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We sit down with Life Coach, Amy Says So by Amy Stone, to discuss how adults who are stepping into a stepparent relationship can prepare and find contentment in this new role. In this interview, Amy discusses:•    Unique challenges that blended families can face. •    How to prepare to enter into a stepparent relationship in a way that honors yourself, your spouse, and your stepchildren. •    The importance of open communication within a blended family when experiencing a shift in family dynamics. •    How to resist comparisons—marriage and parenting are not contests. •    How to lovingly detach from things that are outside of your control. •    …and much more!If you would like to speak with one of our attorneys, please call our office at (503) 227-0200, or visit our website at https://www.pacificcascadelegal.com.If you're interested in getting in touch with Amy, you can do so by visiting her website at https://www.amysaysso.com/Disclaimer: Nothing in this communication is intended to provide legal advice nor does it constitute a client-attorney relationship, therefore you should not interpret the contents as such.See less

Trusting God in all things is a life-long lesson. Start by taking God at his word in some small matter, trusting him with it, and you will find you can more quickly trust him the next time with the next matter.

Do you ever feel surprised by the decisions that Jesus makes? I do. As we look in the book of John this week, we see Jesus time and again listen to what God is asking him to do. It doesn't makes sense to everyone, but it doesn't have to. He places his full trust in God and follows Him.---If you enjoyed this free bible study sample from the Redemption Unveiled Community, I would like to invite you to join us. I will be opening up the community next week for anyone who would like to join us for these bible studies. Get your discount code HERE to get the best price!---Find Us:https://www.facebook.com/RedemptionUnveiledhttps://www.instagram.com/redemptionunveiled/http://www.tiktok.com/@redemptionunveiled

