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Season 7; Episode: 69: You DON'T have to become a product of your environment or your upbringing!
Welcome to Episode #69 of SEASON 7 of 'Sharing Life Lessons'. A podcast that brings you stories from around the world to have fun with and to learn from because stories inspire, stories teach, and stories heal!! We are one spirit; one soul and together we are creating a library of stories and life lessons.
To support the creation of this podcast please go to https://anchor.fm/sharinglifelessons and hit the support button with the dollar sign to sign up for a monthly subscription for an amount of your choice. This will enable me to continue to bring to you an enhanced season 7.
The target audience for this episode is EVERYONE; especially those who feel stuck in their environment or circumstance.
Our guest for today is Joy Assent. Joy Assent is an Army veteran, former civil servant, and HR professional. She is an extroverted introvert-an enthusiastic leader who feels most engaged and fulfilled when she's supporting, encouraging, pouring into, and removing barriers for others so they can accomplish great things and do their best
Key Takeaways:
1. As Joy so appropriately said that “the pain of being a child of an addict is you struggle watching them go through the struggle, but you can't save them because they have to come to the realization that they want something different. As much you're in it with them, you're suffering with them, but you can't help them get out of it”. But is that not the case with everything? You may be in a relationship with any kind of addict, or someone suffering from mental health disorder, or having anger management issues, or a pessimist, in all cases you can’t help them get out of it unless they want something different for themselves.
2. In situations that Joy found herself in, it is so easy to get sad and depressed and discouraged and focus on what you don't have and focus on what you wish things would be like. It's okay to feel those feelings and to feel discouraged. But if possible, don't stay in that place and try to find someone or something to be a support, whether that's therapy, whether that's a friend or family to talk to or you could turn to your spirituality.
3. You don’t have to become a product of your environment or of your upbringing.
4. Lastly, we have heard several guests tell us to focus inward but Joy finds her strength in focusing outward, where she can help others, whether it's doing something tangible for them or even just giving them an encouraging word. As Joy reminded us, we are all on this earth to fill a void that only we can fill. So let’s keep reminding ourselves that ‘I am me, I am uniquely me, no one else can be me or tell my story and only I can have the impact that I was born and put here on earth to have’.
I will bring you the final episode of Season 7 of Sharing Life Lessons next Wednesday. Until then, 'Be happy, be safe and be well'.
Podcast links:
Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sharing-life-lessons/id1495248815?uo=4
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1EZMzRw1cWMyvSiyeeyTRd
Anchor.fm: https://anchor.fm/sharinglifelessons
Amazon music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/e35e7f52-e169-47e0-885d-c9c656b7c422/SHARING-LIFE-LESSONS
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Welcome to Episode #69 of SEASON 7 of 'Sharing Life Lessons'. A podcast that brings you stories from around the world to have fun with and to learn from because stories inspire, stories teach, and stories heal!! We are one spirit; one soul and together we are creating a library of stories and life lessons.
To support the creation of this podcast please go to https://anchor.fm/sharinglifelessons and hit the support button with the dollar sign to sign up for a monthly subscription for an amount of your choice. This will enable me to continue to bring to you an enhanced season 7.
The target audience for this episode is EVERYONE; especially those who feel stuck in their environment or circumstance.
Our guest for today is Joy Assent. Joy Assent is an Army veteran, former civil servant, and HR professional. She is an extroverted introvert-an enthusiastic leader who feels most engaged and fulfilled when she's supporting, encouraging, pouring into, and removing barriers for others so they can accomplish great things and do their best
Key Takeaways:
1. As Joy so appropriately said that “the pain of being a child of an addict is you struggle watching them go through the struggle, but you can't save them because they have to come to the realization that they want something different. As much you're in it with them, you're suffering with them, but you can't help them get out of it”. But is that not the case with everything? You may be in a relationship with any kind of addict, or someone suffering from mental health disorder, or having anger management issues, or a pessimist, in all cases you can’t help them get out of it unless they want something different for themselves.
2. In situations that Joy found herself in, it is so easy to get sad and depressed and discouraged and focus on what you don't have and focus on what you wish things would be like. It's okay to feel those feelings and to feel discouraged. But if possible, don't stay in that place and try to find someone or something to be a support, whether that's therapy, whether that's a friend or family to talk to or you could turn to your spirituality.
3. You don’t have to become a product of your environment or of your upbringing.
4. Lastly, we have heard several guests tell us to focus inward but Joy finds her strength in focusing outward, where she can help others, whether it's doing something tangible for them or even just giving them an encouraging word. As Joy reminded us, we are all on this earth to fill a void that only we can fill. So let’s keep reminding ourselves that ‘I am me, I am uniquely me, no one else can be me or tell my story and only I can have the impact that I was born and put here on earth to have’.
I will bring you the final episode of Season 7 of Sharing Life Lessons next Wednesday. Until then, 'Be happy, be safe and be well'.
Podcast links:
Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sharing-life-lessons/id1495248815?uo=4
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1EZMzRw1cWMyvSiyeeyTRd
Anchor.fm: https://anchor.fm/sharinglifelessons
Amazon music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/e35e7f52-e169-47e0-885d-c9c656b7c422/SHARING-LIFE-LESSONS