How to Feel Whole After a Toxic Relationship with a Narcissist with Shannon Jenkins

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Today, we were talking about

how to feel whole after toxic

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relationships, AKA with the narcissist.

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How do you start over?

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How do you feel whole.

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And our recorded guest that has

shared us with some inspiring messages

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that will be here in the podcast.

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Today is Shannon Jenkins.

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She's the host of starting

over with Shannon.

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Podcast.

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She's inspiring you to do the work.

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And live a conscious,

meaningful and joyful life.

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She helps through her coaching.

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You heal and grow after

toxic relationships.

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If you are a perfectionist, if you're an

empath and you will love to listen to her.

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Message that she has for us

today on how to feel whole.

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Because so many times we all have

experienced this, where we feel like.

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A piece of our body has gone.

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There's been such a trauma bond.

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Everything is so intertwined.

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And on top of that, they pretty much

are a vampire and they suck us dry.

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They strip us from

everything that we know.

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And, , before we dive into this.

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, episode, I just want to resonate with you

the lyrics from Olivia Rodrigo's vampire.

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I I've heard it before.

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And then I heard it yesterday

and I was like, this is so it.

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So if you resonate with being in a

relationship like this, Then you are

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going to benefit from the episode.

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, From Shannon's message today.

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So here are the lyrics to vampire.

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By Olivia Rodrigo.

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I

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hate to give the satisfaction,

asking how you're doing now.

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How's the castle builds off people.

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You pretend to care about.

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Just what you wanted.

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I look at you.

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Cool guy.

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You got it.

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I see the parties and the diamonds.

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Sometimes when I close my eyes,

six months of torture, you sold

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as some forbidden paradise.

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I loved you truly got a

laugh at the stupidity.

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Because I've made some real big mistakes.

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But you make the worst one look fine.

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I should have known it was strange.

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You only come out at night.

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I used to think I was smart.

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But you made me look so naive.

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The way you sold me for parts,

as you sunk your teeth into me.

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Oh, blood soccer.

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Same fucker bleeding me

dry, like a goddamn vampire.

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And every girl I ever talked to

told me you were bad, bad news.

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You called them crazy.

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God, I hate the way I called them.

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Crazy too.

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You're so convincing.

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How do you lie without flinching?

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How do you lie?

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How do you lie?

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How do you lie?

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Ooh, what a mesmerizing paralyzing

fucked up little thrill.

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Can't figure out just how you did it.

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And God knows I never will.

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Went for me and not her

cause girls your age.

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No better.

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I've made some real big mistakes,

but you make the worst one look fine.

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I should have known.

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It was strange.

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You only come out at night.

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I used to think I was smart, but

you've made me look so naive.

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The way you sold me for parts,

as you sunk your teeth into me.

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A little blood sucker.

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Fame fucker bleeding me

dry, like a goddamn vampire.

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You said it was true love,

but wouldn't that be hard?

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You can't love anyone.

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Cause that would mean you had a heart.

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. I tried to help you out.

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Now I know that I can't.

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Because how you think the kind

of thing I'll never understand.

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I've made some real big mistakes,

but you make the worst one look fine.

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I shouldn't should have.

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No.

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And it was strange.

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You only come out at night.

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I used to think I was smart,

but you made me look so naive

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the way you sold me for parts.

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As you sunk your teeth into me.

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Oh, blood sucker.

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Fame fucker lead in me dry,

like a goddamn vampire.

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So this episode is going to help

you regain your blood back, regain

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your energy back, and to understand

how to become whole again.

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So let's dive in./

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Shannon: Leonard Cohen famously

said, There's a crack in everything.

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That's how the light gets in.

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This quote...

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It honestly changed my life and it

is a true reflection of the healing

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journey that I've personally gone on

after healing from narcissistic abuse.

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And you know, what I once thought was

the most broken, bruised, insecure,

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fragile, and ultimately unlovable part

of myself was actually the very place

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that would lead me to the wholeness

that I was searching for all along.

