Everyday Creation
This show has to do with different kinds of creation: human, divine, and a third kind that connects the two. Our human creativity is easy to talk about because clearly we're prolific creators. We make music, we write, we cook; we establish businesses, we design gardens, we invent things. The list goes on and on. Another kind of creation is divine. We feel its presence when, for example, we contemplate birth, death, our life purpose, or have a quiet realization that there's something bigger than us. The third kind is perhaps a little more difficult to grasp and yet, with a little practice, it's easy to put into action. This is the personal power each of us has to direct our thoughts, words and actions every day toward what we want in our life and world, rather than what we don't want.
This sounds heavier than it is. For me, this show is an acknowledgment that while we're all here to learn and grow and do our best, there's still plenty of opportunity to relax, laugh, love, and enjoy this playground we call life. So my hope is that you'll get some enjoyment and illumination out of these episodes. Here you'll find interviews with delightfully creative individuals; short stories about some who have passed away; and essays about personal power.
I'm Kate Jones, host and creator of Everyday Creation. Thank you for following my show.
Everyday Creation
Live Your Higher Purpose with Self-Love
Self-love may sound selfish, but it's not. It's really about living our purpose so that we can lead happier lives and help others do the same.
This is the first of four short episodes with self-love expert Darcy Lord, PhD. All four are excerpts from a longer interview that covered many aspects of self-love including the practice of self-love, which has the power to change our lives for the better.
To receive Darcy's free pdf of the 5 principles of self-love, visit her website.
You also can find her on YouTube, Facebook and LinkedIn.
My episodes with Darcy are on the @EverydayCreation channel on YouTube too.
To hear the full interview in this directory, please go to episode 4.
Wyoming artist Bob Jones created the charming heart-within-a-heart drawing. In this episode's chapters, you can see the original without the episode number.
This is Kate Jones. Thank you for listening to Everyday Creation, available on YouTube and in podcast directories including Apple, Audible, iHeart and Spotify.
Kate:
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Hello, and welcome to Everyday Creation,
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a show about lifting our vibes for ourselves
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and the world.
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I'm Kate Jones here to share a short
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segment
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of my recent interview
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with Dr. Darcy Lord,
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a self-love expert who's on a mission
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to help raise the consciousness
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of the planet.
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In this episode,
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Darcy says that self-love at its core
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is choosing to see your innate worthiness.
[pre-recorded interview begins]
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Welcome to the show, Darcy!
Darcy:
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Oh my goodness. Thank you so much, Kate,
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for having me. I'm super, super honored and,
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couldn't be more excited about participating with someone
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who's all about lifting,
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you know, lifting the vibes for ourselves in
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the world. I think that's just beautiful.
Kate:
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Thank you. And I am so excited about
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having you on. I love what
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you're an expert in.
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It is so great that you remind people
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of their innate worthiness.
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Is that where self-love begins?
Darcy:
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Yes. I get so excited about it, and
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it's so important because I think
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it's a good thing that we're starting to
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talk about it more on the planet, about
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self-love, but a lot of times it
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gets equated
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to, like, our self-care lists,
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things about, you know, I'll go get a
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massage or a facial
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or it's time to try to eat better
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or meditate or work out. And I love
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all those things, but it turns out that
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self-love is, it's much more an inner
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job. So that
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relearning,
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maybe for the first time, or re-choosing
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to to see our own innate worthiness,
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which is kinda what hatches our deservability.
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It's where it starts. It's
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an inner game.
Kate:
That is a great explanation.
Darcy:
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Thank you. Yeah. And I think people can,
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like, sink their teeth into it. Because otherwise,
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it's easier to just keep thinking, "I gotta
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check off things on a self-care list,"
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where instead if we go, "Oh, no, it's
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it's an inner game of kind of holding
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myself in my own heart as precious and
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lovable and valuable and worthy." So it's that
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worthiness piece, innate worthiness. It's huge.
Kate:
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Oh, that sounds wonderful.
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So how does self-love help raise
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our collective consciousness?
Darcy:
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Oh, and I just I know that you're
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an asker of that because you're so much
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about raising the vibration, and
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even the question itself, it just lights me
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up inside because it's,
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it's our intuition
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as right in alignment.
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When you say that to someone, "Oh
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self-love can actually raise consciousness,"
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I think
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embedded in our cellular memory, our spiritual beingness,
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we get it,
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but on the planet it's kind of counter to
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what we believed
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because we've heard things like, you know, self-
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love is probably selfish.
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But the truth
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is self-love is and, this is a
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strong statement, but I believe it. Self-love
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is the only thing
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that is going to most gracefully
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and in Godspeed timing
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help us lift the consciousness of the planet.
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And that's because
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until we practice self-love, and it's not
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like a static thing, but until we work
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on practicing self-love,
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we won't do what we need to do
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to start living our higher purpose.
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So re-saying it backwards, self-love
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is the thing
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that will make us care about ourselves enough
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to do this sometimes hard and definitely scary
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and awesomely meaningful work of living our higher
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purpose.
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And the way we raise the consciousness of
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the planet, the collective consciousness.
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Imagine if more and more people
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every day, more and more people started actually
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living their higher purpose, like living in alignment
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with
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what their souls, that juicy deliciousness
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that
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means things like
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abundance and love and even your smile on
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your face right now. It's like when you
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do what you love to do.
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Self-love is the only thing that's gonna
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help us break out of the sleepiness of
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kind of status quo,
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to let us go,
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"I care enough about my soul and how
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it's connected to all that is to live
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what I'm supposed to live, to do what's
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mine to do on the planet." So it's
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directly related
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to lifting the vibration of the planet.
Kate:
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Oh, lovely.
Darcy:
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Isn't that cool?
[closing remarks]
Kate:
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Darcy is the author of "52 Weeks of
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Relief" and the upcoming "Self-Love is Your
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Path."
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To learn more, visit drdarcylord.com
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or listen to the full episode on YouTube
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or in your favorite podcast directory.
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This is Kate
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Jones asking listeners to please spread the love
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by sharing this episode with others.
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Until next time. Thank you for listening to
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Everyday Connection.
