Episode Highlights:

• The connection between our relationships and our belief systems about ourselves

Quotes:

“Every relationship, I think, that we have in our lives is some kind of re-creation of our early childhood experiences.”

“I think a lot of the time what we’re trying to do is avoid feeling the grief of realizing who our parents actually are instead of who we thought they were.”

“Mental well being is an ability to live in reality…seeing reality can sometimes be so distressing for people.”

“We have these beliefs about ourselves and the world, and we need to see other people a certain way in order to maintain our own belief system about ourselves.”

“It wasn’t until I started looking at my own stuff that my relationships got healthier.”

“The only certainty in life is uncertainty.”

“I think helplessness is the scariest feeling for all of us.”

“We also see grief as being out of control.”

“You’re allowed to want what you want.”

“The grief is what led to the idea that I could have something better, and something that I actually really wanted…the grief is what creates space for something new.”

“We forget that moving on can create these amazing opportunities for something that we never knew was possible.”

“You don’t need to have other people defining you.”

“In order to heal, we heal within relationships.”

“Our nervous systems start to get dysregulated when we overwhelm ourselves with information that’s scary to us.”

“This is a really big time of uncertainty.”

“Whatever you’re going through, you can get through this, you’re resilient, and it’s not going to last forever.”

 Links:

Soul Sayers Facebook Page:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/sayers/?source_id=2103310239687415

Deanna’s email:    [email protected]

Bird & Bear homepage: www.birdandbear.biz

Julie’s homepage:  https://juliemarkowitztherapy.com/

Julie’s Facebook page:  https://www.facebook.com/juliemarkowitztherapy/

Trying times present opportunities for a mindset shift, a new way of thinking and spiritual growth. Lots of voices now - and lots of noise. But until we change our perspective, fear, worry and doubt will rule the day.

 Episode Highlights: 

• Lessons to be found in this global event

Quotes:

“Please, please take good care of yourselves.”

“So many lessons in here.”

“Power is not in size, but in effectiveness.”

“Directed, focused concentration on what I’m doing, and taking specific actions to further that goal will always get me where I need to be. And it’s the same for you.”

“You and I, we can be infectious. We all have something that we can give to others…medicine, healing, understanding, love and light.”

“There are a lot of voices out there right now…it’s just gotten a bit noisy.”

“We’re swept up and we are going for a ride, and I’m not sure that that’s an awful thing.”

“I look at incidents like this as like a reset.”

“Maybe our job is to sit in, to plant ourselves in, with patience and expectancy to see what God is up to.”

“It’s a reset of thinking on many levels.”

“Acceptance is powerful.”

“There is a purpose for everything under the sun.”

“Surrender, just be. Wherever you are in the midst of this global situation, just be.”

“God is in control, not us.”

“What you resist, persists.”

“We need to focus on what we do want, and what we will have, and where we are going.”

“Worrying is resistance.”

“Deal with worry when it comes by surrendering to this time that we are all in.”

“We should be giving and supporting and uplifting others.”

“Do you want abundance? Then be abundance.”

“This is a great time for us to grow spiritually.”

“Surely your Creator is not going to leave you alone now, right?”

“When it’s all done, we’ll be wiser, stronger, more in tune, yeah, more in alignment.”

Links:

Soul Sayers Facebook Page:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/sayers/?source_id=2103310239687415

Deanna’s email:    [email protected]

Bird & Bear homepage: www.birdandbear.biz

Episode Highlights:

• How listeners can help spread the Soul Sayers message

Quotes:

“It’s absolutely necessary to, you know, sit with those icky feelings, to process where they’re originating from.”

“The more I checked in with myself, the better I got at handling negative situations right away.”

“I feel better, consistently so.”

“Think of the stuff you’ve actually made it past and survived.”

“Think about where you are versus where they said you’d be.”

“No more shrugging off accomplishments, okay?”

“Let’s take some time to be grateful for these vessels that we inhabit without judgment.”

“Spend a couple of days where all you do is focus on the goodness that is in you.”

Links:

Soul Sayers Facebook Page:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/sayers/?source_id=2103310239687415

Deanna’s email:    [email protected]

Bird & Bear homepage: www.birdandbear.biz

Ever feel spiritually stuck and stagnant? We're exploring how unhooking from religious routine and sameness can launch you out of that tiny spiritual box and into a creative, fulfilling and healthy place for your soul!

Episode Highlights:

• The factors that combined to put Deanna’s life on ‘life support’

Quotes:

“I knew that if I did not rise up from this funk that I was in, that it would have some very devastating consequences for my life.”

