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Illuminating The Stories That Bind Us

Illuminating The Stories That Bind Us

By Jennifer H. Carey

The podcast for anyone who has felt stuck and trapped. Listen to brave guests share a story that has been holding back their potential. Real insights and expert advice for personal growth and healthy relationships from people who've lived it. Together we explore mindfulness, holistic health, creative expression and wellness to help shine light on and transform the stories that bind us.
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What is Illuminating the Stories that Bind Us (and why are we doing it)?

Illuminating The Stories That Bind UsApr 12, 2021

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The Pulse Cure

The Pulse Cure

A podcast for anyone who has felt stuck and trapped.

In this episode, Jen talks to Dr. Torkil Færø, who has made the future of health a reality with his best-selling book, The Pulse Cure. When the knowledge in his book is applied and implemented with technology that measures our hearts (smart watch, oura ring), we can lead a healthier and longer life with more quality.

The Pulse Cure has been on the best-selling list in Norway for over 50 weeks. And it’s spreading like wildfire having just been published in the UK- you can buy it here!

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Listen to brave and courageous participants share a story that they have been living under. Applicants can choose to write it in a letter or be a participant on the podcast and be interviewed. Participants work through a story that is likely fiction but still has been keeping them from loving themselves and stepping forward to living and loving a purposeful life. At the end of each podcast, we will prescribe a song for the participant to help them transform beyond the limiting story they are telling themselves. From not feeling good enough to feeling unloved, let us take a journey together to help transform and break through the stories that bind us.

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For show notes, including links to the resources mentioned in this show, click⁠ ⁠⁠⁠here.⁠⁠⁠⁠

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If you'd like to learn more about Jen, click⁠ ⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠.

If you'd like to share YOUR story, you can apply⁠ ⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Jan 24, 202446:09
Permission to Create Your Own Narrative

Permission to Create Your Own Narrative

A podcast for anyone who has felt stuck and trapped.

In this episode, Jen talks with Author Nisha Kishore- who shares how she has broken through stories of shame, guilt, and identity misalignment. She has overcome self-injury, suicidal ideations, and LGBTQIA+ discrimination- and what is incredibly beautiful is she has risen far above all of that.

Read Nisha’s book: https://www.amazon.com/Am-Self-Liberation-Nisha-Madhuri-Kishore/dp/B0C129QF48/ref=sr_1_1?crid=14QONMUEP76MI&keywords=i+am+a+journey+of+self+liberation&qid=1700707504&sprefix=I+am+a+journey%2Caps%2C151&sr=8-1

Follow Nisha: @nishakishore_creator & https://www.linkedin.com/in/nisha-kishore-95a4b520a/

Email Nisha: nisha.kishore@chicagobooth.edu

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Listen to brave and courageous participants share a story that they have been living under. Applicants can choose to write it in a letter or be a participant on the podcast and be interviewed. Participants work through a story that is likely fiction but still has been keeping them from loving themselves and stepping forward to living and loving a purposeful life. At the end of each podcast, we will prescribe a song for the participant to help them transform beyond the limiting story they are telling themselves. From not feeling good enough to feeling unloved, let us take a journey together to help transform and break through the stories that bind us.

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This season, Jen collaborates with singer-songwriter Shannon Ward who is also co-founder of ⁠⁠⁠Fiercely Peaceful and Love Inside Out Now⁠⁠⁠. Shannon is on a mission to help people remember who they are and she has carried this mission with her as an artist, playwright, healer and co-facilitator of retreats. She's worked on ⁠⁠⁠The WOW STAGE⁠⁠⁠ with Jen, and with Mick and Tess Pulver from ⁠⁠⁠Breakthrough Performance⁠⁠⁠.

For show notes, including links to the resources mentioned in this show, click ⁠⁠⁠here.⁠⁠⁠

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If you'd like to learn more about Jen, click ⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠.

If you'd like to share YOUR story, you can apply ⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠.

