Today I talk about showing up as yourself without any modifications. Without the adjustments you had to make to survive the world we live in.

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Things We Mention In This Episode

• Book: Where Did You Go? by Christina Rasmussen
• Book: Second Firsts by Christina Rasmussen
• Newsletter - Message In a Bottle: Sign up for Christina’s weekly letter 
• Share Your Invisible Losses

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It has been a few weeks since we’ve had a new episode and this one is a short one about self-compassion. I also talk about why I took a break from writing the weekly letter (don’t worry, it will be back soon) and how healing it has been to take a pause from one pursuit to make space for another.

I’d love to know what you think. Please share it with your friends and family, and be sure to tag me if you share it on social media so that I can say thank you. I’m @christinarasmussen7 on Instagram and @ChristinaRasmussen2014 on Facebook. 

Things We Mention In This Episode

• Book: Where Did You Go? by Christina Rasmussen
• Book: Second Firsts by Christina Rasmussen
• Newsletter - Message In a Bottle: Sign up for Christina’s weekly letter

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We wind up 2021 with clips from a few episodes that I loved and that I hope you’ll love, too. You can find the links/episode numbers to the full episodes from each guest below. Thank you for spending time wanting to change your life. Thank you for searching for the truer self that exists within you. Thank you for not giving up on that true self. Don’t you ever stop that true self from coming out. Thank you for listening to the podcast and I wish you happiness, bliss, and peace in the new year.

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Things We Mention In This Episode

- Episode 107 - Anita Moorjani

- Episode 111 - Steven Kotler

- Episode 102 - Terri Cole

- Episode 123 - Dr. Piero Calvi-Parisetti

- Book: Where Did You Go? by Christina Rasmussen

- Book: Second Firsts by Christina Rasmussen

- Newsletter - Message In a Bottle: Sign up for Christina’s weekly letter

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Inside of all of us there lives an identity, a personality that is always hidden. Only a small percentage of people are able to show up in the world exactly as they are because it can take a great deal of courage. So, today, let’s try to express our true selves even if it’s in a small way. Start with one choice to reveal a part of your hidden self. Maybe it’s wearing a color that you love, painting a wall in a color no one else would normally choose, or in any other way that makes sense to you.

I’d love to know what you think. Please share it with your friends and family, and be sure to tag me if you share it on social media so that I can say thank you. I’m @christinarasmussen7 on Instagram and @ChristinaRasmussen2014 on Facebook. 

Things We Mention In This Episode

- Book: Where Did You Go? by Christina Rasmussen

- Book: Second Firsts by Christina Rasmussen

- Newsletter - Message In a Bottle: Sign up for Christina’s weekly letter

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I talk about making sure that in your life, in your relationships, with your family, your friends, and with yourself that you honor the open sea perspective and the knowing that you have because of the losses that you’ve experienced. You are not here to settle. You are here to live the life that you’re supposed to have.

“What a shame finally to reach the open sea, but settle for a modest jug of water!”

- Excerpt From: Rumi. “Rumi's Little Book of Wisdom.”

I’d love to know what you think. Please share it with your friends and family, and be sure to tag me if you share it on social media so that I can say thank you. I’m @christinarasmussen7 on Instagram and @ChristinaRasmussen2014 on Facebook. 

Things We Mention In This Episode

- Book: Where Did You Go? by Christina Rasmussen

- Book: Second Firsts by Christina Rasmussen

- Newsletter - Message In a Bottle: Sign up for Christina’s weekly letter

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The holiday season is upon us and so are the complex feelings that can come with it. I talk about the contrast of the happiness of the holidays and the pain of loss, anxiety, and worry that can plague so many of us. I also talk about the importance of trusting that we can show up as ourselves without always preparing so much. I want you to try to make space for both sadness and joy during this time. They are two sides of the same coin.

I’d love to know what you think. Please share it with your friends and family, and be sure to tag me if you share it on social media so that I can say thank you. I’m @christinarasmussen7 on Instagram and @ChristinaRasmussen2014 on Facebook. 

Things We Mention In This Episode

• Book: Where Did You Go? by Christina Rasmussen
• Book: Second Firsts by Christina Rasmussen

Newsletter - Message In a Bottle: Sign up for Christina’s weekly letter

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As you know, I love writing and I’d also love for you to write. I have received hundreds, if not thousands of messages, from people who want to write a book and are looking for information on how to go about it and how to get one published. Before you think about publishing, it’s essential to consider one important thing: the enjoyment of writing and just getting your story on the page. Today’s guest is an amazing fiction writer and poet, Diane Wald. Her book, “My Famous Brain”, was the winner of the Visionary Fiction category from the NYC Big Book Awards, a competition judged by experts from many facets of the book industry worldwide, including publishers, writers, and professional editors.

We spent the hour talking about her life as a writer, her struggles when she was teaching and writing, and how she’s had 3 books published in the last 3 years at 73 years old. She truly is an inspiration to any who wants to know how to start and is worried that it is too late to start.

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More About Diane Wald

Diane Wald, at age 73, is an award-winning poet and novelist, who has worked as  an English professor, academic dean, and communications director for a national animal welfare organization. She has published five chapbooks, four full-length collections of poetry, and two novels. Three of her books — Gillyflower, The Warhol Pillows, and My Famous Brain — were published within the last three years. 

You can connect with her via Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram.

