Give Yourself The Love You Deserve

04/28/22 • 58 min

I’m Katie Moran and this is the Artistic Spirit Podcast- your place for art, mental health, and spirituality. I’m here with Ryan Spence- a life and weight loss coach. He’s lost 130 pounds and has kept it off for 13 years. Now he’s helping others. He’s coached me and has changed my life. He’s helped me become more confident, with an audible difference in my voice.

Ryan talks about how he lost 130 pounds with small habits and sustainable change to keep it off for 13 years. Now he is on a mission to coach others through the process of self-love and sustainable change. Ryan has taught me how to accept myself as I am and how to become more confident.

Tips from Ryan

Start with small habits- they make a big difference
Don’t wait until you hit your goal to be happy
Do the things you say you will do and confidence will follow
Work with a coach or therapist to build confidence
Look for moments where you feel aligned

Ryan suggests everyone finds out their love language and gives themselves self-love in their love language. We recognize and prefer love in certain ways. We can use this to our benefit to show ourselves the love we deserve.

Emotional eating is when we self-soothe through eating. We eat to feel better, but it may not be a form of self-care or self-love. Ryan recommends working through emotions with a coach and finding the root causes of the emotions that condition bad habits. For emotional eating, he also suggests writing down what you eat and the emotions you feel when you eat to bring awareness to your habits.

Reminders from Ryan

Someone else’s truth doesn’t have to become your truth
We are in charge of how we feel
You deserve your own love
Change is not about all or nothing
You can choose to make change sustainable
It’s okay if the change takes awhile
You can change one habit at a time

Connect with Ryan Spence here.

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Tips from Ryan

Start with small habits- they make a big difference
Don’t wait until you hit your goal to be happy
Do the things you say you will do and confidence will follow
Work with a coach or therapist to build confidence
Look for moments where you feel aligned

Reminders from Ryan

Someone else’s truth doesn’t have to become your truth
We are in charge of how we feel
You deserve your own love
Change is not about all or nothing
You can choose to make change sustainable
It’s okay if the change takes awhile
You can change one habit at a time

Connect with Ryan Spence here.

Previous Episode

Become The Person You Need

Hello, I’m Katie Moran an author, poet, advocate, creativity coach, and social entrepreneur. This is the Artistic Spirit Podcast, your place for art, mental health, and spirituality. This is Artistic Spirit’s most powerful episode. I’m here with Sharon Valenti- a serial entrepreneur, coach, and trainer. She is the founder of Sharon’s.club

Sharon discusses overcoming limiting beliefs and sexual abuse as well as trauma recovery. She talks about how abuse cycles and patterns are conditioned and how you can heal from them.

You can become the person you need. You can give yourself the love you deserve. You can heal and form new beliefs about yourself that empower you and reframe the limiting self-beliefs formed from traumatic experiences or abuse. You can accept yourself the way you are.

Here are reminders from Sharon

You create your reality
Take full responsibility for your life and what happens
Let go of beliefs about yourself you formed from traumatic experiences
You can accept what happens in your life by living in the moment
Show up as you

If you are struggling with self-confidence and limiting beliefs, look in the mirror, affirm yourself, and watch what comes up for you. Reframe any negativity that comes up with courage. Lift yourself up.

If you are suicidal now, please call an emergency suicide prevention line in your area for help. If you are looking for reasons not to kill yourself watch my suicide prevention video here.

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How to Feel Safe Before You Create Art

I”m Katie Moran and this is Artistic Spirit- your place for art, mental health, and spirituality. I’m here today with MJ Coppola- a wellness warrioress, author, poet, spiritual awareness seeker, spiritual coach, and the podcast host of Mirrored Wellness.

MJ has helped me find the courage to start this podcast, Artistic Spirit. She holds space on her podcast, Mirrored Wellness, where she discusses self-development and spirituality. She has learned through creativity coaching that she needs to feel safe in order to create, like many of us.

MJ’s Tips on How to Feel Safe

Create Sacred Space
Remind yourself that it is ok to feel your feelings
Talk to someone to regurgitate and process
Utilize objects as symbols to remind you that you are safe
Practice grounding

MJ recognizes the need to validation in creating and how creative sprints have helped her get back to writing poetry. “Demons Cry Too” is a culmination of years of poetry that she revisited to share this work with the world.

Reminders About Befriending Your Shadow Side

Accept having ups and downs in your mood without judgment
Recognize that your shadow doesn’t always feel good
Slow down and pause when you need it
Accept that rest is necessary
You can channel it for creativity
You can release addiction to shadow feelings
Music can change your mood

MJ discusses the growth she has had in accountability groups. The power of community can be motivating and uplifting. MJ credits having a space to feel supported and creative to her work in accountability groups.

Connect with MJ here.