Dec 20, 202333:16
Experts Do Not Define Me

Experts Do Not Define Me

A podcast for anyone who has felt stuck and trapped.

In this episode, Jen talks to Transformative Coach, speaker, teacher, and author JP Horgan- who went from mobility scooter to marathon runner. It's a lesson for us all: don’t let what experts say define you.

Learn more about JP here, and take advantage of his free worksheets here.

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Listen to brave and courageous participants share a story that they have been living under. Applicants can choose to write it in a letter or be a participant on the podcast and be interviewed. Participants work through a story that is likely fiction but still has been keeping them from loving themselves and stepping forward to living and loving a purposeful life. At the end of each podcast, we will prescribe a song for the participant to help them transform beyond the limiting story they are telling themselves. From not feeling good enough to feeling unloved, let us take a journey together to help transform and break through the stories that bind us.

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This season, Jen collaborates with singer-songwriter Shannon Ward who is also co-founder of ⁠⁠Fiercely Peaceful and Love Inside Out Now⁠⁠. Shannon is on a mission to help people remember who they are and she has carried this mission with her as an artist, playwright, healer and co-facilitator of retreats. She's worked on ⁠⁠The WOW STAGE⁠⁠ with Jen, and with Mick and Tess Pulver from ⁠⁠Breakthrough Performance⁠⁠.

For show notes, including links to the resources mentioned in this show, click ⁠⁠here.⁠⁠

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If you'd like to learn more about Jen, click ⁠⁠here⁠⁠.

If you'd like to share YOUR story, you can apply ⁠⁠here⁠⁠.

Nov 15, 202335:55
Near Death Experience

Near Death Experience

A podcast for anyone who has felt stuck and trapped.

In this episode, our host Jen talks with Steve Lentini, who shares his near death experience and how synchronicity woke him up before he almost died- and how his near death experience had him one with everything and nothing all at the same time.

Check out the book that Steve talks about in the podcast: Wake Up, Jump into Your Life! 

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Listen to brave and courageous participants share a story that they have been living under. Applicants can choose to write it in a letter or be a participant on the podcast and be interviewed. Participants work through a story that is likely fiction but still has been keeping them from loving themselves and stepping forward to living and loving a purposeful life. At the end of each podcast, we will prescribe a song for the participant to help them transform beyond the limiting story they are telling themselves. From not feeling good enough to feeling unloved, let us take a journey together to help transform and break through the stories that bind us.

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This season, Jen collaborates with singer-songwriter Shannon Ward who is also co-founder of ⁠Fiercely Peaceful and Love Inside Out Now⁠. Shannon is on a mission to help people remember who they are and she has carried this mission with her as an artist, playwright, healer and co-facilitator of retreats. She's worked on ⁠The WOW STAGE⁠ with Jen, and with Mick and Tess Pulver from ⁠Breakthrough Performance⁠.

For show notes, including links to all the resources mentioned in this show, click ⁠here.⁠

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If you'd like to learn more about Jen, click ⁠here⁠.

If you'd like to share YOUR story, you can apply ⁠here⁠.

Oct 18, 202342:15
Summer Of Self Care - Bonus Episode!

Summer Of Self Care - Bonus Episode!

A podcast for anyone who has felt stuck and trapped.

This bonus episode is a playback of a live webinar Jen recorded last year with Integrative Counsel Founder Dayna Wood called “Summer Of Self Care”. It's perfect, because we're releasing it on the solstice! We’ll be back with a regular episode next month. 

We hope you enjoy it. Have a great summer!

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Listen to brave and courageous participants anonymously share a story that they have been living under. Applicants can choose to write it in a letter or be a participant on the podcast and be interviewed. Participants work through a story that is likely fiction but still has been keeping them from loving themselves and stepping forward to living and loving a purposeful life. At the end of each podcast, Shannon and Jen will prescribe a song for the participant to help them transform beyond the limiting story they are telling themselves. From not feeling good enough to feeling unloved, let us take a journey together to help transform and break through the stories that bind us.

