Four little glimmers that you are on the way to bring the best version of you! Feel free to follow this podcast and on Instagram @real.life.by.heather!

It’s been many months since my last podcast! Grief and loss have been a big part of this season for me so I thought I’d jump back in with that. You know grief is a life long journey—and sometimes we may need to remind ourselves that grief is hard. Loss hurts. And also grief can be profoundly transforming. We are becoming through our pain and loss.

This is the last episode of a this series on Lifehacks on Relationships: Family, Friends, and Romantic.

1.  This is the final episode of this relationships series --whether we want to believe it or not, everything goes back to how we related to our caregivers as children.  If you are just tuning in, go back and listen to that podcast here. 

• Humans are wired for relationships and the foundation for any good relationship is connection.   Connection is the magical warmth of being seen and heard, and it can feel incredibly vulnerable.
• We learn about relationships and connection from our earliest years of development, so our patterns of behavior in relationships directly correlate to how we experienced or understood connection as a child.
• We dive into how we experience our romantic relationships based on how we experienced our childhood with our first caretakers. I introduce you to the concepts of attachment theory along the way.

2.  Click here to access the presentation as I mentioned in the podcast.
Click here to access the Writing Prompts for today's episode.  These are where the work begins and can be tremendously helpful in self-awareness.

3.  In the previous episode, I shared about the following:

• A podcast episode from Brene Brown's "Unlocking Us" where she and her sisters debrief on the book "The Love Prescription"--so good.  (There are three parts to this series--I highly recommend listening to all!) Click here to listen!
• Here's details on the book "The Love Prescription" by John M. Gottman and Julie Schwartz Gottman, PhD.  

Go and get all the goods on my Linktree. Everything--Writing Prompts, Podcasts and recent Lives--are right there for you!

As always, thanks for listening :)

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FB: @writingreallife

Website: www.LetsFeelGoodNow.com

The next three episodes I am sharing some Lifehacks on Relationships: Family, Friends, and Romantic.

1.  This is the second episode of this relationships series --whether we want to believe it or not, everything goes back to how we related to our caregivers as children.  If you are just tuning in, go back and listen to that podcast here. 

• Humans are wired for relationships and the foundation for any good relationship is connection.   Connection is the magical warmth of being seen and heard, and it can feel incredibly vulnerable.
• We learn about relationships and connection from our earliest years of development, so our patterns of behavior in relationships directly correlate to how we experienced or understood connection as a child.
• We dive into the types of friendships we have, and also I introduce you to the relationship circle.  It's a great visual to see yourself in relation to those you interact and engage with.  

2.  Click here to access the presentation as I mentioned in the podcast.
Click here to access the Writing Prompts for today's episode.  These are where the work begins and can be tremendously helpful in self-awareness.

3.  In the previous episode, I shared about the following:

• A podcast episode from Brene Brown's "Unlocking Us" where she and her sisters debrief on the book "The Love Prescription"--so good.  (There are three parts to this series--I highly recommend listening to all!) Click here to listen!
• Here's details on the book "The Love Prescription" by John M. Gottman and Julie Schwartz Gottman, PhD.  

Go and get all the goods on my Linktree. Everything--Writing Prompts, Podcasts and recent Lives--are right there for you!

As always, thanks for listening :)

Instagram: @real.life.by.heather
FB: @writingreallife

Website: www.LetsFeelGoodNow.com

The next three episodes I am sharing some Lifehacks on Relationships: Family, Friends, and Romantic. 

1.  This episode will kickstart this series as we dive into why I'm starting with "family" and not "romantic"--whether we want to believe it or not, everything goes back to how we related to our caregivers as children. 

• Humans are wired for relationships and the foundation for any good relationship is connection.   Connection is the magical warmth of being seen and heard, and it can feel incredibly vulnerable.
• We learn about relationships and connection from our earliest years of development, so our patterns of behavior in relationships directly correlate to how we experienced or understood connection as a child.
• We all are born in connection, have been wounded in connection, and we all can be healed in connection. 

2.  Click here to access the Writing Prompts for today's episode.  These are where the work begins and can be tremendously helpful in self-awareness.

