Category: Listening with Love
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Ep.10 Listening with Love: Blaming Disempowers
Last week, I told you we would be digging more into why blaming is toxic to our systems and how it affects our ability to listen with love. The truth is we are actually doing a disservice to the people we are trying to help when we contribute to their toxic pattern of blame. Blaming…
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Ep.09 Listening with Love: Pay Attention to Emotional Triggers
(Podcast available on 7/29/2022) What’s interesting about this process is that every week I’m presented with challenges that keep me from listening with love. This week, I got to experience how having an emotional trigger not only kept me from listening with love, but I got to see how I projected my fears out onto…
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Ep.08 Listening with Love: NOT Insisting On Our Own Way
(Podcast available 7/22/22) I don’t know about you, but I struggle with not insisting on my own way sometimes. I get this thought in my head that says, “I KNOW what’s best for you.” That belief is DEFINITELY not a part of listening with love. That is me trying to control someone else’s journey and…
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Ep.07 Listening with Love: In the Depths of Grief
(Podcast available July 15, 2022) People can feel grief over ANY loss. Any time our life changes in away where we feel like we are letting go of a piece of us, we grieve. We can even grieve endings of our relationships with unhealthy behavior and thought patterns, people, places, and things. EVERYONE grieves! There…
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Ep.06 Listening with Love: Forgive Yourself and Move On
Do you beat yourself up when you don’t feel like you did something right? Have you seen or read something and all of the sudden felt this extreme amount of guilt or shame over ways you’ve handled things in the past? I have. I used to use the stories of my mistakes to beat the…
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Are You Caught Up with the From a Loving Place Podcast?
I’ve been thoroughly enjoying releasing three new podcasts a week on the From a Loving Place with Author Rachael Wolff Podcast for the last month. Each episode reminds me to use my tools and develop the new ones that show up to help me live in the most authentic and loving way possible. In these…
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Ep.05 Listening with Love: “Don’t Go to the Hardware Store for Bread”
(Episode is available on the podcast on 7/1/22) The most valuable piece of advice I’ve ever got about who to go to when I’m feeling happy, accomplished, struggling, or downright miserable was given to me in the midst of trying to find myself in a toxic relationship. I was in AL-ANON at the time, and…
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Going Deeper: Teachable Moments
Something you might not know about me is I’ve been working through a GIANT fear of reading out loud since I was in elementary school, so recording podcasts is me literally pushing past my fears. It is a rare thing that I’m able to record an episode in just one take. Not knowing how to…
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Ep.04 Listening with Love: Why Are We SO Scared of Feelings?
How are you feeling right now? Not today or ten minutes ago, but right now. I don’t want to hear the dismissive comebacks like good, fine, okay, or triggered. I’m not interested in the story that is keeping you a prisoner of your perspective at this moment. I just want to know: What are you…
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Ep.03 Listening with Love: How Can I Make Myself Feel Seen and Heard?
Expecting others to be anyone other than who they are isn’t serving anyone. The expectation only builds resentment when they can’t live up to our illusion of who we think they are supposed to be. We become victim to our own expectations, and we continue to feel unseen and unheard. We not only can’t listen…