SHOWNOTES FOR MELINDA HEATH PODCAST “LIFESTYLE OF DAILY JOY”
EPISODE #11 TITLED “HOW LOVING YOURSELF AUTHENTICALLY LOOKS LIKE”
THE THINGS IN OUR LIFE THAT WE NURTURE WILL GROW POSITIVELY OR NEGATIVELY DEPENDING ON HOW AND WHAT MEASURE WAS USED IN THE NURTURING
Melinda Heath
I am Melinda Heath and welcome you to “Lifestyle of Daily Joy” episode #11 “How Loving Yourself Authentically Looks” thank you so much for being here and spending your precious time with me, it means the world.
Today, we will be continuing our self-care series along with our joy mini-series with “How loving yourself authentically looks”. As I mentioned in the last episode we will be talking about three things that hinder or steal our joy and they are fear, worry, as well as inauthenticity and how these relate to self-care and our well-being. However, I do sincerely apologize as I was recording, I noticed how long this episode ended up being, so this week if you do not mind… we will only talk about fear and inauthenticity and next week we will dive into the subject of worry. It is just that I try to keep the length of the episodes 45 minutes or shorter because I do value your time and understand you have other things in your life that you need and would like to do.
Okay, as we dive deep into these things the focus will be on what authenticity is, what it means, what it looks like, the hindrances you may be facing regarding it, and how we can have an authentic life and love it. When I speak about authenticity, I am meaning the very substance of us, who we truly are as a person, maintaining all our amazing qualities that we have been given no matter how many people like us or don’t like us. And I will be sharing many examples from my own life.
The exercises last week, you wrote down all the things you feel are hindering your joy, stealing your joy and robbing you of joy.
The things that you tell yourself positive or negative.
The things you feel true to be about yourself or the ones you hear that you feel aren’t true of you.
And this week if you haven’t done it already, I would like to encourage you to write down why these things are hindering you, what has taken place for joy to be stolen from you, and why you feel those things have robbed you of joy.
I would also like to encourage you to write down why you feel those things are true or are not true of you.
And then this week the exercises entail getting out more paper, on one piece make two columns and write down one side all of your believed abilities, your talents, your gifts, everything you know you are capable of doing and in the second column write down all the things you feel you aren’t able to do.
Then take some time to think about why you feel you can and why you feel you cannot do these certain things and then write your why’s down.
Then consider out of what you can do, the things you feel you do well like wow I really nailed that or if you feel it is something you aren’t good at is it because you are comparing yourself to others or you just don’t really know how to do it and write this information down.
For the second exercise today I would like to encourage you to write down on another piece of paper making a column on one side
Write all the things you like and love about yourself and in the other column write down all the things you do not like or love or would like to change about yourself.
Then take some time to reflect on these things, consider your reasoning why you do and why you don’t and then write them down.
The third exercise for you today has to do with your fears
On a piece of paper write all of your fears.
And then take some time to think about them and write down why you fear those things.
Thank you so much for hanging out with me and listening in.
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