Spirit Owl Speaks Podcast: Recent Episodes
Sandee Byrd
Starting over at 50 might be terrifying, as midlife can be the depressing time of a person's life. Hitting 50's is more like a wake-up call than a milestone. But will you ever give up figuring out how to start over at 50?
Sandee sure didn't and in this podcast she shares with you how she did it and what she has learned!
Although we are all familiar with the four seasons of the year, do you also recognize the four seasons of your own life?
Tune in as in this episode, Sandee talks about the meaning of SEASONS as LIFE.
FALL as a FORGIVING and LETTING GO season.
- Letting go of things that no longer serve you.
- Giving yourself grace
- Challenges
- Did you really let go?
WINTER as WINDING DOWN season
- Established boundaries
- Winter is not about getting depressed but Deep Rest.
- Nourishing yourself
- Taking time to work on ourselves
- Back to pure state
- Regathering yourself
SPRING as springing ourselves BACK TO ACTION
- All the stuff you work on in winter springing to action
- Embracing new relationship
- Start testing it up
- Rebirthing yourself
- Building a new you
- Setting an emotion in spring.
- Alive again
SUMMER as giving SOME TIME for ourselves
- Self care is important
- Taking more self care of ourselves
- Spending time together
- More confident
- More sure of ourselves
"Every season, there was something to signify."
Due to its significant influence on how you feel and behave, self-talk is crucial. You may find it encouraging and motivating or it may be detrimental, eroding your self-assurance..
This episode is an interactive conversation wherein Sandee asks various "HOW MANY PEOPLE DO THIS" questions where you can think about it and to guide and enlighten you to do SELF CONVERSATIONS.
First Part
- Breathe 3 times while closing your eyes (Not applicable for those who are driving)
- How many people go out on a date? (Meeting up with someone)
- How many people are planning conversations and haven't met up with them?
- How would you handle disgruntled customers?
- Anxiety
- Lack of self confidence
- Lack of self worth
- Has it ever happened to you?
- It could be valuable.
- Reasons to not speak up
- How many of you are intimidated by your family?
- Family conversations
- Conditioning your kids the same way (Is it good or bad?)
Second Part
- How many of us have conversations with ourselves when we see other people talking?
- Tools to use
- Being confident in yourself
- Giving value to words.
- Do not teach your children/adults that they can't speak their mind.
- Having conversations with yourself to figure something
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Investing In Yourself: Why is it hard to do it to ourselves?
"Investing in yourself is the best investment you can make."
The only real means of improvement is via investing in oneself. Your outcomes will rise over time if you invest your time and energy today in order to gain new relationships, knowledge, or skills as well as greater health. While it's important for everyone of us to keep up with our daily responsibilities, such as continuing to work at our jobs, we should also use our free time to invest in ourselves rather than squander it on things that don't actually matter.
This episode focuses on self investment and the importance of it.
Key Points;
- Why is it so hard to invest in ourselves yet so easy to invest in other people?
- Why can't we do that to ourselves?
- Why do you feel you need that?
- Did they need it?
- Money to invest in yourself for your healing.
- How much money would you save?
- Limitations
- What is your biggest investment in yourself?
- Why are you saving money?
- What will happen if you start working on your healing?
- It's okay to put yourself first.
- Stop investing clutters
- Invest in yourself
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"Know Thyself"- Socrates.
When we talk about SELF, there's so much to talk about. Self- it is referred to as a person's entire being, awareness of the individual, or personal characteristics. One individual is a good example of a self. The uniqueness of a person is an illustration of self. For example; a quality that one sibling possesses that the others don't is an illustration of oneself. But what about knowing yourself? Do you really know who you are? Knowing yourself is a journey. Knowing yourself is about delving much deeper. It is about coming to terms with who you are as a person- Yes! We are talking about the real YOU. Although the journey takes courage and work, getting to know oneself is very gratifying.
What is your definition of yourself?
How do you get to know yourself fully? Let's find out by tuning in on today's episode as Sandee talks about how important it is to know yourself and the parts of it.
