Stepping into Purpose Lydia Gillman

8 Signs You're a Highly Sensitive Person.
Have you ever felt like you experience the world more intensely than others?
Feeling your emotions deeply, upset by sad movies or situations? 
Overwhelmed by the sensory stimuli the world throws at you?
If so, the chances are you might be a Highly Sensitive Person.
High sensitivity is a personality trait affecting up to 30% of us, and in this podcast  I highlight 8 of the most common signs of Highly Sensitive People.

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Welcome to  Episode 28 -  Breathing Through Resistance and Stuck Emotions with Jen Liss.
The healing modality of breathwork is a relatively recent discovery for me, and I have enthusiastically dived into exploring the effects for myself, as well as learning the science behind why it's so powerful.
 My experiences have confirmed and backed up what the research has claimed, and regular intentional breathwork sessions are something I'm working on incorporating into my daily routine.
  With all this, I'm especially excited to welcome my guest, Jen Liss for this week's episode.
 Jen is a podcaster, speaker, and breathwork facilitator, and she has been a great mentor for me as someone a few years ahead of me on this podcasting journey.
 Her focus in her work is to motivate people and help them see and step into their gifts. The breath work complements this important work perfectly by working with the nervous systems and emotions to release blocks that stop people from stepping into their purpose.
Halfway through the episode, Jen shares a simple but powerful exercise, which has been really useful for me and my family since I learned it from Jen a few months ago.
Please try it, and let me know your experience! I will share that particular section in a YouTube video if you want to go back to it easily and watch as Jen talks you through it.

Check out all Jen's offerings including her Brilliant Breathwork membership  on her website  jenliss.com

Also be sure to follow her on Instagram @untetheredjen

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Welcome to  Episode 27 - "My Year Long Hero's Journey"
 
My family and I have just returned to our home country of New Zealand after a year in Brisbane, Australia.

While only a 3 hour flight from NZ, it was quite the adventure as it was a place that we didn't really know anyone, or have family support.

As a result there was a lot of time where it was just the 4 of us, & we had some fantastic highs, but also some traumatic moments too...

The year away was very bonding for us as a family, & it was perfect to have that relationship strengthening time as both my kids enter adolesence.

I loved the tropical climate, & living in a much bigger city, & all the benefits that came with that - but my husband never really settled, missing our network of family and friends back in NZ.

He was pretty keen for us to return home pretty early on, especially when he found his job didn't meet his expectations.
I wanted to stay  - at least for another year, so he stuck his job out until the end of the year, then applied for three others. One back in NZ and two where  we lived in Brisbane. He was offered the job back in NZ very quickly, but then we had to wait  a painstakingly long time over Christmas and New Year's to hear back from the other two, ultimately resulting in a "No" from both.

Its difficult in a relationship when you both want different things, but this result made it a lot simpler. The work opportunity was back in NZ, so we felt like the Universe had made it clear to us where we needed to be.

By this time, we had two weeks lease left on the house we were living in, & nearly the beginning  of the school year in NZ, so we booked flights and had a whirlwind two weeks making arrangments to ship our furniture, pack up our house, organise our cat to return  to NZ,  pull the kids out of their schools, resign from jobs and say goodbye to our friends! ( Not to mention sell our car, which happened only a FEW HOURS before we flew out! )
 
While I thought we would be away a lot longer, the whole adventure was a year, & when I look back, it really was the classic hero's journey cycle for all 4 of us.

We answered the call whispering in our hearts, & set off full of enthusiasm & excitement. There were highs, there were lows, & at the very end,  especially in the last few days before our flight, we were under the pump, & had a multitude of dragons to  slay, & fires to put out, before we returned home victorious  - wiser & more evolved than we were a year earlier (though battered, bruised and exhausted from the sheer effort of packing up our entire house and lives within 2 weeks!)

I'm excited to announce I've launched my new store Love to a Tee!
Designed to spread messages of love and inspiration, and to start a movement -
a Love Revolution, to wake humanity up to the power they carry within, and remind them who they REALLY are. Spiritual beings having a human experience, rather than what most people think they are - human beings who might occasionally have a spiritual experience.

