Chaos to Connection: Boundaries and Breakthroughs for Cycle-Breaking Women

What is connection, really? What does connection mean to you? In this episode, we will dive into different types of connection and why culturally we are starving for connection. To fully understand connection, we delve into the barriers to connection and underlying limiting beliefs that keep us stuck and unknowingly disconnected.   Continue the conversation: Join the Beautiful Behavior community f...

How fear undermines not only our sense of safety in the world but also our sense of self-worth. Am I loveable? Do I matter? Do you have the belief of I’m not good enough? Do you fear messing up your kids? Do you seek validation? If so, this episode is for you.   Continue the conversation: Instagram @dianesorensen.bb and Facebook at Diane Sorensen   Want to work 1:1 - fill out the application here:...

Do you find it difficult to make decisions? Are you constantly over thinking or second guessing yourself? Have you wondered why it is so hard to make a decision?  Do you fear making a mistake? Do you fear being wrong? What drives this insatiable need to be right? On today’s episode we dive into discovering your relationship with mistakes and the impact it has on our everyday lives. Continue the co...

On today’s episode I am joined by health and fitness coach Adriana Mastronardi. How do busy moms find time to focus on their own health and fitness? How do we stay consistent with our health and fitness goals? Adriana breaks it down for us in this episode. Adriana is an Environmental Engineer with a master’s degree in environmental health. In 2008, she quit her job as an engineer to pursue her pas...

The most important relationship any of us will ever have is the relationship we have with ourselves. This relationship impacts all the rest. If we want to feel fulfilled in our life, or we want to feel connected in our relationships with others, or we want to be the parents our children need, then we must start paying attention to the relationship we have with ourselves. In this episode we will di...

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2024!!! It’s such an exciting time of the year full of new POSSIBILITY!! Are you setting yourself up for success or failure in the coming year. New Year’s resolutions tend to set us up for failure whereas non-negotiables set us up for success. Inside today’s episode I discuss the difference and I share my non-negotiable for 2024. This is vulnerable and I’m saying it here for account...

Today’s episode is a conversation with one of my mentors, Heather Chauvin, and fellow coach Kristi Simons. In this episode we talk about: · Learning how to understand your child or teen’s feelings and actions, so you can respond thoughtfully instead of reacting quickly. · Discover ways to handle your own intense feelings and build a stronger connection with your child/teen. · Learn strategies for...

The BEST GIFT I have received is the understanding and practice of healthy boundaries. The gift boundaries give is that it fills us up with self-respect, self-esteem, self-love and self-worth.  If you find boundaries confusing you are not alone. I too, was lost when it came to boundaries. I have been on both sides – from over giving, peacekeeping, and exhausted to discovering the TRUE MEANING of b...

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!! The holidays can come with joy, wonder and awe as well as, stress. We often struggle to fit in the extra holiday activities into an already full daily schedule. And family gatherings – they can be triggering. However, you do not have to be a victim to the holidays. You are a creator and you get to create your holiday experience. On todays episode, we are talking about how to do ju...

Today’s episode is with guest Mikki Gardner. Our conversation was all about how to co-parent well, how people pleasing gets in the way of our peace, triggers, and more. This was a very informative conversation. Mikki is a Certified Life + Conscious Parenting Coach, a mom, speaker, and host of the Co-Parenting with Confidence Podcast and author of the People Pleaser’s Guide to Co-Parenting Well. Mi...

Today's episode is inspiring, vulnerable and insightful. Megan Rempel vulnerably shares her stories and how she created change in her parenting, marriage and other areas of her life. She is a true inspiration. You won't want to miss this episode. Megan Rempel is the host of the Unlearning podcast, a Registered Nurse, and an online health and wellness advocate. Megan helps women go from who...

I don't want to mess up my kids. I don't want my kids to feel the way I did. I don't want to do it the way my parents did. These are comments and statements, or some version of them, that I hear from parents around the globe AND they are ones that I claimed myself. I think what it really means is, I want to give my children a different mothering experience. I wanted to offer a differen...