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For those of you who don't know me.

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My name is Shannon Jenkins, and I am

a self love and mindfulness coach,

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and I'm also the host of a top self

development and spirituality podcast

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called Starting Over with Shannon Jenkins.

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It's been running for the past

two or so years, and every week

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I have different interviews and

solo episodes just like this one.

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In which I share about how our

rock bottom moments can often

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be a blessing in disguise.

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How they can, in fact, not only be

the breakdown, but the break open.

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That we never even knew that we needed.

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And this was certainly my experience.

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The most challenging time of my

life, while unforgettably difficult.

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It also woke me up to my true self and

all of the various masks that I'd been

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wearing over the years to avoid or cover

deep seated pain, fear, guilt, and shame.

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And this is the message that

I want to share with you.

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Today, how you can restore the wholeness

that is within you all along after

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notwithstanding what is a really, really

difficult experience, because ultimately.

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I want you, like me, to learn

how to trust more deeply,

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both for yourself and of life.

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Trust that even if you don't have

all the answers right now, one day

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in your future you are going to have

that ah ha moment where you go, ugh.

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I get it.

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It makes me think of one of my

favorite quotes by Steve Jobs.

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And he said, you can't connect

the dots looking forward.

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You can only connect

them looking backwards.

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So you have to trust that the dots

will somehow connect in your future.

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I literally had this stuck on

my window during a university

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exchange year in Paris years ago.

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Incidentally, the place where I

fell pregnant and started to see the

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toxicity in my romantic relationship.

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I didn't get it then.

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Not at all.

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But boy, do I get it now.

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So I'm going to share with you on

this episode a little bit about my

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story in narcissistic abuse and how

I found my freedom, but also four

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key steps towards healing and filling

whole after toxic relationships.

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This forms.

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A bulk of what I do in my coaching and

for any of you who would like to have

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my free guide, which gives a recap of

all of this info as well as journal

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prompts and a lot of aesthetically

pleasing photos and colors, which

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I know us empaths absolutely love.

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So you can get a copy of that by messaging

me the word guide over on Instagram,

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where I am there at shannonjenkins.

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co.

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So let me tell you a

little bit about my story.

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You might be able to tell from the accent,

I'm not sure, but I am Australian and

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British, and I now live in Switzerland.

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I'm 30 now, but back when I was 22,

I found myself in a relationship

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with a man that I later learned

to be a narcissistic sociopath.

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So I was definitely unsure of him at

first, and I had absolutely an inner

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knowing that arose out of my body.

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That said, there's something off here.

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There's a darkness.

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There's something not quite right,

but perhaps like many of you, I let my

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mind talk me out of believing what I

knew deep down, because this man, he

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was charming, charismatic, confident.

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And over time that Coupled with his

attentiveness, his special interest in me,

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his loyalty, I was completely drawn in.

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And I didn't understand at the time that

he wanted to move so quickly, and wanted

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me to get vulnerable and open up to him

so that he could later manipulate me.

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But that was the reality.

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A lot of his early behaviours

made me give over my trust and

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love quicker than I expected.

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And I still recall how in the early

phases of dating, he did things

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that genuinely touched my heart.

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And they touched my heart because of

pre existing vulnerabilities that I had.

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And this is one of the key themes

for me in terms of doing the work,

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bringing yourself to self awareness,

understanding your patterns, your fears.

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So key.

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And this was really the

opening up to that for me.

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But...

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I started investigating a

little bit deeper what made me

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fall for somebody like this.

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So a bit of my background.

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I grew up in a somewhat

unstable household.

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We moved around a lot.

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I went to over 10 different

schools and we even moved over

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to the other side of the world.

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So from Australia to

England when I was about 12.

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I didn't know my father.

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I didn't have any relationship with him.

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In fact, he didn't even know I

was born until I was about 19.

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And I only had females around me.

