My name is Mimi Bouchard and I'm a personal development junkie that is here to help you

transform your life so that you can truly tap into your ultimate potential.

I'm a meditation teacher and a podcaster and in this podcast I am

raw I am real and I share everything I possibly can to make this journey of

self-discovery and transformation easier for you. Enjoy. Hello everybody today I am here with the one and only Gabby Bernstein

Gabby is a spiritual guru a New York Times best-selling offer of eight books and

he is nine oh nine girl you got to update your website it still says eight well

were we doing the whole site oh you are okay copy schmapi you know we'll get

so nine almost ten books that's crazy working on my 10th right now isn't that cool that's gonna be a big one the number 10 I think that's that's really awesome so yeah

Gabby I'm so happy to have you on I can't wait to chat with you and pick your brain about all things. I feel like we're very aligned with a lot. I obviously own a meditation up. I'm very into this kind of stuff as well and I've loved you know reading about you and

I'm so grateful that you guys sent over your new book I have it here and I can't wait to

get into it so I don't even want to start with you going over your story because I feel like a lot of people

listening already know your story. You've been in this industry for so long and you know you really did

trailblaze this path into spirituality and for a lot of people out there to make it more normalized.

So the first question I want to ask you, and this is something I know you speak about in your book, but why do you think most people are unhappy in their lives? Why do you think most people struggle?

It should be natural to feel good, right? But why do you think most people struggle in their

lives? Well, our natural nature is to feel good. But I really believe that we all

have these experiences at a very young age that create a inner belief system that things are scary,

that we have to be protective of ourselves. I'm talking young, young age. We start to build up these

fear-based, maybe even traumatized moments, maybe small tea trauma of just feeling inadequate or unlovable or not seen, and all those

experiences start to build up a belief system of being unlovable and inadequate.

And we live our lives, doing whatever we can to ever have to avoid feeling those

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