Unplugging and Tuning In: Listening to Your Inner Voice
Using silence, mindfulness
& art therapy to connect with ourselves
In a world filled with a constant barrage of sensory input, where every spare moment seems to be occupied by the hum of podcasts, the rhythm of music, or the pages of a gripping novel, it's easy to lose touch with our inner selves. The digital age has ushered in an era of unprecedented connectivity, but in the midst of it all, we often neglect the most important connection of all - the one with ourselves. It's time to recognize the importance of taking moments of silence and unplugging from sensory input to truly hear our inner voice. Its a lesson we all need to tap into every now and then, including myself! In fact it was my own experience with sensory and input overload that prompted the idea of Episode 7 of This Is Soul Therapy: Understanding the Voices Within: A Voyage of Self-Awareness and Discovery
True facts: Our lives are inundated with information. From the moment we wake up, we are bombarded with news, social media updates, text messages, and a never-ending stream of content vying for our attention. In this cacophony of external noise, our inner voice often gets drowned out. We become so focused on external stimuli that we forget to tune into our own thoughts, feelings, and intuition. And beyond that, often our strategies to tune inward toward ourself involve the addition of more sensory input! How often have you reached for your headphones and phone to pop in some music to drown out the chaos and “regroup?”
WHAT’S STREAMING IN YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS?
It's essential to learn how to sort through the streams of information flooding our consciousness. What belongs to us, and what is merely the product of external influences, fears, or ego? This discernment is crucial for self-awareness and personal growth. When we fail to recognize the origin of our thoughts and emotions, we risk making decisions based on external pressures rather than our authentic desires. If you have a lot of voice and thought trains going in your mind and are unable to sort through them, you may find that your actions become chaotic, and disconnected and aren’t wielding the results you wish.
MAKING TIME TO DISCONNECt:
The first step to reestablishing this connection with our inner selves is to unplug from external stimuli. Taking moments of silence in our day allows us to pause, breathe, and listen. It's in these quiet moments that we can begin to hear the whisper of our inner voice. Meditation can be a powerful tool in cultivating this practice. Through meditation, we learn to clear our minds and create space for self-reflection. It's a way of nurturing our inner world amidst the chaos of the external one.
CONNECTING TO SELF THROUGH ART THERAPY:
Therapeutic art is another means to explore our inner landscape. When words fail to express the depth of our emotions or experiences, art can step in to bridge that gap. The act of creating can be a therapeutic journey, leading us to hidden corners of our subconscious. It's a way to process and release emotions and memories that have long been buried.
THE ROLE OF THE INNER CHILD:
Learning to differentiate between our inner voice, fear, ego, and external influences can be a challenging task. It's like sorting through a river of thoughts and emotions, trying to identify which stones belong to you and which have been carried downstream by the currents of societal expectations, past traumas, or the opinions of others.
In this process, revisiting inner child experiences often becomes a necessary step. Our inner child is the repository of early memories, both joyful and painful, that continue to shape our adult lives. By reconnecting with our inner child through introspection and self-compassion, we can heal old wounds, address lingering fears, and rediscover parts of ourselves that may have been long forgotten.
WHO’S INVITED TO YOUR BRAIN SPACE PARTY?
In our quest to reclaim our inner voices, we may also need to silence the inner critic, that relentless voice of judgment and self-doubt that so often obscures our authentic thoughts and desires. As we learn to discern the layers of our consciousness, we can begin to quiet the inner critic and cultivate self-compassion.
In the end, the journey of learning to hear our inner voice and silencing the noise of external influences is a deeply personal one. It's about discovering who we truly are, what we genuinely want, and what needs healing in our lives. It's a journey that requires patience, self-compassion, and a commitment to self-discovery.
So, take a moment today to unplug, to sit in silence, and to listen to the voice within. In the stillness, you may discover a world of wisdom, dreams, and desires waiting to be explored. It's a journey worth taking, for it is in tuning in to our inner voices that we find the path to authentic living and true self-fulfillment.
