Martha Beck is a best-selling author, life coach and spirit guide, and today she takes Nancy on unexpected and unplanned journey of a lifetime. It’s a powerful episode, friends. We learn, through Nancy’s lens, how old rooted beliefs from our childhoods totally shape the way we navigate our lives today. Sheri and Nancy always say that the stories we tell ourselves are what make our dreams come true. But this deeply personal episode peels back layers and reveals that those stories can also hold us back from happiness, and keep us from finding love.

Martha leads Nancy through a coaching session — a path that she compares to Dante’s rings of hell — but she assures Nance, and the rest of us, that this is the only way to confront and “burn through” old beliefs, and arrive on the other side — where truth and joy await us.

Takeaways:

[7:40] The conversation between Nancy and Martha begins with Nancy opening up about feeling lost and lonely despite believing that she is open and receptive to love. Martha encourages Nancy to lean into her feelings of distress and hopelessness, as she guides Nancy into the “doorway of freedom.”

[20:36] Nancy connects to a feeling of despair from childhood, which may have led to what she admits is her current belief — that in matters of love, “things won’t end well for me.”

[24:33] Martha guides Nancy through the painful childhood scenarios she has been protecting herself from. Nancy bravely dives into her own suffering. 

[37:28] Martha says that writing out our “heart” is a powerful way to get out of our mind and into our true feelings. You can either write a letter to your inner child who experienced the suffering, or you can answer the questions that are blocking your progress.

[41:05] You know that something in your present experience is connected to a old and deep belief system when it feels as though life is not working for you. Life is supposed to be good. When it’s not, there’s a reason.

[52:57] It is never too late to do this work, and to become the very thing it is that you seek. It’s the agony that brings forth the love, and we only get there by diving in headfirst.

[55:16] Martha’s writing class, Write Into Light, begins in April 2018. It is a guide for people to connect with every part of themselves, so we can all pull light and love into our lives.

Mentioned in This Episode:

Martha Beck

The Joy Diet: 10 Daily Practices for a Happier Life, by Martha Beck

Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live, by Martha Beck

Write Into Light

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