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This Life or Something Better
by Priscilla Bengtson
Life can be challenging and oftentimes we get stuck when living it. Priscilla Bengtson is here to help you accept the life you are living without resistance and then find your something better. There is always something better to reach for. You just have to know it exists and take a step towards it.
Episodes
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Mediumship and Religion: Giving Yourself Room to Explore
Can you explore mediumship and spirituality while keeping the faith you grew up with? What happens when something connects with you, but the people around you don't understand? In this episode of This Life or Something Better, Priscilla Bengtson shares how spiritual exploration deepened her...
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Are You Waiting for a Sign Before You Take Action?
Are you waiting for a sign from Spirit before making a decision or taking action? If you keep asking for confirmation, looking for spiritual signs, or wondering whether you are making the right choice, the real issue may be less about guidance and more about trusting yourself. In this episode of...
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How to Find Inner Peace in an Uncertain World
How do you find inner peace when the world around you feels uncertain? Inner peace doesn't mean ignoring what's happening, shutting down your emotions, or walking through life in a constant state of calm. It means learning how to recognize what you're feeling, regulate your response, and return…
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Afraid of Making the Wrong Decision? How to Trust Yourself and Choose
Are you afraid of making the wrong decision? Sometimes the hardest part of making a choice isn't the decision itself. It's the uncertainty that comes with not knowing how things will turn out. We can get stuck looking for the perfect answer, asking other people what they think, waiting for a…
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Living Your Life by Design
What happens when the life you've known no longer fits? Retirement, divorce, empty nesting, the loss of a parent, the end of caregiving, or another major life transition can leave you wondering, "What comes next?" And sometimes the hardest part isn't the change itself. It's the empty space that...
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Still Living in Survival Mode? How to Turn Pain into Resilience
Have you made it through something difficult but still feel like part of you is living inside the experience? In this episode of This Life or Something Better, Priscilla explores the difference between surviving a painful chapter and truly becoming resilient through it. Resilience is not only…
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The Wisdom Inside Regret
Regret can feel like a heavy backpack you have carried for years. It may start with one choice, one missed chance, one conversation, or one moment you wish had gone differently. Over time, that regret can begin to shape how you trust yourself, how you make decisions, and how you move forward in...
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Happiness Leads You to Your Something Better
In this episode of This Life or Something Better, Priscilla explores happiness as more than a feeling you wait for someday. Happiness can become a signal that shows you where your life is aligned, where you have been settling for "fine," and where your soul may be asking for something more honest...
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Excuses or Results: You Can't Have Both at the Same Time
In this episode, we explore the topic of Excuses and Results. Priscilla shares that you can have excuses, or you can have results, but you can't hold both at the same time. This isn't a conversation about productivity. It's a conversation about identity, self‑trust, and the version of you that's...
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Three Steps to Break Your Habit of Procrastination
Are you putting off something that still matters to you? In this episode of This Life or Something Better, Priscilla explores procrastination in a new way. You are not a procrastinator. You may have the habit of procrastination, and habits can be changed. As we get closer to the halfway point of...
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How to Create the Right Conditions for Your Rebirth
Rebirth is not always about starting over or changing everything in your life. Sometimes it begins by noticing what is supporting your growth and what may need a small adjustment. In this episode of This Life or Something Better, Priscilla explores how to create the right conditions for your...
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Grief, Loss and the Connection That Remains
Grief doesn't follow a timeline. It follows connection. In this episode, we're talking about grief in a way that goes beyond stages, timelines, and expectations. This is a grounded conversation about what grief actually feels like when you lose someone you love, or a pet who was part of your...
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The Grief You Didn't Expect: When Change Happens
Have you ever felt like you don't recognize yourself anymore but you also don't know who you're becoming? In this episode, we're talking about a kind of grief that often goes unnoticed. The grief of losing the version of you that you used to be. As you grow, change, and step into something new,...
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Luck and Your Something Better
Luck and Your Something Better Have you ever felt like other people are just luckier than you? Things seem to fall into place for them, while you're left wondering when it will be your turn? In this episode, we're taking a closer look at what luck really is and how it may already be showing up in...
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Living Life as an Experiment
Living Life as an Experiment What if your life isn't a final exam, but an experiment? Many of us live with the pressure to get everything right: the right career, the right relationship, the right purpose. That pressure can leave us stuck, overthinking every decision and afraid to take the next...
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The Art of Showing Up: Showing up for Yourself
The Art of Showing Up: Showing Up for Yourself What does it actually mean to show up for yourself? In this final episode of The Art of Showing Up series, we turn inward and explore the most important relationship you have - the one you have with yourself. Showing up for yourself isn't about...
