How To Love Yourself And Heal Your Trauma With Storytelling With Dr. Andrea Pennington

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On today’s episode, Dr. Andrea Pennington is joining us. We are going to be learning from her as an expert speaker, expert storyteller, and master of self-love. She has had an incredibly prolific career spanning many different industries. We are going to hear from her today on how she had the courage to step into a new future vision of her life going from working very hard in the television industry not wanting her life to living in the South of France creating the dream life and this all comes through better storytelling.

Dr. Andrea Pennington is an integrative physician, acupuncturist, meditation teacher, and conscious communication specialist. She is the founder of In8Vitality, a #1 international bestselling author, highly acclaimed 2x TEDx speaker, visionary brand strategist for Light workers, and Co-founder of the #RealSelfLove Movement. As a sought-after media personality for the last two decades, Dr. Andrea has shared her candid, empowering insights on vitality and resilience on the Oprah Winfrey Show, the Dr. Oz Show, iTV This Morning, CNN, the Today Show, LUXE-TV, Thrive Global, and HuffingtonPost and as a news anchor for Discovery Health Channel. In her role as a documentary producer, she has produced a 4-part documentary series entitled Simple Steps to a Balanced Natural Pregnancy.

We discuss:

[02:20] Andrea shares her defining moment when she found herself in a career that was not fulfilling.
[05:51] When we come to this Earth, it is up to us to determine who we will be.
[07:25] You can speak a future story like it is happening in the present tense and show what could be.
[09:20] She immediately took action towards her vision. She also took a bit of time to unplug and unwind.
[11:02] She returned to her vision every day several times a day. Make your future so visual and do it in the mind, words, and feeling it in the body.
[14:01] People with a lack of self-love don’t believe they are worthy of health and happiness and that is why they sabotage the process. Many of us hold ourselves back from success because of a lack of self-love.
[15:18] Getting to a point where you realize whatever is going on in the outside world is not going to fix your internal problem. We are all lovable at our core.
[16:42] When people start to realize that the life they have been living is not actually fulfilling, that is when people start to wake-up to recognizing that they have to love themselves and there is a way forward from that point.
[19:57] There are some stories that we are telling ourselves that are not true.
[20:39] When you can take ownership of your story on this level, you are standing and loving yourself, you are creating opportunities to connect, and stopping the patterns, and giving a better future to those you connect with.
[22:20] These stories can become the core and propel our life and career forward.
[23:42] We can often turn our painful lessons and stories into blessings and blessing other people.
[24:46] Humans are natural storytellers. The brain starts to collapse images and stories to make meaning of events.
[25:41] If you understand how the hero’s journey works, it empowers you to become the creator of your story positively. The hero’s journey exists because it is how we go through and process things.
[27:07] Across all cultures, we all go through these various stages. Start by creating a timeline of significant events going back as far as you can remember and add a note about the meaning, lesson, or what was impressed on you.
[28:15] Most of us encounter that magic or mentor who helps us to take that leap of faith or step across the threshold. Then we are off on the adventure.
[30:29] The hero’s journey helps people who are healing from trauma. When we can look at our life through the lens of the hero’s journey we can recognize that depending on your beliefs you are either the author or co-author of your life.
[31:17] If this was a hero’s journey, what would the hero take from those painful lessons and where would they go forward? We can author our life.
[32:48] We each have our own purpose and destiny to discover. There is gold, hidden jewels, and gems to be found in your personal story. Go mining for that gold and treasure within your own life because you’re a gift to the world. Share your presence with passion.