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The Renew Your Mind Podcast
Hosted by Renew Your Mind Institute · EN
The Renew Your Mind Podcast, hosted by Diana Swillinger, shares how to examine your thoughts, understand how they influence your emotions, and start managing them to better your relationships, life, and faith. Transform your life by the renewing of your mind.
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Their Emotional Experience Is Theirs, Let Them Have It
1w ago00:13:35Tap to summarizeYou were never meant to be someone else's emotional manager. Trying to protect people from disappointment, frustration, or discomfort may feel loving, but it often leaves you carrying emotions that don't belong to you. This episode explores the surprising connection between people pleasing and control and why letting others be fully human may be one of the greatest gifts you can give them—and yourself. When you stop managing everyone else's emotional experience, you finally have the freedom to care for others without sacrificing yourself. Free Classes and Other Resources Here: www.rympodcast.com
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Freedom to Think Whatever We Want
2w ago00:17:52Tap to summarizeFreedom is more than something we celebrate once a year. It's something we can practice every day inside our own minds, but we aren't practicing it enough! The stories we tell ourselves shape our emotional experience, and many of us spend years rehearsing thoughts that create discouragement, regret, or stress without realizing we have other options. This episode explores the freedom to choose what we think and how it will change your life for the better. There is a story in your head, you might as well make the story in your head a good one. Embracing the People Pleaser in You Free Class: www.rympodcast.com
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Renewed Minds, Real Stories
3w ago00:43:15Tap to summarizeIn this special 300th episode, you'll hear directly from listeners who share what they've learned from the Renew Your Mind Podcast and how they've applied those lessons in their own lives. From upgrading beliefs and processing emotions to taking ownership of thoughts and discovering the power of coaching, their stories are honest, practical, and inspiring. These testimonials are a reminder that change is possible, one thought at a time. Thank you for being part of this community and I'm still cheering you on in your own journey of mind renewal. www.rympodcast.com
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I Just Want to Be a Good Person
Jun 1600:17:57Tap to summarizePeople pleasing is not always about wanting other people to like you. Sometimes it's about trying to be a good person, a faithful person, a dependable person, or a servant-hearted person. When over-functioning becomes part of your identity, it can be easy to miss the fear, guilt, or pressure driving it. Learn how to recognize the difference between healthy service and self-abandonment so you can care for others without disappearing in the process. Free Classes: www.rympodcast.com
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Life After People Pleasing
Jun 900:20:49Tap to summarizeThe life you've been looking for—more energy, more love, less stress, less frustration, more fulfillment, and more feeling like yourself—is waiting for you on the other side of people pleasing. When your attention, energy, and love finally come home to you, you stop existing as a resource for everyone else and start experiencing your own life more deeply. Relationships become more authentic, your generosity becomes sustainable, and you discover the freedom of letting other people care for you too. You can still be kind, caring, and supportive—you're just finally included in the care. Free Class Sign Up: Embracing the People Pleaser in You at www.rympodcast.com
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Beautiful Traits You've Been Using Against Yourself
Jun 200:14:11Tap to summarizePeople pleasing is often fueled by some of the most beautiful qualities within us: loyalty, kindness, generosity, and a genuine desire to care for others. The problem isn't those traits—it's what happens when fear, guilt, and the need for approval start driving them. When that happens, strengths that once felt life-giving can leave us exhausted, resentful, and disconnected from ourselves. Free Class Sign Up: Embracing the People Pleaser in You at www.rympodcast.com
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The Difference Between Love and People Pleasing
May 2600:19:41Tap to summarizeLove and people pleasing can look very similar on the outside, but internally they are coming from completely different places. Healthy love includes honesty, choice, boundaries, and your humanity too, while people pleasing is often fueled by fear, guilt, pressure, and emotional self-abandonment. This conversation explores how to care deeply for others without disappearing in the process and why saying no does not make you less loving. Healing people pleasing is not about loving less — it's about learning to love from a grounded, truthful, and emotionally healthy place. Never Miss a Free Class with Diana: www.rympodcast.com
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The Exhaustion of Being "The Reliable One"
May 1900:25:12Tap to summarizeBeing "the reliable one" can feel meaningful, but over time it can also become exhausting. When your identity gets wrapped up in always helping, fixing, carrying, and showing up for everyone else, it becomes easy to lose connection with your own needs. This conversation explores the difference between healthy support and chronic over-functioning, and why dependable people still need rest, space, and care too. You can be loving, supportive, and responsible without making yourself responsible for everyone. Weekly Mind Renewal Strategies in "Thinking on a Thursday", sign up at www.rympodcast.com
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The Cost of Not Forgiving
May 1200:22:37Tap to summarizeHolding onto resentment can quietly drain your emotional energy, keep painful memories active, and make it difficult to experience peace in the present. Forgiveness is often misunderstood as approval, trust, or reconciliation, when really it can simply be a way to stop carrying so much emotional suffering every day. This conversation explores why forgiveness feels so hard, why human beings struggle to let go, and how compassion can soften the grip of bitterness without excusing harmful behavior. Healing becomes possible when we stop focusing so much emotional attention on what someone else did and begin returning that attention back to ourselves, our peace, and our future. Receive Mind Renewal Strategies with the Thinking on a Thursday Weekly Email from Diana. Sign up at www.rympodcast.com
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It's Okay If They Don't Understand
May 500:20:47Tap to summarizeMaking decisions for yourself when other people don't understand can be very challenging. But maybe we don't need to explain, and instead we need to start trusting the choices we are making for ourselves. This is about releasing the need for approval and allowing others to have their thoughts while you move forward. You'll walk away with a new way to think about being misunderstood and how embracing it can actually set you free. www.rympodcast.com
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