot figure out why life never seems to work out for them. What is this factor? It is permission. It is making affirmative, action-based choices that allow us to move into our highest and greatest intentions.
This week we're deep diving in a two-part, one-on-one conversation about permission and choice, and then next week, we’ll tie it all together in a way that allows us to bring our intentions into fruition, not only for the new year but for a lifetime.
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
01:43 A focus on permission: What it is and how it impacts us
04:55 Why you must give yourself permission to create goals
06:05 An eye-opening truth surrounding permission
07:33 A solid, workable definition of permission
08:54 Three permission-based words: Allowing, Consent, and Approval
09:33 When permission struggle begins
11:11 How our permission seeking becomes habitual
14:29 If you pushed against permission seeking as a child, you could still be holding onto labels and mistruths
15:23 The height of permission seeking
17:25 The story the mind begins to tell if you do not have a history of suitable permissions
18:55 /strong>What happens when we witness the fact we have spent our entire lives seeking permission from others
20:43 The sentences that are tell-tale signs you are habitually seeking permission
23:36 What happens when outside permission takes us down
28:37 Owning power over your personal permission and choices
30:04 How do we formulate our opinions?
32:17 Whose voice is speaking?
35:47 How do we create consent?
38:32 Staying in the power of "I"
39:34 Giving yourself permission from a different vantage point
42:03 Looking for evidence of being a "Yes!"
44:03 Write yourself a permission slip
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As we begin to eye the end of 2021 and the start of 2022, it’s become my mission not only to tell personal stories of overcoming while also teaching the tools that I practice and teach daily, but also to bring you experts that have the power to open our eyes to new learnings and help each of us create our own life revolutions in the areas that most of us struggle.
In this week’s episode, we take on our relationship with food in a deep dive conversation with nutritional, IBS, anxiety, and gut expert Laura Patricia Martin. After all, ’tis the season of overindulgence, leaning into an imbalanced mindset of eating, and of course, we are just weeks away from setting those New Year’s fitness resolutions.
This is one conversation that will inspire you to take command of your body as we journey through intentional eating, the mind, body, spirit connection to food, tricks for grocery shopping, and deep dive into crafting a relationship with nutrition that allows us to thrive not only in the now but for a lifetime.
Laura walks us through her life revolution and the journey she is on to heal women from the inside out.
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Intro
02:20 Laura Patricia Martin’s Personal Journey Begins—purpose knocks through a rock bottom upheaval
06:49 How deep the hard work was for Laura and the ways she tried to spiritually bypass
08:28 The difference between fault and responsibility
09:34 The a-ha moments that changed Laura’s relationship with her health
12:03 What a healthy food/body relationship should look like
13:50 What is your standard for yourself?
16:42 Anxiety & IBS - the gut/mind connection and the Vagus Nerves role in the body
20:30 Finding our way into balance through food
22:43 Reprogramming and exploring what works in our individual bodies
24:50 Witnessing and listening to signs, warnings, and symptoms within your body
27:34 IBS & Anxiety - the link and how to take control
31:37 Looking at metabolism and the how to work with our bodies, not against them
35:32 Your subconscious speaks in your actions —what’s a better feeling thought?
38:30 Owning responsibility in our nutritional health: “Look at the context of your actions.”
41:04 We don’t lose our progress: “You can’t be at war with your body and win.”
44:23 A healthy body starts with self-leadership
45:36 Tools for taking command of your body
47:40 There is not a quick fix
51:03 Diet verse lifestyle, labels verse reality—what’s your standard?
56:00 Tools for the grocery store and the shelves
59:20 Laura’s 3 things.
Laura’s story and insight remind us that it’s never too late to take command of our most precious resources: our physical body, our mental health, and how we have the power to create what we need and want in life once we make a choice to shift our mindset and show up.
If you want to learn more about Laura and her programs, you can find her on Instagram @healingtohappy or @itslaurapatriciamartin
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When was the last time you gave yourself a mental and emotional boost? Every once in a while, we need to reset and bring ourselves back to center. Feeding yourself positive affirmations allows you to elevate your mood, find a sense of peace, and shift your perspective to help you keep your life together, girl! The Get Your Life Together, Girl mini bi-monthly reset is here to help you reset and remember who you are.
Find a comfortable position and take a full deep breath. This life is one of open awareness. Awareness that all that you receive is an opportunity to know, build, and share the energy of great joy. Joy is an energy in and of itself. It is a mindset that finds us once we understand that our circumstances do not create joy; we do. Joy is found in the connection we craft into every single moment.
Take a full deep breath and let it go. Repeat after me if it serves you.
I am an instrument of joy. I see the beauty of it, the pleasure of it, the bliss, happiness, delight, and thrill that it weaves throughout my life, even during times that are not joyful or developed in joyful circumstances. Because of this, I am no longer waiting for the next day, the next event, the next moment to come. Instead, I am guiding myself, my mind, emotions, and actions into enjoying what is, in the here and now, in each and every second, minute, and hour. In doing so, I realize that joy is always available to me because it is me.
Take a full deep breath and let it go.
With this acknowledgment, I witness that joy is a present-moment experience. An experience that helps elevate my mindset into a place of tranquility and peace. As I tap into the present, I own that my joy is boundless and lies within. I have the power to access joy at any moment. I see it in my past, my growth, and the beauty of all that is. When I see my life and each experience through this frame, I know that joy allows me to appreciate what I am, have, and will be. Joy is a choice—a daily, present-moment awareness choice. A choice that allows me to give joy, spread joy, live joyfully, and welcome every experience I have in the same energy.
I AM
I am…Two of the most powerful words in any language. Words that direct our emotions and thoughts into movements that support us.
I am joy, and joy is me.
I am embodying joy in everything I do.
I am mindful that joy is always present for me, to me, and through me.
I am acknowledging that joy is seeing the beauty in imperfections.
I am rewriting my moments through a mindset of joy as I know that joy is about how I connect to each moment.
I am now witnessing that joy is a choice.
I am aware that joy is a practice – a practice that is now my way of life
Joy and I are one…
Anytime you need a moment to come back to center. Repeat these words and lean into your truth- the truth that you are joy, and at the center of joy is you.
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How many times have you uttered the words, "I am not good enough?" Unfortunately, for many, it is too many times to count. So, this week, we are taking a one-on-one deep dive into shifting our mindset around how we devalue ourselves and our worth. Whether we realize it or not, our self-talk, belittling ourselves, and buying into other people's opinions have the power to break our connection to our worthiness and how we show up in the world. This is one behavior that has real-life consequences.
So, let's shift our perspective and deep dive into our value.
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
01:30 The big question: How many times have you uttered the words, “I am not good enough?”
