Enchanted Beast Podcast

Wade in the Water: Life doesn't happen on the shore.

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Have you been waiting for your dream life to find you?  Newsflash, that's not how this works!  Ella shares her own baptism of sorts as she is finally able to acknowledge what kept her from going after the life she visualized for herself.

Notes:

Unpacking fear: you can't take it with you on this journey.

  • Doing what I had never seen done before
  • Stepping away from what was comfortable
  • The unlimited opportunities
  • Meeting people who may want to harm me
  • Never making it back home

    • Choosing the shore: Why did you stay

    • Familiarity and examples
    • Proving people wrong
    • Self-doubt, self-hatred, insecurity, inferiority complex
    • I didn't know what I already knew

      • Life on the shore: What did you do

      • College, marriage, career, children
      • Suburban lifestyle (trap and pitfalls)
      • Work, vacation, children's activities, shared friends
      • safety and security

        • Unexpected high tide: When it's not safe and secure anymore

        • Loss of job and income
        • Health issues
        • Repossession, foreclosure, bankruptcy
        • depression, anxiety, despair, hopelessness

          • The tide recedes: I'm farther out in the water

          • Gain a different perspective
          • Realize my own strength
          • Found different people
          • Learned to trust what's inside me to guide me

            • Wade in the Water (song performed by The Moses Hogan Singers)

            • Reconnect with my Enchanted Beast
            • Practiced gratitude, forgiveness, and ritual
            • Acknowledge, deal with, and release anything and anyone undermining my peace of mind and joy.
            • Acknowledge, deal with, and release anything and anyone undermining my peace of mind and joy. 

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