The Transformative Power of Reflection with Sasha Glasgow

This week, my guest is the amazing Sasha Glasgow, who describes herself as a ‘professional experimenter and woman figuring it out’. Her workshops are backed by twenty years of journaling, which makes her the perfect person to dive into what it really means to self-reflect in an impactful way.

We chat through the process of connecting through journaling, using it as a space to really hear all versions of yourself, including the self you want to become. Then how to take all the challenging, questioning, and growing you’ve done on the page into real life.

Tune in for some great insights on not asking for permission to do what you want in your life, forging your own path, and meeting yourself with compassion.

About Sasha

Sasha classes herself as a writer, doubter and doer. Even though she's been writing in some form from the age of eight, she only started calling herself a writer in 2020 - a rebellious act against her self-doubting nature. She's an avid journaler and lover of words, who wants to use them to challenge the negative narratives that women can have about themselves. She does this through what she calls #RemindHers. Little notes of thought dotted around the internet to remind women (including herself) of what has always been there: the core things within us that light us up and guide us towards the lives we want to live. The things that can be shrouded by responsibility, should’s, engrained narratives and self-doubt.

Through her email letters, journaling workshops, podcast and Instagram #RemindHers, she documents her journey as it unfolds, unlearning self-doubt, tuning back into self-trust, and living this new creative multi-hyphenate life she has finally given herself permission to pursue. Her hope in doing so publicly is that each step proves to be a small, powerful #RemindHer to those who come across her words, in their own lives.

You can find Sasha at

Website: www.frankandfeel.com
Instagram: www.instagram.com/frankandfeel
Podcast: https://anchor.fm/frankandfeel

QUOTES

SASHA

“I call my journal a written board meeting of all the versions of myself. So everybody gets a chance to speak. And some people like to hog the mic, and we tell them to pipe down so other versions of me can have their theatre.”

“I've started to challenge and bite it back. I don't just write what I'm feeling; I challenge myself and I'm like, well why?”

“At one point I thought, is all this compassion stuff just you letting yourself off the hook? And then I thought firstly, why is there a hook? And secondly, the world is really harsh and actually I personally don't think there can ever be enough compassion in the world that we live in. And in learning how to meet myself compassionately, it also allows and make space for me then to call myself out.”

“On the first page of any of my journals, whether it's a creative journal or a life journal, I only do a scribble on the first page. And that is a sign to myself that some shit is gonna go down here. It's not gonna be perfect. So can we just get it out on the first page.”

RAY

“Money is a confusing thing. It's an object, and it's like this energetic, nebulous thing all at once. But if we just see it as finite and done, it's not gonna work out well for any of us.”

REFERENCES

Katrina Young, www.katrinayoungconsulting.com/

Glennon Doyle [We Can Do Hard Things (Podcast), Untamed: Stop Pleasing, Start Living (Book)]