What Is It That You Keep Coming Back To? With Holly Totten

04/18/23 • 9 min

I’m a self-confessed sentimental, nostalgic type of person and over the years have loved to sit down with the Waltons, Little House on the Prairie, Gilligan's Island and The Brady Bunch, to name a few, and today’s episode is actually inspired by a Waltons episode! The episode has a pivotal message of following your heart and encouraging us to figure out what we want by simply stepping forward. I expand on this concept in this episode with further thoughts involving:

The John Barrymore quote A man is not old, until regrets take the place of dreams. How this quote is relevant even 100 years later and how generations benefit from these words and experiences, especially in their third half of life.
Coming back to recurring themes in our lives, paths and signs that resurface, something that you are passionate about and is difficult to get out of your mind.
Sentimental and nostalgic moments through memories with the box. How they can evoke further thoughts and memories and my reflections with these moments.

To connect and find out more about the Teaching Yourself to Learn Podcast, apply to be a guest and share your story you can reach me at [email protected].

This episode is made possible by the New Author Intensive. To find out more please visit www.teachingyourselftolearn.com and use coupon code NEWAUTHOR for $100 off when you sign up.

Because while everyone is not a writer, anyone can become an author.

The John Barrymore quote A man is not old, until regrets take the place of dreams. How this quote is relevant even 100 years later and how generations benefit from these words and experiences, especially in their third half of life.
Coming back to recurring themes in our lives, paths and signs that resurface, something that you are passionate about and is difficult to get out of your mind.
Sentimental and nostalgic moments through memories with the box. How they can evoke further thoughts and memories and my reflections with these moments.

To connect and find out more about the Teaching Yourself to Learn Podcast, apply to be a guest and share your story you can reach me at [email protected].

This episode is made possible by the New Author Intensive. To find out more please visit www.teachingyourselftolearn.com and use coupon code NEWAUTHOR for $100 off when you sign up.

Because while everyone is not a writer, anyone can become an author.

Previous Episode

I am Working on What I Can Do Better with Debbie Griffiths

*Trigger warning. This episode contains talk of attempted suicide and may be confronting for some listeners. If you or a loved one are struggling with suicidal thoughts, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline in your local area. There is help available for you.

There are often events throughout our lives that shake us to our core. Past relationships which are unhealthy with harmful patterns can push us to the limit. Unfortunately Debbie Griffiths was driven to her peak after experiencing domestic violence for over 17 years. At 63, she feels like her life is just beginning. She has now published a book to help others and come through stronger, healed by taking one step and a time and rebuilding a life worth living. Listen in as Holly and Debbie discuss:

How everything that has happened has brought her to this point. Each stepping stone prepared for the next step, including twists and turns and the whole nine yards. Accepting responsibility and moving forward.
Getting better at speaking up for what we need. How her suicide attempt opened her eyes to make a change to her life and how it took a while to understand and recognize what was happening.
Giving back to others. Bringing awareness to others to help them recogize the signs and learning how to take care of ourselves.
The important basic human need to be loved and to love in return. How we are not made to stay stuck. The opportunity in the third half of life to ask what it is we want to do.

To find out more about Debbie, take a look at her book Torched, Burnt By a Gaslighter please visit her website www.brokentoboldness.com you can also find her on Instagram @debbiegriffiths581, Facebook and LinkedIn.

This episode is made possible by the New Author Intensive. To find out more please visit www.teachingyourselftolearn.com and use coupon code NEWAUTHOR for $100 off when you sign up. Because while everyone is not a writer, anyone can become an author. To connect and find out more about the Teaching Yourself to Learn Podcast, apply to be a guest and share your story you can reach Holly at [email protected] or via the website www.teachingyourselftolearn.com.

Next Episode

Being Fully Awake to Everything About You with Holly Totten

This episode piggybacks off last week's solo episode - although without so much of a Walton reference inside. If you’ve listened along with the Podcast for a while now you know Holly loves a good quote or few and today is no different. She opens with the quote from Jackson Pollock which says - the secret to success is to be fully awake to everything about you. Listen as Holly explores this very concept in her third half of life and talks about:

Stepping back and taking a 360 degree look at every aspect that has to do with you including likes and dislikes, dreams and desires and where your inner world may have been influenced by that external to you.
Think about what you keep coming back to. Often we find that it does present itself again in this third half of life journey.
A fun and simple exercise that Holly found herself coming back to years after she was witness to it. A wonderful reminder when we find ourselves in a funk and veering off track.
The noise that we often have around us when it comes to what we should, could and would be doing.

To connect and find out more about the Teaching Yourself to Learn Podcast, apply to be a guest and share your story you can reach Holly at [email protected] or via the website www.teachingyourselftolearn.com.

This episode is made possible by the New Author Intensive. To find out more please visit www.teachingyourselftolearn.com and use coupon code NEWAUTHOR for $100 off when you sign up.

Because while everyone is not a writer, anyone can become an author.