Welcome back to another episode Growth Where Planted. Today we are joined by none other than Bobi Gentry Goodwin. This week, we’re talking about how to prepare yourself for the journey of managing depression. You don’t want to miss this episode, so stay tuned.

Depression - [00:01 – 07:44]

The Rewarding Journey - [07:45 – 16:03]

Resources and Close - [16:04 – 18:31]

Tweetable Quotes:

“Any time in your life there can be emotional pain, physical pain, spiritual pain, and I think that is a strong indication that something is under the surface.” - Bobi Gentry Goodwin

“If you don’t manage depression it will manage you. And it tends to get worse over time if it is unmanaged, and it can really impact the quality of your life.” - Bobi Gentry Goodwin

“Take one or two steps towards the path that you want to go. And patience is essential in that, because you might not land where you want to land.  It might not be immediate, but those ripples can sometimes turn into waves, and those waves can definitely bring you to the place where you want to go.” - Bobi Gentry Goodwin

“Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.” - Khalil Gibran

Resources:

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While we often encounter external boundaries in life, it’s important to recognize when we’ve created our own barriers. Today we’ll be talking about how to break the Cycle of Self-sabotage, whether it be procrastination, or remaining in toxic environments. We could all learn a thing or two, so keep listening.

Self-Sabotaging Behavior - [00:01 – 05:31]

The source of our self-sabotaging behaviors - [05:32 – 10:54]

Resources and Close - [10:55 – 12:04]

Tweetable Quotes:

“Withholding love is a form of self-sabotage, as what we withhold from others we are withholding from ourselves.” - Marianne Willamson

“You cannot make progress in life if you’re constantly standing in your own way.” - Breonna B

“Oftentimes, self-sabotage begins with a lack of self-love.” - Breonna B

“While we often encounter external boundaries, it’s important to identify when we’ve created our own barriers. As it can help increase your self-awareness, self-love, and more clearly help you identify and resolve unhealthy relationships with others.” - Breonna B

“Life will continue to bring you situations to learn lessons. And if you don’t learn them the first time around, you will be presented with the same scenario until you identify and apply lessons.” - Breonna B

Resources:

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Living and maintaining a balanced life is very important for your personal health and well-being, especially in our fast-paced and modern world. In this episode, we will talk about financial responsibility and how to create a balance in your life to set yourself up for success.

Financial Responsibility - [00:01 – 03:26]

The Reward and Responsibility Balance - [03:27 – 0:0]

Resources and Close - [09:38 – 10:28]

Tweetable Quotes:

“Understanding how financial responsibility works and creating a balance can allow you to establish an amazing foundation for building relationships. Relationships for starting a business or growing in your career.” - Breonna B

“Creating balance in your life, in general,  is an active journey.” - Breonna B

“Find your balance and start rewarding yourself.” - Breonna B

“If you want to be financially-free, you need to become a different person than you are today and let go of whatever has held you back in the past.” - Robert Kiyosaki

Resources:

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Welcome back to Growth Where Planted Podcast! For this episode, we welcome one of our first guests in our show, Jim Shoopack, as we talk about Personal Identity and how it can play a role in how you look at yourself and how you view others looking at you.

20 years ago, Jim suffered all of the symptoms of depression. It is miraculous that he didn’t take his own life. He prayed and prayed and prayed, and even had what would be considered an out-of-body experience that gave him hope for the future. Once he had that experience, things started to improve.

Personal Identity - [00:01 – 08:32]

Developing and Maintaining your Personal Identity - [08:33 – 13:52]

Resources and Close - [13:53 – 16:48]

Tweetable Quotes:

“It’s important to have a plan. But you have to realize that life doesn’t work the way you want it to, and you have to be prepared for disappointment and how you roll with that disappointment.” - Jim Shoopack

“Not every day is gonna be a good day. You’re gonna have bad days. It’s the beauty of life, it’s the beauty of the journey of life.” - Jim Shoopack

“In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity.” - Erik Erikson

Resources:

Connect with Jim, send him an email at [email protected] or visit http://mhmusings.com/. You can also follow him on Instagram (@mhmusingsblog)

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In this episode, we’ll be talking about careers, jobs, how to make money, and how to define your success when there’s not really a road map for the career you’re interested in.

Career - [00:01 – 05:06]

The Process of Forgiveness and Managing - [05:07 – 13:17]

Resources and Close - [13:18 – 14:12]

Tweetable Quotes:

“Defining a career path can be challenging, especially if there’s a lack of representation in the field or industry.” - Breonna B

“Creating learning goals and actively working towards them can help move you along to where you wanna be and present things that you may not be aware of.” - Breonna B

“We often see ourselves in the best light better than other people can. So getting an outside perspective, can give you a pragmatic view of how well you do.” - Breonna B

“You do not attain success when you associate with those in high positions, It comes when you accept yourself and realize that only you can take yourself to where your heart truly lies.” - Michael Bassey Johnson

Resources:

Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life - Bill Burnett and Dave Evans

The Career Manifesto: Discover Your Calling and Create an Extraordinary Life - Mike Steib

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People in our lives can end up hurting us. With the pain you feel, you have the choice to either hold on to your anger, resentment, and thoughts of revenge — or you can choose to forgive and move on.

