15: Playing on the Court of Life: 6 Questions to a More Authentic You | Being your Truth!

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What if you could unlock the deepest truths about yourself and those around you? Today on the Intuitive Mentor Mom podcast, I share a transformative aha moment that reshaped my approach to life. Inspired by a spontaneous insight during a morning reflection, I realized that while I diligently seek the truth in others, I've been overlooking my own. Through the analogy of life as a basketball game, I invite you to step onto the court and play full out, discovering your authentic self with clarity and purpose. Join me, Tara Mychelle, as we explore the profound impact of asking for the truth and how it's changed my interactions, revealing the genuine essence of those I encounter.

This episode is a heartfelt call to action for anyone yearning to better understand their authentic selves. After sharing my morning ritual of asking to see the truth in myself and others, I dive into a personal reflection on how this practice has unveiled new dimensions of honesty and connection in my life. Whether it's through personal journey work, healing practices, or daily interactions, I encourage you to question how life is unfolding for you. Let's navigate this ever-evolving adventure together, embracing self-love, gratitude, and empowerment. Tune in to learn how you can apply these insights to your own life's game, and emerge with newfound clarity and intention.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:07):
Welcome back to the Intuitive Mentor Mom podcast,
where we explore strategies forpracticing more self-love,
gratitude and finding new waysto empower ourselves in this
ever-changing healing adventureof life happening for us.
I'm your host, tara Michelle.
Let's get started.
Welcome back to IntuitiveMentor Mom podcast.
Thank you so much for joiningus.
I'm your host, tara Michelle.
Let's get started.

(00:27):
Welcome back to IntuitiveMentor Mom Podcast.
Thank you so much for joiningus.
For those of you that are new,thank you for joining today's
episode.
Thank you for joining us.
You know also.
You know I am an intuitiveempath.
I also work a corporate job.
I'm a single mom.
I have an amazing teenage son.
He's fantastic and that's awhole thing in itself is raising

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teenagers?
Oh my goodness.
We're in a new phase.
It's a lot of fun.
But today's podcast was designedand meant to be an aha moment.
So sometimes I'll have thesemoments in life where it's like
I get a download, boom, and I'vegot to say it right then, and
there I've got to record it orI've got to write it because
it's a download.
It's a profound moment formyself.

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It's a glimpse and an openinginto something that maybe I've
been asking about.
So I had one of these momentsrecently, a couple of weeks ago.
I was going to post it then,but I actually wanted to keep it
for the court of life, becausethis segment of the series, or I
should say this segment of thepodcast right now, is really

(01:30):
about being on the court of life.
And you know, if you go back tothe last couple episodes 13 and
14, I really talk about how Ialways have seen my life as like
a basketball game.
Like, if I'm being on the courtof life, it's like being and
playing a basketball game.
And this particular part oflife is there's a phrase or a

(01:58):
request that I ask every morningwhen I wake up and I tell God,
my higher self, when I wake up,and I tell God, my higher self,
my connection, show me the truthof myself and show me the truth
of others.
So I recently had an aha momentabout that and I recorded it.

(02:18):
That morning I wrote down sixthings that I do and I go
through them in the segment.
So I'm going to let you listento the segment and then I'm
going to come back and I've gotsome questions for you and this
is really an opportunity to takea look at how life is happening
for you and who are you beingin the world?

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And when you ask your higherself or God, however you want to
see it, show me the truth ofmyself and show me the truth of
others.
I'll share with you what that'slike for me in my life, but
also share with you the aha thatI had around it.
So here we go.
This has to do with being on thecourt of life, and when we're

(03:04):
playing on the court of life Italked about that in the last
episode what does it look likefor you to play full out?
So something I say every day, Iwant to share this.
Something I say every day iswhen I wake up is show me the
truth of myself and show me thetruth of others.
So when I wake up and I do myprayer work or my energy

(03:26):
openings and cleaning out myfield, that's something I say
and like clockwork, people willshow up and show me the truth of
themselves.
Whether it's something they say, it's an action they take,
there's always truth being shownand it's gotten to be where
it's.
It's like it's so good.

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You know, even if I'm out inthe dating world like I'll go on
dates and people just unloadall their truth on the very
first date.
They'll say all these thingsand I'm like, wow, okay, awesome
, now I know the truth of whothis person is.
They'll say all these thingsand I'm like, wow, okay, awesome
, now I know the truth of whothis person is.
What I haven't been doing, thatI discovered recently, is I
hadn't really been observing thetruth of myself.

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Now, I'm not not to say I don'tdo my own personal journey work
and my own healing work.
I do that all the time.
But in my everyday day-to-day,I recognized now I'm looking for
people's truth, but what aboutyour truth in the whole
experience, tara?
What is your truth in thereaction?
What is your truth in theexperience?

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What is your truth overall, inyour day-to-day?
And I began asking myself andlooking at this because I
recognized, oh, you know, maybethere's aspects of me that I'm
not paying attention to, maybethere's aspects of my truth that
are not quite illuminated in mysight.
And I have a particularsituation where I had set a very

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, you know, a boundary with afriend of mine, a person in my
life, and, you know, made someclaims about that relationship
and set a boundary, only to havea few days later, recognizing
my own truth, realizing that Ididn't hold to those boundaries,

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and maybe the claims that I wasmaking on that person are
really just a reflection of me.
Maybe that's what's so, andthose claims of myself are
habits that I'm now recognizingabout myself, hypocritical

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behavior that I'm recognizingabout myself not holding true to
my boundaries, not holding trueto my word I want to say
flip-flopping, what's the word?
Sitting on the fence, waveringback and forth with what I
really want to do versus what Ireally believe in my heart,

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versus what my reactionaryresponse is.
Does that make sense?
That sounds weird to me, butI'm trying to explain it the
best I can see it within myself.
But this is what it looks likefor me to be on the court of
life and this is what it looksfor me to really begin to dive
deep in what is my truth.