SILENCING THE NOISE AND TUNING INTO YOUR INNER VOICE:
In the quest to reconnect with our inner voice and navigate the intricacies of the mind, body, and spirit, Soul Therapy Sessions offer a profound opportunity for transformative exploration. These integrative coaching experiences serve as a guiding light on the path to self-discovery and personal growth. Through creative exploration of your inner landscape, we delve deep into your true self, unlocking the potential for positive change in your life. These sessions provide a safe and nurturing space to address your unique needs, aspirations, and areas in need of healing. Whether you seek clarity in your purpose, release from past wounds, or simply a deeper connection with your authentic self, soul therapy can be a powerful ally on your journey.
If you're curious to learn more or ready to embark on this transformative experience, don't hesitate to reach out for additional information or to book a session via the link below. Your path to self-discovery and inner harmony awaits.
THIS IS SOUL THERAPY, EPISODE 7:
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Mind, body, spirit. This is Soul Therapy, and I'm your host, Jen Hully. This week we are talking about how the heck you tune into your inner voice and what you're supposed to do if your inner voice has like 10,000 voices. We're going to look at how you can start to sort through the chatter in your brain and decipher what's fear, what's real, what's not. You know what belongs to somebody else. It's going to be a great episode, so let's dive in and hello, hello, hello, welcome back. I'm excited to talk about this. As with everything, this always comes from personal experience and experiments I've been doing on myself and aha moments that I've had in my own life, but through conversation with others, but also because inner voice is like the key to everything. Right, if you consume a lot of self-help or wellness content, or you're listening to this podcast or you know whatever it always goes back to like. Tune into your inner voice, honor your truth, make aligned decisions, tap into your intuition and we talk about that core oracle of knowledge that exists in all of us and if you can't hear that or you don't know what it sounds like, it's going to be really fucking hard to make decisions that are in alignment and are in your best interest. So we're going to talk about this this week. I'm going to share with you a little experiment that I did call I'm calling it the not so silent, silent retreat that I did and I still am doing, which is really helping me to sort through the noise and learn what is what. But before we dive into that, I wanted to remind everybody that you are able to now book sessions with me. You can do therapeutic tarot sessions, which are about 90 minutes and they are an intuitive tarot and oracle reading around like a question or a life crossroads that you're at, paired with a spiritual coaching session at the end, because I think that you know we do ourselves a disservice when we just sort of like do a reading and then run, read and run. That doesn't help anybody. So the point of therapeutic tarot is to get some insight into what's going on in your life but then support it with that therapeutic conversation that will really drive change in your life and you'll come out of it with some personalized solutions, strategies, things you can take away and like get to work on. That's one way you can work together. And the other way we can work together is I have soul therapy sessions, which is a bit different than the therapeutic tarot. They're not built around tarot and oracle decks. They are built around my knowledge of integrative coaching. We look at things like mind, body and soul alignment. We engage in things like creative discovery, therapeutic arts. All that comes into play. One session, couple sessions. There's a lot of different ways that we can work together, but it's a very hands on, exploratory way of looking at who you are and what you need to feel your best. So there are different types of sessions and they're good for different. You know purposes and if you'd like more information or you're like I don't know which one to pick you can shoot me a message. My details are always in the show notes, which you can reach out to me on social media. I'm always at Jennifer Hully on both platforms and my email is contact at JenniferHullycom. And yeah, all right. So let's dive back into the topic. Here. We're talking about your inner voice and my not so silent, silent retreat, and I don't know if you're like me, but if I was to give you a description of like what it sounds like in my brain, there's like like 10 to 12 different tracks running at the same time, and by like no means of exaggeration, I'm not like trying to blow this up for dramatic effect. This is just a very honest snapshot of what goes into my head. I have a running stream of consciousness of like chitter-chatter, and then I have music looping in my head. I probably have like sometimes two or three songs overlapping, and then I might have like three or four other tracks of sound, images, words dropping in, not totally constant, they might kind of sprinkle in, and then on top of that we throw in some like intuitive downloads where, like, I'll see like a flash of an image or I'll hear some stuff and it is just like it is a noisy, noisy space in there. So, learning to tap into what is intuition and what is fear and what is