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Robin Smith

lines on the record: 43
first: 2018-10-15
most recent: 2018-10-15
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

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“Always been there as a little girl, I pretended to be a radio disc jockey and my radio station was called WGOD. So somehow as a little kid, the sense of spirit has always just been with me in a very deep way.”
2018-10-15 · Oprah's Super Soul · Dr. Robin Smith: The Truth About Being Emotionally Full · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The real deal on the bottom line is this wholeness really comes when we are able to know that our child injuries have less power in our adult current life.”
2018-10-15 · Oprah's Super Soul · Dr. Robin Smith: The Truth About Being Emotionally Full · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And the next breath, meaning our next sentence. I still have to rechoose. Am I going to go back to sleep? Or am the next breath will I still be awake to myself, to nature, to creation, to God, and to you? And so, yes, I'm whole, but not whole in a way that where I think, oh, let me sit back and relax. That's right, that everything”
2018-10-15 · Oprah's Super Soul · Dr. Robin Smith: The Truth About Being Emotionally Full · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I feel closer to God. I feel whole. But what I'd like to say to you and to everyone listening is this. We don't want to think that wholeness is a one-time deal. Wholeness and consciousness being awake in this moment? I got to choose that in this moment.”
2018-10-15 · Oprah's Super Soul · Dr. Robin Smith: The Truth About Being Emotionally Full · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's it. And that's the great news of this. That, of course, we want loving people in our village and community to affirm us. But at the end of the day, It only takes”
2018-10-15 · Oprah's Super Soul · Dr. Robin Smith: The Truth About Being Emotionally Full · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The last chapter of the book says it only takes two. There's a story about Jesus and being questioned about his identity and who is he and... And he said, you know, in your law, talking about in Jewish law, it says that you only need two witnesses. My father is Is the first witness. Yes.”
2018-10-15 · Oprah's Super Soul · Dr. Robin Smith: The Truth About Being Emotionally Full · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'm home. I'm home. And it was a long, long journey. You know, one of the things that I am so aware of is that I barely made it out alive. I barely made it out alive. And people have said, you know, well, were you suicidal? And I said, not in that way. And actually what I said is the universe wasn't going to cooperate and let me die before I did the healing work. Now, so if I leave here and I don't get back to Philly safe. Everybody will say, well, she was free. But it wasn't going to let because it was the cheap way out. I wanted Absolutely. I mean, not on my family and friends, but are you kidding? I wouldn't have had to do the work. And I would have missed out on this moment of knowing that there is a worthy being in me, not because anyone else thinks so except me and the Creator”
2018-10-15 · Oprah's Super Soul · Dr. Robin Smith: The Truth About Being Emotionally Full · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't have to understand it. I don't have to analyze it. I don't have to know the origin of it. I just have to trust it. Trust it and trust me.”
2018-10-15 · Oprah's Super Soul · Dr. Robin Smith: The Truth About Being Emotionally Full · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And I have to get myself out right. No one else can pull me out of this hole. And in this way, it is my sanctuary. Where I will learn to be still, to be quiet, to listen, not only to the voice of God, but to learn to listen to what is my own true and authentic voice, to learn what does that voice sound like. Many of us don't even know what our true voice sounds like. We're so unplugged. I was so unplugged that I couldn't tell. So am I wrong? Am I bad? Am I mean? Am I scared? Well, if I know my own voice, I'll know what I am. And I'm just going to pay attention to that.”
2018-10-15 · Oprah's Super Soul · Dr. Robin Smith: The Truth About Being Emotionally Full · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean, I did a lot of things. I meditated. I prayed. I went to therapy, which I had done before. But I did it differently. I did it awake. I did it not covering up. I did it not re-scripting abuse and neglect because neglect isn't it.”
2018-10-15 · Oprah's Super Soul · Dr. Robin Smith: The Truth About Being Emotionally Full · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Absolutely. And you know what mine is who has suffered and who is unapologetic about the vulnerability and the fears and the tears and the ache.”
2018-10-15 · Oprah's Super Soul · Dr. Robin Smith: The Truth About Being Emotionally Full · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Know my mother, and you know this was petrified as I wrote the book because she was worried. What are people going to say? I mean, Dr. Robin, what are they going to think? I mean, your patience and the world and your public. And I said, they're going to think that I was in trouble like that. They're going to see, oh, she really gets what this journey is about.”
2018-10-15 · Oprah's Super Soul · Dr. Robin Smith: The Truth About Being Emotionally Full · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Writing the book was a huge thing, but I didn't know when I was writing it that I was actually going to save my own life. As I was writing, parts of me were being reclaimed. And parts of me were being explored.”
2018-10-15 · Oprah's Super Soul · Dr. Robin Smith: The Truth About Being Emotionally Full · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And hiding our shame. When that stuff is in the light, it's warm and it's embraced and you're not only in that. Not only is it in the”
2018-10-15 · Oprah's Super Soul · Dr. Robin Smith: The Truth About Being Emotionally Full · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I can't do what I used to do. I can do this. And you all seem to still like this, but I can't do that old thing. So in the light, and this is what I've done in Hungary, you can't hurt someone when they've put their own stuff in the light. You can't be hurt by it. It doesn't mean somebody can't hurt your feelings. But it means that that hiding.”
