Feb. 8, 2022

Sourcing Self Compassion Through Fierce Serenity

Sourcing Self Compassion Through Fierce Serenity

In this episode Jen + Jane discuss finding Fierce Serenity in everyday choices, living without regret for past decisions, and whether or not you can have forgiveness without self-compassion. 

 

What does that look like for you? 

 

Additional Resources/Reading:

●      Dr. Kristin Neff - Self-Compassion Researcher - https://self-compassion.org/

 

Questions for further guidance: 

 

●      What do you think? Can you have forgiveness without self-compassion?

●      Where are you already practicing Fierce Serenity in your life?

 

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Jen Lang

Jen believes in the power and wisdom of women’s voices. She’s a guide for women who want to tune into and align their inner voice so their outer voice can shine; uniting physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual energies into a powerful voice ready to share your message.

 

Jane Stark

Passionate about energetic alignment and living life from a place of personal power, Jane is a heart-centered leader, certified health and life coach, and marketing strategist.  She leads others to play bigger and feel lighter by helping them see and navigate their blocks and connect more deeply with themselves.

 

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Transcript
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Jen Lang:

Hi, everybody. Welcome back to another episode of no

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halos here with Jen Lang and Jane Stark. Oh, what a topic we

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have today. Jane and I have just come off a big conversation of a

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different topic, a future podcast topic, but we're not

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going to talk about that today. Yeah, and then you'll probably

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hear in the background, my snoring dog Lola, she's decided

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to join us today. So we get a little too rowdy. We'll just

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pause for a minute and you can sink into the sweet tones.

Jane Stark:

You turn that into a meditation? Maybe Maybe I could.

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Ring dog. The latest trending. Zen meditation

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I'm kind of curious you know, I have I have a timer

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account. Maybe I'll just record my dog's. Paw, the sounds of

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home probably would bring comfort to these pets maybe have

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passed and you know, might be kind of fun. Well, anyway, but

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we digress. Okay. Today, we are talking about aspects of

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forgiveness and self compassion, but probably not in the ways

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that you might think, initially.

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How did we How did we get here? How did we get to

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this topic? You? I think you're talking. Go ahead.

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Okay. I think we got here because we I was I proposed

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it as a topic because it was something we were talking about

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earlier this week, and forgiveness as an act of self

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love. And Jane wasn't really jiving with it. Oh, you know,

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she was like, I'm kind of, you know, I don't think it's, I

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don't she was kind of like, I feel the resistance. I'm like,

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no, no, there's

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something there. And I feel my own resistance. Yeah,

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I was like a dog with a bone. I'm like, No, we need to

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talk about this and unpack this in our way. And so

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then we come around, and that's what I get to where

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I'm like, Oh, this is the piece. And it wasn't so much resistance

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talking about it. To be honest. It was like landing flat for me.

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I was like, Yeah, I don't know. Okay, forgiveness, practice

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forgiveness, great. End of story. Like what's also really

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talked about a lot in this self help industry and the

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personal development industry and the CO opting and what I'm

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trying to say like the whole panel, a panel practice, which

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is supposedly an indigenous Hawaiian practice. So

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technically speaking, it's cultural appropriation, if you

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talk to indigenous Hawaiians, so it's like, we're not going to go

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there. We're not going into that today. Yeah. But we want to look

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at this forgiveness piece, and the self compassion piece, both

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both together, and separate entities. So I think you started

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with that with the doctor, who was Kristin Neff.

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So Dr. Kristin Neff is a researcher on self

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compassion. I'm not overly familiar with her work. But I

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have seen she's got a couple of TED Talks. And she's written

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books. And I believe, a number of years ago, I listened to her

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TED talks, and I've sort of very loosely followed her. I haven't

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read her books, although I would like to get her latest one

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because it ties in a bit to, to our theme. For the month of

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February and our program, our group program that we're going

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to launch, which is fear serenity, and her latest book is

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called the fear self compassion, I believe. And yes, it. And so

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it was interesting, because she talks about, oh, my goodness

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them and I have to remember what the other there's she talks

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about fear, self compassion, and

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well, she says, what is self compassion? And then

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what is fierce self compassion?

