Kris Krohn here today on limitless TV and we're talking about bullying and
I've got resident expert Marianne DeNovellis. We've seen her face before
super empowering impactful mentor here to give us some nuggets and some tidbits
of what do you do if you're the bully, if you're being bullied, and what we can do
to put an end to it.
R-E-S-P-E-C-T! listen we're talking about respect and today we're talking about
bullies because often with bullies there's a deep lack of respect and
Marianne, I'm so excited to have you here today I know this is a passion for you. I
know you've been able to help a lot of individuals on this particular topic.
First of all 101 what is bullying? and is it like happening in our day and age? Oh
my gosh bullying is one of the biggest, I'll call it an epidemic even though
it's been going on for a long time. It happens so often and it starts super
young. It happens that people associate bullying with public schooling all the
time. So and it doesn't only happen at school, it happens in the workplace, it
happens in social groups, it happens and religious groups, everywhere. So bullying
it's everywhere all the time. And what are the most common examples of like
what really is it? Like what does it mean? Bullying is, it's basically when you know
the phrase when you judge a book by its cover?
Bullying can happen like that. It happens when you know, let's say you're
the new kid in the school and maybe you're from a different culture or maybe
you look different or maybe you you act different than someone else. A bully can
find that, pick it out, and try to do harm with it. So it's almost like they're
labeling you and then they're they're putting expectations on you maybe making
you lower than, or less than, second-class citizen. Yeah the bully always wants to
be a short above you. Wow um you got you got a family, you've got kids. Has
bullying started happening in your own family dynamic or in school?
You know it's something that I've noticed with my kids. They'll come home and they'll say
mom this kid said this to me today or mama I was playing with my friends down
the street and they called me this and you know it's it's really interesting
because you know I have that Mama Bear instinct and my first instinct way back
when was okay let me see him let me get em'! You know and then that's actually
what we're talking about today because then I turned into the bully when that
happens you know? So yeah it happens all the time especially with kids. What about
adults? Oh my gosh it doesn't stop. It doesn't stop. Once a bully is is a bully
unless anything changes, unless a breakthrough happens, unless something
changes, they will likely grow up to be a bully. I remember being in high school
and I thought, oh my gosh people will just grow out of this. No I reconnected
with one of my high school comrades who I haven't talked to be polite
years and their attitude has totally the same
if this wasn't something they grew out of those it was a way of life for them
so it totally happens as an adult and even as you know for the rest of your
life as long as it changed and though as long as nothing changes.
Wow you know one
of the very impactful moments in my life is you now were co-facilitating an event
at limitless the three-day breakthrough event and we were doing a brand new
process we had never done before and we had people label themselves and step
into these boxes. And as people were defining themselves as the country
folk or is the city folk or is the religious and pious or the athletic or
all the different kind of things that you can imagine people label themselves
as. We would then ask questions and have the group from all of these different
boxes step out of their label. And at one point we asked the question, if you've
ever been bullied? and what was fascinating was almost everyone in the
room came and joined us up front to indicate that they had been and when we
thanked them and had them sit down the following up question was, have you ever
been the bully? And almost all the same people came back almost as if those of
us that had been hurt by bullies, we do bully. We do find not not across the
board but I was just mesmerized by the simple fact that we perpetrate in the
way that we felt perpetrated against. Yeah that was so I'll never forget
watching those faces as they came up and stood in the middle of the deep humility
and respect that I had for that group of people that said, yeah that was me. Yeah
so how do you stop bullying? It's happening to you, you're feeling bullied
what does that look like? So I can imagine there's probably some unhealthy
ways of dealing with it. My dad growing up said, punch him in the face.
It's like okay cool I become the bully. What would you recommend for
solving that without becoming the bully?
Okay so here's what I would recommend
and this is something that I want you to write down. This is my gold nugget for
you today.
Only hurt people,
hurt people.
Only hurt people, hurt people. So how do
we stop hurting? That's what breaks the cycle of bullying. That's what makes the
bully stop bullying is when they can be healed from the hurt and like you said
when we saw on that how all the people that had been bullied
and all the people that were bullies, for the most part the same group of people.
So the question is how do we stop hurting? And if you are feeling bullied
how do we help the hurt end? And the answer once again its breakthrough.
So
tell me a little bit about that. Let's actually do a group breakthrough
here with everybody. What is breakthrough? Breakthrough is deciding what's working
for you versus what's not working for you. In our lives, we're given all of
these choices. We're given all these opportunities to feel like we're the
victim, to feel like we're picked on. And you know what? It comes with a ton of
evidence to back it up. There's reasons why we take these choices on and
sometimes they make a lot of sense but over time we'll realize that they're not
really serving us. So breakthrough says, you know what? I made this choice at one
time. Maybe it served me maybe it didn't but it's definitely not serving me now
how can we shift it and choose something better so let's take everyone through a
breakthrough sounds good so what is the number one limiting belief that comes up
to you especially in this field of bullying maybe you are the bully and you
don't know how to stop maybe you've been bullied so much and you don't know how
to make that stop what is the number one thought that comes to your mind when it
comes around bullies. You know what came up for me was I'm scared of being
terrorized. I remember being in grade school and there was this this kid he
must have come from maybe a rough family he brought a knife to school
and I was really kind of bland yogurt at that time in my life I was always kind
of a big kid so I really didn't have a lot of experience with bullies I'd have
some people poke fun or make fun of me just like people do in elementary school
but on the bus, he put a knife to my throat and held me over the back seat so
they I couldn't move and I felt so scared in that moment because I was
being bullied in and my life was threatened actuall. I don't know if
you would have really taken any action but he certainly exerted his
power and his eminence and ability and then he let go of me and I went home and
I told my mom and nothing really came of it. You know but that's the limiting belief
that came up for me and maybe something came up for you with what is the
limiting belief you have around bullying? That's mine. I'm
scared of being terrorized.
