"Never let a good crisis go to waste." Winston Churchill

In today's episode, I list 3 ways to build your resilience in the face of pivotal events.

I announce a new project I'm excited about and invite you to join me on my new journey!

1. What types of events are pivotal (e.g. arrest, loss of a job, divorce/break up, big birthday, pandemic/languishing, loss, trauma, realization that I'm on the wrong path and life is passing me by).
2. How do these events impact us?
3. Understanding the Window of Tolerance.
4. What do we need at this time? What can you do with these pivotal events?

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Welcome to today's show!

In today's episode, I talk about how to tell when your pain is protecting you by dialoguing with our emotions. And the pain that I will be referring to is guilt, shame, remorse, maybe judgment, self judgment caused by the inner critic.

1. What are the types of pain? The pain of guilt or shame, remorse or judgment caused by the inner critic.
2. Who is the Inner protector is and what is its purpose.
3. How to listen to the healing signals through writing (what can they be signifying or letting us know we need to pay attention to?)
4. I give a homework exercise: Prompts - to lead down the path to get to know these undesirable parts.

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"You had someone to go places with. You had a date on national holidays!" -Marie, When Harry Met Sally, 1989

Welcome to today's show!

Loneliness is a feeling that I know a lot of us try and avoid. And the thing is, we've all felt lonely at different points in our life. So it's an important topic. I've described loneliness as an epidemic in previous shows (and so has the 19th Surgeon General of the U.S. Vivek Murthy). It's so prevalent and it's also so destructive mentally, and physically. So let's dive in.

WHAT WE'LL LEARN

1. What does society tell us about loneliness (hint: it's all wrong!)
2. The difference between loneliness and solitude.
3. What is healing, what is harmful, what must be lived through?
4. We can use loneliness for self-exploration
5. I give a few writing prompts to get us started on self-exploration through loneliness.

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