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Yeah, but she talked about them in two different

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contexts. Anyways, we'll digress on that. But it was interesting,

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like self compassion, the sort of gentle or self compassion

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talking about you know, asking what you need in the moment

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about giving yourself it's kind of that nurturing that like,

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okay, just give yourself a breather. Whereas fear self

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compassion, as she defines it, she talks about is more about

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action taking so she referred to even like, you know, it might be

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like, you get into the mama bear mode. And you you know, you You

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get out there or like, you know, you take action around

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injustice, you speaking things that's like fear, self

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compassion, because you're still, you're still, to me

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that's like tied into boundaries, which is a form of

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Yes, self compassion. So we're kind of unpacking the self

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compassion and the forgiveness piece. I think the other the

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other question that we wanted to unpack that came up here was Jen

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and I were playing with this idea of, well, self compassion

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and forgiveness are not the same thing. But I asked you, so you

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you said, For I see self compassion as a bigger umbrella

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and forgiveness is one piece of or sorry, aspect of self

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compassion, or, yeah, of self compassion. And I agree with

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that. And then I flipped it to you and said, Can we have

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forgiveness? Without self compassion?

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Mm hmm. Which, you know, you're like, throwing it

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back to me. I'm like, I don't know if there's an answer. This

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is a way to unpack. Yeah, this is maybe something for you, the

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listener to reflect on for yourself? Can you have

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forgiveness without self compassion? And do you? In other

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words, do you need to have a self compassion, practice or

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awareness in place before you can practice forgiveness? I

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don't know that they're mutually exclusive. But we did get into

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this aspect of, you know, because Jamie mentioned in our

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pre talk, before we hit record that you need to get to a level

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of forgiveness, you need to do the work, you need to do like,

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work on yourself. And then I started unpacking that further

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and going, but if your forgiveness is genuine at the

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level that you're at, who are we to say? Who is the observer to

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say, what level of forgiveness is, quote, unquote, right? And

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if you are forgiving from the level of awareness or self

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awareness that you currently have, then that is where you're

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at. It's not empty. It is simply an expression of the integrity

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of yourself at that moment in time.

Jane Stark:

Yeah, absolutely. I think for me, what it brought up

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was, again, there are so many of these concepts and terms that

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are getting thrown around, yeah, in, in the self help side of

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things, but I would say even becoming more mainstream. And I

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guess that's where sometimes, like, it starts to make it feel

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trivial, or when we don't have the bigger context for things.

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So one of the things that comes to mind, and I have to sort of

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try and think on the fly here to how to unpack this. But

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gratitude practice is another one. For me, that kind of feels

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like a similar, a little bit of a similar energy. For me, I'm

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just talking my own personal experience. But years ago, when

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I was sort of in the earlier stages of my journey, and I

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kept, you kept hearing about a gratitude practice and how

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gratitude was so great and whatever. And to be honest, I

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was not in a place that I could find gratitude. And so it

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actually made me feel worse. And it frustrated me and it felt it.

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And maybe it's because I was bypassing but it felt like

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bypassing like, it just, it felt forced. And I would be like,

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okay, and try this and the gratitude journal of, you know,

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100 days and it just, like, I just was like, yeah, not

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connecting to this.

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I think there's a drink continue. I

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was just gonna say to fast forward. I, oops, sorry,

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this big bang. I just talked with my hands and not getting

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sober. Okay, okay. So I start doing my digging and peeling

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away layers and continuing to start to unpack some things for

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myself. And all of a sudden, like, the gratitude thing

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clicked for me. And it was like, Oh, this is what people are

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talking about. This is what that feels like. I get it now.

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Doesn't mean I sit down and have like, I don't have a gratitude

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practice per se, like some people do. But I definitely

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connect to that concept. Now. I definitely. Something just

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clicked for me, but I think it was because I really had to go

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through that process. And I had to get to that place. And I

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guess all I'm trying to say is for me, the forgiveness piece

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feels or felt a little bit the same where I think there was a

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time in my life where I just wasn't at a place to be able to

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practice self forgiveness or right. And it's taking that time

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and peeling those layers away.

