What Does It Mean to "Take Your Life Back"?

What Does It Mean to "Take Your Life Back"?

To answer this question, we need to look at what or whom “took it away.”

Is it a general sense of being out of control (stress, anxiety, depression, exhaustion, etc.) for  you by now?

Or do you know exactly when it began and what happened? 

Either way, the symptoms are often the squeaky wheels that get the grease – therapy and pills, “to-do” and “maybe someday” lists that linger, supplements and endless appointments…all intending to address how “feeling out of control“ is manifesting in your life. 

The real question is: What’s beneath, at the root? 

The answer is often elusive because it got buried over time.

Experiences and people (and resulting beliefs) that began stimulating the thoughts and feelings that have disconnected you from yourself…

Things that hurt so much when you experienced them you couldn’t fully process it at the time – for safety or survival, because you didn’t know how, or you resisted because it was just too much to handle…

And now those old thoughts and feelings feel SO engrained, like they’re who you are. 

It’s like the real you is being held hostage by the past that hasn’t been healed.

“It’s like the real you is being held hostage by the past that hasn’t been healed.”

But it doesn’t have to be that way. It can actually be quite simple to “take your life back” when you know HOW.

Maybe you’ve been living this way for so long you don’t even know what it would be like to be free from that old baggage. 

This is where my Renegade Daughter course comes in ($222). 

Not only will you learn simple techniques for releasing the past that holds you back, you also get the exact steps needed to reclaim the true you that’s been waiting underneath. 

When you follow my program, in 4 week’s time you’ll feel more like the real you than you have in a very long time AND you’ll know how to make it sustainable for life (or you get your money back!).

This is what I mean by “take your life back”. You can learn to fully feel and process anything and everything that happened and set down that old baggage, so it can no longer disconnect you from your true self. From there you can move forward, free to be you and live the life you choose.

Grab my Renegade Daughter course right now to get started.

How To Look To The Future With Hope After Loss…

How To Look To The Future With Hope After Loss…

…even if you’re scared of getting stuck in feelings of sadness.

My journey to becoming a mother was a bumpy one. Having come through to the other side, I can now see clearly many of the “silver linings”, lessons that I carry with me to this day, which came from those dark times.

Note: This is not a “everything happens for a reason” post. I know that’s not helpful. I’m interested in sharing what DOES make a difference on the road to healing after pregnancy loss.

The fact is, it’s nearly impossible to heal when something hurts so badly that each time we think about it we have to push it away, shove it down, save it for later or else risk losing control.

The bad news

There are no two ways about it: When we push something under the rug, it leaves a lump. And each time we tread there, we are left with the choice of going out of our way to circumvent it OR to stay the course and trip over it each time. What’s not allowed will remain; as the saying goes “what we resist, persists.”

When it comes to losing a baby, that lump in the rug is pretty big: thoughts of what went wrong, what might have been, what it means for the future…the grief, sadness, anger and resentment can be extremely overwhelming and the fact is most of us are not prepared nor equipped to handle it.

Add to it the roller coaster of lingering pregnancy hormones flooding your body, combined with stress hormones like cortisol and adrenaline (triggered by your body’s natural “fight or flight” response), and it’s no wonder you feel like a mess.

The good news

Allowing the unwelcome feelings at a time you choose can be extremely empowering, and we have a resource that walks you through how. It’s a free guided meditation.

By simply giving yourself the time and space to honor how you feel, you can allow your feelings to come to the surface without getting stuck in them, offer yourself some much-needed and -deserved compassion and relief, and in time, truly heal.

KindNest offers a range of options for supporting yourself in allowing the unwelcome emotions, so you may take steps in the direction of healing and looking to the future with hope, ranging from a Healing Essentials digital course to one-on-one coaching.