Love Your Story: Stories and discussions about personal growth, mindset and living with intention

Love Your Story: Stories and discussions about personal growth, mindset and living with intention

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  • Episode 194: Do the Work to Heal – Interview Andrea Carver
    Episode 194: Do the Work to HealInterview Andrea Carver

    Welcome back to the Love Your Story podcast…if you are a regular listener to this podcast you know how the stories you tell yourself create your reality. That’s what the whole Love Your Story movement is about —helping you to realize and take control of your life stories. 

    Wayne Dyer said, “Be open to everything and attached to nothing.” This is key as we do work with our own stories.

    Today I have a treat for you. Andrea Carver is here on the show. She is a Craniosacral Therapist who has been practicing for 30 years. The heart of her work as a therapist is a spiritual understanding of the unlimited potential for growth of the human spirt and as she has done her work over the past 3 decades, she hears stories every day that are similar to each other….limiting stories that need to be reframed. Stay tuned for our interview and to learn a few skills for taking old stories and shifting them into empowering ones. Let’s be open to everything and attached to nothing, and we’ll see where we land…

    Tune into the audio program to hear answers to questions like:

    1. You said that the same script you hear from people is that they have had negative experiences that happened to them in their past, those experiences helped them create a story that they tell themselves (their perceived reality) and then the spend their life looking for proof to validate these stories. Tell us some of those stories.
    2. How do you take an old story -something ugly and damaging - and make it an incredible learning experience filled with wisdom and enlightenment?
    3. During the past year we have all been staying home more, connecting less, touching less and dealing with the resulting anxiety, depression and stress that comes when humans can’t be the social beings they are - and of course the stress of the unknown that surrounds the pandemic. Well, now we have to deal with the mental and emotional aftermath. What do you suggest for us all to deal with this Covid backlash?
    4. You have trained under some really impressive people - Deepak Chopra and Byron Katie…what was that like? What did you learn?

    To contact Andrea:

    [email protected]

    https://www.andreawellness.com

     

    Deepak Chopra said, “Quit trying to fight the darkness and look for more light.” As we conclude I think this a fitting stair to step out on…as we consider our stories and how they are holding us back, let us all be less resistant to changing them. Let us look for the light and the learning that comes from the shift, rather than struggling in the dark. Your challenge this week is to identify one story in your life that you know is holding you back. Shifting our stories is often something we cannot do alone. We need guidance and help because we are so stuck in our own way of seeing the world. We think how we see things is fact. Well, if you need help meeting this challenge You can go to loveyourstorypodcast.com and find Andrea’s contact information in the show notes, but I also suggest that you listen to the 5 Steps to Reframing your story - that is episode 46-50, each episode deals with one of the 5 steps for reframing your story. Excellent for walking you through all the steps as you do the work.

    Thanks for being here today. We are so happy to be able to provide you with tools. We hope you will use them in the way that best serves you. We’ll see you in two weeks. If you enjoyed the show, please leave a review on whatever platform you listen on! Caio

    28 min
  • Episode 193: Think Unbroken – Interview with Michael Anthony
    Episode 193: Think Unbroken - Interview with Michael Anthony
    Michael Anthony was born to a hyper-abusive drug addict mother who cut his finger off when he was 4-years-old, a step father you pray you never have, and a  racist grandmother who pushed him into an identity crisis. By the time he was 9 his family was often homeless, certainly living in poverty, and he was eventually adopted by his grandmother. He turned to drugs and alcohol to survive the continued abuse.
    There is a lot more to Michael’s story… he is now the author of the best-selling book Think Unbroken.… despite learning disabilities and not graduation high school on time, Michael found success in corporate America in his early twenties. But, he says, success only made things worse. He found himself morbidly obese, high and drunk daily and ultimately self-sabataging everything around him. It wasn’t until he decided to do whatever it took to heal from his childhood trauma that his life really began.
    TUNE INTO THE AUDIO PROGRAM TO HEAR MY INTERVIEW WITH MICHAEL and such topics as:
    1. I want to start out with your story - because that’s what we do here - we tell stories. Take us back to your childhood. What are some of your main memories?
    2. You said you had a mirror moment where you chose to do what it took to heal. Tell us about that moment.
    3. How do you think healing begins?
    4. How do we think unBroken?
    5. What is the one thing we can do right now to create a mindset shift?
    6. You work as a coach, mentor and educator for adult survivors of child abuse. You say you  help survivors get out of the vortex. What does that mean?
    7. Tell us about the Unbroken podcast and Think Unbroken Academy.
    Final tips for rebuilding yourself after abuse.
    Childhood abuse and trauma is a topic we have hit on in only a few episodes. I remember the one where his father tried to kill him because he thought he was a prophet, like Abraham, who had to kill his son…but I’m grateful for Michael’s story, and his work. Think Unbroken was created out of necessity - as so many things are. But the beauty of those creations is that it provides resources for people who need them. What was he willing to do to become the hero of his story? What are you willing to do to be the hero/heroine you want to be in your story?
    The journey to healing is long and difficult for even the toughest of warriors. Childhood trauma and abuse take so much energy to overcome, and one of the best tools in your arsenal is a support system that you can leverage when the going gets tough. Contact information for Michael and Think Unbroken, is in the show notes on www.loveyourstorypodcast.com
    If you are in a space where healing is needed, that’s not a place of shame, that’s a place of growth. Create the life story that you want, on purpose. You can do it.
    Thanks for being here today. If you like the show, please leave us a review and share us with your friends. We’ll see you in two weeks for the next episode.
    41 min
  • Episode 192: Challenge 11: Say YES to something you would usually say no to.
    Episode 192: Challenge 11: Say YES to something you would usually say no to.
    We create. Everyday we create connection, chaos, possibility, drama, conversation, expectations, money, homes, relationships, works of art, friction, love, stories, or we don’t…
    Our power lies in our ability to direct our life story with every choice  and every thought.
    Welcome to the Love Your Story podcast and the 21 Life Connection Challenges - 21 life hacks that have been set up to help you connect, take care of  your fabulous self, create possibility in your one-and-only life, and get out of the dol drums or anxiety that follows too close on your heels. 
    This series of podcasts highlights the challenges one-by-one, gives you background on why the challenge was included in the 21 chosen challenges, a deeper understanding of the concept itself, and ideas on how to implement it. These simple challenges create big ah-ha’s and leave you with some great new tools to play with.
    Today we focus on Challenge #11 - To say YES to something you would usually say NO to. Stay tuned for stretching into YES! This IS a good one.
     
