Episode 93         

Loneliness is a universal experience, regardless of whether you are single or married (or in religious life/ordained)!

What’s at the root of our loneliness? How do we build a foundation towards having secure attachment with others and with God?

Tune in to this episode to hear me talk about how no-one, not even God, can replace a secure relationship with our SELF.

This episode is part of a series taken from my 30 Day Instagram Live Challenge where I went on live video to speak about different aspects of the interior journey every day for 30 days straight.

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CHAPTER MARKERS
(00:00:33) - Introduction
(00:02:04) - Question1: Singlehood and Contentment
(00:03:23) - Question 2: MyExperience with Earned Security
(00:05:27) - Safe Companionship
(00:10:37) - Loneliness
(00:15:21) - Relationships can't Fix our Woundedness and Traumas
(00:22:07) - Secure Attachment
(00:27:32) - My Experience with Secure and Safe Attachment
(00:30:17) - Building on our own Relationship with God First
(00:33:02) - Being in Solitue to Enjoy Togetherness
(00:34:09) - Self-Alienation
(00:46:09) - Balancing the Tension
(00:54:43) - Conclusion

REFLECTION PROMPT
Have you experienced loneliness recently? If you are unsure, think about some signs which point towards feelings of loneliness? In that moment, were you able to attune to yourself? What is one way in which you can be more secure with yourself?

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Episode 92         

In order to love authentically, we need to have a healthy sense of who we are as a separate SELF.

In this episode I talk about why being enmeshed or too detached in our relationships both prevent us from becoming more fully alive and authentically loving.

I also address a question about the particular challenge of being an Asian/Chinese Catholic making this interior journey of integration.

This episode is part of a series taken from my 30 Day Instagram Live Challenge where I went on live video to speak about different aspects of the interior journey every day for 30 days straight.

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CHAPTER MARKERS
(00:00:24) - Introduction
(00:02:52) - Getting into the Specifics
(00:04:10) - What is the Interior Journey About?
(00:05:54) - Spiritually Fruitful
(00:08:01) - Enmeshment & Detachment
(00:11:52) - Lacking Intimacy
(00:13:58) - Differentiation
(00:18:22) - Dysfunctions
(00:25:03) - Making our own Journey
(00:26:54) - There is no Community without Solitude
(00:33:39) - The Other and The Self
(00:35:11) - Questions
(00:42:11) - Conclusion

REFLECTION PROMPT
Where on the spectrum do you lie? Do you lie closer to enmeshment or detachment? Think about some of the ways in which you have experienced enmeshment or detachment in your close relationships. Think of one way in which you can start your journey to stop these patterns. It doesn't have to be something big. Any step in the right direction is progress.

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Episode 91         

There’s a world of difference between shutting down our emotions and ignoring our needs to “do the right thing” and being genuinely, authentically loving with our whole being.

In this episode I explain this distinction and share with very concrete experience how differently these two frameworks operate and how only one of them sets us free to become more alive and more truly loving.

This episode is part of a series taken from my 30 Day Instagram Live Challenge where I went on live video to speak about different aspects of the interior journey every day for 30 days straight.

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CHAPTER MARKERS
(00:00:25) - Introduction
(00:02:05) - What's the Difference?
(00:07:57) - The Framework we Operate under
(00:09:44) - Loving Freely
(00:12:55) - Looking at Freedom in the Act Versus the Act Itself
(00:16:49) - Shifting the Paradigm
(00:18:58) - Familial Scripts
(00:30:21) - Being Authentically Loving
(00:41:20) - How do I Honour this "Paradox" in me?
(00:43:24) - Question #1
(00:45:15) - Question #2
(00:55:35) - Conclusion

REFLECTION PROMPT
Think about a recent episode in which you felt pushed or triggered. What was your response? Was your response one that was reactive towards your fears and anxieties? Or did you give yourself the space to understand your emotions? Perhaps you acted out of your default scripts, thinking it was the right thing to do. Sit with this memory and try and recognise if there were any scripts at play.

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Episode 90       

Did you know your lack of a good relationship with your own BODY prevents you from being able to TRUST God, your Self or others?

When we try to discipline our body without first having a loving relationship with it, we deepen the emotional fracture within our being.

In this episode I share how God led me to reconsider my relationship with my body and learn to be able to trust Him more fully.