Do you feel the insatiable need to be right? Or maybe you give up being right to others to avoid conflict. Which actually means you are silenced into go along with others to get along. If this is you, you may be playing the victim in your life. If you take on the stance of, “I’m always right” you may be playing the persecutor in your life. Both roles are a way to avoid conflict and defend our own...

Here we are in November and for me, I am looking to stay grounded as we head into the holiday season. In today's episode I am joined by a guest, K. Margaret Solorio, who is the host and creator of the Delicious EASE podcast and a time freedom mentor. She lives in Northern California with her husband and two kids, and helps women live and work with more time freedom and ease. In 2020, like so m...

Wow, its been three years since I started the podcast. I remember how scared I was in those first episodes. In today's episode I recall what brought me here and my intention for season three. I am so grateful for this journey and your presence here as we travel into unfamiliar territory and discover new ways. Together we pave a new frontier. Together we make an impact. Together we change the w...

I had an image of what being a mother would be like. It didn't match my actual experience of being a mother at all. In today's episode I share my mothering journey and what had to shift to create a different experience. Join this months Lunch & Learn Oct. 26: https://www.dianesorensen.net/registration-page Let's have a conversation: ( Free 30 minute call) https://calendly.com/diane...

Do you relate to perfection? The need to be a certain way or do things a certain way so as to not feel judged by the world? I have been known to say (quite often) that I am a recovering perfectionist. I now realize that when I can notice where perfection shows up, acknowledge it and work with it I can continue to move the needle in the direction of my truth. In this episode I talk about how perfec...

Did you know that 95% of what we do each day is coming from an unconscious program? This program downloaded in early childhood runs the show. It's time to bring the unconscious to the conscious where we can work with it and download a conscious more empowering program into our system. This is the power of working with the subconscious mind. Whether its through hypnosis, reinvention or the pare...

We tend to have an idea of what boundaries are. Culturally, most of us were not taught boundaries nor did we have a model for them. The traditional model is focused on compliance. It looks through a lens of control. So, typically when we think about boundaries we are looking through a lens of control. Boundaries are the opposite of control. Boundaries are the new paradigm. In this episode I have a...

I often hear people say, “I have this awareness but now what?” What they are really asking is, “ How do I create change?” In this episode, we talk about how to create the change you are seeking once you have the awareness using the transformation equation coined by Nancy Levin, which is CHANGE=VISION+CHOICE+ACTION.   Continue the conversation:  Instagram @dianesorensen.net  Facebook @DianeSorensen...

Do you experience frustration, anger, and/or resistance with “chores” and your children? I did too and I hear many parents voice this frustration. It has created curiosity within me, and I wanted to take a deeper look at this dynamic. We also have a teenager in our home, and we have been exploring what household tasks might look like, sound like and feel like from a new perspective. A perspective...

Are you a worrier? Do you worry about what other people are going to think? Do you find yourself constantly thinking up the worse case scenarios? I was a chronic worrier. On today's episode we will dive into chronic worrying and how healthy boundaries freed me from this negative, automatic pattern that kept me stuck for decades. Continue the conversation: Instagram @dianesorensen.net Facebook...

On today's episode Alison Marshall, a grief recovery specialist, joins me in helping us understand grief. After our conversation I am seeing grief in a whole new way. Alison, is a social worker and certified in the Grief Recovery Method. Alison has 20 years experience in providing mental health support to those in her community. Alison offers services both in person and on-line – in both group...

Become more genuine. Show up rested and real. Embrace your authentic self. In this episode we break down what keeps us driven to stay busy. Busy offers validation and a sense that we are important and matter. It’s rival is Boundaries. What keeps us leaning into busy and away from boundaries? In this episode, we are diving into our relationship with Busy, Boundaries and Ourselves. Continue the conv...

I am breaking up with busy and now I am dating boundaries. In this episode I am sharing my journey with boundaries and why they are important. Boundaries come bearing gifts of authenticity, self-acceptance, and self-trust. Boundaries give us the gift of more time and energy allowing us to have more ease in our life. Ultimately, Boundaries give us the gift of FREEDOM. Continue the conversation: Ins...