Soul Cravings: The Path to Joy and Fulfillment

Pay attention to your soul cravings and align with your core values, strengths, and passions for deep fulfillment. In the podcast episode, Tonya Leigh emphasizes the importance of listening to your soul's cravings, which originate from the deepest part of you and are in harmony with your core values, strengths, and passions. These cravings differ from societal cravings influenced by external expectations and norms. By paying attention to your soul cravings, you can experience a profound sense of purpose, joy, and alignment in your life.

Tonya shares her personal journey of discovering her soul cravings, such as a desire to learn about the world, feel at home in different cultures, and explore various cuisines. By following these cravings, she was able to align with her true self and move towards her North Star. She highlights the contrast between societal cravings, which may offer temporary approval or success but lack deep fulfillment, and soul cravings, which lead to a sense of purpose and joy.

She encourages listeners to pay attention to their own cravings and explore what their soul truly longs for in life.

Talking Points:

00:39 - Tanya's New York City Experience
01:55 - Identifying Your Cravings
02:36 - Personal Development Journey
03:08 - Essential Self vs. Social Self
04:12 - Excavating Your True Self
05:06 - Following Soul Cravings
06:08 - Discovering Worldly Cravings
07:00 - Societal vs. Soul Cravings
10:03 - Discomfort in Following Cravings
12:12 - Recognizing Soul Cravings
13:05 - Creating Space for Soul Cravings
14:10 - Developing Self-Trust
15:37 - Paying Attention to Intuition and Body
21:02 - Practical Exercise: Mood Boards
24:04 - Energy from Soul Cravings

Quotes:

"By listening to my soul's cravings, not my societal cravings, but my soul's cravings, has led me towards my North Star."

"I believe in honoring your soul cravings."

"You will know a soul craving because it will bring you joy. Even if it's hard, it'll bring you so much joy and satisfaction."

"You have to be the one that puts up a red velvet rope around your mind, around your soul, so that you can hear you again, so that you can listen and pay attention to what you're being nudged towards and what you're being nudged away from."

"That's not it. I just moved away from my sweet spot."