    Let me just start off by stating the obvious. If you keep doing what you’re doing, you’ll keep getting what you’re getting. Keep saying no to the things you habitually say no to, and nothing new is going to move into your life.
    In 2016 my friend and colleague Sally walked into my office. “You’ve GOT to go to this emotional intelligence training I just finished,” she proclaimed. I laughed at her, because in fact she’d just indicated I needed emotional intelligence training. I retorted “I HAVE to, do I?” 
    “Yes,” she said unapologetically, “You really have to work through your issues with men.”
    Blunt as she was I was also aware of this fact and so I asked her to tell me more. As she spoke I decided I would look into it. I would say “Yes.” It involved buying airline tickets to fly across the country, the fees to sign up for the conference, paying for a motel/air bnb  and Uber…and I was a single mom trying to support my family, but I said yes because in my gut I knew I was stuck, and while I would usually say no to the extra expenditure, I decided to say YES.
    This saying Yes changed everything for me. After a year of training, repeated trips across the country, a transition into coaching, I found my way through the walls that I’d been stuck behind. I found my next step forward, a path that brings me to you today on the airwaves of podcast love. Saying ‘Yes’ changed everything for me.
    When Gandolf invited Bilbo on an adventure, how did saying YES change his life, his understanding, his experience…. Can you even imagine the adventure lost, the change of the story if the protagonist says ‘no’ and sits in the shire? The story dissolves, and certainly his part in saving middle earth is no longer. 
    If you love a mystery, remember, you never know where saying YES is going to take you. Me seldom realize the moments that will change our lives. You don’t know when that YES will start of chain of events that saves the world. You don’t know….that’s the adventure of it all.
    Why do this challenge:
    Remember the movie “Yes Man?” In it Jim Carrey takes an oath to say yes to everything that comes up, to everything anyone asks him to do. The movie is the tale of how his life drastically changes and all the adventures that happen because he is willing to say yes to new things - giving a homeless man money, taking flying lessons, going on a date, throwing a bridal shower…by saying yes to all these things he creates a life that is 180 degrees different from the one he lived before and it opened up finding love, connecting with people, seeing and doing things he’d never done.  
    That’s the idea here, but rather than saying yes to everything, all you have to do is choose one thing today to say yes to - but it has to be something you would usually have said no to. Then, you can keep saying yes if you want, but let’s start with one thing.
    This challenge is about creating possibility in your life.
    In one group who was participating in the challenges a woman shared that she approached the whole day with the question - “Can I say Yes to that?” On that day her children got a special treat because things she had habitually been saying no to, she realized she didn’t need to say no to. Fun and insight into her own habits was her take-away. You can imagine how her kids loved it.
    I had a gentleman who was taking the challenge tell me, I always say yes to everything and everyone, so I adapted the challenge to be brave and say no when someone asked me to do something I didn’t want to do. Style points. You know if this approach is the one you should take.
    One woman said yes to getting highlights in her hair. One said yes to buying a life coaching program she had been putting off. Another agreed to play games with her parents despite the fact she was not a game player. She bonded with her parents for a couple hours and found the connection was worth the effort.
    Does your significant other want to try something he/she thinks would be fun, but you’ve said no? Today is the day to try something new. YES!
    Did you know that novelty is one of the things humans need most. We will go looking for it when things get too predictable. Novelty feeds our souls. New things creates possibility for us. Lest you. Stumble past what that means…possibility means something new, something magic, something wonderful has the chance to thrill you. But that magic requires you get out of your comfort zone.
    In the Ted Talk 2020 by Tracy Edwards, the first woman to win the Yachtsman of the Year trophy, she shares how saying Yes created her best possible life.
    Listen to the audio to hear this clip.
    She said Yes to backpacking in Greece. Yes to working on boats. Yes to learning to navigate. And, one yes at a time she stopped being a bystander in her own life.
    Now, know that this challenge isn’t to add more to your plate of things to do, nor is it to complicate your life, we all know the importance of boundaries, but it is about saying yes to something that you would usually dismiss so you can stretch into a new experience, a greater possibility of freshness, fun and novelty. Push past the resistance and do that uncomfortable thing. 
    I’ll leave you to your “Yes” day with this final quote by Martha Beck, International Life Coach, “Even if it’s nothing but an alluring tickle, push the objections aside and move into the feeling of “Yes!” Believe it or not, this sensation — not pain, not self-sacrifice, not stoic numbness — is the surest indicator that you’re on the path that will lead you to the best possible effect you can have on the world.”
    Live big, live intentional and you know what your challenge is this week. Say “Yes” to something you would usually say no to.
    See you in two weeks for the next LYS Podcast.
    15 min
  • Episode 191: A Tool for Testing Conspiracy Theories – Interview Jeannie Banks Thomas
    Episode 191: A Tool for Testing Conspiracy Theories - Interview Jeannie Banks Thomas
    I don’t know about you, but every day my husband comes home and informs me of the latest conspiracy theory he’s heard around the water cooler at work. About how the government is collapsing, the political parties are behind any number of heinous crimes, and of course that the constitution is hanging by a thread. Corona virus was created to get us all chipped through vaccines, and the powers that be are scheduled to shut down all business they don’t agree with through a manipulation of social media and the world’s banking structure. This was just last week…
    So, when I attended a lecture this past week, by Jeannie Banks Thomas, a professor of Folklore at Utah State University, and she provided a tool for honing in on Your Legend, Rumor, and Conspiracy Theory Detectors, I thought I’d get her on the show so the general public could use this acronym she calls SLAP - S L A P to determine the likelihood that the rumor is true.
    Stay tuned for some very helpful talk about legends, rumors and conspiracy theory’s during a time where we have more of these than we can begin to process.
     