like anxiety and what is an intuitive download, what is a download from something else, it's been really really challenging for me and it's been a process for, like I'd say, like the last year, of trying to sort out like what is what? It's like a mail room, you know, where all the like tubes are just sort of like descending into this giant mail bag, or like the other analogy I look at is like a big swimming pool that has like a zillion slides and everyone's coming in and dumping into the pool and you're like there's 10,000 kids in the pool. We don't know where they came from. So I was having a really hard time with this because, you know, there were some decisions I was making and things I was working through and like I had like a lot of voices in my head. Right, I had a lot of do this, yes, this is a line. No, don't do this, what about this? And then seeing like visions of the future, visions of the past, looping and I was like this is exhausting and I, on recommendation of somebody that I was talking to, they called me out and they were like you consume a little bit too much knowledge and content and input throughout the day. I was like, first of all, I was like no, I do not, like don't, that is not true. I like learning and I try to defend myself because, like that's what your, your ego does, right, it's like I'm under threat, defend, defend. But as I listened to what this person said, I was like, yeah, okay, you're right. And I mean like if I'm not doing something I mean like air quotes, not doing something, I'm still doing something. I'm either listening to a podcast or I'm reading a book or even listening to music, and like I really thought about like okay, when am I sitting in silence? When am I sitting in absolute silence in the day? And I was like when I'm sleeping, but then I'm like that's not even silence either, because I'm having crazy dreams and all sorts of stuff. I wake up a lot and I was like I don't really sit in silence and turn off the input channels. There's always something coming in always. And even if it's like I'm overwhelmed and I'm like scrambled and I just feel really like I can't focus, I still will put in noise canceling headphones and like listen to something called like brown noise to try and drown something out. I'm like, well, I'm always even in like that rattled state. I'm still taking in input like sensory input. All right, that's mainly when I say like, when I'm talking about like content consumption, I'm talking about like sensory input or even just brain stimulation, right, like different ways that your brain's being stimulated. And after talking to them about this, I was like, okay, fine, whatever, call me out, I can take it. You know, I can take feedback eventually. Right, nobody likes to hear or face their own shit, but what it got me to do. I was like, fine, you think I can't disconnect from consumption or disconnect from input? I'll show you, I'll do a whole evening of nothing. And it was kind of like this competitive thing that came out in me being like you think I can't do this or I don't do this. Watch me, just watch me, and you know what. Like. However, whatever gets you there, like doesn't matter the route you take. If that's the route that gets you to the place you need to be, that's fine. Like I'm not gonna be rate myself that that was initially how I got into this not so silent, silent retreat. But I'm like the thought that popped in my head. I was like getting ready to get in the shower. I was like, man, I would love to go to a silent retreat. My kid had gone to bed, it was finally quiet and I was just like I was realizing like how loud the day had been. And first I had like a vision in my head of, like the movie Sister Act. And then I like flashed this conversation that a friend and I had had months ago about how, like, we watched that movie and we're like it might be nice to be a nun, like I'd be totally happy, like to be scrubbing a floor with nobody to talk to me. And I remember saying to her I was like I think that means we need like some time to ourselves in silence. But I saw that and then I saw the conversation with my friend and then I heard in my head I was like I would love to go on a silent retreat and I was like that wouldn't actually be that hard, that would be amazing. So that's when I was like all right, let's do it. Let's do it right now. I can't like get up and leave. I have a child and things to do. I can't just walk out and be like I'm going to a silent retreat right now. But I thought you know what I'm gonna make one in my house. And I said to myself, you know, I was like it's not gonna be that long. It'll maybe like three hours between the time that it was and the time I had to go to bed and I was like I'm just not nothing, nothing's coming in. I'm not gonna put anything in my ear, I'm not even gonna put music on, and if I'm gonna still meditate, I'm not gonna listen to like binaural beats, like nothing, like I just cut it off and I didn't like sit and do nothing. I sort of did some stuff. Like I got in the shower and had a shower with like normally I have music playing, but I didn't and I was sitting there in silence and then I could just hear like all the stuff in my head and I was like, well, this isn't really making anything silent, like it's still very loud. And when I got out of the shower and I was like drying my hair, I got the blow dryer out and I was like starting to dry my hair, I like made eye contact with myself in