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In this week’s New Year’s Eve episode, I reflect on 2024 as a year of laying the groundwork for future growth. As we look forward to 2025, I want to emphasize themes like introspection and personal development that can help us all prepare for a more balanced and fulfilling year ahead.
Reflecting on the past year often brings up negatives, but it’s crucial to focus on lessons learned. Inspired by Mel Robbins’ podcast episode about conducting yearly audits, I plan to engage with her seven-question exercise myself. This process encourages thinking about what we want to feel in 2025—like inspiration and fulfillment—and how to make those feelings a reality.
This year, I’ve discovered new passions. Lifting weights at the gym has given me incredible fitness results without relying heavily on cardio. Faith played an important role, too. Additionally, I’ve found creativity beyond traditional art forms and realized that solutions often hide within our challenges if approached thoughtfully.
Key takeaways from this journey include mastering time management, resisting impulse shopping, and ensuring there’s always room for fun amidst hard work. Trusting my intuition has been vital—it never leads me astray—and I’ll rely even more on it in 2025 and more that I share in this episode.
Give yourself some time and space to reflect back upon where you’ve been. We can glean so much gold from the past if we are not afraid to look at it.
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Reflections and Resolutions: Harnessing Potential for 2025
As we stand on the cusp of a new year, it’s natural to reflect on the journey we’ve traversed over the past twelve months. In this insightful episode of Grieving Voices, our host takes us through a personal audit of 2024—a year dedicated to laying down foundations for future growth—and looks forward with optimism towards a balanced and fulfilling 2025.
Embracing Introspection and Growth
One key theme from this episode is introspection. It’s easy to get caught up in what went wrong or focus solely on challenges faced. However, as our host points out, there’s immense value in reflecting on lessons learned. This reflective process isn’t about dwelling on negatives but rather drawing inspiration from them—much like Mel Robbins’ approach in her podcast where she shares an annual seven-question audit exercise aimed at fostering self-awareness.
Key Lessons from 2024
- Fitness Transformation: The host discovered joy in weightlifting workouts without relying heavily on cardio exercises. This not only led to impressive fitness results but also instilled confidence that change can be achieved by stepping outside one’s comfort zone.
- Faith and Belief: A small miracle involving their son’s scholarship underscored the power of faith and belief—reminding all listeners that sometimes hope pays off when least expected.
- Resourcefulness & Creativity: Beyond traditional art forms lies creativity waiting within each problem-solving opportunity; often solutions are hidden beneath layers if approached thoughtfully enough!
- Time Management & Impulse Control: Effective time management combined with resisting impulse shopping became pivotal takeaways which allowed room for fun amidst hard work commitments throughout last year’s endeavors too…
5 .Trusting Intuition : Learning never steers wrong has been another significant realization along life’s path thus far – trusting oneself more deeply moving forward into next chapter ahead seems wise indeed!
6 .Metaphysical Support Awareness: Recognizing support beyond physical realm offers strength during challenging times; leaning further into spirituality might just unlock untapped potential awaiting discovery…
Grief, Grieving Voices Podcast, Podcast, season 5, solo episode |
SHOW NOTES SUMMARY:
On this Christmas Eve episode, I extend warm, festive greetings to all listeners, no matter how you celebrate. Inspired by my recent newsletter, The Unleash Letters, I reflect on the past year’s experiences and energies while looking forward with hope to 2025.
I discuss the power of self-reflection as a healing tool—especially for those grieving—and encourage everyone to consider what energies from 2023 they carried into 2024 and how these might impact their future.
I’ve experienced a shift in my beliefs about unseen spiritual support, which has renewed my excitement and inspiration for the future. Trusting oneself and having faith in a higher power can truly spark personal growth.
Setting intentions is crucial; it helps us tackle challenges head-on and transform our lives into ones filled with freedom and fulfillment. We can quickly change perspectives by addressing obstacles directly, grounding ourselves, and reframing our thoughts. While conflicts are inevitable when engaging deeply with others, viewing year-end as a new beginning allows us to harness energy shifts for personal growth.
