Permission to Heal

If you’re like me, you lead a busy life and although you know you should slow down and meditate to find some peace and mindful calm in your life, it’s a struggle. 

I have found that I love guided meditations because they help me quickly de-stress, relax and return to the present moment. 

Guided meditation literally shows us how good it can feel to slow down and connect with the body - and who we are underneath all that rushing around.

It is also a great way to enter the world of meditation and mindfulness.

As an added bonus to the Permission to Heal podcast, I’m sharing with you the first in my new Guided Meditation Series that I recorded JUST FOR YOU to help you use your breath to BREATHE AWAY ANXIOUS THOUGHTS. 

Time is precious and so are you. 

Try it with me and see how helpful this can be. 

You only need your own permission to begin.

Let me know how this helped you and what you think. Find me on Instagram @marcibrockmann27.

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Get to Know Your Amazing Self with Confidence

Kerry Ahrend, M.S., PMP is an author, speaker, trainer, and career coach. For over 20 years Kerry has worked with individuals and organizations to increase skills and competencies and help them meet their challenges with confidence.

Kerry is passionate about helping others find meaningful, engaging, and fulfilling employment and discover what they were meant to do, their why as Mark Twain would say, “I love helping people find passion and purpose in the careers and life.”

Her book, entitled Project Career Quest: Navigating the Journey to New Opportunities Waiting, was published in March 2020.

Project Career Quest has been nominated for an international book award - The Author Elite Awards and she could really use your vote.  https://authoreliteawards/vote/.  It's on page 12 in the Business and Economics category.

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Many of you know me - I’m a podcaster, author, quirky artist, & have been a high school English teacher for more than 25 years. 

I've been through a lot of stuff - emotional abuse, my mother's mental illness & addiction, divorce, co-parenting after divorce, court battles, dating in my 20s & 40s, finding love again, remarriage, step-parenting, blending families, etc... 

Ask me ANYTHING you want and I'll do my best to help!  DM me on Instagram @MarciBrockmann27

Today's questions:

1. Gwendolyn from Connecticut, says, "I want to get back with my ex, but they, but he moved and seems to be happy in his current relationship. This was kind of weird for me because I've never been the jealous type, but my ex treats his current girlfriend better than he ever treated me. And it's making me miss him more. Am I selfish for desiring him? And why do I feel so bad? Looking back at our relationship? "
2. Juan from Texas says "I'm 21 and I work three jobs to help support my family. I love my family. But I feel like I'm ruining my life, supporting them. Is it selfish for me to work more for myself? "
3.  Beth from Cortland, NY says, "I am a victim of abuse, both physically and sexually from my mother. I know it's different than your experience, but I'm not ready to forgive. How do I start? "
4. Thomas from Albany, NY says, "my boyfriend is the first person to make me orgasm in the bedroom. He's so caring. He's so caring and gentle. How do I get him to be like this outside the bedroom?"

Thank you all for writing in and asking your important questions. I hope my answers were helpful.

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“Your peace is too high, a price to pay to make somebody else happy.” – Wendy Tamis Robbins

“Love yourself and then love other people.” – Wendy Tamis Robbins

Wendy says, “mental illness is so often a terminal condition and I don't think people think about it that way, but gone untreated it can be terminal. I mean, suicide. It's really disturbing.  I would love to see us all come together to deal with these things the same way we come together for cancer and you know, all of these other physical conditions that are just as devastating. This is why you and I do this work, right? To take that generational cycle of mental health issues, addiction, all of those things that if we don't do our own work and free ourselves, we'll just hand down to the next generation.”

This is such an important conversation to have NOW more than ever.  Just by the nature of being human beings, the nature of the fact that we are here, we exist, we're taking a breath into our lungs, makes us worthy, enough,  perfectly imperfect, lovable, and enough. 

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• One on One Coaching, Speaking & Programs. 

Buy Wendy's book -The Box: An Invitation to Freedom from Anxiety

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National Suicide Prevention Lifeline - 24 hours every day. 
Learn more - 800-273-8255

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Deborah Hawkins is a freelance writer, workshop designer, facilitator. In 2010, she started blogging on mindfulness and gratitude to bring herself out of depression. NoSmallThing.net is not just a blog. Deb supports the application of mindfulness and exploration of personal gratitude experiences so people can live happier lives.

•  The Best of No Small Thing — Mindful Meditations is a collection of favorite blog posts from my first decade. (Interspersed with photographs from your life and experience.)
• Practice Gratitude: Transform Your Life — Making the Uplifting Experience of Gratitude Intentional is a guide/workbook on my process. 

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• Permission to Land: Personal Transformation Through Writing.

Permission to Heal Bookshop - Buy books from the episodes & support independent bookstores. 

 The Permission to Heal podcast is a passion of mine. I need your help to bring more inspirational episodes to the world; please consider becoming a patron through PATREON. 
This is where your PATREON subscription comes in. With your subscription, you get perks and swag and the meaningful contentment knowing you are helping me get PTH to the people who need it. 

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Jenn Turnham is on a mission to educate the world about the unique, brilliant, often misunderstood, very tiny sub-section of the population known as Highly Sensitive Extrovert Women (HSP-Es). She is also determined to unite all HSP-E Women out there and encourage them to see that they matter, they have a powerful voice that needs to be heard, and possess unique gifts that are in short supply in today’s world. 

 It’s time for HSP-E women everywhere to stop dimming their light and shine their brilliant empathetic lights bright. Jenn shares her passionate, quirky, eclectic personality through her blog, and in her Facebook Group for HSP-E women, Highly Sensitive Extroverts: Bright Sparks. 

