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Maybe I’m What Needs Fixing: A Self-Reflection Journey
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In this episode of Wandering the Wild Mess, I open up about the hard truths of self-awareness and taking responsibility for my own growth, and the things I need to “fix.” I share my journey through divorce, the mistakes I made trying to "fix" someone else, and the powerful lessons I’ve learned about focusing on what I need to change within myself.
If you’ve ever felt stuck or like things are against you in a relationship (or lack thereof), job, or life situation, wondering why things aren’t working, I challenge you to flip the script. Why are you feeling upset, negative, or discouraged and how is that helping you? Through honest stories and relatable examples, I’ll show you how taking ownership of your emotions and your mindset can change everything.
This is your reminder to look at why you’re blaming others or outside circumstances, and instead seek to find if there is something inside you that’s longing to be seen. I know it takes courage to look in the mirror and address the root of your feelings, but doing so will allow us to take steps toward the life you deserve. And let’s be real, YOU deserve it!
Alexa play “Fix You Too” by Megan Moroney
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Transcript
Introduction to Life's Challenges
00:00:01
Heather Morgan
What if all the messes you're trying to fix and all the things you see as life or someone else doing you wrong are just showing you what needs fixing in you? know I know. Let's get into it. Welcome to Wandering the Wild Mess with Heather Morgan. I am so happy you're here. I know, I know this is hard to hear. No one wants to be like, oh, yeah, of course, it's all my fault. Of course, my fault that all these things are happening, and that I hurt like this, and that someone hurt me.
00:00:45
Heather Morgan
Wait, how was that my fault? I hear you.
Personal Growth Journey
00:00:48
Heather Morgan
But I want to talk about something from my perspective, in all of this mess, and what I've learned since leaving someone and truly hurting them and hurting me. But doing so in my mind, with the justification that there was things that they did wrong to me.
00:01:11
Heather Morgan
But at the end of the day, the more clearly I see my journey, the more I understand that there was things in me that I needed to fix. Wow.
00:01:24
Heather Morgan
And that's what I would love to share with you today. And maybe help you in those moments where it feels like the world is against you, things are falling apart, whether it's a relationship, a job, friendships. And you're like, why is all this happening to me? Why are these people doing me wrong? And sometimes we have to flip the script a little and go,
00:01:49
Heather Morgan
What do I need to work on myself to have these things not continue to cur occur? And that's always hard.
Importance of Self-Reflection
00:01:56
Heather Morgan
So let's get into it with you a little before you get so angry at me.
00:02:02
Heather Morgan
So through my journey, those of you that have been listening along, and all you great people, you know how hard it was for me to really hurt someone that really mattered to me so much, my ex-husband. And going through that process, I remember this song, Megan Maroney, Fix You Too. I listened to it far too many times.
00:02:26
Heather Morgan
And the song starts by just listing all these things like the roof is leaking, this is happening, this is happening. And I don't want to have to fix you too.
00:02:38
Heather Morgan
And then it says, you're a fixer upper if there ever was one, and I need some work myself to tell you the truth. I don't want to have half to fix you too. So for a long time, I really at the beginning held on to that song thinking, yeah, I can't fix him. I don't i don't want to fix him too. And I started learning through my divorce, how much I needed to fix myself.
00:03:05
Heather Morgan
But then take it to the next level. I really learned it's not that I didn't want to fix him. That's all I ever wanted to do. All I ever wanted to do was fix him to make him not to do all the things that I thought would make him happier or a better person and feel better so much. Not that he was a bad person, but maybe if you change these things, he would feel better.
00:03:32
Heather Morgan
But one, that's not my responsibility to fix anyone. And two, there's no possible way to fix someone else. And I'm not to here to say he was broken, but what I realized and what I came to the conclusion is that I needed to fix me, but I didn't want to admit it to myself.
00:03:56
Heather Morgan
I didn't want to do that self reflection. So I was distracting by focusing on the things about my husband that I thought needed to be fixed.
00:04:09
Heather Morgan
Wow. It's crazy to say it out loud because it's so easy to put the blame on someone else instead of looking within.