3.  In this episode, I share a bit the following:

• A podcast episode from Brene Brown's "Unlocking Us" where she and her sisters debrief on the book "The Love Prescription"--so good.  (There are three parts to this series--I highly recommend listening to all!) Click here to listen!
• Here's details on the book "The Love Prescription" by John M. Gottman and Julie Schwartz Gottman, PhD.  

Go and get all the goods on my Linktree. Everything--Writing Prompts, Podcasts and recent Lives--are right there for you!

As always, thanks for listening :)

Instagram: @real.life.by.heather
FB: @writingreallife

Website: www.LetsFeelGoodNow.com

The next three weeks I am focusing on the three aspects of feeling good: Body, Mind, and Heart.  This is all in preparation for the free Five Day Feel Good Challenge starting October 3 and sign-ups are open!

1. In this final Episode to wrap up the preview of the challenge, I'm talking about Feeling Good in the Heart! 

• Heart is where all roads lead to how we practice feeling good, even when life doesn't.
• In conjunction with the body & the mind, the heart holds the key to understanding how situations/challenges activate us emotionally.
• Emotional health is often set aside when compared to mental and physical health. The truth is ALL THREE are EQUAL in their importance.

2.  Click here to sign up: letsfeelgoodnow.com/5daychallenge

Please find me at all the places below.  Looking forward to "seeing" you soon.

Instagram: @real.life.by.heather

FB: @writingreallife

Website: www.LetsFeelGoodNow.com

Go and get all the goods on my Linktree. Everything--Writing Prompts, Podcasts and recent Lives--are right there for you!

As always, thanks for listening :)

Instagram: @real.life.by.heather
FB: @writingreallife

Website: www.LetsFeelGoodNow.com

The next three weeks I am focusing on the three aspects of feeling good: Body, Mind, and Heart.  This is all in preparation for the free Five Day Feel Good Challenge starting October 3 (Sign up opening up on September 28!)

1. This Episode I'm talking about Feeling Good in the Mind! 

• The mind (brain) is deeply connected to our bodies.
• In conjunction with the body, it's first response to "perceived" danger is immediate & powerful
• The brain's design is one of survival & releases powerful, effective hormones and chemicals to help us do just that.

2.  Links for the Feel Good Challenge will be out next week when I talk about Feeling Good in the Heart :) 

Please find me at all the places below.  Looking forward to "seeing" you soon.

Instagram: @real.life.by.heather

FB: @writingreallife

Website: www.LetsFeelGoodNow.com

Go and get all the goods on my Linktree. Everything--Writing Prompts, Podcasts and recent Lives--are right there for you!

As always, thanks for listening :)

Instagram: @real.life.by.heather
FB: @writingreallife

Website: www.LetsFeelGoodNow.com

The next three weeks I am focusing on the three aspects of feeling good: Body, Mind, and Heart.  This is all in preparation for the free Five Day Feel Good Challenge starting October 3 (Sign up opening up on September 16!)

1. This Episode I'm talking about Feeling Good in the Body! 

• The body is a live antenna.
• In conjunction with the brain, it is the first to send up a red flag 🚩 when things get hard 
• It will send out an army of powerful, effective hormones and chemicals to “save us” 
• The problem is the body doesn’t always know when it’s safe again. So we have to help our bodies regulate and return to "homeostatis" (aka feeling good again!)

2.  In this podcast, I mention a book titled, "Burnout" by Emily and Amelia Nagoski.  They also were on Brene Brown's podcast back in 2020, and you can listen to that here.  It's packed with insightful information.  Here's a quote from the Brene's podcast link above:

"Burnout. We’re all experiencing it and we’re all desperate for a way through it. In this episode, I talk to Drs. Emily and Amelia Nagoski about what causes burnout, what it does to our bodies, and how we can move through the emotional exhaustion. This has been a game-changer for me and for my family!"

Please find me at all the places below.  Looking forward to "seeing" you soon.

Instagram: @real.life.by.heather

FB: @writingreallife

Website: www.LetsFeelGoodNow.com

Go and get all the goods on my Linktree. Everything--Writing Prompts, Podcasts and recent Lives--are right there for you!

