Self-love Science with Janice Cruz
by Janice Cruz
Welcome to the Self-love Science Podcast. I'm Janice Cruz, a self-love scientist. One day before a breast cancer diagnosis the life I lived was one of extreme fear, sadness, worthlessness, and despondency. I was propelled into an incubator style healing journey where, under pressurized circumstances, I learned to become fearless, resilient, brave, and most importantly I learned how to recognize the hero in the mirror. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/selflovescience/support
Episodes
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Episode 13: Hope - A Warrior's Emotion
I believe hope is a warrior's emotion that we evolved with as a survival mechanism. It is the part of the human spirit that will blast through broken resolve. It is the feeling that flood's through someone in the most dire of circumstance and gives them the sensation of triumph so that they can...
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Episode 12: Worthy of Sunshine
Are you worthy of sunshine? We all create our own worldview and we end up filling up with logic that prevents us from our own greatness. Sometimes this way of being feels unchangeable but where did these beliefs come from? Whose permission do you need to feel love, joy, and happiness? Whose...
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Episode 11: Cancer and PTSD
Are you running from fate or towards your dreams? This week's episode was recorded in July 2021 on the day that I decided to quit living life fully. Sometimes you're running so fast from your fears it seems as though they have disappeared, until you crash into a wall. When all of life is spent on...
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Episode 10: Believing in Good
In this week's episode I talk about a model of reality where everything works. Throughout a very long and intense journey through healing from critical illness, there was one way of thinking that remained in tact. This belief in "goodness" is what has allowed me to survive through emotional and...
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Episode 9: On Bravery
If bravery were your superpower, what would you do with it? The science of self-love is a process of reducing the contracting emotions, such as fear, and increasing the expanding emotions, such as courage. When you stop at fear you don't get to experience the rush of expansive emotion that comes...
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Episode 8: Conquering Fear
This week I'll talk about how I conquered fear. Fear can be the most debilitating of emotions. When we think about danger and trauma, either from memory or imagination, our bodies go into a fight or flight mode. Intelligent design has a built in future prediction module. If you imagine bad things...
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Episode 7: Forgiveness + Gratitude = Peace
This week I dive into the formula for peace and joy. As I worked intensely on my healing journey, I spent a lot of my time analyzing the process. I was working as a test and quality engineer at the time and part of my role was to streamline process and to analyze what worked well and what could...
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Episode 6: Attachment to Outcome
Is attachment the root of all suffering? This week I get real about cancer. (This episode is prerecorded from July). Imagine the dealing with suffering as a result of attachment the thing matters most in life: life itself. I had a day where all of the pain from all the different areas in my life...
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Episode 5: Full self-expression
What does it mean to be truly yourself? How do you get to it? Three years ago I had strayed to far away from my truest self that I didn't recognize myself in the mirror. I couldn't understand how my life had take such a turn that I ended up living in fear, anxiety, pain, depression, and loathing....
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Episode 4: Clearing the Mirror
If today when you look in the mirror you don't see the absolutely beautiful, worthy, amazing self, then you can't see yourself at all. What words are running through your mind when you stare at your reflection? If that voice in your head came out and became a physical person next to you, would…
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Episode 3: "Fearlessly Finding her Peace" w/ Author Eileen "Irene" Cruz
In this week's episode we'll get to speak with three time author Eileen "Irene" Cruz who has such a beautiful story of the journey to self-love. In her books she shares her experience of growing up in an abusive home all the way through the discovery of her most vibrant, authentic self. The...
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Episode 2: Healing All the Things
If you thought that you were about to run out of time on earth, what would you choose to heal? I chose everything. I had no solid foundation of faith but I still took on the mindset of "what if I'm going to meet my maker?" I chose to leave no stone left unturned. I healed my body, my emotional...
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Episode 1: The Spiritual Positioning System
Evolution has given us so many tools that we need for survival. Scientists have spent time analyzing how our emotions play a role in survival. We need to recognize facial expressions and physical cues of other humans so that we know if they are friend or foe. We have adapted to identify…
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Welcome to the Self-love Science Podcast
Welcome to the Self-love Science Podcast. I'm Janice Cruz, a self-love scientist. One day before a breast cancer diagnosis the life I lived was one of extreme fear, sadness, worthlessness, and despondency. I was propelled into an incubator style healing journey where, under pressurized...
About this show
Welcome to the Self-love Science Podcast. I'm Janice Cruz, a self-love scientist. One day before a breast cancer diagnosis the life I lived was one of extreme fear, sadness, worthlessness, and despondency. I was propelled into an incubator style healing journey where, under pressurized circumstances, I learned to become fearless, resilient, brave, and most importantly I learned how to recognize the hero in the mirror. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/selflovescience/support
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