The HYE Life Podcast Meredith Wadsworth

Join me on another walk for this personal growth update episode! I share my reflections on a recent trip a took to round out my 27th year of life and share how the last year has been both one of the best and darkest years of my life-- because two opposing truths can, and often do, go hand in hand.

PS - I forgot to mention in the episode that my best friend who came with me to France is someone I only met in this past year, in large part because of the challenging things I was going through. Just one example (among many) that constantly remind me of the mantra, "So much good will come from this."

Some topics that come up:

- imposter syndrome, feeling the fear and doing it anyway

- saying yes to opportunities you don't feel "ready" for

- The reality of facing your own growth and resilience

- Growing from a past relationship, facing triggers

- Sharing the good in your life without the guilt

- Your misery doesn't lessen that of others; you sharing your light only ignites others

- How quickly things change

- How light can only come from darkness: all your challenges are helping you grow to find the sense of self you didn't know was possible



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Has it ever happened to you, when your dreams come knocking, that you're too afraid to answer the door? That you're not as ready for it as you thought? That, when the universe is asking you to play big, you want to hide under the covers?

Join me on a rainy walk for this little pep talk of an episode for when you're finding yourself playing small.



LINKS:

// Follow me on IG @thehyelife

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// Book Private Virtual Yoga

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When it comes to self-healing and personal development, it's easy to get trapped in the belief that the work must be done in a vacuum-- that in order for it to be "self-healing" and "self-development" it must be done alone; that you shouldn't be in partnership until you've done all the work on yourself. So what's love got to do with it? 

Every relationship, no matter how long or what transpires, is a lesson. Whether romantic or platonic, familial or acquaintance, every relationship in which we find ourselves offers an opportunity to notice our relational patterns, how we form our bonds and connections, and brings light to all our complex layers that individual work can't reveal. 

Join me and my dear friend and Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist Julia Perretta as we explore the topics of attachment styles, personal development through partnership, beliefs around the "ideal" relationship, "failed relationships," the motivation behind being in relationship, codependency and its root cause, and so much more.

Julia specializes in working with couples and individuals utilizing somatic and attachment-informed approaches. She encourages healing through authentic embodiment, connection, humor, love and engagement with the things that bring you joy. She is also a certified yoga and meditation teacher and shares these practices with her community and clients.


LINKS:

// www.lightmindwellness.com

// Follow Julia @lightmindwellness @joulesrhoulez

// Email Julia: lightmindwellness@gmail.com

// Read about Julia on Psychology Today

// Follow me on IG @thehyelife

// Embodied Self-Study: Work with me via 1-1 coaching + support

// Book me for Private Virtual Yoga

// Take the HYE Road Workbook - the best place to start (besides the podcast) if you're new to me!

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We are all born with an insatiable curiosity to discover our world. We open our eyes and take in our surroundings with all of our senses, letting our bodies do the exploring. Somewhere along the way, we are taught that the world is a dangerous place and that we are vulnerable to all its whims and follies-- "curiosity killed the cat," as the adage goes. We are taught to fear our own curiosity lest it get us into trouble, whether it be punishment, physical pain, heartbreak, grief, psychological trauma, or death. And while we can appreciate and honor our biology's survival mechanisms, we often do so to a detriment-- losing our sense of wonder and magic, and moving about life with less curiosity and more projection-- casting our learned and conditioned assumptions, biases, and past experiences onto whatever (and whoever) is in front of us, all for the sake of maintaining a sense of security and self-preservation. 

In time, we become blind to our biases, our expectations, our personal narratives, and even to what we know (or what we think we know). We move through life, blind to our blindness, cutting ourselves off from leading fully embodied lives. 

What if instead, we approached everything as though it was the very first time we saw it? heard it? felt it? 

What if, instead of living in fear, we lived in opportunity?

What if we nurtured our curiosity, and in doing so, stayed open to greater possibilities?

What if, when we noticed our curiosity kicking in, we fueled it rather than extinguished it?

What if we took that class, rented that book, listened to that TedTalk, asked the questions and actually stayed quiet and open and present long enough to hear their answers?

What if, when we catch ourselves wondering how something works, how it's done, or what it would be like, we gave ourselves permission to indulge in our curiosity? What if we go find out?



LINKS:

// Follow me on IG @thehyelife

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// Sign up for my occasional Newsletter

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Devoting a personal episode to riff on some things I've been observing within myself over the last several months. The hope is that maybe you'll resonate with some of it, too.

Things like...


acclimating to a new place
enjoying whats right in front of you
being given vs. creating a sense of belonging and community 
putting up energetic walls
exploring creativity, and creating for the sake of creation rather than the outcome
learning from our past self as well as our future self
hitting a pause on learning and returning to what we already know to build self-confidence

+ some exciting updates to my offerings :) thanks so much for being here!



LINKS:

// Follow me on IG @thehyelife

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// Take the HYE Road Workbook - the best place to start (besides the podcast) if you're new to me!

// Sign up for my occasional Newsletter

// Have a question you want answered on the show? Send me an email


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Vulnerability is of integral importance in our lives and personal development. While often seen as a weakness, vulnerability is an incredible strength and is often that "missing piece" in relationships that allows us to be fully authentic and understood-- when shared in the right way. 

Vulnerability not only forges deeper connections with those we entrust with our truth, but it allows us to begin to integrate into our identities the very parts of ourselves we have felt ashamed of or abandoned, and gives others the permission (they've been unwittingly seeking outside of themselves) to do the same.

That said, as publicly sharing vulnerability is becoming more of a thing, it's common to feel pressure to be vulnerable for the sake of being seen as "authentic," but if we aren't respectful of boundaries or sharing with the right intentions, we can end up oversharing and causing more harm than healing-- for yourself and for those you are trying to connect with or serve.



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