Unfilter Yourself

As a high achiever and someone who enjoys a good season of being in the hustle, I noticed that there were days in particularly busy seasons when I would take the stress and high energy of the day to bed with me. I would struggle to fall asleep, and even after I did fall asleep, I would continuously wake up throughout the night with things going through my head that I wanted to add to my to-do list.

And I recognized I needed to find a way to clear my energy, and to reset and ground my nervous system at the end of my busy days so that I could sleep better, recover from my day, and start my next day from a place of clarity, alignment, and calm.

What has worked for me has been an intentional yoga practice. For you, it might be a meditation practice, a breathwork practice, going for nature walks, or taking a hot bath. Whatever practice you find works for you, start to become intentional about scheduling it in at the end of your days so that you, too, can start your days from a place of clarity, alignment, and calm.

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Today's episode is Part 1 of a 2-Part Series. This is the "Strategy" episode. In this "mini-series", I get really detailed on both the strategy and the mindset around turning your dreams into real goals and turning your goals into real habits - and then actually making it all happen. And I'm talking the BIG dreams. 

In this episode, I challenge you to look a little further down the road than you might be used to doing when it comes to setting goals. I want you to visualize your dream life TEN YEARS from now.

Because, like Bill Gates once said, "Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years."

Then we break it down into 12 month goals; one month goals; and all the way into the little daily habits that you need to implement in order to actually get to that big dream you have for your life ten years from now. Because it IS possible!

But the strategy is just one part of this process. 

So come back next week when I share all about the mindset necessary in order to make the strategies truly effective!

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Today's episode is for anyone who struggles to allow themselves to feel difficult emotions. If you're someone who tries to push away or shove down uncomfortable emotions, this message and the process I share is for you. In this episode, I share something I learned recently about the process of acknowledging, feeling, processing, and releasing emotions. Because emotions need to be fully felt and allowed to move through our physical bodies in order to prevent them from getting stuck and causing us even more problems later.

The process I share involves four steps.

Step 1: Recognize the emotion and where it's showing up physically, and breathe into that space in your body for 90 seconds.

Step 2: After 90 seconds, ask yourself what triggered that emotion.

Step 3: Then ask yourself what that emotion is asking you to do.

Step 4: Once you know what that emotion is asking of you, decide on your next step.

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On this podcast, I talk a lot about setting goals and dreaming big and (of course) being obsessed with personal growth. And I’ve said this more than once – and most personal development coaches will say the same thing – when you are working toward reaching a goal, and when you’re in the process of building your dream life, it’s never about the final destination.  

Because that final destination is going to change once you get there. 

Because once you get there, you’re going to see a new destination. You’re going to find a new dream. You’re going to set bigger goals. The real purpose behind all of it is the person you become in the process. 

Every goal you set for yourself requires you to step up your game and find a new level within yourself. Every goal you set for yourself creates an opportunity to expand as a human and to become an up-leveled version of yourself. 

That’s the only way to reach that next goal. You have to BECOME the person who is able to reach that next goal. 

And in today’s episode, I talk about 3 things you can do to start becoming that person today on your way to reaching that next big goal. 

1. Speak to your current self as the future version of yourself. 

2. Express gratitude for your future self as if you’re already there. 

3. Curate your social media to be in alignment with the future version of you.

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Today I’m talking about being in the “and/both” energy. The “and/both” energy refers to that place of existence where you are experiencing dramatically contradictory feelings, emotions, or circumstances, and the ability to exist in and hold space for both. So often when we find ourselves in these seasons where we are existing in these contradictory realities, we can find ourselves judging ourselves over feeling one thing or the other. But we can and should be able and willing to embrace the whole spectrum of feelings that exist without judging ourselves over those feelings, and without allowing one to dismiss or minimize the other. 

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Don't wait until 2024 to set your New Year's Resolutions! Make the most of the the last two months of the year to build momentum and get a head start on your goals for next year. In today's episode I give you a simple practice that you can use to allow you to look back over the goals you set at the beginning of 2023, identify what worked, what didn't, what held you back, and what helped you move forward, because analyzing your progress and your challenges will help you set more aligned goals for 2024 and achieve success in reaching them.

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Let’s be honest... as we get older and our responsibilities grow, most of us stop thinking about PLAY. With all of our responsibilities as adults, play just doesn’t always feel important anymore. But fun and play are SO important. Even as adults! 

In this episode, I talk about all the important benefits of play for adults. 

First of all, play is extremely beneficial to your mental health. It reduces stress and minimizes the risk of burnout. It’s also good for your physical health, because it can be a part of your exercise routine. It can make exercise more fun, which will help you do it more often. Another benefit to play is that it can help you improve your relationships and connections with other people. It can help you with your communication with your partner, your co-workers, your friends, and your kids. 

Another very powerful benefit to play that isn’t given enough attention is that play helps you reconnect with your inner child. It gives your inner child a voice and an outlet. Which is going to help you reconnect with yourself. 

In this episode, I also talk about different types of “play personalities”: the collector, the competitor, the creator/artist, the director, the explorer, the joker, the kinesthetic player, and the storyteller. 

And if you want to start incorporating more fun and more play into your everyday life, but you’re not sure where to start, learn what you enjoy. Learn what makes you laugh. Remember what you loved as a kid. And just start there. 

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In today's episode I'm talking to the person who's found themselves feeling stuck in a career or a business that they realize isn't in alignment, or that just straight up makes them miserable. But so often, we're afraid to leave these situations because maybe we spent a lot of time or a lot of money (or both!) getting there in the first place, and we don't want to "throw it all away"... we might feel the desire to pivot into something else, but that nagging voice in the back of our minds tells us we shouldn't. But in this episode, I tell you all the reasons why you shouldn't be afraid to "throw it all away" because what you're throwing away is discontentment, frustration, overwhelm, exaustion, and living a life that's out of alignment with your true purpose and the identity that you were put here to truly embrace and step into.

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I heard this on a podcast I listened to recently: You're just one introduction away from completely changing your life. And the idea (and reality!) of this absolutely excited me. At any given moment, you could meet the very person you need to meet in order to create the life of your dreams. That person may have access to the resources you've been looking for, or the answers to the questions you've been trying to answer, or the connections you've been wanting to make. All it takes is one introduction, and you never know when or where that introduction may happen.  

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As I've been navingating a challenging situation this week, I was reminded of the different ways different animals respond to storms. Animals are instinctive - they know when a storm is coming. When cows sense a storm is coming, they take off running away from the direction the storm is coming from. They try to outrun the storm. But they are rarely successful. The storm inevitably catches up to them, and as they continue running with the storm, they end up spending more time in the storm than they really would have needed to. When buffalo, on the other hand, sense a storm coming, they turn to face the storm head-on. And once the storm reaches, they take off running INTO the storm. They reach the other side of the storm so much faster because they aren't trying to outrun it. They accept that it's coming, they embrace it, and they face it head-on. 

The challenges we face in life are the same way. When we try to outrun them, we end up expending far too much energy trying to avoid them. And they eventually catch us anyway. When we decide to accept them, and we face them head on and intentionally move through them, we are able to make it through them so much more quickly. 

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