In this episode Izzy has an honest conversation about your life! The life that you have spent so many years building, maintaining, sacrificing, and paying for. She explores how although you have dreamed and worked so hard to have this life, there could be a part of it keeping you living in a prison and asks if there is a monster in your life that you keep feeding?

Last week we began a conversation about compassion fatigue and the symptoms and risks of being an empath – feeling too much! One might say that the world is really struggling right now, and if you are sensitive to the suffering and struggles, your compassion meter is on overdrive.

This week Izzy explores something we should all consider, we often overgive what it is that we need.

She asks: How and where do you overgive? This might be a clue as to what you need. Do you overgive into kindness? Do you overgive in patience, support, encouragement, financial support, or nurturing?

And, once you answer this question, what would it look like to turn that giving onto yourself?

In this episode Izzy explores compassion fatigue and her own experiences with it. She explains that if you are an empath, meaning that you feel your way through the world, you probably have at some point felt compassion fatigue. And, because the state of the world has provided us with plenty of opportunities to practice feeling deep, deep compassion, you may even be experiencing it now.

Stay tuned over the next couple of weeks for much more on this topic, including benefits and ways to practice self-compassion.

In this episode, Izzy discusses how a person can live among a million people and still feel lonely, how someone can be married with a family and feel all alone while on the other hand one go through a pandemic, isolated at home for over a year, with barely any human connection, and feel neither alone nor loneliness. 

She explores how in these times of uncertainty, many of us became highly aware of the feelings of fear, isolation, anxiety, and anger. The more we tried to resist or loath them, the more they seemed to cling on.

There are many events that happen in life that may seem like the worst thing ever at that moment, but after time you recognize that the uncomfortable event was the very thing that propelled your life forward and led to something better. 

The same can be said for good or lucky events in our lives. How many times have we read about individuals who won the lottery only to end up poorer or less content than before the big win?

This week, Izzy will explore how grasping and clinging to an outcome can contribute to personal suffering by sharing a story shared by many Buddhist teachers. This is an opportunity to explore the perspective of what it means to experience nonattachment to the outcome. 

There are many ways in which we humans contribute to our own suffering. Attaching to a particular outcome or a perspective is certainly one of them. In this episode, Izzy explores the idea of impermanence and nonattachment.  

What is there not to WORRY about lately? In this episode, Izzy discusses how the world has given us plenty to worry about, and for many (including herself) worry has certainly been the most dominant, uncomfortable emotion. It may be a struggle to stay hopeful, especially when some things feel much bigger and more complex than we can control or influence.

However, marinating in worry all day and night is not helping the situation. So today, Izzy offers you a tool to help you confront your worries.

If you've been following along as Izzy explored the Life Balance Wheel over the last 8-weeks, your wheel is now completed. You now have a view, an inventory, of your current life! Congratulations!

In this episode, Izzy asks if your wheel was to roll down the hallway, would it be a bit of a bumpy ride? Are you able to notice the areas of your life that you are most satisfied with are the areas you have put the most energy into?

Do you notice the areas you are least satisfied with are perhaps the areas you have ignored or neglected?

You may be asking now what? Where to go from here?

Well, according to Izzy, the idea is to start small. Small goals, Small doable action steps.

Intentionality, consistency, and accountability (even just to yourself). This is the path to building confidence, increasing trust, and encouraging change.

And, If you are overwhelmed and feel like you need a little personal guidance, stick around to the end for a one-time bonus offer from Izzy to help you to create a plan that feels achievable and personal to you.

In this episode, Izzy guides you through week 8 of exploring the Life Balance Wheel. Today the last pie piece on the wheel is all about your environment.

Your environment has to do with various things. It can begin by asking how satisfied are you with the part of the world or country you live in? Your community? And, very importantly, your home?

Izzy's job as a coach is to help you figure out where you are today to help you move forward, and that's exactly what these past 8-weeks have done. Remember, if you have missed a week or two along the way, you can catch up here.

It is week seven of Izzy's exploration of the Life Balance Wheel. This week she's digging into Fun and Recreation by asking "How much fun do you have?"

Although experiencing "fun and recreation" in life sounds easy, many people struggle with this area. According to Izzy this area is actually a bit complex as it can reveal a lot about old and deep conditioning.  

Go ahead and listen and consider how much fun do you have in your life, and do you give yourself permission to have fun? 

Don't forget, you can still join in and follow along by downloading your wheel and listening to previous episodes at izzylenihan.com/#wheel.