    Jeannie Banks Thomas is a folklorist and a Fellow of the American Folklore Society. She is the author or co-author of several books including Putting the Supernatural in Its Place (2015); Haunting Experiences (2007); Naked Barbies, Warrior Joes, and Other Forms of Visible Gender (2003); and Featherless Chickens, Laughing Women, and Serious Stories (1997). Two of her books have won international prizes. She is the co-director of USU’s Digital Folklore Project, which names the #DigitalTrendoftheYear, and she is an award-winning teacher. Additionally, her scholarly work has appeared in the Journal of American Folklore, Western Folklore, Journal of Folklore Research, Midwestern Folklore, and Contemporary Legend, among other journals. She is a professor at Utah State University.
    Welcome Jeannie to the Love Your Story podcast
    Listen in to the audio program for my discussion with Jeannie.
    1. Why is a folklorist such a good person to address this topic?
    2. What brought you to this area of research recently?
    3. You have a tool for rapidly getting a sense of the veracity of legends, rumors and conspiracy theories, tell us what it is.
    SLAP
    -S is for “Scare” Test
    L is for “Logistics” Test A is for “A-List” Test
    P is for “Prejudice” Test
    4. What websites can people check
     
    Sooooo timely. With all the fake news and the open rumor venue of the internet, with all the dissension politically and the fear and rumor about sickness and apocalyptic revving, this voice of reason is a tool to help you not get pulled into false stories - which of course, the human race is famous for. It’s a tool to help you sort.
    Your challenge this week is to apply it to one of the rumors you hear and see how well it works.
    If you’re interested in signing your group up for the 21 Challenges….here’s a word from our sponsor….Insert
    See you in two weeks for the Love Your Story podcast.
    30 min
  • Episode 190: Challenge #9 – Take Someone to Lunch
    Episode 190: Challenge #9 – Take Someone
    to Lunch
    We create. Everyday we create connection, chaos, possibility, drama, conversation, expectations, money, homes, relationships, works of art, friction, love, stories, or we don’t…
    Our power lies in our ability to direct our life story with every choice  and every thought.
    Welcome to the Love Your Story podcast and the 21 Life Connection Challenges - 21 life hacks that have been set up to help you connect, take care of your fabulous self, create possibility in your one and only life, and get out of the dol drums or disconnect that’s been lingering around. 
    This series of podcasts highlight the challenges one-by-one, give you background on why the challenge was included in the 21 chosen challenges in the first place, provides a deeper understanding of the concept itself, and shares ideas on how to implement it. These simple challenges create big ah-ha’s and leave you with some great new tools to play with.
    Today we focus on Challenge 9. Take someone to lunch. Stay tuned for yummy talk.
     
    When goldilocks carefully turned the door nob on the cottage of the three bears, she was just looking for a little food. Too hot? Too cold? Just right? If you’ve spent much time alone, you know a meal isn’t just right unless you’re sharing it with good company. And, if there’s one thing we all understand, it’s the power of a good meal. Mix the two - good company and good food, and it’s magic. My friends and I call it Breaking Bread Together.
    One year I did a cleanse. The premise was no food, but all the water (and a few mix-ins) that you wanted. What I noticed from the experience is that we humans spend A LOT of time focused on food. When we don’t have to eat, we get a lot more time to do other things- no lunch breaks or dinner hour, no grocery shopping, no meal planning, and interestingly, much less socializing. Suddenly I had an extra 4 hours in the day. A lot of our lives are spent connecting over food.
     
    Welcome to Challenge #9 of the 21 Life Connection Challenges. Hopefully you’ve already tested 8 of the life hacks and you’ve already had some interesting experiences and some ah-ha moments. How do I know you’ve had some good stuff happen? Because everyone who does the challenges whole heartedly does. Yes, everyone.  Keep up the good work! You’re one of the doers in this world.
    Challenge #9, Take Someone to Lunch, is based on a three tier idea. 
    First, we need human connection and eating with friends or people we want to get to know is a casual and fun way to connect. And, you could even take it further. What if you invited the “other” to lunch? Someone with different political ideas, a different religion, a culture you didn’t understand, but could get a peak into over a beautiful lunch? Right now, in our current world of division, this angle creates a possibility of increased understanding and insight.
    Second, treating someone is an act of generosity that creates warmth and kindness in the world. Good Karma. By small and simple things are unexpected ripples started, and this act of generosity is one of the those stones thrown into a pond.
    Third, we all love good food. Celebrate a delicious moment in your day and make an affair of it. Being present with good food is one of life’s treasures. During Covid and the contemplation of the loss of taste and smell it really brought home the tragedy of no longer enjoying the delight of good food. When I did the interview with one of the first COVID patients in episode _______ and he shared how difficult eating was because he couldn’t taste or smell it, how it changed the nature of eating for him, I realized how tragic such a loss would be.
    Good food. Connection. Enjoying the little things and making them a celebration.
    This is what we are about today.
    Laurie Colwin said, “One of the delights of life is eating with friends; second to that is talking about eating. And, for an unsurpassed double whammy, there is talking about eating while you are eating with friends.”
    How to do this challenge - 
    Choose someone you don’t usually take to lunch. Maybe it’s someone you’ve been wanting to get to know, or someone you need to connect with in your sphere of influence. What if it’s someone you love and haven't spent time with lately, or a neighbor you want to connect with. What if it’s someone you’ve noticed doesn’t have a lot of friends and could use some social time. Or perhaps the “other” a person different from you where you could expand your understanding by hearing from them - someone with a different political view or ideology. It never hurts to listen and gain understanding. What if it’s a lunch date with your child?
    Ok now, make plans to take them to lunch. Make sure they know it’s your treat.
    That being said, if eating out is not your bag, there’s nothing that says you can’t cook and stay in. 
    The first time I did this challenge I invited a colleague from the university over for soup and salad in my warm and homey kitchen. We sat, ate, chatted, caught up on a couple years of academic thought and gossip, and in the end those couple of hours were a brilliant investment in the friendship, in my network, in life.
    As with all the challenges. Enjoy the journey. Relish the preparation. Extend an official invite. Make it special this time around. We need more special moments, more good food, more time with good company, and an intent to connect deserves a special touch.
    What does a special touch look like? A written invitation? A heart-felt verbal invitation telling them you want to spend special time with them? A special place setting at a home table? Fine china? Someone’s favorite restaurant? Attention to detail? You decide… even small touches make the moment stand out. 
    Today you get to create a connection of your own, or set a date with someone to do so. And don’t forget to come back to your book and record how the whole thing went down.  Too hot? Too cold? Or Just Right? I’m betting on the latter. 
    Thanks for being here for a Love Your Story podcast. Go to www.loveyourstorypodcast.com for more great episodes, for links to buy your own copy of the book, and for links to sign up your group to do the challenges together - MASSIVE CONNECTION.
    See you in 2 weeks for the next episode of the Love Your Story podcast.
     