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In addition to that, also, my mother

never really repartnered, so I didn't

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have any model for healthy, cooperative

love and connection, but I realized

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that all of this led to, obviously,

the way that I showed up in the world

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and the needs and the fears that I

had, and I, for a long time, didn't

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admit to myself that I had these fears.

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I didn't see them.

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And I wanted to be strong, capable,

independent, never really knowing that, in

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fact, that was part of a trauma response.

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So I think with this in mind, what

became clear was that my ex knew how to

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soothe my vulnerabilities, let's say.

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So in this early love bombing stage, he

started giving big demonstrations of love

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that made me feel safe and protected.

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And, you know, I remember one memorable

gift he gave me was a portable

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phone charger after a night out.

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I was in London, I was on a night

bus, I was drunk, my phone ran out

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of battery and I couldn't get home.

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And The following day he said, I never

want you to get into that situation again.

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I want to help you.

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Please feel like you can call

me if you, for whatever reason,

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don't have enough phone battery.

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Here is a portable phone charger.

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I remembered this because it got me

right to one of my deep needs and a

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core fear, that of being unprotected.

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And all these things added up to me

believing that I had found my soulmate.

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I share this with you because I You

know, I want you to have that moment,

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that pause, that reflection where you go

or you think back to the relationship.

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Has there been a time where

something has really touched your

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heart that you remember and why?

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Why?

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What was the deeper need or the

deeper fear that was being allayed?

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This is honestly so key to finding

the freedom that you're looking for.

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So for me, after a year, after all

of this initial love bombing and

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things started changing, he started

becoming more controlling, more grumpy.

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more critical.

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And I could not make sense of that.

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How could somebody be so loving,

so generous, so seemingly empathic,

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to then suddenly criticizing

me, my abilities regularly.

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I learned at a later date that

this is cognitive dissonance,

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as it's called in psychology.

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It left me making excuses for

his behavior because I didn't.

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I didn't know how to

reconcile this, right?

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It was like, well, I think this is

the real him, but maybe it's just the

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stress, or maybe it's because it wasn't.

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It was the de masking of his true self.

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And in essence, what has happened,

to give you the full circle, I

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left when our baby was very young.

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And we ended up having a two year

long legal battle that was full

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of dirty, malicious tactics worthy

of a Netflix dark TV series.

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I don't know, I couldn't even watch

these shows like you or others because

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it made me feel so anxious and it was

frighteningly similar to my experience.

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But in the end of that, I was granted full

permission by the Family Court of Western

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Australia to relocate to Switzerland,

which is no easy feat, I've got to say.

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Uh, international relocation cases are

very, very complicated and difficult.

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So if any of you are going through that,

boy, do I feel you feel free to reach

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out for any help as well if you need to.

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And I fell in love and I fell in

love with somebody who was kind and

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gentle and honest and it's just the

most fulfilling love I ever had.

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And I should also add that I got sole

parental responsibility for our son,

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which was also pretty significant.

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I think a reflection of quite

how difficult it was as well.

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But I know that this love that

I now have would not have been

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possible without doing this work.

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Because quite honestly, there was

a part of me that felt like I was

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not deserving of this kind of love.

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I was afraid of abandonment.

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I was afraid of not...

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Being the kind of person

he wanted me to be.

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And then there was also a part of me, old,

hyper vigilant, survival mode me, that

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saw him as being soft and somewhat boring.

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But I know that that old

me did not feel whole.

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I know that that because of some of the

traumas that I'd faced in my childhood and

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the fact that I was just running around

in eternal busyness and thrill seeking and

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pursuit of achievement to mask all of this

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but step by step I've learned how to

soothe that part of me has a lot of

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deep mistrust that part of me also that

feels like I'm unworthy and undeserving.

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I know how to soothe that part.

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And I know how to step forward

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,

and I can honestly sit here and say.

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Um, perhaps four, five years

later, I'm so, so proud of the

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work that I've done to heal.

