20. Breaking Generational Patterns: The Impact of Self-Awareness with Alisha Woodall

A New Life Story: Consciously Uncovering Your Authentic Self

Self-awareness is the key to personal growth and healthier relationships, a concept Licensed Therapist Alisha Woodall shares about in this insightful episode. This discussion serves as a comprehensive guide to cultivating self-awareness, enhancing personal growth, and transforming relationships.

In this episode, you’ll learn about -

1. Exploration Phase and Self-Questioning: Understand the importance of the exploration phase, where individuals begin asking themselves probing questions to gain insights into their thoughts, emotions, and behaviors.

2. Data Collection Through Journaling: Learn how journaling is a way to document daily thoughts, feelings, and experiences, enabling you to track their emotional and behavioral patterns over time.

3. Changing Thought Processes: Uncovering underlying thought patterns is significant to initiate behavioral changes. By reshaping narratives and shifting focus from external factors to internal reflections, individuals can transform their actions and responses within relationships.

4. Breaking Generational Influences: Self-awareness can break the cycle of unhealthy generational patterns. By becoming aware of personal preferences, values, and boundaries, individuals can establish clear expectations within relationships and foster a healthier environment for future generations.

5. Using "I" Statements and Boundary Setting: Effective communication strategies such as using "I" statements to express needs and set boundaries in relationships. By focusing on personal experiences rather than blaming others, individuals can communicate assertively and cultivate understanding and respect.

In this episode, we cover:

[00:03:58] Self-awareness in relationships.

[00:12:19] Uncovering underlying issues.

[00:23:48] Understanding self in relationships.

[00:26:24] Navigating personal change in relationships.

[00:32:03] Changing the self narrative.

[00:37:15] Journaling as Data Collection.

[00:41:07] Generational influences.

Read the full blog post: Breaking Generational Patterns: The Impact of Self-Awareness

Connect with Alisha Woodall

Website: https://findingthefoundation.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/findingthefoundation/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Findingthefoundation/

Work With Me - https://anewlifestory.as.me/schedule.php

Website - https://www.anewlifestorycoaching.com/

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/anewlifestorycoach/

Buy Me A Coffee - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/bfuvfvi7hc

Produced by Wowow Podcasts

Support the Show.