Inner Work 162: Stop using the past to victimize yourself (with personal story of school bullying)
Inner Work: A Spiritual Growth Podcast
Josephine Hardman
4.9 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Are you using the past to victimize yourself?
Do you often repeat stories like, "if my parents had done (or not done) XYZ when I was growing up, I would be so much better off today..." or "because I was cheated on 5 years ago, I can't trust men now..." or "if I had gone to school 20 years ago, my life would be better now..."?
These are stories where we use the past - and whatever happened - to victimize and limit ourselves, unconsciously, in the present.
In this episode, I share a story of school bullying from my past and how I've used that story to justify my lack of trust in women as an adult. It's a vulnerable episode!
We'll also talk about how to start detaching from these limiting stories so you can be free, happy, and at peace NOW. (Which is the only thing that really matters.)
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Thank you for being here, and please keep doing your inner work!
Music & editing by G. Demers
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| 0:00.0 | This is Inner Work, a spiritual growth podcast, a place to explore spiritual concepts, tools, and practices to deepen your healing and awakening. |
| 0:17.3 | I'm your host, Josephine Hartman, a certified intuitive healer and a Kashik Records practitioner and teacher. |
| 0:25.1 | I'm honored that you're here and happy to serve as a guide and companion on your path for a little while. |
| 0:32.6 | To learn more about how to work with me or study with me, please visit josephinehartman.com. |
| 0:41.9 | Hello, my friend, and welcome once again to inner work. If you'd like to take your inner work |
| 0:49.0 | to the next level, with me guiding you along the way and supporting you, you can always check out my |
| 0:57.7 | growing library of resources for self-healing, which are going to empower you and help you do |
| 1:06.9 | the inner work that we talk about so much on this podcast. There are a variety of resources |
| 1:13.5 | on different topics, to heal different areas of your life, to experience the Akashik |
| 1:20.0 | records, to do a past life regression, to heal imposter syndrome and people pleasing. There's a lot |
| 1:27.0 | there. And it continues to grow. |
| 1:30.6 | And every time you purchase one of these resources, you are not only, of course, helping yourself, |
| 1:37.3 | but also supporting this podcast, making sure it stays on the air free of any ads. So thank you so much and I will have a link |
| 1:48.5 | to that library in the show notes. So as the title of this episode suggests, today we're |
| 1:57.3 | talking about no longer using the past to victimize ourselves. This idea is fairly |
| 2:05.4 | simple, I think, but often harder to implement. So it is simple to understand, but harder to |
| 2:14.0 | implement. And I want to open this episode with an example from my own life, a story, |
| 2:21.2 | from my own life, so we can make this more concrete. And then we'll go into some ideas and |
| 2:27.9 | practices for helping yourself keep the past in the past. So this topic idea came to me during a walk recently, |
| 2:38.6 | as topic ideas often do. I tend to do some good thinking and inner reflection during my |
| 2:45.9 | walks around the neighborhood, especially now that we have adopted a rescue puppy, and we have to walk her |
| 2:54.5 | all the time. So let me share with you the whole story. When I was younger, and I mean much |
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