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Bite-sized chunks of wisdom about self-leadership for you to chew on.

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    • Education
    • 5.0 • 4 Ratings

Bite-sized chunks of wisdom about self-leadership for you to chew on.

    The Importance of Rest

    The Importance of Rest

    Rest is a crucial part of life. Especially when we are stressed and things are busy. In this episode, Kate discusses rest as a radical act and rest as the foundation of productivity.
    50% of Americans don’t take the vacation days they earn. 31 million earned vacation days are left unused by Canadians every year. What do we have against rest?
    Rest is crucial for regulating our nervous systems for optimism and joy, for memory formation, and for physical health.
    This episode is a call to nap, dawdle, vacate, and play for your health and happiness.
     

    • 12 min
    Connecting with Your Inner Sage

    Connecting with Your Inner Sage

    Your Inner Sage is capable of handling every situation you might encounter. All you have to do is learn how to put it in charge. In this episode, Kate helps you get to know this very powerful part of your consciousness. 
    We all have subpersonalities, parts of our personality that function independently. If you have ever had the experience where you felt like one part of you wanted to do something and another part of you wanted to do something entirely different, you have experienced these subpersonalities.  
    Each subpersonality is created by a pattern of neurons that fire together. When one pathway is activated, you experience one set of thoughts and behaviours. And when another pathway is activated, you experience things differently. Developing a mature personality is the process of integrating these subpersonalities so they are working together. 
    Your Inner Sage is the part of you that can see all of the subpersonalities with calm, clear wisdom and choose how to integrate them in service of what matters most to you. 

    • 10 min
    The Anatomy of Fear

    The Anatomy of Fear

    Many of our self-sabotaging behaviors are overactive responses to fear. In this episode, Kate describes the anatomy of fear and discusses how understanding that anatomy can help us learn more appropriate fear responses.
    When our threat response system is engaged, we can’t think straight. We act reactively and without thought. If our threat response system is badly calibrated, we behave badly. Many of our reactive behaviors have negative unintended consequences.
    In order to have more control over the impact we have in the world, we need to learn how to respond more skillfully in situations that scare us.
    In this episode, Kate discusses the connections between fear, strong, emotions, learning and memory. She talks about how to use what we know about the anatomy of threat responses to help us have more control over how we react to the things that happen to us.

    • 14 min
    Connecting to the Largest Possible Community

    Connecting to the Largest Possible Community

    We all belong exactly where we are, but we don’t always feel like we belong. In this episode, Kate describes a powerful way of increasing our felt sense of belonging.
    If we don’t feel like we belong, we struggle.
    It doesn’t matter whether we cognitively understand that we are a necessary part of all that is or how we fit in the systems that rely on us. If we don’t feel it, it isn’t real to us in a crucial way.
    This is even more true for those of us who are isolated from others for some reason. In this episode, Kate focuses on the sense of belonging to the Largest Possible Community. This sense is what gives us a sense of belonging when we don’t feel like we belong with the people close to us.
     

    • 9 min
    Cultivate Courage Through Commitment

    Cultivate Courage Through Commitment

    One powerful way to overcome the disruptive effects of fear is through commitment. In this episode, Kate discusses some ways to think about and work with commitment.
    Have you ever been so committed to something that no set-back was enough to stop you from trying? Heard stories of heroic rescues of children by their parents in the face of enormous dangers?
     
    Commitment is a powerful motivator.
     
    A strong enough commitment to something becomes the source of our boundaries, motivation, and creative problem solving.
     
    How should we choose what to commit to?
     
    How can we increase our sense of commitment when our motivation is flagging?
     
    And when should we choose to quit?
     

    • 14 min
    Feelings Need to be Validated, Not Obeyed

    Feelings Need to be Validated, Not Obeyed

    Emotions are messages from our non-cognitive intelligence about the state of our world and what actions we might want to take. We need to take them seriously, but we don’t want to be ruled by them.
    When we are infants, our behaviours are instinctive reactions to emotions. We do not have any information about how the world works so there is no point in slowing down to think about what is going on. 
    As we mature, we learn how to relate to our emotions in a more conscious and self-directed way.
    In this episode, Kate discusses how to become self-directed in our emotional intelligence learning and why we should.

    • 17 min

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4 Ratings

KPreeps ,

Quick, simple and completely true

I love Kate’s Nuggets because it feels like having a friend lean over the table during a cup of tea to suddenly give you a really really useful tidbit of insight that might be helpful and of course is completely brilliant—the complex made simple. This one on asking for help is real wisdom that’s quick and easy to digest and take away with you, and see an immediate impact. Thanks Kate!

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