This episode is part of a series taken from my 30 Day Instagram Live Challenge where I went on live video to speak about different aspects of the interior journey every day for 30 days straight.

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CHAPTER MARKERS
(00:00:33) - Introduction
(00:03:18) - Spirituality is Relationship with God
(00:05:13) - The Relationship with our Bodies
(00:10:00) - Attuning to the Needs of your Body: What Works for You
(00:15:24) - The Irony of the Body
(00:19:08) - The Body Never Lies
(00:23:35) - Honouring our Design
(00:27:10) - Building a Relationship with our Bodies
(00:36:58) - Conclusion

REFLECTION PROMPT
What is your relationship with our body like? Do you trust your body? Do you like your body? Perhaps you see it as a liability and have constantly tried to push past its 'weaknesses'. What about your body do dislike? Take some time to sit with yourself. Hold yourself gently.

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Episode 89     

What’s the difference between controlling our emotions and regulating them? We often try to control our emotions in order to “be loving” but by doing so we actually make it harder for us to make authentic connections.

In this episode I share my experience on the difference between controlling my emotions and learning to regulate by attuning to them and the impact this has on my ability to be a safer space for myself and others.

This episode is part of a series taken from my 30 Day Instagram Live Challenge where I went on live video to speak about different aspects of the interior journey every day for 30 days straight.

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CHAPTER MARKERS
(00:00:17) - Introduction
(00:02:43) - Big (Negative) Emotions
(00:08:40) - Allowing ourselves to Feel
(00:11:14) - Attuning to our Emotions
(00:19:11) - Our Younger Emotions
(00:26:20) - The Core Self
(00:29:36) - Conclusion

REFLECTION PROMPT
Think about a time where you felt upset, sad or angry. Did you try to control your emotions? Were you able to let yourself feel those emotions? Try and come up with one way in which you can better attune to yourself and your emotions.

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Episode 88     

Illness. Burn out. Relationships breaking down. Death. Losing a job. Giving birth. These are some of life’s interruptions that can throw us off our carefully planned lives and make us feel destabilised.

Our instinct is usually to over-function and overcome these interruptions, but as INTERIOR PILGRIMS we have the option of seeing these interruptions as God’s invitation for us to do the REAL work of growing in freedom, restoration and love.

In this episode I talk about how life’s interruptions can be a painful grace we need to lean into instead of fight off.

This episode is part of a series taken from my 30 Day Instagram Live Challenge where I went on live video to speak about different aspects of the interior journey every day for 30 days straight.

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CHAPTER MARKERS
(00:00:32) - Introduction
(00:01:36) - What Interruptions have you Experienced?
(00:05:32) - Questioning my Fundamentals
(00:06:59) - The Hidden Stories
(00:08:23) - What's the Good News?
(00:11:12) - Doubling Down or Freezing
(00:12:05) - Reinforcing our Scripts
(00:20:25) - Invitation to Surrender
(00:27:48) - Interior Integration
(00:30:53) - Conclusion

REFLECTION PROMPT
Have you experienced interruptions in your life or in your interior journey? Reflect on one instance. How did you feel? What was your response? Think about how your scripts played a part in your response. Make some space for yourself and picture yourself surrendering all your current and even past interruptions.

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Episode 87     

In the interior journey it's not how slow or fast you are but the quality of the energy and presence you embody that shows how much space is within you. Slowing down is a way of cultivating that SPACE within us that enables us to exercise our freedom to choose our responses.

For many of us addicted to busyness, preoccupation and speed, we may not be able to slow down with our own efforts. Even when we think we have slowed down, in reality we are not slowing down nearly enough. Listen to my sharing in this episode on how we can move towards slowing down and becoming more free.

This episode is part of a series taken from my 30 Day Instagram Live Challenge where I went on live video to speak about different aspects of the interior journey every day for 30 days straight.

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CHAPTER MARKERS
(00:00:32) - Introduction
(00:03:32) - Slowing Down
(00:11:41) - Not Feeling Safe
(00:17:31) - Hiding Behind Our Personas
(00:19:59) - Stopping When We Finally Break
(00:27:03) - Conclusion

REFLECTION PROMPT
Are you constantly busying yourself and ignoring the boundaries that should be set? Do you live a life of space? Think about why you constantly busy yourself and what you can do to live more intentionally, and to make more space for yourself.

