Emily & Meg discuss how people and stories are holding them hostage. They explore how we give other people our power, letting them determine our happiness, our value, our worth. They consider how we take other people’s stories personally and that begins this hostage situation because we get into the blame game and self-righteousness, all ways that deplete our personal power. The keys to our freedom begin with awareness, self-compassion, self-validation, courage, and detachment.
“One of the keys to freedom is awareness: when you realize your head is spinning, your focus is outside yourself or proving yourself.”
“We have to learn to distinguish if we are in a lower state of being, a lower vibration in our bodies, in order to clear it.”
“The moment you realize you are doing mental gymnastics, you are in a tortured state.”
“It can be as simple as I am going to let go, let go, let go, release all those sticky stories, even just on every exhale, it helps us reach for freedom.”
“I realized I constantly braced, waiting for the moment I let these intense feelings pierce my soul. But that’s when I knew I had to let them come in. I could handle them.”
“Sometimes the hardest thing to understand is that you are bracing because there is some truth in other people’s assessments of you or your situation and you are not being honest with yourself.”
“Once you know your own limits, no one can hold them over your head anymore.”
“Am I grounded in my body by these choices of nourishment and care or am I taken out of my body with my fearful thoughts?”
“Are we constantly thinking that we are broken and a problem needing to be fixed?”
Original Art by Meg Miller
References from the episode:
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For further exploration, we loved this book:
Ready to Heal: Breaking Free of Addictive Relationships by @kellymcdanieltherapy
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