169. Your Life Is Your Life
Dear Little Me
Dawn Chitty
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2023
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
On The HEAL BLOG this week don't miss 8 Crucial Reasons You Should Take A Mental Health Day
The reason you don’t feel happy is because you’re living your life to please other people. Growing up in chaotic and traumatic environments conditions us to prioritise pleasing others as a means of ensuring our own safety. However, choosing to live life on your own terms is the most empowering decision you will ever make. In this quick chat episode Michael Unbroken discusses his journey of breaking the cycle of chaos within his family and embracing a life that aligns with his true self.
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| 0:00.0 | Your life is your life. You don't get any choice in what you're born into. And for some people, |
| 0:05.6 | we're born into massive chaos. And that becomes our nomenclature for what we understand to be life. |
| 0:12.8 | That's the baseline. We look at it. We go, oh, this is life. I should accept it. And Don, I don't accept it. |
| 0:19.6 | Welcome to how my parents raised me. I'm Don Chitty. When we are born, we arrive here as pure and |
| 0:34.0 | perfect souls. And the direction our life takes from that moment is deeply connected to what our |
| 0:41.0 | parents bring to our lives. And what our parents bring to our lives is deeply connected to what |
| 0:47.8 | their parents brought to their lives. And that's the cycle of families. I have always craved |
| 0:55.2 | connection with real and raw stories to understand what makes you you, what makes you the absolutely |
| 1:04.0 | unique human that you are. Stories are medicine for the soul. They can connect us and they can change |
| 1:13.0 | the world. And so in this podcast, I'm listening to beautiful souls sharing their story. |
| 1:20.0 | What happened to them, how they got through and how they have healed and thrived despite everything |
| 1:26.9 | to arrive right here in this moment? Content warning, if you are triggered by the themes of this |
| 1:34.8 | podcast, please seek a help line in your city. Hey, my beautiful friends, welcome back to the |
| 1:45.0 | podcast. When you feel exhausted mentally and physically, do you allow yourself to take a break? |
| 1:53.9 | We live in a world where productivity is so highly valued and doing and being productive |
| 2:00.1 | is all that really matters. On the heel blog this week, you can find eight crucial reasons |
| 2:06.7 | that you should take a mental health day. You need this list. So look it up, the link is in the show |
| 2:12.4 | notes. Most often the reason you don't feel happy in your life is because you're living it to |
| 2:18.1 | please other people. You're living it to make your mother proud, your father love you, your friends |
| 2:23.6 | accept you. When we grow up in chaos and trauma, we're trained to be pleasing because being pleasing |
| 2:30.8 | keeps us safe. If we can do and be what our parents want us to do and be, they will be kinder |
| 2:37.6 | and we will be safe. But deciding to live your life for you is the best decision you will ever make. |
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