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And I cannot, I honestly cannot

believe the life and the love that

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I have now, but I know that this

is a reward for doing that work.

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So I want you to know that

even if you can't see it yet.

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Like one day this is all going to make

sense and you might well be able to

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look back with a smile and lightness

in your heart, grateful for the

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wisdom and confident in your ability

to actually change on a deep level.

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This might be a bit of

a controversial point.

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I see a lot of people focusing on

getting their life back after toxic

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relationships, like feeling like

themselves again, but my perspective,

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my truth is that that old self in a

way that you knew is not actually me.

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what you want.

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It's just the only reference point

you have because you can't see

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the next version of yourself yet.

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The version of yourself that is

stronger, wiser, more kind, more

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loving, more peaceful, present

and happy than ever before.

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But that is the goal, or

that should be the goal.

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It's not restoring what was, it's

accepting what is, and it's equipping you

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to step into your next level of expansion.

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And this for me is where

spirituality has been a really

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helpful force in my life, let's say.

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Because it helped me to learn how to

get more comfortable in uncertainty.

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I started learning how to trust the

process in the unfolding of my life

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instead of being more operating

from a place of fear and tension.

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Because the thing that I know is that

There will be opportunities, random or

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seemingly random encounters and wonderful

people that will come into your life

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that you can't even possibly imagine yet.

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You don't have foresight on

that, but it doesn't mean it's

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not going to happen for you.

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You know, there were so many

moments during my own separation

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and my own abusive legal battle, I

should say, where my trust wavered.

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I mean, I was overwhelmed

by heavy emotions.

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I was struggling to get quiet

and listen to the whispers that

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said just keep moving forward.

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But what I found was that in those moments

of immense resistance and fear, There

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would be unexpected little boosts that

helped me keep moving forward so much so

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that my mantra ended up becoming trust

the weight, embrace the uncertainty,

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enjoy the beauty of becoming when

nothing is certain, anything is possible.

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It's a quote by Mandy Hale and.

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I had one of these moments, I'm not sure

whether you've ever had that before,

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where I was in the car, driving, having

all of these self doubting, overwhelming,

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negative thoughts, I started saying, I

can't do this anymore, I just want to

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give up, was it right to separate, should

I just give up resisting and keep the

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peace, should I allow him back into my

life like he wants, then lo and behold, a

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song by Destiny's Child came on the radio.

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You've got to know it.

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Everyone knows this song survivor.

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I'm not going to sing it cause

I'm absolutely terrible, but it's

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like, you know, I'm a survivor.

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, I'm not going to give up.

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I'm going to work harder.

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I'm going to make it,

et cetera, et cetera.

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And this song, I blasted it on the radio

with my windows down, my hair blowing.

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I was driving to the beach.

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My son was so young in

the back at that stage.

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And I just said to myself, okay, this

is a sign to keep moving forward.

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You're on the right track,

even though that this is hard.

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And I had a few more moments like that

where , it just felt unexplainable,

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you know, I ended up meeting my

husband completely unexpectedly.

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He was in a position to help me.

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I also left my relationship with

no money, but it turns out I was

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in entitled to an unexpected family

provision after the birth of our son.

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And then several grand came into my

bank account at the exact, I mean,

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exact moment I needed to put up a

rental advance on my own place to

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be able to start over independently.

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And then the day that I moved in,

this almost brings tears to my eyes.

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The day that I moved into my small place

with my eight month old son, there was

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a full rainbow over the top of my house.

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And tears just sprung to my

eyes and I held him and I

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said, we're going to be okay.

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And I soaked up that feeling, that

trust that I'm being helped, that

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I'm being guided, keep walking

forward, help will come to you.

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I think what I didn't know, but I'm

so convinced of now, and this is

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what I share far and wide is that.

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By doing this inner work on yourself,

this is what is going to bring

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you the long term transformation

that you're looking for.

