How much of who I am today is really me—and how much of it did I become because I was trying to protect myself? 🤍

This became very real for me when I looked through old pictures of my daughters. I could see how much I loved them, but I could also see the anger, hurt, and disappointment I was still carrying from my own childhood.

It made me realize something: sometimes the experience ends, but the way we learned to live because of it doesn’t.

We get betrayed, and we struggle to trust. We get criticized, and we become our own worst critic. We feel rejected, and we start people-pleasing or proving our worth. We get hurt, and we build walls.

After a while, we may start believing, “This is just who I am.”

But is it?

In Episode 120 of Baggage Be-Gone: Healing Hearts and Minds, I’m talking about the hidden cost of anger and resentment—not only how they make us feel, but how old emotional pain can quietly influence our relationships, trust, overthinking, perfectionism, need for control, and the decisions we make today.

I’ll also share a question I’m learning to ask myself:

How much of the way you’re living right now is really you—and how much is protection you no longer need?

✨ What is motivating me right now—love or fear?

Choosing love doesn’t mean ignoring red flags or letting people walk all over us. Sometimes love says no. Sometimes it sets a boundary. Sometimes it walks away. And sometimes it means allowing someone to be disappointed without abandoning ourselves to make them happy.

For me, forgiveness is not saying what happened was okay. It’s being able to say:

“I don’t want what happened to continue deciding who I have to be.”

Maybe healing isn’t about becoming someone new. Maybe it’s about putting down enough of the fear, resentment, proving, and protection to come home to the authentic person God created you to be. 🙏✨❤️

🎧 Watch or listen to Episode 120 of Baggage Be-Gone: Healing Hearts and Minds.

📲 If you’re ready to go deeper, explore my Baggage Be-Gone Forgiveness Journey, created to help you understand what you’re still carrying, recognize the patterns that grew from it, and begin letting go.

💌 If this speaks to you, share it with someone you love.

With love,
Tammy Machmali 🤍

If you have been trying to force forgiveness and it has not worked, this is the missing piece.

➡️ Start your healing journey here:

https://www.tammymachmali.com/app

🎧 Listen to the Baggage Be-Gone Podcast:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFKtjdCcBMKhGVHkyvErYCOjTuJtQnZSk

🌐 Visit my website:

www.tammymachmali.com

If this episode helped you, please consider supporting the channel by:

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• Leaving a comment about what resonated with you

• Sharing it with someone who may need it today

✨ Your support helps more people discover these healing tools and reminds YouTube to share this message with others who may be struggling.

Thank you for being here and allowing me to be part of your healing journey.

With gratitude, Tammy Machmali

Certified Hypnotherapist | Subconscious Healing Practitioner | Creator of the Baggage Be-Gone Method

Disclaimer: This content is provided for educational and personal growth purposes only. It is not intended to diagnose, treat, or replace professional medical, psychological, or mental health care. If you are experiencing significant emotional distress or a mental health crisis, please seek support from a qualified healthcare professional.

Have you ever tried to forgive and felt your body tighten instead of release?

Have you told yourself “I should be over this by now” while the same story, the same emotion, and the same nervous-system alert kept playing on repeat?

This episode explains why that happens — and why lasting change almost never begins with forcing yourself to let go.

Inside the Baggage Be-Gone Forgiveness Journey, I deliberately place prayer and meditation before the deeper work of forgiveness. Not as optional extras. As the foundation that makes real release possible.

Have you ever tried to forgive… and felt your body refuse to let go?

In this episode I share why lasting change rarely begins with forcing yourself to “just release it,” and why I intentionally place prayer and meditation at the foundation of the Baggage Be-Gone Forgiveness Journey.

You will discover:

• Why your nervous system must feel safe before true forgiveness can take root
• How prayer creates space so you no longer carry the full weight alone
• How meditation interrupts the endless cycle of reaction and opens the door to choice
• Why willingness — not readiness — is all that is required to begin
• How these two practices together create the inner conditions where forgiveness can grow instead of being forced

This is not about becoming more spiritual.

It is about giving your mind, body, and heart the safety they need so real release becomes possible.

If you’ve been stuck in the same emotional story and ready for a different way forward, this episode is for you.

✨That is why forgiveness is not a single decision. It is a process that requires safety first.

✨Prayer opens the heart.

✨Meditation quiets the mind.

The space that forms between them is where forgiveness can grow instead of being forced.

You do not have to be ready to forgive today.

Most people are not.

