Love Notes From a Soul Coach

Join me for a very special Love Notes episode where we practice making contact with our breath, anchoring ourselves in the present moment and connecting with our deeper selves as a point of refuge during a time of year which often brings up heavy feelings. You can also find additional support on my homepage: marywelch.com where I'm offering a FREE guided meditation for ease and grounding right now...

"Lost" is a concept - not an orientation of the Soul. When we feel lost what we're often feeling is disconnected from what we truly belong to: our own deeper knowing and the guidance of our higher self + intuition. How do we heal the disconnect and restore a feeling of belonging? This is the theme for today's Love Notes episode. Hope you'll join the conversation! By the way: if the beginning of th...

A Course in Miracles defines a miracle as a shift in perception. This means we find new ways of looking at old problems. When we give ourselves permission to frame the questions differently, new ideas get sparked and the shift from "stuck" to "possible" comes through. Join the conversation today as we discuss this more deeply :) Would you like more support with your spiritual journey? Check out my...

Are you a shallow breather? An anxious breather? How often are you consciously aware of your breath? Have you ever paused, on purpose, between breaths - just to feel how precious and urgent the process of breathing is to your being?  “Are you breathing just a little”, as Mary Oliver once wrote, “and calling it a life?” There’s so much we can learn about ourselves when we take the time to tune into...

Some of us section off when we're hurting - but this is not the same thing as wanting solitude. Self isolation is a trauma response and stems from deep feelings of being unworthy to have our pain witnessed. Solitude, on the other hand, is a hallmark of a healthy relationship with ourselves and is born of deep self care and love. Today we're diving into the difference between the two and how to sup...

Our peace is found through living in collaboration and cooperation with Life. When we lose sight of that, when we feel particularly scared and separate from our true nature, it's helpful to lean on the spiritual side of ourselves and to reaffirm our oneness with all that is. This is what we're talking about on today's Love Notes show. I hope you'll join the conversation! And don't forget to visit...

Today we're talking about the relationship between JOY and TRAUMA. They may sound like polar opposites but I think they’re actually deeply connected. Cultivating joy is one of the most profound ways we heal trauma. Bringing it back into our lives. reminding ourselves that it is our birthright to experience joy and that it is possible for us to find our way back to joy even after catastrophic thing...

Have you ever heard the saying: Willpower is choosing between what you want now and what you want most? The concept of willpower is somewhat synonymous to that of self control, restraint and the capacity within a person to delay their gratification. But what if willpower is less about those white knuckling traits and more about the “power” within each of us to be “willing” to try something new? We...

Loneliness is a serious issue, often referred to as an 'epidemic' for its role in increased rates of dementia, heart disease and stroke for people who self describe this way. Why is loneliness so hazardous to our health? Because we’re living against our nature when we’re living lonely lives. Our nature is to connect. It’s how we’re built as humans. So when our capacity to connect is blocked - by t...

In the mechanical sense of the word, to depress something means to hold it down. Today we're taking a different look at depression from this POV. What are we holding down when we feel depressed? Our hope? Our truth? Anger? And what would it be like to access those feelings and release them instead? Sadness is often associated as a cause of depression but today we're reconsidering this. What if sad...

Today we're talking about what keeps us going when we feel disconnected from our path and our deeper sense of purpose. Even Mother Teresa had days like these!  What are the key ingredients we want to be cultivating when it comes to our healing? What is the right framework to use when we're feeling off course and overwhelmed? When we forget our mission, what can help us to remember and recommit to...

Here's a little inspiration for you, if you ever find yourself standing next to your magic instead of in it. The end of summer is a great time to take stock and recalibrate as we aim to move ever more into close alignment with the destiny we came here to fulfill.  Sometimes a metaphor has a powerful way of making us think about our lives in new ways or to open new pathways of seeing. I'm sharing o...

