Explore " powerless" with insightful episodes like "You Are Powerless with Natalie Ruskin", ""Powerlessness" - Sermon Q&A with Rev. Steven Chitty", "Episode 3 - Escaping Self-Doubt, by Elevating to Self-Acceptance", "Episode 2 - Waking Up to Empowerment & Responsibility" and "Powerlessness - 1 Peter 2:18-25" from podcasts like ""The Best Advice Show", "Grace South Bay", "The Magical Midlife Crisis", "The Magical Midlife Crisis" and "Grace South Bay"" and more!
Natalie Ruskin works work with purpose-driven people who want to thrive in work & wellbeing. At the heart of her work is the belief that transformation is possible. She hosts the podcast A Success Of Our Own.
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This Sermon Q&A is based off the sermon titled "Powerlessness" from 1 Peter 2:18-25 on Oct 15th, 2023.
Welcome to Episode 3 of "The Magical Midlife Crisis," a podcast hosted by Meg and Court. In this episode, Court shares her journey from a life marked by self-doubt & inauthenticity to a transformative experience in Costa Rica that led to newfound self-love and self-discovery. Meg also reflects on her relationship with Joel, who played a pivotal role in her journey to self-acceptance and love. Together, they explore personal growth, inner child work, and the importance of embracing your authentic self.
We have deep gratitude to you for tuning in on our candid and wacky ride, there's always a seat for YOU! Next Sunday, Episode 4 will be released, and it has our first guest! Jill Valentine, the Executive Director at Stage 773 in Chicago. We are stoked to have you click play then and every time on the "Magical Midlife Crisis."
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In this episode of "The Magical Midlife Crisis," we continue our journey with Meg & Court and explore the next layers of their awakening and healing process. If you haven't listened to episode one yet, we highly recommend you go back and catch up on the story of how it all began. In the previous episode, we discussed how they cracked open their understanding of life, took back their power, and embarked on a transformational journey.
The podcast hosts emphasize the need for more love and acceptance in the world, and how our stories can help achieve that goal. Stay tuned for the next episode, as their story continues to unfold.
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Servants, be subject to your masters with all respect, not only to the good and gentle but also to the unjust. For this is a gracious thing, when, mindful of God, one endures sorrows while suffering unjustly. For what credit is it if, when you sin and are beaten for it, you endure? But if when you do good and suffer for it you endure, this is a gracious thing in the sight of God. For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you might follow in his steps. He committed no sin, neither was deceit found in his mouth. When he was reviled, he did not revile in return; when he suffered, he did not threaten, but continued entrusting himself to him who judges justly. He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed. For you were straying like sheep, but have now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.
Sermon Questions:
1. When do you feel most powerless? Who in your life holds power over you?
2. What are some ways you try to regain power or invert the power hierarchy?
3. Thinking of the passage, what ways have you used your words to grasp at power?
4. What would it look like for you to follow Jesus' steps into submission at work, in school, in marriage, at home?
5. Have you ever experienced the Grace of God through submission and humility? either your own or someone else's toward you?
Welcome to an especially captivating episode of Mystical Truths! Have you ever considered how your thoughts shape your reality? This week, we pull back the veil on extreme possession, and how it can transform your perception of personal power. My time with Linda was fascinating and educational.
Linda's story is a raw exploration of how intense fear can derail our normal lives if we allow it. This episode is also a powerful reminder that when we are truly ready for help, it will find us. Buckle up and prepare for a deep dive into the recesses of the human condition.
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-See the Just For You page on my website for useful info & resources I recommend.
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Bank robbery, Adam West, tentacles, oh my! At the end of the road, Powerless throws a lot of ideas at the wall. And the Chatz crew recruited Six from Scanline Media to help them break down this weird not-finale of a canceled series. Six down, seven to go. But for next week and quite a while, we're moving on to somewhere...very different! Stay tuned!
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Powerless keeps providing the laughs, and we're powerless to resist! This week, Emily does in fact date a henchman, but we also explore the world of the unaired pilot and how she could have had a romance with Teddy of all people. Meanwhile in the second half, Ron is the funniest character despite being written weirdly, and Jackie's taking night classes!
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A DC Universe ground level, day-in-the-life sitcom sounds like a recipe for success. Why then did 2017's Powerless get canceled in 12 episodes? We're joined by Ryan and Bartek from Spit & Polish Presents to discuss the pilot before we dive deep into the first quarter of this strange, interesting series.
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Powerlessness is still difficult to accept. Lee and Beth talk it out.
Feel Better. Have a listen.
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This episode follows Chapter 1, Section 2: The Constant Digital Chatter. What you'll learn in this episode is
I am continuing to de-mystify anxiety in this episode, and to call it out, we have to look at all the contexts that contribute to you feeling powerless. This means we cannot leave out the increased use of cell phones in the last two decades.