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That transformation that brings you

your peace, your joy, your sparkle

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back and makes you feel whole again.

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And it's all about getting better.

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Not getting bitter.

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So with that in mind, here

are some four key steps.

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The first one is identify

your protective self.

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This is such a big part

of healing everyone.

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Honestly, it's like realizing

that you have your true self under

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there somewhere, but that true

self that was there got hurt.

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at some point, usually in childhood, and

you built a protective shield, you put

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on a defensive armor around that wound.

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And the thing is that protective

self has probably been running the

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show in your life for quite a while

without even being aware of it.

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This was certainly my experience.

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I did not know that I had such a

strong perfectionistic protective self.

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Like, I...

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I did not realize that me constantly

striving, being busy, regularly

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overwhelmed was just because I was

avoiding feeling the shame that I

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had stored deep, deep, deep within.

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So I think, and there are many,

many types of protective selves.

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I've just described the perfectionistic

one, which is what I found myself in,

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but also another is like codependency.

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You know, this is somebody who has

buried deep within an inner sense of

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worthlessness and not enoughness with a.

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A fear of rejection and abandonment and

the protective mechanism around that is

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to prove the opposite by always caring

for others or by being very compassionate

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and helpful by being a peacemaker.

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These are all types of protective

selves, but you know what?

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You don't have to hate it.

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In fact, you shouldn't at all

because it has served you for

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probably a long period of your life.

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You have been rewarded for that.

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It has met your needs, and that's why

it can also be so hard to let go of.

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But, there is a purpose

to letting go of it.

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So we're going to come on to that.

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That is the second part of this,

is really learning how to let

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go of that protective self.

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Or, at the very least, not

be caught in its trance 24 7.

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Am I still perfectionistic?

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Yes.

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For sure, I have those tendencies.

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But rather than letting it control my

life and lead me to constant overwhelm and

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burnout, I have a toolkit to soothe that

little Shannon who just wants to be loved,

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and enough, and feels like praise and

accomplishments will bring that to her.

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Can you see the power in this?

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Naturally, letting go of this protective

self or this defense mechanism

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that you've had for quite a while,

I'll be honest with you, it sucks.

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It really does.

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At first, it's hard because

you're finally faced with the

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things that you've been avoiding.

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And this is literally why I have such high

respect and admiration for anyone who does

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this work, because I know it's not easy.

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It does demand courage, but I

also know how life changing it is.

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You know, I've had so many memories

of working with others, of opening

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up, sharing these painful memories,

experiencing them in our bodies during

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a retreat, and people just having this.

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It's childlike joy and vibrancy and

aliveness in their face afterwards.

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Honestly, it's so beautiful to see that

you can really visually see the weight

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lifting off of people, which is the

exact opposite to what your defense

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mechanism would have you believe, which

is, oh my goodness, if you finally

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reveal your true self, you're going

to get found out and it's going to

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be a disaster and you are going to be

rejected or abandoned or unloved, right?

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So, forewarning.

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Expect that there will be

resistance to this, excuses, escape

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routes, avoidance mechanisms.

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You may experience numbness or

other physical sensations like

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feeling blocked or tight or empty.

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Or maybe this is one that came

up for me feeling like I found

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it so hard to get a handle of my

emotions, feeling so overwhelmed.

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But then I could suddenly just

cut it off too, especially

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in relationships with others.

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And I recognize that was just

a dissociative mechanism.

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Funnily enough, what actually

helped was really staying open and

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realizing that people would love me.

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Despite or because of my vulnerability.

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So underneath all of these protective

layers, these protective mechanisms,

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we are going to find what's underneath

our core wounds, our shame, our

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fear, our inadequacy, our pain.

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And the third step that I want

to share is about resolving that.

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And, you know, this is actually

more simple than a lot of us

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realize as difficult it is.

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And I think it's because the power

lies in just staying with it.

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Literally, no fixing, no talking

yourself out of it, not analyzing,

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not judging, just being with.