00:04:21
Heather Morgan
And it's like, well, they did this. And if they were to stop doing this, everything would be great. But the truth is, but everything can be great when you make up your mind for it to be. And I know that sounds a little way off, but hear me out. It's just like the same idea. If you don't love your job,
00:04:44
Heather Morgan
because you don't like all of the people that work there, you're not really great with the hours or the culture, but you're like, if I get this promotion, I get this raise, I'll i'll like it, then it will be good.
Acceptance vs. Change
00:04:57
Heather Morgan
At the core of that job, if you don't like all the things that the job really is,
00:05:04
Heather Morgan
the situation that you're in, you don't like all that. The hours, like the promotion and making more money isn't going to make you like all of the things about that job, but you just think, well, if I made more money, it'd be worth it. We just kind of justified like when we get somewhere else, we'll like it more.
00:05:27
Heather Morgan
We can't just be in it for what it is. We have to be aiming for, well, if this changed, then staying would make sense. But maybe we just don't even want to be there. In my head, I was trying to fix how I felt by thinking, well, if my husband changed this thing, then I would be happier in our marriage or how our relationship is. And maybe that could be true, right?
00:06:03
Heather Morgan
when you're having those honest conversations with someone. But the reason we even got this long in our relationship, like this, the things that I wanted to fix, quote unquote, or change about him weren't new. They'd been there the whole time. I known this man since he was 19 years old, and I suddenly just expected that they would change even though logically,
00:06:31
Heather Morgan
They had been there for over 10 years. That was a me thing. That was a me thing. I knew it, but I wanted to stay there and I chose to. Whether consciously or subconsciously, I stayed because it felt safe and it was known.
Understanding Relationships and Emotions
00:06:53
Heather Morgan
And obviously I did care about this man very much and still do to this day. I probably worry more about him than I should. And I haven't spoken to him in two years. That doesn't change, but not in the same way that I once did.
00:07:15
Heather Morgan
And I think sometimes we have to realize that it's so easy to put your focus on or not even just your focus, just it's so easy to see what needs to be fixed about fix again, I don't really like to say people are necessarily broken. But just the improvements that people can make in their life, let's say, it's easy to see that about everyone else. You're like, Oh, yeah, if they would just do this, if they could just do that, they would be great. Yeah, yeah, they should do this. But to say that about yourself and go,
00:07:51
Heather Morgan
wow, I really need to do this like differently. Wow, I really need to change this that now that is where the courage comes in. Because it's a two parter, you actually have to have the self awareness to go. Wow, I could probably change a few things about me.
00:08:12
Heather Morgan
And I'd be happier. And that would help my relationship, my career, my happiness. And you could probably identify them if you get to that place to self reflect, but to actually start implementing the changes and habits to get there, that's a whole other beast.
00:08:29
Heather Morgan
And give me this, just think about a time you've ever wanted to make a change or news should make a change in your life, how hard that was to just change the habit, unless you really, really, really wanted it. Like if you just know you should change it probably, but you're kind of okay where you're at, you probably won't change it. Because there's not that much of a need or emotion behind it. So that's why you're the only one that can change you.
00:08:56
Heather Morgan
because you really, really, really have to want it. So when someone else is just reminding you all the time of something that they want you to change, it's not really creating any desire to change in that person. If anything, it's creating resentment in the relationship. And that's what I did.
00:09:18
Heather Morgan
I think it's a vulnerable truth that we can all relate to when it comes to relationships. Sometimes we mess things up subconsciously because of our own baggage, our own issues, our own insecurities, our own, I i hate to say traumas, but triggers from things that we haven't worked yet in our past, and we haven't worked enough on ourselves to know how to navigate when those arise. And I look back at my marriage and reflect on so many times where I would make something bigger than it needed to be, because I didn't like the way I felt.
00:10:07
Heather Morgan
And it had nothing to do with him. I wasn't a jealous wife, so it wasn't necessarily that. It would be other things. If he wasn't matching what I expected to feel in that moment, and it took me back to a place where I felt unseen or whatever it was, he didn't know he was doing that to me, and I didn't know how to communicate that. But it made me feel that way.
