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Episode 218: Love Yourself
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The Language of Letting Go
“Love yourself into health and a good life of your own. Love yourself into relationships that work for you and the other person. Love yourself into peace, happiness, joy, success, and contentment. Love yourself into all that you always wanted.”
I love the idea of loving myself into health.
And I think the first relationship that I always need to love myself into is, again, the one with me and also the one with the power that makes the sunshine.
A love affair with your higher, smarter self: the Universe.
Loving myself into peace means when I put my head on the pillow at night, it is to rest.
Not to worry. Not to fret.
I also love, love myself into happiness, which is allowing myself to be happy. Giving myself the space to be happy, to feel joy, to be successful, and not worry about whether the other shoe is going to drop.
And then this one. I t...
Episode 217: Money and the Actor
Today we're going to talk about money and we're going to talk about our emotional connection to money. And our faith and money, meaning faith that the money will come.
I am still working on my thought patterns around money.
The Language of Letting Go
“Sometimes there is not enough money to make ends meet, much less afford any luxuries. People may tell us we need to do a budget and we chuckle. The expenses we need to pay for survival surpass the income. We look at the situation, shake our heads and say, No way. Many of us have had to live through these situations. This is not the time to panic. This is not the time to despair.”
I used to be one of those people that would look at my finances and go, okay, well, I have I'm just going to make up numbers here, 1500 dollars in expenses and I have $1,000 to pay it with. What am I going to do?
And when people would talk to me about budgeting, I would burst into tears over money situatio...
Episode 215: Setting Our Own Course in Life & Career
"Setting our own course. We are powerless over other people's expectations of us. We cannot control what they want, what they expect, or what they want us to do or be."
Keep the focus on yourself.
What other people think of me is none of my business.
Taking care of myself pays enormous dividends.
Take care of yourself first, and the rest will follow.
Put on your bubble suit. When you go into difficult situations with people who push your buttons, probably because they install them, it's really helpful to know that you have a little space around you that nobody can penetrate.
"We can, however, control how we respond to other people's expectations."
We are not responsible for our first thought, but we are responsible for our second.
I encourage you to stop taking a step back and ask yourself, "is this healthy for me or unhealthy for me?" And then responding.
A response is a reaction with a pause and a thought behind it.
"During the course of any day, p...
Episode 214: Self Care During Stressful Times
Do the next right thing.
The Language of Letting Go
"Rest when you're tired. Take a drink of cold water when you're thirsty. Call a friend when you're lonely. Ask the universe to help when you feel overwhelmed."
Yeah, I was in a very challenging, difficult place, along with millions of other people. But I'm here. I survived. I handled it. And out of that came self-esteem, more self-esteem that I'm capable of and will never, ever be given more than I can handle.
I will never be given more than I can handle, but I will be given more than I can control.
"Many of us have learned how to deprive and neglect ourselves. Many of us have learned to push ourselves hard when the problem is that we've already pushed too hard. Many of us are afraid the work won't get done if we rest when we're tired. The work will get done. It will be done better than work that emerges from tiredness of soul and spirit."
Refuel. With self-love, with good food, with tea.
Because no...
Episode 212: New Years Goals
I always find December to be actually the hardest time of the year. I feel like there are more demands put on me in all areas of my life.
I will allow myself just to be where I'm at.
So if you feel like you're starting the new year exhausted. I just wanted to say I hear you. I'm kind of there myself, but it's all right.
Find the pockets of time when you can take care of yourself.
The Language of Letting Go:
"Make New Year's goals. Dig within and discover what you would like to have happen in your life this year. This helps you do your part."
If you want to change your own life, you need to take responsibility for it.
"It is an affirmation that you're interested in fully living in the year to come."
Goals give us direction. They put a powerful force into play on a universal, conscious and subconscious level. Goals give our life direction.
What would you like to have happen in your life this year?
"What would you like to do? W...
Episode 211: A Message to Send You Into 2023
I’m really grateful for this year.
I want you to think of a few things that you are grateful for.
- What's number one? Fill in the blank.
- What's the number two? Fill in the blank.
- And what's the third thing you're grateful for this year, in 2022? Fill in the blank.
Also, start to look forward to 2023.
- Are you looking to this year coming up with anticipation and excitement? Dread? Worry? Fill in the blank.
- What are the three emotions you are looking at 2023 with?
Feelings aren't facts.
Take your emotions out of your to do list.
When we are worried or anxious, the real question is, “what are we not taking responsibility for?”
So if you have some sort of negative feeling toward 2023, ask yourself, “what are you not taking responsibility for?”
Ask yourself, How can I baby step and take responsibility?
Once taking responsibility, especially when you're frightened, especially when you're scared. When you're able to do that, you build so much self-esteem.
Take contrar...
Episode 207: The Power of Serving as an Actor
Marianne Williamson
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
My manifesto for my life is to inspire.
It is the one word that I feel describes what my purpose on this planet is to do. I wake up, and I show up for duty.
What’s your one word...
Episode 206: Family Buttons Around the Holidays
“I was 35 years old the first time I spoke up to my mother and refused to buy into her games and manipulation. I was terribly frightened and almost couldn't believe I was doing this. I found I didn't have to be mean. I didn't have to start an argument. But I could say what I wanted and needed to say to take care of myself. I learned I could love and honor myself and still care about my mother the way I wanted to, not the way she wanted me to.”
Take a step back and observe.
I tell myself, mouth shut.
If you are using your mind to govern your brain while you are with family over the holiday and you start to spot the stuff going on.
You can simply remain quiet and just observe it:
- Maybe go to the kitchen.
- Make yourself a cup of tea.
- Make yourself a cup of coffee.
- Go to the bathroom.
- Say, "You know what? My legs are a bit stiff. I'm going to go for a walk."
- Understand that you don't need to be trapped into it.
You can observe it and can choose how you ...
Episode 205: Control vs. Trust as an Actor
Control versus trust.
“There was a time in my life when I felt so afraid of and overwhelmed by the very act of living. That I actually wanted to make out a schedule for each day of my life for the next five years. I wanted to include all the chores I had to do when I would do them, even when I would schedule relaxation. I wanted to get some order into what felt so incredibly overwhelming. I wanted to feel like I was in control.”
How many times have I woken up in the morning and just gone, "Oh my God, I don't know how I'm going to be able to face this day?" How many times have I woken up going, "How am I going to take a step forward?"
And the fact of the matter is, I can't control anything.
The only thing I can change is myself and my attitude.
And the whole thing I think about anxiety is that anxiety is about control.
Remember, we will never be given more than we can handle. But we will be given more than we can control.
“Controlling is a direct response to ...
