Latest / She Rises with Ashy & Tijana / 291. Flashback Friday - Why Avoiding the Work Is Actually Harder
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- 0:10Speaker 1: Welcome to the She Rises podcast.
- 0:12Speaker 2: I'm Ashi.
- 0:13Speaker 1: And I'm Tiana.
- 0:14Speaker 2: This podcast is about female empowerment and encouraging you to
- 0:17Speaker 2: be your biggest, boldest, and most authentic version of yourself.
- 0:21Speaker 1: We help you shed the shame, grow to a new level.
- 0:23Speaker 1: We're going to laugh, cry, and talk about the topics
- 0:25Speaker 1: everyone else is too afraid to talk about.
- 0:28Speaker 2: Get ready for your next level self. You know what's funny? People,
- 0:33Speaker 2: I feel, get a little bit terrified of doing the work.
- 0:36Speaker 2: You know what I think? What? I think it's harder
- 0:38Speaker 2: not doing the work.
- 0:39Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, right? Yeah.
- 0:41Speaker 2: It's harder not doing it. You're sitting in it so
- 0:43Speaker 2: much more because it's always there. You know, it's like.
- 0:47Speaker 1: And it grows.
- 0:47Speaker 2: It's gross.
- 0:48Speaker 1: It's like an infection.
- 0:49Speaker 2: It's like in the back of your mind is a
- 0:50Speaker 2: sessing little fly. And it just stays with you no
- 0:55Speaker 2: matter what you do. And the heaviness from the things
- 0:58Speaker 2: that you aren't looking at or addressing... feel like they're
- 1:01Speaker 2: sitting on your shoulders every single day that you walk around,
- 1:04Speaker 2: you know? And I think if I reflect back to
- 1:07Speaker 2: my life before I did personal development, I was a
- 1:10Speaker 2: shell of a human, a shell of myself. I wasn't open.
- 1:14Speaker 2: I wasn't playful. I wasn't sexually expressed. I couldn't be
- 1:18Speaker 2: a good friend. I couldn't hold space for people. Couldn't
- 1:20Speaker 2: even hold space for myself. And everything just felt heavy.
- 1:24Speaker 2: And then when I started to unpack it, What I
- 1:27Speaker 2: learned was that the more that I would feel something,
- 1:30Speaker 2: the more that I would process it. And then the
- 1:32Speaker 2: next day I would feel so much lighter. So it
- 1:34Speaker 2: was like, I got to take a brick out of
- 1:35Speaker 2: that backpack that I was carrying. And I thought that
- 1:38Speaker 2: was really impressive because I was like, wow, I can
- 1:41Speaker 2: feel all of these emotions in this one hour session
- 1:44Speaker 2: of therapy or like with a coach. And then I
- 1:47Speaker 2: can leave this session and then I can go on
- 1:48Speaker 2: and live my life.
- 1:49Speaker 1: You feel so much lighter afterwards, hey? You do. But
- 1:52Speaker 1: it's like isolated.
- 1:53Speaker 2: People think, oh, if I open up Pandora's box, it's
- 1:55Speaker 2: going to be fucked and I'm going to– I would
- 1:57Speaker 2: have a can of worms. Yeah. I'm never going to
- 1:59Speaker 2: be able to look away from this stuff. But it's
- 2:01Speaker 2: not the truth. It's like you create intentional time to
- 2:04Speaker 2: heal through it and then you go on and live
- 2:06Speaker 2: your life. And then the quality of life that you
- 2:07Speaker 2: get to live after the fact– is so much more
- 2:11Speaker 2: grand a client of mine explained it like this she
- 2:14Speaker 2: said working with you was like being colorblind and seeing
- 2:18Speaker 2: color for the first time wow that's so cool and
- 2:21Speaker 2: I was like what a beautiful way to describe what
- 2:23Speaker 2: healing is because you do you feel so dull and
- 2:26Speaker 2: then just your life is suddenly this beautiful colorful vibrant
- 2:30Speaker 2: experience that you get to have in life I was
- 2:33Speaker 2: like He nailed it on the head.
