A Journey with Joy

Today's episode I talk about becoming my own best friend. This continues to be a worthwhile journey of coming into joy and compassion. This talk came from the heart so I hope you enjoy:)

In this episode I discuss some really helpful tips I use to anchor me into the present moment so that I may be one with whatever I experience. Ironically, I have posted this episode when I need to hear it the most. This weekend has been a busy one with many tasks to get done. Despite that, I feel this sense of joy flowing into my work and a sense of gratitude behind each task at hand. I hope you enjoy!

I wanted to share this episode with you all. I feel that my joy while i'm working has heightened so much over the years, and my stress and anxiety has reduced immensely. I'm not going to say much more than that. I wanted to share my journey with you of how I began to fall in love with working, even amongst jobs I didn't resonate with! I really loved recording this, so I hope you enjoy.

It is also Canadian thanksgiving tomorrow so just wanted to mention... i'm grateful for you!

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Today I discuss the 7 pillars of mindfulness and how naturally inviting these pillars in has changed my life for the better! I don't believe that learning super throughly about them is necessary, because they truth is they can all be felt simultaneously by being in tune with the present moment😊. Listening back I found the episode very comforting/ reassuring. I hope you enjoy and find it empowering. You are all awesome and beautiful! Wishing you the best.

Today I talk about how implementing mindfulness at the beginning and end of each day has changed life for the better! Inviting this in has allowed presence to flow much more naturally throughout my day, so that I can fully take in each moment as it comes!

Today I do a quick catch up by expressing some gratitude i've been feeling after my time away and I talk about 20 lessons i've learned in 20 years. The topic is for sure a little goofy, but I loved recording this, it was such a blast! I really hope that you enjoy and I hope I radiated some positive vibes your way. I ended the episode with a couple Q and A questions and some journal prompts. Follow the podcast if you'd like weekly updates. Thank you all so much!

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This week I talk about pleasing yourself first. I read a book a couple months ago by Emma Reed Turrell called "Please Yourself First: Stop People Pleasing and Transform the Way You Live". I take some of the lessons I learned from this book, because I believe it's so important to be honest and true with ourselves. Unfortunately, we can't show up fully for others if we can't show up fully for ourselves first. I commend you on your awesome journey of being totally real with yourself! Lots of love.

I dedicate this episode to Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche and one of my wonderful listeners that recommended his workshop to me. Anxiety, is something we all experience and it is an emotion that is commonly avoided or left unacknowledged. During this workshop and throughout my spiritual journey I continue to learn that to transform suffering, we have to be the awareness behind it and let our selves be anxious if we need to. As much as distraction sounds appealing, it can actually take us further away from ourselves in the healing process. I hope this inspires you to show yourself loving compassion!

I've heard people use the phrase "I live for my weekends" many times, so I thought it was time to make this episode. Working is most definitely something most people experience in day to day life, but I think is a topic that is commonly avoided. Understandably, not everyone likes to think about their job after a long day of work. In this episode I talk about how I managed to fall in love with my life whether or not it's a work day or a day off. I used to be extremely anxious to go to school and work everyday. Here, I take you through my educational journey and how I broke the barrier of anxiety to experience something inspirational.

Welcome back to the podcast! Today, I talk about how I use gratitude I fall in love with my life everyday. In all honesty, it is pretty typical that many days could be fairly repetitive for most people (including me aha). Here, I break the scary narrative that everyday is the same and that we have to wait for the bigger moments to make us happy. Inviting presence into my life teaches me that everyday life can be beautiful if I just have a little more intention to tune into the world around me. I honestly feel that viewing life through this lens makes every single day feel like a spontaneous new adventure. I hope this inspires you:)