If you were brought up in a culture where people wanted you to be a certain way, perhaps your family and your teachers at school encouraged this, but what you wanted to do was often frowned upon or discouraged. You may have built your identity around a false sense of self. This is when the common trait of people-pleasing begins. In your early years, if your confidence was not high,…
View PostListen above or tune in on Apple Podcasts or Podbean EPISODE 106 – PODCAST TRANSCRIPT Hi there, welcome back to Kelly Martin Speaks. I’m your host Kelly Martin and this is episode 106. Today I’m going to talk about judgements and how they can hold us back in life. Judgement, I think we have all been guilty of this, in fact being human makes it impossible not to pass judgements.…
View PostFor the longest time, in certain areas in my life, I have allowed my creativity to be destroyed by fear. What I mean by destroyed is that I have some past conditioning that is a bit tough-going to move through and because of this I have allowed my inner comparison junkie to have full reign over my creativity. Those areas where I wasn’t criticised or shamed in childhood stood the…
View PostListen above or tune in on Apple Podcasts or Podbean EPISODE 105 – PODCAST TRANSCRIPT Hi there, welcome back to Kelly Martin Speaks. I’m your host Kelly Martin and this is episode 105. Today I am answering a request from a follower of my Facebook page on a topic they are struggling with. So I am going to talk about suicidal thoughts and how this pandemic, lockdown measures, social distancing…
View PostIn existence, there is nobody who is superior and nobody who is inferior. The blade of grass and the great star are absolutely equal…. But man wants to be higher than others, he wants to conquer nature, hence he has to fight continuously. All complexity arises out of this fight. The innocent person is one who has renounced fighting; who is no longer interested in being higher, who is no…
View PostEPISODE 104 – PODCAST TRANSCRIPT Listen above or tune in on Apple Podcasts or Podbean Hi there, welcome back to Kelly Martin Speaks. I’m your host Kelly Martin and this is episode 104. Today I am going to talk about both owning your power and why bowing down to the demands of demanding people is not a good direction to go in. It’s interesting that this topic cropped up for…
View PostIt takes courage to acknowledge when something we want to get rid of is the very thing that has been protecting us from perceived harm. Sometimes we have physical challenges in life. These challenges could be knee issues, back pain, chronic fatigue syndrome, the list goes on and on. It takes a brave person to finally accept ‘Hey, I think a part of me wants to be in pain, because…
View PostListen above or tune in on Apple Podcasts or Podbean EPISODE 103 – PODCAST TRANSCRIPT Hi there, welcome back to Kelly Martin Speaks. I’m your host Kelly Martin and this is episode 103. Today I am going to talk about how easy it is to externalise problems out there in favour of dealing with our own issues in life. This past week I have been indulging in watching lectures and…
View Post“Almost any emotion/behavior can be used as a mask. Maybe you mask insecurity by disliking others or mask sadness by being the life of the party or mask fear by being perfectionistic. Putting on a mask is a way of disappearing–being invisible. Masks provide some emotional protection in the short run. But the costs of wearing masks are high. When you wear a mask, you don’t really feel the warmth…
View PostListen above or tune in on Apple Podcasts or Podbean EPISODE 102 – PODCAST TRANSCRIPT Hi there, welcome back to Kelly Martin Speaks. I’m your host Kelly Martin and this is episode 102. Firstly, my apologies for not doing an episode last week, unfortunately my computer died, I spent a lot of time attending to it and then in the end I had to get a new computer. This weeks,…
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