Have you ever heard the quote that says, "When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change"? It's one of my favorites and ever since I first heard it, has given me the means by which I am able to totally shift my life in an instant. Once we realize that were capable of changing our perspective and how deeply that changes the way we feel, so much positive change can take place in our life. AND we become much more open to recognizing what we have going for us rather than always what is challenging us as well as start to notice the many magical and wonderful gifts we are handed every single day IF we pay attention. Try it out for yourself and see! Topics include: Changing thoughts, creating your life, law of attraction, random acts of kindness, self help, personal growth, personal development, self empowerment. Find me on Instagram @iamgracebeason --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/becausewhynotpodcast/support

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76 | How To Change The Way You Look At Things

Hello my dear listeners! Miss me? I missed you. I did. This episode is all about how to listen to what you need and how GREAT the benefits are when you do. I've take a summer hiatus from productivity and have willingly slowed down in many ways. It has been truly life giving. There is so much to learn from what we truly know inside of ourselves to be right for us. You know what you need. You have your best interest in mind. You will light your way. Be willing to listen and then to act accordingly. There are many treasures awaiting you on the other side of actually listening to your own inner voice, I promise you. Follow me on Instagram @iamgracebeason and please leave a review of this podcast, subscribe and share! Thanks for being here. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/becausewhynotpodcast/support

75 | Listening To What You Need

Do you ever have those times in your life when absolutely everything and everyone is driving you crazy? I have been feeling like no one respects my time, no one works efficiently, everybody's a mess, and I'm the only one capable of getting things done. Well, maybe me and every other efficient multitasking entrepreneurial mother that I know! So, what am I doing about it? I am recording this podcast and working through it with you in real time! I am offering up some really useful and easily applicable tools to help you deal with the annoying and frustrating people and situations that you may face in your life in the same way that I do and we all do. I feel a lot better... I hope it's helpful for you too! Find me an Instagram @iamgracebeason Thanks For listening and please subscribe to the podcast, pass it along, and leave a review! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/becausewhynotpodcast/support

74 | Tools For Managing Annoyance & Frustration

There's so many times in our lives I'm find ways to medicate, numb out, and hide from what is really going on because we are in a state of discomfort. The problem is that we think we are doing this in an effort to feel better but checking out from our lives only makes us feel worse. How can we stop from getting to a place where we feel so uncomfortable and want to hide? I think for so many women who are high achieving, go getters it is really difficult to stop and step back and take a look at why and for whom we are working so hard to achieve so much. Whether we are in a period of transition, or are upset that we are unable to make something happen in our life that we want, or our overwhelmed from having way too much on our plate, we have got to be willing to care about how we feel and to really focus on what we want and what kind of life we want to create for ourselves. Regardless of what other people's expectations are of us. Once we turn our attention to ourselves, we are able to live more freely and with greater and her peace and stop all of the hiding. Follow me on Instagram @iamgracebeason --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/becausewhynotpodcast/support

73 | What We're Hiding From

Are you a perfectionist? Are you a high achieving woman? So many of us who have spent our lives trying to be and do and have it all can identify with these descriptors. Whether it is about your body, your career, your home, your family, or your finances, there are myriad ways that we aim high and set unreasonable and unattainable standards for ourselves. Trying to achieve perfection in any area is a losing battle because perfection isn't real. But! Knowing that is not enough. We must become willing to identify where our striving for perfection is making us miserable and care more about our own inner peace than about achieving "perfection". How do we do this? For many of us it is about stopping seeking external validation from others. For others who are constantly seeking their own validation, it's about recognizing the perfectionism is an unrealistic finish line that is causing you pain and that your greatest happiness lies on the other side of seeking it. Find me on Instagram @iamgracebeason --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/becausewhynotpodcast/support

72 | Perfectionism Is Causing You Pain

I know I can't be the only one who runs myself ragged until I hit a wall going 100 miles an hour and can't take another step! I think it is one of our universal burdens as women that we multitask and take on so many things that we aim to do at such a high level all at once. The work for us here is in recognizing what is too much and what we can let go of and being willing to take things off of our plate. Boundaries with others are always important but what about setting boundaries with ourselves? I realized that these are some of the most vital boundaries to be set and we have to be willing to tell ourselves one enough is enough. What's more, we have to be aware of recognizing when we feel guilty for taking the time we need for ourselves and be WILLING to let it go. This is still.hard for me too but I'm working on both of these things every day. I am willing! Are you? Find me on Instagram @iamgracebeason --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/becausewhynotpodcast/support

