Beautiful Work Beautiful Life

Know thyself. When you are truly self-aware you can carve a pathway to really wonderful self-care. Self-care is crucial to experiencing a beautiful, nourishing, fulfilling life.  Ultimately, each of us is responsible for our own self-care. We often want others to care for us well but we are the only ones that truly know exactly what we need and want. Once we arm ourselves with this knowledge,...

Do you have a conflicted relationship with being more visible? Many of us do because it might mean more attention, more responsibility and more stress. And yet, it can also mean feeling more empowered, more energized, and more successful.  On this podcast episode Laurel and Laurel discuss the feelings, the complications and the rewards of becoming more visible. We share our stories about hist...

Forgiving, such big work. Such beautiful work even when it involves some ugly emotions and situations. Because forgiving, ultimately, is the gift you give yourself. You recover a peaceful heart. You no longer feel the poison of anger or betrayal running through your veins and mind. You are free to move and empowered to set boundaries based on your truth and your values. So many benefits to receive...

Pixie Hamilton joins me in this episode to get into the nitty-gritty of how important boundaries are for each and every one of us, especially if you want to create your own beautiful life.  "This is the number 1 tool for your toolbox when truly getting to the business of making your life the way you want it." And as Pixie says, right from the beginning, the holdup often is knowing what you wa...

Are you willing to look at the judge that lives in you? When you are ready to seriously consider how judgement shows up in your life and how it may be limiting it, great positive change becomes a reality. You free yourself from many self-limiting factors and the inner critic who can truly shut down your best life.  Laurel and Laurel share stories of how they learned, and continue to learn, ho...

Feeling in control feels good. When we make plans and they work out, it's satisfying. Yet, there's a limit to "controlling" life and having it feel good and continue to produce positive outcomes.  Laurel and Laurel share personal stories of recovering from being controlling , and experiencing the freedom and boost of energy that results from this inner work. We talk about the nuances of...

Often the beautiful work begins with a crisis or a moment of clarity in which we suddenly know something needs to change. As we embrace that inner work can be a positive and life-enhancing aspect of living, we shift into a mindset of opening to the beautiful work and actively engaging in the process of personal development and transformation.  In this episode to kick-off 2021, Laurel and Laur...

With intention and focus,  you can powerfully end the year and then begin the new year. In this guided meditation, we take you through two beautiful practices - releasing the year gone by and creating your vision for the year to come.  Join Laurel and Laurel as they lead you into a relaxed state, focus on inner power centers for clearing and embodiment, release 2021, create your vision,...

What is grace? What we've been taught, the cultural definitions, the book dictionary - all point us in the direction of Divine intervention of some sort.  But the actual experience of grace becomes a miraculous, expansive, feeling-oriented, personally uplifting gift, received in a unique way for our delight, that seems bestowed from an outside source that leaves us with gratitude an...

All your life becomes your own through meditation.  I truly believe this and have experienced personally the profound possibilities and transformations that have made my life so incredibly good through learning to sit still with myself and tune in to my deeper truth, a strong connection with what I call the Divine, and my ability to see anything that life throws at me as a learning lesson and...

Have you ever taken a values assessment? Learning about what you value and having clarity about what drives you in your decision-making empowers us to become a person of integrity. Integrity comes from the actual integration of our values in our day-to-day lives. How are you doing with the integration of your values? That's what we are speaking into in the podcast today.   Are you struggling...

Q and A with Laurel and Laurel Answering questions from listeners this week!  How does this work help to address issues such as major changes? How do you address fear and loss with these life transitions? AND “It’s Not My Problem”  “How can we not jump in when it’s not our problem?” Moving consciously through life change, how to deal with the emotions that changes can stimulate...

Grateful. Gratitude. Appreciation. Feeling really good. That's what we experience when we are in the state of gratitude or appreciation. Feeling the feeling  ultimately leads us to the intention behind developing a gratitude practice. It's  worthwhile, and potentially life-changing, to bring yourself into the state of experiencing gratitude on a regular basis. I've know friends who have...

As requested by a listener, we're addressing "self-care after COVID" - and not necessarily after having COVID. This episode speaks into the changes that we can embrace and activate because we've lived through these last 19 months. Each of us has been affected in various ways by the impact of COVID to the economy, socializing, work-life, home-life, health and wellness, and all the other parts...

Has anyone ever told you that you were "too" sensitive, enthusiastic, intense, emotional... whatever it might be? Do you worry that you're "too much"? Maybe that you're not enough?  My special guest, Bri McCorkell and I have both had this experience. We're tackling this "too much" topic on this podcast episode and reframing this to help you find peace with, and maybe even, new meaning for any...

Selfish - such a loaded word. It's been a journey to find the "good" in selfish in my own life. Am I grateful that I found my way into letting selfish come alive in my life. When we decide that self-care is selfish, we live in a downward, self-limiting spiral that's ripe for taking us into not only overwhelm but eventually burnout.  In this podcast we do our best to understand how we cam...

"Holding myself accountable - self-trust is nothing more than simply trusting myself to do what I say I am going to do." This message from Laurel Boivin got cheers from me during the podcast! Self-trust can be an antidote for some of the anxiety that is prevalent in the world today. As we explored self-trust on the podcast this week many related topics emerged such as faith, trust in what you...

Co-dependency has become a term that we often use or toss about but don’t truly understand exactly what it means or what it’s all about. Co-dependency, a complex topic, affects many people in families where addiction, narcissism and other dysfunctional or mental health issues exist. Pixie Hamilton and I dig in and share our personal stories of recovering from co-dependency, how it impacted our rel...

Relationships - they make or break your life in so many ways. How are you feeling about the relationships in your life? Laurel and Laurel talk about their budding friendship through the podcast and the intuitive process that brought them together. They dig into the complexities of living in relationships especially for women, some of the differences for men and women because of our inherent psycho...

Who is the one person you will always be with? Well, you of course.  Taking the time to develop a positive and fulfilling relationship with yourself affects every single aspect of your life - work, other relationships, recreational time, and all the other areas of your life that make up your particular life pie chart.  This week's episode aims to support you in making the relationship wi...

When we aren't living authentically we often feel bereft, frustrated, confused or detached from life in ways that cause disinterest or resistance. As you decide to claim who you truly are and show up as that person, you discover a new energy and excitement about living. Laurel and Laurel share personal stories of feeling inauthentic and how to carve the pathway into living the fullness of who...

Are you aware of just how powerful your voice is? Your inner voice as well as your spoken word are often considered the  literal pathway to creating and recreating your life. Taking ownership of what you think, what you say, and how you speak to both yourself and others can be some of the most beautiful and powerful work you can do for creating your beautiful life. Laurel and Laurel share per...

How does the beautiful work actually happen? There are endless ways, so many tools, and possibilities of support for this beautiful work. Laurel and Laurel talk about their own support and tools along their paths and offer lots of ideas about how to get good support for the work. Both Laurel Holland and Laurel Boivin accept new clients when their schedules permit. Contact them directly for in...

Wake-up calls and nudges from the universe, whether big or small, come in all different ways.  Are we listening and do we have the courage to respond affirmatively? In this episode, Laurel and Laurel talk about how listening to the wake-up calls and nudges from the universe can lead us to living more closely in alignment with our most authentic self and reach our great potential within. ...

The power of telling your story is in the owning it fully. Change stories are powerful because they often offer the listener encouragement and inspiration for their own bold changes. When we decide to change we truly are jumping into a new and unknown experience.  “We make change when the fear of the known is greater than the fear of the unknown”. It takes courage to leap into the unknown! La...