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I've been doing a daily practice to retrain my brain for 78 straight days and counting. 🌟 The results have truly been incredible and humbling. Back in episode 10, "My Nervous System is Making Me Sick & Keeping Me Small" I spoke about this program that I've taken on and made the most important thing I do every day.  In this episode, I go into greater depth about my anxiety around health, food,...

I'm guessing you're thinking that I'm going to give you a rundown of the top actions to take, affirmations to make, and other ways to love your shape.    But I'm not.    It's too sticky, and it's not deep enough. We often avoid truly trying to love our bodies anyway because we think: 1. That we won't make the changes we want to make in our bodies if we love them as they are (whoa) 2. That people w...

Time blocking. Color coding. AI schedulers. Building in time for distractions. An hourly planner. A monthly planner. A guided planner. YOU NAME IT, if it's a framework for how to create schedules and daily structure, I'VE TRIED IT. And none of it has worked long-term, lots of it falling off within the first couple hours of the day.    I've got a business. I'm working on my faith and rewiring my br...

There have been a lot of deaths in and among my community in the past two months. I have found myself in the role repeatedly of being part of a community that uplifts, prays, holds space for and even howls into the wind with those who suffer and grieve.    And it's also been a season of needing to find the words. We often say "there are no words," but I tend to feel like that's not good enough for...

In this recent season of my body blowing up and things going haywire, I found my way to a nervous system retraining program after a friend said to me, "I recommend a fight/flight course." She, like all the specialists I was seeing at the time, picked up quickly on my stressful and anxiety-ridden perma-state.    I spent about six weeks inside the course learning about the nervous system, how it can...

Many of my friends were harmed by the church from the inside. Years of giving their blood, sweat and tears to a place seemingly established in the name of God (ie: love), only to find themselves spit out on the other end disillusioned, disheartened and, in some situations, downright traumatized.   Me? My harm was from the outside. Being the outsider looking in. Feeling like it was a club too exclu...

We've all heard the lines of Mary Oliver's poem "The Summer Day" that ends in, "Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"  And we feel inspired! Ah, the possibilities! Ah, don't let it go to waste! I must live! I must laugh! I must love! I must have the most incredible life!!   But have you ever linked YOUR BODY to this? In all of the dreaming and planning of your "...

It's interesting. I'm realizing that, much like we all have a "money mindset" that we need to heal if we want more abundance in our bank accounts, that we all also have a "Jesus mindset" (or a "faith mindset) that we have the opportunity to heal if we want more spiritual abundance. To be clear, I don't think this is the only way to achieve more spiritual abundance - there are thousands of spiritua...

The excessive need to do, to accomplish, to succeed, to heal, to find answers, to help others, to know it all - are all of these things in an effort to thwart the harsh voices in our heads telling us we're simply not good? Not loved? Not worthy?   I pulled a card from the Mary Magdalene Oracle Deck to help kick off this episode. My improv background coming in clutch with, "Hey God, I need a sugges...

After a 7-month long HARD season of stress, anxiety and illness, I'm coming out of it and getting back on track (or, getting on a NEW track because the old one wasn't exactly working).    Here's what I'm coming to realize and move toward in my life: the "experts" always tell you the "right" way to do things - your business, parenting, finances, health, even creativity! And so we twist and contort...

It's the Create Beautifully Anniversary Extravaganza Week ! It's been one year since I launched my podcast and I'm ready to celebrate and show my appreciation for all of you who have supported me and any new listeners! Get ready for dance parties, giveaways, lots of fun and the GRAND PRIZE(S)...not one, but TWO PHOTOSHOOTS WITH ME! Virtual OR in-person, so you don't have to be local to Nashville! ...

What better way to finish out the New Beginnings series than with master Clarity Coach, Diana Morris?! So many of us are looking for clarity. We want to feel that certainty when making decisions and big life choices. We're constantly asking ourselves, "BUT HOW CAN I BE SURE?!"    And this is where Diana asks us, "What is it you want to be sure about?"   Boom. This whole episode is chock full of nu...

