I Make a Difference

I Make a Difference
I Make a Difference

The I Make a Difference podcast is an adventure that explores the journey you experience as your human self and the pathway back to your true self. A journey involving a disconnection from who you truly are, being conditioned in your thinking, behaviors, and processing, being emotionally impacted and controlled by your reactions, and the experience of a past that can be complex and multilayered in its hold on you. As well as diving into and strengthening your connection with all the powerful elements of your true self as you find your way back to the real you. If you truly want to make a difference to yourself, it requires you to do the work to uncover and reconnect to the true you, for you to develop your awareness, ability to recognize what you are experiencing, face your truth, understand your processing, and to know how to work with all aspects of who you are not and who you are, so you can come back to you. The I Make a Difference Podcast is here to support you to achieve this. Subscribe, review and rate The I Make a Difference podcast if what is shared is helping you make a difference to you.

  1. 06/22/2023

    Episode 34: Healing Your Relationship With Your Parents

    There is profound value in exploring the complex dynamic between you and your parents or parental figures. Whether your upbringing was filled with love and beauty, marked by pain and hurt, or a combination of both, your relationship with your parents holds essential keys to your personal growth and evolution. While it’s true that you cannot change your parents or their past actions, you have the power to transform how you feel about them and develop your acceptance and openness with them. By exploring the experiences and traits you inherited from them, you gain a deeper understanding of who you truly are. IN THIS EPISODE WE EXPLORE: The invaluable gifts that your relationship with your parents’ and parental figures offer you for your personal growth and evolution. The critical role of exploring your relationship with your parents in becoming your true self. The significance of acknowledging and healing both the hurtful aspects and the beautiful qualities within your parents and your interactions. How refraining from exploring and facing the truth of your relationship can create distance, not only between yourself and your parents but also within your own being. The power you possess to create a closer connection with your parents, reflecting a deeper connection with yourself. I look forward to the adventure with you as we unravel, heal and uncover together to make a difference to who we are Subscribe To, Rate and Review The I Make a Difference Podcast On Your Streaming App Apple Spotify

    31 min
  2. 05/29/2023

    Episode 32: Living The Unlived Lives Of Your Parents

    As an adult have you lived your life, where as a child growing up, you did what you wanted to do? Or have you lived your life or some of your life based on what others believed was right for you and what they wanted you to do? A life that filled the dreams, hopes and missed opportunities of your parents, grandparents and other significant people from your life.  Where expectations were either imposed on you or you imposed them on yourself. A life where you lived other peoples unlived lives. As a parent or grandparent have you not lived the life you wanted to, and you encouraged your children or grandchildren to do what you missed out on, believing it was the right thing to do? If your answer is yes – this episode is for you. THIS EPISODE  You will: Understand what means to be living the unlived lives of your parents and others Work through how a parent can unconsciously and consciously impose their expectations of what they did not fulfil in their life, on to you Explore how this process conditions and impacts a person as a child and then as an adult Come to understand how not only your parents can impose expectations and responsibilities on you but how you can do this to yourself too Acknowledge the steps for you to take to work through these expectations that were imposed on you    I look forward to the adventure with you as we unravel, heal and uncover together to make a difference to who we are Subscribe To, Rate and Review The I Make a Difference Podcast On Your Streaming App Apple

    31 min
  3. 05/16/2023

    Episode 31: Emergent Processing; Not Giving Up On Hope

    I invite you to embark on my exploration of hope with me.  How a personal meditation I won as a prize, which involved an initial conversation, prompted processing in me that took me on a journey of reflection on my life and my relationship with hope.  In this episode, I delve into the transformative power of meditation and it’s impact on my journey toward finding inner peace and stability. How it became a beacon of hope for me until I realized that my growth, was being hindered and limited by it. This episode explores how through my processing I uncover my journey of hope from how I had defined it as a lifeline for me to escape where I was at, to becoming something I suppressed, ultimately rejected and gave up on. To embracing it as an internal flame of belief, trust, and self-driven progress.  My introspection led me to release old conditioning, connect more to my true self, and embrace a new perspective on hope. I discovered what hope truly means to me, its implications in my life and its transformative potential. I came to appreciate hope in a way I have not previously done so. THIS EPISODE  You will: Share in my journey of meditation which led me to connect with hope Explore how hope is an important process for our growth and evolvement Come to know how, in becoming my true self I rejected hope and made it wrong Hear how I gave up on hope and the impact of that on me Explore how I reconnected to hope in a new and different way If you are interested in knowing more about WENDY DARLING you will find her at wendydarling.com   I look forward to the adventure with you as we unravel, heal and uncover together to make a difference to who we are As humans, hope plays a crucial role in our lives, precisely because we often find ourselves lacking it within ourselves. Our journey towards hope is intertwined with our sense of self-worth and deservedness. It is when we question our own value and worthiness that hope becomes elusive. But there is hope for finding hope again. To explore strategies for cultivating hope within ourselves, I invite you to download your free copy of: 13 Ways To Recognize And Own Your Self-Worth Guide My Deservedness Video And Workbook