With a strong background in applied psychology, Jenn has been using her knowledge, training, and experience in helping people use the power of their minds to overcome challenges since 2008. She now focuses on helping HSP-E women thrive in a world that currently doesn’t quite understand them. She does this by assisting them to own their uniqueness and see their sensitivity as their superpower.

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• Free eBook - Lack of Motivation Ruining Your Life?
• Free eBook - Feel Fantastic in Three Easy Steps

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• Permission to Land (memoir) - Hardcover, Paperback, eBook, audiobook 
• Permission to Land: Personal Transformation Through Writing.

Permission to Heal Bookshop - Buy books from the episodes & support independent bookstores. 

 The Permission to Heal podcast is a passion of mine. I need your help to bring more inspirational episodes to the world; please consider becoming a patron through PATREON. 
This is where your PATREON subscription comes in. With your subscription, you get perks and swag and the meaningful contentment knowing you are helping me get PTH to the people who need it. 

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Many of you know me - I’m a podcaster, author, quirky artist, & have been a high school English teacher for more than 25 years. 

I've been through a lot of stuff - emotional abuse, my mother's mental illness & opiate addiction, divorce (as the child & parent), co-parenting after divorce, court battles, dating in my 20s & 40s, Illnesses, finding love again, remarriage, step-parenting, blending families, etc... 

I've figured some stuff out by doing the hard work on myself, extensive research, & therapy. I'm here to answer your questions and help you on your own healing journey.  You can follow along on these special Ask Me Anything episodes on my Permission to Heal podcast. 

Ask me ANYTHING you want and I'll do my best to help! 

DM me on Instagram @MarciBrockmann27

Everything I do is about helping people make healthy changes in their lives, GIVING THEMSELVES PERMISSION to create a life of love, safety, peace, belonging, and deep meaning.
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QUESTION 1 from Gabrielle from Florida.
“I’m answering these questions as one person who's been through a lot of crap in her life and has learned from them, not a mental health professional. So, I do strongly recommend therapy, finding yourself a therapist or a mental health practitioner to help you work through your stuff. As it pertains to you very specifically the only answers I'm giving you or my reactions to things.

So the question is from Gabrielle from Florida and she says, I think I'm in a transitional period in my life. I stopped talking to most of my friends and family members who were no longer serving me. And I started removing senseless hobbies I had. Now I only do things. I feel makes me a better person, but in the process, I feel awful. Is this what changing for the better is like, and why is it so lonely? 
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Victoria Rader talks healing through finding our spiritual shortcuts. 

We suffer much more than we have to because we tend to get stuck in patterns that are motivated by our scared selves. We create so many more hardships because our body experience yearns for suffering. While 'light experience' yearns for joy. So there is this matter/ light tension where we ask ourselves 'Have I suffered enough to deserve the joy?'

So if we talk about a shortcut, it's that permission to live from the place of joy without constantly justifying it by suffering. When you are guided by your sacred self, you shortcut all of those scared self patterns.

You're worthy of the joy. You're worthy of living that without going through pain, sweat and tears, and suffering. You are worthy just because you are.

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• Tree of Life Facebook Group, Instagram, YouTube Channel, Apple App Store, Google Play App Store, Contact Victoria. 
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 The Permission to Heal podcast is a passion of mine. I need your help to bring more inspirational episodes to the world; please consider becoming a patron through PATREON. 
This is where your PATREON subscription comes in. With your subscription, you get perks and swag and the meaningful contentment knowing you are helping me get PTH to the people who need it. 

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“We’re all trying to incarnate ourselves. Where we come into ourselves fully.” 

Regina walks us through the basics of the 5 Elements of traditional Chinese medicine and the healing power of nature to help us find balance within ourselves. 

We talked of the beauty, peacefulness, and unexpectedness of the deaths of loved ones – grief, laughter, tears, memories, circles of love… just left surrounded by love

 “We are all in that circle of life and of death. You know, we're always living, dying, and birthing ourselves. the evolution of nature is to die and come back.”

“Once you put the intention out it comes forward, so anybody who wants to open to this path, it's really just a matter of setting that as your intention and it will happen.”

November 2021 - Holistic International Conference - https://soljourneys.com/upcoming-journeys virtual conference. Regina will be sharing the elements in a more experiential fashion so you'll be able to heal through the whole experience.

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Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/iamreginapowers/
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Permission to Heal Bookshop - Buy books from the episodes & support independent bookstores. 

 The Permission to Heal podcast is a passion of mine. I need your help to bring more inspirational episodes to the world; please consider becoming a patron through PATREON. 
This is where your PATREON subscription comes in. With your subscription, you get perks and swag and the meaningful contentment knowing you are helping me get PTH to the people who need it. 

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Are we as positive with ourselves as we can be? Is your internal language, as you talk to yourself, kind and loving? 

Do look for positives inside ourselves?  Responding to good affirmations about how we're going to live our day? 

Everything we need is everything's already inside us. It's already there. The world is in here. Everything, – your physical, intellectual, emotional, spiritual needs - it's all in here.

Faust A. Ruggiero’s professional career spans almost 40 years, and is diversified and compelling, as it has consistently established new and exciting cutting-edge counseling programs in its pursuit of professional excellence and personal life enhancement. He is a published research author, clinical trainer, and therapist. He developed the Process Way of Life counseling program and has developed it into a formal text presented in the Fix Yourself Handbook.

Mr. Ruggiero developed and began utilizing the Process Way of Life Program. The program consists of over fifty internal human processes, which can be accessed and developed to help clients address the various conditions which were affecting their lives.

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  To begin your own journaling practice to take your own long look back, use my guided journal to walk you through this process  - Permission to Land: Personal Transformation Through Writing.
  
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 The Permission to Heal podcast is a passion of mine. I need your help to bring more inspirational episodes to the world; please consider becoming a patron through PATREON. 
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