I invite you to reflect on what didn’t work in 2024, consider changes you’d like to make for 2025, and explore my website for services that meet where you are at like the energy healing membership, meditations, or the Do Grief Differently program—with an exclusive limited-time discount available!
My goal is to meet you wherever you are on your journey by helping you take control of your energy and potential. As I close this episode with hope for 2025, remember that unleashing your heart unlocks your life’s true potential!
RESOURCES:
- The Unleashed Letters Newsletter
- Energy Healing Membership
- Do Grief Differently (10% off for two individuals for January or February start date)
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Embrace the Holiday Spirit with Grieving Voices
As we approach the end of another year, it’s a time for reflection, gratitude, and setting intentions for what lies ahead. In this special Christmas Eve episode of the Grieving Voices podcast, listeners are invited to pause and reflect on their journey through 2023 and how they can step into 2024 with renewed energy and purpose.
A Season of Reflection
The holiday season is often seen as a time of joy and celebration. However, it’s also a period where emotions run high—especially for those who are grieving. The host acknowledges this duality by extending festive greetings while recognizing that everyone’s experience during this time is unique. Drawing inspiration from The Unleash Letters, their biweekly newsletter filled with personal reflections and resources, the host encourages us all to take stock of our emotional landscape.
The Power of Self-Reflection
Self-reflection isn’t just about looking back; it’s about understanding how past experiences shape our present selves—and ultimately influence our future paths. For those dealing with grief or other life challenges in particular—self-reflection becomes an essential tool for healing because it allows us not only recognize but also release pent-up energies holding us back from growth opportunities waiting around every corner!
In fact—as highlighted throughout today’s episode—the act itself requires immense amounts both mental physical strength which makes sense why so many people find themselves drained exhausted after engaging deeply introspective work like journaling meditation etcetera…
Trusting Yourself & Higher Powers
One key takeaway shared was trusting oneself alongside greater forces beyond comprehension such spiritual entities which may offer unseen support along way! This belief shift brought newfound excitement anticipation heading into upcoming years including potential breakthroughs transformations awaiting eager individuals ready embrace change wholeheartedly without fear hesitation whatsoever!
By fostering deeper connections within ourselves others universe at large—we unlock doors previously thought closed forever opening up endless possibilities once unimaginable before now suddenly tangible reality ripe exploration discovery anew each day passes bringing fresh insights revelations aplenty wherever turn next no matter path choose follow down road less traveled more familiar territory alike…
Episode Transcription:
Victoria Volk: Hello friend. Thank you for tuning in to this Christmas Eve episode of Greeting Voices. If you’re listening today on Christmas Eve, or Christmas Day, Merry Christmas. Happy Hanukkah however you celebrate, marry all the things to you and yours. And if you don’t celebrate, that’s okay too. Thank you for listening. Today’s episode is inspired by my last newsletter, which is called the unleashing letters. It comes out every other Wednesday. I will put a link to it in the show notes in case you’re interested in joining me biweekly in your inbox. It’s my place where I share a little bit more personal things and what’s happening, work wise, business, personal, all of the things, my thoughts, I share resources that I come across. It’s kind of a hodgepodge of of things sometimes But my last newsletter, I felt like was maybe too good not to share on the podcast. And so that is what inspired me to bring to you today Basically, my last newsletter to you here on the podcast. So if you like what you hear today, maybe you’d like to join my newsletter. Now I’ve been thinking a lot about this past year, the lessons I’ve learned, which will come in the next episode of grieving voices. But really about the energy. The energy that I feel maybe I I don’t wanna say this. Like, the energy that I embodied the most in twenty twenty four. And for me, it was just laying the foundation of what’s to come because I have a lot of hope of what’s to come for me business wise, personally, I’m looking ahead to twenty twenty five with a lot of excitement and enthusiasm and enjoy and Yeah. So I think this year was really about preparing myself energetically to to really receive all the goodness that I feel is just waiting for me. In twenty twenty five. And if you’re listening to this and you’re grieving, maybe you just lost a loved one. I’ve heard some really sad stories as of late, local to me, people that I’ve I somewhat knew who have passed way before their time. And so maybe this is not the episode for you today, and that’s okay. But at the same time, I think if self reflection can be an amazing healing tool for us, it can help us bring something to our awareness that helps us shift our perspective