Jen Lang:

Yeah, there's definitely I'm trying to maybe

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we can give our audience some real life examples. doesn't have

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to be a big thing in the sense of, you know, I ate four squares

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of dark chocolate yesterday. And now I feel really terrible about

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the fact that I said to myself, I wouldn't eat dark chocolate in

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February. And I'm not actually seeing this, but you know what I

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mean? It's an example. And then it leads into that spiral of

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guilt, despair. You know, whether it's food related, or a

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choice you've made or something like that. And then it's more,

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the more down that spiral of guilt and despair you go, the

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harder it is to find the forgiveness and the compassion

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that you need to climb out. But maybe it's just that one step.

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Maybe it's like that, like you said, that gratitude practice of

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that compassion practice for yourself is like, Okay. I felt

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like I needed the piece of chocolate at that time. And then

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it was so good, I had a couple more food examples have their

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own weight and their own, they deserve their own, you know,

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episode. But maybe just by practicing that forgiveness

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piece on like, I forgive myself for that choice. And I'm moving

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on. And as you practice that forgiveness doesn't necessarily

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address some of the underlying feelings. And that is a more

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therapy based approach, I would say, would be the underlying

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feelings of why you chose the chocolate in the first place.

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And why did you spar once you, you know, that's, that's at it's

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a different conversation. But I think this aspect of practicing

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something, whether it's gratitude, forgiveness,

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appreciation, or whatever, self compassion, this that there is

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value in the practice, because it does get us to the

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destination eventually, even if it's not in that, you know, I've

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practiced gratitude for three days, why am I not grateful?

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Yep. type of type of world that we often live in, in which case?

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Are you bypassing? Or are you actually going through a

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practice, that's going to get you to a place where you can

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love yourself more fully and more deeply?

Jane Stark:

So how does So forgiveness as a act of self

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love? That was sort of your thought and the topic? Can you

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expand on that and how you see that?

Jen Lang:

So I don't know, I've been doing work like this for, I

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don't know, seven plus years, maybe I would say, even since I

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started singing, there is an aspect of, you know, the act of

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learning to sing. And going through the practice and

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learning the pieces. And going through a process is definitely

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a Personal Development Act. And sometimes, you know, I wasn't as

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prepared as I wanted to be for either a performance or a show.

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And so I had to forgive and accept that my actions led me to

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that place. And that, rather than dwelling on the past or on

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a, you know, the bad feelings of that produced, I just had to get

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on with starting the next thing, and starting the next thing. So

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the forgiveness is the act of self love, is I couldn't access

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an aspect of self love and add the depth that I now have

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without first acknowledging the forgiveness that I needed to get

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there. So the forgiveness is a step or a practice to deepen the

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self love.

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So what was I'm curious to, like, unpack is even

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a little bit more in terms of the forgiveness piece and like,

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and I don't know if there's an answer to this, but just trying

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to understand like, how did you? How did you know or how did you

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and maybe this was just your your makeup, but like that,

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okay, I have to, I have to take the next step, I have to let

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that go and move on, versus going down or getting stuck in

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that place of self deprecation or self like beating yourself

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up. Like how do you find that? That balance for things? That's

Jen Lang:

a great question. I don't think anybody's ever asked

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me that. Well, here you go. So here, real time, real life. I

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would say let me start more recently. So over the past year

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and a bit, I've been working through a course in miracles,

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and with a group of people and it's been wonderful. And so last

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year, we did all of the lessons, the daily lessons, and now we're

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going into the teachings. And so there's a core group of four of

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us and we meet every week and we go through the teachings and a

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major aspect of this work is forgiveness. So anybody who's

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worked with the Course in Miracles know that forgiveness

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is part of the Atonement. And this is not going to be an

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episode, of course, miracles, there's a ton of resources out

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there. So I would say over the past 15 months, my ability to

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move into a space of forgiveness for myself and deepen my self

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love has greatly expanded through this work and through

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these conversations, bringing in our real life experiences, and

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then unpacking them through the lens of forgiveness, and self

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love. And that the more we focus on the self love, the easier it

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is to love everyone else.

