Elizabeth Day: letting go of expectation and going after the life you truly desire

Wellness with Ella

The Wellness Scoop

Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Mental Health

4.7 • 4.9K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2023

⏱️ 70 minutes

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This week Ella is joined by Elizabeth Day for an empowering conversation on releasing societal pressures, navigating life’s ups and downs and how Elizabeth kept moving forwards when things don’t go to plan, plus the tools that supported her to embrace failure, imperfections, and chase the life she truly desired. They discuss: Societal expectations to have the ‘perfect’ life People pleasing to fit in Cultivating deep friendships Finding the courage to go after the life you desire Gut instincts Discovering what you need rather than what you want The inner work crucial for moving forwards Turning physical strength into mental resilience Elizabeth’s non-negotiables for feeling well Links: Elizabeth’s podcast How To Fail Elizabeth’s latest book Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict For new subscribers, use code podcast20 to get 20% off the Feel Better App Wellness Toolkit for this episode Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:47.6	assums into their own lives. Welcome to Wellness with Ella, the deliciously Ella podcast. This is
0:55.9	a podcast that aims to inspire you to empower you to leave you feeling uplifted. And each week
1:02.1	I want to share what wellness really looks like. As we unpack the simple tools that have helped
1:07.6	each one of our guests turn a negative into a positive and unlock true happiness and genuine
1:13.9	health. And by health I don't mean how they look, I mean their energy, their excitement, their
1:19.0	fulfilment. The question is how can we all get more from life? I think today's guests is someone
1:27.6	many of you may know very well and may really really look up to, I know I certainly do and
1:33.2	lots of my friends and colleagues are the same. I think most of us have probably been guilty
1:38.2	of thinking that there is one version of success, there is one trajectory that our lives should be
1:44.4	on and it puts a huge amount of pressure on us and what happens when we release that pressure.
1:51.6	And I think in that path again we're often guilty of failing to explore our failures or our mistakes.
1:59.2	I think the question is how can we learn from those instead and be completely honest with ourselves
2:05.1	about where we're at. You know what happens when life doesn't quite go as we expect it to,
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