How rekindling my friend connection has opened up new opportunities this week & a Self Love Activation to remind you who you are. BRILLIANT

This episode identifies how reconnecting with my friends has led to many serendipitous moments in my life this week, including my connecting with a future co-host!! A wonderful woman from Wales UK who is doing so much for neurodiversity in the city of Cardiff.

I invite you to look for opportunities to open up conversations in the workplace or with friends or family about being neurodiverse, after being inspired by one of my clients who is an introvert yet created a meeting with HR at her workplace to discuss how to start talking and supporting all people at work in new and relevant ways.

My client's sector has realised recently through collected data and research that most of their talent is neurodiverse. Her courage comes from being to help others after attending an event created by a charity set up to support people just like her which she found incredibly validating and she is breaking out of her comfort zone to pay it forward.

I've recorded a  Self Love Activation for you, Use it as a boost, a energiser, or just a reminder to come back to yourself.
That we are enough, just because we are and we are loved and supported at all times, even though sometimes this feels hard to remember.
Remember we can do hard things.
All my love
Katie.
Ps I support wonderful people who learn new skills to be fully themselves.
The Simplify Method is a combination of practical skills, brain training, and energy tools, that will use for a lifetime. To grow your confidence, to create work and relationships that fill you with joy and appreciation

Find us at www.welovepeopleschool.com 
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Transcript

