Ep 97: Happy Days with Gabby Bernstein
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Ep 97: Happy Days with Gabby Bernstein
Episode 97 Show Notes
If you were free from fear, who would you have the freedom to be? With her new book, Happy Days, #1 New York Times bestselling author, Gabrielle Bernstein, wants to help you chart a path to heal trauma, unlearn fear, and remember love.
Gabby has long been loved by her readers as a spiritual teacher, motivational speaker, and catalyst for profound inner change, and Happy Days presents her most powerful teaching yet: a plan for transforming the pain of your past, whatever that may be, into newfound strength and freedom.
In today’s episode, we have a transparent and vulnerable discussion that took place over two separate conversations, one of which was an IG Live on the day that Happy Days was released in March 2022.
Listen in as Gabby shares her definition of happiness and offers some insight into the process of clearing space to reconnect with the joy within. She highlights the importance of taking the transition from trauma to profound inner peace one step at a time before sharing some profound advice for tuning into your inner guidance system, connecting with yourself through meditation, and returning to your Self (with a capital S) with courage, compassion, and curiosity!
For all this and so much more, make sure not to miss this thought-provoking episode with the one and only, Gabby Bernstein!
Key Points From This Episode:
How Gabby ‘does it all’ by doing less and attracting more.
The bravery it takes to examine and care for your driving force and to begin to soften it.
Defining happiness: the presence of being and being present in your life.
The process of clearing space to reconnect with the joy within.
Slowly, methodically making the transition from trauma to profound freedom and inner peace.
Why Gabby says the safest space for her to be vulnerable was in front of a live audience.
How she knew that now, in this book, was the time to reveal this level of vulnerability.
How Gabby initially bought into the stigma related to the use of antidepressants.
Why she describes Happy Days as her most spiritual book
Distinguishing between your inner guidance system and your ego, fear, or conditioning.
The C qualities of Self: courage, compassion, curiosity, creativity, connectedness, calmness.
Using meditation for self-connection versus using meditation to get high.
Which of her books Gabby recommends to those who aren’t familiar with her work.
Gabby’s perception of purpose: to come back to the Self energy of grace.
Tweetables:
“I'm now living in a much more resourced way. In this resourced way of living, I can do less and attract more. I can still do a lot and not burn out. I can—moment by moment—check in with my own inner system and say, ‘What do you need right now?’” — @GabbyBernstein [0:05:57]
“Often, we have to show up for our inner world and care for our inner world while living our outer life. That was the case for me.” — @GabbyBernstein [0:15:05]
“You cannot be alive right now and say you've never experienced trauma, because we're living it in this moment. We have to do our part to regulate our own nervous system, to support our energy field, and to heal those wounded parts of us that have been begging to come forth.” — @GabbyBernstein [0:22:07]
“We want to make sure that, when we're using our spiritual practice, we're using as a way to connect to our feelings more than get above them.” — @GabbyBernstein [0:34:59]
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