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Is an incredible way to actuallybe in life, to actually
experience life, to feel it fully.
I'm great at the art of pleasure.
Hi, I'm Veronica Jane, Embodiment Empowerment and
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Relationship Coach. And this is this.
Isn't me podcast. I wonder if you've ever found
yourself in a moment where you look at.
Your life and realize this. Isn't me and you're ready for
the next version of yourself. That's what This Isn't Me
podcast is all about. Letting go of the past and
stepping into the. Future you desire and deserve.
This isn't me anymore. Hi, welcome to another episode
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of This Isn't Me podcast. I am Veronica Jane, and I'm so
grateful that you're here for another episode, for the next
expression of you to see my cat on the couch.
Like depends if you're watching or listening to explore what
isn't you to stop overthinking and start feeling, to start
playing with life in a new way, to express yourself in a new
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way, to learn something like whatever it is that brings you
here. I'm grateful.
Yeah. And today I'm really excited to
share from a really lived experience place, which is what
I'm always doing. And this is something recent and
this is something real and this is something raw, as per usual.
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And the premise that I want to explore today is this idea that
you get to do you, and you can'tthink your way into your truest
self, your highest self. You can't think your way out of
your problems. You can't think your way through
your trauma. You can't think your way to
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recognizing that you're whole and complete.
Nope. You gotta feel it.
You, your lived experience occurs through your body.
It's somatic. Yeah.
Soma body. It's somatic.
Yet so many of us live in this Western world thinking our way
through things. And I'm gonna own that I haven't
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done the best that I can as a coach, as a woman, and for
myself. And it always starts with
myself. So let me unwind a little bit.
I have seen that I've been wanting to think my way through
my problems again and then letting myself feel, got this,
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like additional feeling of guiltof, oh, no, I'm supposed to look
like I always am happy and positive.
And recognizing that the last few episodes that I've been
sharing specifically, and some of the stuff I've been sharing
in my social media has been in those heavier, more dense
emotions. They've been real.
Yeah. And I have been under this
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illusion that there was this transformation that could occur
for me. And then I would be like, done
healing. Cute, right?
And conceptually, I knew about. Yeah.
I think I still held on hope that I would be like, somehow
cooked like a finished product. I'd forgotten what I already
knew, that life is a cyclical, ever evolving journey.
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And that along the way we pick up mindsets, tools, resources,
strategies, ways of being, ways of thinking, ways of
experiencing, practices that help us do life.
Yeah. And I somehow was humouring
again, experiencing grief, disappointment, sadness, anger,
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and then playing with this, like, OK, I can observe myself,
feel these emotions and I can even feel them and observe
myself feeling them. And I can be OK with it.
And yet I was like, well, I'm a coach.
I'm supposed to like be perfect and like have it all together.
And I was like, what if in the feeling, in the humanness, in
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with being, this is the perfection?
What if there's no final destination?
What if there's no healed? And what if there's no ever need
to even heal? What if we're all whole and
complete? And it's just remembering that
and unraveling that and unleashing our truest self and
unveiling her, right? And so I started to play with
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the offerings that I have and how I can change the way I'm
supporting people because there was a stance of like, do I keep
coaching? Do I keep serving in this way
when I still have problems? I still have negative quote UN
quote experiences. And I was like, yes, bitch,
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that's your humanness meets themin their humanness.
No one's got it all figured out.Like, I know this, but it was
like seeing this again and owning this at a like a heavier
death. I went to see Tony Robbins a
couple of years ago and I remember that one thing that
stuck with me. I wonder if I've talked about
this before. The one thing that stuck with me
the most was him saying I'm great at the science of
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achievement, but I sucked at theart of pleasure.
And he tells this beautiful story of like his nanny
experiencing his life more than he was because he was so hyper
focused on work and performing. And I was like, oh, OK, like
that's something I got great at about 5 to 8 years ago.
I slowly learned the art of pleasure and I was so great at
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it. And now I'm learning the science
of achievement. I had it at certain levels, but
I'd like to play with it and experience it at even higher
levels. And what Ioffer people is an
incredible way to actually be inlife, to actually experience
life, to feel it fully. I'm great at the art of
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pleasure, and I have to keep doing this.
There's no final destination. My imperfection, my humanity, is
what people wanna hear. That's what they wanna feel.
