Author: yourradiantsoul

Have you ever felt as if you were trying to balance more than one you? Like there is a part of you that cares greatly what others think and values what you are "supposed" to do with your life and then there is also a deeper part of you that longs to do what just … Continue reading I Saw The Sign

This past week in working with individuals and groups as they move through challenges and making the effort to change, the theme of fear has come up multiple times. Specifically, identifying that there are three different types of fear. First, let's remind ourselves that to the nervous system, safety always comes first and if something … Continue reading I’m Not Afraid

As we are in the transition from hot summer season into cooler, drier fall in the northern hemisphere, we can take advantage of the energy of nature and ride the momentum of change. We are a part of nature and what happens outside impacts how we feel inside. In the ancient science of Ayurveda, the … Continue reading Time For Change

If we look up the definition of "value", we will find that it means: the worth or importance of something (n.) or to find something desirable, beneficial, and worthy of importance (v.). In our culture, we are trained to value many things that are outside of ourselves. Things like money, power, fame, belongings, etc. direct … Continue reading I Already Got A Good Thing With Me

A leader is someone who guides, directs, commands, and leads. We live in a culture that trains us into looking outide of ourselves for that leadership and we spend so much time believing and buying into the message that someone else must be in that role. We search and wait, often feeling powerless to guide … Continue reading Lead On, Lead On

Resilience is our ability to overcome adversity; to bounce back. And in order to become more resilient, we must have the solid foundation of knowing who we are and showing up as our authentic selves. Every day, we are receiving messages telling us who to be and how to live our lives from many different … Continue reading Tell Me Who Are You

One of the most common themes that has popped up in coaching and counseling sessions as of late is how to find ease in our lives. As humans, we often have a knack for making things more difficult than they need to be. We frustrate ourselves as we attempt to control things over which we … Continue reading Take It Easy

As we were growing up, the messages that we recieved regarding our own worth shaped how we view and interact with the world. Those message shaped our core beliefs and how we show up in relation to the world around us. In addition, we have continued to receive messages from advertising and our culture about … Continue reading Round and Round

We live in a culture selling us a belief of scarcity. We are taught to believe that there is not enough of things that are deemed as socially important like status, power, and money. That belief in turn creates a society full of comparison, judgment, blaming, shaming, and disengagement. Marketing tells us constantly that we … Continue reading Never Enough

In our lives, minds, and bodies, we are constantly somewhere along a spectrum of two opposites: sensations like hot and cold, experiences like hungry and satiated, moods like calm and anxious, etc. Of the opposites we experience, expansion and contraction are happening at different rates and degrees throughout our lived experience at all times. When … Continue reading We Go Back and Forth

If we look up the definitions of personal growth, we will find things like "development from a simpler to a more complex stage", "the process of developing or maturing physically, mentally, or spiritually", and "progressive development, evolution, expansion". Growth is our ability to become the next version of ourselves and some growth is chosen and … Continue reading Surrender

Let's talk about energy. Everything that exists in our universe is made of energy. On a molecular level EVERYTHING that exists is made of microscopic vibrating energy. And it is all the same energy. You, me, the buildings, our electronic devices, our pets, our food, music, trees, etc. Everything that we can conceive of is … Continue reading It’s Such A Good Vibration

When we fight against what is happening in our lives, we dis-empower ourselves. We keep ourselves in suffering by focusing on what we have no control over. We even cast ourselves into the role of the victim in our own lives. Then, because we have lots of support from others about how bad things are, … Continue reading You’re an Overcomer

In the wake of a global pandemic, our nervous systems are feeling the strain. Over the course of the last sixteen months, we have all struggled in some way with the stress of change that we did not choose. And many of the clients I work with in counseling and coaching are now starting to … Continue reading I Move Slow and Steady