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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
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In your friendships, are you the one who keeps them going? Do you initiate the contact, and put in the time and effort?
You may even be like I used to be where you find when you go for coffee, out to lunch or dinner or to do some other activity, that you are the person who pipes up and says "I'll pay for it".
If you are why are you the person who generally holds the responsibility, pays, and organizes things? Join me as I explore my process of how having coffee with friends, involved me paying for both mine and theirs. 
Why? Because I didn't want to owe anyone anything. I didn't know how to receive and my lack of self-worth and neediness were driving me.
THIS EPISODE  You explore:

How what appear to be insignificant and irrelevant occurrences, can be the key to deep-seated patterns of a lack of self-worth
The influence of what may feel like unrelated experiences, on how you live your life now
How the process of sabotage and rejection deny you of what you truly deserve
How ceasing to pay for someone's coffee was an opportunity for huge growth.

I look forward to the adventure with you as we unravel, heal and uncover together to make a difference in who we are
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If you have a question you want to ask me, I can potentially explore it during an episode - (I say potentially because it is dependent on the nature of the question).
And if you want to share your processing about an episode.
As well as, if you have questions about an episode.
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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
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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 its 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
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Being inspired by yourself is a natural and powerful process. Where you are fascinated and curious about who you are, the inspiration and potential you have within you, and the inspiration you will discover and express from you.
Yet you may look to other people, objects, and environments for inspiration. You can experience bursts of inspiration instead of a flow. When you are inspired, the energy you experience is vibrant and can even be overwhelming. Why? Why do you experience all of these processes?
The answer is in where you are at in your growth and connection to yourself, the true you. In this episode, I explore:

The process of inspiration
What inspiration is
Why do you experience flashes of inspiration
Why you may look to external things for inspiration
Your true inspiration and being inspired by yourself
Some key questions to support you to explore your inspiration

There are questions at the end of the episode to encourage your exploration of your self-inspiration, so you grow your awareness and understanding of your process of inspiration. 
DOWNLOAD your free copy of the SELF INSPIRATION QUESTIONS WORKBOOK
I look forward to the adventure with you as we unravel, heal and uncover together to make a difference to who we are
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Ask me questions, share your processing, and share your feedback
If you have a question you want to ask me, I can potentially explore it during an episode - (I say potentially because it is dependent on the nature of the question).
And if you want to share your processing about an episode.
As well as, if you have questions about an episode.
Email me at melinda@imakeadifferenceimad.com

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.
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Ask US questions, share your processing, and share your feedback
If you have a question you want to ask Barb or me, WE can potentially explore your questions during an episode - (I say potentially because it is dependent on the nature of the question).
And if you want to share your processing about an episode. As well as, if you have questions about an episode.
Email us at melinda@imakeadifferenceimad.com