From the episode:
"I've been working on loving all of me, and not just the parts that are easy to love, and that's so difficult. I carry these judgments with me as
if they are my reality, and that's not necessarily true because I'm a different person now. So if I can't love those parts of myself that are hard to love, then I can't expect anyone else to first, and then also, how am I going to love the parts of other people that are hard to love? And that's so important, because if you have anyone ever show you compassion in your life, and love that part of you that is hard to love, it's transformative." - Tonia McIntosh

"If you're always comfortable relying on your heart or your mind or your body, try leading with a different one, and see how that changes how you decide to make decisions or what the result is of that situation." - Brandy Little

"There's one thing exploring yourself and knowing yourself, but that also means knowing the bad parts as well, and that can be scary because we don't like to know the bad things. Those parts are what helps make the light brighter in us. If you don't focus on them, then the darker parts get darker. The darker coats. Find your dark parts, understand them, accept them, forgive yourself for them, learn from them, and try to be better." - Brandy Little

"If you zoom away from this moment and look at the whole picture, you can see that you have come a long way and have grown, and that you still have work to do." - Tonia McIntosh

"If you're not present in your body, then you go on autopilot, and the thoughts you have just become a normal thing and you don't even notice what you are saying to yourself, and that has an affect on you, on how you go out in the world, on how you see yourself, and on how you approach everything. It will affect everything." - Tonia McIntosh

"As much as we don't pay attention to our pain, we equally don't pay attention to the things that bring us joy. Things that bring us joy are those are clues to what maybe we should be doing for a career, what our skills are, or what our talents are. The more we can keep going down that road, then we discover more about ourselves. I think that a lot of times the things that bring us joy, we are so afraid of, because we think we can't have that. Our society makes us feel like if we're going to pursue anything, that we need to be the greatest, or it needs to bring us money. I don't think that's necessarily true. I don't know how many times I've told someone I've done something and the first thing they ask is how much did I get paid to do it as if that's the only thing that matters. There is so many weird expectations on that." - Tonia McIntosh

"I think one of the greatest gifts you can give to the people around you is compassion, empathy, and understanding of the things they may think of as darkness. Feeling that acceptance and love means everything. Knowing you can do something that you felt really bad about and come through as a better person for it, and still have people love you and leave space for you, it's a gift." - Brandy Little

"We don't live our lives at the end points and beginning points. Those are little points along the timeline - little dots, little blips. The longer parts, between the points, are the journey, the process. If we stop trying everyone like they should be at their end point or expecting them to be, and realize they are still in the process, that helps create compassion and space." - Brandy Little

"Self-talk points us to our values and what's important to us." - Tonia McIntosh

Books Referenced
"The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom" by Don Miguel Ruiz | https://amzn.to/37AS2YG
"What to Say When You Talk to Yourself" by Shad Helmstetter | https://amzn.to/3ongMtk

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