Episode 68: The freedom in personal responsibility

Make Some Noise with Andrea Owen

Andrea Owen

How To, Education, Self-improvement

4.7 • 517 Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2015

⏱️ 17 minutes

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I was having a conversation with my friend Kate-- I’m not even sure what we were discussing and I started telling her about about how amazing it felt to finally take responsibility for my life. Let me back up… I hit my own rock bottom in early 2007. About a year prior to that my husband had left me for another woman, and I immediately got into a new relationship. This new boyfriend ended up being a drug addict and faked cancer to cover up his addiction. Our break-up was horrible. I found myself on the floor of my apartment, crying my eyes and begging The Universe to help me. Not to spoil the story-- but the Universe did show up to help me, however there was something really important I had to do first. See, the reason I found myself in two back-to-back messed up situations was because I made two very big mistakes in my life: 1) I looked to other people to make me happy and 2) when it didn’t work out I blamed them. For everything. My addiction to control was so strong I had unknowingly convinced myself that if only I could make other people change, I would be happy. If they would just do and be what I said, everything would be fine. Throw in some perfectionism and avoiding feeling my feelings and I was a serious mess. But, that day when I picked myself up off the floor, I knew one thing: The only thing these situations had in common was me. My ex husband and ex boyfriend were not solely responsible for my feelings and future. Sure, what they did was lame, but I had to take total responsibility for myself. For once. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.2	This is the Your Kickass Life podcast episode number 68.
0:34.0	All links and resources you hear in this podcast can be found by going to Your KickassLife.com
0:38.8	4 slash 68.
0:42.2	This is the Your Kickass Life podcast with Andrea Owen, a no BS guide to self-help and badassery.
0:50.6	Because ladies, let's face it, life's too short for it to not kick ass.
0:56.8	And here's your host, the girl who serves it up straight with a side of crazy.
1:01.8	Andrea Owen.
1:05.6	Hey there, ask kickers.
1:07.3	I hope you are so well on this lovely day as you listen to this podcast episode.
1:12.7	It's another solo from me.
1:14.7	I'm going to tell you a little story about my life and one of the big life lessons that I
1:20.3	learned because of this story.
1:23.0	And before I get to that, I just want to give you a quick, kind of catch you up on where I'm at with something
1:29.2	really important, important to me, and important to your kick-ass life, and possibly important to you.
1:35.5	I am, some of you may know, I've been working on my second book.
1:40.1	And, well, let me back up.
1:42.8	I've been thinking about working on my second book.
1:45.3	It's the very initial stages.
1:47.4	It's sort of like the brain dumps and the mind maps and the outlines and things like that.
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