Episode 07 - Anxiety, Attachment & Letting Go of Control with Stephanie James

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Stephanie James is a psychotherapist, author transformation coach, filmmaker, international speaker and host of the Igniting the Spark podcast. Drawing on decades of clinical experience and spiritual exploration, her work focuses on helping people navigate change, understand the stories and patterns shaping their lives, and develop a deeper relationship with themselves.

Her latest book, Your Big Fat Juicy Life (and Everything After), explores life, death and the full spectrum of human experience, including what it means to live more fully in the face of uncertainty.

Summary

Stephanie James has spent much of her life exploring the relationship between our inner lives and the way we experience the world.

In this conversation, Stephanie shares some of the experiences that shaped her own life, including the breakdown of her family when she was a teenager and the belief that followed that she needed to earn love. She talks about a pivotal experience at a Sufi school where she was told simply to “stop trying,” and how that moment began to change the way she understood herself and her life. 

We also talk about anxiety, attachment to outcomes, the stories we carry about ourselves, and what happens when we stop trying to control how life and other people respond to us. Stephanie shares the story of an injured eagle that became an unexpected lesson in letting go, along with some of the ways she works with difficult emotions, anxiety and the practice of returning to the present moment. 

We talk about nature, surrender, self-compassion and the difference between trying to change what we are experiencing and learning to be with what is already here.

Episode Link

Website - https://www.stephaniejames.world/

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/stephaniethespark/

Podcast - https://mindbodyspirit.fm/shows/igniting-the-spark-with-stephanie-james/