Instinctive and impulsive creation has been a thing in my life for a while now and this episode is one of them too.
"Getting in my own way" and "getting out of my own way" have been phrases which have always caught me off guard. And since they've come up a couple days ago and today in my life, I wanted to come up here and discover more about them.
Join me in exploring the philosophy of getting out of our own ways.
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The mentioned new journey 🫂Flowsophy Circles🏛 is an intimate, vulnerable, empowering and overall soul-to-soul group coaching, self-actualization and co-creation journey where will be creating a flow in and alignment with our philosophy.
It will be in volumes that will be open in different times of the year - sometimes one after another, sometimes simultaneously.
The Vol. 1 will be in Turkish with the topic focusing "Creating Pockets of Space: Doing Less To Find Depth" 🐚
The Vol. 2 will be in English: "Intentional and Grounded Action Taking Toward A New Desired Reality"
(a page explaining all the details is coming soon!)
The space is always open for us to co-create. The topic of each volume will be creating co-creatively with the response I get from YOU and the conversations I witness.
If this collective yet personal creation space calls out you, let's connect. I'd love to explore the ground with you.
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For more questions to reflect on and live, I’d like to invite you to Philos: A Weekly Journal-Like Newsletter.
It is raw, authentic and personal in which you’ll my recent contemplations in life, inspiration behind every episode, my personal take on and experience of each of them and questions for me and for you to live by and reflect.
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Related Episodes:
Episode 17 - The Constant Pursuit of Wisdom: How Everything Becomes An Answer
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This episode is for all the women out there who wants to create an alignment with their bodies by listening to their internal ryhthms (aka their hormonal cycles) and all the men out there who wants to understand how female bodies work and discover ways to support the women in their lives.
Disclaimer: All of the things I shared with you is about my experience of my own hormonal cycle. Yours will be definitely and inevitably different. Let what you heard here be an invitation for you to listen to your body, track your mental and emotional state and observe yourself. And for anyone without a female hormonal cycle, this can be an invitation for you to understand female body and cultivate spaces for them. We rise all together anyway.
In my luteal phase (I’d like to call it my nesting phase), my incubation tendencies have their peaks and sometimes I may be tend to overcrowd myself even.
Let’s discover your nesting periods and tendencies together 🎨𝞅
Join me in exploring the philosophy of nesting, creativity and female hormonal cycles.
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Picking up where we left off powerfully on the last episode, we’re getting deeper in our coping mechanisms to deal with the unknown.
What is that I’m trying to control about the unknown nature of life by coming up with my judgements?
Our seek for certainty in life can be the very reason behind our stuckness, lack of joy and connection with others, ourselves and the world around us.
Join me in exploring the philosophy of our judgements and the unknown nature of life.
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I’m inviting you to the Open-to-Everyone Free Group Coaching Call on November the 14th.
We’ll be discovering our coping mechanisms with the unknown and ways to work with them in taking steps toward our dreams and goals.
More details are here. You’re more than welcomed to join us in this vulnerable and empowering space.
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For more questions to reflect on live by regarding this week’s topic and my personal take on it, I’d like to invite you to Philos: A Weekly Journal-Like Newsletter.
It is raw, authentic and personal in which you’ll my recent contemplations in life, inspiration behind every episode, my personal take on and experience of each of them and questions for me and for you to live by and reflect.
🎭I would love you to be a part of our creative and inspirational Instagram community
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With a very raw and emotional start to the episode, I’m following the light and path that we opened up in the very first group coaching call I hosted with my community.
The more I learn, the less I feel ready
This was one of the bold statements and realizations of the wonderful people shared in that space.
Following that, I’m re-exploring the philosophy of incubation with the light of our seek for clarity and our struggle with the unknown.
Join me in exploring the philosophy of the unknown ✨
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I have EXCITING NEWS FOR YOU!!
Here are all the details for the first very open-to-everyone group coaching call.
The space we created with my community should welcome more people who want to realign and recalibrate themselves back with their inner sage and potential and create their lives with that mindset with a support of a safe and welcoming community and space.
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For more questions to reflect on live by regarding this week’s topic and my personal take on it, I’d like to invite you to Philos: A Weekly Journal-Like Newsletter.
