A Love Letter to Owning Our Actions & Experience

This week on the Love Letters, Life & Other Conversations podcast Jane shared a quote she heard as their springboard for the conversation.

"Don't regret being a good person to the wrong person. Your actions say everything about you and your actions say everything about you. "  ~Anonymous

They talk about the idea that we each own our experience and that our actions reflect who we are, including our reactions to what others are putting out.  Jane also shares a Brené Brown quote, 'Strong Back, Soft Front, Wilde Heart' and they talk about how this relates to owning your experience by continuing to be kind when faced with someone who isn't but also holding your boundaries firm, and beautifully embracing having a 'wild heart'.   The conversation winds around the idea of owning your actions and your experience and how we can never know what someone else is going through so cannot make assumptions about their perspective or behaviour. 

Hello.. KB here - Jane and Wendy shared their 'thank yous' to everyone who has given us such beautiful feedback about these episodes and how you are using them as your own springboards either with others or for yourself.   I want to add my thanks to that as well.  I am inspired by how these conversations are impacting others, as I know how they impact me as I am the 'first' listener to each one!  Inspired by your feedback we are going to update our weekly shownotes to include not just Jane and Wendy's takeaways, but mine as well.   

Here are our takeaways for this week:

Wendy

• Always let them eat sorbet in Versailles!
• How owning our experience is not at the expense of others but a way of embracing our perspective, our joy and our experience without trying to force or figure out the other persons experience or perspective. 
• She loved the Brené Brown quote and how it encourages the 'empowered bravery', but also holding true to our own boundaries.

Jane

• She loves the simplicity of the springboard quote, but that through the conversation recognizes that who are we to determine who is the wrong person, and  that we need to focus instead on that idea of owning our experience.
• The idea that someone by be the 'wrong person' doesn't mean that they are always the wrong person, but that it may be isolated to that particular experience.

Kristina (KB)

• Our actions and reactions show who we are and it is so helpful to remember that when faced with a situation that is uncomfortable.  The other person's actions are not a reflection of you, but of themselves. 
• This conversation made me ask myself, 'Where am I not owning my experience and

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