3546: It’s Spring! The Secret To Make Your Life Dreams Bloom by Ingrid Y. Helander on Personal Development

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🗓️ 30 March 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 3546: When spring arrives, nature bursts into life effortlessly, so why do our dreams stay locked inside? Ingrid Y. Helander explores how our fears and worries act as protective buds, preventing our true potential from blooming. By acknowledging and working with our anxieties instead of resisting them, we can finally step into the life we were meant to live. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://ingridyhelanderlmft.com/its-spring-the-secret-to-make-your-life-dreams-bloom/ Quotes to ponder: "Instead, we usually keep our dreams locked up inside their bud well protected by a long list of worries and excuses." "If those summer buds on the trees worried about all the cold, wind, and bleakness ahead, we’d probably never have those fresh green leaves." "You cannot simply dismiss these worries. If you could, you would already be living your dreams." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Optimal Living Daily. It's spring, the secret to make your life dreams bloom by Ingrid Y. Helander
0:08.5	of ingrid Yelander, lmft.com, and I'm Justin Mollick. We're going to get right to it today and start
0:15.3	optimizing your life. It's spring, the secret to make your life dreams bloom by Ingrid Y. Helander of ingrid
0:26.8	Y. Helander, L.MFT.com. This is my favorite time of year. Don't you love the leaves when they first
0:35.3	pop out on the trees? Bright green and tender?
0:38.9	They delight me every time.
0:40.7	The sun shines and they just pop.
0:43.4	One moment there is no life on bare branches and then suddenly all the leaves appear.
0:49.7	Wouldn't it be great if life was like that for us?
0:52.7	Imagine your plans and yearnings suddenly feeling a bit of
0:55.6	inspiration and then popping out one day, all fresh informed. Instead, we usually keep our dreams
1:01.8	locked up inside their bud well protected by a long list of worries and excuses. Every day I hear
1:09.0	clients sadly reporting how they can't realize their truest lives.
1:13.3	Their laments sound like this. I've also wanted to travel to Greece. Maybe someday I'll go, but
1:18.7	once again, it's not the right time. I'd like to spice up my marriage, but I worry that I'll just
1:24.4	anger my husband and push us further apart if I mention a change.
1:28.9	I know I'm a great storyteller, if I could only convince myself to work on my stuff and share it.
1:34.3	There's definitely an empty missing piece of me. I don't even know what I believe about life and beyond.
1:40.1	It scares me to think about it. This job is killing me. It's boring, and I get no thrill from it.
1:46.5	If only I could figure out how to move forward without a loss of income, but that's too risky.
1:52.5	And the list continues.
1:54.2	I understand my clients because I have my own list of yearnings that tire me with their
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