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This season, Jen collaborates with singer-songwriter Shannon Ward who is also co-founder of Fiercely Peaceful and Love Inside Out Now. Shannon is on a mission to help people remember who they are and she has carried this mission with her as an artist, playwright, healer and co-facilitator of retreats. She's worked on The WOW STAGE with Jen, and with Mick and Tess Pulver from Breakthrough Performance.

For show notes, including links to all the resources mentioned in this show, click here.

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If you'd like to learn more about Jen, click here.
If you'd like to share YOUR story, you can apply here.

Jun 21, 202301:01:33
Heart Attack or Panic Attack?

Heart Attack or Panic Attack?

A podcast for anyone who has felt stuck and trapped.

In this episode, our host Jen and co-host, singer/songwriter Shannon Ward see our incredibly brave participant share how her health anxiety led her to chronically seek help from doctors, which then led her to not be able to leave the house, not be able to go to work, and then not be able to leave her bed. She began to believe the story that something was wrong which led to debilitating anxiety making her life smaller and smaller. 

If you have ever worried about your health…

If you have ever worried about having a panic attack…

If your beliefs around those things ever kept you from doing what you love…

This is an episode you cannot miss. 

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Listen to brave and courageous participants anonymously share a story that they have been living under. Applicants can choose to write it in a letter or be a participant on the podcast and be interviewed. Participants work through a story that is likely fiction but still has been keeping them from loving themselves and stepping forward to living and loving a purposeful life. At the end of each podcast, Shannon and Jen will prescribe a song for the participant to help them transform beyond the limiting story they are telling themselves. From not feeling good enough to feeling unloved, let us take a journey together to help transform and break through the stories that bind us.

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This season, Jen collaborates with singer-songwriter Shannon Ward who is also co-founder of Fiercely Peaceful and Love Inside Out Now. Shannon is on a mission to help people remember who they are and she has carried this mission with her as an artist, playwright, healer and co-facilitator of retreats. She's worked on The WOW STAGE with Jen, and with Mick and Tess Pulver from Breakthrough Performance.

For show notes, including links to all the resources mentioned in this show, click here.

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If you'd like to learn more about Jen, click here.

If you'd like to share YOUR story, you can apply here.

May 24, 202337:36
The Path Of Living

The Path Of Living

A podcast for anyone who has felt stuck and trapped.

In this episode, our Jen and co-host, singer/songwriter Shannon Ward talk to Prin, who shares how her brushes with death and multiple stories that were internal and externally projected on her around her mental health journey could have completely bound her, leaving her stuck or dead or living an unlived life. Instead, she chose a path of LIVING by asking for help, receiving the help and then took it and integrated it with writing, singing, playing music and producing music. She shares all of the lessons with us. 

CORRECTION: Jen references a quote to be FDR but it's actually Teddy Roosevelt. Our mistake!

At the end we get to hear a wonderful song that came from The CALM Principles - a project that Prin created in 2021 for the 20th anniversary of checking herself into the Psychiatric hospital. 

MORE FROM PRIN:

https://thecalmprinciples.com/

https://musicbyprin.com/ 

https://writingbyprin.com/ 

You can purchase The C.A.L.M. Principles book on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/L-M-PRINciples-Integrated-Reflection-Education/dp/B09FRZZVDV/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/musicbyprin/ 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/musicbyprin/ 

Twitter: @princreates

TikTok: @musicbyprin


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Listen to brave and courageous participants anonymously share a story that they have been living under. Applicants can choose to write it in a letter or be a participant on the podcast and be interviewed. Participants work through a story that is likely fiction but still has been keeping them from loving themselves and stepping forward to living and loving a purposeful life. At the end of each podcast, Shannon and Jen will prescribe a song for the participant to help them transform beyond the limiting story they are telling themselves. From not feeling good enough to feeling unloved, let us take a journey together to help transform and break through the stories that bind us.