00:10:37
Heather Morgan
And he never was intentionally doing that. I do believe that. But I also didn't have the self-awareness to know what was happening. I just only knew how to be upset or sad when I didn't feel like I wanted to feel.
Managing Reactions
00:10:53
Heather Morgan
And we do that in life a lot instead of just like, why is this actually bothering me?
00:11:00
Heather Morgan
We just want to get upset because it seems easier and we don't even ask ourselves, why am I so frustrated about this?
00:11:09
Heather Morgan
And then not only why am I so frustrated about this, but now what about what's the best case scenario now? I was thinking about it the other day. I was driving downtown. I had somewhere to be. I'm in Nashville traffic. If you know, you know, and there was a ton of construction and right when I'm, I'm not going to be too late right now, but right when I'm almost there, this guy comes out with the stops. I'm construction worker and he's like,
00:11:39
Heather Morgan
ah stopping because they're literally lifting a whole window on a building. It's like not a quick stop. They're putting a bit window on a building and I'm like in front row seat and all these cars are turning around. They're like leaving, but I can't. I'm in the front row. No turning back.
00:11:56
Heather Morgan
And I'm like, I'm literally almost there. And now I'm going to be a lot more late, a lot more later than I expected. And, and there was an inkling into me to be like upset. But then I was like, do you think he's going to move the stop sign because I'm losing it in my car? No. Do you think suddenly that's just going to happen?
00:12:18
Heather Morgan
Do you think my day is going to be better if I get angry and flustered and upset right now? Because of me getting this great view of a window getting put on a building.
00:12:33
Heather Morgan
It just was what it was. And I sat there and I used the time that I had to myself to do a few things that I'd probably been procrastinating anyways, and I just made the best of it. And I know that can sound cheesy, but it's such a better way to stop and go. Why am I about to get upset? And how is that going to benefit me?
00:13:01
Heather Morgan
If you ask yourself those two questions, when you get upset, I swear it just kind of puts you in a place where and breathe too. Why am I so upset? And how is this going to benefit me? I would say almost nine times out of 10 about these little things, especially it won't even matter.
00:13:29
Heather Morgan
How much nicer would that be to just not? And in my relationship, I look back and there's a number of times I couldn't have prevented my feelings from being overwhelmed.
00:13:43
Heather Morgan
But I learned it a little too late for my first marriage, at least. how to better regulate my emotions. But it's absolutely so important, not just in a marriage and a relationship. It's a transferable thing to all things in life. Everything in life is about how we perceive it and how we manage our emotions.
00:14:06
Heather Morgan
and our reactions to things, whether it's you being an entrepreneur and navigate new business opportunities when things fall through or when dealing with your parents or toxic friendships or a boss that you just absolutely cannot get on the same page with.
Accountability in Actions
00:14:28
Heather Morgan
If you're not able to self reflect and you're just difficult to communicate with. It's just not ever going to be simple for you. And it's going to be kind of miserable if we're always just getting up upset and we're in a hurry. We're blaming everyone else. I think about one thing.
00:14:51
Heather Morgan
that happened a lot in the corporate world and even in life and friendships is when we decide to throw someone under the bus instead of taking ownership ourselves or personal accountability. And I'm sure you can think of a time where you were talking to someone and something didn't get done, whether it's your kid, your boss, your best friend, someone that you know, or that you kind of like. And instead of them just taking ownership and be like, yeah, I dropped the ball.
00:15:22
Heather Morgan
they may get somebody else's fault. It's always somebody else's fault. And that's kind of what I was doing in my marriage. Let's be honest. I didn't want to look at what I was doing. So I was just like, Oh yeah, he didn't, if he would have done this, instead of just saying I, I was trying to
00:15:44
Heather Morgan
throw him under the bus and not to other people. I never spoke, spoke badly about him or our marriage to people. So really this is just me in my head subconsciously blaming him because I don't want to see all the things that I need to work on. So in my head, I'm throwing him under the bus. This is hard because of him, not me.