All that is required is a quieter, more honest beginning: the willingness to become willing. Sometimes that willingness starts with one simple sentence:

“I’m willing to see this differently.” That small opening is enough. Transformation rarely begins with certainty. It begins with willingness.

This episode walks you through exactly why these practices are woven into every phase of the journey, how they create the inner conditions for real release, and why you are not broken, not behind, and not expected to forgive overnight. Freedom is not created in one dramatic moment. It is created in the quiet, repeated choice to open your heart just a little more than yesterday.

If you have been trying to force forgiveness and it has not worked, this is the missing piece.

➡️ Start your healing journey here:

studio.com/tammy/healing

🎧 Listen to the Baggage Be-Gone Podcast:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFKtjdCcBMKhGVHkyvErYCOjTuJtQnZSk

🌐 Visit my website:

www.tammymachmali.com

If this episode helped you, please consider supporting the channel by:

• Subscribing

• Liking this video

• Leaving a comment about what resonated with you

• Sharing it with someone who may need it today

✨ Your support helps more people discover these healing tools and reminds YouTube to share this message with others who may be struggling.

Thank you for being here and allowing me to be part of your healing journey.

With gratitude, Tammy Machmali

Certified Hypnotherapist | Subconscious Healing Practitioner | Creator of the Baggage Be-Gone Method

Disclaimer: This content is provided for educational and personal growth purposes only. It is not intended to diagnose, treat, or replace professional medical, psychological, or mental health care. If you are experiencing significant emotional distress or a mental health crisis, please seek support from a qualified healthcare professional.

What if the hardest part of letting go isn't what happened...

It's the story you've been carrying about what happened?

If you find yourself replaying painful memories, struggling to forgive, feeling triggered by the past, or wondering why certain emotions keep resurfacing, this guided meditation is for you.

In this episode, I'll gently guide you through a forgiveness meditation designed to help you slow down, reconnect with yourself, and begin releasing the emotional stories that may no longer be serving you. This isn't about pretending the past didn't happen. It's about creating space for healing, greater self-compassion, and emotional freedom.

If you're ready to go beyond today's meditation, I'd love to invite you to join the Baggage Be-Gone: Forgiveness Experience.

Inside the app, I'll personally guide you through a complete step-by-step healing journey to help you:
• Release resentment, anger, guilt, and emotional pain.
• Understand and transform the subconscious stories shaping your life.
• Strengthen self-worth and self-trust.
• Build healthier boundaries and relationships.
• Experience greater peace, emotional freedom, and resilience.

The experience includes:
✨ Guided hypnosis sessions
✨ Forgiveness meditations
✨ Practical daily exercises
✨ Journaling prompts and downloadable workbooks
✨ Healing prayers and reflections
✨ Personalized guidance from an AI healing coach
✨ A structured path you can follow at your own pace

➡️ Start your healing journey here:
studio.com/tammy/healing

🎧 Listen to the Baggage Be-Gone Podcast:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFKtjdCcBMKhGVHkyvErYCOjTuJtQnZSk

🌐 Visit my website:
www.tammymachmali.com

If this meditation helped you, please consider supporting the channel by:
• Subscribing
• Liking this video
• Leaving a comment about what resonated with you
• Sharing it with someone who may need it today

✨Your support helps more people discover these healing tools and reminds YouTube to share this message with others who may be struggling.

Thank you for being here and allowing me to be part of your healing journey.

With gratitude,

Tammy Machmali

Certified Hypnotherapist | Subconscious Healing Practitioner | Creator of the Baggage Be-Gone Method

Disclaimer: This meditation is provided for educational and personal growth purposes only. It is not intended to diagnose, treat, or replace professional medical, psychological, or mental health care. If you are experiencing significant emotional distress or a mental health crisis, please seek support from a qualified healthcare professional.

What if everything you’ve been taught about success is incomplete?

Most of us grow up believing that success is measured by money, achievements, relationships, titles, or recognition. We spend years chasing the next goal, hoping that when we finally get there, we’ll feel fulfilled.

But what if real success has nothing to do with what’s happening around you—and everything to do with what’s happening within you?

In this episode of Baggage Be Gone: Healing Hearts & Minds, Tammy explores a different definition of success—one that isn’t based on comparison, perfection, or external validation.

You’ll discover why so many accomplished people still feel empty, how childhood beliefs quietly shape your decisions, and why lasting success begins with healing your relationship with yourself.

