Today Joanna is talking all about Self Awareness and why it’s so important to understand exactly how to think. She describes how self awareness is the understanding of your automatic, inner critic mind and how it works, so that you can actually hear your authentic self, your true nature, your soul’s longing.

Here are this week’s reflection questions: 

• What would your life be like if every day you were focused on what really matters? 
• How would your life change if you trusted your intuition and allowed life to unfold in front of you as it will?
• How do you free up your stuck emotional and spiritual energy to achieve the greatest power you have ever had?

Today Joanna is talking all about Self Awareness and how being self aware is having the ability to see ourselves clearly, to understand who we are, how others see us and how we fit into the world. Most importantly, she discusses how self awareness gives us a great power in life. 

Here are this week’s reflection questions: 

• What is the life I really want to be living? 
• WHAT am I doing to create this in my life?
• What can I think about my current situation that can make me feel more at peace, even if the situation doesn’t look the way I want it to?

Today Joanna has Nadia Ahrens, LICSW a Psychotherapist & Transformational Life Coach and owner of the Transform the Sh*t out of your Life coaching. They are talking about what steps you can take to be there for those that need you most in life when times are rough and how to deal with your emotional struggles.

Here are this week’s reflection questions: 

• Are you able to step back and say why did this happen for me rather than how did this happen to me?
• How do you learn how to feel what you need to feel to move through the current struggle?
• What can you do today to change tomorrow?

Want to connect or learn more about Nadia? 

You can find out more on here: https://nadiaahrens.com/

https://www.instagram.com/nadiaahrens/

Today Joanna is talking about what steps you can take to make your relationships healthier. She dives deep into the thought that if we are not understanding how to master our minds, we are essentially living life on autopilot with beliefs about ourselves and life that begin when we are about 4 to 6 years old.

Here are this week’s reflection questions: 

• What would our world be like if we were taught to shift from judgment to curiosity and wonder? 
• Can you use the MIND method to interrupt your automatic thought that leads to criticism, judgment and blame?
• What would happen in your relationship if you stopped trying to fix or change them?

 Can't listen? Here's the transcript: 

So sometimes how I pick the topic of my podcast is that I will be working with a client, and I will say something, and the client will say “omg I have to write that down.” and then I say, “oh yeah!  I have to write that down too!”  

Remember, I am my own student of Dethroning Your Inner Critic.  So sometimes the things that I say are the things that I most need to learn.  And that is what happened yesterday, so this is what I am talking about today-- how the story you tell about yourself affects your life.  

Your life story is not a biography of the facts and events of your life. It's actually the way you have interpreted those facts inside your own head and tried to make sense out of them.  Most people don’t know that the story of their life isn’t based on facts.  Most people believe that their thoughts are facts.  And when you believe that...

Today Joanna is talking about how she created the MIND method for herself because she knew that it was her own thoughts that were getting in the way of her overall life satisfaction. She is discussing how she uses the MIND method every day in my relationships and that without the MIND Method, ALL of her relationships, and particularly with the most important people in her life, would be completely different.

Here are this week’s reflection questions: 

• Can you return yourself to what you are really committed to, instead of reacting from your Inner Critic’s instincts?
• Can you ask yourself, why is this important to me?
• Are you willing to look for the ways your trigger person shows love and appreciation?

Today Joanna has Shawn Tegtmeier, a certified Personal Trainer and Published Author, that changed her mindset from a chain smoking couch potato to a full time personal trainer that inspires others to change their own lifestyle. They are discussing how a simple change to your mindset can change your life into something that you never dreamed of.

Here are this week’s reflection questions: 

• Are you willing to put the self doubt behind you to change your life?
• What are some of the best ways to stay accountable?
• What can you do today to change your mindset for tomorrow?

Want to connect or learn more about Shawn? 

You can find out more on here: www.shawntegtmeier.com

www.facebook.com/people/Shawn-Tegtmeier/1101108850

Today Joanna is talking about how in every crisis there is an opportunity to learn about how our automatic Inner Critic governs our life. She dives into the topic of relationships because the repetitive pattern of thoughts that have contributed to the crisis of humanity all stem from the relationship with ourselves first.

Here are this week’s reflection questions: 

• Are you in a space of love or is your Inner critic governing your mind?
• Where can you see your Inner Critic being triggered the most?
• How can you focus on loving yourself and focusing on loving the life you already have?

Today Joanna has Kristin MacDermott,  a licensed marriage and family therapist with a decade of research in resilience, on her podcast to discuss how to find your inner wisdom and how to help your children to tap into their own inner wisdom. They break down how having resilience is the ability to really love all of the parts of you and not just the parts that meet your perfectionistic picture of who you are as supposed to be.

Here are this week’s reflection questions: 

• What can you learn from failure about yourself and what will allow you to grow?
• How do you become self aware of what your strengths and weaknesses are?
• What are the three most important conversations to have with your kids to build a foundation of resilience?

Want to connect or learn more about Kristin? 

You can find out more on here: www.macdermottmethod.com  www.resiliencebasedparenting.com or https://www.instagram.com/macdermottmethod/

Can't listen? Here's the transcript: 

Here is a question to consider. 

Who would you be without your thoughts? 

In fact, who is the person you call “I” who is listening to this podcast right now? 

I know that is a deep question to consider.  But it points to an idea that most people are unaware of- and that is that we are addicted to our thoughts without realizing it.  We continually look to our thoughts for our experience of our lives-- for what satisfies us, what dissatisfies us, what we should and shouldn’t be doing in our lives, how other people should be behaving.  And no one really talks about this in terms of addiction-- we only use the word addiction when we are talking about substances we use to numb ourselves to our uncomfortable emotions-- like drugs, alcohol, food, sex, work, exercise.  But that doesn’t mean that the only way addiction can manifest is from substances. 

We have thoughts...