Join Karaleigh in an interview with the incredible Brooke Jean.
In this episode, we dive in to what it means to be un-perfected, how to embrace the gold in your mess and come home to who you really are.
Brooke Jean, MA, LPC is a Licensed Therapist, Coach, Speaker, and the Host of The Unperfected Pod on a mission to normalize normal. She believes that life isn’t perfect, but it can be unperfected and using a blend of energy work, counseling, coaching, & facilitation, she guides her audience to let go of who they think they are, in order to create the life they’ve been waiting for.
Favorite takeaways:
1. The Unperfected Movement is really just about us shedding the shoulds of conditioning and social priming and remembering who we are underneath all of our roles, our responsibilities, our trauma responses, our good-girl syndrome, our people pleasing- all the masks that we wear that we develop to fit in. It’s about letting it all go, showing up messy, embracing the gold in your mess, and finding freedom in the messy so that you can create from an authentic place.
2. When you shut down the feelings of anger or rage- whatever we’ve been conditioned is shameful- when you shut that down, you also shut down the capacity for joy. You can’t shut off some feelings. If you’re gonna shut off the rage, you’re gonna shut off the joy. If you’re gonna shut off the anger, you’re gonna shut off the passion. As humans, we’re designed to have a full spectrum of emotions.
3. Protect the precious jewels: time, energy, and sanity. We are not an endless supply, yet we are just bleeding out time, energy, and sanity all day every day and then wondering why we lose our crap at the end of the night with our families. Go through a real inventory of what is stealing and draining your energy that you need to clean up.
4. Your first no is painful, your second no feels a little better, by your tenth no you are liberated! Your like, what else can I say no to, this feels amazing! And the world doesn’t fall apart when we choose to live in alignment with who we are- actually things just start to get really good when we come from that place.
5. Here’s where the tough love comes in: Stop getting in your own way. Stop making excuses. You are the one telling yourself that you can’t because… fill in societal expectation and standard. And while that’s a real thing, we also get to choose. One of our most potent tools in our tool belt is our choice point, our power of choice.
6. For so many women, we are not going for the thing that lights our soul on fire because we are telling ourselves a lie that we can’t or we shouldn’t or we don’t deserve it and that’s where you need to step aside and do the work to rewire all that, because your soul wants bigger for you.
7. Follow the joy. Follow the things that remind you of who you were when you were little. What did you freaking LOVE to do? Who were you? What made you feel the most alive?
You can find more from Brooke at www.liveunperfected.com or on IG @brookejeanunperfected. Also be sure to listen to her incredible podcast, The Unperfected Pod.
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