#221: Love Your Imperfections with Jennifer Pastiloff

The Mark Groves Podcast

Mark Groves

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.9 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2022

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Themes: Self-Love, Self-Expression, Shame, Self-Care, Acceptance, Authenticity Summary: This week I'm joined by yoga teacher, author and my friend, Jennifer Pastiloff. In this episode we discuss how to live from a place of love, accepting and being true to yourself, self-compassion, finding beauty in unexpected places and so much more. Jen Pastiloff offers a unique style of teaching through her workshop “On Being Human”, which is based on her bestselling book of the same name. She describes these workshops as “a hybrid of yoga related movement, writing, sharing out loud, letting the snot fly, and the occasional dance party.” She has been featured on Good Morning America, New York Magazine, Health Magazine, CBS News and more for her unique teachings which she has taught to thousands of women in sold-out workshops all over the world. Discover: One simple way to open yourself up to more beauty, miracles and love A morning prayer to help set yourself up for success each day Why inspired action needs to follow awareness in order to make meaningful change Each new day as an opportunity to begin again Owning your flaws and showing up anyway 00:00 Intro 00:59 Are you who you say you are? 02:36 Operating from love 06:31 Talk to more strangers 09:54 Don’t lose the child in you 13:31 Create your morning prayer 19:27 Make mistakes and begin again 22:22 Owning your messiness 24:34 Taking inspired action 26:27 Surround yourself with people who inspire you 29:22 Don’t take yourself too seriously 32:35 Choose your struggle 37:14 Jen’s experience of going deaf 42:44 Cancel culture 44:51 Social hierarchy 48:26 Shame 51:00 Seeking validation vs. being true to yourself 56:03 Give yourself permission Links: Jennifer’s Instagram Jennifer’s Website Jennifer’s Book: On Being Human: A Memoir of Waking Up, Living Real, and Listening Hard Join us on the Mine’d app! Sponsors: Cured Nutrition | Use code CREATETHELOVE for 20% all products at https://www.curednutrition.com/createthelove Organifi | Use code CREATETHELOVE for 20% off all products at http://organifi.com/createthelove Create the Love Cards | Use code CTLCARDS15 for 15% off at http://createthelove.com/cards Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

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0:00.0	I try to start every day with what I call the body prayer.
0:02.5	And it always starts with, may I remember? I know what we're saying is what we already know, but we've forgotten. My prayer begins with always, may I remember to breathe? May I'm around, I'm enough. Whatever it is, it's what we know, but we've already, what we've forgotten. And it's never conscious. It's not like, I'm waking up like, I'm going to be miserable today. Bye, Collie.
0:02.6	Hi. conscious. It's not like, I'm waking up like, I'm going to be miserable today. Bye, golly.
0:24.5	Hi, I'm Mark Groves. I'm a human connection specialist and founder of Create the Love. At an early
0:30.4	point in my life, I became obsessed with understanding relationships, the intricacies of how people
0:35.8	connect. And through this exploration, I have created a life and a business dedicated to learning out loud and exploring how we interact with each other and the world.
0:45.7	This podcast brings the world's top thought leaders, spiritual luminaries, physicians, scientists, researchers, bestselling authors and health and wellness experts under one roof
0:55.2	to discuss the good, the bad, the messy, and of course the beautiful parts of the human experience.
1:01.5	Welcome to the Mark Groves podcast. I can't wait to dive in with you.
1:09.6	Welcome, Jen Pasoloff, author, teacher, speaker, soul activist. I don't know if you call
1:17.5	yourself that, but I figured that was kind of relevant. What do we think? I like it. Kesei Lehman
1:22.9	once called me a heart magician. And if anyone doesn't know who he is, that's a crime. Go read his books.
1:28.7	But he called me a heart magician and I really love that. That feels like an accurate representation.
1:33.3	And for those of you listening, Jim Pasoloff is the author of the book on Being Human, which is a
1:38.4	memoir of waking up, living real, and listening hard. You know, one of the quotes that you have on your web page that I love is
1:45.8	when I get to the end of my life and I ask one final question, what have I done? Let my answer be,
1:52.2	I have done love. That's delicious. It's my favorite. It's everywhere. I have like,
1:58.4	people have like started using it, you know, with my permission and like made
2:02.2	these tiles and these magnets. And I can't get enough of it, even though it's mine. I want to be reminded of
2:10.4	who I say I am. That's who I say I'm. So having those things all over the house is not a bad thing. I don't
2:16.3	mean that in an ego way, but maybe I do.
2:18.0	Well, and why would it even be bad? Like, what a healthy sense of pride to recognize one's work
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