THIS FULL LIFE

 Today we're continuing our discussion on being in the present moment.  What does it mean to be in the present moment? We're starting with the ways in which we check out of the present moment.  What are our vices that allow us to not show up in the moment. Staying in the present moment means being willing to feel uncomfortable.  It means being willing to feel what comes up and being willing to dig deeper into the feelings.  If we’re feeling uncomfortable we get to ask ourselves why.   Why do I feel uncomfortable right now?  What is going on that makes me feel uncomfortable? And just sit with it.  Sit with what comes up and be curious about it. Where does this come from?  What belief/s have I formed around this?  

Being in the present moment....do we really know how to do it?  Do we really know how to connect to ourselves and others in the real, right now, present moment?   I'm learning this year.  It's one of my intentions for 2018. To practice more of being in the present moment. To have intentionality.   I've realized I'm mostly in the future moments rather than being in the present moment.  I like to plan. So I find myself in the planning piece rather than being in what needs to be done for the event to actually take place. Being in the present moment takes courage.  It takes dedication and committment.  Present moment being means we're actually showing up for all that's happening right now.  And that can be good or not so good. How do take you take yourself out of the present moment? Being present means allowing our issues to rise to surface and be with them rather than pushing them aside so as not to feel.   Often we’ve become so good at pushing uncomfortable feelings aside we might not even recognize them anymore.  We just recognize something is off and that we need a fix to stop feeling uncomfortable. Join me today as I dive into Part I of what it looks like to be present.  

 This year I wanted to be specifically intentional in creating a New Year.   Years past I've kinda participated in making my year an intentional one.  I've kinda set an intention, or made a New Year Resolution, or verbalized what I wanted to happen in the year. And some years I haven't really thought about it at all. But this year I wanted to be fully present and fully participate in the creation of what the year looks like for me. I wanted to make sure I was on the same page with the Universe and that we are co-creating my life.   I also knew that there were areas of my life that were NOT WORKING in a big way. Listen to how the Beastie Boys and Justin Bieber influenced the outcome of setting my intentions.

 In Part II Julie and I pick up our conversation with the Act of Surrender.  Faith, Letting Go of Attachment, and Expressing Gratitude also make an appearance.   The more Julie and I are in conversation about these topics, the deeper we go into our own healing journeys.  I've realized the work I've personally done this year has been around having faith.  And surrenduring the outcomes.  I'm learning to release control in a big way.  Once we let go of the reigns and are willing to see the ways control seeps into our life, other ways show themselves.  It's so easy to want control into our lives. If everything's under control then I know exactly what to expect.  When in fact this is the hardest way to exist.  It's like fighting to get upstream. Tuning in and learning how to listening to our guidance is so much easier.  Allowing ourselves to hear the guidance and following the path laid out in front affords us the opportunity to let someone else be in charge.   We all need the reminder to tune in and listen.  Because it's easy to get off track.  All it takes is a gentle self reminder to realign with ourselves and our higher power.       

Do you ever look back on your year and take inventory of  all that's transpired?   Have you ever thought, "Did I do what I set out to do this year?  How did this year unfold for me?" That's exactly what we're doing today.   My guest Julie Guthrie and I look back through the past years blogs  and reflect on the personal work we've done.   Inspiration for blogging comes from our personal journey's.   Today we're reflecting on our issues and transformations over the past year.  We look back at the intentions we put out in the world and what has actually manifested; what's worked and what hasn't.  Getting brutally honest with yourself is painful, scary and exhilarating.  And when you can look back over the entire year to see exactly how your life has played out, it's really reaffirming to your life path.  Listen in to hear everything that's gone right and everything that's gone wrong in this year.  