Jane Stark:

That's beautiful. And that,

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the more deeply we can love and accept all aspects of

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self organic kind of emotional talking about it, because it is

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so moving, the easier it is to see the love and the expansion

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and the light and the humanity in everyone. Every, whether you

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agree with their actions at the time or not, they may not align

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with you, but you can still see the humanity of that person. And

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the fact that they were born to a family who, hopefully I would

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say love them. They deserve love. Everyone deserves love

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everyone. And so this forgiveness as an aspect of self

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love is just one aspect of that human journey to deepen the love

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for ourselves and therefore the love for everyone else.

Jane Stark:

Wow. i This episode is over. Okay. So it's

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interesting, because what I what was coming to my awareness as

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you were sharing that perspective, was this sort of

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sense of awareness. Like when we start to step out of this self

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identification, and the Me, me, me, the I feel this way I did

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this, I'm not a good person. And we can start to facilitate a

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practice that allows for an expansion, I guess, of awareness

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around that, yeah. That that allows it to come in and, and

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that came from me, because that I feel like that is also my

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experience, my journey, I have not, I've not studied A Course

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of Miracles, yet, but when I reflect on what you're saying,

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and the values of that rings, so true to me, and I've been

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unpacking this a little bit, in my own life personally in, in

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therapy, just reflecting and looking at, you know, my

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upbringing, and like you say, somebody's like, yeah, you know,

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I was really fortunate to be raised in a house, where, yes,

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there was lots of love, but there was also a lot of respect.

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I felt like I felt respected as a child, even in my house hold.

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And I felt like, yeah, that, you know, I had parents who truly

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listened to and cared about what I thought, and I'm now at this

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point in my life, having my own children and unpacking this,

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I've, I share this, because it's fairly new for me, the actual

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realization of how it's impacted me and how, like when you said

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that everybody deserves love, and everybody is, you know,

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we're all we're all human beings that are just trying to do the

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best that we can. And that's a really such a big value for me,

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because it's something that I'm so fortunate to have been raised

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with. And so yeah, I look at society, generally like that. I

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am not perfect, I definitely have judgments and things like

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that as well. But it's been really interesting to start to

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unpack this more and more and move into a new level of

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awareness around that, and I just love what you said about

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that, when we love ourselves first, then that expands out and

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we start to have that love and compassion for everyone else, as

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well.

Jen Lang:

Thanks. Yeah, it was, that was totally in the moment,

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just came through now that's coming through to all of you

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listeners, and how, you know, maybe we can look at the way we

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operate in this world. And yeah, like, I'm not saying I'm perfect

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in any way stretch your forum, it's a practice. There are

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moments there are things that piss me off and things that I'm

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gonna say like get you riled up, but in a more passionate way,

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rather than you know, like, why why is this why is this so I go

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into that questioning of like, why is this so but then

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sometimes I can defuse the emotional component and take a

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more measured approach to that why, and why is this happening?

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I think we were also talking about this aspect of social

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Media what we share on social media, we would rarely share yes

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to face with someone. So, yeah, not gonna say it to someone to

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their face and have a conversation about it. Why would

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you say it and share it in social media?

Jane Stark:

Because yeah, when you Why is it protecting? And

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why is that? Okay? Yeah, yeah, that that was a big one that

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we're sort of unpacking and that it really bothers. Yeah, it

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really bothers me. Because it's so true. I look at things and

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I'm like, and, you know, and even, even when we ask that

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question, I feel like a lot of people, the answer is like, oh,

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yeah, I would totally say that to someone's face. And I unlike,

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really, I don't believe that we have that. The other thing I

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said he was Imagine, imagine if what we say on social media in

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the comment session sections of posts and whatnot, if we were

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all out there treating each other that way? Yeah, like, I

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don't see how this world would be able to we'd be in civil war,

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like, yeah, as a humanity, like

Jen Lang:

much more escalated? Because it would well, it would

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be much more confrontational. And then at the same time, to

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wind this back to forgiveness, and, like self love and self

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compassion. When we've all said stuff that we've regretted, in

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the heat of the moment, we've all done that. Really?

