Ep. 41 Donna Lancaster: Letting Go Of All We Are Not

What does it take to live a fulfilled life, and be a fulfilled person? To realise your potential and reap the rewards of a life well-lived? Is it achieving good grades at school? Getting a good college degree and a solid job for life? Good holidays, a fast car and a big house? Lots of money, lots of stuff, a six pack and amazing teeth? And if you don’t have these things, what then? Does that mean yours is not a life well-lived? Does that mean you are somehow not enough – not good enough, not wealthy enough, not as valid? And how do you measure it anyway? Is it through how much you have, or how many likes your holiday photos get? Is it through praise and grades and acceptance and validation? Is it through how much you’ve struggled and how much you’ve fought and argued for what we’ve got? It seem strange to think that we are born into this world without everything we need to fulfil our potential. That we don’t already come equipped – batteries included – to live the life and be the person we came here to be. Yet, we have managed to create a life where we will never be happy until we have, own and achieve more. And there will always be more that we could have, own, and achieve. And in this way our discontent, both with ourselves and our lives, is designed into the system. This modern life we have created for ourselves isn’t built to make us happy, it’s built to perpetuate itself at the expense of our happiness. But all along, we already have what we need to be fulfilled, to realise our potential and to be… ourselves. Complete, whole and perfect, but with room for improvement. So why then do we struggle to find it and harness it? To love ourselves, and be ourselves, and live happy, content lives? Why are anxiety and depression and alcoholism and other illnesses on the rise when we have everything we need for happiness literally built into us? In this episode of the podcast I speak with Donna Lancaster about the idea of shedding away all we are not, all the wrong notions of what it means to be complete, what it means to be us, all the accumulated baggage and trauma, and finally find ourselves. The ‘us’ that we’ve always been carrying with us, but we’ve been unable to see. Donna is the co-founder of The Bridge Retreat, which helps people get back to themselves by connecting deeply with their body, completing the circle of mind, body and spirit to find the true them, which they were born with. The Bridge was the subject of a documentary titled ‘Loved’ which is an excellent place to start if you want to find out more about the work carried out by Donna and her colleagues. To find out more about Donna and her work visit these links: www.thebridgeretreat.com www.instagram.com/thebridgeretreat www.instagram.com/donnalancs  www.loveddocumentary.com

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