Support, Protect, Empower - The Project Purpose Podcast

How to Be Unapologetic about Taking Time to Rest | How Rejuvenation Enables You to Develop Endurance There are many things in life that we can feel guilty for... take the time to rest shouldn't be one of them. Many of us feel flawed for the fact that we are human. Specifically, that our need to rest, eat well, and sleep adequately is somehow a flaw in our design that limits our ability to prod...

4 Scenarios When No Response is the Best Response | How to Leverage Silence as a Communication Tool Many of us have lived the experience of pouring our hearts out, and having what we had to say fall on deaf ears. What we recall from those experiences is that silence speaks volumes. So, if we have experienced first had the power of silence, why do we struggle to recognize the power that silence has...

3 Strategies to Maximize Your Success in Delivering A Message that Matters | Learning to Communicate Many of us take communicating seriously when we have something to say, whether moved by conviction or principle, we think what we say matters, and we assume that the person we are addressing feels the same. Except in most cases they don't. All of us carry our own set of principles and values, w...

Keeping the Limiting Beliefs that Others Have From Defining You | Breaking Barriers Unapologetically One of the hidden blessings that life will hand you are the unsavoury beliefs and opinions that people have of you. When you are faced with judgments, assumptions, and the self-interested conclusions of others, you have a choice. To allow those views to define you or to dismiss them. While we often...

Being Yourself Requires No Apology | Celebrating Your Individuality & Not Hiding Behind Conformity Some of us cannot help but stand out. While most people immediately assume that it's our physical traits that can be what puts us in our spotlight, it's often less tangible than that. It could be your mannerisms, the things you say, the way you say them, or your energy. You might be the k...

4 Kinds of Pain You Stay Away From | Understanding When to Release Negativity that Doesn't Serve You If there is one thing in this life that is not created equal, it is what our receptivity to pain should be. There is pain that a we can endure, that serves as a signal to our growth, these are the "growing" pains. Just as much as there is pain that serves as a signal to let go - they...

3 Types of Pain You Need to Learn to Push Through | Understanding the Cost of Growth & Levelling Up Growth requires sacrifice. If you're setting goals and objectives that are going to align you to your dreams, expect life to dole out a healthy dose of pain. When it comes to levelling up, there is a maxim that holds true universally: No pain, no gain. It's important to distinguish betwe...

4 Signs You Need to Manage Your Energy More Effectively | Making Time to Achieve Your Personal Goals Many of us are frustrated by our lack of progress but aren't sure how to create momentum. The solution lies more in recognizing where (and to whom) your energy should not be going. Specifically, areas in your life that are depleting your valuable energy resources that would be better spent inve...

How Goals Enable You to Make Transformative Lifestyle Changes | Setting Up to Obtain Success in 2024 Many of us have at least 3 areas in our lives we would rather keep in 2023. To what extent can we ensure that this desire is accomplished? Would carving out goals potentially help in ensuring success in this endeavour? That depends entirely on you. There are different ways to go about establishing...

How to Push Passed Your Limits & Overcome Barriers |Trusting in Mind Over Matter Helps You Level Up Many of us have heard the saying, "Know Your Limits & Play Within It."While that is definitely an important rule of thumb when it comes to gambling 😜 It is less applicable to the limits we experience when pushing towards achievement in life. Why? Because most limits are simply the...

Assumptions are Toxic for Relationships | How False Assumptions Hurt Our Ability to Connect & Relate While our ability to make decisions on our feet speaks to the sheer horsepower that our brains harness... we don't always get it right. This is highlighted by the (many) times we had to take our foot out of our mouths, or we found ourselves knee deep in the consequences that our false assum...

Differences Between Learning & Performing | Aligning Your Energy to the Expectations of Each Setting Everything we know, we've had the opportunity to learn. Whether it was through formal education, life experience, a family member, or a mentor, not any one of us was born with a repertoire of knowledge beyond what instinct preprogrammed. Regardless, so many of us feel insecure about our ign...

