67-Richele Batt: Calling in Loving Relationships

<p>•  I ended my 22-year marriage, it was a long time coming, but it was a destructive marriage, and so coming out of that I had a lot of healing to do, and I began a road to that, and part of that was counseling, I had already been in some counseling, but a lot of that was kind of like looking to coaches online of how to recover from abusive relationships and that kind of thing. Coaching on YouTube and stuff. And podcasts, and things to help me understand that I needed to grow... So fast forward a year and a half or so after my divorce, I knew I wanted to continue to help people understand what I was understanding, you can heal after these relationships that are toxic. And so I actually went to my counselor at the time and said, I even want to go back to school and get my Master's, and do Social work counseling, because I have a Psychology degree or I want to become a relationship coach.  (2:24)</p><p>•   Yeah, and I love that you call yourself a calling in the one coach, because you know, that's what we talk about a lot on that Mindset Chick podcast, like calling in things that you want, and that was very powerful that you said that you were... Until you identified that you were repeating the same patterns, until you did your own healing... Absolutely, yeah, kind of looked within and realized what you were calling in, even though you wanted to leave that toxic marriage, as you said, then separating from that, wanting something different, but instead, without looking and doing the inner work or healing, you would just keep calling in the same type of person, right? Yes.  (5:41)</p><p>•  Oh my gosh, I think it's so essential. It's a completely essential because you only have the capacity to love others as much as you can love yourself, I've come to realize that. So, I don't know, I think a lot of people think, Oh, it's selfish to talk about self-love. And self-love is not selfish, it's really the base for everything else, like how we can give to the world and how we can give to relationship, because we're going t