Amanda Doyle

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Which is why that self-awareness is the first step to any healing is because it all comes from that center core.

Which is why that self-awareness is the first step to any healing is because it all comes from that center core.

Which is why that self-awareness is the first step to any healing is because it all comes from that center core.

Alex, that idea of. of joy or the will to be alive as being healing. You said that the often what scares us most is not having that lingering feeling of suffering, waiting for the shoe to drop. So when we're in a place of not healing, is it that we feel so comfortable in the suffering that anything that feels like alive is so different and uncomfortable? That strikes me as so terribly true.

Alex, that idea of. of joy or the will to be alive as being healing. You said that the often what scares us most is not having that lingering feeling of suffering, waiting for the shoe to drop. So when we're in a place of not healing, is it that we feel so comfortable in the suffering that anything that feels like alive is so different and uncomfortable? That strikes me as so terribly true.

Alex, that idea of. of joy or the will to be alive as being healing. You said that the often what scares us most is not having that lingering feeling of suffering, waiting for the shoe to drop. So when we're in a place of not healing, is it that we feel so comfortable in the suffering that anything that feels like alive is so different and uncomfortable? That strikes me as so terribly true.

It feels illegal.

It feels illegal.

It feels illegal.

Like you said, it's never ending. Yeah, absolutely. Intentional. Being intentional, to me, as I was reading your work, I was like, that's it. That's the whole ballgame. Because it feels like when you are growing up, again, you have these... automatic survival responses to get you through it. And you can live your whole damn life that way.

Like you said, it's never ending. Yeah, absolutely. Intentional. Being intentional, to me, as I was reading your work, I was like, that's it. That's the whole ballgame. Because it feels like when you are growing up, again, you have these... automatic survival responses to get you through it. And you can live your whole damn life that way.

Like you said, it's never ending. Yeah, absolutely. Intentional. Being intentional, to me, as I was reading your work, I was like, that's it. That's the whole ballgame. Because it feels like when you are growing up, again, you have these... automatic survival responses to get you through it. And you can live your whole damn life that way.

The whole way through, you could just keep operating on like your system default coding. But it's when those moments where you look and you say like, no, I want to do something on purpose. I don't want to do something because it's coded. I want to take an intentional action.

The whole way through, you could just keep operating on like your system default coding. But it's when those moments where you look and you say like, no, I want to do something on purpose. I don't want to do something because it's coded. I want to take an intentional action.

The whole way through, you could just keep operating on like your system default coding. But it's when those moments where you look and you say like, no, I want to do something on purpose. I don't want to do something because it's coded. I want to take an intentional action.

Like when your baby was born and you suddenly had the mirror of her reflection back at you and you said, no, I'm going to do something on purpose now. When you met Ryan and you were like, no, I, my coding says, hell no, run, run, red alert. I'm going to on purpose choose you.

Like when your baby was born and you suddenly had the mirror of her reflection back at you and you said, no, I'm going to do something on purpose now. When you met Ryan and you were like, no, I, my coding says, hell no, run, run, red alert. I'm going to on purpose choose you.

Like when your baby was born and you suddenly had the mirror of her reflection back at you and you said, no, I'm going to do something on purpose now. When you met Ryan and you were like, no, I, my coding says, hell no, run, run, red alert. I'm going to on purpose choose you.

What are our daily on purpose intentional acts that aren't based on survival, but are based on our choice to do and act a certain way to lead our lives? What are those daily practices that we can begin doing? to have ease even in the act of being intentional because that is an odd place to be if you've just been reacting to coding your whole life.