    27 min
  4. 01/27/2023

    Episode 29: Processing Reflections With Minz And Barb – Welcome Barb

    I am so excited to introduce you to ‘Processing Reflections With Minz And Barb’ and to one of the most beautiful people I have ever met, someone so dear and precious to me – Barbara Binns. Barb, as she is called by many people, is someone whom I have journeyed with for many years. We share the love of I Make a Difference, personal growth, and catching up to share and explore our processing together. Barb mentioned to me at the end of last year that her daughter had said to her “you and Minz should do a podcast together”. These were the spoken words of what I had already been processing and pondering, so action was taken. ‘Processing Reflections With Minz And Barb’ will now be a regular feature of the I Make a Difference podcast. How regular? Good question. We are going to trust the process and see what unfolds.  Barb and I are going to have our catch-ups and explore and share processing about different aspects of our personal growth, the processes we explore, and the processing we experience. In this episode, I wanted to ensure that you got to meet and know Barb and a snapshot of how we came to connect and be friends. If you are wondering who Minz is – that is me (Melinda) it is a nickname I have been called for many decades and it also stands for Made In New Zealand. You might want to check out the new I Make a Difference Youtube Channel and the video version of this episode which is in the playlist Processing Reflections With Minz And Barb WE look forward to the adventure with you as we unravel, heal and uncover together to make a difference together. Subscribe To, Rate and Review The I Make a Difference Podcast On Your Streaming App Apple

    30 min
  5. 01/18/2023

    Episode 28: Emergent Processing; Unraveling Patterns Created New Experiences With Mum

    For decades one of the most powerful patterns of conditioned approaches I have had with my mum is the responsibility I took on board for her emotional and physical well-being. My need to be over responsible has governed my interactions, my decision-making, and my relationship with my mum since a very young age. The result is, I have been serious in my relationship with her, the problem solver and protector. It was late last year when an experience I had gave me the insight I needed to take action in this area. I wanted to give focus to really working on letting go of my over-responsible ways. My commitment was to taking new and different approaches. The key to making this happen was for me to stay open to recognizing all of the opportunities I had in my relationship with my mum, to do things differently.  What I came to see, was that I had not allowed myself to be a daughter to my mum. I had been the parent or protector. Our relationship had been one of seriousness and practicality, rather than fun, laughter, and filled with an abundance of happiness. So I took action and the amazing new experiences that were created were beautiful. In this episode, I share that journey with you, or at least the beginning of it and what unfolded in one day, so that you too might gain some gems from my process, that will support you to: Let go of the responsibility you hold for others Change patterns of conditioned and emotional processing that are preventing you from experiencing what you truly deserve Embrace that every new experience does not need to be profound in what is done, it is in how it is received, experienced, and shared Can get to experience with the people you have taken responsibility for, the relationship you deserve to have with them Whilst I was changing some patterns, I would change the podcast cover and the format here. I look forward to the adventure with you as we unravel, heal and uncover together to make a difference in who we are If You Want To Work On Releasing Your Over-Responsibility And Or Expanding What You Deserve These Free IMAD Resources Are Worth Exploring Over-Responsbility Checklist My Deservedness Workbook And Video

    44 min

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The I Make a Difference podcast is an adventure that explores the journey you experience as your human self and the pathway back to your true self. A journey involving a disconnection from who you truly are, being conditioned in your thinking, behaviors, and processing, being emotionally impacted and controlled by your reactions, and the experience of a past that can be complex and multilayered in its hold on you. As well as diving into and strengthening your connection with all the powerful elements of your true self as you find your way back to the real you. If you truly want to make a difference to yourself, it requires you to do the work to uncover and reconnect to the true you, for you to develop your awareness, ability to recognize what you are experiencing, face your truth, understand your processing, and to know how to work with all aspects of who you are not and who you are, so you can come back to you. The I Make a Difference Podcast is here to support you to achieve this. Subscribe, review and rate The I Make a Difference podcast if what is shared is helping you make a difference to you.

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