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Hitting the Wall: Tips for Reconnecting with Inspiration and Transforming your Practice
Ever found yourself hitting an emotional wall and teetering on the edge of burnout? We've all been there and it's a tough place to navigate alone. This episode is your lifeline, promising to reconnect you with the spark of inspiration that keeps life exciting and fulfilling. We venture into the simple pleasures of life, like absorbing the beauty of a leisurely walk or an intimate conversation with friends. We also explore self-care routines that nurture your physical health. And for those on a spiritual journey, we delve into calming practices, like box breathing and connecting with the celestial realm.
We continue our conversation by diving deep into personal growth. We take responsibility for the walls that block our path, seeing them not as obstacles, but as learning experiences. We also discuss the intriguing role of astrology in understanding our responses to life's challenges. With a sprinkle of kindness towards ourselves and others, we aim to create a more compassionate and understanding world. The key lies in breaking old habits, carving new spaces, and incorporating everyday tasks to re-motivate ourselves.
As we close our discussion, we stress the critical role of mental health professionals in our lives. It's okay to seek help from counselors, life coaches, and energy healers when we need it. They often provide the fresh perspective we need to overcome our challenges. We also highlight the therapeutic power of creative outlets, such as journaling, practicing yoga, and even talking to plants. Don't be surprised to find solace in the most unexpected places, like Alice in Wonderland stories and 2000s pop music.
This episode is an invitation to journey with us towards rediscovering inspiration and overcoming burnout. So, buckle up! Let's embark on this transformative journey together.
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Hello everyone, welcome to our episode of it's Me, not you. Hello, melissa, hello, hey Jake. Good morning, good morning, fine sir. We have our drinks today and we're ready to talk about inspiration and what happens when you hit the wall.
Speaker 2:Da, da, da da.
Speaker 1:So, melissa, or actually Jake, jake, this is your topic. How do you reconnect with inspirations in your practice when he's like I'm not here, I'm not talking about it, I've hit the wall, I'm not talking about it, I've hit the wall.
Speaker 3:You fluff your hair and get it ready to take off.
Speaker 2:I switched my wig.
Speaker 1:So, jake, tell us, how do you reconnect with inspirations in your practice when maybe you've hit a wall, maybe when you've had a loss of confidence, or maybe you're just kind of burnt out?
Speaker 2:Yeah, so I mean for me I'm seasonally wise I'm due for a burnout in about a month.
Speaker 1:Seasonal affected disorder going to be hitting us hard soon guys.
Speaker 2:Thank God to well be your next cell. So usually what I'm feeling in those times and that happens every couple of years I feel like the biggest thing for me is like stripping everything back right. So a little less about you know, the consistency in the practice and holding myself accountable to like this regimen of how many daily check-ins I'm doing, or, you know, feeling as though that I need to sit down with a journal or that I need to just even work with, for my example, a deck in general, even just picking one up Sometimes it's been several weeks before I've touched the deck, just because I I don't know find myself in those weird moods where I need to take a step back and just kind of recharge. And so for me in those times I really like to just lean back into those more mundane tasks, like just going for more walks or even just more spending more time with just friends, stepping back from it completely. I think it can happen, especially for us that are doing this kind of work professionally, where I could feel like you are just never escaping it right, just chronically the mystic. So I really like to take advantage of opportunities where I can just be a regular, regular person and maybe binge watch a couple shows, get back to making sure, you know, am I taking care of my physical health, am I on my routine or have I lost track of that? So for a big part of it, it really is just stripping back and stop feeling like it's substituting it like a job that I have to clock in for right, because that's that's when we lose the fun in it.
Speaker 2:We are really starting to run out of the options for inspiration and I'd like to say that there's a timeline, right, like I'd like to say that there's like a specific way to plug back in and you know, after I do this for X-Mana days, I'm going to feel recharged, new perspective, brand new person. And for me, you know, in the past couple years I've really started to let go of. Okay, I've only got this much time of this recharge and then I will step back into it. So I mean now, lately, I think the biggest gift for me is just kind of being very upfront and direct about that and just kind of, you know, reaching out Because it's hey, I'm, you know, at this current time I'm not taking private sessions, but you know, please check back in with me. That is totally fine to say and to do and to incorporate into your practice vacation times on your shops if you're an e-commerce person, just taking a step back, remembering that you're a human being, right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and we're here to have a human experience as part of our soul's path that I think we forget about.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I know you've had some clients recently that have been hitting walls and how do you motivate yourself to get kind of back into it or help your clients when they I pair apart my kitchen so I can.
Speaker 3:Yeah, melissa likes to do very.
