You Are Infinitely Loved - A podcast about self-love and self-compassion. What would your life be like if you believed that you are infinitely loved? How would your world change if you had true self-love and self-compassion? How can you build these practices into your everyday life? This podcast is the co-creation of Sam Thomas, Lindsay Bong and Koes Bong and is an exploration into different individual's journeys with self-love, tools that everyone can use to build their self-love and all of the ways that self-love and self-compassion are connected to so many of the challenges and struggles in
45. Exploring your identity part 3 - Self-betrayal versus self-leadership and giving yourself space to grow
In this episode we look at the ways we might be betraying ourselves by not exploring certain parts of our personality or by not giving ourselves the space to experiment and try on new ways of being.
We talk about the very real and human need to belong and how sometimes in order to belong to a community, we feel like we need to set aside or deny a part of ourselves. When are we choosing to make a compromise for the sake of something greater and when are we betraying ourselves? When are we putting restrictive labels on ourselves that stop us from growing and changing?
We discuss the opposite of self-betrayal, which is self-leadership and the courage to trust yourself and know that you are the leader of your own life and you get to decide how you want to live.
This episode wraps up our 3-part series on exploring your identity. We hope you’ve enjoyed it. We can’t wait to bring you more episodes on all things self-love and self-compassion.
25 May 2021
44. Exploring your identity part 2 - Faith, doubt, trusting yourself and living in the grey
In this week’s episode we dive deep into Lindsay’s personal journey over the past year and the biggest shift she’s experienced in her identity. This is such a vulnerable episode and we’re so grateful to the courage Lindsay showed in sharing her story.
We explore the way that Lindsay’s relationship to faith has completely changed and how she’s moved away from some of the core beliefs she’s held throughout her life. We talk about how it can feel scary and uncomfortable to question your beliefs and core parts of your identity and the way that building a deep sense of self-trust, self-acceptance and self-love can help you through those moments.
We discuss how there are aspects of ourselves that we sometimes hide or deny in order to belong to a group and how that can be problematic. We often compromise parts of ourselves, our values or our beliefs because we fear the rejection of others. But if we can find the courage to love ourselves and belong to ourselves, we can feel ok and safe in the face of rejection and there is true liberation in that.
As much as we often want things to be black and white or right and wrong, because we crave certainty and answers, the reality is that life is truly complex and we need to become comfortable with living in the grey and dancing in the questions.
Resources Mentioned:
Reverend Angel Kyodo Williams - https://angelkyodowilliams.com/ (https://angelkyodowilliams.com/)
Dare To Lead Podcast - Brené with Adam Grant on the Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know (https://brenebrown.com/podcast/brene-with-adam-grant-on-the-power-of-knowing-what-you-dont-know/#close-popup)
The Enneagram - https://www.enneagraminstitute.com/type-descriptions (https://www.enneagraminstitute.com/type-descriptions)
10 May 2021
43. Exploring your identity part 1 - What have you lost? What do you want to let go of? What’s becoming more important to you?
In part 1 of this short series of episodes about identity we reflect on a few different questions to start exploring how you may have changed since the pandemic began.
Take a moment and have a think about these questions...
Do you feel you’ve changed over the past 15 months?
Have you noticed certain expectations have been lowered during this time?
If so, how has the lowering of these expectations allowed you to shift your identity?
What aspects of your identity have you lost or haven’t been able to express lately?
What has become more important to you? Have you honed in on your values?
What part of your identity have you dropped? Or what do you want to let go of?
We get personal in this episode (don’t we always?) and explore our own answers to these questions. Lindsay and Koes talk about the positive experience of living more intentionally during the pandemic and noticing the relationships that have become really important to them. Sam opens up about her own struggles with depression during this time and how self-compassion is really helping her through it.
We discuss how mental health struggles are a very appropriate response to an incredibly difficult time and how it really is ok not to be ok. And of course, if you’re experiencing mental health challenges then we really encourage you to not only double down on the tools of self-compassion that we’re always preaching about, but also reach out for professional support. You’re not alone in this.
Resources Mentioned:
The imperfects podcast - The Academy of Imperfection with Ben Crowe (https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-academy-of-imperfection-with-ben-crowe/id1476501557?i=1000514763757)
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