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What if there was a way to get everything you wanted? Better yet, what if you could get it with minimal effort and ease? Enter manifestation. It's become a hot topic in the personal development world. As people become more open to the woo (the more mysterious parts of life), manifestation has become a technique in and of itself. In some situations, it's replaced the effort needed to reach the success you des...

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My wife and I often didn't have the words we needed during our darkest season of infertility. In the midst of disappointment after disappointment, a cycle of manufactured hope turning into lost hope, grief, and anger, our life together felt like a constant dark night of the soul. Well-meaning people would often attempt encouragement by saying something hopeful or optimistic. In other words, they were trying to fi...

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Have you ever been asked, whether directly or indirectly, to become less than who you are or to minimize parts of your personality, your power, your influence, or your skills? In other words, has anyone ever asked you to stop shining so brightly?

We live in a world where it's become far too common for people living in the shadows to sabotage those shining bright. It's time to recognize the shadow d...

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Have you ever been at the receiving end of someone just "speaking their truth?" They might have also said something like, "I just have to own my truth." It's relatively common language now, and while I believe the original intent behind "speaking our truth" is outstanding and pure, unfortunately, I think it's just become an excuse to avoid responsibility for our actions. So, spe...

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I often want to bypass the hard emotions in favor of the good ones like peace, joy, contentment. While there are fast hacks to get me from a place of disappointment to elation, those hacks don't create lasting self-evolution or teach me how to process emotion in helpful ways. If you want to feel different emotions, you have to start by acknowledging where you are emotionally and move forward from there. Let'...

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I'm processing, in real-time with you, what I've been experiencing lately.  My depression has flared up again in a big way but while it's here and happening, I'm also still participating in life in ways that matter. I've become split down the middle with 50% of me falling apart and 50% of me succeeding. It's new and different, and excruciating. 

So, let's talk about being s...

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When did we become obsessed with happiness? (Or, in my case, peace?)

This question kept popping up in my head as I was working through the idea of resilience for this episode, so I paid attention and pulled it apart to see what this question was trying to communicate.

It turns out that happiness (or peace) comes when we stop obsessing over them and start obsessing over our resilience to overcome obs...

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I don't think trying is a real thing. Hear me out. You either do what you want to do or be the thing you want to be, or you don't.

Trying has become this non-existent middle ground where we give ourselves an out if things don't go the way we want.

Really, it's all tied to our worth and value. So let's talk about this.

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Have you ever the phrase, "Fake it til you make it!" It seems like such an innocent little idea until you unpack it and see how unhelpful it really is.

Everything fake is rooted in deceit and as humans that want to show up fully, authentically, and vulnerably, faking it will never accomplish that. Let's explore this idea together and what to do instead of "faking it til we make it." <...

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Can I be honest with you? I'm over personal development.

In this episode, I'm doing an experiment, in favor of vulnerability, and sharing something I wouldn't normally share, which is, I'm so done with the personal development industry.

I'm tired of gurus preaching toxic positivity, and 5AM morning routines, and hustle mentality. Personal development has become really imperso...

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We all do it, whether we want to admit it or not. When situations don't go the way we want, hope, or plan, we often form narratives that help us feel okay about what happened.

And the truth is, most times they're complete BS.

Our BS narratives seem to serve us by keeping us safe and happy, but actually, they keep us from dealing with issues in real time and evolving in authentic ways.
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Every year on birthdays, I ask my friends and family, "what has been the biggest lesson you learned over the last year of your life?"

It's been a tradition for many years now and everyone in my circle of friends and family knows it's coming.

I recently had a birthday and had to answer the question myself, and what I came up with was this: You are valued, worthy, and enough, just ...

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What happens when you fail at your purpose? Is that even possible?

There is an idea circulating among certain cultures that we must find our one purpose or one "calling." And so, we go in search of it. We spend our lives seeking out this purpose and begin attaching it to "what we do" instead of "who we are."

The lines between purpose, passion, meaning, and fulfillment ge...

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This is going to kill me. Have you ever said those words or something similar?

I'll never make it through this.
This is too hard.
I can't do this.

All of these and so many other thoughts are rooted in this idea that somehow, we won't make it through our next hard situation. Somehow, it's going to get us.

But wait, you have a 100% Survival Success rate. That&apos...

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What could one decision mean for your life? 

I recently had a moment when a decision I made form 17 years ago came back to remind me of the power one decision can have. I hadn't thought of this one decision in nearly two decades and yet, within it was a lesson to remind me of the power our decisions carry. 

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Storms are wild, right? They are these powerful, massive, destructive forces on our planet that can wipe out entire cities, and bring such devasting results. We're taught to take shelter from storms for our safety, and to evacuate when we can.

I wonder, though, what it would look like for us to see that same power in the internal storms we face. What would it mean if we could see that the storms of our l...

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What happens when we close our mind off to the expansion it desperately craves? We live in a constantly expanding universe, which includes expanding our thoughts and thinking patterns. But when we close ourselves off to new ways of thinking, we're not just affecting ourselves. We're affecting the greater collective consciousness. 

So, what can we do instead? Listen for three tips to help you expand ...