Season 2, Episode 1 Lou Redmond: Cultivating Self Care Practices

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Kelly - C.K. Collins - and Lou Redmond discussed the significance of self-love in mental health, emphasizing the importance of cultivating self-care practices. Lou shared his personal experience and coaching expertise, while Kelly shared her experience attending a mastermind session focused on self-care and self-love. 

The group also explored the benefits of meditation and mindfulness practices for mental health, as well as the importance of habits and habit stacking for nurturing creativity and productivity. Consistency and accountability were highlighted as crucial for forming new habits and achieving success.

Outline

Self-love and coaching practices.

• Lou Redmond discusses his coaching services and ways he helps clients create a different conversation in their head.
• Identifying and engaging with inner critic parts to create spaciousness and reduce self-criticism.

Self-love, coaching, and personal growth.

• Lou discusses the importance of honoring parts of ourselves that are trying to protect us, even if they're doing it in not great ways.
• Kelly shares a recent experience in a masterclass learning how finding a state of grace for yourself releases you to be creative and curious
• Kelly shares a powerful statement about presence and its impact on others, encouraging others to be more authentic and present in their interactions.
• The conversation continues with a discussion on the idea of holding and integrating past traumas or distortions in the body, using the concept of yoga to describe the process.

Inner healing and wholeness.

• Kelly emphasizes the importance of recognizing that everything we want is already within us, rather than seeking it from external sources.
• Lou encourages listeners to question what is missing in their lives, rather than focusing on what they lack, in order to access a deeper resource of inner freedom, love, and stability.
• Lou emphasizes the importance of recognizing and embracing one's wholeness and completeness, rather than seeking it through external means.
• Lou shares the concept of expanding capacities, not adding to them.

Meditation benefits and tips for beginners.

• Kelly shares their personal journey with meditation, from long distance running to long distance hiking, and how it helped them find spirituality and peace.
• Lou offers advice for those who want to start meditating but don't have a practice, suggesting they start with the famous TED Talk and book "Start With Why" to understand the benefits of meditation.

Meditation and its effects on mental well-being.

• Lou shares personal experience about how he came to meditation on a long and winding road with meditation leading to spiritual awakening.
• Lou meditates to feel connected to something greater, potentially God.
• He suggest you can start meditating with free apps like Insight Timer or take a 7-day course on the speaker's website.

Spiritual experiences and personal growth.

• Lou and Kelly discuss various meditation practices and resources, including guided meditations and visualization, to cultivate self-love and mindfulness.
• Lou describes a series of spiritual experiences that led them to quit their job in a dramatic way, with cops showing up at their home thinking their email was a suicide letter.
• Lou reflects on the consequences of their actions, feeling that they burned bridges at their former company and left people hanging.
• Lou shares their personal journey of overcoming addiction and finding purpose through self-discovery and spiritual practices.
• Lou's book "Find Your Truth" is a resu