The Awaken Life Project
Navigating family, life and career in mid-40ties within the Christian faith context. Currently on work assignment in Shanghai China, talking about life in a different culture and country, who I am without my family around and how I cope with loneliness and challenges. Join me into this fascinating journey into Chinese culture, wandering thru small alleys of Shanghai and living in a big city full of lights and food options more than you can think off.
Episodes
116 episodes
Welcome Back! Life Update
After a while I started recording again! Very happy! So welcome back , what’s new and what on earth I am doing in Shanghai!!
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Season 10
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Episode 114
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20:55
113 Bringing Up a Teen in this World
As a Mum of teenage daughter I am sharing a few reflections on parenting from Catholic and Christian Perspective; Parenting is a hardwork and those who have teenage children are striving to be the best parent they can with the tools you have.&n...
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Season 9
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Episode 113
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23:37
112 Why You're loosing faith
Welcome back and here is the episode on faith and why you might be losing it. What is the secret to not giving up and keep exploring and deepeingn your spiritual life. Check this out!
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Season 9
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Episode 112
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19:53
111 Practicing an emotion
It is fair to say that emotions are ruling our lives Emotions/feelings are caused by the way we feel about something. What if you could practice an emotion to overcome some fears which often are unreasonable? Choosing an emotion on purpos...
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Season 9
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Episode 111
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21:17
110 - How to Prepare for Lent
Lent and East come early this year and this week we have a Valentine's Day and Ash Wednesday on the same day. Ash Wednesday is a holy day of obligation especially for Catholics who celebrate the 40-day Lent period in preparation for Easter and ...
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Season 9
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Episode 110
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20:41
109 - The Power of One - how to think and feel on purpose
I love the concept of the power of one which changed my life. We may have many thoughts and different emotions on a given day but choosing one that you constantly practice on purpose has been a game changer for me. It takes more mental effort b...
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Season 9
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Episode 109
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19:59
108 Part 4- Setting Goals for Relationships
This is the last episode in 4 part series this time about relationships. I truly believe those three key elements can help you so much to raise awareness and build beautiful and loving relationships with people in your life.
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Season 9
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Episode 108
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25:17
107 Part 3 - Setting Goals for Career Change
Alright, a bombshell podcast episode has landed. I love talking about career change and career exploration. Are we here to work only in one career,? I do not think so, some of us are born to explore and grow in potential especially to help othe...
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Season 9
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Episode 107
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22:51
106 Part 2 - Setting Goals for Growing in Faith
Part 2 - setting the goals for growing in faith; if your intention this year is to grow in your spiritual-religious life this episode is for you;Link to the article:
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Season 9
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Episode 106
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23:07
105 Part 1 Setting Goals for Health
As promised in my last podcast this is part 1 of 4 part series on how to set goals for different areas in your life. Here I am talking about mindset for Health goals and key principles you can use in four areas of your life. Check my resources ...
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Season 9
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Episode 105
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21:55
104 New Year Resolutions - how to make them work
I hope you had a good break. Over the last few days I have noticed the change in social media posts, a lot of them are about new challenges and goals for the new year so we must be truly in the time of setting new year goals. Whether you have t...
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Season 8
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Episode 104
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23:31
103 Growing in Faith
Many of us would like to explore faith. We think that faith is on decline. I disagree, many of us are looking for spiritual fulfillment understanding that more things and experiences in life will never be enough and there will be always somethi...
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Season 8
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Episode 103
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24:43
102 Your health in winter - how to deal with SAD and common colds
I get that, it is a season for colds and generally feeling under the weather; Days are shorter and the weather not the best; however, we can make this a special time for ourselves, not only because of Christmas but because it is the time ...
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Season 8
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Episode 102
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26:09
101 Living with passion vs. common sense
Is passion overated? Do we need it to enjoy our work? What is the true secret behind passion? Is common sense ordinary and boring and therefore excludes living with passion. In this episode I am talking about how sometimes living wiht pas...
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Season 8
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Episode 101
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22:20
100 When Life feels repetitive - how to increase your Happiness
Wow - 100 episode!!I get that ; we often feel that we are running a repetitive scenario in our life; get up go to work, come back, watch sth and go to sleep and next day repeat the same; I got an email from my audience on this very...
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Season 8
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Episode 100
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31:48
099: An Abundant Life
Abundant life- what it is for you? How you can see beyond your own limits and how you can reframe your thoughts so that you can continue and not giving up;In his podcast episode I am sharing three key concepts that help me to live an ...
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Season 7
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Episode 99
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28:53
098 Is It worth dreaming? My reflections on 4 years in business
On this day 31st July in 2019 I left my corporate work and set up my Ltd company. I started with a few clients, I did a lot of networking I was over the moon I could do something on my own. And then pandemic hit and with it fear for the f...
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Season 7
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Episode 98
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28:32
097 How to Deal with Anything in Life
My recent experience gave me some new tools for how to deal with life when you are physically unwell. Sharing a few tips based on my experience of fear, disappointment pain, and grief of the lost time.
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Season 7
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Episode 97
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29:32
096 Misdiagnosis
In this podcast episode I am talking about my recent major health problem and how I am dealing with this right now!I am on my road to recovery and I am trying to stay mentally strong!
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Season 7
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Episode 96
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27:44
095 Entrepreneurial journey - dealing with change in your 40ties
It is hard to believe but I started my business 4 years ago. 4 years ago I said goodbye to my career and took the risk to start something new and unknown. I left my corporate career happy knowing that I am embarking on my own journey. It was sc...
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Season 7
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Episode 95
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31:55
094 Overthinking
We are overthinkers by nature. We would like to try something new but we also love stability and being in the comfort zone. Here is the episode with the inspiration to make a decision rather than live in the maybe.
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Season 7
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Episode 94
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24:36
093 Your Talent is Your Gift
In this episode, I am talking about talents and how we can use them to make this world a better place. Using our talents is not always easy as we do not believe we have any or ask ourselves what is the purpose and nobody will be intereste...
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Season 7
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Episode 93
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24:06
092 Discipline
This is the word we may not necessarily like or even have some negative association with. We might feel that disciplne takes away our freedom. In this podcast episode I am talking how you can be friend self-discipline as a tool to achieve resul...
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Season 7
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Episode 91
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22:28
091 Power of Meditation - Creative Mind
Meditation is by far my favorite stress management tool. I have been practicing meditation for over a few years now and it helped me so much in my life from improving my mental health to better communication and relationships.I am sharing h...
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Season 7
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Episode 91
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24:09