It is raw, authentic and personal in which you’ll my recent contemplations in life, inspiration behind every episode, my personal take on and experience of each of them and questions for me and for you to live by and reflect.
🎭I would love you to be a part of our creative and inspirational Instagram community
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Reading John Mayer’s recent interview with Shawn Mendes took me to the places that I was curious to discover.
The themes that spoke out to me from it were the topics of my life nowadays:
It has been a journey of reflection and trying to find a golden threat between them.
Join me in exploring the philosophy of feeling at home.
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For more questions to reflect on live by regarding this week’s topic and my personal take on it, I’d like to invite you to Philos: A Weekly Journal-Like Newsletter.
It is raw, authentic and personal in which you’ll my recent contemplations in life, inspiration behind every episode, my personal take on and experience of each of them and questions for me and for you to live by and reflect.
🎭I would love you to be a part of our creative and inspirational Instagram community
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I’m excited to be back with Season 2 of Inner Dialogues with Ecem.
In this episode of Inner Dialogues with Ecem, I discovered the concept of resistance which was something I felt during this 7-weeks-long break I took from the podcast.
Resistance can be sneaky to understand and determine and it was the case for me until a very recent chats I hold with a couple of friends.
“Suffering is always resistance.
Resistance is the unwillingness to experience.”
Unwillingness to experience is what creates the suffering.
Join me in exploring the philosophy of resistance and creating further once we allow to feel it all.
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For more questions to reflect on live by regarding this week’s topic and my personal take on it, I’d like to invite you to Philos: A Weekly Journal-Like Newsletter.
It is raw, authentic and personal in which you’ll my recent contemplations in life, inspiration behind every episode, my personal take on and experience of each of them and questions for me and for you to live by and reflect.
🎭I would love you to be a part of our creative and inspirational Instagram community.
Related posts and episodes:
References:
- Mentioned IG video by Adan W. Spencer
- “Designing the Mind: The Principles of Psychitecture” by Ryan A. Bush" (p. 185)
“Why does this always happen to me?”
Have you ever said this?
Or have you ever found yourself being dragged by your thoughts within 5 seconds? Seeing someone on social media, hearing a music or smell took you back in time and even maybe to future.
What if I told you this has a name? I recently learned that this tendency of our minds being pulled away by experiences and situations which ends up creating a mental chatter is called “papañca”.
And what if I told you everytime we are pulled away with our thoughts, we position ourselves as victims in our lives.
How?
In this episode of Inner Dialogues with Ecem, let's flip the script on victimhood, mindfulness and witness-hood.
Can life happen through me, by me and even as me, instead to me?
Let’s explore it together.
Let’s move from being the victim of our thoughts to the creator of our realities.
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I’ve shared my recent struggles with this papañca state and ironic enough writing about my feeling and reflections onto my journal inspired me to start a newsletter. I’ve shared more about it in the episode. Here is the link to subscribe “Philos: A Weekly Journal” from Inner Dialogues with Ecem - a personal, contemplative journal-like newsletter.
It is raw, authentic and personal in which you’ll my recent contemplations in life, inspiration behind every episode, my personal take on and experience of each of them and questions for me and for you to live by and reflect.
🎭I would love you to be a part of our creative and inspirational Instagram community
References:
- “The Creative Act: A Way of Being” book by Rick Rubin
- Steven Schwartzberg’s quote is from Huffpost: “Buddhism and the Messiness of Everyday Thinking”
- “What is Papancha?” YouTube video by Ed Conley
- Quoted Quora entry by Sibasis Sahoo
- Quotes from Ram Dass were taken from the an excerpt from this book “Polishing the Mirror: How to Live From Your Spiritual Heart”
Intro & Outro Music Credit: Joseph McDade - Olympus
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Have you ever caught yourself evaluating your creativity based on how many words or sentences you wrote on a day or how many canvases you painted?
What about your productivity - have you ever evaluated it based on how many emails you have sent, how long you sit in front of your computer or how many ideas you pitched in a meeting?
Have you ever caught yourself evualting your mindfulness based on how long you meditated for?
Or your health based on what you eat, what you don’t, what exercises you do and how long?
As humans, we have a great tendency to reduce a big concept into the ways and which we measure them.