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Am I who I really say I am?
Are there areas that I have tolook at that maybe I'm not being
who I say I am?
And when I'm not being who Isay I am, what can I do

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differently?
How can I show up for myself?
And then how can I show up forthat person that I'm interacting
with, making sure that I reallyam being true to who I say I am
, because I'm only selling outon myself when I'm not being my
truth.
And that is what I'mrecognizing about myself this

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week is, although I take allthese actions in life and I do
the work and I forge ahead,doing the things that I do, I
really had to look at the nittygritty, like take a look at.
Okay, if I'm going to say thisevery morning, show me the truth
of myself and show me the truthof others.

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And I'm only focusing on thetruth of others, but I'm not
focusing on the truth of myself.
Then what am I doing?
What am I doing?
So I wanted to share thatbecause I thought that was
really interesting.
About myself in the last coupleof weeks is really stepping back
, really stepping back, almostas if to fine tune who I am,

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fine tuning my truth, makingsure that when I say, what I say
is really what I say and what Imean.
And if I say something and myactions are different, then what
does that really mean aboutmyself?

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Where am I lying to myselfabout something?
That's what I'm looking atright now.
So I'm really curious what youthought of that segment.
You know, I listened to it andI was like, wow, there's
actually steps that I take.
And I want to ask you, when,looking at yourself, being on

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the court of life and reallylooking at it from the
perspective of you, taking alook at the truth of who you are
and the truth of who others arefor you is really a profound
way to start your day, and someof the things that I had to look
at and I'm going to ask you totake a look at is what are your

(09:10):
habits?
What do you do?
Have you ever really sat withyour habits and what they are?
Also, looking at your behavior,I had to take a look at my
behavior in this situation andmore has unfolded, which I will
say for the next episode,because there's been more that
has unfolded around boundariesand around self-love and

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self-care, which we talked aboutin the last episode.
Boundaries and around self-loveand self-care, which we talked
about in the last episode.
Being your word.
Being your word is huge.
Are you being your word?
Have you ever really thoughtabout who you are when you tell
people and speak things into theworld?
Are you being that to the world?
Are you being that?

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What is your truth.
So you may give your word, butare your words truly rooted in
your truth?
And is your truth truly rootedin your words?
Also, am I who I say I am?

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I got to see that I reallywasn't being who I say I was.
So are you who you say you are?
Are you really being your truth?
I'm going to give a quickexample.
So you know, I've been datingand I was on the dating app
recently actually last night andI came across a profile that I
thought was really interesting,and this person had said that

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you know what they were lookingfor like who they are was an
empathetic person and they'recompassionate, and that they're
looking for somebody who'sempathetic, somebody who's
compassionate, somebody who'strustworthy and somebody who's
open-minded.
And then they said please bevaccinated.
Can't be a Trump, desantis,maga supporter.

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That's not too much to ask.
Now, I'm sure that might betriggering some people, but the
very first thing I saw was youjust said you wanted somebody

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open-minded, yet you just closedyour own mind.
Just something to consider.
Y'all we say X, but are wereally being what we say?
You want somebody open-minded,yet you just laid out a bunch of
judgments.
So are you really beingopen-minded?

(11:43):
I would assert maybe not, andthis is what I'm talking about.
This is the piece that I talkabout for myself.
Is I really had to look at?

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Show me the truth of others andshow me the truth of myself?
Where I had been not putting myfocus on was the truth of who I
am.
God shows me the truth ofothers every day.
There's truth right there, boom, right there.
You say you're open-minded.
I don't think that you reallyare, because if you have all
those judgments, there's nopossible way.
There's no possible way.
Your mind is not open.
You just said hey, anybody thatfalls inside this category

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can't even see you.
That's what you say.
That's not open-mindedness.
So I challenge you and Ichallenge myself and I challenge
myself are you being the truththat you say?
Is your truth rooted in yourwords and are your words rooted

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in your truth?
And if you haven't looked atthat, I challenge you.
Explore that for yourself thisweek.
Ask yourself the questions whatare my habits?
What are my behaviors?
What are my boundaries?
Am I being my word?
I forgot to mention theboundaries.
Am I being my word?

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What is my truth?
Am I who I say I am?
Are you really who you say youare.
I challenge you to explore thatand then come back and comment
below, tell me like what came upfor you and for those of you,
by the way.
I am looking for six individuals, six individuals who are

(13:32):
interested in coming onto myshow and talking about an area
of life where they're challenged, where they're stuck, and I'm
going to provide you acomplimentary session where we
are going to do a deep dive andI will use my intuitive gifts
and we will unpack things and wewill create an opening and

(13:53):
boost you to that next level tohave you see that aha moment for
yourself, so that you can shiftout of that and move on to
whatever it is you're looking tocreate.
So I am looking for sixindividuals who would like to
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If that's you, please go to theshow notes below, click that
link, sign up for a session andwe will get you on the show.
But I just wanna say thank youto all of you.

(14:15):
We are going to look at thenext episode I want to talk
about.
The holidays are coming up andI want to talk about balance and
being on the court of life inthe area of balance and
self-care as we expand out onthat.
I want to talk more about thatin the next episode, so until
then, have an amazing week.

(14:35):
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(14:58):
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