(please enjoy a photo of vanilla cake I made, speaking of Martha Stewart)

Why Not?

Why a podcast?

Well, it’s healing! It’s honestly a great piece of my healing journey.

Many trauma therapist talk about how you only truly heal once you embody and discuss things that hurt you. (cue podcast) And how sharing your pain and perspective is stepping into a new, secure identity of ourselves.

Anyone can talk about how something is easy, but that does not mean someone will be vulnerable and talk about how we got there and what still bothers us —that takes real security.

You’re the Best Version of Yourself

Whatever you enjoy is meant for you. We can have unconscious biases and opinions of what we are “allowed” to do. If we don’t think we can make fast money or join the Olympics, we shouldn’t pursue what we enjoy, it’s a waste of time…

But how can we ever get to the Olympics if we don’t start at the bunny hill? Or if we don’t start at all?

How do we get to know ourselves if we don’t try new things? Probably not very easily, or we have likely halted the learning and we are feel settled in with how things currently are. But if we showed up to the bunny hill we would learn more about ourselves than we knew the day before, even if that’s that we hate skiing and come home with a broken ankle and a hospital bill.

Experiences, good or bad, are just those— experiences. Something to laugh off, not something to carry weighed-around with us.

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Going in a Direction you Don’t want to.

So much of life is out of our control. The world is totally unpredictable. We can control although how we want to show up today, and show up in the future and that’s huge. That’s a huge shift for our human selves.

If we don’t like the direction we are in or if we don’t like where we are at in our life that is incredible news because that means we have tons of opportunity available to guide ourselves in a new direction.

And that in and of itself is the healing process, is healing. Living a life that is enjoyable to you is what is important— that your life and the things in it the relationships in it is sparking joy.

Thanks for reading!

Ashley Reilly

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