[00:06] Speaker A: Hello and welcome to the podcast Ambitious ADHD, where we are here to change the conversation around neurodiversity, to celebrate, to laugh, to look at our challenges, but most of all, look at our strengths, to gather together in community and to really, really help each other be ourselves because everyone else has taken. Thank you for joining me. Hello and welcome to the podcast. Today you find me in all of my clothes, layers and layers. I am freezing. It is so cold here. I have my Ugg boots on. I have my favorite blue woolly jumper. And after I've recorded this, I am going to put on my white long puffer coat, brand new, very excited. Ridiculous that it's white, but never mind. I'm going to enjoy it for the first five minutes until it gets grubby. And I am going to go to the pub and I'm going to find a pub with a fire with H, my partner. And I'm going to have a lovely glass of red wine and I'm going to eat some lovely food because it is rainy, it is Saturday and I deserve it. Like you deserve whatever is going to bring you a little bit of joy today. Because in the UK right now, here on the south coast, it is freezing. So I really, really hope that you have had a lovely week. I really do. And you know what? I have had a lovely week. My last episode was about friendship and human connection, and the reverberation from that has been amazing. Firstly, we are continuing our conversations and laughing together, me and my friends from Essex. And it has really kind of inspired me to realize how much I want to collaborate more. And because of that kind of episode and that reflection, I reached out and just put it out there into the universe on Facebook and said that I would love somebody to co host with me on the podcast. So I wasn't always talking to myself. Anyway, lo and behold, next morning in my inbox, I had a lovely message saying, love your podcast. You inspired me to reach out to my friend. I hadn't spoken to dear, dear friend and she was thrilled and so was I and had a little bit of a tear and I was like, oh my goodness. And can I be? I would love to be a guest on your podcast. And this amazing woman who has done so much anyway for neurodiversity in her hometown of Cardiff in Wales. I was like, oh my goodness. Thinking she'd seen my post about wanting a co host or she said, no, I'd never go onto Facebook. As part of my ADHD regime, I have curtailed all kind know extra communication and distraction via social media. So I just loved this serendipity and this whole energetic difference that my connection, reconnecting with my beautiful, medicinal friends, has kind of what it's kind of made happen for me this week. And I really honestly know that that is not a coincidence because lots of other little beautiful, happy things have happened. Actually, this sounds ridiculous, but this week also, I was on a speed awareness course and I opted to go to the in person event rather than the Zoom because I knew on Zoom that I would just literally fall asleep. And I thought, why not? I'm always talking to myself, working from home, working on Zoom. So I did go in person. And you know what? It was so lovely, because yet again, I met two beautiful humans that I would never have met otherwise and really laughed and really kind of made a connection with a guy whose wife had been diagnosed with ADHD. And we were talking about meditations and all of that kind of stuff. So just in the space of seven days, I have kind of opened up my circles. And also I said yes to an invitation last night to another friend who was having kind of a pre Christmas party and reconnected with lots of my other dear friends that I've known for a long time that I haven't seen before. So this one inspirational kind of reconnecting has turned into, and evolved into something much more. And I also want to share with you, one of my clients this week has inspired me. They always do, because she has gone really out of her comfort zone to approach HR in her workplace and to discuss the conversation around neurodiversity. Firstly, she's in a sector, one of the sectors that the data confirms that their most kind of brilliant talent are neurodiverse. Yet there is no conversation around neurodiversity in the workplace. They have to hot desk, which you can imagine is extremely challenging. It's noisy, there's open offices, there's nowhere else to go. There's no software. There's absolutely nothing to support neurodiversity in this sector of work that is obviously full of people that are neurodiverse. So she has taken it upon herself to go and have a meeting. And you know what? They are really keen, very happy to start opening up the conversation, to start supporting in a different way. And seriously, this is extremely difficult for my client. She's an introvert, she's incredible, got an incredible brain. So I am just inviting you to possibly think about any ways that you could get out of your comfort zone, not only to help yourself, but to help other people that a conversation or an interjection at work. And it could be even because another one of my clients was saying that at a family party. This time, because of her opening up about her neurodiversity, she has kind of opened the floodgate to other people in her family being diagnosed or even reflecting and wondering about themselves and doing some research. And literally, this family party, when everyone came together again, so many people had been helped, supported, they could talk about it openly. It was revelatory for so many of her family members. So how can we all make a difference in this way about having different conversations about the challenges, but also about the incredible brilliance, the creativity, the resilience, all of the things that I continuously find as a thread in all of the neurodiverse people that I know. So I am here to remind you on this short podcast, because I'm going to add an activation to it to also remind you. It could be useful if you need a little boost or you need a little ten minutes on your own, plug it into your ears and have a little listen. But it is about reminding you who you are, who you really are. Coming back to yourself. So not us trying to fit our size 6ft into size four shoes, not literally, but metaphorically, trying to be people that we are not masking who we are. That is absolutely exhausting, as we all know and tends to find us kind of in our houses in a darkened room under the duvet because it is so exhausting after we have pushed ourselves and pretended and tried to be perfectionist, perfectionist humans. So I am here to remind you, collectively, energetically, physically, we are together in this. The more that we can talk, the more that we can fully be ourselves, the more that we can celebrate and feel that we are not alone. And we are never broken. We are never, never ever broken. We are enough just because we are. There is nothing to prove. We have nothing to prove, not even to ourselves. And sometimes, on some days, this is really difficult to remember. So I am reminding you of all of your brilliance, all of your strengths, all of your kindnesses, your Creativity, your quirkiness, your sense of humor. And yes, remember, you are Amazing. And I Hope you enjoy the Activation. THIs Short ACtivatiOn Is FOr YOu to just Recalibrate, reboot to Remind you of your huge strengths, your humanity, your kindness. So wherever you are, just take a moment to really just connect with the earth, connect with your body, connect with yourself and just closing your eyes if you can, and taking some full deep breaths, just inhaling and exhaling, expanding the belly and releasing any tension that you notice from your body. Just allowing yourself to say hello. Hello body, hello spirit, Hello me. Just giving yourself permission to release anything from your system, your nervous system that needs to be released. You don't even have to know what that is. Just trusting your system to just let go. And you might like to imagine a grounding cord coming down from your body, down right into the center of the earth. Oftentimes we're in our heads, we're busy, we are distracted. So just giving yourself permission now to just be with yourself, knowing that this kind of relaxation allows you to be more connected, to get clearer, to drop any confusion, and to just be able to start tuning in in a better way to your body, your intuition, your very wise self. So just imagining this grounding cord, allowing any of the beliefs and pictures that are stored there that are no longer helpful to you today, to just be released into this grounding cord, letting go, relaxing and just celebrating yourself.