02:50 A moment of truth: Our enoughness comes into question at some point
06:04 A fresh perspective of moving yourself into self-worth: You can’t hate yourself into a better version of you
07:55 Understanding what self-worth is
08:28 A definition of self-worth
09:00 How our self-worth shows up in our lives
10:56 What a lack of self-worth looks and sounds like
12:54 “The good opinions” of others: how they rock our self-worth
14:09 The measuring stick of worth from the outside in— beauty, net worth, careers, and labels
18:35 We are not the labels, titles, jobs, or materials we have and own: Who are you without the external elements of your life?
20:00 Changing our self-worth is first by admitting we are dancing with not feeling good enough
21:07 What we tell ourselves becomes our truths
22:29 How we break down relationships because of our feeling of lack
24:05 Where does lack of self-worth start?
26:39 Have you ever made a conscious choice to underestimate yourself?
28:30 A host of questions that will help you create a personal definition of worth
31:05 The self-validation process is essential for self-worth
32:19 Step #1: Notice how you feel
33:52 Step #2: Accept your feelings without judgment
35:06 Step #3: Allowing yourself to create solutions
36:00 Step #4: Take action
36:48 Step #5: Value imperfect action
37:53 The second set of questions to greater enhance self-worth beyond the basic foundation
38:49 The “Hows” to get to self-worth
43:06 What changes when you find and live in your worth
46:50 You have to give yourself permission to own your life and strength
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Women who experience domestic abuse often find themselves silenced, not only by their partners, but also internally. Naa Amerley Asante-Armer knows this reality all too well. Yet, using her own words, “once she hit the eye of the storm,” she found her voice again—a voice that once sang for the masses and who is now running to lead a nation as its President in the West African country of Ghana.
Naa Amerley takes us on an incredible, life-altering journey through drowning in debt, an abusive marriage, to finding her strength and voice through the truth that she was not broken, to a vision that led her to her home country, to the present moment as she makes a run for President of Ghana. Her words will inspire and move you as she reminds each of us that our roles as women can only be defined by the limits of our minds, never our stories.
A warning: this interview does speak of physical, mental, and emotional abuse and may not be sustainable for a younger audience.
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Intro
01:26 A moment of transparency – Ghana’s connection
02:09 Naa Amerley’s story begins
04:11 The introduction of domestic abuse into Naa Amerley’s life—depression sets in
05:30 The impact of emotional abuse
07:40 The silencing begins as Naa Amerley releases music, her career, and fundamental relationships
10:10 Finding her feet and the decision to become unsilenced
13:05 An understanding that there must be more to life
17:10 A reconnection to self
20:40 Naa Amerley’s voice grows stronger
24:15 The height of the abuse: “Enough is enough!”
27:00 Going home—reconnecting with her mother and family
28:33 An actual dream changes Naa Amerley’s life’s plan
30:00 Entering a life of politics
31:50 An African Proverb
34:05 Gratitude for being “possible” and understanding there is nothing left to lose
37:07 Power to Our Mothers Foundation
39:46 Pay it forward—give what you’ve been given
40:16 The race for President in Ghana now as the underdog
42:00 A vision for a nation
43:08 Naa Amerley’s three things
To learn more about Naa Amerley follow her on Instagram @naaamerleyforpresident and @powertoourmothersfoundation.
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Find a comfortable position and take a full deep breath. There are times when our well-being takes a backseat to all the doing in our life, to our thought process, and our emotional health and stability. When we nurture chaos in our thoughts, in our emotions, and our actions, we let our well-being become disrupted too. So let today be the day that you bring yourself back to balance, back to center, and know that your true nature is one of centered peace. Remember that with every breakdown comes a breakthrough.
Take a full deep breath and let it go. Repeat after me if it serves you.
There is a time for everything. And this is the time that I intentionally turn my focus on me. I recognize that I live in a world where stress, unhealthy habits, and ignoring my spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical well-being has become a way of life for many. A way of life that does not serve me. I choose to be different. I choose to lean into my well-being and know that I have the power to be in balance regardless of the world around me. I choose more for myself. I choose inner peace. I choose healing. I choose me.
Take a full deep breath and let it go.
From now on, I intentionally release anything that does not serve me. I do so to welcome what is best, and all that can be from this intentional choice.
Take a full deep breath and let it go.
I am becoming the very picture of vitality. I intend to remain in this state of supreme being so that I can thrive and serve my purpose. I choose health, in all manners, over destruction every minute of every hour. Mindfully, I move my body, mind, and soul back into blissful harmony so that I may experience the beauty of my life.
I deserve well-being. I honor it. I choose it. And I know I am worthy of it.
From now on, I am focused on my thoughts being in harmony with this understanding. I am focused on my emotional well-being. I am focused on doing everything through the lens of self-love, strength, and service.
I know that my well-being impacts others. Therefore, I intend to be an example. I intend to thrive.
I AM
I am. Two of the most powerful words in any language. Words that direct our emotions and thoughts into movements that support us.
I am energy.
I am balance.
I am vitality and strength.
I am healthy.
I am sacredly doing what is best for me.
I am guarding my physical care and health.
I am focused on my emotional wealth.
I am free of any disease, whether physical, emotional, or mental, and am free of dis-ease.
I am in harmony with myself, with my inner being, and with the world at large.
I am a priority.
I am my first why.
I am mindful of a life regimen that supports my greatest care.
Anytime you need a moment to come back to center. Repeat these words and lean into your truth; the truth that you are well-being and at the center of well-being is you.
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No matter where you live around the globe or what holiday, tradition, or religious ceremony you celebrate, mental health, emotional uneasiness, and your physical health can easily be knocked off-kilter during this time of year. So, this week we are taking a one-on-one deep dive into reimagining the holidays through finding and maintaining our center, holding space for ourselves, stripping away expectation, and allowing joy to thrive within the present moment BEFORE the season gets in full swing. Creating a plan now is essential to removing the overwhelm and maintaining your mental health and balance.
Let’s shift our perspectives and our ability to maintain our centered balance…
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Intro
01:13 Bracing for the holidays: how they are “supposed to be”
04:00 A new aim for the holidays: less stress, reduced expectations, and balanced and centered mental, emotional, and physical health
05:09 What it means to be centered: a new definition
08:12 Clear indicators that you are out of balance
10:58 An invitation out of your imbalance: what’s your return point?
