Zimmerman Podcast Jessica Zimmerman

Welcome to Zimmerman Podcast Episode 123

Have you ever been going about your day, doing something totally normal like getting groceries, logging into your email, picking your kids up from school, or going on a hike, and something happens that stops you in your tracks… some little coincidence or a moment of deja vu, or a text from a long lost friend you just had a dream about the night before?

I think most of us have. One of the most beautiful things about believing that there is a bigger purpose for your life, a divine destiny for your soul that the whole universe is conspiring to unleash, is that you get to go through life expecting to be amazed by these little moments where the spiritual world and the physical world intersect. 

It’s amazing how the further I’ve gotten from the rigid and sometimes dry faith of my childhood, the more I see God at work in the world around me. Can you relate?

God got real and fun (and real fun!) for me when I truly began to experience God outside of the teeny tiny box God was put in for me growing up in the American South’s Bible Belt. God was church three times a week. God was bible study. God was in a building. I couldn’t imagine then how much more God could be. That God could be playful, fun, and near. Here’s how, in today’s podcast.

EPISODE 123 TOPICS:
- When God got real and fun (and real fun!) for me
- The time an owl and I were locked in on each other, and the significance of this encounter
- Angel numbers and why I was seeing 11:11 all the time

LINKS:
THE PATH BACK TO YOU
My brand new course, The Path Back to You isn't about starting over, but starting again, on a path that will return you to yourself.
For the past few years, I’ve been on this journey of rediscovery, and it has changed everything. So here’s my invitation– learn to feel at home in your skin again. Just for my podcast listeners, use code PATH15 for 15% off.
Join me, on The Path Back to You.
https://jessicazimmerman.com/the-path-back-to-you-course

My Ted Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Z_ax0vCBUw

My Best Selling Memoir, Sleeping with a Stranger: https://jessicazimmerman.com/sleeping-with-a-stranger

More information when I first shared about my spiritual advisor: https://jessicazimmerman.com/blog/following-the-stars-part-three-staying-in-comfort-or-choosing-growth

Energy: Everything is Energy: https://jessicazimmerman.com/blog/everything-is-energy

Check out the picture of the owl I encountered: https://jessicazimmerman.com/blog/exchanging-ego-for-soul-listening-for-soul-messages-from-the-spiritual-world

My Art Collection, Uncovering Divine Femininity: https://jessicazimmerman.com/art-shop

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Welcome to Zimmerman Podcast Episode 122

If you’re following along week by week, you know that last week we talked about the difference between ego and soul. This week, we’re going to talk about what soul freedom looks like. 

The whole point of this series, and of my course The Path Back to You, is finding how to unlock the freedom to live your life out of soul freedom. Because if you’re not living out of freedom, what are you even doing?!? And yet, I’ve spent decades of my life living in bondage to people or stories that we haven’t chosen for ourselves. 

When you’re not living life out of soul freedom, it’s usually because you haven’t figured out what you really want, or you haven’t given yourself permission to actually go after it. 

So let’s talk about what soul freedom is and how you can choose it!

True soul freedom comes when you have the autonomy of choice. So often, the lowest times in our lives happen when we have no good choices. Choice can be taken away from us in many different ways, some we can control. Others, we can’t. 

Even when someone isn’t actively taking away your freedom, limiting beliefs that are passively handed down can also take freedom away. Even if you have had the best childhood imaginable, a marriage a Disney princess would be jealous of, a career that lights you up, and a family that champions you endlessly, you can still uncover messages you’ve believed that limit your freedom. 

Let me give you an example and go more in depth in today’s podcast.

EPISODE 122 TOPICS:
- What following our envy can reveal
- You’re not the only one devoid of freedom to choose; everyone you know, even those you least expect, feels suffocated in some aspect of their life. 
- Soul freedom to me: Choosing the life I long for, even if there are painful consequences.Let’s get into it in today’s podcast.


LINKS:
The Path Back to You
When you feel like you're losing your mind, I’m here to help you restore your soul.
In “The Path Back to You” I share with you my own personal story of struggle, trauma, etc. as a sacred offering. My hope is that through my story, you can better see yourself. I share with you my darkest moments and the steps I took to find my light– the light I had dimmed for most of my life.
Throughout all the heartache I’ve endured, I’ve finally found peace. And I want to share my roadmap with you. And just for my podcast listeners, use code PATH15 for 15% off.
Join me on The Path Back to You here: jessicazimmerman.com/the-path-back-to-you-course

My Ted Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Z_ax0vCBUw

My Best Selling Memoir, Sleeping with a Stranger: https://jessicazimmerman.com/sleeping-with-a-stranger

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Welcome to Zimmerman Podcast Episode 121

My kids recently lost their great grandfather. It was an open casket. Before the visitation, I told my kids that even though they’d be looking at their great grandfather’s body, his soul was not there.

