29. What's the opportunity in loss?
The Hour to Empower with Yessica
When we experience loss, we learn to adapt to life. We cannot change reality. Every human being at some point experiences life showing up and doing its thing. Forcing us to change our course or to accept certain losses. Can we adapt to that change? What is the adaptation about? What is the relevant thing to consider when we talk about adapting? In this episode Yessica shares some important things to focus on when we are experiencing this. What are our attachments? What’s the opportunity in this? And many more ways to navigate the challenges of life. If you want to do some deeper work, you...
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28. Finding the balance between doing and being
The Hour to Empower with Yessica
Understanding the kinds of thoughts that we get trapped in and how we can let go of those thoughts when they show up. Practice detaching from thoughts. We only need to learn that we don’t need to be trapped in our thoughts all the time. So we can be free from our thoughts and we can decide in which thoughts we want to be participating in. The mind is constantly doing wanting to change the reality we are in. In this episode Yessica shares some ideas and examples to have a better relationship with the present moment and practice releasing thoughts. Learning how to simply be. If you want...
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27. Elevating our emotional state
The Hour to Empower with Yessica
When we experience difficult emotions, it is important to treat our emotions with love and care the same way we would care for a child or a puppy. Our tendency is to feel shame or reject those emotions. The more we can learn who we really are and love that part of us in the right way we can begin to change our life and improve it the best way for us. In this episode, Yessica shares ways to learn and navigate through our inner experiences with love and care. If you want to do some deeper work, you can find more information for coaching sessions or mindfulness courses with Yessica on
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26. What else is in this moment
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In this moment there is much more. When we become obsessed with a thought we enter in a sort of tunel vision where we become frustrated and angry or sad. We forget to see life with perspective. When we experience stress this is one of the things that happens we get trapped in that one thing. In this episode Yessica gives us three tips to practice daily and help us relate better to those difficult thoughts and experiences. If you want to do some deeper work, you can find more information for coaching sessions or mindfulness courses with Yessica on
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25. How we relate with others: Bonding and needing
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When we feel unsafe or insecure, we stop listening to ourselves. We stop holding space for ourselves. Can you go by yourself and enjoy being alone? We learn to be with ourselves as a friend and we become aware of the boundaries we need to set and the choices that are actually best for us. We feel better we feel more confident when we work on this ability to be with ourselves with love and care. Finding the balance between needing others and being with ourselves. Building a sense of peace and freedom. If you want to do some deeper work, you can find more information for coaching sessions or...
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24.The extroardinary gift of being ordinary Dr. Ronald Siegel
The Hour to Empower with Yessica
In this episode, Yessica interviews one of the best Mindfulness teachers and psychologist Dr. Ronald Siegel, Assistant Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. This conversation around his book “The extraordinary gift of being ordinary” allows us to understand how we trap ourselves in our self-conscious inner dialog that takes us away from fully experiencing life. How much we compare ourselves to others and evaluate ourselves is relevant to our level of suffering. An insightful and brilliant conversation that will guide us towards finding happiness. His book is available on Amazon in...
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23. Accepting who we are
The Hour to Empower with Yessica
What drives us? Is it success, love or control? In this episode we talk about ways to understand and accept ourselves. Our emotional home is the emotions that we experience most often. When we know our emotional home and we realize that it’s not a healthy one, we need to figure out how we can make some adjustments that will allow us to take ownership of our lives. If you want to do some deeper work, you can find more information for coaching sessions or mindfulness courses with Yessica on
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22. Allowing instead of controlling
The Hour to Empower with Yessica
In this episode, Yessica speaks about the importance of learning how our expectations can cause a lot of suffering in our lives. Our constant need to control to change things create a behavior in us that makes us stressed and even feel overwhelmed many times. In this episode, Yessica describes different ways of responding to an unmet expectation that cause us a lot of suffering and proposes a different way that can give you some light and better perspective of what is happening in front of you. A way that requires courage and openness to allow life to be as it is. If you want to do some deeper...
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21. Becoming your best friend
The Hour to Empower with Yessica
In this episode, Yessica brings a new perspective on how to deal with the parts of ourselves that we tend to dislike. Most of us want to “change” “be better” and this is good if we want to grow and evolve. The problem is that when we do this we face those parts of ourselves that make us think that we are not able to change. In reality what we are trying to do is to get rid of the suffering in our lives which most of the time has to do with our inner world. This is why the first step toward this “better me” that we are trying to create is actually becoming our best friends. Knowing...
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20. From negative beliefs to awareness
The Hour to Empower with Yessica
Our negative beliefs can be the source of our stress and suffering. Our inner conversation and our belief system that rules this conversation has a lot to do with our life experiences, the people we trust and how often we have heard those beliefs. In this episode Yessica shares knowledge around how to build awareness and free ourselves from those negative beliefs. Follow The Hour to Empower on Instagram and Facebook To join the course on Mindfulness or Emotional Agility in September click here If you want to do some deeper work, you can find more information for coaching sessions or...
info_outlineWhen we are seeking inner peace we think that we need to do something else, be someone else or create something new. There’s a way towards inner peace that has more to do with “doing less” and “being more”. In this episode Yessica will challenge you to learn to simply be even when thoughts come and go. To be what we are in this moment without resisting our reality. What is taking away your peace? If you could be present in this moment without that thought what would be possible?
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