Inner Dialogues with Ecem

This episode is for all the women out there who wants to create an alignment with their bodies by listening to their internal ryhthms (aka their hormonal cycles) and all the men out there who wants to understand how female bodies work and discover ways to support the women in their lives.

Disclaimer: All of the things I shared with you is about my experience of my own hormonal cycle. Yours will be definitely and inevitably differe...

Picking up where we left off powerfully on the last episode, we’re getting deeper in our coping mechanisms to deal with the unknown.

What is that I’m trying to control about the unknown nature of life by coming up with my judgements?

Our seek for certainty in life can be the very reason behind our stuckness, lack of joy and connection with others, ourselves and the world around us.

Join me in exploring the philosophy of ou...

With a very raw and emotional start to the episode, I’m following the light and path that we opened up in the very first group coaching call I hosted with my community.

The more I learn, the less I feel ready

This was one of the bold statements and realizations of the wonderful people shared in that space.

Following that, I’m re-exploring the philosophy of incubation with the light of our seek for clarity and our struggle ...

Reading John Mayer’s recent interview with Shawn Mendes took me to the places that I was curious to discover.

The themes that spoke out to me from it were the topics of my life nowadays:

• The idea of being available all the time: “ I don’t want this world to be dictating when I am on or off.”
• “Home is ultimately you”
• Our tendecy of suffocating good things we have by asking for them to be consistent

It has been a jour...

I’m excited to be back with Season 2 of Inner Dialogues with Ecem.

In this episode of Inner Dialogues with Ecem, I discovered the concept of resistance which was something I felt during this 7-weeks-long break I took from the podcast.

Resistance can be sneaky to understand and determine and it was the case for me until a very recent chats I hold with a couple of friends.

“Suffering is always resistance.

Resistance is the unwil...

“Why does this always happen to me?”

Have you ever said this?

Or have you ever found yourself being dragged by your thoughts within 5 seconds? Seeing someone on social media, hearing a music or smell took you back in time and even maybe to future.

What if I told you this has a name? I recently learned that this tendency of our minds being pulled away by experiences and situations which ends up creating a mental chatt...

Have you ever caught yourself evaluating your creativity based on how many words or sentences you wrote on a day or how many canvases you painted?

What about your productivity - have you ever evaluated it based on how many emails you have sent, how long you sit in front of your computer or how many ideas you pitched in a meeting?

Have you ever caught yourself evualting your mindfulness based on how long you meditated for?

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Are you feeling like you’re in a transition phase? Not feeling totally belonged to who you are, where you live and what you do? But also not really sure about what to create in the further or how to create it?

The only thing I can be sure of is my own experience and once again I’m taking you through my own experience of the transition period that I’m currently in.

In this episode of Inner Dialogues with Ecem, let's fl...

Have you ever felt like there are so many things going around you, as if life’s throwing messages your way or as if the answer is just behind the curtain? Well, I had a moment like that a couple of days ago, and ironically the realization moment was about the topic itself. In this episode of Inner Dialogues with Ecem, let's flip the script on authentic creativity with the light of exposing ourselves to other minds. It has ...

We see the world through the lens of our perceptions, as if we are looking to the sun with our shades on.

How do you know you have your shades on?

Well, you know it because YOU put them on intentionally.

Do we have the constant awareness of our perceptions? What is happening in our lives when we lose that awareness?

In this episode of Inner Dialogues with Ecem, let's flip the script on releasing conditionin...

Are you caught in the endless cycle of self-improvement? Constantly enrolling into new courses, reading self-help books and looking for improvement in your life?

In this episode of Inner Dialogues with Ecem, let's flip the script on self-development.

Let’s go on a journey from a cave in which we imprisoned ourself with our own perceptions back to the sunlight of endless possibilites and our fullest potential.

Paulo Coelho...

Ever feel like the world is a constant battle of “us vs. them”, “right or wrong”, “ good or bad”? Sometimes everything may seem polarized and like boils down to picking a side.

But what if there's a whole world of understanding waiting to be discovered beyond the black and white thinking?

In this episode of Inner Dialogues with Ecem, let's flip the script on opposites and crack open the limitations of binary thin...

"Have you ever felt excited about a new chapter in your life, yet strangely sad about leaving the old one behind?

In this episode of Inner Dialogues with Ecem, let's flip the script on change and new beginnings.

It has been a deeply personal episode for me talking about a recent change I’ve been going through with my family and how it brings the excitement of new beginnings as well as accompanying feelings of gr...

Can there be an intellectual intimacy? What is intimacy we feel when we have a lovely conversation with a friend? Can intimacy be a knowledge of ourselves and the world around us?

In this episode of Inner Dialogues with Ecem, let's flip the script on intimacy. Let’s discover different and deeper layers of it.

I’m following the echoes of a recent conversation I had with a friend of mine about Virginia Woolf’s book “To ...

Ever feel like your habits are a broken record? Well, then let’s stick to them. 

In this episode of Inner Dialogues with Ecem, let's flip the script on consistency. 

I went on a journey from my university dorm days, where my consistent routines — from yoga to daily oatmeal breakfast — unintentionally sparked a health and mindfulness community among my roommates.

I have explored the concept of consistency as a vor...

Have you ever caught yourself with your most serious face ever when you’re waiting in a long line or when you are driving? Ever felt uptight, stressed, and stiffened in your attitude?

Let’s loosen up a bit.

In this episode of Inner Dialogues with Ecem, let's flip the script on seriousness and sprinkle it with some humor.

“Have you ever had lemonade just made from lemons? No, to make lemonade, you need sweetener...

Ever feel like your past struggles define you? Have you ever said, “I am here because of all the years of pain” or “I cannot give up now after all that suffering that brought me here.”

In this episode of Inner Dialogues with Ecem, let's flip the script on glorifying pain.

It is a common tendency of most of us. I think once stir this water, it will become a concept that will hang in your mind as you go through life.

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Ever feel like you’re on autopilot in your answers, blurting things out before you even think? Ever feel like you're on autopilot, just reacting to life instead of choosing how you respond?

Have you ever thought that there might be a difference between responding and reacting?

Well, this differentiation is quite new in my life.

In this episode of Inner Dialogues with Ecem, let's flip the script on reacting an...