Awaken & Empower

Do you ever find yourself falling into thoughts based in scarcity and “not enough”? Would you like to invite more abundance into the world within and around you? If your answer is yes, I hope this episode serves as an empowering source of inspiration for you.

Listen in to explore the ins and outs of a scarcity mindset and an abundance heartspace, and how to shift from “not enough” to “more than enough”.

I talk about how most of us are conditioned to adopt a scarcity mindset, and how dropping into an abundance heartspace can drastically change the way we view ourselves and our lives.

I also share about a recent experience that got me to expand my understanding of abundance and look at this concept in an even more empowering way.

There is abundance all around you; you just have to choose to notice it. I hope this episode helps you do that!

As always, to connect with me you can email me at [email protected] and find me on Instagram @living.embrace. You can also visit my website www.livingembrace.ca

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This conversation episode is an honest sharing on grief, surrender, and embodiment from a woman I cherish dearly, Melina Charis!

Melina is a writer, creatrix, and coach. She is a channel-opener, tea ceremonialist, breathwork alchemist, and sacred space holder. Her greatest joy is helping others remember that embodied expression, sacred creation, and divine trust are their birthright. She guides others to the depths of their souls, to connect with the fullness of their Selves, and to share and express their truth from a safe, grounded place within. She has 10+ years experience with transformative healing practices and is honored to walk alongside those she serves on their healing journeys.

Listen in to hear us chat about things like:

• How Melina helps people become more grounded in who they truly are
• What Melina has gone through since she was last on the show in 2021 that has led to a more embodied version of her business and her life
• Trusting and surrendering to the non-linear path of creative and business pursuits, and allowing it to be a vehicle of transformation
• Expanding our capacity to be with pain and how that contributes to rebuilding the foundation of groundedness and truth within yourself
• Accepting and trusting the void space to allow yourself to surrender to the transformation happening beneath the surface
• The multilayered concept of grief and waking up to the different expressions of it
• What embodiment means and how to connect with your sense of embodied self-care and self-expression
• Melina’s words of wisdom for anyone who is struggling to understand and embody their authentic self

To connect with Melina, visit her website www.melinacharis.com and follow her on Instagram @melinacharis

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In this episode, we’re exploring the empowering practice of igniting and nourishing your inner fire. Get ready to feel passionate, excited, and fully alive!

I talk about what the inner fire is and why it’s important to pay attention to. And we explore the role that self-awareness plays in the process of bringing this fire to full flame.

Then I walk you through some things to keep in mind as you ignite and nourish your inner fire, including self-reflection prompts and my own experiences.

Your inner fire is such a vital part of your self-empowerment. I hope this episode inspires you to ignite and nourish it as much and as often as you can!

To connect with me, you can always email me at [email protected] and find me on Instagram @living.embrace. You can also visit my website www.livingembrace.ca

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Balance may feel hard to achieve sometimes, but no matter what is going on in our daily lives, we can all strive to create an empowered balance for ourselves.

In this episode, we’re exploring how to define, create, and maintain a sense of empowered balance in your day to day life.

I share my thoughts on the concept of balance, and the recent shifts in my life that have made me become more aware of the importance of balance to me. And I talk about what it means to have an empowered sense of balance.

Then we dive into how to define what balance means to you, create a path forward to bring this balance to life, and maintain your balance using empowering practices and mindsets.

Whatever your thoughts on balance are, I hope this episode helps you see how possible it is to approach the concept of balance in an empowered way.

I’d love to hear your thoughts! You can email me at [email protected], find me on Instagram @living.embrace, and visit my website www.livingembrace.ca

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Every transition into a new month is an opportunity to check in with ourselves and set the tone for the days to come in whatever ways feel most empowering to you.

One of my favourite practices in my monthly ritual is reading oracle card spreads. So in this episode, we’re turning to the cards for some powerful messages to carry with us into the new month!

I pulled one card from each of these oracle decks:

• The Rose Oracle by Rebecca Campbell > https://rebeccacampbell.me/the-rose-oracle/
• The Divine Feminine Oracle by Meggan Watterson > https://www.megganwatterson.com/the-divine-feminine-oracle
• The Wild Unknown Animal Spirit Deck by Kim Krans > https://www.kimkrans.com/books-and-decks

To hear each reading and listen in on the card you picked as your own, head to these times in the show:

• Rose Oracle – 6:15
• Divine Feminine – 11:53
• Animal Spirit – 19:17

Each reading was full of so much meaning, and I hope that whichever card you chose gave you some empowering messages to help you set the tone for the new month.

If you’d like to share what you got out of your reading, you can always email me at [email protected], follow me on Instagram @living.embrace, and visit my website www.livingembrace.ca

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In this very special conversation episode, I had a chat about all things intuition with our first repeat guest and one of my dearest soul sisters, Alexandra Dimitrovici!

Alex is a Certified Intuitive Life Coach, Psychic and lover of all things unseen. She helps her clients reconnect with themselves on a soul level so they can live a life that excites them, one that is filled with joy, purpose, magic, and intuition.

After practicing law for over eight years and becoming a mother of two, she decided that the time had come to listen to her own intuition and dive deeper into spirituality and helping others. In 2021, she began her coaching studies, more particularly studying intuitive life coaching, where she gained the skills and confidence necessary to take her intuitive and psychic abilities to the next level, for herself and her clients. 

Alex offers insightful intuitive readings, as well as oracle and tarot readings. She also empowers her clients to listen to their inner wisdom and connect with their divine nature by mentoring and offering intuitive life coaching sessions.

