Awaken Beauty Podcast

Beloved, Set the scene…..Mid-life hits you. You’re in a feedback loop of living on autopilot, repeating the same limiting stories about who you are and what you can’t do? You’re not alone. It’s as if—since birth—we’ve been steeped in a trance. We speak these stories on loop, and they shape our reality more than we might realize.Ive learned that the key to escaping this trance, to truly coming alive, is to pause. When we catch ourselves mid-thought—especially with self-criticism—each pause becomes an invitation to rewrite our story. Let’s explore how patterns of thought keep us stuck, how negative “shadow” frequencies run the show, and how to shift to higher perspectives through self-regulation.The Power of the Pause1. Recognizing the TranceEvery belief we hold about ourselves is fueled by a story. Repeated long enough, these stories become trance-like. From feeling “sick and tired of being sick and tired” to having your nervous system locked in a loop of anxiety or self-criticism, a pause in your inner monol