Survival to success with Diane Gudmundson

Who knew there was hidden beliefs, thoughts and crap buried deep into the SC mind. And the SC mind (95%!) control emotions, cause us to feel bad, control our habits and can be the blind spots for why we feel “stuck” or “blocked”. I had no idea that my analytical and logical mind was really only using 5% of my potential… Keep in mind this area of the brain is important, but when we use this part of...

I remember those days where I believed that the only way to lose weight was to do some kind of special diet like Atkins which was almost carbohydrate-free or other diets that restrict certain food groups. I was so far off back then. I remember the first round of P90X I did where I ate all healthy food throughout the entire challenge and I completed the full 90 days of workouts but in the end I los...

Yes it is time to ditch those old beliefs and thoughts. How many times have you said “I will be happy when…”I will be happy when I’m successful in my business, I will be happy when my mortgage is paid off, I will be happy once I find my life partner, I will be happy when …XYZThe truth is, is that being a happy person first gets you all the things. It gets you the circumstances and people that you...

Oh boy, I remember those days where I was feeling unfulfilled and wondering what my purpose was in life anymore. My days as nurse practitioner felt like I was in the rat race and was impacting my energy and I truly felt stuck. That sense of feeling lost and dissatisfied really bothered me, but what bothered me even more was the fact that I had gained weight without realizing it. Then I started ask...

In this episode, I talk to you about the magic of self-awareness. As we go through our life, not only are we programmed, but also we reject parts of ourselves based on how others assess us and those parts. We push away those parts of ourselves and literally begin the process of non-acceptance. Eventually, we wake up and realize that we don’t even know who we are anymore because those parts of ours...

Health is the foundation of all transformation. I have spoke of us in past episodes, and I want for you today to really think about what health means to you. What expectations are you setting for yourself? Are you making achieving health a punishment? What I mean by this, are you setting expectations higher and higher and then spending in ordinate amount of time focussing on guilt and never achiev...

I had an inspirational moment when I hit the record button to speak very slowly and deliberately about just how critical it is to have a foundation of self-love and self acceptance. Further, as I was speaking, I realized that in order to have self-love and self acceptance, we also need to further deepen our awareness and our sense of who we really are. Therefore, working on our sense of self is al...

The question is this… Who would I be if I was not being what I was taught to be? Who the heck is your true self? If you think about it, we are programmed right from when we are born and we are taught everything that we know and believe including things about money and love and relationships and the expectations of society. We are taught cultures religion and how to behave in a proper manner for ex...

I am late recording my podcast this week, because I have had an emotional disruption with this huge layer of the onion peeling off during my own transformation. I realize that I have had bad habits of thought they have created a life of struggle and aloneness and difficulty. Because I’ve had a long history of trauma, abuse, neglect which I have been healing from, the layers of the onion come off a...

Getting squeezed is a very interesting analogy when you think about what comes out when you squeeze various types of fruit? What is truly inside of them becomes quite apparent. This is a final step to developing self-awareness, because when we get squeezed or triggered as human beings, whatever comes out of us is what we have to learn is inside of us. Most of us are unaware or do not admit that we...

If you’re anything like me, you have been overdoing and overachieving and over accomplishing and maybe even been a workaholic for far too long… Have you taken the time to sit down and breathe and really take a look at what you’ve accomplished? Have you taken the time to recognize, acknowledge deeply and then celebrate what you’ve accomplished? Or, are you like I was, where you are constantly dissa...

How many people spend their entire life blaming their environment, other people, situations, things they have to do, bills etc. for creating problems in their life? Once I had the eye-opening realization that we create our own problems, it actually was very freeing and allows me to live a much more peaceful life. Things do not have to be hard. Things do not have to all the problems. It’s all in ou...

I had such awakenings and eye opening moments in recent weeks. Years ago, I thought I knew myself and I was independent and determined and all of these characteristics that led to my success. However, I was doing things or being the kind of person that was trying to meet somebody else’s definition of who I should be. OMG!! ..AHA!!! I have learned to be my authentic self, which is likely somewhere...

Are you at a point in your life where do you never seem to have enough time or money or energy or even love in your life? Does your life feel difficult and You keep telling yourself that things should not have to be this hard? Well, then you are a lot like me because I spent basically my entire life working hard and not getting the results that I thought I should be getting. When it comes to all t...

In the past, I have focussed on the concept of personal boundaries as what I’m willing and what I’m not willing to live with. However, I would focus on trying to change or fix the other person to make them fit my model of the way things should be for myself. This is all about control and trying to change people which is very impossible and causes stress and is very draining. Control is an illusion...

Here I am walking along my bush path listening to the birds chirping and the wind rustling in the leaves. I am so excited to talk to you about how triggers actually are a benefit to you and your own personal development. People around us are actually our best mirror which shows us what inside us is going on. We have been trained to believe that other people can cause us to have emotions. The truth...

How often have you been told that we need to live in the present, and live each day like it’s our last etc. etc., But how many of us have a plied this to our life in a meaningful and useful way? I have learned how powerful it is to live in the now and to feel like being in a sense of meditation 24 hours per day. This is a powerful and magical way to live. Get rid of negative emotions like guilt an...

The topic of resourcefulness is so interesting to me as it is essential to have in order to live your best life. If we live in resignation, then we are being bound by weakness and limitation such as hoping, wishing, praying, and trying, which are words that have no power… If we are going to live as a limitless being and live in possibility knowing that there’s no problems and that there is only so...

In this episode I talk about reaching the state of inner peace and well-being. We all have our own definition of what that is, however i used to think that well-being meant that I was fit and energetic. Meanwhile, outside of my fitness, I was tough, fiercely independent, easily angered, and irritable and also having a lot of worry and anxiety. Does that sound like inner peace to you? Does that sou...

Self love was a concept I had no clue about it. I was not speaking nicely to myself or treating myself very well at all and did not realize it! No wonder I was not happy and did not have happy relationships. Just WOW. Self—acceptance is a whole other ball of wax too to learn and apply to your life. It changes everything!! Enjoy this episode and I will talk more about self love on future episodes

When a person has been through any degree of trauma, abuse, or neglect whether it’s in childhood or adulthood, you will almost 100% of the time have some degree of victim mindset that you are blind to. I went through much counselling and therapy and thought that my victim mentality was gone and soon realized… As I was going through transformational coaching myself… That victim mentality and thinki...

Accomplishments, degrees, accolades, rewards, courses, professional titles all do not define you or your value / worth as a person. I made this mistake for almost 30 years and oh boy did it take a lot of time and work to figure myself out. I tell you the story in this podcast. Find me on Instagram @dianegudmundson and on my website at www.dianegudmundson.com. Be sure to sign up for my notification...

When it comes to life… Well-being, being able to be yourself, having freedom, feeling that you can commit to things, feeling abundance and having healthy relationships… If you’re not healthy and have no energy and your brain is foggy it makes it very difficult to be able to experience all of the positive things in life that make us feel like smiling and be patient. Health to me is a number one pri...

Life is full of blind spots and we sometimes move through life very quickly and in a rush and we don’t slow down to think very often or even notice how we are!!. Life passes us by when we live like this and being able to slow down and experience life in a peaceful and happy and fulfilling way is incredible. This episode will talk a little bit about seeing if you’re now the kind of person that need...

This episode will introduce me and the reason that I started this podcast. It gives the raw truth as to what in my life has led to where I am now and leading me to my life purpose.