Speaker 2:I love it creative?
Speaker 3:I do. I need to be like build a garden or I know I'm putting way more on my plate, but it makes me feel better.
Speaker 3:And when I move my body it's like I can move the pain out. That's just how I process the grief and betrayal, pain, like all that stuff. I do more walks with Maggie. That is one thing that kind of helps me release things. You know, making time to be in nature, but then I have to leave my phone in the car because otherwise I'm using that time to text people back or be available. So I guess the biggest things is how to let go of structure, which I hate doing when I hit a wall, to be a little more free-flowing and to really examine why do I feel this way?
Speaker 3:You know it's easy to blame, like well, others are asking and others are are taking, but we're willing to be giving when we have that empty space. So how or what do we need to change within ourselves? So I think it's important to set boundaries, find balance, which I have absolutely no idea how to do. I mean, I do, but I don't.
Speaker 2:Hey, you know how to do it, you know.
Speaker 3:But like, let's face it, where I feel like the world is faster than it ever was of what we're expected to do after COVID, of how many things that we have in our plate, and it's like we don't want to miss anything because we just had to be in that lockdown for so long that now we're jumping into as many things as possible to like live everything, but then there's not enough of us to enjoy each moment because we're stressed about what's next. So, like I've woken up with stress. You know, last week or so I do a lot of box breathing and I just go to the angels. I just sort of like set everything else aside and I just go to them to, like, you know, hold me, help me, show me what I need to do, and let me feel okay with saying no to the things that I have to let slip off the plate.
Speaker 3:I've been something the other day. That's like no matter how much you want to, you can't do it all. You have to learn to compromise, and that, I think, is my biggest lesson. And big on that one and of course I go to my astrology to figure out what the heck is going on, but that's me.
Speaker 1:I think for me actually, when I am in Lucy, maybe some inspiration where I feel like I'm hanging while I go back to structure, maybe I've been not as consistent with what I need to do and I go back to structure. I'll go back to, like Jake said, journaling. I'll go back to, you know, being outside and doing like mindful meditations. I like I kind of I thrive in a routine and kind of what I need to do to make myself feel whole in a day. You know, and I go back to, I listen a lot of music and I know what you guys do as well. Like I'll go back to like listen to my gospel music and you know I'll be praying and you know amen, praise the Lord In my car. Like every day is one of us. See, like I can, I'm already like jamming into it and that makes me feel, oh, I love it, I'm obsessed.
Speaker 1:I love the song. You know her Irish song.
Speaker 3:Give it up to Boston, yeah. I'm like yeah, I love that song.
Speaker 1:But it's you know cause I and I know, like, like Jake and I we've talked about this before like we're both very affected by the winter and you know that can kind of cycle us into a different kind of mind. For me it's like I don't know. It's like I'm I need the sun and when I don't have it, I'm like I need to move, I can just. But it is interesting, like when you do hit a wall and I think what we're saying is like go back to basics, go back to basics, you know, and it's okay. I think we also put a lot of pressure on ourselves to be on, you know, because there are expectations of us, like okay, you're in the mystic role and you always should be on, and I think, setting up those boundaries and those parameters of saying you know, right now, I'm sorry, I'm not available. Like I remember I was on vacation once and I got a text from someone I need a reading from you.
Speaker 1:Now, like, no, sorry, like one, the energy is going to be funky because I'm pissed off at you and you're in this desperate I don't know, like no, maybe you need something else, but it's just, it's just not, it's not. Maybe you need a drink, I don't know.
Speaker 2:And third of all, I've had four mango margaritas. I know I want margaritas.
Speaker 3:Okay when you have four mango margaritas.
Speaker 2:I'm going to get from you. I'd be dead.
Speaker 3:One margarita reading, remember that we were. That was crazy.
Speaker 2:We're like we're going to be pissed and we realize.
Speaker 1:no, rachel's drinks like once or twice a year, and that's woo Camp margaritas.
Speaker 1:Love drinking at camp, anyway, but I think it's really important to what makes you feel whole, what makes you feel also like maybe open, what makes you feel like, because sometimes, like we feel weighed down like and tired. And the other thing I do want to say is take the guilt off of always having to be on Like it's okay to say no, it's okay to say I need to do this for myself, like this is for me, and that way I'm not taking away from someone else. Because if you're not on and you're not spot on in what you're doing, you're doing a disservice to your clients and you're doing a disservice also to your family and your friends, if you're not being honest with how you feel, because then they think you know, what do we all do? If Melissa gives me a side eye, look, oh, what did I do wrong? You know like we take it personally and we take it in when really most of me could just be having.