“There were things in my life that I needed to unplug…and one by one I pulled those plugs.”

“We are always a work in progress.”

“Church does not make you, keep you, or save you. God alone does that.”

“Our connection to God is through our spirits.”

“Take your eyes off of people.”

“If God gave you the car, you’d still have it!”

“You know when someone is moving under God’s direction or their own – we can feel it.”

“No one holds the keys to your God connection – nobody…only God holds the key.”

“Just the attendance – that’s not serving anyone.”

“When you are plugged into the Divine One, you will be transformed…the energy changes you.”

“As soon as the behavior becomes automatic, the decision making part of your brain goes into a sleep mode of sorts.”

“Habit, automatic behaviors, and no self-reflection are the result of what I call ‘habitual spirituality’.”

“Why are we doing the same thing every service when there is a great, big, inexhaustible God?”

“Can we scratch the surface of your creativity, Father?”

“Think about living in the flow and flux of God’s energy.”

“You can be free, I mean really free, to experience God as you are led without any constraints at all, and I certainly hope you decide to take that journey.”

 Links:

Soul Sayers Facebook Page:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/sayers/?source_id=2103310239687415

Soul Sayers Newsletter:   https://www.soulsayers.com/newsletter

Jonathan McReynolds 'People': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4PFftHnJeE

Deanna’s ‘Pulling the Plug’ blog:  

https://www.soulsayers.com/new-blog/2020/1/30/pulling-the-plug

Bird & Bear homepage:   www.birdandbear.biz

Today, I'm sharing some history of my spiritual being on the path to finding greater purpose and meaning through my connection with God. Ever growing understanding of the transformative energy that is the Creator will take you out of your doctrinal box and set you free.

Episode Highlights:

• How Deanna came to where she is today

Quotes:

“God is so vast and so expansive. It would be a shame if we lived all of our lives in one small spiritual box.”

“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, but we are spiritual beings having a human experience.”

“I also learned about guilt which seemed to hover around me all the time…I started to wonder what was wrong with me that I could not follow what were described as the simple teachings of Jesus.”

“Why, if I was created by God, did I not have any of his qualities…didn’t I have any heavenly DNA?”

“I found myself with a yearning to be connected to something greater than myself, to know there was a purpose for my life.”

“For the first time I felt my spirit, or should I say, I felt me…God met me there.”

“The transactional piece gets flipped and then God becomes like Santa Claus – we submit our lists, and wait expectantly for him to deliver.”

“I knew in my spirit that there was something more – there had to be.”

“God exists for us as living creatures in the ‘now’.”

“When your spirit is connected to your Creator’s spirit, you are right smack in the ‘now’ of your blessing.”

“God…is expressed as energy…everything has energy.”

“The energy will do what rules and dogma and tradition cannot, and that is set you free.”

“You don’t have to wait for death to see God – He is here now.”

“To me God is everything.”

“Don’t be afraid to explore.”

“I’d like to know what you’re feeling.”

“We are all one – we really are.”

Links:

Soul Sayers Facebook Page:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/sayers/?source_id=2103310239687415

Bird & Bear homepage:   www.birdandbear.biz

I spent 5 days in a spiritually enriching environment that allowed me to leave negativity behind but also opened me up to receive so much. And I want to share it all with you...

We're talking about her work, her mission of teaching us to be kinder to ourselves, and hey, "What is normal anyway?"

Episode Highlights:

• Towards Together and how it got started

Quotes:

“She’s got a beautiful, peaceful, serene way about her that is wonderful to be around.”

“There’s no singular definition of normal...it seems like it’s normal to be abnormal and come from a dysfunctional family.”

“I think it’s really helpful to see other people’s perspectives, and have curious conversations, and get vulnerable with each other.”

“My whole life kind of came unraveled all at once in a bunch of different ways.”

“I never totally felt like I knew how to be human.”

“I think for me it was a lot of self-directed internal judgment.”

“We pass on our own pain to other people when we haven’t been able to resolve it.”

“I feel like the more of us that try to do the work to heal ourselves in order to heal the world, the more that the world gets healed.”

“What am I supposed to be doing in this world?”

“Whoa, the world is f-ed up in a lot of ways.”

“You’ve got to get to the root of your own struggles, and understand yourself, and really come to learn how to love yourself.”

“The act of loving yourself is one of the biggest acts of resistance.”

“It is in corporate interest for you to not love yourself because…if you love yourself you don’t need to buy all this consumer stuff that’s currently killing our planet.”