Please check out the store, and let me know what you think!
www.lovetoatee.com

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If you prefer, you can watch this episode on my YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@lydiagillman
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Welcome to  Episode 26 - "Allowing My Voice To Be Heard: One Year Of Podcasting!" Today marks ONE YEAR of the Stepping into Purpose Podcast, so I just had to mark the occassion with a solo episode, to express my gratitude, and share my intentions and obstacles behind starting the podcast.

Today also marks one year since my family and I boarded an airplane with our lives packed in 2 suitcases each, and started a new life in a new country.

Interestingly, a year to the day of moving here, the Universe has other plans for us, and we are in the chaotic throes of packing our lives, furniture, and cat, and moving back in about a week.

I've loved it here, but my husband has struggled being away from family and friends, and when a great work opportunity opened up back in NZ for him, a few doors here also closed, and the decision was almost made for us.

If there's one lesson that has been repeated over and again for me in the last year. it has been in "renouncing the fruit of my actions".
To do things because they are aligned, but then not getting attached to the outcome.
I have had SO many learning opportunities to put this into practice over the past year!

I have just launched my new venture, Love to a Tee!
Designed to spread messages of love and inspiration, and to start a movement,
a Love Revolution, to wake humanity up to the power they carry within, and remind them who they REALLY are.
Spiritual beings having a human experience, instead of the other way round - human beings who occasionally have a spiritual experience.

Please check out the store, and let me know what you think!
www.lovetoatee.com

Please follow along and consider leaving a review, it really helps!
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Welcome to the Stepping into Purpose Podcast!
In today's solo episode "SURRENDER - My Word Of The Year", I talk about how coping with uncertainty and challenges that have come with the past year has lead me to my word of the year - SURRENDER. 

It's been pretty meta that I resisted choosing this as my word this year - I felt like if I let go, everything would fall apart. 
But my heart knows this is the only way to really live our purpose - holding a vision for what we want, but then letting go and surrendering to the highest good, is a core practice on the spiritual path. 
So - 2024  - lets GO! 

In the episode I talk about my new venture, Love to a Tee!
please check out the store, and let me know what you think! 
www.lovetoatee.com

If you prefer, you can watch this episode on YouTube https://youtu.be/lgihVSb-OzI
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Welcome to the Stepping into Purpose Podcast!
In this Episode "Harnessing your Past for a Purposeful Present",  I share a beautiful conversation I had with Mitzi Campbell, host of the Blessons podcast. 
Mitzi has an amazing story about how the Universe literally stopped her in her tracks and led her in a completely different and unexpected direction after she got sick with vertigo less than 2 years ago. 

Stepping into her true purpose in midlife, she is serving so many people through her podcast, speaking gigs, coaching , and signature course Life Story School.
In this episode we discuss:

- How fortunate we are to have technology enabling us to connect with like-minded people around the globe and how it helps us realize how many other people there are like us, once the container of our geographic location is expanded through the internet. 

- How we are both highly sensitive, and how useful discovering that was in understanding how we operate, as well as navigating our parenting journey as an HSP. 

- Mitzi shares tools she uses to help manage feelings and calm her central nervous system.

- How beneficial it is to bring our past experiences forward into the present moment to really understand who we are and what beliefs from the past are creating our reality in the present. 

- How the Universe can literally stop you in your tracks and change your direction - just as Mitzi experienced in the past couple of years. 

- How it's our responsibility to share an idea or a thought if we feel inspired to do so. We have no idea who is meant to hear it through us - and it's not for us to judge it or feel unworthy to share it - It's time to let our purpose be bigger than our ego's BS!

Follow Mitzi on IG:
https://www.instagram.com/mitzianncampbell/

Check out her website for more information on all her offerings including her most recent addition, the Blessons Book Club! 
https://www.mitzicampbell.com/

If you'd rather watch this episode, check it out on my YouTube channel https://youtu.be/jENdg0ZB-T0

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