71 I Why Can't We Slow Down

Rage! Is this something you experience? It is something that I have been struggling with and didn't even realize it until it crept into my life once I stopped drinking alcohol. My rage is mostly related to parenting and frustrations I have raising young children and has reared it's ugly head all too often over the past year, specifically. I have done and continue to do deep work on managing my rage responses and have some great tools to share here. While rage may not be something you feel specifically, I'm betting you have experienced frustration, irritation, and anger. These are all similar feelings and what we want to do is identify what's causing them and learn how to slow ourselves down before we reach a level 10 and lose it with a big outburst, explosion, meltdown. I hope these tools are useful to you as they continue to be for me. Rage feels awful and I want to feel it less as I'm sure you want to feel your most uncomfortable feeling less (whatever name you have for it). Thank you for being here and please subscribe and share this podcast! Find me on Instagram @iamgracebeason --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/becausewhynotpodcast/support

70 | Managing Uncomfortable Feelings

Mostly this episode is about how to speak to yourself with kindness and compassion especially when you have done something that you are disappointed by or have let yourself down in some way. The way we speak to ourselves really matters. Believe it or not, the things that we say to ourselves we believe! The words we use and even the intonation and inflection matter and certainly the feeling behind them. Here's how I work on speaking to myself with more kindness and compassion and understanding when I have done something that lets me down. You also may get a good laugh from the beginning of the episode when I share with you the trials and tribulations of having a nine and a half year old who listens to explicit lyrics. God help me! Anyone have any parenting tips? Follow me on Instagram @iamgracebeason and please subscribe to this podcast and share with friends! Thank you. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/becausewhynotpodcast/support

69 | Speak To Yourself With Kindness

How can we know what we want from our lives or what is working for us and what isn't if we never take a step back? This is a lesson I recently learned. I may have known it before, but never put it into practice quite as I did this month. When we are in a state of overwhelm it is nearly impossible to see what it is that is affecting us. When we take a step back and look at the big picture and are able to look at the details instead of at all of the chaos as a whole, we are able to find clarity and be more decisive about how to move forward powerfully. Come with me as I explain how to see the forest for the trees! Find me on Instagram @IamGraceBeason --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/becausewhynotpodcast/support

68 | How To See The Forest For The Trees

Shame, shame! It is a shame we spend so much time feeling shame. It is a natural state of affairs that we as women carry around shame for so many things in our life ranging from what we've eaten to what we've said to what we believe we ought to have done or who we should be in the world. But what does shame do? Why does it exist? does it serve a beneficial purpose? My answer is always going to be that it does nothing but harm our relationship with ourselves and hold us back. We have got to become willing to release shame and move forward. It is possible! There is a way. And it feels so free. I also share some thoughts about mental health interventions and the many and varied things we as individual women need in order to be okay. Please follow me on Instagram @IamGraceBeason or you can always email me directly at Grace@GraceBeasonCoaching or check out my website www.gracebeasoncoaching.com. As always, Thanks for being here! XOXO --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/becausewhynotpodcast/support

67 | Shame Is A Four Letter Word

On the heels of my 45th birthday, which was largely a very special and lovely day, I bring to you the process of working through an argument with the one I love. What happens when we lead with our egos and take things personally? We end up in a fruitless battle and everyone ends up hurt. It's even worse when there are high expectations in the mix! Our egos are often disguised and we don't realize we've brought them to the party until they explode and cause a breakdown we weren't expecting. So, what we do in this happens? In a perfect world, we would avoid it at all costs by leading with our authentic selves and recognizing what's what. That takes a lot of work! We've got to go easy on ourselves and know that we will make mistakes. So when our egos do bump up against other peoples, we just have to become aware in that moment or that day or as soon as we can and step back, take a breath, get into our hearts, and acknowledge the pain that has occurred, that we may have caused, apologize, be curious and compassionate and find a way to move on. Also, keep your expectations in check. Having too high of expectations for any given day can often lead to pain and disappointment. Go in openly, ready for anything, work on not taking anything personally that people say, and life will flow so much more freely and easily. As always, I am here doing the work with you! I hope this is helpful when you have your next collision of egos with the one you love. Resources I share in this episode include A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle, The Work by Byron Katie, and The Four Areements. Please follow me on Instagram @iamgracebeason --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/becausewhynotpodcast/support