00:16:08
Heather Morgan
And this was more in our marriage. I really, once we separated, I let go. By the time I asked for the separation, I was well aware. Well, not ah to the level I am now, but I was aware that he's not going to change. And that's on me to leave. And I took all the blame.
00:16:32
Heather Morgan
from him and I did put it on myself, but I didn't realize what I was doing that while I was in the marriage. So since the separation, I have been able to do so much self-reflection, but in the marriage, I'm telling people now, so hopefully if you're in this or in this relationship or in a place where you're you're constantly blaming your partner for everything going wrong, it might be time for you to look within before it's too late to realize that you've been creating a lot of resentment that's not necessary because you're not willing to look at yourself.
00:17:11
Heather Morgan
And so that is, that is just one of those things. But what I'll say is throwing people under the bus is just not ever going to serve you. So I think if we can own a little bit more of where we dropped the ball, and then instead of focusing on how everyone else dropped the ball, and everything in life, again, not just relationships,
00:17:38
Heather Morgan
it just becomes easier for us to move forward. If it's not your fault, then you're not fixing it. It's like, Oh, it's Joe. He did it. I don't really know how he's going to fix it, but it's not my problem. But when we own it ourselves, then we can start seeing what's the solution here. And don't get me wrong. Sometimes the solution is, in my case, I had to leave.
00:18:05
Heather Morgan
because I wasn't in a place where I could fix what needed to be fixed, staying where I was.
Finding Happiness Within
00:18:12
Heather Morgan
And I was what needed to be fixed. And I don't think that's always the case that you can't do it within the relationship. But I know that was the case for me. It wasn't until I walked away from everything I ever knew.
00:18:29
Heather Morgan
And the blame of all the things that I thought I could change about him that would make everything better. Oh, if it was just this or that, even if he did it, if I was still in this loop and this pattern, I would have found something else because it wasn't about him. And it wasn't about what he was doing. It was about where I was. And I wasn't happy with myself anymore.
00:18:58
Heather Morgan
It's hard to say because even sometimes we don't want to admit when we weren't happy in life because it's, I mean, it's easier to just be like, everything's great. It's fine. And I was definitely the person that did that. And I don't even think I knew how sad I was in it.
00:19:24
Heather Morgan
because I was just going through the motions. And people that knew me in the marriage, I never once said how happy i unhappy I was. And I wouldn't even like, again, I wouldn't say that I was like, Oh, I'm so unhappy. I definitely wasn't one of those wives and I didn't have that mindset sets. But when I step out of it, it wasn't, I wasn't happy because of the marriage. It was, I was unhappy because I didn't even know who I was and I was doing everything in my life because I thought that was what I was supposed to be doing.
00:19:57
Heather Morgan
If I wasn't going to follow all the rules of the church, at least I was going to like follow some of society, the corporate job, the wife, the cooking, the cleaning, the house, the things. And I was falling in line with all of those things, but I didn't really know myself. I was just so focused on being busy and showing the outside world or trying to prove to them, whoever them is, that my existence was enough, that I was supposed to
00:20:33
Heather Morgan
that I had worth, that there was worth in me. And I know now I don't need to prove my worth to the world or anyone else. You don't either. But I know that we often feel like we do. And that can get us wrapped up doing a lot of things that aren't really in our hearts, but we just feel like society expects us to.
00:20:56
Heather Morgan
We have to do this, we have to be this person, we have to, don't do this because people will think this, don't act like this because people, all of these things that we get conditioned to feel and think as we as children basically, from teachers, our parents, all those things, they just carry with us. And I don't think we often enough get to stop and go,
00:21:23
Heather Morgan
Where's all this pressure come from? Oh, yeah, because I learned that I wasn't going to be good enough unless I made a lot of money. Oh, I felt like I wasn't going to be this if I didn't look like this. Oh, if I'm not married, if I'm not all of these things, it's so much external weight on us. And it doesn't really
00:21:48
Heather Morgan
It's really just, if that's not what you want, I think it's more courageous to just follow what feels good, but it's so hard when you get in that cycle.
