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If you're like me, instilling a new habit is a struggle, and often, after much effort, the new habit did not stick. For the longest time, I've tried to build the habit of meditating, journaling, and affirmations without success. I would start with much enthusiasm, fail, and after a while, I would try again, usually at the start of the new year.

Then I read about habit stacking. It teaches you to stack new habits (ex: meditation) on top of what you already do today (ex: making coffee). Studies show that habit stacking works because the habit you want to build is placed right after what you already do today, so what you already do today acts as the cue to start the new habit. Some examples:

However, after giving habit stacking a try using pen, paper, a large wall calendar, and a timer, I found the process of manually attempting habit stacking cumbersome, which made me less likely to do it.

In this episode, I will dive more into habit stacking, how to leverage it to build new habits and the ingenious solution I found that made habit stacking a reality for me.

Is there something about you that you feel ashamed of and wish nobody found out?

Ben was nine when he was traumatized by an innocuous incident in school. His decision to stuff down, rather than process his difficult emotions, eventually led to the breakdown of a significant relationship decades later and landed him in the therapist's office for the first time.

Ben shares his story and the specific techniques he uses to help clients work through emotional blocks to regain freedom. If you suffer from trapped emotions that's consuming an ever-larger part of your life, this is an episode you won't want to miss.

About our guest: Since 2014, Ben has spoken

all over the world with a message that raises listeners' sights and encourages them to achieve their greatest potential. With real-life examples and entertaining stories, Ben helps listeners understand and acknowledge their emotions so they can turn their pain into power.

You can find Ben at Ben Eden Speaks.

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Do you have kids but felt that you had failed them as a parent? In this episode, I talk to my friend and coach, Tara Brown. Tara spent the first 30 years of her life suffering from chronic depression and social anxiety. She became a teenage mother that went from abusive relationship to abusive relationship until one fateful day when her kids were taken away from her.

Hear her amazing story of how she turned her life around,  and learn the one self-love practice that healed her.

About our guest: Tara Brown is a mindset empowerment coach, the founder of Living A Happier Life, and the creator of The Five Foundational Elements for Self Growth. She has been learning, growing, and teaching for the past 15 years and is excited to share her journey with us.

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In the last episode, I covered 6 tips that help you build any habit, using meditation as an example. In this episode, I will go into exactly how to meditate by sharing two methods I use to great effect.

Meditation is absolutely a worthwhile practice to build. Meditation teaches us how to be the observer vs. automatically believing a thought. It also teaches us how to let go of thoughts, so they don't linger and wreak havoc in our lives.

By having more control over our minds, we also have more control over how we feel, regardless of what's happening around us.

Habit App (https://habit.app/): Habit stacking app for making it easier to build new habits

Muse Meditation Device: Gamified instant bio-feedback meditation experience

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The benefit of meditation is well known, but building a meditation practice habit is not always easy, especially if you also have a monkey mind like me!

In this episode, I'll go over 6 specific tips that will help you build any new habit, so you can make daily meditation a reality and reap the benefit of a more peaceful and joyful mind.

Here are some items I use in my meditation practice. They're optional but very helpful.

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You're in for a treat!

Raj Montage, the host of podcasts "The On-Call Empath," interviewed me to learn what it was like growing up in Asia with abusive parents. We went into specifics on how it impacts me today, steps I've taken to heal myself, and why I started LifeIsLoveSchool.com to help survivors. 

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How do we stay strong after leaving a toxic relationship? In this episode and next, Yumay will give you insights to help you stay strong during the no contact period. For more discussions, join us on Facebook at “Life Is Love School.”

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What are triggers, and how do we work with them in the context of a close relationship? If we don’t know how to handle triggers, it can be an area of conflict and misunderstanding.

In this episode, Yumay shares how to recognize triggers and how to communicate what triggers us with our partner skillfully, so we bring them into our world as an alley.

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