Reflecting back on 2013, it has felt like a roller-coaster journey, interweaving new shoots of inspired creative expression with periods of intensely challenging personal growth. One moment feeling uplifted by life and making great strides forward, the next feeling dumped in a big hole facing right into another layer of healing work that I can’t skip over.

Having seen the pattern, I no longer feel surprised by this as I now recognise it as the natural and healthy way we grow beyond the ‘edges’ of our comfort zones, especially when we make a decision to following our inner calling to step up and realise our creative potential.

People keep saying to me ‘hasn’t 2013 been a challenging year?’ and ‘there’s been so much uncertainty afoot!’

Yes, I’m sure we’re feeling wild planetary influences and the systemic effects of some extreme chaos in the world around us. But I also think this epidemic of ‘life challenge’ is part of our process of ‘waking up’ to who life is asking us to be.

What I’ve noticed within myself and others, is that there no longer seem to be intermittent periods of transition but rather one constant process of unraveling our true self expression as we navigate our way to sharing our authentic gifts and unique contributions with the world. If we’re conscious of this process it brings a new lens through which we can appreciate our personal leadership journey, no matter how daunting life seems to be.

Much of what I do with my clients helps them to do just that: to become more conscious of the inner journey of growth that life is asking us to evolve through in order for us to experience the creative potential of who we really are.

Instead of looking back and dwelling on the difficult stuff that we’d rather have avoided, we can look back and gather the extraordinary learning gems from our experience, knowing how perfectly they have been guiding us to the precise development we need. We see how the patterns that have held us back have also been leading us to the key leverage points for our transformation.

When we begin to recognise our lives as an evolutionary journey, the purpose of which is to be and express who we really are, this lens becomes more natural to us. It becomes easier to take the courageous steps that would normally throw us into stultifying resistance, knowing that the challenges we meet will be good for us (providing we have the proper support to navigate them).

So as we near the end of 2013, I invite you to take a look through this evolutionary lens of appreciation and get curious about what the roller-coaster has been like for you.

What were your intentions when you began this year’s ride? Where have you flourished and found new ways to express the real you? Where have the biggest challenges been emotionally, physically or otherwise? What conditioned patterns have surfaced more clearly for you? Where have you begun to grow beyond the edges of your comfort zone? What are you able to appreciate and celebrate from this year, whatever shape or size?

Give yourself some time to step back and reflect on these questions and notice what clarity comes to you.

Most of the healing experiences of my journey this year have helped me to see where endings in my life have been messy or unresolved. The process of healing has involved closing some of these ‘open loops’ where something in the past has been left incomplete and where my energy has been ‘leaking’, often without me realising.

For example, the way I finished my last major business partnership 17 years ago had left an open loop that needed to be closed. Because I hadn’t fully received the gems from the painful challenges I’d experienced in that collaboration, I continued to be unconsciously effected in a way that made it very hard for me to step into new healthy collaborations. Now that I am beginning to transcend this pattern, a new experiential pathway is being woven, consciously.

So perhaps you might also consider what endings need to be made conscious and marked in some way for you. What do you need to let go of? Where might there be open loops of incompleteness that need to be attended to so that you don’t leak your energy? What has ended this year that you may not have fully acknowledged or given enough space to complete well?

Trust what emerges as you contemplate these questions and think about what you can actively do to ‘mark’ or finish any endings and enable release. Even a simple ritual such as burning a piece of paper with what you are consciously letting go of written on it, can be a powerful act of completion. Anything you do with a sacred intention to complete and let go will make a difference.

This is a powerful time of letting go in nature: descending into the dark, nurturing womb of the earth to release the old and gestate until the birthing of the new. We know the flow of these cycles of endings and new beginnings that are within us as an integral process of life. The more conscious we can be of this natural process the more it will aid our own healing process – gathering the gems so we can release the old with love and appreciation. Then dreaming into the future and birthing the new.

As you contemplate your 2013 and find the gems from your experience, remember to add a large dose of self love and appreciation for everything that you have navigated, however imperfectly you perceive your actions.

I’m thinking of you now, appreciating your engagement with me today, wishing you much love for a wonderful festive season and a very Happy Old Year!

Joey x

For those of you in the States, a very happy Thanksgiving… and for the rest of us, let’s celebrate another day of gratitude for the lives we have been gifted!

I want to share a personal gem from my journey with you today – another message from a place I call The Women’s Fire.