of things. That can be healing. So in that case, maybe this episode is for you. In any rate, turn this off when it doesn’t feel aligned. Keep listening if it does. But the highlights of the newsletter were pretty much, like, talking about I I mean, I can talk about I can spend things around to be about grief and a lot of my newsletter was about grief. And the energy that grief expands. But his grief expands a ton of energy to both hold in our bodies, but also to release. And we can release grief through breath work or body work, like energy healing, raky, biofuel tuning, like I offer somatic practices, shaking, tapping, even dancing, or other healing modalities that freeze the stagnant tangled energy that allows for allows for our energetic flow. So in a nutshell, Releasing and working through the energetics of grief is a good thing. And so if you are grieving and you’re listening to this, the worst has probably already happened. Is what is one small step you can do today for you to hold your heart with light and love? What is your heart asking of you right now? And I bet if you take a moment to be still and turn off the noise and distractions, you just might get your answer. When you think back on twenty twenty four, what did you energetically take into twenty twenty four from twenty twenty three? Was it heartbreak? Maybe what you’re feeling right now is a little bit of old pain. Is it decades old emotional pain and anger? Is it a longing or a desire burning inside that hasn’t come to fruition? What was the energy you took into twenty twenty four? And are you still holding onto that energy and taking it into twenty twenty five? What can you do or try that could contribute to twenty twenty five being different and not more of the same? Is it time for brave action? There is this unseen force and energy that has your back in mind. And up until very recently, I struggled to believe that this was true for me. I never questioned this being true for others, but my monkey mind always questioned because I very much am a questioner and a natural skeptic. And I was skeptical that the insights and messages that would drop into my mail slot, I’d like to call it, were made up by my monkey mind. But that all changed, actually only within the last month and a half or so, with a meditation that was like the flip of an energetic light switch. Now I fully believe that God angels spirit guides, saints universe, whatever you wanna call it, that there’s something we can’t see Although some people are gifted in that way to see, but that is far more intelligent than we ever will be on this physical plane and in our physical bodies with all of our logic and ego getting in the way. But that support is just waiting for us to knock on the door, waiting to be recognized and acknowledged. And now that I have experienced it fully for myself, I can’t unfreeze what I now know, that I am supported. And so are you? And feeling energetically held in this way has made my December twenty twenty four explode with excitement and buzz and inspiration. It has been as if the floodgates of what’s possible have opened up. Going into twenty twenty five, I feel a theme for me to share is self trust, and trust in something greater, and helping others cultivate that within themselves. Imagine the hope that can come from learning how to trust yourself and in something greater. It has certainly ignited a lot of hope in me. I’m as much a realist as I am a dreamer. Life is gonna life. Things don’t always go as we plan. Energetically finding ourselves in these situations can flip our lives upside down and rightfully so for a period of time. However, one thing I’ve learned about myself is that this past years that my rebound time from challenges like these is much shorter than it used to be in years past. When I can get out of my own way, set my monkey mind straight and get grounded and centered within myself, my perspective shifts so much more quickly. I become more reflective sooner. Therefore, I’m not ruminating and stewing on crap I can’t control or have the power to change in my favor. And although it is painful in the process, I’ve learned that the god angels, spirit guides universe, whatever you want to call it are simply making more room and space for what is meant for me. As long as I do my part and energetically step up to the plate, and I believe that’s true for you too. If we acknowledge the suck in the situation, set an intention with the might with our energy for what is in the highest good for ourselves and everyone involved, and release attachment to any certain outcome. Twenty twenty five can be an amazing year. And energetically, we can feel free. We will forever have conflict in our lives as long as we are in relationships with others and I can’t wait to share more about what twenty twenty four has taught me in an upcoming episode next week, but energetically, get grounded and centered within yourself. And trust, and you will see how the world just seems to rearrange and sort itself around you. Like a dear friend of mine says, metaphorically speaking, of course. The trash just seems to take out itself. We just so easily get in our own way because we’re afraid of uncertainty. We have fear of change because we latch on to pass stories or beliefs that have been passed down to us through generations or the lives that we told ourselves or others told us about