“If they can reach somebody earlier, there are less onion layers to start peeling back.”

“Maybe that’s your superpower, though…that you’ve never really fit in in your mind.”

“I definitely have plenty of doubt and anxiety.”

“People let you see them as they want to be seen a lot of times.”

“Do what’s in your heart to do, Sis.”

“Let’s share our stories and inspire other people to do the same.”

“Doesn’t matter where you live, we really all should be kinder to each other and to ourselves, and make a difference in the spaces that we move in.”

Links:

Soul Sayers Facebook Page:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/sayers/?source_id=2103310239687415

Bird & Bear homepage: www.birdandbear.biz

Mallory’s homepage:  https://mallorywhitfield.com/

Reflections on the past year, gratitude for your support and feedback, and a challenge to the Soul Sayers Community.

• Soul Sayers’ 1 year anniversary

Quotes:

“Collectively, I feel like I know each of you.”

“Some of you have profoundly changed me in the things that you have shared.”

“Your power has given me power.”

“Verbalizing what you’re thinking and feeling – that’s some badass stuff right there.”

“I want 2020 to be the year that you get some real breakthroughs in whatever areas are most meaningful to you.”

“Invested in us is a level of creative power and light that we seldom use to its fullest power.”

“This year cannot be another year of you living the same way.”

“Specifically, what is it that you want to achieve, improve, or accomplish?”

“There’s something that you were put on this earth to do.”

“Our level of self-awareness sometimes can be so non-existent.”

“What’s this sisterhood going to celebrate in February 2021?”

“Good Lord, I feel like the most mind-numbing kind of life to live is one on autopilot.”

“You’re going to move in a dimension you didn’t even realize was there.”

“You have been a tremendous blessing to me, and you can be a tremendous blessing to the world.”

“The world needs you, Sis, the world needs you.”

Links:

Soul Sayers Facebook Page:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/sayers/?source_id=2103310239687415

Bird & Bear homepage:   www.birdandbear.biz

Non-traditional start, passion for employee growth, and moving in her natural way of giving. Beth shares her experience as a business owner.

Episode Highlights:

• The unconventional start to Beth’s business

Quotes:

“We have to go back and save our city.”

“Just come in and we’ll make you feel better.”

“FEMA basically paid our salaries for the first 3 months.”

“It’s very hard to work on your business when you’re working in your business.”

“Pain don’t take a holiday.”

“I think for so long we took it for granted that everyone loved working for our company.”

“I was disappointed in myself…what could I do better?”

“You’re making room and space for the employees to actually serve a bigger role within the organization.”

“They see that you two did it, and that they could do it too.”

“It’s the nurturing that you gave that gave them the strength and ability to then move forward, so that’s a great thing.”

“I realize if I don’t get my exercise and my personal health handled and taken care of that I’m not the best mother.”

“That personal enrichment is really important…I’m like a retreat junky now.”

“So much creativity comes out when you are still and quiet.”

“I encourage people to get out of their comfort zone.”

“The fact that I shut my mouth for 2 entire days was amazing, and I can’t believe how great it felt when I got back.”

“Any time we can share knowledge, experience, encouragement, support…that enriches your life so much.”

Links:

Soul Sayers Facebook Page:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/sayers/?source_id=2103310239687415

Bird & Bear homepage:   www.birdandbear.biz

Beth’s email:   [email protected]

Magnolia Physical Therapy homepage:   https://magnoliatherapyla.com/

Sometimes, people are sent our way to wake us up, shake us up, and get us moving in the right direction. Always right on time and with a needed word to ignite a flame. Guess who's coming for you? Are you ready?

Episode Highlights:

• Setting goals

Quotes:

“You get to test drive the stuff that you want to accomplish, and get on the road to realizing all the things that you want for yourself.”

“I didn’t feel like my life was important enough for goals to be necessary.”

“My natural abilities, the talents and gifts that I had, they were always just bubbling below the surface looking for chances to escape.”

“How long are you going to continue to make yourself small?”

“That woman was sent to me for that sole purpose that day.”

“The internal transformation – that was the game changer.”

“Today, I know with absolute certainty what I am supposed to be doing while I’m living here on this planet.”

“It’s okay to start the journey of facing yourself.”

“You were created to live and to love and to succeed.”

“2020 is a pivotal year…take a leap of faith with me today.”

Links:

Soul Sayers Facebook Page:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/sayers/?source_id=2103310239687415

Bird & Bear homepage:   www.birdandbear.biz