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Make your mess your message

  It’s a natural part of life that we go through times where we feel life is/we are a mess.   We face challenges and hopefully grow from them.   It can be easy to spiral down into the mindset of feeling like a victim, where you get stuck in the “why me” of it all.   But a more positive way of handling it can be to get curious about how your mess can become your message.   How…

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Get rid of what makes you unhappy

    I heard a good quote on a podcast I was listening to recently: “Happiness isn’t what you find, it’s what’s left when you get rid of all the things that make you unhappy.” I also love this quote: “Don’t chase the light; the light will drop in automatically when you heal your trauma.” Life is a process of decluttering. Decluttering clothes, limiting beliefs, past baggage, and people who don’t bring joy to your life. But first, life is…

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Trauma release with Dawn Catena

  This morning my friend Dawn Catena and I got on a live video to discuss trauma release and Dawn’s process the Butterly Effect Healing technique. Dawn is based in Canada and does trauma release sessions with her clients online – Dawn has helped me in the past wit releasing my own trauma with this special technique that she created herself. It’s definitely been a game changer for me so I wanted to get Dawn on to describe the technique…

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See them as they are, not as how you want them to be

    I see you.   You’re the one that sees the potential in everyone.   You’re the one that gives people leeway for how they’re behaving, because you know the shit they went through in the past.   You know that people usually only hurt people when they are also hurting deep down.   You let them off when they behave badly, because you see the pain in them and know they didn’t really mean it.   One day…

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Sometimes the weight you need to lose isn’t on your body

  Imagine we are all born with an empty suitcase. Imagine that each time you go through some kind of trauma or negative event in your life, you put a potato in that suitcase. The size of the potato you put in would reflect the significance of that event. If you appropriately dealt with the experience at the time, you get to take the potato out. Chances are, by the time you get to, say, 35-40 years old, you may…

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R E S I L I E N C E : the ability to get punched in the face over and over again

  Would you describe yourself as a resilient person? Resilience is about a persons capacity to recover from shitty situations, to be able to “spring back into shape” no matter what life throws at you. What helps make someone resilient? resilient peeps have a realistic awareness of self they’re adaptable they’re optimistic they’re pragmatic the ability to be autonomous they’re connected to others they have self-compassion   There’s always going to be challenging shit that comes at us in life.…

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