Welcome to Inner Work, a spiritual growth podcast.

I'm your host, Josephine Hartman.

I'm an intuitive healer and certified Akashik Records reader and teacher,

driven by the purpose of helping others become more powerful by reconnecting to the healer within.

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I so appreciate your presence here, and I'm honored to serve as a guide or companion on your path for a little while.

Now, on to the episode.

I'm sure that at some point in your life, someone has tried to tell you how to live.

That can be a triggering situation. It could be that someone,

possibly a well-meaning, well-intentioned person, maybe even someone you love and who loves you back,

has tried to tell you what you should eat, or what you shouldn't eat, or what career or job you should

have, or how best to raise your

kids, or how to dress or speak, or how to run any other aspect of your life.

And yes, sometimes this advice comes from someone we love, someone who wants to see us doing well.

Sometimes it comes from someone you've just met and I think it can be especially

surprising in those situations. You just meet someone and already they're telling you how to live

or criticizing some aspect of your life. Either way, whether you love the person or not, whether you

know them or not, this can be really triggering.

So how to deal with this?

Well, first things first, I think it's important to remember that at certain points in our lives,

it is likely that we have been the well-intentioned people giving unsolicited advice to someone else.

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