And I'd been kidding myself to think that I could somehow avoid
those more dense emotions, that there was gonna be some like
ascending through the the vibrations that meant I never
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felt them again. It's like, no, at every level
you experience your pattern in anew way.
You expand your nervous system to hold more.
So what I've been going through,I've been able to be in and just
be like, yeah, be present with the sadness, share it, show it.
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It might confuse some people, that's OK, That's OK.
But be here in it and stop focusing so much on the mind and
go back to your body. You know what to do.
Employ, employ and apply the strategies that, you know, go
back to your body. Go back to yoga, go dance, go
back to dance, go back to mirror, play, all those things
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that helped you unveil the truthof who you are.
Bring them back. Yeah.
And I had some disappointment insome of the frameworks that I've
been offered, strategies that I've been taught because I saw
at least the way I heard them. And what I watched many other
people experience was that they were incomplete.
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And it's like, yeah, of course there are so many different
modalities and tools and strategies.
There's so many different phasesof life you go through where you
need something different. And so I started looking at what
I was offering you, my clients, potential clients, and how I can
meet people at different stages of the journey.
Because what I'd created was so effective for so many women, and
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yet others weren't having as much of an impact from it as I'd
hoped. And there was this inner
perfectionist part that was like, you should be impacting
everyone in the same level. I'm like remembering it's
everyone's in a different place and great.
Everyone is sovereign in making their choice and how do I do
better at the same time, right? And so I started going, OK,
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well, what's the common theme here with the women that aren't
getting the massive results? Because there's some getting
huge results and transformationsonboarding these mindsets, these
tools, these strategies, those awarenesses, the ways to
regulate their nervous system and their whole life is
different. And they're like shooting into
the sky from there. And I'm equipping them with the
knowledge that life's a roller coaster arrived.
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So they're not surprised when the density comes up again,
right? Or when a problem appears, or
when an obstacle comes. They're like, I know I have the
tools to handle it. I'm empowered through this,
which is what I've been experiencing.
The common thing, though, that Isaw when it's less effective,
the work that I had been doing was when women were so
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dissociated, so numb, so unable to look at the truth of who they
were, that they couldn't meet themselves with compassion yet
because they didn't know how to feel.
They're so numbed out to the truth because they're so afraid
that if they feel it, it will kill them.
Like their nervous system has gone so much into fight, flight,
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or freeze that more often than not, they're frozen without
knowing it and I'm having to getthem into fight or flight to
then get them to this more parasympathetic response.
This calm isn't available to them yet because they don't know
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how to feel yet. They can't sit in stillness
because it feels like freeze. They don't feel anything.
And I've beat her. Yeah.
And bringing compassion for these dissociative strategies
that actually keep people safe, they're actually makes sense.
They help you survive. They help you not feel
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everything that you can't feel and then see it as the dire end,
you know, catastrophize and maybe give up.
And So what I see is and what I get to offer is so much more for
you, for me, than just this. Remembering that it's an endless
journey. Yeah.
And that you need to play in your body first.
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I've got to see and feel how much pleasure is a huge part of
this journey, how sex is a playground for so many women to
come home to themselves. I was saying in my group, call
it the reason, if you haven't noticed from my Instagram that
things are getting a bit spicier, is because I picked a
domain that I found myself in, that I created this expression
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of myself and keep creating myself in.
And that's the bedroom sex. It's a place where you get to
learn to speak your truth. You learn to feel.
You learn nervous system regulation, you learn
communication, you learn boundaries, you learn what's
right and what's wrong for you. You learn self-expression, you
learn to vocalize. You learn to fucking feel
pleasure for joy. You learn play.
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And so these are the things thathelped me create this Veronica
Jane, right? And I have not been speaking to
them loudly enough. I haven't been embedding them in
my programs enough. I'd also forgotten a lot of the
somatic elements and tools that I'd gained from a yoga teacher
practice and had focused a lot more on hypnosis, meditation,
visualization, mindset, all fucking great.
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And for some of you, it's not available to you yet at the
level that it could have impact because you have to learn to
feel. We need to get your nervous
system a safe space for you so that when you meet anger, so
that when you meet sadness, you can feel it and you know that
you can move through it. And so you do you is an
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invitation for you and for me todo the next expression of
ourselves, but also to do you. Yeah, I'm inviting you to start
fucking yourself, fucking with yourself, fucking life.
