The Love Your Life Podcast

The Love Your Life Podcast Episode 26: Endings Are the Place We Begin Hi, and welcome to The Love Your Life Podcast. I’m glad you’re here. Today we’re talking about endings—something we all face, again and again. This time of year brings a lot of them. School years wrap up. Kids move on to the next phase. Some of us are sending high school graduates out into the world. And honestly? That’s been on...

Hello and Welcome to The Love Your Life Podcast – This is Episode #25 – Curiosity Does a Lot More Than Kill Cats! I am genuinely excited to talk about one of my favorite and most useful feelings today — the feeling of curiosity. More often than not, we stay focused on feelings we don’t particularly like or want — things like anxiety, loneliness, anger, fear, or overwhelm. And we know that where ou...

Hello and Welcome to the Love Your Life Podcast - This is Episode 24 - The next right step. I had a fantastic session with one of my beautiful clients yesterday and decision making came up. It reminded me that it would be a great podcast episode because it is so fundamental to how we do all the things in our lives. Each of us has a pattern for the way we make decisions. Some of us get through deci...

Welcome to The Love Your Life Podcast, This is Episode #23: It’s Not About You The thing I love most about coaching is the way it can help us improve our relationships. With higher levels of awareness leading us to personal responsibility, we set ourselves and those we love up to become more curious about the people around us which then leads to more compassion for their perspectives and personal...

If you’ve been following along, you know that in the last two podcasts, I have talked about different angles of accepting the circumstances of our lives, or the things we cannot control as a way to create more peace in our life. You have also heard me speak about the 50/50 before. When I refer to that, I am saying that earth life is made up of 50 percent positive and 50 percent negative circumstan...

Hello and welcome to the Love Your life Podcast - This is episode 21 - Surrender In our last episode, we talked about resistance—the mental struggle we create when we argue with reality. We learned that what we resist, persists. Today, I will help you see what happens when we stop resisting? What happens when, instead of pushing against life, we choose to surrender ? The law of non resistance teac...

Can you  name the famous movie character who gave us this line? If so, kudos to you! If not, stay tuned and it will be revealed to you before I finish today! Over the next few episodes, we’re going to explore three powerful tools for freeing yourself from unnecessary stress and suffering. They are: Non-Resistance, Surrender, and Radical Acceptance. These are different approaches to the same c...

Hello and Welcome to The Love Your Life Podcast. This is Episode 19: Are You Lovable? Before we jump into this burning question - don’t forget to visit The Love and Confidence Podcast episode 115, for my interview with Laerke Nielsen that aired yesterday. Our conversation was such a powerful reminder that when we truly know our worth, we navigate life with more confidence and clarity. And that bri...

Hello and Welcome to The Love Your Life Podcast, Episode 18 -  5 Powerful Practices to Improve Any Relationship. I had a fun opportunity this past week to be interviewed for an episode on the Love and Confidence Podcast by Laerke Nielsen,  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-love-confidence-podcast/id1662409219 I am in episode 115 that comes out on February 20th, The Secrets to Lon...

Hello and Welcome to the Love Your Life Podcast! This is Episode # 17, Magnetic. I have been thinking about you all week! I left you with an invitation last episode to consider stepping towards something that scares you or you don’t think you can do. Did you come up with something in your life that feels like this? Are you considering tackling it anytime soon? I would love to hear what that is in...

Hello and Welcome to the Love Your Life Podcast - this is Episode 16 - Quitter’s DayI I am so happy you are here with me again today! It is definitely not quitters day for my podcast. I am committed to turning out weekly episodes each Friday that deliver tried and true principles that help you think new thoughts, and create new results in your life - all in 15 minutes or less. Today has the promis...

Hello and Welcome to the Love your life podcast - this is episode 15- No time like the present. Welcome back, I love that you are here with me today in this space where we talk about thriving in the lives we create instead of merely surviving our circumstances. Today, we’re diving into the benefits of living in the present. Let’s start with a story you most likely know: A story that uses the conce...

Hello and Welcome to the Love Your Life Podcast. This is Episode 14- Regret This month we are talking about time and what we create for ourselves in the present when we emphasize the past, present, or future with the focus of our attention. Regret is a feeling that comes for everyone at one time or the other, and it’s a perfect example of how focusing on things in our past can affect our present....

Hello and Welcome to the Love your Life Podcast. This is episode 11, Past/Present/Future Self With the arrival of the new year, we begin the process of acquiring new calendars to record our activities and looking at 12 months ahead of us to fill in with our plans. We have gone through the process of ringing in the new year and bidding farewell to the one before it. For some this is more formal and...

Hello, and welcome to the Love Your Life podcast. This is episode 12, Love. Today we're going to talk about love. It's my favorite feeling and it's what I'm inviting each of us to partake in every time we join in and listen to the podcast with me. It seems fitting that I should break down the what love is since I'm using it in my title. I think it's safe to say that cultures and societies around t...

I’m thrilled to dive into this topic today because I honestly believe that the better my relationships are the more I love my life. I know I am not alone in this. I love coaching on relationships, and many of my clients come to me because they are unhappy in their relationships. It feels like Holy work to me because when we strengthen our relationship with ourselves and those closest to us, we cre...

This is Episode 9: Gratitude Today, I want to talk about gratitude as a feeling. Previous episodes have introduced you to the concept that thoughts generate feelings, and then feelings drive actions. Gratitude can also show up in the actions we take. In fact, grateful actions produce amazing results in this world. Let’s not underestimate the power of sincere thank you’s and acts of service that st...

Hello and Welcome to the Love Your Life Podcast Episode 8- Expectations The last two episodes have been laying the groundwork for understanding our feelings - and I gifted you a very useful tool to process your feelings in episode 7- I hope you have all taken the opportunity to grab my free list of feelings download from the website this week. It can help you move forward with the first step of na...

Hello and Welcome to the Love Your Life Podcast. This is Episode #7- How To Feel Any Feeling. Last Episode I introduced you to the idea that Feelings have two Jobs - 1) to fuel our actions and 2) to deliver messages to us. Brooke Castillo teaches that everything we do or do not do is driven by how we think we will feel. By becoming aware of our feelings and choosing which ones to fuel our actions,...

Hello and Welcome to the Love your Life Podcast - This is episode 6- Feelings I hope you are having a great day and have taken some time to notice the 50/50 negative/ positive ratio in your life that we talked about last week. There has certainly been an opportunity in the USA to notice both sides with the presidential election. Today we are going to be talking about feelings - so no matter what y...

I am excited to be with you today! I have so many things that I want to share with you! Each week I am practicing constraint by dishing out only 15 minutes or less of the golden nuggets that have transformed my life. Today, I am going to introduce a new theory to you which I will call the 50/50. I learned this concept from Brooke Castillo, the creator and owner of The Life Coach School. The 50/50...

We covered some good ground on thoughts in the last episode, but I am not ready to move forward to a different space until I give you a little more information about thoughts and where they come from and how we interface with them. Today we are going to talk about separating thoughts that are not the most emotionally mature or in your best interest from thoughts that are more mature and in alignme...

Last episode we introduced the idea of circumstances not controlling our lives. I hope you have taken some time to think about how this can be true in your own life and are ready to learn more! Because today we are talking about how powerful our thoughts are and how they create the results of our lives. Thoughts are how we describe the circumstances around us and how we make sense of our worlds in...

So let’s jump right into our topic for today which is the school of thought that the circumstances of our lives do not define us. What do I even mean by a circumstance - This is important to get straight because you will hear me refer to circumstances frequently. When I say circumstance - I am always referring to the facts of your life. Circumstances are the events around us- the exact words peopl...