Ep. 18 - Foundational Mindset Work

08/20/20 • 65 min

The End of the Day Podcast with Kari Watterson: Using Mindset Work to Live Your Best Life

We all have different areas of growth. Some of us are working toward specific financial or business goals, some of us are working toward repairing or deepening relationships, some of us are are working toward healthier, more compassionate relationships with ourselves.
Some of us may be working on multiple areas at once.
In this episode, I talk about the importance of using mindset work to build a strong sense of self first. When we have the tools and foundation in place, and when we truly commit to taking 100% responsibility for our thoughts, feelings and actions, we are more prepared to emotionally support ourselves during our more challenging areas of growth.
As I share from my own healing journey, this foundational "self" work is critical, particularly when we do inner child or shadow work, or any thoughtwork that involves unlearning unhealthy or ineffective beliefs or patterns of behavior, and rewiring or adopting healthier, more effective thought processes and emotions.
When we do this foundational mindset work and start building a stronger sense of self, we become more skilled and confident at managing our minds and more committed to our personal growth. We start developing resilience and emotional strength, both of which we'll need when we work to process the more vulnerable, uncomfortable, and painful feelings that come with deeper areas of growth and healing.
As with any skill, the more we commit to and practice mindset work, the sooner we'll see the results. Once again, managing our minds does not guarantee 100% happiness and positivity. It gives us something far more precious: the ability to reduce our emotional suffering and create the experiences we want in life.
Cited in Podcast:
Podcast:
1. The Life Coach School Podcast with Brooke Castillo
2. Unf*ck Your Brain Podcast with Kara Loewentheil
3. Codependency No More with Brian Pisor, Ep. 42 (Vulnerability, Trust and Shame with Guest, Sandra Lax (Certified Facilitator of Brené Brown’s program, The Daring Way)
Coaching with Nerijus
Website: www.rewirewithme.com
Instagram: @rewire.with.me
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Original intro/outro music by JMW.
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To learn more about what I do, my coaching philosophy and how to work with me, email me at [email protected] or visit my website at https://kariwatterson.com.
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For more mindset thoughts and tips, follow me on social media:
Instagram: @kari_mindsetcoach
Twitter: @KaWatterson

Previous Episode

Ep. 17 - Making Mindset Work a Habit

When you do the work to manage your mind, you learn to become the observer of your thoughts. Half the battle is remembering you are not your thoughts, your thoughts are your perception and not necessarily fact, you don't have to believe your thoughts, and you can choose whether to keep them or to think something more useful. The other part is remembering that your thoughts are responsible for the results you create or don't create in your life.
When we understand this concept, we can change the direction of our lives. It just requires commitment and intentionality to take full responsibility and ownership for our thoughts, feelings, actions, and results.
But because we're human, and because our brains can process up to 70,000 thoughts per day, it's easy to forget we have these amazing tools, particularly when we're in the middle of mind drama.
In this episode, I offer a way to use habit building principles to keep mindset practices at the forefront of our thinking when we need them most. Borrowing heavily from James Clear's four-step model to building good habits, I share how we can use his Cue, Craving, Response, and Reward framework to automate the practice of mindset work so we can minimize the time we lose to mind drama that could be spent creating the results we want most in life.
Cited in Podcast:
Article:
Take a Deep Breath. Published by Harvard Medical School (Mental Health Letter), 2009.
Books:
Atomic Habits by James Clear
Deep Work by Cal Newport
How to Become a Straight-A Student by Cal Newport
The ONE Thing by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan
Essentialism by Greg McKeown
Indistractable by Nir Eyal
Podcast:
The Life Coach School Podcast with Brooke Castillo
Website:
Tyson Bradley, Time Coach - https://tysonbradley.me/
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Original intro/outro music by JMW.
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To learn more about what I do, my coaching philosophy and how to work with me, email me at [email protected] or visit my website at https://kariwatterson.com.
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For more mindset thoughts and tips, follow me on social media:
Instagram: @kari_mindsetcoach
Twitter: @KaWatterson

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Ep. 19 - Working Through Depression Shame

The public movement to reduce stigma around mental health is important, but it won't matter what society thinks if you don't honestly address your own stigma about your own mental health.
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I've been transparent about my own past struggles with depression on this podcast and in my Instagram feed, and often talk about how daily mindset work has changed my life.
A recent episode of depression showed me that despite all my work on self-compassion, I still harbored some shame when I felt depressed, particularly as a mindset coach. It was an eye-opening lesson in the role of shame in depression, and how so much of our suffering is caused by our own judgment.
Now that I'm on the other side, I see how much mindset work actually helped me work things through. Rather than hide my recent struggles, I realized that sharing my recent experience, including processing my own shame, might help someone else going through similar feelings.
In this episode I let you inside my brain. Reading from journal entries and adding commentary when necessary, I walk you through how I used mindset work and tools to process the thoughts and fears that came up for me during my most recent depressive episode.
My hope is that doing so will help others notice and release any stigma they may be holding onto surrounding their own depression or other mental health-related struggles.
Finally, please know this episode offers thoughts and tools based on my own personal experience with depression but is not meant to serve as a substitute for therapy or guidance from a medical professional. If you have depression, please know I understand everyone's experience is different. What helps me may help some, but may not be the right path for you right now, and that's okay. There are so many different healing modalities. Keep looking until you find one that suits you and your needs. The important thing is that you get the help you need. Everyone deserves to be happy and to suffer less, including you.
If you find this episode helpful, please share. You never know who you may help by doing so. Thank you so much.
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IF YOU'RE STRUGGLING, PLEASE KNOW HELP IS AVAILABLE.
The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is a United States-based suicide prevention network of over 160 crisis centers that provides 24/7 service via a toll-free hotline with the number 1-800-273-8255. It is available to anyone in suicidal crisis or emotional distress.
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Resources cited in this episode:
Episode 16: Using Music in Mindset Work
Episode 18: Foundational Mindset Work
Coaching with Nerijus
Website: www.rewirewithme.com
Instagram: @rewire.with.me
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Original intro/outro music by JMW.
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To learn more about what I do, my coaching philosophy and how to work with me, email me at [email protected] or visit my website at https://kariwatterson.com.
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For more mindset thoughts and tips, follow me on social media:
Instagram: @kari_mindsetcoach
Twitter: @KaWatterson