Beautiful Work Beautiful Life

Your personal power impacts all that you do - in your relationships, the workplace, any places where you interact with others, and at home. Not only does it impact all of this but it impacts all that you accomplish each day and how you feel about what you do.  This episode is all about understanding how you can tap into more of your power, and how you can enjoy feeling powerful when you...

Closing a chapter of your life takes courage and clarity to do well, especially when it comes to relationships. The more you are willing to practice this skill, the better you will get. When you shy away from deliberately closing a chapter that has come to it's natural end, you lose vital energy to move forward in new and vibrant ways.  Use this episode to help you consider any ways you...

Intentions are the seeds of manifestation, the initiations of your actions. Enjoy this guided meditation to support you in planting seeds of intention to grow into the next season and chapter of your life. As you relax and allow yourself to listen inwardly during this meditation, you'll take time to be clear in how you want to move forward and let your subconscious mind hold clearly...

Evolving with awareness and gentleness gives your life new meaning, keeps it fresh and interesting. One of the greatest benefits is you become good at letting go, accepting and allowing everything to change and grow too. Just like not wanting to read the same story or novel over and over, life is meant to move forward, we are here to grow and change and you can claim this birthright with focu...

Do you feel like you show up at work and in your relationships authentically, as your real self, or are you plagued with wearing a "presentable" mask or feeling like you're stuck in imposter syndrome? In this podcast episode, the idea of the importance of showing up authentically is explored while Laurel and Laurel share ideas about how to work with feelings and thoughts that keep you from being w...

Use this guided meditation to help you create the habit of releasing your day, an effective way to increase your ability to be more present to the following day and enter sleep unburdened by the days events. A beautiful accompaniment to this is to take time to journal about any unresolved feelings, conversations or unfinished business and make some notes about what you want to do to follow up the...

What does it really mean to live from the heart, and how do we achieve this in a moment-to-moment kind of way? If you want to have a more meaningful and loving life, this podcast will help you open a pathway to discovering how you might cultivate this in your life - beginning today. From specific small practices to new ways of thinking about life itself, this episode invites you to be a part of th...

Can we really overcome greatest fear of all, fear of the unknown? Overcoming your fear of the unknown is a radical practice that requires you to acknowledge your need for control as well as deeper needs and fears that often aren't embraced directly. Laurel and Laurel discuss the importance of learning to understand how fear shows up and change your relationship with it. They talk about how fear ca...

Have you outgrown a role? Do you have responsibilities in your life grown to weigh you down and cause you to feel trapped by your own life? This important discussion about roles and responsibilities will help you shift your perspective on feeling trapped, invites you to explore new ways of considering how to get out of any trap you are feeling, and to move forward to feel less of a victim and more...

Enjoy this guided meditation to support you in affirming your intuition, your creativity and your empathy. Rather than limit what you believe you can have and experience, relax into this meditation to support you in expanding your ability to hold what you want deep in your heart. Bring it forth through your imagination and embody it while you release what may be keeping you from allowing all you w...

How do you accept your shadow side and still show up the way you want to in your relationships, your work and in all that you do? Laurel and Laurel discuss what the shadow is, how to identify yours, and how to begin the beautiful work of integrating your own shadow into your everyday life and why this work is so important to becoming all you want to be and living the beautiful life you most desire...

What blocks your inner peace, your personal development, or your happiness? This is the inner work that you must discover to move these blocks out of the way in order to live the life that will bring you the fulfillment you enjoy.  Laurel and Laurel share what they have identified while coaching clients, as the 3 common blocks they see that keep people from living the life they want. In...

Attending to your energy affects all aspects of your life; you have the power to shift any experience by shifting your own energy. Use this guided meditation to help you focus your mind, direct your breath, and enliven your energy. Moving and breathing through each energy center, grounding into the Earth, and using positive affirmations, you’ll leave this meditation feeling refreshed and awake. Th...

Mental suffering is a real thing, and one that we can work on to develop more liberating thought habits. We think often in patterns and routines which is why it's so fruitful to examine the patterns and habits of your mind. Laurel and Laurel tackle addressing three major self-limiting thought patterns. They are - Self-criticism Judging others or the world around you Complacency Changing, transform...

You’re invited to an interesting and provocative talk about group thinking. Laurel and Laurel share different thoughts and ideas about how group thinking can be beneficial and how it can be harmful. Expand your language and ability to dialogue about differing opinions and ideas by listening in to the podcast. How can you be more mindful about how what you hear is simply opinion, someone's thoughts...

Self-love and self-acceptance, when experienced as a foundational inner state, allow you to live most authentically, courageously and with deep peace. Enjoy this 10-minute meditation that guide you inward, to find presence in your whole body, and using your breath guides you to embody courage and acceptance while releasing the limiting feelings that may be holding you back from true self-acceptanc...

Sufficiency - this idea brings up the word enough - a powerful word of transformation that is often overlooked when you think of abundance and scarcity. We often decide "I am not enough - I need to be other than who I am". This inner, often elusive belief, leads to inauthentic behaviors and choices that don't align with the deep truth of who you really are. Sufficiency can be a...

You may not have been born into a life of abundance, but you can be coached to shift the thoughts that create scarcity and fear-based thinking that leads to lack and limitation in your life today. This episode is meant to help you identify and work with critical shifts that will allow you to embody abundance right now.  In this show you’ll hear about the impact and importance of  your ea...

Use this 15-minute meditation to help you work with negative thinking, old beliefs, and with self-limiting, habitual thoughts. You can be more successful in this transformational work by creating new patterns with repeated use of this meditation. This meditation is meant to help you purposefully interrupt thought patterns. It  guides you on how to create more aligned beliefs rather than accep...

An abundance mindset - one that's focused on growth, abundance, wealth of all kinds, relationships that feel full and all things rich - developing an ability to condition our mindset will transform our lives powerfully. How do we actually create an abundance mindset that will allow us to readily live a beautiful, bountiful life experience?  Laurel and Laurel breakdown how mindset work, in the...

Can every step forward be a celebration? Laurel and Laurel think they can and invite you into that thought stream with them. In this episode, Laurel and Laurel guide you to look at making plans for the year ahead in a transformative way that will excite you rather than bog you down with an unpleasant to-do list. You'll be offered questions to help guide you through a reflective and effec...

Become centered in your heart space as you enjoy this new moon meditation that supports you in preparing your inner self for connecting with your most important intentions as you head into the year ahead. Planting the seeds of your dreams is the priority for this season as we enjoy a return of the light and experience the wonder of what can feel like a magical season. Whatever season you are in, t...

In this season of giving and receiving it's easy to get swept up in the activity of it all and lose sight of how to feel good in the moment. To truly experience and enjoy the riches of life can have little to do with what you possess in "goods", but often it comes from what you have within, through your relationships, and in what you enjoy doing.  This episode is meant to reground y...

Self- trust launches into our ability to create the life we most want because we trust ourselves to make decisions, explore and go after what we want, falling at times but getting up and continuing our pursuit of a full and satisfying life. Self-forgiveness is key to developing good self-trust. This episode of Beautiful Work Beautiful Life shares the pathway to building self-trust, offering specif...

Our hearts can become weary. We can become disconnected from our hearts in a culture that places great emphasis on the mind and intellect. Sometimes, we need to make an effort to refresh and restore our heart connection to help enliven and invigorate life.  This guided meditation invites you to explore -  Standing in meditation (or you can choose to sit) Grounding into a strong connectio...