  Welcome to another exciting episode of our podcast, where we explore spirituality and personal growth with industry experts. In today's episode, we are thrilled to have an enlightening conversation with Brandon Handley and Joshua Bloom. They discuss the importance of embracing one's spiritual identity, integrating spirituality into everyday life, and understanding quantum energy healing. Joshua Bloom is a renowned expert in the field of spirituality and quantum healing. With his vast experience, he has helped countless individuals unlock their potential and achieve personal growth through spirituality. You can find Joshua online through his website at https://www.quantumenergycenter.tv/ and on social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. Join us for this insightful conversation and embark on a journey to deepen your spiritual growth and discover new ways to overcome life's challenges. Listen in and let us know your thoughts in the comments below! Summary Introduction of the episode. 0:00 What does quantum energy transformation mean? 0:43 Being the giver and the giver. 7:51 Finding a location for furniture. 12:37 Turning over a new leaf. 19:10 What is the power of choice? 24:06 How do you know what you need to change? 29:54 The bell curve of love energy. 34:16 What is the quantum energy scale? 38:43 What are we also afraid of? 43:16 Intro Guy 0:00 Your journey has been an interesting one up to hear you've questioned so much more than those around you. You've even questioned yourself as to how you could have grown into these thoughts. Am I crazy? When did I begin to think differently? Why do people in general appear so limited in their thought process? Rest assured, you are not alone. The world is slowly waking up to what you already know inside yet can't quite verbalize. Welcome to the spiritual dough podcast, the show that answers the questions you never even knew to ask, but knew the answers to questions about you this world the people in it? Most importantly, how do I proceed? Now moving forward? We don't even have all the answers, but we sure do love living in the question. Time for another head of spiritual day with your host Brandon Handley. Let's get right into today's episode. Brandon Handley 0:43 One Hey, there's spiritual dope I'm on here today with number one best selling author Joshua bloom, he's the author of the ultimate answer is inside. Creator of quantum energy transformation, mastery of the quantum shift and founder of quantum energy center LLC, as the internationally acclaimed trusted authority on quantum transformation number one best selling author and the executive producer of the ultimate answer is inside movie with upcoming companion book. And the creator of quantum energy transformation. Josas sold Joshua's sole purpose and passion is to empower and pass and Intuit is to unlock and own their authentic power and turn their potential into lasting paradigm shifts. Josh was so great to have you on as we were just talking before we got going here with this has been there's been in motion for a while. So so glad we can finally get together in person. Joshua Bloom 1:37 Yeah, thank you for having me. I'm excited. Absolutely. So Josh, Brandon Handley 1:41 I usually like to start these with the whole idea, right? That, look, you and I were like universal conduits for just like the energy, right? It's just flows through us. And the people listening to our conversation, right? They're gonna hear something that you and I aren't even finally even talking about, right? You and I will have our conversation, and somebody tuning in is going to hear something else entirely. There's gonna be a message that's coming through you being delivered by the universe right now to that person's tune. And what's that message person today, Josh? Joshua? Joshua Bloom 2:16 Well, that anything is possible that we have the ability to create change at the quantum level, to allow ourselves to, in a sense, upgrade or up level ourselves to a new possibility that maybe we haven't even discovered yet or thought about yet. And allowing ourselves to reach potentials that we never thought we'd be able to do during our lifetime. Brandon Handley 2:43 I love that. I love that. And I think that those people who go through certain shifts, they find that for themselves. And my guess is that you've you've kind of got you've got a process and how we get there, and how can people reach that in a systematic way? When you say Quantum? So what do you mean, because I think a lot of people hear quantum and they don't know what to do with it. Joshua Bloom 3:06 I totally agree with you. People use the word Quantum. And they actually use it in a way that doesn't actually mean what quantum means. I'm glad you asked the question, because a lot of people are putting the word quantum on to things because it either sounds cool, or it's gonna make the money. But the truth of the matter is that quantum means cellular. So that means when you're talking about quantum healing, or what I call quantum energy transformation, that means we are making a shift making a change at the cellular level of the body. And we're doing so at the smallest part of us, that has consciousness. And when you make that shift, when you make a change, at that level, it upgrades or up levels, your identity. So when I work with a client, for example, they might come in as one person and leave at the next level of who they get to be. Yeah, Brandon Handley 4:01 yeah, that sounds great. I would like that machine or that capability, right? Like, let's walk in. Let's walk in here. I'm gonna need a 2.0. As I walk out the door, the better improved version of myself, as we were talking a little bit to, you know, your best selling author, congratulations. I mean, it's it's no small feat to put a good book together. I think anybody can put a book together and just slam it out there. Right. It's another thing to get, you know, be well received and actually help people with it. You mentioned too, that you did some work with us, Bruce Lipton had endorsed your book is, is he a part of your story on how you got to where you are today? Give me a little insight there. Joshua Bloom 4:46 Well, he's definitely part of my story in the sense that I was having a lot of anxiety, so much so that most people would have been on medication for like years. I was having so much anxiety that I would, it would be fearful for me to even like walk outside and walk around my house outside. At times, it was like, you know, 21 years ago. And when I was in this place, it was it was really difficult to determine how was I going to get out of this place? Is this going to be the way that I was gonna live my life for the rest of my life? Or was this going to be something that I could shift and change should actually never believe that I was going to be able to change this, I thought, actually, this was it, this was the way that I was going to be. And I was gonna either have to deal with it, or try to get help. So I worked on learning, that was my main mode for moving myself forward, I learned so much, I learned about 20 different healing modalities, most of which I became certified in. And still I couldn't shift my issues. And it was very, very difficult, until I started to work at a Hypnosis Center. And I Well, the reason I went to the Hypnosis Center in the first place was for them to help me but I had learned so much that I had surpassed what they were doing in the hypnosis session with me that I realized they were not going to be able to help me at all. But I thought, well, maybe I can help them. So I started to work for the Hypnosis Center. And I started to do sessions. And I was getting these really amazing changes in people that I was seeing right before my eyes. So somebody would come in with anxiety, and all of a sudden, their anxiety would be gone. I'd go home with mine, but they would leave without theirs. And I'm like, wow, I must know something because I mean, something is happening. And I would see people that would come in with things like fibromyalgia, migraine, headaches, pain, all sorts of things like this. And they would be leaving without their issues. And of course, it was really difficult for me, because I was going home with my issues every night, saying, I must, this must be a disconnect here. I'm obviously getting it for other people, but I'm not getting it for me. So after a while, I started to realize I could use the same understanding the same quantum understanding that that I learned from Bruce Lipton, because that's one of the that's one of the learnings I got was with Bruce Lipton taught me so many powerful things that led me to understand how to make those changes with those people. And I understood the science behind it all, I never would have been able to create a quantum energy transformation or create the changes that I've helped people do so profoundly. Yeah, I think the biggest one was me. I mean, I was my most definitely my most difficult client. Brandon Handley 7:51 So it's interesting, right? I always make this line about the being the giver and the gifts, the gift and the giver type of thing. And so you were able to give this gift to everybody else, but you weren't able to give it to yourself or like I'm just thinking like, again, we talked about being conduits of energy for like everybody else, you were able to receive it and deliver it for others. But you didn't have an awareness of how do I apply this to myself? Yeah, Joshua Bloom 8:22 well, I was able to help them shift the energy at the cellular level of the body to create that change. And I taught them exactly how to do it. And they were able to do it. But when I did it for myself, I was too disconnected. So So here's the thing, Dr. Bruce Lipton says that if you are in growth, you can transform and heal. And if you're in, if you're in protection, you can't. Brandon Handley 8:50 So the anxiety was asking as a barrier, the anxiety, Joshua Bloom 8:53 he put me in protection, like 24/7. Even now, when I work with other people, I was able to help them get into growth, not the problem. But getting myself into growth, I needed another Joshua to Brandon Handley 9:09 kind of like tickling yourself, right? Like you can't, it's really hard to tickle yourself. There's no Joshua, like, I got you. Joshua Bloom 9:16 But I finally did, I finally learned how to get into my body, how to connect with myself, how to move that energy at the cellular level of the body for myself, which was much harder than helping other people by the way. I did it. And I released all of those things. But I definitely say that Bruce Lipton helped me understand the science behind the cellular transformation. So that it let me create such amazing shifts for people. Brandon Handley 9:46 Not as powerful and I think that I think that's really important. There's always the it's almost always easier to help others with their problems and what they're going through and because you're Though you're, you're not attached to their shit, right? You don't have their emotional, you don't have their baggage, right? So you can be like, Look, I actually see you as you actually are. And here's the reflection of who you actually are like, Oh, well, thank you so much. I can go now I'm good, I think right? And but looking at yourself in a mirror, you see the same thing like all the time you never really see the truth of who you are. Joshua Bloom 10:24 Yeah, when we get in our own way, really easy. Brandon Handley 10:27 Yeah. So you, you're just anxious character. You finally figure out like how to heal yourself. And you're taking the show on the road? Right? Where's where's the I guess transition where you said, Alright. I can roll out of this Hypnosis Center. We've helped each other out well enough from here. I'm good to strike out on my own. Tell a little bit about that story. Yeah, Joshua Bloom 10:55 well, I was working for hypnosis. And I was making lots of money. I was helping people tremendously. I was still holding on to a lot of my issues. I had made it a little bit better, but not really at that time. And so that I that I had this argument with the lady that owned the center. I mean, never had an argument before. But she got into this energy that I didn't like, and I didn't think she was being fair. And I look at it now as the universe was saying, Joshua, you need to get out of this place needed to open up your own center. Sure. So but I didn't see it. At that exact moment. I thought, you know, this lady is just being unfair to me what's going on? And then, when I decided to leave, which was after that argument, I didn't have anywhere to go, I went home. Brandon Handley 11:49 It was gonna take my thing and leave now. Joshua Bloom 11:52 Yeah, exactly. So I took my stuff with me. And I had a lot of stuff there. And I took my, you know, modality they created with me to take everything with me. And I went home. And I looked for a place in which I could rent to see if I could rent some space. But I had no luck with that I couldn't I couldn't find a place in which I could rent that I could afford. I mean, I didn't have a whole lot of money. Because I was living on the money that I was that I was I was getting. And I was living in an expensive area. So it was costing a bit of much money at the time. So what ended up happening was one of my clients called me, and I see wanted to see me and I said, Well, I can't see you there because I just left. So I don't know what we're going to do. I don't really have a location to see the one. And I said, I've been looking for one for the last couple of days, and I couldn't find a location at all for anything. They're all too expensive. She says, I'll call you back in 20 minutes and hung up the phone. And I'm like, What is she talking about? So she called me back in 20 minutes. And she says, I want you to meet me at this address. And I'm like, what, why? And she says just made me there. I said, Okay, so I get in my car. And you know, now I'm anxious. Because my client for I don't know why. Brandon Handley 13:14 She picked out right, yeah. And we Joshua Bloom 13:17 get out of the car at at this location. And she says they have they have three rooms for rent for a price you can afford. And I'm like, really? So I went in and I spoke to the owner, and of the building. And he said, Yeah, we have three rooms for rent and a waiting room. They had like an office. And then they had a room where I could do classes. This is like crazy. Because I've called everybody searched everywhere did everything. And all of a sudden, here it was Brandon Handley 13:45 what you know, I mean, I know that you'd mentioned to, you know, studying a lot of things that turned out to be BS, right? What I found in this space, law of attraction, energy work, whatever. All this effort that we put out tends to get in our way. It's like, hey, universe, I don't trust you, even though you've done the rest out there to handle my shit here. So I'm just gonna go ahead and do it without you because you're not helping me. And then as soon as like, we're doing it. We're frantic, right? We don't know what I can't find a place. What am I gonna do? I can't afford where I'm at, right? This is you right? You're in a scenario. You're like, you know what universe? I fucking I give up right? Like, what I'm not gonna deal with it right now. Client now we can't get together. It couldn't possibly happen. Right? Couldn't couldn't possibly, and she's like, it's happening. And the University says, Why don't you trust me? Joshua Bloom 14:45 Yeah, and the universe provides so I took that I took that place and I didn't know who was gonna pay the next month but I figured I was just going to be able to just do this thing. I put the deposit down and I paid for it. And then I needed furniture. So I didn't have any purchase, I thought I could rent furniture that that was like, oh, yeah, I just rent it no big deal. So, I don't know if you've ever rented furniture, but it's really, really expensive. And you think, Oh, it was gonna be like $10 a month, isn't it like hundreds and hundreds of dollars a month. And so I got really stuck. And I went to a meeting to help somebody else that was going to actually meet with a weight loss clinic, who asked me to come and give them advice about their clinic and what I could help them with their with their business. So I went over there, and I walked in, and all of a sudden, I got this intuition that I should ask them if they have any furniture, which I thought was really a weird question to ask somebody, because Hi, do you have any Berger, you know? Sure. I did. And she said, I can help you with that. And then I'm looking to see behind me to see that she's talking to somebody, like, like, that was a real answer. And she said, Yeah, I can help you with that. So I came with a van to her house, and had all the furniture I needed for my, from my from, from my office. And so I got, you know, a bunch of friends. And we, we loaded up the truck. And I said, Well, what do I owe you? She says nothing. Like, if I unlocked my legs, you know, sure, Brandon Handley 16:16 ya know, Joshua Bloom 16:17 you've you came to help me that day. And then I've helped you. So Brandon Handley 16:22 I love it. And I would have an interpretation of it. But I'd love to hear kind of like, you know, as you've looked back, what, what are you feeling? What is what's the universe telling you at this point? Oh, well, everything Joshua Bloom 16:32 was falling into alignment. So it was, it was, you know, the universe had me have this argument with this woman, and who owned the Hypnosis Center. And I left for that reason. And then, you know, I mean, I don't have anything negative against this woman that at the center, we never had an argument before that, that moment, but it got me it got me to take action. So I knew it was, you know, a spirit in the universe, saying, This is what you need to do. And then everything fell into place. I got all the furniture I needed. I got the clients just came, everything just started to happen automatically. For me. I didn't have to work very hard. When we are in alignment. That's how it looks. Brandon Handley 17:13 Yeah, it is, right. I mean, I got, you know, little little tingles and goosebumps because it's so true. And it's so it's so hard to impart that was somebody that's not even looking down that alley. Right? So somebody's not looking down that alley at all, Joshua, like, what do you start? Where do you start to direct them? Joshua Bloom 17:36 Well, I direct them inward, we tend to look outside of ourselves to find our answers. And of course, my book is called the ultimate answer is inside. Instead of instead of us looking inside, we tend to look at, you know, reach searching for someone for help, or we tend to look outside of us for an answer. And truthfully, the answers are all inside of us. So when we point the arrow back at ourselves, and we say, Okay, I'm gonna now look and see what's inside here, and connect with ourselves, we start to have situations where we become in alignment like I did, where everything just start to happen, and all this goodness start to happen without a lot of effort on my part, I'm gonna walk in, again, intuition here. Do you have furniture kind of questions? Sure this happens automatically. These are the kinds of things that happen when we're in alignment. So how do you get into alignment? Well, first, you got to be connected to yourself when you're disconnected from yourself. We have all sorts of issues. First of all, anxiety like I had, some people may have depression, some people have both. Some people might have the experience of being scattered or, or not really knowing what's going on in their life. And they feel disconnected. No add today is an epidemic that is really not necessary, because we've all been taught to be out of body. So if you are out of body or in your head, you are running at fast energy. Anybody would be scattered for and from that position of energy. Sure. So it's interesting because I grew up all of my life thinking that I had Add Error. The actually, I'm a little bit older than that. So they didn't have add as a as a as a diagnosis when I was growing up in third grade. When I was diagnosed. When I was diagnosed, they they came they came at me and said you have a neurological impairment. Yeah. What's that today? That's called ADD? Sure. So that was pretty, pretty crazy to realize. I have this thing called add. And so I looked at add as a problem. And also, I had what they call dyslexia, so Difficulty and reading, which I have neither those things today. But when I had them in third grade, and fourth grade and fifth grade, until I got into high school, I was, you know, the broken kid, I was the kid who sure couldn't do anything. I was the kid who was having all this trouble until my. So what was my junior year, which became my senior year, I decided that I wasn't going to live that way anymore. And I call that turning over a new leaf. It took me several times of turning that leaf before the prep really turned, but in my in my junior year, and I became very, very organized. And I became so organized that I helped other students become organized also. And if there was a valedictorian kind of thing in my school, which there wasn't, I would have been that because they did ask me to speak at my graduation. And I went to two graduations, I went to the one my junior here, which was was, you know, I wasn't a senior yet, but I was going to college at that point. And then in my senior year, which I would put I didn't spend at school, I went to I was in college, they had they come back and speak again, also there. So that was that was a really amazing experience to realize that I could shift it all. Knowing that I don't have to live what people tell me who I am, I could decide who I choose to be. Brandon Handley 21:27 That Listen, that's a powerful story. And I think to discover that at such a young age. Yeah, yeah, that's a that's a that's a multiplayer, right there. You know, I don't think listen for myself, I don't think I started, you know, going back and looking at my stories, and started to retell them to myself in a way that was actually supportive of who I am. Right. And my life 40. Right. So what could I have done with that other 20 years? Look, I had fun during that 20 years, I'm not gonna lie. Like, what would it have been like, if I actually supported myself internally, right, with a marvelous internal scaffolding to bring to the world? Joshua Bloom 22:11 Yeah, that's the really, when I was 25, around that, that age, I learned that I didn't have to have these disabilities, the Add, and the dyslexia. I remember I was in a class, because remember, I took all these classes and stuff. I was in a class, and one of the students questioned me having a disability at all. And I was I was like, you know, so trying to prove it? No, no, you don't understand, you know, I had all this trouble. And I'm Brandon Handley 22:49 arguing for your limitations, right? Yeah. Joshua Bloom 22:51 I'm fighting for this, you know, it's really fighting for it. And as I was fighting for it, she was looking at me and says, You thing, but what have you been able to do, that other people can't do. And so I started to list them. I learned how to ski in two weeks and became an instructor, I taught myself how to play the keyboard, and I created albums for kids and, and adults and played my own music and, and produce my own music and did all this without any training at all. And then there are several other things that I've done, including creating quantum energy transformation and, and other things like this. And so she's she opened up the door there for me to look at myself, and to say, well, that doesn't sound like a learning disability. Sounds like more of an ability. And it just depends on how you choose to look at it. And she changed my life. And I realized in that moment, that I was going to do the same thing for other people that I was going to help them change their life. And using quantum energy transformation, I was able to shift all of this, I no longer experience migraine headaches, which I used to have, I don't have anxiety like I did before, I don't have the Deficit Disorder, or the or the dyslexia. So all of that's gone. And the power of that is we do get to choose who we who we get today. Brandon Handley 24:15 So let's talk about the power of choice, right? Like a lot of people think that that's like a dinner thing, right? Like, Oh, I get steak and potatoes, you get chicken, that's the choice I make in life. That's, you know, I choose to do this thing in life. Like, you know, recognizing a conscious choice, right? Let's talk just to talk a little bit about the power of choice and somebody's life and, and what you mean by that. Joshua Bloom 24:40 So when we think about choice, it's what we choose to do. However, the way that I like to look at choices at the identity level, who do I choose to be? So it's a little bit different. So I can choose choices like you were saying like a menu, or I can choose was to become someone greater than I am today. And how that looks, you know, when we look at you look at quantum quantum as the science of possibility. So when we look at the possibility of who I choose to be, can can look many different ways. You know, even in my experience of helping people today, I evolve all the time I evolve every day, from day to day, I am no longer the identity I was the day before I shift consciously and unconsciously, to become more and more of who, who I am. And I'm very authentic with my, with my students and with my clients, and I share, you know, all my stories where I fell on my face several times, and, and also how I overcame falling on my face several times as well, you know, the power of choice is really about who you choose to become. And when we take that into the quantum field, it really becomes amplified. So we tend to look at who we don't like that we are. Sure, we tend to look at that. And then whatever you focus on is what you get. So if you keep looking at yourself, and you keep looking and seeing that you don't like what you see or don't like what you feel or don't like what's going on in your life, and you feel stuck? Well, that's because our focus is hyper focused on being stuck. So in the quantum field, what we do is we get into the body, and we feel that stuck, we release that stuck, and then we focus, and we focus on a new possibility. Who else could I be instead of this anxious person that I used to be with attention deficit disorder, with anxiety and so forth? Right? Sure. Brandon Handley 26:51 Yeah. Let's, I think people might get tripped up on, you know, being greater than I am today. Right, the word greater seems to trigger people for greatness, right? What do you know who, you know, who might be great, right? Joshua Bloom 27:07 Huh? Yeah, I can do that be triggering. Brandon Handley 27:11 So, you know, what do you mean by like, you know, be greater than I am today. And I, you know, I think I was stressed too, like, when we think of the quantum field, anything is possible. And that's actually been shown, you know, scientifically, right, you know, you the possibilities, all the possibilities exist at once. Yeah, which one? Do you choose? To call forth? Kind of thing? Yeah, exactly. Right. You know, what are some of like, again, like, what is a first day student gonna learn from you? Joshua Bloom 27:50 A first day student is going to learn how to reconnect with themselves, how to get into their body, and how to stay there. Because we have habits of whoever we are at that moment. So most of us are in our head. And we're thinking, we're overthinking we're hyper focusing on the wrong things all the time. And then we get stuck in those patterns. And then someone comes along and says, Hey, you know, you shouldn't do that. And it's like, yeah, but I've been doing it for like, for so many years. And how do you stop doing that? Brandon Handley 28:23 I'm really good at this. Joshua Bloom 28:26 Exactly. So how we stop our habits, and the things that plague us, is by reconnecting with ourselves, and moving the energy at the cellular level of the body to create a quantum shift, that now no longer includes that as being me. And now I can choose something else. But we have to connect to ourselves to do that. We tend to connect to, to, like, the universe, but we tend to be like out of body looking outside of us to find the answers. The answers aren't outside of us, even though we're that's where we're looking. We have to look inside. So when you ask me, you know, what is the person going to learn, like in a first session, they're going to really learn that anything is possible, because we're going to have a release in that very first time that we meet, and you're going to experience because until you experience it is different than talking about it right. Once you experience it, you're like, oh, that's what he's talking about, that I could actually let that crap go. And I don't have to live like this anymore. Yeah, you can let it go. And yes, it is. It can be difficult for some people to do that. But when I work with you, is it there's a difference because I hold that energy, I hold that possibility for you when you can't hold it. And that's the difference. So when I'm holding all that for you, it's easy at that point to remove these energies and create a new way of living a new way of life a new way of being. Brandon Handley 29:54 Yeah, no, that's That's powerful. Definitely appreciate that. And again, you You know, you hit the nail on the head when somebody experiences it when you experience actually saw this guy for a little bit, its energy worker, and he had the best question and he says, you know, how do you know that? Um, if you're, you know, if you're a fish, how do you know that like water is what you need? All right? Have you heard this one before? No, I have not. You take them out of the water. Right? You know, because you're in it all the time. And it's not until you're separated from what you're, you've always been a part of that you, you know, you recognize that this is where you're supposed to be. Right? So you get back into the water, you're like, oh, shit, that's what I needed my entire all this time. So real similar to what you're talking about in that? Okay? Okay, we go back to that. This is how I've always been, these are my these are all my patterns, this is my life pattern is never going to change. I'm going to be anxious and all the rest for the rest of my life. You could never possibly help me. Right? You help them? And then they see just for a moment that they've been living out of the water. Right? Yeah, I should have been, I'm supposed to go back in the water. That's a reconnection to yourself feel like? Right. I'm where I'm supposed to be. And it was always available. Right? So how does it you know, how does that I think I'd even jump back a little bit to, you know, it's really tough, I think for you have to be open to the possibility in order for the shift to happen, or am I wrong? Right? Have you met somebody who's like, not open to it, and it works. Joshua Bloom 31:43 So I think there's a distinction that's really important here, which is, most people believe that you must believe in order for it to work. And I don't buy into that, that game, you do not need to believe that it will work for it to work. Actually, most people who I work with, including myself, never really believed in the first place, that it was gonna work. We hope we're hopeful. We just want it to work. But do we believe it's gonna work? No, we really don't, we don't believe anything's gonna work, really. And so you don't need to believe what's really key, though, is to be open to the possibility that this could work. You don't have to believe that it will work, but just be open to the possibility. So those people that are not open, and there are those people that are not open? Yeah, they're going to have a more difficult time, because they're not even open to considering the possibility. So then, in a sense, they're collapsing their possibilities before we even get started. So some people need some hand holding beforehand, they need need to work with them, just to get them ready. Whenever we're not even talking about making the change yet, we're talking about, let's just prepare to make the change shirt, you can just consider the possibility of being open to it. And many people who take that road with me, we we really have an amazing transformation, because they started out closed, and they end up open and moving in a direction that they never even thought they could do it themselves. Brandon Handley 33:10 Yeah. Yeah. I mean, going from I think, again, just using your own story, being this guy, you know, tied up with anxiety to where you are today. Right? I mean, I think that too, a lot of times people just they again, they look at where they're at, and they feel like that's forever. Right? Yes, true. One thing that I think is a challenge in this space is maintaining that high frequency that high vibrations, that continuous connection, you know, how do you assist people to do that? Joshua Bloom 33:45 Oh, that is a really great question. So I've been working with people for many years on how to raise your energy frequency, and that we have many different ways of doing this. You know, raising your energy frequency can be as simple as taking a shower, going for a walk barefoot, can be using tuning forks, singing bowls, toning things, things can do it. The biggest problem with this, though, is that it works like a bell curve does. So it starts at the bottom you, you let's say we use singing bowls, and the singing bowls bring you to a point where you hit a peak and now you're at the top and it's like, well, I feel really great. And then you start playing the singing bowl. Well, then that doesn't really work very well, because then it starts to go down and down and down and down and down. And then now your energy frequency has plummeted. It a really great example for that as Yoga people go into yoga for an hour and a half, and they really enjoy it and they're feeling really good. And then they stopped doing yoga and of course, same thing happens. It goes up in the peaks and then all of a sudden, you know, half an hour an hour later. You're like I wish I could do yoga again. Well, I don't have the patience for that to be honest with you. You know I and I've done yoga plenty of times, I, you know, whenever, whatever I need to do, I did. And so, you know, doing something like yoga is really great. But if you're just gonna go up and come right back down, that's not really useful. And it takes too long if I got to do 45 minutes to an hour and a half of that, just to be able to feel okay, which one time in my life, that was how it was, it's kind of it gets a rough game, because you're, you're feeling better only during the time, you're really in the yoga. And then after you get out all the anxiety comes back in. So that was a real rough game. For me. Today, what we do is we, we have very fast and very powerful energy transformations that we create by by releasing in the moment, and by raising our energy frequency. And so when we do that, we actually can raise our energy frequency to very, very high level that that instead of it going down, like I was saying the bell curve, you actually keep a good percentage of that. And now that becomes more your new energy level that you've that you've raised up to. And now we have something even even more amazing is that I've created a pendant that I use. Now, that helps us get there. And it helps us stay there and maintain high frequencies of well over 1000 hertz, which is, which is amazing to be able to get get up there. So when you're using, you know, love is like 500 hertz. So 1000 hertz is well beyond the love energy. And we in my classes, we're going up to 10,000, and energy frequency and higher. It's amazing what we can do. And we have tools that actually work to do that. And then today's class that I was in, I was just in the class before coming on to this interview. And in today's class, we were like really going, we weren't even trying to raise our energy frequency. But all of us together in the group were just raising and raising and raising and raising and we're like sitting in this energy thing. Wow, isn't this cool? That's great to be able to connect at this level. Brandon Handley 37:05 Joshua, you've made an energy battery. I mean, what is it? Right? I mean, it's basically right, you're like, Hey, we gotta recharge this thing. So we can just take it on the road with us? You know, I think that that's just been a little tongue in cheek, but it sounds right. Like you've created something that can store the energy frequency that you create, that you can take with you right and have exactly that. How is the frequency being measured? Like you know, it, I think it's one thing to talk about, and there's people that are gonna be like, Well, that sounds like some hippie shit, Joshua, I'm going to need to see like, at least a thermometer for some death. Right? Joshua Bloom 37:48 Yeah. So we do test for the energy frequency in the class, we use energy testing to be able to see what level we've actually reached in and using our intuition. That's our, that's how I do it. Other people may use other tools and stuff. But I find that intuition brought me to where I am today. And intuition can also calibrate and be able to tell you exactly where you are. So I can tell when a student gets to a certain level of energy frequency, and whether they maintain it or not, I can tell them exactly where they are at any point in time. That's, I guess, a gift that I have. So the power of that is that I can when I work with people, I can let them know where they are, and where they need to get to. And I can help them with the pendant and, you know, also using the pendant in certain ways to create permanent energy frequency so that you're not living at multiple limit, like to 250 energy frequency. Brandon Handley 38:43 Are you referring to like the Hawkins scale? Joshua Bloom 38:46 Yeah, I don't use that scale, particularly. Yeah, no, I'm just I'm just trying to know the scale you're talking about. It only goes up to 1000. But yeah, which is telling me that energy frequencies can go up to 55,000 and higher. And I don't understand the difference in the scale, but according to my intuition, that's there. It's much greater than 1000. Brandon Handley 39:08 Yeah, I forget. I'm not really math dropped out. Right. Quite literally. You said it's like a logarithmic scale, which I think is actually in tune with what's you're saying? Right? So if you were to say, all right, 1000 is actually your or 55,000? I think, and again, I don't I don't math very well, so I'm okay with that. But, um, when you say that most people are living at like 250 and 200. Yes. I would agree with you based off of his scale. Right, exactly. So that's awesome. Joshua Bloom 39:41 To be honest, I mean, I live there to for many, many, many, many, many years. And so that my students, but that's the fear. That's the fear that's right down there. It doesn't, but the moment and 200 200 Brandon Handley 39:52 is the tipping point, right? 200 And again, using his scale, just as a topic of conversation is Like 200 is where courage is. And once you start to take courage and step into your greatness, you start to realize you're not alone. You're working with the quantum field, you're working in the space. It's like, all powerful, always available, never off. Right? What's what is possible? Right? So speaking of what's possible, like, where should we where would somebody direct? You know, where would we direct somebody who wants to get to know more about who would read a book, go to your site? What's the first thing? Somebody listen to this podcast? What's their next step? Well, the Joshua Bloom 40:34 best thing to do is to go to Bing, quantum.com Bing, quantum.com. And when you go there, you'll be able to discover more about what I do, and, and so forth. But I also have a free gift to give you. And I believe that's at iqet.com forward slash Brandon, Brandon Handley 40:57 nice. People have gifts, man, people Yeah, like stuff. Yeah. What are they gonna find there? Is it a surprise? Or can we give a little little information on what they might find there? Joshua Bloom 41:07 Yeah, so it's on manifestation. And it's actually includes Dr. Bruce Lipton talks on it, I speak on it, Donna Eaton does and other other well known people do as well. And we're all talking about health, and manifestation together and how you can manifest your best health through all of what we're saying, and all of what we're offering. And we're all saying the same thing. But we come from different experiences of, of the quantum right. So everybody has a different perspective. And everybody gets to the right. So it's amazing what you can what you learn from, from moving forward. When we think about the idea of manifestation, we tend to think about doing things, this is a different than that. This is allowing it to fall in your lap, like I was talking about before, where you're in alignment, and everything's just happening, manifestation can be that way for you, too. And so when you get this gift, it will really help you understand them. That's Brandon Handley 42:05 awesome. Because like, like you, you'd mentioned on on a couple of your pages that there's a lot of stuff out there. That's BS, right? It's a lot of stuff out there that causes more struggle. And what you're offering helps to remove that struggle and shows you how you can be in alignment with this quantum field, and work with less effort. Joshua Bloom 42:28 Absolutely, everything I do is simple. And I think that's really important. You know, I've been in places where I didn't have any energy to do anything more than I could just just to get through the day. And so I needed to create something that was very simple that anybody can do. Even if you're exhausted and have exhausted all of your energy, you still can do what I when I teach, it's very easy and very, very powerful. Brandon Handley 42:51 I love that. Joshua, I do a little thing here, right? Where I look at this as kind of like, spiritual speed dating, right? So I'm gonna ask a couple questions that come from like, I need new questions. These are like the 20 questions for every spiritual seeker. I'm just gonna pick a couple out of here. Didn't any better questions are still refer to the list? So you good for that? Sure. All right. All right. Dears, spiritual. Bachelor number one, what are we also afraid of? Joshua Bloom 43:30 Well, I think we're afraid of ourselves. And we're afraid of being so powerful. I think that in and I'm sure that was for me as well. You know, we want to be amazing. But we've been squished down like a bug by so many people from such a small child, all the way until we as whoever however we are, however old we are today. And we try to you know, come out of that. But we have so many rules and so many things that say we can't be great. We can't be awesome. We can't be amazing. We're not allowed to do those things. And so I say, although that we're being we're scared to jump out and be amazing that I dare you to do it anyway. Brandon Handley 44:15 Sure. That's great. You're You're right, right. What would happen if I were amazing? Joshua Bloom 44:20 Yeah, what would happen I wonder what would happen Brandon Handley 44:24 to to do? Do your spiritual Bachelor Number one, what is your one wish for the world? Joshua Bloom 44:33 Oh, wow. I wish that everybody would love each other. You know, there's so much hate and there's so much politics and upset and all sorts of things that really make us crazy. I mean, TV is, you know, we watch the news. I don't even watch the news. It's just so so negatively energetic in a sense. So you know, I just would love everybody Love each other, we all are one, we are all we all are together, we're all in this boat together, so to speak, regardless of where we live or who we are. And we should just love each other. Perfect now, thank Brandon Handley 45:11 you for that. What, um, anything that we didn't hit on today that you wanted to share with the group? Joshua Bloom 45:16 Well, we hit on it before, which was, anything is possible. And I know that you don't, or may not believe that anything is possible. If you're listening to this, you know, I didn't necessarily believe that either. So instead of believing it, allow yourself to consider the possibility that anything could be possible. And if it was possible, who would you be, then? What would you create? Where would you go? What would you do? What would be possible for you, if you just considered the possibility that anything was possible? Brandon Handley 45:48 Outside of Bruce Lipton, who would you say? Were some of the biggest influences on the work that you do? Joshua Bloom 45:57 Oh, wow. Donna Eaton, I think was a huge influence for me. Because he taught me that energy moves in different ways, and that you can direct it in certain ways, doing certain things. So that brought me to many understandings of how can that work in a quantum field? You know, if I were to take that understanding that I can move energy, you know, she stuck it, she looks at it, from, you know, sort of that will recall that, I guess, that's that, that I guess Chinese medicine kind of point of view. And, and not only that, but generally that, generally speaking, that area, and I was taking that and sticking that into a Quantum Experience a quantum box? And in that box, what would be different? How could we do it? So it's very interesting. You know, it helped me develop a lot of quantum energy transformation differently. Because it let me see things from a different point of view that she was sharing. I thought that was really cool. Brandon Handley 47:03 Awesome. Now, thanks for sharing that. So it's always interesting to hear, you know, who helped you to get to where you are today. Right. And I think we've all got, you mentioned, you know, most of us are saying similar things. Everybody gets to be right. It just reminded me of like, you know, I don't think it's funny to even think about a radio station anymore. But like the FM dial, right, like you could, you could pick anything along that and like that, that could be your station, right? So I want to say thanks for being on here today had a blast. I'm sure we probably could have gone on and on and on. But we only get so much time to do this. So thanks again for being on. One more time with the website. Joshua Bloom 47:44 Yes, being quantum.com Brandon Handley 47:47 Joshua, thank you. Thank you so much. I Intro Guy 47:49 really hope you enjoyed this episode of the spiritual dough podcast. Stay connected with us directly through spiritual dove.co. You can also join the discussion on Facebook, spiritual dough, and Instagram and spiritual underscore Joe. If you would like to speak with us, send us an email Brandon at spiritual dove.co And as always, thank you for cultivating your mindset and creating a better reality. This includes the most thought provoking part of your day. Don't forget to like and subscribe to stay fully up to date. Until next time, be kind to your zone and trust your intuition. Transcribed by https://otter.ai