the mirror and I realized how little I actually do. That like look at myself in the mirror, like eyes, like staring right in my eyes, and I was like I just sort of looked and I was like, there you are, and I was like what was that? And then I had this moment where I was like you need to speak out everything that pops into your head. Why, I don't know. So then I just started talking to myself as I'm drying my hair, which, by the way, like showering, blow drying your hair, walking, coloring in a coloring book. It's all that like repetitive motion where you're not really having to be actively, like consciously thinking about what you're doing, so your brain can get into this kind of flow state. It's quite meditative, right. I always say like meditation takes many forms and it doesn't have to be you sitting in silence with your eyes closed and your legs crossed. It can be you coloring in a coloring book for 20 minutes. It can be you walking in silence. It can be all sorts of things. But I was like there, I was like drying my hair, staring at myself, and I was like I just started talking to myself. First I was just talking like it was a person because I mean I, I mean like I am a person, not like I was a person, but I mean I was talking to myself as if it was a person in front of me. And then I started talking to myself about whatever popped into my head and it was like things that happened in the day, things that had happened in the days before, stuff I was going through, and what I noticed was the stuff that started to come out of my mouth wasn't necessarily what I was like thinking of. So it was kind of this like intuitive flow, almost like automatic writing. When you sit down to do automatic writing. I'm not sure if you're familiar with that, but I think we talked about it on a previous episode where you can like sit with a pen or like at a computer if you're like me, cause I can't write, like hand write for shit and you just ice, close and just move your fingers as it comes and see what comes out. Kind of the same thing. It was like automatic talking and what I noticed was like, yes, thoughts were coming out that I was like they were coming out before they like consciously formed in my awareness, which was really interesting and that sort of shone a light on some stuff. But this is what was really interesting about it was that because I was speaking and this is where I say it was like a not so silent, silent retreat in my house because I had nothing going in. I had no input, no music, no podcast, no nothing, but I was still speaking words out and that act of speaking, similar to like right now, like when I'm doing the podcast, I get into the same state where it's like words are just kind of flowing and I'm not always aware of what they're saying, what I'm saying, cause they're like forming, they're just forming before I'm aware of them. It's kind of an interesting experience. But when I'm doing this, the channels in my head, like the multiple songs, the voices, the sentences, the images, all the things that are rolling in my head, quiet down, and all of a sudden it's like my voice. I can hear my voice, that I'm talking and maybe like one thing will pop in the background. It might be I see a flash of something, or I hear like a loop from a song. There's something about speaking that makes it like near impossible for everybody else to be talking at the same time, and it kind of reminds me of like when I taught kindergarten way back in England. You'd be like giving them a talking stick you know what I mean. Like you'd sit them in a circle and there'd be all these voices and they're all like super energetic and they all got stuff to say and they're competing with each other and they're different, like vibrations of energy and it's just. It's kind of insane. If you've spent time in a group of like young children, it's bananas. But when you give them this like object and you're like it's your turn to talk, everyone else shh quiet and you focus on the one person that has the talking stick. Someone's still going to yell out because they're five years old and they have no like impulse control and you'll hear like from like the corner, but that's kind of like what's happening in your brain, like you'll get this little blurt that comes out or this like image. You'll see where it's like something that really needs to come through, just sort of breaks through, but you're able to attend to it and hear it right, because everything else is quiet. So, as I was like blow drying my hair, talking to myself, I would hear like a song loop and I was like, okay, what was that? Was I listening to that today? No, okay, put that down for later. Like, write it down and be like you can look at that later. Same with an image I'd write down, like the image that popped in my head and because only one competing input could come in at a time, I was able to take a minute and be like what is that that's coming in? Is that a memory? Is that me like replaying something that happened today? Is that anxiety? Is that fear? Is that anger, or is this like a download? Like is this literally coming from outside of myself? And it feels like the way I describe it is. It feels like it comes like down from the top right hand corner. It's like boop in my head. Is it like that? Or did it come from the back of my head, come forward and that's kind of more like anxiety written stuff for me. But what it did was it allowed me to again be more aware of those