Hello, everyone. Welcome to Your SuperPowered Mind. I’m your host, Kristin Maxwell, and in this show we explore the process of transformation and give you tools and strategies that you can use to transform your own life.
Today, I’m going to be talking to Allison Carmen about the power of maybe to ease anxiety. Allison Carmen is a former attorney, turned a business consultant and a life coach whose clients range from owners of multimillion-dollar companies to artists, actors, writers, and parents. She’s also an author with blogs for Psychology Today, Huffington Post, and mindbodygreen, as well as a book, The Gift of Maybe, which focuses on helping people reduce their stress and worry in uncertain times.
Allison, welcome to Your SuperPowered Mind.
Oh, thank you so much for having me today.
Yes, we are. I am so excited to talk to you today. It is perfect timing in that we are in the very beginning, well, not the beginning, the first few weeks of coronavirus and this is going to be coming out sometime after things have played out a little bit. But we are very, very much now living in a time of uncertainty and you have a really good perspective on uncertainty.
Yes. You know what’s so interesting about this time is that life is just as uncertain today as it’s always been. I think what happens is, because uncertainty bothers us so much, is that we write stories about what needs to happen to be okay. We need this job. We need our child to go to a certain college. We need this much money in the bank for us to feel safe and well.
So I think what this time period is showing us is that there’s always uncertainty in our lives, but this is just putting it so in front of our face that we’re forced to deal with it. When you really look at it, uncertainty is one of the most important relationships in our lives. It’s the thing that that’s when we choose a job, when we choose a relationship, whatever we choose in our lives, uncertainty is always playing a part.
So what a wonderful time for us to look at the unknown and see if we could shift our relationship with it because, for me, I believe uncertainty is our greatest place of hope and possibility. Because when you think about it, if you want your life to change, it has to happen in the unknown and, at the end of the day, uncertainty is your best friend because that’s where hope is. That’s where possibility lies. That’s where new opportunities occur. So this is the time that we could strengthen our relationship with uncertainty, build that muscle and have a much easier time to deal with unexpected events as our lives move forward.
Wow. Okay. Listeners of the podcast, I’ve told them before, I have dealt with anxiety very, very much in my life and I don’t anymore. I have a very, very different relationship with it. But so much of what you have said, I would have fought, fought, fought so hard against before when I was holding on to wanting to know everything that was going on, so we’re going to get into that.
But first of all, I’ve got to ask you my first question, which is what super power did you uncover as the result of mastering your mind?
The super power is the power of maybe, I think, in my relationship with uncertainty because I could look towards what I don’t know and feel hopeful and feel safe within myself and trust myself, was really the path to the power. I guess, ultimately, the ultimate power is having faith in myself and in life itself and just taking one day at a time.
Oh, that’s great. That’s beautiful. I am writing that down because I want to unpack a little bit about that. We do have to take a break. I cannot believe this. This always go so fast. Can you tell people before we take a break where they can learn about you and your work and your book? Then we’ll come back and start to unpack this.
Oh, great. My website is Allison at allisoncarmen.com and it has a lot of blogs. I have a wonderful podcast called 10 Minutes to Less Suffering and that’s on iTunes. Or you could access it through my website or you could get it on Spotify. What’s so great about that, it’s this 10-minute podcast where within 10 minutes I deal with a topic and I give you an exercise. So, hopefully, if people decide to listen to it, you could alleviate some of your stress and worry. All different topics.
My book, The Gift of Maybe, it’s available on Amazon and all major bookstores. That’s another tool that you could use to lessen your fear and worry and anxiety, especially during these uncertain times.
Ah, that’s wonderful. Thank you so much. Hang on and we will be right back.
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