Moving Forward: The Path of Personal Growth
Moving Forward: The Path of Personal Growth
The Love, Happiness & Success Podcast with Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby
Music Credits: “There’s a New Day,” by Staffan Carlan
Moving Forward:
As a Denver therapist and life coach, I get to meet people from all backgrounds, most of whom are working on their personal growth in one way or another.
A Love, Happiness and Success Podcast listener (and taker of my online self-esteem quiz) recently asked me, “Dr. Lisa: I’m dedicated to moving forward and I want to achieve personal growth, but HOW? How do I break through?” Fair question!
In this episode, I go behind the scenes from my viewpoint as a Denver therapist, online life coach, and longtime practitioner of “breakthrough counseling” to give you the inside scoop. I reveal the internal workings of the personal growth process so you can see what a successful “personal growth plan” really involves.
Listen and learn the actual process for moving forward (whether in therapy, life coaching, or on your own) and how to transform what feels like a breakdown into a breakthrough.
Specifically, we’re discussing:
Timing:
Why this particular “pandemic” time (believe it or not) holds many opportunities for personal growth and change that are not as easily accessible when things are normal.
Catalysts:
How to use a breakdown in order to achieve a “breakthrough,” and why having a personal crisis is so often transformational.
Self-Awareness:
The importance of learning how to tap into the wisdom of your dark emotions. Turning a bad state of mind into a center for personal growth.
Motivation:
Why things that feel like obstacles are often actually are the path forward in disguise.
Empowerment:
The key turning points of the personal growth process, particularly shifting out of victimhood and into empowerment.
Breakthrough:
The life changing experience of having new recognition of (and refusal to continue) old patterns.
Transformation:
How the hard-earned personal growth process culminates in feelings of confidence, clarity and self worth.
Victory:
Why moving forward and achieving authentic personal growth is not an easy path, but a worthy one (and yours to keep!)
To help you take in this information in the easiest and most enjoyable way for you, I’m including access to both the podcast link and the full transcript so you can either listen or read though. (You’ll find the full transcript by scrolling all the way to the bottom of this post).
Wishing you all the very best on your journey of growth!
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Moving Forward: The Path of Personal Growth
The Love, Happiness & Success Podcast with Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby
Music Credits: “There’s a New Day,” by Staffan Carlan
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Episode Highlights
Timing
- It can be easier to do deep and meaningful growth work during the pandemic since we’re experiencing a shift in the status quo.
- Our feelings are more accessible now that we have more time for ourselves.
Catalysts
- A personal crisis surfaces many big feelings, which we are forced to deal with.
- In the process, we get to reevaluate ourselves.
Self-Awareness
- Our dark emotions can push us onto a path of exploration and understanding.
- As a result, we get to rediscover who we are: what our wants, needs, core values, hopes, and dreams are.
Motivation
- This stage involves asking “Now what?” after realizing some things about yourself.
Empowerment
- Once we have done the work to take care of ourselves, we feel empowered and confident in our ability to author our own lives.
- On the flip side, disempowered people tend to displace blame. They believe that they do not have autonomy over their lives.
- While it is true that there are systemic forces such as racism that disempower some groups, we can take some control on an individual level.
- A truly empowered person often sees their past experience as learning opportunities. They become grateful for what they have gained from their hardships.
Breakthrough
- When we are empowered and have a growth mindset, we then refuse to participate in old patterns of behavior that are self-destructive.
- At this stage, we no longer tolerate mistreatment from others, because we know how to treat ourselves well.
Transformation
- It is during this stage that we get to reap the rewards of our personal growth: self-worth and confidence.
- Attaining self-love is a long, hard process but a worthy one.
Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby is the founder and clinical director of Growing Self. She is a licensed psychologist, a licensed marriage and family therapist, and a board-certified coach, as well as the author of “Exaholics: Breaking Your Addiction to Your Ex Love,” and the host of The Love, Happiness & Success Podcast.
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