Because, Why Not?

Have you ever heard the quote that says, "When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change"? It's one of my favorites and ever since I first heard it, has given me the means by which I am able to totally shift my life in an instant. Once we realize that were capable of changing our perspective and how deeply that changes the way we feel, so much positive change can take place in our life. AND we become much more open to recognizing what we have going for us rather than always what is challenging us as well as start to notice the many magical and wonderful gifts we are handed every single day IF we pay attention. Try it out for yourself and see! Topics include: Changing thoughts, creating your life, law of attraction, random acts of kindness, self help, personal growth, personal development, self empowerment. Find me on Instagram @iamgracebeason

Hello my dear listeners! Miss me? I missed you. I did. This episode is all about how to listen to what you need and how GREAT the benefits are when you do. I've take a summer hiatus from productivity and have willingly slowed down in many ways. It has been truly life giving. There is so much to learn from what we truly know inside of ourselves to be right for us. You know what you need. You have your best interest in mind. You will light your way. Be willing to listen and then to act accordingly. There are many treasures awaiting you on the other side of actually listening to your own inner voice, I promise you. Follow me on Instagram @iamgracebeason and please leave a review of this podcast, subscribe and share! Thanks for being here.

Do you ever have those times in your life when absolutely everything and everyone is driving you crazy? I have been feeling like no one respects my time, no one works efficiently, everybody's a mess, and I'm the only one capable of getting things done. Well, maybe me and every other efficient multitasking entrepreneurial mother that I know! So, what am I doing about it? I am recording this podcast and working through it with you in real time! I am offering up some really useful and easily applicable tools to help you deal with the annoying and frustrating people and situations that you may face in your life in the same way that I do and we all do. I feel a lot better... I hope it's helpful for you too! Find me an Instagram @iamgracebeason Thanks For listening and please subscribe to the podcast, pass it along, and leave a review!

There's so many times in our lives I'm find ways to medicate, numb out, and hide from what is really going on because we are in a state of discomfort. The problem is that we think we are doing this in an effort to feel better but checking out from our lives only makes us feel worse. How can we stop from getting to a place where we feel so uncomfortable and want to hide? I think for so many women who are high achieving, go getters it is really difficult to stop and step back and take a look at why and for whom we are working so hard to achieve so much. Whether we are in a period of transition, or are upset that we are unable to make something happen in our life that we want, or our overwhelmed from having way too much on our plate, we have got to be willing to care about how we feel and to really focus on what we want and what kind of life we want to create for ourselves. Regardless of what other people's expectations are of us. Once we turn our attention to ourselves, we are able to live more freely and with greater and her peace and stop all of the hiding. Follow me on Instagram @iamgracebeason

Are you a perfectionist? Are you a high achieving woman? So many of us who have spent our lives trying to be and do and have it all can identify with these descriptors. Whether it is about your body, your career, your home, your family, or your finances, there are myriad ways that we aim high and set unreasonable and unattainable standards for ourselves. Trying to achieve perfection in any area is a losing battle because perfection isn't real. But! Knowing that is not enough. We must become willing to identify where our striving for perfection is making us miserable and care more about our own inner peace than about achieving "perfection". How do we do this? For many of us it is about stopping seeking external validation from others. For others who are constantly seeking their own validation, it's about recognizing the perfectionism is an unrealistic finish line that is causing you pain and that your greatest happiness lies on the other side of seeking it. Find me on Instagram @iamgracebeason

I know I can't be the only one who runs myself ragged until I hit a wall going 100 miles an hour and can't take another step! I think it is one of our universal burdens as women that we multitask and take on so many things that we aim to do at such a high level all at once. The work for us here is in recognizing what is too much and what we can let go of and being willing to take things off of our plate. Boundaries with others are always important but what about setting boundaries with ourselves? I realized that these are some of the most vital boundaries to be set and we have to be willing to tell ourselves one enough is enough. What's more, we have to be aware of recognizing when we feel guilty for taking the time we need for ourselves and be WILLING to let it go. This is still.hard for me too but I'm working on both of these things every day. I am willing! Are you? Find me on Instagram @iamgracebeason

Rage! Is this something you experience? It is something that I have been struggling with and didn't even realize it until it crept into my life once I stopped drinking alcohol. My rage is mostly related to parenting and frustrations I have raising young children and has reared it's ugly head all too often over the past year, specifically. I have done and continue to do deep work on managing my rage responses and have some great tools to share here. While rage may not be something you feel specifically, I'm betting you have experienced frustration, irritation, and anger. These are all similar feelings and what we want to do is identify what's causing them and learn how to slow ourselves down before we reach a level 10 and lose it with a big outburst, explosion, meltdown. I hope these tools are useful to you as they continue to be for me. Rage feels awful and I want to feel it less as I'm sure you want to feel your most uncomfortable feeling less (whatever name you have for it). Thank you for being here and please subscribe and share this podcast! Find me on Instagram @iamgracebeason

Mostly this episode is about how to speak to yourself with kindness and compassion especially when you have done something that you are disappointed by or have let yourself down in some way. The way we speak to ourselves really matters. Believe it or not, the things that we say to ourselves we believe! The words we use and even the intonation and inflection matter and certainly the feeling behind them. Here's how I work on speaking to myself with more kindness and compassion and understanding when I have done something that lets me down. You also may get a good laugh from the beginning of the episode when I share with you the trials and tribulations of having a nine and a half year old who listens to explicit lyrics. God help me! Anyone have any parenting tips? Follow me on Instagram @iamgracebeason and please subscribe to this podcast and share with friends! Thank you.

How can we know what we want from our lives or what is working for us and what isn't if we never take a step back? This is a lesson I recently learned. I may have known it before, but never put it into practice quite as I did this month. When we are in a state of overwhelm it is nearly impossible to see what it is that is affecting us. When we take a step back and look at the big picture and are able to look at the details instead of at all of the chaos as a whole, we are able to find clarity and be more decisive about how to move forward powerfully. Come with me as I explain how to see the forest for the trees! Find me on Instagram @IamGraceBeason

Shame, shame! It is a shame we spend so much time feeling shame. It is a natural state of affairs that we as women carry around shame for so many things in our life ranging from what we've eaten to what we've said to what we believe we ought to have done or who we should be in the world. But what does shame do? Why does it exist? does it serve a beneficial purpose? My answer is always going to be that it does nothing but harm our relationship with ourselves and hold us back. We have got to become willing to release shame and move forward. It is possible! There is a way. And it feels so free. I also share some thoughts about mental health interventions and the many and varied things we as individual women need in order to be okay. Please follow me on Instagram @IamGraceBeason or you can always email me directly at Grace@GraceBeasonCoaching or check out my website www.gracebeasoncoaching.com. As always, Thanks for being here! XOXO