Living The Truth with Betsy Chasse
“Happiness isn’t a destination. Happiness is a state of mind.For this week’s episode of Change Maker, I sat down with filmmaker Besty Chasse to talk life stories, uplifting women, and living your truth…
What The Bleep Do We Know?
Filmmaker Betsy Chasse on the film’s aftermath in her life,
“After The Bleep came out I was paraded around the world as some kind of enlightened master. Because, I made The Bleep, I somehow had all the answers.”
Feeling like she was lying to people, making it sound too easy to “get a dream life,” Betsy Chasse’s current life story came crashing down. Divorce, a broken bank account, and a midlife meltdown gave Betsy an opportunity to change her story, the one she thought she was “supposed” to live anyway.
“I said to myself, I don’t want to live lies. I don’t want to put lies out into the world and I don’t want to lie to myself anymore about who I am, about what I love, about what is meaningful to me.”
Betsy came away determined to live up to the truth for herself and everyone else. What Betsy realized, and what we can all take away from this, is that it is not necessarily the aspects of your life that are the lie. The lies come when you have dishonest reasons for them. It is when we choose certain paths because we feel like we will not be good enough if we don’t, rather than because it is truly what our hearts desire.
“Everything you see is based on what you believe, so if you believe you are not worthy of love then all that you believe is going to be based around that idea of not being worthy.”
The Scariness of Letting Blame Go
When you take back charge of your life and stop blaming other people, there is no one left, but you. Everything is on you and you are responsible. That can be scary. An idea that came out of The Bleep: I create my reality. “When I say that what I’m saying is…I create my perception of reality. My reality is created based on my belief systems. I get to be in charge.”
We can gain empowerment by having conversations with ourselves. In any given situation ask: Why am I choosing to see it that way? Is there another way to see it?
For more tips and insights, listen in to this week’s episode of Change Maker:
Filmmaker (What the Bleep Do We Know, Song of a New Earth) Betsy Chasse Shares Her Secrets for Living the Truth
Join Zhena and Betsy as they discuss Betsy’s commitment to being “truthful at all times”and what that meant for her marriage, her kids, and her career. By committing to the truth, she found her own brand of happiness and you can too. http://cbsloc.al/1MmJ6p5
