While your human brain is well-intentioned, it is also totally confused about your purpose for being on earth. You are here for creation and growth and contribution, and your brain’s natural instincts are getting the way of all that. What your brain thinks is “safe” is really just sabotage. This episode has actionable steps you can take to expose your own brain’s avoidance tactics, and get the most out of your awesome life. https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/77
Oct 22, 2020•28 min
Most of us think that negative emotion is something to be avoided and that if we are living our lives in the “right way,” our uncomfortable experiences will be limited. But for those of us who strive to follow Christ, learning to feel our feelings, may be an important part of becoming more like him. In our quest to become holier and acquire divine attributes, his perfect example demonstrates the need to feel our emotions rather than avoid them. https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/76
Oct 15, 2020•31 min
For the first time on the podcast, I am answering listener questions. In this episode, I share how to think new thoughts, how to allow your children to have their feelings and opinions without needing to control them, how to look at your own thoughts without judgment, how to move on from betrayal, trauma, or divorce, and how to use thought work in everyday life to change the way you think and react in any situation. https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/75
Oct 08, 2020•37 min
If you have been seeking self-improvement for any length of time, you might have noticed that as much as you change and try to be better, your brain still has negative thoughts about you. Most of us want to know how to get this to stop. We’d like to reprogram our brains once and for all to think positive thoughts about us. But this is impossible. Your negative thoughts are just your brain is doing its job. The problem is not that the brain is giving us negative thoughts. The problem is that we a...
Oct 01, 2020•31 min•Ep. 74
It seems like we have an unusual amount of uncertainty in our lives right now. But really, we have never had any certainty. Uncertainty is the human condition. Anything can change at any moment. And the more we can accept uncertainty, the more acceptance we can feel. Instead of needing certainty in the world outside of us, we only need to tap into the certainty inside of us and believe in our capacity to handle anything that comes. https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/73
Sep 24, 2020•32 min
One of the default thoughts our brain gives us is that God is disappointed in us and the way we are living our life. But, not only is this thought untrue, it is also keeping us more disconnected from God. The truth is that God cannot be disappointed in us and we are always learning and growing in the exact ways we need to. When we really understand God’s infinite approval of us, even with our faults, our relationship with ourselves and with God will change. https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/7
Sep 17, 2020•32 min
We all have something that we really want to do in the world, but we’re too scared to do it. In this episode, I’m sharing some ideas to help you get into action and do the thing. Because whatever you do, the creation of it will bless the world, but the real value is what happens to you as you overcome your own brain and all its fears and insecurities. And doing the thing, despite your fears, is one of the best ways to get that. https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/71
Sep 10, 2020•34 min
You are sharing this planet with other humans and some of those other humans won’t always like you. They will think all kinds of thoughts about you, and they are allowed to. But, the good news is that while every person you interact with has thoughts about you, your life experience is 100% created by the thoughts that you think and not the thoughts they think. https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/70
Sep 03, 2020•29 min
As mothers, we often feel stretched and inadequate and the disruptions created by the pandemic have made things even harder. You are not failing. Your brain just thinks you are. The thoughts your brain offers about your shortcomings as a mother are not only painful, unproductive, and sabotaging the amazing work you are doing, but…they are also 100% optional. You can decide to think about yourself and your mothering in a completely different way. https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/69
Aug 27, 2020•36 min
Because earth life contains a surprising amount of negative emotion (50%!), one of the best skills we can obtain is to get good at feeling bad. In this episode, I share how to process and feel your feelings, so that you have more control over your emotional life, so you can start doing the things you’ve been too scared to try. Getting good at feeling bad is the key to getting the life you really want. https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/68
Aug 20, 2020•32 min
As humans and especially as Christians, we believe that we’re supposed to be happy—at least, most of the time. And when life is hard, this belief that we should be happy makes us think that something has gone wrong and that either God isn’t there or he doesn’t care about us. In reality, difficult circumstances are evidence both that God is there and that he loves you, because our circumstances provide the way to joy, which is the greatest gift God has for us. https://www.aprilpricecoaching.co
Aug 13, 2020•35 min
Our identity is solely created by the collection of thoughts we have about ourselves. We define ourselves by the things we already believe about ourselves. We are what we think we are. When we want to become another version of us, the only thing preventing that is the thoughts we currently believe about ourselves. The fastest way to become who you want to be is to decide to think different thoughts and to adopt them as quickly as possible. https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/66
Aug 06, 2020•30 min
We have each left our heavenly home for an extended period of time to come to earth and have a human experience, which gives us the chance to learn and grow and serve others. In this episode, I share the things that I think are most important for each of to remember as we go on “this mission” and face the challenges of mortality. They are thoughts that have made the biggest difference in my human experience. https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/65
Jul 30, 2020•34 min
It’s a good time to do a little mid-year evaluation and check in with yourself about the results you are creating in your life. Learn why it can be hard to stay on track with our goals, and how to overcome obstacles so we can consistently create more of the outcomes we want in our lives. Here are five ideas to help you get from where you are now to where you want to be. These tools will motivate and empower you to keep going after what you really want. https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/64
Jul 23, 2020•32 min
I have found that the best parts of my life are the parts that my brain was completely wrong about. And I find that the more wrong my brain is, and the more willing I am for my brain to be wrong, the better my life gets. Today I share lots of the things my brain was wrong about in the hopes that you can look at your own life and start to question the things your brain is telling you. https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/63
