Compass of Emotions

In Part 1 we concentrated on what the impostor syndrome is, how it manifests and why it might originate.

Today, we’re focusing on how to overcome feeling like an impostor, or rather, how to manage the strong emotions associated with it in a healthy way.

We’re analyzing how to break this patterns from multiple perspectives, including:

- Mindfulness

- Coaching

- Transpersonal Psychology

Additionally, we have provided a link to an article I wrote on the topic for "Psychology and Mind" magazine".

https://psicologiaymente.com/psicologia/consejos-revertir-sindrome-impostor

We hope you enjoy all this material!

In this week's podcast, we're going to talk about the impostor syndrome. In this first part we’ll:

- Discuss my client’s case, which illustrates the topic very well.

- Delve into WHAT the impostor syndrome is

- Explore HOW it manifests

- Which situations ORIGIN the impostor syndrome

- Which events TRIGGER the impostor syndrome

This is meant to pave the way for the second part, where we’re focusing on how to reverse the impostor syndrome from multiple perspectives.

This week I’m bringing you a powerful mindfulness meditation that I recorded to open and balance our chakras. Chakras are energy centers in the human body. There are considered to be seven main chakras, each associated with different aspects of life and specific organs or glands.

The 7 chakras are connected to the flow of our vital energy, also known as "prana" or "chi", throughout the body. When a chakra is blocked, it can manifest as physical problems, emotional struggles, or difficulties in specific areas of our life.

This meditation is going to help you to balance your chakras, promoting the flow of energy through your body and contributing to a state of overall harmony and well-being. When the chakras are balanced, we experience greater vitality and energy, mental clarity, emotional stability, increased intuition, and spiritual connection.

Practice this meditation frequently to flow with life. It will give you strength and it will be a super powerful tool for you.

A big hug your way, enjoy the meditation!

Broadly speaking, assertive communication reflects our capacity to express our thoughts, feelings, and needs directly, honestly, and respectfully. This week's podcast is about assertive communication. We are exploring what it is and what it is not through real-life examples. I'm going to share some ideas with you to put assertive communication into practice.

In the podcast, we’re delving into the topic developing the conversation in the following way:

-What assertive communication is (in detail)

-Frequent real-life examples that are the opposite of assertive communication

-The fears that may be holding us back from being clear and true to ourselves when expressing our needs, feelings, and possibilities.

-The principles of assertive communication and how to confidently implement them.

We’re also sharing with you a BONUS link to an article I wrote for Psicología y Mente magazine on the topic (in Spanish)

https://psicologiaymente.com/personalidad/la-importancia-de-ser-asertivos-y-7-maneras-de-lograrlo

We hope you enjoy all the material! We are confident that you will. As you will conclude from the podcast, it is challenging to be assertive ... but it can be trained! 💪

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Did you like 👉 the first part of this podcast? There we talked about:

1. The differences between an emotional relationship and an erotic one and how to integrate both in a stable relationship.

2. The importance of taking care of ourselves in every sense to have more energy and to enjoy that well-being on a sexual level.

3. How mindfulness can pave the way to relax, let go, and experience sex in the present moment and with our senses wide open.

IN THIS SECOND PART, my husband and I are delving into the topic, and we are also sharing with you our most vulnerable experience as a couple.

Enjoy it!

What to do when sex decreases in a solid relationship?

What to do when there is simply no desire for sex in a stable couple?

That's what we're going to talk about! We’re not going to talk from a guru standpoint but from our own vulnerable experience.

To warm up a little (no pun intended), think about how your sex life flowed at the beginning of your relationship. You probably felt mystery, anticipation, and even adventure. As the relationship became stronger, familiarity, routine, and everyday stress might have taken over variety. In this first part of the podcast, we’re uncovering why our sexual life tends to fluctuate like this, how we can integrate certainty with variety, and what we can do individually which can have a positive impact on our intimacy.

We hope you enjoy this first part!

Hi…, how are you today?

We have recorded this week's podcast with my loving partner and husband, Luciano. This is the second part about some of the myths that surround romantic love.

In the previous podcast we talked about 3 common popular ideas about love that can really make us suffer:

1. That there is only one person destined for everyone in love (with whom we will be happy ever after)

2. That if your partner is the right one, you’ll have no doubts or uncertainty.

3. That your partner is going to complete and save you.

This week we’re taking a deep dive into 3 more myths:

1. Commitment and freedom

2. Intimacy

3. Opposite personalities

We hope you enjoy this second part we have recorded together!

We have recorded this week's podcast with my loving partner and husband. We have focused on some myths that surround romantic love. We receive so many messages from culture, literature, films and series that tell us that when we are with the right one, we’ll feel in the air, we’ll have no doubts, we’ll be infinitely happy, and we’ll feel unstoppable desire, etc. that it is inevitable to have some doubts when some of that doesn’t happen to us.

Think of phrases that are as beautiful as bombastic as “the whole universe has brought me to you”, “you complete me”, or “my whole body says that this is the right man for me”. Let’s be clear, who doesn't enjoy a bit of fiction to have a breather from our routines? But it is that – fiction. The people in real couples are not incomplete or broken, they have a very big commitment to themselves, and they can fall in love many times in one lifetime

We hope you enjoy this first part that we have recorded together!

This week's podcast is about our inner critic, that voice that judges us and makes us suffer, which often makes life difficult for us. We are going to see how we can quiet down this critical inner voice so that it lowers its volume and we can listen to the voice of our true Self.

In the podcast we’re exploring:

1. What the inner critic is.

2. How it originates.

3. Some real life examples.

4. The negative consequences that the inner critic can have on us.

5. How to relate to this harsh voice and replace it with a more self-compassionate and powerful one for our lives.

I hope you enjoy the podcast!

PSST!

If you want to take a deep dive into the subject, you might feel inspired to read the article I have written in Psicología y Mente magazine (in Spanish):

https://psicologiaymente.com/clinica/critico-interno-maneras-de-calmarlo

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It's hard to experience well-being when you feel tired, unmotivated, and even overwhelmed, right? That’s why this week, we’re going to learn a 4 step practice from Neuroscience that will help you experience well-being:

1. Feel, have, or recreate an experience where you can feel or have felt fulfilled.

2. Enrich that experience by appealing to our 5 senses.

3. Internalize the feeling of enriched wellbeing in the previous steps.

4. Experience how a difficult or challenging situation is “washed out” or has lost its power thanks to this new experience that you have installed.

I hope you enjoy the podcast!

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