13:33 How expectations kill the holidays
14:28 A better definition of expectation
17:07 How we cause ourselves upset and defeat during the holiday season, whether it is purposeful or not
19:09 The way to lay down our expectations and why it's a must
20:13 Create a vision for the holidays NOW
24:29 Other expectation standards
25:25 Understanding and defining your limits during the holidays
27:16 Open communication is critical during the holidays
29:00 Releasing the guilt of your choices
30:11 How my failure shed light on finding joy
33:52 Finding patience with yourself and others
35:28 Self-care during the holidays
37:30 Balancing your time to keep yourself centered
42:53 Other tools to return to center (aka home)
45:22 Lead yourself through gratitude
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Grief and loss are universal experiences. No one lives the entirety of their life without meeting one or the other at some point. But, how you connect and move through grief, pain, and overall upheaval creates the difference between being a shattered person and a self-actualized soul. Priscilla Giddings knows this truth all too well. Her grief story began at age nine with the loss of her father, then transitioned into losing her soulmate after he was murdered, to her mother passing quickly from cancer. Yet, while the tragedies stacked up, Priscilla did not back down, especially when a life-altering secret was revealed at her mother's funeral. A secret that turned her profound loss into a place to call home. Priscilla walks us through her life revolution and the incredible insight she has gained along the way. You do not want to miss this love story to life itself.
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Intro
01:34 Priscilla's story begins and grief rocks her
03:37 Diving into the operation of suffering through grief: the ins and outs
06:06 A normal response to death and the feelings of why try
07:30 Losing the love of her life and a defining secret that is revealed upon his passing
10:29 The positive side of loss: it's there if you look for it
12:00 A legacy to our grief: questioning why and learning from its lessons
15:15 The word cancer is uttered, and life is suddenly rocked once more
18:00 How Priscilla processed the loss of her mother
20:16 Finding a grounded place inside loss with a new baby on the way
23:00 A family secret is revealed at her mother's funeral that changed her entire life
25:30 A new family, her family, welcomed Priscilla and her boys in with open arms
27:37 Advice for anyone looking for their birth family: find your history and more of yourself
32:17 A reminder of the beauty in our stories and receiving the good
32:40 The healing process of grief
33:26 The healing power of journaling and writing
34:48 grief and healing come down to one factor: choice
37:21 The other side of grief and loss
38:09 Affirmations and finding your outlet to move out of dark spaces
39:12 Going back to your younger self and finding the spark, joy, and purpose you have known all along
44:52 Humans having a spiritual/soulful experience
45:51 Learning more now
46:13 How grief changed Priscilla for the best
50:00 I know I am enough! A powerful statement everyone must permit themselves to hear, own, and affirm
51:36 Priscilla's three things: peace of mind, power to do the work, and the love in her heart and of herself
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Find a comfortable position and take a full deep breath. Our daily lives are often too busy, overwhelmed, and even loud. As this tense and stressed framework becomes our way, we often forget who we are. In doing so, we lean into the idea of chasing perfection. Today is the day you reclaim your authenticity and lean into resetting yourself for more.
Take a full deep breath, breathing in authenticity. Let it go, breathe out a sense of engineered perfection.
Repeat after me, if serves you:
I am an unstoppable woman who is fearlessly and incredibly living her truth. I honor all that I am. What I reflect in my daily life is a true and accurate reflection of who I am both inside and out. I also witness that as I grow and change, that reflection changes too. I welcome this understanding as it shows me how unstoppable I truly am.
As I witness my growth, I keep my authenticity at the forefront of every interaction, regardless of how others may react or oppose, because I know what is best for me.
I own my life. I am the director of my story. This story is written through one fundamental truth: I am worthy of everything I desire. This truth is weaved into my present moment; a present moment that is focused on love, learning, growth, creating, and living a life of legacy. Not a legacy of financial gain, but a legacy of making others know they are worthy too.
In the busyness of my life, I am slowing down. I am reflecting on what best serves me. What I bring into my awareness is of my highest and greatest truth as it reminds me to never stop growing. From now on, I release perfection and seek realness. There is nothing I cannot do. There is nothing that I cannot conquer. This is my day! My unstoppable moment of ownership is to show the world who I am, what I have the power to do, and radically allow my voice to be heard. This unstoppable me is choosing to stand in my power.
Take a slow, deep breath and let it go.
I choose to prosper in my truth, in my story, in this beautiful life.
I am the only one who has to love my story, to fill in the blanks, to thrive and to grow.
I am the reflection of all that is true and good in this world. I am honored to be so.
I AM
I am, two of the most powerful words in any language. Words that direct our emotions and thoughts into movements that support us.
I am unstoppable.
I am worthy of everything I desire to create.
I am the reflection of all that is true and good in this world. I am honored to be so.
I am thriving in the now.
I am sacredly living as the best version of me.
I am authentic in everything I do.
I am fearless.
I am unstoppable.
Anytime you need a moment to come back to center. Repeat these words and lean into your truth- the truth that you are capable of doing anything regardless of how noisy or busy your life becomes because you are unstoppable.
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Anxiety is one of those things that simply does not discriminate. It does not know age, race, financial status, education, where you live, what you've done, what you do for a living, it can strike and grab ahold of you when things are good or when things are absolute hell. For many, anxiety is a real battle that they feel they have no control over.
This week we are taking a one-on-one deep dive into understanding the difference between worry, stress, and anxiety. In doing so, we will journey through how each of these plays out in our lives and ultimately land on five real world techniques that can be used to break the overwhelming cycle of anxiety.
So, let's shift our perspectives and our ability to hold space for ourselves.
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Intro
03:10 The truth about anxiety
03:55 How anxiety often shows up for women and the root causes
06:03 We have our definitions wrong. Worry, stress, and anxiety are not the same operations or behaviors – flushing out the proper definitions
07:09 A deep dive into what worry is and how it shows up in our lives
09:11 How stress owns us and how it rears its ugly head – Stress 101
12:34 Breaking down the dirtiness of anxiety
14:33 Common symptoms of anxiety and how it makes us feel
15:00 An example of anxiety thinking
17:00 The inner and outer conversations of anxiety
17:40 How to identify the difference between stress and anxiety
19:52 Diving into techniques to ease anxiety
20:23 Awareness for anxiety: How to question the validity of your thoughts
23:48 The Power of Our Breath: 4-7-8 Method
26:22 The Naming the Sensations Within Technique
28:18 3-3-3 Coping Method vs 5-4-3-2-1
34:00 The Brain Dump Technique for energy and thought movement The Art Of A Brain Dump — Danielle A. Vann (danielleavann.com)
36:48 Employing Worry Periods to help ease your stress and anxiety
39:44 The File It exercise to help ease your mind for a good night's sleep
43:20 When to seek help
Check out The Art of a Brain Dump to learn how to properly use this fantastic journaling technique.
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Healing is not a linear process, nor does it have to unfold through a typical “formula” to be considered worthy or life-changing. You see, our healing often takes as many twists and turns as the experience we are trying to heal.
