When life feels heavy, dark, and discouraging, it’s easy to believe we’re buried. But the truth is, the mud was never meant for our demise — it was meant for our growth. Every layer of pressure, pain, and resistance has been shaping resilience, teaching sustainability, and preparing us to stand in the light.

In this episode, Nate unpacks:

• The mud process — how hidden struggles shape us even when no one sees.

• The push through resistance — finding strength to move rocks and go around hard soil.

• The warrior’s call — why we keep pushing when it feels impossible.

• The gentle door — learning to bow before old seasons, close them with gratitude, and move forward in peace.

This finale is more than an ending — it’s a declaration:

✨ “I am the Lotus. I have risen out of the mud.”

Pulling up a chair with your inner child and sitting with yourself is where true healing begins. You don’t even know who is connected to your freedom — your growth may unlock doors for people you may never meet. We have to learn to sit in the mud, to let it cover us, to allow the roots to deepen. Rushing the process rarely gives lasting fruit. Transformation shows up in silence — when the people you expected to cheer you on don’t, and the strangers you never knew bring you the encouragement you need. That silence pushes you back to your own reflection. It forces growth. It demands that you water your own seed. The truth is simple: nothing moves without you. Nothing shifts until you connect your struggles, your hardships, and your cycles with the expression of your authentic self. Life repeats the lesson until you finally choose to learn it. That’s what this podcast is about. Changing mindsets, one thought at a time. Every episode is a reminder that your grind, your growth, and your healing matter.

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It Came From Those Things

“Because nothing today exists without yesterday.”

-Nate D.

It Came From Those Things is a storytelling and self-reflection podcast that explores how struggles, regrets, heartbreaks, and cave-like moments of silence transform into growth, resilience, and healing. Each episode dives into the hidden value of life’s challenges, showing how beauty can rise from ashes and how scars can turn into lessons.

This podcast speaks to anyone who has ever felt unheard, unseen, undervalued, or unworthy — and reminds listeners that every trial shapes purpose. Vulnerable, raw, and inspiring, It Came From Those Things is a journey of transformation that connects past pain to present strength.

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Life isn’t meant to be fair — life is meant to be a lesson. Every disruption, heartbreak, or detour is not a punishment, but an invitation to grow. When life shakes us, it’s often because we would have stayed stuck without the shake-up.

In this episode, we explore how life is the greatest teacher you’ll ever meet. It humbles you, confronts you, and sets your shadows on the table so you can no longer ignore them. It tests the areas you say you want to grow in, and it strips away ego, pride, and stubbornness until only truth remains.

The storms, the heartbreaks, and the disappointments are all groundbreakers — breaking you open so you can be set free from yourself. And when we learn to say thank you even to those storms, we stop being victims of life and start being students of it. Gratitude transforms pain into wisdom, and wisdom transforms us into our higher selves.

Life will break you, test you, and sometimes bring you to your knees. But every experience — the heartbreaks, the betrayals, the disappointments — can also be your greatest teacher.

In this episode, I reflect on the lessons hidden inside pain. Instead of looking at the past through bitterness or resentment, I choose gratitude. Thank you to the situations that pushed me to grow. Thank you to the storms that stripped away illusions and forced me to stand stronger. Thank you to the moments that made me feel invisible — because they showed me how deeply I truly matter. And thank you to the people who forced me to grow, even when their actions caused pain — because those challenges became the fuel for my transformation.

Pain can either chain you down or become fuel for your growth. In this episode, I share examples of turning breakdowns into breakthroughs:

• Facing the workplace moments where “support” felt like sabotage — and how that pressure made me redefine self-worth.
• Overcoming the sting of feeling overlooked or replaced — and discovering that your value never depends on someone else’s recognition.
• Learning how to channel anxiety, heartbreak, and disappointment into clarity, strength, and peace.

This episode is about finding power in reflection and closing chapters with gratitude — even when they hurt.

It’s not about blame. It’s about the brutal beauty of seeing yourself — even when it hurts. Healing begins when we stop pointing and start seeing.

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This is a bonus episode ahead of Season 3, where we'll begin to focus more deeply on relationships—both with others and with ourselves.

In this episode, we’ll explore a powerful question:

Why do we suppress our dreams, goals, and inspirations?

The truth is, pursuing our deepest desires isn’t always easy. The dreams we carry often feel bigger than us—or further away than they appear. And sometimes, we silence them before we even give ourselves a chance to try.

This episode, titled "Ebb and Flow," will help us uncover the subtle ways we talk ourselves out of our dreams.

Is it fear? Past failure? Uncertainty about the future?

Or is it simply the daily distractions that drown out our inner voice?

We’ll explore:

• Why manifesting your vision feels so difficult
• How life’s patterns can suppress or awaken your purpose
• What "dream killers" really are—and how to spot them
• How to invest in the things that truly matter to you

It’s not always what you see that holds you back—it’s the process.