- 2:35Speaker 1: That is really freaking cool. I've never heard of it
- 2:37Speaker 1: like that. It was really cool. And it goes back
- 2:39Speaker 1: to that, what you just said, choosing your heart. Like
- 2:41Speaker 1: it's hard to do the healing and it's hard to stay,
- 2:43Speaker 1: remain the same. It's hard to be angry at what's
- 2:45Speaker 1: happened in your past. And it's hard to go deep
- 2:48Speaker 1: into what's happened in the past, but choose your heart.
- 2:50Speaker 1: Like I'd rather be able to go there, get into it,
- 2:53Speaker 1: release it, move through it lighter and take the lessons
- 2:56Speaker 1: to be able to help other people than just stay
- 2:58Speaker 1: stuck in there for the rest of my life.
- 2:59Speaker 2: Absolutely.
- 3:00Speaker 1: Both hard. Choose your hard.
- 3:01Speaker 2: And also it's hard to carry as well.
- 3:03Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 3:03Speaker 2: You know, think about like when we don't address something.
- 3:07Speaker 2: Let's say you had a partner cheat on you once
- 3:09Speaker 2: and you feel super resentful for that and now all
- 3:11Speaker 2: of a sudden your belief around men is really skewed
- 3:14Speaker 2: because you're like, well, men are cheaters, men are liars,
- 3:17Speaker 2: men aren't safe, men don't protect women and all the
- 3:20Speaker 2: other things that come with that. you're carrying around that
- 3:23Speaker 2: resentment towards men and everyone just in everyday life.
- 3:27Speaker 1: Literally.
- 3:27Speaker 2: Think about the friends that you would address as men.
- 3:30Speaker 2: You're automatically going to think he's shady, automatically going to
- 3:32Speaker 2: think that he just wants the next best thing. The
- 3:34Speaker 2: way that it impacts how you show up in everyday life,
- 3:37Speaker 2: that hinders the relationships that you create, how you feel,
- 3:41Speaker 2: what energy you're putting out in the world, what your
- 3:43Speaker 2: vibrational frequency is like when you're exchanging with people. And
- 3:47Speaker 2: it's just one of those things like it's so impactful
- 3:50Speaker 2: in the best way. The quality of life that you
- 3:52Speaker 2: experience is on a completely different playing field to what
- 3:55Speaker 2: you were previously when you were harboring all of those
- 3:58Speaker 2: emotions and that heaviness and pain. that you're carrying around
- 4:02Speaker 2: every single day.
- 4:02Speaker 1: And it's exhausting. Oh, so exhausting. So exhausting. A question
- 4:07Speaker 1: that we had the other day in our Q &
- 4:09Speaker 1: A that we put on Instagram for suggested topics was
- 4:12Speaker 1: someone said, where do I start on my healing journey?
- 4:15Speaker 1: It's so overwhelming. And I was like, yeah, it is.
- 4:18Speaker 1: There are so many coaches and YouTube clips and TikToks
- 4:21Speaker 1: and everyone's saying to do this and that. And this
- 4:23Speaker 1: is the only way to do it. It's like, where
- 4:24Speaker 1: the fuck do I start? Yeah. I wouldn't even know
- 4:27Speaker 1: where to begin to start. Like I started by doing
- 4:28Speaker 1: a course that kind of got really addicted after that
- 4:32Speaker 1: just to just wanting to learn more about myself and
- 4:34Speaker 1: understand human psychology more and why people do the things
- 4:36Speaker 1: they do and how I can be 1% better. But
- 4:39Speaker 1: where would you recommend someone starting if they're like, I
- 4:41Speaker 1: know I've got shit here. I'm willing. I'm ready. What
- 4:44Speaker 1: do I do? Where do I go?
- 4:46Speaker 2: Well, that's a good question. I think it depends on
- 4:48Speaker 2: where you are at, what you're willing and able to
- 4:51Speaker 2: invest into yourself. Yeah.