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The obligation of Kibbud Ab Va'em (respecting parents) applies even if fulfilling one's parents' needs entails a great deal of difficulty. "Sa'ar" – distress – exempts one from the obligation to reside in a Sukka on Sukkot, but not from the obligation to respect one's parents. Therefore, if, for example, one has aged parents who require constant care, and caring for them entails immense effort and hardship, one is nevertheless obligated to provide the care they need, even if this includes difficult and time-consuming jobs. However, one is allowed to find somebody else to perform these tasks on his behalf in order to alleviate the burden of caring for the parents.One is not required to provide care for his parents if this would cause him to become ill. Although one must endure hardship for the sake of respecting his parents, the Misva to respect parents does not require performing tasks that would be detrimental to one's health. If such a task is needed, one should try to find somebody else to perform the given the task.All this applies to caring for the parents' needs – such as feeding them, bathing them, dressing them, and other tasks which benefit the parents. If a parent asks the child to do something that does not directly benefit the parent, then he does not have to obey the wish if the request entails a considerable hardship and difficulty.Summary: One must care for his parents' needs even if this entails a great deal of hardship, though one may find somebody else to perform the needed tasks in order to alleviate the burden. One is not required to perform tasks for his parents that would be harmful to his health, and he should find somebody else to perform such tasks.