Past, present, and future all play a role in shaping how you move forward.

Ebb and Flow.

Recognize the patterns. Reclaim your power. Reignite your dreams.

🔑 This is a journey to remember what you were always meant to become.

Closure doesn’t always come from them — it comes from within.

This episode dives into a hard but freeing truth: sometimes closure doesn’t come from a conversation — it comes from the work you do within.

We talk about how closure can feel like a double-edged sword. We often wait for people to say the right thing or give us an explanation, but sometimes the only closure we’ll ever get is the one we give ourselves. And that’s the most powerful kind.

Sometimes the words you need to hear never come. Sometimes the answers never show up. This episode is for anyone who's ever waited, prayed, or stayed too long — hoping that someone else would help them heal the wound they caused. But what if closure isn’t something we get from others? What if it’s something we create for ourselves?

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This episode is not about bounce-backs—it’s about resurrections.

"RISE" dives deep into the spaces where we gave too much, waited too long, and held on to people who couldn’t meet us. It's about the quiet grief of watching someone we loved stay the same while we outgrew the pain. It’s about letting go of roles that drained us, and reclaiming the truth of who we are beneath the ache.

There comes a point when healing stops looking poetic—and starts looking like detachment, silence, and strength without apology.

This one is for those who waited, endured, cried in silence, and still chose to rise—with no hand to pull them up but their own.

Because in the fire, we didn’t just survive—we found the blueprint to rebuild.

In this premiere episode of Open My Eyes, I open up about what true healing really looks like: the grief, the silence, the accountability, and the transformation. This isn’t just a conversation—it’s a reflection from a man who had to let go of emotional survival and start walking in spiritual truth.

Real healing costs your ego, comfort, and past self. This one’s for the ones rebuilding in silence. Healing Costs—tune in now.

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In this member's only bonus content, Working To Forgiveness- The series interview with (Brenna A) LAC). to how we see events in Working to forgiveness is a series that will focus on the Ego State Therapy. The Ego State Therapy focuses on the idea that the individual is made-up of parts in those parts contribute our lives, and how we conflict with them. This is a parts series with more information being released, during this interview our guest it's asked the series of questions on how the ego state therapy works, and how it ties into learning forgiveness.https://www.goodtherapy.org/learn-about-therapy/types/ego-state-therapy

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Will go in the bonus content vault 10/28/2022- get it while you can!

In this episode we will cover what happens during the process of being rejected, check out the link below for more details: Rejection: What Is It & How to Deal With It - The Berkeley Well-Being Institute (berkeleywellbeing.com)

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that we often use in our relationships. Why do we feel the need to be in

control and use Silent Abuse to get our points across and not use other methods

such as healthy communication? Is the Silent Treatment a form of abuse? Today

we will take a deep dive into how we use Silent Treatment Abuse to stay in

control and find ways to gain the attention of others.

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How often have we been in a place where we wanted what we

wanted? When we think back what did it cost us? Was it worth it? Is it

something that we still have in our lives and if so at what cost? Have we found

reasons to hold on to things and people who are causing damage in our lives?

Have you been in the place where you are putting more time and energy into

making something work? Or find ways to justify someone else’s behaviors because

of your needs and insecurities?

In this episode we will bring light to these things we often overlook because of our emotions, and the lack of value we have within

ourselves!

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and to set healthy Time And Space boundaries into place. What happens to you

when you find yourself spending too much time with someone? Learning to set healthy

boundaries can really set the tone. Do you find that the mystery and the excitement

have all gone missing? Setting those limits on how much Time we spend with some

can really destroy the chemistry in a potential future relationship. How to we

set those boundaries, we will learn during this episode!

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In this season we will cover different types of attachment, and how they appear in our everyday relationships, friendships, etc.

In this episode we start off with needy behavior and the need to be validated by someone who you're in the relationship with, does this sound familiar? How you every been with someone who needed you to validate them, or have you been the one needing them to validate you?

In this season we will uncover some very overlooked behaviors that we bring into our relationships, must times unaware of them. We will spend time uncovering these behaviors and learning to work through them.

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We have reached our final week of  The Build-In-Project. This is the week of Push

Through It, and Wrap Up. With that being said here are a few questions for you

that will assist you in wrapping up this project.

As you reflect back at the last 10 weeks of the Build-in,

can you see a picture, or a path way? What has come to light for you? What are

some new things that you have discovered in your life, what does it now mean to

you?

The process has been life changing, and my hope is that it

has pushed you to face and address some of those issues that have been lying

dormant and hiding in the shadows!

This is a starting point, something I always would like for

you to remember, It’s not finished it’s just getting started. How will you

continue to build into yourself?  Will

you seek out additional assistance from here? What other tools will you

use/need to continue the building journeying Of The Builder- Final-Week- Push Through It- Wrap-Up.