Do you struggle with summertime FOMO? That feeling where the profound beauty and brevity of this season gut punches you and you fear that you’re failing at squeezing every last drop out of the loveliest time of year? Or checking all the boxes of impossibly precious and special things one is expected to do during the summer?  If this resonates, this episode is for you! I'm sharing some personal wri...

We will never appease the ‘out of control’ fear by reassuring ourselves that we’re in control. Because that is a lie. And the body knows a lie when it hears one.  When confronted by how terrifyingly little control we actually have inside our lives, the best thing we can offer ourselves is compassion. And refuge in the present moment. The answer to being out of control is not control. It’s surrende...

We do not outgrow our childhood wounds like old shoes. We integrate them. They inform so much in our lives. It’s never as simple as: well, I am who I am. Today on the show we're taking a deeper look at all of this in the context of Sinead O'Connor's passing. Sinead wasn’t just an incredible talent or a trailblazer or a rebel or a feminist or an outspoken trouble maker. She was also an abused child...

Spoiler Alert! I don't know the answer to this question! BUT - even if we don't necessarily know where our thoughts come from, we can still make it an aim of our healing to deal skillfully with them. This is what we're exploring on the podcast today - what are the different categories of negative thoughts and what are some strategies for managing them, given that we don't want to deny our feelings...

Many of us have been experiencing what it's like to shift out of a kind of collective ignorance into deeper levels of awareness over the past few years. This is a process that can feel jarring and overwhelming at times - to be confronted by the enormity of what one does not know yet or fully comprehend. Both on the personal level and the sociopolitical one too. There is a lot of comfort to be foun...

The art of letting something or someone go takes practice. Life gives us many opportunities but it's also important to consider ways of supporting ourselves, emotionally, through the process. I'm sharing some very personal stories from my life today as an example of what I've learned when it comes to holding on, letting go and finding the grace to acknowledge all the messy feelings along the way....

There is no way to grow and evolve without changing. And yet so many of us brace against change and wind up stunting our progress in life. What if we knew we could edit our stories? Toss the pages in the bin and begin again anytime we needed?  When we regard ourselves as the author's of our own lives, we feel empowered to take chances. And that's where the magic is :) Tune in to episode 21 of Love...

Beyond what we "have to" do every day, in order to keep our lives afloat, there is the question of what our Souls want to do. Have to vs Want to. It's not always easy to strike a balance between the two. But it's essential. On today's show we're exploring this idea and talking about what it means to actualize our legacy work. This is the contribution we were born to make. The stuff we're meant to...

Decided to scrap the episode planned for this week in honor of Tina Turner's passing to share, instead, a beautiful eulogy from Will Stenberg that celebrates the life of this tremendous soul/superstar/teacher/woman and gives us so much to reflect on in terms of our own lives and legacies. Please join me for this special episode of Love Notes From a Soul Coach! And remember: you can learn more abou...

Does your peace depend on everything going your way? Have you ever challenged yourself to explore what it means to live with the kind of inner freedom and empowerment where all kinds of madness can be going on around you and still you're able to access your own sense of steadiness and well being? Join us for a deeper look at what, exactly, this means! I'll be reading to you from my book: Love Note...

Connection is the healing balm. We were built for it, born for it and it's an essential part of how we recover from our losses in life and go on to live in wholeness and fulfillment. And yet... Many of us inadvertently learned to self isolate in our pain because we grew up without the emotional modeling and support we needed as children. We intuited that we are meant to deal with our suffering on...

Grief is complicated.  In this week's episode of Love Notes From a Soul Coach we're talking about grief - not intellectually, from the metaphorical sidelines - but from the actual trenches. ***You may not be up for a conversation like this right now, and that's totally ok. Feel free to skip this one if that's the case.  But for those out there who are also dealing with loss, heaviness or complicat...

A common unconscious narrative running deep underneath the fights we have in our relationships - especially the perpetual fights! - is: "You're not loving me the way I want to be loved." And yet: how many of us have really, honestly even taken the time to define what that means Do you know how you want to be loved? Do you know your own blueprint and deeply held beliefs when it comes to giving and...