    11 min
  • Episode 189: Makes Loaves, Not War
    Episode 189: Cuyler Black, 
    Make Loaves, Not War
    Welcome back to the Love Your Story podcast. We all love a good story and today I bring you a story from one of my favorite cartoonists. Today’s episode features Cuyler Black. It’s story time.
    In his ever so humorous, and even joyfully irreverent way, Cuyler Black, a …. Minister, creates stories and comics that bring home important points with humor and humanizing.
    Today’s story - Make Loaves, Not War is a little reminder of what Christ meant about living with love and a poignant reminder that in the days of the Romans in Israel, a time of savage occupation, when people felt loyal to their politics, that it was ever so difficult to picture how a Savior could save his people with love. 
    I think it applies to the very situations we find ourselves in now. Enjoy.
    Make Loaves, Not War
    On a hilltop, late in the day, the disciples stood around Jesus. They watched as thousands of hungry people dined on five loaves of bread and two fish that had miraculously multiplied while being distributed in baskets among the crowd.
    “One guy asked if we multiplied anything for dessert, preferably a light sorbet,” said Nathanael.
    Peter snorted. “Where is he? I’ll feed him multiple knuckle sandwiches.”
    “Save your knuckles for those Pharisees over there,” muttered Andrew. “Look at them. Standing around trying to figure out how this free buffet violates the Torah.” 
    “Forget the Pharisees!” said Simon the Zealot. “It’s the Romans I’m looking forward to kicking in the gluteus maximus!” He turned to Jesus. “Rabbi, when does our real training begin?”
    “Real training?” said Jesus.
    “Yeah! I mean, today’s lesson on how to be waiters isn’t exactly what we signed up for.” Simon looked to the other disciples for confirmation, then spoke to Jesus again. “Look, you’re a natural leader. You’re driven and fearless. Not to mention you can control the weather and drop-kick demons. You’re the Messiah! And we all know you’re planning something big. Revolution! Insurrection against our oppressors! So train us! We’re your hand-picked revolutionaries!”
    “We’re totally committed,” said Philip. “We already ordered a bunch of these.” He held up a cap embroidered with the words Make Israel Great Again For the First Time in 900 Years But Who’s Counting?
    “And I made this!” said Thomas, unfurling a massive flag emblazoned with the name JESUS. “The flagpole has a spearhead at one end for impaling Roman soldiers!”
    “Boys, you don’t understand,” Jesus said. “I didn’t come to incite a violent rebellion against political authority. I’ve got bigger fish to fry.”
    “No more fish! We’re stuffed!” groaned a man sitting nearby. “Unless there’s dessert.”
    “Look,” Jesus continued. “My kingdom is not of this world. Kingdoms, empires, governments of this world will rise and fall, be good or bad, and even at their best are flawed. They are human constructions. Don’t put faith in them to solve every problem. Instead, put faith in your heavenly Father. Do you remember the prayer I taught you?”
    The disciples looked at him with blank stares. Andrew brightened. “Oh, I know! Rub-a-dub-dub, thanks for the—”
    “No,” said Jesus. “That wasn’t from me.” He sighed. “Let me remind you. It starts: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.”
    “Right! Right!” said Peter. “Then it goes: ‘Give us today our daily bread! Forgive—’”
    “Enough bread!” a woman moaned. “Another crumb and I’ll hurl! … But is there dessert?”
    Jesus massaged his temples for a moment.“My point is that it’s God’s kingdom you ought to work to establish. Pray for his authority to govern every heart. That’s what I’m here to teach and preach.” He turned to the crowd and raised his voice. “The kingdom of God is near! Repent and believe! Let your heavenly Father rule in your life, that you may love your enemies, bring good news to the poor, comfort the brokenhearted, proclaim liberty to the captives, bring justice to the oppressed, gather all nations to worship him, and prepare the way for a new heaven and a new earth!” Jesus’ arms were raised to the sky, and his face shone with the glory of God.
    A profound hush fell over the people as they contemplated it all.
    “Any word on the sorbet?” came a voice, breaking the silence.
    “Do you see how they hang on your every utterance, Master?” said Simon the Zealot. “You have them in the palm of your hand! I hear what you’re saying about a different kingdom, but this is a rare opportunity! There must be 5,000 men here! We can march straight to Jerusalem and overthrow the Romans!”
    Jesus glared at his disciples. “None of you have any part with me if you choose the path of violence and insurrection! My Father’s kingdom is a dominion of peace! Blessed are the peacemakers for they will be called the children of God!” His look softened. “Boys, it’s a hard thing I ask, but if you’re going to follow me, you must learn to love your enemies. You’ll have to put aside selfish impulses and deny yourselves. Can you do that?”
    One by one, the disciples nodded. Peter gave a thumbs-up. “Easy as pie.” 
    “PIE!!” shouted the people, as they all got to their feet and surged up the hill toward Jesus.
    Where to find Cuyler Black: https://www.cuylerblack.com
    As we strive to put back together a country torn apart by political differences, soaked in fear of the other, or just deeply unsettled and feeling disconnected, I hope you will take a moment to take stock of your thoughts, the power you have to create your own story, and check in with love, Your challenge is to see if you are putting aside selfish impulses in order to try and understand others, and to think about what it might look like to love your enemies…. 
    Love all of you listeners and thank you for being here today. We’ll see you in two weeks for the next episode of the Love Your Story podcast. Live Big!
    10 min
  • Episode 188 – Own Your Story
    Episode 188: Own Your Story
    It’s a fact that some people come through difficult times bitter, broken and cynical, while others emerge wiser, more empathetic and stronger.
    I believe the path connecting the two - the journey between the pain and the growth is maybe the most important part of the path.
    I have a story - it’s all mine. I write it everyday. Today I may throw in a plot twist as I get ready to change jobs, or free myself from a bad relationship, or adopt a child. I may create a peaceful scene at a coffee shop, because that sounds nice about now. And then maybe I feel like my story needs a little trip to the spa. I love girl spa days. They always look so great in the movies. Maybe I’ll have them put cucumbers on my eyes and cover my face in some gory green mud just so I know what that’s like. That sounds like a fun story to write. Or maybe I want to become an engineer or an opera singer…..hmmmmm what should I write on my life notebook today?
    Sometimes, someone else writes something we don’t like. A spouse gets abusive and all the sudden the story takes a dark unexpected turn that I get to frantically try to write myself out of. What about the shameful parts that have been shoved to the bottom of the story, a footnote we want no one to read ever? What about the fear of facing our dreams and failure and daring greatly? 
    While there are sometimes parts of our story that make us uncomfortable, part of loving your story is learning how to make peace with the bad as well as the good. At the very heart of learning to accept ourselves is learning to accept all the spaces we see as failures, short falls, down right horrible sections, the betrayals, the let-downs, the messy stuff we feel shame about. 
    This episode about owning your own story is not to focus on the rough spaces, but the rough spaces are a very real part of who we are, how we got to where we are, what we learned and how we see the world. We cannot be whole without the dark threads of our tapestry. So, let’s talk about owning it all!
     