This is a gorgeous spot on our woodland in Scotland, where three years ago, standing in the centre of a stunning circle of trees, I had a very humbling vision of a project that life inspired me with. The name that came with it was ‘A Call To Stand… for life’ (ACTS for life).

It was humbling because of the way I felt when I received this vision – a hugely expanded heart and deep gratitude for life. It’s always a sign to me of the rightness of something.

But despite this incredibly affirming experience and the creative inspiration that burst forth over the next few weeks, a part of me was too scared to act on it. So I put it on the ‘back burner’ and got on with some less scary stuff around my business.

Looking back through the frustration of not having stepped fully into my vision, I realise that this was in fact a perfect path of preparation for what was coming. I needed to learn how to deal with my fear in the face of stepping forward.

So I began to find a way to let this precious seed of inspiration that had been planted, take root. I needed to tend carefully to the soil and create a nurturing environment for it to have a chance to blossom. I started to tune into the part of me that was creating inertia, trying to protect me from taking a risk and keeping me small so I didn’t expose myself to perceived danger. One ‘block’ at a time, I began clearing the limiting remnants of my ancestral line and the residue from our collective story as women.

 I learned just how much compassion I needed to have for the younger part of me that was feeling so vulnerable. I needed to tend to her and give her the sense of safety that she’d been screaming for every time I took a bold step forward in the direction of my dreams.

Then a couple of months ago I had another big surge of inspiration to move A Call To Stand forward. The time had come to take action on this feminine calling and so I started sharing my passion and began to take the first steps I could see ahead of me.

And it’s been astonishing to see how easy it is for the scared part of me to start getting anxious again. Only this time the fear came back with a vengeance and dropped me into an unexpectedly deep pit of unworthiness and self doubt.

But this time it was quite different, fascinating even. Because even though I knew I was in a deep pit, I knew it was the perfect place for me to be. The seed that had grown to bud was bursting with desire to blossom and a part of me, terrified of being seen, had tightened her hold protecting the bud from coming into bloom.

On the funny side, I now affectionately call the pit I fell into the ‘pit stop!’ It’s a rather contrasting and un-feminine metaphor I know, but let me explain.

I let myself BE in that ‘delicious’ pit of old conditioning and got see the impact that these illusionary beliefs and contracting emotions were having on my journey and why they existed. And by having compassion for myself exactly as I was and removing ALL judgement, I got to find the resourcing in the experience and was able to change my tires, refuel my tank and top up with water! So it turns out it was entirely necessary for me to fall in the pit – to learn how to love the unloved parts of me and then to re-Source and re-integrate myself for my onward journey.

The reason I’m sharing this is because I know that I’m not alone in this experience and that you will have your own ‘pits’ to reflect on. When you fall in, make it a ‘pit stop‘. Take your time to let the experience inform you and re-Source you in your journey forward.

Ok enough of that metaphor – it definitely doesn’t work to think of us going really fast round and round a race track actually!

So coming back to a more feminine and appropriate metaphor of the bud and the point of this message, I want to highlight how we can allow ourselves to move from bud to blossom.

The truth is, we can’t become the empowered feminine leaders of our visions without meeting, clearing and integrating the fear-based blocks that have been keeping us tight in the bud. The clearing happens in the process of stepping forward and taking a stand, because that’s when we meet our resitance. When the resistance surfaces we need to welcome it and learn to love and nurture the parts that are afraid. As these parts hold the key to our true self expression, we can’t leave them behind. We need to help them feel safe enough to take the journey with us. And that’s how we get to blossom.

In fact that’s how we get to take a stand for life; by taking a stand for ourselves first and allowing ourselves to blossom.

Here’s what I believe: Life wants YOU to become who you really are and to step forward in the world with your gift. Who are you not to? Why would you withhold your blossom in a world that needs everyone of us to return our gifts?

So on our somewhat universal day of thanksgiving, I invite you to invite in your gratitude for life and take a stand for your own blossoming…

I can’t wait to share more about my new project ‘A Call To Stand’ in the New Year. The bud is being nurtured for some blossom in the Spring!

Love and many blessings,

Joey x

By the way, if you haven’t yet picked up my free webinar ‘Awaken Your Gift’ it’s still available here. Awaken Your Gift.

