The Self Awareness Journey Podcast

Mentoring and supporting each other is about cultivating relationships that help us grow and learn. It's about sharing our knowledge, skills, and experiences to help others succeed. It's also about creating a safe space where we can ask for help and guidance when we need it. Ultimately, mentoring and supporting each other is about building a community of people who are committed to helpi...

Whether we like them or don't like them - surprises have the capacity to completely change our mood. What surprises do you like?

The birds are singing, the trees are blooming, and the flowers are ready to pop up to say hello. Who doesn’t feel better in this season?

There are many ways to treat our chronic feelings of unease that do not include a medication or someone else’s intervention. Yet, we don’t typically focus on self treatment options, often feeling they aren’t good enough or easily sustainable. Choosing simple activities we can do each day can help keep us stay centered and happier.

This generation seldom gets the same press as the ones before or after. Born between the mid 60’s and the early 80’s, this group had the first job insecurity challenges, massive growth in technology and having younger generations as well as aging parents to care for. How does that impact our population as a whole?

Figuring out what you actually want is considerably harder than getting what you want. We will often dream about what we want, yet seldom take the steps to think through strategies to help us define those desires. Here are some ideas to get you flowing!

When we have an expectation that isn’t met in the way we think it should be, with the conditions and circumstances we’ve created - it can create a lot of negative emotion. How do we neutralize ourselves before we go straight to anger?

Kevin Jansen joins the podcast today to talk about his new book 'It's All Personal: 12 Lessons Learned Through Cancer Survival That Transformed My Career Success.'

While there are many articles, classes, and books that offer processes to feel better, they all require a commitment of energy or time that we may not have right now. Here are 8 easy guidelines offering specific tactics to soothe your emotions. 

Our human brains are riddled with negative and repetitive thoughts, whether we are consciously aware of it or not. Most of these thoughts are simply habits we've created, not true reality. How do we create new, more helpful habits?

You will never outperform your own expectations for yourself. It can't happen. And if you lead and influence others, they will never reach higher levels with you as their lid. How do we raise our expectations?

Sometimes having a 'don't look back' mindset helps us make big decisions and manage risk. But sometimes a 'can't turn back' mentality may be due to fear or the uncertainty of being wrong. Which perspective is right?

There's a lot of conversation about the younger generations and older generations. But there's little discussion about how the fundamental difference of expectations came to be. How can we solve this if we do not seek to understand first?

Often without a word, we make decisions about situations and the people we are in partnership with. Less often do we discuss these decisions, or notice if others are in agreement with our perspectives. This is a natural by-product of internal thinking. How can we become more aware of these thoughts to help create more agreement?

There is still a negative stigma around mental health. It's getting better, but how do we reframe and rebrand mental health more into a proactive approach to mental wellness? Is it possible?

Making a commitment to personal development has many layers. It is not simply memorizing affirmations, or changing simple habit. Personal development must begin with a clear emotional and mental foundation that is ready to sow new seeds. How do we begin? tune in now!

Fly fishing is hard. Melissa's great fishing adventure started strong but didn't quite go as planned. Lots of lessons were learned when she didn't get the outcome she wanted or expected.

Discipline and expectation can help us create well intended habits, and also not so helpful habits. Yet, if the resulting habit doesn't work quite right or ends up being too controlling, how do we decide to try something else or stop completely?

2022 has changed how we think about things, and goal setting is one of them. Long term goals seem especially challenging, as we have seen unexpected change derail our plans. We have a new beginning in 2023, how can we encourage growth in ourselves and others by the goals we set?

Tis the season to reflect on what we have and who we are. Gratitude grows with attention, especially when it's trimmed in Christmas cheer! What positive reflections are in your heart and mind?

Storytelling is as old as time itself. It binds us together, it communicates joy, sadness, humor and suspense. Learning how to tell a good story helps you communicate better with those around you. What's your story?

"Our nervous systems are not designed for this kind of stress," Recently, the Washington Post published an article on our long term response to stress as well as some practical things we can do to combat it.

Let's see a show of hands, how many people are dreading Thanksgiving? One of our hosts finally admits their feelings on the matter, and they aren't great!