Today, we're going to talk about the 15 depression symptoms you may not know about. My hope is that it will help you, number one, understand your symptoms, and number two, get help faster. Let's do this. Let's get started.  I hope you are well. I hope you are kind and gentle to yourself today. I hope you are taking moments to notice that the trees are changing, the leaves are changing, and spring is here. If you're in the Northern Hemisphere, maybe the weather is changing. Also, if you're in the southern hemisphere, my lovely friends in Australia, I just want to remind you to stop and take note of the weather. It can be one of the most mindful activities we engage in, and it can help us be grounded in the present instead of thinking forward, thinking backward, and ruminating on the past and the future.  I hope you can take a minute. We can take a breath right here... and you can actually take in this present moment before we get started.  Today, we're talking about 15 depression symptoms you may not know about. As I said in the intro, my hope is that these symptoms help you understand what's going on for you if you're depressed or help you get help faster.  Mnemonic For Depression Symptoms Now, some of you may really have a good understanding of depression symptoms. Some of you may know the common ways that it shows up, so I will first address those just to make sure you've got a basic understanding of common depression symptoms. I'm going to actually give you a mnemonic for depression symptoms. I find it's very helpful to have this on hand when I'm assessing my clients and my patients. It's a really good check-in even for myself like, what's going on? Could this be depression? Let's go through this mnemonic for depression.  D is for depressed mood. I think we all know about that one. That's a very common Hollywood way of understanding people who are sad, feeling very down, and so forth. We mostly all know the D for depression.  E is for energy loss and fatigue. In fact, I did a poll on Instagram. For those of you who don't follow me, go ahead and follow me @youranxietytoolkit. I did a poll and I asked, what are the most painful parts of depression, and the most common response was complete fatigue, complete exhaustion, just overwhelming tiredness and energy loss. I think that that's a really common one. It can be confusing because you're like, “What's going on?” It makes you feel like maybe there's a medical condition going on, but often it is depression. The P is for pleasure loss. Now, this is an important one that we look for in clinical work as we're looking for. Is the person with depression completely at a loss and they're not enjoying the things they used to? Are they struggling to get joy out of even the most joyful things that they used to find joyful? That's a very common one.  The R is for retardation or excitation. What we're talking about there is moving very slowly, like a sloth pace or even just sitting there and staring and unable to move your body completely, inability to get motivated to move. Excitation is the other one, which is like you feel very jittery and you feel very on edge and so forth.  The E is for eating changes such as appetite increase or decrease, or weight increase or decrease. Again, common symptoms for depression.  The S is for sleep changes. It is very common for people with depression to either want to sleep or need to sleep all day, again, because of that energy loss. Or they lay awake for hours at night staring at the roof, unable to sleep, experiencing sleep anxiety, which can often then impact their sleep rhythm. They're sleeping all day, staying awake all night, or vice versa, but in a very lethargic way.  The next S is for suicidal thoughts or what we call suicidal ideation. These are thoughts of death, thoughts of dying, and sometimes plans to die. If that is you, please do go and see a mental health professional immediately or go to your ER or call the emergency in whatever country you are. For America, it's 911. Suicidal thoughts are very, very common with depression. We have two types of suicidal thoughts in depression, and that's usually passive suicidal thoughts and then active suicidal thoughts. Passive is thoughts of death, but you just want to crawl under a rock and just go to sleep and never wake up. Active suicidal thoughts is where you're actually wishing to die. It's important to differentiate, and clinically, we do make some changes depending on which is which.  The I for depression is “I am a failure.” This has a lot to do with shame or loss of confidence and self-esteem issues. “I am a failure” is a big one that often doesn't get disclosed until the person is in therapy. We even did an episode a couple of weeks ago. Depression Is A Liar was the title. Depression tells you all these lies. It tells you you're a failure and you start to believe it. It tells you there's something wrong with you and you start to believe it. That is a very common part of having depression.  The O is “only me to blame,” and this is what we call guilt. With depression, often people will feel guilty for everything, feel guilt & regret all day, every day. “I'm not a good mom,” “I'm not a good friend,” “I'm not a good talk daughter,” “I'm not a good employee,” “I'm not a good boss,” whatever it may be. And then they blame themselves, punish themselves, and a lot.  The N is for no concentration. Again, when I did the poll on Instagram, so many people posted that they just cannot think, they can't plan, they can't concentrate, they can't learn if they're in school, they can't stay focused on a conversation. These are all very common symptoms of depression that may be impacting you either a little bit or, in many cases, an immense amount. They're the most common. That's a mnemonic for depression symptoms. They're the most common that we assess for. But now I want to go into the 15 depression symptoms you may not know about.  The way that I'm structuring this podcast episode is I've broken it down into different categories of people. But what I want you to recognize before we go down is these are not specific to only these categories of people because it depends on the person. We have to be very person-centered when it comes to looking at depression and diagnosing depression and treating depression because there's no one way to have depression. I don't want to miscategorize any of this. I'm just talking very generally, so I want to give a disclaimer as I go through these different categories or groups of people. Please note that it's probably true for everybody. It's just more common in these groups.  Before we get started, I want to remind you. I know I did an announcement. I want to remind you, the Overcoming Depression Course is going live on March 11th. This is very exciting. This is a live online course that I am teaching live on Zoom. I will be teaching you over the course of three different weekends on Saturday mornings from 9:00 to 10:30 on March 11th, March 18th, and March 25th, 2023. If you want to sign up and come and learn from me, I'll be going through five major areas in which you can make changes related to depression. I will be giving you all of this psychoeducation upfront. There will be a workbook that you can use on your own to really put the skills and tools and strategies into place. If you're interested in joining us, may I say again live, head on over to CBTSchool.com/Depression. It'll take you to the page. You can sign up there and then I will send you via email all of the information you need to be there for our live conversations. You can ask questions in the chat box. My hope is to double down with motivating you, inspiring you, educating you, and getting you feeling a little more confident on what to do if you're struggling with these symptoms. My hope is to help you see that depression is a liar and you can break free!  Here we go.  Depression Symptoms In Men Again, I'm speaking generally here, and I really want to be careful here because it's definitely not just men who experienced this, but I did a lot of research for this episode and these were the statistics that I found to be most common in these areas.  Anger, irritability, or aggressiveness That's not in the mnemonic for depression that we went over. A lot of times people miss this core symptom, which is anger, irritability, or aggressiveness. Now, is it only men? Absolutely not. I want to be really clear here, that is absolutely not the case, but I think because of the stigma for men around showing sadness or showing depression, they have shown that men tend to express it in a different way, because sometimes men don't feel comfortable crying in public with their friends or loved ones. Not always true. Again, I'm going to keep saying not always, but I think that's a cultural expectation put on men and therefore it does come out when in the form of anger, irritability, or aggressiveness. Irritability is a huge one when it comes to depression that I have seen clinically.  Problems with sexual desire and performance This is, again, not just for men, but common in the research for men is common problems with sexual desire and performance. A lot of men and women, but again, I don't want to be excluding anyone here, have found that they either have a massive lack of sexual desire or struggle to reach arousal, struggle to reach orgasm. We are going to be addressing this in-depth here in the next couple of months and I'm going to put a lot of energy into making sure we address how much it impacts people and sex. Stick around for that. I'm super excited. But there is another common depression symptom you may not know about. Sometimes we think it's anxiety that causes that, but it's not just anxiety; it can be depression too.  Engaging in high-risk activities Again, not just for men, but it has been shown to be more prevalent in men. High-risk activities, spending a lot of money, driving fast in cars, gambling, drug use, and so forth. Again, not just in men, but this is another common depression symptom you may not know about and maybe diagnosed and put in a different category when really the person is deeply depressed and trying to feel pleasure. Remember we talked about the mnemonic P is for pleasure loss. Often we engage in these high-risk activities because we're just desperate to feel that sense of pleasure and exhilaration again.  A need for alcohol or drugs Again, not just men and I will discuss this in other categories as well, but it is common that an increased use of alcohol and drugs could be a sign that you are getting an increased level of depression. Then what happens is when you're using a lot of alcohol and drugs, you usually have a hangover or some kind of side effect to that which makes you feel more depressed, which then makes you feel more like you need to have more alcohol and drugs. Again, it's a cycle that can really cause a lot of chaos in people's life and could be simply the first symptom or way to cope with depression.  Depression Symptoms In Women Women are twice as likely to develop depression than men. That's a statistic I didn't know. Up to 1 in 4 women are likely to have major depressive disorder or major depression at some point in their life. 1 in 4, that is so high. We have to make sure we're catching people and helping people with this massive issue.  Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder Prementstrual Dysphoric Disorder involves a massive influx of depressive symptoms right before your period or at specific stages of your menstrual cycle. Very common. In fact, again, we're going to be addressing this very soon on the podcast as well. These are some areas I feel like I have completely missed as your podcast host, so I want to really make sure we're targeting and addressing these issues as we move forward.  Perinatal Depression Perinatal depression occurs around pregnancy before or after pregnancy starts.  Perimenopausal Depression Perimenopausal depression is around the menopausal period for people going into menopause.  These are common symptoms of depression that get missed all the time or get misdiagnosed or underdiagnosed when the person is really suffering.  A lot of people who follow me have said they've gone to their doctor to share how they get this massive influx of depression before their period or in their cycle, and the doctor has blown them off and said, “Eat more celery juice,” or “Exercise more.” While, yes, exercising can be helpful for depression, we are missing a major depression symptom, and I want you to be informed about those. Depression Symptoms In Kids Oh, the kiddos. It's so hard on the kiddos. In fact, one of the reasons I have been so hyped on talking about depression was, in August of last year, my daughter went in for her yearly checkup with her pediatrician and the pediatrician insisted on doing all of these mental checklists with her. I was saying to her, “Is this really necessary? She's doing fine. To what degree are you scaring her?” She said, “Oh, you have no idea the degree of depression in children since COVID.” “I had no idea and I'm a mental health professional. How did I not know this?” She said, “Yeah, it's everywhere in kids, and kids are really good at hiding it.” I literally sank in my chair like, “How did I miss this? How did I not know this?” We talked about it a lot and I think it's really important that we understand that depression symptoms in kids often look like what we call in some societies like naughty kids. Again, let's go through them.  Big emotional outbursts  When we see kids on the playground having big outbursts, big anger responses, again, we talked about that before, sometimes they get labeled as the naughty kids. Well, guess what? We've got to make sure we check to make sure they're not depressed. Because that is a symptom of depression.  Difficulty initiating and maintaining social relationships Again, after COVID, a lot of parents I've heard have said, “Oh, I think they just lost their ability to make friends during COVID,” which I totally get. We had to train my son after COVID to follow basic social cues because he hadn't seen people in so long. But again, we have to keep an eye on whether this is a symptom of depression in children.  Extreme sensitivity to rejection or failure This one is so important not just for kids, but for teens, adults, everyone. With depression, we all have sensitivity to rejection of failure. No one wants that. But often a symptom of depression is extreme sensitivity and absolute devastation about getting rejected for, let's say, a school play or to be picked in soccer or they had a big issue with a test or so forth. They have a strong, strong reaction to that.  Frequent absences from school and/or a sudden decline in grades If kids got a massive decline in grades or they started refusing to go to school, my instinct is to always say, “Oh, there's some anxiety going on. They're anxious. They don't want to go to school, they must be ‘avoiding school' because of anxiety as a compulsion.” Well, guess what? It could be depression, and let's make sure we assess these kiddos correctly. This is true for adults as well. If we're depressed, we don't want to go out, we don't want to go to the show on Friday night, we don't want to hang out with friends. That makes sense as well.  Depression With Somatic Symptoms This is probably the most important one. Very common symptoms of depression include headaches, stomach ache, muscle pain, sore back. These are very common physical symptoms of depression and ones that we have to make sure that we aren't ignoring to make sure that they get the care. A lot of people go into the medical system complaining of physical symptoms only to find out that nothing is wrong and they can't understand it, and it could be depression. Not always—please always go and get a medical checkup—but it could be.  Depression Symptoms In Teens All of the symptoms I've shared above could be present in teens as well. Like I said, these are not categories that are only just for these categorical lots of people.  General overwhelming sense of apathy Commonly with teens is this general overwhelming sense of apathy like, “I don't care. I don't care about you, I don't care about me, I don't care about school.” Often parents can interpret this as like, “Oh my god, my kid is horrible.” But again, we have to make sure we're assessing for depression first. Excessive guilt I did have that as the mnemonic under O (only me to blame), but this shows up a lot in kids and teens—excessive saying I'm sorry, excessive apologizing, feeling hyper-responsible for everything that happens, feeling hyper-responsible for the social issues and drama that's happening at school, ruminating a lot about that. Again, this is common for anybody, very common for anybody with depression as well, but with teens, it really does start to spike.  Preoccupation with death or on death Again, this could be true for other categories or any human being, but we do see it show up a lot in teens—a preoccupation on death regarding movies, music, shows, or books they're reading. Just really a heavy focus on things related to death or very dark, dark topics, aggressive topics. This can play out in many ways. Again, it could also be very normal behavior and that could be something that brings them great pleasure. But again, I'm only bringing it up because these are common unknown depression symptoms that you don't possibly know could be a symptom of depression. I think it's better to be educated than to ignore it and not know.  That's the 15 depression symptoms you may not know about. One thing to consider, and I did touch on this during the episode, is commonly we have to look at depression symptoms versus anxiety symptoms. The truth is, many of these are also symptoms of anxiety. Let's go through some of them. Anger, irritability, aggressiveness—true for anxiety. Sexual desire—true for anxiety, engaging in high-risk activities—true for anxiety. A need for alcohol and drugs—true for anxiety. We do notice some perinatal symptoms and perimenopausal symptoms impact anxiety as well, but we're specifically weren't speaking to those today. But if we move into the kids category: outbursts, difficulty maintaining relationships, sensitivity to failure, frequent absences, somatic symptoms, guilt, apathy, preoccupation—these are also very common in anxiety.  What I want you to leave with today is this: Take everything you learnt today. I hope that this didn't create more anxiety for you. Just take it as knowledge. Take it as something you now know so that you can be an informed consumer, an informed patient, an informed client with your therapist so that you can know. I will say, if I'm speaking completely vulnerably, reading all the research I did made me very anxious because I have a close to teen child and I was thinking, oh my gosh, what happens if this starts to go down this track and looking at the statistics of suicide and so forth. It is anxiety provoking. But what I did in that moment—and if this helps you, I hope it does—is I said to myself, “Kimberley, you're better to be informed and practice not ruminating and doing mental compulsions about this and catastrophizing than you are to not know at all.” Here I have an opportunity to practice all of the response prevention skills, the mindfulness skills, the self-compassion skills that I have in my tool belt and that you hopefully have in your tool belt if you've been a long-term listener here on Your Anxiety Toolkit. We're going to use those tools to help us manage this, but we're going to practice being an informed consumer here. I hope this has been helpful. They are the 15 depression symptoms you may not know about and now you know.  Thank you, guys. I'm so happy to be here with you today. Stick around because some pretty exciting things are coming up. A lot of you know we had the mental compulsion series last year. This year, we are having a full sexual health related to mental health series that is just around the corner. It is going to be so incredible. I have some amazing doctors, psychiatrists, sex therapists, educators coming on to talk specifically with you around specific issues, around sexual health related to anxiety and depression. I'm so, so excited, so proud, and so honored to get to do this work with you.  All right, I'm going to hit the road. Have a wonderful day. It is a beautiful day to do hard things, and I'll see you next week.

