Beautiful Work Beautiful Life

All your life becomes your own through meditation. 

I truly believe this and have experienced personally the profound possibilities and transformations that have made my life so incredibly good through learning to sit still with myself and tune in to my deeper truth, a strong connection with what I call the Divine, and my ability to see anything that life throws at me as a learning lesson and growth opportunity. 

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May meditation become your pathway into all that your heart deeply desires.

The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is [email protected] and for Laurel Holland - [email protected]

HostCohost/Guest Info:

​​Laurel Holland’s mission is to help connect individuals with their own deep inner peace. As a meditation and Tai Chi instructor she spent years guiding students in the practices of internal relaxation, mindfulness and empowered choice. Through Life Coaching Laurel helps her clients remove the inner chains holding them back so they step into their power and consciously create the lives they desire. Her book, Courageous Woman, and her publication, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, teach women the eight foundational practices that she believes are the main tools in creating transformation from the inside out. Laurel loves gardening, creating beautiful, sacred spaces and showing you the beauty that lives inside of your soul.

Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career.  A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.

Have you ever taken a values assessment? Learning about what you value and having clarity about what drives you in your decision-making empowers us to become a person of integrity.

Integrity comes from the actual integration of our values in our day-to-day lives. How are you doing with the integration of your values? That's what we are speaking into in the podcast today. 

Are you struggling with other's values? We hope to support you in working through that struggle and finding more peace.

Links to resources mentioned:

Here is a link to an example of a list of core values - https://thehappinessplanner.com/pages/list-of-core-values

The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is [email protected] and for Laurel Holland - [email protected]

HostCohost/Guest Info:

​​Laurel Holland’s mission is to help connect individuals with their own deep inner peace. As a meditation and Tai Chi instructor she spent years guiding students in the practices of internal relaxation, mindfulness and empowered choice. Through Life Coaching Laurel helps her clients remove the inner chains holding them back so they step into their power and consciously create the lives they desire. Her book, Courageous Woman, and her publication, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, teach women the eight foundational practices that she believes are the main tools in creating transformation from the inside out. Laurel loves gardening, creating beautiful, sacred spaces and showing you the beauty that lives inside of your soul.

Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career.  A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.

Q and A with Laurel and Laurel

Answering questions from listeners this week! 

How does this work help to address issues such as major changes? How do you address fear and loss with these life transitions?

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“It’s Not My Problem” 

“How can we not jump in when it’s not our problem?”

Moving consciously through life change, how to deal with the emotions that changes can stimulate or trigger, and learning to stop over-functioning in relationships - we speak into these challenging issues that many of us encounter as we live into the beautiful work.

Links mentioned:

Laurel Holland recommended the book, The Path of Least Resistance by Robert Fritz.

The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is [email protected] and for Laurel Holland - [email protected]

Cohost/Guest Info

Laurel Holland’s mission is to help connect individuals with their own deep inner peace. As a meditation and Tai Chi instructor she spent years guiding students in the practices of internal relaxation, mindfulness and empowered choice. Through Life Coaching Laurel helps her clients remove the inner chains holding them back so they step into their power and consciously create the lives they desire. Her book, Courageous Woman, and her publication, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, teach women the eight foundational practices that she believes are the main tools in creating transformation from the inside out. Laurel loves gardening, creating beautiful, sacred spaces and showing you the beauty that lives inside of your soul.

Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career.  A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.

Grateful. Gratitude. Appreciation. Feeling really good. That's what we experience when we are in the state of gratitude or appreciation.

Feeling the feeling ultimately leads us to the intention behind developing a gratitude practice. It's  worthwhile, and potentially life-changing, to bring yourself into the state of experiencing gratitude on a regular basis. I've know friends who have literally expanded their client-base and monetary income through the practice of beginning with regularly feeling grateful for what they have in the present. I've known others who have found new friends, and made new positive connections from the practice. As for myself, I love the feeling of being on the verge of tears from bringing myself into the state of appreciating being alive and connected to life in the deepest of ways.

We talk discuss the intricacies of learning to bring yourself into the state of abundance or gratitude. Don't miss this episode that is all about this goodness. 

Laurel and I are ever grateful for you, our listeners.

Links/Books mentioned - The Book Laurel Holland refers to is The Path of Least Resistance, Learning to Become the Creative Force in Your Own Life by Robert Fritz

The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is [email protected] and for Laurel Holland - [email protected]

Cohost/Guest Info

​​Laurel Holland’s mission is to help connect individuals with their own deep inner peace. As a meditation and Tai Chi instructor she spent years guiding students in the practices of internal relaxation, mindfulness and empowered choice. Through Life Coaching Laurel helps her clients remove the inner chains holding them back so they step into their power and consciously create the lives they desire. Her book, Courageous Woman, and her publication, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, teach women the eight foundational practices that she believes are the main tools in creating transformation from the inside out. Laurel loves gardening, creating beautiful, sacred spaces and showing you the beauty that lives inside of your soul.

Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career.  A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
 

As requested by a listener, we're addressing "self-care after COVID" - and not necessarily after having COVID.

This episode speaks into the changes that we can embrace and activate because we've lived through these last 19 months. Each of us has been affected in various ways by the impact of COVID to the economy, socializing, work-life, home-life, health and wellness, and all the other parts of existence that make up a life. Our worlds have been shook up and shaken in ways we never anticipated. 

What a prime opportunity to reconsider how you live your life, how you care for yourself, and what is most important to you. 

The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is [email protected] and for Laurel Holland - [email protected]

HostCohost/Guest Info

​​Laurel Holland’s mission is to help connect individuals with their own deep inner peace. As a meditation and Tai Chi instructor she spent years guiding students in the practices of internal relaxation, mindfulness and empowered choice. Through Life Coaching Laurel helps her clients remove the inner chains holding them back so they step into their power and consciously create the lives they desire. Her book, Courageous Woman, and her publication, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, teach women the eight foundational practices that she believes are the main tools in creating transformation from the inside out. Laurel loves gardening, creating beautiful, sacred spaces and showing you the beauty that lives inside of your soul.

Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career.  A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine. 

Has anyone ever told you that you were "too" sensitive, enthusiastic, intense, emotional... whatever it might be? Do you worry that you're "too much"? Maybe that you're not enough? 

My special guest, Bri McCorkell and I have both had this experience. We're tackling this "too much" topic on this podcast episode and reframing this to help you find peace with, and maybe even, new meaning for any time you may have been told you are too much. 

This is a beautiful time for sensitive souls, highly conscious folks, to step forward and claim your abilities, gain skills and use your inner resources for higher service. If you feel called to more fully express yourself, explore your sensitivities in new ways, shed the burdens of carrying around other peoples' energy and problems, and want to feel more confident in your unique gifts, this episode is for you.

Resources:

Bri’s Website: https://www.brimccorkell.com

Follow Bri on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bri.mccorkell.healing/

Bri’s email: [email protected]

My Website:  https://www.liveyourinnerpower.com

Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/liveyourinnerpower/

My email - [email protected]

Host/Cohost/Guest Info

​​Laurel Holland’s mission is to help connect individuals with their own deep inner peace. As a meditation and Tai Chi instructor she spent years guiding students in the practices of internal relaxation, mindfulness and empowered choice. Through Life Coaching Laurel helps her clients remove the inner chains holding them back so they step into their power and consciously create the lives they desire. Her book, Courageous Woman, and her journal, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, teach women the eight foundational practices that she believes are the main tools in creating transformation from the inside out. Laurel loves gardening, creating beautiful, sacred spaces and showing you the beauty that lives inside of your soul.

Bri McCorkell is an energy healer, embodiment mentor and spiritual teacher who helps women and mamas all around the globe discover their Divine Blueprint, activate their full power & recreate a life that is truly theirs. One day, when dropping her son off at daycare and crying in the car for the life she truly craved, she decided to step into her innate worth, stop apologizing for wanting more, and start building a business that empowered women to have the lives they dreamt of. Today, Bri gives women the tools they need to discover who they really are, heal their past, remember what they came here to do, and align their realities with it. 

Bri has a MA and CAS in School Psychology and Counseling and a B.A in Communication, Psychology and Spanish from Fairfield University. She is a Reiki Master + Teacher Trainer, certified in the healing art of Ho’oponopono and other healing frequencies, and uses her gifts of intuition, channeling and subconscious journeying to show women how to be their own healers. Bri lives with her husband Rory, their sons Holden & Noah, daughter June and a menagerie of pets in the Seacoast of New Hampshire.

Selfish - such a loaded word. It's been a journey to find the "good" in selfish in my own life. Am I grateful that I found my way into letting selfish come alive in my life. When we decide that self-care is selfish, we live in a downward, self-limiting spiral that's ripe for taking us into not only overwhelm but eventually burnout. 

In this podcast we do our best to understand how we came to be stuck in the pattern of becoming "selfless", why we might think that's a good thing, and what it actually looks like when we are playing that out in our day-to-day lives. Then we invite our listeners to challenge the status quo around claiming that being selfish is bad or wrong, and can actually be about proper self-care. 

We'd love to know your thoughts on this topic! As always, questions are welcome. We'll answer any questions on future episodes. 

Links to resources mentioned

Laurel’s book Courageous Woman and journal Live Your Inner Power are available. 