blurts that came in, because there was only one blur at a time and I the only thing I can think of is because the act of talking maybe requires you to use your brain in a different way, or maybe because you're using your body, it's harder for you to run like 10,000 tracks at the same time. So it was this really interesting experience, because I A was able to know what was my conscious stream of thought, because sometimes I would like to backtrack a little bit. I would talk to myself, but then I also I wouldn't let myself go into silence. So if I had a thought, I made myself verbalize it. So I was like, if I was there, I go oh, I dropped my hairbrush. Oh, look, there's something on my hairbrush. What's that? Oh, look, it's like a fluff from this. Where did I put this? You know, like anything that was a conscious thought had to be spoken, and I continued that later on in the evening, like I was downstairs and I started to think, like, about the dishes. So I stopped myself and said I wonder if the dishes are done. The dishes have been in the dishwasher for a bit. I didn't hear the beep. Let me go check. Oh, I'm opening the door. Oh, it looks like they're a little bit wet. It seems that they're not finished. Okay, close the door Right. So by doing this and like narrating what was happening, I was aware of, like what is actually my stream of consciousness as well, and able to just sort of, like I said, sort the things out consciousness, fear, replay, intuition, all of it. It was like pulling the kids out of the pool and like putting them back to the top of the slide that they went down and being like, okay, y'all are in here, but where did you come from? And I think that was so, so important for me, because before it was just like this mess, and if you're intuitive or you're working on your intuition or you know you're trying to tap into this, it's so hard to know like, was that me? Did that come from me? Did that come from somewhere else? Is this actually guidance, or is this just me being like afraid to try something new? Is this actually like a gut knowing, or is this just me like sabotaging by trying to protect myself against something that's uncomfortable? And it helped me to like see patterns because I, like I said, I could sort of feel where fear loops would come from. Or I would notice patterns in that if a song was just like an earworm that I had, you know, heard later earlier on in the day, it sort of played in my head differently, whereas if a song came in and I was like looping over like one sentence and I didn't really know what it was and I was like, okay, this is not from me, this is coming from something else. Okay, it's like something I need to pay attention to. And a lot of this is like I do a lot of work with intuition, but I'm also working on like channeling some stuff as well as receiving guidance from guides and other sources. And it can get, when you're working on stuff like that, it can get hella, hella, noisy in your head. So having this not so silent, silent retreat where I like spoke out everything made me sort things better and see patterns so that when they come up again I can be like oh, that's important, okay, disregard that. But it also like, put me in the practice of just focusing on me and my voice and being like well, which one is just my stream of consciousness, like my day to day chitter, chatter, and which one is my actual, like intuitive knowing that's trying to come forward, and I think that's really hard to do when a you have a lot of things running in your brain, but also when you're putting more shit in your brain, right, like we're putting more shit in our brain. Sensory stimulation If we're watching a movie or for watching a show, reading a book, listening to music, listening to a podcast, we are putting more information, more sensory I can just the only way I can describe it is sensory input that your brain then has to like decipher and sort and file. When we're not cutting ourselves off from that input, we're adding to it, like we're just making extra work for our brain to do. And so like I get into these moments where I'm like so rattled and I just feel like I have bees in my chest and there's like so much noise and I'm always like I need to meditate, I need to put on some music, I need to this, and I'm like I had this like acute awareness of no, I actually need to meditate in silence and just sit. And it was really hard to do the meditation on that day, but I kept with the same theme, where it's like if I saw something in my mind, I was like, okay, I'm seeing that, yes, I would just say it out loud and then see what came in next. And it was a very different experience because again, I could tell which images were playing in my head, which was like the monkey mind going out to play, and which ones were coming from other sources. So this like super long story, to just sort of say, if you haven't cut yourself off from content consumption for like a couple hours, or if you find you've always got something going in to your sound, visual, you know thought processing in your head, like you're always feeding it or always putting some input in a challenge you to like disconnect and it doesn't need to be forever. First of all, I like again, you know the competition was like you don't think I can de disconnect from content. Watch me, and I was like doing this, and I was like this isn't so hard, I'm going to do this for a whole month, I'm going to go a month of content