35 - Roxanne Willems, Artist - Rising from the Embers

Canadian Visual Artist Roxanne Willems was raised in a fundamentalist religious community that taught her her value in life was limited to serving her husband and children.She joins us today for a brave conversation about how with 4 young children, she found the courage to leave her family and community, how they ostracized her for it. She tells us about how she ended up falling into a violent second marriage on the heels of that and how she ultimately set herself free from the limiting beliefs that had been the only thing keeping her prisoner all along. Whether we believe we have enough or not, truly comes down to what we think - our thoughts are so powerful. Our mindset can be the difference between happiness and misery, joy or suffering. And so much of our mindset is inherited from the world around us which, unfortunately, is brimming with toxic limiting beliefs when it comes to things like what is possible for our lives, forgiveness, self worth, creativity,  happiness, abundance, love & joy in favor of damaging, paralyzing beliefs that center around fear, power, and survival. It is possible though to break through the shell of our limiting beliefs to create something that is based on trust, fulfillment, generosity, joy, intuition and creativity.  Roxanne worked hard to rewire her brain after years of being taught her life was only for serving others. Shares the thing she had to let go of that not only saved her life but led her to create a thriving career as an artist and a life that is filled with genuine abundance and happiness.  WHAT WE TALK ABOUT-Developing a deep trust with the universe-Everything in the universe is in a constant state of being primed for healing-How she rewired her brain, neutralizing limiting beliefs that were the root cause of her minimizing herself-Recognizing, examining and neutralizing harmful limiting beliefs (and how she did that)-Real talk about the inevitable pitfalls along any transformative journey (and how to deal with them) -Learning to live from a place of grounded trust as opposed to fear, flight, flight and freeze-What she had to let go of to truly step into a place of joyful curiosity that not only saved her life but led her into a life with a thriving career as a full time artist. visit the show notes page on KateShepherd Creative.com for moreRESOURCESRecovering from fundamentalist religionsDomestic Violence Resources CanadaViolence against womenMennoniteMelody Beattie Codependent no moreResources for Co-dependencyReiki