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Changes Big and small will be back for Season 4 next week! Get ready to explore intimate relationships, friendships, work relationships and family relationships. In the meantime, I'm sharing an interview where I was a guest on another show.

I recently appeared on the Be Your Own Kind podcast with host Renita who was a guest on Changes Big and Small in episode 34. I've shared an excerpt on Changest Big and Small and you can listen to the whole episode here or embedded below.

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Join Sebene Selassie to learn to sit with uncomfortable emotions and to be able to explore mindfulness and embodied presence as pathways to self-acceptance and transformation. Sebene Selassie is a meditation teacher. As a three time breast cancer survivor, she has learned a lot about awareness and she shares this with us in her book You Belong. You can find it wherever books are sold.

In the clips shared today, we talk about the value of meditation and what it means to be in embodied awareness. At the end, Sebene invites us to be able to sit with uncomfortable emotions and to be able to explore acceptance as a pathway to transformation.

Listen to this episode for a deeper understanding about the value of meditation and how you can apply it in your life to live more in embodied awareness, to be more present in your body, to be more present in your life.

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Listen to this episode for 15 ideas of actions you could take to support the development of self-acceptance.

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Self-acceptance allows us to be in the moment, to acknowledge each moment. The key is to do what we can do, what makes sense for our situation and context. In this episode, we explore how you can take charge of your story, and write your unique story yourself with authenticity and sensuality.

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In his book Think Again, Adam Grant talks about exploring concepts from a spherical perspective. That idea of looking at things from so many different angles as is possible in a spherical shape appeals to me.

In this second compilation episode on self-acceptance, I will be highlighting elements of interviews with seven different guests on the topic of self-acceptance. I'll be weaving a thread between the episodes to help you understand different elements of self-acceptance and its relevance and application in your life. The featured guests are Rachel Tapscott, Daralyse Lyons, Michelle Kuei, Seanna Leath, Aruna Krishnan, Fatima Oliver and Sarah Eames.

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I conducted 19 interviews for season 3 of Changes Big and Small. Over the next few weeks, I'll be reading Radical Self Acceptance by Tara Brach and discussing it on the podcast. Feel free to read along and join the conversation. Or if you've read the book, feel free to share your thoughts and questions with me at [email protected] or you can live a voice recording by clicking on the Start here link.

Self-acceptance means knowing your strengths, weaknesses, successes, failures, and seeing yourself as worthy of love, of dignity, despite your imperfections. It means accepting who you really are, not who you wish you should be or want to be. It has no judgement, only truth. This sets it apart from the related idea of self-esteem because self-esteem only focuses on the "esteemed" or the positive aspects of yourself. Self-acceptance looks at all of yourself and likes yourself regardless of the "flaws", and it is essential before any transformation.

From the exploration this season, we know that there are many things that affect our self acceptance. These include our relationship with ourselves and with others, the stories we tell about the various facets of our lives and our self-image.

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In this episode, Nisha Mody shares her own healing journey that she took be able to reconnect with who she is and with what's important in her life. One of the interesting things that comes up is the relationship between being in community and being connected to people, but also having a strong identity and sense of self and being able to be grounded. We'll learn what is the mother wound and how we might be able to heal it and address it in our own lives. We also discuss the concept of shame and how we might be able to overcome feelings of shame. We are inherently people of worth being humans, and that's an important thing for us to remember.

Nisha Mody, MLIS, MA CCC-SLP (she/her) is a Librarian, Feminist Healing Coach, and Writer. She is passionate about trauma-informed care, justice, and creating nurturing relationships. She coaches people one-one, in groups, and provides workshops related to healing and trauma-informed care. Find her on Instagram and TikTok @healinghypegirl, Twitter @nishamody and on her website www.nishaland.com.

01:47 - The meaning of Healing Hype Girl
02:50 - The beginning and working on a healing journey
08:17 - Marriage and identity
16:55 - Examples of self-care to nourish your body
18:37 - Learning what it takes for healing and being part of a community
20;51 - Companions on the healing journey
23:29 - What we deserve and our worth
27:12.- Learning about and growing in self-acceptance
28:40 - The key to being in alignment with yourself
30:10 - What it means to be a human who makes mistakes
30:55 - Invitation/Challenge
33:14 - Finding Nisha on the Web
35:14 - Fast Five

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In this episode, I've extracted the gems from a conversation with Monica Sherese to share with you. You can consider this a companion interview to episode 79 although the order in which you listen to the two episodes do not matter.

Listen to find out how to hold space for other people to support them in living the life that they want. Also, we invite you to interrogate your own thoughts about yourself and your body so that you can make change in a way that is respectful and caring of yourself and your body. A key ideas is loving your body, a concept that is tied to the challenge from episode 79 of the podcast.

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Listen to this episode to explore how storytelling can help reframe your story and support healing. We get to tell our stories the way we want it. Daralyse invites us to consider how we will tell our story, what framing will we use, what structure will we use, and who will we tell it to. Being authentic and true to yourself means telling your story, but you also get to choose who to tell your story to. We share our stories to the people whom we trust.

Timeline of the Chat

01:59 - Being an Author
12:12 - Processing Identity through Storytelling
18:24 - Defining self-acceptance
23:16 - Transformation through Self-Acceptance
27:18 - Love as an Antidote to Fear
28:51 - Maintaining Self-Acceptance
34:02 - Invitation/Challenge: Telling our stories
42:27 - Fast Final Five

Contact and follow Daralyse by going to daralyselyons.com or by going to demystifyingdiversitypodcast.com.

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