Yeah, bringing the orgasmic pleasure of sex into life.
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And so a lot more of what I'm going to be offering is using
your body to feel you. Do you is a double entendre, and
you haven't caught that yet. And also an invitation for you
to do you whatever is you. And so I'm so excited for this
group program where I'm doing 8 weeks weekly calls, early
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morning. If you live in Australia, also
accessible for you N Americans. Hello, afternoon time for you on
the weekends to feel, to move, to do weird shit, to make
sounds, to play. There's gonna be so many
embodiment tools and strategies.The things that I've been using
as I've been moving through dense emotions, seeing myself
wanting to dissociate using my old strategies and being like,
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huh, cool. Meeting her with compassion.
Also for how long? Because like I want to get back
in life, you know, I'm working in my knowledge of systems
theory, internal family systems theory, emotionally focused
therapy. All of these things are going to
be embedded in my work. I've revamped all my programs,
my one-on-one and group programsin a way that I'm like, oh,
girl, you do you, all of you. And helping you guys access that
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for yourself. So aside from what I'm offering
you, do you just in this podcast?
What's that? Well, are you doing you, sis?
Are you being all of you? Are you doing?
What is you? Do you even know who you are?
Have you chosen? Have you uncovered her?
And let me play with the names I've chosen.
I feel like life is about unveiling yourself.
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Yeah. Taking off the masks, peeling
back the layers of social construct, family imprints and
unveiling the truest you, your highest self, your core self,
whatever that is for you. And then I feel like it's about
unleashing yourself, letting yourself be untamed.
Like from Glennon Doyle's book title, Letting yourself like,
fucking fuck, love, laugh, be, pray, love, whatever.
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Just be out there in the world, right?
Unleash yourself and be wild andmake mistakes.
And then it's like unraveling yourself of like, whoa, where
can I flow and be and play? Yeah.
And just like, oh, freedom. And then that is you from there.
It's you. And that's exciting.
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But so many of you are walking around with all these masks.
And the mask might be wine, the mask might be Valium, the mask
might be. And none of those things are
wrong. Like, let me be clear, they're
not wrong. They are coping strategies that
work for a time. And my heart feels for you if
you're using them because I've been there.
I've used my own version of those things.
But what if we could unmask you from that?
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Stop hiding behind that. What if you could just be
fucking you, be weird, weird, weird, weird, weird, weird, be
sexy, be kinky, be whatever. Like what if you could just be
in life being you? Like what if you could just do
you without the judgement every expression of you, messy hair,
tidy hair, slutty you, frigid you, hilarious you, like boring
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you like all of you. But if you could just do you?
And what if you could learn thatthrough feeling?
And what if we could make it pleasurable and fun?
Wouldn't that be nice? So here's some questions for
you. What have you not been letting
yourself enjoy that you get to start enjoying?
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What have you been denying yourself in the world of
pleasure and play that you can bring back into your life?
Are you seeing yourself? Witnessing yourself?
Do life? You ever just stop and observe
how incredible you are? I don't just do a podcast and
Instagram page for y'all. I'm witnessing myself.
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Are you witnessing yourself and affirming her?
Are you playing in life to its fullest?
Are you letting yourself reach the edges of what's possible for
you? If not, why not?
What might happen if you did? You do you.
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Are you? What if you did that kind of
weird and wonderful thing that you bring into the world?
If you stopped being veiled, if you stopped being leashed, If
you stopped being all rambled upand you were just you?
I want to live in that world. I want to live in that world
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where everyone is their truest expression.
I'm not talking about that like completely self obsessed.
Don't consider what works for the collective like of course,
but the more people I meet who are doing them, the more
delicious life becomes, the moreexcited I see they are, the more
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energy is available to be playedwith, to be shared.
And so I hope you do you. And if you're someone who's been
dealing with how to feel, whether that's sexually or just
emotionally. But if you did you your way and
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if you think I can help you do that, if you feel I can help you
do that, if you see that I couldhelp you do that, I would love
to. My invitation either way is for
you to just go out there and do you start by beginning to honor
your pleasure and your play and yourself expression if you want
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to talk about how you know whereto find me.
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