133 My Grateful 8

11/26/20 • 60 min

The PurposeGirl Podcast: Empowering women to live their purpose with courage, joy, and fierce self-love.

Happiest Thanksgiving, my love. This week’s episode is all about one of my very favorite things: Gratitude. 2020 has been hard, but it’s taught all of us what’s important. My gratitude list is long this year – longer than it has been ever before.

So in this episode, I share My Grateful 8 (okay, it’s a lot more than just 8, but what can I say, I celebrate that I’m good at being grateful!), I provide you with the science on why gratitude is so good for us (and the lasting effects of it on our overall happiness), plus I share gratitude tools and games you can play right now to improve relationships and your life.

No matter who is around your Thanksgiving table this year – or if Thanksgiving is even a happy holiday at all in your home – we can all choose gratitude in our lives every day. I would love to hear about your Grateful 8, so please share that with me if you wish to.

In this episode I share:

The people and things I’m most grateful for this year
Personal stories that contributed to my deep gratitude
The science of gratitude and how it has lasting impacts on your life
Gratitude games you can play around the Thanksgiving table – even from a distance!

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In this episode, I mention my son Shay’s birth story – he almost died at birth – so to hear about it, listen here: (www.carinrockind.com/episode121)

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May you live purposefully, may you love yourself, and may you love life!! Bye for now! XO, Carin

In this episode I share:

The people and things I’m most grateful for this year
Personal stories that contributed to my deep gratitude
The science of gratitude and how it has lasting impacts on your life
Gratitude games you can play around the Thanksgiving table – even from a distance!

In this episode, I mention my son Shay’s birth story – he almost died at birth – so to hear about it, listen here: (www.carinrockind.com/episode121)

May you live purposefully, may you love yourself, and may you love life!! Bye for now! XO, Carin

Previous Episode

132 The B Side of Motherhood

If you’ve been around for the last couple months, you know my big news – I became a mother! I love it so much – and I don’t shy away from talking about the hard parts. Motherhood can bring about a new type of anxiety and a new type of depression. And many women – including me – even experience a feeling of distance from our babies that is scary and confusing and so. Damn. Hard.

In this episode of The PurposeGirl Podcast, I’m fortunate to be joined by Chiara Townley, a woman who caught my attention because she wrote an article entitled “It Took Me Months to Love My Baby and I Don’t Feel Guilty About It” in Good Housekeeping magazine. I mean, HELLO?! It was like she took my story, my feelings, and shared it. In this episode, Chiara and I talk about the challenges of becoming a new mom, and how she moved past the depression to find inner peace, plus how all of us can find inner peace through any and every challenge.

In this episode, Chiara and I discuss:

The overwhelming, confusing, sad feelings many women experience when they become mothers and how those feelings are valid and normal.
Discovering your essence.
How to discover and live your soul purpose.
The connection between the physical manifestation of our fears, anxieties, and depressions and how they connect to the chakras, our mindset, and energy fields.
How affirmations of self-love can heal you as a woman, and a mother.
She leads me through a breathing and energy meditation that you can follow along.

You can connect with Chiara on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/cbtwriting/), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/chiarabtownley/), and Twitter (https://twitter.com/chiarabtownley). Or you can check out her website (https://www.chiarabtownley.com/guidance).

As a special gift for listeners of The PurposeGirl Podcast, Chiara is making available her written report & action plan for $50 instead of $80. Plus, read Chiara’s groundbreaking article, “It Took Me Months to Love My Baby, and I Don’t Feel Guilty About It” here (https://bit.ly/2IyZSIl)

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Want more PurposeGirl?? Ready to be your full Goddess on Purpose self? And desire Sisterhood who feels the same? Join the Free PurposeGirls Facebook Group! I post prompts, motivation, and do free live videos and challenges to get you on purpose and loving life!! Click here to join (https://www.facebook.com/groups/PurposeGirlsGroup/). Also make sure you’re getting my newsletter – that’s the first place I send announcements about events, programs and share purpose and happiness tips. Click here to receive my newsletter for free (https://carinrockind.com/newsletter)!