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Whatever feeling there is there,

feeling not enough, allowing yourself to

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actually feel that and release it, making

space around it and crucially showing

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yourself love and kindness through it.

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That's why I say no judging, right?

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Because in those moments, that's when

we're often like, Oh my goodness,

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I've had to get you together.

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I don't know if I can swear, sorry,

but like pull yourself together.

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Why is this?

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Or you should be able to handle this.

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Et cetera, et cetera, all of this comes

out, but don't just allow it to be there.

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You know, the most transformative healing

events or experiences I've had in my

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life is when I've genuinely allowed

myself to feel, to sob, to tremble in

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fear, to have tears rolling down my face.

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And I'm so familiar with it now.

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That, and it will still occur, you

know, I will still have those core

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wounds that play out, but they don't

grip me as much as they used to, and

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that's kind of part of the process that

I try to teach people, like it's that

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the triggers, they aren't so alarming

anymore, but there is such, such power

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in Allowing this to be instead of

spending your life running away from it.

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So what if you did just dare to sit,

to lean in, to allow, to accept?

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What I know for sure is that your life

is going to change for the better.

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And you'll be much better

placed to take the practical

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steps you need to take as well.

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Such as, let's say, setting

boundaries with a toxic ex partner.

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Or even in my instance, for me, it's

come up with starting my own business.

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It showed up in a different way.

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Like now I have the same thing with

the perfectionism coming out with

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how I show up for other people online.

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It's just being mindful of that

witnessing, allowing, seeing

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what is going on deep within and

then making a different choice.

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And this is really what it means

to go down to the roots, to treat

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the causes, not the symptoms.

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And this brings me on to my final point,

which is about feeling whole again.

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What is this healing work for, really?

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Like, it's not so that you spend

your life in eternal misery

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or sadness or grief, anxiety.

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No.

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It is so that you feel light,

free, peaceful, more loving,

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more joyful, more whole.

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You know, I frequently ask my

podcast guests a question at the

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end of each episode and that is,

what is something that you used to

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believe that you no longer believe?

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And the most frequent answers I have

had relate to this sense of being

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unworthy, of being not enough, of being

broken, but that they've woken up to

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the truth, the truth that is their

inherent worth, their natural wholeness.

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There's a wake up call, and often

it can be in a moment, it can often

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be in a period, what we sometimes

call dark night of the soul, or

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these existential crises where

everything seems to be breaking down.

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But on the other side of it, like I

said back at the beginning, it is the

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breakthrough, the break open that you

need, because you realize that, Wow,

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you don't need to be stuck in the

trance of this pattern anymore, always

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trying to prove your worth externally

through validation from others, through

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success or achievements, through being

of use or a positive contribution.

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Sure, you can go ahead and do those

things, but you're not doing it with the

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same fear based energy as you once were.

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So what is at the core

of feeling whole again?

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It is this.

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It is not something that

you have to accomplish.

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It is something that you realize.

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It's like believing that the

sun doesn't exist because it was

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always covered by the clouds.

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Like no, remove the clouds

and the sunshine will pour in.

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It is there.

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It was always there.

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And it always will be.

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One of my favorite quotes is from a

poet called Rumi, who said, Your task

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is not to seek for love, but merely to

seek and remove all the barriers within

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yourself that you have built against it.

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You are not broken or unlovable.

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You just have a false belief that you are.

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And that is something that

you have the power to change.

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That unconditionally loving

and loved soul that you truly

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are is always there within you.

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Thank you so much for

listening to this episode.

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I do hope that it has inspired you

or touched your heart or given you

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the courage to continue doing this

inner work and please know that

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you don't have to do it alone.

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You know, even just listening to

this podcast and many others like

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all knowing that this is a part

of the human experience, right?

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Like, and we can find community

and connection through it.

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You know, there is not a need to be

independent and asking for help is not

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a sign of weakness or embarrassing.

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