    It’s not a new story. It’s one we all know. You know the one, it’s where a personal loss or tragedy or need takes you to the realm from which you are certain you will never return. It’s the dark-days-of-the-soul story.
    I’ve noticed a few things about this part of life.
    #1 - It’s a sacred space. It’s often a private space, one where the deepest details are kept in our vaults for we can’t bear to show too much humanness, our mistakes, our heart ache, our private travails, our crawling, our moments of shaking our fist at heaven.
    #2 - That everyone has these. While we may feel we are alone and life has dealt unjustly with us, that no-one in our circles would ever understand, the truth is we must each traverse this path on the hero’s journey, because it is how the hero becomes the hero. It’s an important part of being alive. 
    The other day I spoke with a man who was absolutely crushed. After years of fighting an addiction and begging God for help, never to receive any additional and heavenly support by his estimation, his world began to crumble. If God wasn’t there to help him beat the very darkness God claims to want to pull us out of, then could God really be there? The idea that his sincerest cries from an aching heart were not enough, not worthy of the ear of God, only exacerbated his hopelessness, and where was he to go if everything he had believed in, his foundation, was not there to support his wobbly heart? His face crumbled in tears and his sobs tore at my heart. 
    This was a dark day of the soul. 
    I spoke with a woman who told me of 5 years of going without sleep as she raised 3 toddlers who seemed to never sleep. On her last wits end there were days she would beg God for someone to show up and take care of her children so she could get one night of sleep - but no one came. There were times she would shake her son to get him to be quiet, or hit him, or even kick him when her repressed anger could no longer be held back. She was filled with shame over these actions because she knew better, but she could not handle the endless lack of sleep, and she discovered a deep hidden anger had built up. Her shame at the things she had done was buried deep and she had to find her way out.  
    As I prayed and pondered, demanded that God show up for those who needed him, I received an impression, the image of the caterpillar who must make it’s own way from the chrysalis; the rose who cannot be pried open early or it never flowers; the baby bird who must break its own way out of the egg so it has the strength to live. 
    The dark night of the soul is for everyone, even the ones we love and hate to see suffer. It must be this way because  we become through our struggle.
    I mention these examples, not to say that God never shows up - he often does; but when he doesn’t seem to, the path ahead has different purposes - leading you - us - to what we need to be, who we need to be. For example, the woman who was so tired she couldn’t mother well eventually found a 12-step program that was very influential in helping her become the person she needed to become in her future life. She needed to seek out that process, learn it, and become. It was part of taking her to her best story. We only know that now because we are looking back 20 years. But that’s how it goes. Hindsight teaches us many things.
    So….When we can accept that these painful, personal spaces are normal and a part of all good stories, we can then move on to a realization that the dark nights of the soul are not places to hide from in shame. They need not be a thing that separates us from our human family, when in fact, they are our common thread. They bring us to the beauty of such things as empathy, understanding, perspective and depth, not to mention a compilation of other things we might need, a great class, a teacher, a support group, a 12-step program, a new perspective, a struggle born of grief that yields beautiful things. 
    Trust the process.
    When we chisel our way out of our shell with our own little beak, we gain everything. 
    Oprah, in her book, What I Know For Sure, shared her shameful hidden story, and I’d like to share it with you here: She says,
    “For years, I had a secret that almost no one knew. Even Gayle, who knew everything about me, wasn’t aware of it until several years into our friendship. I hid it until I felt safe enough to share: the years I was sexually abused, from age 10-14, my resulting promiscuity, and finally, at 14, my becoming pregnant. I was so ashamed I hid the pregnancy until my doctor noticed my swollen ankles and belly. I gave birth in 1968; the baby died in the hospital weeks later. I want back to school and told no one. My fear was that if I were found out, I would be expelled. So I carried the secret into my future, always afraid that if anyone discovered what had happened, they too would expel me from their lives. Even when I found the courage to publicly reveal the abuse, I still cared the shame and kept the pregnancy a secret. When a family member who has since died, leaked this story to the tabloids, everything changed. I felt devastated. Wounded. Betrayed. How could this person do this to me? I cried and cried….When I dragged myself from my bed for work on Monday morning after the news broke, I felt beaten and scared. I imagined that every person on the street was going to point their finger at me and scream, “pregnant at fourteen you wicked girl…expelled!” No one said a word, through —not strangers, not the people I knew. I was shocked. Nobody treated me differently. For decades, I had been expecting a reaction that never came….I soon realized that having the secret out was liberating. Not until then could I begin repairing the damage done to my spirit as a young girl. What I learned for sure was that holding the shame was the greatest burden of all.”
    So, while it is often private, a dragon we must face to stretch our souls, we are not a lone creature who cannot be understood, a pioneer of pain. No, we are human, we are part of a greater whole, we are trusted, we are growing, and sometimes we must simply reach out of the hole we find ourselves in, ask for a hand to hold, another human, or angel to connect with long enough to get the strength for one more day.
    The struggle is the dance.
    Now, every story is different. Every dark day of the soul is individual. But what stays the same is our humanness and also that voice that tells you that if people knew how broken you are, or what you had done, or how screwed up you really are, how you handled some difficult emotion, some vice you allowed, some forgiveness withheld, some shame no one can ever know….if they knew, your children would not love you, your parents would dis-own you, your friends would leave in droves, and your therapist would stay, but only for the money….  I suspect we all hear this voice.
    Are we unlovable because of our true stories? Sometimes it feels like that, but in reality we can expand, become more full of love, more human and more god-like at once because of the sacredness of our true stories.
    Take a deep breath, close your eyes, accept that this is a part of being here. The price to play the game, especially if you’re playing big, trusting, stretching, trying….is vulnerability and sometimes pain, but YOUR pain makes you who you are, and accepting your story tapestry with all the dark threads as well as the colorful, shining threads is what makes a beautiful tapestry and a beautiful story.
    Your challenge for this week is to dig into your heart, in that little space you hope to hide, that sacred, child-like space that fears exposure and name your feelings about the darker threads of your tapestry, and then extend compassion to that younger you. We all do the best we can with the tools we have in the moment. We live, we learn….accept all of it, all of you, your whole experience, and let it be what it is. It’s okay. Own your whole story. It’s the first step to loving it.
    Closing ad: If you are a leader of a group - formal or information - book club, down-line, head of Human Resources department, head of a youth group, - I want to work with your group to help you connect and create better results on purpose. 2021 is the focus on groups doing the 21 challenges and I’ve set up a great platform with discussion wall, audio and video support, leader boards and badges, and personalized guiding. Go to www.loveyourstorypodcast.com or call me at 801 663 6964 for a chat about if it’s right for your group. 801 663 6964.
    18 min
  • Episode 187 – Spiritual Gifts: Interview Deb Atella
    Episode 187 - Spiritual Gifts:
    Interview Deb Atella
    Have you ever wondered what your spiritual gifts are? What is a spiritual gift?
    Spiritual gifts are acknowledged as  word of wisdom, the word of knowledge, increased faith, the gifts of healing, the gift of miracles, the gift of prophecy, the discernment of spirits, diverse kinds of tongues, interpretation of tongues. 
    I’m still not certain what mine are, but I have noticed and interacted with others who have the spiritual gift of connecting to angels and spiritual communication - the discernment of spirits. In this case, Deb Atella is open to sharing her near death experience and her path to tapping into her intuitive spiritual gifts. I like these stories of finding and figuring out spiritual gifts because it shines a light on how it happens….
    Stay tuned to hear her detailed story and how she figured out what her gifts were and how to manage them. And then she shares  3 tips she’s learned for resilient living.
    Deb Atella is the creator of the Sisterhood of What Next?! FB group and the host of the soon to be released aTella Like it is podcast. She is an expert at creating morning routines to set your day up for success and joy and an expert in teaching  people how to differentiate between their ego running the show and their soul/higher-self/intuition running the show. 
    Welcome to the Love Your Story podcast.
    Let’s start where we always do. What is your story?
    In 2005 you had a near death experience and experiences with seeing family members who had passed away. Can you take us back to that story….
    TUNE INTO THE AUDIO PROGRAM TO HEAR OUR DISCUSSION AND HEAR THE ANSWERS TO THESE QUESTIONS:
    What did that teach you?
    So you had spiritual gifts that started to manifest at that time. How did you deal with that?
    You started meditating back in 2012, but didn’t make it a habit until 2017. That daily meditation habit led you to creating a clarity and enjoyment of life that you hadn’t experienced before. It also led you to finally opening up to your spiritual gifts that started manifesting in 2005.
    How did you embrace those?
    So…let’s get to the promised skills. How do we learn resilience? What transition skills can you share with us?
    TO CONTACT DEB ATELLA:
    Instagram @deborahatella
    Facebook @debatella and Sisterhood of What Next?!
    Website: www.deborahatella.com
    Be compassionate with yourself, Find stillness and stay in gratitude. These tips are so beautiful for living well. 
    Your challenge this week is to find spaces to implement these 3 tips. Perhaps as you love on your self and sit still and listen with gratitude, you will find more recognition of your own spiritual gift. It’s also said that we can ask for spiritual gifts - seek after the ones we want. So, that’s a little something to think about. The world needs powerful, gifted souls to walk with light and shine that light on the world. If you feel that call, know that you can seek for and develop your own spiritual gifts.
    Remember that 2021 is the year of the 21 Challenges - Group Style. Sign up your group now for a three week ride of connection and fun during a time that we all so badly need it. www.loveyourstorypodcast.com for more info.
    See you in two weeks for the next episode.
    48 min
  • Episode 186 – What You Focus on Expands
    Episode 186 What You Focus on Expands