Key Points:
- Gather yourself a moment to breathe.
- Think about yourself that you're gonna work on.
- Struggling on Self Image
- Self Worth
- Self Doubt
- Self Restraint
- Putting yourself first.
- Self Reaction
- Self Respect
- Accomplishment
- What have I done for myself?
- Self Sabotage
- What do you want to change yourself?
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Do you ever feel that you want to do something but you can't? Maybe that's what we call "Excuses" that hinders you from doing that. There might be some excuses that appear harmless but making excuses may also keep you from realizing your greatest potential.
So Why Not do it? and Why Can't You?
This episode is an interactive conversation wherein Sandee asks various "WHY NOT" questions to guide and enlighten you to why not do the things you want to do by answering these whether by your mind or writing them down then answer.
Key Points:
- Because = Excuse
- Limiting yourself
- Changing Belief System
- Why do we have fear?
- Is it your fear or fear that is put on you by somebody?
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Grace, what does it mean? Why should you give yourself grace?
Grace, is the ability to forgive your errors, shortcomings in judgment, and hurtful actions is known as giving oneself grace. Giving ourselves grace enables us to implement small, long-lasting changes that promote our long-term objectives, mental health, and overall well being.
So how is giving yourself grace important? Tune in as Sandee explains what giving yourself grace is
Key Points On This Episode;
- Why are you giving yourself grace?
- Forgiving yourself
- Putting yourself at ease
- Protect yourself
- Healing Journey
- Development
- How Journal Helps: How can I handle this better?
- Focusing on yourself
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Diary is a daily account of what transpires and what you do. When you're a kid? Did someone give you a diary as a gift?
The definition of a diary as commonly understood is that it is a place where one keeps their private thoughts, which is consistent with this memory. Diaries are frequently used as a space for people to analyze, write down, and keep track of their profound ideas and feelings as they occur in their lives. So, how does by once writing down in a diary, now you're writing in a Journal?
Did you have a Diary when you were a kid? Why did you stop writing in that diary? Tune in as Sandee explains the importance of Diary as a child to adult, How it evolves into a Journal and how great it is to start creating a Journal.
Key Points On This Episode;
- What is a Diary?
- What is a Journal?
- Journal: Why is it great?
- Feelings and Emotions
- How great and powerful it is to write things down.
- Helps to express.
- Why do we need to give children's diaries?
- One day you woke up and decided not to write.
- Start to create a Journal.
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Mindset refers to your set of views, values, and attitudes about yourself and the world. These beliefs have an impact on how you perceive the world. This also plays a critical role in how you cope with life's challenges.
Though society frequently encourages us to seek pleasure, well-being, and success outside of ourselves, we don't have to wait for someone to offer us the life we desire. It is within our power to create it. Affirmations are a powerful tool for accomplishing this.
So, how does affirming positive thoughts affect your mindset?
Tune in as Sandee explains how practicing daily Affirmations can make a great impact towards changing/transforming mindset.
Key Points:
- What does it mean to transform your mind?
- Daily routines to be positive.
- Examples of changing mindset and affirmation.
- What Affirmations are.
- Listening and writing affirmations.
- Change the outcome of your life.
- A story that Sandee never forget.
- Able to heal
- Spiritual healing journey.
- See the beauty of what you have.
- How changing your mindset can change your life.
Check and read the book that Sandee refers, Psychology: The Science of Mind and Behavior.
Intuition. It is the ability to understand something instinctively without the need of conscious reasoning. To put it another way, you make decisions based on gut instinct rather than logic.
When there is no clear outcome, many things in our lives are unknown, thus we must cultivate intuition to guide us through this journey. So how does it work?
Learn and understand more about Intuition and how it works by tuning in on today's episode as Sandee and her guest speaker Tisha Michelle dive into Intuition; how we can make use of it, how important it is and how we can improve it.
Key points in this episode:
- Tisha introduces Intuition.
- The difference between us and Tisha when it comes to Intuition.
- Practicing Intuition.
- Questioning existence (Why am I here?)
- Tisha explains that she started with numbers/numerology.
