Welcome to Chats with Susan Burrell.
And that's me.
I help strong,
Capable women who have pockets of self-doubt access their inner wisdom and clarify their own truth.
Chats with Susan Burrell is where we have rich conversations about empowerment,
Radiating your brilliance out into the world,
And loving yourself more than you would ever have before.
And who doesn't want that?
So let's get started.
Hi.
As promised,
I'm going to give you a part two to Live an Empowered Life because I have a book coming,
Yay,
Called Live an Empowered Life,
A 30-Day Journey.
And I built this book to go over 30 days.
There's a lot of deep inner work,
If you allow yourself to do it.
And then there's some gentle,
Loving,
Kind work to do during that 30-day journey.
And if it's done daily and consistently for those 30 days,
You're going to come out feeling so much better about yourself,
Feeling empowered and feeling like you can live a life of freedom and brilliance and opulence.
So I just want to read something,
A quote from the book.
Your empowerment is not based on external relationships,
But on your inner connection to yourself.
Empowerment is about becoming stronger and more confident from the inside out.
This is the journey you are currently on,
To begin to connect with your inner authority and allow your natural courage,
Confidence,
And creativity to take the leading role in your life.
So Live an Empowered Life is full of affirmations that I wrote and worked myself as I was going through a heartbreaking,
Heart-wrenching,
Contentious divorce after leaving my marriage of 28 years.
And there's other things in the book,
Like quotes by people that I have admired,
And I've read many of their books,
And that had supported me while I was going through my own journey to empowerment.
And as I was going through all of this falling apart,
Coming apart,
Breaking apart,
And the trauma and the emotional release,
I guess,
You know,
Crying,
Screaming,
Beating a pillow,
Wanting to beat somebody else but couldn't,
You know,
I realized that in order for me to come out whole or come out healthy,
Mentally and emotionally and physically,
I really had to develop my empowerment.
Let me read you a quote from my book right now.
This is from Wayne Dyer.
He was an amazing influence in the transformational self-help world.
I'm sure you've heard of him.
If not,
You need to investigate him.
And I have that at the back of my book too,
Of how you can find out all Wayne Dyer's done.
So here's what he says about empowerment,
I think.
Perhaps the greatest mistake we make,
Which causes a loss of self-respect,
Is making the opinions of others more important than our own opinions of ourselves.
Self-respect means just that.
It originates from the self.
The self originated in a universal field of intention that intended you here,
From the infinite formless state to a being of molecules and physical substance.
If you fail to respect yourself,
You're showing contempt for the process of creation.
Now,
Isn't that interesting?
Because I found in my journey to empowerment that I did not respect myself.
I didn't love myself.
I may have mentioned that earlier.
And I was astounded to the degree that my esteem had sunk.
And so my journey to empowerment was to find those pieces of myself that I did like,
That I could love,
That I could respect,
And begin to put myself back together,
With parts of myself that I like,
Parts of myself that I didn't like,
Like controlling a situation.
How futile is that,
Controlling any situation?
We can't control anything.
But I tried it.
I tried to control my marriage of 28 years to make it a happy marriage,
To make it a long-lasting marriage,
To make it whatever I thought it was supposed to be,
Except over.
So this journey to empowerment,
To an empowered life,
Takes dedicated practice and attention.
And I found that what part of my journey became was recognizing my inner,
Not only my inner worth,
But that my soul,
The truth of my being,
That light within me had always been there.
And so it was about a journey to my worth,
Right?
My soul's worth.
So I have a little something here in my book,
Live an Empowered Life,
A 30-day journey,
That I speak to.
And it's under the heading of Journey to Your Soul's Worth.
How deep do you want to go?
Now is the time to uncover your true value,
The richness you have always been,
Yet somehow kept avoiding or covering up.
Our soul's worth is so amazing that we often feel the light within us is too bright,
And it will blind others or scare them.
So we hide in a pool of self-debasing and devaluing.
What are you really worth?
Your soul will reveal that to you when you simply listen to your heart.
And that was my experience,
Actually,
In my previous marriage,
Was the more I valued myself,
The brighter I shined,
The more my ex-husband became uncomfortable with it.
He didn't want me to be bigger,
Better,
Brighter than he was.
And I would imagine that's true for many people in relationship,
Whether it's a love relationship,
Marriage,
Or at work.
There's just some people that get intimidated by an individual who does value themselves from the inside out,
Who loves themselves from the inside out.
And our culture hasn't really allowed us to be that and do that.
It's all about gathering things and people to us so we look good and think we feel good.
But what if you really,
Really felt good from the inside out?
What would happen to your life then?
As I found,
You know,
My life broke apart the more I realized that I was a light in the world.
Now,
That's true for every human being on the planet.
Everything,
Actually,
Is filled with the light of some amazing,
Indescribable vitality and energy,
Source energy,
That connects us all to each other.
So it's just a matter of how bright do you want to shine,
And then how brightly do you want others to shine?
It's a good question,
Huh?
Something to think about today?
So I have one more quote from my book,
Live an Empowered Life,
A 30-Day Journey.
This comes from Ernest Holmes,
My favorite mentor.
He says,
You rob no one when you discover your own good.
You limit no person when you express a greater degree of livingness.
You harm no one by being happy.
Do you guys hear that?
You harm no one by being happy.
You steal from no one by being prosperous.
You hinder no person's evolution when you consciously enter into the kingdom of your good and possess it today.
Your endeavor is not to locate the divine presence or awaken the activity of the law.
It is rather to become aware of this presence and of its activity flowing through you.
So the activity he's talking about,
Or the divine presence he's talking about,
I have this conversation with lots of people on my podcast.
It's actually the law of circulation.
And when we hinder our opulence,
Our affluence,
Our brilliance,
Our love,
We keep ourselves small.
And the law of circulation is about giving and receiving.
It also can be called the law of karma.
As you do unto others,
It will be done unto you,
Or whatever all those phrases are.
What goes around comes around.
So by being your best yet to be,
Your best ever,
You are harming no one.
You are not preventing anybody from having their good.
You are just becoming more of the truth of who you are,
Which is this divine presence,
This divine light,
This amazing human being that was meant to be on the planet at this time.
For whatever purpose you truly know you are here to do.
And that's some of the excavation that you get to do when you do the 30-day journey,
When you commit to my 30-day journey book.
You get to reestablish your inner awareness of what your true purpose is.
And if you've been wandering around going,
I don't know who I am,
I don't know what I'm doing,
This is a book that will help you figure that out.
If you're of a certain age and you're at that crossroads of,
Oh my God,
The kids have all left,
Who am I now?
Or I'm divorced,
Or I've lost somebody I love,
What do I do now?
This 30-day journey book is also for you because there is a section of developing your purpose from who you are now.
And what you want to see your life become.
And then also to encourage you to live that life.
So,
Live an Empowered Life,
A 30-day journey by Susan Burrell,
That's me,
Is coming soon.
I'm just going to end with,
And so it is,
Namaste.