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Episode 86     

How well do you know yourself? The more specific and concrete we can get about knowing the way we are uniquely created and how to be aligned with our design, the freer and more confident we become in making our journey and in taking up the unique mission God created us to do.

In this episode I share some real life examples of individuals who have developed greater freedom and confidence because they gotten a lot more specific in their self-knowledge.

This episode is part of a series taken from my 30 Day Instagram Live Challenge where I went on live video to speak about different aspects of the interior journey every day for 30 days straight.

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CHAPTER MARKERS
(00:00:35) - Introduction
(00:02:52) - Not Fitting In
(00:11:02) - Finding Our Fit
(00:11:21) - 1. Being Concrete about your Scripts
(00:15:34) - 2. What are our Strengths and Specific Gifts?
(00:23:22) - Self-Knowlegde: Extroversion and Intraversion
(00:33:19) - Self-Knowlegde and Self-Acceptance
(00:36:09) - Aligning our Gifts with where we are
(00:43:02) - Conclusion

REFLECTION PROMPT
Do you feel like you there is a mismatch between your strengths and where you are in liffe? If you are not aware of what your strengths might be at this moment, sit with yourself and think about what activity at work, or at home that has given you immense joy.

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Episode 85     

We are often used to getting results in many areas of life by working harder, pushing past our limits and bypassing our weaknesses. Most of us try to approach our spiritual and interior lives in the same way when we begin to take our interior journey seriously.

Yet these methods that we default to actually backfire when we try to use them to grow in integration and authenticity and wholeness in Christ. In this episode I discuss why that is the case.

This episode is part of a series taken from my 30 Day Instagram Live Challenge where I went on live video to speak about different aspects of the interior journey every day for 30 days straight.

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CHAPTER MARKERS
(00:00:30) - Introduction
(00:03:45) - Our Inner Critic
(00:08:09) - Being Stuck and Regressing
(00:11:42) - Pondering what's beneath our Addictive Behaviours
(00:21:07) - Knowing when it is Time to Receive
(00:26:05) - Spiritual Ascetism
(00:29:40) - Putting Ascetism in Context
(00:33:29) - How much Slack should I be giving Myself?
(00:36:28) - Try Softer
(00:38:50) - Conclusion

REFLECTION PROMPT
Have you ever found yourself stuck or regressing at some point in your interior journey?If this has happened to you before, have you tried to push through with zeal to make sure you're moving forward at all costs? Sometimes, we need to able to take a step back and fall into rest. We need to learn to receive.

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Episode 84     

Many of us struggle between demanding standards of virtue and holiness from ourselves/others and being compassionate as we know we are called to be.

In this episode I invite you to observe the energy underlying your zeal or your desire to be compassionate. Are these tied to a fear of falling short somehow? Do you feel pushed or are you drawn from a place of loving freedom?

I also explain how integration will help you navigate this particular tension with greater ease and grace.

This episode is part of a series taken from my 30 Day Instagram Live Challenge where I went on live video to speak about different aspects of the interior journey every day for 30 days straight.

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CHAPTER MARKERS
(00:00:32) - Introduction
(00:01:49) - Am I Compassionate with Myself?
(00:03:55) - Revisiting the Three Layers
(00:06:42) - Being Overzealous
(00:08:33) - Uable to Accept Reality
(00:16:36) - Being Overly Compassionate
(00:19:51) - Where are the Energies within you coming from?
(00:24:41) - Balancing Zeal and Compassion
(00:27:29) - Conclusion

REFLECTION PROMPT
Do you identify more as someone who is over zealous or overly compassionate? Reflect on why is it you lean more towards being overly zealous or compassionate. Could it be that there is a reality that you are unable to accept?

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Episode 83     

In today’s episode I responded to a question about FREEDOM.

What does it mean to be interiorly free? What is that freedom like? How do we recognise when we are unfree? How can we become more free?

Listen to this episode to hear me discuss these questions from a practical and experiential perspective.

This episode is part of a series taken from my 30 Day Instagram Live Challenge where I went on live video to speak about different aspects of the interior journey every day for 30 days straight.

