Bursting and Bursting with Goodness!
In October 2015, I decided I was willing to dive into the online world of coaching and leadership development rather than insisting my work was only an in-person, "high touch" deal. Voila! Within days I launched our Sisters Series with a 3-part workshop called Women Owning Our Power.
Then what?
More workshops were added, my blog began bustling, and The Relationship Series was born. After four years of wanting to collaborate with my master coach and friend Charles Zook, we dove in! We designed and co-led multiple Relationship Series workshops including The Power of Acknowledgment, Deepening Intimacy and Dealing with Conflict. People loved our workshops.
And then...
Charles and I hooked up with gifted UK-born filmmaker Vince Beeton to create a 5-part short interview series on Exploring Relationships. We joyfully present to you, Interview #3, called The Power of Acknowledgment.
"What we know from Psych 101 is that what we acknowledge, we get more of," says Charles. Yet, as a culture we aren't very good at acknowledgment! Watch this short interview for some motivational juice to bring more of the power of acknowledgment into your life.
If you missed the first two interviews, Exploring Intimate Relationships and Growing through Conflict, click the image above to watch them on our website. The interviews are 3-5 minutes long.
To celebrate International Women's Day in March, I designed a Sisters Series workshop work my marvelous collaborator Olivia Peters-Lazaro, someone I revel in working with, and it was my birthday, and... no one showed up! It was just me and Olivia.
But then that feeling came over me, and us... that feeling when someone doesn't go as planned and it literally still feels perfect. Even, divine. Olivia and I co-led the call from that place of perfect acceptance, and we had a blast! We went on to lead more workshops and women participants did show up, and we loved that too.
The year danced on. This was still costing me money. I tried to figure out how those successful online workshop type personalities like Marie Forleo and Amy Porterfield made it happen. I began watching their free videos. That made me sick. I didn't want to be like them. They have some great tools and experience but OH it just made me feel sick. Not for me. I am an artist; their way isn't my way.
An artist weaves her own way, from within.
So for May and June, Leaning into Light received a GIANT dose of spaciousness while I surrendered into not knowing what was next. Because really, the future is unpredictable.
Summer arrived and I was back at it. Weekdays, evenings, weekends, I worked 100s and 100s of hours to lift the workshop aspect of Leaning into Light into an income-generating place and... it never got there. Nope. So far Leaning into Light is my gift to others (and myself, as I do enjoy it) -- not my business.
Surrender! It's YOU again! Hi, old friend. You're so good at reminders.
When I started getting migraines every month, I knew something had to shift. OUCH. They hurt. This was a loud, very strong message that something wasn't working. Bodies are such masterful communicators.