This is episode 210, dealing with pain and health concerns with Amber.

Welcome to Over It and On With It.

I'm your host, Christine Hasler, and for over a decade I've been a life coach, speaker, and author.

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Aloha everyone and welcome to this episode. This is a bit of a special episode because I did it live in Maui with one of my beautiful retreat participants, Amber.

So we were on our lunch break and sitting in the beautiful space

where we were doing all our work with the birds tripping,

the breeze blowing, and had just an incredible

conversation and I love this conversation for so many reasons. First of all I personally

relate to it so very much and And second, it's a beautiful example of what happens

when we talk about something that we've kept inside. And you've heard me say many times

before that shame is perpetuated by secrecy.

One of the keys to healing any kind of shame is to bring it into the light, to

start to talk about it with people who can accept it.

It doesn't mean that we just start talking about our deepest, darkest wounds with everyone or on

Instagram. It's really knowing that there are people who are safe, who we can trust,

and that we don't have to hold everything inside, specifically when it comes to health concerns or anything that we're feeling insecure or

ashamed about because what that does is it just unconsciously perpetuates that

there's something wrong and that we shouldn't talk about it. So the more that we bring something into

the light, the more it reinforces in our subconscious mind that it's okay, that we don't need to be ashamed. So I think you're really going to

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