How Are We "Dimming" Our Lives & How To Illuminate Our Life Experience w/ Cecily Mak

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🗓️ 5 January 2026

⏱️ 63 minutes

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On my own journey of connecting with myself and everything else, I find everything to seem richer and clearer and just more fulfilling. The base level pleasures of life don't satisfy as much. So when this book came across my desk, I was immediately interested. The book is, Undimmed: The Eight Awarenesses For Freedom from Unwanted Habits. The author is mother, investor, advocate, and founder, Cecily Mak. Cecily says she is devoted to helping people live dimmer-free, with clarity, courage, and the freedom to change without stigma or shame. Her story started with realizing she was using alcohol to dim her life, but our focus is no alcohol. It's any number of things we engage with that dim our lives. Think of what you turn to when you have a moment of freedom. Instead of being fully present in the moment and taking in the beauties and glories and realness of life, you fill it with what? Social media? A book or podcast, whether entertainment or self-help. Just being productive and getting something done? Buying things? Food, entertainment, and even exercise can be the fillers. Anything and everything other than being fully present and clear. In this episode I dig in with Cecily on the topic. We don't even get into the specifics of her "Eight Awarenesses For Freedom from Unwanted Habits," so before we start, I want to give them to you: 1 My Life Is Better Clear 2 I Choose What I Consume 3 My Intuition Defines My Priorities 4 My Trauma Isn’t My Identity 5 Forgiveness and Letting Go Are on the Path to Liberation 6 I Do Not Judge or Impose My Orientations Upon Others 7 Time Is Our Most Precious Currency 8 I Seek Ways to Support Others The book is Undimmed: The Eight Awarenesses For Freedom from Unwanted Habits and you can connect with Cecily on Instagram @clearlifejourney Sign up for your $1/month trial period at shopify.com/kevin Go to shipstation.com and use code KEVIN to start your free trial. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome. I'm Kevin Miller. This is a podcast for your personal evolution. In this episode,
0:11.9	how are we dimming our lives and how to illuminate our life experience? On my own journey of connecting with myself and with everything else, I find everything to
0:25.1	seem richer and clearer and just more fulfilling.
0:29.6	The base level pleasures of life just don't seem to satisfy as much.
0:34.4	So when this book came across my desk, I was immediately interested. The book is called
0:39.4	Undemned. Undemned. The eight awarenesses for freedom from unwanted habits. The author is
0:48.5	mother, investor, advocate, and founder, Cecily Mack. So Cecily says she is devoted to helping people live dimmer free
0:58.0	with clarity, courage, and the freedom to change without stigma or shame. So her story started
1:04.9	with realizing she was using alcohol to dim her life. But the focus isn't alcohol. She wasn't really an alcoholic,
1:12.0	not a big problem, just realized she was using it to dim herself. And we're really looking at
1:18.9	any number of things that we engage with to dim our lives. Think of what you turn to when you
1:25.4	have a moment of freedom. Instead of being fully present in the moment and taking in the beauties and the glories and
1:32.3	realness of life, you fill it with what?
1:36.1	Social media is obviously a common go-to.
1:39.3	Immediately pick that screen, moment of silence or a moment of space and there boom a screen scrolling could be a book
1:47.8	or a podcast whether it's entertainment or even self-help filling the space just being productive
1:55.4	and getting something done is often what we fill it in with buying Buying things, food, entertainment, even exercise can be these constant fillers.
2:05.8	Anything and everything other than being fully present and clear and aware.
2:13.2	So in this episode, I dig in with Cecily on this topic.
2:16.5	We don't even get in to the specifics of her eight awarenesses for freedom from unwanted habits.
2:23.2	So before we start, I want to give them to you just to kind of set the stage.
2:27.5	Number one, my life is better clear.
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