Self-Worth and Fulfillment
00:22:03
Heather Morgan
And I'm sure you, unfortunately, most of us can really resonate with that, like feeling like we've got to be worthy enough. and retire worthiness to a million different external accolades. And it's rough. I'll tell you, it's rough. But when you finally look in the mirror and start seeing the things about yourself that you want to work on, you realize you want to work on them for you and not for anyone else, which means
00:22:43
Heather Morgan
You care about yourself enough to go, gosh, I really, maybe you don't think you really love yourself. Maybe that's hard for you to say, but if there is ever a moment where you're like, I want to work on these things, that in in itself is you demonstrating that you do love yourself.
00:23:06
Heather Morgan
So if you're in that place in your life where you're doing that, I love that for you. And I want you to know that that in itself is the first step to recognize that you do actually see worth in you or you wouldn't even try to improve. That wouldn't be a thought.
00:23:25
Heather Morgan
Right. I think it's kind of like what they say about parents. Like if you think, oh, am I a bad parent? That means you're a good parent because a bad parent wouldn't even think like that. Right. So it's the same with yourself. If you're even worried about improving who you are, then you know that you have worth. So that's just like a great first stepping stone.
00:23:50
Heather Morgan
because you want to make your life something different because it makes you happy. And when you want to do that, it can never be about anyone else. And I think that's where a lot of us struggle or have struggled is because we base what we're supposed to do and be on everyone else.
00:24:12
Heather Morgan
And when I realized and I left my ex-husband, and I may have said this before that he didn't want to change some things that I wanted him to change. And that was okay. He didn't have to. He didn't have to. He didn't want to. And that's okay. That's his choice. It's not my place to force him.
00:24:39
Heather Morgan
But I had to leave because I didn't want that. I didn't want that. I didn't want to resent him. So I either had to accept it or realize that I couldn't. There was only those two choices. And for me, I didn't accept it. So I i had to choose me and go. But it wasn't about him.
00:25:06
Heather Morgan
It wasn't about he wasn't good enough. It wasn't about he, this, he, that. It was just someone else could have been placed in my place as his wife and he could have made them happy forever. It was no reflection of his worth or anything about him. It was about me.
00:25:26
Heather Morgan
Sometimes when we choose ourself in life and we decide the circumstances that we're in is not what we want.
Empowerment and Change
00:25:37
Heather Morgan
We have a choice to just leave instead of saying they're doing me wrong. This is them doing this blah, blah, carrying on. It's kind of like we have to decide, accept it or leave.
00:25:53
Heather Morgan
And I know, I know, I know people are going to be like, come, it's not that easy. And I get that. It's not that easy. It's not easy. Nothing worth easy is worth doing. We all know that. But that's your choices.
00:26:08
Heather Morgan
Cause complaining about it isn't going to change them. I promise you as a, as a woman who has complained about the same thing for 10 plus years, it does, does not change. Cause you talk about it or complain about it to them about it over and over. It doesn't. And that's true.
00:26:34
Heather Morgan
not even to other people, just to other people, it's to yourself. It's not until that person or you decide that you want to make that change.
00:26:43
Heather Morgan
Because that pain of dealing with that problem or that thing becomes so big that you're just like, all right, I'm um' changing it. But it's your own journey. it's It's not anyone else's. You can't force anyone else to go down a journey you want them to be. And I know I'm preaching so much here, but I have so many thoughts about as I go on this self-discovery journey and I'm working on myself,
00:27:10
Heather Morgan
I'm just very reflective on all of the times I could have just been such a better partner, if I would have understood myself better. And I think when we hustle and bustle in life, and we're just going through the motions, we keep ourselves in the loops.
00:27:30
Heather Morgan
There would be times that he would, my ex-husband would be like, you never sit down. you You get home, you never sit down. It'd be like morning gym, then I'm at the office, then I'm grocery store. I'd be blocking out my entire day, cooking dinner, cleaning the house, get my outfit for the next morning.