- 4:52Speaker 1: So to be high in money.
- 4:53Speaker 2: High in money, all of those things.
- 4:55Speaker 1: Resources.
- 4:56Speaker 2: I think you can't go wrong with books, to be honest. Yeah.
- 4:59Speaker 1: It's a good way to start, isn't it? Just start
- 5:01Speaker 1: reading and taking some information.
- 5:02Speaker 2: I think the first book that I ever read was
- 5:04Speaker 2: called The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle, I think
- 5:08Speaker 2: is the book. That was a good place for me
- 5:10Speaker 2: to start because it helped me bring focus to my awareness.
- 5:14Speaker 2: And I feel like that's a really important step to
- 5:16Speaker 2: being able to do this work. But to be honest,
- 5:19Speaker 2: for me personally, and if you can hire a coach
- 5:21Speaker 2: and you have the means to hire a Because it
- 5:24Speaker 2: doesn't matter who you go to, how long you do
- 5:27Speaker 2: it for, or what you go into them for, you
- 5:30Speaker 2: will unravel a world of things that you've experienced within
- 5:34Speaker 2: that timeframe. So it doesn't matter what you start with.
- 5:37Speaker 2: It doesn't matter what you go for. As long as
- 5:38Speaker 2: you feel emotionally connected to the coach or the person
- 5:42Speaker 2: or the healer, you feel safe, you feel like you
- 5:44Speaker 2: connect with them, you resonate with them, and you feel
- 5:47Speaker 2: like they're going to be able to support you through
- 5:48Speaker 2: the journey. That's all you need. If you can start there,
- 5:51Speaker 2: highly recommend because you will save so much time going
- 5:54Speaker 2: from book to book to program to program when you
- 5:57Speaker 2: get that personalized level of support.
- 5:59Speaker 1: So different, isn't it?
- 6:00Speaker 2: It's all about you, right? You can read someone's book
- 6:02Speaker 2: and go, wow, this is important. I can apply this
- 6:04Speaker 2: to my life. But when you're plugged into a coach,
- 6:07Speaker 2: they learn everything about you.
- 6:09Speaker 1: The roadblocks.
- 6:11Speaker 2: Everything. Like I worked with a coach for three and
- 6:13Speaker 2: a half years because we worked together for so long.
- 6:16Speaker 2: What would have taken me and a new coach an
- 6:18Speaker 2: hour and a half, two hours, three hours, five sessions
- 6:21Speaker 2: would have taken this coach five minutes to unpack with
- 6:24Speaker 2: me because she learned me. She understood my trauma. She
- 6:27Speaker 2: understood my reactivity. She understood my deepest wounds.
- 6:32Speaker 1: Everything.
- 6:32Speaker 2: Everything that I would do. Yeah. And that for me,
- 6:35Speaker 2: going on that journey of my own personal development journey
- 6:38Speaker 2: and working with a coach, allowed me to really see
- 6:42Speaker 2: and learn everything about myself through the way that that
- 6:45Speaker 2: person coached me. And that's how you learn.
- 6:48Speaker 1: Most successful people that I know, what I deem to
- 6:50Speaker 1: be successful, they have a coach. Even my coach, Taylor,
- 6:54Speaker 1: who I put on a pedestal and think he's just
- 6:56Speaker 1: the bee's knees, he's had the same coach for over
- 6:58Speaker 1: 10 years.
- 6:58Speaker 2: Love that.
- 6:59Speaker 1: He's her weekly. She trains at his gym now. Actually,
- 7:03Speaker 1: in one of my sessions the other day, we were
- 7:04Speaker 1: talking about liver and sleep and my body and everything.
- 7:07Speaker 1: And she was about to do a class and he
- 7:09Speaker 1: was like, oh, Jo, can you come over? Could you
- 7:11Speaker 1: explain this in your own terms? And she spoke about
- 7:13Speaker 1: it from her experience. And I was like, wow, that's cool.