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CHAPTER MARKERS
(00:00:31) - Introduction
(00:01:54) - Responding from a Place of Freedom
(00:06:45) - Self-Interest
(00:14:37) - What is Freedom?
(00:19:19) - Recognising Healing in Ourselves
(00:23:51) - How to Choose from a Place of Freedom?
(00:30:52) - Navigating the In-Between
(00:36:57) - Conclusion

REFLECTION PROMPT
What are your own experiences of unfreedom and freedom? Do you recognise the signs and fruits of healing in your journey? Perhaps, there are aspects of your journey in which you are afraid to face or let go of. Reflect on these aspects and think about how you can increase your experience of being loved and of receiving love. Is this something you can boldly ask God for help with?

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Episode 82     

What do we need to successfully embark and stay on the interior journey? In this episode I explain three factors that we often miss out in our understanding of the interior journey  - and they are Timing, Grace and Readiness.

If you've been frustrated at your lack of progress even though you've been putting in effort, it may be due to one or more of these factors being missing.

This episode is part of a series taken from my 30 Day Instagram Live Challenge where I went on live video to speak about different aspects of the interior journey every day for 30 days straight.

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CHAPTER MARKERS
(00:00:35) - Introduction
(00:03:43) - The Treasure Within
(00:06:53) - Protagonists Of Our Own Story
(00:16:58) - Wave of Grace
(00:18:41) - Readiness
(00:25:41) - Timing, Grace & Readiness
(00:28:49) - Conclusion

REFLECTION PROMPT
Are you aware of the aspects of Timing, Grace and Readiness in your Interior Journey? Think about your own journey in these aspects. 

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Episode 81     

One mark of a lack of interior integration is SPIRITUALISING. And this can have real detrimental impact on ourselves, our families and our communities.

In this episode I talk about three specific ways spiritualising can blind us from reality, keep us from actually loving, and even helps keep real evil under a spiritualised wrap.

This episode is part of a series taken from my 30 Day Instagram Live Challenge where I went on live video to speak about different aspects of the interior journey every day for 30 days straight.

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CHAPTER MARKERS
(00:00:49) - Introduction
(00:03:35) - What is Spiritualising?
(00:06:57) - 1. Blinds us from Emotional Wounds
(00:11:20) - Over Spiritualising as a "Leader"
(00:15:25) - 2. Blinds us from our Creatureliness
(00:21:51) - Honouring our Limits
(00:24:18) - Addictive Patterns
(00:29:25) - 3. Blinds us from Seeing Others as Human Beings to be Loved
(00:34:17) - Has it Happened to You?
(00:41:37) - Conclusion

REFLECTION PROMPT
Have you been a victim of spiritualisation? Or perhaps, you have unknowingly been someone who has over-spiritualised, yourself. Try and recognise one instance in your life, or in the life of someone else that you know.

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Episode 80     

The most difficult and courageous thing I've ever had to do in the interior journey was confront the TRUTH of my relationship with my parents and the ways they have wounded me even though they loved me the best they could.

In this episode I share why acknowledging the painful truth of how our parents have wounded us is a non-negotiable for anyone wanting to become integrated, and also how we can be hopeful even when nothing external changes.

This episode is part of a series taken from my 30 Day Instagram Live Challenge where I went on live video to speak about different aspects of the interior journey every day for 30 days straight.

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Adam Young's The Place We Find Ourselves Podcast Ep 2

CHAPTER MARKERS
(00:00:25) - Introduction
(00:01:30) - Parental Wounds
(00:08:11) - The Place We Find Ourselves
(00:11:58) - My Own Interior Journey
(00:14:44) - 3 Parts of my Journey
(00:15:02) - 1st Part - Being Trapped in my Younger Self
(00:24:00) - 2nd Part - Being a Safe Adult
(00:39:27) - 3rd Part - Becoming Freer
(00:41:25) - Attuning to Myself & Others
(00:51:20) - Recognising Some Signs of Being Ready
(00:52:31) - Conclusion

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Episode 79     

Do you trust your emotions? Our lack of a good relationship with our emotions impact our ability to TRUST OURSELVES to make good decisions and spiritual discernment.

Trust is earned, even when it is with ourselves. And to lead ourselves well, we need to rebuild our trust in our emotions and let them play their critical role in our lives without overwhelming or dominating us.

This episode is part of a series taken from my 30 Day Instagram Live Challenge where I went on live video to speak about different aspects of the interior journey every day for 30 days straight.