[14:07] Speaker B: Feeling yourself elevate, feeling all of the stories that are holding you back, keeping you stuck, let them drop. Let them drop to the ground. Because you are beyond that. Now. Say it with me now. Just breathe. I am loved. I am protected. I am connected. I am safe. I am worthy. Just because I am. I am open hearted. I am willing to be vulnerable. I'm willing to be a vulnerable person in a really healthy way who is ready to love, to receive love, to give love. And say it with me. I am lovable. I love all of the parts of me. All of the parts. All of the parts I try to hide that I'm not that keen on. I am ready to love all of the parts of me. I am a beautiful, imperfect human being. And that makes me even more lovable. Just feel your body accept this. Relax this. Relax into this. I am ready to be open and I accept myself. I choose to elevate. I choose to elevate. I'm here to play full out. To love wholeheartedly. To love wholeheartedly. I just want you to take a moment to remember. To remember who you are. You are here to overcome. You are capable. Say it with me. I choose to step into my light. I choose to step into my greatness. I get to receive. I get to connect on a deeper level now because I choose. I choose to receive love. I choose to receive the growth. I choose to receive the lessons, all of the lessons. Even when it hurts sometimes. And I look for my chance to grow in this life. And just breathing that into your body, you've got this. You are more than enough. You have nothing to prove. Not to anybody else, not to yourself. Say IT with me. I feel myself expanding. I feel myself opening up in a new way. I am ready. I feel myself rising up. I feel the universe, the world is supporting me. I choose to believe the world is supporting me. I have my back. People have my back. I am always supported. Even when I forget that I am supported. I choose to receive the love. I choose to receive the fuz. I choose to receive the lightness. I refuse, we refuse to stay awe. We are breaking the rules. We are breaking into our greatness. Breathe into that. Let your body feel the truth of that. All of the things, all of the stories that are holding you back, all of the words going round, round in your head. You are choosing to release them. You are letting them go. You are breathing them out. You are beyond that now. You are beyond that now. Say it with me. I was made to love and I choose to elevate. I choose to receive everything I truly desire. I am ready to say, to state, to wish what I want. And believe with my whole heart that I am always enough. I am amazing. I am full of light. I am full of love. I choose for this to be easy. I choose to receive the love. I choose to receive all of the things, all of the growth, all of the lessons. I choose to feel. I choose to feel it all. And I feel myself. I feel myself rising up knowing I am fully supported. I am loved. I am connected. We are refusing to crave more. We are ready. We are ready for love. We are ready to give our love. We are ready to receive our love. We are ready to grow in our lives, in our relationships. And feeling yourself elevate, breathing, breathing into this expansion, this elevating feeling, all of the stories that are holding you back, keeping you stuck, dropped to the ground. You are beyond that. You are beyond that now. Say it with me. I am loved. I am protected. I am safe. I am worthy. Just because I am. I have nothing to prove, not even to myself. I was born to love. I was born to be loved. I am an open hearted, willing to be vulnerable person who is ready, who is ready to connect on a deeper level. Who is ready to love all the parts of me, even the parts I tried to hide. Because I am a beautiful, imperfect human. And that makes me even more lover. Breathing into that, breathing into that truth. I am ready. I am open. I am fully accepted. I choose to elevate. I am here to play full out to love wholeheartedly. And I want you to just take a minute to just remember who you are coming back to. Yourself. You are here to be fully in your power, fully yourself. You are here to overcome. You are capable. You are strong. Say it with me. I choose to step into my light. I choose to step into my greatness. I get to receive. I get to connect. I get to connect on a deeper, deeper level. I choose to receive the love. I choose to receive all of the growth, all of the things. I choose to receive the lessons. Even when it's uncomfortable, even when I want to turn away and hide. I am choosing because I look for my chance to grow in this life. You have got this. You are more than enough. You have nothing to prove. Not to anybody, not to yourself, not to anybody else. Say it with me. I feel myself expanding. I see myself opening up to new experiences, to new emotions, to new levels of feeling. I feel myself rising up. I feel the universe. I feel the world supporting me. The world has my back. I have always supported. Even when I forget that I am supported. I choose to receive the love and to be loved. I choose to receive the fun, the lightness, the humor. We refuse to stay small. We are breathing into our greatness. We are leaving. All of those stories, all of the stories that held us back, all of the things that you focused on, that are holding you back, all of the words in your head that were going round and around, you are releasing them now. You are letting them go with love, and you are breathing them out. You are beyond that now. You are beyond that now. Say it with me. I was made to love. I was made to receive love. I was made to give love. I choose to elevate. I choose to receive. I am ready to say what's on my heart, what's in my heart. Even when people are not ready or don't want to listen. And I believe in myself with my whole, whole heart. Say it with me. I am amazing. I am full of light. I am full of love. I choose for this now to be easy. I choose to receive the love. I choose to receive all of the wishes, all of the things I deeply desire. And I feel myself rising up now. I feel that I am fully supported. I am loved. I am connected. I refuse to play small. We refuse to play small. We are ready to expand, to step into our light, to be fully ourselves, to come back to ourselves. The light, the love, the expansion, the giving and breathing into that, breathing it all in and just knowing. It is time. It is time to step into your greatness. It is time to feel the love communication and build a life.

[28:51] Speaker A: That means that they can be fully themselves.

[28:54] Speaker B: Thank you for listening.