free. I'm going to have notebooks, no, nothing. I'm just going to go be silent for a month like what the fuck is that? Right, but that's how my brain works. And my brain was just like I'm going to do it like this and I was like, no, you don't actually have to make it that extreme. But I think it's important that we give ourselves these moments of silence and these moments where we're cutting off from sensory input, to just sit and be like who is swimming in the pool of my mind? How many slides are there dumping into this pool? And also, where did all these noisy kids come from? Where are they all dumping in? Where is a lot of stuff coming into my brain that's making a lot of waves for me, so that you can then start to deal with whatever is coming up. And the interesting part is that when you start to do this, you'll notice, yes, there's intuition. Yes, there's guidance from other places. Yes, there's your stream of consciousness. Yes, there's anxiety, but there's also other people in your mind, and I don't mean like disassociative I can't say that word personality disorder, where you have multiple, you know different personalities residing in your consciousness. I mean, you have remnants of other people that you have interacted with, existing in your brain and they're your chitter chatter, is still running and their chitter chatter is getting into your conscious brain or your subconscious brain even. It's just running there and you might not be aware that these aren't actually your thoughts and you may be like well, who the hell is living rent free in my mind? And I would gather, gather, wager, I would wager that there are a lot of people living in your mind. I bet you there's definitely your parents. Okay, that's just completely impossible to not have your parents living in your head, unless you grew up without any parents and you were completely like self raised, which I don't think is the case for most people. Your parents are there, smaller versions of yourself are there. You have like a five year old version of you, you have a 10 year old version of you, so there's every version of you that ever existed, is still existing, in your mind. Your parents are there, former teachers are there, friends are there, bullies are there, bosses, everything, like anyone, and everything that came into contact with you that helped you form your subconscious beliefs about yourself, about the world, about what is possible for you, what it means to do X, y and Z, like your whole theory of mind, that it comes to shape your reality and, like I said, what you believe is possible for you or what, what you just think it means to exist. That's all in your brain and when you start to be able to like Identify what is your voice and what's not, you can then look at and be like well, this is in my voice. Whose voice is it? Right? Like you may have had a shitty experience with an ex partner who said something to you Over and over and over again or treated you in a certain way over and over and over again. That led you to form a belief that like let's just I don't know I'm gonna pull a random example whatever I do is not enough. I've always failed to meet someone's expectations. Okay, that might be a voice that lives rent free in your mind and doesn't necessarily show up saying that they don't shop going. Like you fail to meet people's expectations. No matter what you do, it's never enough. Right? Like you won't hear those exact words, but you will feel emotions that are tied to that. You will have replaying of scenarios that remind you and reinforce that belief and you may just hear like words or phrases that are sort of attached to that storyline or that experience, right, so when you start to be able to sort out okay, this isn't me, who is this? You can then take a look and be like, okay, where where did this come from? Like, what actual Experience was this? Or hand handful of experiences? Right in the trauma episode that we talked about the little tea trauma we talked about how like we are, this combination of infinite little experiences, the little minutia, so you can have a belief in their or voice in there. That's about a whole range of things, but the key here is, once you identify that, you then know what you need to process and what you need to heal and what you need to integrate in order to move on and to quiet that voice down. And sometimes I can look like going into a guided meditation. I like to create guided meditations for myself with my own voice. Or, if you work with me, you know we might make a guided meditation for you that guides you through A memory, to then revisit that memory at the age that you are now and to see the person that you need to speak to and to give yourself, to visualize and embody through this meditative process, the going through of that, so that you can rewire new stories, make new connections in your brain and hopefully Down down the volume on that person and release them right. Sometimes it's just about listening and going okay, I hear you, but you know what, that's not quite what's happening anymore and you can release them and give them a new space. So meditations really powerful for that. So is journaling and writing letters to these people or to these versions of yourself that are existing in your mind. Therapeutic art is really, really impactful for visiting stuff like this because it works out, obviously abstractly, through symbols and a lot of these Voices and memories that are