The Next Level Life

What or who triggers you? The resistance you feel is indicating that there is some healing or resolution that needs to happen internally for you to be able to move forward. What you resist, persists and if you don't deal with the trigger it will continue to control you.
What is a trigger? A trigger is something that sets off an emotional response in you. You may get angry, annoyed, upset, frustrated. You may react with judgment, avoidance, or apathy. Either way, if something is triggering an emotional response in you, that trigger is an indicator that there is an internal conflict or an unresolved issue that needs to be addressed. And if you don’t address it, it will continue to control you. Doing the inner work is looking at these triggers with curiosity and compassion, so you can begin the healing process to let it go and step into being your true self.
Is it a situation, something or someone that triggers you. Does the trigger feel like something unresolved from the past? Is it highlighting where you are suppressing yourself? Not standing up for what you believe in or asking for what you want? Or is it an inner conflict?
Use these journal prompts to uncover and overcome the trigger:
Questions for Unresolved Issues Identify the past experience it reminds you of. What about that past experience triggers you? What are the emotions you are noticing you feel? What did you want to say, or do in that situation that you didn't do in the past? How did you want the other person to respond? How has your interpretation of the event affected how you view the situation here in the present? Why is it now time to change your interpretation of the event? What could you make it mean instead?
Does someone trigger you? Use these questions to remove the trigger
What triggers you about them? Specifically? Get as specific as possible. What emotions does it bring up in you? What about that person could you be missing? What are you choosing not to see? What do I see in them that I fear in myself? What do I want it to be instead? Who do I want to be instead?
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When you're stuck in the thick of it and you cannot see past the challenges you're experiencing, it can be difficult to pull yourself out.
Today on the podcast, I will be sharing about a difficult time I went through in my business and how I pulled myself through with new lessons and a new perspective.
Thriving through hard times is all about managing your mind and changing what you focus on. Easier said than done, yes, but definitely doable. Learning to change your thoughts, ask better questions and taking the lessons that come through the challenges is what makes a great business owner, with a sustainable and successful future.

Have you ever felt let down or disappointed by something not working out the way you had hoped? Have you ever gotten angry or frustrated because someone didn't do, or say what you thought they should do? Have you ever had something turn out so different to how you had expected it to and felt disappointed? Have you ever not achieved what you'd expected of yourself and felt like you'd failed?
Today I share my experience of having expectations on other people and expectations on ourselves. How to work through the expectation let down, change how you feel about it so you can choose to take radical responsibility and honesty for our part in the situation and move through it without it letting it ruin your day.
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We all have excuses which we use to rationalise why we don't do something. We listen to them and often believe them to be our reality. Where are you listening to your excuses? Where are they keeping you playing small? What are they costing you? Are you sick of listening to your excuses and feel like you need a little kick in the butt? Then this episode is for you!
It's time to let go of the reasons and excuses why you're not achieving what you want in life. It's time to raise your standards and find a new way to change your excuses to become a more positive reinforcement, so then you want to take the action toward your goals.
Let's question and challenge the excuses and use the excuse against itself to encourage a different action.
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Julie Parker is the Founder of The Beautiful You Coaching Academy where she passionately trains and supports heart-centered people to become life coaches. The Editor in Chief of inspired COACH Magazine, a published author and an in demand speaker, Julie has inspired thousands of people on stages all over the world and is the recipient of numerous leadership and women’s business awards. Julie is also the Co-Founder of Priestess Temple School and host of the top-ranking Priestess Podcast. A modern-day priestess with a focus on her Celtic, Balkan, Iberian and Greek lineage, Julie is committed to contributing to a world where qualities of intuition, presence, social justice, and service are honored. Julie lives in Melbourne with her husband, stepdaughter and two much loved adopted cats.
Today's conversation lends itself to...

• Shadow work
• What it takes to be a modern priestess
• Healing our ancestral wounds
• Root cause of perfectionism
• Breaking the patterns of society's expectations
• Radical honesty & connecting back to ourselves
• Making time for self-reflection & the inner work
• Different forms of meditation
• Creating your own legacy
• Learning to uncover your truth
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To find out more on how to work with Julie:
Beautiful You Coaching Academy Priestess Temple School

Where in your life do you experience the Impostor syndrome? Have you ever experienced feeling like a fraud? Feeling like you may be found out? Feeling like you don’t deserve what you want? The Impostor Syndrome is fear based thinking where we believe that we are unworthy of our own success or achievements. It's where we fear being found out that we're a fraud and dismiss our own worthiness.
I don’t believe you have to be a high-achieving individual to experience the Impostor Syndrome, I believe that anyone wanting to create something new, push themselves out of their comfort zone or put themselves out there have experienced this at some point in their lives. So the question is – how do we overcome this? How do I push past the fear and achieve the things we want to achieve without the feeling of not being worthy or like we are going to be found out a fraud?

