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You Are Not Your Emotions – So What Are You Supposed to Do About Them?

You’ve probably heard it before: “You are not your emotions.” It’s true. Your emotions connect you to the past—to old patterns, wounds, and conditioning. And from that place, yes, you can unconsciously recreate the same experiences over and over again. So the teaching makes sense: Don’t be attached to your emotions. Change your perspective. Override them with heart energy. Choose love instead. And, it helps, temporarily. Doing this can help shift your state, which is a powerful tool. But it’s not the long-term transformation you are seeking. A part of you knows this exactly because you still find yourself back in the same emotional loops. I promise there’s nothing wrong with you. It’s simply the difference between a short-term strategy and your long-term evolution. The Difference Between Identifying and Utilizing There’s a profound difference between identifying with your emotions and utilizing them as a tool to remember your truth. When you identify with your emotions, you believe you are them. You collapse into them. You let them dictate your reality. But when you utilize your emotions, you recognize them as messengers—energy arising to help you dissolve the walls of belief that are keeping you from living from your truth. This

Breaking Free From the Cycle of Overwhelm

This is the cycle of overwhelm… You place expectations on yourself that no human can possibly uphold. You exhaust yourself trying to meet those expectations. You judge yourself for not doing more. Until… you will yourself to push harder again. Sound familiar? I know this cycle all too well myself. It’s a never-ending loop that has 9 out of 10 moms in a constant state of overwhelm. It’s not just moms. So many of us, whether parents or not, feel so stressed out! That’s why I recorded a video to explore the underbelly of overwhelm, discover what is really happening beneath the surface, and how to shift it. Why Overwhelm Shows Up Being overwhelmed is more than just having too much on your plate. At its core, it happens when we push ourselves too hard, pushing our way through life with sheer willpower. We think if we just do more, we’ll finally get it all done, and instead we burn out and criticize ourselves for not being enough. Overwhelm shows up as a loving signal that this way of operating will never bring the ease, joy, and fulfillment we crave. The Hidden Belief Behind Our Efforts At the root of

Episode 21: Empowered Disagreements

No one likes to fight. When a disagreement does happen (and they tend to happen in our most important relationships), there’s an opportunity to create greater emotional intimacy. The key is that disagreements should occur in a way that honors yourself and the other person, PLUS empowers the relationship to grow and evolve. In fact, that’s the whole point as to why you are having the disagreement. There’s a change that needs to occur in our for your relationship to flourish. So rather than avoid conflict at all cost OR keep spinning in the same argument over and over again, listen in to Episode 21: Empowered Disagreements. In this episode you’ll also discover: Why the empowered approach works with in your partner, children, parents and friends. The #1 mistake couples make when they get into a fight. My top 11 guidelines to having an empowered disagreement. The most common problem that you can easily shift when it comes to communication. How to get more of an outcome that you want without blaming or shaming another.

Episode 19: Living a Beautiful Life with Lakshmi

Ahhh…Living the Sweet Life. Not too many people can say they know what it means to bring forward a charmed life that includes love, prosperity, health, and joy. Worse yet, when you see someone who does actually have a beautiful life, envy can creep in, which of course, keeps you further away from receiving more of life’s goodness. So how do you create more of a life you love and loves you back? That’s what I am exploring this week as I integrate Emotional Empowerment with the energy, teachings, and understandings of the Goddess Lakshmi. Join me for Episode 19, Living a Beautiful Life with Lakshmi here: Plus, I’ll be sharing how to: Attract more of what you want and less of what you don’t. Stop turning your back on life’s gifts. Balance giving and receiving. Overcome jealousy. Shift your experience of life from black & white to high-definition!

Episode 17: Integrating Trantra & Emotions

When you hear the word “Tantra,” you likely are only thinking of its sexy side. There’s another side to tantra that has everything to do with your emotional well-being. Through this inward focus of tantra and your emotions, there is an opportunity to feel truly liberated. Tantra guides us to inner freedom by honoring the life-force energy (Shakti) that is often depleted and forgotten. Emotional Empowerment aims to reclaim your Shakti through the power in all that you feel. Learn how the Emotional Empowerment model aligns with ancient tantric principles and asks us to reclaim our sacred feminine energy in unexpected ways in Episode 17: Integrating Tantra & Your Emotions. Through this beautiful intertwining, you’ll find surprising answers to… How to create greater emotional intimacy. The main goals that tantra offers. 5 powers that can be reclaimed through the tantra. Tantric explanation as to why we are emotionally struggling. Why there has been a loss of integrity in Tantra and how to reclaim it. What happens when either the masculine and feminine are not honored.

Episode 16: Access More Ambition

Being dedicated, persevering through challenges, and going for what you want is one way to define an ambitious person. But sometimes ambition can take a wrong turn and become manipulative or over enthusiastic in a not so great way. This is the duality of ambition and it’s what I am discussing in Episode 16: Access More Ambition. Of course, we are going to do this the Emotional Empowerment way by supporting you to acknowledge and understand the shadow side to ambition within you. Per usual, I use myself as an example so you don’t feel that you are alone with the shadow side of ambition. As you learn to receive the shadow side of ambition from love and compassion, what you are ultimately doing is opening yourself up to the healthiest expression of ambition that will support you to go for your dreams with immense integrity. So if your ambition has been quietly slipping away or you just want to feel more motivated so you can take inspired action towards your dreams, join me to learn how to receive your ambitious self from love and empowerment! In this episode you’ll also learn: How to forgive the times you’ve been manipulated