- Trusting your Intuition.
- Hypnosis
- Spirit Animal
- Intuition as guide and protection.
Quotable:
"There may be painful lessons along the way but you're gonna still get there."
Tisha's advice/takeaway for listeners:
If you feel you want to do something and somebody says that you're not ready but if your intuition is strong, you need to trust yourself.
Contentment is frequently misinterpreted as complacency. But are you aware that there is a distinction between the two? According to the Oxford English dictionary, contentment is a state of happiness and satisfaction while complacency is a feeling of smug or uncritical satisfaction with oneself or one's achievements. So how can we identify which of the two are we?
Tune in as Sandee defines these two terms based on her experiences and understand the fundamental difference between contentment and complacency to know which one are you.
Key Points:
- What is Contentment and Complacency (According to Sandee)
- Are you content or complacent?
- What did Sandee do on a daily basis to be content?
- Working on herself
- Things to be thankful/grateful
- Make days content.
- Become complacent because we lack something.
- Identifying Contentment and complacency.
- How coaches help to identify which one you are.
- Are you content/happy with your life?
- What are you gonna do for a change?
What are Filters? The first thing comes to our mind is editing features on our cameras right? Well, there are also what we call Mental Filters. So what are mental filters? It is where a person focuses solely on the bad aspects of a scenario while filtering out all of the positive ones. Other people, your personal experiences, impressions developed as a child, the environment, media, and other factors can all influence your filters. So how can we get rid of those filters?
In this episode, Sandee and Craig talk about Filters. How we can get rid of this and understand how it impacts real world situations. Craig is a Personal Trainer, a performance Coach which not only helps you by building strength but also focusing, not only on your body but on mindset.
Key points in the episode;
- Mindset
- Embrace your purpose.
- Talks about Craig being a coach.
- Help to bring out your talent and confidence.
- How believing in yourself is everything!
- Barriers
- Craig talks about what made him know that those are his purpose.
- Get rid of the filters that STOP us.
- Listening to our filters before listening to ourselves.
- Putting filters on ourselves.
- Craig speaks from his experiences.
- Writing down the things that you truly desire.
- Living under filters that is not us.
- How do you remove filters?
Craig Coles started a new program called Back to Alpha. This program is for those who are struggling in their personal, professional, physical life. Be a part of the community.
Quotes takeaway:
"There is no change when there are no changes in our mind."
Each one of us has an "inner child" living inside. The term inner child does not imply that there is a little child living inside of you of course. It is like, YOU, like everyone else, were once a child and a PORTION of that child still resides within you.
Question is, why is inner child healing important? Inner child also refers to a person's ostensibly original or genuine self, and it can recall both positive and negative memories such as childhood fears, trauma, neglect, or profound loss. These things that happen to you when you're young might leave a lasting impression on the psyche. An awareness of our inner child can help us understand our behaviors, triggers, wants, and needs, which can make thinking back easier.
To know and understand more about inner child, tune in as Sandee and Gabi discussed inner child work and why anyone's inner child needs to be healed.
Key points:
- What is inner child healing?
- Effects of not believing yourself.
- Some of the things Gabi valued.
- How Gabi overcomes inner child trauma.
- How understanding all the experience you've had helps.
- Sandee's breakthrough
- Understanding inner child
- What people think about inner child trauma.
- What hypnosis does? and how does it help?
- Gabi's biggest breakthrough.
- How fear connects to the inner child.
- Creating opportunities for your children to open up.
- Open mind communication.
- How food helps as comfort.
Gabi Garland
She's the owner and CEO of Resilient Heart Agency and Resilient Voice Media. Gabi and Sandee have known each other for almost a year now and most of that year Gabi has been Sandee's coach. Sandee has done so much growing and learning while under Gabi's coaching. Her dream of starting a podcast has become a reality!
