In this episode, I wanted to share some thoughts on the stories we tell ourselves, The story that we tell ourselves is the one that lives. Whether it is a story you want or don’t want, the only way we can change the story is to have awareness to interrupt the pattern and decide to create and feed a new story. I share some tips, tools and strategies in this episode as well as in the show notes below you can join the FREE OUTSPOKEN Open House.

In this episode, we discuss:

1) Our thoughts are creating our life and the more we tell our story the more we keep it alive. The lens through which we see our story is what lives, this is the version of your story vs in your story, the stories that we tell ourselves also keep the emotions alive, and the emotions feed the thoughts, which build the beliefs that we have about ourselves, and what we feel is possible for us.

2) The emotions that we hold and store cannot be consciously shifted or changed. These emotions may be something a person is aware of, or they could be subconscious, meaning they are outside a person’s awareness. If they are subconscious or difficult to manage, they may continue affecting the body.

OUTSPOKEN
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Marsha Vanwynsberghe — NLP Storytelling Trainer, Author, Speaker, and Podcaster

Marsha is the 6-time Bestselling Author of “When She Stopped Asking Why”. She shares her lessons as a parent who dealt with teen substance abuse that tore her family unit apart. Marsha has published 7xs, most recently with her co-platform, Every Body Holds A Story, and she is on a mission to continue to help women and men to speak, share, and publish their stories.

Through her tools, OUTSPOKEN NLP certification, programs, coaching, and podcast, Marsha teaches the power of Radical Responsibility and Owning Your Choices in your own life. She empowers people to heal and own their stories, be conscious leaders, and build platform businesses that create massive impact.

In this episode, I wanted to share some thoughts on one of the biggest illusions we keep searching for, myself included. We all try to avoid uncertainty, even if it means being wrong. We take comfort in certainty and demand it from others, even when we know it’s impossible.

In this episode, we discuss:

1) When we crave certainty we are searching outside of ourselves for the results we desire when instead we create our certainty within ourselves by building our courage muscle to start and to build resilience within ourselves. Also, it is up to us to grow into the version of ourselves that can hold the next level of expansion for ourselves. I often say that if someone had shown me what I would be doing today, I would have self-sabotaged myself because I did not yet feel worthy of the work I had to do

2) There is no certainty, only courage to start, you create your certainty with yourself because you teach yourself to feel safe in the expansion and the contraction

Courage is always required because uncertainty is consistent

We find our courage, certainty, order, and strength in the chaos

OUTSPOKEN
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Marsha Vanwynsberghe — NLP Storytelling Trainer, Author, Speaker, and Podcaster

Marsha is the 6-time Bestselling Author of “When She Stopped Asking Why”. She shares her lessons as a parent who dealt with teen substance abuse that tore her family unit apart. Marsha has published 7xs, most recently with her co-platform, Every Body Holds A Story, and she is on a mission to continue to help women and men to speak, share, and publish their stories.

Through her tools, OUTSPOKEN NLP certification, programs, coaching, and podcast, Marsha teaches the power of Radical Responsibility and Owning Your Choices in your own life. She empowers people to heal and own their stories, be conscious leaders, and build platform businesses that create massive impact.

In this episode, we speak with Kim Mortson, from Body Design by Kim. Kim is passionate about inspiring and helping others to lead a healthier lifestyle. Kim is a certified Personal Trainer, Nutrition and Wellness Specialist and Older Adult Fitness Pro-Trainer who has combined her qualifications, industry recognition and personal enthusiasm to build an award-winning business since 2002.

Kim is a former Community Ambassador for Lululemon and served as the Co-Chair of the Mt. Albert Sports Day 5km Run/Walk from 2014 – 2021.

Kim was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in January of 2018 however she started experiencing symptoms three years before her diagnosis. Kim’s Parkinson’s disease progressed slowly till the spring of 2023. By December of that same year, she found herself relying on a walker and/or wheelchair for mobility. Kim had DBS surgery in January 2024. Kim's remarkable story of hope and strength in the power of gratitude, presence, perseverance, and community is truly inspirational.

