"Vulnerability hangover" - something that happens when you share something very personal, and later have a reeling feeling for having shared something so deep, private, and personal. In this episode, Bridgett talks about her experience of showing her vulnerabilities to her children, how it has affected them, and what she has done to lift away that burden from them.

5 Key Takeaways

1. If you shared something, and there's no degree of vulnerability, you may ask yourself, "Was it worth sharing? How valuable was my experience of sharing?" Vulnerability means trust. We think about this when we're with friends, we think about the degree of depth when we share something… there has to be a degree of trust there.
2. This is not about having adult conversations or arguments in front of children. What about when we have true emotions about something in life? What if we didn't always hide them away from our children?
3. How much do I need to be vulnerable and show my children that this is real, that I am tremendously sad – this is one aspect of being vulnerable in front of our children.
4. We are human. Even if you wanted to put up walls, even if you wanted to always show up as the perfect mom, it's not really possible. Vulnerability is a part of life. It's more of a question of to what degree do you share vulnerabilities with children, because you have to balance letting them see what's real, without putting any burden on them that they're responsible for your emotional state.
5. We have to be mindful. Are our children slipping into caretaking mode of our emotional state?

Quotes

"It's my job to make myself happy."

"My son can make me smile. My son can make me laugh. My son can make me act joyfully. True happiness at my own state of being is my responsibility, and it's yours as well."

Action Steps

• Sharing vulnerabilities with your children – it's important to have these kinds of conversations. One of the things that's never addressed in school is emotional regulation, emotional support, or emotional stability, mental health, and even self-responsibility around these things. It's these things you should talk about.
• Balance this. Yes, you are a real person, you have real emotions, and it's not your job to block them off 100% from the sight of your children, no matter what age they are. But at the same time, make sure to communicate with them that this is natural, and these are emotions you need to deal with rather than repress them, and ultimately, it's your job to take care of your own emotional state.

Thank you for listening!

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Have you been to the "Love America" tour or heard about it? Marianne Williamson promotes the philosophy that says in order to effect positive change in the world, we need to take political action. Today, I'd like to share my thoughts on this philosophy as well as my feedback on the "Love America" tour.

7 Key Takeaways

1. Marianne Williamson teaches that loving one another is one of the most beautiful and empowering things we could possibly do. The "Love America" tour is her belief system around infusing love into taking action in politics.
2. Marianne says she doesn't believe that there is more hatred or negativity than there is love. She believes that most people are in a loving state. The issue is that the people who are filled with hatred hate with conviction and not many people love with conviction. Her mission is to change that.
3. Inner change is wonderful, but from Marianne's viewpoint, it's not enough. We have to begin to affect the institutions that are making decisions that affect the world.
4. Marianne's platform has shifted to getting out of ourselves and loving, not just the people in our family, but also people all over the world.
5. In his book, Feeling is the Secret, Neville Goddard wrote about the idea that what shows up in your world is the reflection of your own consciousness and what you believe to be true manifests in front of you. On the other hand, Marianne Williamson tells us to focus, not so much on creating our reality, but on taking action to change our external world. While I agree with many of Marianne's teachings, I'm not convinced of this point.
6. The message of the "Love America" tour is now is the time to act. We need to stand up, be the voice against wrongdoings, and take action.
7. Overall, I highly recommend the "Love America" tour. Connect with people while you're there.

Quotes

"If we got serious about our consciousness...if every night, before you went to bed, you cultivated the world that you wanted to wake up in, I believe you would change the world."

"We get into this mindset of, yes, God is love...and then we go out into the world and we forget to act (lovingly)."

Action Steps

Share your thoughts with me. What do you believe about this idea that you can create and sculpt your world simply from cultivating your inner world? Do you believe the inner creates the outer and to what degree? When is the right time to act? Get in touch with me through the contact form on TheTruthAboutLiving.com.

Tune in on Monday for the 50% off coupon code on the meditation album. You can also head over to TheTruthAboutLiving.com/21ReasonsToMeditate to grab the coupon code.

Thank you for listening!

