“It’s Never Too Late” to Reclaim Your Story, Your Power & Your Life! Monica Lewinsky Reveals All! (Pt 2)
3/17/202640 min
It’s never too late to reclaim your story, to reclaim the narrative of who you truly are and to reclaim your life! And we’re diving into more insights into how you can do that in your life right now, today, coming up in this incredible part 2 episode with Monica Lewinsky. I am SO excited for this! We can learn so much from each others stories, and when we share powerful conversations like the one we’re having today, together, it can help us feel less alone and more enough, in this one miraculous life!
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First 90 secondsJamie Kern Lima· Host0:00
Coming up in this incredible part two conversation with Monica Lewinsky.
Monica Lewinsky· Guest0:05
I was trying to get small again, 'cause that feels safe to me, and the universe is like, "Uh-uh. You gotta do more." Having been through so much public humiliation and shame and carted it around for a long time, all I can say is that I know it's possible for it to get better.
Jamie Kern Lima· Host0:27
Mm.
Monica Lewinsky· Guest0:27
I had Bell's palsy a few years ago- Mm ... and it was so surprising to me how not freaked out I was. Those are the kinds of, when you're expansive.
Jamie Kern Lima· Host0:38
What role, if any, did faith play?
Monica Lewinsky· Guest0:41
What can be hard with trauma is sometimes it's hard to tell the difference between your, a trauma protective reaction, a hypervigilance- Mm-hmm ... and your intuition.
Jamie Kern Lima· Host0:55
Mm.
Monica Lewinsky· Guest0:55
There are still times today that I feel the shame, you know? I, I can feel it in my body. It's sort of, it, it's on my shoulders or it's in my stomach or, you know, it's just a kind of wanting to protect myself feeling.
Jamie Kern Lima· Host1:09
Yes.
Monica Lewinsky· Guest1:09
And they happen less. If you're gonna be out there wanting to shine as brightly as you can- Yeah ... and it, and that's a different kind of beauty.
Jamie Kern Lima· Host1:18
Yes. You say reclaiming is taking back what was yours. Was there a moment where you're like, "I am taking my power back. I'm taking my story back"?
Monica Lewinsky· Guest1:26
When I wrote the Vanity Fair essay in 2014, that