Ange Simson is an Integrative Nutrition Health & Happiness Coach, Mama of two beautiful girls, Creator of the Gratitude Gang, Health Hub and founder of The Gratitude Project. Our conversation covers:

• Building the practice of gratitude for a happier life
• Being a better friend
• Finding gratitude in daily activities
• Well being in all areas of your life
• Dealing with comparison
• What's your percentage of happiness?
• Getting to know yourself through self-awareness and using your unresourceful behaviours as opportunities for growth
• Overcoming adversity by changing your perspective
• Celebrating your friends creating a supportive group of friends
• The most important ingredient in a successful business
• Your strengths are your comfort zone

http://www.the-gratitude-project.com/

Overthinking comes in three forms; ruminating about the past, worrying about the future or dwelling on a problem. Are you a victim of overthinking? Do you make problems where there aren't any? Do you get stuck in Analysis paralysis?
Overthinking is a repeated thought pattern that keeps us stuck and also hinders us from tapping into valuable information from the body. Today I delve into how to get out of your head, back into your body so you can stop the overthinking pattern. Learning to tap into your heart and your intuition gives you the ability to feel the emotions designed to give us information and figure out what action steps to take to overcome the problem. Overthinking is often a symptom of avoiding our emotions, where our brains override our hearts and try to work out what to do and how to feel. Our heart is where we fee so when we learn to tap back into our hearts we get to tap into so much more positive emotion to enhance our experience in our lives. Some key ways to overcome overthinking are:

• Reducing the amount of time given to overthinking (set a deadline and choose a different option - decision or action.
• Meditation
• Coherent breathing practice
• Exercise
• Creative play
• Taking action

What is a scarcity mindset? A scarcity mindset is where we focus on everything that is missing in our lives, of all the things we want and don’t have, of all the ways we can’t have what we want and everything that’s lacking. A scarcity mindset affects all areas of your life, it affects your perspective of life, it affects your happiness and joy, it affections your emotions and behaviours and our vibration and ability to manifest more abundance. To overcome a scarcity mindset we must:

• Learn to stop telling the scarcity story.
• Manage your inner critic
• Question the truth
• Forgive and let go
• Refocus our attention

Then use these questions as prompts to refocus your attention.

• What has money given to you in the past? (Fight the urge to get negative here – really focus on what it HAS given you.)
• What is it giving you now?
• What are you taking for granted? (the simple things in life that money allows you – like electricity, wifi, food, water)
• What opportunities does this situation give you? Really take the time to think this one through, it’s easy to focus on the lack here, but when you really look deeply, you will find opportunities that weren’t there before.
• Create a list of options to attract more abundance. Get creative here, create a list of at least 20 options – when you think you’ve written down all the options, try for 5 more. ( I know what you’re thinking here – you can’t – well, you can – you’re just not trying hard enough)
• What can you be truly grateful for?
• What can I focus on that makes me feel abundant?

Taking the time to find gratitude on a daily basis is the only way to truly shift your perspective to abundance. More abundance will come the more you focus on what you do have, right now, at this moment.

Are you waiting for permission? From some one or something to be able to do what you want to do, become who you want to become or say the things you want to say? Permission isn't handed out to people who are waiting for it. It's given to those who demand it and take it without asking. Why do you think we need permission? Rules of authority or credibility? In today's world, being an adult we must learn to create our own inner authority to find the courage and conviction to trust ourselves and give ourself permission. Approval - Who's approval are you looking for? Who's did you crave as a child? Validation from others - Having mentors and coaches are great ways to expand yourself, but be mindful that you don't create a co-dependent relationship where you're always looking externally for the permission to take an action. Learning to recognize and validate yourself is how you build the inner trust to begin to give yourself permission. Worrying about what other people think is another form of validation and it also comes back to how you view yourself, how you trust yourself and how you choose other peoples opinions above your own. The only way to develop your inner trust is to start making decisions for yourself, back yourself 100% and if for any reason, it doesn't work out, you also take full responsibility and learn from the experience. When we look to others for the answers it's easy to fail because it was never our decision in the first place - it's a form of self-protection. Practicing self-love is more powerful - Learn to accept and love yourself enough to back your every decision, trust your every move and give yourself the permission to fail and to succeed.