66 | Checking Your Ego, Managing Expectations, And Taking Nothing Personally

We play so many roles as busy women and yet none is more important than the role we play in our own lives. Problem is, we don't focus on it enough or give it the attention that it deserves. Our relationship with our self is everything and we want it to be stronger, but how? We are in so much pain over so many things. We are able to let this pain go and I can show you the way! I have transformed my life in such powerful, incredible ways over the past two years and because I have done this hard work, I am able to be here now to show you how you too can make changes. It doesn't matter what kind of change you are seeking! It could be small or huge, there could be a big list or a little one, but regardless of what it is it all comes down to your willingness to turn your attention towards yourself in order to set yourself free. This is possible for you and is something you can learn to do efficiently and sustainably. Not only that, it will feel GOOd and be FUN and the bonus is that everyone around you will benefit as well. Want to hear how I did it and how you can do it, too? Listen up! And follow me on Instagram @iamgracebeason --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/becausewhynotpodcast/support

65 | Transforming Your Life (Efficiently & Sustainably)

I know some of you busy moms out there are thinking to yourself that I'm going to be talking about how to come home and find an empty house without noisy children and a million things to do! Sounds great, I know, but that is not what I'm talking about. Coming home to yourself is all about the process of tapping into who you really are and what you really want out of life after spending days, months, years, prioritizing everyone other than yourself. It is about making the choice to put yourself at the top of the list. It is about recognizing, learning, and embodying the notion that you are worthy of this. It is about your willingness to take the time to turn the focus, attention, love, care on yourself and to know that you are just as worthy of it as everyone else. What's more, that when you do, all of the people in your life benefit. It is about getting quiet and listening to your inner voice. Prioritizing yourself with time and care but also by being willing to be who you are and to care more about how you feel than what people think. And the gift at the end of the road is what? Inner peace. Connection. Greater joy, clarity, fulfillment and the life that you want and deserve. Are you with me? I will give you step-by-step tips for how to do this today and every day! Follow me on Instagram @iamgracebeason --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/becausewhynotpodcast/support

64 | How To Come Home To Yourself

Today I celebrate and Mark a very important, significant, special day in my life that I never imagined I would. 2 years ago today I willingly, consciously, bravely, and wholeheartedly removed alcohol from my life and have never looked back. There is no simple way to share how I feel about this or the magnitude of the pride and Joy I feel at this accomplishment. Mostly what I want you to hear from me is that in listening to my inner voice I set myself free and gave myself life in a way I never knew existed and that the beauty that is on the other side of pain is always worth going after. That my relationship with myself truly began two years ago on this day and that I never could have imagined feeling this good in my own skin. that you are not too old and it is not too late ever to make a change in your life and go after what you want. This is about willingness. This is about releasing shame. This is about caring more about how you feel than about what others think. This is about living your life the way you want to live it. I'm so honored and thankful to have started my sober journey here with you two years ago and to be here with you today and share this moment means everything to me. Thank you for listening, I send you so much love and so much gratitude! Follow me on Instagram @iamgracebeason --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/becausewhynotpodcast/support

63 | Celebrating 2 Years Sober & Everything Being Brighter

I've been cleaning out my mom's house and attic and that has meant going through boxes and boxes of my own memorabilia and photos. Sifting through piles of the last four decades of my life has caused me to look at my life in a way I never have, to look at me in a way I never have. The irony is that this deep spiritual work I have done over the last couple years has led me to know wholeheartedly that our spirit has always remained the same and always will remain the same. It is what guides us. It has never changed, and it never leads us astray. But looking at these dozens of photos of my face and body from the day I was born until very recently allowed me to look in my eyes and see that at any different age I was, I was the same. I was the girl that I always was. Circumstances changed, I lived in different places, I tried out different personalities and ways of being, friendships came and went, some friendships stayed for years and years, I built a family, I built a career... On and on. But now I know for sure that one thing that has never changed is who I am inside. I find this so amazing, so comforting, and ultimately just the coolest truth there is about my life and our lives And I'm so grateful to have come to this knowing at the end of this difficult road of dismantling my mother's home and life. Follow me on Instagram @iamgracebeason --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/becausewhynotpodcast/support

62 | The Girl I Always Was

Grace Beason is a professional mindset and relationship coach trained in Authentic Leadership. She's also a mother, wife, entrepreneur, your best girlfriend, reformed party girl, and a constant spiritual seeker, soul food junkie, and self help super fan. Join Grace as she shares her own life experiences and journey of personal growth and self discovery while sprinkling it all with her signature humor to help guide you towards finding greater fulfillment and connection in your life. https://www.patreon.com/rss?campaign=3789516&auth=lGq1SxC54zEckZQk68rKUBIwrtQlkCje Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/becausewhynotpodcast/support

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