In this week’s episode, we deep dive into finding an openness to our intuitive gifts through Lina Durazo’s story. A story that began with an abusive relationship, car accidents, declining health, unexpected deaths, and seeking healing in a way that would dramatically shift her life’s story.
Lina walks us through the unfolding of her faith-based ability to connect with the other side as a medium, teaching others to connect with themselves and finding peace after trauma. Keep your mind open because Lina’s story will fascinate you...
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Intro
01:27 Lina’s story begins
04:15 Feeling seen is the beginning of Lina’s healing process: the how and why surprises Lina and her inner circle
05:51 Seeking answers opens Lina’s eyes to an alternative path
08:06 Lina searches for personal healing, regardless of how it may be perceived: from medical school wishes to mediumship
10:29 The healing gift of intuition—a gift each of us possesses
14:03 Lina deep dives into how alignment works in our lives
17:21 Reconsidering the steps to healing and creating a path that best works for you
18:50 A message to those that do not believe in intuition or the ability to connect with the other side
20:16 A lesson in owning boundaries and moving into uncharted territory
22:36 The misconception many hold toward healing
27:55 Lina’s path was not always alternative healing—the story behind her earlier desires
29:16 Suffering guides us to our most profound meaning—our purpose
32:53 Connecting with the other side as a faith-based practice and service to others
35:49 A moment of profound truth: the ugliness in the world comes from one source
36:22 Finding the light within
40:07 Using your breath and the art of being present-focused while healing
41:58 The S.T.O.P. method for life ownership
48:30 How to rid yourself of doubt and Lina’s pledge to herself and others
Lina’s story reminds us that owning our lives, path, and healing is an individual process. It also reminds us that judgment can own us, but when we leave the opinions of others out of what we know we must do for ourselves, the door is opened to a space and understanding of ourselves and the world that would otherwise not be within our grasp. Finally, it too reminds us that our experiences are for us, never against us.
If you want to learn more about Lina, you can follow her on Instagram @_blissful_souls_. You can also connect with her via her website at www.blissfulsoulds333.com.
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Everywhere you turn, the word “affirmation” seems to be taunted as the end-all-be-all to shifting your mindset into a permanent place of positivity. Yet, even with the widespread popularity, many question whether affirmations genuinely work or if they are just another personal development/self-help scheme to sell more journals and books. Yet, most do not understand that the practice, when used correctly, does have the powerful ability to shift your mindset and your life!
This week we are taking a one-on-one deep dive into understanding the affirmation practice through factual science, brain chemistry, the thought process, and the ins and outs of making this practice genuinely work in your favor, despite what others may be touting.
So, let’s shift our perspectives and our ability to create greatness for ourselves with positive affirmation…
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Intro
02:01 Are you someone who automatically rejects the unfamiliar? Two important questions: Do you understand the process and intention of what you are rejecting? Are you someone who keeps their mind open to new ways of being?
03:19 Being open to change helps us grow—daily affirmations work when grounded in science.
04:09 How an affirmation practice helps rewire our brains and our habits.
04:40 The formula to moving affirming words from statements to powerful life-changing direction pointers.
05:03 Workable affirmations start first with mindfulness
05:43 The actual definitions of mindfulness
06:37 The truth: every single human can be and is mindful.
08:12 Why most people say affirmations do not work and an A-ha moment.
10:01 The Life Cycle of a Thought: thoughts, emotional response, action.
10:15 A deeper understanding of the way thought patterns work
10:38 How the conscious mind affects our beliefs in affirmations
11:29 Your subconscious mind
12:40 The difference between subconscious and conscious thoughts.
13:56 How the subconscious mind reasons and looks for patterns
14:24 The second step in the thought process: bringing in the emotional body
15:23 an essential understanding: It’s you that places meaning to your thoughts.
15:58 The baseline to our affirmation formula: What we affirm, we must feel. Rule #1 Affirm
17:10 The last step in the thought process: Action
17:52 What an affirmation actually is—breaking down the ins and outs.
19:39 A WARNING: Affirmations can be used negatively, too.
21:04 An additional list of positive benefits
23:10 The Formula
23:53 Step #2: Write every statement in 1st person
25:00 Step #3: Affirmation are to be written in a positive light, not negative
25:21 Step #4 Bringing your emotions in to create the affirmations into reality
26:40 Step #5 Present moment language
28:18 Step #6 Be open to creating a new pattern
29:43 Step #7 Affirmations are called a practice because it must be a habit to make them practical tools
31:41 Ways to use your affirmations
33:40 A bonus! How to add fuel to your affirmations
38:45 Another question you must answer when it comes to affirmations
40:28 A few affirmations to get you started
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When was the last time you gave yourself a mental and emotional boost? Every once in a while, we need to reset and bring ourselves back to center. Feeding yourself positive affirmations allows you to elevate your mood, find a sense of peace, and shift your perspective to help you keep your life together, girl! The Get Your Life Together, Girl mini bi-monthly reset is here to help you reset and weave an epic of peace.
Find a comfortable position and take a deep breath. Now, close your eyes and allow your thoughts to soften. Bring your mind to a state of stillness and focus on two beautiful words. Those words are peace and Shanti. Shanti is a Sanskrit term that can be loosely translated as “peace be with you.” It’s a reminder that peace is always within your grasp.
Because being at peace is a choice. A daily choice that reminds us that we are on a journey—a journey of learning, of lessons and redirection, a journey of creating balance and deep inner understanding, and a journey that has always been meant to guide us to the humble state in which we arrived, in peace and embodying Shanti.
Take a full, deep breath.
Let the words guide you into deeper peace and repeat them aloud if it serves you.
I am at peace. My life is an echo of Shanti. I live in the unfolding of all the things that occur, no matter how I may first perceive them, whether good or bad, because I know that within everything peace exists. I seek peace. I acknowledge it, and I choose to live within it.
From now on, I am choosing to guide my inner thoughts through Shanti and allow them to be an echo of my peace. What I radiate grows and comes back to me, and it’s with this knowledge that I choose Shanti as my guide.
Breathe in. Breathe out.
I have also come to understand that my world does not have to be in complete harmony or stillness for me to be grounded in the humbleness that peace has to offer. I simply use it to protect my energy, to feed myself good-feeling thoughts, engage through a balanced mindset, and be the reflection of the good in my life.
I let go of my ego and its push for constant results. Instead, I walk the path of peace where more is unfolding for me. It’s a path that is bricked with only the highest, truest, and best.
Peace is my superpower. I am using it to shape my beautiful, unstoppable now. I am unlimited. I am the very definition of Shanti.
