Saskia Lightstar On How To Create Our Best Self EP 48

Passion Struck with John R. Miles

John R. Miles

Mental Health, Alternative Health, Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 779 Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Saskia Lightstar thought she was living it big when she enjoyed the party girl lifestyle in South Africa. It turns out it was her low point, as she dealt with eating disorders and self-image issues. Then her biggest test came when she learned she had cancer. It was at that point after beating breast cancer she learned the true meaning of how to create our best self. It starts with self-love and kindness. Like this? Please subscribe, and join me on my new platform for personal development: https://passionstruck.com/. In this powerful Passion Struck podcast interview, John R. Miles and Saskia Lightstar discuss creating our best selves. For Saskia, it started by her understanding her self-narrative and that it needed to change. Why she considers herself a cancer misfit, and how that has completely changed her outlook on life. Creating Our Best Self In 2013, following her treatment for breast cancer, Saskia found that she was struggling to adapt to her new life. For her, the emotions that were put aside during her breast cancer treatment returned, and she felt stuck in a no man's land, overwhelmed with remorse, fear, and sadness. Saskia Lightstar felt like a cancer misfit, healed physically but still struggling mentally and emotionally with the trauma she'd endured. Saskia fell into a deep, deep depression. After cancer, she would try to look up the topic of life after treatment or support after cancer treatment, and she couldn't find anything. There's so much information when you're diagnosed, and you're going through it, and then suddenly, just because you're finished the treatment, it's like you're done. It was a good two or three years that she was quite a lost soul. And it was that rock bottom. For Saskia, that made her think, "Okay, you know what, I need to find a way out of this." And that's where her journey really began. Her book, The Cancer Misfit, is to catch survivors and take them to that bit when you don't know what's next, how you're feeling, or who you are anymore. That's why She is dedicating her life to helping other cancer survivors, so they don't go through the same misery as she did. Hot to Create Our Best Self Show Notes

Her party girl superficial life
Why do we self numb
Learning she has cancer
How she learned to look within
Why she wrote the Cancer Misfit
Discovering you can heal your life
Louise Hay mirror work
Why she loves boundaries
Expecting instant gratification
How she connected to herself
What it means to be kind
Her belief in moderation
Why there is no normal after cancer

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0:00.0	The question is, when you wake up in the morning and there's nobody else around,
0:04.6	are you happy and are you good to yourself? Or are you saying that I'm a kind person because you're
0:10.6	always there for other people and you're happy because you go out drinking or you buy something
0:16.4	online. These are all things that make us happy. It's just not very long term. People need to really
0:22.8	sit and think, in your soul, is your soul happy? Do you wake up excited by the day when you go and
0:30.2	do a trivial act? I used to clean the house and be a bit resentful about doing it going, oh, I've
0:35.6	got clean the house. Now I put my headphones on, I've got a house cleaning playlist, I turn it on
0:41.6	full blast and I am dancing and jumping up and down and making my house clean, not because I have to
0:49.6	do it because I love myself so much. I want to sit in a beautiful clean house because it's nice to
0:55.2	me and it makes me happy. It changes everything. When you walk your dog, are you walking your dog
1:01.9	and looking at your phone or thinking, God, I need to go home and do this and this and this.
1:05.9	Are you looking at the sky? Are you interacting with your dog? Are you playing with your dog? Are you
1:11.5	hugging the trees? There's not one thing I don't do now from a place of joy and kindness. And that's
1:18.5	not to say that you can't feel negative emotions. I still get sad, angry, anxious, but because I give
1:26.8	myself permission to feel those things instead of numb them, they never last for long. I know how
1:33.1	to feel them in the right way now. Welcome Visionaries, creators, innovators, entrepreneurs,
1:38.9	leaders and growth seekers of all types to the Passion Struck podcast. I am John Miles,
1:44.6	a peak performance coach, multi industry CEO, maybe veteran and entrepreneur on a mission to make
1:51.6	Passion Go viral for millions worldwide. In each week, I do so by sharing with you an inspirational
1:58.0	message in interviewing eye achievers from all walks of life to unlock their secrets and lessons
2:04.6	to becoming Passion Struck. The purpose of our show is to serve you, the listener, by giving you
2:10.6	tips, tasks and activities, you can use to achieve peak performance and for two, the Passion
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