ourselves that we accept as our truth. For example, did you grow up in a home with a lack mindset where the your parents and your household were just believed there was just never enough or you were just barely enough or you were just scraping by Or did you have to prove your worth by doing? These are stories that we hold on to that we bring into adulthood. This is the energy that you’re holding on to potentially. And bringing into your present day. What if instead of looking at the end of twenty twenty four as an ending, we looked at it as a new beginning, an invitation to a new beginning. Every single day there’s a sunrise and a sunset. It were given an opportunity every day to start with a clean slate. There’s never a perfect time or a perfect year and the future isn’t guaranteed. And we waste a lot of time, dwelling, ruminating, stewing, procrastinating, holding ourselves back, and allowing our ego and logical mind to get in the way. Which is skewed by our perception of our past experiences and how we see the world. One of the fastest ways we can shift our energy, our perspective, our thoughts around the challenge in the moment or whatever we’re thinking about or struggling with is to ask ourselves better and deeper questions. And so I just want you to think about twenty twenty four And ask yourself, what isn’t working? What hasn’t been working about twenty twenty four? And if I gave you a magic wand, and I could shift your energy and change your energy today, Where would you put your energy to first? What would be the first thing that you would want to change? This is a baby step towards self awareness. To bring to light, that which you wish to shift your perspective around and take action. So if you are ready to do so and go into twenty twenty five with new energy or call in new energy into your life. I invite you to take a look at my website, the onlychart dot com, have a look at the different services I offer. I can meet you where you’re at, whether you’re just starting to peel back the layers, maybe energy healing work is for you. I’ve got meditations on there. I just launched my energy healing membership, which is forty nine dollars a month for founding members. We meet live twice a month. There’s three different modules currently in the membership, plus resources I’ll be adding and I’ll continually be adding to it. And you have access to the energy healing sessions. However, many times a month you want to engage in them and participate. Or if you’re ready to dive deep, into the stories that you’re holding on to. Maybe do group differently is for you. I like to call do group differently, the gift that keeps on giving. And so for two people, I will be offering ten percent off do grief differently, which is a savings of a hundred and sixty dollars for January or February twenty twenty five. So if you’ve been considering the program, hit up the link in the show notes to inquire. And for those that decide to move forward, I will give you that coupon code. And again, it’s good for two people, for January or February start dates. For twenty twenty five. I believe in that program with all of my heart. It changed my life and I’ve seen countless other lives changed and transformed because of it and relationships made stronger because of it. So I’m excited to offer two people ten percent off that program to help you get out of your own way in grief and in life. If you’ve already done a lot of energy work, personal healing, development work, maybe you’re just ready to fulfill your full potential to really lean your energy into allowing yourself to fully become unleashed from whatever it is has its grip on you. Then maybe you map is for you. Again, I can meet you where you’re at, and I’m telling you I’ve walked the walk. I’ve probably been where you are. When you grow up with grief, it it feels like that. Life can feel like a grind, but there is a way to make peace with your past. To move forward, to shift your energy, up level your energy, raise your voltage, so you feel like you have a sense of vitality. You can do the things that you enjoy doing. You feel a creative spark, you feel inspired. And along the way, if you trust in yourself and trust that you are supported, that’ll take you leaps and bounds. Further than I think even I maybe even I feel as possible as I sit here right now. I hope this episode was inspiring. I hope it was leaving with a sense of hope. For twenty twenty five. Check out the show notes for any links. If you’re interested in the energy healing membership, my newsletter, I’m here to support you in whatever way you need. Until next time, remember, when you unleash your heart, you unleash your life, much love.
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SHOW NOTES SUMMARY:
In this final episode of the Holiday Grief Series, I explore the power of reflecting on our past, especially when dealing with grief during the holiday season. It’s about facing those tough memories head-on, much like a buffalo charges through a storm to find peace faster. By confronting these feelings directly, we gain insight into ourselves and can make better choices for our future.
Reflecting on history isn’t just personal; it applies to society, too. Understanding past events helps us break negative cycles and create positive change. As we look back at 2024 and beyond, self-awareness becomes key in shaping who we want to be.
