#133: Self Love in a Post-Pandemic World with Poet Melody Godfred

Mary's Cup of Tea: the Self Love Podcast for Women

Mary Jelkovsky

Body-image, Education, Relationships, Self Compassion, Society & Culture, Self Love For Women, Self Love, Self-improvement, Advice For Women, Women's Health, Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Love Yourself, Self Worth, Self-love, Body Image

4.9 • 745 Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Mary is joined by Melody Godfred to talk about how self-love shows up in our lives, especially post pandemic. You will learn... - how self-love shows up in motherhood and parenting - why achievements don’t always bring joy - the intrinsic power women hold and how to embrace it Remember: the goal is not to check the boxes for the sake of “success”; it’s to get closer to YOUR aligned center and be able to live authentically. Melody Godfred is the Self Love Philosopher. As a poet, author and speaker, she is devoted to empowering people to love themselves and transform their lives. Her poetry has been featured by *Oprah Magazine* and *T*o*day with Hoda and Jenna*, among others, for its wisdom and ability to deeply resonate and uplift. Her bestselling debut poetry collection, *Self Love Poetry: for Thinkers & Feelers*, was recognized as one of the best poetry books of 2021 by *Woman’s Day*, and her self love guided journal, *The ABCs of Self Love*, was recently featured by Hudson Booksellers at over 300 airports across the United States. Melody’s new poetry collection, *The Shift: Poetry for a New Perspective*, is set to be published on September 27, 2022 by Andrews McMeel Publishing and is designed to reframe how we see and move through this brave new, post-pandemic world. Follow Melody on Instagram: @fredandfar Learn more about Melody’s self-love poetry books here: [https://www.melodygodfred.com](https://www.melodygodfred.com/) And if you enjoyed this episode, screenshot it and share it on social media! Make sure to tag @maryspodcast and @fredandfar

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Mary's Cup of Tea podcast. I'm your host, Mary Jolkowski. I'm an author, speaker,
0:08.4	an all-around self-love advocate. And this is the podcast that will inspire you to love yourself.
0:18.9	Hello, myself lovers. Welcome to another episode of the Mary's Cup of Tea podcast. I am here today with Melody Godfred, who is the self-love philosopher. As a poet, author, and speaker, she's devoted to empowering people to love themselves and transform their lives. Her poetry has been featured by Oprah
0:39.0	Magazine and today with Hoda and Jenna, among others, for its wisdom and ability to deeply
0:44.8	resonate and uplift. She is the author of the ABCs of Self-Love, Self-Love poetry for thinkers
0:51.8	and feelers, and her new poetry book, The Shift, is out now. Melody,
0:57.7	welcome to this show and congratulations on publishing yet another self-love book. Thank you so much,
1:05.4	Mary. I am so happy to be here with you. I'm so grateful that you're here because your book, especially self-love
1:13.6	poetry for thinkers and feelers. I was seen everywhere for over a year, a couple years actually,
1:20.5	and I was so inspired by your words and the structure of the book. And I'm grateful that you decided to take it again and talk
1:29.9	about something a little more specific with the shift in terms of like what we all went through
1:37.2	in the pandemic. Because I don't think that that many people are well enough to write about it yet.
1:45.5	It's unbelievable how we've all just continued.
1:50.0	And we get up every day and we live our lives.
1:53.7	And yet we went through this deeply traumatic and unprecedented experience.
2:00.1	And I don't think we talk about it, like the toll it took on our
2:04.3	feelings, on our thoughts, on the structure of our lives, on our relationships. And at least for me,
2:10.3	writing the shift during the pandemic was my way of feeling like I had some control over how I felt, as opposed to just being a
2:21.5	victim to this thing that happened to all of us. And so I'm really excited to share with others
2:27.1	how I was able to shift my perspective to take what was a very grim and challenging time and transform it, at least for myself,
2:38.3	into something I could view through the lens of love, of hope, of gratitude and joy.
2:44.9	Yeah, I think most of us were just so grateful that we somehow move past it,
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