You can do a lot of great work on yourself with a journal. If you want to try and work through a problem, or you want to start a journal but don’t know what to write about, this is an episode for you. It can also be really confusing as to what to talk about. Especially if nothing flows. 

The journal I use is this one:
https://amzn.to/3tV5Vc5

And to apply for the free chat session you can head here:
https://www.yaywithme.com/shop/apply-for-a-free-recorded-chat-session

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Ep 142: Self-Dialoguing - How to Do Self-Work in a Journal

Tools for regaining a sense of autonomy and self-confidence if you find that you are clinging and overly sensitive to the opinions of others. So if you are in a codependent relationship or you feel trapped in that fear-based loop that can happen when you are too consumed by a relationship, and you feel small and powerless, this is an episode for you. These are exercises – both physical and written- to do in order to condition your mind and body to resume a more empowered headspace.  Strong. Self-assured. If you are feeling reliant on someone else or something else – like your value is somehow dictated by that thing, try starting here. I did these steps myself recently and found them to be re-centering and enlightening.

Ep 145: Regaining Confidence and Autonomy When Feeling Clingy + Small

20 minute guided meditation / iRest Yoga Nidra for Inner Strength.
Want other audio meditations like this? Download the free app: Yoga for Better Health - www.yogabetterhealth.com/ybh-app

IRest Yoga Nidra / Guided Meditation for Inner Strength

AdZRemix

Fragments from the forthcoming multi-disc release “The Last Things” by Phil Tomsett & the Inventors of Aircraft.

Wist Rec 29 takes a psychogeographic tour of Paul Auster’s ‘In the Country of Last Things’ though set in a small village to which our protagonist ventures to. 
https://wistrec.com/wist-rec-029-2/

Phil Tomsett & the Inventors of Aircraft, The Last Things (fragments)

Toni Morrison: Do you realize, the moment to be anarchic was when we saw those tapes.
When we first saw those tapes.

Charlie Rose: They waited for justice.

Toni: They waited.

How long was that - 9 months, a year?
They WAITED for justice for almost a year. And it didn't come.

How do you feel?

Charlie: Why has racism been so dominant in our life? What is it about it —

Toni: It's about feeling good.

Charlie: You need to feel better; that you are better than someone —

Toni: Some people do.

How do you feel?

How do you feel?

If you can only be tall because somebody is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. But don't you understand that the people who do this thing - who practice racism - are bereft. There is something distorted about the psyche. It's a huge waste, and it's a corruption, and a distortion. It's like it's a profound neurosis that nobody examines for what it is. It feels crazy. It IS crazy.

How do you feel?

But when you take it away - if I take your racism away from you - there you are all strung out, and all you've got is your little self. And what is That? What Are You Without Racism? Are you any good? Are you still strong? You still smart? You still like yourself?

How do you feel?

Charlie: And the advice is to come to grips with your own fears.

Toni: Of course. Your own fears. Your own history. And what do you need? What do you need this for?
How do you feel?
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— Created In honor of all the lives lost. In honor of understanding. In honor of feeling. In honor of JUSTICE.



This excerpt from a 1993 interview with PBS' Charlie Rose.
Full Transcript Here: https://charlierose.com/videos/18778

How You Feel [WAITING FOR JUSTICE] (feat. Toni Morrison)

19 Rebirth

If you have insecurities that come up and cause you to push your partner away or cling too closely, this is for you. Maybe you find that you are acting out in petty ways – like, starting fights. Or maybe it comes out in jealousy. When you get insecure, you are taken out of the present joy of a relationship, something that can make you feel haunted or like you are going crazy. The worst part of insecurities is you unfriend yourself in the process. You don’t feel you SHOULD feel the way you do, so it makes you feel shitty about yourself FOR feeling shitty about yourself. Often what we do in these situations is pretend it isn’t happening. So if this sounds true for you – this is an episode for you!
As with all my episodes, there are 3 parts – the what, why, and how the tools. 

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Ep 134: How to Stop Insecurities From Hurting Your Relationship

Sherri Mitchell (Weh’na Ha’mu Kwasset) is a Native American attorney, teacher, and award-winning activist who grew up on the Penobscot Indian Reservation (Indian Island), Maine, and is the author of Sacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change.

In this episode, she is joined in a conversation with healer and movement builder Brenda Salgado. Together they explore Native American mythology and cosmology as a means of healing our collective wounds.

This episode was recorded during a live online event on August 1, 2020.

Sherri Mitchell: Indigenous Wisdom For Healing Trauma

How being overly identified with what others think is tied to a lack of self-love.  This is for anyone who doesn’t trust themselves and generally doesn’t feel they’re a quality person. If you act in really selfish and self-destructive ways – maybe you betray others and lie or cheat. Or you feel really heavily identified with your body or your appearance, or the attention of others – but you don’t feel there’s much more that’s good about you and who you are, then this is for you. This is about beginning the process of understanding why this is happening and also starting to build up faith that you are a good person. The mindfulness books I mention in this episode are here:
https://amzn.to/3izGVla
https://amzn.to/32jI371
https://amzn.to/2RkNBHY

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Ep 135: Empty on the Inside - Attention-Seeking on the Outside

This is a power-up (shorter) episode for anyone who has been living in a purely reactive state where they are going through the motions/dealing with thousands of to-do’s. It’s really easy to forget what is good and fun in your life and with that, we start expecting/seeing only the serious and dire around us. It’s also easy to forget what makes you You, and what makes that self-awesome. This is a little energy-setting reminder. 

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Don’t Forget Yourself: Keeping Lightness in Your Life

Help Me Be Me is an emotional toolkit for creating positive change in yourself. I like to think of it as self-help for people who hate self-help. I'm Sarah May, coach/mom/all-around happy person, and these are the tools that work for me in my life. For all of my offerings you can check out YayWithMe.com What I share is my personal opinion. It's not a diagnosis for treatment or a substitute for professional help. If you're suffering, please reach out to your local emergency services or call 9-1-1. Music theme created by www.BookerHillMusic.com