PART I: INTERVIEW HIGHLIGHTS

• The confidence it takes to be playful and how she came to Playful Transformation.
• Playing truthfully vs. playing
• Is playing really that important?
• Our experiences create who we are even if they are ugly, painful or not what we think we want.
• Our fear is never as bad as what we believe it will be.
• Being playful and playing like your inner child is the most vulnerable you can be. You’re free from all limitations.
• Katie grew up being self-loathing and terrified to look at herself. When she found energy work she started transforming.
• How being hit by a car and not being hurt changed Katie’s life forever. “I am Done!”
• Listen to the Universe, Listen to yourself. You are a valuable person.
• We can allow ourselves to suffer as a victim or you can empower yourself by changing your story.
• Become friends with all parts of yourself by sifting through all parts of yourself to discover the jewels inside.
• Something can be doo-doo or it can be a diamond.
• We sometimes take the blame about a situation when it’s not your fault.
• We are always at choice.
• Katie found her little girl scrunched up and hiding in a closet “go away” – that’s where it started.
• We all just want to be loved.
• If our inner child is not dreaming, playing and loving where we’re at we will experience a hole in our heart.

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PART II: ACTION STEPS

Find that one thing you use to do as a child that you loved doing but stopped and do that!

About the Guest:

Katie Kozlowski has been dubbed the “Queen of Play”, and is a divine channel, spiritual guide and energy healer. Katie makes learning all the heavy stuff fun while creating lasting change and deep healing magic. 

With a history as a professional actress, singer and voice over artist, she began to study energy work, spirituality and the art of transformation after she was hit by a taxi when her boyfriend stood her up near her 30th BDay.

She is now certified in Reiki, Rising Star, NLP and created her own process called Playful Transformation. She is a devoted student of master healer and psychotherapist Derek O’Neill, and her mission is to make spirituality, happiness and love accessible to all.  

While powerful in her nature, her methods utilize play as a tool to access creativity, and thus connect with the inner child and higher self.

PART I: INTERVIEW HIGHLIGHTS

• Janet shares her experience growing up and knowing as an adolescent despite growing up in an alcoholic home. She had a spark of realization that there is more to life.
• She had a goose bump moment when revisiting her old diaries 15 years later and learned to have compassion for herself.
• Her transformative experience reading her journals inspired her to write My Diary Unlocked and create the website where others could share their own diary entries.
• We’re all connected, we have similar challenges and fears – “What is the most personal, is the most universal” Carl Rogers
• How real life diary entries teach us important life lessons.
• Everything boils down to Love or Fear.
• FEAR – Fragile Experience of Anxiety or Regret.
• Anxiety – focusing too much on the future, Regret – focusing too much on the past.
• Through her years of research and teaching, Janet created a Compass to navigate through the path to personal power.
• She walks us through her “Freeing Your BEING Compass”

1. Body
2. Emotions
3. Imagination
4. Natural Self
5. Genius Mind

• A diary entry of a teen struggling with alcohol abuse to cover up her feelings really stands out for Janet.
• The key is acknowledging the part within yourself that hasn’t been listened to by yourself or others.

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PART II: ACTION STEPS

Start writing in a journal.

Get yourself a beautiful journal, Janet’s Diary companion book below or put some lined paper in a 3-ring binder to get started.

Some ideas where to begin…

1. Write 5 things you feel gratitude towards.
2. Write down your dreams.
3. Write 3 successes for the day or week.
4. Write 3 accomplishments you’ve done.

Start small, whatever you write is perfect. There is no need to push yourself or make it hard.

JANET’S GIFT

About the Guest:

Janet Larson, MS is the author of the award-winning book, My Diary Unlocked: Stories of Teen Girls Heal the Inner Adolescent of Our Soul, and its companion – Diary: The Answers Are Within.

Janet has facilitated empowerment workshops and self-esteem enhancing trainings for audiences ranging from girls and women to management executives. Her message is to share her path of learning that the key to happiness arises from authentic self-acceptance.

Get Janet’s book and companion journal

    

PART I: INTERVIEW HIGHLIGHTS

• The 8 promises to stop sabotage and how we can use them in our life.

  1. Accept your imperfections – “I’m perfectly imperfect” – Accept yourself as a whole person.
  2. Always do your best – “My best is always good enough” – Focus on being the best you can be.
  3. Stop comparing yourself to others – “I have no need to see myself as more than or less than anyone else” – Remember all you’re seeing is what someone wants to show you.
  4. Believe in your potential – “I fully expect myself to have a happy and fulfilling life.” – Live in the moment.
  5. Silence your inner critic – “I only welcome thoughts that support and encourage me.” – Tell your inner critic to “Shut Up!”
  6. Challenge yourself – “I’m brave and I’m willing to step outside of my comfort zone.” – Practice doing things that are a bit uncomfortable.
  7. Stop making excuses – “I take full responsibility for who I am and the life that I live.” – Consistently make choices that support your self-esteem.
  8. Love yourself – “I always treat myself with love and respect.” – Treat yourself like you treat the most important people in your life.
• What is happiness and why are so many people having a hard time finding it?
• How perfectionism sets us up for dissatisfaction, frustration, disappointment.
• Why it can be harder for women to be happy than men
• How to get out of the cycle of fear – Document your fears and concerns.
  • 1st column – things you have influence over
  • 2nd column – you don’t have influence over
  • 3rd column – how do I intend to influence this? What action will I take?
• Never speak to yourself more harshly than you would to a small child. You are the guardian of your self esteem.
• Entrepreneurs – The key is always do your best!
• PatternsDomonique have noticed with successful business people.
  • Never doubted it was possible – always assumed they would be successful.
  • Never intended to have a large vision – continued to seize opportunities as they showed up.

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PART II: ACTION STEPS

• Each day of the week focus on practicing 1 promise.
• Identify which promise you feel could use some strengthening and focus your attention on practicing that one.
• Feel good about yourself regardless. Base your self-esteem and confidence on who you are, not what you’ve done or what you have.

About the Guest:

Domonique is a happiness expert and the closely guarded secret behind some of the country’s most successful people.   She is the author of six books including the international best-seller, The Happiness Code: ten keys to being the best you can be and her advice has been seen, read or heard by more than ten million people. Her latest book, The Kindness Pact: 8 promises to make you feel good about who you are and the life you live is out now. 

Domonique  is here to show you, not just how to get the life you want, but how to make sure you love the life you’ve got.  

Happiness is Domonique’s  life’s work. As she says, ‘It’s a tough job, but someone’s got to do it!’