Do you believe in Infinite Possibilities? Are you willing to see how you have been conditioned to believe in limited possibilities? A Course in Miracles teaches to move towards love versus fear and you learn how you have been trained to see the world through a narrow lens. Let’s open up perspective and believe in miracles!

Do you feel resentment and anger? These emotions are common in any part of our lives. How to sit with your emotions, practice self forgiveness and look at your past to integrate your emotions, are addressed in this blog post.

What is cultural conditioning? The ways in which we feel compelled to be or do things that are more in alignment with the greater culture than your authentic self. In what ways have you been culturally conditioned?

Are you interesting in deepening the trust in yourself? If so, you are invited into the practice of awareness and a commitment to creating inner safety. These practices cost nothing; they only require you to be curious and open hearted.

Community is an essential part of your personal growth. Finding a place to share yourself, dive into your personal growth, get to know fellow seekers on the journey, and engage in conscious conversations, is part of building an abundant life!

Communication is an integral part of any human interaction, be it personal or professional. It plays an essential role in our daily lives as it helps build relationships, share ideas, and express our needs. But, sometimes communicating our needs can be challenging, especially when we fear that our emotions could lead to conflict or misunderstanding. However, knowing how to communicate our needs can help us build healthier relationships and lead a more fulfilling life. In this blog, we discuss tips for communicating needs and getting them met for parents and women.

Being a parent is one of the most joyous yet challenging roles in life. Raising children is a lifelong endeavor that requires patience, time, and a lot of love. However, once the last child leaves the nest, it can be both liberating and daunting. After years of focusing on your children, you may feel a bit lost or unsure of how to spend your newfound free time. We know we are in good company yet the way each of us navigates the process is unique. In this blog post, we will discuss some great ideas for you to consider now that you are an empty nester.

As we enter midlife, many of us feel that we haven’t accomplished enough or that we haven’t yet reached our full potential. Many of us have put our career on hold to raise the kids or have struggled with finding our true purpose in life. The thing is we are worth so much more than we give ourselves credit for and having a place to claim our worth and worthiness is so critical. In this blog, we’ll discuss how midlife women can start recognizing their inherent worth and cultivate living from it!

Embracing your beautiful body as is! Body image is a matter of understanding that you consider what others think of your body before you define how you think about your body. Women have pressures put upon them for their bodies to look at specific way. Take back your power and claim how you want to think about your body.

As women at midlife, we are often overrun by the “shoulds” in our lives. By increasing our awareness of how the should patterns show up for us, you will begin to regain control over how you speak to yourself with “should” language and choose things that truly align with your life.

Amplify: To expand something (such as a statement) by the use of detail or illustration; to make larger or greater (as in amount, importance, or intensity) - Merriam-Webster

If everything is energy and I am here to live out my purpose and dharma and attract people, jobs and experiences of similar vibration, then heck yeah, I am interested in amplifying my life, my vibration! How about you?

In order to do this, it’s helpful to embrace a few or all of the following truths about this crazy world:

I spent most of my life in the mind, enmeshed with my thoughts. Stay in the mental, suppress the emotional!

I would ruminate over the same thoughts day in, day out. That running ticker tape that is sometimes called our “monkey mind.” It's been said that we have 60-70,000 thoughts a day and 90% are the same as the day before!

Make no mistake, your Soul is calling.

When you hear the gentle (or not so gentle) stirrings, read this ancient reminder from Rumi, Sufi poet. He wrote:

“The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep.

You must ask for what you really want. Don’t go back to sleep.”

What does your soul, your spirit say to you? Does it come in visions, in words, in signs? What have you long ignored within yourself that is calling to be awakened? What can you do to listen? Words, sounds, feelings, deep inner knowings.

For the longest time, I thought parenting was all about my kids. How they were behaving, what words came out of their mouth, and what attitude they might be taking. As parents, we typically react to what our kids do, usually in the way that we were raised, without truly holding a mirror to ourselves. And even when we are willing to take a deeper look at our relationships, we don’t have a roadmap as to how to do it.

Holidays used to be the CRAZIEST time for me! I’ve never considered myself a perfectionist but the holidays brought out some crazy, intense version of me. Far, far from the authentic self I now know and love.

When we are unaware of our patterns and how controlled by them we are, we tend to do things on autopilot. For me, holidays used to involve but were not limited to: baking dozens and then eating many cookies, sending out 150+ holiday cards (easily), projecting onto others how I was going to make all of their holiday dreams come true, and buying many, many gifts! Basically going 150 miles per hour, every day, every hour. Where did I fit into all of that? The bottom of the holiday pile for sure……..

As parents, we’re given the privilege and responsibility of raising children and playing a role in the people they become. Being a parent can be just as brutal as it is beautiful (or as Glennon Doyle says, “Brutiful”), and can challenge us to our very core. When faced with tantrums, sibling turmoil, and the insurmountable task of raising kids — it can be extremely difficult to stay grounded and parent from a place we are proud of.

There are knowings unique to you, to your own life and experience. We are not taught early in life to be aware of intuition that comes to us in the form of a “knowing” and therefore, we learn to dismiss these. By culture, we are trained away from our senses and toward a uniform way of thinking and doing. Intuition is not included in our schooling; we are lucky if we have someone in our lives that teaches us that intuition is important when we go to make decisions and choices in our lives.

I began my work with conscious coaching during my certification with Dr. Shefali Tsabary’s Conscious Parenting Institute. My learning with Dr. Shefali was my entry point into this world of heightened awareness and consciousness. What she calls ‘Western Psychology meets Eastern Philosophy’. But the benefits of learning to live more consciously extend far beyond the realm of conscious parenting.

Conscious Coaching is an invitation to take a deep look at our belief systems, patterns of behavior, triggers and reactions, and how cultural and family of origin conditioning inform our current day choices. With increased awareness of how we are moving through life, we bear witness to ourselves and become more empowered in who and how we want to be.

One of the greatest gifts we can give to our children is the experience of feeling safe to express themselves within the parent-child relationship. From an early age, we can create a safe container for our kids to express themselves without judgment and shame. This is the foundation for sharing through their years.

How many of us never had the space to share what we were truly feeling with our parents? How many of us withheld because we had a feeling that we might be judged for what we felt? If we were lucky, we had trusted friends to confide in and the experience of sharing safely within a relationship. When we were not heard, our authentic self suffered and our emotions likely became suppressed. This has likely played out in your adult relationships, often not knowing how to express yourself in a healthy way.