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This season, Jen collaborates with singer-songwriter Shannon Ward who is also co-founder of Fiercely Peaceful and Love Inside Out Now. Shannon is on a mission to help people remember who they are and she has carried this mission with her as an artist, playwright, healer and co-facilitator of retreats. She's worked on The WOW STAGE with Jen, and with Mick and Tess Pulver from Breakthrough Performance.

For full show notes, including links to all the resources mentioned in this show, click here.

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If you'd like to learn more about Jen, click here.

If you'd like to share YOUR story, you can apply here.


Apr 19, 202301:08:46
Why Illuminate?

Why Illuminate?

A podcast for anyone who has felt stuck and trapped.

In this episode, our Jen and co-host, singer/songwriter Shannon Ward share reasons why we fear sharing and illuminating our stories. They will also share all of the benefits and why it is so important to illuminate the voice and story playing over and over in your head, binding you.

Listen/watch to the end and hear what songs Shannon and Jen prescribe for those of us that struggle with illuminating the story!

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Listen to brave and courageous participants anonymously share a story that they have been living under. Applicants can choose to write it in a letter or be a participant on the podcast and be interviewed. Participants work through a story that is likely fiction but still has been keeping them from loving themselves and stepping forward to living and loving a purposeful life. At the end of each podcast, Shannon and Jen will prescribe a song for the participant to help them transform beyond the limiting story they are telling themselves. From not feeling good enough to feeling unloved, let us take a journey together to help transform and break through the stories that bind us.

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This season, Jen collaborates with singer-songwriter Shannon Ward who is also co-founder of Fiercely Peaceful and Love Inside Out Now. Shannon is on a mission to help people remember who they are and she has carried this mission with her as an artist, playwright, healer and co-facilitator of retreats. She's worked on The WOW STAGE with Jen, and with Mick and Tess Pulver from Breakthrough Performance.

For full show notes, including links to all the resources mentioned in this show, click here.

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If you'd like to learn more about Jen, click here.

If you'd like to share YOUR story, you can apply here.

Mar 15, 202333:14
Lucky You, Lucky Me

Lucky You, Lucky Me

A podcast for anyone who has felt stuck and trapped.

In this episode, our special guest/co-host, singer/songwriter Shannon Ward shares multiple treats and gifts with us. She gets super brave and shares the real life compelling story of being kidnapped and literally snatched away the day her dreams were about to become a reality (you will have to listen to the details!). She shares with us the story behind a song that she wrote. She blesses us all by allowing us to debut and release this song in this capacity for the first time. You can listen to her song in full- YOUTUBE or SPOTIFY

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Listen to brave and courageous participants anonymously share a story that they have been living under. Applicants can choose to write it in a letter or be a participant on the podcast and be interviewed. Participants work through a story that is likely fiction but still has been keeping them from loving themselves and stepping forward to living and loving a purposeful life. At the end of each podcast, Shannon and Jen will prescribe a song for the participant to help them transform beyond the limiting story they are telling themselves. From not feeling good enough to feeling unloved, let us take a journey together to help transform and break through the stories that bind us.

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This season, Jen collaborates with singer-songwriter Shannon Ward who is also co-founder of Fiercely Peaceful and Love Inside Out Now. Shannon is on a mission to help people remember who they are and she has carried this mission with her as an artist, playwright, healer and co-facilitator of retreats. She's worked on The WOW STAGE with Jen, and with Mick and Tess Pulver from Breakthrough Performance.

For full show notes, including links to all the resources mentioned in this show, click here.

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If you'd like to learn more about Jen, click here.

If you'd like to share YOUR story, you can apply here.

Feb 15, 202329:46
Budgeting Bella

Budgeting Bella

A podcast for anyone who has felt stuck and trapped. 

