Janese Derrough - Healing With Gratitude and Self Love

What is gratitude and self-love? How do I know if I am fully in gratitude or in a place of self-love? How can being in a place of gratitude and self-love help me on my journey? If you have any of those questions, today's episode of “Be A Smart Woman” is for you. Today, Janese Derrough shares her journey toward gratitude and self-love and how discovering this awareness can help us heal stress and trauma, and lead a life filled with more compassion and, kindness. Janese has worked with intuition, healing, and empowerment, for over 35 years as an empowerment guide and intuitive life coach. Using her education in Social Psychology, Janese is certified in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction and trained in the importance of accessing intuition from a young age. Janese believes we can create a life of love, health, and well-being through the use of positive tools and intention. Janese discusses how gratitude and self-love is really a way of life (10:53) and how gratitude and self-love can help us heal stress and trauma by healing the part of the brain that helps us think more realistic and long term. (4:26) Janese also discusses the goal of gratitude and self-love is to strengthen ourselves, so when a situation triggers prior trauma, we have the tools needed in that moment to remain mindful and keep our minds from going down a rabbit hole. (18:17). To Learn more about Janese practice as an empowerment guide and intuitive life coach visit http://janesederrough.com. Impactful Quotes: Janese on how living a life of gratitude can help our overall health: “The more that we start really looking at our life from that gratitude place, the less victim will feel, the less trauma activation happens, and the more happy and healthy we will be.” (12:28) Janese on how gratitude and self-love can draw people toward a person: “…when you bring the self-love and the gratitude together, in your being, it becomes more solid in who you are, and you are happier, you're radiating more, you're attracting like a magnet more in your life, because people feel that.” (26:13) Links Mentioned in Todays Show: Dr. Bob Emmons Gratitude Studies (10:56) Connect with Us To learn more aout the Be a Smart Woman movement visit us at: www.beasmartwoman.com Or connect with us on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter Also listen to this podcast on: iTunes, Spotify, and at BeASmartWoman.com