Jane Stark:

No, really, I feel like, that's my husband.

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Or we all know people who like orange, or the converse

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of that is like, there's stuff that we wish we had said in the

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moment.

Jane Stark:

Oh, yeah, there's a lot of that. There's definitely

Jane Stark:

I'm really good at thinking through scenarios after the fact

Jane Stark:

and being like, Oh, that would have been,

Jen Lang:

yeah, me too. Okay. It's like, I always find it

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easier to put my stuff down into writing. After the fact I can

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always express myself articulate, articulate myself

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more clearly, in the writing afterwards. But in the moment,

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it's, it's not always easy. But I digress again. So if we wind

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this back to the compassion, and the self love and forgiveness,

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peace, even in those moments where you've either said,

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Something you've regretted, or you haven't said something, and

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you've regretted it, or you'd wished you'd said something.

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That's the perfect opportunity for you to apply an aspect of

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forgiveness and self compassion. It's like, I didn't have the

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words at the time. And that's okay, because I was in this

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situation. And now, you can either ask for an opportunity or

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create an opportunity to share that again, or to share those

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words that you wish you'd said. Or you can just move past it. So

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to wind back to your first question, how do I move past it

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and not get stuck in that field of self deprecation, I get to

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practice again. You can let it weigh you down. And how many

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boat anchors are you going to tie to your feet and tie to your

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emotions before you weigh down. And or you can choose to move

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beyond it and that, you know, if you're looking through the lens

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of therapy and counseling, it's usually the emotion that is

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triggered by the event that still lives on in you that is

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causing the discomfort in the first place. So then go back,

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unpack the emotion, through a multitude of means there's many,

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many, many different types of therapies. And talk therapy is

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only one. You know, there's movement, there's music,

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there's, you know, you need a multitude of ways to defuse the

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emotion from a situation in order to find the depth and

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deepen your self love and compassion.

Jane Stark:

Yeah, yeah. So I think one of the ways,

Jane Stark:

especially when we're talking about self compassion for

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myself, it's, it's coming back to like, the simplest thing is

Jane Stark:

asking what you need in the moment. Yeah, right. Like, what

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do I need in this moment to help support me? And, and then

Jane Stark:

allowing yourself that gift of whatever that answer is?

Jen Lang:

There's, oh, yeah, there's so many. I'm sure

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there's some of the real life examples. You know, I can feel

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some of the objections already. From that I might hear from

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people like what share them like, woman trying to leave an

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emotionally abusive partner, or someone trying to leave an

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emotionally abusive partner, where they go back multiple

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times. And it's a number of factors, and they're like, what

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do they need at that time? Maybe there's no space for self

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compassion in that moment. But there will be a space for that

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later. And maybe you find the you can call it an Earth Angel.

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whoever you want. You might find like a social worker or

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healthcare worker or someone in your community or trust. A

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friend, who is that haven for you? Who is that person for you

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who you can say to them? Or they might they might say to you,

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what do you need in this moment? If you can't ask it of yourself.

Jen Lang:

So that might be an objection in that moment. But if it's after

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the fact, like if you've, if you're kicking yourself

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mentally, yeah, I think hadn't taken an act particular course

Jen Lang:

of action, then that's the What do you mean? What do I need

Jen Lang:

right now to feel better about myself? What do I need right now

Jen Lang:

to move forward? Maybe you need support. Maybe you'd like, in

Jen Lang:

some form or another? I don't know. What's your take on that?

Jane Stark:

Well, I mean, I think you're right. Like

Jane Stark:

there's, again, it's it's tricky to apply one statement or one

Jane Stark:

concept with a brush, depending on, you know, varying levels of

Jane Stark:

scenarios. So, you know, I think yes, there's, there's lots of

Jane Stark:

levels there. I don't really have anything else to add. And,

Jane Stark:

like

Jen Lang:

just a funny phrase comes to mind. What do you do

Jen Lang:

when you're going through hell? You don't stop you keep going.