]]> http://whlcommunity.com/2013/11/taking-the-risk-to-blossom/feed/ 2 http://whlcommunity.com/2013/08/feminine-leadership-for-bbc-radio-guernsey/ http://whlcommunity.com/2013/08/feminine-leadership-for-bbc-radio-guernsey/#comments Mon, 05 Aug 2013 14:25:31 +0000 Joey Walters http://whlcommunity.com/?p=3745 Some of you know that I was recently invited to speak in Guernsey about Feminine Leadership for a wonderful women’s network called The Women’s Development Forum. It was a real gift to be there and as a result of this event, I was also invited to do an interview with BBC radio Guernsey. Here’s the recording if you’d like to tune in a little further… Enjoy!

• Am I being and expressing who I really am?
• Am fulfilling my purpose and my unique potential for making a difference?
• Am I valuing my true gifts and the wisdom I have to offer?

Asking these questions, I believe, is where we begin the life long journey of Authentic Leadership. ‘What does all this have to do with leadership?’ you may well ask.

I meet so many women who don’t connect with the term ‘leader’ because they don’t associate what they’re doing or who they are with being a leader, especially with entrepreneurs or solo professionals. The concept of leadership is so entangled with senior level roles in organisations, politics or religion that many women miss out on the higher perspective of what leadership is and the possibilites that open up when we step into our true leadership identity, regardless of the context.

It dawned on me about a year ago that I was on a bit of a mission to change this limiting perception and help women to break free of the illusion that if we’re not bestowed with the right title then we’re not a leader. Or that if we haven’t got a certain type of character, training, business or professional profile, we can’t be a leader. Even when we do have those things, it doesn’t necessarily give us the deep confidence we need to realise our true leadership potential.

That’s why I’m inviting you to this unique women’s event in Scotland on Tuesday 7th May:

Living Your Authentic Leadership

If you knew the amount of senior women leaders I’ve coached over the years who struggle to see themselves as leaders, you’d probably fall over in shock (and then breathe a huge sigh of relief!)

That’s because true leadership comes from a much deeper place in us than the false confidence we hang precariously on our roles. And that’s what we’re exploring in this one day workshop. Whether your employed in an organisation, an entrepreneur or a solo-professional – if you want to make a bigger difference in the world without compromising who you really are, then this is for you.

It’s true that we need to access certain qualities to really own and live our leadership potential, but we already have those qualities within us and the deeper truth is that we are all leaders, right here, right now, whether we own it or not.

First and foremost we’re leaders of ourselves and the choices we make about how we use our lives, how we treat ourselves and what values we live by. How we engage our thoughts, emotions and responses in life has a huge impact on our own personal experience of success and fulfillment.

And then we need to recognise that whether we’ve given ourselves permission to ‘be’ a leader or not, we’re influencing life around us in every moment. Our thoughts, feelings, words and actions have a huge impact on others and particularly on the quality of our relationships with them (which of course is the bedrock of any successful ‘task focused’ collaboration).

However there is another nugget of this conversation to chew over that I believe is an essential ingredient of this new perspective:

• What if your leadership was really about simply being who you are and authentically sharing your gifts with the world in a way that was joyful and deeply rewarding for you?
• What if it were simply about stepping in to service in the truest way you can, to make the world a better place?
• What if you didn’t need to follow a behavioural formula, but rather simply follow your own heart and inner wisdom to become the leader that life is calling you to be?

Think about it. What might the highest expression of your leadership look like if you based it on these principles?

It might feel a bit scary, but if you own the authentic leader that’s within you, you won’t look back. Your life will be a rewarding reflection of who you really are.

Take a look, I’d love you to join me if you’re free. Living Your Authentic Leadership.

Warm wishes and hope to see you there…

Be courageous!

Joey x

P.S. There’s limited space so book early and you can also take advantage of the early-bird before 23rd April. Register here.

This new year of 2013 marks ‘the year of the feminine’ – calling us to our feminine leadership and inviting us to bring our gifts confidently to life as change agents and culture makers for a new world.

If you haven’t already done so, I’d like to invite you to mark this transition and embark on this year with the clarity and power you need to really bring your authentic contribution into the world. It’s time to acknowledge that this is what the universe is calling forward in us. This is what life needs and wants from us in order for the world to evolve in a more balanced and whole way.

What is the contribution you will be making? What are you called to bring forward through your leadership in 2013? Who are you becoming this year and what do you need to let go of in order to access the authentic power you need to evolve as the leader life intended you to be?

A New Year’s gift for you

You will perhaps be used to creating your own way to mark this transition. However, sometimes it’s easier to sit back and be guided in a process by someone else who has your back. So as a way of making this easier for you (and as a gift for this wonderful new year), I have recorded an audio which will take you though a personal ceremony (or mini workshop if you prefer). The recording is 30 minutes but you can make it any length of time to suit what you need and want.

