A new podcast for the Pilgrim Soul in you filled with beautiful questions, meditations, and stories to guide us on the way. For more of Tara, visit www.tarasimkins.com
In this episode I walk you through these three things: 1. How to turn a "hard" decision into an "easy" decision? 2. How to make your decision the "right" decision for you? and 3. What's the REAL worst case scenario best case scenario for any decision? Join me inside. XOXO, Press On, + Shine On, T I made this special edition of the podcast to help walk you through how to make your decision to join the Soul Shine Lab ... but you can use it for any decision. To join go to tarasimkins.com
To watch this in video format, visit @SoulShineLabs on Instagram! | Thoughts on Good Stress and Bad Stress • Where are you on the continuum and how to reign it in.
From Tara's @SoulShineLabs IGTV | Our friends over @tsgaugusta asked me this question last week! It is soooo good. I wanted to share the question + my response with you, AND I would love to hear from you. Being an example of what is possible for our children and our clients is a great privilege + pleasure. Take a moment to think about how you are an example of what is possible for your children, grandchildren, other people’s children, as well as the people you serve. Let me know what you come up over on the @SoulShineLabs instagram so that we can celebrate you!!!✨
From Tara's @SoulShineLabs IGTV | Pt. 2 of 2 | Don’t delegate your power to feel great about who you are and where you are to anyone or anything else. XOXO
From Tara's @SoulShineLabs IGTV | Pt. 1 of 2 | Don’t delegate your power to feel great about who you are and where you are to anyone or anything else. XOXO
From Tara's @soulshinelabs IGTV | Tired of your old "Suck it up and do 1 more thing" strategy yet? • Listen to this Soul Shine Lab strategy that you can use today instead. Reclaim your mental, emotional, and spiritual energy for all of the things you love. We are on a mission to stop sucking it up and start living it up! XOXO, Press On + Shine ON, T
From Tara's @SoulShineLabs IGTV | Overwhelmed? Do this one thing.
Mini episode from Tara's @soulshinelabs IGTV.
In this episode, Tara walks you through her Morning Routine which is Step 1 in her signature Soul Shine Lab process for How to Co-create an Extraordinary, Ordinary Day. Disclaimer: You don’t have to clear your decks and escape to a tropical island to co-create an extraordinary day, but if that is on your day’s agenda, you will really enjoy this! Extraordinary days aren’t reserved for vacation. Rather, extraordinary days are our birthrights. No matter what season of life you find yourself in, this morning routine will tap into the light of your own soul. XOXO
Mini episode from Tara's IGTV @tararicesimkins
Mini episode from Tara's IGTV @tararicesimkins
Mini Episode from Tara's IGTV @tararicesimkins
Mini Episode from Tara's IGTV @tararicesimkins
Mini Episode from Tara's IGTV @tararicesimkins
Mini Episode from Tara's IGTV @tararicesimkins
Mini Episode from Tara's IGTV @tararicesimkins
Mini Episode from Tara's IGTV @tararicesimkins
Mini Episode from Tara's IGTV @tararicesimkins
Mini Episode from Tara's IGTV
Mini episode from Tara's IGTV.
Mini episode from Tara's IGTV.
Mini episode from Tara's IGTV.
Mini episode from Tara's IGTV.
Mini episode from Tara's IGTV.
Mini episode from Tara's IGTV.
Mini episode from Tara's IGTV.
Mini episode from Tara's IGTV.
Mini episode from Tara's IGTV.
In this podcast, I share: ~ the difference between "sprint" energy and "marathon" energy. ~ what drains our energy: resistance, arguing with reality, wishing things were different than they are. ~ what refreshes our energy: noticing when we wish things were different, listening to how we are feeling, placing our hand over our hearts and breathing, and allowing the feeling to just be and eventually vibrate out. ~ share with you the resources in Podcast Ep. 1-10 and the show notes for all of my podcasts where are available for you at https://www.tarasimkins.com/courses/podcast XOXO + Press on, Tara If you want to take this work to a deeper level with a committed group of Soul Workers and Thought Leaders, join us in Soul School. tarasimkins.com/courses/soul-school.
