The Illuminated Life

I have been inspired to try something a little different. Moving forward, when the inspiration calls, I will be sharing bonus episodes called Illuminated moments. These are messages from my heart to yours. In the Illuminated Moments episodes I will invite you to connect with your heart in the present moment.

There is always going to be ebbs and flows in our life. We can fight against them or surrender to them. I talk about how honoring the ebbs as they come about in our lives is a great opportunity for self care. Additionally I talk about what we can learn from the ebbs of life and why they are important.

Self care, a component of unconditional self love, is an important part of living an illuminated life. To include more self care into our lives we need to learn what brings us energy and what takes our energy away. Then, we must move to planning how to intentionally incorporate self care into our daily lives.

Many of us struggle with depression. It can feel hopeless and like there is no way out or that we will always feel this way. But it doesn’t have to. I talk about putting together a support system and allowing yourself the time to dig deep, to find what is contributing to your depression or making it worse. Additionally, I talk about how your level of self love can also contribute positively or negatively. This episode is for anyone who is feeling depressed or just sad. You will find ideas...

One of the most important concepts I will discuss in this podcast. Often confused with self care, self love is actually bigger than just self care. It is often the lack of self love or high self regard that creates many of the challenges we face in our lives. I talk about the importance of identifying your level of unconditional self love and ways we can cultivate higher levels of it in our lives. This episode will clarify what self love is, the importance of self love and offer a framework...

In this day and age, we seem to be surrounded by a ton of stuff. From physical stuff to mental stuff, we often find ourselves paralyzed and overwhelmed by all the stuff we have in our lives. In this episode I talk about how you can simplify. I share how starting small and letting go can help you gain more joy and freedom from feeling overwhelmed. This episode will help you move past the stuck feeling our overly packed environments can have on us. Listen for actionable steps you can start...

At any given moment we have the ability to choose joy. Our capacity for Joy has little to do with what is happening outside of ourselves. We always have two choices. To choose joy or to choose pain. In this episode I share a story about my mom’s last few days, that demonstrates the very power in this action.

In the first 9 episodes I teach you the most important steps to achieving an illuminated life. In this episode I share with you 8 tips to make it all stick and become part of your daily habits. These tips can help you create lasting, positive changes in your life.

Mindset can make all the difference in the world. In this episode I focus on using clarity, mindset and responsibility, to show up better in our daily lives and be more fulfilled. I talk about mindset and show you how to set and achieve your goals.

Hear a story about having dreams or the lack of having dreams. In this episode I introduce the third and final step to an illuminated life - Action. In order to take action in our lives we need clarity. This episode will help you begin to gain clarity about your goals and dreams in your life. I help you gain clarity about the mental and physical work you need to take and then share strategies for how you can make it all happen.

Acceptance and ownership allow you to take full responsibility of your life in the most amazing way. In this episode I teach you how to manage your thoughts and feelings with a strategy that leads to action toward what you desire most. Learn just how empowering taking ownership can be.

Move from awareness of how your thoughts and emotions affect the outcomes in your life to ultimately take responsibility. This includes acceptance. In this episode I discuss the need for acceptance of new practices in your life that allow you to continue managing your thoughts and feelings. In addition, you will learn to accept the inner power to achieve all that you desire. Then we will talk about how you must accept yourself because you are perfect just the way you are. You will be...

For some, emotions are difficult to manage. In this podcast I share a guided meditation that you can use to manage difficult feelings and emotions. Use this meditation when you are experiencing intense feelings or whenever you would like, as a practice for processing emotions. Just don’t do it while you are driving.

Emotions are a part of our lives and they serve an important role. However, many of us were not taught how to process our emotions and this can lead to unhealthy thought patterns and poor habits of mind. In this episode I teach you how to process emotions so that you are able to experience them in a healthy way. Please visit my site at www.trishjohnson.com to get the free materials that go with this podcast.

The thoughts in our mind create our emotions. The way we feel impacts how we show up in our lives. In this episode we bring awareness to how our emotions can serve us or work against us. Please visit my site at www.trishjohnson.com to get the free materials that go with this podcast.

In order to make changes we must first bring awareness to our thoughts. In this episode I am going to shed light on a cognitive process in which we begin to manage our minds. By doing this we condition the mind in a way that allows us to achieve what we want most in our lives.

Whether the universe has slapped you upside the head or you have found yourself asking "Is this all there is to life?", it seems these days we are hearing more and more about the “mid- life crisis”. In this episode I will share a shift in mindset and how this time in our life can really be the doorway to an amazing shift if you choose to use it that way.