00:27:47
Heather Morgan
do my male prep. I was just booking up all of my time and I felt so productive, but I also realized it gave me no time to self reflect, which is probably what I wanted, but it gave me so much time to be irritated on a dime because I was just going through these motions and distracting all of my time in industry for what I really needed to think about. And that was me.
00:28:15
Heather Morgan
Am I happy in this? Is this what I want? Is this what I want for my life? Is this what I'm doing? And not him and not our marriage, just me.
Confronting Personal Truths
00:28:26
Heather Morgan
Just me. Was I happy? Why did I have to block every single moment of my time with productivity? Why did I have to be constantly busy? Because I had to show the world that I was worthy. Look at me doing all these things. Look at this. Climbing climbing the co corporate ladder. Look at me at the gym at 7am. Look at me. Like in my head, what was I trying to prove?
00:28:53
Heather Morgan
Look at me being this great wife, cooking dinner. Look at me fitting everything into this day. And those things are great. Don't get me wrong. I'm very proud of all of the time management skills that I acquired in that time in my life. But at the end of the day, I have to face the truth that I was running from dealing with how I felt about myself.
00:29:19
Heather Morgan
Oh, that's hard to say. And I know not all of us get to that place where we can self reflect or we do, but it's painful. And I realized as I was running around, once I got to Tennessee through all of this, I was so messy because I,
00:29:43
Heather Morgan
let's just throw everything at the wall and see what sticks. It was like the first time I didn't feel like I was occupying so much of my time with this crazy routine. I really had to lean in the silence. So I had to be messy because I had to find things to do with my time. I just had no idea. I just had this new freedom and I didn't know what to do with it. But I also,
00:30:09
Heather Morgan
i I still wanted not to self-reflect. I had some really, really low times sitting in my mind and i each time I had those moments, I got messier because I didn't like looking at myself that closely because it's so hard.
00:30:34
Heather Morgan
to be real to yourself.
00:30:37
Heather Morgan
But I know it was necessary because if you've sat alone with your thoughts at any point in time, you know what I'm talking about. If you let go of what you feel about external things in your life, your friends, your family,
00:30:58
Heather Morgan
You can dig and understand why certain things hurt things so much, like why your feelings are hurt about so much.
Emotional Understanding
00:31:07
Heather Morgan
It's really wild for me to even think like this, but I remember even a time and I don't even know how to get this vulnerable, but rejection has been something that I think about. And I realized that
00:31:24
Heather Morgan
a lot of us have a fear of rejection in some form. And I don't just mean in a row romantic way. It's stuff that keeps us applying for jobs or taking on new opportunities. And my piece of rejection I realized is that even though I'm the one that left, I felt like him not changing and doing those things that I Like drinking a beer right in front of me after we had a discussion about something was like a rejection of my feelings. Like he was almost to be like, you just poured your heart out. You just cried to me. But we'll worry about that later. I'm having a beer. And that felt like a rejection. And that's why it hurts so much.
00:32:18
Heather Morgan
It wasn't because he was drinking a beer. It wasn't because it was, I mean, it was because I felt like I had been vulnerable and told him what I needed and he was rejecting and carrying on with what he wanted to do.
00:32:36
Heather Morgan
And again, he had every right to do what he wanted to do. But I internalized it as a rejection. And that made me feel less than. And that made me and then it's just this whole spiral. and but And there's this whole path of why did I feel rejected? And why am I wounded with rejection? And what in my life when I was younger made me feel like I would be rejected? And I don't like how this feels. That was all me.
00:33:07
Heather Morgan
He wasn't like, oh, look at this. I hope she feels rejected from her childhood wounds at this time when she got on the bus and she didn't know who to sit by. That's not what he was thinking. He wasn't thinking that at all. It was just, it was me. But I didn't know it then. I just saw him doing wrong.
00:33:31
Heather Morgan
And he was just in enjoying a cold beer. And it was me not knowing what I needed to let go of and what I needed to work on myself.