In this episode of Inner Dialogues with Ecem, let's flip on this reductonist narrative and our creativity.
Rick Rubin’s “The Creative Act: A Way of Being” has become a huge part of my life as I recently started reading it.
I feel like I have more to create with it, let this be a beginning.
Let’s uncover the deeper meaning of creative expression, the concepts of love, time, intelligence, productivity, health and more.
Join me in exploring the philosophy of creativity and reductionism✨
If your soul is aching for your heart’s path and living in a reality of it, we can co-create a masterpiece of authenticity of together! You have every answer and way within you, we just need to stir them. I’m offering FREE coaching calls THIS MONTH. Book your free 1:1 call with me here (or reach out to me on Instagram DM below ⬇️
🎭I would love you to be a part of our creative and inspirational Instagram community
References:
“The Creative Act: A Way of Being” book by Rick Rubin
“In Your Arms” song by Blake Rose (mentioned lyric: "I fell apart when I finally realized that we've got clocks, we could never time.”)
Related Episodes:
Episode 17 - The Constant Pursuit of Wisdom- How Everything Becomes An Answer
Intro & Outro Music Credit: Joseph McDade - Olympus
Are you feeling like you’re in a transition phase? Not feeling totally belonged to who you are, where you live and what you do? But also not really sure about what to create in the further or how to create it?
The only thing I can be sure of is my own experience and once again I’m taking you through my own experience of the transition period that I’m currently in.
In this episode of Inner Dialogues with Ecem, let's flip the script on identity.
Who are we?
Are we who think we are?
Are we who others think we are?
Let’s discover some potential answers through a coping mechanisms that I found for myself in times of transition: “The Bubble” which will take us to a whole discussion about our identity.
“Who I am is a construct of introspection and social stimulation.”
Want to hear more about it?
Join me in exploring the philosophy of transition and identity✨
𝞿𝞿𝞿If you’re going through a period of transition, I’m here to support and smoothly co-create the reality you long for. I’m offering FREE coaching calls THIS MONTH. Book your free 1:1 call with me here or reach out to me on Instagram DM below⬇️
🎭I would love you to be a part of our creative and inspirational Instagram community
References:
- 111 Hz Podcast by Barış Özcan (mentioned quote is from this episode: 140. Yaratıcı Olmayı Çok Mu Abartıyoruz?)
- Yogi Bhajan’s quote is taken from the book Designing the Mind by Ryan A. Bush. (pp. 156)
Intro & Outro Music Credit: Joseph McDade - Olympus
Have you ever felt like there are so many things going around you, as if life’s throwing messages your way or as if the answer is just behind the curtain? Well, I had a moment like that a couple of days ago, and ironically the realization moment was about the topic itself. In this episode of Inner Dialogues with Ecem, let's flip the script on authentic creativity with the light of exposing ourselves to other minds. It has been an interesting discussion, I’d say started from a personal take and ended with a Persian story. “Exposure to other minds stirs the water of our being which stimulates the things inside of us to be born.” Join me for the full discussion ✨ 𝞿𝞿𝞿 If you’d like to start your own remembering journey back into your truths on the path of creating an authentic intuitive life, I’m offering FREE coaching calls THIS MONTH. Book your free call with me here or reach out to me on Instagram DM below ⬇️ 🎭I would love you to be a part of our creative and inspirational Instagram community Intro & Outro Music Credit: Joseph McDade - Olympus References - “Designing the Mind: The Principles of Psychitecture” Book by Ryan A. Bush (quoted parts: pp. 73) Mentioned Episodes & IG Posts: 🎧Episode 17 - The Constant Pursuit of Wisdom: How Everything Becomes An Answer 🎧Episode 5 - No One Can Teach You Anything: All Learning is Recollection 📭Mauetic(s) 🎧Episode 1 - Incubator
We see the world through the lens of our perceptions, as if we are looking to the sun with our shades on.
How do you know you have your shades on?
Well, you know it because YOU put them on intentionally.
Do we have the constant awareness of our perceptions? What is happening in our lives when we lose that awareness?
In this episode of Inner Dialogues with Ecem, let's flip the script on releasing conditionings, learned beliefs and patterns.