4 Common Wellness Myths You Shouldn't Believe | Why there is No Prescription for Living & Being Well Wanting to live better and do better seems like a given. While the motivation can ebb and flow, most of us see the value in making the most out of the lives we lead. Oftentimes we think if we can model after people who seem happy with their lives, it increases our chances of finding happine...

How to Deal with a Cruel Partner | Learning to Support Yourself and Not Internalize Toxic Narratives There are some emotional injuries we would not wish on anyone. Many of these wounds are dealt to us by the people that we chose to try and create relationships with. When your person sees your vulnerability as an opportunity to spotlight all that you aren't rather than focalize on who you are i...

Four Things NOT to Do When You're Feeling Anxious | Breaking Unhealthy Habits in Dealing with Stress There are some ways of managing anxiety that we know, even as we engage in those behaviours, that are not good for us. Yet because these coping mechanisms are familiar and habitual... there's no real urgency to change the ways we respond to the stressors in our lives. At least so it seems....

5 Ways to Cope with Anxiety & Stress | Developing Healthy Strategies to Support our Mental Health Not all coping mechanisms are created equal. There are some that hurt more than help the situations and circumstances that we are dealing with. If our focus is on figuring out how to support ourselves during those challenges, it's important to iterate and learn through trial and error. Managin...

Your Life Decisions Won't Get Any Easier | Learn to Develop the Mental Muscle to Choose in Alignment Many people equate living your best life as chasing the highs that the world offers, this isn't my definition. Living your best life requires that you make the tough choices, when life calls you to choose to stay in alignment with your own wants, beliefs, and desires. Choosing alignment mea...

Learning How You Think to Improve How You Learn | Deciding How New Information Impacts Your Beliefs There is a high bid for your thoughts, beliefs and desires. More specifically, a high price that many people, corporations, government, and academic institutions will pay to ensure that your beliefs align with their agenda. While some of us carry the power to influence and sway the masses, most of u...

How Frenemies Could Be Bad for Your Health | Why the Ambivalent Relationships in Your Life are Toxic The cost of betrayal runs high. This is whether we focus on the psychological and emotional toll, or the very real exposure to physical danger it can create. In either case, there is risk inherent when you keep your (fr)enemies close. The worst way to learn this is through personal experience. Havi...

Pleasure: Indulgence vs. Fulfillment | How Incorporating Moderation Plays Into Our Quality of Life Today we're talking about the relativity of excess. The right amount of anything is dependent on each of us. Whether we're talking about food, fitness, activity, rest - life is about figuring out how much is too much, or too little, and what works best for ourselves, specific to the phase and...

5 Signs You Are Healing from Trauma | Some of the Cues & Signals that You Are Bouncing Back Stronger When it comes to our mental, emotional, and psychological wounds there is no cookie cutter framework to healing. It's sometimes difficult to gauge if we are healed, or how far we've come, because of how non-linear the healing process is. Healing is a process that starts with a choice. O...

The Importance of Listening First Before Speaking | Healthy Habits that Support Your Mental Health We're talking about the power of our voice, and the responsibility that comes with speaking up. Oftentimes we don't equate Mental Health and communication, but they are deeply intertwined. When we state our opinions, convictions and perspectives they inform the world around us of who we are,...

Reflections On a Year of New Challenges and Growth | Extracting the Value from Life Lessons Learned Often we can recognize the change we experience in our growth journey, if it's' a result of a massive life event. All to say, our personal growth is often incremental and the byproduct of small, seemingly insignificant interactions over time. The changes the we experience in our beliefs, val...

What does it mean to live off-grid? Educational talk, as we debunk the myths around self-consumption. For many of us, living off-grid translates as exiling ourselves from society and limiting our interactions with one another. Hollywood has played a major role in (mis)shaping our ideas around what it means to live off-grid, putting a negative spin on what it means to be self-sustaining by way of h...

How to Celebrate Yourself Alone | The Importance of Self-Recognition In Our Successes & Achievements Today, we talk about the importance of self-validation. How to celebrate yourself without the external applause of others. It's important that we give ourselves permission to be proud of what we've accomplished, even if there's no external recognition. #mentalwellness #celebratesmal...