#007 - I'm Not Failing...I'm Audacious

In this episode I talk about embracing what it is to be AUDACIOUS.

I talk about:  

• the loaded definitions of what it is to be ‘audacious’.
• how I audaciously left a good job in film & television to travel and try to (audaciously) do music.
• how this audacious decision changed the course of my life by allowing me to feel true love.
• how my simply BEING has felt too audacious at times (for others and for myself).
• identity in narcissistic family structures and how being audacious is like leaving the cult of the Narcissistic Personality.
• the 47 audacious ways I want to live and be while I am 47 years-old

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#006 - I'm Not Failing...I'm Emerging

In this episode I talk about the last few months and how I feel it has begun a new EMERGENCE.

I talk about how:  

• I recently had colo-rectal surgery that has connected me to deeper parts of myself.
• I have been emotionally pregnant for the last few years and the last few months has felt like a kind of emotional labor.
• My car was broken into and the only thing really cared about was my lost keychain from my dad and how I am mourning him while he's still alive.
• My dad was rarely recognized in his fullness as as singer, performer, and connector because of our family's narcissistic family structure.
• I want to live in my fullness in the creative and connecting ways my dad never did.
• The time is NOW!

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#005 - I'm Not Failing...I'm Gardening (With Yoda) & Interviewing Verónica Chacón

In this episode I talk with my dear friend Verónica Chacón:

We talk about:  

• Channeling our 'Zen Mastery' through a Trafalgar Square Yoda.
• Verónica's creative upbringing in Colombia and Switzerland.
• Not needing to seek permission to do what we love (and what we are best at).
• How living our fullest lives is like gardening, even when you feel you're terrible at gardening.
• How we get to choose what we nourish in ourselves.
• Verónica's theatrical production in development, 'Who Does She Think She Is?' (ENGLISH) or 'Mais Pour Qui Elle Se Prend?' (FRENCH)

LINKS & RESOURCES:

• 'Who Does She Think She Is?' Crowdfunding Website (ENGLISH)
• 'Mais Pour Qui Elle Se Prend?' Crowdfunding Website (FRENCH)
• Verónica Chacón, Mezzo Soprano, Website
• Maya Irgalina, Piano, Website
• Katia Ogorodnikova, Theatrical Director Biography

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#004 - I'm Not Failing...I'm Feeling

In this episode I talk about what it is to FEEL!

I talk about how:  

• I am learning how to be an observer of others’ feelings, and my own, in a non-judgmental and wholly accepting way.
• Key events in my life have challenged me to observe and identify my feelings and start my journey of integration, embodiment, and healing.
• Danielle Laporte’s The Desire Map and Brené Brown’s Atlas of the Heart have been useful resources for understanding my feelings.
• We must allow ourselves to feel and accept it all!

LINKS & RESOURCES:

• ET
• Babe
• Christiania Cargo Bike
• Danielle Laporte’s The Desire Map
• Brené Brown’s Atlas of the Heart

** CONTENT WARNING: This episode includes discussion of self-harm and suicide/suicidal ideation.  Please skip this episode if these topics cause you to feel too much right now. **

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#002 - I'm Not Failing...I'm Done Fighting With You

In this episode I talk about:

• Not meeting my own deadline and how I am actually NOT a ‘time optimist’.
• How I have been trapped in my own head because of fear around sharing my truth, even though I need to share my truth in order to move on.
• How I have been blocked in an all too familiar place of self-loathing and my bitchy inner-saboteur has been dominating these past few weeks.
• Asking for names for my inner-saboteur by having listeners write in to elizabeth@imnotfailing.com 
• Inviting my inner-saboteur to the dinner table, naming her, and getting to know her properly.
• How I’m accepting all parts of me because I’m Not Failing…I am.  And, I’m done fighting with you.
• Why I have decided to start this process toward healing at this time.
• How I decided to seek a new therapist to really get to work
• How therapy and mental healthcare shouldn’t be a luxury but an essential human need.
• How I was living in a ‘quiet crisis’ within my own head
• Seeking therapy was essential for my survival.
• Inviting us all to consider how we feel in our own lives today, and ask where we are today and who we are living for.

LINKS:
Glennon Doyle’s ‘We Can Do Hard Things’ podcast episode #199 on Recovery

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#003 - I'm Not Failing...I'm Talking About My Mental Health, Part 1 - OCD


In this episode, I talk about:

• Finding a name for the growing community of INF listeners: ‘Friends’, ‘Failers’, ‘Winners’...there HAS to be something better.  Please help!
• Launching the first in a series of discussions on my mental health, with this first part about sharing some of my experiences living with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD).
• I describe some of my earliest, and most significant, obsessive compulsive episodes.
• The idea of ‘Pure O’ Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
• My turning point to seek treatment.
• Listeners can reach out to me via elizabeth@imnotfailing.com with any questions or shared experiences, and ask for anyone who may want to be interviewed for a future episode.
• The quotation  first ascribed to Charles Roppel about (we)llness versus (I)llness and the essential need for a community, a 'WE', in taking the best care of ourselves.

LINKS & RESOURCES:
Bonhomme at Carnaval de Québec
(WE)llness Quotation History

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#001 - I'm Not Failing...I'm Making a Podcast! 

I’ve done it!  Woohoo!!!  I’ve recorded, edited, and published my first episode of I’m Not Failing, the Podcast!  It’s literally been a lifetime in gestation, friends.  A lifetime.

In this episode, I:

• introduce myself
• explain what the I'm Not Failing Podcast is about and how it will work
• invite you to join me on my journey by subscribing to my newsletter and supporting me on Patreon.

NEW EPISODES every two weeks on Thursdays!

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