I AM:
I am peace.
I am at peace.
I am living in a state of constant peace.
I am the deliberate creator of my story, of my life, and it is my desire to guide my choices through peace.
I am accepting that not everything happens in peace, and yet, it’s still an option for me.
I am the protector of my peace and choose to hold space for myself.
I am living my life in a limitless state of abundance; that abundance is guided through peace.
There are simply no other words to say other than, “Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Om, Shanti, Shanti, Shanti.
Take a deep full breath in and slowly let it go.
Anytime you need a moment to come back to center. Repeat these words and lean into Shanti. Lean into the understanding that peace is always within you, if you choose to allow it to be felt, to be seen, and to grow. May peace be with you.
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What does the term “Work/Life” balance mean to you—especially if you are a mother? For many, the term is laughable and a seemingly unattainable feat. Paula Davies was no exception until the weight of being “super mom” literally stopped her in her tracks. Hitting rock bottom forced Paula to redefine her connection to her roles as a mother and educator, what happens when we mask our mental health, the healing impact of the Law of Attraction, and how the diagnosis of the mind/body syndrome of Fibromyalgia shifted her entire mindset. Paula walks us through her life revolution and the journey that has dramatically shifted everything within and around her…
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Intro
01:52 Paula’s love story with her life begins
04:04 The beauty of an unplanned moment
05:55 When work/life balance bumps against our ambition—how the struggle quickly develops
07:03 How our roles define us: motherhood verse work and the guilt that arises
09:32 The unsustainability of being “super mom”
12:34 The birth of baby #2and how work owned precious moments
15:20 Postpartum, guilt, switching gears, and mental health
17:22 Masking mental health to not be seen as a failure
19:28 Unexplainable pain and a breaking point: The mindbody syndrome of Fibromyalgia
22:37 Hitting rock bottom—Paula’s body stops her in track
25:08 The first step in healing: Flipping the mindset
28:26 How our circumstances impact the brain in ways that science has yet to come to understand
29:40 Reversing the mindset
33:10 The mind, body, soul connection
34:21 How Paula uses the Law of Attraction as a healing and health-based practice and tool
37:38 Work takes a backseat, and a new purpose unfolds
40:53 Giving yourself permission to thrive as you work to serve yourself and others
42:32 Landing on a new perspective of motherhood
47:15 Letting go of the expectations to find your balance
48:52 Paula’s 3 things of gratitude
51:00 Listening to your inner voice
Paula’s story is a reminder that we are never alone nor without purpose in our journeys, and what feels like a lifelong diagnosis could very well be the one thing that puts everything we need, want, and desire into perfect balance. Because ultimately, as Paula said, mindset is everything.
If you want to learn more about Paula and follow her journey, head over to Instagram and follow her @happinessandheart_official.
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Have you ever wondered to yourself…who am I? I bet you have, and yet, I even more willing to bet that when you began to try to formulate an answer, you only allowed yourself to scratch the surface of the real you. The you that is not defined by labels, titles, the roles you play, what you own, or even who you’ve been told you should be.
This week we take a one-on-one deep dive into understanding who we are and how to empower ourselves within our truest nature and at the most authentic level. So, let’s level up and shift our perspectives.
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Intro
01:02 Who am I?
02:15 The various roles you play with the masks you wear
04:30 Getting to know yourself to answer the questions: Who am I?
05:21 How can you feel empowered if you don’t know who you are?
07:00 Step 1: Getting to know yourself through self-awareness
08:40 Step 2: Come clean with yourself about your truth
09:34 Step 3: Accept your imperfections
11:44 Step 4: Redefine or change the relationships that do not welcome your truest self
13:44 The sum of personal power
14:34 Three fundamental operations:
16:16 Other “good” symptoms of personal power
18:00 The behaviors that strip our power
20:56 Committing to yourself
22:16 Being open to possibilities
23:57 Give yourself permission to walk your own path
24:44 Engage in self-trust
26:16 Giving ourselves grace
27:00 Empowering yourself fully
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When was the last time you gave yourself a mental and emotional boost? Every once in a while, we need to reset and bring ourselves back to center. Feeding yourself positive affirmations allows you to elevate your mood, find a sense of peace, and shift your perspective to help you keep your life together, girl! The Get Your Life Together, Girl mini bi-monthly reset is here to help you reset and weave an epic of self-trust.
Every once in a while, it is necessary to apply the brakes, boil down the emotion, and examine the truth. When there’s zero emotional attachment to an outcome, the answers you seek are not only offered, but appear in the framework of trust. Trust-centered thoughts lead to a trust-centered life. The question is: are your thoughts and actions trust aligned?
Take a full, deep breath.
Repeat after me:
I am learning to build trust in the world around me, and most importantly, in myself. I intend to stop obsessing over how I want my life to be, and instead, actively trust that living in the presence of the doing, in the now, will wholeheartedly offer everything I need, want, and desire. With this, I am trusting the timing of my life. I trust that I do not always need a plan. Sometimes, I have to let go and watch the unfolding to have access to new levels of greatness, inspiration, creation, and enlightenment. I live and do so intentionally.
Breathe in. Breathe out.
I AM:
I am trusting myself and of myself.
I am trusting my path.
I am approaching each moment of life with faith.
I am in the process of trusting all that unfolds for me.
I am thriving in the now.
I am working on the release.
I am attracting powerful and highly aligned experiences into my life.
I am living intentionally through trust. ;
Anything you need a moment to come back to center. Repeat these words and lean into your self- trust.
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What do the words intention and expectation mean to you? For most, they represent an aim, a plan, and how we expect the events in our lives to unfold. Yet, it is no secret that life has a way of dramatically changing at a moment's notice, which shifts our expectations and intentions. For Tara Parsons, the revealing this great truth started on an icy mountain road and ended in a car accident that dramatically changed her life due to a traumatic brain injury.
In this week's episode, we walk through Tara's story, story that reminds us that family is everything, that we must show up for those we hold most dear, to be grateful for what is within our capability today, and the ultimate understanding that when we live intentionally and through reasonable expectation, the most authentic meaning of life is revealed. What started as a typical Saturday turned into a life revolution that you simply do not want to miss...
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Intro
01:39 Tara's story begins, journey that starts with a massive curveball
03:16 An icy mountain road changing everything
07:24 How isolation and darkness challenge your emotional, physical, and mental health
09:05 The beauty and gift of slowing down
11:21 Your ability to thrive starts with the understanding that is always something good if you surrender to the moment. Tara's take on what it means to surrender.