Jen Lang:

Yes. Right. And that is it? Is that drive forward?

Jane Stark:

Yeah. And thinking just, you know, what? Yeah. How

Jane Stark:

would you treat others? And how can you give yourself a little

Jane Stark:

bit of that?

Jen Lang:

Yes, this came up with a client a couple of weeks ago,

Jen Lang:

where they were questioning, they were asking themselves a

Jen Lang:

question about why they hadn't taken a particular course of

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action. And I say, Well, how does? How do you feel about that

Jen Lang:

now? And they, they said, Well, you know, I'm, I feel like, I'm

Jen Lang:

being hard on myself. And I said, so what would if a friend

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came to you, one of your best friends or a love family member

Jen Lang:

came to you and expressed this same situation? What would you

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say to them? And sometimes we have to take ourselves outside

Jen Lang:

of the problem in order to do that, in order to be able to see

Jen Lang:

the self compassion that's needed for yourself. Right? Yep.

Jen Lang:

Not for the friend. Yeah. So true.

Jane Stark:

Yeah. I mean, we're so good at that kind of thing.

Jane Stark:

Right? Like, I remember years ago, a coach saying to me, I

Jane Stark:

think this was more about habit change, and health and whatnot.

Jane Stark:

And I was quite into yoga at the time. And, and she used an

Jane Stark:

analogy, though, with friends. She's like, you know, if, if you

Jane Stark:

had planned to say go to a yoga class with your girlfriend, and

Jane Stark:

she was in your driveway waiting to pick you up to go to class,

Jane Stark:

and you really didn't want to go? Would you just go out there

Jane Stark:

and say to her, yeah, sorry, thanks. Actually, I don't want

Jane Stark:

to go. I'm like, No, I'd probably get in the car and go

Jane Stark:

because she's there holding me accountable and all the things

Jane Stark:

and it's like, so why are you treating yourself any

Jane Stark:

differently? Yeah. I was like, Oh, yeah. Like, why are why? So

Jane Stark:

like, and it was, this was more in a conversation around self

Jane Stark:

accountability, but it just feels like similar, right? Where

Jane Stark:

it's like, right, sometimes I have to step outside of myself

Jane Stark:

and think like, I wouldn't let a friend down. Why am I gonna let

Jane Stark:

myself down?

Jen Lang:

And there's an interesting aspect of that story

Jen Lang:

is in the same, you know, vein, another, there's always another

Jen Lang:

option. Yeah. And so another option would be, go to class

Jen Lang:

with your friend, and just lay on the floor. Yeah. And just ask

Jen Lang:

your body like bow. And you know, I've done that so many

Jen Lang:

times, Kirk Kirk, and I used to practice Bikram yoga. And we

Jen Lang:

were quite into it, you know, like 10 years ago. And, you

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know, we would go to class and occasionally I would do a 30 day

Jen Lang:

challenge and do 30 classes in 30 days. And sometimes I would

Jen Lang:

go to a class and I would spend most of the classes lying there.

Jen Lang:

Because I'd hit a stage in my practice where I was like, hey,

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body, okay, you're gonna be really messed up if you keep

Jen Lang:

doing this class. So just just just lay there. And that is

Jen Lang:

another purchase. It takes courage to do that because

Jen Lang:

everyone around you

Jane Stark:

that's hard to do

Jen Lang:

in one of those classes. Yeah. And that's an

Jen Lang:

aspect of I Gabbard said act forgiveness as an act of self

Jen Lang:

love, forgive yourself. For not take pushing through.

Jane Stark:

Yoga is good, actually, you're right. A good

Jane Stark:

example of that, and because I've had many of those

Jane Stark:

situations to where you're in class, and I'm like, just

Jane Stark:

feeling really tired or whatever. And it's such a, such

Jane Stark:

an interesting battle of the mind. Because you know, even

Jane Stark:

even the instructor will say, you know, listen to your body.

