#GrowNOW The Podcast

Happy New Year 2024 and may your relationships be fruitfull and blessed.

The real contradiction in a family setting is that we love them with all our heart and that’s what makes us a bit more vulnerable, willing to tolerate more, even when that gets us to a point of irritation. The Christmas holidays sometimes come with a few tense moments and different expectations for everyone.

That's why we focused on today's episode on how to manage these holidays with the family, and still adapt to their needs while not feeling that you are not compromising too much and still being true to your needs, personal or business aspect.

Continuing on last week's discussion, today we adress the subject of responsability and freedom, and shed a light on the fine line between responsability and freedom.

Any relationship we have requires commitment and therefore, finding’s way to integrate the other person into the equation of out work life. Depending on the type of relationship we are looking at here, especially the romantic ones, we might feel sometimes that we have to chose between feeling free and being in a relationship, feeling connection and love. There are 2 essential values of life, after all. How are we suppose to chose? Are we suppose to chose? Find out in today’s episode.

There is a saying “ When something feels sad when it ends, it must have felt pretty wonderful when it happened”. It is a beautiful way of looking at a sad situation and the discomfort it created after. Most of the time, we have a hard time understanding and letting relationships go, but as always, there is beauty in everything and it usually means that one thing ending just created space for something else to come into our life.

Today’s episode focused on a series of questions that we should ask and challenge ourselves with, realistically and straight forward, if we want to get a better grip on how to recognise the positive in any breakup.

Realistically speaking, the end of any relationship can become a breaking point in someone’s life, the “perfect” ground for trauma and limiting beliefs to set it. How amazing would it be if all of us , when faced with such moments and decisions, to be brave enough to give the other person the chance to have closure. It’s important when ending any type of relationship, be it work, love, friendship, etc, to put yourself in the other’s place and to offer an explanation, reason, an objective answer and civilised ending to that connection.

This being said, in this episode we will focus on the other aspect of these breakups, when we don’t get any closure and the way to navigate through life afterwards.

Through these 2 parts of the current topic, we want to point out that working on past relationships, not only will help us get rid of that bitter taste in our mouth, but also will help us face in a better way, any current breakups. We want to share with you 5 ideas to consider when you are dealing with a situation like this.

No matter if it’s a friend wanting to distance themselves, or a job relation, a loved one wanting to move on without us… when someone else is putting an end to a relation, if we are not first of all blindsided, we can experience anger, feeling “not good enough” and “it’s not fair” or even a numbness or shutting down . These are the most complete and painful endings, most of the time.

We know these are triggering topics for most of the people, because usually after this kind of separation, there is trauma and negative associations left behind. That’s why, the reason we approach these complex themes, and especially about past relationships, is to be able to rework those painful endings with today’s tools.

Today we get to seek answers to a question that hunts most adults: how to end a relationship. But for that, we have to ask ourselves first: are we in a relationship that is worthy of our time and energy? It is fair and necessary to ask these questions when we are in a situation that has proved again and again to be uncomfortable or energy draining for us. And is good to have in mind that we are considering personal and professional relations here.

When we want to end a relationship in the most conscious way, there is a difference between deciding to end a relationship and actually going through with it. Here we are , to the rescue, with the 5 tips of the day that will guide you through, smoothly we would hope, to allow yourself to speak your truth.

We keep mentioning in the last episodes about making decisions in any relationship, the choices we have, what do we want to keep/improve and so on. But how do we go about really implementing all this? Because making the decision is only step 1, after this comes the “ living with it ” phase.

The most common phrase that we all use when i’s time to do what we decided, it’s “I wish I knew how to do that” . Is it maybe that we don’t acknowledge the benefits or the improvements at this moment, so we take comfort in excuses? We are here today with 5 useful tips that can set you on your path towards truly doing the work and making your decisions real, not just empty words.