- 7:16Speaker 1: Everyone I know. And he is. Yeah. I went to that.
- 7:18Speaker 1: He was like, why would I not continue to grow
- 7:20Speaker 1: and have support and keep exploring myself? In my head,
- 7:23Speaker 1: I'm like, you know it all. Yeah. What more can
- 7:25Speaker 1: you learn?
- 7:26Speaker 2: Yes.
- 7:26Speaker 1: Always more that you can learn. I think too, even
- 7:28Speaker 1: if you can't afford a coach or anything. I know
- 7:31Speaker 1: you do what you call an audit call. And even
- 7:34Speaker 1: what you do in those, I'm like, wow. And I
- 7:36Speaker 1: know some other coaches that call them discovery calls or
- 7:38Speaker 1: just a call basically to see if you're aligned, see
- 7:41Speaker 1: if you connect. I'll just use you as an example
- 7:43Speaker 1: because you can talk about it. But I know that
- 7:45Speaker 1: you take them through, is it 30 minutes? 30 to 45. Yeah.
- 7:49Speaker 1: So you get to know them a little bit where
- 7:51Speaker 1: they're at. You look at their roadblocks and then you
- 7:53Speaker 1: give them tools and strategies and tips on how to
- 7:56Speaker 1: move through that. And that's free. That's just free. That's
- 7:59Speaker 1: you're just giving your time. Even just that, you learn
- 8:02Speaker 1: so much about yourself. So then you've got a clear
- 8:04Speaker 1: path of like, okay, now I know what I want
- 8:05Speaker 1: to focus on. I have tips and some strategies to
- 8:08Speaker 1: get there. And if I want to go deeper, I
- 8:10Speaker 1: can hire you. Or even I know like when I
- 8:12Speaker 1: was learning about attachment styles, go on YouTube. It's all free.
- 8:16Speaker 1: You type in attachment style, anxious attachment. There is millions
- 8:20Speaker 1: of videos that will explain it in so many different
- 8:23Speaker 1: terms and situations. You can always find things on YouTube.
- 8:26Speaker 1: Steve is I love the way he learns. When he
- 8:28Speaker 1: wants to learn about something, it is all he will do.
- 8:31Speaker 1: He will look on every YouTube. He will read every book,
- 8:34Speaker 1: audio book, and he will just immerse himself in something
- 8:37Speaker 1: until he can fully explain and teach it properly.
- 8:39Speaker 2: Nice.
- 8:40Speaker 1: And I'm like, I love that about you. I love
- 8:41Speaker 1: how he learns like that.
- 8:42Speaker 2: That's cool.
- 8:43Speaker 1: There's endless information through podcasts, through books, through coaches, group courses,
- 8:48Speaker 1: face-to-face courses. There's so much help out there to help
- 8:51Speaker 1: you on your healing journey. You don't have to do
- 8:53Speaker 1: it alone, but it's just like, yeah, how much you're
- 8:54Speaker 1: ready to invest, time. money and energy and effort yeah
- 8:59Speaker 1: yeah yeah so freaking cool but so necessary for everyone.
- 9:02Speaker 2: It really is it's hard to not have access these
- 9:05Speaker 2: days yeah like we have access to so much.
- 9:07Speaker 1: Stuff compared to our parents they had nothing.
- 9:09Speaker 2: They had nothing none of this stuff was normalized for
- 9:11Speaker 2: them no.
- 9:11Speaker 1: You know getting therapy would have meant you were broken
- 9:14Speaker 1: when my mom sometimes we have conversations around she's like
- 9:17Speaker 1: oh i wish like i knew this when i was
- 9:18Speaker 1: your parent like i She always compliments me on how
- 9:20Speaker 1: I parent. She's like, I just love how you did that.