This process will guide you to:

• Receive the gifts that 2012 brought to you
• Appreciate where you are now
• Contemplate and consciously choose to let go of the old patterns that have been limiting you
• Connect with the deeper desires and dreams you hold for your leadership in 2013
• Surface the new beliefs and assumptions that would be wise to embody and create ‘truth statements’ to anchor them into your daily life

Create a beautiful space

I invite you to really honour yourself by creating a beautiful and sacred space around you that reflects who you are! And also make time for this as a way of appreciating and valuing your need to just be with yourself and reflect on you and your life as you make this conscious transition into 2013.

Ok here it is – enjoy and many blessings for 2013!

With love Joey x

PS don’t forget to check out my new feminine leadership programme starting on 10th January – a empowering way to begin the year – The Wisdom Quest

As long as we’re still alive, this simple fact makes today a pretty amazing and auspicious day, especially as it is also our Winter Solstice – a potent time for some deep reflection and letting go.

Nobody fully understands why the calendar ends and we will each have our own sense of the meaning behind it.

Some people interpret this date as the ‘end of the world’, others (including me) prefer to think of it as a more positive change as we enter a powerful new cycle that brings about the expansion of awareness and capacities that will ultimately create a better world.

Whatever we choose to believe, I invite you to take some time with me today to reflect on yourself and your life and to give some space to letting go. Make it the end of the world you want to let go of and welcome in the new!

In case you’d like some guidance with this, I’ve created a simple ‘personal ceremony’ that you can follow or adapt as you like, to mark this transition:

Time: Create a 30 minute space in your day or you can expand it to whatever time frame suits you.

Ingredients: Gather a candle and lighter, a piece of paper and pen and large piece of aluminium foil… or if you have an open fire or log burner, you won’t need the foil. Flowers or other items of beauty for a little altar. A journal or note book.

Place: Outside in nature if you have that luxury, otherwise create a little sacred space somewhere quiet and undisturbed inside.

Ceremony steps:

Step one: Create a little altar with your candle, flowers and anything else of significance that reflects beauty back to you. Light your candle. Create a small bowl with the aluminium foil so you can safely burn a small piece of paper in it.

Step two: Sit quietly settling yourself into your stillness with a few deep breaths, focusing your attention inwards and allowing your out-breaths to release tension and distraction.

Step three: Take some time to contemplate where you are in your life right now – what you’re experiencing, what you appreciate, what you’d like to be different, what’s working, what’s not working, what thought patterns, habits or ways of being are helping or hindering your flourishing? Make notes in your journal as you go.

Step four: One at a time, bring to the focus of your mind the following questions and stay open to the answers that might emerge:

• What do I need to let go of to allow more light, energy and joy into my life?

Don’t think to hard about this. Allow the answers to come more intuitively and see what pops into your mind. When you have a sense of this, then ask..

• What is the gift I’ve received from this? (from what you want to let go of)
  

Step five: Write down on one small piece of paper, wording or a symbol that represents what you are wishing/choosing to let go of. On another small piece of paper write down the gift you’ve received and put it on your altar. Take the first piece of paper in your hand and share your gratitude for the gift it has brought by saying out loud ‘thank you for the gift of xxxx, I’m now ready to let you go’ (or whatever feels right for you). Then burn the paper in your foil bowl and watch it go. Scatter the ashes as you see fit!!

Step six: Make a note in your journal of what came up for you in the previous steps and now sit for a few minutes contemplating these questions one at a time:

• What do I most deeply desire to express, create and contribute with more light, energy and joy in my life?

• What is my intention for this new cycle of growth and expansion as a leader in my own life?

Again, let the answers come to you. Even if you think you already know, allow space for anything new to emerge.

You may want to take much more time to hold these questions without answering. They’re really important questions to be asking so please do give them the space they need.

Finally: Create a permanent altar somewhere in your home and find a more beautiful, small bowl to add to it. Put the piece of paper with the gift written on it into the bowl. Then when you are clearer about the last two questions (what you want to express, create & contribute and what your intention is) then write those down and place them in the bowl too.

Take a few minutes to reflect on the contents of your bowl each day and keep it a sacred space for your intention and dreams to be energised.

Enjoy!!

With many blessings for today and whatever is beyond 21.12.12 for you…

…and have a wonderful Christmas and New Year holiday.

Love Joey x

Here’s to the beauty and gift of life.

With gratitude, Joey x

Enjoy!

