Jen-U-ine Conversations

Walk At The Level of Your Soul – Linda Vettrus-Nichols

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                              Click here for Podcast      I believe there are no mistakes in life, only valuable learning experiences. When our fears begin to surface, our anxiety can go through the roof. I am grateful for the exercise that I take people through so they no longer live in fear and anxiety. Through this process, fear and anxiety come up less and less as my coaching clients learn to live and walk at the level of their Soul. It becomes their natural way of being and doing.   I remember in my mid 30s watching a slightly younger woman process through her parent’s stuff…     The 30s is a really painful time because you still feel like you need a mother, but you don’t have a mother. Basically you’re sitting with all of the things that are wrong with your mother. All the patterns, all the whatever that isn’t true. You really want to break them because you don’t want to pass them on. You’re just so generationally conscious that it hurts. That’s what made all of my 30s feel super painful. Observing women in their 40s has been interesting. In your 40s, you won’t listen to anybody. You’re like eighteen again, and you know everything. You’ve learned to depend on yourself because you’ve listened to other people and what they told you didn’t work anyways. Then there’s perimenopause and menopause. I had emotional pain from losing my father to suicide when I was in highschool and then losing my dance career from a gymnastics[Read More…]

We Have the Answers Inside – Jennifer Beitz

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                                      Click Here for Podcast      I am a highly sensitive person and I was very emotional as a teenager. My mom didn’t know how to handle me. I didn’t know how to handle me. I acted out because I was resisting what everyone was trying to shove down my throat about who I should be. I grew up in a blended family. I lost my voice and it’s taken me many years to claw myself out of that emotional state.   I also raised a highly sensitive child who has a lot of emotional reactions…     Those beginning years with my kids, I did not knock it out of the park. It’s taken me until now, along with  a great deal of self work, to recognize how I was repeating a familial pattern. I was leading with fear and I was trying to shove things down my kids throats, even though from a soul level, I didn’t agree with that type of upbringing. We get this vibration from the world. People look at you and they judge you, and they question your thinking.  If you don’t realize your own strength and haven’t built up that inner resilience, the reactions of others will just eat you up. That was my journey.   Bio:  Jennifer Beitz works with women in the area of limiting beliefs teaching them how their fears hold them back as well as control their lives, and how to not only face their fears but shatter them into[Read More…]

Alexandra Enke

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                                      Click Here for Podcast      I absolutely love the deep blue of the ocean. The ocean for me is such a mirror of my soul. There are so many waves, which remind me of the ups and downs in life. I grew up in Germany and now I live on the beach in Thailand. I sleep with the door open so I can be present with the waves. Going deep within, I get to explore more of me.   We can’t shine our light into the world until we go deep within ourselves…     When I was a kid growing up in Eastern Germany, I lived in a little village near Leipzig with my parents and two sisters. Being the older one, I often took on a bit too much responsibility. My sisters were five and eight years younger than me. I did my best to shine my wisdom for them so they could shine. I was the older and wiser one in their world. In my mind, I always knew better. I always knew what to do and of course I wanted to protect them and empower them to shine their own light into the world.  Learning from achieving key life successes and overcoming major hardships has a remarkable impact on our unique genius. Positive Psychology proves that the awareness of core strengths is leading to an increased perception of self-confidence, motivation, engagement, productivity, and probability of achieving goals. 2012 was the year I started my realization process[Read More…]

Loving Yourself Isn’t Selfish – Chelle Shapiro

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                                      Click Here for Podcast      This past year has really been about transformation… with me unleashing my voice and leaving a job after 13 years. I was in a very toxic environment and I wasn’t going anywhere but down. I was burnt out and sick, both physically and mentally. I didn’t have any boundaries in place or know what they even looked like. I didn’t stand up for myself, take care of myself or do anything to get me out of that situation.    At the end of the day, it was just me. No one was there for me. No one had my best interests in mind…      More to the point, my boss and coworkers could see I was breaking down and yet that didn’t stop them from adding more things to my plate. They only cared that I kept getting things done for them.  I was also still very much in need of healing for myself. I knew that staying at this job wasn’t the right thing for me. When I finally had the courage to leave, it was a very defining moment of releasing my deeply rooted feelings of ‘people pleasing and silencing myself’. Even though I knew I’d be leaving, I wanted to take this time to separate myself and to also see if I could slow down. I wondered if I’d even be the slightest bit better after two weeks. I called it Operation Separation. I also determined that it didn’t matter what[Read More…]

Choosing Unity – Choose You! with Jenny Landgren

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                                      Click here for Podcast      When we don’t choose us first, we can’t give as much to others. This can easily be seen if we look at motherhood. It’s easy to fill our cup before having a baby. As women, once children arrive in our lives it’s all about them.    We can easily start to serve from an empty cup…   I lost myself trying to make it good for everyone else, especially during pre and post pregnancies. I delivered premature twins (26 weeks gestation, around 2 pounds each when my first child was only 15 months old). When we bring children into this world, all intentions are focused on their needs. It’s so easy and natural to be in that mindset. That’s why it’s so important to come back to you.  CHOOSE your path, your actions, and how you use your time. Sprinkle in time for YOU throughout your day, even if it means just closing your eyes while doing the dishes. We feel selfish at first for taking those righteous steps. There’s a sense of ‘I’m not used to this, it must somehow be wrong’. Then our thoughts shift to the question, ‘Should I really be doing this or that?’. It’s also easy to get into codependency with a spouse or with a child. That doesn’t serve anybody! I believe that you have to create a post birth plan of action, because you’re not going to want to do it. You’re not going to feel like leaving[Read More…]