    The Law of Perpetual Transmutation

    If what you focus on expands let’s make damn sure we are focusing on things we want to expand. Do you want your waistline to expand? Do you want your bills to expand? Do you want your ornery neighbor to spend more time staring over your fence? Do you want the effects of COVID to have more power in your life?
    Nah….let’s think about things we do want.
    What do you think of focusing on the things you CAN do and not the things you CAN’T do? What do you think about focusing on your strengths rather than your weaknesses? How much more fun and productive is that? What do you think about imagining your ideal life, in all aspects, and putting it out there to expand and come into being?
    If I focus on my ability to throw a great party and giving people a space to connect in (a strength), rather than beating myself up over not being a great promoter personality (not a gift I possess)- well, one is productive and the other destructive.
    Let’s focus on things we want more of….because that’s how we get them.
    In 1847 Thomas Edison was born. He was easily distracted in school and he didn’t get good grades. Kids teased him and teachers called him “dim.” He was from a poor family growing up, so he would find ways to make money to buy supplies for his “lab.” He started a newspaper in his teens, the Weekly Herald, and he knew how to focus. Thomas Edison was known as - The Wizard of Menlo Park, and his inventions where called “Edison’s Miracles.” He could boast of over 1000 inventions. The phonograph, the electric lamp, the telegraph improvements, telephone work, batteries, to name only a few. How did he do it? As I studied Thomas Edison’s biography I think “focus” could be the word to best describe him. He was obsessed with his work and would sometimes work 100 hours a week. He didn’t sleep much, and while I don’t advise this, he left his wife on his wedding day to run to his lab and forgot to come back because of his focus on a project. Thomas Edison created a life story that was rich in creation, rich in money - he was a millionaire at age 40 - and rich in accomplishment. Now, he may not have had the best personal relationships because he didn’t focus on those. But he had the life he had because of what he focused on, because he never let that focus on his lab or creations waiver, even when he had failed repeatedly. We all know his quote, “Results? I’ve got a lot of results. I know 50,000 things that won’t work.”
    I share this as an easy example of focus. When we focus our time, our heart, our money, and our vision on a thing we can all move mountains. But it’s more than just hard work. Let’s talk about the Law of Perpetual Transmutation.
    - Law of Perpetual Transmutation
    As 2020 launched I proclaimed that it was a year where I would study the laws of the universe. I focused on and got around to only one - it was the first one in Leslie Householder’s book Hidden Treasures. Much of what I’ll talk about regarding this law, aside from my personal experiences, come from the things she teaches. I highly recommend her work.
    What is the law of Perpetual Transmutation? In a nutshell, it simply means that everything is in the process of either coming into physical form or breaking down and going out of it.
    The premise behind this law is one of creation. We actively create with our thoughts all the time. The things we focus on with real intent, belief, and consistency start to manifest and show up in our lives.
    There should be a big label stamped on our brains - a big red warning sign. “Dangerous if used in correctly.” Because this works regarding good and bad.
    Let’s do a quick exercise -
    Look at your life right now. Whatever you have created - whatever you are dealing with - whatever you have, has been formed by your thoughts. You may not have brought all the circumstances into your life, but you have decided how to think about them and how much to let them bother or bolster you. If you look around and see lack and disappointment, let that be a sign that your thoughts get to shift to bring you something different. If you look around and feel gratitude, happiness with your relationships, contentment with the things you have, take full credit for that. You have created that also.
    Let me share an example - If your relationships are lacking, take an internal audit of what you focus on in those relationships. If things are bad with a significant other are you focusing on what they do wrong, on what they don’t bring to the table, on what they do that bothers you, on how you feel they fall short? If you do, justified as you may feel, those will be the things you see.
    Let’s pull in the car example - you know how it goes. The minute you buy a make and model of a certain car you will see them everywhere, where before you didn’t notice them nearly so much. If I buy a white Subaru I’m going to see white Subarus everywhere. My experience of them expands.
    If I’m focusing, say on my child, and I’m frustrated because her grades aren’t as good as her brothers, well that is going to expand. It’s going to become something that is always on your mind, something that begins to define her, something that takes root as a deficiency. If I choose to focus on the classes she is getting the best grades in and praise her, that will expand. If I focus on her strengths, she’ll feel loved and seek to expand those.
    Have you ever read the book, “As a Man Thinketh,” by James Allen? He died in 1912, it’s an older book, but a classic.
    Here is a quote from this small, easy read,
    “Man is made or unmade by himself; in the armory of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself. He also fashions the tools with which he builds for himself heavenly mansions of joy and strength and peace. By the right choice and true application of thought, man ascends to the Divine Perfection; by the abuse and wrong application of thought, he descends below the level of the beast. Between these two extremes are all the grades of character, and man is their maker and master.
    Of all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul which have been restored and brought to light in this age, none is more gladdening or fruitful of divine promise and confidence than this – that man is the master of thought, the molder of character, and maker and shaper of condition, environment, and destiny.
    As a being of Power, Intelligence, and Love, and the lord of his own thoughts, man holds the key to every situation, and contains within himself that transforming and regenerative agency by which he may make himself what he wills.”
    So - let’s get back to the law. The Law of Perpetual Transmutation says that everything is in the process of coming into physical form or going out of it. The power of our thoughts is what starts the formation of something - all things are created spiritually before they are created physically, and our thoughts begin the process of matter taking form into spiritual creation so it can manifest physically. Just think - everything had to be thought of before it could be created.
    All things are made of a thinking substance - intelligence, that begins to form as we call it forth. When we know how to tap into this law and use it, we start learning to create intentionally.
    The power comes from three main things -
    1. You have to be able to very clearly see the finished goal/project/result.