A word of the year is a beautiful thing to help guide you throughout the year. It's like choosing the type of soil that you're going to plant the next year in. It's not the goal itself, it's not the plant. It does the nourishing, the supporting, the reminding all in an effort to move you forward, to help you grow, to continually prompt you to move toward your Higher Self and connect with your Crea...

Aaaaaaand, we're BACK!! Happy 2024!   I'm SO EXCITED to start THEMES this year with you! Our first theme starts today and runs through Wednesday, January 31. And our first theme is...surprise...NEW BEGINNINGS!! Whether or not you subscribe to all the hullabaloo about things like New Year/New You or not, there is energy behind the ending of a 12-month cycle, one that has been celebrated for thousan...

The words we say to ourselves have incredible power and it can be so hard to move from the critical mind to one of self-love, especially if we have a lifelong habit of being hard on ourselves. Often, we simply don't know what else to say to ourselves, we don't have anything good to replace the negative thoughts.  This episode is designed for you to repeat after me - I say an affirmation and you re...

Let's embark on the Lens of Love journey, the one where we see ourselves and our bodies through love and not judgement.  This episode is designed to do a few things for you:   1. Help you see that you're not alone when it comes to a *cough* complicated journey with your body, and perhaps how you view yourself in photos as well. 2. Provide inspiration around finding a unique blend of your gifts - g...

We hear it all the time: stories of how people rose up from the ashes to become incredibly powerful, influential people who go on to do amazing things in this world. We’ve seen Disney movies that tell us that a parent needs to die in order for us to find the love of our life. We are inundated with the idea that we must suffer in order to have an incredible life and for our dreams to come true, and...

Ah, that giant buzzword "authenticity." We're looking for it at every turn, especially in this highly curated world we live in. We want to see people being truly authentic - meaning, we want to know that their truth as a human being is just as messy, hard, beautiful, joyful, wrecked and full of potential as we feel our own is. We want that permission to simply BE OURSELVES without shoving parts of...

Not a full episode, not a sparkle snack. This is what showing up during seasons that ask for more of our energy looks like for me in this moment. Here’s what’s happening in my life in this season and how I’m learning to embrace it and still show up. Would love to know if you relate.

In 2014, ReNae Ione had the opportunity to get a reading from a psychic for the first time. But she didn't want to go because she was afraid the psychic would tell her what she knew she should probably do - leave her husband.  Since then she's become a life coach, trained in reiki healing, hypnotherapy, yoga nidra, breathwork, EMDR, EFT, sound healing, human design and has done not one, but TWO 10...

When you were younger, did you ever go driving with your dad for the sake of pulling pranks and practicing your comedy stylings on random strangers on the street? No? Well, Mary Jane Murphy did! It seems she was destined for comedy!    In this episode we definitely go in all kinds of directions (hello, welcome to two people who like to riff), but we have a blast. Just some of the things we discuss...

Big energy. Go, do, more go. Beachbody, the Grammys. Today's guest, Debra Pivko, is as social and upbeat as they come. She was living a busy life that was fun, but also had her feeling like she was always behind.   It wasn't until 6 years ago and her cancer diagnosis that she was forced to slow down. Although, after hearing this episode, you might wonder what her full-throttle looked like if THIS...

LIfe in the 70s and 80s may now be looked back on by younger generations as cool and "vintage," but there were much deeper experiences for women growing up at that time. They felt the expectations of their grandmother's generation, urging them to go, do and be all the things that they couldn't - but what that often looked like was, at best, a corporate ladder (with glass ceiling) career.    Sittin...

"Do it scared! Done is better than perfect! Take imperfect action!"   We see & hear these growth mindset go-for-it-now mantras seemingly everywhere we look. Do you ever want to yell back, "OKAY, BUT TELL ME HOW!!!"? It's all well & good to just tell people to "just do it," but that doesn't work for most of us.    The moment we go to "take imperfect action" all the fear comes up. What will...

Body Hacking: Build a Better You. If Michaela's podcast title alone doesn't make you want to tune in, then maybe her story of seemingly unending health issues followed by getting paralyzed on her couch while doing skin-to-skin with her newborn will.    That event, along with the others before it, began a long journey seeking help from anyone and everyone she thought could MABYE offer SOME kind of...