The Hour to Empower with Yessica

When we experience loss, we learn to adapt to life. We cannot change reality. Every human being at some point experiences life showing up and doing its thing. Forcing us to change our course or to accept certain losses. Can we adapt to that change? What is the adaptation about? What is the relevant thing to consider when we talk about adapting? In this episode Yessica shares some important things...

Understanding the kinds of thoughts that we get trapped in and how we can let   go of those thoughts when they show up. Practice detaching from thoughts. We only need to learn that we don't need to be trapped in our thoughts all the time. So we can be free from our thoughts and we can decide in which thoughts we want to be participating in. The mind is constantly doing wanting to change the realit...

When we experience difficult emotions, it is important to treat our emotions with love and care the same way we would care for a child or a puppy. Our tendency is to feel shame or reject those emotions. The more we can learn who we really are and love that part of us in the right way we can begin to change our life and improve it the best way for us.   In this episode, Yessica shares ways to learn...

In this moment there is much more. When we become obsessed with a thought we enter in a sort of tunel vision where we become frustrated and angry or sad. We forget to see life with perspective. When we experience stress this is one of the things that happens we get trapped in that one thing. In this episode Yessica gives us three tips to practice daily and help us relate better to those difficult...

When we feel unsafe or insecure, we stop listening to ourselves. We stop holding space for ourselves. Can you go by yourself and enjoy being alone? We learn to be with ourselves as a friend and we become aware of the boundaries we need to set and the choices that are actually best for us. We feel better we feel more confident when we work on this ability to be with ourselves with love and care. Fi...

In this episode, Yessica interviews one of the best Mindfulness teachers and psychologist Dr. Ronald Siegel, Assistant Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. This conversation around his book "The extraordinary gift of being ordinary" allows us to understand how we trap ourselves in our self-conscious inner dialog that takes us away from fully experiencing life. How much we compare ourselv...

What drives us? Is it success, love or control? In this episode we talk about ways to understand and accept ourselves. Our emotional home is the emotions that we experience most often. When we know our emotional home and we realize that it's not a healthy one, we need to figure out how we can make some adjustments that will allow us to take ownership of our lives. If you want to do some deeper wor...

In this episode, Yessica speaks about the importance of learning how our expectations can cause a lot of suffering in our lives. Our constant need to control to change things create a behavior in us that makes us stressed and even feel overwhelmed many times. In this episode, Yessica describes different ways of responding to an unmet expectation that cause us a lot of suffering and proposes a diff...

In this episode, Yessica brings a new perspective on how to deal with the parts of ourselves that we tend to dislike. Most of us want to "change" "be better" and this is good if we want to grow and evolve. The problem is that when we do this we face those parts of ourselves that make us think that we are not able to change. In reality what we are trying to do is to get rid of the suffering in our...

Our negative beliefs can be the source of our stress and suffering. Our inner conversation and our belief system that rules this conversation has a lot to do with our life experiences, the people we trust and how often we have heard those beliefs. In this episode Yessica shares knowledge around how to build awareness and free ourselves from those negative beliefs.  Follow The Hour to Empower on In...

Our brain is designed to protect us and help us survive. Our mind tends to predict all kind of dangerous scenarios that will cause us to respond with fear. Control and perfectionism are a sign that we cannot let life be what it is because we think that everything will go wrong if we do so. In this episode Yessica introduces the concept of harmony as a way of living with peace and joy. Harmony will...

One of the things that is difficult about change is that we come face to face with uncertainty. We become very fragile and vulnerable when we face uncertainty; in this reality, we become obsessed with controlling the outcome. In this episode Yessica shares her experiences with change and gives us great tips and ideas to deal with our fears and evolve. Follow The Hour to Empower on Instagram and Fa...

If I were in love with the person in the mirror, what would I see? When we can built that inner conversation where we can see the beauty in us we can begin building a life where there is inner love, we can begin to respect ourselves and learn to be loyal to ourselves. What does being loyal to yourself mean to you? Are you being loyal to yourself? Sometimes we are so loyal to external things that w...

When you notice a lack of energy or feel less empowered what are you supposed to do? It's hard to deal with difficult emotions some times but we can look at this differently: every emotion that we experience is telling us something. If we learn to not reject difficult emotions but rather listen to them then we have something that can actually transform our experience completely. Our first reaction...

In this episode, Yessica shares a loving kindness meditation to practice openness and strength. We sometimes feel like we are angry, tense, stressed and this has a lot to do with our inability to flow. According to Hungarian psychologist, Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, flow is the secret to happiness. One of the key elements of flow is that when we are doing something and feeling the flow we are not in...

In our lives, our behaviors and decisions shape our lives. We might have a way of living our lives that tends to be anxious or stressful. Our inner conversation might be critical and negative. We make decisions based on fear or pleasure. Therefore, without any awareness we do not realize that we are creating negative experiences and painful emotions to ourselves. According to sociologist and psych...

We can all identify different stages in our lives where we felt those were difficult times. How did we make it passed all the drama? How did we realize that we could do things differently? Every time we are scared and uncomfortable we tell ourselves this is it. Also, every time, we are able to overcome whatever we are given. We must add to the equation the emotional states that we carry from our c...

In our lives we set goals and aspire to become a certain way. We have a blue print what we think our lives should be. This in itself is a positive behavior if it's helping us grow, learn and evolve. If looking at the person we want to become causes us to feel stressed and anxious then we need to do the work to accept and befriend the present moment as it is so that we don't develop a feeling of wa...

When our emotions are uncomfortable, we tend to react instead of responding to the experience. In this episode, Yessica shares different ways that we can befriend our experience so that we can find the best way to respond to our reality. In order for us to experience high energy and activate our feel good hormones, we must commit to a daily routine of regular exercise, good sleep, meditation and b...

We go into relationships unaware of what we carry inside. If we want to build healthy relationships, we need to be aware our inner world. In this episode, Yessica explains three models of relationships, dependent, independent and interdependent. The way we behave with ourselves will show in the types of relationships that we build. Also, we need to keep an eye on the relationship that we have with...

In this episode, Yessica talks about the importance of recognizing our patterns to transform them into empowered behaviors. Based on the Pöma Chodron's teachings "Live your life as an experiment" this episode encourages us to experience life with openness. Cultivating the ability to do things differently to explore different ways of responding to things that we feel we are trapped in. Patterns tha...

This episode offers a meditation to ground ourselves and reconnect with our strength and stillness. In this episode Yessica shares wisdom from the book "The extraordinary gift of being ordinary". Lessons from Harvard about the power of connection versus self-evaluation. When we are able to communicate to connect we become more giving, loving and at ease with the people in our lives. From a self-ev...

We live with an automatic pilot pleasing and responding to obligations, needs, and fears and by the time we realize this it's too late. Sometimes all we need to do is stop and realize that half of the things that we are doing are actually not what really matters to us. In this episode, Yessica proposes a series of questions that will help us become aware of what we are doing and why we are doing i...

The way we tell our stories, the language we use and how we build a believe system is going to take us in two possible directions. On the one hand our story might open us to "I am enough" or "I am not enough".  In this episode Yessica talks about how to realize when we are falling into a scarcity mindset, how to notice when our inner narrative is taking us down the path of "I am not enough". Also,...

When we are seeking inner peace we think that we need to do something else, be someone else or create something new. There's a way towards inner peace that has more to do with "doing less" and "being more". In this episode Yessica will challenge you to learn to simply be even when thoughts come and go. To be what we are in this moment without resisting our reality. What is taking away your peace?...