Speaker 3:She's just tired you know she's not having a good day, my eyes twitching because I'm no sleep.
Speaker 1:I'm just some fucking ass.
Speaker 3:I'm sorry yeah that too, I think the big thing, though, the first thing is to recognize that you hit the wall.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think a lot of us don't recognize it until like we've like hit ourselves into it a few too many times.
Speaker 3:And the hardest part I'm hearing this right now, I don't even want to say it, but it's accepting the responsibility that you are hitting the wall. The responsibility is what are you going to do about it? And not just to get through. I say that to myself way too much. I can do this, I always do. I hate saying that. So how can I change it so that it doesn't have to feel, you know, that pressure?
Speaker 1:Well, what's the definition of insanity? Keep cycling, cycling to the same thing over and over, expecting a different result, like I'm a dory owl.
Speaker 2:I have no idea what we're talking about.
Speaker 1:I know and I'm sorry, unless I cut you off and I'm being rude, now I'm taking over but also let's talk about like this happens in our professional life too. Like we all three of us work day jobs and I mean I don't know about you guys, but I'm seeing a lot of people like co-workers and, you know, clients and whatnot. I mean there's a lot of intense energies right now, with people just being raging mad is how what I'm feeling, like people are so angry over things that are like have you done that at all? Well, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I think um, I'm gonna go with astrology. Of course, let's go with astrology never.
Speaker 1:You know, You'd be proud of your Alyssa on Tuesday. I'm off topic again. On Tuesday we were meeting with the doctors. On like Tuesday, the day of war, jupiter, yeah and then one doctor's like you don't normally blend this into your day to day life I'm like well, today I am because Alyssa said that's so funny, tuesday's not gonna happen.
Speaker 3:We have six planets in, or maybe five now. Whatever, at this point in retrograde, Mercury's just been a jerk for the last two weeks, regardless.
Speaker 1:You're a jerk.
Speaker 3:But at the same time, people are. I think there's two things happening. One, I think that people's true faces are being exposed. They really are is coming out at the surface, and our facades are off. So you're seeing people at their worst because that's how they are. So they need to do something to fix that. And maybe you have to see it because you've been in a relationship that you shouldn't have been.
Speaker 3:In spirit or your instinct, whatever you wanna call it, your gut has been saying get out of this, whether it's a friend or it's it could even be a family relationship that has just not been healthy for you that you have to step back. These are all like, hey, here's all the walls in your life. What are you gonna do about it? So I think that that is shocking. Nobody wants to look at the bad of themselves. Nobody wants to look at how they can change, is how everybody else should react, which then just really feeds on it.
Speaker 3:So, if there ever was a time to go in yourself, learn the lesson that you're being faced with. So, whatever's happening to you, that's your lesson. Figure it out so you don't have to keep doing it. That's why I like astrology. I feel like the 12 houses are the 12 classrooms, and you're sitting in a classroom and you got this as a teacher. Well, that sucks. You got Pluto as a teacher for that, like good luck, but that's what we have for our teachers. So learn it and be done and graduate it, so you don't have to keep doing it.
Speaker 1:But what if they don't realize that that's a lesson that they have to learn and they're in? Oh, what was me in my life is sucks, and this and that.
Speaker 3:Then you're never gonna graduate and you will be stuck in that lesson and it'll get louder and louder and louder until it's maxed. You and you have no choice. Amen, right. It sucks, it sucks, you know. And I think the other thing is being compassionate towards other people when they are hitting their walls and thank God we don't all hit our walls at the same time, or we would just be total chaos.
Speaker 1:Imagine Don't be compassionate to yourself Like yeah, be compassionate for others, but be compassionate for yourself. If you're saying, look at yourself, look at the role that you played in this lesson and take responsibility for it, and that might be an uncomfortable truth that you have to face, right yeah?
Speaker 2:Absolutely. I know, for me, what I personally loved to do was just kind of like, take every opportunity to just kind of break routines, right so? And everybody has one. So your end of the day routine what room do you find yourself hanging out in? What's the place that you socialize the most on the weekend? Right so, for me, I like to be kind of cozy in my living room or just like on my couch with like reading or playing a game, whatever that might be.
Speaker 2:But if I'm in those times of burnout, then maybe I'll make myself switch to just a different area of the house, or even just switching to just sitting on my altar and whatever it is that I'm doing that day. Like, if I'm just doom scrolling on my phone, at least I'm sitting on my altar and I'm kind of touching back in base right and making an attempt to kind of get back in touch with that side, or even just spending time outside or deciding to go for a walk instead of just sitting there in that moody space or in that burnt out space. I find, for me personally, when I can break out of those cycles, that's oftentimes what keeps me a little bit pushed forward, you know, to keep moving little by little back into my I was gonna say my cycle, but I don't know if that's worded right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and you're right about switching up the rooms. I was finding myself eating in one room and now I'm eating in a different room. It wasn't the dining room. It wasn't the dining room Back in the dining room, but it's making me be more present.
