Emancipate Your Mind

Have you ever experienced that feeling of being pulled between two competing values? It can feel like you’re in the middle of a huge game of tug of war as you wrestle between two values that mean so much to you. No matter what you choose, it feels like you lose something important. Sometimes the… Read More »Emancipate Your Mind: 101: Calming Internal Values Conflicts

Everyday, you’re making choices about what to do with your limited time, money, attention, and energy. Every time you say “yes” to one thing, you’re effectively saying “no” to several other things you could be doing with those resources. If you’re spending your limited resources on things that don’t matter much to you, you’ll feel… Read More »Emancipate Your Mind: 100: Discovering And Prioritizing Your Core Values

Every day you are creating a life based on your set of personal values. Do you know which values are running the show? If I asked you today what top 5-7 principles are informing most of your priorities and decisions, would you be able to answer confidently? If your answer is no, you aren’t alone.… Read More »Emancipate Your Mind: 099: Which Childhood Values Are Still Running Your Life Today?

The authenticity movement has brought us a lot of great opportunity to learn more about ourselves and free ourselves from situations that don’t feel healthy for us. On the flip side, with the authenticity movement has grown a binary way of thinking that is reminiscent of the high demand cultures we’ve worked so hard to… Read More »Emancipate Your Mind: 098: The Dangers of Binary Thinking in the Authenticity Movement with Chris Peck

Authenticity has become a huge topic of conversation in the past couple of decades. While there is great freedom and personal guidance in getting curious about what does and does not feel good to us as individuals, there can also be a lot of confusion about what “being authentic’ means and even shame and fear… Read More »Emancipate Your Mind: 097: You Can Only Ever Be The Authentic You with Chris Peck

If you’ve ever felt like you’re at war with yourself as you go after the things you want and need in life, it’s probably because there are childhood parts of you that aren’t used to having their wants and needs heard, validated, and met. Giving yourself what you want and need as an adult can… Read More »Emancipate Your Mind: 096: Healing Childhood Emotional Neglect Through Inner Child Work

“I still feel like I’m not allowed to want anything. The voice in my head says I’m selfish, ridiculous, or dramatic whenever I try to access my needs.” “I feel like I’m at war with myself.” “Sometimes I think it was easier to convince myself I didn’t have any wants or needs because then I… Read More »Emancipate Your Mind: 095: Childhood Emotional Neglect and the Difficulty Identifying Your Wants and Needs

Transcript This year on the podcast, we’ll be talking about how to “fill the void” after deconstruction. But in order to do that in a healthy way that helps you operate as your own authority, recognize red flags, set boundaries, and avoid high demand relationships and groups, we have to spend some time building our… Read More »Emancipate Your Mind: 094: What Do I Really Want? (And Why Haven’t I Figured It Out Yet?)

Transcript Are you tired of trying to change thought and behavior patterns year after year only to end up ditching your resolutions and feeling even worse about it all by the first week in February? This isn’t happening because you’re weak, broken, or malfunctioning in some way. In fact, you’re operating exactly the way we’d… Read More »Emancipate Your Mind: 093: A Compassionate Approach to the New Year

Transcript In this Part 2 episode with Licensed Professional Counselor, Kevin Hales, we explore some of the first steps towards healing fragile masculinity. Kevin shares ideas about what men themselves can do to become aware of and heal subconscious programming about what it means to be a man. He also talks about how those of… Read More »Emancipate Your Mind: 092: First Steps Toward Healing Fragile Masculinity with Kevin Hales