Jane Stark:

If you feel like you just need to get down into child's pose,

Jane Stark:

do that. But you have all these people around you, you know,

Jane Stark:

stepping into some power pose. And it takes a lot to be like,

Jane Stark:

No, I'm actually yeah, I am just gonna lie here. I've had that

Jane Stark:

situation so many times. And many times I have not listened

Jane Stark:

to my body and have gone into the position. And it's so

Jane Stark:

interesting though, when I found the courage to like to not and

Jane Stark:

to just lay there and like,

Jen Lang:

and notice what comes up. Yeah, the other like, the

Jen Lang:

other aspect, I was gonna say like, even before I'd ever read

Jen Lang:

any Louise Hay or heard about mirror work, you know I'd

Jen Lang:

practice Bikram yoga for I think it was like six, seven years at

Jen Lang:

the time. And that class is done with mirrors. And I would

Jen Lang:

always, whenever I could, I was always take a front row, like be

Jen Lang:

face to face myself in the mirror, a because it minimizes

Jen Lang:

distraction, which is great. But be because it's like, it's you,

Jen Lang:

it's you in the class. And when you focus on yourself, it is the

Jen Lang:

most powerful mirror work you could ever do. And it's that

Jen Lang:

unspoken mirror work process that you're confronted with your

Jen Lang:

body, it's really freaking hot, and you're not wearing a lot. So

Jen Lang:

you're seeing all of your body, and in a way that can be very

Jen Lang:

confronting for people. And at the same time, you see, like

Jen Lang:

somehow how kick ass you are in some postures and how you know

Jen Lang:

how you're like, Okay, I'm further down this posture than I

Jen Lang:

was a week ago. So that that's when I think an act of self love

Jen Lang:

can turn into an act of celebration.

Jane Stark:

Yeah, like that. So I want to tie this back a little

Jane Stark:

bit to our our topic, our new February and just this concept

Jane Stark:

that we've been talking about a little bit about fear serenity

Jane Stark:

and what it means to us. And, you know, it's interesting, I

Jane Stark:

hear both fierceness and serenity in this conversation

Jane Stark:

today. I agree. And what we're talking about, and I think

Jane Stark:

that's like us the cool kind of juxtaposition of this phrase

Jane Stark:

that we have taken to that chose us, or chose us. Yeah, you could

Jane Stark:

say that. So yeah, what, how does that tie for you together

Jane Stark:

for you?

Jen Lang:

So I think I, it shifts, I think a little bit day

Jen Lang:

to day, some kind of feeling fiery, and feisty. So today, I'm

Jen Lang:

feeling pretty fierce. I'm saying, as the listener, you may

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have noticed it in the way I've been speaking, the way that

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we've been talking about topics. And there's moments for this

Jen Lang:

concept to be always imbalance. So sometimes we need to protect

Jen Lang:

protect our serenity with a fierceness that wouldn't

Jen Lang:

necessarily lead to Serenity. However, that fear, I'm not

Jen Lang:

going to say protective, but that fierce boundary or that

Jen Lang:

fierce? You need to be standing in the power of your serenity.

Jen Lang:

Without it being you have to do it this way.

Jane Stark:

Yes. Which is back to that righteous,

Jen Lang:

righteous, righteous in your rightness conversation

Jen Lang:

from a couple weeks ago. Yeah, ready pieces. Like when you have

Jen Lang:

that fierce. When you have that fierce awareness in place, then

Jen Lang:

the serenity is so much easier to welcome in.

Jane Stark:

Mm hmm. And I feel like I really I see the yin and

Jane Stark:

the yang, right, where it's just flowing between like, it's

Jane Stark:

interesting, because, yes, you brought some fierceness, but

Jane Stark:

then when you were sharing that, that part about the Course of

Jane Stark:

Miracles, like it was like serenity came through. So that

Jane Stark:

being able to flow in and out and there was something else you

Jane Stark:

said, escape me now. But But yeah, there's sort of this yin

Jane Stark:

and yang energy and just being able to move between being able

Jane Stark:

to define it for yourself. Yeah. That for me, it really does feel

Jane Stark:

like that. That moving between, I feel like I am moving more

Jane Stark:

into fierce energy right now to more action taking. But with a

Jane Stark:

softness, like you say, not about righteousness, not about

Jane Stark:

my way or the highway, just that action taking in that place of

Jane Stark:

power coming from our own place of personal power. Yep. And I

Jane Stark:

need to have serenity in order to be in that place of power.

