Rebekah “Bex” Borucki is a mother of five, TV host, meditation and yoga guide, birth doula, and author of You Have 4 Minutes to Change Your Life: Simple 4-Minute Meditations for Inspiration, Transformation, and True Bliss(Hay House 2017) and her brand new book, Managing the Motherload: A Guide to Creating More Ease, Space, and Grace in Motherhood(Hay House 2019).
Her mission is to make mental health support and stress management tools accessible to all, especially BIPOC (Black and Indigenous People of Color), LGBTQ+ folks, and other marginalized communities. Rebekah lives with her family and a barn-full of rescued farm animals on their 8-acre homestead in rural New Jersey.
In this episode we talk about:
- my excitement and worries about talking over people in interviews
- why I think that I struggle with talking over people
- how becoming parents allows us to see our own parents and forgive them
- understanding ourselves outside of being a parent but being a full human
- her start as a YouTuber and what inspired her to get into fitness back at the beginning of YouTube
- how she turned to fitness to deal with anxiety that she has struggled with since age 8
- being introduced to yoga by Tara Stiles
- being on lithium since the age of 8
- being institutionalizied and trying to commit suicide at age 10
- how shoplifting a copy of Be Here Now changed her life and started her meditation journey
- her awakening to the fact that she had the power to rescue herself
- my near suicide story and seeing that if I wanted to LIVE it was up to me
- how we both are so behind the fact that YOU HAVE TO PAY ATTENTION TO YOUR NEGATIVE THOUGHTS and acknowledging reality.
- not having shame about her story or living into “why me” but “why not me!”
- using affirmations as AND statements after naming the hard, negative, heavy thought and feeling that is very real.
- speaking the truth to yourself, seeing the shitty and also the good.
- how much so many of us are programmed to be fat-phobic, prejudice, trans-phobic and such from society and how we are raised
- the shared purpose
- being a black, white passing person
- how to initiate conversations and hold space for black people/people of color as a white person
- how there isn’t your truth or their truth, just THE truth and to not discredit someone else’s experience
- not invalidating your own experiences or any else’s
- the genius of her first book You Have Four Minutes to Change Your Life
- her book coming out this week Managing the Motherhood and how it is about more than motherhood
- how as mothers and humans how often we look outside of ourselves for the answers
- how we can really only feel judged, if we are judging ourselves
- taking a look at anti-racial actions not just non-racial beliefs and actions
- Which keychain she chose from my line and why!
LINKS to other things/people/music we mentioned!
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Her first book, You have four minutes to change your life.
Her new book, Managing the Motherhood.
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Books Rebekah recommends to start reading books by Black Authors
They Were Her Property by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers
Stony the Road by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
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