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The Art of Showing Up: Showing Up For Others
The Art of Showing Up: Showing Up for Others Showing up for others sounds simple, but it's often harder than we expect. In this episode, we explore what it really means to show up for the people in our lives, not by fixing their problems, rescuing, or taking on their emotions, but by being…
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The Art of Showing Up: Physically Showing up in Your Life
The Art of Showing Up: Physically Showing Up in Your Life Congratulations! You showed up. In this episode, we explore the most foundational step in creating change: physically showing up for your own life. Not with intensity. Not with perfection. But with consistency. Building on the previous...
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What Else Could You Be Doing With Your Mind?
Your mind is always doing something. Thinking. Replaying. Planning. Distracting. Negotiating. Getting you through the day. But have you ever stopped to ask yourself what your mind is actually being used for? In this opening episode of Season 5, we explore a question that will carry us through the...
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One Day, or Day One?
As the year comes to a close, many people feel the quiet pressure to decide who they're going to be next. This episode offers something different, a pause instead of a push. In this New Year's Eve bonus episode, Priscilla invites you to reflect on how beginnings really happen. Not through...
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Stop Expecting Them to Be Different: The Holiday Edition
The holidays have a way of bringing people together and with them, familiar patterns, old roles, and emotional triggers. In this episode, Priscilla explores why family dynamics often activate us the most during the holiday season and how our False Authorities are usually formed in the very places...
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Overwhelm, Burnout and Stress: The Cage We Build
When life feels heavy, chaotic, or unmanageable, it's easy to blame the circumstances around us. But overwhelm, burnout, and stress often have a deeper source, the invisible cage we build for ourselves through pressure, expectations, and the belief that we "have to" keep going. In this episode,...
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The Freedom Within
In this episode, Priscilla explores the kind of freedom that has nothing to do with circumstances and everything to do with your inner world. You'll hear a powerful coaching story about what happens when survival patterns turn into identity—when "doing" becomes the only way you know how to feel...
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When Life Doesn't Go Your Way
When Life Doesn't Go Your Way What do you do when things don't go as planned, when the outcome you wanted isn't the one you get? In this episode, Priscilla explores the tension between what is and what we wish would be. You'll learn how resistance to reality drains your energy, how acceptance...
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The Common Denominator is You
In every situation of your life - the joyful, the painful, and the in-between - there's one thing in common: you. In this episode, Priscilla explores the deeper meaning of accountability and how every experience, relationship, and outcome mirrors something within us. Through a personal story of...
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What Matters Most
In this episode of This Life or Something Better, Priscilla invites you to pause and reflect on one powerful question: What truly matters most in your life? Through a heartfelt and deeply personal story about a loved one's journey with cognitive decline, Priscilla shares how easy it is to get...
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When your Emotions run the Show
In this episode of This Life or Something Better, Priscilla explores how our emotions shape the stories we live, and how to stop letting them run the show. From childhood monsters under the bed to adult fears about rejection, security, and identity, emotions are often misunderstood as enemies…
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Unlocking Flow: The Secret to Transforming Risk into Growth
We all know what it feels like to face risk - the racing thoughts, the "what ifs," the temptation to stay safe. And we all know the thrill of reward when things finally work out. But what if the real reward isn't at the end of the journey, it's who you become in the process? In this episode of…
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The Most Important Relationship You Will Ever Have
What is the most important relationship you'll ever have? In this episode of This Life or Something Better, Priscilla Bengtson reveals the answer: the relationship you have with yourself. Through stories, insights, and gentle guidance, Priscilla explores how past experiences and old beliefs…
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The 4 Steps to Reclaiming your Personal Power
Have you ever felt like the world is not cooperating with you? Maybe, you have been too busy attending to everyone else's need instead of your own. The people pleaser in you is leaking all your energy out into the world and you are exhausted. This is a sign that you are leaking your Personal…
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Why Attachment Keeps you Stuck and How to Let Go
We all get attached whether to people, outcomes, money, routines, or identities. But what happens when those attachments start to define our worth, our safety, or our success? In this episode of This Life or Something Better, Priscilla explores the hidden ways attachment can keep us stuck...
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Untangling Family Roles and Finding Yourself Again
What do you do when caring for your parent reopens every wound you thought had healed? In this episode of This Life or Something Better, we're diving into the complicated, emotional space where caregiving and old family roles collide. You may be the one driving to appointments, making medical...
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The Rule-Reward Trap: Why Habits Don't Stick
Are your habits rooted in alignment or just a reward for following the rules? In this episode of This Life or Something Better, Priscilla unpacks the hidden ways we sabotage consistency by turning healthy choices into conditional rewards. From "dessert comes after dinner" to "I earned this...
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Rewrite the Rules: Living Life with Flexibility and Adaptability
When life doesn't go according to plan, do you double down on control or lean into flexibility? In this episode, Priscilla invites you to rewrite the unspoken rules you've been living by and create space for a more present, adaptable, and self-honoring life. You'll learn five practical steps to...