Have you ever noticed that the body never really looks like the person did in life? There are many reasons for this, but the most important one, to me, is that a body isn’t really anything without a soul.

I told my kids that just like our car is important to us because it takes us from school to piano to baseball and home again, our bodies are just vehicles for our souls. They are, at their best, functional for us. At worst, they can be the very things that keep us from embodying love, which is our greatest calling.

On earth, we focus so much on our bodies, on our human forms. We exercise and diet and hang mirrors everywhere, and even if we’re not looking at our literal bodies, we’re thinking about satisfying cravings, elevating ourselves, getting ahead, and winning. This is all living from ego. What do I mean by that, and why does it matter?

Let’s get into it in today’s podcast.

EPISODE 121 TOPICS:
- In order to reach full consciousness, to live in the energy frequency of unconditional love, we have to retrain our human selves to learn to live from the soul.
- The idea of soul and ego isn’t a new thing.
- It’s your brain (your mortal, human thing) mismatching with your soul (your eternal, God thing).


LINKS:
The Path Back to You
When you feel like you're losing your mind, I’m here to help you restore your soul.
In “The Path Back to You” I share with you my own personal story of struggle, trauma, etc. as a sacred offering. My hope is that through my story, you can better see yourself. I share with you my darkest moments and the steps I took to find my light– the light I had dimmed for most of my life.
Throughout all the heartache I’ve endured, I’ve finally found peace. And I want to share my roadmap with you. And just for my podcast listeners, use code PATH15 for 15% off.
Join me on The Path Back to You here: jessicazimmerman.com/the-path-back-to-you-course

My Ted Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Z_ax0vCBUw

My Best Selling Memoir, Sleeping with a Stranger: https://jessicazimmerman.com/sleeping-with-a-stranger

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Get the Sparknotes Version of My Story: jessicazimmerman.com/about
Get Sleeping with a Stranger: jessicazimmerman.com/sleeping-with-a-stranger
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Welcome to Zimmerman Podcast Episode 120

Sometimes, whether slowly or all at once, you realize that your life is not and will never be what you thought it would be. Even if it is more beautiful than you thought possible, even if you are more fulfilled than you could have imagined, even if you wouldn’t take that first dream life back for all the money in the world, you eventually need to grieve the life you fought so hard for… the life you’ll never have and maybe never had.  

EPISODE 120 TOPICS:
- Why I’ll never mourn Brian, and how, in many ways, my sister Courtney is still here too
- The most helpful way to revisit a life that you mourn but don’t want back is to explore timelines and what to meditate on to explore them
- Shifting timelines and the ‘quantum leap’


LINKS:
The Path Back to You
When you feel like you're losing your mind, I’m here to help you restore your soul.
In “The Path Back to You” I share with you my own personal story of struggle, trauma, etc. as a sacred offering. My hope is that through my story, you can better see yourself. I share with you my darkest moments and the steps I took to find my light– the light I had dimmed for most of my life.
Throughout all the heartache I’ve endured, I’ve finally found peace. And I want to share my roadmap with you. And just for my podcast listeners, use code PATH15 for 15% off.
Join me on The Path Back to You here: jessicazimmerman.com/the-path-back-to-you-course

My Ted Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Z_ax0vCBUw

My Best Selling Memoir, Sleeping with a Stranger: https://jessicazimmerman.com/sleeping-with-a-stranger

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Get Sleeping with a Stranger: jessicazimmerman.com/sleeping-with-a-stranger
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Welcome to Zimmerman Podcast Episode 119

I remember when Brian and I moved to Nashville after our year of traveling the country in an Airstream, and I was convinced that putting down new roots in a new city would be the final step in our healing journey. Both individually and together.

I thought Brian would finally be able to meet new friends, get excited about getting a job, we could go on dates to places we've never been before, and enjoy the culture of a big city.

There was nothing I wouldn’t do to help us move forward. I just didn’t realize at the time that the one thing I couldn’t do was move Brian forward with me. And I tried.

Each time we had a conversation where I was ramping us up to move forward, it felt like the two of us were sitting in a car, and I had my foot pedal to the metal on the gas. And Brian not only had his foot on the break, but he had the car in reverse. He didn’t just want to stand still, he wanted to go backward. I’ve got my eyes on the road ahead, and he’s looking out the rear view mirror.

