Being With Fear, and Finding Your Spiritual Path
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- čas přidán 18. 08. 2024
- In today's episode of My Therapist's a Witch we're talking about being with our fear. We explore how spiritual wounding and Western religions can disturb our spiritual needs, and how we can bring curiosity to both our feelings and our spiritual beliefs.
I share my story of being raised in a Seventh Day Adventist community, how I learned to sit with the fears that had been programmed into me in childhood, and how I found the strength to move through those fears and find a spiritual path that brought me peace and purpose.
Included in this episode are:
• A practice for being with fear as a part.
• Advice for allowing our body to be with our feelings somatically.
• How we can cultivate an inner "wise adult."
• Learning that all the justification we need is what works for us.
Timestamps:
0:00 Welcoming
0:45 Being with fear and discomfort
2:30 A practice for being with fear
9:35 My spiritual journey
14:30 The terror of not believing, and lie of an unkind god
18:30 Curiosity, and inviting the younger parts
24:15 Overjustifying ourselves
30:30 Finding who we are
About Me: I'm a somatic psychotherapist in training. In these videos I'm sharing my personal practice, where I bring together tools from somatic psychology and witchcraft to help people address issues like PMDD, anxiety, and depression.
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I find your videos compelling, filled with kindness, compassion and acceptance of your human self.
Your vulnerability takes your videos to a level which is an inspiration for me. Your soul is shining through every word you speak, as if daring us to come and join you in LIVING. I am so grateful for your words. Keep speaking to us.
That’s the kind of comment I wish I could come up with. Well said.
I wish you were still posing on CZcams, you are saving me from my pmdd, slowly but surely so thank you for creating these vids for us and this community💖
I hope you are doing well🫶🏼
I have PMDD & you help me so much. Please keep up the videos. Your voice soothes me. Thank you.
Your sensitivity and sweetness is such a powerful gift. You have a unique capacity as a therapist, your authenticity is so calming and genuine. I love how open you are about your own journey and aren't afraid to be vulnerable in sharing your healing journey with us. I haven't watched a video of yours yet that hasn't resonated with me on some level. I am grateful I found your channel!!!
I really appreciate this video, thank you for making this. I personally have problems with vulnerability and as a child i never felt safe voicing my own opinion in fear because I wont be accepted and loved for being my authentic self.
I always felt alone but i have a lot to work on so for now i will focus on myself and resolving my issues and trauma.
This is going to be a comment without content. You have moved me to a place beyond human words. Gratitude and love, gratitude and love.
I'm a minute in and i'm noticing your energy is already helping me
Thank you very much. I have struggled immensely with fear as a very highly sensitive person with a pretty traumatic past of emotional abuse, isolation and neglect. The world never felt safe and so I have been in constant internal conflict my whole life about wanting to live and be seen and known, and also wanting to hide from live. I honestly wasted years in this place and still want to run.
the false self just to get through life, just to have needs met, Thanks for saying this Elizabeth.
I’m so glad I found your channel. Thank you for this video. Blessings to all ♥️
I can relate so much to your story. Thank you for sharing. ❤ I am still recovering from the belief system I was born into and trying to cultivate my own spiritual beliefs. My life was also very restricted and I was taught many of the same things you were. I really like what you said about curiosity and letting it lead you.
Hi! I just found your channel and love your approach to therapy and spirituality. I would love to see some newer content!
You have given me comfort AND peace. I see you. I have so much appreciation and love for you. X
I am greatfull for your content xx
I'm on my journey to be so in tune as you are with yourself ,and to hear me see me,love me ,its so so challenging
Your experience in feeling connected to witchcraft imo is a symbol of individuation: your curiosity led you to overcome your fear and bc it was a positive experience, contrary to and unlike any of what you anticipated based on childhood programming, it was positive reinforcement for that childlike sense of wonder and curiosity, which brought great joy, relief and a feeling of empowerment to your inner child. Your inner child felt very much seen, validated, respected, valued and liberated 🎉. Definitely can't knock it.
Wow that was brilliant 🙏 thank you 🍀
Thank you so much for your videos! I love when you talk about your patterns. I notice the same patterns within me - and still struggeling a lot.
I love your channel! I wish you would continue to upload new content. ❤
I am Christian and I had a huge false self. I am still Christian but I broke off from all the toxicity of religion. I kept the spirituality and ditched the religion. I ditched the shoulds and the musts. And I believe that God hates these too. If we’re created that differentiated then we must be made by a God who is even more free and differentiated than us.
I just found you on youtube and I was also a seventh day Adventist and I was also raised in a very volatile household. I connected with you immediately. I am going to begin somatic therapy with my therapist next week and I am a little scared but I have alot of trauma from my first marriage and I have been working to heal my nervous system from anxiety for last 5 months and it's been very hard but I believe I am finally ready to deal with these traumatic events so I can achieve release
Thank you Elizabeth. Appreciating this inter-weaving, insightful and inter-connected talk.
Bless for the powerful vulnerability you are bringing to the table as you enquire and encourage curiosity into what feels unpleasant.
I found humor yesterday in describing this last wave of healing & suffering as the Umbrella of 'P' - Pmdd/Peri-menopausal/Ptsd = Process , I'm also witnessing my neuro-diversity in it's zenith. Empty and pre-verbal is the status. Here's to befriending and dismantling the Dragon 🙏
Powerful listening on spiritual harm just to acknowledge, as wish to stay brief for a 'comment'.
All the very best, Iris🌱
What a awesome talk. Your idea about what you have said, I feel actually what it is. Love you to have in CZcams. ❤
I have just discovered you ,I found a gem thankyou