In this episode, we take a look at the letter from Budgeting Bella. We discuss the layers of stories and judgements we all have around the taboo topic of money. Yes, we all have them. Each and every one of us. Shannon and Jen share some of their personal stories around money. Fear? Trust? Is money evil? Greedy? Our legacy of money stories?  And, we discuss what songs we prescribed separately for our letter writer to transform her limiting story around money and then choose ONE together.

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Listen to brave and courageous participants anonymously share a story that they have been living under. Applicants can choose to write it in a letter or be a participant on the podcast and be interviewed. Participants work through a story that is likely fiction but still has been keeping them from loving themselves and stepping forward to living and loving a purposeful life. At the end of each podcast, Shannon and Jen will prescribe a song for the participant to help them transform beyond the limiting story they are telling themselves. From not feeling good enough to feeling unloved, let us take a journey together to help transform and break through the stories that bind us.

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This season, Jen collaborates with singer-songwriter Shannon Ward who is also co-founder of Fiercely Peaceful and Love Inside Out Now. Shannon is on a mission to help people remember who they are and she has carried this mission with her as an artist, playwright, healer and co-facilitator of retreats. She's worked on The WOW STAGE with Jen, and with Mick and Tess Pulver from Breakthrough Performance.

In this episode, we take a look at the letter from Concerned Chris. We can all relate to the ups and downs and highs and lows of productivity. From societal views and the importance of rest, join Shannon and Jen on a journey that ends with ONE song to help transform Concerned Chris’ story.

For full show notes, including links to all the resources mentioned in this show, click here.

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If you'd like to learn more about Jen, click here.

If you'd like to share YOUR story, you can apply here.

Jan 25, 202333:51
Concerned Chris

Concerned Chris

A podcast for anyone who has felt stuck and trapped.

Listen to brave and courageous participants anonymously share a story that they have been living under. Applicants can choose to write it in a letter or be a participant on the podcast and be interviewed. Participants work through a story that is likely fiction but still has been keeping them from loving themselves and stepping forward to living and loving a purposeful life. At the end of each podcast, Shannon and Jen will prescribe a song for the participant to help them transform beyond the limiting story they are telling themselves. From not feeling good enough to feeling unloved, let us take a journey together to help transform and break through the stories that bind us. 

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This season, Jen collaborates with singer-songwriter Shannon Ward who is also co-founder of Fiercely Peaceful and Love Inside Out Now. Shannon is on a mission to help people remember who they are and she has carried this mission with her as an artist, playwright, healer and co-facilitator of retreats. She's worked on The WOW STAGE with Jen, and with Mick and Tess Pulver from Breakthrough Performance.  

In this episode, we take a look at the letter from Concerned Chris. We can all relate to the ups and downs and highs and lows of productivity. From societal views and the importance of rest, join Shannon and Jen on a journey that ends with ONE song to help transform Concerned Chris’ story. 

For full show notes, including links to all the resources mentioned in this show, click here.

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If you'd like to learn more about Jen, click here.

If you'd like to share YOUR story, you can apply here.

Dec 14, 202225:54
A More Loving World

A More Loving World

A podcast for anyone who has felt stuck and trapped.

Listen to brave and courageous participants anonymously share a story that they have been living under. A story that is likely fiction but still has been keeping them from loving themselves and stepping forward to living and loving a purposeful life.  From not feeling good enough to feeling unloved, let us take a journey together to help transform and break through the stories that bind us.

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In this special episode, Jen talks with Denise Carey, author of the book A Little Book of Extraordinary Love by an Ordinary Person: 12 Tips to Lead Us All into a More Loving World. Denise courageously shares limiting stories around money, food, sex and love and how she continues to work through them. She highlights how our stories can have positive and not so positive benefits and how we can use “our buttons being pushed” as a signal that there’s an unhealed story.

For full show notes, including links to all the resources mentioned in this show, click here.

