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Hello and welcome to The Inspired Woman. This is Sam Bell and this is the second of my episodes. I promised just to give you a little teasers into what is to come with this podcast.
And what I can promise you is that each of the episodes will be short and sweet. I am a great believer in keeping listeners, whether I be speaking on a stage or be interviewing them in a podcast, or whether I be speaking to you as I'm speaking to you now. I think it's really nice to keep things short and sweet so that your attention span doesn't run out.
So in the last episode, I did just give you a very quick rundown as to my reason behind The Inspired Woman. And I told you about Corridwen, who was the lady who inspired me to stop existing and to start living my life. I also shared with you a little bit about the beginning of my journey to finding my truth, who I truly am in this life, and that this happened with the ending of my marriage of 21 years.
And as with many people who embark upon a journey of self-discovery, something profound will happen in our lives. And it could be any experience. For me, yes, it was the ending of my marriage, but it could also be a health scare, or it could be meeting somebody.
It doesn't matter. There's something that is going to stop you in your tracks and make you realize, holy, I need to start living my life. Time is just clicking away, and I haven't done anything yet that I really want to do.
And so the greatest gift that I can give anybody is inspiring you to stop existing in your life and start living your life with purpose. Find joy. Find your reason for being here and really unleashing your full potential.
Now, I also said that I was a nurse and a midwife, and I did have a health scare a few years, probably only a year, actually, after my marriage came to an end. I suffered a head injury, and I was told that I may never be able to return to nursing. And so I was faced with, oh, what am I going to do? I'd only ever been a nurse.
I had no idea what else I could do. And so I thought about it, and I saw, okay, maybe something along the healthcare lines, but maybe coaching. So I started a coaching course and completed that.
And part of that coaching course was to explore my spirituality. I wanted to become an integrative health coach, a holistic health coach, which meant that I would be helping empower people through their physical, through their emotional and mental, their social, which is something that is very important to me because I did suffer with social anxiety for a number of years, but also their spiritual health. And I had absolutely no idea what spirituality was all about.
I've never been a religious person. I adopted the values of my mother, who was very proud to say that she was atheist and a nonbeliever. And so I thought to please her that it would be a pretty good thing for me to be as well.
So I didn't hesitate to tell people that I was atheist. And now I'm far from it. I do not have a an organized religion, but I do think of myself as being a very spiritual person.
I embarked upon a journey to understand spirituality, and I became a Reiki master. Karen Newells will be one of my guests on my podcast, and she was my Reiki master and taught me my Reiki. I also became an angel empowerment practitioner.
Did I think I would ever believe in angels? Holy heck no, I never did. But I am now, my business partner is Cindy Smith, and she will also be one of my guests on this podcast in the future. She is the angel lady, and she, as I say, is my business partner for angel empowerment healing.
I am still a little skeptical about some of the belief systems, but what I do believe is that there is something bigger and greater than us that we can tap into. I'm a great believer in energy. I love to teach quantum physics, so we will be diving into that in future episodes.
But I just wanted today to share with you how I started my journey, and it began with the counseling that I received from an amazing clinical psychologist, and she introduced me to something called EMDR, which is eye movement desensitization and reprogramming. I was a little skeptical as to whether this was actually going to work, but as she started to work with me, I was able to go back to memories and feelings that I had experienced as I was growing up, as a teenager, as a young adult, and actually unravel all of those feelings and beliefs around those events and reprogram them to become something more joyful for myself and give me that depth of understanding that I needed to understand me. And I actually recorded a lot of the EMDR sessions as a journal, in a journal, as a blog, which I decided that I was going to keep to explain to my son why his mom was so batshit crazy, and why I had chosen to remove him from my mother, his grandmother, at an early age.
So there will be more about that. I've done a deep dive into generational trauma for myself to understand my mother and understand her relationship with her mother. And this is why one of my specialisms is working with mothers and daughters and explaining, helping them to understand their relationship and how that relationship with their mother has become the blueprint for everything in their lives.
As again, this is just a little, little taster of some of the things that you can expect from the Inspired Woman podcast. I wanted to share with you today a little bit about how my journey started, my spiritual journey started. And it was a profound realization around happiness.
And I realized that I was not a happy person. I was not a happy person. That was a huge realization.
There were brief moments of happiness when I would laugh and joke, but I never really experienced true happiness, what I now refer to as being joy. So I followed Gretchen Rubin, who has a book called The Happiness Project. And I started to research happiness and realized that it wasn't selfish to experience being happy.
And I worked through the Happiness Project. And I'm hoping that I will have Gretchen as a guest on the Inspired Woman at a future date. That would be an amazing episode because she was one of the people who first inspired me to find happiness in my life.
And there was actually a point where that happiness gave way to joy. It was more than just being happy. It became one of my core desired feelings to feel joy.
And many of my teachings, many of the podcasts that you might have heard me as a guest, or I have a podcast called the Angel Empowerment Healing Show that I host with my co-host, Cindy Smith, who is now my business partner. And we very often will come back to joy. But I just want to pause for a moment and think about, do you feel happiness? And when you feel happiness, do you know where you feel happiness? Just let that sit with you for a moment.
Where do you feel happiness? What brings you happiness? When does that happiness give way to being joy in your life? What is joy to you? Where do you feel it? How can you capture it in any moment at any given time? Do you think that it's selfish to feel happiness or feel joyful? Do you think that it is something that you should be giving to others and not to yourself? Just some little questions for you to consider as we move forward with the Inspired Woman podcast. In my next episode, I'm going to tell you a little bit more about my relationship with my mother and your relationship with your mother. So until next time, this is Sam Bell, just leaving you with those thoughts about happiness and joy.
Thank you for being here.
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