I suppose this is the same thing as teaching what you most need to learn. And I’m pretty ok about that actually. It feels totally natural to me to teach something that is close to my own journey and something that I’m passionate about because of my own experience.

I’m quite upfront about my own development edge as a leader because what I really want to nurture in myself and others, is an openness and ‘vulnerability’ that develops our capacity to be who we are and not only feel comfortable in our own skin but feel warm, uplifted, inspired, powerful and compassionate in our own skin! This is the freeing experience of being authentic and yet one which so many of us grapple with and feel challenged by.

It’s been present for me recently, because I’m at the beginning of a new phase in my work where I’m starting to offer something that is more authentic for me to be sharing and that takes women on a deeper, more personal and heart-centred leadership quest. Just writing that feels challenging at one level, because I know that many women don’t necessarily resonate with the ‘softer’ language and the deeper personal and spiritual context of our journey as leaders.

On the other hand it seems that so many of us are are waking up to a yearning to experience something more meaningful and revealing of our true capacities as leaders. I know that I’m not alone in feeling called to make a bigger difference and to do something which has a positive impact on others. I also know that in order to realise the potential I hold to do that, I need to be more fully myself and take the risk to express myself in ways  that might unintentionally alienate others.

Of course, this fear of alienation isn’t a purely personal one. It’s one which is shared in the field for many women. We’re in the process of evolving our leadership and asking many questions about how to be fully ourselves, how to express ourselves from a place of authenticity and power that is natural to us and how to be a leader in a way that is embracing of our true gifts, our feminine wisdom and our natural capacities as women.

I call this ‘feminine leadership’. Not because I want to exclude or diminish the masculine strengths in us, but because it emphasises the feminine ‘energy’ and qualities that we need to re-embrace and bring back into balance with the masculine, in order to lead from a place of wholeness and sustainability.

Many of us are turned off by the more traditional ‘masculine’ models of leadership that we see in both men and women. But what is the new way? So many of us are finding our way with what it is to be a ‘whole’ women and a leader in the world and not have these two ‘identities’ fight and compromise one another.

I believe this is one of the reasons why so many women hold back and don’t step up to (or even why they step down from) taking greater responsibility in leadership roles. It’s not that the desire isn’t there, but the role modelling of ‘how’ and ‘why’ doesn’t sit with them well. In simplistic terms, the pressure of the typical ‘masculine’ ways of ‘doing’ that are so engrained in us, operating without the balance of the feminine ways of ‘being’, can be both overwhelming and exhausting.

I’m just beginning a new free teleseminar series, 8 Essential Doorways to the Heart of Feminine Leadership. In it I’m sharing a new framework that stems from an ancient wisdom model of leadership that I’ve synthesised with other transformative leadership perspectives and practices. (8 Essential Doorways Circle PDF)

The essence of the teaching is really focused on the principle that when we lead ourselves, our lives and our work authentically from the heart, we naturally access the wisdom and capacity we need to actualise the next expression of our potential and contribute our greatest gifts as leaders.

Like any transformative process of development, it’s easier said than done. Leading for the sake of leading, without it being heart-connected is not an enjoyable experience but often where we end up if we’re not consciously engaging our development. This is where motivation wains and we default into operating from the head and become very disconnected from the feelings, wisdom and vitality we hold in our bodies. It becomes a doing exercise and an non-relational chore.

So how can we become and stay more heart-connected in our leadership?

It’s a great question to hold and one which can certainly be addressed in a multitude of ways.

One of the things that is key for me is taking time out of my day to nurture myself and to have a regular practice (that I often call ‘whitespace’) that brings me fully into the awareness of my body and that gives me space to connect with and relate to how I am feeling. Often simply walking or just sitting in nature will be enough to give me a sense of space and perspective on my day and to remember why I’m doing what I’m doing.

But when I feel up against a big pressure or if I’m holding uncomfortable emotions (which is generally what causes the pressure), I know that’s a sign that I need to find a deeper connection with myself. I frequently need to sit with and hold the discomfort and find out what the emotion is really telling me, so that I can distance who I am from the experience I’m having and find resources to support me in responding generatively to whatever has triggered the experience.

These practices of self care and awareness are key to heart-centred, feminine leadership because it’s essential that we bring a nurturing and compassionate energy to ourselves as a baseline for our capacity to lead others in a compassionate, wise and creative way.

The bottom line is that we are constantly up against challenges that block us from being in our hearts – it’s actually a natural process in our development. When we step out and take on the next level of our leadership, we take risks outside our comfort zone and so we’re bound to come up against the inner resistances that need to be addressed before we can stand more clearly in our authentic sense of who we are and express ourselves from that place.

