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Mind Love • Modern Mindfulness to Think, Feel, and Live Well

Change, Challenge, and Adversity with Dancer to Paraplegic Lyena Strelkoff • 020

Mind Love • Modern Mindfulness to Think, Feel, and Live Well

Melissa Monte | Mindset Mentor

Mental Health, Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.9897 Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2018

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Ep. 020: In 2002, Lyena Strelkoff fell 25 feet from a tree and became paraplegic. A lifelong dancer, the change should have crushed her. Instead, it was a catalyst, turning her life to gold. Today, Lyena is a Transformation Coach, Inspirational Speaker, and Storyteller dedicated to elevating the way humans respond to change, challenge, and adversity. Today we will learn: How to find acceptance life’s biggest falls How to find opportunities to become more than we were in every challenge Two things we naturally do that get in the way that Show Notes: https://mindlove.com/020 Sign up for The Morning Mind Love for short daily notes from your highest self. Get Mind Love Premium for exclusive ad-free episodes and monthly meditations. Support Mind Love Sponsors Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to Mind Love, episode 20.

0:03.0

Today's episode is all about getting back up from life's biggest falls.

0:08.0

People hear my story and they think, oh wow, that's amazing,

0:11.0

but somehow it doesn't apply to them because they're minimizing whatever they're going through.

0:16.0

But we face challenges all the time.

0:19.0

The opportunity is there all the time, and the choices are to make if we can be conscious of it in the moment.

0:29.4

Turn up your frequency with mind love.

0:32.1

Bight-sized brain hacks for seekers, dreamers, and twoers.

0:36.0

It's time to give your mind a little love

0:39.0

with your host, Melissa Monty.

0:55.0

Hi friends. I hope you all had an amazing Easter. I got to go up north and visit family and it's one of my favorite holidays. Everyone just seems so much more laid back than they do around Christmas time.

1:00.0

Plus we have this tradition of doing a raw egg toss.

1:05.0

But to be honest, this is my first Easter being fully vegan

1:10.0

and I don't know how I feel about it anymore.

1:13.0

But I know, I know, totally not the point.

1:16.0

Holidays and family gatherings are a great reminder of what's really important.

1:22.0

My family is one of my greatest blessings. I know not

1:26.4

everyone has family in their life, but it can also be a really good time to think

1:31.7

about what you are grateful for or to acknowledge all the

1:35.2

things that we have in general. I am so excited about today's guests and she's the

1:40.3

perfect person to serve as that reminder for us.

1:45.0

She was recently recognized by the California State

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