No One Left Behind
Melissa Dumaz is a distinguished Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist with advanced training in EMDR and Reiki certification. As a best-selling author, dynamic speaker, influential coach, and the host of The Hats Podcast, Melissa brings a wealth of expertise to her practice and this conversation.
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Show Notes:
Looking for the next thing to make a deeper connection with.
Why do we leave parts of ourselves behind?
“Difficult time integrating that part of us”
“Decisions that are different than our core values”
Who am I? What do I believe? What changed for me?
“The risk we take when we judge”
The different hats we wear
“How do I be all of who I am?”
Wisdom and learned skilled of navigating the hats
“If we allow life to change us”
Judgment doesn’t always have an intent of malice
Hard to allow yourself to change through things you didn’t think would be a part of your story
“Not just grieving the experience, but also grieving the version of you that you thought you were up until that point.”
“We can still be angry at a decision we made…”
“I am no longer that woman, I am now this woman”
Bargaining with versions of ourself
“Even getting to a place of peace doesn’t mean that peace is going to reside with us forever”
“We are humans having human experiences”
“What from that version of me to I want to bring forward”
Change inherently involves grief
Of course I’m grieving I have changed
Crying is not always grieving
“For some people grieving doesn’t even require crying”
“There’s no beginning middle end”
Grief works like an ocean
Naming your emotions beyond “grief”
“Name it to tame it”
Extending our grieving process
“What are the things we are doing that are helpful? And what are the things we are doing that are unhelpful?”
“Meet yourself where you are” “give yourself permission, but let’s time it”
How the state of our nervous system affects the choices we make
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