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"We will all be hit with a level of adversity, and many listeners probably already have. How do we use that to fuel us and to inspire us to keep moving forward? How do we use that to find meaning in our lives, to find that energy so that we can continue forward.”
Consistency; it's gonna take time for everybody in that community to build that habit and build it into their schedule. And that means continuously showing up. If it's a need and a desire that you have, I bet they do too.
Courtney got to chat all things healthier relationships with Kirsten Odegaard on the Stop Overthinking podcast. Check it out!
Courtney recently had the chance to talk with Elizabeth Mintun about Meeting Guilt with Grace on the Calming Ground podcast. Check it out!
“Whenever we've talked about community of care, it's really been talking about how the systems have been built against us and how we're pushed to be independent, very productive.
And “self-care” is a form of just putting a bandaid on yourself when that's really not a way to have longevity within any sort of field; especially in something where you're caring for other people.”
"It's medicine; it's an invitation into the medicine of expansion, contraction, but also where might you be invited into a different energy.”
"Every time you journal, you're opening yourself up to more insight and information about yourself.”
"If there's self judgment, it's gonna get in the way of our healing every step of the way. So if we can choose to believe that all behaviors make sense and all the ways that we are currently functioning make sense, we then can ask, well, why would it make sense? What is being reenacted in order for me to do something different this time now that I'm an adult and now that I am safe?”
"Sometimes that fear of failure keeps you in the planning stage forever. And I'm so guilty of that, where I will sit there and plan and plan and plan and never actually take the action. That is such a struggle for me. And it's that fear of failure.”
"I think a lot of it is really about intuition. Nothing in particular happened with me other than getting more and more unhappy. I am generally a good natured, glass half full kind of person. And I wasn't that way. I wasn't that happy go lucky person.”
"...(D)on't comment on another person's body unless they can fix it in under five minutes, right?”
"There are so many ways that we are living outside of some tiny little box that has been prescribed for us. When we try to shove ourselves into that box is when we begin to feel shame.”
"You don't need to go and live in a forest or on an amazing beach to experience the season or connect with nature and the elements. Nature is around us."
"The world has decided so many things about me that are grossly inaccurate and if I carried the weight of all those I would be crushed and never be able to get out of bed."
"We have an incredible capacity for healing, if we just give ourselves a chance."
"Work life balance; there's not such a dichotomy. It's not like either/or. Work is part of our life. So how you choose to make your livelihood has to be some expression of who you are."
"How do I want to live my life so I can have the balance I really look for?"
"When we're intentional, and we're taking action and we're in touch with what it is we like, what matters to us, and we become unapologetic about that, there is liberation, and freedom, and joy."
"My first question to you is going to be 'What is the first step? What is the simplest thing you can do to make a change in your life today?'."
"One way is not the way for every body, and everybody needs to listen to their own body and figure out what works for you."