Don’t worry; I am not saying phones are evil. But the constant 24/7 bombardment of all those messages can do more than entertain and educate. In this episode, I show you how the messages coming at you, make you feel powerless, worthless, and out of control. You are not powerless, worthless, and out of control, but it feels like you are. In this episode, I detail three categories of disempowering messages: 1. You are not enough, 2. The world is a dangerous place, and 3. You deserve cool stuff “just because.”
After diving into how those messages impact you, I offer a simple challenge: disconnect once in a while. You will be happy that you did!
“In comparison culture, you are comparing someone else's outward, public, filtered appearance with your inside mess. You cannot win in this scenario. You will always find yourself not good enough.” - Dr. Jodi Aman
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About Dr. Jodi Aman
Therapist | Author | Spiritual Mentor
Dr. Jodi Aman is a Leadership and Spiritual Coach who has spent 25 years as a trauma-informed psychotherapist. She earned a Doctorate in Social Work in ’23, focusing on Leadership, Social Justice, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Social Work acknowledges the person in their environment and understands how humans react to situations. Work with Jodi.
“After 25 years of clinical experience, I feel deep resonance and empathy for the complexities of others’ pain and am compelled to stand against the context of injustice that causes it. Using this keen understanding of how and why people suffer, my unique and varied training, rooted ethics, as well as decades being a trauma-informed psychotherapist, I help sensitive souls release what they don’t want, recover their energetic bandwidth, and grok a socially conscious life of overflowing joy. More about me.”
Her doctorate thesis project addresses the current teen mental health crisis. She is designing a psychoeducational curriculum for improving teen mental health. This program, called COMPASS, will help young people navigate human emotions, giving them the information to understand what is happening and the tools to heal themselves and their communities. If you care about, work with, love, and/or are concerned for teenagers and are worried about the devastating mental health crisis too many of them are living through, you may be interested in my research and plans for this classroom-based, culturally-sensitive curriculum for high school health teachers to facilitate during their mental health units. Watch the video here.
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Hey, you're here with Dr. Jodi, and this is "Anxiety… I'm So Done With You!"
I am so excited about this podcast. It's an accompaniment to my book by the same name, "Anxiety… I'm So Done With You!" It's a teen's guide to ditching toxic stress and hardwiring your brain for happiness, because that is what we're going to do in the series: We're ditching that freaking toxic stress and hardwiring your brain to generate happiness every day.
This is what you do: You read or listen to a section of the book. Then come on over here and listen to an episode where we're going to go a little bit deeper, give more examples, and tell more stories. I want to provide you with everything you need to be sure that you find your way out of this horrible anxiety cycle so that you no longer have to suffer. Please leave me a five-star review on Apple podcasts. That'll help me get in the ears of more people who need this series. Mental health problems are skyrocketing, especially among teenagers, and this series will change the tide.
Welcome, welcome. This is Chapter 1, Section 2: The Constant Digital Chatter. What you're going to learn in this episode is
In Chapter 1, we're taking the mystery out of anxiety, and to do that, we have to look at all the contexts that might be creating an increase in anxiety. This means we cannot leave out the increased use of cell phones in the last two decades. Cell phones have defined your generation. The difference between millennials and generation Z is that Generation Z had cell phones connected to the internet from as early as middle school, which was also when social media started.
So you had it from a very young age, and you developed with that phone, making you distinctly different from any other generation. I'm not going to say in this episode that phones are evil. I love my phone, and I'm sure you love your phone too, and I'm also quite positive that you probably have a love-hate relationship with it. Don't worry; I'm not going to suggest you ditch your phone, and I realize that phones are not going away. But maybe after you hear me out, after you read this section, and listen to this episode, maybe you won't be glued to it 24/7 anymore. I've been studying this phenomenon for my doctoral thesis, and researchers have not yet identified the actual mechanisms that cause the phone to make us anxious. But I'm going to share with you what I spoke about in my TEDx Wilmington talk and from what I've witnessed in my therapy practice. If you want to check out my TEDx Wilmington talk, you'll find it in the blog post that goes with this episode. The link is in the show notes.
Your phone gives you access to thousands of messages a day. Or more accurately, these messages have access to you. Texts, comments, likes, news, ads, calls...(well, maybe not calls. Who gets calls anymore?) But practically 24/7, these messages are reaching you. How many of you sleep with your phones? Yeah. When I say 24/7, I'm barely speaking hyperbole. It's 24/7.
These messages leave you feeling powerless, worthless, and out of control. Not all of these make you feel powerless, worthless and out of control. You have some messages from your friends that are kind. You have some funny things that you see. You are entertained, and you learn things sometimes. However, there are still too many messages that do leave you thinking that you are powerless, worthless, and out of control. You're not. You're not powerless, you're not worthless, you are not out of control, but the messages are very convincing, so you believe them. You're not the only one. These messages trigger everyone's insecurities, so we're all having this problem together.