Yeah and yours came with the memory. Yeah and a
lot of these questions will come with memory there's a reason that evidence we
talked about, there's a reason that that got walked in and the question is
there's a decision you made about yourself at that point and something you
decided that's been showing up repeatedly and sabotaging you since then
what was the decision? I think I hide behind my size and strength in hopes
that I won't be bullied and that's less authentic that I'm really capable
Yeah so there an element of hiding?
and a lot of people that experience bullies in their lives they feel
compelled to hide as a self-protection that they put walls up they hide behind
their strength that they're an intellect or their body or or whatever it is to
protect themselves and really it's a counterfeit. Now the question is what's
the cost of hiding? You know the cost for me is um I think it's in authenticity.
I'll just have moments where I want to puff up my chest and maybe show off some
of my muscles that I've written at the gym and and just trying to put on a
strong show that says I'm strong don't mess with me.
And what will be
the cost if that continues! Um disconnecting from people and keeping
people from really seeing me for who I really am.
And is it possible that that
could potentially invite more bullies even though it's not a knife to the
throat it's someone that shows
it could invite that but it also it could
be seen as a way of bullying others because others might feel intimidated.
Yeah and all I'm trying to do is feel safe.
And so I've perpetuated that bullying. So that victim as if you will, then becomes
the bully inadvertently. Now is that serving you?
No.
And I'm just gonna ask
you, is it serving you? is the decision you've made in whatever moment serving
you? And most commonly the answer is no. And what would serve you better? It's
safe to be me I honor people's agency and I take care of people.
I can trust me even though I don't have any control over anyone else. I can trust
me to take a stand and take care of other individuals. Wow
isn't that the exact opposite? it's emotional actually feel immensely
I love breakthrough. Im going to flip my band again.
What an incredible feeling to
have. Imagine if that young man that was
behind you on the bus have had the feeling, I take care of people.
Imagine if you're able to give that to him and be that gift to him and in a
way you kind of are when you take upon yourself. I don't have to hide, I don't
have to be an authentic, I choose to take care of me and I choose to take care of
others as well. I think one thing that is important is that my mom didn't really
take a lot of action she went to the store and got me a big bag of M&Ms and
said give him this and see if it helps. Which I don't want to criticize her
approach because it led to actually a sweet tender moment in my life. You know
but I think if something like that happened my child that I would probably
want to take some serious action and I think it is important that you know
there's bullying that hurts feelings and then there's bullying that
hurts bodies. And if you're ever feeling abused by bullying I think it's
important to to be able to speak up and go to an adult or or go to peers or
people that you can trust to show up and help you take appropriate action. Yes some
trusted support you know some trusted support they can really show up for you
yeah. So let me ask you this what if someone's watching this and they
themselves are thinking, I'm the bully.
What would you say to them?
You know I don't know I'm gonna suggest the same thing do your breakthrough work if
you have enough cognitive maturity to know that yeah I have shown up as a
bully, I'm gonna ask you to ask yourself why? What is it inside of you that gets
to be healed so that the hurt doesn't pass on to others. What is the
breakthrough that you need to have? What is the new decision that you get to make
and maybe it's like Kris where I trust me and I protect others.
What is the breakthrough that you need? The new decision that you need to make
to step forward and not be the bully. But to be the Advocate to be the trust and
support yourself. You know that's the interesting thing about transformation
is that transformation is always a decision away it's just making a new
decision that will serve you better and I want to thank you today that was
good for me. I'm glad that we had this topic and I'm glad that I got to kind of
clear some that energy and forgive that young man and
give myself an
opportunity to recognize a higher truth which is that it's safe to be me,
authentic, and that I take care of people. I honor myself and others with the
choices I make. Maybe one final bonus I want to throw a little side walk around
okay?
How do you subdue a bully? Wow and this is a
really good question and probably the most relevant and given our discussion
here because this is real life. We're talking about how do we subdue a bully
in a real life scenario. How do we in the moments to do to get rid of the bully
and it's not get rid of the person is to get rid of the bully inside of them and
that's the real question that we're trying to ask here. I'll always remember
back when I watched Captain America for the first time seeing that boy in
the alley he's getting beat up he's a scrawny little kid the big guys are
coming at him and the lesson I take from is this, the best way to get rid of
an enemy or a bully in this case is to be a friend. The best way to dispel anger
is to show love and the way I do that is through what you've probably heard of
ho'oponopono. It's as Hawaiian phrase that says, you know what I don't even
care what's between us. I don't care what the rift is. I don't care what's causing
it. I'm sorry, please forgive me, thank you, I love you. Four powerhouse phrases that
shifts energy dramatically. One more time, what are the four phrases. I'm sorry,
please forgive me, thank you, I love you. Yeah it's this philosophy that says if
there's a problem in my world I must have helped contribute to creating it
because it is my world and so it's strange to think someone's bullying me
but I'm saying sorry and there's actually just something really humbling
and empowering about the idea of you know if you perceive in any way shape or
form that I've wronged you I'm sorry.
Please forgive me, thank you, I love you.
Wow what a powerful energy shift what
beautiful advice. Marianne thank you so much for for being here today and
sharing this really impactful knowledge with us. Thank you
You know Marianne is one of our mentors that we have at our monthly three-day
limitless breakthrough event and you are a game-changer. You've done that today. It
was helpful and impactful for the breakthrough you led me through. For
those that want to get to know you better and witness
you in action in doing your life transforming work, where can they find
you?
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