Better Being Me

Today we dive into all things Melanie. She  is a certified integrative women’s health coach, yoga teacher, personal trainer, and soulful business coach for women who desire more energy, time & freedom. Naturally gifted as a nurturing intuitive feminine energy healer  Melanie supporting mothers and women worldwide to live well – body, mind, and soul Through her teachings, online programs, socia...

As mentioned in the last episode, Shawna Barber and I had such a deep, wonderful and unexpected conversation that I decided to share it in two parts, if you haven’t listened to part 1 yet, I’d recommend starting there. This is part 2 with Shawna.  As you’ll hear, Shawna is a spiritual business mentor with a little bit of inner rebel.  She supports women who are seeking to explore spirituality in a...

Shawna Barber and I had such a deep, wonderful and unexpected conversation that I decided to share it in two parts. This is part 1 with Shawna.  As you’ll hear, Shawna is a spiritual business mentor with a little bit of inner rebel.  She supports women who are seeking to explore spirituality in a non-conventional way. Through spiritual mentoring, healing breath, yoga and online courses her aim is...

A series of questions that I have been asked about my work and what it is I do.   From Nikki - what exactly is it that I do? What happens in a session with me? From Gen - Do you need to be a mother to benefit from the work I do? From Yvette - What is your face method of making you feel calm while parenting in tough moments From Sass - I am very interested in the BBMe Method, how do I know if it is...

Yvette and I dive deep into the diverse culture of beauty, make up and self care.  What we find is a labyrinth of reasons for make up. As an expression of self, extensions of mood, a mood uplifter, the consistent message coming through however is, do what makes you happy.  Create the time, space, and resources to allow for your beauty routine to be part of your self care routine.  Whether that be...

I explore the method I use for EFT - emotional Freedom technique or tapping.  We go through the points to tap on, the physical sign you should be looking for as a release and why it works. Step by step we cover the how to phrase your statements, when to move on to the next round and why we want to be processing and putting emotional memories behind us. We cover a child care drop off scenario. One...

The always generous Nicky Schulze is the latest guest on the Better Being Me podcast. We cover her reason why, an inspiring journey of recovery. We talk about her how, so many skills in that bag of tricks. We talk about who she helps and the process she goes through. There are no half hearted sessions with Nicky, she is all in, all the time. She has been my support for change, uncovering ideas tha...

My wonderful chat with Nikki from Quintessential Being by Nikki​. We had finished a one-on-one covering personality traits, using the Big 5 personality test.  We had look at Nikki's results on Openness to Experience, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Neuroticism.  I pulled out the connections with her executive functioning and created some easy actions that stop the stress build up before it becau...

Joanne expands the ideas and inputs today through introducing the amazing Jesse Miller from Luminescence Therapeutic Arts.   Jesse talks about the freedom of Art Therapy and how it allows for issues to bubble to the surface rather than going digging for them.  The joy of seeing how much a persons glow is different when they feel love and how they are feeling that love from the inside.  

In this episode, Joanne Hatchard takes us through the preparation process for taking her autistic son Gilbert for a blood test. As an unwanted and painful activity, this seemingly quick 10-minute appointment takes 2-3 months to prepare for in Joanne's family as she addresses a whole myriad of questions around the procedure so that Gilbert, a sensory profile autism, can feel safe expressing hi...

Host Joanne Hatchard welcomes us to the Better Being Me podcast with a poignant reflection of some of her personal journey. She shares with us her early years of feeling awkward and the visceral relief a diagnosis of dyslexia in high school gifted her in such a turbulent time. After years of anxiety attacks and painful comments she comically recalls a disastrous experience of Hypnotherapy that led...