Your Warrior Heart
Dr. Melissa Bird is a Feminist, Author, Healer, and Coach. Her purpose in this world is to teach women how to step into their truth and quit playing small.
She believes that when women come together in community they create graceful revolution in their lives conjuring inspiration from deep within themselves by engaging in heart centered truths.
Learn more at: https://www.naturalbornrebel.com/
Listen to her first episode HERE
Show Notes:
2:00 Missy’s introduction
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8:16 “The idea of authenticity and loving with your whole heart, as the risk of going into the deepest grief you’ve ever experienced… that’s courage. The courage to open ourselves completely, to going into the unknown, and being vulnerable, and doing it knowing that we likely will experience grief..”
9:44 “We cannot know joy without anguish… it is about forgiveness of self and others”
10:15 “If we don’t forgive ourselves for the choices we have made, and love ourselves, and have compassion for ourselves…
10:52 “What if for just a second we forgave ourselves for doing what we knew was best”
Am I choosing this anguish so I can experience more joy than I’ve ever experienced?... I had to say yes to the pain
Choosing happiness
14:26 “The joy of living is in not knowing”
15:08 “we get told continually to stop doing what feels good”
We don’t know HOW we’ll ever be happy again
Forward out of darkness/Forward into light
17:35 “In every major religious text there is something about darkness and light… everybody knows”
18:22 “We do choose happiness and we also choose despair”
19:13 “We walk away from grief… we think our heart will break”
My book- Hearts don’t break.
19:59 Myth of warrior “ but it is about setting aside the ego for the good of the whole”
Water keepers “women are powerful warriors and we always have been”
Doctrine of discovery
Our ancestors are all tribal
23:36 “The knowledge that we can pull upon…” from our ancestors
24:07 “It’s not just about pushing through, but about opening up”
24:50 “I am wonderful in my capacity to teach and connect… that is the wonder of who I am”
25”15 “not one of us is going to experience happiness in the same way… figuring out the way we experience joy”
26:10 “Healing is not perfection; it’s messy”
26:32 “giving people permission to step into the unknown”
How was I a warrior when I chose abortion? How can I choose to be a warrior now?
Sarah Magnoni- Episode 128
Allowing kids to grieve
29:58 “people see what they want to see… the beauty of trauma is peeling back the layers of things you still have to work through”
31:24 “yet another unraveling…. Sweet, when I heal this I get to go up”
31:50 “To really embrace the idea that we are human and to have a strength of mind and spirit that takes us to the next thing”
I have no idea what the fuck I’m doing and I’m having a great time
If we’re open the right things will come “that is the strength of mind and spirit that is humility”
What I learned from my abortion is what I use in life
Missy had infertility “to teach you how to find abundance in other things”
Irish wake wail “I made everybody so uncomfortable
36:21 Missy’s recording with her mom on FB live
41:05 “humor is the balance and the strength of heart”
Pasha Marlowe- Episode 93
42:03 “Watch for the signs, listen to your heart. Do not be afraid of what you know”
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