This Messy, Beautiful Life

Living Life Your Way with Candice Smiley

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You probably know by now how passionate I am about living an intentional life and doing things your own way, and I think it’s fair to say that my guest today is equally as passionate about it! Candice Smiley is a mama, speaker, writer, blogger, social marketer, host of Create the Ripple Podcast and essentialist who loves to engage in interesting conversations. And this chat we had was definitely one of those!

This episode is also going to appear on Candice’s podcast, Create the Ripple (go check it out!) and we dive into some deep conversations about what it means to live life our own way including:

  • Trusting the niggle (which Candice says is always an inconvenient truth!)
  • The journey of healing from trauma, including holding ourselves during healing and emerging on the other side.
  • Radical forgiveness, acceptance, grace, self-compassion and self-love
  • Embracing the dark days.
  • How we’re (literally) putting ourselves in boxes.
  • How Candice embraces essentialism (having what you want, but having less of it, so you can have better) including living in a tiny home and the importance of who and what you surround yourself with.
  • The anxiety of things (possessions).
  • Doing things that don’t make sense to other people, but knowing it’s right for you, by tuning into what we want and what makes us happy. Setting boundaries with people when they express their “concern” because your choices make them uncomfortable.
  • The lie we’ve been told about how we’re "supposed to be" living our life
  • Embracing the duality and contradictions of life (eg. The masculine and feminine, the yin and yang that we all have within us).
  • Why we both think it’s important to share our stories, especially the messy, beautiful bits.
  • Not being modelled healthy intimate relationships when we’re growing up, including the different types of love, how to love, what “good” love looks like and the work it can take to make a relationship work.

    • Candice Smiley has learned the power of saying no, listening to your own heart and speaks openly about subtle abuse as it occurs in relationships - personally and professionally. She’s become a voice for listening to your own truth and speaking it clearly, powerfully - at home, at work and in your life. Candice’s favourite conversations are the ones that take courage to engage in.

    Candice spends her time living in a tiny home (250 sq ft) with her family, traveling, speaking and sharing candidly with others how to live life after betrayal, to trust themselves, to speak up for themselves and set powerful boundaries.

    Connect with Candice here

    Website: https://www.candicesmiley.com/

    Podcast: https://www.candicesmiley.com/podcast-archive

    Blog: https://www.candicesmiley.com/blog

    Contact: [email protected]

    Social Links: https://www.tiktok.com/@candicesmiley.com?

    LinkedIn: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/candicesmiley

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/candicecreation/

    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/CandiceSmiley/videos

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    This Messy, Beautiful LifeBy Erin O'Donoghue