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If you'd like to learn more about Jen, click here.

If you'd like to share YOUR story, you can apply here.

Aug 24, 202238:59
The Stories that Keep Us From Rest and Balance

The Stories that Keep Us From Rest and Balance

A podcast for anyone who has felt stuck and trapped.

Listen to brave and courageous participants anonymously share a story that they have been living under. A story that is likely fiction but still has been keeping them from loving themselves and stepping forward to living and loving a purposeful life.  From not feeling good enough to feeling unloved, let us take a journey together to help transform and break through the stories that bind us.

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In this special episode, Jen talks with her team, Cassie Brooks-Bowling and Alli Cravener about the ways they tap into rest. The team talks about their experience with avoiding rest, the different ways they each take rest, and the way rest is actually the most productive thing you can do.

For full show notes, including links to all the resources mentioned in this show, click here.

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If you'd like to learn more about Jen, click here.

If you'd like to share YOUR story, you can apply here.

Jul 13, 202229:40
Do You Know Your (HD) Type?

Do You Know Your (HD) Type?

A podcast for anyone who has felt stuck and trapped.

Listen to brave and courageous participants anonymously share a story that they have been living under. A story that is likely fiction but still has been keeping them from loving themselves and stepping forward to living and loving a purposeful life.  From not feeling good enough to feeling unloved, let us take a journey together to help transform and break through the stories that bind us.

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In this special episode, we talk to Miranda Mitchell, who helps us learn more about ourselves and how to navigate our work, energy, and creativity through the rich language of human design. (If you do not know what human design is, think astrology on steroids or Myers Briggs multiplied by 4!)

For full show notes, including links to all the resources mentioned in this show, click here.

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If you'd like to learn more about Jen, click here.

If you'd like to share YOUR story, you can apply here.

Feb 24, 202245:12
If I Thought Of It, It's Bad
Dec 29, 202125:07
Permission to Live Your Best Life
Nov 24, 202123:60
Setting The Song Free
Oct 13, 202120:06
Others First vs. Self First
Sep 29, 202122:34
Blocking Myself from My Dreams
Sep 22, 202123:16
I Am an Imposter
Aug 25, 202120:43
Your Brain on Story

Your Brain on Story

A podcast for anyone who has felt stuck and trapped.

Listen to brave and courageous participants anonymously share a story that they have been living under. A story that is likely fiction but still has been keeping them from loving themselves and stepping forward to living and loving a purposeful life.  From not feeling good enough to feeling unloved, let us take a journey together to help transform and break through the stories that bind us.

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In this episode, Jen interviews Tom Asacker, author of Your Brain On Story. Tom states that his book is meant to be a guided process to help free people of their stories and scripts so that they can live a life filled with passion and possibility.  Get ready for a thought-provoking interview!

For full show notes, including links to all the resources mentioned in this show, click here.

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If you'd like to learn more about Jen, click here.

If you'd like to share YOUR story, you can apply here.

Aug 18, 202140:13
You will LAUGH at this!
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I Need You To Change, Or Else…
Jun 30, 202123:01
ITSTBU Continued- Episode #6
Jun 23, 202113:50
ITSTBU Continued- Episode #5
Jun 16, 202117:56
ITSTBU Continued- Episode #4
Jun 09, 202110:10
ITSTBU Continued- Episodes #2 + #3
Jun 02, 202108:57
Money, Money, Money - Ain’t It Funny?
May 26, 202122:24
I Am Not Enough Nor Worthy to Live My Dreams
May 12, 202126:11
I Am Bad and Deserve to Be Punished
May 05, 202123:58
Pressure To Be The Responsible One
Apr 28, 202121:50
Why Did He Stop Loving Me?
Apr 19, 202119:47
Am I Enough for My Family?
Apr 12, 202118:17
What is Illuminating the Stories that Bind Us (and why are we doing it)?
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