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CHAPTER MARKERS
(00:00:42) - Introduction
(00:04:32) - Trusting Our Emotions
(00:10:07) - Perception vs Neuroception
(00:15:06) - Discernment
(00:19:28) - Governance
(00:22:47) - Our Inner Critic
(00:26:20) - Why can't we Trust our Emotions?
(00:28:53) - What Happens when we can't Trust our Emotions?
(00:36:28) - Building Trust with My Emotions
(00:38:54) - Two Major Things that happen when we don't Trust our Emotions
(00:39:20) - #1. Emotionally Unhealthy Relationships
(00:39:55) - #2. Over-Spiritualising
(00:46:40) - Conclusion

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REFLECTION PROMPT
- Are you in touch with the ache in your own human experience?  How might God be seeking to be present to you in your suffering?

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Episode 78   

So many of us struggle with how to be at home with our Self and be secure.

When we don't feel secure in our own bodies, we will continue to look for security from sources outside of ourselves through exerting control. 

In this episode I share about the experience of coming home to ourselves and being able to be at rest.

This episode is part of a series taken from my 30 Day Instagram Live Challenge where I went on live video to speak about different aspects of the interior journey every day for 30 days straight.

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Cf. Listen to Episode 4 | Living from the Inside Out

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CHAPTER MARKERS
(00:00:36) - Introduction
(00:02:42) - Making the Connection
(00:04:05) - Being Overly Fixated
(00:04:36) - Dying to Self
(00:09:38) - Created for Love
(00:15:04) - Being at Home with Yourself
(00:22:00) - Who are You?
(00:27:40) - Acknowledging my Unhappiness
(00:36:24) - Our Core Layer
(00:39:06) - Subjective and Objective Redemption
(00:47:11) - Conclusion

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Episode 77   

In this episode I talk about noticing the unique pattern of brokenness in our lives and why that's a crucial part of the interior journey.

The specific pattern of our brokenness contain clues and invitations to healing and also tells us something about the ways we were actually meant to live.

This episode is part of a series taken from my 30 Day Instagram Live Challenge where I went on live video to speak about different aspects of the interior journey every day for 30 days straight.

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CHAPTER MARKERS
(00:00:22) - Introduction
(00:02:36) - What is "Interior"?
(00:06:13) - Patterns of Brokenness
(00:19:30) - Facing our Shame
(00:27:22) - Learning with Acceptance
(00:33:26) - Growing Towards Love
(00:38:17) - Conclusion

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Episode 76 

This episode is the first in a series taken from my 30 Day Instagram Live Challenge where I went on live video to speak about different aspects of the interior journey every day for 30 days straight.

On Day 1 I shared about how it was a very human experience of deep loneliness and abandonment as a teenager that led me to begin making my interior journey. It’s sometimes easy to forget that it is from the real and concrete contexts of our suffering that we recognise that we are created for more.

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CHAPTER MARKERS
(00:02:12) - Introduction
(00:06:26) - Experiencing Deep Loneliness
(00:09:27) - Emulating the Saints
(00:16:36) - Falling Over and Over
(00:18:42) - Being Human
(00:20:29) - Conclusion

TRANSCRIPT
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REFLECTION PROMPT
- Are you in touch with the ache in your own human experience?  How might God be seeking to be present to you in your suffering?

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Episode 75 

Have you ever felt trapped in a cycle of thinking of the better self you want to grow into, wanting to take action, but not knowing how to bridge the gap between where you are and where you think you should be?

Listen to this episode to discover how this common trap of "Perfectionist Paralysis" might be playing out in your own life and uncover the ways you can break free from this pattern.

Instead of running away from our fear of inadequacy, we explore how to let God catch up with us and guide our journey into greater holiness, wholeness and authenticity.

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CHAPTER MARKERS
(00:00:00) - Introduction
(00:04:37) - Why Do We Get Stuck?
(00:12:09) - Fear of Failing
(00:15:50) - Staying Busy to Avoid God
(00:21:35) - 3 Ways To Stay Connected During Break
(00:29:53) - Conclusion

TRANSCRIPT
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REFLECTION PROMPT
- In what ways might you be running away from God at this point in your life?
- Is there something you can do to just stop running away from him or is it too scary to stop running away from him?
- Is there someone you can ask to help you not get busier and more distracted, but to help you just hold yourself where you are and discover that God is holding you too. 