What's bad about those messages that leave you feeling powerless, worthless, and out of control is that those feelings make you anxious, angry, and depressed. In my thousands of conversations with people, I've noticed three categories of these disempowering messages.
Let's look at these. The first one is "you are not good enough." This is from comparison culture, which makes people use social media to help them define their worth. See, Western culture, or colonizing culture, has all of these invisible standards. You have to be smart, independent, pretty, rich, put together, sane, heterosexual, light-skinned, happy. Even though these are beyond ridiculous, people are desperate to meet these standards because we are biologically programmed to do whatever we must do to belong. And we are encultured to believe that we must meet these ridiculous and unrealistic expectations or we will be left out. We can't meet them all, all the time. We can barely meet some of them, some of the time. At their worst, they structurally and personally oppress people at their best, they have us comparing ourselves to the people around us to make sure we are not the only loser who is inadequate.
Unfortunately, in comparison culture, we will always feel inadequate. You are comparing someone's outward, public, filtered appearance, with your inside mess. You cannot win that scenario. You will always find yourself not good enough. Social media plays into this comparison culture, exponentially making it more powerful and oppressive. In fact, research has shown that the more time teenagers spend on social media, the worse they feel. These were self-reports from teenagers. And when they take breaks, they almost immediately feel better. Let me say that again. When they took breaks from their phone, they almost immediately felt better.
Let's look at that second category of messages: the world is a dangerous place. You read in the book that secondary trauma is real and causes horrible consequences. We have a constant stream of horrible news coming into our hands in an instant. Even when you try to avoid it, there are messages coming from everywhere, so it is too hard to avoid. Seeing horrible things happen all around the world makes the danger seem random and out of control, making you feel more vulnerable. But it's only sometimes random and out of control. Also, your sympathetic nervous system is meant to trigger when you're present in danger, and you could use the energy to do something to get yourself safe. But now you're watching tragedies very far away, and there's nothing you can do about them but sit helplessly on your couch. That helplessness feeds the anxiety both biologically and emotionally.
The last category of messages I will share in this episode is that you deserve stuff just because you're cool. I'm talking about the marketing messages that companies use to get you to buy their stuff. If you thought that you had to work hard to buy their products, sales would go down. They know this, so instead, their marketing plays on your insecurities, making you connect "getting things" with your worth as a human being. Did you ever see a kid in a supermarket whose mom said no to candy? They're crying and reacting as if nobody loves them anymore. When you grow up with these messages that you just deserve stuff just for being you, the pain of not getting it goes right into the core of your being. Unfortunately, that happens all the time. We don't get everything we want, and it has nothing to do with what we deserve, but because the belief is so ingrained that we should get it, we're confused.
Now, I know you're smarter than this, but this happens unconsciously, affecting you by making you feel worthless and powerless to do anything about it, increasing your anxiety, anger, and depression. I'm telling you about all these messages because if they happen unconsciously, you can't do anything. But once you know about them, you can do something about them. You could change the way you think about them and how they affect you.
These messages strip you of your growth mindset and agency. Agency is that knowledge that you can respond to and take actions to make things happen that you want to happen.
Attachment to the phone is akin to an addiction to consuming. The Monkey Mind gets attached to knowing all the things. It tells you that you are protecting yourself by not missing anything and that something bad will happen if you do miss something. It has created a groove of that pathway, y'all. Luckily you now know how to change it by overriding that pattern with your prefrontal cortex. To can laugh, have fun, create and repeat over and over and over that you are powerful, you are worthy, and you are in control. You are not just a passive recipient of this life. You have the ability to act and respond in ways to make yourself better, make your mood better, and make your relationships better.
So what do you think? Does your phone make you anxious? Did this episode inspire you to take a little break from your phone today? I hope so. If nothing else, maybe you can take it out of your bed? Or, at least, not look at it first thing in the morning!
To help you practice taking a break from your phone. The What's in your hand? activity in this section invites you to take a walk without it. I want you to connect back with thinking for yourself instead of these messages having any kind of power over you. If you have a safe place to walk, please try that exercise. Plus, I have more resources on the blog post on how nature improves your mental health.
Thank you so much for listening to this episode, where we discussed how your phone could be making you anxious. Please share this. You never know who is suffering because anxiety and depression are invisible. Please leave me a five-star review on Apple Podcasts because that will help me in helping more people like you. Remember, you can find any resources we discussed in the blog post: The link is in the show notes.
The next episode is Chapter 1, Section 3, The Hellish Symptoms, where we will continue to demystify anxiety, so you feel safer and build confidence in your abilities and get rid of it. Read the section and then come on over and start the next episode. I'll meet you there.
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The guys finally make it to the capitol. They make their way to arena and see their goal right in front of them. That is, until a radical hunk drops down in their path.
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The boss splits the team leaving sparkstorm with the moderator and Frequency with a load of enemies. The two of them struggle to fight in situations not great for their powers but they persevere as only they can. With luck and stupid acts of bravery.
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