When life as you’ve known it falls apart - I mean crumbles and dissolves before your very own eyes. Where do you turn for refuge?
In this post, I share a brief introduction about what it feels like to be slowly rising from the ashes of 22 months of dissolution and a dark night of the soul passage.
And, I announce the offering of a 7-week embodiment program called Traversing the Initiatie’s Path.
Read MoreDo you know what drives you in a relationship? Or how your motivations are either serving your growth or keeping you in limiting patterns and beliefs?
In this article, I speak about my own journey of unwinding from my recent love relationship and the four key practices I draw upon to deepen a secure attachment and partnership with myself.
Read MoreTwo months ago I left my home without a new home and my romantic partnership (along with our envisioned future together) fell away – all at once.
I'm relating to this rug pull in a whole new way than I've been capable of in the past.
This is partially why a mentor of mine suggested that I start writing to you from inside of this dissolution -- rather than once I'm on the other side. So here goes....
What if I told you that becoming an authentic leader is not the end game? What if there is more? Would you want to hear about it?
If so, this is what this article is focused on. It’s called integral leadership - an evolutionary synthesis of both the authentic leadership movement and shadow work.
Integral leadership is a model of inclusivity and expansion. It’s not a hierarchy or end-game.
We spiral through stages of development over and over again – collecting new parts and wisdom along the way. In this article, we explore the five phases of leadership and states of consciousness.
Read MoreI've learned that to evolve I must grow comfortable being messy.
I must feel safe enough, to tell the truth about my behaviors, motivations and beliefs in order to see beyond my limiting perceptions of reality and impulses to protect.
I've learned, by trial and error, that to become the most effective agent of change I need to understand what aspects of myself I have exiled -- and learn how to befriend and call these parts home.
This is what I have devoted my life to -- professionally and personally.
I want to share with you about a transformative aspect of my work called embracing our shadows and integral leadership.
I help business leaders, entrepreneurs, coaches and healers to rise into their most powerful and integrated selves through unraveling the dynamics that keep them stuck or limited.
There is a growing movement of awakening exploding on the planet. This rise in consciousness is catalyzing a new prototype of leaders who are poised to express a wholehearted and integrative approach through every aspect of their lives. In this article, we’ll explore how power is one of our most influential energy sources. We’ll delve into two paradigms of power: power-over and power-with.
Read MoreTo re-wild is to remember the fullness of who we are. The journey of re-wilding is a path of unifying and welcoming any exiled part of ourselves back home into the center of our heart and whole-being. Embodiment allows us to see through the distracting charade of being overly identified with our self-images and personas instead of the core of our being.
Read MoreEmbodied leadership includes five key components: self-awareness and mindfulness, leadership and connection, power and vulnerability, befriending shadows, and embodiment (whole being wisdom).
Read MoreThe embodied leadership path is an invitation to integrate and descend from our heads into our hearts, and into the ground of our being. It’s a practice of embodying the fullest expression of who we are. As embodied leaders, we recognize the intelligence of nature that lives within and outside of us as an unparalleled primordial source from which we access vitality, life force, the power of nurturing, and self-healing wisdom.
Read MoreIn Western culture, we prize a “superhuman ideal.” From a young age, many of us are indoctrinated by cultural and social pressures to reach our highest potential and “hit our life out of the park,” even at the expense of our own authentic desires, health, and emotional well-being.
Read MoreTo be human is to traverse a lifetime of micro and macro initiations. Each one of us is a hero or heroine on a mysterious journey of pleasure, love, and connection, as well as states of fear, anxiety, separation, darkness, loss and heartbreak. Initiations are the path of evolution. They crack us open, break us down, leave us breathless and eventually, through their alchemy and transmutation, present us with our personal light and power.
Read MoreNo matter how liberated, embodied, and awake we are, our primal body is wired to fear the unknown. It’s a natural part of being human. In addition, we’re conditioned with a compulsion to manage our anxiety by fixing and forcing answers — often before we have all the information we need to move into aligned action. How do we accept the vulnerable experience of fearing the unknown? How do we trust our instincts and discern when we’re moving from fear or intuition?
Read MoreRepression of feminine power is not only about the marginalization of women. The repression of feminine power is also about a collective energy imbalance and disharmony among masculine and feminine energies. Our feminine powers have been locked in cages for centuries. No matter our gender, we have the responsibility to liberate our feminine powers from the inside-out.
Read MoreFeminine ways of being and leading are often ridiculed and diminished, even by those of us who want to embody them! To reclaim our feminine superpowers, we can begin by exploring how we welcome or exile feminine energy within ourselves and in others. This is why I’ve whittled down a focus for this article on eight feminine energy principles, and practical tips to identify and embody them.
Read MoreAs more conscious leaders find one another, networks of change agents and heart warriors expand. Together, we are birthing a new world. And given the chaotic and destabilizing times, we’re in globally, this revolutionary movement is imperative. In this article, we will review power as a form of energy and unpack the paradigm shift of power-over to power-with in more detail.
Read MoreDomestication is the absence of being wild. It’s curated by internalized perceptions of who we think we must be in order to be lovable, valuable, and feel our belonging. To cope, we learn to compartmentalize aspects of ourselves that we feel ashamed of or that don’t fit into these social and cultural expectations. Each time we banish a part of ourselves, we fragment from our wholeness.
Read MoreSometimes the chains that bind us with patterns of domestication are invisible, even to ourselves. If you’re interested in becoming familiar with how domestication unsuspectingly plays out in your daily life, there are three areas to begin your investigation: 1. Personal and self-reinforced domestication, 2. Interpersonal and relationship domestication, 3. Systemic and power-over domestication.
Read MoreThe matrix of social and cultural conditioning is the most pervasive form of trauma on the planet. It’s a system of mind control that manipulates us to think, feel, and behave in specific ways. Without realizing what’s happening, we become drugged by a fabricated and conditioned reality. One that recklessly distorts our feelings of wholeness and creates a sense of painful separation and aloneness.
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