Oakley celebrates the new year with powerful tools for transforming the inner life. The real key to making big changes in 2023 is releasing old trauma patterns to make space for a more heart-centered way of being.
Show Notes
The collective energy of each new year inspires people to make changes they believe will bring more happiness and success. We all know how the New Year’s resolution trend goes. Stereotypically, January finds gyms full, liquor cabinets empty, and fridges stocked with leafy greens. By spring, most of the promises made in the attempt to improve our lives lie broken, collecting dust in the basement. We take this to mean we’ve failed or that our will power simply wasn’t strong enough. We didn’t push ourselves hard enough.
Oakley knows the struggle of pushing herself beyond her limits and would like to offer a gentler approach. Before being catapulted into a new phase of her healing journey through a life-threatening car accident, she was doing all the right things. She worked out, meditated regularly, and drank green juice. Her professional life was thriving. But she knew something wasn’t right. Her body was trying to process her unconscious programming still present from childhood. After her accident and a Lyme’s Disease diagnosis, Oakley was forced to come face to face with her own darkness. That journey is what led her to utilize meditation and visualization to bring in more joy. Using neuro-linguistic practices helped her create new pathways in her brain that opened her heart and released old negative patterns. Now she guides clients and listeners in this life-changing practice to redirect the brain. Taking sovereignty over our thought processing is the best resolution for transforming every facet of our inner and outer lives.
Main Topics:
- Oakley’s negative thought patterns from childhood that prevented her from experiencing joy (03:40)
- Internalizing trauma from childhood as normal (08:40)
- Despite using all the external tools, Oakley still struggled with finding inner peace (13:50)
- Overactive will power was one factor that led to chronic inflammation in Oakley’s body (17:20)
- A visualization tool to change your beliefs and call in love-based feelings (24:15)
- Box Breathing practice for emotional triggers (28:00)
- How approaching change from the inside out transformed Oakley’s life (31:00)
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Welcome to Sex Drugs & Enlightenment where we open the door and take down the walls of the therapy office—to gain tools, insights, support, and the experience of being heard and connected within the 21st century.
Hi, I’m Oakley Ogden, a psychotherapist and licensed counselor with over 17 years of experience working with young adults. In this podcast I unpack the profane with my guests to recognize how the tough stuff is the sacred stuff.
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