A mother's relationship with her daughter is unlike any other. This is the most powerful of all the bonds. However, life can occasionally put that relationship to the test or strain because of events such as the traumas they've gone through that damage the closeness of each other. When trauma is present, maintaining a healthy relationship can be difficult. But, regardless of that current situation or relationship with your mother or relationship with your daughter, it is important to maintain and build that bond again. It's never too late to heal, rebuild and strengthen a good mother-daughter relationship, but how can we do that?
Tune in on today's episode, as Sandee and her daughter Kasi Lincoln discuss how they were able to rebuild their mother-daughter connection through the process of healing their individual's trauma. They also talk about how SPIRITUAL RETREAT can be a great help for those people who want to reconnect and rebuild stronger relationships.
Key Points:
- How trauma affects the relationship between both.
- The effects of rape and domestic violence.
- Importance of healing each other's trauma.
- Realizations that we still can change.
- Understanding what mom also went through.
- Forgiveness/Forgiving each other.
- Letting go of trauma.
- Dropping the negative aspects.
- Understanding/Knowing each other's triggers.
- Allows expressing each other's self/feelings.
- Reflect yourself
- How going on a trip with just you two helps to reconnect your relationship.
- Role as a mom.
- What is the biggest change you've made in your life?
- Conversations with your kids to help them heal.
- Fixing the foundations as Parents.
- Searching for reasons and guidance during the healing journey.
- Embracing spirituality on a different level.
- Rewards of their healing journey.
A mother's relationship with her daughter is unlike any other. This is the most powerful of all the bonds. However, life can occasionally put that relationship to the test or strain because of the traumas they've gone through that damage the closeness of each other. When trauma is present, maintaining a healthy relationship can be difficult. But, regardless of that current situation or relationship with your mother or relationship with your daughter, it is important to maintain and build that bond again. It's never too late to heal, rebuild and strengthen a good mother-daughter relationship, but how can we do that?
Tune in on today's episode, as Sandee and her daughter Kasi Lincoln discuss how they were able to rebuild their mother-daughter connection through the process of healing their individual trauma. They also talk about how SPIRITUAL RETREAT can be a great help for those people who want to reconnect and rebuild stronger relationships.
Key Points:
- How trauma affects the relationship between Mother and Daughter.
- The effects of rape and domestic violence.
- Importance of healing each other's trauma.
- Realizations that we still can change.
- Understanding what mom also went through.
- Forgiveness/Forgiving each other.
- Letting go of trauma.
- Dropping the negative aspects.
- Understanding/Knowing each other's triggers.
- Allow expressing of each other's self/feelings.
- Reflect yourself
- How going on a trip with just you two helps to reconnect your relationship.
- Role as a mom.
- What is the biggest change you've made in your life?
- Conversations with your kids to help them heal.
- Fixing the foundations as Parents.
- Searching for reasons and guidance during the healing journey.
- Embracing spirituality on a different level.
- Rewards of their healing journey.
Maybe you have heard about Gary Chapman's 5 love languages, which according to him, is how we prefer to communicate love. When we talk about "Love Language" all we have in mind is LOVELIFE right? Well no, it's not just all about that because love language also means YOU in GENERAL. It is what you might also need from your friends, family, job and your partner. Yes, knowing your partner's love language is very important but understanding YOUR OWN love languages is also important too.
Tune in as Sandee Byrd tackles what love languages are all about and how they might be associated with your trauma. Trauma often creates barriers to using love languages.
Key Points:
- Identifying the 5 love languages.
- How can you develop your love languages?
- What has caused my love languages to change?
- Abuse, Trauma, Inner child
- Why does love language affect you in that way?
- Identifying why it triggers you
- Find your love language by taking the love language quiz.
References: https://5lovelanguages.com/quizzes/love-language
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Starting over at 50 might be terrifying as midlife can be the depressing time of a person's life. Hitting 50's is more like a wake-up call than a milestone. But will you ever give up figuring out how to start over at 50?
Tune in on today's episode as how Sandee talks about how's life and how she ends up being fabulous over 50!
Keypoints:
- Can you always start over?
- Recreate life that you always wanted.
- What are the reasons why you decide to start over?
- Realizations
- Hitting the reset button at any point of your life to let go of the baggage of the past years.