Kim is married to Pete and she’s the proud Nana to four grandchildren.

In this episode, we discuss:

1) Kim’s journey to her Parkinson’s diagnosis and the transition and experience of her last 12 months as she went through DBS (deep brain surgery) in January 2024 and how different her life is compared to 12 months ago.

2) Her surgery has given her quality of life again, it has not stopped or fixed her Parkinson’s diagnosis. This is the work that Kim is committed to doing every single day, emotional, physical, and spiritual work to support herself on this journey to live the best quality of life possible.


Connect with Kim
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bodydesignbykim/
Website: www.bodydesign.ca
Email: kmortson@bodydesign.ca

Marsha Vanwynsberghe — Storytelling NLP Trainer, Speaker, Publisher & Author, 2xs Podcaster

Marsha is the 6-time Bestselling Author of “When She Stopped Asking Why”. She shares her lessons as a parent who dealt with teen substance abuse that tore her family unit apart. Marsha has been published 7xs, most recently with her co-platform, Every Body Holds A Story, and she is on a mission to continue to help women and men to speak, share, and publish their stories.

Through her tools, OUTSPOKEN NLP certification, programs, coaching, and podcast, Marsha teaches the power of Radical Responsibility and Owning Your Choices in your own life. She empowers people how to heal and own their stories, be conscious leaders, and build platform businesses that create massive impact.

In this episode, I wanted to share some thoughts on who your biggest critic is and how you can learn to shift this perspective. “Your harshest critic is always going to be yourself. Don’t ignore that critic, but don’t give it more attention than what it deserves.” ~ Michael Ian Black.

Self-criticism is normal and even healthy in small doses. The dose or amount of self-criticism you use on yourself is what makes it a poison. When you always approach your work with negativity, it's paralyzing.

In this episode, we discuss:

1) How do you handle the criticism? Remember this you will never be criticized by someone who is doing more than you, check the source, see the mirror, and ask yourself subconsciously if those words have a trigger for you, and how you can reframe that differently.

2) Picture that you are working on building your beliefs in yourself, yet every time you criticize yourself, you are breaking down the strides or effort in building your beliefs and you are giving your inner critic more power.

OUTSPOKEN
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Marsha Vanwynsberghe — NLP Storytelling Trainer, Author, Speaker, and Podcaster

Marsha is the 6-time Bestselling Author of “When She Stopped Asking Why”. She shares her lessons as a parent who dealt with teen substance abuse that tore her family unit apart. Marsha has published 7xs, most recently with her co-platform, Every Body Holds A Story, and she is on a mission to continue to help women and men to speak, share, and publish their stories.

Through her tools, OUTSPOKEN NLP certification, programs, coaching, and podcast, Marsha teaches the power of Radical Responsibility and Owning Your Choices in your own life. She empowers people to heal and own their stories, be conscious leaders, and build platform businesses that create massive impact.

In this episode, I wanted to share some thoughts on what it means to be OUTSPOKEN, and why everyone can embrace this energy with some intentional work and subconscious reprogramming.

In this episode, we discuss:

1) Start with getting quiet and asking yourself when did you decide that you couldn’t share your voice, your message, or allow yourself to be seen and heard. If you say you don’t know, I will say, “I know you don’t know, if you did know, when did you decide that?”

2) Framing up the story as to these three questions, who I was, what happened, as a result now I do _____, or I am _____. This is an important shift that helps you to see your story differently. Shifting from IN the story to ON the story.

OUTSPOKEN
https://www.marshavanw.com/outspoken2023

Marsha Vanwynsberghe — NLP Storytelling Trainer, Author, Speaker, and Podcaster

Marsha is the 6-time Bestselling Author of “When She Stopped Asking Why”. She shares her lessons as a parent who dealt with teen substance abuse that tore her family unit apart. Marsha has published 7xs, most recently with her co-platform, Every Body Holds A Story, and she is on a mission to continue to help women and men to speak, share, and publish their stories.

Through her tools, OUTSPOKEN NLP certification, programs, coaching, and podcast, Marsha teaches the power of Radical Responsibility and Owning Your Choices in your own life. She empowers people to heal and own their stories, be conscious leaders, and build platform businesses that create massive impact.