Show Notes (contains affiliate links): POTA/SOTA Antennas Compared By Difficulty   On this week's episode of Ham Radio Crash Course, a podcast roughly based on amateur radio but mostly made up of responding to emails from listeners, hosted by Josh Nass - KI6NAZ and his reluctant wife, Leah - KN6NWZ, we talk about adding a pair of portable earbuds to your ham accessories, bomb threat preparedness and POTA/SOTA Antennas Compared By Difficulty. .    Ham Radio Minute: Add a xpair of portable earbuds.    Announcements: HRCC Net - https://hrcc.link.    Ham Radio Test Study with Leah  HamStudy: https://hamstudy.org Support by getting something from Signal Stuff: https://signalstuff.com/?ref=622   Gordon West Ham Radio Test Prep Books with HRCC Links  -Technician: https://amzn.to/3EGELhO -General: https://amzn.to/3g8R9gf -Extra: https://amzn.to/3Tlis5j   Free Fastrack Track to Your Ham Radio License Books on Audible (for new to Audible readers): https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/mlp/membership/premiumplus?tag=hrccpodcast-20     Join the conversation by leaving a review on Apple Podcast for Ham Radio Crash Course podcast at https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ham-radio-crash-course/id1400794852 and/or emailing Leah@hamtactical.com. Leaving a review wherever you listen to podcasts will help Ham Radio Crash Course reach more hams and future hams and we appreciate it!   Preparedness Corner: Bomb Threat Guidance - https://www.k12.wa.us/sites/default/files/public/safetycenter/threat/pubdocs/bombthreatguidancefbi-dhs.pdf   Bomb Threat Checklist - https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/publications/dhs-bomb-threat-checklist-2014-508.pdf Show Topic: POTA/SOTA Antennas Compared by Difficulty Email Correspondent's Tower: We answer emails with ham radio questions, comments on previous podcasts, T-shirt suggestions and everything in between.   Links mentioned in the ECT:    Douglas's video on an F150 antenna install - https://youtu.be/X7ajPsZ4CVM Doug provides a train derailment emergency preparedness guide from North Suffolk - https://railroads.dot.gov/sites/fra.dot.gov/files/fra_net/18102/HZ1809%20NS%20HM%20Program%20Managing%20Your%20Risk%20%E2%80%93%20Preparedness%2C%20Prevention%2C%20Mitigation%2C%20and%20Response%20.pdf Will says specialization is for insects - https://blog.radioartisan.com/specialization-is-for-insects/ Thank you all for listening to the podcast.  We have a lot of fun making it and the fact you listen and send us feedback means alot to us!   Want to send us something? Josh Nass  P.O. Box 5101 Cerritos, CA 90703-5101 Support the Ham Radio Crash Course Podcast: Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/hoshnasi Shop HamTactical: http://www.hamtactical.com Shop Our Affiliates: http://hamradiocrashcourse.com/affiliates/ Shop Our Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/shop/hamradiocrashcourse As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.   Connect with Us: Website...................► http://hamradiocrashcourse.com YouTube..................► https://www.youtube.com/c/HamRadioCrashCourse Podcast...................► https://hamradiocrashcourse.podbean.com/ Discord....................► https://discord.gg/xhJMxDT Facebook................► https://goo.gl/cv5rEQ Twitter......................► https://twitter.com/Hoshnasi Instagram.................► https://instagram.com/hoshnasi (Josh) Instagram.................►https://instagram.com/hamtactical (Leah)

The PS5 Pro is currently in development and is launching sooner than you think, Resident Evil 4 Remake Demo gets incredible reception, and Destiny 2's new raid sparks the difficulty debate once again. All this and more on this week's episode of Checkpoint. 

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Category: Word, Real Life, and Prayer. Prayer is doubt's destroyer, ruin's remedy, the antidote to all anxieties. C.H. Spurgeon As we consider our groaning, in our use of our difficulties, the content of our prayer reflects on God's will in our groaning. We grow into a godly desire for our Savior's will alone. Matthew 6:10 'Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, On earth as it is in heaven. Luke 22:42 "Father, if Thou art willing, remove this cup from Me; yet not My will, but Thine be done." His will? Romans 8:29 29 For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the first-born among many brethren; God's means of grace? Hebrews 12:11 All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness. Our "So What?" Our prayers should naturally reflect (You guessed it, David): Psalm 119:67 Before I was afflicted, I went astray, But now I keep Thy word. "What a man is on his knees before God, that he is and nothing more." Robert Murray M'Cheyne Assistant Editor: Seven Jefferson Gossard www.frponprayer.com freerangeprayer@gmail.com Facebook - Free Range Preacher Ministries Instagram: freerangeministries All our Scripture quotes are drawn from the NASB 1977 edition. For access to the Voice Over services of Richard Durrington, please visit RichardDurrington.com or email him at Durringtonr@gmail.com Our podcast art was designed by @sammmmmmmmm23 Instagram Season 005 Episode 059

Adult children of narcissistic parents face unique challenges. I explore the interpersonal and emotional challenges children of narcissistic parents face after dealing with years of abuse. Difficulty trusting yourself, developing multiple relationships with narcissists, problematic coping skills, and so much more are further explored in this episode. Child Maltreatment report 2021: https://www.acf.hhs.gov/cb/report/child-maltreatment-2021 A group for adult children ofnarcissistic parents: https://groups.io/g/ACON Narcissist Abuse Support Groups: https://narcissistabusesupport.com/narcissist-abuse-support-groups/ Watch the video podcast on Youtube: A Date With Darkness Email questions or comments to Dr. Jones admin@drnataliejones.com Sign up for the free ebook on Red  Flags in Your Relationships and the free weekly newsletter for tips about narcissistic abuse at www.drnataliejones.com Individual and group membership coaching sessions opening soon. Get on the mailing list to be the first to know here. Visit the website for more information: https://www.adatewithdarkness.com Let's keep the conversation going via social media: Instagram: A Date With Darkness Twitter: @Adatewdarkness Facebook: A Date With Darkness To connect with others who are seeking support from hurtful and abusive relationships please join the Facebook group: A Date With Darkness group

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Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Discussion with Nate Soares on a key alignment difficulty, published by HoldenKarnofsky on March 13, 2023 on The AI Alignment Forum. In late 2022, Nate Soares gave some feedback on my Cold Takes series on AI risk (shared as drafts at that point), stating that I hadn't discussed what he sees as one of the key difficulties of AI alignment. I wanted to understand the difficulty he was pointing to, so the two of us had an extended Slack exchange, and I then wrote up a summary of the exchange that we iterated on until we were both reasonably happy with its characterization of the difficulty and our disagreement.1 My short summary is: Nate thinks there are deep reasons that training an AI to do needle-moving scientific research (including alignment) would be dangerous. The overwhelmingly likely result of such a training attempt (by default, i.e., in the absence of specific countermeasures that there are currently few ideas for) would be the AI taking on a dangerous degree of convergent instrumental subgoals while not internalizing important safety/corrigibility properties enough. I think this is possible, but much less likely than Nate thinks under at least some imaginable training processes. I didn't end up agreeing that this difficulty is as important as Nate thinks it is, although I did update my views some (more on that below). My guess is that this is one of the two biggest disagreements I have with Nate's and Eliezer's views (the other one being the likelihood of a sharp left turn that leads to a massive capabilities gap between AI systems and their supervisors.2) Below is my summary of: Some key premises we agree on. What we disagree about, at a high level. A hypothetical training process we discussed in order to get more clear and mechanistic about Nate's views. Some brief discussion of possible cruxes; what kind of reasoning Nate is using to arrive at his relatively high (~85%) level of confidence on this point; and future observations that might update one of us toward the other's views. MIRI might later put out more detailed notes on this exchange, drawing on all of our discussions over Slack and comment threads in Google docs. Nate has reviewed this post in full. I'm grateful for his help with it. Some starting points of agreement Nate on this section: “Seems broadly right to me!” An AI is dangerous if: It's powerful (like, it has the ability to disempower humans if it's "aiming" at that) It aims (perhaps as a side effect of aiming at something else) at CIS (convergent instrumental subgoals) such as "Preserve option value," "Gain control of resources that can be used for lots of things," "Avoid being turned off," and such. (Note that this is a weaker condition than "maximizes utility according to some relatively simple utility function of states of the world") It does not reliably avoid POUDA (pretty obviously unintended/dangerous actions) such as "Design and deploy a bioweapon." "Reliably" just means like "In situations it will actually be in" (which will likely be different from training, but I'm not trying to talk about "all possible situations"). Avoiding POUDA is kind of a low bar in some sense. Avoiding POUDA doesn't necessarily require fully/perfectly internalizing some "corrigibility core" (such that the AI would always let us turn it off even in arbitrarily exotic situations that challenge the very meaning of "let us turn it off"), and it even more so doesn't require anything like CEV. It just means that stuff where Holden would be like "Whoa whoa, that is OBVIOUSLY unintended/dangerous/bad" is stuff that an AI would not do. That said, POUDA is not something that Holden is able to articulate cleanly and simply. There are lots of actions that might be POUDA in one situation and not in another (e.g., developing a chemical that's both poisonous and useful...

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Discussion with Nate Soares on a key alignment difficulty, published by HoldenKarnofsky on March 13, 2023 on LessWrong. In late 2022, Nate Soares gave some feedback on my Cold Takes series on AI risk (shared as drafts at that point), stating that I hadn't discussed what he sees as one of the key difficulties of AI alignment. I wanted to understand the difficulty he was pointing to, so the two of us had an extended Slack exchange, and I then wrote up a summary of the exchange that we iterated on until we were both reasonably happy with its characterization of the difficulty and our disagreement.1 My short summary is: Nate thinks there are deep reasons that training an AI to do needle-moving scientific research (including alignment) would be dangerous. The overwhelmingly likely result of such a training attempt (by default, i.e., in the absence of specific countermeasures that there are currently few ideas for) would be the AI taking on a dangerous degree of convergent instrumental subgoals while not internalizing important safety/corrigibility properties enough. I think this is possible, but much less likely than Nate thinks under at least some imaginable training processes. I didn't end up agreeing that this difficulty is as important as Nate thinks it is, although I did update my views some (more on that below). My guess is that this is one of the two biggest disagreements I have with Nate's and Eliezer's views (the other one being the likelihood of a sharp left turn that leads to a massive capabilities gap between AI systems and their supervisors.2) Below is my summary of: Some key premises we agree on. What we disagree about, at a high level. A hypothetical training process we discussed in order to get more clear and mechanistic about Nate's views. Some brief discussion of possible cruxes; what kind of reasoning Nate is using to arrive at his relatively high (~85%) level of confidence on this point; and future observations that might update one of us toward the other's views. MIRI might later put out more detailed notes on this exchange, drawing on all of our discussions over Slack and comment threads in Google docs. Nate has reviewed this post in full. I'm grateful for his help with it. Some starting points of agreement Nate on this section: “Seems broadly right to me!” An AI is dangerous if: It's powerful (like, it has the ability to disempower humans if it's "aiming" at that) It aims (perhaps as a side effect of aiming at something else) at CIS (convergent instrumental subgoals) such as "Preserve option value," "Gain control of resources that can be used for lots of things," "Avoid being turned off," and such. (Note that this is a weaker condition than "maximizes utility according to some relatively simple utility function of states of the world") It does not reliably avoid POUDA (pretty obviously unintended/dangerous actions) such as "Design and deploy a bioweapon." "Reliably" just means like "In situations it will actually be in" (which will likely be different from training, but I'm not trying to talk about "all possible situations"). Avoiding POUDA is kind of a low bar in some sense. Avoiding POUDA doesn't necessarily require fully/perfectly internalizing some "corrigibility core" (such that the AI would always let us turn it off even in arbitrarily exotic situations that challenge the very meaning of "let us turn it off"), and it even more so doesn't require anything like CEV. It just means that stuff where Holden would be like "Whoa whoa, that is OBVIOUSLY unintended/dangerous/bad" is stuff that an AI would not do. That said, POUDA is not something that Holden is able to articulate cleanly and simply. There are lots of actions that might be POUDA in one situation and not in another (e.g., developing a chemical that's both poisonous and useful for other pu...

