Rivers, & Curriculum, & Okay-ness
This juicy episode about life and humanity and growth and abortion will give you so much to think about. Amy Babish is a relationship coach, somatic expert, intuitive, Brené Brown Daring Way™ Certified Consultant, women’s group leader, and retreat facilitator with 20 years of expertise as a licensed psychotherapist.
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Show Notes:
The Full Spectrum Space
Find Your Way to Freedom 1:1 Coaching
Holding duality
“We all carry something that’s unresolved in the body”
“Let me alchemize it in me” healing as a “personal and collective process”
“We can enroll people in our story”
“Yes this happened, and ….” this is not who you are
River of life and River of death
“Do, do, doing, and nothing feels like enough”
“Do I want to keep receiving the same medicine or lessons or do I want to be true to myself and my values and face my biggest fear”
“This is the choice point; you can keep on living like this, but it’s not really living”
“How can I integrate this into my wholeness?”
Readiness… a feeling of longing
“I refuse to perpetuate this cycle or pattern anymore”
Nature reflects… “we can’t bypass” seasons
Blueprints, and soul curriculums
“Make meaning of the winters of my life”
Vulnerability vs. victimhood
The value of noticing
“This isn’t just about ___; it’s about my life”
“Everything we believe starts in the body”
“Dialogue with the hurt and the body will give us part of the antidote”
“Bring more parts of you back”
“The doer can’t be in charge of healing”
“As long as you’re alive you have the whole time to figure this out”
Personal curriculum
What does it mean when it takes longer?
“The deeper the work… primed for something really massive”
Show up with no knowing of the timeline; the only way to know the timeline is to show up and do it
Willingness to not know, to keep trying, to play
Here’s the thing I’m doing next “knowing it has a compounding effect”
Being human is a long game journey
We don’t know what everyone’s long game looks like, for ourselves or anyone else
“I signed up to hold people in their complexities”
“I signed up to sherpa people through some of toughest time of their lives”
“How people chose to trust me was really profound”
Abortion after rape
“To work in an abortion clinic is not an easy choice”
Hiding a late stage abortion
How do we be curious about why our abortions happen?
“I needed this to be in touch with my vulnerability… to dis-identify with shame… to realize it is a choice”
“If you find yourself hooked in the powerlessness of it…”
“I’m allowed to be a complicated person”
“It’s okay right now” “It’s okay” “I’m okay” I’m gonna be okay”
Okay is a really great place to be
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