Jul 16, 2020•35 min
Every Friday, I send out a little video to everyone on my email list, in which I share something that I’ve learned or applied in my life that has helped me that week. Today I am sharing the audio recording from one of my recent videos so that you can see how to get even more help from me. You can sign up for these weekly emails and videos here: https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/your-weekly-shot-of-awesome
Jul 10, 2020•8 min
Danny Deaton knows how to change. He went from a strung-out addict to a man who loves his life, his family, and his work helping families heal addiction. He is living proof that you can change anything. Danny’s change will inspire you, help you give up the excuses in your way, and motivate you to stop letting temporary solutions prevent you from making the real changes you want in your life. For help facing addiction: https://www.yourlivingproof.com https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/62
Jul 09, 2020•46 min
The idea that it takes two people to create a great relationship keeps many of us from having the relationship we long for. Luckily, this just isn’t the case. Each one of us can have the exact relationship we want with anyone—and it’s completely up to us! Here is what I have learned about our personal power to create the relationships we’ve always wanted, and how taking 100% responsibility for the way I think changed my most important relationship. https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/61
Jul 02, 2020•33 min
We all have confirmation bias that is created because our brain is programmed to gather evidence that our beliefs are correct. But this built-in bias often keeps us from seeing another point of view without getting defensive. Learn how to surrender our defensiveness and use this emotion as a signal to examine our own thoughts, that might be “unkind and invisible,” and see it as opportunity to learn and grow and increase our ability to love. https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/60
Jun 25, 2020•33 min
We all want to change things in our life, but most of us get stuck in the space between our intentions and implementation. Closing this gap is the secret to changing any aspect of our lives. Here are five tools to help you move from just thinking about change to actually creating change in your life. None of these tools involve taking doing more, because it turns out that implementing change in our lives is completely dependent on what happens inside our minds.
Jun 18, 2020•32 min
Many people come to self-improvement from a place of self-rejection and disgust and set off to improve from a place of guilt and shame. This is a losing proposition. Not only are guilt and shame completely unnecessary to change and grow, in most cases they are the very things preventing real transformation. In this episode, I’ll show you how to give up guilt and shame so that you can change and become in all the ways you want to.
Jun 11, 2020•35 min
We don’t need any one to change in order to love them—because if we want to feel love, that is always our responsibility. And it requires us to choose to love, allow, and tolerate others, regardless of their choices. In this episode, I offer some thoughts to help us love people we disagree with, tolerate the intolerant, and allow for wrongness in the world without becoming wrong ourselves. https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/57
Jun 04, 2020•35 min
While our bodies go through periods of illness or injury, there is so much we can do to improve and take care of our physical health. The same is true for our mental and emotional health. Here are four keys that make a huge difference in managing our mental and emotional life experience. When you put all of these principles into place, they allow you to take control of your own mental and emotional health, alleviate unnecessary suffering, and love your life. https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/56
May 28, 2020•33 min
My clients know that the only difference between the life they have and the life they want is the thoughts they choose to think. And so they go to work every day to think powerful thoughts and that gives them incredible results. In this episode, I share some of the beliefs that have made the biggest difference for my most successful clients and, if you choose to believe the same things, it will make a huge difference for you too. https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/55
May 21, 2020•35 min
Thought is the mechanism of creation. Thoughts have the power to become things. It’s important to understand that we create all our results by the thoughts we choose to think. This awareness allows us to see our results differently and take responsibility for the things we have created—inadvertently or purposely— in our life. Learn how thoughts become things, how to choose your thoughts based on the results you want, and harness your power to create anything.
May 14, 2020•34 min
Of all the challenges our human brain presents us, loving ourselves might be the hardest. Our brain is convinced that we need to be better (in every way) before we can love ourselves. But this isn’t true. In this episode I’ll tell you exactly how to develop the beliefs and choose the thoughts that will allow you to love yourself for real. It all starts by recognizing that loving ourselves is a choice that happens in our mind. https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/53
May 07, 2020•36 min
Learning to take consistent action is how we create anything in our lives. This episode is about how to be consistent and show up for yourself, and I share four tools to help: act in the present, examine your thoughts, make a decision, and create a small container. These tools will allow you to create the life you want through powerful, consistent action. https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/52
Apr 30, 2020•31 min
Christ's message is one of love and hope. But, as Christians, we often use his message and his work against ourselves—to beat ourselves up, to despise ourselves for faults and weaknesses, to judge ourselves and others, and to inhibit our growth and learning. This new awareness will allow you to question the unhelpful interpretations your brain might offering you and give you a new way to think about yourself, your earth life experience, and your discipleship. https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/5...
Apr 23, 2020•33 min
Life offers each of us a chance to grow, develop, innovate, evolve, and create. But in order to do these things we have to be willing to step outside our comfort zone and confront the protests of our own brains. The lessons I have learned in creating 50 podcasts can help you as you go to do hard or new things in your own life—even things outside your current capacity—and allow you to go after all your goals and dreams in a big way. https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/50
Apr 16, 2020•32 min
My life has changed significantly over the last couple of years. But, fundamentally, the only difference between me today and me then is the thoughts that I think. In this episode, I want to share some of the lies I used to tell myself in the hopes that you will be able to recognize similar lies that your brain might be telling you. Our brains never stop selling us on negative thoughts about ourselves, but we get decide to whether or not we believe them. https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/49
Apr 09, 2020•31 min