In this episode, I wanted to share how a word that maybe you have associated yourself with, or one that has carried a lot of meaning to you, actually can have a shift in perspective. I believe this episode will resonate with you and somewhere in there is a word that you have let define you and you are giving it far too much power.

In this episode, we discuss:

1) What is the one word that you have identified yourself by (from your words or someone else’s) and it is almost a trigger for you? How can you shift or reframe the meaning of that word to mean something entirely differently and how can you embrace that part of yourself?

2) I am sharing a personal story of how I shifted the meaning of the word strong/strength and how I leaned into using my OUTSPOKEN voice to ask for what I needed and allow myself to receive it in return.

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Marsha Vanwynsberghe — NLP Storytelling Trainer, Author, Speaker, and Podcaster

Marsha is the 6-time Bestselling Author of “When She Stopped Asking Why”. She shares her lessons as a parent who dealt with teen substance abuse that tore her family unit apart. Marsha has published 7xs, most recently with her co-platform, Every Body Holds A Story, and she is on a mission to continue to help women and men to speak, share, and publish their stories.

Through her tools, OUTSPOKEN NLP certification, programs, coaching, and podcast, Marsha teaches the power of Radical Responsibility and Owning Your Choices in your own life. She empowers people to heal and own their stories, be conscious leaders, and build platform businesses that create massive impact.

In this episode, I wanted to share some thoughts on the invisible progress that we don’t take the time to see in ourselves. If you want to get good at the game, whatever the game is, you have to do enough reps and one of the reasons that we don’t do enough reps is invisible progress, we don’t see that invisible progress, if you are beating something down over and over and over it continues to break down like a belief that’s not serving you.

In this episode, we discuss:

1) In the early stage we are making progress, but it’s not visible to us, so we are not acknowledging it Because we can’t see the progress. Most people quit before they get natural at doing something. Most of us want to see progress to believe that it’s happening But for most things in life, a lot of the progress is happening visibly

2) Invisible progress is still progress, and you can train your brain to see the progress and learn how to stack those wins.

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Marsha Vanwynsberghe — NLP Storytelling Trainer, Author, Speaker, and Podcaster

Marsha is the 6-time Bestselling Author of “When She Stopped Asking Why”. She shares her lessons as a parent who dealt with teen substance abuse that tore her family unit apart. Marsha has published 7xs, most recently with her co-platform, Every Body Holds A Story, and she is on a mission to continue to help women and men to speak, share, and publish their stories.

Through her tools, OUTSPOKEN NLP certification, programs, coaching, and podcast, Marsha teaches the power of Radical Responsibility and Owning Your Choices in your own life. She empowers people to heal and own their stories, be conscious leaders, and build platform businesses that create massive impact.

In this episode, I wanted to share some thoughts on fear and failure and how we can get stuck in replaying a movie that doesn’t serve us.

In this episode, we discuss:

1) If you are stuck on a repeat of replaying the movie of your past, replaying your “failures”, your mistakes, the things you wished you could have done differently, you are not creating any room for your future vision and what you want to create.

2) Instead focus on what you are creating, what you are calling in, what do you see, what do you hear and what do you feel. That is the movie you want to play on repeat in your head when you are visualizing. You are creating a movie of possibilities.

OUTSPOKEN
https://www.marshavanw.com/outspoken2023

Marsha Vanwynsberghe — NLP Storytelling Trainer, Author, Speaker, and Podcaster

Marsha is the 6-time Bestselling Author of “When She Stopped Asking Why”. She shares her lessons as a parent who dealt with teen substance abuse that tore her family unit apart. Marsha has published 7xs, most recently with her co-platform, Every Body Holds A Story, and she is on a mission to continue to help women and men to speak, share, and publish their stories.

Through her tools, OUTSPOKEN NLP certification, programs, coaching, and podcast, Marsha teaches the power of Radical Responsibility and Owning Your Choices in your own life. She empowers people to heal and own their stories, be conscious leaders, and build platform businesses that create massive impact.