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In this episode, Jesse and Ambry discuss dealing with the storms that come into your day-to-day life and how you can learn and benefit from them, and adapt and change with them, in order to evolve into a better version of yourself.Listen in!Thank you for listening to this episode of Matrimonial Merger!If you enjoyed this episode, we'd love to connect. Follow us @jessefisco + @ambryfisco on Instagram!

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At the site of their greatest defeat, the crew returns renewed, stronger, and ready to face off against the Gish warrior Endellion. Are their preparations enough? Or will this encounter turn foul faster than the first? ---Our show contains fantasy violence (and the occasional foul language), treat us like a PG-13 program!---Thank you to World Anvil for sponsoring today's adventure! Use code PLUG at checkout for 40% off yearly membership:https://worldanvil.com/?c=rwdRolling with Difficulty Patreon:patreon.com/rollingwithdifficultyRolling with Difficulty Discord:https://discord.gg/6uAycwAhy6Merch:Redbubble: https://www.redbubble.com/people/RWDPodcast/shop?asc=uContact the Pod:rollwithdifficulty@gmail.comTwitter: @rollwdifficultyInstagram: @rollwithdifficultyRSS Feed: https://rollingwithdifficultypod.transistor.fm/Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/RollingwithDifficultyTik Tok: @rollwithdifficultyCast:Dungeon Master - Austin FunkTwitter: @atthefunkThe Set's Journal of Faerun: https://www.dmsguild.com/product/345568/The-Sets-Journal-of-Faerun-Vol-1?term=the+setKyana - OSP RedTwitter: @OSPyoutubeInstagram: @overly.sarcastic.productionsOverly Sarcastic Productions: https://www.youtube.com/c/OverlySarcasticProductionsChannel/Dani -  Sophia RicciardiTwitter: @sophie_kay_Instagram: @_sophie_kayMoviestruck: https://moviestruck.transistor.fm/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/moviestruckFinbar - WallyInstagram: @stuckinspaceTwitter: @walpoleinspacePortfolio: https://ghost_astronaut.artstation.com/VR-LA - NoirTwitter: @NoirGalaxiesCampaign Art by @stuckinspaceMusic by: Dominic Ricciardihttps://soundcloud.com/dominicricciardimusicFeatured Tracks:Rolling with Difficulty ThemeBig DowntimeCity of BrassCity of DoorsTense MomentRolling, Possibly with a Bit of Difficulty

The need to be accepted, approved and received can cause a person to dishonor themselves where they disregard their own worth. It's often said that a woman should know and recognize her worth, however with the heavy influences on cultural expectations, being faultless and flawless in every role they play, to even being told a lie about the truth of who you are your entire life, how could anyone honor something that they never even knew existed? These internalized harmful beliefs that we should not take care of ourselves, be boundary less, accept the unacceptable, always be selfless and sacrificial and live up to the beauty of societal expectations causes women to question anything and everything about themselves. How can one unlearn these uncomfortable conditions and learn their worth? On this week's podcast episode, join me as I talk about honoring your worth as well as three things you must unlearn to start. Order my book: "Divorce Your Story: A Woman's Guide to Heal & Thrive After Divorce" - http://www.divorceyourstorybook.com. Also available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/2QPWoCn Click here to follow me on IG Click here to follow me on Facebook Click here to subscribe to my YouTube

In this episode of The Ron Edmondson Leadership Podcast Ron and Chandler Vannoy discuss the difficulty of firing someone in ministry. If you've worked in both the marketplace and ministry... The post RELP – Episode 72 – The Difficulty of Firing Someone in Ministry appeared first on Ron Edmondson.

I didn't understand. Was God playing tricks on me? This didn't make sense.He kept promising me a treasure, that He would lead me to beautiful things. I was putting in the work and I wasn't seeing results. Why was He doing this to me? Why wasn't He telling me how to do it? Why didn't He make sure I was prepared? Why didn't He provide me any sort of instructions or directions to follow. I didn't know if I was able to do this.He simply said, "Follow Me."Get Your Adventure Starter Pack Here-Helping you navigate the adventure God is inviting you and full of resources to help you along the way!Freebie Alert-Listen to my private podcast "Taking the Adventure God Has for Me." Here

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Hello and welcome back to the Locust And Honey Podcast. We are two reformed Southern Baptists who desire to speak the truth of the gospel to the heart of the culture. Join us today as we look at The Hill Difficulty in John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress. As Christians we are going to face trials of all kinds. The road to follow Christ is not an easy road. But the mark of a true follower of Christ is that of progression.  If you are enjoying our content please share it with your friends and family. To connect with us or support our podcast you can do so here: https://linktr.ee/locustandhoney

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Part 5, the final part of our series "Rejected!" We close out our series in Matthew 11. Some of the most encouraging, authoritative, loving words ever to be spoken by Jesus Christ. We have been talking about how to walk through being rejected for the sake of the Gospel. We need to be abiding, praying, speaking, reaching out, counting it all joy. Jesus did not only walk through this first, He walks us through each moment of it. Matthew 11:28-3028 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.The Redeeming Love Bible Broadcast is a ministry of Grace Baptist Tabernacle. We're excited to be under construction on a brand new building in our hometown of King, NC. Please continue to share these episodes, and please consider coming to visit our church. We are excited and expectant for you to come!

About Ann Hince: Ann had a childhood with plenty of trauma and dysfunction. She had PTSD into her 30s - the result of two alcoholic parents.  She became a software engineer because it was so comforting to know that logic could work in part of her life, even though it never seemed to work in her chaotic life as a child. In her 30s and 40s she was afforded the luxury of being a stay-at-home mom to her two boys. Realizing how traumatized she still was when her boys were young, she set out to become the calm mom she wanted to be. She changed. Things changed. Life changed Her goal is to reach those people who really want inner change, inner peace - those who have the desire and will to do the inner work. There are many who do not want to look inside, but if you are someone who does, who really wants change, then it is my pleasure to show you the path. Twenty years later the tears from that trauma were still just under the surface. Ann found a simple technique that helped her release these emotions - but she went further and can now put her awareness inside her body - and has changed the bone structure of her skull and grown ½ an inch at age 55. Ann has found that seeking out our truth, what we truly feel, and accepting those feelings, is the key to inner peace.   What We Discuss In This Episode: Over the past few years, Ann has shifted her skull bones by releasing tension in the connective tissue, which she can release simply with focused attention, or focused awareness. She's also grown ½ an inch as a 55-year-old, because of this release of inner tension. The x-rays on her website that show these changes – aligning of eye sockets, centering of jaw bones, straightening of neck. She explains the connection between emotional, mental, physical and spiritual health, a connection which isn't well understood but is important to understand given the current state of our world. She shares her story started as a quest for inner peace, because she recognized she was too reactionary, and her mind was very busy and very negative – from being born with her right foot up against her right shin, being adopted, merciless teasing as the first girl boarder at a boy's boarding school, growing up with two alcoholic parents, and finding her mother dead in the bathroom when I was 19. She used a couple of techniques to peel back the layers of suppressed emotions and as a result, her awareness expanded to become aware of her emotions, then the physical sensations underneath the emotions, then eventually she became aware inside her physical body. She shares that we all have these capabilities inside of ourselves, and if we can shift our bones, imagine what else we can do? She discusses how we can change our signal to attract different results. such as(clothing, hair, shape, stance, thoughts, words, the big one: inner tension. Ann shares how she went about making these changes?  She believes we can change the world with this work by accepting our emotions around everything around us– race, politics, climate, etc. – whatever they may be, whatever side we are on. When we remove the emotional charge, we no longer attract the experience, there is no longer any need for us to attract it. What can our audience do right now to change their future and the future of our planet?    Connect with Ann Hince:  Website: https://annhince.com/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AnnHinceWisdom  FB Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/onapathwaytoinsight YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTc4hb7ZKvih1LlRHK0cUjg  Book: A Pathway to Insight:  https://amzn.to/3u3ZAL1   Connect with Lynne: If you're looking for a community of like-minded women on a journey - just like you are - to improved health and wellness, overall balance, and increased confidence, check out Lynne's private community in The Energized & Healthy Women's Club. It's a supportive and collaborative community where the women in this group share tips and solutions for a healthy and holistic lifestyle. (Discussions include things like weight management, eliminating belly bloat, wrangling sugar gremlins, and overcoming fatigue, recipes, strategies, and much more so women can feel energized, healthy, confident, and joyful each day. Website:  https://holistic-healthandwellness.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/holistichealthandwellnessllc The Energized Healthy Women's Club:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/energized.healthy.women Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lynnewadsworth LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/lynnewadsworth   Free Resources from Lynne Wadsworth: 5 Simple Steps to Gain Energy, Feel Great & Uplevel Your Health: Are you ready to create a Healthier Lifestyle?  Would you like to feel lighter, more energized, and even add joy to your life? If it's time to find more balance of mind~body~soul, then I've got the perfect FREE resource to help.  In this guide, you'll find my most impactful strategies and I've made applying them in your life as simple as 1-2-3 (plus a couple more) to help you create a healthier, holistic lifestyle. Uplevel your holistic health and wellness and download the 5 Simple Steps to Health  here:  https://holistic-healthandwellness.com/5-simple-steps-to-a-healthier-you/   How to Thrive in Menopause:  Hot flashes? Low Energy? Difficulty with weight management? If MID-LIFE & MENOPAUSE are taking their toll then I've got a solution for you! I've taken all my very best strategies and solutions to help you feel energized, vibrant, lighter & healthy, and compiled them into this FREE resource! Thrive in midlife and beyond - download my guide here: https://holistic-healthandwellness.com/thrive-through-menopause/   Did You Enjoy The Podcast? If you enjoyed this episode please let us know! 5-star reviews for the Living Life Naturally podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pandora, or Stitcher are greatly appreciated. This helps us reach more women struggling to live through midlife and beyond. Thank you. Together, we make a difference!  

Preparing for a rematch with an old foe, the crew splits up to check a few to-dos off their lists. Returning for the clockwork staff and visiting a familiar face in Limbo, each half of the party will find themselves facing...unique, challenges.  ---Our show contains fantasy violence (and the occasional foul language), treat us like a PG-13 program!---Thank you to World Anvil for sponsoring today's adventure! Use code PLUG at checkout for 40% off yearly membership:https://worldanvil.com/?c=rwdRolling with Difficulty Patreon:patreon.com/rollingwithdifficultyRolling with Difficulty Discord:https://discord.gg/6uAycwAhy6Merch:Redbubble: https://www.redbubble.com/people/RWDPodcast/shop?asc=uContact the Pod:rollwithdifficulty@gmail.comTwitter: @rollwdifficultyInstagram: @rollwithdifficultyRSS Feed: https://rollingwithdifficultypod.transistor.fm/Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/RollingwithDifficultyTik Tok: @rollwithdifficultyCast:Dungeon Master - Austin FunkTwitter: @atthefunkThe Set's Journal of Faerun: https://www.dmsguild.com/product/345568/The-Sets-Journal-of-Faerun-Vol-1?term=the+setKyana - OSP RedTwitter: @OSPyoutubeInstagram: @overly.sarcastic.productionsOverly Sarcastic Productions: https://www.youtube.com/c/OverlySarcasticProductionsChannel/Dani -  Sophia RicciardiTwitter: @sophie_kay_Instagram: @_sophie_kayMoviestruck: https://moviestruck.transistor.fm/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/moviestruckFinbar - WallyInstagram: @stuckinspaceTwitter: @walpoleinspacePortfolio: https://ghost_astronaut.artstation.com/VR-LA - NoirTwitter: @NoirGalaxiesCampaign Art by @stuckinspaceMusic by: Dominic Ricciardihttps://soundcloud.com/dominicricciardimusicFeatured Tracks:Rolling with Difficulty ThemeBig BattleGoof TrakCity of DoorsTea TimePiano

