106: How to Create a Life of Pleasure (While Still Paying the Bills)

Ask Kelly your burning questions in our monthly Vital Life Project membership. Join hereIn this episode, you'll learn how to bring more joy and freedom into your current life, how to grow your capacity for pleasure and appreciation, how to create the feelings you’re chasing before your circumstances change, and how to uncover what you might really be getting from the life you say you want to leave.Timestamps:[00:00] Introduction[01:01] The fear of too much freedom and not knowing how to live it[01:37] How appreciation helps bridge your current life to your desired one[02:10] The myth that liking your now means you’ll get stuck[02:49] How to feel your future life now using small changes[04:00] Why today matters more than the dream[04:22] Journaling your ideal day to clarify what you really want[04:56] Identifying the feelings you expect to gain from your dream life[05:28] Finding small ways to experience those feelings now[06:19] Quality of life changes from small tweaks[07:10] How tiny changes improve daily experience[07:26] What you’re getting out of your current life that you might lose[07:57] Why we sometimes say we want things we actually don’t[08:20] Carolyn Elliott’s deepest fear inventory exercise[08:42] Using fear inventory to clarify what you truly want[09:00] Trusting the process and letting go of control[09:27] Cultivating faith in being supported and provided for[09:47] How trust turns into playful practiceResources Mentioned:Existential Kink by Carolyn Elliott | Book or AudiobookInstagram: @kellybroganmdWebsite: kellybroganmd.comJoin Kelly's monthly membership, Vital Life Project here.Get Kelly’s new book The Reclaimed Woman here and join the companion program, Reclaimed, here.👉🏻 Want to start a podcast like this one? Book your free podcast planning call here

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It hurts to have unmet needs. And it sucks to scurry after crumbs when you’re starving. Join Kelly Brogan MD, as she teaches us how our pain points are portals. She’ll help you discover a world where every seeming challenge is a new chapter in your most audacious story. Plot twists, body symptoms, and heartbreak each represent an opportunity to own ourselves and learn to better wield the power of choice. Kelly will take you on a reclamation journey from the battlefield of victim consciousness to the sovereignty of self-devoted pleasure and expose every surprising place you’ve given your power away. Explore the tools you’ll need to find out what you want, how to ask for it and how to stand in fierce alignment with yourself.Kelly Brogan is a soul alchemist and threshold guardian devoted to the transformation of collective consciousness. As a young know-it-all atheist, candy-addict, straight-A MIT neuroscience major and Ivy-league trained psychiatrist, she specialized in feeding women, herself included, straight into the mouth of the medicated beast. After a Hashimoto’s healing journey inspired her to sound the alarm on the bait-and-switch of big pharma, she became a renegade activist—authoring the New York Times bestseller, A Mind of Your Own, and its follow-up, Own Your Self; co-editing the landmark textbook, Integrative Therapies for Depression; and eventually becoming an honorary member of the Disinformation Dozen. She is the creatrix of Vital Mind Reset, the online health reclamation program, and the membership community Vital Life Project. She’s a human, cat, and chicken mom.