And we’re just stuck.

Brian’s regret was keeping his eyes fixed on the past.

Most times, I think regret is just unfelt grief.

And regret is totally unproductive. Focusing on what you wish happened differently has no power to keep it from happening again.

The best way to move forward with clarity is to reexamine those memories and events in your life that have brought you grief. Not so you can wallow in what you wish had happened differently, but so you can learn what has made you who you are. Only then can you grow into something more.

So what does it look like to honor our past trauma and use it to move forward with wisdom and clarity?

Let’s talk about it in today's podcast.

EPISODE 119 TOPICS:
- What does it look like to honor past trauma
- Comparative trauma does no one any good, meaning, uncovering the events that were traumatic to you.
- Trust what hurts. Grieve deeply so you don’t regret. Even trauma can be transformed into growth when you honor it with your attention.

LINKS:
The Path Back to You
When you feel like you're losing your mind, I’m here to help you restore your soul.
In “The Path Back to You” I share with you my own personal story of struggle, trauma, etc. as a sacred offering. My hope is that through my story, you can better see yourself. I share with you my darkest moments and the steps I took to find my light– the light I had dimmed for most of my life.
Throughout all the heartache I’ve endured, I’ve finally found peace. And I want to share my roadmap with you. And just for my podcast listeners, use code PATH15 for 15% off.
Join me on The Path Back to You here: jessicazimmerman.com/the-path-back-to-you-course

My Ted Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Z_ax0vCBUw

My Best Selling Memoir, Sleeping with a Stranger: https://jessicazimmerman.com/sleeping-with-a-stranger

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Welcome to Zimmerman Podcast Episode 118

In order for something to grow, it first has to be pruned. If you’ve ever lived in the south, you’ve seen Crepe Myrtle trees surrounding houses and lining neighborhood streets in cities all over the place. There is nothing more jarring than seeing a Crepe Myrtle in springtime. They prune back those trees so much it’s hard to believe they’ll ever produce growth again.

And yet every year, they come back bigger and more beautiful than ever before. And if they hadn’t been pruned, they’d be weak, scrawny, and more susceptible to damage.

The same is true with us. Good growth requires us to leave parts of ourselves behind. And that leaving can even feel like a death. Because it is!

Growth is painful. It requires conscious removal of the parts of ourselves that we still love but no longer want or need. It’s important to know that even though we may need to leave these parts of ourselves behind, we can still mourn their loss.

You may mourn your former life while anticipating a new, better one. You may feel the loss of a person who was once so important to you that you couldn’t imagine your life without them. You may miss who you once were while still being grateful for all the ways you’ve changed.

This is why Embracing the Darkness is so important. Things can be good and hard at the same time, and when we pretend they aren’t, we learn to believe our own self-deception.

The sooner, and the more often, we can trust ourselves about when it’s time to move on, knowing it may be painful but still good, the easier it will be to step into the life meant for us.

Find out what I mean by this in today's podcast.

EPISODE 118 TOPICS:
- The sooner, and the more often, we can trust ourselves about when it’s time to move on, knowing it may be painful but still good, the easier it will be to step into the life meant for us
- Whatever you are not changing, you are choosing.
- Fear and Ghosting

LINKS:
The Path Back to You
When you feel like you're losing your mind, I’m here to help you restore your soul.
In “The Path Back to You” I share with you my own personal story of struggle, trauma, etc. as a sacred offering. My hope is that through my story, you can better see yourself. I share with you my darkest moments and the steps I took to find my light– the light I had dimmed for most of my life.
Throughout all the heartache I’ve endured, I’ve finally found peace. And I want to share my roadmap with you. And just for my podcast listeners, use code PATH15 for 15% off.
Join me on The Path Back to You here: jessicazimmerman.com/the-path-back-to-you-course

When we discussed fear being the absolute lowest frequency of energy: https://jessicazimmerman.com/blog/everything-is-energy

Uncovering Divine Femininity: https://jessicazimmerman.com/uncovering-divine-femininity

My Ted Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Z_ax0vCBUw

My Best Selling Memoir, Sleeping with a Stranger: https://jessicazimmerman.com/sleeping-with-a-stranger

Subscribe to Zimmerman Podcast: zimmermanpodcast.squarespace.com/
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Get the Sparknotes Version of My Story: jessicazimmerman.com/about
Get Sleeping with a Stranger: jessicazimmerman.com/sleeping-with-a-stranger
Check out Zimmerman Education: jessicazimmerman.com/courses
Follow Jessica on Instagram: www.instagram.com/jessicazimmerman_/
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