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Episode 74     

Have you ever wondered how our relationship with God can be influenced by our family of origin and faith communities?

Join me in a special conversation with Brya Hanan, a licensed marriage and family therapist and life coach, as we explore the often overlooked connection between feeling safe with God and our experiences within our faith communities and families. Discover the importance of safety as the foundation for trust, surrender, and taking risks to fully become who God created us to be.

In this thought-provoking episode, we also discuss the complexities of navigating faith, relationship boundaries, and attachment styles, as well as the role of interior work in our spiritual journeys.

Learn how faith and embodied trauma healing can go hand-in-hand by integrating psychology, neuroscience, and faith in the pursuit of personal growth and a deeper relationship with God.

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CHAPTER MARKERS
(00:00:30) - Introduction
(00:01:05) - Introduction to Brya Hanan
(00:14:22) - Feeling Safe with God
(00:19:10) - Truly Knowing that I Am Loved
(00:26:39) - How do I know if I Feel Safe with Someone?
(00:29:52) - Attachment, Safety, and Faith Dysfunction
(00:34:51) - Enmeshment & Spiritual Bypassing
(00:42:20) - Navigating Faith & Boundaries
(00:51:36) - When our Faith becomes an Obstacle to Healing
(01:07:26) - An Invitation
(01:08:47) - Conclusion

TRANSCRIPT
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REFLECTION PROMPT
- I invite you to just sit with how you felt as you listened.
- Pay attention to the shifts in your emotions; how your body may have reacted as you listened to certain parts of th episode.
- There’s an invitation for you to be with yourself, especially with the more vulnerable, the wounded parts of yourself.
- Be gentle with yourself and maybe look for someone, a safe person, to share any thoughts, any insights or any feelings that may have emerged.

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Episode 73     

Those of us who desire to become more loving and self-transcending can mistakenly believe that our God-given desire for self-fulfilment is something innately selfish. If we are afraid to embrace and lean into our longing for self-fulfilment, we will not be able to become the unique individuals that God created us to be.

In this episode I explain how our longing for self-fulfilment is a powerful means through which God calls us into the specific and unrepeatable personal vocation we are each created to live - which is in turn the most loving and fruitful service we can offer others.

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Clarity Consultative-Coaching with Ann Yeong

CHAPTER MARKERS
(00:05:05) - Introduction
(00:06:37) - The Objection
(00:09:40) - Created for Self-Fufillment
(00:12:53) - Serving where the Need is
(00:18:12) - Aligning Ourselves to Our Gifts and Purpose
(00:22:26) - Sometimes being Hindered
(00:26:26) - The Orchestra Analogy
(00:31:15) - What about the Cross?
(00:35:25) - PRAXIS: Listen. Ponder. Act
(00:37:46) - Conclusion
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TRANSCRIPT
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REFLECTION PROMPT
Listen.
- As you listened to this episode,  what part of my sharing resonates with you?

Ponder.
- How that fear of being self-serving or selfish may have prevented you from taking action to move you forward in becoming the person that God created you to be?

Act.
- Take a moment to list down just three things you've done in the past, where you felt really fulfilled, really alive.

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Episode 72   

Are you aware of the invisible chains of unfreedom and how they keep you from expressing and becoming your true self? 

In this episode you will hear me share about three specific ways our life scripts block our path to becoming who God created us to be - in ways you may not have even realised.

Anyone who is serious about discerning their personal vocation can benefit from listening to this episode.

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CHAPTER MARKERS
(00:08:30) - Introduction
(00:15:12) - What are Life Scripts?
(00:17:59) - #1: Constricting Ourselves
(00:21:05) - #2: Distoring our Gifts
(00:30:35) - #3: Externally Directed
(00:36:11) - Recap
(00:38:26) - Tell-tale Signs we are Living our of our Personas
(00:42:45) - PRAXIS: Listen. Ponder. Act
(00:45:43) - Conclusion
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TRANSCRIPT
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REFLECTION PROMPT
Listen.
- As you listened to this episode, what resonated with you?

Ponder.
-  TWhen was the last time you kind of experienced yourself just automatically reacting in a certain way, in a particular situation, and then later wondering, why did I do that?
- Why is it that I always react that way?
- Try to remember that last time you had such an experience.

