Constant news and social media overwhelm your nervous system and trap you in helplessness. Real change starts inside, not from external circumstances or validation. Self-love and inner work are what actually shift things.
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But it's so true. Um, and you know, between that and social media and stuff, the stuff that you do must be more needed than ever now. I mean, because we're sort of inundated with just like horror stories and like different things that are happening. I've, we've talked on this podcast before about it and I just don't think, like as a human being, I don't think we were made to know about all of the problems that exist on this entire planet. Like it's, you know, obviously before these type of technologies, people knew about things in their own. Vicinity, but not every single thing that was going on every single place. And it's just, it's very overwhelming.
It is, especially for your nervous system. And then you get distracted with things that, um, and you know, you're, you know, people are caring, so you do, you have empathy and you can compassion for these people, but then sometimes that kind of stays in your cognitive psyche for a little bit and that really impacts you. And in the big picture, how is that Um, personally helping you move forward in your day. Yeah. And sometimes it kind of keeps you, you know, held on and a lot of people are just like, well, no, I wanna stay updated in the news.
And yeah, that is important.
Yeah. Um, but then sometimes it's like, really, I don't think if you like miss the news for a couple days, it's gonna be a big deal. Yeah. But just finding other ways that you can get your information. Um, but just being really aware of what you're listening to and how you're feeling.
Yeah.
Um, maybe just getting a headline, like the basics, you know, about knowing that kind of stuff and not diving into stuff.
Yeah.
Like a lot of people deep dive and a lot of people, and I don't know about you, but, um, in my previous, when I was struggling a lot and going on my grief journey, I kind of wanted to stay stuck in the pain or stuck in that feeling of sadness for a little bit. So then I would find a song to make me feel sad, or I'd continue to look at stuff. Yeah. And you know, then your body like feels that.
Yeah.
And then I think one of the hardest things for us to sit back and realize is we have that choice to continue to feel like that if we want to, or if we don't. Um, cuz everything really is within us. So many people expect the outside world to change around them.
Yeah.
But really, you know, it, it starts inside. And so I just like to give different people perspectives about that.
And yeah, that is a really good perspective. When I was, when I was younger, I had a friend that would, um, She would move all the time. Like she was like, okay, well maybe here's gonna be better. Maybe here's gonna be better. Maybe here. And I just, I always thought to myself like, but if you don't change anything, how, why is it gonna be better?
Exactly.
You know?
Yeah.
And so to your point, yeah. I mean, we, we do wait, we wait for things around us to just be a different way. Yeah. And it might not be if you don't choose to be a different way.
Well, exactly. And a lot of people, um, are waiting for something on the outside for them to make a move or may have a feeling that they feel good or bad about something. Like we see a lot of like celebrities or after their career, you know, might not be as great as it was or millionaires, you know, I have all this money, but there's still something else that's missing. Why isn't that money or why isn't this external gratification working? And it really all stems back to within yourself. A lot of people are seeking something to make themselves feel better, But really they need to like step with inside and just see how they're already amazing and they don't need to earn anything, I think, on the outside. And then just love themself and know, um, how amazing they are and that they were create, you know what I mean? That they were created in this amazingness and that's all that, um, they need to worry about. But yeah, I just, it's so hard though for people to kind of soak that in. They're like, that's so easy.
Yeah.
And you know, in our world it is very hard to kind of stop and think about that. But that's why I made my business because—
I was gonna say that must be a lot of what you center these kind of conversations around is sort of the inner self and all of that.
Yeah. The inner self and really reflecting on, on how that really translates into how you show up, how you show up for yourself, for your family, for your team. Because if you can't show up for yourself first, how are you expected to show up for anyone else and give that level of, not level of all, but as much as you want. So, yeah. I like just a lot of self-reflection, reframing, and I don't know, just making people feel good and less dependent on the world outside them.