Resources Mentioned

Coupon Code for the Calm and Center Meditation Album

A Return to Love

The Divine Law of Compensation

Feeling is the Secret

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If you've been meditating for quite some time or even if you're new to the practice, you likely know the benefits of meditation and the challenges one may face while trying to stick to a meditation practice. Join me today as I discuss the benefits of meditation and how guided meditation can help you overcome these challenges.

6 Key Takeaways

1. Self-love, love for others, and love for the world may be cultivated through meditation.
2. Studies reveal that successful people who meditate have more neural connections in different areas of their brains.The greater the connectivity of these different sections of the brain, the greater cognitive abilities they have.
3. Meditation cultivates patience and resilience.
4. If you believe that your consciousness affects your reality, meditation can be a tool from which you cultivate the world that you would like to see.
5. When you quiet your mind, you allow yourself to hear the small, still voice inside you.
6. Guided meditation keeps you in a state of focus. The mind can wander, but the voice in the recording is going to help you to refocus. It also eases some of the pressures you may experience during meditation.

Quotes

"The state of love is cultivated in meditation."

"People who are very successful are often people who meditate."

Action Steps

I encourage you to go back to the 21 reasons to meditate on my website by clicking here. This list will help you stay motivated to meditate.

Also watch out for the release of my meditation album, Calm and Center. The album includes these five beautiful meditations:

• A Five-Minute Meditation on One Conscious Breath
• Calm and Well-Being
• Releasing Anger
• From Fatigue to Energy
• Silent Personal Retreat

The information on how to get 50% discount on the meditation album is on thewebsite or you can listen to the podcast next Monday, April 9th.

Thanks for listening!

Resources Mentioned

Coupon Code for the Calm and Center Meditation Album

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This is yet another episode on business when it's a struggle and it's not going well. There can be times when we are in the mode of fixing the business. But there may be instances where you need to close the doors on your business because it's not serving you. How do you determine what to do next? I hope you will learn a lot from this episode. Also, be sure to check out the resource I have prepared for you.

8 Key Takeaways

1. Failure is only failure when you stop.
2. What it all comes down to is what you deem success and what you deem failure.
3. If you're making progress, then you're successful.
4. Much of the business world is about the numbers. But you must also ask yourself, are you really simply looking for a vehicle for income? Is this work fulfilling for you?
5. There may be a message within the business struggles you're experiencing.
6. Consider making money from something you're naturally good at. If you run a search on Google, you can find evidence that there are lots of people who are earning good money from writing, public speaking, etc.
7. A business can be a vehicle for important things like income, freedom, flexibility, and time at home with family.
8. It's a beautiful thing to experience a failure and to use that as leverage and energy for your next project. It's also beautiful to have gratitude for the experience of that failure because now you are wiser and smarter. Failure can be scary, but good things can come from it. It's part of the learning process.

Quotes

"If you've been in a business that's been struggling and yet you're making progress, then there's a degree of success there."

"Sometimes closing the doors on a business that's not serving you is the best thing you could do…"

Action Steps

• If it's not serving you to continue your business, be self-reflective and bold enough to acknowledge that. Otherwise, if it's serving you and there is hope, also be self-reflective and bold enough to double-down on your business. Make use of the resource that I have prepared for you at http://thetruthaboutliving.com/BusinessDecision/
• If an in-depth conversation about your current business and your vision for the future would be helpful to you, schedule a free call with me at http://www.TheTruthAboutLiving.com/private-coaching

Thank you for listening!

Resource Mentioned

10 Questions: How to Make the Best Decision When Your Business Fails

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In today's episode, I'm addressing some of the reasons why we, as parents, choose to homeschool our children. I'm also sharing a little bit of our own story and why we decided to go this route. I hope this episode will be enlightening to those of you who are planning to homeschool your children. Enjoy!

