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In this episode you’ll learn:
- Why it’s important to have a powerful support system
- How to be responsive rather than reactive
- About Meg’s powerful yoga moment in prison
- How to get better at digesting complicated emotions
Writer and nutrition coach, Meg Worden, can help you turn your life story into a love story.
In this podcast episode, part one of our chat, Meg reveals how she has created an on-line business despite feeling lost, alone and afraid.
Highlighting a powerful moment during two years in a federal prison, Meg reveals how she has found external space from internal wisdom.
Meg understands the duality of being a creative human being:
If you’ve ever felt like you’re not getting what you deserve, yet you feel fraudulent when you do get what you deserve, then you’ve experienced that duality.
Meg offers insights to creating a human body built for success.
You can listen to part two here.
“Where did I have freedom when I didn’t have freedom anymore?” – Meg Worden
Items mentioned in this episode (quick access):
Your body as a tool for success
[0:00:42] Introducing Meg Worden.
[0:01:20] Meg describes her work today.
[0:01:56] What Meg likes to write about.
[0:03:18] When Meg first experienced the mind and body connection.
[0:05:40] Making metaphor. Reacting versus responsive.
[0:06:54] The time when Meg got arrested.
[0:08:50] Practicing yoga in prison.
Making clear decisions
[0:09:30] How one small thing contributed to so many things.
[0:10:15] Being taken away to prison from her toddler child and life.
[0:11:38] Opening a yoga studio in a small town.
[0:12:12] Being lost, alone and afraid. Putting an on-line business together.
“Where can we create in this world that isn’t already here?” – Meg Worden
Finding freedom
[0:13:42] Why it doesn’t just have to be yoga.
[0:14:28] Meg reflects on a time when her yoga was particularly powerful.
[0:16:10] Quitting and walking away.
[0:18:10] The possibility of freedom in the prison yard.
“Even in the context of prison maybe I can have freedom” – Meg Worden
Living on the inside
[0:19:27] Being inside your body.
[0:20:56] Over-thinking and overanalysing.
[0:22:05] Why it’s important to stay hydrated. Breathing.
[0:23:36] What resonates.
[0:24:21] Meg’s thoughts on people pleasing. Vulnerability.
[0:25:21] Taking risks.
Taking creative risks
[0:26:07] Why the stakes get higher. Getting what you deserve.
[0:27:15] How your feelings could indicate you’re doing what matters.
[0:28:55] How you gain confidence from the successes. Digesting complicated emotions.
[0:30:00] Having a powerful support system.
[0:31:00] Finding people who will uplift and support you.
[0:31:22] Preview of part two.
“You’re practicing life on your yoga mat because life is going to twist you around and turn you upside down and put you in all kinds of uncomfortable situations.” – Meg Worden
Links and resources:
If you enjoyed this podcast, you’ll also like:
- Meg Worden (episode 71 – part two)
- How to Reduce Overwhelm and Over-thinking (with Meg)
- Meg Worden on The Unmistakable Creative podcast
- Janey Moffatt on Facing Death, Motherhood and FInding Creative Freedom
- Dave Ursillo on Writing, Yoga and Living Authentically
- Sarah Kathleen Peck on The Power of Solitude In Our Hyper-Connected World
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