- 9:22Speaker 1: I did not do that for you. I said, yeah,
- 9:24Speaker 1: but you didn't also have the resources I have. I've
- 9:26Speaker 1: had life coaches. If I'm struggling with something in parenting,
- 9:28Speaker 1: I'll listen to it on an app or I'll go
- 9:29Speaker 1: on YouTube or I'll follow a parenting coach on Instagram
- 9:33Speaker 1: and binge watch their content until I feel confident in
- 9:36Speaker 1: what I want to implement. You were literally like free-balling it.
- 9:39Speaker 1: That's the word. You were just like winging it.
- 9:43Speaker 2: Winging it.
- 9:43Speaker 1: You were actually winging it and you were doing better
- 9:45Speaker 1: than what your parents did and But we have so
- 9:48Speaker 1: much resources at our fingertips. We're so spoiled with it.
- 9:50Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 9:51Speaker 1: There's no excuse to not be better, really. I agree.
- 9:54Speaker 2: I agree.
- 9:55Speaker 1: Do the work, guys.
- 9:56Speaker 2: And do the work. And you know what? It's like
- 9:58Speaker 2: when people say like, oh, that's just how I am. No.
- 10:01Speaker 1: Stop it.
- 10:03Speaker 2: Don't come up in here with that bullshit. I do not.
- 10:05Speaker 1: Not like that bullshit.
- 10:07Speaker 2: I love you, but hard conversation.
- 10:09Speaker 1: I do not like it when people say that. I
- 10:11Speaker 1: feel like I used to be that person. So I
- 10:12Speaker 1: get it.
- 10:13Speaker 2: I get what it feels like to be there because
- 10:14Speaker 2: you're just like, well, this is just who I am.
- 10:16Speaker 2: This is what I do.
- 10:17Speaker 1: This is how I think. This is how I act.
- 10:18Speaker 1: If you don't like it, so yeah. Take it or
- 10:20Speaker 1: leave it.
- 10:20Speaker 2: You either love me or you don't, you know?
- 10:23Speaker 1: Love me or you hate me. I don't care.
- 10:25Speaker 2: The reality is our biggest desire is belonging.
- 10:29Speaker 1: And our biggest fear is abandonment.
- 10:30Speaker 2: Yeah. Then you've just got to be willing to do
- 10:32Speaker 2: the work and take responsibility because if you want to
- 10:34Speaker 2: have a life that is, you know, inclusive of other
- 10:37Speaker 2: people and community and people that you love and also
- 10:40Speaker 2: raising children and having a partner, a lifelong partner, it
- 10:43Speaker 2: requires this level of connection. It requires this level of self-exploration.
- 10:48Speaker 2: It requires self-responsibility, all of the aspects.
- 10:52Speaker 1: Why is it so hard to take responsibility? Every single person,
- 10:57Speaker 1: including myself, including you. Including me.
- 10:59Speaker 2: Everyone. Yeah.
- 11:00Speaker 1: You know, it's been really hard growing up to say
- 11:03Speaker 1: sorry and to take responsibility. And I think we're pretty
- 11:06Speaker 1: good at it now.
- 11:07Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 11:07Speaker 1: Even under the last two years, I've improved drastically. But
- 11:11Speaker 1: before that, I found it so damn difficult.
- 11:13Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 11:14Speaker 1: I didn't want to admit I was wrong because then
- 11:15Speaker 1: I'm out of the tribe.
- 11:16Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 11:17Speaker 1: No one's going to love me if I admit I'm wrong.
- 11:18Speaker 1: Why would they want to be friends with me if
- 11:19Speaker 1: I admit that? Yeah. And saying sorry, I just never
- 11:22Speaker 1: saw that growing up. And I know that sounds like
- 11:23Speaker 1: an excuse, but I really didn't know how. It just
- 11:26Speaker 1: felt so unfamiliar in my body. And I also thought
- 11:30Speaker 1: that's admitting fault. Yes. So then they're going to leave me. Yeah.
- 11:33Speaker 1: So I would find every other reason as to why
- 11:36Speaker 1: it's not my fault.
- 11:37Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 11:37Speaker 1: And blame everything else. Absolutely. It doesn't get you anywhere.