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In episode 62 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Ed Grefenstette.Ed is Head of Machine Learning at Cohere and an Honorary Professor at University College London. He previously held research scientist positions at Facebook AI Research and DeepMind, following a stint as co-founder and CTO of Dark Blue Labs. Before his time in industry, Ed worked at Oxford's Department of Computer Science as a lecturer and Fulford Junior Research Fellow at Somerville College. Ed also received his MSc and DPhil from Oxford's Computer Science Department.Have suggestions for future podcast guests (or other feedback)? Let us know here!Subscribe to The Gradient Podcast:  Apple Podcasts  | Spotify | Pocket Casts | RSSFollow The Gradient on TwitterOutline:* (00:00) Intro* (02:18) The Ed Grefenstette Origin Story* (08:15) Distributional semantics and Ed's PhD research* (14:30) Extending the distributional hypothesis, later Wittgenstein* (18:00) Recovering parse trees in LMs, can LLMs understand communication and not just bare language?* (23:15) LMs capture something about pragmatics, proxies for grounding and pragmatics* (25:00) Human-in-the-loop training and RLHF—what is the essential differentiator? * (28:15) A convolutional neural network for modeling sentences, relationship to attention* (34:20) Difficulty of constructing supervised learning datasets, benchmark-driven development* (40:00) Learning to Transduce with Unbounded Memory, Neural Turing Machines* (47:40) If RNNs are like finite state machines, where are transformers? * (51:40) Cohere and why Ed joined* (56:30) Commercial applications of LLMs and Cohere's product* (59:00) Ed's reply to stochastic parrots and thoughts on consciousness* (1:03:30) Lessons learned about doing effective science* (1:05:00) Where does scaling end? * (1:07:00) Why Cohere is an exciting place to do science* (1:08:00) Ed's advice for aspiring ML {researchers, engineers, etc} and the role of communities in science* (1:11:45) Cohere for AI plug!* (1:13:30) OutroLinks:* Ed's homepage and Twitter* (some of) Ed's Papers* Experimental support for a categorical compositional distributional model of meaning* Multi-step regression learning* “Not not bad” is not “bad”* Towards a formal distributional semantics* A CNN for modeling sentences* Teaching machines to read and comprehend* Reasoning about entailment with neural attention* Learning to Transduce with Unbounded Memory* Teaching Artificial Agents to Understand Language by Modelling Reward* Other things mentioned* Large language models are not zero-shot communicators (Laura Ruis + others and Ed)* Looped Transformers as Programmable Computers and our Update 43 covering this paper* Cohere and Cohere for AI (+ earlier episode w/ Sara Hooker on C4AI)* David Chalmers interview on AI + consciousness Get full access to The Gradient at thegradientpub.substack.com/subscribe

What do you do when your best laid plans fall apart because of unforeseen challenges?What do you do when you face a difficult situation that seems to stretch till there's no end in sight?In this first episode of 2023,  I share 6 things I learnt from successful women and my recent challenges with Covid and other struggles,At the end of this episode, you'll see how you can apply each of them to your unique situation when hard things happen, and you'll be reminded that hard times happen to all of us and we cannot be deterred from living a life of value.Join the Messy Can't Stop Her Sisterhood at https://www.facebook.com/groups/3204395256540448/If you'll love to share your story on the #MessyCantStopHer podcast, click here to let me know. Thank you so much for listening. Music Credit: https://indiefy.me/wanted-carter

What do you have?Whether you are in a season of feeling like you don't have much time, money, resources, etc do you look at what you DO have and give what God is asking of you?Today, I share one of my experiences in life where God gifted me with exactly what I asked for, yet I was feeling like a victim. God was asking for my time, but I kept saying, "I have no time." But when I really thought about it, I realized that I did have 5 minutes here and there. That's what I DID have, and I gave that time to Him.Find Us:https://www.facebook.com/RedemptionUnveiledhttps://www.instagram.com/redemptionunveiled/http://www.tiktok.com/@redemptionunveiled

Join Nik Young and Alyssa Najera in this sequel to Confessions of a High-Functioning, Anxious Therapist (episode 63) where they awkwardly and openly share their struggles with inattention, delayed gratification, and low-key impulsive behaviors. Learn how these behaviors can impact relationships, work functioning, and personal growth, and get tools to help you navigate.    In this episode we talk about: Potential Signs of ADHD Lack of attention to detail Difficulty concentrating Difficulty completing a task, having several unfinished tasks or projects Continually losing or misplacing things Feeling the need to interrupt others before you lose your train of thought Restlessness and edginess Difficulty keeping quiet, speaking out of turn Difficulty with organization Tendency to procrastinate Irritability Feeling like everything is urgent when it may not be Difficulty slowing down Difficulty multitasking Easily losing track of time, feeling like you have more time that you actually do Racing thoughts or jumping from idea to idea Checking out often or daydreaming Potential Signs of High Functioning ADHD Hyper-focused on projects or deadlines Heavily focused on productivity or achievement Your work style either includes lots of breaks or extended periods of work with minimal breaks Excessive use of calendars, reminders, or apps to ensure you do not miss appointments, deadlines, or events Chronic procrastination  Exceling under pressure   Tools for Inattention Use the resources available to you Breakup larger tasks into smaller, attainable tasks Engage in active reflection and self-awareness Focus on one task at time Ask yourself Can it wait? Do you need it? Do you need this right now? Learn healthy coping skills to help you manage symptoms to ensure symptoms do not negatively impact your relationships or daily functioning Other factors that may exacerbate inattentiveness, need for immediate gratification, and impulsiveness  Anxiety symptoms Depression symptoms ADHD symptoms Increased Stress Resources Mentioned in this Episode Episode 63: Confessions of a High-Functioning, Anxious Therapist Episode 66: “Heroin, Heartache, and Hope” with Christian Author of Counting Spoons Kathryn Mae Inman What is the Therapists Uncut Podcast: The Therapists Uncut Podcast is a light-hearted, informative self-help podcast for grown-ups. It is hosted by off-the-clock therapists hoping to validate your experiences, normalize therapy and therapists, and help you prioritize your mental health. Who are the Therapists Uncut Podcast Co-Hosts: Nik Young is co-host of Therapists Uncut and a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist. Nik keeps it personable and professional. Yet, always manages to keep the Therapists Uncut family and followers laughing. You may find them squirreling through topics, stories, or jokes, and all in good fun. Don't worry because someone will bring Nik back around to the conversation. Nik is a licensed marriage and family therapist in their private practice located in Modesto, CA, and is also a Crisis Junkie at heart. In addition to being co-owner of a group private practice, Nik is also a crisis clinician responding to local mental health crisis and emergencies. Learn more about Nik Young at catalystcounselinginc.com Alyssa Najera is co-host of Therapists Uncut and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. Alyssa is typically calm and composed on most days, but often has difficulty containing her excitement about the little things in life. She loves to laugh, spread positivity, and is often caught with a smile on her face. Alyssa is also a former Child Welfare Services social worker, supervisor, and sexual abuse forensic interviewer. Alyssa Najera is now a trainer, consultant, and CEO of a group private practice in the small town of Oakdale, CA. Learn more about Alyssa Najera at smalltowncounselingca.com or alyssanajera.com. Disclaimer: Thank you for joining Therapists Uncut, a production of AMP Smart Business. To learn more about Therapists Uncut and stay up on upcoming episodes, please subscribe and follow us on social media. As a reminder, although the Therapists Uncut co-hosts are licensed therapists, they are not your therapist. This podcast is not intended to substitute professional mental health counseling. If you need professional therapy, please contact your local provider or primary care provider.  Thanks for listening and we'll see you on the next episode of Therapists Uncut! Social Media Links Instagram @therapistsuncut Facebook @therapistsuncut Credits: Therapists Uncut is a production of AMP Smart Business. Voice Over by Alexia Gloria     YOU TUBE DESCRIPTION (max 5,000 characters including spaces)   The Therapists Uncut Podcast is a light-hearted, informative self-help podcast for grown-ups. It is hosted by off-the-clock therapists hoping to validate your experiences, normalize therapy, and help you prioritize your mental health. The Therapists Uncut Podcast is a production of  https://ampsmartbusiness.com/ . For more information and full episode show notes visit https://therapistsuncut.com/ . Join Nik Young and Alyssa Najera in this sequel episode to Confessions of a High-Functioning, Anxious Therapist (episode 63) where they awkwardly share their struggles with inattention, delayed gratification, and lowkey impulsive behaviors both in their personal and professional lives. Learn how these behaviors have the potential to impact relationships, work functioning, and personal growth and tools to help you navigate.    In this episode we talk about: Potential Signs of ADHD ·       Lack of attention to detail ·       Difficulty concentrating ·       Difficulty completing a tasks, having several unfinished tasks or projects ·       Continually losing or misplacing things ·       Feel the need to interrupt other before you lose your train of thought ·       Restlessness and edginess ·       Difficulty keeping quiet, speaking out of turn ·       Difficulty with organization ·       Tendency to procrastinate ·       Irritability ·       Feeling like everything is urgent when it may not be ·       Difficult slowing ·       Difficulty multitasking ·       Easily lose track of time, feeling like you have more time that you actually do ·       Racing though tor jumping from idea to idea ·       Checking out often or daydreaming Potential Signs of High Functioning ADHD ·       Hyperfocus on projects or deadlines ·       Heavily focused on productivity or achievement ·       Your work style either includes lots of breaks or extended period of work with minimal breaks ·       Excessive use of calendars, reminders, apps to ensure you do not miss appointments, deadlines, or events ·       Chronic procrastination or you excel under pressure Tools for Inattention or Impulsivity ·       Use the resources available to you ·       Breakup larger tasks into smaller, attainable tasks ·       Engage in active reflection and self-awareness ·       Focus on one task at time ·       Ask yourself o   Can it wait? o   Do you need it? o   Do you need this right now? ·       Learn healthy coping skills to help you manage symptoms to ensure symptoms do not negatively impact your relationships or daily functioning ·       Utilize mindfulness tools Other Factors that May Increase these Behaviors ·       Anxiety symptoms ·       Depression symptoms ·       ADHD symptoms Resources Mentioned in this Episode ·       Episode 63: Confessions of a High-Functioning, Anxious Therapist ·       Episode 66: “Heroin, Heartache, and Hope” with Christian Author of Counting Spoons Kathryn Mae Inman Who we are: Nik Young is co-host of Therapists Uncut and a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist. Nik keeps it personable and professional. Yet, always manages to keep the Therapists Uncut family and followers laughing. You may find them squirreling through topics, stories, or jokes, and all in good fun. Don't worry because someone will bring Nik back around to the conversation. Nik is a licensed marriage and family therapist in their private practice located in Modesto, CA, and is also a Crisis Junkie at heart. In addition to being co-owner of a group private practice, Nik is also a crisis clinician responding to local mental health crisis and emergencies. Learn more about Nik Young at catalystcounselinginc.com Alyssa Najera is co-host of Therapists Uncut and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. Alyssa is typically calm and composed on most days, but often has difficulty containing her excitement about the little things in life. She loves to laugh, spread positivity, and is often caught with a smile on her face. Alyssa is also a Child Welfare Services social worker and supervisor alumni, previous child sexual abuse forensic interviewer, trainer and consultant, and CEO of a group private practice in the small town of Oakdale, CA. Learn more about Alyssa Najera at smalltowncounselingca.com or alyssanajera.com. Disclaimer: Thank you for joining Therapists Uncut, a production of https://ampsmartbusiness.com/ . To learn more about Therapists Uncut and stay up on upcoming episodes, please subscribe and follow us on social media. As a reminder, although the Therapists Uncut co-hosts are licensed therapists, they are not your therapist. This podcast is not intended to substitute professional mental health counseling. If you need professional therapy, please contact your local provider or primary care provider.  Thanks for listening and we'll see you on the next episode of Therapists Uncut!    

We all face difficult things in our lives, but on the other side of difficulty is usually some victory. For example, getting through the Air Force's basic training and passing the CPA exam. [1:20] It wasn't what I expected, but I persevered, followed the system, did what I was told and pushed through it. When I graduated I was very proud. It was a similar story to passing the CPA exam. [2:15] It doesn't matter where you are in the evolution of your bookkeeping business, there are difficult things that you do not want to do. Usually, on the other side of the struggle that we have to go through is the very thing that we want. [2:45] List out the difficult things in your life as they relate to your business right now. What are the things that you are putting off and avoiding? Then ask yourself what would happen if you did those things. What are the best-case scenarios and worst-case scenarios? [4:20] Sometimes we have to trick our minds into looking at the benefit that is going to get us there. We've got to get over our initial reluctance and just go do that thing. [5:05] Some difficult things are things that can't be avoided, but we're talking about the difficult things that we know will move us closer to our goals, if only we could get over our fears. [5:30] Busy work is often stuff we do in order to avoid doing the things that we know we need to do to turn the dial in our business. Two of the most common difficult things that bookkeeping professionals avoid are networking and marketing. [6:35] Feel the fear and do it anyway. Verbalize what you're afraid of and then go do it. Whenever we are trying to do something new, our subconscious is going to try to dissuade us and convince us of the easier and more comfortable path. [7:30] Once you identify the difficult things you are avoiding and list them out, figure out the things that you should be doing. Set yourself up for success by putting them into your schedule and giving someone the responsibility to keep you accountable. [9:00] Take your list of difficult things and start taking action on them. That may mean getting rid of bad clients or letting go of a team member, but you have to keep in mind the benefit on the other side.     Contact us about the show: hello@ilovebookkeeping.com

