Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Jessica Zweig on How to Be the Light You Seek in the World | EP 544
Tue, 10 Dec 2024
In this inspiring episode of Passion Struck, bestselling author Jessica Zweig shares her transformative approach to unlocking your inner and outer light. Drawing from her book, The Light Work: Reclaim Your Feminine Power, Live Your Cosmic Truth, and Illuminate the World, Jessica provides a powerful framework for confronting inner shadows, building authentic relationships, and stepping into your purpose as a Lightworker.Link to the full show notes: https://passionstruck.com/jessica-zweig-be-the-light-you-seek-in-the-world/Call to Action: Jessica’s insights will empower you to heal, embrace self-love, and align with your true calling. Whether you’re seeking personal growth, deeper connections, or a more purposeful life, this conversation will inspire you to become the light you’ve been searching for.Don’t miss this journey into courage, connection, and authentic transformation.Sponsors: Rosetta Stone: Unlock 25 languages for life at “ROSETTASTONE.com/passionstruck.” Prolon: Reset your health with 15% off at “ProlonLife.com/passionstruck.” Mint Mobile: Cut your wireless bill to 15 bucks a month at “MINT MOBILE dot com slash PASSION.” Hims: Start your journey to regrowing hair with Hims. Visit hims.com/PASSIONSTRUCK for your free online visit. Quince: Discover luxury at affordable prices with Quince. Enjoy free shipping and 365-day returns at quince.com/PASSION. In this episode, you will learn: The synonym for "light" is "information," representing our inner truth and potential. Darkness is not evil; it is simply a lack of information and can lead to fear and ignorance. Jessica Zweig discusses her journey with body dysmorphia and the impact of societal standards on self-worth. She emphasizes the importance of recognizing that negative beliefs about our bodies are not our own but societal projections. Embracing one's light can help reconnect with authentic power and attract like-minded individuals. The concept of "soul family" refers to the people our souls choose for our highest evolution, including family and friends. Healing oneself contributes to healing the world, as many societal issues stem from unhealed individuals. Connect with Jessica Zweig: https://jessicazweig.com/For more information on advertisers and promo codes, visit Passion Struck Deals.Join the Passion Struck Community! Sign up for the Live Intentionally newsletter, where I share exclusive content, actionable advice, and insights to help you ignite your purpose and live your most intentional life. Get access to practical exercises, inspiring stories, and tools designed to help you grow. Learn more and sign up here.Speaking Engagements & Workshops Are you looking to inspire your team, organization, or audience to take intentional action in their lives and careers? I’m available for keynote speaking, workshops, and leadership training on topics such as intentional living, resilience, leadership, and personal growth. Let’s work together to create transformational change. Learn more at johnrmiles.com/speaking.Episode Starter Packs With over 500 episodes, it can be overwhelming to know where to start. We’ve curated Episode Starter Packs based on key themes like leadership, mental health, and personal growth, making it easier for you to dive into the topics you care about. Check them out at passionstruck.com/starterpacks.Catch More of Passion Struck: My solo episode on The Science of Healthy Habits My episode with Gabby Bernstein on finding profound freedom and inner peace Can’t miss my episode with Arthur Brooks on the 4 Ways to Build the Life You Want Watch my episode with Kate Bowler on Why There is No Cure for Being Human If you liked the show, please leave us a review—it only takes a moment and helps us reach more people! Don’t forget to include your Twitter or Instagram handle so we can thank you personally.How to Connect with John:Connect with John on Twitter at @John_RMiles and on Instagram at @John_R_Miles. Subscribe to our main YouTube Channel here and to our YouTube Clips Channel here. For more insights and resources, visit John’s website.Want to explore where you stand on the path to becoming Passion Struck? Take our 20-question quiz on Passionstruck.com and find out today!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Chapter 1: What is the main message of Jessica Zweig's book?