    What does the problem look like solved?
    2. You must be able to pull in emotion - because emotion is the power that imprints things in our subconscious and supercharges those thoughts. So…
    What does the woman/man who has accomplished that feel like? Stay in that place and revel in those emotions.
    3. Your faith or fear is the lever that sends the energy forward or backward. Picture something manifesting from the ether, taking form in front of you, and each time you truly believe it is coming the thing becomes more solid. Each time you doubt it moves backward, becomes less tangible, more ethereal.
    When we feel fear remember the scripture, “Peace be Still. Be still and know that I am god.”
    Another favorite…
    “For God has not given us the spirit of fear but of power and of love and of a sound mind. 2 Timothy 1:7
    Russel M. Neilsen, prophet of the Latter Day Saint church, said, “If you really want a certain blessing, you’d better find out what the laws are that govern that blessing and then work on becoming obedient to those laws.”
    For us, it comes back to trust in the law, faith in things we can’t see. Trust that the way will show up. Trust the process. It is important that you make the commitment to reach the goal, to see it done. It is important that you move forward with faith.
    Let’s bring in a few scriptures that back-up this law…
    James 1:6 - Ask in faith nothing wavering.
    Matthew 21:22 And all things whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.
    Enos 1:15 - Whatsoever thing ye shall ask in faith believing that ye shall receive, in the name of Christ, ye shall receive it.
    Now let’s talk personal experience. Since I’ve worked on understanding this law better this year, of course I need to have tried it out. Here are a couple success stories:
    This year my son moved out and I turned his room into my office. I wanted to be thoughtful about placing only the minimum of what I needed, and the exact right stuff in the office because I didn’t want clutter or unsightly spaces with funky energy to throw off my work. I had everything finished but I still needed a couch or a chair to the space across from my desk. Should I buy it or should I try to manifest it? I went shopping, I got ideas, I waited to see what may turn up. I had pictured it, numerous times. I did have intent. But still I waited, just in case it might appear. Well, it did…..I found a couch. More accurately, a friend who knew I was looking for a coach texted from the storage facility where she worked and said, someone just cleaned out their unit and left a perfect brown leather couch for the taking. “If you don’t want it,” she threatened, “I’m totally taking it.” It turned out to be perfect for that little spot beneath my office window. It was exactly the right height, the right length, and the right color. Thank you, angels and fun universal law.
    I also think I manifested my first podcast editor. I was in a coaching group and we had set an intention for finding someone to pick up the slack in the areas I did not have competent skills. I imagined and prayed and the next day I was walking my dog when I ran into some beloved neighbors I hadn’t seen and talked to in some time, only to find out that he was the camera man for the BYU TV series StoryTrek, he was steeped in story, and he knew how to edit audio. This kicked off a partnership that I will forever be grateful for.
    And finally - 1. I set a big goal this past year as I was testing the law. It was a big financial goal. I’m not comfortable going into all the details around it, but here are some things I noticed. First, I followed all the steps of seeing it, feeling it, being grateful for it.
    I didn’t know how it would happen, but I put the wheels in motion….and as Leslie Householder says, “Stay Calm and see what happens.”
    As the year unfolded I took every work opportunity that came to me. I serviced more real estate clients in 2020 than I had in my previous 13 years as a Realtor. I got more professional writing jobs at higher pay rates than I’d ever been paid before. I said daily gratitudes, I worked hard, really hard.
    Here’s what I noticed. The first time, I think it was about June, that I put down a major chunk of change toward this goal. My willingness to put my skin in the game toward my goal escalated what the universe was bringing to me. I find this fascinating. I have no additional thoughts on it, just an observation that came up during my test of the law. We have to be behind our own dreams and willing to do our part.
    Another thing I noticed, unexpected things came up - not that they should have been unexpected, but in my case I hadn’t thought it all through. As I had calculated the amounts needed I had been looking at flat sums. I also needed to figure in taxes and tithing and keeping a base line, etc. etc. But I think this is par for all courses. There will always be unexpected aspects of what we manifest and we have to be open to how things will twist and turn along the way.
    So…. In a nutshell. I’ve watched things large and small expand as I focus. Try it.
    As I close out this episode let’s go over the steps of manifesting through the universal law of transmutation - Now, remember universal laws are laws. The law of gravity works whether you believe it will or not. It does what it does. So do all the other laws. The Law of Perpetual Transmutation will always work - things will either come into being or go out of being, according to your faith.
    Let’s review and I encourage you to do your own tests, if you’re interested.
    Step 1: Get a clear vision of what you want. Trust your instincts. Go all the way through the vision of what it feels like to have it done. Feel real gratitude for it.
    Step 2: Present it for approval, adjustment and direction to your higher power. The voice of inspiration will come only after you have a clear picture of what you seek and after you allow gratitude - true gratitude for what you received in enjoying that success. Just check in.
    Step 3: Adjust as inspired. What can I do? What do I need to leave to the universe?
    Step 4: Acknowledge the successful completion for with God as your partner all things are possible. Nourish the seed with belief and gratitude and all you need will come. - Do you notice how belief and gratitude are a part of every step?
    Step 5: Move forward each day. Stay in Belief. Our thoughts are powerful - they do things. Our thoughts do more than we realize. If you can picture what you want, and believe it’s on its way, by God’s law it must come. Keep discarding fear and nurturing belief. Keep that focus!
    In conclusion I’ll end with a Tony Robbins quote: “Your life is determined by what you focus on.”
    Truth is truth.
    Your challenge for this week is to think of something, large or small, that you’d really like to have in your life, and then apply the steps we talked about. Start small first, if you want.
    Here’s a quick ad: In January we launched the platform for group leaders to bring their groups to Love Your Story for the 21-Challenges. If you’re a leader who believes in self-improvement for your team, group or downline, and you need to create better connection with your people, let me help you - we are set up and ready to book your 21 days to connection and improved life performance. Go to www.loveyourstorypodcast.com for more information.
    See you in two weeks.
     