This week’s episode is all about the process of forgiveness and the emotion management that comes along with it.

Forgiveness - [00:01 – 03:42]

The Process of Forgiveness and Managing - [03:43 – 09:34]

Resources and Close - [09:35 – 10:36]

Tweetable Quotes:

“Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.” - Corrie Ten Boom

“Forgiveness meant that you could continue to bring up someone’s transgressions over and over and over again, because you were wronged by that person.” - Breonna B

“Forgiveness is not for them, it’s solely for you. You have to heal, you have to let it go.” - Breonna B

“If you don’t forgive, if you don’t let it go, if you don’t move on, it can leave you stuck for years.” - Breonna B

Resources:

Emotional Detox by Sherianna Boyle - https://amzn.to/32UYt5n

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This episode is all about how to escape the Mental Prison you’ve created with self-sabotaging behaviors, and learn how to hold yourself accountable.

[00:01 – 01:01] What is Guilt?

[01:02 – 03:07] Story Time

[03:08 – 08:48] Tips on how to escape your guilty mental prison

[08:49 – 09:45] Resources and Close

Tweetable Quotes:

“Understanding how guilt can serve as a track, weapon, or path to nowhere, can help you develop healthy accountability habits with yourself and others.” - Breonna B

“Accountability is very different from feeling guilty. Accountability is about taking action, guilt is about self-sabotaging your growth.” - Breonna B

“Guilt isn’t always a rational thing. Guilt is a weight that will crush you whether you deserve it or not.” - Maureen Johnson

Resources:

Guilt, Shame, and Anxiety: Understanding and Overcoming Negative Emotions - https://amzn.to/3sUCia5

Let Go of the Guilt: Stop Beating Yourself Up and Take Back Your Joy - https://amzn.to/32IlVCQ

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Setting your personal boundaries is necessary to help you keep a healthy and positive self-image. In this episode, we’ll be exploring, how to stand firm in our boundaries and how to avoid falling victim to guilt.

[00:01 – 01:21] Personal Boundaries and Guilt

[01:22 – 02:22] Story Time

[02:23 – 04:58] Setting Your Personal boundaries and Strengthening our ‘NO’ muscle

[04:59 – 05:50] Resources and Close

Tweetable Quotes:

“No means No. No is a powerful world, and No is a complete sentence.” - Breonna B.

“Discuss your lack of boundary setting, the way that you set boundaries, your hope in setting boundaries in therapy, because someone can help guide you through that process and not only establish those boundaries, but they can also help you understand exactly why you have those issues in the first place.” - Breonna B.

“It’s really important to understand your education around personal boundaries, and they also help you truly understand how people have leveraged that within your life. If they know they can always rely on you, and you never say No, they can abuse that.” - Breonna B.

Resources:

I Thought It Was Just Me (but it isn’t)

Setting Boundaries: Info and Practice Woksheet 

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Throughout this episode, we’ll be getting real about Addiction to Social Media and how to start establishing healthy boundaries. Are you guilty of the endless roll of app switching? Keep listening.

[00:01 – 01:09] Addiction

[01:10 – 02:41] Story Time

[02:42 – 06:31] Restructuring your relationship with social media

[06:32 – 07:47] Resources and Close

Tweetable Quotes:

“One should be careful not to buy into the notion that someone else’s life is somehow more complete or fulfilling than yours, based solely on what you see online.” - Germany Kent

"As a way to add barriers between you and social media, you have to start structuring your time.” - Breonna B.

“Work through any unhealthy emotions, experiences, avoidant behaviour, and insecurities in therapy. Having someone who is trained, and knows how to help you untangle yourself from that web can be vital to give you a different perspective, on not only whatever it is that you’re addicted to, but everything else in your life.” - Breonna B.

Resources:

Hooked: Overcoming Social Media Addiction - Bernard Kelvin Clive

Surrounded by Idiots: The Four Types of Human Behavior and How to Effectively Communicate with Each in Business(and in life) - Thomas Erikson

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Welcome back! Today we’re discussing how to move past your discomfort surrounding Therapy, and embracing the process of understanding every aspect of you. We go over the process of restructuring your mindset regarding therapy.

[00:01 – 02:02] What is Therapy?

[02:03 – 04:51] Story Time

[04:52 – 11:58] Restructuring your mindset regarding therapy

[11:59 – 13:42] Resources and Close

Tweetable Quotes:

"Friends and Family are not committed to walk through treacherous subjects with you. There’s only a level of comfort or discomfort that they’re willing to endure in order to support you.” - Breonna B.

“When you’re looking for a Therapist, please keep in mind that it can take up to two to three times to get the right Therapist. So be patient through the process.” - Breonna B.

“Courage doesn’t happen when you have all the answers. It happens when you are ready to face the questions you have been avoiding your whole life.” - Shannon Alder

Resources:

Psychology Today

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone - Lori Gottlieb

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