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Weekly and Bonus Questions: This week we will address questions dealing with high emotional responses and reactions. These questions come from the Adult Adolescent season one. Feel free to revisit the adult adolescence podcast for additional information and support. The downloadable version can be found at openmyeyes.net

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In this week's question we will ask some different questions around guilt and the feelings of guilt, you don't want to miss this one!

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Hello Podcaster's! Are you ready to start this year of with the continuation of The Build-In- Project? This week we will focus upon Pay Attention! This podcast includes the weekly and the bonus questions. If you would like a refresher, feel to go back to season one and listen to the Pay Attention podcast. The questions are available for download at openmyeyes.net

Rules weekly and bonus questions.

In this episode you will find weeks Season 2 Season Of The Builder Broken Trust Powerful Rulers weekly questions, as well as the bonus question. This document is also available for download at openmyeyes.net

Unsure Me Weekly questions. Week four season of the builder, the building project here you will find the continuation of the building project questions week 4 dealing with the unsure me. Unsure Me podcast was completed in week one, episode four season one! if you would like to follow up you can by listening to the Unsure me podcast in season one episode 4. All podcasts can be found at:

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In this weekly Build-In-Project-Season Of The Builder Week 3 we will address the issues of Time and Healing. If you would like to download the questions, they can be found at openmyeyes.net.

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Build-In-Project- The Season Of The Builder Season 2- Week One Values

Question one is a two-part question

1. What Is Value to you, how do you apply value to your life?

1.1 As I value myself do I consider my mental and physical health?

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2.  What do I put, or

place over the value of myself?

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3.What do I compromise in, what do I place over my values

that causes me to compromise?

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Things to Consider

1.You may want to consider getting a few notebooks, pens, color pencils, a timer, anything that will help you documents anything that might assist you with managing your week-to-week progress.

2. If you haven’t already you may want to consider refreshing through season one’s episodes. There you will get the basic ideal and concept of some of the materials that we will be covering.

3. Try to prepare yourself for group interactions, possibilities of being featured on Sunday weekly episodes, and participating in group chats and or activities.

4. Set a reminder for the follow up questions for the week, that will be available every Wednesday morning through the blog post and social media post. As well as preparing time to write, out your end of the week wrap up.

5. The process will repeat with a new topic of challenge and questions each week in the same fashion. If you find this process to be helpful to you consider inviting others that you know who might benefit. 

6. Reminder, this is something that should be done at your own pace, we are always open to suggestions and feedback that will make this project better and more user friendly. Please note that this is not intended to replace or overrule any professional assistance you may already have in place. This only serves as additional resources to assist you in the areas of more self-awareness and self-work!.

7. Let’s Build Together! Looking forward to investing with you all Enjoy your weekend! 

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Pay Attention deals with the things that we commonly neglect, the things that we turn a blind eye to that we sometimes refuse to see. In this episode we would delve deeply into understanding the present things, we will unravel the mystery behind the riddles as to why I am represented was similar, or the same lessons.

Look around you. What's happening? What's going on in your world? What have you been thinking about? What's on your mind? Has anything shown up in your dreams? Have you dripped it off and don't remember what you've been thinking about? Take a moment to examine yourself. Take a moment to think about what's been on your mind, what's been on your heart?

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" Challenging mindsets, Changing thinking, One thought at a time! "

What has shown up in your dreams if you've been dreaming, because it's calling for your attention, there has to be a sense of direction. There has to be a sense of some place to go if we're looking to make progress. If we're looking to grow, what do we look for? What do we paying attention to? It's in the very things we've avoided.

Pay Attention deals with the things that we commonly neglect, the things that we turn a blind eye to that we sometimes refuse to see. In this episode we would delve deeply into understanding the present things, we will unravel the mystery behind the riddles as to why I am represented was similar, or the same lessons.

Open My Eyes PodCast- Broken Trust Powerful Rulers. This week we will dive on to what happens when your trust is broken and disregarded. We will look into the years of damage that it causes and the effects it has on life thereafter. We will find out what happens when we face and hold on to distrust and what it brings it with it, "it's secrets"!

Broken Trust Powerful Ruler will challenge you in areas you haven't thought, and will bring things to the surface, to the light. Prepare you self to go on a journey, open your hearts and minds and get ready for Open My Eyes PodCast-Broken Trust Powerful Rulers!

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In this episode we will learn to bring exposure to the things that hold us in captivity. We would learn to face and overcome those things which causes us to freeze in fear! What has fear convinced you of? What things has fear taught you to believe? We will learn to recognize cycles, mindsets, thinking patterns, and other ways that we allow the things which we don't understand to rule and control our lives. It's my turn fear! Will help bring you into a different state of clarity and face those things which we tend to hide from!

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