Invited

Everyone envisions meeting "the one" as a magical experience, but when your heart has been broken many times before, meeting your person isn't always rainbows and butterflies in your perspective. This episode recounts the road leading up to meeting my husband and our journey of exploration of true love for the very first time.

I pause my planned content today to bring you the voices of two dear friends of mine as they share with us how to love more deeply and intentionally during the movements occuring with the black community today. Kinte and Kerri are vulnerable, raw, and transparent as they share their hearts and insight as a means to educate and inform all of us of what it means to listen more and love deeper right now and always.

Guilt is real and deep rooted. People carry around the weight of guilt in many ways and it can be overwhelming, but can be overcome. Relearning what love is means first chiseling away at any guilt and shame in order to forgive yourself and let go of the past. There is freedom waiting when these chains are broken.

You may be a friend to many, but are you truly letting others love you well? Or are you setting up walls and barriers to accepting goodness and love in return? Forming reciprocated trusting relationships can be difficult, but perfect love casts out all fear in this journey.

The journey we go on to overcome past trauma begins with us but doesn't end there. It is important to overcome in order to change the trajectory for your life, others' lives, and future generations. The work you are doing is a BIG DEAL. Celebrate as I close my last episode of season 1 and invite you to join me for season 2 beginning in a few short weeks!

Trauma triggers stimulate your brain and prompt recall of past trauma. Traumas that you experience leave imprints on your brain and when something happens in your life today that prompts you to be triggered, it is worth looking at, reflecting over, and learning how to lessen the hit or remove it altogether from occurring in your life.

Codependency can form early on in a person's life and it stems from dysfunctional relationships and patterns that form. Codependency can stem from a relationship with a parent, child, significant other, and more. Let's explore what this looks like and feels like and work towards setting healthy personal boundaries.

If you have endured trauma, there are certain survival skills you had to learn to help you mold or adapt to your circumstances. As we get older, we realize that these survival skills no longer serve us anymore and we must "unlearn" them to be successful adults. Let's uncover your survival skills and discuss a five-way system to untangling yourself from them.

Hey Friends! I am so glad this popped up on your feed! I am humbled to announce that my rebranded podcast can be listened to starting on April 6th on all podcasting platforms. Thank you @public_house_media for this opportunity and thank you, friends, for your love!Please help support by following these steps:1. Follow on IG: @invitedpodcast2. Click the link in my bio (on IG) to be added to my VIP Community3. Subscribe to "Invited" on your favorite podcast platform4. Tag someone below that you think would like this content too

Take your hands off of your life and sink into who you truly are. Today you will hear wise thoughts from one of my dearest friends who is discovering what it means to be content with who she is and the powerful message that will resonate with each of us.

"Join Liz Colburn this week as she tackles the topic of Perfectionism. Each one of us struggles to always "be perfect" but never takes enough time to step back and realize no one is perfect and that we need to stop trying so hard to achieve the impossible. "

"Confidence doesn't come in being the smartest, prettiest, most professional--it comes in overcoming things you didn't realize you could."Tune in for a rebroadcast of Liz Colburn's message from November 2017 where she dives into what having an unshakeable confidence and truly does for your life and your relationships.

We may be soul sisters if your mind has an embedded feature where plans are favored, but today I want to talk about embracing uncertainty. Life does get more beautiful when you let go of the control you think you need and let life happen as it comes.

It may only be one little step holding you back from feeling inspired again. Are you feeling un-inspired? We all hit patches like this. Listen in and hear about how little steps forward can spark joy and inspiration in your life.

Enough is enough with the perfect Instagram posts and the photoshopped reality. We should strive to be real over being the "best."Tune in as I share the burn out that comes from chasing perfection, and how being real is the only way to truly live.

Many people spend their lives occupying their time with activities, obligations, etc, that over time they slowly become addicted to needing to be busy. I have a message for busy people that I hope speaks to you in a way that transforms your perspective on this topic and causes you to slow down and be still.

No one teaches us how to have deep, meaningful conversations, so no wonder so many people hide when confronted, pull back when they are getting too close, or avoid opening up in their relationships all together. Listen in to hear how important difficult conversations are, how to approach them with confidence, and the power they can have to restore and lead your relationships to a deeper level.

We need to stop looking at others around us and thinking we need to do, work, be, act, look just like them. Women are so guilty of this. Enough is enough! We are all uniquely designed for a purpose and comparison is the thief of joy. Will you join me in putting your blinders on and stopping the comparison?

We are less than a week into the new year and many of us came in with high hopes of what the year would bring, how we would start again, and goals we had to make 2019 the best year yet.But what happens if our best laid plans are already crumbling? Despite feeling our clean slate is now destroyed, we can still choose to begin again.

A special Christmas greeting from host Liz Colburn.