Love this episode? Love The PurposeGirl Podcast? Then share the love!! Go to Apple Podcasts and leave a 5 star review, subscribe so you never miss an episode, and download ALL the episodes to listen again and again! And share the PurposeGirl Podcast with every woman you know – that’s how we change the world one woman at a time!! Thank you so much for listening, love, and if you aren’t following me already, you can find me on Instagram and Facebook. May you live purposefully, may you love yourself, and may you love life!! Bye for now! XO, Carin

About Chiara Townley

Chiara Townley was born in Italy, lived in the UK, and Spain, and now she lives in Portland, Oregon. She is a published writer and contributed to several publications. In the year 2020, she transformed her personal challenges into a spiritual business. She uses writing and intuition to provide guidance.

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134 Your Life is Your Legacy

We are all constantly searching for more meaning in our lives, we want to leave a legacy. The legacy we create is how you live every day, moment by moment, in the many communities and Sisterhoods your heart calls home.

Sharing who you are with people you love is the best way to leave a lasting, beautiful legacy that people will talk about for generations.

Our guest today is so special because she is the embodiment of this concept. An immigrant from Jamaica who came to the States to grow her opportunity and make her many communities back home proud, she has a legacy anyone would be incredibly proud of.

In this episode of The PurposeGirl Podcast, I’m fortunate to be joined by Janet Autherine, the Founder of The Island Mindful Path to Transformation, and CEO of Autherine Publishing. She is the author of 4 books that are focused on empowering women and children, and her insights have been featured in national media, such as Forbes, Medium, and many highly-rated podcasts.

Janet shares with us how combining her hopeful and optimistic Jamaican roots with all she’s learnt along her mindfulness journey was key to find her very own way of shaping her legacy.

In this episode, Janet and I discuss the following:

The incredible power of community and Sisterhood.
How important and powerful it is to say the names of the women in our lineage when we speak of them.
That there is so much power in valuing the things we are good at – and how that helps others around us.
How we can use mindfulness to connect with who you really are.
How to discover our Legacy and why our story and voice always matter.

You can also connect with Janet on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/JanetAutherineJ) and Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/janetautherine/) and (. Or you can check out her website: https://www.JanetAutherine.com.

Her book, Island Mindfulness, is available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3fhTbGa

If you aren’t already, join the Free PurposeGirls Facebook Group! I post prompts, motivation, and do free live videos and challenges to get you on purpose and loving life!! Click here to join (https://www.facebook.com/groups/PurposeGirlsGroup/). Doors for my last EVER round of my signature program – EMPOWERED – are officially OPEN. There are only 10 spots available in this incredible 4 month mentorship program and some are already taken. If you’re interested in learning more, you can click here (https://carinrockind.com/coaching/empowered-sisterhood/) or click here to book a 30 minute call with Carin to discuss whether the program is right for you (https://bit.ly/39y6ykZ).

Also make sure you’re getting my newsletter – that’s the first place I send announcements about events, programs and share purpose and happiness tips. Click here to receive my newsletter for free (https://carinrockind.com/newsletter)! Love this episode? Love The PurposeGirl Podcast? Then share the love!! Go to Apple Podcasts and leave a 5 star review, subscribe so you never miss an episode, and download ALL the episodes to listen again and again! And share the PurposeGirl Podcast with every woman you know – that’s how we change the world one woman at a time!! Thank you so much for listening, love, and if you aren’t following me already, you can find me on Instagram and Facebook. May you live purposefully, may you love yourself, and may you love life!! Bye for now! XO, Carin

About Janet Autherine

Janet Autherine is the Founder of The Island Mindful Path to Transformation, and CEO of Autherine Publishing. She is the author of 4 books that are focused on empowering women and children. Her most sought after book is Island Mindfulness: How to Use the Transformational Power of Mindfulness to Create an Abundant Life. Her insights have been featured in national media, such as Forbes, Medium, and many highly-rated podcasts. Janet immigrated from Jamaica as a teenager and knows what it is like to overcome odds and accomplish her dreams. She has a JD from Boston College, LLM from Georgetown University and has served on several boards. She uses the wisdom gained from 25 years as an attorney and administrative law judge to empower women who are overwhelmed to create a balanced, peaceful, highly successful and abundant life. Through her mentorship initiative, Women Leaving Footprints, she creates a bridge of knowledge that enables young women to receive the mentorship that she lacked during her early career.