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The synonym for the word light is information. That's it. Imagine yourself in a pitch black room and you switch on the light. You can see. You can see what is factually, actually, truthfully there. Our light that's within us is our truth and the truth of who we really are. I don't just believe I know that we as human beings are limitless, are innately loved and
Chapter 2: How can we navigate through our inner darkness?
are innately worthy are innately powerful and quantum and abundant that's the information the information of truth that lives inside of all of us and darkness isn't evil we hear the word dark we're like oh that's something to be afraid of that's bad it's not it's just lack of information It's actually quite neutral when you think about it. When we're in a dark room, we can't see.
And when we can't see and we are in the dark, things do happen. We get scared. There is a vibration of fear in the dark. We are technically ignorant. And what happens in ignorance? Well, we make up stories. We project things that simply aren't true. And it is in the dark that things do get dangerous if we let the dark stay dark too long.
Welcome to passion struck. Hi, I'm your host, John R. Miles. And on the show, we decipher the secrets, tips and guidance of the world's most inspiring people and turn their wisdom into practical advice for you and those around you. Our mission is to help you unlock the power of intentionality so that you can become the best version of yourself.
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Chapter 3: What does it mean to be a spiritual hustler?
If you want to, I don't love that word, but I use that word just to make sense of conscious awake people at this time and with my show and really with my platform and all the things that I'm doing today, my business, I'm really here to help women come home to their true nature and their feminine identities to really
look at spirituality and business as intrinsically connected, the more we're in tune with our mission, our why, our true purpose in this life. As a spiritual being having a human experience, I think the more impactful we can be in our work. And I say this on my podcast, like we're really here on that show and in my work at large,
to hustle from a different vibration, to hustle not from fear and scarcity and gripping and grinding, but to hustle for love and to hustle for humanity and to hustle from a place of trust and allowance. And when we spiritually hustle, I think we actually make a bigger impact. We make more money, but we don't kill ourselves on the way to do it. And I think that's what a lot of, excuse me,
And I think that's what a lot of women are really craving and coming home to. So that's what a spiritual hustler means to me.
I love it. And what an amazing show you have created. And I love how you interview your guests. So I highly encourage my audience to check you out.
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Chapter 4: How can self-love improve our relationships?
Thank you. Thank you so much.
So I want to go into an area that I quite honestly have never talked about before on this show, and that is body dysmorphia. I grew up as a kid. facing weight challenges my entire adolescence until I got into high school and I picked up cross-country running and it changed my whole life.
But I remember throughout my entire childhood having so low esteem and being bullied and teased about my weight and just Feeling like there was nothing I could do to make the situation better. I now look back and I realize it was the diet that I was exposed to growing up and carb overload and sugar and all those other things.
But at the time, when you're eight, nine, 10 years old, you don't even realize it. As I understand it, you yourself face these same issues and you had a defining event happen to you when you just got out of college, if I have it right. And you were an aspiring actress and you got this incredible audition and it blew up in your face, so to speak. Can you talk about that?
I'm like emotional just hearing you reflect that. It's amazing how raw we can remain when we think back on those pivotal moments so i too grew up and i was really little and like angular until i got my period at 13 and then all of a sudden i had curves and i was plump and chubby and I grew up in a community where everyone was so thin.
And then I went to college and I gained not the freshmen 15, but the freshmen 30 and kept that weight on until I graduated. And yet I went to school for theater. I was a well-trained actress. By the time I graduated college, I went to a very competitive conservatory program. And so I entered the acting world, talented, but 30 pounds overweight.
And I got this incredibly coveted meeting with one of the biggest commercial directors in the city of Chicago. And it was a preliminary audition for a huge campaign. And I walked into his office. I was 22. I was probably about six months out of college. And I walk into his office. I sit down in his chair about to begin the conversation. I hadn't even told him my name.
I hadn't even formally introduced myself. I hadn't said a word. And he goes, stand back up, turn around, looks me up and down. And he asks me while I'm standing there, how much do you weigh? And I didn't know. I wasn't weighing myself a regular basis. I said, I don't know my weight. He said, well, do you know what size you are? I said, I'm probably a size eight, maybe a size six.
And he just looked at me, matter of fact, straight as possible. He said, well, if you ever want to be an actress, you're going to need to lose about 35 pounds. And if you don't do that, you least need to get your size down to a two and a zero. If you want to ever be on camera, you can sit down now and tell me your name. That was not only the beginning.
