‼️Join me for a live discussion on the The Power of Your Thoughts…
👉🏾 Transformation won’t happen in your life until you renew your mind until your thoughts begin to change…
An unmanaged mind leads to conflict. A managed mind leads to confidence…
Catch the replay over on my Youtube page!!
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🎙Happy Podcast Friday…
This week is the first episode of
Cocktails & Conversations 🍹
with my special guest the amazing Lisa IamLisa Renee
Mindset Coach, Speaker, And Writer, tune in as we discuss divorce, mindsets, affirmations, & more…
👉🏾Please excuse the audio this week my editor was unavailable!
It is still an amazing conversation!! Grab your fav beverage and listen in!!!☕️
Enjoy🎙
🎉🎙New Season, New Episode
“The Excuses We Make Are The Lies We Tell”
Now, I won’t take credit for this title, this was first introduced to me about 2 years ago by my pastor Carolyn Phillips but I decided to use it and put a different spend on it!!
“He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else” ~Benjamin Franklin
▪️Excuses render you powerless, while choices are empowering. You can choose at any time to do or not do whatever you’re contemplating.
▪️ Let’s not make excuses in 22, let’s make plans and take action!! Tune in for a mini-coaching session and learn 3 ways to combat excuses!
Happy Listening, links below👇🏾
New Year, New Mindset…
⚠️Save these affirmations and repeat them as often as you need to!
Affirmations are a simple and effective way to influence your subconscious mind. Affirmations, also called self-talk, personal reminders or self-suggestions, are absolutely essential in building positive attitudes and confidence in our own capabilities.
Let’s start 2022 off right 💪🏾
Happy last Monday of the year…
This week you need to put in motion how you want ‘22 to go, first pray 🙏🏾 and ask God for guidance, then proceed:
▪️Deactivate all people/things that no longer serve you! Stop pretending and making excuses to keep people/things around! Just like you cut ✂️ subscriptions to save money, cut off people and things to save your peace!!
▪️Distance yourself from things and people who cause you more harm than good! It’s ok to put some space between toxic people and your dreams! Do what’s best for you, even if you do it alone…
▪️Discover who you are…take the time to discover who you are without all the drama and toxicity! You’ve spent the whole year carrying the weight of others while losing yourself in the process. Discover your talents, and your calling…people are waiting!
Coach Lady O 💖🖤
▪️If you suffer from holiday depression, then this free download is for you!!!
🎄The holiday season is a tricky one. It is the time of the year when you are seemingly presented with very different expectations both in regards to what you do, as well as (more importantly) what you are supposed to be feeling.
🎄This can be a stressful time for many people, and feeling overwhelmed and depressed is extremely likely, even common for many people who suffer from mental health issues.
🎄We also find ourselves overcommitting, people-pleasing, and throwing away our boundaries to make others feel good, which causes burnout and stress!!!
👉🏾To help ease the stress, I created a mini workbook to with 9 free tips to get you through the holiday season; download your copy here👇🏾
Enjoy🎄
🤎Thanksgiving is a time for food, celebration, and fun. Every year on Thanksgiving, families gather around the table to enjoy a meal and give thanks. But for some folks, Thanksgiving can be a lonely time. Many adults spend the holidays feeling isolated and depressed.
🤎Today, as we celebrate this Thanksgiving, it is important to remember that it’s about more than being thankful for one day; it is an entire lifetime. Today is the day to be grateful for all the things in your life, no matter how big they are or how small. Even in our deepest sorrow, we can find something to be thankful for.
🤎Don’t forget to check in on your grieving, depressed, and lonely sorors, church/family members, co-workers, and friends! Mental Health doesn’t take a holiday, be mindful of that!
Have a Wonderful and Blessed Thanksgiving 🦃
Tomorrow will be difficult for many, myself included, as sometimes I do wish I had a normal family life. Still, I no longer let that stop me from living because I use these exact coping skills to beat holiday depression:
▪️Remember, you ARE NOT alone, so stop saying or thinking this! We all are suffering in some way, and don’t beat yourself up thinking you’re the only person in the world 🌎 who’s depressed because you are not! Take this time to reach out to a supportive friend, coach/mentor, or call a hotline SAMHSA’s National Helpline: 1-800-662-HELP (4357)
▪️That neighbor down the street that’s always asking for you to come over go! That co-worker who is always asking you to go out for drinks, take them up on that! Just don’t sit a waddle in self-pity; this landed me in a mental hospital! If you are invited, it’s ok to go, and it’s definitely ok to have a good time!
▪️Start your own traditions; for year’s my husband, and I would go to the beach 🏖yes, we love it down there even in the winter! This was our new tradition because neither of us celebrated with family! I haven’t been in the mood to slave over a stove, so we order take out! It’s ok! Start your tradition…
▪️Do what makes you happy, now if you choose not to do anything at all, then that’s ok too! You are not obligated to partake in festivities if you don’t want to! And don’t feel guilty if you want to curl up with a blanket and Hallmark movies!!! Do what makes you feel good, period!
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🍂As we begin this holiday week, for those of us who don’t celebrate with family, DO NOT feel ashamed or guilty!!
🍂Everybody doesn’t have a hallmark family, and you ARE NOT obligated to put yourself through hell for a piece of dry turkey😝
🍂I am genuinely happy for those of you who get together and enjoy loved ones; this DOES NOT give you the right to look down on others!!! Pray for us as we start the holiday season; invite us over, but don’t chastise us over our choices!!
🍂To those of you who have toxic people in your lives, protect your peace this holiday, guard your heart, DON’T be bullied into toughing it out because it’s family…NO!
🍂Stop sitting around the table with people who keep secrets, talk behind your back, and backstab you!
It’s ok to start new traditions; it’s ok to be with friends who are like family to you!
🍂Protect your peace, protect your mental health, save the bail money🤣
Have a great Monday and Blessed Holiday Week,
Y’all know how much I love affirmations❤️
🗣Repeat them often, I can’t stress that enough!!!
Repetition of words creates repetition of thoughts.
Repetition of thoughts creates reality.
By intentionally choosing the words that wallpaper your mind, you change the tone of the room in which you live and you change the life you are living.
There is Power in Words…
🌟Don’t forget to grab a copy of my latest affirmation journal:👇🏾
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09CRLX3HV/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_HAE8B6STJR9Y12B27JWK
Olivia B. Shepherd 