In this podcast, I share: ~ I share the power of developing the skill of walking into "unchartered territory" with confidence. ~ I explore the what "unchartered territory" really means. ~ I share the power of understanding the difference between the things we don't know we don't know, the things we know we don't know and the things we know. ~ I ask you to review your memory banks for all of the times you have navigated "unchartered territory," including the "unchartered territory" you looked forward to navigating. ~ I ask you to consider these times as similar and drawing upon your success in navigating previous uncertain times to develop the necessary confidence. ~ I share the value contained in these podcasts and how you will survive and thrive through these times if you sit down and seriously do the necessary inner work to develop the mental and emotional wellbeing that these podcasts show you how to develop. I remain honored and privileged that you have chosen me to be your guide during this time. XOXO + Press on, Tara If you want to take this work to a deeper level with a committed group of Soul Workers and Thought Leaders, join us in Soul School. tarasimkins.com/courses/soul-school.
I have filled this podcast with all of the beautiful questions, meditations and stories necessary for you to learn how to press on during life’s challenges AND reach for the possibilities. In this podcast, I share: ~ I share the power of developing the skill of belief to propel us toward a better and brighter future, a future that you want to create. ~ I explore the pros and cons of believing and not believing. ~ I ask you to create a belief plan for the next 30 days to get you where you want to be 5 years from now. If you want to take this work to a deeper level with a committed group of Soul Workers and Thought Leaders, join us in Soul School. tarasimkins.com/courses/soul-school. XOXO + Press on, T
In this episode, we explore TRUST as a tool for Pressing On in times of uncertainty. I share with you a personal account of how learning to trust day by day led me, and allowed me to lead my family, during the darkest days of pediatric cancer and how those lessons are particular relevant to current times. Within any time is an invitation to trust. These times are no different. From the Guides of Paul Selg in the Book of Mastery, "Trust yourselves and trust what comes. When you trust what comes, you go into agreement with a future that is trustworthy. When you trust what comes, you create an opportunity to go into a landscape without fear. When you trust what comes, you claim freedom because you are unafraid." From Proverbs 3:5 "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding." Excerpt From The Seat of the Soul by Gary Zukav “Trust is developed step by step. It requires openness to new thoughts, new ways of looking at things, and new ways of thinking.” Now for beautiful questions to lead you acrosse the bridge of trust into a future that you trust. Take a moment to sit down with these questions and answer them. 1 What do you trust in your life? 2. If you are unsure about what you can trust in your life, what would you imagine could be your first step in opening to trust? What new way of looking at things and new way of seeing things might you be open to trusting? 3. Remember a time that required great trust from you and how surrendering into that place of trust delivered you to a safe shore beyond the current horizon. If you can't remember a time before now, contemplate my story of trust or Viktor Frankel's story of trust. 4. What invisible helpers are available in your day that you find yourself trusting? Is there a surprising example of the right thing appearing at just the right time? Are you willing to open yourself to the possibility of some new surprising, invisible help reaching out to you in these times? May you be blessed. May you be well. XOXO + Press on, Tara
Continuing our soul giving conversation of this idea of this being the Most Sacred of Times and further living into the question of “Who do I want to be? How do I want to serve?” during this time, I want to share a transformational tool with you in response to one of the common refrains we are all singing and hearing: “These are some crazy times.” “I wish we had a choice in the matter.” “I want to do this, but they say I can’t.” I understand what it feels like when you feel your choices have been taken away. It stinks. Sitting in that place is discouraging and devastating, and we need to feel that; however, it is not a place we want to stay for two weeks or two months. Once the shock begins to wear off, we will move into a new stage. In this episode, I share with you the wisdom of another childhood cancer mother, a woman I never met, but whose wisdom impacted my life, and now impacts the lives of my clients and Soul School students … and even my children when they are interested:). Today, I get to share it with you, one of my Soul Schoolers’ favorite tools … The Get to Game. Literally, it is a recognition of all of the things we get to do today. It goes like this: Today, I get to …. Listen for more! Other resources in today’s podcast: ~ #soulgoodness: What are the things you “get to do” today? Use the #soulgoodness #getto and share. ~ are you consuming or creating? 80% create and 20% consume ~ Click here for pdf of SRC’s Cancer Prayer Card. While there, hit the Press On in the top left corner, go to home page, scroll down and subscribe to our newsletter on the bottom right section of Home Page, or click here. You have time to take these extra steps.
