Beautiful Work Beautiful Life

Welcome to the next season of the Beautiful Work Beautiful Life podcast - Tales from a Beautiful Life . The hosts share the new routine or rhythm of the podcast for the season as well as sharing the story of what's behind the changes. The mission of the podcast remains to inspire listeners into doing their inner work and creating the life that they would consider to be beautiful to them. Listeners...

Closing out Season 3 of the podcast, listen in to the third most downloaded episode of the season! Do you have relationships in which you feel known and understood? Do you have safe people with whom you can share your deepest truth? Trusting relationships are often the bedrock of a fulfilling and heartfelt life and most certainly of experiencing fulfilling connection. Knowing how important this as...

Listen in to the second most downloaded episode of Season 3, How can shifting perspective change your life? When you have no solution to your problem, it's time to shift your perspective. When you are completely frustrated with a situation, person, or experience, it's time to shift your perspective. When you don't have the ability to make an impact that you want, it's time to shift your perspectiv...

Listen in again to the top downloaded episode of Season 3, Letting Go of Expectations . Expectations, reasonable or unreasonable, have the potential to create a life of being let down or disappointed. This episode focuses on helping the listener identify possible sources of their expectations and then how to work with them pro-actively to live both realistically and also with hope and faith. Topic...

How do you approach change? Many of us resist or dread the idea of change. It is famously said that there is only one constant and that is change. Some of us create chaos and drama as a way of experiencing change in a passive kind of way that often produces unfortunate conditions or results. Being able to address change, and even welcome it, can be a stress reliever. Listen in to this podcast...

As the 3rd season of Beautiful Work Beautiful Life winds down, it was time to revisit the initial question of, "what is beautiful work?" Beginning with why do the work and the wonderful opportunities that can come both to your life and the world at large, the hosts speak into the big impact of inner work. Although there is great potential of change from facing inner life and making change fro...

Past conditioning can control your life. Without concentrated effort, life often feels out of control until you consciously "recondition" your mind to question every choice you make and investigate the intent behind it. In this podcast, you will hear from the hosts how they discern for themselves when they are reactive versus consciously choosing behavior carefully and then redirect choices in ali...

Inspired by the work of Caroline Myss, this meditation focuses on your first three energy centers or chakras to support your shift from a past-focused mind to a present-focused mind, drawing you into the life you want to be living. When we get quiet, and begin to observe the mind, it’s easy to see that habitual thoughts often occupy our thinking. These habitual thoughts generally stem from past ex...

Many of us suffer in relationships because we find ourselves in conversations and situations where we don’t know how to proactively respond or act well. The hosts explore aspects of dealing with uncomfortable or painful situations of life so that one can minimize patterns of suffering. Beginning with patterns of criticism in relationships that feel harsh, to being told what to do by others when yo...

Repeating patterns in our lives, especially if they are self-defeating or limiting, can be a signal that points in the direction of significant change. When we stay in the pattern and feel stuck, this can be truly debilitating. Self-observation can get the process of change started but must be followed up with action that is different. In this podcast the hosts guide you through the deconstruction...

Meditation is a time to take inventory of your inner world, to reflect, and to learn to simply be in the moment, noticing details with your attention. Enjoy this 10-minute guided meditation to support you in gracefully moving through your inner world to take inventory, and in so doing to let go and be with what is without judgment or struggle. Be guided to use your breath to help you gain more awa...

Most of us have relationships or people that really rub us the wrong way. We can spend endless hours thinking about how terrible they are and what we want to say to them to make them see the light. Rarely do we use these people to better ourselves, and to reconcile both our shadow side and face our own critical judge. In this podcast, the discussion reorients these difficult relationships to a pla...

Do you believe you are a victim in life? Learning about the victim and what this archetype or role means for your mental state and your attitude, and ultimately the condition of your life, can turn your life around for the better. Many of us have been victims. How do we overcome how that has impacted our lives? This is the beautiful work when we talk about victim work. You'll hear strategies and s...

Distractions and irritations can be a good excuse for not moving forward and pursuing or creating what you want in your life. Just like any excuse, it may seem like a legitimate reason for not getting something done or for doing other things, and yet in the end, it's letting life get away from you. So how do you reframe distractions and irritations as resistance to moving forward, and then work wi...

Expectations, reasonable or unreasonable, have the potential to create a life of being let down or disappointed. This episode focuses on helping the listener identify possible sources of their expectations and then how to work with them pro-actively to live both realistically and also with hope and faith. Topics addressed include the plague of perfectionism, conscious decision making, identif...

Just like your home that feels uncomfortable when it’s filled with clutter, so does our internal world drag us down when it’s filled with unwanted thoughts, attitudes and emotions. Use this brief meditation to support clearing and cleaning your inner life in just under 10 minutes! The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourin...

Jealousy and envy can be motivators to create your own beautiful life when you learn to work with these emotions proactively and in a positive light. In this episode you will learn how to transform your jealousy into appreciation and envy into admiration with consistent effort and a deeper appreciation of self. During the podcast the hosts offer ways to begin/continue your transformation and how t...

When you're a sensitive soul or an empath special boundaries are required to live your best life. Boundaries and self-care, when instituted well and with compassion, can create a life that feels both less stressful and more fulfilling. To openly express who we are and what we value and need allows us to not only relax into our lives more deeply, but can also give others the permission to create be...

Using imagination, visualization and breathwork, this meditation guides you to connect with the Earth and purposefully draw energy from the Earth into your body. Focusing on the three power centers of the body, you’ll use imagery to infuse your power with the power of the Earth. Music by Chris Collins accompanies this guided meditation. The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxfl...

Hyper vigilance, anxiety and sensitivity can create a web of inner stress and discomfort. For anyone who feels they struggle with any of these feelings or qualities, this podcast aims to sort out the differences and the root of how they arise within. How do you work with these conditions? Suggestions for this work, and ways to self-soothe are included in the talk.  Journaling prompts are sugg...

Guilt has been used as a tool to modify behavior, and in some instances, in ways that can be harmful to people. Have you thought about your own patterns of how guilt may be motivating you? This podcast episode is an invitation to turn around any bad habits you have around guilt and use guilt as a way to both gain clarity about the truth of who you are and to help you become the person you know you...

Handling conflict can be precarious, but when you're sensitive or empathic, it can be painful. This podcast offers strategies that sensitives and empathic  individuals can use right away to alleviate some of the pain of facing and working through conflict, both with others, but also the inner struggle with emotions. Although this episode focuses on support for those who feel that they ar...

As the hosts explore the topics of sensitivity and having an empathic nature, how to say no with grace and ease is an important conversation. During this episode the hosts offer strategies to move into saying no well, facing the feelings you feel despite what can be difficult, because the goal is to align with truth, not necessarily comfort. When we go for momentary comfort and forgo the truth of...

How do you prepare so that you no longer repeat conversations you don't feel good about, negotiations that went poorly, or simple self-expressions that you wish were different? This podcast episode will guide you into the world of rewriting your narrative as a tool so that you use your focus, your desires, and your imagination to no longer feel stuck in what isn't working, and move towards wh...

Often when we meditate we use breath or another tool to bring our attention to a single focus. Because our attention is often narrowly focused throughout the day, this open focus meditation is wonderful opportunity to create a sense of openness within oneself, to relax the attention in a way that opposes that narrow focus, while also stilling the mind. In this open focus meditation we use ima...