12:50 Reassuring others when you are traveling a difficult road
13:27 Learning to meet people where they are. Tara's profound lesson and wisdom
15:34 The two words that now define how Tara shows up moving forward are intention and expectation and how they got their meaning
16:37 The road to recovery
19:35 The fierce determination of a mother
22:22 The change of perspective when life forces you to focus on the little things
25:22 Learning appreciation and how to stop taking life and things for granted.;
28:34 Purpose revealed: empowering women and personal alignment
31:04 How passion and purpose are delivered in the absence of noise
32:29 The ultimate question: would life be the same without that icy road?
36:18 Tara's tips to learn to empower yourself and stay within intention and expectation
37:54 The power of the written word
42:33 The message to her former self
44:15 We are never done
46:06 Tara's three things
Tara continues to heal and grow in her journey toward self-awareness and helping others. As she said, perspective is everything, life is a journey, and we never get it all done. And yet, if we show up and love ourselves enough, we have the power to impact others. If you want to learn more about Tara and the Wildflower Fashion, you can visit the truck online at wildflowerfashiontruck.com or follow Tara and the truck @wildflowerfashiontruck on Instagram.
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What comes to mind when you hear the word negativity? What do you see, or more importantly, who do you see? The answer may surprise you as we take a one-on-one deep dive into empowering ourselves through understanding self-esteem and one common unhealthy habit that kills the overall opinion of ourselves, trashes our self-confidence and self-love, and ultimately, and keeps us in cycles that can be exceptionally difficult to break. What is this habit? Self-gaslighting.
It is a habit that is quick to own us. So, let us shift our perspectives and learn how to stop using our thoughts and inner conversations as emotional warfare against ourselves. Leveling up, shifting our mindset, and creating balance is more accessible than you think!
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Intro
01:30 Trigger Warning: The negativity you are experiencing may just be coming from your own mind!
02:45 A serious question: What comes to mind when you hear the word negativity?
03:06 The normal responses that may only be half of the truth.
04:11 A shift in perspective with a few keywords.
04:39 Self-gaslighting: what it is and how it becomes emotional warfare.
06:19 How self-esteem plays a role in self-gaslighting and what self-esteem is at its most basic definition.
07:45 The habits of those with healthy self-esteem and what it looks like from the outside.
11:27 Are you emotionally manipulating yourself?
12:26 The examples of gaslighting that may shake you.
15:43 Why self-gaslighting is unhealthy mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and physically.
17:26 Other signs and symptoms of gaslighting - #1 Belittling yourself.
19:08 #2 Undermining yourself and how that keeps you from your greatness.;
22:47 #3 The awful truth behind self-doubt.
24:13 #4 Taking on blame and blaming yourself.
25:04 #5 Finding and owning your personal truth.
25:30 Breaking down how we can overcome the emotional warfare of gaslighting.
27:18 How does gaslighting show for you? Putting the stopgaps in place right now.
29:18 Leaning into your negative self-talk.
31:53 How willingness and permission play a role in exploring your deeper emotions and creating change.
34:20 A recap of the steps
34:59 Learning how to honor your truth.
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When was the last time you gave yourself a mental and emotional boost? Every once in a while, we need to reset and bring ourselves back to center. Feeding yourself positive affirmations allows you to elevate your mood, find a sense of peace, and shift your perspective to help you keep your life together, girl! The Get Your Life Together, Girl mini bi-monthly reset is here to help you reset and weave an epic of gratitude.
Gratitude is the following ink that pens my story. In every action, in every experience, there is something for me to be grateful for. The real language in life flows through action, favor, and thankfulness that I grant to myself, others, and the experiences that I have from my heart through the frame and perspective of gratitude. I am on a journey. The hard stories I have told are nothing more than my teachers. They are moments of examination and growth lying in wait. They are moments I am to recognize all that flows to me in gratitude. What has arrived for me is not against me, but instead to show me that there is always something more.
Take a full, deep breath.
Repeat after me:
Gratitude turns the mundane into a gift. It turns the ordinary into vast opportunity. From now on, I will count my blessings instead of glazing over them. From this day forward, I will appreciate what is for me instead of what is not. From this day forward, I will learn to live in all of the extraordinary experiences available to me. I will begin to celebrate how far I have come, and I will eliminate the criticism from my past and of my past. I will remember that I am always enough. With this remembering, I will offer great appreciation.
Breathe in gratitude and welcome in balance.
The chapters of my life are now written through gratitude. It is a new book, a limitless offering filled with stories that are always built on appreciation. The ink I now favor is self-love, joy, and happiness. This new story thrives in the beautiful possibilities available to me. I gratefully know that everything from this day forward is possible. I am thankful for every lesson I find. They will now fill the pages of my book. I choose this story. I am grateful for it. I live in possibility and gratitude. What I think about grows, and from now on, what I think about is gratitude.
Breathe in. Breathe out.
I am: I am deliberate creator of my story.
I am grateful for everything in my life.
I am grateful for love, for friendship, for family, and my health.
I am grateful for choice.
I am grateful for the ability to show up in my life and write a new story.
I am grateful to be able to understand and know peace.
I am always taken care of through gratitude.
I am grateful to experience the sense of gratitude.
I am grateful for my teachers and all the things that come into my life.
I am grateful to be moving toward the fun and success available to me in this life.
I am living my life for me.
I am accepting that gratitude and appreciation are available to me always.
Anytime you need a moment to remember that gratitude is always available to you, simply close your eyes and say: "Gratitude starts within me and moves into my daily life through my thoughts. I am shifting my focus from the things that I cannot control, to the things that try to control me, and I am moving into those things that I am internally and amazingly grateful for."
Take a full deep breath and let the gratitude settle within you.
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Each week, I ask women to be vulnerable, tell their stories, and offer each of us a perspective that we can apply to our own growth. However, it wouldn’t be fair, nor vulnerable, if I didn’t deep dive into a time and place where my own life revolution was in full swing. And yet, it’s a story that I walked through from the outside in. The story belongs to my fourteen-year-old daughter, Madison. A story of facing a life-altering surgery at the age of nine, finding her way through a medical crisis, and life without a vital organ, the lessons she taught me that sparked my own personal growth and change, and the realization that both of us found our purpose in moments neither of us was confident we had the strength to survive. What follows is a love letter to our relationship, our revolutions, and the understanding that sometimes all a girl needs is a pair of pink cowgirls boots and the ability to march no matter hard life becomes…This is Madison’s story—a deeply personal story that I’m honored and humbled to share with you.
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Intro
01:37 Madison’s story begins to unfold
02:16 A life of medical issues and misdiagnosis
04:30 2016 ushers in a massive life storm
05:14 All hell breaks loose; we’re forced to fight
09:05 A 100-miles per hour felt like we were still standing still
10:08 Stepping back into the days leading up to change
11:11 A child’s awareness & fear
13:50 August 31st
14:47 A cry for help no mother ever wants to make
15:50 When you don’t think anything can get worse, you hit rock bottom
18:17 “Mrs. Vann, your child is in grave danger.”