In this episode, you’ll learn:
• Why external success can never replace inner peace.
• The hidden beliefs that may be keeping you stuck without realizing it.
• How old stories from childhood influence your relationships, career, health, and confidence.
• Why awareness is the first step toward real change.
• What you may need to let go of before you can truly move forward.
• A simple nightly practice that can help you create lasting transformation.

If you’ve ever felt like you’re doing everything “right” but still don’t feel happy, fulfilled, or enough, this conversation is for you.

Because the greatest success you’ll ever experience isn’t becoming someone else.

It’s becoming the person you were always meant to be.

🎧 Listen now and begin redefining success—from the inside out.

If you're curious for more, check out the links below!

www.tammymachmali.com
www.instagram.com/tammymachmali
www.facebook.com/createwithmindfulnessstudio
www.pinterest.com/tammymachmali
www.youtube.com/@tammymachmali7530
www.linkedin.com/in/tammymachmali

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Have you ever reached for food, your phone, work, shopping, or even another person, only to realize that what you were looking for wasn’t really there?

What if the cake was never about the cake?

In this episode, we explore a powerful idea that completely changed the way I think about healing. Our brains naturally create emotional connections between experiences and feelings. Without realizing it, we begin to associate certain people, places, foods, achievements, and habits with love, safety, comfort, acceptance, or belonging.

Years later, we often keep searching for those same feelings, believing we’re craving the object when we’re actually longing for the emotion attached to it.

Together we’ll explore:

➡️ Why emotional eating isn’t always about food.
➡️ How childhood experiences quietly shape our adult habits.
➡️ Why willpower isn’t usually the real problem.
➡️ How emotional associations influence our relationships, work, money, and self-worth.
➡️ Why understanding yourself is far more powerful than judging yourself.
➡️ How creating new emotional connections can open the door to lasting healing.

This episode is an invitation to stop asking, “What’s wrong with me?” and begin asking, “What has my heart been searching for all along?”

If this conversation speaks to you, I’d love to hear your thoughts. Please subscribe, leave a review, and share this episode with someone who may need this reminder today.

Healing begins with awareness. Sometimes the greatest breakthrough isn’t changing what you’re reaching for—it’s understanding why you were reaching for it in the first place.

If you're curious for more, check out the links below!

www.tammymachmali.com
www.instagram.com/tammymachmali
www.facebook.com/createwithmindfulnessstudio
www.pinterest.com/tammymachmali
www.youtube.com/@tammymachmali7530
www.linkedin.com/in/tammymachmali

Book a free consultation!
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What if ten minutes a day could change the direction of your life?

Not ten minutes spent scrolling through your phone or watching tv.

Not ten minutes worrying about what’s wrong.

Not ten minutes replaying in your head in a loop with old conversations.

Just ten quiet minutes with yourself and God.

I know that sounds simple, but I've learned that some of the most powerful changes in life come from the simplest practices.

We often think change requires a dramatic breakthrough, a perfect therapist, the right book, or a life-changing event. Sometimes those things help. But often, real transformation happens because we become willing to pause and pay attention to our inner thoughts.

This week, I want to talk about a practice that has been around for thousands of years.

⭐️It is simple & practical

⭐️available to every one of us regardless of our background or beliefs.

⭐️ It can help us understand ourselves better, ⭐️improve our relationships,

⭐️reduce stress

⭐️make better decisions

⭐️and reconnect with our most powerful, authentic self.

It's called a spiritual inventory- חשבון נפש

In Jewish tradition, there is a practice called Cheshbon Hanefesh, which means an accounting of the soul.

The Torah encourages us to reflect on our actions and take responsibility for the way we live our lives. Over time, Jewish sages expanded this idea into a daily practice of self-examination, not to create guilt or fear, but to encourage growth and wisdom.

The idea is beautifully simple yet profound.

If you're curious for more, check out the links below!

www.tammymachmali.com
www.instagram.com/tammymachmali
www.facebook.com/createwithmindfulnessstudio
www.pinterest.com/tammymachmali
www.youtube.com/@tammymachmali7530
www.linkedin.com/in/tammymachmali

Book a free consultation!
www.calendly.com/tammymachmali/meeting-with-tammy-machmali

If you're curious for more, check out the links below!

www.tammymachmali.com
www.instagram.com/tammymachmali
www.facebook.com/createwithmindfulnessstudio
www.pinterest.com/tammymachmali
www.youtube.com/@tammymachmali7530
www.linkedin.com/in/tammymachmali

Book a free consultation!
www.calendly.com/tammymachmali/meeting-with-tammy-machmali