S5. EP. 78 Choose You Every Time.

In this episode of It Takes a Village, I reflect on how friendships shape our mindset and ultimately our lives. I share a lesson that stayed with me from a young age: that your outcomes are often a reflection of the people you spend the most time with and how I’ve seen that in my life in college with my grades and now with my energy.

I open up about a recent experience where I found myself around someone with very fear-based thinking. I call that person “Chicken Little”. You remember that story book that spoke about the sky falling. It's an energy type. It's an archetype. Despite years of practicing intentional self-talk, I noticed how spending time with a chicken little also began to influence my own thoughts. That experience led me to make a difficult but necessary decision to step away from a relationship that wasn’t aligned with the energy I want to live in.

This conversation is really about choosing yourself. Choosing friendships, partners, and environments that pour into you, uplift you, and support the version of you you’re becoming. I also connect this to the idea of “soul corrections”. I've been learning Kabbalah and it's teachings have found a way organically in the my life and I find it gives me so much comfort that I wanted to share.

This week's exercise:

Take five minutes to sit in silence and speak to yourself with love, intention, and affirmation. Tell yourself kind things. "I love you. I am proud of you." Even if you hear the negative self talk ignore it and keep going. I love you...see you next week.

Timestamps:
00:00 Welcome Back Villagers
00:34 College Lesson on Friends
03:24 Beyond Grades to Life
03:59 Chicken Little Energy
08:21 Choosing Your Vibration
10:02 Soul Corrections and Flow
12:06 Five Minutes of Self Love
13:38 Love Shifts Everything
14:34 Share and See You Next

Book I mention:

What to Say When You Talk to Yourself by Shad Helmstetter. This is the link to purchase.(⁠https://bit.ly/4uhYeN2)⁠.

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