locked away inside our minds that are affecting our actions. Right, like I said, they're not, we're not super consciously aware of them, right, they're running in the background. And the beauty about art as a therapeutic process is that it works in symbols and imagery and abstraction and that is the Language that your subconscious mind is programmed in, so we can work through certain memories through a process of making art. And, again, art, therapeutic art is really interesting because, like the choice of medium that you use or the choice of the process that you use, they are all chosen For the relationship that they have to the type of emotion that you want to like release of the type of emotion you want to tap into. So there's all different ways you can work through your feelings through art. So what did we say? We said meditation, sitting, revisiting, reprogramming these memories, writing letters I'm a fan of like burning letters after, like destroying them. Art is a way to work through it and also, sometimes, just the simple process of witnessing and acknowledging, being like, okay, I hear you, yep, that's you, joe. I don't know a Joe, but I just first name. It came to my mind Is enough to have them feel validated and seen, so that they can then be quiet and let you get on with your day. There's lots and lots of ways, like I said, that we can work through it, but the first step is to that begin that filtering process and find out okay, what does my inner voice sound like? What do other voices sound like? And the process, or the not the process? The goal of this process is to, yes, identify your inner voice, but then give it a fucking microphone, give it a platform, give it something to stand on and so that it can be louder and clearer, so that you can hear it better and use the guidance and the wisdom that's coming forward from your inner voice to make better decisions and to stop making decisions based on these other voices that are running in your head. That's the goal there is to tap into it so that you hear yourself, but so that you have the action afterwards. Hearing yourself and being like, cool, cool, I hear you, whatever, and then not doing something about it or not listening to it and putting things in action is it's not going to help you. It's a two part process and it's important to remember that whenever we're in a phase of life that feels challenging or is Like a change happening or just something where it doesn't feel like it's flowing, it could be like, you know, navigating a change in career or wanting to change a career, or it could be navigating a time in your life where you're strung the fuck out and you just you feel like you are completely frayed at all ends and you're not able to cope. It can be relationship advice, you know, with friends, family, kids. There's all sorts of spaces that this comes into play, where things feel like they're not flowing, things are energetically draining, you're not making progress. You're either going backwards or you feel like you're sort of like just spinning your wheels and staying in the same Space, but it's paired with this, like this deep feeling of dissatisfaction and knowing that like you're not doing the right thing or you're not where you're supposed to be, but you don't actually know what the route forward Is. It's that like you feel like you're kind of lost in the woods and, like I said, being lost in the woods and stuck can be painful, it can be excruciating, it can be draining, but it can also be silent and numb. Like there's that feeling of Freeze almost right, it's not always like I'm in so much pain and I'm distraught and I'm frazzled, like that's one way it presents, but it can also present is more like apathy and disconnection and just feeling like you've lost that spark for your life. Those are the moments that we know. Okay, we have to really learn to tap into our inner voice, give it the microphone and figure out what needs to Take shape in our life so that we can start to feel like we're moving forward, whatever that looks like for you. Alright, so that's it. That's where we're going to leave it this week. I hope that this episode inspired you or gave you some ideas of something that you can try in the weeks coming forward, and I hope it serves as a role in your life Forward and I hope it serves as a reminder to everyone that we do have that inner voice and that guidance Inside of us. It's probably just lost in a very, very busy swimming pool or a house party that's getting a little unruly, but there are things that you can do to silence the noise and bring a microphone To the person that really needs to be on the platform and needs to be heard, and if you would love support in doing this, please reach out. I've got my details in the show notes. You can send me an email or you can go to my website directly to book a therapeutic tarot session or a soul therapy, integrative coaching session. Again, if you love this episode, please share it with people, think about giving a rating, give a review posted on social whatever you can do to help grow the podcast. I am so, so appreciative of you and I want to thank whoever is out there that has left some ratings on Apple podcast. I saw that the other day and I didn't see who it was, but I was, like, so happy to see some five star ratings coming in, so thank you, thank you, thank you. Your support means so much to me and I hope you all have a great week. I will talk to you next time.