00:33:42
Heather Morgan
So I'm saying all this to say that sometimes looking at ourselves in the mirror and realizing why things trigger us or hurt us the way they do is the best way to live a happier life because it doesn't feel like everyone's against you. You realize that no one's doing anything most of the time intentionally to intentionally hurt you. They're just doing what they do.
00:34:10
Heather Morgan
There's being who they are and how you view it is your reality. I viewed it as he's rejecting me. He viewed it as he's having a cold beer. Very completely different realities. Uh, and they can both be true or in my mind that was true, but really was it? That's not what he intended to do. I know that he cared and loved me.
00:34:38
Heather Morgan
It just wasn't for us and I didn't know how to communicate where I was in my life. Like where I was in my life was not in line with knowing the things that I know now. So if you're struggling in any way or any part of your life and you're trying to understand why so many things are drowning you or hurting you, it's really,
00:35:01
Heather Morgan
deeper than just what you think it is. If you start going down the path and asking yourself questions of why you feel that way, you're going to learn a lot about yourself and how to not be so hurt the next time around. I promise you, I promise you there's a book I need to recommend. And now I might get the title wrong, but it's,
00:35:30
Heather Morgan
And I'll put it on my website, but it's a website wandering the wild mess dot com. And it's the art of being disliked or no, sorry, the courage to be disliked. And it talks all about
00:35:52
Heather Morgan
those kinds of thoughts. And it's very like philosophical, but it's just a such a good listen, if you kind of love this idea of understanding more about your own thoughts and emotions and how they impact your life and reality and all the things it's big into that.
Personal Development Tools
00:36:10
Heather Morgan
So again, this is just me trying to kind of help you come into 2025 and a different mindset and understand we We don't fix, like we we we can't fix. I'm a fixer-upper if there ever was one, but I can only fix myself. And I'm a working progress as we all are, but we cannot fix anyone else. And once we acknowledge that fixing time sometimes comes
00:36:43
Heather Morgan
with a lot of tears or a lot of, it's sometimes difficult. um I know that we only have the toolkit that works for us. So when we're trying to fix something, we can only our toolkit only works for us. I don't have the toolkit to fix someone else as much as I want to and as much as I've tried. I've really been the kind of person that wanted to fix everyone else, but I know now that I can't.
00:37:11
Heather Morgan
But I can, what I can do to fuel that part in myself is i I can tell you about the tools that work for me so that you can find those tools within you and we can guide each other on this way to pick up the right tools to figure out how to work on the things that are holding you back. From being your best self or living your best life or taking the chances on yourself or starting over because you want to.
00:37:41
Heather Morgan
but you'll feel like you can. All of those things are just your own limiting beliefs and they're not there to serve you. So you just have to get the tools out so that you can fix those things.
00:37:56
Heather Morgan
First, you have to find them to fix them. It's a whole process. But we're we're wandering this wild mess together and it'll be a great time, a great time.
Podcast Conclusion
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Heather Morgan
um But I'm sure confident that you can do it. And that's why I'm here, to just put a little bit of this into your world. And I also just want to say,
00:38:18
Heather Morgan
As we're wrapping up the end of the year, I appreciate every last one of you for being here and listening and spending your time. This is definitely crazy for me to think about just starting this podcast. It's been so therapeutic for me as if you've been on this journey with me, you know, this thing has been all over, but you have been the constant. You're the reason I'm doing this.
00:38:41
Heather Morgan
outside of myself, okay, I'm doing it for me, my little fixer upper, but what I would hope that the the output of this can help you. So it means the world that you're listening because I feel seen, which I was really afraid to be for a long time.
00:39:06
Heather Morgan
So if I can give you anything, it would be to let go of your fears, the things that are stopping you for doing the things you want to do and just be who you want to be. It's about to be a whole new year, a whole new you. They say that can happen anytime. It doesn't take a new year, but why not? Why not this year?
00:39:26
Heather Morgan
All right. So I hope that story that just shows you that starting over and figuring out your life at any age, at any time is possible. That's what I want for you. So thank you for listening to Wandering the Wild Mess with Heather Morgan. You matter.