Investigative Selfism

Investigative Selfism

By Justina PoskeviciuteEducationSelf-Improvement
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Investigative Selfism episodes

  • Have You Reflected on Your Learnings And Intentions Recently?
    It’s so easy not to be in tune with ourselves.
    To keep on running without ever giving ourselves credit for the meaningful ways in which we’ve changed and without setting the intention of our own growth.

    Let’s not do that.

    As I’m recording this in December, I’d like to invite you to take the time completely for yourself to reflect on how this year has been.


    What are your learnings? What were your discoveries? How did you show up in your relationships? And how do you want to go into the next year?

    When we bring the unconscious to the surface, not only do we better understand ourselves but we equip ourselves to make better choices about our own lives.

    I hope you see yourself as important enough to take the time and engage in this work.


    You can also watch this as a Youtube video (and see me speak, yes:) here: https://youtu.be/ZE9-7LWYixg

    11 min
  • Are You Protecting Your Precious Mind?

    What we choose to put into our precious minds is no joke.

    That doesn't mean there is no place for entertainment and anything playful here. Yet what we choose to consume and what people we spend time with can influence our focus, our emotional state, our habits, and so much more. 

    In my short episode, I invite you to take your well-being seriously and inspect what you allow into your mind.   Not because it's a grim duty but because YOU - your life, your emotions, your thoughts,  and your dreams - matter.

    You can also watch it as a video here: https://youtu.be/Y8DdjpbaIZY

    8 min
  • Four Reminders When Dealing With Family
    If your family can be called functional, congrats – statistically, you’ve won a very important lottery!

    If not – like me – you might need to put some work in when spending time with your folks.

    In my video, I present four quick points that can serve as reminders for ourselves when spending time with family: 

    1. It's a test for our patience and mindfulness,
    2. It's an opportunity to check how our boundaries are doing,
    3. It's a chance to see how compassionate we can be with the one who we might not like so much, and
    4. It's a reminder of what we don't want to pass on and an encouragement to do the work needed. 

      5. It's not our fault what happened to us and to our extended family that shaped us in certain ways.

      But it's our responsibility to learn how to deal with situations that are potentially unpleasant and unlearn what has been unwillingly passed onto us.

      If not with us, when will it stop, right?

      Watch this as a Youtube video here: https://youtu.be/MqPEyfGtx58

      5 min
    5. Embrace The Silliness!

      Don't get me wrong: our values, dreams, and mission ARE to be taken seriously. Yet we don't have to choose to bring grimness to our journey.


      It's easy to get entangled in everything we do, only to forget that it's supposed to be light -- and that it should bring us joy, right?

      Personal development, self-knowledge, healing... Even when the path is hard and the challenges are real, we can choose to bring some silliness to all this. IT'S ALLOWED! :)

      To watch it as video, please go to my Youtube channel: https://youtu.be/yOkB1TRxArQ 

      5 min
    6. What Does "Choosing Your Battles" Mean?
      How do less drama and more meaning sound?

      You might have heard the saying “choose your battles.”


      Although it can be deconstructed in many ways, what it means is an invitation to choose where we’re putting our time, energy, and emotional labour.

      What I do in this episode is give you four points that can serve as more specific frameworks for us to assess a situation – or…our way of being! – to decide whether something IS indeed a battle worth choosing.

      These points are:

      – checking our egos (ouch)
      – getting some perspective in
      – addressing our codependent tendencies
      – identifying and aligning with our mission and values.

      I think this is so important in the broader context of empowerment (which is the topic of the third season of my podcast). Why?

      Because only when we choose those battles wisely and learn not to invest ourselves into what’s trivial, unhealthy, or just not what we’re about we can make time and space for what truly matters, right?


      Find resources on codependency on my website: www.investigativeselfism.com 

      19 min
    7. The Unofficial Psychology of Travels

      Can we take the spark of a certain extraordinary experience and bring it to our regular lives?


      I think it's not easy but it is, thankfully, possible.

      For me, that experience is definitely travelling. It is something that has shaped me immensely and has enriched my life in ways I could never imagine. But what is it about it that changes the way I am?

      In this episode, I share my thoughts with you on exactly that and some suggestions on how we can "extend" that experience when we're not technically in it anymore.


      8 min
    8. Are You Honouring Your Friends?

      When we talk about empowerment, let's not forget one huge source of it: our friends!


      Be it their struggles, the way they're navigating their lives, any major changes they're going through, or their openness about their journeys.

      Let's listen to them and let's give them credit. Because it's very easy to move through life without ever doing that.


      It's not all about famous teachers, therapists, and other personas. It's also about the ones closest to us.

       

      5 min
    9. Season Three Is Here And It's All About Empowerment! But What Is It, Really?

      The concept of empowerment is much more than how to keep ourselves motivated and work on our confidence. It's about the tools we have to live more fully, to know how to face challenging situations and navigate complex issues.


      That's why it is the topic of my whole third season! There is just so much to cover!

      The second season of Investigative Selfism podcast focused on discomfort: how we can normalise it, reframe it in a healthier way, and move through it. Now, it only makes sense to extend this topic into empowerment itself.

      Let's do this!

      And thank you for being on that important journey of self-knowledge, or, as I call it, investigative selfism!

      6 min
    10. How To Give Discomfort More Meaning
      “Why don’t you tell the kids about your prison experience?”

      Wait, what?

      It’s a sentence you might not hear often. Unless you’re me and you’re kindly asked to talk about politics to students once in a while.

      In my podcast episode, I mention this story briefly and I’ll link to it in a second.


      But what I talk about in it is how discomfort oftentimes is a price we have to pay for the lives we want to live. They don’t have to involve politics or prisons, but it’s good to know that “a good life” will probably never mean zero discomfort.

      So we either try to avoid it or normalise it and see it as the price we pay for a life of integrity.

      Before I proceed, my abovementioned prison story – in a more humorous form – here, while the reasons why that story happened lie in parts of my political project.

      9 min
    11. COVID Lessons, Year 2
      “Happy 2-year COVID anniversary!” I thought to myself recently.

      And decided to do a quick episode on it.


      If my second season is all about discomfort, who can deny that COVID has been one uncomfortable experience?

      In this episode, I do reference a piece on COVID learnings from a year ago and promise you to share my resources on boundaries.

      You can find them here: https://wp.me/p1WQjD-Mo

      9 min

    About Investigative Selfism

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    My name is Justina, welcome to Investigative Selfism. As a political commentator who talks about different forms and systems of external oppression, I'm also interested in my own personal transformation. In this platform, I share with you tools, frameworks, authors, and anything of value I have found to lead a life of authenticity - on a path of collective liberation.