Embody Your Power
Embody Your Power is an integrative model that bridges science, spirituality and ancient wisdom to give you the resources needed to live your fullest potential. As a psychotherapist for over 16 years and now as a coach, I help people know, reclaim, and embody their power on all levels.
It is my mission to help you connect to your unshakable resilience, to know true power and freedom, to be sovereign and to remember your divine nature.
If you’re wanting to learn tools to release layers of conditioning, heal from trauma, feel at home in your body, have inner peace, expand your capacity for joy, connect spiritually, and take a journey with me to embody your power… then this podcast is for you.
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Together let’s raise our consciousness to help evolve humanity.
Embody Your Power
Mapping the Psyche
In this episode I’ll teach you how to map your psyche and make the elusive mind tangible for greater mental power.
Have you ever felt overwhelmed by intense feelings, emotions, flashbacks, or nightmares? Do you experience anxiety, depression, anger, addiction, avoidance or perfectionism?
The mind is such an elusive thing, We can’t see it or locate it. It’s hard to discern where our thoughts are coming from. Are we thinking our own thoughts or something we were taught or exposed to? Some thoughts can bring us peace and joy while others bring stress, anxiety, and pain. Our thoughts can take us for a ride and we can feel completely powerless.
When you take the mind which feels so elusive and make it tangible it is a game changer in your ability to work with the mind and direct it in a way that supports your health and wellbeing. You have more control of your thoughts and can create the changes and life you desire.
I draw from Richard Schwartz’s Internal Family Systems (IFS) model to map the psyche. Have you seen the movie Inside Out? This is a kids movie that depicts different parts of the mind that have access to a control panel or circuit board in the brain. The various parts use the hardware of the brain to flip switches which results in the main character having different feelings and emotions. In the movie the parts were called Joy, Sadness, Fear, Anger, and Disgust. Those are just a few of many parts that can really impact us. Richard Schwartz was consulted for the production of this movie. I’m going to guide you to know how to work with your own mind. The image of the characters from the movie can be a helpful one to keep in mind.
If you have a piece of paper in front of you, you can follow along and learn a simple way to map your psyche.
At the end of this episode, I’d like to offer some exercises for you to try:
- Map your psyche by writing and drawing out the parts of your psyche. If you are someone who journals, see if you can start to identify these different parts when you are journaling. Which part of you is present and speaking right now? Notice if your inner dialogue is between two parts. Name and identify your parts.
- If you meditate see if you can notice which parts are present and when your core self is present.
- Shift away from identifying with your parts. If you are anxious, you can say I have an anxious part, instead of I’m anxious. If you’re angry, you can say I have a part of me that’s angry instead of saying I’m angry.
- Finally - to access your core self, ask yourself who am I in this present moment when I separate from all my parts.
Thank you for listening!
With gratitude, Danielle Carron