Speaker 1:I think that's the biggest thing is I wasn't. I feel like for a lot of I wasn't as present. I was distracted by the TV, by my phone, by this, by this, and now I'm trying to really be more present in the moment, and I said that's not easy at the moment, it's definitely not easy and I think that it's even a big thing that comes up.
Speaker 2:And I'm not sure about YouTube, but like in classes, workshops, when you're teaching people and they're like, well, how do I, you know, take time and how do I make time or make a meditative practice, or how do I, you know, come up with this routine? And I know in a lot of my sessions, a lot of my workshops that I work on, a lot of us have this conversation of oh, but it's so much easy to just sit down and continue binging Grey's Anatomy right, Even though you know that you want to get up in journal, or you know that you want to go get up and practice your deck of cards, whatever that might be. So there's always that little you know shoulder goblin right there trying to say, okay, well, we could just stick with them with the everyday kind of ebb and flow, this one flat, no.
Speaker 1:You do you get like, okay Monday's to do this on Tuesdays, to do this on Wednesdays, to do this on Thursdays to do this, like it, you're right, it is interesting Hmm.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So how do you guys find let's, let's, let's cap this off on. You know we're going to reconnect, reconnect with some inspiration. What is the one thing, melissa, that you would do be like?
Speaker 3:okay, I know, when I do this, I am, I get more inspired when I'm creative, I get more inspired that I, whether whatever that creativity, whether it's working in my garden, like when Jake's like I go to this room in the house, I go to my garden, where you most social. In my garden I talk to the plants, because when I feel burnt out I don't want to talk to humans. I like my plants. So, yeah, it's creativity with the kitchen, with maybe a different yoga routine that I do. So it's something that gets my sacred chakra moving. That's the place of our life force and that's what I want to feed. Is that is that chakra? Or if I'm burnt so burnt out I can't move, I just light the sacred candle.
Speaker 2:I love that Me lighting the candle for her. I thought you were going to have like a lighter. I was waiting for the fire.
Speaker 1:Jake, what about you?
Speaker 2:For me, my kind of secret weapon in all of this is that even though I might step away from my reading practice, I do find a way to still kind of include it with myself loosely. Number one I love to start reading the Alice in Wonderland stories again. Those are just a childhood favorite of mine and I've always just loved the way that the mind just kind of expands, you know when you're in that fairy tale and when you're in that vibration. And to kind of supplement that, I've got an Alice in Wonderland tarot deck that I work with and I think hitting burnout and hitting the wall is a lot like falling down the rabbit hole right in this place of Wonderland where everything's unfamiliar and sometimes we can get into that.
Speaker 2:What was me, victim hood, even mentality sometimes, from it. I think that a big part of working with those archetypes for me is just kind of rediscovering, you know, our individuality and these long spaces and these psychological moods that we might be finding ourselves in. So personally for me, I really find that the Alice in Wonderland stories are quite healing for me. But I also will always default to, you know, like 2000s pop music, things that are light, things that are that really just kind of get the energy moving, the nostalgia kind of hitting things that just kind of snap you out of it right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I definitely I think I go. I make sure to spend some time outside. I go on walks with my son and we just talk and we dialogue and we talk about creative ideas. Right now we're working on a horror film. Yes, that's right, guys, that's how I get my love it.
Speaker 1:The moment the dredge. But it's also like for me, like I'll reach out to you guys and like just about, like sometimes I just need like a little boost of you know some Jake sassiness or some wisdom, or you know, I do reach out to, I do reach out to people you know, just to kind of like recenter myself and I recognize that, you know, and I think, like Melissa said, we have to take responsibility when we're, when we've hit the wall, maybe with lesson in here, and what do we need to do? And it's okay to disconnect, it's okay to say no, it's okay to be like all right the spirits like no, no, talking for you.
Speaker 3:And I think it's also important to know that you don't have to do it yourself, that when you really feel that way, get help and maybe it's beyond what your friends can do and you really need to talk to somebody, there is no shame in going to reaching out to somebody for help, Whether it's a counselor, a life coach or you know energy healing or tapping or pick a mentality you know but there's no shame in saying I need help.
Speaker 1:Amen, amen, amen. All right, you guys, you have a lovely day.
Speaker 2:Have a good one, loves Bye.
