Wellness + Wisdom Podcast

Wellness + Wisdom Podcast Host, Josh Trent, shares practical steps on how you can finally stop lying to yourself and shift from procrastination and self-sabotage to your full potential.

Mar: Why do we keep lying to ourselves? Why do we keep procrastinating on the goals and the dreams that we set to achieve, even though they matter so much to us, and we've really, really want this so bad, but we still don't get ourselves work and push through the discomfort and get out of the comfort zone and actually achieve that.

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Let's get to the question because it's a question from you, which I love your vulnerability. I love that you're actually sharing something that's human that you struggle with self-sabotage to and procrastination.

Well, you said it, almost everybody struggles with this. And since we're in a new year and it's a new beginning, I think it's the best opportunity for us to actually look into this topic. So my question is:

Why do we keep lying to ourselves? Why do we keep procrastinating on the goals and the dreams that we set to achieve, even though they matter so much to us, and we've really, really want this so bad, but we still don't get ourselves work and push through the discomfort and get out of the comfort zone and actually achieve that.

It's so good. So thank you for being vulnerable and sharing what most people deal with, but they haven't developed the courage yet to say. Let's start with this. Let's start with a story because I love stories and it's how we learn.

In 2014, I was deep in a pornography addiction. I hadn't experienced any plant medicine. I was really at a low point in my life. And in the span of 6 months, I broke up with a woman I thought I was gonna be with. I put my mom in a mental home and I got fired from a quote safe corporate job. Wow. It was like a reckoning for me.

And I had been sitting on this idea of having a podcast for like 3 years. For 3 years, I was like, should I do it? Should I not do it? I was procrastinating. And here's why It wasn't until I got my ass kicked so hard self or by the universe that I was forced to look at the honesty of my life because of pain.

I knew I didn't want what was around me anymore. I knew I didn't want the fruits of my life anymore, but I just simply did not know how to change.

And let's be honest, I was procrastinating for 3 years, playing the safe route, because A, I didn't know really how to love myself. B, I wasn't surrounding myself with the kind of people that could actually fuel the productive side of me. And actually I was hanging out with people on the procrastination side of me. And then C, I didn't experience enough pain yet to really change from.

Like I have to clear my throat because it's interesting. My throat chakra is getting blocked right now. It's because I'm reflecting on that time when I didn't trust myself to speak and express with authority and with conviction. I hadn't earned it yet. I hadn't earned the right to do what you and I are doing right now.

And so for all of us that are dealing with procrastination, let my story be a starting place for you in whatever phase story that you're in.

What is something in your life that every night when you put your head on the pillow, you know that you get to do differently yet you're not doing it? And how much torture and pain does that cause you on a daily basis? Because let's be real, Mar, we're not gonna change habits unless there's enough friction.

I'm reading a book right now called Atomic Habits by James Clear. And he says that friction, the more friction that you have, the harder it is to do a behavior, the harder it is to change. So we actually need so much friction that it becomes so exhausting that we finally do the thing that's causing us the friction we've been resisting.

In other words, the friction or pain has to be so high that we finall...

Wellness + Wisdom Podcast Host and Wellness Force Media CEO, Josh Trent, shares what it means that the opposite of depression is expression and how to use expression to heal.

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Mar: If the opposite of depression is expression, in what ways can expression help us heal? And what are the steps to start expressing ourselves authentically in the world?

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What is up everyone? It's Josh Trent, This is Wellness + Wisdom, a podcast where we look at our life through this lens of 5 whole ways of self - the physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and financial you, the person that signed up to be here on earth, right?

To master it, to live their life well, but not just to live well, to thrive. This is our AMA today. It's number 653. And I'm as always here with my co-host Mar. How are you doing today?

I'm well rested after the weekend, surfed out, and just happy that I can spend my time in nature as much as I can during the weekends or during my free time. And also approaching pain differently this time because my back pain appeared again after surfing.

And so I gave it some rest instead of pushing through the pain and it feels so much better. I feel like I'm finally listening to my body and giving it when it needs instead of punishing it more and more and more. So yeah, things are good.

It sounds good. And y'all, if you've listened to AMAs before, then you know Maa lives out in the ocean on an island called Azores, which is so beautiful. It is a place that honestly, like when I look at your Instagram, what's your Instagram handle by the way? It's @mar.seaoflove.

There are waterfalls. She's like basking in Hollywood scenes. It's pretty amazing. But one thing that I think your lifestyle can always be for us is a beacon and a reminder to be in nature it is so easy. And we're going to talk about, by the way, expressing yourself today.

So the topic of this AMA as it relates to nature, being in nature, being in the ocean, expressing yourself, moving your body, we're gonna dive deep into expression and why I believe and why I've always felt this way for probably 10 years or more the opposite of depression is expression...

Let's dig into this question today. And this is actually a question from Mar. So Mar, I'm gonna let you read it. I'm gonna let you read it because, gosh, it's so key to what we're doing every single these A...

Wellness + Wisdom Podcast Host and Wellness Force Media CEO, Josh Trent, shares how to handle your fear of abandonment and understand where the fear is coming from.

Josh: How to befriend your fear of abandonment?

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What's up, everyone? It's Josh Trent. Welcome back to the podcast. This is Wellness + Wisdom, the place where we explore the 5 sides of you, of us. What are these 5 sides? Why are they so important, by the way?

You clicked, you came over here for a reason. That reason is very powerful and it is, there's a part of you that's wanting to expand to be the most excellent version of yourself. But in my opinion, we cannot be that excellent version unless we are nourishing the physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and the financial part of ourself.

This is what this podcast is all about. If you're looking for a full-length guest episode, that's gonna be on Tuesday. So this may or may not be the perfect place for you to start.

This is where myself and my co-pilot in this consciousness discovery, her name is Mar, I'll introduce her in just a second. We go deep into how do we actually nourish these 5 sides of us? How do we practically do it?

What's the stuff that comes up for us in this modern world that is ours and what's not ours? And how do we have the wisdom to decipher between those 2 things? This is what I believe liberation is built upon.

Can I say no to anything and everyone that does not align with my soul, that does not align with who I actually am and the person that I'm becoming?

Now at first audio, you might be like how the hell do you do that? Well, that's why there is an entire dedicated to this.

Today my intention with this AMA was that came up for me personally. So I feel like the best place to speak and to teach is from the inside. And I think that inside of all of us, there is a little boy and a little girl that either got what they needed in childhood they didn't.

And when I say got what they needed, what I mean by that is got what they needed to feel free, to feel peaceful, to feel like they have a nervous system that functions and is responsive instead of reactive. Can you relate to this more?

Have you ever felt responsive at times where you're like, wow, I'm doing a good job of regulating and then there's other moments with people or things where you're like, damn, I was totally reactive. Have you felt that before? Oh, who hasn't?

I feel like every day there's a situation where can confront it either with a reaction or a response. Like it happens every single day. And I feel like the ...