Awareness of our story decodes our conditionings and life’s questions.
Join me in exploring the philosophy of the first step of intentional living - THE RELEASE✨
If you’d like to decode your life, your conditionings and beliefs and create intentional living aligned with your aspirations, passions and dreams, let’s have a chat - book a FREE coaching session with me.
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Intro & Outro Music Credit: Joseph McDade - Olympus
Are you caught in the endless cycle of self-improvement? Constantly enrolling into new courses, reading self-help books and looking for improvement in your life?
In this episode of Inner Dialogues with Ecem, let's flip the script on self-development.
Let’s go on a journey from a cave in which we imprisoned ourself with our own perceptions back to the sunlight of endless possibilites and our fullest potential.
Paulo Coelho’s quote will light our path: "Maybe the journey isn't about becoming anything. Maybe it's about unbecoming everything that isn't really you, so that you can be who you were meant to be in the first place."
Join me in exploring the philosophy of self-development and unbecoming ✨
If this episode called you, let’s experience the journey from cave to the sunlight together with you - book a free coaching session with me.
If you’re doubting about it although your intuition is nugging you, it is fine, let’s clear the doubts in your mind together so that you can feel sure and safe.
Please reach out to me on Instagram DM, I’d love to connect with you ☀️🎭
Intro & Outro Music Credit: Joseph McDade - Olympus
References - The mentioned cave analogy is from Plato’s Republic
Ever feel like the world is a constant battle of “us vs. them”, “right or wrong”, “ good or bad”? Sometimes everything may seem polarized and like boils down to picking a side.
But what if there's a whole world of understanding waiting to be discovered beyond the black and white thinking?
In this episode of Inner Dialogues with Ecem, let's flip the script on opposites and crack open the limitations of binary thinking and exploring the vast, fertile ground that lies between.
Our discussion uncovers:
Join me in exploring the philosophy of the binary mind and opposites ✨
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Intro & Outro Music Credit: Joseph McDade - Olympus (https://josephmcdade.com/music/olympus)
References:
- “Binary minds: The post-human era of black and white thinking” Article by Kem-Laurin on Medium
- “Understanding Dualism” Article by Charlie Ambler on Daily Zen“
Mentioned Episodes:
- Episode 12: Beyond Glorifying Pain - Wisdom, Growth and Joy (where I also talked about opposites with a beautiful scenery)
"Have you ever felt excited about a new chapter in your life, yet strangely sad about leaving the old one behind?
In this episode of Inner Dialogues with Ecem, let's flip the script on change and new beginnings.
It has been a deeply personal episode for me talking about a recent change I’ve been going through with my family and how it brings the excitement of new beginnings as well as accompanying feelings of grief and loss.
If you’re going through a major life change or if you feel like you’re hearing the approaching footsteps of change coming and you don’t want to let go of your current circumstances and patterns, I feel like you.
As I always do, I’m not giving any advice or answers because we don’t any of them from someone else. You have your answers within. Let’s just stir the water and see what you’ll find for yourself.
Join me in exploring the philosophy of new beginnings and grief✨
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Intro & Outro Music Credit: Joseph McDade - Olympus (https://josephmcdade.com/music/olympus)
Resources:
- Mentioned IG reel by JB Copeland: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C5lS4xaOmEO/?igsh=MWVwZGVrdGYzeDF1MQ%3D%3D
Can there be an intellectual intimacy? What is intimacy we feel when we have a lovely conversation with a friend? Can intimacy be a knowledge of ourselves and the world around us?
In this episode of Inner Dialogues with Ecem, let's flip the script on intimacy. Let’s discover different and deeper layers of it.
I’m following the echoes of a recent conversation I had with a friend of mine about Virginia Woolf’s book “To the Lighthouse”.
I’m looking at the reflections of this idea “Can intimacy be a path towards knowledge?”
Can we create intimacy with our loved ones, a stranger on the street, or even our own cities?