Act.
- Try and name that memory that may have come up in step two.
- Why did I react that way or why is it that I always seem to react that way in this kind of circumstance?
- See if you can name what was it that you were trying to do; what were you trying to prove about yourself? 
- Cultivate that awareness; what are the patterns that you find yourself repeating? Who are you trying to be? What are you trying to prove?

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Episode 71 

Even when we have been on the interior journey for a while and have grown in self-knowledge and self-acceptance, we may find that we still struggle to integrate our new awareness into our daily living. Why is that?

In this episode I delve deeper using my own current ongoing struggle of integration to explain why it is that even when we have become much clearer on who we are, we can still find it very difficult to let our be-ing match our understanding and experience.

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Ep 4: Living from the Inside Out
Ep 62: The Four Layers of Self-Knowledge

CHAPTER MARKERS
(00:00:28) - Introduction
(00:04:02) - Common Assumptions we Make
(00:05:34) - It's not that Simple
(00:07:18) - No "One-Size-Fits-All"
(00:10:14) - Framework #1: The 3 Layers of Living
(00:11:55) - Framework #2: The 4 Layers of Self-Knowledge
(00:16:36) - My Traits – 1. Kinesthetic Learner
(00:22:06) - My Traits – 2. Comprehension before Conviction
(00:22:50) - My Traits – 3. Being Explorative
(00:24:22) - My Traits – 4. Not being Hurried
(00:26:37) - My Traits can be Different from my Scripts
(00:28:12) - My Perfectionist Script
(00:44:28) - PRAXIS: Listen. Ponder. Act
(00:46:37) - Conclusion
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TRANSCRIPT
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REFLECTION PROMPT
Listen.
- As you listened to me share and talk in this episode, what resonated with you?
- What struck you?

Ponder.
- Can you think of one way that you struggle with God's design for you?
- Notice in your day-to-day living if there is some part of you that resists certain aspects of this design? - What is that aspect?

Act.
- Write this down: I believe I struggle to accept [this part of myself] because [identify a script that goes against this aspect of God's design for you].
- Fill in the blanks, fill in your answers into the [square brackets].

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Episode 70

One of the constant challenges we face on our road into authenticity and wholeness is the burden of  other people's expectations of us. What we don't often realise is that the "form" of these expectations can change greatly when we are in different seasons of our life, even when we have undergone conversion and growth.

In this episode I share with you three very different seasons in my life and how the initial liberation of one season led to new burdens of expectations that were of a very different nature from the season before.

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CHAPTER MARKERS
(00:02:04) - Introduction
(00:04:35) - Being Shackled by Expectations
(00:12:43) - Examples of the Burdens of Expectation
(00:13:14) - Expectations in the First Season of My Life
(00:18:05) - Expectations in the Second Season of My Life
(00:25:43) - Additional & New Burdens of Expectations
(00:34:53) - Another Call, Another Season
(00:38:50) - Making Sense of God's Call
(00:43:53) - Discerning Personal Vocation
(00:44:57) - What Cross do I Decide on Carrying
(00:46:45) - Q & A
(00:48:48) - PRAXIS: Listen. Ponder. Act
(00:51:15) - Conclusion
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TRANSCRIPT
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REFLECTION PROMPT
Listen.
- As you listened to this episode, what struck you?
- What part of my sharing resonated with you?

Ponder.
-  Whose expectations are you most afraid of not fulfilling, and why?

Act.
- Identify what you are afraid of losing if you do not live up to those expectations.
- Where is that fear coming from? 

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Episode 69 

In this episode I speak with soul guide and companion Edwina Yeow of Anam Cara Ministries about pace in the interior journey.

We share our own experiences of the struggle to slow down, breaking through the compartmentalisation between sacred and secular, and soaking in God's love instead of striving to prove ourselves.

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If you are unfamiliar with Ignatian Contemplation (which is mentioned in this episode) you can find out more here.

CHAPTER MARKERS
(00:03:34) - Introduction
(00:05:26) - Becoming Spiritual Companions
(00:11:07) - Why we Struggle to Slow Down
(00:21:21) - Going Fast to Avoid Facing the Truth of our Scripts
(00:38:19) - Beyond Compartmentalising Sacred VS Secular
(00:45:47) - Soaking in God's Love Instead of Proving Ourselves
(00:54:38) - Soul Spa & Relaxing with God
(01:13:47) - Praxis Prompts
(01:15:34) - Conclusion
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