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Season 3 - Episode 203 - Getting things off your chest. · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Welcome to the Good Morning from the Chicken Coop podcast with
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  Kim Johnson, your creative strategist and mastermindset
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  coach. Filled with inspiration,
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  distinctions, perspectives, and possibilities, we help you to
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  cultivate a mindset that leads you to create the best version
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  of yourself you could ever imagine.
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  Join Kim every morning from one of her favorite happy places,
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  her chicken coop, along with all her chickens.
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  Hey everybody, good morning from the chicken coop.
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  Let's talk about getting things off your chest.
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  Such a natural phrase for people to say.
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  They're like, I just have to get something off my chest.
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  And when you think about it, what does that actually mean?
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  I mean, really, it's a phrase we all use, but what does it
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  actually mean? Typically it means that we are
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  stuck in a position where we feel like we need to share
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  something to relieve the stress and the pressure of whatever
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  it's causing. And we all can agree with that
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  definition, but we say we have to get it off our chest.
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  It's usually meaning it's heavy on our heart means that we're
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  feeling something in our heart and that that bothers us and we
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  want to talk about it. So what do you do if you have to
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  quote, get something off your chest or off your heart and you
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  can't share it with somebody because either that person is no
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  longer with us, they they're deceased.
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  You know, if you did share it, the person is alive and if you
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  did share it with them, it would cause even more problems.
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  But you know, you have to have that emotional release.
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  Well, I'll tell you some of the best things that I do myself and
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  that I have my clients do is really work on figuring out
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  their strategy to get it out. So for instance, couple really
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  tried and true ones are writing it on paper.
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  There's just something about being human and using paper and
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  pencil to write things down that just brings you to a place of
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  peace, even if you never give it to anybody.
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  Now there is an old wives tale, a Mystic piece of this where if
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  you burn the paper afterwards, obviously not inside the house
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  where it can hurt you or in a trash can or in a sink that
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  causes anything to go off, but outside somewhere where you can
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  burn it or throw it in the fireplace.
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  It releases all that energy back into the universe and you get
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  some relief. Now I don't need to do that.
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  I just find that writing it on the paper and throwing the paper
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  away works for me. So sometimes you get those
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  memories, those upsets and you want to go back and you or, or
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  you, they're you. They're like, not even just
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  memories, they're still with you and you just want to get them
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  off your heart. The paper and pencil is such a
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  great way to do it, and you can put all your anger into it.
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  You can say to the person, I wish you'd apologize, I wish you
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  would act a certain way. You can tell them everything and
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  the relief is insane because you're just getting the honest
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  purge out of you and I highly recommend it.
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  I have had clients, I have not done this, where I've shot a
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  video, talking to it and then watched it back of myself just
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  sitting there and doing it. But I've had clients that have
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  done it and they really like that and then they delete the
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  video. That's a great way to do it.
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  Other times it's just a matter of sitting with a picture of
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  that person and talking to that person and telling them
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  something where you're staring at their picture and talking to
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  them as if they were right there.
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  Again, that's a strategy that people have shared.
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  I've recommended it, and sometimes it works and sometimes
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  it doesn't. And sometimes you have to try
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  two or three different things to really anchor in what is right
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  for you. But the whole point of the
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  exercise is the release, that place where you just get some
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  comfort of getting it out. Now, if you try one of those and
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  it doesn't work, try a different one.
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  Find your way of doing it. I did have someone once that
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  wrote a letter and she didn't know what to do with it and she
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  put it in the ground. She dug a hole and she buried it
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  and she felt like that was really great because she was
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  putting it to rest. It would her place in her mind,
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  it was a place of rest. Again, it's all about your
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  personal preference on this. But when you know you have to
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  get something off your chest and you don't have a strategy to do
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  it, it eats away at you and it takes that energy that could be
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  used somewhere else in your life to create and, and move you
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  closer to abundance or anything else that you want.
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  It's inside of you. And even if it's just like a
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  small thing, if it's eating at you, you've got to deal with it
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  because letting it sit there just makes it faster.
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  And it's not healthy for us mentally or physically.
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  We know this. We know one of the biggest
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  killers of humans is stress and having things unsaid, unattended
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  and unaddressed. And when we don't do those
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  things, they get to us in a big way.
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  So figure out if you have something that you've got to get
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  off your chest, off your heart, do it.
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  I promise you the release is magical.
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  OK my friends, I hope you have a blessed day and I will see you
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  all tomorrow. Bye.