Podcast Episode 69

with our guest Sophie Chiche

The Power of Personal Accountability

This week on The School for Good Living Podcast:

• The two different lives between weighing 350lb and weighing less than half that amount
• What a therapist said to change the course of Sophie’s life and shifted the relationship she had with herself
• To look at the process of change as physical, emotional, mental and to some degree spiritual and how they all have to mature to the same level
• Being raised in an environment that treated feelings as the plague, to be avoided at all costs
• How Disney’s Mulan character Mushu is a lot like feelings – we imagine them to be bigger or scarier than they actually are
• The education system is one way to learn and some kids it fits really well, while for others it really doesn’t
• Sophie became a coach because she was more interested in where people are now
• Whatever is in your past, whatever’s not resolved, it’s all here in the present
• The brain (and the heart) is a muscle that requires to feel as an exercise, and avoid atrophy
• The toxicity of not letting your feelings be expressed
• Putting on a suit of armor will in the end limit your ability to grow
• Question your beliefs. Are they really yours or could they easily be someone else’s? Do they serve you?
• Sophie’s Netflix recommendations – ‘Fleabag” & ‘Killing Eve’
• Some people develop their mental capabilities but neglect their emotional capability
• The parallels between addiction and being healthy
• Self-medicating to not feel the feelings we are meant to feel
• The industry of sugar and how it’s an addictive substance
• Going from not loving yourself to thinking you’re the most precious thing in the universe
• The first step to self-love starts with integrity
• How not making commitments under the gun can avoid living a life that’s not the life you want
• We are in charge of our lives right now – we are the directors, the actors, and the production management as it’s happening
• Judgement is the poison that you take hoping that it kills the other guy
• If you treat your friends the way you treat yourself, would you have friends?
• The question Sophie often asks herself is, “What’s the highest choice right now?”
• The best mirror is often a good friend
• The meeting and impact of Lewis Mehl Madrona
• Sophie’s first sweat lodge experience
• Confronting cultural appropriation
• The Shape House experience: Infrared bedding, Netfix, a relax room with tea and Vitamin C and burning a thousand calories
• How we abuse our bodies and what can be done to reset it and allow it to heal
• Your at-home Shape House sweat experience – hot bath, lemons, ginger
• The benefits of alkaline water
• The feminine spirit of money and Sophie’s practice with a chess pawn
• Writing Tips – Write like you speak
• Write shorter sentences. One idea per sentence and only one sentence per idea.
• Sophie’s biggest advice in life: find out what you’re really good at and then be okay to ask for help for that things that you’re not.
• Working on your inner critic
• When Sophie was ready for an agent
• The best money Sophie has spent was on a retreat and having a coach
• Have a date with your spiritual self