Jane Stark:

Oh, yes.

Jen Lang:

So then, how this ties in? How does this tie into what

Jen Lang:

we envision for serenity?

Jane Stark:

I think we're really ultimately it's helping. It's

Jane Stark:

the bigger vision I have of what I see people leaving this

Jane Stark:

program with is their own definition of what it looks like

Jane Stark:

for them in there and how that plays out in their lives. And to

Jane Stark:

so getting tools for that and also identifying where things

Jane Stark:

might be out of balance or What alignment needs to happen? And

Jane Stark:

then there's also a container where Jen and I can then

Jane Stark:

facilitate helping you move. The things that are blocking you

Jane Stark:

from getting to that point part put that point. But yeah, I

Jane Stark:

really see like, and that's where for us, I think this idea,

Jane Stark:

this concept is a term that landed so deeply for us was

Jane Stark:

like, that's how I want to live my life. I want to live my life,

Jane Stark:

in fear serenity. For the rest of my days, like, yeah, to me,

Jane Stark:

that is just so really, that's kind of, again, that's the

Jane Stark:

bigger picture. Do we have all of the exact methods for how

Jane Stark:

that's going to come out for everybody? Nope. That's why

Jane Stark:

we're beta testing this

Jen Lang:

beta program. So fear serenity is a beta program that

Jen Lang:

runs six weeks starting the week of February 21. It's $500. And

Jen Lang:

if you are interested in being one of the 10 Actually, there's

Jen Lang:

nine spaces now. One of the participants in fear serenity,

Jen Lang:

then we definitely want to welcome you. Yeah, we want to

Jen Lang:

hear from you.

Jane Stark:

Send us a message. We have sales pages going up

Jane Stark:

soon. But we have the ability to secure spots before sales page

Jane Stark:

goes up. Who needs a sales page to sell around? I know, this is

Jane Stark:

how we operate this fear serenity. This is awesome. We've

Jane Stark:

already sold a spot. And we don't have a sales page up. So

Jane Stark:

there you go. But yeah, it's, I feel like Jen and I just feel

Jane Stark:

really good about it. The like, I feel really

Jen Lang:

the timing is right. People are here. If you're

Jen Lang:

interested to know more definitely reach out for your

Jen Lang:

serenity can be yours day in day out for the rest of your days.

Jane Stark:

How do we embody it, and everybody's gonna embody it

Jane Stark:

differently? I think that's the biggest piece as I move through

Jane Stark:

is everybody. So this is not a course. This is not like we're

Jane Stark:

going to give you tools we're going to support you. But this

Jane Stark:

is ultimately allowing I think, each participant to show up

Jane Stark:

authentically, as who they are to peel back all the layers and

Jane Stark:

to define this concept for themselves and to and then we

Jane Stark:

support you and how you're going to embody that but that is

Jane Stark:

absolutely going to look different for each and every one

Jane Stark:

of us. Yeah, exactly. Well,

Jen Lang:

I'm excited. Okay.

Jane Stark:

I don't know. Let's wrap this up.

Jen Lang:

Let's wrap this up. So if your serenity began begins

Jen Lang:

first week of February, we are here we're going to keep putting

Jen Lang:

out these awesome podcast episodes. Like I said, the theme

Jen Lang:

for this month is for serenity today. We explored that self

Jen Lang:

compassion and forgiveness topic through this lens. We hope you

Jen Lang:

had some beautiful takeaways. We'd love to hear from you and

Jen Lang:

over and out next week. See you soon. Bye. Thanks for joining us

Jen Lang:

for these conscious combos. If you're ready to dive deeper,

Jen Lang:

head on over to Leah Jen and jane.com to continue the

Jen Lang:

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