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Morning Intentions
We created our Morning Intentions podcast because, as coaches and mentors, we know that being intentional in every aspect of life is the key to becoming the best version of ourselves. Each episode is your daily dose of positivity, practical advice, and encouragement to help you embrace life with open arms and a hopeful heart. This is your time to set intentions, create meaningful change, and step into the possibilities of a brighter, more empowered you. Tune in and join us as we start each…
Episodes
- Morning Intentions
The Heart is Steady, Not Reactive
Today’s Intention: I will practice creating a space to pause, reflect, and respond with intention. Connect with Us • Website: www.AnnetteAndAda.com •…
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The High Cost of Perfectionism
Today’s Reflection Question: What in my life has a high cost but low payoff? Connect with Us • Website: www.AnnetteAndAda.com • Instagram: annetteandada •…
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Perfectionism is Fear-Led
Today’s Reflection Question: What is my relationship with perfectionism? Connect with Us • Website: www.AnnetteAndAda.com • Instagram: annetteandada •…
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The Many Faces of Fear
Today’s Intention: I will stop when I find myself led by fear in the forms of control or urgency. Connect with Us • Website: www.AnnetteAndAda.com • Instagram…
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What Heart-Led Living Sounds Like
Today’s Reflection Question: How often do I live led by fear, and how often do I live led by my heart? Connect with Us • Website: www.AnnetteAndAda.com •…
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What Fear-Led Living Sounds Like
Today’s Curiosity Question: Do any of these examples of fear-led living resonate with me? Connect with Us • Website: www.AnnetteAndAda.com • Instagram…
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Welcome to Living a Heart-Led Life!
Today’s and This Weekend’s Intention: Today, I choose to live from my heart with honesty, courage, and care. Connect with Us • Website: www.AnnetteAndAda.com •…
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Final Reflections on Codependency
Today’s Intention: I will celebrate my courage. Connect with Us • Website: www.AnnetteAndAda.com • Instagram: annetteandada • Facebook: annetteandada Morning…
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Confidence with Boundaries
Today’s Intention: I will apologize to those whose boundaries I have dishonored - and I will change my behavior. Connect with Us • Website…
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Fear and Guilt and Boundaries
Today’s Reflection Question: When I set boundaries, am I met with conflict? Connect with Us • Website: www.AnnetteAndAda.com • Instagram: annetteandada •…
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Fear of Rejection
Today’s Reflection Question: What boundaries have I not set because I have a fear of rejection? Connect with Us • Website: www.AnnetteAndAda.com • Instagram…
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The Impact of Our Self-Talk
Today’s Reflection Question: What is one piece or bit of self-talk that I can change so I can love myself more fully? Connect with Us • Website…
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How Influence Affects the Mood
Today’s Reflection Question: Do I light up the room wherever I go, or do I light up the room whenever I go? Connect with Us • Website: www.AnnetteAndAda.com •…
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Don’t Wish Your Life Away
Today’s Reflection Question: What does this day, today, April 22nd, 2026, truly offer me? Connect with Us • Website: www.AnnetteAndAda.com • Instagram…
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Living in Alignment
Today’s Reflection Question: Am I living in alignment with myself? Connect with Us • Website: www.AnnetteAndAda.com • Instagram: annetteandada • Facebook…
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What Are You Taking In?
Today’s Reflection Question: What am I watching, reading, and listening to, and how does it nurture (or affect) my life? Connect with Us • Website…
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Do Your Habits Serve You?
Today’s and This Weekend’s Reflection Question: What habits are no longer serving me in regard to food, drink, and all that I put in my body? Connect with Us •…
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Nutriment #1
Today’s Intention: Let’s spend today being mindful as we’re nourishing our bodies. Connect with Us • Website: www.AnnetteAndAda.com • Instagram: annetteandada…
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A Calm and Peaceful Life
Today’s Reflection Question: Is my life a “Zen Den” or is it different than how I wish it would be? Connect with Us • Website: www.AnnetteAndAda.com •…
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Meditation Made Easy
Today’s Intention: I will give simple meditation a try. Connect with Us • Website: www.AnnetteAndAda.com • Instagram: annetteandada • Facebook: annetteandada…
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Getting Mindful
Today’s Curiosity Question: Am I ready to see and hear what my thoughts actually are? Connect with Us • Website: www.AnnetteAndAda.com • Instagram…
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A Couple More Defense Mechanisms
Today’s and This Weekend’s Reflection Question: Reflect on the quote Annette read at the end. 😊 Connect with Us • Website: www.AnnetteAndAda.com • Instagram…
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Some More Defense Mechanisms
Today’s Intention is a Curiosity/Reflection Question: What am I kicking down the road that I need to start looking at today? Connect with Us • Website…
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Don't Use BIG PICTURE Concepts for PERSONAL Applications!