The role we decide to play during this time matters. Listen to this podcast and learn: ~ How seeing times of uncertainty as the most sacred of times shifts everything. ~ How hearing the invitation being extended to each of us amidst the fear and doubt and answering the call to be of service will define us and our society. ~ How being a thought leader + soul worker during times of extreme social distancing is where it’s at!! XOXO + Press on, Tara #SoulCentering #SocialDistancing #Wellness #WeGetTo #SocialStewardship #MoreLoveLessFear #Wisdom #PressOn
Listen into today’s podcast as I share my favorite questions designed to INSPIRE you to IMAGINE how ~ you might grow into a bigger version of yourself; ~ you might come back to this moment today and thank yourself for having taken that one step out onto your path which has resulted in both a better life for yourself and the world in which you have given your gifts; and ~ you might do this by making “a seemingly slight shift” in your thinking!
Committing to coach yourself on a daily basis will increase your wellness, your quality of life, your ability to handle life’s BIG and small problems, and to create a life of meaning. Checkout my website for the download mentioned: tarasimkins.com/podcast-ep18/
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” Viktor Frankel In this episode, we are going to learn about the framework that the self coaching model provides us for our growth and our freedom by creating the space for us to move from stressful thought patterns to empowering thought patterns. I share an awesome example from my own life last week. You won’t want to miss this! XOXO + Press On, Tara P.S. For complete shownotes and the unintentional/intentional thought download pdf, go to tarasimkins.com/blog/
Podcast Ep #16: Spring Cleaning Regret + Clearing out the Time and Energy to Believe New Things “The role that I play in my real life matters.” This is why it is the perfect time to clear out our regrets. The seeds that spark our imaginations are a focus of my work these days. Especially after finding myself unable to access my imaginative forces during a five month period at the age of 51. I promised myself that I would continue to nurture the faculty of my imagination and never tell myself again that I was too old, irrelevant, and had made all of the wrong decisions. Instead, I decided to leave all of those thoughts on the shore. They were not the boots that would get me across the water to my next horizon. The other thing that fascinates me about this idea of where we find inspiration and what happens when we follow it is that we become a part of the imaginative cycle. We see someone who has done something we haven’t done, we then allow ourselves to believe it is possible for ourselves, and we take the inspired action necessary to realize that imaginative goal. And then, we find ourselves in the role of serving as inspiration for another. ACIM puts it this way, when you free yourself from your own limitations, you open the door for a thousand other people to walk through it. For Nupita, first it is “an intellectual exercise to believe in the imaginary circumstances.” Because her friend from Kenya had attended Yale drama school, it was possible for Lupita’s “imagination to expand.” Someone that looked like her, sounded like her, who came from the same part of the world as her, had done it. This fascinates me. What strikes me this morning as I am listening to this gorgeous podcast interview is the deeper why of why reconciling and clearing our personal regret and resentments matter. It matters because our country is being presented with the same work right now and if we have not done this work in our personal lives, how can we open the door to do this in our societal lives. Who is going to do this work and be the example of what is possible if not you? This is the perfect Segway into the work we are going to do today … tapping to release regret. Regrets are the harms you feel you have done to yourself or others. These might be decisions you have made that you now look on as decisions that have set you back. These might also be the choices that you have made in your past that you now use against yourself as evidence for feeling undeserving of good things. As Dr. Joe Dispenza says, “If you are living by certain emotions that keep you connected to the past, then you can’t create a new future.” Check out his interview on the Goop Podcast, too. Or if you want to go deeper with Dr. Joe, I will include links in the show notes about his book “Breaking the Habit of Being You.” This book changed my life 3 years ago and explained the emotional fuel part of the equation for me in a way I had not heard it before by making the connection between our emotions and the hormones and chemical states they release in our bodies and how we become addicted to those cortisol and