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Chapter 5: What is the significance of embracing our inner light?
Well, it's first to recognize that all of the beliefs that you have around your body The negative beliefs, they're not yours. They're programs and projections. based upon a society specifically for women that has curated a made up, totally false story and ideal of what our bodies need to look like.
So to really just tap out is the best you can objectively to look at those thoughts as just not yours. And that's step one. I think step two is
This sounds very tactical and trivial, but it's really powerful, in fact, to stop following certain accounts on social media that trigger you, stop watching certain shows, stop picking up certain magazines, like unhooking yourself from the projection field is really powerful to come home to your body, what you look like in your own vessel, in your own container of awareness is huge. I think
as someone that went down the rabbit hole of all the diets and all the different workouts, like start building a relationship with your own body of what feels good to you, how to intuitively nourish your body, how to intuitively move your body.
I say this in my book, I have a whole exercise actually at the back of that chapter where I teach the reader how to have a conversation with your body, like how to ask it questions and how to learn how to listen to the answers and to cultivate a right relationship with your own body.
And that typically requires us to slow down, get still, move at the pace of our own rhythm versus the toxic tech that is constantly bombarding us with go, do, be in action mode constantly to really slow down. Another hot tip that I love and live by if you are a woman is to get a
app on your phone that tracks your menstrual cycle and learn about the different phases of that 30-day window and how our body wants us to fuel it and move it and how much rest we need how much energy we have in these four different phases of the infradian rhythm which is connected to the moon cycle and to really become in tune with that feminine nature
I think is one of the biggest unlocks and permission slips to start to love and honor our bodies at a completely different level. And so that would be my advice and to just tell her she's perfect. She's beautiful. She is divinely designed. And the fact that she doesn't look like anyone else is the greatest miracle and her biggest superpower.
Well, thank you for sharing that. And I'm sure there's someone who's listened to this who needed to hear those exact words.
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Chapter 6: How does societal pressure affect body image?
You have mentioned your book a couple times today, and it's titled is The Light Work. It's a USA Today bestselling book. Congratulations on that. And for those who are watching, the cover is right behind your right hand shoulder.
Yes, it is.
congratulations on that. And I wanted to go here in the light work. You talk about uncovering our inner light and the importance of recognizing both light and dark aspects of ourselves. Can you share how you define inner light and how it differs from the darkness?
Of course. So the synonym for the word light is as I define it throughout my own spiritual studies and research and experience and how I phrase it in the book, the synonym for the word light is information. That's it. So when we are in a dark room, imagine yourself in a pitch black room and you switch on the light. You can see. You can see what is factually, actually, truthfully there.
And so our light that's within us is our truth and the truth of who we really are And I believe, and I don't just believe, I know that we as human beings are limitless, are innately loved, are innately worthy, are innately powerful and quantum and abundant. That's the information, the truth, the information of truth that lives inside of all of us. And darkness isn't evil.
When we hear the word dark, we're like, ooh, that's something to be afraid of. That's bad. It's not. It's just lack of information. It's actually quite neutral when you think about it. When we're in a dark room, we can't see. And when we can't see and we are in the dark, things do happen. We get scared. There is a vibration of fear in the dark. We are technically ignorant.
right and what happens in ignorance well we make up stories we project things that simply aren't true and it is in the dark that things do get dangerous if we let the dark stay dark too long i write about this in my book some of the most horrific manifestations of the darkness is hatred and bullying and racism and anti-Semitism and homophobia.
And I mean, those are some of the darkest expressions of humanity. Right. And that's coming from our lack of information, truth that we are all love, that we are all connected, that we're all part of one big human family, that we are powerful. Right. But those are the most extreme atrocities. Right. Things I just mentioned.
The average person festers in their own dark and things like imposter syndrome come up, scarcity comes up, jealousy comes up, lack of worthiness comes up, competition and comparison.
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Chapter 7: What practical steps can help heal body image issues?
Because it resonated so much with your message.
