How Girls Can Turn Physical and Emotional Scars into Beauty

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"> Show Notes:</p><p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"> Dr. Jordan discusses how girls can reframe past experiences &amp; scars into healthy stories</p><p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"> Dr. Jordan describes an exercise he did with his high school campers where they visualized any scars they carry, physical or emotional, from past experiences &amp; which carried strong emotions. The girls then painted something positive and beautiful over their scars where previously they’d seen only brokenness or pain or bad memories.</p><p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"> Listen to the stories of the kinds of scars girls carry and the harmful effects on them.</p><p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"> Learn some of the ways that Dr. Jordan helped these girls look at their scars in a different light: reframe past negative beliefs with his spiral of beliefs process; visualization of passing shame back to the person who deserves it, not you; journaling your story &amp; what you want to let go of; write a letter to the person who hurt you &amp; then burn it; link to Dr. Jordan’s <a href="https://drtimjordan.com/2023/08/forgiveness-compassion-empathy-mlk-adversity/">teaching kids to forgive and move on podcast</a></p><p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"> Journaling about the lessons and gifts you received from the past trauma and scars: learn about <a href="https://medium.com/@motoki/kintsugi-as-a-metaphor-for-life-9f79d3b24ad3"> Kintsugi, the Japanese art form</a> of repairing broken pottery with gold to represent the idea that beauty can be found in imperfection.</p><p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"> Dr. Jordan also discusses the “steeling effect” of exposure to some hardship steels us against impact of future ones. Listen to Dr. Jordan’s previous podcast interview with author Meg Jay (<a href="https://drtimjordan.com