adrenaline states and what it takes to switch over to more sustainable energy of oxytocin. All of that is for another podcast. Back to releasing regret. Make yourself comfortable. Listen to the tapping exercise I walk you through. Until next time, XOXO + Press on, T P.S. If you want to walk through that door with me, April Soul School Classes begin on Tuesday. Register here. Check it out for 3 months. Featured: David White, Finnistere A Course in Miracles Lesson 57: Lesson 31 I am not a victim of the world I see; Lesson 32 I have invented the world I see; Lesson 33 There is another way of looking at the world; Lesson 34 I could see peace instead of this; Lesson 35 My mind is part of God’s. I am very holy. Goop Podcast: Gwyneth x Lupita Nyong’o on Giving Yourself Permission to Learn Good Podcast: How to Become Your Future Self with Joe Dispenza The Tapping Solution, Nick and Jessica Ortner Brad Yates, Tapping to Clear Regret The Life Coach School podcast, Ep #259 Abundance Assets: The Three Most Important Assets in Our Lives: Our Brains, Our Time, Our Money. Soul School, tarasimkins.com
This week on the podcast, we have a treat for you! I like to think of it as a little Spring cleaning for the mind and soul. I am going to walk you through a quick tapping meditation specifically designed to help you release a past resentment. What??? Yep. We dive straight into the work. No background or build-up. (Listen to last week’s podcast for the 411 on tapping and how it is one of my favorite tools to help us release old thought and emotional patterns so that we may move on to creating new possibilities in our lives.) When you are finished, you are going to feel a shift in your head, your heart, your body, and your soul. A shift that gives you a taste of freedom from your story about what has been done to you or what you may have done to someone else. A shift that will release the mental and emotional energy you currently have focused on keeping someone “on the hook,” even if that someone is you. You know what I am talking about ~ that imaginary hook that you think you need to hold out for someone. The one you need to teach them a lesson. Or yourself a lesson. I can hear you now. You have a question. Come on. It’s a great question, and one of my beautiful Pilgrim Soul students asked me about it just this week, Well, if I let go of my resentment, won’t I be letting him off the hook. Why, yes. Yes, you will, my dear friend. Come on. Don’t you have more important things to do with your time? Isn’t there something you want to use that time to learn? Isn’t there some person, including yourself, you could use that time to love? Well, what are you waiting for? You are welcome! XOXO + Press on, T ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Featured: ~ Jessica and Nick Ortner, The Tapping Solution. ~ Brad Yates ~ Hafiz poem: The small man Builds cages for everyone He Knows. While the sage, Who has to duck his head When the moon is low, Keeps dropping keys all night long For the Beautiful Rowdy Prisoners. Find out more about Soul School Classes at tarasimkins.com/workwithme/
When you find something that works, you want to give it to the world. What you’ll learn in this episode: ~ How to know what to fight for in your life ~ even if you are exhausted from and frustrated by the fight. (Hint: it’s the title of my podcast theme song.) ~ How to know what to let go of in your life. (Hint: it’s the story you have created about what makes your situation impossible.) ~ One of my favorite tools for cleaning out past resentments & regrets, experiencing relief, and imagining the possibilities. What I am offering to you today, is something that has worked for me and the hundreds of women I have coached over the last 5 years. I know it can work for you, too. If you “just want peace” in your life, and if you learn and apply this tool, you will absolutely create more peace in your life. But it will cost you something. It will cost you your insistence that somehow things should have been different, it will cost your holding onto the “principle of the matter,” it will cost you letting go of your resentment, and it will cost you saying good-bye to regret. So, if you are willing to let go of these, or even if you aren’t sure that you are willing, but you are curious to see what I have to say, to learn what is worth fighting for, I want you to take out a pen and paper, and invest the few minutes of your time it will take to learn this tool right now and to begin to apply it in your life. Until next time, thank you for your commitment and dedication to increasing your own mental, emotional, and spiritual health, and thank you for joining our group of Pilgrim Souls who are out in the world making it a place of greater peace, ease, and enjoyment. XOXO + Press on, Tara For full transcript: http://tarasimkins.com/podcast-ep14/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Featured: ~ Jessica and Nick Ortner, The Tapping Solution. ~ Brad Yates, tapwithbrad.com ~ Music by Turner Simkins and Joe Stevenson, Possibilities performed by Darius Rucker as a collaboration between GoPro for a Cause and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. www.pressonfund.org ~ Pilgrim Soul Classes: www.tarasimkins.com/workwithme/