I share my own journey of growth—much like committing to fitness—and how it’s similar to emotional healing. It takes dedication but leads to powerful inner transformation.
The main takeaway? Embrace your past so you can rewrite your story going forward into 2025. Let go of perfectionism; focus instead on progress over time. Remember that you’re unlocking your life’s potential by opening your heart.
I’m here for anyone ready to embark on this transformative path and encourage you all to spread this message of hope and empowerment to others who might need it, too!
RESOURCES:
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NEED HELP?
- National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255
- Crisis Text Line provides free, 24/7 support via text message. Text HOME to 741741 to connect with a trained Crisis Counselor
If you are struggling with grief due to any of the 40+ losses, free resources are available HERE.
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Embracing the Past for a Brighter Future
The holiday season often brings with it a mixed bag of emotions. For many, it’s a time of joy and celebration, but for others, it can be a poignant reminder of loss or emotional pain. In this fourth episode of our holiday grief series, we delve into the transformative power that lies in reflecting on the past—particularly during such emotionally charged times.
Facing the Storm Head-On
Imagine being like a buffalo facing an approaching storm. Instead of running away from it, you charge straight through to emerge quicker on the other side. This metaphor perfectly encapsulates how confronting painful memories head-on can lead to personal growth and healing. By directly addressing these experiences, individuals gain deeper insight into their motivations and actions.
This process is not just about reliving old wounds; rather, it’s about understanding them so that they no longer hold sway over your present or future decisions. The journey through one’s past allows for closure by resolving lingering emotions and ultimately leads to living a more peaceful life.
Learning from History
The importance of reflection extends beyond personal experiences—it applies to historical contexts as well. Societal progress hinges on understanding past events to avoid repeating mistakes while creating positive change moving forward.
As we approach 2024’s end-of-year reflections (and look ahead towards 2025), consider what lessons history has taught us both individually and collectively—and how those insights might inform better choices going forward!
Commitment & Growth
Personal development requires dedication akin physical training regimes: persistent effort yields substantial inner gains over time! Our speaker shares parallels between their fitness journey alongside broader endeavors involving emotional/spiritual growth—emphasizing commitment necessary achieving meaningful transformation within oneself too!
Upcoming collaborations include figures like Amanda Popovski via Instagram platforms plus newly launched energy healing membership opportunities available now! Letting go perfectionism embraces iterative improvement processes vital venturing new projects successfully together alike!
Ultimately though message remains clear throughout entire discussion here today: looking back helps identify behaviors shaped previous experiences empowering rewriting personal stories anew again tomorrow instead…
In closing remarks offered gratitude shared reminder embracing heart leads unleashing life fullest potential possible always remember sharing messages benefit others who may need hear same truths themselves someday soon perhaps?
Episode Transcription:
Victoria Volk: This is Victoria of the unleash tarte dot com, and you’re listening to grieving voices. A podcast for hurting hearts who desire to be heard, or anyone who wants to learn how to better support loved ones experiencing loss. As a thirty plus year grieber, an advanced grief recovery method specialist, I know how badly the conversation around grief needs to change. Through this podcast, I aim to educate Grivers and non Grivers alike, spread hope, and inspire compassion toward those hurting. Lastly, by providing my heart with ears and this platform, griefers have the opportunity to share their wisdom and stories of loss and resiliency. How about we talk about grief like we talk about the weather? Let’s get started. This episode is sponsored by Do Grieve differently, my twelve week in person or online program that helps grieving who have suffered any type of loss to feel better. In do grief differently, you learn new tools, education, and a method you can utilize the rest of your life. In this program and with my guidance, you remove the pain of grief. The sadness will always be there because even in complicated relationships we love, but it’s the pain of grief that keeps us stuck. Are you ready to do grief differently? Check out my website w w w dot the unleashtart dot com to learn more. Hey. Hey. Hey. Thank you for joining me today. This is the fourth episode of my holiday grief series, and I’m gonna talk about why we need to look at our past. It is a theme that has been coming up in conversations lately. Different guesting opportunities I’ve had. I’ve in December, I’ve been in full on creation mode and just