85: Audacious Asks: How to Escape the Confines of Your Mind

Ask Kelly your burning questions in our monthly Vital Life Project Membership.In this episode, you'll learn how to manage difficult emotions by orienting to the present, reframe victim-based thinking, improve self-awareness, and assess choices to find clarity in your responses to life's challenges.Timestamps:[01:45] Question 1: How to empower your self-narrative[03:33] Discharging negative energy in healthy ways[04:04] Allowing the negativity "buck" to stop with you[05:32] Handling intense emotions in the present moment[07:05] Finding effective actions in your own life[08:07] Focusing on self-allegiance in relationships[09:01] Growing your capacity to sit with discomfort[09:58] Finding beauty and empowerment in the present moment[11:02] Reframing intruding negative thoughts[11:55} Question 2: Practical tips for reframing complaints[13:00] Difference between complaining and asking for support[13:58] Learning to be tender with yourself and others[15:19] Knowing what you need and asking for it clearly[16:48] Question 3: Personal growth through inner caretaker work[18:04] Staying grounded despite pessimism about the future[19:07] Recognizing personal sovereignty over external events[20:11] Coping with existential and nihilistic thoughts[20:56] Accepting that you can handle any emotion[21:46] Assessing choices from a grounded perspective[22:40] Shifting from a victim to an empowered mindset[23:31] Importance of inner work and self-focus[24:29] Story of shattered innocence and growth[25:31] Embracing humility and present-moment perception[26:39] Tips on self-perception and accurate awarenessResources Mentioned:Exit The Cave by Howdie Mickoski | BookFind more from Kelly Brogan:Instagram: @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.This week’s episode was sponsored by Lotus Wei. Head to lotuswei.com and use the code Kelly15 to get 15% off your purchase.

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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.