    25 min
  • Episode 185: A Story About Life on the Trail – Interview Barney “Scout” Mann
    Episode 185: A Story About Life on the Trail - Interview Barney "Scout" Mann
    Welcome back to the Love Your Story podcast. As you may or may not know I am an avid hiker. I am the author of two editions of The Best Hikes Near Salt Lake City, published by Falcon Guides. I’m the author of Wild Weekends in Utah, and The Best Snowshoe Trails of the Wasatch. Because of my love of being on the trails, in nature, I have harbored secret desires to hike the countries longest trails - the real crow jewels. They are so long though that it takes months to through hike them and it takes a special time - no job, extra money, .… In the end, of course, those are all excuses.
    A few years back I hopped on the Appalachian trail and hiked the northern section and climbed the tallest peak in Maine, Mt. Katahdin. - the northern terminus of the trail. I swam naked in a stream and remember being eaten alive by the worst mosquitoes I’ve ever experienced that night in camp. But I sure love that photo on the top Mt, Katahdin.
    Well, today we get a fabulous pleasure to hear stories from Barney - trail name Scout - Mann about the Pacific Crest Trail and his book Journeys North.
    Tune in for stories of the trail and what it’s like to hike thousands of miles.
     
    Barney Scout Mann is one of the rare individuals who have hiked America’s Triple Crown - The Appalachian, Continental Divide, and Pacific Crest trails. For those of you who are unfamiliar with these trails they are the longest trails in the country. The Pacific Crest Trail is 2650 miles long and covers 26 national forests, 7 national parks, 5 state parks and 3 national monuments. It takes 5 months at an average of 20 miles a day.
    The Appalachian Trail is 2180 miles and the Continental Divide Trail is 3100 miles.
    On top of that he and his wife Sandy have also hosted thousands of Pacific Crest Trail hopefuls in their San Diego home as they get ready to hit the trail.
    You may be familiar with the Pacific Crest Trail from the popular book and movie Wild - From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, by Cheryl Strayed.
    I can’t tell you how many questions I have about those trails, but I think what’s going to be most interesting is the stories.
    Let me tell you a little bit more about Scout -
    Barney Scout Mann is also the author of the book Journey’s North - the Pacific Crest Trail, and it’s said it is the next best thing to being on the PCT yourself. In this book he follows a selection of hikers that he and his wife got close to along the trail and tells their story.
    Let me read this review - “Few things are more innately human, rooted deeply in our shared history, than storytelling and traversing land masses on foot. In Journeys North, master story teller Barney Scout Mann invites us to gather around his campfire as he weaves the narrative of ordinary people hiking thousands of miles across desert and mountains. The unfolding of their stories against eh backdrop of nature at her most sublime, and her most fierce, reveals their primal humanness in powerful relief. Their interactions, with nature and with each other, prove that we are more connected and wildly capable than we believe.
    Tune into the audio program to hear my interview with Scout.
    Where to find a copy of Journey's North
    Order Journeys North on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Journeys-North-Pacific-Crest-Trail/dp/1680513214/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Journeys+North&qid=1607558123&sr=8-1
    or order a copy signed by the author from his website: http://www.barneyscoutmann.com
     
    No matter your journey or story line, one of the things you will always find is that the supporting characters in your story and on your journey provide the most meaningful spaces of stretching, loving, learning, enjoyment and growth. While Journeys North focuses on a cast of real characters making their way north together on the Pacific Crest trail, the thing that stands out are the moments someone provides a free bed, a warm meal, a hand up, a listening ear. This week see how often you can provide something positive to the people you cross paths with. And have fun on your life journey, wherever it is taking you.
    Thanks for being here today. Closing reminder - get your copy of LIFE - Living Intentional and Fearless Everyday and start the 21 challenges that will bring possibility, connection - in a time we so badly need it - and self care into your life. It’s available on Amazon. And if you have family or groups you can do the challenges with, it’s even more fun.
    Live Your Best Life Story on purpose. See you in two weeks.
    40 min

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