2018-10-15 · Oprah's Super Soul · Dr. Robin Smith: The Truth About Being Emotionally Full · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean, really lost. And so Lionel Richards says something which I love, I heard this, which is... What he does now is when he's doing a concert and he gets to those notes that he says I can't hit those notes anymore. He said, I just say to the audience, everybody sing along. Help me. Help me.”
2018-10-15 · Oprah's Super Soul · Dr. Robin Smith: The Truth About Being Emotionally Full · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My note was going. Michael Was killing himself up all night because he was going to dance and he was going to top thriller.”
2018-10-15 · Oprah's Super Soul · Dr. Robin Smith: The Truth About Being Emotionally Full · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean, Whitney said right before she died, my understanding, as she said to Clive Davis, I'm going to hit that note again.”
2018-10-15 · Oprah's Super Soul · Dr. Robin Smith: The Truth About Being Emotionally Full · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah. You know, I talked about Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston in their early deaths and that people say that drugs kill them. Drugs didn't kill them. What killed them is that they were striving and hungry. They were starving to hit the high note again. Whitney said, I would agree.”
2018-10-15 · Oprah's Super Soul · Dr. Robin Smith: The Truth About Being Emotionally Full · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Exactly. But who am I without Yeah. I mean, it was a huge challenge for me to really look at this issue around financial security because all of a sudden the savings and all of the things I thought I had done right. They weren't enough They weren't enough. They weren't enough to sustain my life. They weren't enough to sustain the people who I felt that I wanted to help. I mean, my parents had been amazingly generous and helpful in educating me and being there for me. And all of that was now at risk.”
2018-10-15 · Oprah's Super Soul · Dr. Robin Smith: The Truth About Being Emotionally Full · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's why I'm trying to work some of this stuff out. But truthfully, I thought I'm going to be able to be okay. And my mother and my grandmother, my family is going to be, we're going to financially be okay. And all of a sudden, that wasn't true anymore.”
2018-10-15 · Oprah's Super Soul · Dr. Robin Smith: The Truth About Being Emotionally Full · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, what it did is it let me think that I was going to be able to financially be okay. I was going to be able, I mean, my mother, as you know, was 91. I mean, that I was going to be able, and my grandmother just died at 108.”
2018-10-15 · Oprah's Super Soul · Dr. Robin Smith: The Truth About Being Emotionally Full · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, so who am I? And is my gift and my value, my intrinsic value? I mean, is it there because of who I am as a human being, as a divine, you know, creation of God? Or did it go out of the window with that last appearance?”
2018-10-15 · Oprah's Super Soul · Dr. Robin Smith: The Truth About Being Emotionally Full · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Who am I? And so all of a sudden, I realized that I was limping and walking around, not just from all of those tragedies that happened, but because I didn't know who I was without so many of the things that had kept me comfortable. And that was the gift, meaning when they were gone.”
2018-10-15 · Oprah's Super Soul · Dr. Robin Smith: The Truth About Being Emotionally Full · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The mess, the fame mist, and being able to pay my bills missed and the being able to support family and do things that were really a blessing and a gift. But when they were gone, All of a sudden, it felt like, well, maybe I'm gone too.”
2018-10-15 · Oprah's Super Soul · Dr. Robin Smith: The Truth About Being Emotionally Full · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, it's interesting. I didn't. And again, this is what is terrifying in some ways and why those challenging times had to happen. Because if, because I felt fully congruent, I was happy. I mean, you know, I was in here skipping, coming into work, flying here and laying on the floor, playing with your dogs. And no, and then I was going home and having a happy life. Or so I thought.”
2018-10-15 · Oprah's Super Soul · Dr. Robin Smith: The Truth About Being Emotionally Full · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Live it. And so this was my call, you know, the come to Jesus mean that you're going to really, and I believe this about Hungary, that this book could not be, not only could it not be written, but it would not be released until I could sit with you. And look at you and look at myself more importantly and know that the shocks that I was living in are gone. I just really believe. I believe the universe said you are not going to write this book, and it's not going to be released until you yourself are free.”
2018-10-15 · Oprah's Super Soul · Dr. Robin Smith: The Truth About Being Emotionally Full · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I mean, so this illusion we have that healers don't need to be healed themselves or that healers have to be fully whole. To be able to be helpful or useful, that a priest who has never been married can't do good marriage therapy. It's not true. But what is true is that if someone like me does not attend to their own injuries in a very focused, awakened way that I can help the whole world as I go down the tubes.”
2018-10-15 · Oprah's Super Soul · Dr. Robin Smith: The Truth About Being Emotionally Full · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, it's like driving under the influence. And so just because I could help other people, and this is one of the things that is so true, people can help other people. They'll say to a priest.”