In this episode, we’ll explore the importance of being fully present and in the moment as the antidote to our hectic and busy lives. I’ll teach you Karla McLaren’s 1st empathic skill in building your Empathic life raft. This is a refreshing way to relax and release the natural tension that builds up in our bodies over the course of a day. We have our free flowing emotional states of fear and sadness to thank for this ability. Join me for the intro on the benefits of this practice and return to this episode starting at minute 17 to access the guided meditation for developing this skill. For more information on working with me, go to tarasimkins.com. May you be blessed by the gift of you today. XOXO + Press On, Tara
Because diving into the river of our emotional intelligence is uncharted territory for many of us, we must first learn to build a life raft with 5 powerful Empathic Skills to help us navigate these waters successfully: Getting Grounded, Defining Our Boundaries, Burning Contracts, Conscious Complaining, and Rejuvenating Ourselves. Join us for part one as we learn these necessary Empathic Skills developed by Karla McLaren, my go to teacher in this area from her book The Language of Emotions, and then jump right into Ep 14 to experience the gifts and power these skills provide via guided practices that you will want to bookmark and listen to again and again.⚡️
This episode is the first in a series on the transformative power of cultivating our emotional intelligence. So much of what I learn and teach is centered around being PRESENT in our lives, and that means ALL of our lives, including our emotional lives, the messy and the pretty. Listen as I share my personal pivot from believing my emotions to be a source of weakness to discovering their strength as a source of energy and information. Walk with me through my latest real life parenting experience with three teenage boys, an innocent tease that went South, and how the application of emotional intelligence skills could have saved a high school golf match! Laugh with me in contrasting how my husband spent his day.
Lots of people depend upon us every day, but no one, I mean no one, is depending upon us more than the future version of ourselves. In this podcast, we will tap into the truth of this. Go to http://tarasimkins.com/podcast-ep10/ for show notes and to learn more about how YOU may join the Year of You revolution. Thank you for listening. You inspire me. XOXO + Press On, T
In this episode, I share with you the first step in our Year of You Workshop process: beginning with a deep sense of appreciation for the woman and man who got you here, so that we may understand that is the same person who will get you where you want to go 90 days or 1 year from now. She and he are also the same person who is waiting with open arms to meet you half way and celebrate your arrival in the future that awaits on the horizon of your imagination. Future Year Of You Dates and other information about participating in upcoming workshops are at tarasimkins.com
In this episode, I give you the background of *why* I do what I do, *how* it has transformed my life, and *why* + *how* I know incorporating these life skills will allow you to imagine and build a life centered on mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual health so that you may fully realize the gift of your life!! For more resources and show notes, I would love for you to visit tarasimkins.com.
This week, I want to introduce you to my 2018 Word of the Year: DELIGHT, and share with you the power of delighting in our friendships. We are going to talk about the revolutionary idea that lovability is about our ability to love others, instead of our ability to be loved. Yep. It's a game changer. And delighting in our friendships is the place we are going to start playing around with this idea. I do give you a little homework for the week: Pick a friend with whom you have an easy in your life. Brainstorm all the things you love about that friend c Write her and him a note sharing those things. Experience the power of delighting in that friendship through this exercise. Until next week, XOXO + Press On, T PS. Don't forget to check out the Year of You at https://tarasimkins.com if you want to make this year extraordinary.
This episode is for you if you feel depleted and sense you are on your way to burning out. This episode is for you if you are curious about letting go with ease.
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