Rather than seeing the challenges and resistance as problems, I try to see them as a metaphorical ‘doorway’ to our true creative power and potential. We sometimes stand unknowingly at a doorway when we’re facing a big life challenge or just a repetitive difficulty that puts us at the developmental ‘edge’ of our comfort zone. And if we don’t recognise that we’re standing at a doorway, we’re more likely to get thrown off course by our subtle fears. We often try to deal with them by getting defensive, overriding our feelings and busting through or turning away and trying to avoid what it is we really need to do (or not do!).

If we could face these challenges with the deep confidence that by embracing them wholeheartedly, we’ll discover all the resources we need to move beyond them, then we’re going to find it much easier to navigate them.

In my free teleseminar I introduce what I call 8 Essential Doorways to the Heart of Feminine Leadership. The framework (which is held in a circle representing wholeness) can help us to see more clearly where we need to focus our attention as feminine leaders, in order to grow beyond the limitations or challanges we are currently experiencing. We get to see the ‘doorways’ we are standing at more clearly and find ways to gently and powerfully address the blocks so we can move to a place of heart clarity and power.

I know that on my own quest to bring the feminine back into balance in me, the journey has been (and still is) one that challenges me constantly to soften, to take more care of myself, to value myself more, to more lovingly embrace my vulnerability and to take a stand for my own values and true cares. It seems both ironic and yet obvious that on the journey to becoming stronger in my leadership, I’m being called to soften and embrace myself in a much more loving and nurturing way.

I’m beginning to experience how standing more fully in our hearts as women can be yielding and powerful at the same time. The tenderness of a loving mother with her new born baby alongside the ferocity of the mother bear who is protecting her young.

I heard Marrianne Williamson speak recently about the work she is fostering amongst women to take a stand for those less fortunate than us. In my words, she said that our natural role as women has always been as care takers of our home and carers and nurturers of our children. But what’s happening for many of us now as we naturally evolve our potential, is that we begin to see that the whole planet is our home and that all the children in the world are ours. What she said landed so clearly in me and affirmed what I have been sensing in myself for a long time.

This, I believe is what feminine leadership is really about. Standing in our true care for life, leading from the heart with our innate feminine values and making the difference we were born to make. A life long journey of growth!

If this article resonates with you and you haven’t already registered for this free series, please join us for a more in depth exploration of the 8 Essential Doorways to the Heart of Feminine Leadership

With love and courage,

Joey x

Yes, I too am regularly challenged with giving myself the SPACE to engage in the things that I really love doing and to step away from the everyday lure of the ‘have to do list’ into the ‘WhiteSpace’ that gives me access to my deeper wisdom and higher creativity.

Anyway, yesterday I asked myself ‘what’s the thing I really most desire to do today rather than the thing that I think has to to be done’…  This is how I began….

I REMEMBERED TO DO A SELF CHECK-IN… (what’s that?)

…..that is…. a WhiteSpace practice where I literally checked in with the deeper and wiser part of myself to find out what I needed for my well-being (at a deeper level of knowing than I would have access to if I had not bothered with the process).

(N.B. If you’re new to the concept of WhiteSpace the brief (ish) description is ‘the ‘external space’ we create and the ‘mindful practices’ we engage that foster our ‘internal awareness’ (the ultimate WhiteSpace!) that gives us access to our inner wisdom and creative potential’.)

Doing this Self Check In helped me to get in touch with my own inner guidance…. in this case… how I felt and what I really needed and thus what I wanted to be focusing my actions on. What I discovered was that I really wanted to give space to my creativity and get another useful gift out to you. It didn’t rule out the other important stuff that I had on my list and in my diary, but it helped me to align my motivation and prioritise, because I got clear about what I wanted and with respect for my own needs and desires, I created space for it.

So creating this message IS what I wanted to do and what I want to share with you IS the Self Check-in practice. It’s adapted from the Earth Wisdom teachings that I trained in for many years, hence it’s designed to help you become aware of the feelings and needs you have as a whole person:  your mental, emotional, spiritual and physical make up.

I invite you to try it out…. this audio is part of a free mini audio series I’m putting together and so I’ll be sending out at least one more practice as soon as possible. 
So go to the link below to find the audio and give yourself the gift of 20 mins WhiteSpace today to complete it. That’s all you need to reconnect with yourself and gain some clarity on the way forward.