2018-10-15 · Oprah's Super Soul · Dr. Robin Smith: The Truth About Being Emotionally Full · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“With yourself? Did you know that? I didn't know it the way I know it now. I knew that there were pieces of me that longed for something more. And I said, Well, I'm just broken. I was broken, my spirit was broken, my money was broken. I mean my dreams were broken. Everything was broken. And I was hungry for a life that was unbroken.”
2018-10-15 · Oprah's Super Soul · Dr. Robin Smith: The Truth About Being Emotionally Full · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I was hungry for myself. I was hungry for a self that a job, a man, money, that nothing could give me and that nothing could take away. I was hungry for a self that was so intact, that was so unified. That all of those hardships would not be able to rob me of myself.”
2018-10-15 · Oprah's Super Soul · Dr. Robin Smith: The Truth About Being Emotionally Full · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And it's because we are so loved by the universe. We are so cared for that it wouldn't want me to settle for crumbs, emotional crumbs, and call it a meal”
2018-10-15 · Oprah's Super Soul · Dr. Robin Smith: The Truth About Being Emotionally Full · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And so all those things that happened that were bad that we just talked about in my life where we want to say we're bad, were challenging, that we're painful, and they were painful. It was my invitation. It was the invitation of the universe saying, you've got some stuff, Robin, that isn't, it's getting in the way.”
2018-10-15 · Oprah's Super Soul · Dr. Robin Smith: The Truth About Being Emotionally Full · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I did know it. I mean, I did know it. And it's interesting when you talk about what fills us. You know, what adulthood really is Oprah? And I did say this many times on your show. Adulthood is to finish the unfinished business of childhood.”
2018-10-15 · Oprah's Super Soul · Dr. Robin Smith: The Truth About Being Emotionally Full · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“For themselves. I was hungry, but this is what scarier. Not only was I hungry, I didn't know it. And this is why when we ask, why did all of those tragedies need to happen? Because here I had this amazing job with you, both on television and radio.”
2018-10-15 · Oprah's Super Soul · Dr. Robin Smith: The Truth About Being Emotionally Full · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“What it means is someone, and in this instance me, but a person. And a lot of people are like this who are calling themselves full off of crumbs. So you can't get full.”
2018-10-15 · Oprah's Super Soul · Dr. Robin Smith: The Truth About Being Emotionally Full · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I mean, starving to death. You know, I mean, emotionally, and being in connections and relationships that were draining and depleting and destructive. I was with people where I was starving emotionally and trying to tell myself, oh, it's either me, it's my issue. And it was my issue, but not the issue I thought that it was, or maybe you're not really hungry. I mean, maybe you want too much, Robin.”
2018-10-15 · Oprah's Super Soul · Dr. Robin Smith: The Truth About Being Emotionally Full · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I do. I mean, my mother, my grandmother, but listen, I've got so many other issues. Knees let me not have one. Yeah, I'm not”
2018-10-15 · Oprah's Super Soul · Dr. Robin Smith: The Truth About Being Emotionally Full · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I fell apart I absolutely My faith Hold strong. And people say, well, what does that mean? And what that means is that I still knew. That God was sovereign. C.S. Lewis and I say this in the book that a quote that I love of his is that God whispers to us in our pleasures. Speaks to us. In our conscience. And yells, shouts at us actually in our pain. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world. And I would say it was God's megaphone to rouse a deaf and dying Robin. Yeah, I mean, it was. So I'm like, God, did you have to get that loud? I mean, it was just too much to bear. It was too much to bear.”
2018-10-15 · Oprah's Super Soul · Dr. Robin Smith: The Truth About Being Emotionally Full · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I was having a very hard time walking and moving and I was aching and I couldn't. My body physically because I was in so much pain, and then I didn't know that Callie was going to die when she died. And she was fading and fading. And then all of a sudden, it was time and she was gone.”
2018-10-15 · Oprah's Super Soul · Dr. Robin Smith: The Truth About Being Emotionally Full · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And so this was my invitation to really have a very different conversation, not just with God in the universe, but with myself.”
2018-10-15 · Oprah's Super Soul · Dr. Robin Smith: The Truth About Being Emotionally Full · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I was the walking dead. I was miserable. I was aching physically and emotionally. And so at some point, I just simply was so overwhelmed and so depressed because I could not imagine that this was my life. And I knew enough to know that God doesn't make mistakes, that the universe is absolutely on time and on point in every moment. And so for that reason, as any good child kicks and screams, I thought, what is this really about? I mean, at least you were...”
2018-10-15 · Oprah's Super Soul · Dr. Robin Smith: The Truth About Being Emotionally Full · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Absolutely Absolutely. And Oprah, what happened was as each As each loss occurred, as each trauma occurred, I kept thinking that was bottom. And that this was going to be now it. And I was, okay, I've suffered and now I'm going to take this suffering and life is going to get better.”
2018-10-15 · Oprah's Super Soul · Dr. Robin Smith: The Truth About Being Emotionally Full · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source