2019 is about body, mind, and soul. These three topics are connected within all of us, because you can't change one without affecting the other. I am so excited to focus on these topics. I know in 2020, when I look back at this year, I will see a healthier, happier, more hopeful me.

The first few weeks of this podcast were focused on the body. Now it's time to focus on the mind. This is a very special and personal topic for me. For years, I was a victim to my own thoughts. What we think about is what we become. This topic is so important that I recorded this episode, thought about it for a week, and then did it all over again.

This is a topic that I have lived and can speak about from the heart. In this episode, I talk about retraining our minds, not believing lies others tell us, not believing lies we tell ourselves, and what a difference our thoughts can make in our lives. This topic is so important to me that I'm even creating a course around it.

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Show Notes

• [06:33] There were times when I was an enemy to my own self whether it was believing I was too good or believing that I was nothing.
• [06:49] It's difficult to train our minds.
• [07:46] The way we do everything from parenting to work is based on the things that we think.
• [08:40] I can't negate the importance of what goes on in our minds. Even the scriptures tell us to think of good things and things that are lovely.
• [09:09] What we process in our minds is what we choose to let in, and this creates the words that come out of our mouths.
• [10:48] My depression was a mind issue for me. In my mind, there was a war raging for my thoughts and my life.
• [11:37] I had to change my focus and my thoughts. I had to write sentences and put them around my house.
• [12:11] We are believing lies and not just lies from the people who spoke them but also from ourselves.
• [12:31] So many of us have had negative things spoken to us as children. Why do we believe the hate?
• [13:49] I remember things people said to me, and I remember my go to lines.
• [13:55] Why am I trying to lose weight? Girls like me can't lose weight?
• [16:13] I did not realize the power my own thoughts had over my life. If I thought I would fail in a certain situation, I would.
• [16:37] When I put the work into changing the thoughts in my head, my life changed.
• [17:25] I spent years replacing every single lie in my mind with the truth. I spent years fighting for my life and my mind.
• [18:14] It's so important that you understand that your thoughts control your life that I am creating a course about it.
• [19:59] There is nothing you believe, that you haven't given yourself permission to believe.
• [23:31] Stop waging war on yourself and thinking things are never going to change and things are never going to get better.
• [24:21] "Whenever you hear opportunity knocking just know that on the other side of it is work." Brendon Burchard
• [24:24] You have an opportunity to change the way you think, and we are going to do it together.
• [26:02] We are going to remove one lie at a time and replace it with something positive. Like pulling weeds and replacing them with flowers.
• [29:17] I want you to know that I'm mad at you for being an enemy to yourself. Why can't you see yourself Like Jesus does?
• [32:26] I take every thought I have, and I make it sit down and shut up if it doesn't align with the truth that I know to be about me.

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• This Sucks But God Is Good (online course)
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• How to Take Your Marriage From Here to There Audio Download
• Singles Love Letter
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