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The Awethentic Path is Launching with Guy Macpherson, PhD · The Trauma Therapist

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  All right, guy here. First off, thank you so much for listening
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  to this podcast today. I want to talk to you about an exciting community
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  that I'm starting, and it's called the Authentic Path. You know. I
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  started this podcast several years ago with goal a couple of goals, raising the
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  awareness of trauma and helping to inspire therapists, newer therapists like myself at the
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  time getting into the field. Things have changed for me, of course,
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  I'm not a therapist. I focus entirely on this podcast and education and inspiration
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  hopefully. But one of the things that I've always kept coming back to again
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  and again and again with my interviews is the incredible stories of my guests and
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  the incredible journeys. What gets me, what keeps me inspired, is listening
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  to my guests and learning how the heck they overcame their traumas right in this
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  situation there the tragedies, oftentimes to not only live their lives, but to
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  thrive and in most cases to go on and help others, either a therapist
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  or authors or uh you know, clinicians of one kind or another, educators.
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  That that inspires me and it gets me going, It really keeps it
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  gets me so freaking inspired that every time I get off of an interview,
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  I am buzzing, you know, and oftentimes I've got to go to social
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  media and share, you know, I just interview this person so and so
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  and so, check them out or et cetera. But it's it's really encouraged
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  me to bring people together. I mean, that's what I want to do,
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  That's what I love doing. And so here's what I'm doing. I'm
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  creating a community membership community called the Authentic Path and you can learn more about
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  it by going to the Authenticpath dot com. And Authentic is spelled AWE th
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  h E n t I C so the Authentic Path. And I wanted to
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  or want to create a community of people who want to challenge themselves, who
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  want to become the best versions of themselves, who want to live their values
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  and strive to attain their goals, whatever those may be. You can be
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  a you know, a male or female, it doesn't matter, a therapist
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  or not. It doesn't matter what you are or who you are. But
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  the goal here, the impetus, the inspiration behind this is to create a
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  community of people who are intentional about squeezing the juice out of their lives and
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  becoming the best version of themselves. It doesn't mean, you know, becoming
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  a zillionaire or getting a zillion followers on Instagram. It means becoming or doing
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  your best. And oftentimes, and I know this is the case for me,
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  I thrive when I'm around other people who are supportive. You know,
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  I want to create a community of people who are intentional about what they're doing.
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  And again, I don't know about you, but it's really easy to
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  lose sight of you know, who we are, what our meaning is,
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  what our purposes? Do we even know what our purpose is? We were
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  living we maybe some of us have kids, We've got a partner, we're
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  married, or we're divorced, or whatever it is. You've got a job,
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  and to a certain degree, you've got to hook in to a system,
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  right to the routine. You've got to in a sense that becomes very
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  becomes a lifeline oftentimes. And yet it also I think inhibits us from stepping
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  outside of our comfort zones. And listen, I'm responsible for all of these
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  things I'm talking about. Believe me, I don't have it all figured out.
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  I don't have it all figured out at all, But I think in
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  our society today and a lot of us feel isolated. A lot of us
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  feel, you know, that we've got to just in order to survive,
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  you know, we've got to put our heads down down and go and go
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  forward. And I think what oftentimes tends to happen is that we lose sight
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  of the importance of community, and more specifically, we lose sight of the
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  importance of being in a group of people who want to support us, want
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  to encourage us, want to have our backs, not to judge us or
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  point at us and laugh, but to listen and to show compassion. Ever
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  since I was in graduate school, I loved being in a group setting,
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  in group therapy. And I'm not doing group therapy here, so let me
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  just clear that out. This is I'm not talking about creating a therapy a
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  group therapy program. I'm talking about creating a supportive community. Right. But
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  ever since I was in graduate school, I loved being in that group setting.
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  I loved the immediate see being in the moment and being real, being
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  in the moment and sharing what is going on. You know, what is
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  important for me, what is meaningful to me, what is uh relevant for
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  me, alive for me in my life right now and can I am I
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  taking the steps to manifest that, to put that into action. And when
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  you're in a group of people who are sharing those values and sharing those similarities
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  and goals and are there to encourage you and have your back and go,
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  yeah, yes you can do it. You know you. That's simple.
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  That's simple encouragement of you know, yes, I believe in you, guy,
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  I believe in you. You know, people who are around us,
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  who care about us can see a lot of times see what we don't right.
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  A lot of times for myself, I get imposter syndrome. Who's gonna
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  listen to me? Who the hell do I think I am? You know?
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  And it's funny because I'll shoot out an email to my email lisp a
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  lot of times and people right back and they're listening and they're hearing, and
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  it it lands on someone in a meaningful way, and that means something to
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  me. So again, what I'm thinking of, what I'm doing again is
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  creating a community, a membership, a community called the Authentic Path and you
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  can check it out by going to the Authenticpath dot com and again authentic spelled
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  AWE th h E n T I c so the Authenticpath dot com a membership
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  community where each month will get together as a group. Excuse me, we'll
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  get together as a group and we'll share individually what going on, what our
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  challenges are, what our values are. I mean, when's the last time
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  you sat down and wrote down your values? What's important to you? Right?
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  And then values? Okay, what our what our values? Well?
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  Values are the things that you value in your life. You know, I
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  value exercise, or I value honesty or genuineness or family or authenticity. I
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  value time with my kids. I value dedicated time on my business. I
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  value dedicated reading time, vacations, etc. Whatever it is. We each
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  have things that we value. And one of the interesting things about this is
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  if you haven't written these down, if you haven't even thought about this,
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  right, you can tell what you value by how you live your life,
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  by the things you do on a day to day basis. And oftentimes we
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  might say, well, you know what this is going on in my life,
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  but I really don't want this to be going on in my life.
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  I want this other thing to maybe take a higher position to my values.
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  I mean, what is our purpose? What is our meaning? These these
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  questions right are getting you excited, then this is for you. If you've
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  got it all figured out, if you're living your best life, and you're
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  constantly daring and challenging yourself and achieving all your goals and stepping it up,
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  perhaps this is not for you. But if you want to get into a
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  community of people who are there to support you and there to encourage you and
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  there to hold you accountable in a positive way, this is for you.
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  So again, each month, we'll get together right for period of time and
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  we'll talk about what's going on in lives. Each specific meeting will highlight values
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  or purpose or meaning or actions that will take that we need to take,
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  and will create a plan for ourselves and in doing so right in listening to
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  each other, we'll learn more about ourselves and will be inspired. This is
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  what I want to do. I want to live an incredible life. I
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  feel I can. And if you feel that you deserve to live an incredible
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  life, if maybe you have more, there's a fire inside of you that
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  you're not tapping into that you feel you want to tap into. Maybe you're
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  scared to or hesitant to, like I am a lot of times, then
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  this is for you. And I encourage you to come join me at the
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  authenticpath dot com once again. That's the Authentic AWE authenticpath dot com and I
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  hope to see you there again. Thank you so much for listening to this
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  podcast. Have an awesome day.