The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is [email protected] and for Laurel Holland - [email protected]

Host/Cohost/Guest Info

​​Laurel Holland’s mission is to help connect individuals with their own deep inner peace. As a meditation and Tai Chi instructor she spent years guiding students in the practices of internal relaxation, mindfulness and empowered choice. Through Life Coaching Laurel helps her clients remove the inner chains holding them back so they step into their power and consciously create the lives they desire. Her book, Courageous Woman, and her publication, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, teach women the eight foundational practices that she believes are the main tools in creating transformation from the inside out. Laurel loves gardening, creating beautiful, sacred spaces and showing you the beauty that lives inside of your soul.

Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career.  A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.

"Holding myself accountable - self-trust is nothing more than simply trusting myself to do what I say I am going to do." This message from Laurel Boivin got cheers from me during the podcast!

Self-trust can be an antidote for some of the anxiety that is prevalent in the world today. As we explored self-trust on the podcast this week many related topics emerged such as faith, trust in what you believe in, trust in others as a reflection of trust in yourself, and how we are expected to trust organizations and systems in the world that are now unraveling. After you listen to the podcast this week, you may believe as we do, that self-trust is a worthy and valuable path to pursue to feel confident and to live a beautiful life. 

The book Laurel Holland mentions in the podcast about your family relationships playing out at work is "How Did My Family Get In My Office?" by Bonnie Artman Fox.

The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is [email protected] and for Laurel Holland - [email protected]

Host/Cohost/Guest Info

Laurel Holland’s mission is to help connect individuals with their own deep inner peace. As a meditation and Tai Chi instructor she spent years guiding students in the practices of internal relaxation, mindfulness and empowered choice. Through Life Coaching Laurel helps her clients remove the inner chains holding them back so they step into their power and consciously create the lives they desire. Her book, Courageous Woman, and her publication, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, teach women the eight foundational practices that she believes are the main tools in creating transformation from the inside out. Laurel loves gardening, creating beautiful, sacred spaces and showing you the beauty that lives inside of your soul.

Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career.  A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.

Co-dependency has become a term that we often use or toss about but don’t truly understand exactly what it means or what it’s all about. Co-dependency, a complex topic, affects many people in families where addiction, narcissism and other dysfunctional or mental health issues exist. Pixie Hamilton and I dig in and share our personal stories of recovering from co-dependency, how it impacted our relationships and self-esteem, and how we continue to work with its tendencies in our lives today after decades of personal development.

Some highlights in the podcast are what motivates co-dependency, why it's hard to change, tips to help identify whether you might be struggling with co-dependency and then how to approach change. 

Links to resources mentioned

Ross Rosenberg’s book mentioned in the podcast is entitled “The Human Magnet Syndrome” and Melody Beattie’s book is “Codependent No More” .

The email to send questions to Laurel Holland - [email protected]

Host/Cohost/Guest Info

​​Laurel Holland’s mission is to help connect individuals with their own deep inner peace. As a meditation and Tai Chi instructor she spent years guiding students in the practices of internal relaxation, mindfulness and empowered choice. Through Life Coaching Laurel helps her clients remove the inner chains holding them back so they step into their power and consciously create the lives they desire. Her book, Courageous Woman, and her publication, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, teach women the eight foundational practices that she believes are the main tools in creating transformation from the inside out. Laurel loves gardening, creating beautiful, sacred spaces and showing you the beauty that lives inside of your soul.

Pixie Hamilton graduated from the first Live Your Inner Power Group. She has been on a forty year healing journey. In her professional life she was an engineer and writer and has turned her attention to writing in the self-help realm now. Pixie has been reflecting and learning from the inner journey by consuming and integrating countless self-help books and videos, surrounding herself with like-minded seekers and mentors, and committing to an extensive journaling practice for the last 25 years. 

Relationships - they make or break your life in so many ways. How are you feeling about the relationships in your life?

Laurel and Laurel talk about their budding friendship through the podcast and the intuitive process that brought them together. They dig into the complexities of living in relationships especially for women, some of the differences for men and women because of our inherent psychological make-up, and the importance of making peace in your relationships while living.

Ideas about how to deal with difficult relationships and make good use of them as well as suggestions on how to authentically show up in your relationships are offered. 

Laurel’s book Courageous Woman and Live Your Inner Power, the Journal are available for purchase.

The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is [email protected] and for Laurel Holland - [email protected]

Host/Cohost/Guest Info

​​Laurel Holland’s mission is to help connect individuals with their own deep inner peace. As a meditation and Tai Chi instructor she spent years guiding students in the practices of internal relaxation, mindfulness and empowered choice. Through Life Coaching Laurel helps her clients remove the inner chains holding them back so they step into their power and consciously create the lives they desire. Her book, Courageous Woman, and her publication, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, teach women the eight foundational practices that she believes are the main tools in creating transformation from the inside out. Laurel loves gardening, creating beautiful, sacred spaces and showing you the beauty that lives inside of your soul.

Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career.  A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.