Episode 3: Are you a Rebel Archetype?

In this episode meet your inner Rebel, discover what messages she has for you, how and why she’s showing up in your life and sabotaging your success with weight loss and achieving your goals. It’s through this awareness, that you can befriend this part of you and have the aspect of your inner Rebel bring you higher instead of cause you to rebel against yourself and sabotage your results.  Want to learn how? Tune in now!

In this episode of the Wholeness podcast, Melissa Kathryn guides you through the characteristics of the Rebel archetype and specific practices for embracing your inner Rebel, and her self-sabotaging tendencies as protection mechanisms meant to help you not hurt you. Melissa provides listeners with her insights about this and the other archetypes, reframing them to be assets rather than liabilities.

 If you identify as a Rebel archetype, you may find that you live in extremes, swinging from working hard to playing hard with little balance, causing you to feel exhausted and rebel against all your hard earned success.  After you sabotage your success whether in overeating or overspending for example, shame and guilt then cause a downward spiral followed by an even harsher regiment of a restricted life, which builds seeds of rebellion and start they cycle all over again. 

 Rebels often feel like they are not worthy and they struggle with follow-through and commitment, often because the thing they have “committed” to is not really what they want to be doing. As a Rebel, your core desire is harmony and peace - deep love with yourself and then others.

The roots of this archetype began during your childhood if one of your parents or authority figures set specific standards or expectations and left little room for personal growth or self-expression. Even as an adult, you feel torn between what you’ve been conditioned to do and what you want to do, seeing one option as devoid of pleasure and the other as gluttonous. This self-sabotage can take the form of the fear of failure or of unfulfilled approval.

Melissa Kathryn offers several recommendations and exercises to support you through shifting from a Rebel who sabotages yourself to using this archetype to your advantage and view the rebellion as beautiful insight and specific guidance toward your path to your highest self and most joy in this life. 

Additionally, she provides two exercises for Rebels to walk through on their own or with their coach:

Exercise 1: Write down 3 aspects of your life where you feel unbalanced or unfulfilled.  Ask yourself these questions: 

What is it that I really want to happen?

What would make me happy? 

Why have I not taken any action yet? 

What am I afraid will happen if I take action?

Exercise 2: Write down the areas of your life where you are living in extremes. 

Ask yourself: How does this make me feel? What am I getting from this? Am I ready to let that go?

Remember that you are in the driver’s seat. Trust your inner guidance. Recognize the rules you are placing on yourself and ask if they are rules you want to have. Reduce your goals by 30% to decrease burnout. Think about who you are and why you rebel. Compete with yourself when it comes to balance and follow-through. Accept yourself and embrace the gift of your uniqueness.

The next episode of the podcast will outline the Nurturer archetype and Melissa Kathryn will offer her insights to those of you who identify as Nurturers.

What You’ll Learn: 

•       Looking within to recognize the ways you self-sabotage
•       Starting your journey to wholeness with your relationship with your body
•       Tendencies and characteristics of the Rebel archetype
•       Where in childhood the Rebel’s core beliefs and desires could be rooted
•       Self-sabotage reactions are really just protection mechanisms meant to keep you safe
•       Two specific exercises for Rebels to go through

 5-Day Challenge

https://melissa-kathryn.lpages.co/5-day-food-freedom/

“Eat Right for Your Archetype” by Melissa Kathryn: https://www.amazon.com/Eat-Right-Your-Archetype-Effortlessly-ebook/dp/B0196VK45Y

Eat Right for your Archetype Quiz: http://melissakathryn.com/quiz/

 “Weight Loss for Life” program: http://melissakathryn.com/weightlossforlife/

Jim Fortin’s podcast: https://www.jimfortin.com/podcast/

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