Amy Green, M.Ed. is the previous creator and author of the widly popular gluten-free and refined sugar-free food blog, Simply Sugar and Gluten Free, now AmyGreen.me   She's worked with such companies as Hershey’s, Peanut Butter & Co, Attune Foods.  She's been a guest on Martha Stewart Living Radio, Good Morning Texas, Fox 4 News Dallas, Talk 980 Radio USA.  Amy's also been featured in Living Without, Clean Eating Magazine, Reader’s Digest Canada, D Magazine, and The Plano Profile.  Now, she's traded all that tpo be co-owner of Apex Modular Group, a certified woman-owned small business.  Desiring a lifestyle that would allow her and her husband Joe to take care of their three boys they started Apex Modular Group.  Family always comes first for Amy and Joe.  And while this has required huge sacrifice for Amy, it's created a life that allows freedom, choice and a whole lot of love. Amy is a serial entrepreneur and loves building businesses. She also has an innate desire to create, which is evidenced through her entrepreneurship and her hobbies, including  baking, crocheting and wreath making, consulting work and business creation.   

Mary Shores is the internationally known author of Conscious Communications: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Harnessing the Power of Your Words to Change Your Mind, Your Choices, and Your Life.   As an author, speaker, entrepreneur, and CEO, Mary Shores teaches individuals and businesses to fearlessly create their own realities by using scientific methods and practical personal development. Mary has appeared internationally in magazines, on television shows, and has been a guest on over 80 podcasts, including the Chicken Soup For The Soul Podcast, Lavendaire Lifestyle, Positive Head, Ever Forward Radio and more. Her practical and scientifc methods, straightforward teaching, and actionable tips ensure that anyone can improve their life.

Did you know we sold almost everything we owned and left the country?  We did!  We left to explore, adventure and find new ways of living.  We wanted to explore others cultures. We wanted to reconnect with ourselves and each other.  We desired to let go of  of the hang up we had about ourselves and who we thought we should be. We left to rebalance, recalibrate, learn to live with the flow of life. What we found was presence.  We found the ability to listen again.  We remembered how to listen to ourselves and what we really needed.   Join me as I chat about reconnecting on a daily basis and tips on how to be more present with yourself and with others around you.

  I took Nick Ortner's 7 week course, Tapping for Financial Abundance and Personal Fulfillment and finished it up this weekend.  I stretched it out over 9 weeks because my life took over.    I finished the course yesterday and the results are pretty big. Each week is a new module focusing on a different beliefs or desires.  There are questions that allow us to find old patterns we’ve probably been running  unconsciously our whole life.  Most of these patterns came from our childhood, our parents, our teachers, the society we grew up in. They become our life, how we see our life, what we believe we can do or not do, how society relates to us, how we relate to society, how we show up in our life or not show up, the words we speak, the thoughts we think.   Basically our entire life is a representation or a mirror of our beliefs.  We are the creators of our entire life.   We arrive at the place we are now in our lives because of all the above I started the course because I knew I had old beliefs around money that weren’t serving me anymore.  I knew in starting my own business I didn’t want to have beliefs that were blocking my financial abundance.  So I dove in. And so much came out of it.   Listen in to hear about the beliefs that might be holding you back to financial success and personal fulfillment.  Do you resonate with any of these?  

Join me and my guest Blogger, writer and coach Julie Guthrie as we chat about how we've been pretending we know what we're doing.   I’ve come to the realization that I used to pretended I knew how to be a mom.  It didn’t come naturally to me at all. I was 22 years old when my first child was born. I had no idea how to be a mom or even what to do.   The emotional foundation to know myself on a deeper level didn't exisist so how could I show up for my kids. For me an immediate love connection didnt' form to my first child.  It’s not that I didn’t love him. I didn't know how to love myself.  How could I know what that love felt like to give to another human.  I was young and I wasn’t done growing up or figuring myself out.   I was pretending like I knew what to do. It took me years before I felt like his mom. It took me years before I felt like I was even worthy of being his mom.  I felt so inadequite and unworthy of being his mom.   Julie's lived her entire adult life thinking she's known what she's doing, too.  It's occured to her she's also been pretending.  Pretending how to adult in her world.  Do you pretend in your life?   Do you pretend you know how to be a parent? Do you pretend you know how to take of your finances? Do you pretend you know how to be an adult? Join me and Julie    as we disecting the ways we pretend and why.