Today’s Intention: I am willing to use discernment in my personal development work. Connect with Us • Website: www.AnnetteAndAda.com • Instagram: annetteandada…
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👎 You Spot It, You Got It 👎
Today’s Intention is a Curiosity Question: Am I interested in only my own healing, or am I interested in doing my part to heal the world? Connect with Us •…
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Shadow Work and Defense Mechanisms
Today’s Intention: I will bring love and compassion into my shadow work this week. Connect with Us • Website: www.AnnetteAndAda.com • Instagram: annetteandada…
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You Don’t Have to Fix It, Just Notice It
Today’s and This Weekend’s Intention: I will listen and notice without judgment or pressure to change. Connect with Us • Website: www.AnnetteAndAda.com •…
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Anticipatory Anxiety
Today’s Reflection Question: Am I living with anticipatory anxiety? Connect with Us • Website: www.AnnetteAndAda.com • Instagram: annetteandada • Facebook…
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Unhealed Healers
Today’s Intention: I won't be an unhealed healer. Connect with Us • Website: www.AnnetteAndAda.com • Instagram: annetteandada • Facebook: annetteandada Morning…
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Safe Support
Today’s Intention: I will seek out safe support, especially when I'm sharing something that's close to my heart. Connect with Us • Website…
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Celebrate Your Courage
Today’s Intention: Celebrate your courage. Connect with Us • Website: www.AnnetteAndAda.com • Instagram: annetteandada • Facebook: annetteandada Morning…
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More from the Boundary Boss Bill of Rights
Today’s and This Weekend’s Reflection: Take time this weekend to reflect on this Boundary Boss Bill of Rights. Connect with Us • Website: www.AnnetteAndAda.com…
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The Boundary Boss Bill of Rights
Today’s Intention: Reflect on the first few rights in the Boundary Boss Bill of Rights. Connect with Us • Website: www.AnnetteAndAda.com • Instagram…
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Red Flags and Green Flags in Relationships
Today’s Reflections: Reflect on the red flags and the green flags in your relationships. Connect with Us • Website: www.AnnetteAndAda.com • Instagram…
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The Cost of Our High Functioning Codependency
Today’s Intention: If I recognize I'm a high-functioning codependent, I will get the help I need so I can stop it. Connect with Us • Website…
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Enabling is NOT Love
Today’s Intention: As I go throughout my day, I will keep in mind that enabling is not loving. Connect with Us • Website: www.AnnetteAndAda.com • Instagram…
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Annette Has LOTS to Share
Today’s and This Weekend’s Intention: I will give myself the gift of healing from my trauma. Connect with Us • Website: www.AnnetteAndAda.com • Instagram…
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Fawning
Today’s Intention: I will bring awareness to how I'm showing up in my relationships. Connect with Us • Website: www.AnnetteAndAda.com • Instagram…
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Big T and Little t Trauma
Today’s Intention: Before I judge someone, I will consider what they may have experienced in life. Connect with Us • Website: www.AnnetteAndAda.com •…
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If Everything is Special, Nothing is Special
Today’s Intention: I will keep in mind high-functioning codependency is a trauma response. Connect with Us • Website: www.AnnetteAndAda.com • Instagram…
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Labels
Today’s Intention is a Reflection Question: What is my relationship with labels? Connect with Us • Website: www.AnnetteAndAda.com • Instagram: annetteandada •…
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Helping or Enabling?
Today’s and This Weekend’s Intention: I will notice when I’m on someone else’s side of the street and get back on my side of the street. Connect with Us •…
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Letting Go of Emotional Debt
Today’s Intention is a Reflection Question: Do I find it hard or difficult to receive? Connect with Us • Website: www.AnnetteAndAda.com • Instagram…
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Compassion for Your Past Self
Today’s Intention: I will give myself compassion and grace if I find myself grieving the past. Connect with Us • Website: www.AnnetteAndAda.com • Instagram…
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Continuing on With Unhealthy Helping
Today’s Intention are three Reflection Questions: Do I spend a lot of time worrying about someone else’s problems? Do I feel anxious, purposeless, or empty…
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Unhealthy Helping
Today’s Intention is a Reflection Question: Am I helping because I want to, or do I feel obligated? Connect with Us • Website: www.AnnetteAndAda.com •…
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Are You Tolerating Too Much?
Today’s Intention is a Reflection Question: What am I tolerating too much? Connect with Us • Website: www.AnnetteAndAda.com • Instagram: annetteandada •…
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Not Every Loving Act Is Codependency
Today’s Intention: I will not allow every loving thing I do to be given a label of codependency and looked at in a negative light. Connect with Us • Website…
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Word Choice Matters
Today’s Intention: I will protect generosity from being mislabeled while also being honest about when it becomes self-abandonment. Connect with Us • Website…
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Signs of High-Functioning Codependency
Today’s Intention: Reflection on these questions throughout the day: Do you regularly accommodate others’ needs and preferences? Do you ever say yes to avoid…
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Let's Get Started!
Today’s Intention: I will be honest about my relationship with codependency. Connect with Us • Website: www.AnnetteAndAda.com • Instagram: annetteandada •…
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From Hustling for Worth to Living in Alignment
Today’s Intention: I am worth aligning with myself. Connect with Us • Website: www.AnnetteAndAda.com • Instagram: annetteandada • Facebook: annetteandada…
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Find the Synonyms
Today’s Intention: I will find the synonyms for one emotion I’m feeling today. Connect with Us • Website: www.AnnetteAndAda.com • Instagram: annetteandada •…
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Ada's Two Things
Today’s Intention: I will continue to listen and notice so I have confidence in my self-alignment. Connect with Us • Website: www.AnnetteAndAda.com •…
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Annette's Two Things
Today’s Intention is a Curiosity Question: How am I doing with my fast from being out of alignment with myself? Connect with Us • Website…
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The Fear-Based Swing
Today’s Intention: I will listen and notice to see if the pendulum is swinging too far the other way out of fear. Connect with Us • Website…
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Differentiating Healthy Guilt from False Guilt
Today’s and This Weekend's Intention: I will practice differentiating between healthy guilt and false guilt. Connect with Us • Website: www.AnnetteAndAda.com •…
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The Guilt That Lingers
Today’s Intention: I will recognize when I’m going into false guilt. Connect with Us • Website: www.AnnetteAndAda.com • Instagram: annetteandada • Facebook…
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False Guilt Protects Belonging, Not Integrity
Today’s Intention: Continue checking in for examples of times when you've had healthy guilt and times when you've had false guilt. Maybe you've had situations…
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The Difference Between Healthy and False Guilt
Today’s Intention is a Reflection Question: When is a time where I have experienced healthy guilt? And when is a time I have experienced false guilt? Connect…