As always, thanks for listening :)

Instagram: @real.life.by.heather
FB: @writingreallife

Website: www.LetsFeelGoodNow.com

This episode was recorded in August 2020 right in the thick of the beginning months of the pandemic.  It resonates still--even as we still are navigating how the world has changed since it began.  Learning how to accept the rather nebulous nature of grief is challenging.  What matters  is being able to name and feel our emotions in the safe witness of another human being who is comfortable enough to be with us in our grief.   What may be helpful is understanding:
 
1.  Humans are hardwired to connect; when experiencing disconnection (for any reason--death, divorce, moving away, leaving a job, etc) from situations, environments, or people,  we feel emotional pain.  This emotional pain may be described in different ways. 

2.  Grief is not just regarding the death of someone we love.  We can grieve the loss of a friendship or the end of a dream career.  There are complex layers to grieving.

3.  Loss is loss.  It doesn't matter the intensity or how traumatic it was.  If you feel it, it is valid.

4.  Grief may present in a variety of different ways--anger, irritation, lack of energy, or anxiety.  There is no "right way" to grieving.  It is as unique as each of our fingerprints.

5.  In this podcast, I mention David Kessler, a long-time colleague and co-author with Elisabeth Kubler-Ross of the book On Grief and Grieving about the five stages of grief.  Mr. Kessler has written a new book on grief, adding a new stage--finding meaning--to the classic five stages of grief, Finding Meaning:  The Sixth Stage of Grief.

6.  Here's the podcast with Brene Brown talking with David Kessler.  In addition, David has a brand new podcast, Finding Healing, that is packed with FANTASTIC information.

7.  Here's all a link to a Feeling Wheel (I call it an "emotional wheel" in the podcast).  Great tool to help "name" our emotions.

Please find me at all the places below.  Looking forward to "seeing" you soon.

Instagram: @real.life.by.heather

FB: @writingreallife

Website: www.LetsFeelGoodNow.com

Go and get all the goods on my Linktree. Everything--Writing Prompts, Podcasts and recent Lives--are right there for you!

As always, thanks for listening :)

Instagram: @real.life.by.heather
FB: @writingreallife

Website: www.LetsFeelGoodNow.com

As an emotional and spiritual health coach, my passion is to help people unlock their feel good. Feel good isn't "happy all the time" utopia; instead, I create opportunities for you to find out what your unique "feel good" blueprint is and strategically work toward integrating it into your life.  Life is GOING to happen--I help you be ready for it when it does.

In this episode, we're diving into some REAL TALK about DOING THE WORK in order to promote personal growth and healing on a deeply personal level with Coach & Ayurveda Teacher, Anna Lawrence.  Get a pen and paper ready to take some notes!  

1.  Anna's Bio:  Find her on TikTok & Instagram

Anna is a traveler, learner, Total Well-being Coach, and teacher of Ayurveda and Primordial Sound Meditation. After spending most of her adult years dealing with chronic fatigue, she knew she had to find something that would keep her fatigue at bay without having to sacrifice the lifestyle she wanted. She completed the Chopra Ayurvedic Health, Meditation, and Total Well-being Coach certifications with the hope to learn more about holistic healing and truly found peace and an expanded state of awareness within herself. She hasn’t looked back since.

She’s here to show you that you can seek mind-body balance, too. She went from feeling out of alignment every day to knowing there is a holistic solution to living a happy, healthy, and energetic life.

2.  Grab her FREE GOODS & a 10% discount just for listening to this podcast today for her Fatique Freedom course:

Complimentary AO EZ Scan  (What is the AO Scanner?)

Fatigue Freedom Ayurvedic Health Course (Use code FEELGOOD to save 10%!) 

Pay What You Can Coaching Application

Check out her FAVORITE ALBUM: Caamp, Lavender Girl

3.  Other things we chatted about in this episode!

Discover your Dosha type (Ayurvedic Body Type)

The Work by Byron Katie

3.  Go to my Linktree to access the full LIVE video of this episode and a free template to help you begin your own journey to self-awareness and personal growth.

Please find me at all the places below.  Looking forward to "seeing" you soon.

Instagram: @real.life.by.heather
FB: @writingreallife
TikTok: @letsfeelgoodnow
Website: www.LetsFeelGoodNow.com

Go and get all the goods on my Linktree. Everything--Writing Prompts, Podcasts and recent Lives--are right there for you!

As always, thanks for listening :)

Instagram: @real.life.by.heather
FB: @writingreallife

Website: www.LetsFeelGoodNow.com