10 Key Takeaways

1. A lot of the things that I really value about education are not built into the system that we consider as traditional schooling.
2. Every child is different. We must see how they differ in the way that they learn and what lights them up.
3. Unschooling is giving a child lots of time to learn in multiple ways, much of which is in the real world.
4. According to an article I recently read, you can actually do all of the schooling that your child needs within two hours every day.
5. For us, homeschooling/unschooling has been quite beautiful. But it sometimes feels like the absolute hardest path that I could have chosen because we are together all the time. Togetherness may be what you're seeking, but it doesn't give you a lot of opportunities for breaks in the day.
6. Traditional standardized testing can be very stressful for children.
7. Teachers have beautiful intentions for their students. They want to give kids the help that they need. They want to challenge kids. They want to grow these kids' creativity. But there's so much to do and to deal with in a traditional school day that these intentions get squashed by paperwork and procedure.
8. The longer I do homeschooling, the more I feel that stripping away some of the formal structures of public education has been good for us.
9. With regard to freedom and flexibility, homeschooling is beautiful.
10. Homeschooling seems to be attractive to parents who are into being intentional and making life choices about exactly how they want their day and their lives to look like.

Quotes

"There's just been so much learning that goes on outside of sitting at a desk."

"As we learn more, we may choose differently."

Action Step

• If you want to learn more about homeschooling, I have some articles on the topic on my blog. You can find them here. Send me a message through my contact form and let me know if this is something of interest to you and if you'd like more content on this topic.

Thank you for listening!

Resources Mentioned

Weapons of Mass Instruction

Montessori from the Start

Articles on Homeschooling on TheTruthAboutLiving.com

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In this episode, I'm talking about a section in A Course in Miracles called "The Acceptance of Reality." I'll be reading some excerpts from the text and define "reality" in terms of the Course. These include passages on the nature of God, who you really are, and what the Course is meant to do for you. I hope you will enjoy this thought-provoking episode.

10 Key Takeaways

1. According to A Course in Miracles, fear of the will of God could only occur when the mind is already profoundly split.
2. A split mind occurs when the mind is between two worlds -- between the world of ego and the world of love and truth.
3. We are powerful beyond what we could comprehend. We are creating everything. We may be creating every single thing we see as spirit.
4. A Course in Miracles says that what seems to be the fear of God is really the fear of your own reality.
5. The purpose of A Course in Miracles is to remind you of what you are.
6. So much of what A Course in Miracles teaches is that we need to get away from ego, that ego is telling us lies and makes us think insane thoughts. However, Kyle Cease says that ego is not all bad. There's purpose in our ego. It has a survival quality that we've always needed.
7. There isn't anything in A Course in Miracles that says that the ego is bad, but there's a lot of instruction about how to quiet or turn away from what the ego is telling us and showing us and to move us back into holiness.
8. Marianne Williamson says that you're not going to have the same day you would have if you hadn't read from A Course in Miracles.
9. Neville Goddard once said that the mind is the screen of the universe and you're impressing your desire upon it
10. There are layers and levels of understanding of any text, whether it's poetry or biblical text.

Quotes

"The purpose of A Course in Miracles is to remind us of what we are, is to help us remember what we are."

"What you are is the will of God. If that is true, then the only thing that you could ever want is to express the will of God and that should be the most natural thing."

Action Steps

If you want to share your understanding of the topic I've just discussed in this episode, feel free to reach out to me through the contact form on my website.

Thank you for listening!

Resource Mentioned

Feeling is the Secret by Neville Goddard

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Have you ever questioned the knowledge that God is love and love will never fail you? Many of us have at some point. In today's episode, I share my thoughts on a lovely song that has often been on my mind lately. Listen and enjoy!

6 Key Takeaways

1. God is love and that is all that there is. A miracle is what occurs when realigning yourself to that knowledge.
2. We're often living in a state that feels separate from God. That's when the pain comes in.
3. If you feel your whole life has been hard, know that there is some purpose, something to be gained from it.
4. To see holiness in everything and everyone is the miracle.
5. The force behind all of creation is a Creator. The natural laws of this world are beyond just simple rules. They boil down to love.
6. You can look into someone and see the nature of who they truly are. You can see their goodness and divinity what they may be doing or saying.