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Are you Playing to Win, or to not Lose?
You might not even realize you're doing it. You're making smart choices, being responsible, staying practical, and yet, something feels like it's missing. You're not losing, exactly, but you're not winning either. In this episode of This Life or Something Better, I'm asking you to consider a…
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What if Life was Easy?
What if life wasn't meant to be a constant struggle? In this episode of This Life or Something Better, I'm inviting you to question one of the most deeply held beliefs we carry: that life has to be hard in order to be meaningful. We've been taught that growth only comes through pain, that hustle...
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Creating more Space in Your Life
In a world that celebrates busyness and constant doing, it can be easy to lose touch with what truly matters. We fill our calendars, chase productivity, and confuse motion with meaning, only to find ourselves depleted and disconnected. In this episode of This Life or Something Better, Priscilla...
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Shiny Object Syndrome and the Power of Commitment
Do you ever feel like you're trying to do everything, but finishing nothing? In this episode of This Life or Something Better, we're diving into the sneaky pattern of shiny object syndrome - where distractions dress up as opportunities and keep you spinning in circles. Priscilla unpacks the...
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Permission to Live
Have you ever caught yourself waiting - waiting for a sign, someone's approval, or the "right" moment - to make a change or finally be yourself? In this episode of This Life or Something Better, we dive into the unconscious pattern many of us carry from childhood: asking for permission before we...
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The Illusion of Control
Today's episode is a topic that I think every one of us has struggled with at one time or another - The Illusion of Control. While we may like our life to be in some order, control is another level of that. It is often based in fear and lack of psychological safety. When we feel out of control…
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What if Change was working For You, not Against You?
When we make big life changes, our minds tend to focus on everything we're leaving behind instead of what we're stepping into. Even when the change is positive, starting a new career, leaving a toxic relationship, prioritizing our well-being, there's often a pull to mourn what's ending instead of...
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Finish what you Started
Think about all the unfinished business in your life - projects, uncomfortable conversations or even simple tasks. There is a reason we put things off. In the moment, avoidance feels like relief. However, that relief is only temporary. Over time, what we avoid lingers, adding weight to our minds,...
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Embrace the Beginner's Mind
What if you approached your life with a Beginner's Mind? What if you could admit to yourself that you don't know anything? A beginner's mind is about approaching life as if it's brand new, even when you've been there before. It's seeing familiar situations, relationships or challenges through a...
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Becoming your Ideal Self
Welcome to Season 4 of This Life or Something Better! 2025 is here, and it's not just another year—it's the year of transition and transformation. This is your time to step into the life you've always dreamed of, to break free from what's holding you back, and to reach for your something better....
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Think Big, Start Small: Crafting Habits for Lasting Impact
In the final episode of our 24 in 2024 challenge, we dive into the power of habits as the cornerstone of health and wellness. Priscilla explores how habits shape our lives, from the small, seemingly insignificant routines to the transformative identity shifts that bring us closer to our goals....
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Small Steps for Bigger Results: Health and Fitness Hacks for Everyday Life
We are in the final topic of the 24 in 2024 Challenge with a special focus on health and wellness as we near the year's end. This episode will cover the importance of setting personal goals beyond just New Year's resolutions, the evolution of fitness, and the significance of starting small in…
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Creating a Conscious Family: A Soulful Approach to Parenting
In today's episode of This Life or Something Better, we dive into creating a conscious family life. We explore how holding onto outdated family dynamics can impact future generations and emphasize the importance of understanding each family member's unique journey. I discuss guiding children with...
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Navigating Family Dynamics: Understanding Your Primal Family
We were all souls prior to coming into the human experience. As we came into being human, we had to rely on others to help us navigate our life. This process goes on well into our teens and it creates who we are as a human. Sometimes this primal family we were born into works out, and other times...
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Navigating Love Relationships
In today's episode, we're diving deep into the 10th topic of our 24 in 2024 challenge: finding satisfaction in love relationships. We're exploring the intricacies of entering, maintaining, and exiting relationships, and how our personal expectations—shaped by beliefs, society, and media—play a...
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Love as a Soul Practice
In today's episode, titled "Love as a Soul Practice," Priscilla exploresd the intricate dynamics of love relationships and their impact on our personal growth. We'll explore how mutual honor and respect serve as the foundation for strong, balanced partnerships and why defining love for yourself…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Life can be challenging and oftentimes we get stuck when living it. Priscilla Bengtson is here to help you accept the life you are living without resistance and then find your something better. There is always something better to reach for. You just have to know it exists and take a step towards it.
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Life can be challenging and oftentimes we get stuck when living it. Priscilla Bengtson is here to help you accept the life you are living without resistance and then find your something better. There is always something better to reach for. You just have to know it exists and take a step towards it.
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