We talked about so many powerful topics, including:

• The personal and professional shifts Alex’s life has taken since she was last on the show in February 2022, and how she knew it was time to make those shifts
• The pain of feeling dismissed and the importance of finding spaces to feel validated in your passions and purpose
• What intuition means and how it relates to imagination
• The fun, exhilaration, and liberation that comes with unlocking your intuitive powers
• The daily impact of loosening the grip of the ego to soften into your intuition
• Alex’s powerful words of advice for anyone who wants to live a more intuitive life
• How to recognize when you’re receiving intuitive hits
• What happens for Alex’s clients during and after receiving an intuitive reading from her

At the end of the episode, Alex also generously did a live intuitive reading for me! This reading was so empowering and unlocked a part of me that I didn’t even realize needed to be open. Alex is incredibly gifted and I’m so grateful she shared her intuitive powers with me in this way.

You can find out more about Alex and her offerings on her website www.alexdcoach.com and on her Instagram @bridging_consciousness

And as always, you can connect with me at my email [email protected], on Instagram @living.embrace, and on my website www.livingembrace.ca

Thank you to Alex for coming on the show, and much thanks to everyone who chooses to listen to our chat!   

People pleasing is an incredibly common behaviour that prevents us from living an empowered life. If you struggle with people pleasing and want some inspiration to help liberate yourself, this is the episode for you!

Listen in for an exploration of what it means to have a people pleasing personality. I talk about my own experiences of struggling through the impacts of this behaviour, what led me to become more aware of it and wake up to the hold it had over me, and how I followed through with the choice to break free from this way of being.

I also provide you with some practices you can implement into your own life to lessen the power your people pleasing habit may have over you.

I hope this episode helps you see that no matter how ingrained this pattern is for you, you can always choose to break free from people pleasing tendencies. This is not who you are, it’s a learned and conditioned behaviour, and you have the power to release it from your identity so you can be your most empowered self.

To get in touch with me, email me at [email protected], follow me on Instagram @living.embrace, and visit my website www.livingembrace.ca. I’d love to connect with you!

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In this episode, we’re taking a deep dive into an aspect of our sense of self and quality of life that is so important to our self-empowerment: boundaries!

Listen in for an exploration of how to set, respect, and connect with your boundaries in a way that’ll strengthen your sense of empowerment.

You’ll learn the basics of boundaries, including several definitions, the differences between rigid, porous, and healthy boundaries, and nine different types of boundaries to pay attention to in your daily life.

I also talk about how to build your self-awareness so you can set boundaries that align with your truest self. Then I share six powerful ways to respect and honour your boundaries. And I offer some self-reflection prompts to help you maintain a strong connection with your boundaries.

To finish things off, I share my personal experience with boundaries and talk about why boundaries are so important to living an authentic and empowered life.

I hope this episode helps you get clear on what you can do to set, respect, and connect with your boundaries in ways that feel meaningful to you!

To get in touch with me you can always email me at [email protected] and find me on Instagram @living.embrace

For more on what I do and how I can support you, visit my website www.livingembrace.ca

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Tuning into your self-empowerment is an incredible thing, but there may be some preconceived notions about it that are holding you back from accessing its full power.

On this podcast, and in all of the work I do, I’m all about helping people gain clarity on what self-empowerment really is and how it can truly change your life. So in this episode, we’re exploring some powerful truths and possible misperceptions about self-empowerment.

Listen in to dispel five unfortunate myths and unveil five meaningful effects of self-empowerment. I also talk about the importance of questioning our beliefs to make sure they’re really our own, and going through the process of unlearning the beliefs that no longer serve us.

I hope this episode serves as a reminder of how important your self-empowerment really is. No matter what preconceived notions or misperceptions you hold about it, self-empowerment is always available to you, waiting to transform everything about your inner and outer world so you can awaken your authentic self and live an empowered life.

For more information on the Self-Empowerment Coaching I offer, check out my Coaching Services at https://livingembrace.ca/coaching-services/ 

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I’d love to connect with you! Follow me on Instagram @living.embrace and contact me at my email [email protected] 

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Welcome back to Awaken & Empower! After three months away from the podcast, I’m so happy to be returning to creating and connecting in this way.

In this episode, I talk about the hurting that led me to take a step back from everything, the healing I learned to welcome into myself and my life, and how I’m finding my sense of hope again as I continue on this beautifully messy journey.

Listen in for an honest reflection on dealing with mental health struggles and finding the courage to receive support in order to truly care for your mental and emotional well-being. I also share my experience of welcoming a new method of healing into my life, my thoughts on the possible stigma and misconceptions surrounding it, and how I navigated my own preconceived notions so I could fully receive the benefits of this resource.

In the episode I also talk about the concept of healing, what it can look and feel like, and what healing really means to me. I share a poem I came across that made me feel so seen during my darkest days, and a profound moment I experienced recently that opened my eyes and my heart in a divine way.

As always, I hope hearing my truth brings you closer to understanding and embracing yours. Thank you for giving me this space to share my heart and my story. If anything in this episode sparked something for you, I’d love to hear from you!

Visit my website www.livingembrace.ca to learn more about my work as a Self-Empowerment Coach and how I can support you in deepening your connection with yourself so you can live a more authentic and meaningful life. All of the info about my Coaching Services can be found at https://livingembrace.ca/coaching-services/ 

Head to https://living-embrace.ck.page/6df320b952 to sign up for the Living Embrace Letters, and sign up for any of the free resources I offer on my website at https://livingembrace.ca/free-resources/ 

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Thank you so much for being here and sharing in this space with me. Your presence is greatly appreciated!