- 11:40Speaker 2: No, it doesn't.
- 11:41Speaker 1: No, it definitely doesn't. I'm a younger version of Ashley. Absolutely.
- 11:47Speaker 2: But yeah, it's the admitting fault part. Yeah.
- 11:49Speaker 1: It's the ego.
- 11:50Speaker 2: If I admit fault, then I'm in the wrong. Then
- 11:53Speaker 2: I have consequences to being in the wrong. Yeah. And
- 11:55Speaker 2: also as well, we just don't like being wrong.
- 11:57Speaker 1: I know.
- 11:58Speaker 2: We like being right because our ego is like, I
- 12:00Speaker 2: must be right. Yeah.
- 12:01Speaker 1: It's so strange when you actually pull yourself out and
- 12:03Speaker 1: just think of it because Even when Taj sometimes doesn't
- 12:06Speaker 1: want to admit that he's done something wrong, I'm like, dude,
- 12:08Speaker 1: it's fine. It's all good. You're not in trouble. You've
- 12:11Speaker 1: never been grounded in your life. Nothing's going to happen.
- 12:14Speaker 1: Just say, shit, mom, I'm sorry. I forgot you said that.
- 12:17Speaker 1: I won't do it again. But it's so hard. So hard. Yeah,
- 12:21Speaker 1: I turn the TV on when I shouldn't have turned
- 12:22Speaker 1: the TV on. The other day I came home from
- 12:24Speaker 1: the gym and there's no TV in the morning. And
- 12:25Speaker 1: I can see when you drop me off, I can
- 12:27Speaker 1: see the bloody TV on.
- 12:28Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 12:28Speaker 1: So I'm like, good morning, babe. What are the rules?
- 12:30Speaker 1: And he quickly turns it off. He's like, oh, I
- 12:31Speaker 1: wasn't watching it.
- 12:32Speaker 2: I was like. You were.
- 12:34Speaker 1: Well, you were. You were. And I could see the
- 12:37Speaker 1: shame in him. And I was like, you're not in trouble.
- 12:39Speaker 1: I'm just saying this is a boundary and I need
- 12:41Speaker 1: you to respect the boundary because we trust each other.
- 12:44Speaker 1: If I say to do something, you do it behind
- 12:45Speaker 1: my back, I'm not going to trust you. Trust is
- 12:47Speaker 1: a really important thing in all of our relationships. And
- 12:50Speaker 1: you could just see him like so uncomfortable with admitting
- 12:52Speaker 1: and saying, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have done that. You
- 12:54Speaker 1: know what? What? It's that part.
- 12:56Speaker 2: It's the feeling that comes with being at fault.
- 12:59Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 12:59Speaker 2: That no one can handle, no one.
- 13:01Speaker 1: It's shameful. You feel embarrassed, hey?
- 13:03Speaker 2: It's the discomfort.
- 13:04Speaker 1: It's discomfort, yeah. You can see it in little kids too.
- 13:07Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, when I see it in him, I
- 13:08Speaker 1: feel so bad because I don't want him feeling like that.
- 13:11Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 13:12Speaker 1: It's that fine balance of, well, this is how he
- 13:14Speaker 1: has to learn.
- 13:14Speaker 2: Yeah. It's almost like teaching them that that feeling of
- 13:18Speaker 2: feeling like you've disappointed someone is not necessarily a bad thing.
- 13:23Speaker 2: It's showing you what to do better. Yes. And I
- 13:26Speaker 2: think we can reframe it like that. And this is
- 13:27Speaker 2: so cool. This conversation, you just saying that about Taj,
- 13:30Speaker 2: imagine if we all learned how to deal with that
- 13:33Speaker 2: feeling of discomfort or feeling like we're disappointing someone that
- 13:36Speaker 2: we love, but using it as fuel to make better
- 13:39Speaker 2: decisions as opposed to go, I'm so bad and wrong
- 13:42Speaker 2: and I fucked up.