Today I am sharing my story of hitting one of my lowest low points in my life and how I pulled myself out of it.

Life is f*cking MESSY. But we tend to only ever see the good parts online, the highlight reels. 

I think it's time we start highlighting our messy parts. Start celebrating our rock bottom moments. Because these are the parts that make us who we are, the parts that define us, and make us stronger so that we could get to where we are now. 

And that's freaking BEAUTIFUL. 

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This we are back at the Process and picking up where we left off at Step 3: Self-Love! This is actually my favorite step of the process because it’s where my clients always end up blowing their damn minds with how much growth they experience!! It’s so much fun to just see what is fucking possible with your life once you put in the work to FIRST understand yourself and accept yourself, flaws and all, AND THEN start to make changes in your life from a place of LOVE. 

This step is all about learning how to do exactly that. Learning how to let go of trying to FORCE yourself to be someone or something different than you’ve always been, and instead how to CHOOSE to change your life from a place of SELF-LOVE. 

It’s some powerful sh*t, my friends!!! 

In this episode:

• A recap of Step 1 and 2 of the Process (Listen to the episodes here:: Step 1: Self-Awareness and Step 2: Self-Acceptance)
• Making decisions from Self-Love rather than FORCE
• My story about almost getting fired from my job and turning that SH*T around from a place of LOVE

At about 14 weeks into our pregnancy, we found out Baby Girl might be diagnosed with Down Syndrome. We are now at 25 weeks, her Down Syndrome diagnosis has been confirmed, and we have been figuring it out as we go ever since. 

On today's episode, I wanted to share our story so far and answer a questions I have been getting from family and friends a lot recently. How are you dealing with all this?? 

It's a great question. And I'm so thankful I have coaching and an amazing community around me to help us through this time. But it has taken a lot of work for me to get to this point where I feel ready to share our experience on the podcast. 

On this episode:

• How we recieved the news of our diagnosis (it was not the best experience...)
• How I have been dealing with recieving difficult news. 
• Asking you all to do me a HUGE favor!

Links:

• https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/theluckyfew/
• https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTdwps27B/ 

Which I tend to take as a message from the Universe that I should talk about it on the show! So here we are. 

Today we are chatting about WHY slowing down is SO IMPORTANT, how slowing down can actually (suprisingly) end up helping you SPEED UP your healing/growth journey in the long run, and HOW to start practicing slowing down. 

Slowing down is literally my number 1 piece of advice I give anyone and everyone who wants to building a stronger relationship with themselves, who want to reach their big goals but keep getting stuck somewhere, or who KNOW they want to heal odl or current wounds. Slowing down is literally the solution to everything! 

So check out this episode and start experimenting with how you can slow down in your own life. 

This episode we are diving into Step 2 of The Process that I use with my clients to help them uncover the Truth that is holding them back from reaching their goals and creating a life they LOVE. Step 2 is all about Self-Acceptance and learning how to stop and understand all the thoughts and emotions that inevitably come up when you start doing the work of facing your Truth. 

In this episode, I am talking about the importance of accepting and processing your thoughts and emotions around your Truth, as well as what can happen when we try to skip this step and jump to Self-Love without first understanding yourself on a deeper level.

*TRIGGER WARNING* Please know that there is discussion of sexual Assault, rape and unintended consequences of unprocessed traumas. If any of these topics are triggering for you, this may not be the best episode for you right now. And that's totally okay, my friend!

But is that REALLY what I mean when I say I help people find happiness in their lives? Soiler alert... NO, it's not. 

Happiness is much simpler AND attainable than this. And you are capable of creating real and sustainable happiness in your life. In this episode I am talking about HOW to do it!! 

Step 1 might possibly be the scariest step of The Process. And that's because Step 1 is all about Truth. Its about uncovering your inner Truth so you can finally free yourself from it. 

In this epsidoe, I'm breaking down WHY we want to uncover our Truths and how NOT bringing them to the surface and keeping them burried is actually the real reason you aren't where you want to be in life right now. I'm also sharing part of my own story and one of my own Truths that has held me down for the past 15 years. 

*TRIGGER WARNING* Please know that there is discussion of sexual assault, rape and unitended consequences of unprocess traumas. If any of these topics are triggering for you, this may not be the best episode for you right now. And that's totally okay, my friend!

In this intro espisode, you finally get to meet ME, Raquel Marie Means! We are chatting a bit about what you can expect from the Find Your Fire Podcast and the 4-Step Process I teach all my clients who want to know HOW to live a happier life and actually achieve your goals and dreams.