Things We Mention In This Episode

• Website: MyFamousBrain.com
• Website: GillyFlowerNovel.com
• Book: "My Famous Brain" by Diane Wald
• Book: Where Did You Go? by Christina Rasmussen
• Book: Second Firsts by Christina Rasmussen
• Newsletter - Message In a Bottle: Sign up for Christina’s weekly letter

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I had a deep, intentional, and grounding conversation with a sophrologist named Dominique Antiglio. Dominique is a Sophrologist and founder of global Sophrology platform BeSophro, and best-selling author The Life-Changing Power of Sophrology. She specializes in stress and sleep management, anxiety reduction, and burn-out prevention. 

This conversation is for you if you feel like you’re living life too fast or if you’re feeling like you’re especially sensitive to the world around you and people don’t seem to understand those feelings. She also beautifully speaks to the idea that we should acknowledge certain relationships in our lives have limits. To know these limits helps us remove the judgment we place on that person and find peace with what that relationship can provide us and what it cannot. It was a fascinating conversation and I hope you enjoy it.

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More About Dominique Antiglio

Dominique is a Sophrologist and founder of global Sophrology platform BeSophro, and best-selling author The Life-Changing Power of Sophrology.

Dominique specialises in stress and sleep management, anxiety reduction and burn-out prevention.

She has been instrumental in bringing the practice of Sophrology into the mainstream (the Guardian calls it the “dynamic young cousin” of mindfulness), with prominent figures like Arianna Huffington publicly praising Dominique and her work.

You can connect with her via her website or Instagram.

Things We Mention In This Episode

- Website: BeSophro

- Book: "The Life-Changing Power of Sophrology" by Dominique Antiglio

- Book: Where Did You Go? by Christina Rasmussen

- Book: Second Firsts by Christina Rasmussen

- Newsletter - Message In a Bottle: Sign up for Christina’s weekly letter

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I talk about stepping into the power of the true self and releasing the grip that fear has on us. What would happen if you didn’t modify who you were so that you could fit into what everyone else expects from you? What would happen if you feared less and lived authentically more?

I’d love to know what you think. Please share it with your friends and family, and be sure to tag me if you share it on social media so that I can say thank you. I’m @christinarasmussen7 on Instagram and @ChristinaRasmussen2014 on Facebook. 

Things We Mention In This Episode

- Book: Where Did You Go? by Christina Rasmussen

- Book: Second Firsts by Christina Rasmussen

- Newsletter - Message In a Bottle: Sign up for Christina’s weekly letter

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Christina talks about the places she has traveled recently and how important it is to make mindful decisions about returning to places that may hold painful memories for you. With so many beautiful places in the world to visit, why return to the ones that will bring you a lot of loss?

I’d love to know what you think. Please share it with your friends and family, and be sure to tag me if you share it on social media so that I can say thank you. I’m @christinarasmussen7 on Instagram and @ChristinaRasmussen2014 on Facebook. 

Things We Mention In This Episode

- Book: Where Did You Go? by Christina Rasmussen

- Book: Second Firsts by Christina Rasmussen

- Newsletter - Message In a Bottle: Sign up for Christina’s weekly letter

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Today’s episode is with Dr. Piero Calvi-Parisetti who has dedicated the last 15 years of his life to exploring the data and evidence in our world to see if there really is life after death and death truly is just a doorway. I felt truly connected with him. He cares so much about people that have lost their loved ones and he wants to help alleviate some of that grief by making sure they know that death is not the end. You’re going to be left with less doubt about the survival of consciousness and you will enjoy his in-depth and scientific exploration of the afterlife. 

I’d love to know what you think. Please share it with your friends and family, and be sure to tag me if you share it on social media so that I can say thank you. I’m @christinarasmussen7 on Instagram and @ChristinaRasmussen2014 on Facebook. 

More About Dr. Piero Calvi-Parisetti

Scottish/Italian author and speaker Piero Calvi-Parisetti is a medical doctor originally specialising in Public Health and Disaster Management. After working with the International Red Cross and the United Nations in the management of international  humanitarian aid operations,  at the end of year 2000 he took up a late academic career. Until 2015, he has been Professor of Emergencies and Humanitarian Action at Milan University (Italy) and a visiting professor at several other universities.

In 2004, a simple anecdote narrated by his wife triggered an intellectual interest, at first, and then a true scholarly passion for psychical research, especially for the study of scientific evidence pointing to the survival of human personality of bodily death. By digesting some 30,000 pages of literature, attending international conferences and study days, interviewing the researchers and even training personally with Dr Raymond Moody (the first physician to write about Near-Death Experiences in 1975), Dr Parisetti became convinced that mind and consciousness cannot be reduced to the activity of the brain, and, in a way which we do not understand, they survive the death of the body.

He is the author of five books and the producer of an 8-hour video course on various aspects of the survival hypothesis. He closely collaborates with the Forever Family Foundation, a nonreligious, not for profit organisation strong of over 12,000 members worldwide dedicated to furthering the knowledge of afterlife science among the bereaved. 

You can connect with him via his website, or Facebook.

Things We Mention In This Episode

- Website: DrParisetti.com

- Book: "Step Into the Light" by Dr. Piero Calvi-Parisetti

- Book: Where Did You Go? by Christina Rasmussen

- Book: Second Firsts by Christina Rasmussen

- Newsletter - Message In a Bottle: Sign up for Christina’s weekly letter

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