About Tami-Adrian George: Tami is the founder of Tami's Take On…Pilates. Rehab. Nutrition. It's Tami George's passion to help people do the things they love…better and without pain! Tami's many years as a dancer and busy working actor & model (Starship Troopers, In The House, General Hospital, 50+ National Commercials) meant she needed to be in peak physical condition.  Since her initial Pilates certification more than 30 years ago, she's had the opportunities to learn from Master Level Pilates Instructors, trained under top Physical Therapists, and incorporated my many fields of study to help her clients achieve their fitness goals.  She's worked with everyone from CEOs to nationally-competing athletes, from weekend warriors to fitness fraidy-cats, from little kids to grandparents.  Tami-Adrian says it's about so much more than dieting and exercises…It's about laughing, learning and celebrating!  Let's talk about taking back our fitness! What We Discuss in this Episode: We all have that voice in our heads that's chittering away non-stop. What is yours saying? Is it even your voice? And, if not, who let them in? After encountering so many clients who based their fitness & wellness goals on what other people had to say about them, she developed an easy to use system for filtering out all the “shoulds” and zeroing in on all the “Heck Yeahs!” Real fitness is not about what your weight.  Why in the world do we talk to ourselves in such damaging ways? Why can't people seem to stay motivated? We start off all gangbusters, then fizzle out. In all your years as a performer, what were you most surprised to find out about how your peers were staying camera ready? What's the difference between Body Positive and True Fitness? How does one set fitness goals they can actually reach? How do we change that negative voice in our head?   Free Resource from Tami-Adrian George Real Fitness Starts With The Voice in Your Head:  https://www.tamistakeon.com/ (sign up for Tami-Adrian's newsletter and she will send it to you).   Connect With Tami-Adrian George Website: https://www.tamistakeon.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/tami.pilates.rehab   Connect with Lynne: If you're looking for a community of like-minded women on a journey - just like you are - to improved health and wellness, overall balance, and increased confidence, check out Lynne's private community in The Energized & Healthy Women's Club. It's a supportive and collaborative community where the women in this group share tips and solutions for a healthy and holistic lifestyle. (Discussions include things like weight management, eliminating belly bloat, wrangling sugar gremlins, and overcoming fatigue, recipes, strategies, and much more so women can feel energized, healthy, confident, and joyful each day. Website:  https://holistic-healthandwellness.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/holistichealthandwellnessllc The Energized Healthy Women's Club:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/energized.healthy.women Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lynnewadsworth LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/lynnewadsworth   Free Resources from Lynne Wadsworth: 5 Simple Steps to Gain Energy, Feel Great & Uplevel Your Health: Are you ready to create a Healthier Lifestyle?  Would you like to feel lighter, more energized, and even add joy to your life? If it's time to find more balance of mind~body~soul, then I've got the perfect FREE resource to help.  In this guide, you'll find my most impactful strategies and I've made applying them in your life as simple as 1-2-3 (plus a couple more) to help you create a healthier, holistic lifestyle. Uplevel your holistic health and wellness and download the 5 Simple Steps to Health  here:  https://holistic-healthandwellness.com/5-simple-steps-to-a-healthier-you/   How to Thrive in Menopause:  Hot flashes? Low Energy? Difficulty with weight management? If MID-LIFE & MENOPAUSE are taking their toll then I've got a solution for you! I've taken all my very best strategies and solutions to help you feel energized, vibrant, lighter & healthy, and compiled them into this FREE resource! Thrive in midlife and beyond - download my guide here: https://holistic-healthandwellness.com/thrive-through-menopause/   Did You Enjoy The Podcast? If you enjoyed this episode please let us know! 5-star reviews for the Living Life Naturally podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pandora, or Stitcher are greatly appreciated. This helps us reach more women struggling to live through midlife and beyond. Thank you. Together, we make a difference!  

We hear from Brian Haynes on how we can parent well through the mountaintop moments as well as the difficult times. 

I am bringing back the IMG Roadmap live program; this is an intensive but fast bootcamp to get you ready for the 2024 match cycle. If you want to be informed once we launch click here https://www.aceyourclinicals.com/2023! ***** Have you ever heard that International Medical Graduates (IMGs) can't secure spots in top programs and competitive specialties? Dr. Rhanderson Cardoso, a successful cardiologist at Harvard Medical School at the Brigham Women's Faulkner Hospital, is here to prove otherwise! Background: Currently working at Harvard Medical School Attended Medical school in Brazil Completed Internal Medicine residency at University of Miami, where he served as a chief resident Cardiology Fellowship at Johns Hopkins followed by Imaging Fellowship at Harvard Medical School Stays on as faculty and performs research and teaches residents Match Journey: Dr. Cardoso's dream was always to complete medical residency in the US ECMFG provided the opportunity for him to do so Completed Step 1 in his 5th year of medical school and had observerships in the US Despite the lack of people taking the same path, he applied for residency just after graduation Mistakes in application: no publications and applied to too few programs Matched at University of Miami and was able to secure better programs in the future Challenges: Matched and completed residency on J1 Long residency (3 years of medicine, 1 year of chief residency, and 3 years of fellowship) Had to apply for extension for additional training in cardiac imaging Took on a position in academic institution after residency and now has an O visa Research Difficulty: As a 1st-year resident, he had limited time to do research He learned systematic review and meta-analysis to become more appealing to collaborators and mentors Barriers for IMGs: Financial expenses English language proficiency Difficulty in getting meaningful research done Webinar: Dr. Cardoso is hosting a webinar on February 28th on the publication roadmap. You can find more information on his Instagram @rhandersoncardoso.md and @metaanalysis.academy. ***** Follow us on Instagram for supportive content and download our targeted planner from our website! Subscribe to our podcast and newsletter and consider joining our program in the spring to kick start your IMG journey in 2023. As always you can click on the following links to listen to more episodes of our podcasts on Apple podcasts, Google podcasts and Spotify. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ninalum/support

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Pete Rubish is back to discuss the following: 0:00- Intro 0:30- Catching up with Pete 3:00- Difficulty of a YouTube career 9:00- Coming off all PEDs 13:00- Reviewing Pete's bloodwork 21:00- Pete's loss of progress coming off all PEDs 28:00- Back to blood work 52:10- High natural testosterone levels 58:00- My training and gym life 1:01:00- Lifestyle conversation 1:08:00- Former goals Website and Coaching: https://brainsandgainspodcast.com/ -For those looking to support the channel and our donations to various charities, please consider the above link to become a member and have the opportunity to appear on the channel!BULK SUPPLEMENTS AFFILIATE LINK: https://glnk.io/63qn/dave-maconiDiscount code: DAVE5OFFSmile Fund: https://secure.operationsmile.org/sit...Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dave_maconi/Youtube Homepage:    / @brainsandgainspo...  

It has been a blitz intensive week in Marvel Strike Force. One Blitz event ends and another begins, is Kang Worth the Grind and BRAND NEW datamines arrive. I discuss these items and more with prplestiky. Our additional topics include:Introduction 00:00Weekly Hoard Watch  02:40"Awesome" Kang Hunt Event 04:46Event Limits Good or Bad 10:41Kang Event Coming 17:51Web Milestone for Energy 19:19Realistic FTP star expectation for Kang 23:00Kang Required for Kang event 25:37New Alpha Raids with no new Difficulty 29:39Memory Lane Event with Sweepstakes 32:34Death Scourge Returns 35:33Pocket Dimension with 2099 40:52DATAMINES Month-long MEMORY LANE Milestone 45:04DATAMINES- Return to the Shadows Event 47:22DATAMINES Quick Rumbles 51:30DATAMINES Charging Station Event 53:45Conqueror Orbs Reaction 55:43Final Thoughts: 58:44see more prplestikyhttps://www.youtube.com/@prplestiky https://www.twitch.tv/prplestikyGet up to 20% off your in-game purchases with Amazon coins:https://l.linklyhq.com/l/L6XG#MarvelStrikeForceValleySNAP Channel (Marvel SNAP) http://bit.ly/2oHqk8EOther Sponsors:LD Player: https://bit.ly/LDPMFRBluestacks 5: http://bit.ly/VFBlueSKILLSHARE Premium Free Trial: https://skl.sh/valleyflyin12211Worldwide Nutrition 15% Discount: https://worldwidenutrition.com/pages/...More ValleyFlyin:Valleyflyin Merch: http://bit.ly/VFMerchDiscord: http://bit.ly/valleyflyinTwitter: https://twitter.com/valleyflyinInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/valleyflyin/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Valleyflyin/Twitch: http://bit.ly/vftwitchPatreon: http://bit.ly/VFPatreonSupport the show

Lightfall HYPE is here with the final trailer discussion. We get into the upcoming changes to difficulty modifiers and scaling of damage with Surges, Threats and Overcharged Weapons. Gambit is nowhere to be seen and the Artifact is looking like Void may be the play. DemonJoe Twitter - https://twitter.com/DemonJoeTV BigDaddyTeej Twitter - https://twitter.com/BDTeej Travis Northup Twitter - https://twitter.com/TieGuyTravis Ebontis Twitter: https://twitter.com/Ebontis Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/ebontis Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/Ebontis LordCognito Twitter: https://twitter.com/LordCognito Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYiUhEbYWiuwRuWXzKZMBxQ You can support The Last Word Podcast right here https://anchor.fm/ebontis/support --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ebontis/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ebontis/support

Liz and Sarah are deep into the first draft of the pilot they're writing — and discovering all over again how hard it is to write a pilot. Creating something out of nothing is never easy! In Take A Hike, Liz talks about how she decided to set aside worry during her recent glamping trip. The result? She was fully present and had an amazing time. Next, in Take Two, Liz and Sarah share more ways to listen to Audio books. This week's Hollywood Hack will improve your bedtime routine: the Peryton Sleep Headphones Wireless, Bluetooth Sports Headphones. And finally Sarah recommends the iced brown sugar oat milk shaken espresso from Starbucks. Get in touch on Twitter: @sarahmfain & @elizabethcraft Get in touch on Instagram: @Sfain & @LizCraft Visit our website: https://happierinhollywood.com Join our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/HappierinHollywood/ Happier in Hollywood is part of ‘The Onward Project,' a family of podcasts brought together by Gretchen Rubin—all about how to make your life better. Check out the other Onward Project podcasts—Happier with Gretchen Rubin, Side Hustle School, Do The Thing, and Everything Happens with Kate Bowler . If you liked this episode, please subscribe, leave a review, and tell your friends! LINKS: Cloud Library: Cloudlibrarycbcpubliclibrary.net Hoopla: audiobooks, ebooks, movies, tv and comics.hoopladigital.com Libro.fm: Same audiobooks. Different story.libro.fm Peryton Sleep Headphones: Perytong Sleep Headphones Wireless, Bluetooth Sports Headband Headphones with Ultra-Thin HD Stereo Speakers Perfect for Sleeping,Workout,Jogging,Yoga,Insomnia, Air Travel, Meditation, Greyamazon.com Photo by Tonik on Unsplash To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Do you feel blindsided by God?Something in your life was disappointing or tragic. You felt that God didn't prepare you for what happened. So you take a rest. You stop saying yes and spend your time kind of on the sidelines of life, still believing God, but having removed yourself from the game.You have grace to stop and rest.You have grace to stay and rest.You have grace to die there....But you will miss out on the life God has for you.Find Us:https://www.facebook.com/RedemptionUnveiledhttps://www.instagram.com/redemptionunveiled/http://www.tiktok.com/@redemptionunveiled

Welcome to the audio podcast of VIA Church Fresno, led by Pastor Jordan Diepersloot. VIA exists to see the world thrive by transforming one person at a time with the love and presence of Jesus. We hope these messages encourage your faith. For more information about VIA church, visit viafresno.com

The biggest threat you have to your business is ignorance. Today, join Alex (@AlexHormozi) as he guests on BiggerPockets to talk about the difficult stage when it comes to scaling, bringing more value and money, and finding the right talent for your team. This is part 2 of the interview.Welcome to The Game Podcast where we talk about how to get more customers, make more profit per customer, and keep them longer, and the many failures and lessons we have learned along the way to $100M in sales. We've got roll-up-your-sleeves kind of hustle with a little bit of cleverness and a lot of heart. Check out the episode on BiggerPockets' YouTube Channel!Timestamps:(0:21) - Finding the right talent for your team(5:18) - Difficulty in reaching millions & the toughest stage in scaling(13:42) - Advice on bringing more value to your employer & making more money(19:14) - The hardest part in the beginning of entrepreneurship is ignorance(27:03) - How does the money come in the door? Where do you start?(30:32) - Alex answers some quick-fire questions & shares his opinion on TikTokFollow Alex Hormozi's Socials:LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook | YouTube | Twitter | Acquisition

Emotional growth doesn't always feel great. But it doesn't have to feel terrible, either. You get to choose whether or not you put the time and energy into changing a certain aspect of your life. The key is being able to recognize the difference between giving up on something because you think it's too hard, and choosing to pursue something else that is more interesting and important to you. This week we'll revisit a very important topic: How to know when emotional difficulty is worth it. I'll teach you why the hardest things are not always the most worthwhile.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://unfuckyourbrain.com/276

The Minimalists talk about why it's so difficult to let go. Listen to all 2.5 hours of episode 378 on The Minimalists Private Podcast. Discussed in this episode: How do I push myself out of my long-term comfort zones? (02:08) How do we learn to better trust our intuition? (16:37) What is most concerning about the desire for nice things? (21:01) How do we ensure we purchase items with weighted consideration for utility, durability, environmental cost, and fair trade manufacturing? (30:39) Detailed show notes: minimalists.com/podcast Join The Minimalists Private Podcast: minimalists.com/support