Join me in exploring the philosophy of intimacy ✨
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Intro & Outro Music Credit: Joseph McDade - Olympus (https://josephmcdade.com/music/olympus)
References:
- “To the Lighthouse” by Virginia Woolf
“Was it wisdom? Was it knowledge? Was it, once more, the deceptiveness of beauty, so that all one’s perceptions, half-way to truth, were tangled in a golden mesh? Or did she lock up within her some secret which certainly Lily Briscoe believed people must have for the world to go on at all? Every one could not be as helter skelter, hand to mouth as she was. But if they knew, could they tell one what they knew? Sitting on the floor with her arms round Mrs. Ramsay’s knees, close as she could get, smiling to think that Mrs. Ramsay would never know the reason of that pressure, she imagined how in the chambers of the mind and heart of the woman who was, physically, touching her, were stood, like the treasures in the tombs of kings, tablets bearing sacred inscriptions, which if one could spell them out, would teach one everything, but they would never be offered openly, never made public. What art was there, known to love or cunning, by which one pressed through into those secret chambers? What device for becoming, like waters poured into one jar, inextricably the same, one with the object one adored? Could the body achieve, or the mind, subtly mingling in the intricate passages of the brain? or the heart? Could loving, as people called it, make her and Mrs. Ramsay one? for it was not knowledge but unity that she desired, not inscriptions on tablets, nothing that could be written in any language known to men, but intimacy itself, which is knowledge, she had thought, leaning her head on Mrs. Ramsay’s knee.”
Ever feel like your habits are a broken record? Well, then let’s stick to them.
In this episode of Inner Dialogues with Ecem, let's flip the script on consistency.
I went on a journey from my university dorm days, where my consistent routines — from yoga to daily oatmeal breakfast — unintentionally sparked a health and mindfulness community among my roommates.
I have explored the concept of consistency as a vortex, attracting others with its unwavering focus.
As I reflect on those days, I realize the power of consistency more.
Let’s think together ‘Are we shining a steady light or flickering inconsistently?’
Join me in exploring the philosophy of consistency✨
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Intro & Outro Music Credit: Joseph McDade - Olympus (https://josephmcdade.com/music/olympus)
Have you ever caught yourself with your most serious face ever when you’re waiting in a long line or when you are driving? Ever felt uptight, stressed, and stiffened in your attitude?
Let’s loosen up a bit.
In this episode of Inner Dialogues with Ecem, let's flip the script on seriousness and sprinkle it with some humor.
“Have you ever had lemonade just made from lemons? No, to make lemonade, you need sweetener as well. Humor is life’s sweetener” says Paul Osincup in his TED Talk.
The inspiration for this episode was a chain of interviews and talks that I came across recently. It all started with a recent interview of Billie Eilish and FINNEAS on Apple Music with Zane Lowe. They shared a game that they created called Fear or Fart.
Then an interview with Eddie Redmayne on the art of (wait for it) toxic public humiliation. And lastly, everything made sense in my mind with a TED Talk on humor.
Get ready to loosen your grip on seriousness!
Let's sprinkle some humor into our lives!
Join me in exploring the philosophy of humor and seriousness✨
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Intro & Outro Music Credit: Joseph McDade - Olympus (https://josephmcdade.com/music/olympus)
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Ever feel like your past struggles define you? Have you ever said, “I am here because of all the years of pain” or “I cannot give up now after all that suffering that brought me here.”
In this episode of Inner Dialogues with Ecem, let's flip the script on glorifying pain.
It is a common tendency of most of us. I think once stir this water, it will become a concept that will hang in your mind as you go through life.
Let’s dive right in and take a look at what is there beyond suffering.
Join me in exploring the philosophy of glorifying pain ✨
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Intro & Outro Music Credit: Joseph McDade - Olympus (https://josephmcdade.com/music/olympus)
References
Correction
The beautiful desert I mentioned was called the "Namib Desert", not the "Namibian desert" ☺️
Ever feel like you’re on autopilot in your answers, blurting things out before you even think? Ever feel like you're on autopilot, just reacting to life instead of choosing how you respond?
Have you ever thought that there might be a difference between responding and reacting?
Well, this differentiation is quite new in my life.
In this episode of Inner Dialogues with Ecem, let's flip the script on reacting and responding and dive deep into the power of both of them.
Join me in exploring the philosophy of reacting and responding ✨
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Intro & Outro Music Credit: Joseph McDade - Olympus (https://josephmcdade.com/music/olympus)
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