having a lot of conversations too. And this has really just come up a lot. And so I figured it was a good topic for me to add and kind of the end cap of the holiday grief series. Because if we really think about our experiences and let’s say you’re grieving right now, you’re listening to this and you are not looking forward to the holidays coming up and you’re thinking about the past and it’s painful. And you do what you can to stuff it down and bury it and just push through and just you just wanna get through the holidays. Like, that’s your goal. It’s just to get through. And yet, the holidays will come and go. And the festivities will be over, and you will be sitting with yourself. And the past might come up again. In fact, it probably will come up again. Those old emotions the feelings, the pain, the reminders, they’ll be back. They always do come back like waves in the ocean. Grief ebbs and flows and hits us when we least expect it. But there’s something that happens when we look at the past and we address it and we act as a buffalo. It’s one of the things that came up in a podcast episode recently with my guest, Chris Cochrane, actually. He had never heard of the I used the Buffalo as an example. And he did not know that the Buffalo will go right head on through a storm. And they do because they realize and know, innately, that it’s the shortest path. There’s a lot of resistance that happens when we try to take the long way around, and it doesn’t do us any favors. We find that All the behaviors that we do to feel better don’t help us to feel better for the long term, and we have a lot of resistance to really looking at the past. Look in the at the past can be a valuable and transformative experience for several reasons. By examining our personal history, we gain a deeper understanding of ourselves and the present circumstances we find ourselves in. It allows us to uncover the blueprints that shaped our lives, revealing the original intentions and motivations behind our actions. We connect the dots, when we have that self reflection. So when we take the time to reflect on the past, we can learn important lessons from our experiences. We can identify patterns, understand the causes and effects of our choices, and make more informed decisions moving forward. This self reflection helps us grow and develop, and as we become more aware of our strengths, hind our weaknesses, and areas for improvement, our lives improve. And exploring the past can provide us with a sense of closure and healing. By acknowledging and addressing any unresolved emotions or incomplete communications, we can release the pain and find ourselves in forgiveness both for ourselves and others. This process allows us to let go of the burdens that have been weighing us down, freeing us to move forward with a renewed sense of peace and purpose. And when I say purpose, it doesn’t have to be something big. We always think that we have to do these grand things with our our pain. You know, it’s that old hero’s journey that from pain to purpose, from tears to triumph, and it’s true, that can happen. And it does, if we look at the past, it can, if we look at the past. I I would say it does if we look at the past. I’ve talked to enough grievers over four plus years to know that to be true. I’ve experienced it myself. The timeline is different for every single human being. It doesn’t have to take over thirty years like it did for me. The important work that we do is in the looking into the past. That is the work. People ask all the time, well, what’s you know, you gotta say you gotta do the work. Well, what’s the work? That’s the work. Look at it. Head on. Be the buffalo. In addition to personal growth, understanding the past can also be valuable on a broader scale. By studying history and societal trends, we can identify patterns and anticipate future possibilities. This knowledge empowers us to make informed decisions, solve problems creatively, and contribute positively to our communities in the world at large. It’s that old saying. History repeats itself. Right? Like, you would think that we would learn in a lot of ways as a society we haven’t, but there is gold there. There is gold in the past. And ultimately, examining the past is not about dwelling in nostalgia, being stuck in old ways. It’s about gaining insight and finding closure and using that knowledge to create a better future. That’s the work. And that’s what I want to encourage you to consider going into twenty twenty five. What has twenty twenty four shown you? What has twenty twenty four left you feeling at the end of it? How do you feel now? How was the year? On a scale of one to ten, how would you rate twenty twenty four? I would rate mine at a seven, maybe even an eight. And I’m gonna have an episode coming up here in a couple weeks. At the end of the month, I’ll share my reflections and takeaways from the year. So I’m not gonna go into that in in this episode. But this year was a year of laying foundations, getting out of my comfort zone, stretching myself, and Again, I I really think it was a laying a foundation. And I’m gonna be talking about that too on an Instagram live with Amanda Babotsky. She was a past guest on the podcast. And I I can’t say her name when I just say it like normal. I always have to, like, pabotsky. And