Can I Be With This?

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"I stopped running from things. And that shift is radical and critical, right? Because I stop running from things," he says. "It doesn't mean to minimize the pain that we're in, but to at least have part of one eye on, oh yeah, this could be a growth opportunity." 'Can I be with this?' was Pema Chodron's question when she asked people if they were able to feel difficult feelings like fear or sadness. It sparked his curiosity about what it felt like for him to experience those feelings.

Ginny Gay is a Certified Mindfulness Teacher and has worked with Eric to create content here at The One You Feed for the past 8 years. Prior to that, she spent 13 years in the corporate world where she thought climbing the corporate ladder equated to success in life. Instead, that approach ultimately led her to a place of severe burnout, addiction, anxiety, and depression. Now, she knows that for her, success in all aspects of life comes from living from a place of authenticity and integration where meaningful work and relationships are the fruit and contribution to the world.

Ginny loves creating courses, programs, workshops, and written content to help people live life more skillfully and help them navigate the difficulties that come from the inherent challenges of being human so that they can experience more peace, purpose, and joy in their daily lives.

In this episode, Eric and Ginny discuss her story of struggle and growth, how to work with the inner critic and what it means to practice mindfulness.

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Ginny Gay and I Discuss How to Free Yourself from the Inner Critic Through Mindfulness and …

The way not wanting to experience internal pain can drive us to act in potentially harmful, problematic ways
Her experience in a fundamentalist Christian church
Her experience hitting the glass ceiling in the corporate pharmaceutical industry
The circumstances surrounding her addiction and burnout
How she was able to believe in growth through difficulty during the worst time in her life
The key learnings that helped her transform her life from the ground up
The radical shift she made that saved her life
The power of naming things as they show up inside of us
The corrosive impact of the inner critic
How to differentiate the inner critic from our helpful inner conscience
Where the inner critic comes from
The various ways the inner critic shows up in us
How to free yourself from the inner critic
What mindfulness really means
The benefits of practicing mindfulness
The connection between mindfulness and meditation
Her definition of spirituality
Her mindfulness program, The Well Trained Mind