108: Rising Above (with Shelley Smith) Part 1

Cultivate a Good Life

Becky Higgins, LLC

4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

If you go through something hurtful and emotionally painful, how do you cope? How do you process your grief and make it through the every day? It’s hard but possible. In part one of this conversation, we talk with popular Instagrammer and influencer, Shelley Smith, about she has navigated her way through all the seasons in her life—good and bad (including divorce)—and how she has elevated herself to rise above and be the best she can be. Shelley is an amazing single mom of three beautiful girls who shares things they love on her Instagram and website. SPONSOR: Save 10% at [shinecosmetics.com](http://something.com/) with the code BECKY. SHOW NOTES: Listen to episode 096 [here](https://beckyhiggins.podiant.co/e/096-cultivating-connection-through-being-rad-and-happy-with-tara-nearants-3892d807a4ad00/). Read Shelley’s blog post about grief [here](https://thehouseofsmiths.com/2018/03/house-of-smiths-divorce-grief.html). Connect with Shelley on Instagram [here](https://www.instagram.com/houseofsmiths/) or on her website [here](https://thehouseofsmiths.com/). FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM: @BeckyHigginsLLC and @BeckyProudfit. THANKS FOR THE LOVE! Love the podcast? Please share with your friends, tag us in your Instagram stories, and leave a review on iTunes!

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	This is Cultivated Good Life, episode 108,
0:03.1	Rising Above, with Shelly Smith, part one. Hello everybody I am Becky Higgins and with me is my friend and my co-host
0:24.6	Becky Proudfit. What's up? Nothing. That's not true. I know. When people say
0:31.2	nothing I'm like come on give it to me never nothing like tell me what's up
0:36.4	well if we're being honest oh maybe I should I'm struggling a little bit yeah we're embarking on a little bit of distance learning for school and it's just
0:46.0	been a really hard transition. Like there's just no way around it. It's nobody's fault. There's no
0:50.0	anger. It's just really stinking hard. and so I've had a little bit of anxiety
0:55.2	creeping in but I found the perfect cure that I'm going to share with you.
1:01.0	Like right now? Right now. What is it? So generally when I
1:04.7	lay down at night I can't watch anything even remotely stressful. Yeah. When I'm
1:10.0	in states like these. No, of course. And thankfully Hallmark, over Christmas and July,
1:16.3	which nobody thinks is a holiday but me and Hallmark, they aired some Christmas Hallmark movies.
1:21.8	So I recorded every single one. Oh my gosh. And I've been putting
1:25.2	them on at night time. You're precious. And falling asleep to the delightfully predictable
1:31.2	tales of Christmas love. Are you saying that this serves you better
1:35.7	than say watching the news at night? Or the Blackfish documentary or that one. I
1:41.1	shared with Becky I did that last time I thought a documentary would be a nice calm thing to watch so I picked Blackfish
1:47.9	Wasn't calm yes no this is putting me right to sleep in the most joyful and holiday spirits.
1:52.7	I couldn't be happier about it.
1:53.7	So if you're stressed by the state of the current everything.
1:57.4	World or Wi-Fi or distance learning.
2:00.7	Online school.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Becky Higgins, LLC, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Becky Higgins, LLC and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.