19:37 A demand to God to readjust his plans and a fierceness that could not be dulled
21:01 A pair of pink cowgirl boots and a new plan
23:30 My misjudgment saved Madison’s life
26:23 An escape from the “glass prison”
29:35 The initiation into a sisterhood that no one wants to be apart of
32:09 Madison’s expression of gratitude was Danielle’s biggest lie
33:20 A daughter’s love: continuing to fight
38:39 A call no mother wants to receive and a choice that would impact Madison for the rest of her life
41:54 Can’t I just trick-or-treat? Surgery day
42:59 Protected during surgery—a vision
44:28 Perspective shift
47:09 Being an advocate for ourselves
50:22 A life-changing breath
54:32 Everything comes crashing down on top of Danielle. Healing changes hands
57:34 Listen: Your children have something to teach you
60:32 A word to parents from Madison
62:53 Madison’s three lessons
Madison continues to shine and work toward her purpose. She gained a plant-based nutritionist certification at the age of 14 and is currently serving as a medical/athletic trainer at her high school. Without a doubt, she will continue to impact the world and those of us who have the pleasure to know and love her.
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There comes a time where each of us seeks true motivation to heal—a time where we work to release the baggage, the upset, the hard experiences of our lives, and reignite our inner spark. Yet, when that time comes, many of us ask how. How do I even begin to heal? This week we are taking a one-on-one deep dive into YOUR personal story, into YOUR life revolution through a process and path many of us are seeking right now—the process of emotional healing. So, sit back, grab a pen, and let’s take a mending journey together as we discover what true emotional healing is, the benefits, uncover a major “a-ha” moment, whether or not you are in need of walking through this process, and why we must get uncomfortable to thrive. Getting out of own way is necessary if we want to create the life revolution that inevitably amounts to freedom.
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Intro
01:20 Motivation and singular question we need to ask ourselves
02:30 Moving through healing
03:20 The “a-ha” moment and healing
05:54 What is emotional healing?
08:30 The “what” of healing
12:00 Do I need to emotionally heal?
13:36 How to let go – The 5 stages of healing
13:40 Step 1: Acceptance - We cannot change what we refuse to accept.
15:30 Step 2: Awareness - Bringing our awareness to our trauma, pain, and hard experiences requires effort and leaning in.
16:34 Step 3: Confrontation - What sits unconfronted, sits unconfronted. Healing is not a passive effort.
19:01 Step 4: Expression - Expressing what you feel is not only needed within the healing process, it’s necessary.
20:21 Step 5: Accept Again - Accepting change is just as important at the end of the healing process as it is the onslaught.
21:00 Healing is a process
23:02 Self-care and compassion through healing
23:47 Gratitude for the hard moments
25:17 Why we must get uncomfortable with ourselves and our pasts
27:01 Important questions to ask yourself
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When was the last time you gave yourself a mental and emotional boost? Every once in a while, we need to reset and bring ourselves back to center. Feeding yourself positive affirmations allows you to elevate your mood, find a sense of peace, and shift your perspective to help you keep your life together, girl! The Get Your Life Together, Girl mini bi-monthly reset is here to help you reset and weave an epic of confidence.
Take a slow breath.
Insecurities are messy and a lot more trouble than they are worth. Are you ready to refuse wearing others lack of confidence in the same way you are ready to release your own?
Repeat after me:
I intend to let my light shine, a light that reflects my enoughness each hour of the day. I do so by owning my abilities, my worth, and never downgrading any aspect of myself. I intend to grow increasingly comfortable in my own skin until I remove any thought of being less. I am powerful. I am the consciousness of strength and capability. I am intentionally living an epic love story with my life, confidently. I choose to be my own cheerleader from here on out, and I intend to get my arms around the girl I am and never let go.
I AM:
I am intelligent and capable.
I am the definition of worth.
I am successful.
I am enough.
I am whole.
I am confident.
I am becoming more each day.
I am the owner of my power.
I am radiating the light within me.
I am fearless.
I am a force within this mighty world.
I am reflecting the self that truly lives inside.
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Imagine finding yourself ripped from the only home you’ve ever known, only to be reunited with your birth mother, whom you have no bond or recollection. This is only the beginning of Rhonda Miller’s incredible life story. A story that has been defined by unbelievable lows, undefinable strength, and a fighting spirit that is truly second to none. This is a story of seeking connection, abuse, making the painstaking choice to help raise her younger sister when she, herself, was only just a child, stepping up to be the parent she never had, experiencing a tremendous mental health break and crisis, to finding her power, passion, and purpose. A purpose that literally saved her life. Rhonda walks us through her story and the life revolution of healing, finding herself, choosing to live through her paintbrush, and showing the world we are more than our story. *This episode contains content only suitable for adult audiences.
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Intro
01:29 Rhonda’s story begins
02:40 An inside look at foster care from a child’s point-of-view
05:00 A defining moment of loss
06:29 Surviving instability
07:09 3 words that defined Rhonda’s childhood
08:10 A child’s self-sacrifice
10:00 A reunion that offered a glimmer of hope
10:50 Anger builds from life’s misfortune
12:00 A choice of freedom
12:51 Called to the table: “What are you going to do with your life?”
13:54 A promise to give her children what she did not have.
15:09 The lessons delivered from her children
17:56 A prayer for safety
19:05 Circumstances change when we place our focus on change
21:00 Steps to higher education with a learning disability
23:19 A question that changes everything
24:29 A trauma break
26:45 Bipolar 1 and PTSD
29:04 Pain into art
31:04 The impact of Rhonda’s purpose
33:41 The lessons unfolding
34:05 Healing tools
35:20 The #1 lesson Rhonda wants others to hear
37:29 A message to all foster children
If you or someone you know has suicidal thoughts, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255. There is someone to take your call 24 hours a day, or please go to your nearest emergency room. There is never any shame in reaching out for help.
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When you think of the word “boundaries” what immediately comes to mind? For most people, it’s the word “limit.” But, are all boundaries truly limits? Or, is there a better word, a better operation, that we can employ to make boundaries work in our favor once and for all?! There is! In this week's episode, we are taking a one-on-one deep dive into shifting our mindset around our inability to hold our boundaries, and how sloppy boundaries impacts us more than we think. In fact, weak boundaries keep us from finding balance and a healthy mindset, creating ease, and keeps us doing, saying, and feeling things that simple do not work for us! So, let’s chat about how boundaries play a crucial role in our identity and HOW TO KEEP OUR BOUNDARIES IN PLACE! Because, we all deserve to have our lives together, girl!