Quotes

"Rain or shine, this street of mine is golden." from God is Love by The Innocence Mission

"When you're in a dark place, you sometimes think you've been buried. Perhaps you've been planted. Bloom." - Anonymous

Action Steps

• When you get the chance, listen to the song God is Love by The Innocence Mission. Let the lyrics and the music speak to you.
• Questions to ponder on:

1. How can I feel God's love? How can I know that love again? How can I return to that love?
2. What are the things I can do in my life to become centered back on God and love?

Thank you for listening!

Resources Mentioned

God is Love by The Innocence Mission

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Today, I'm sharing some interesting and beautiful poetry on mindfulness. Listen and let them sink in, sit with you, and nourish your spirit. Feel free to replay this episode to hear the poems again. Enjoy!

Quotes

"Slow down, breathe deeply, and open your eyes because there's a whole world right here within this one." - Rob Bell, Walk Don't Run

"Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond." - Rumi, The Guest House

Links to the Poems

I Walk Down the Street by Portia Nelson

Bugs in a Bowl by David Wolf Budbill

Walk, Don't Run by Rob Bell

Found by Frederick Buechner

The Guest House by Rumi

Dear You by Kaveri Patel

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Metaphorically speaking, winter is a season of work. It's a time when there's not a lot of growth and things may look bleak. We don't know all the reasons why we have a winter, but we know that there's an ebb and flow to life. I hope this episode will inspire you to hold on when you go through a winter and remind you that spring is just around the corner.

6 Key Takeaways

1. Winter is inevitable. Instead of trying to fight against it, we should ride that and know that it's a part of life.
2. Failure is just discovering how not to do something so you will eventually learn how to do it.
3. Part of preparing for winter is in mindset. To survive a winter, you must be aware and accept that it is a natural part of life. Simply accepting where you are and what is powerful because it puts you in a position of saying that all is well.
4. You are not your thoughts. They are separate from who you are. Your feelings come from your thoughts. If we're not our thoughts and our feelings and emotions come from our thoughts, then we can use that awareness to distance ourselves and not be ruled by our emotions and feelings.
5. The worst time to make a decision is when you're highly emotional about something whether you're experiencing an emotional high or low.
6. The tendency of the mind is to think that the way it is now is the way it is always going to be. But we know that all of life is continually shifting. When things look bleak, know that it is a temporary state. Spring always follows winter.

Quotes

"A level head is better for decision-making than swings, whether it's high ups or low downs."

"Hold on whether it's a short winter, a mild winter, a long winter. Hold and just know that spring is around the corner."

Action Step

• When you go through the winter, get into the place of level-headedness, a state of acceptance of what is. From there, you will have the power to create what comes next. Acknowledge that winters in every area of life are a natural part of life.

Thank you for listening!

Resources Mentioned

The Art of Exceptional Living

Bluefishing

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Today's episode is short and sweet. It is a message that I'd like to share from my family to yours. It is an invitation for you to take this message into your home when you communicate with your children or grandchildren. 3 Key Takeaways

1. When things are not going well and there is a rough moment or times of uncertainty, "I love you all the time" can be impactful to a small child.
2. If you use the phrase "I love you all the time" when your children are young, this will stay with them.
3. You can make up feelings or states of being and incorporate them into the rhyme. They don't even have to rhyme.

Quotes "There is perfection in the imperfection of being human." "My emotions change, and as they do, my love is unchanging." Action Step In the midst of the roller coaster of emotions that go through our lives, it can be hard to feel love. I invite you to come back into this and to simply remind your children that they're loved all the time. Use it when times are good and use it in the aftermath of a rough time. More from Bridgett Tulloh Let's connect. Book a free 2-hour coaching session. http://www.TheTruthAboutLiving.com/private-coaching Get the course: The Divine Way of Manifesting - 5 Simple Steps http://the-truth-about-living.teachable.com/p/the-divine-way-to-manifesting/ Join the FB group here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/629400203914720/ Watch & Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgW0B8eytH3KK7RUi6o-7uA