Ep. 4 - It's Not Personal
Barb Knows Best
Michelle Maros & Barb Schmidt
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2022
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Are you someone who internalizes the actions and words of other people? Do you find yourself taking things very personally? If so, you’re not alone! It’s common to feel sensitive about what other people do, especially in how it relates to us. In this week’s episode, Michelle and Barb dive into how we can start to not take what people do personally, and find freedom in doing so.
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Key Points:
- What is Triggered? - Triggered means that someone has done something or said something that creates an emotion. This emotion could be rooted in a past trauma. It's a conditional behavioral response.
- Name it to tame it.
- Awareness is the key to life.
- Just Pause
- The Power of Choice
Resources Mentioned in Today’s Podcast:
- Viktor Frankl – “Between stimulus and response there is space. In that space is our power to choose our response.”
- Michelle’s Blog - https://peacefulmindpeacefullife.org/blog/
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone welcome back to Barb knows best the |
| 0:17.3 | podcast I'm your co-host Michelle Marros and I'm here with my lovely mother |
| 0:25.0 | Barb Schmidt aka peaceful Barb. How are you doing today? |
| 0:27.7 | I'm good. |
| 0:28.7 | I'm glad to be back. |
| 0:29.8 | I feel like what we're going to talk about today feels very timely and personal. |
| 0:36.0 | Why because it's up? |
| 0:38.0 | Because it's definitely up between the two of us and I think it's up for a lot of people. Actually, I know it's up for a lot of people. |
| 0:43.0 | Actually, I know it's up for a lot of people. |
| 0:45.0 | So tell us how you're doing and what and what we're going to dive into in in today's episode. |
| 0:49.0 | I think it's up for a lot of people but I think it's always up for everyone because it is one of the most difficult concepts to grasp and |
| 0:57.2 | it just happens all the time for all of us because we're human beings and we're |
| 1:00.5 | going to talk about not ever taking anything personally. |
| 1:04.0 | And of course, we never use words like ever, but really trying hard not to take things personally |
| 1:08.9 | because what other people say and do is not about you, but it's truly about, you know, their perception |
| 1:16.0 | and where they're coming from and their experiences. |
| 1:19.1 | Yeah, so obviously I think probably anybody can say that they've had circumstances or they've taken things personally and it's gotten really dicey for them and we had a whole long conversation about what all we wanted to talk about in this topic and |
| 1:34.0 | then literally right before coming here to record this podcast we got into a |
| 1:39.1 | little conversation a heated conversation where we both were taking things personally |
| 1:45.3 | so it just happens naturally and I think it was perfect. |
| 1:50.1 | Yeah absolutely perfect and I'm trying to as I was driving over here to do this |
| 1:55.0 | podcast I was thinking about like what what happens when we take something |
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