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Intro
1:20 Show of hands: who is struggling with boundaries? (You, too!)
2:01 The function of boundaries
2:40 A new definition of boundaries
4:01 Shifting into guidelines over boundaries
4:48 A-ha Moment!
7:46 What do healthy boundaries look like?
10:10 What do unhealthy boundaries guidelines look like?
13:29 How to set healthy guidelines in 4 simple steps
14:25 Step 1: How are you going to spend your time?
14:42 Step 2: What will you tolerate?
15:20 Step 3: The impact of your actions?
17:24 Step 4: Self-trust
18:55 Communicating your needs and boundaries allowing space
22:26 No vague language
23:00 Stick to “I” to “me”
24:11 Stick to the subject
24:44 Trigger Warning: A truth we all must own
25:50 Looking at triggers
27:39 Clear communication requires clear consequences
28:35 The power of apology
29:00 Owning yourself in your boundaries
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When was the last time you gave yourself a mental and emotional boost? Every once in a while, we need to reset and bring ourselves back to center. Feeding yourself positive affirmations allows you to elevate your mood, find a sense of peace, and shift your perspective to help you keep your life together, girl! The Get Your Life Together, Girl mini bi-monthly reset is just the break you may not have known you need! One of life's biggest challenges seems to be the idea that understanding your purpose is an elusive task. You are here to thrive extraordinarily, to contribute vastly, and to grow beyond measure. Are you on fire with purpose, or has the flame been dimmed? It's time to stroke the flame.
Take a slow breath and repeat after me.
I intend and commit to being something more every hour of my life.
The more is aligned and found within my purpose.
I intend to uncover, life, and contribute through my divine reason for being.
I long to live in the fullest, most realized version of myself.
I do so on purpose, for purpose, and with great resolve, not only for the benefit of the whole, but for myself, first.
I intentionally and mindfully listen and watch for all my reasons of being as they continue to develop and show up every hour of each day.
I am I am living my purpose.
I am aligned with my soul's reasons for being.
I am creative.
I am talented.
I am confident in my inner spark.
I am bravely moving toward my path, free of the opinions of others.
I am supporting my own dreams.
I am devoted to living my passion.
I am in full recognition of my greatest value.
I am listening to my spark.
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Is it possible to find the woman you are meant to be inside your most challenging and defining story? Can self-love be born out of everything rapidly falling apart? Those are the life-altering questions that Priyal Levine faced as she found herself examining whether she married for the right reasons and if she had the strength to bravely walk through her husband’s frightening, life-threatening medical crisis. As she stood outside of Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City on Election Day, she swiftly came to realized that the life revolution she needed was being handed to her one painstaking hour at a time. Take a deep dive with Danielle and Priyal as they decision finding yourself inside of fear.
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Intro
02:00 Priyal’s story begins
04:08 The turning point
05:40 Marriage changes things
06:32 Did we marry to please others?
07:39 Finding balance as an uncertain married couple
08:07 What “In sickness and health” really means.
09:24 The dirty side of self-blame in illness
13:08 Dave’s health declines and the battle ensues
15:15 A big decision to uproot their lives
18:58 Finding her place in her new home and a massive medical decision
20:55 Fear finds its way in
21:54 A lesson in emotional numbing
25:16 The impact of surgery during COVID-19
28:20 The wait and the life revolution
31:04 A newfound hope and rebirth
40:03 The tools Priyal used to heal mind, body, and soul
42:29 Perspectives of life when health issues occur
46:30 Learning to surrender
47:56 The gift of this life revolution
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Do the words “self-love” make you cringe? Have you ever wondered what those words actually mean? Listen, self-love is more than a catchphrase. In fact, it maybe THE life and mindset revolution that’s actively missing from your life! Self-love is an active choice that becomes a thought-process, which moves you in action, which then powerfully has a way of turning into a habit. That sounds amazing, right? But, that leaves many asking, how do we love ourselves—and more importantly, why does it matter? Take a deep dive with Danielle A. Vann as she moves you through the necessity of self-love, the mistakes we ALL make, and how to put self-love into practice today!
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Intro
1:50 What is Self-love?
2:30 What is your greatest self-love struggle?
3:48 A deep dive into the definition of self-love
5:00 Breaking the self-love myth
5:35 How to create a flow of self-love
6:03 Removing the idea of not knowing how to love ourselves
7:30 What self-love could look like for you?
8:37 Forgiving ourselves
9:32 Prioritizing ourselves in self-love
10:10 The value of feelings
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When was the last time you gave yourself a mental and emotional boost? Every once in a while, we need to reset and bring ourselves back to center. Feeding yourself positive affirmations allows you to elevate your mood, find a sense of peace, and shift your perspective to help you keep your life together, girl! The Get Your Life Together, Girl mini bi-monthly reset is just the break you may not have known you need!
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Welcome to the Get Your Life Together, Girl Podcast, a mindset and life revolution! I’m Danielle Vann, a Cognitive Behavioral Therapist, Renowned Life Coach to women, Mindfulness Expert, and I know a thing or two about meditation as a certified coach. Now, don’t let those words bore you – essentially this is THE PLACE for all things personal development, mental health, self-improvement, resiliency, and just about anything else that keeps us trapped in our comfort zones, recycling our hardest stories, and stuck on the sidelines of our lives. So, what should you expect? Each week we will explore new ways to get your lives together whether through unscripted conversations with women, just like you, who have walked through major life events and have overcome, or as when we get down and dirty with intimate one-on-one conversations, between you and me, where I will hand over the tools I’ve gathered to not only get my own life together, but also the tools I’ve used to help thousands of others do just the same. Ultimately, the goal is to shift our perspectives, level up our thought process, let go of the negativity, learn to radically love ourselves, move through grief, change, awaken, discover, and connect with ourselves so we can own this life! The truth is, we all have a story. It’s what we do with it that matters.
Each week, I know you’ll be as inspired as I am.
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Do people have the ability to change? It’s an age-old question that most answer with a firm no! Yet, with enough growth, self-love, and worthiness the answer is always YES! Angela Morris is living proof that change is possible at any age and under any circumstance! After decades of drug and alcohol abuse, Angela was shaken awake at the beginning of the pandemic and had to make the ultimate choice: continue to hustle for her worth outside of herself or do the hard work to turn on her emotions, heal, and answer her life’s purpose, which now involves coaching women to shift their mindset and own who they are. Angela walks us through the anxiety she faced, how she focused on her children and not herself, and how readiness and accountability are the most important factors when looking at and making change. What started as a medical crisis ended up becoming the dawning of her soul.
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