100% Awesome Podcast

You make thousands of choices every day—when you get up, what you eat, how you move your body, who you love, how you treat people, how happy you are—all just optional ways to live your life. Nothing you choose makes you better or worse, but each choice takes you somewhere specific.

When you understand that your own choices (and nothing else) determine your destination, and that you have the power to go anywhere you want to go, then all that's left is to figure out how to manage your brain to make the choices that will get you there.

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Othering is a way of putting distance between yourself and others. It often involves seeing others as different than you in negative and insufficient ways.

But we can also "other" ourselves by telling ourselves that we aren't like other people, that we can't be like them, that we can't create what they have, that we are more limited than other people, and that this means that we are lacking, inadequate, or less than other people.

Our brains love to tell us that we are different in all the wrong ways and this kind of thinking drastically limits our ability to create the lives we really want to be living.

In today's podcast, I'm sharing three important concepts to help you stop "othering" yourself so that you can tap into your incredible, God-given power to create anything you want in your life.

https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/blog/how-to-stop-othering-yourself

Whether we know it or not, we are all deciding our lives. Every decision we make, one at time, moment by moment, add up to create the reality of our lives.

This means that we are never stuck where we are. If we are always deciding our life, that means that we always also have the power to decide something else anytime we want to. When you realize that you are a creator even with your unintentional decisions, it can inspire you to see what's possible to create when you start making intentional ones.

In today's podcast episode, I'm sharing a powerful and simple new way to think about how to decide your life and use that decision to create the reality you want.

https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/blog/decide-your-life

You are good.

You aren't good because of what you do. You aren't good because of the results you create in your life. You aren't good because of your habits, your choices, or your behaviors.

I mean you are good. Fundamentally.

And as a human with a brain, it's really easy to forget this. Our brains almost universally tell us that we are bad, that we are wrong, that we aren't enough.

And when our brain is telling us these things, one of two things can happen: either we wear ourselves out in an endless quest of trying to make up for our lack and prove our worthiness, or we give up and stop trying altogether because it feels impossible to ever be good enough.

On today's podcast, I want to show you how you are good, and how there is nothing you can do to change that. Because when you know that for sure, then you can stop defining yourself (either good or bad) by your choices—which is the first step to choosing something else when you're ready.

https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/blog/you-are-good

Every area of our life is created by the thoughts we think—including our sexual experience. If we think thoughts that create shame or frustration or guilt or resentment, that's going to make an impact on the kind of experience we are having. If we nurture thoughts that create hope, curiosity, compassion, fun, joy, or excitement, those thoughts are going to create something entirely different.

Most of the thoughts we have about sex have been given to us by others. We receive message from our parents, our culture and society, our religious and church leaders, movies and media…and for the most part these thoughts go unquestioned and unexamined, especially because many of us feel uncomfortable talking about sex.

In today's podcast episode, I'm sharing how I changed my thoughts about sex and pleasure and offer you an opportunity to examine your own thoughts and then intentionally decide what you want to think and believe. If you want to change any part of your sexual experience you can start by changing what's happening in your head.

https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/blog/better-sex-is-in-your-head

One of the relationships we have the most conflict in is the one we have with our own inner critic. Sometimes it feels like no matter what we do, our brain is going to have something negative to say about it.

While having a brain (and therefore an active inner critic) is just part of being a human, we have more power than we know to quiet, diminish, and silence that critical inner voice and heal the ongoing conflict we have inside ourselves.

In today's podcast episode, I give you practical, actionable steps so that you can quiet and heal your inner critic, make peace with yourself, and have lots more approval of yourself.

https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/blog/healing-the-inner-critic

Most of us have a list of things we wanted to do this year. A lot of us were determined to finally stop making excuses, get on top of things, and create the life we really want to be living.

But somehow, just getting through the day keeps getting in the way and it feels easier to keep doing things the way we've always done them.

Join me for the MID-YEAR RESET! A two-day event where I will show you how to stop doing the things you wish you didn't do, start doing all the things you want to be doing, and fully embrace your power to create the life you want. The Mid-Year Reset is this Thursday and Friday (June 23-24, 2022) and you're invited. Use this link to register:

https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/reset

I teach my clients that no matter what change they want to make in their lives, it is a simple three step process: awareness, acceptance, and adjustment.

Of these steps, acceptance can be the hardest principle to understand and apply because usually the very fact that we want to change something means that there is a part of us that doesn't like how things are and doesn't want to accept it.

So how do we do this? How do we accept where we are while we are simultaneously trying to get somewhere else?

Sometimes it can feel like these two ideas are in opposition to each other. But, acceptance is not the enemy of change, acceptance is the necessary partner of change. It's not acceptance or change, it's acceptance AND change. This week on the podcast, I'm sharing some things I have recently learned about acceptance by watching one of my children make a change in their life. Their experience has lessons for all of us who want things to be different but need to step into acceptance before things can change.

https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/blog/163

We live in a world where everybody has the right to choose actions that impact everyone else and we also live in a world that works according to natural law. These two realities mean that tragedy, accidents, injustice, crime, catastrophe, and disaster are an inherent part of your human experience. And sometimes this is terrifying. Sometimes it feels like there is too much pain and too much uncertainty, too much unpredictability and too much vulnerability to handle.

In today's podcast episode, I am offering some thoughts to consider in the face of tragedy—not so that you can feel good about bad things, but to help you get good at choosing how you want to feel and using that choice to create safety and love, even in a world that you do not control.

https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/blog/162

It's really easy for our brains to associate negative emotion with things that are bad or things that we should avoid. So what do we do when we feel bad at church?

Isn't church the place where you are supposed to feel love, supported, included, not judged, welcome, needed, and uplifted? What do you do when you feel burdened, angry, lonely, judged, or condemned in the place that is supposed to help and heal you?

The truth is that church is no different than any other part of our mortal lives…it is taking place in a fallen world among people who have human brains. This means that church is not exempt from judgment, misunderstanding, offense, or even harm. And amazingly, none of that is a problem. In fact, all of it is happening by divine design.

This week on the podcast, I'm talking about what do when you feel terrible at church, how to handle being hurt by people who are supposed to be following a higher standard of love, and how to use all of the triggering moments at church for your benefit.

https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/blog/161