Wow. It's funny, John, as you were even picking up the book, I started getting chills. I'm like something really powerful is about to come through. And then you read that and my body kept waving with chills. That's, that's so profound. So timely. Wow.
Well, when you think about this candle that you and Mark are talking about, this concept of light isn't new. And I thought it was so funny how when you were talking to your publisher about using this word that they saw it as misunderstood or problematic, and we're trying to steer you away from using it. On the cover of my book, I have A light, too. It's a flame.
And I think it is such a powerful symbol. And my publisher didn't want to use it either. In fact, it was almost a walkaway moment for both of us because I was so adamant about having it on the cover. When you think about our own light, which is really, as you describe it, our potential, it can feel so intimidating to us and even others.
How do you think embracing this idea of being the light helps us reconnect with our authentic power?
Gosh, this is such a beautiful question and such a big one. I say this in my book because I do tell that story about how, and I did walk away from that publisher and I decided to go with a different publisher because they were The other publisher was fighting me on my title and they called the word light problematic. And I couldn't wrap my brain around that.
I was like, how can something so universal and available to all of us and the truth of who we are be a problem? And then it clicked. And I wrote this in the book. I'm like, people aren't afraid of the light that you are. People are afraid of the light that is within them that is often unexpressed and repressed.
And so you living your light and being so embodied in your truth and your joy and your authenticity has to be wrong. Like they have to put a label that's bad as a way to protect themselves from shining that brightly too. And this is typically subconscious, right? So to answer your question, it's such a beautiful question.
I think it's really, I say this all throughout the book, and I believe this to be true. I mean, there is power in numbers. And when you step out and start to shine your light, quantum science, this isn't woo-woo, like light attracts light. It's science. Like attracts like. And when you are embodied in a vibration, because everything is energy, right? This is Albert Einstein. This is Joe Dispenza.
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Chapter 8: How can we transform challenges into opportunities for growth?
He says, our fear of not mattering much has the potential to draw us away from what matters most. And I think it's so fits in to us running away from the light because when we do, I think it puts us into a place where we feel like we don't matter. And then all these other things start brewing inside of us and we don't feel whole. I wanted to get your thought on that.
Oh, John, you just basically told the story of the first 38 years of my life. I mean, I think. feel like you named it i mean it's the the core human yearning is to belong we really are meant to live in community it's how we were designed from the dawn of civilization before the modern world we lived in tribes and to belong is to matter and to matter is to belong and
A lot of our collective trauma is unfortunately, and I say this with all the love in the world based upon, I think our parents and their parents and their parents that had this. deeply seated program to survive and to clench into grip and to not trust life and not to trust themselves and their own power and to put themselves out into the light.
That was not an option because we came up through centuries of survival, really. And the fittest always won. And I look back at my own childhood and my parents are incredible people. I'm obsessed with my family, but they were imperfect at the same time and doing the best they could with what they knew. And my dad was really hard on me. And in order to matter, I had to succeed, right?
Because in his mind, if you are successful, you're safe, right? And he was just trying to keep me protected in the way that he raised me. And that caused a lot of strife between us because I was a young rebel that came out of the womb, like ready to do life on my terms. And we butted heads for a lot of my life. And I found myself in my late thirties at the peak of my success,
quote unquote mattering, right? All of a sudden I was the successful entrepreneur, built a business, written a book, had a podcast, had a community, won the awards, hit the press hits check, right? But why inside did I not feel like I mattered? That was what I had to reconcile. Like I said, I made the joke.
He basically described my first 38 years of my life to remember the key word is remembering that I didn't have to do any of those things to matter. And
that is the collective amnesia that we have in the collective consciousness that i think a lot of people are awakening to that we are born worthy we are born loved we are born perfect going back to the body dysmorphia part of our conversation and that is unfortunately and also fortunately because it's part of the gift of the human experience is a lifelong journey of unlearning and
I just feel that there is such an opportunity given podcasts like yours and mine and books and coaching and therapy and everything that sort of become mainstream that our parents certainly didn't have for us to heal that and to come home to. are innate mattering. And so I think that's really at the end of the day, what we're all doing here, John, like in the space, right?
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