then that comes out. Right? Anyway, Amanda and I are doing this Instagram live, and we’re gonna be talking about this very thing. Going into twenty twenty five. So I’ll put the link in the show notes. It’s when you you actually listen to the when this episode gets published, it’ll be the next day. So add it to your get a reminder for yourself add it to your schedule and come join us over lunch. It’ll be just a really quick, almost like a micro class or a micro what did you call it? Micro workshop. I’m not sure. Anyway, we’re gonna be jamming out talking about this sort of thing. And but the but the message I wanna leave you with today is the past is where it’s at, really. The past is where it’s at. The worst has already happened. If you’re listening to this and you’re grieving and you are feeling emotional pain and you feel like your life has just been one of suffering. Like, the worst has already happened. So what can you do today? Tomorrow By the end of this month, going into twenty twenty five, what can you do differently to change the trajectory of your coming year? What were you doing in twenty twenty four that wasn’t working? What wasn’t working? What steps can you take to shift that? Is it your perspective that needs to change? Is it your actions? One of the things I’m gonna be sharing on this Instagram live is is when we focus on the internal, the external follows. It’s like so many people are so quick to jump on board for New Year’s resolutions and start going to the gym and within three weeks they give up and it’s it’s a grind. I was thinking about that the other day in the gym. I’ve been at it for fifteen weeks going five days a week. For the most part, there have been weeks that’s been four. But for the most part, I’m lifting five days a week. And I’m seeing the gains now. Because I’m certain to do the workouts that I did week one and two and three and I’m hitting personal bests and I wouldn’t have seen that if I wouldn’t have stuck it out I wouldn’t be where I am. Had I not stuck it out? And so when people see me, they might think, oh, shoot. She’s in shape. She’s looking good. Maybe, I don’t know. Got some muscles on her. I do. I’ve I’ve built some muscles. And but what people don’t see is the grind. The day to day grind and commitment that I have had. That’s what it takes to see change. It takes commitment and it takes shifting your perspective that there’s no quick fix. There’s You gotta put in the work. You gotta put in sweat. Whether it’s emotional, mental, physical, spiritual, it’s a practice. Whatever area of your life you wanna tackle, it’s a practice. And what do they say? Practice makes perfect. When I’m not going for perfect, I have to let that shit go because there is no such such thing is perfect. And I had to let that go in order to launch my energy healing membership, which just launched actually, and I’ll put the link to that in the show notes. And what I found myself doing is finding reasons to not launch. I was dragging my feet. And I just had to commit. I just had to commit and decide and let the chips fall as they may. I am not gonna get to the place of perfect with it, and that’s okay. I will be tweaking and tweaking as I need. But for you, moving forward and why it’s important to look at the past is because that’s where the gold is. That’s where you can connect the dots for yourself. The behaviors that you’re doing today are greatly influenced by the past. By your experiences that you’ve had, whether it was three months, three years, or thirty years ago. Trust me. And when you start to have the self awareness, when you start doing the work and you have those connections, you start making those brain and body and emotional connections, like, oh, this is why I was doing this. It’s normal and it’s natural. You will find that the things that you’re doing today are normal and natural. You don’t have to be wrapped up in shame and guilt, which only perpetuates the behavior. That’s why it’s important to look at it. So that you can have the self awareness. So you gain new tools and new knowledge so you can change it, so that you can rewrite your story. That’s my message for you today. I hope you consider looking at the past after you’ve listened to this, listen to this again if you have to. And if you decide to Make twenty twenty five your year. I would be more than happy to be the one to initiate you into that transformation and hold your hand along the way. Alright, friends. Thank you so much for listening. I hope this was helpful and inspiring, if anything. And please share it with someone who may need this message today. Stay tuned for next week, it’s gonna be another actually, the next two episodes are gonna be I’m gonna have two more solo episodes. And and then January is all interviews. I have some great guests coming up and lined up already. I’m excited to share those. So yeah, thank you so much for being here. And remember, when you unleash your heart, you unleash your life, much love. From my heart to yours, thank you for listening. If you like this episode, please share it because sharing is caring. And until next time, give and share compassion by being heart with ears. And if you’re hurting, know that what you’re feeling is normal and natural. 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