Ep. 30 - Barb Breaks Her Silence On Her Silent Retreat

Barb Knows Best

Michelle Maros & Barb Schmidt

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🗓️ 13 September 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s episode, Barb is fresh off her silent retreat and gives us the insight we all are yearning to hear! Barb discusses her takeaways, thoughts, and feelings on her recent experience as well as talks us through her history with going on retreats.

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Episode Notes:

Retreat – the act of giving up and withdrawing or a time away in a quiet and secluded place where you can relax.

Retreats allow for self-observation of personal feelings, thoughts, and sensations without judgment.

Barb’s Tangible Takeaways from Her Retreat:

1. Commit to notice the dialogue your mind is having with you, but you don’t engage with that dialogue.

a. Do not judge.

b. Do not compare.

c. Do not fix.

2. You can’t place your value and self-worth in the external world. You can’t fix the past. Be present in the moment.

3. Retreats for Barb are a rest of the mind. Be in the trough and allows yourself the space and the ability to feel your feelings. Regaining a sense of self.

References Mentioned in Today’s Podcast:

Barb’s Ted Talk – Is this seat taken? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCexxmjkvoU

Vipassana Retreat - https://www.spiritrock.org

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0:00.0	Hello. Hello, hi everyone, hi mom, hi Michelle. Welcome back. Thank you. I am back.
0:26.0	Welcome everyone listening to Barb Knows Best the Podcast. I'm Michelle Marros, your co-host.
0:29.0	I feel like we don't know what we're doing right now because we haven't actually recorded in quite a few weeks because for reasons
0:35.2	that we're going to get into in this episode but we are back and it's so nice to be sitting across the table from you.
0:45.0	It's fantastic.
0:46.5	I have missed you.
0:48.8	And but I had a wonderful time away.
0:51.2	Yes.
0:51.6	That as you said, we will talk about in this episode and I'm
0:54.6	really energized and excited and really really happy to be back. Yes she is in
1:01.5	rare, rare form today and I am thrilled to encapsulate that
1:07.8	energy into this episode. Into a recording today. So yeah it's been a few weeks since we recorded and the reason for that is that
1:18.0	you went on a silent retreat out in California, which of course would prohibit you from recording
1:28.4	episodes. Yes, and I think that's what we want to talk about this week. Yeah, because I'm not sure I mean those of you who know me if you follow on social media and stuff I certainly I post about you know the things that I do in my meditation practice.
1:43.2	Obviously that's the foundation of my life.
1:46.7	You know, but because of the pandemic and COVID
1:49.4	and all the things, I haven't been on a retreat in Michelle and I were talking about this this morning. I haven't been on a retreat and Michelle and I were talking about this this morning.
1:54.4	I haven't been on a retreat in over four years which is completely unlike me.
1:59.8	Yes.
2:01.1	I've been on over a hundred retreats. I know when I did my TED Talk, I remember talking
2:07.0	about the retreats and just thinking about what I wanted to share and I thought, well, in my 38-year
2:12.0	practice, it's well over a hundred retreats so
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