The Self-Awareness and Self-Compassion Podcast

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Ever need a word of encouragement and a story that feels like a warm hug for your soul? Join life coach Blaze Schwaller as she explores what it means to be imperfect, human, and striving for a fully engaged and colorful life in this series about stretching to reach your highest potential while honoring the full range of your emotions and experiences. Whether she's talking about crippling self-doubt or the joy of befriending feral cats, expect these poignant conversations to be your weekly boost of self-acceptance, humor, and motivation. Formerly the Full Spectrum Feeling Podcast.

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Knowing When It's Complete - A Farewell to the Podcast for Now

Dec 29 2023 13 mins

It's been a wonderful three years of creating and producing this podcast, but for now it's time for a break. I am so appreciative to all of you who have joined me for each episode, supported me on the journey and contributed to its success.I figured an appropriate topic for this last episode would be looking at how we decide when we are complete with a project, and how do

Inspiration and Following Your Heart During Stressful Times

Dec 22 2023 16 mins

It’s important to refuel yourself regularly if you want to have the energy and inspiration to take care of others or make a huge impact on the world around you.It is often our most selfish hobbies and downtime that allows us to have the energy to serve others.This week we look at the signs and symptoms of overwhelm and explore ways we can provide more kindness and tenderness to o

Perceiving Yourself With Love and Respect

Dec 15 2023 14 mins

When life presents us with difficult situations, we often forget to pause and assess ourselves for all of the things we are capable of and offer. But when we do, we can bring so much more to the situation and give ourselves a lot more appreciation in the process.Last week I listened to Matt Khan giving a Loving Kindness Meditation and this podcast explores my takeaways from that tr

Why We Procrastinate and Some Tips on How to Overcome It

Dec 08 2023 19 mins

When we’re stretching for a goal, we often find ourselves procrastinating and not understanding why we aren’t doing it.We can easily self-sabotage when working toward a goal by believing that it’s not worth bothering to try because we have unreasonable expectations about timelines.One of the lies we tell ourselves is that we can start tomorrow, and we believe that somehow tom

Overcoming Stress While Learning a New Hobby

Dec 01 2023 23 mins

Sometimes we have feelings about the hobbies we choose to pursue, despite starting with all good intentions.Part of learning any new skill is coming to terms with being terrible at it in the beginning and facing our own frustration with this each time we show up to learn more.We can get through a lot of the initial frustration by focusing on curiosity or interest in the process of

Cultivating Friendships Over a Lifetime

Nov 24 2023 16 mins

Friendships change throughout the course of our lives. As children, it seems like friendships are much easier to initiate than as adults. Friendships grow easily with shared experiences. When we are kids, we are put into the same environment and mutual situations as entire classrooms of peers, whereas in our adult lives, people live separate lives and have fewer shared experiences

Creating A Schedule That Works For You

Nov 17 2023 16 mins

Depending on how you work best, you might prefer a schedule that is fairly rigid and has smaller bursts of scheduled activities, or you might thrive when you clock out multiple hours for work that fits a certain theme.When I feel like there isn’t enough time to immerse in a subject, I avoid that activity like crazy. I can find all kinds of reasons to procrastinate when I feel lik

Handling Everyday Inconveniences With Grace

Nov 10 2023 15 mins

Our bright and large emotional reactions to small things stem from earlier situations that we’re still dealing with emotionally.It’s easy to roll with inconveniences when they are few and far between and we are otherwise happy, cared for, and well. When we are depleted emotionally and mentally, anything that impedes our progress in the day can set us off. When that happens, we

Becoming Codependent on Fitness Trackers and Apps

Nov 03 2023 17 mins

How do you use technology? Do you feel it benefits you? This week I share my experience using fitness trackers and the ways it has both helped me and stressed me out. How was my life different when I could only use analog feedback like writing down my workouts and weighing myself on the scale each day? What is it like now when I have instantaneous and constant feedback for how my b

How Being Saturated with Information Affects You

Oct 27 2023 17 mins

What’s the emotion that’s sparked the most often by the sources of information and entertainment you consume or are exposed to?Having a big emotion sparked makes it more difficult for you to respond to situations, it instead elicits reactions from you.Some basic truths about what sparks emotional reactions in us can be helpful.When we watch something visually, full of music, fa