Every experience is there for you to go through it. It’s not in your life to fight it or push it away. The more you know yourself and are connected to your core and intuition, the more you understand being led by life.

Topics:
Life happens for you
You can question, but observe and be curious
Learnings through the menstrual cycle
No one has the answers to your challenges
Understanding the internal through the external

All my love,
Verena

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A personal yearly review and emphasis on getting out of your head and into your body. Not just that, it’s about getting out of your head and into the external - being present, focusing on the people around you and connection, movement and taking action.

This episode is also an encouragement to take out some time for yourself to freely reflect on your own past year, and potential thoughts, wishes and goal for the upcoming year 2025. There doesn’t have to be a new year for you to make changes, but it can certainly motivate and shift focus.

Wishing you lovely last few days of 2024 and a wonderful start to the new year 2025! Merry Christmas & merry happy everything!

All my love,
Verena

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Photography & Design: @eva_poglajen
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This week’s episode is a proper pep talk! You’ve got to get your sh*t together and get a move on, or nothing is going to happen. No one else is going to do it for you. It’s your life, so create it!

Topics:
Positioning yourself as a creator
Getting out of the victim state
Shifting perspective
The comfort zone and making compromise
Making decisions
Love it, leave it or change it (Laura Malina Seiler)

All my love,
Verena

Instagram: @happygrowingpodcast
Photography & Design: @eva_poglajen
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Hi, it’s so amazing to be back! I really enjoyed recording this episode, and it definitely felt like a personal journal entry. There is so much that happened this year and this week’s episode includes most of my learnings from the past few months, as well as personal information around my moves.

Topics:
The state of being rather than a state of creation and expression 
Being the observer of your internal world
Learning that you can do anything you set your mind to
There’s no back and forth in life, just life itself
It’s okay to want to change something after you’ve achieved it
Trust in God
Regaining confidence
Ways to self-love and self-soothe 
Do it scared!

All my love,
Verena

Instagram: @happygrowingpodcast
Photography & Design: @eva_poglajen
Verena's Instagram: @verenaberndt_

Since August 2021, Happy Growing has been a big part of my life and there hasn’t been one week without a new episode. I have taken you on travels, recorded in closets in AirBnBs and somehow always had ideas and time that I wanted to share with you. Not to mention all the incredible guests & stories I got to learn about & share on Happy Growing.

I have been saying for a while how my life has been changing. In a way, it’s been changing drastically since I’ve started this podcast. But since last summer, more things have become clearer & clearer. I have found back to my dreams & been working towards them ever since.

With everything happening at the moment, I have decided to discontinue weekly episodes of Happy Growing. I don’t know when the next episode will find its way to you, but I know that it will.

There is so much happening in 2024 & I know that I will be telling you about it all. I can’t wait to see what I will be sharing with you first. I am so excited for 2024 & for this life!

Thank you for always being here & supporting me. It means the world. 

All my love,
Verena

Instagram: @happygrowingpodcast
Photography & Design: @eva_poglajen
Verena's Instagram: @verenaberndt_

Instagram: @happygrowingpodcast
Photography & Design: @eva_poglajen
Verena's Instagram: @verenaberndt_

Sometimes, your life turns out differently than planned. And that can be for many reasons. It might be that something unexpected happened, that you realised you actually want your life to be different, that your plans were dependent on another person and your relationship with them ended, or so much more.

No matter if your life changes for the positive or negative, you deserve to grieve the life you thought you might live. You deserve time to let go, say goodbye, or sometimes out your plans on hold and knowing that what you want will happen eventually, you just have to hold on a little while longer.

In this week’s episode, I talk about my current process of change and grieving a life I thought I would have. This episode is as personal and relatable as it is hopeful and full of encouragement and empowerment. Everything happens in its own time.

Instagram: @happygrowingpodcast
Photography & Design: @eva_poglajen

Instagram: @happygrowingpodcast
Photography & Design: @eva_poglajen
Verena's Instagram: @verenaberndt_

I don’t know about you, but for me, not following my dreams and fitting into society’s expectations and ideals instead, means living a life of unfulfillment.

This week, I talk about the internal conflict of following a life you want to life or doing it the way you should be. And the confusion of finding out what dreams and goals are really yours, and which you have been made to believe by others.
You learn how to find your right path in life and how you can embrace your freedom as an act of self-love and to support others.

If you were on your d3athbed, what would you regret doing/not doing?

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Photography & Design: @eva_poglajen

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Photography & Design: @eva_poglajen
Verena's Instagram: @verenaberndt_

Happy Valentine’s Day, lovely people. If you celebrate it or not, today and the past few weeks have been all about love.

As we know, the most important love in your life is the one you have for yourself. It’s about the connection and relationship with yourself. As I’ve shared with you before, I went through a journey of finding back to myself and learning to love myself again last year. So, I put together all the amazing things that helped me along my journey of finding back to myself and that I know can support you, too. And there are quite a few that came to my mind.

This episode is as much a love-letter to you than it is to myself. Always remember your worth and what you are capable of.

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Photography & Design: @eva_poglajen

Instagram: @happygrowingpodcast
Photography & Design: @eva_poglajen
Verena's Instagram: @verenaberndt_

The love-at-first-sight-happy-ever-after-loves, don’t we know them all? Or at least from film and books? Or maybe even from our grandparents, the older generation? But what is the reality of a love like this now?

Our fast-paced modern society seems to be applying all-present overconsumption, capitalism and an unrealistic want for a perfect life driven my social media to the reality of modern love. Modern love is seeing too many options, ghosting, being indecisive, unclear about who we are and what we want and about ending things as soon as they appear slightly inconvenient.

But can this be changed? How could you find the fight partner for you? How can we bring romance back and build a partnership that stays?

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Photography & Design: @eva_poglajen

Instagram: @happygrowingpodcast
Photography & Design: @eva_poglajen
Verena's Instagram: @verenaberndt_

Opening up is one of the strongest and bravest things you can do. It’s something that you can be incredibly proud of.

Though, many of us are finding it difficult to open up, and that can be for many different reasons. Maybe you haven’t learnt how to, maybe you were told not to talk about feelings or maybe you have had a negative experience being vulnerable with someone. No matter your reasons, it’s all human, normal and something that’s part of your journey.

This week’s episode is about vulnerability in our society, now and in different generations. I talk about my own experience with being told not to show certain emotions, and share ideas on starting your journey of being more vulnerable.

Instagram: @happygrowingpodcast
Photography & Design: @eva_poglajen

Instagram: @happygrowingpodcast
Photography & Design: @eva_poglajen
Verena's Instagram: @verenaberndt_