This is a conversation I’ve had more times then I can count. It goes like this...

Me: “Hey there! How are your goals going?!"

Client: “Oh pretty good. I was rocking it and doing awesome until last week."

Me: “What happened last week?"

Client: “I started my period and my PMS weighed me down big time.”

Sound like something you experience too? You aren’t alone. With almost all of my clients, there’s been a time when they’ve told me that PMS has stopped them for rocking life.

After a client tells me they had PMS, there’s nothing more for us to talk about. It’s an assumed notion that they were just trying to get through the week without losing their shit on someone, bleeding all over the place and eating everything in site.

PMS SUCKS! Trust me, I know first hand. My period set me back SOOO much in my 20s. I felt like every month my period would cause me to do things I didn’t want to do. I would do things like blow up at people I loved, sit around depressed or anxious, and miss out on opportunities because I felt like crap or just wanted to be alone.

It was so frustrating and made me feel so resentful to have PMS as a constant setback.

I’ve spent the past few years without a period and PMS (details about how I did this is on the episode) and now that I’m back in the swing of things, I’m remembering what it’s like to have this familiar not so fun friend again.

This time though, my PMS is WAY different. While it’s still not my favorite thing in the world, it’s negative impact has been lessened SO much.

The way I’ve lessened my PMS is through mindset work! I’ve found that by doing a few things, you can dramatically diminish the impact PMS has on you every month. It’s incredible!

I’ve seen and felt this lessened PMS impact in my own life and see it in my client’s lives too! (It’s amazing to feel and witness this change!)

By learning these mindset tweaks, you too can start to diminish one of the biggest blocks we as women face!! (Wohoo!!!)

Today on the show, I’m getting SUPER duper real and personal with you as we talk about overcoming PMS. It’s an episode that I believe can help you overcome this “nasty beast” and instead view PMS as something you’re grateful for! (Crazy, I know!)

When I get on the phone with new clients, I always ask them in detail about the state of their life today. I want to know exactly what we’re starting with before we begin coaching.

As time has gone on, I’ve noticed a pattern...many of my clients are coming to me because life feels mundane. They want more from life. They want to feel something deeper and more “magical”. They want life to be fun, authentic, deeply fulfilling and full of joy.

On paper, their life looks pretty “good" too! So good in fact that a lot of times, they feel a bit guilty or even shameful for hiring me because they have a “good” job, have “good” relationships and had a “good” upbringing. Most of their friends and family think they’re living a good life and they are! Life IS pretty “good”.

So, why are they hiring me? If they’re living the “good” life, they shouldn’t need me. Right?

Whereas there’s nothing wrong with good, good can be boring and it can feel inauthentic. Good can feel like you’re just checking off the boxes to life and that you’re living life as a show. On the outside everything appears happy but, on the inside you’re wanting more.

I know how having a good life feels first hand. In my mid-20s, I felt like the pictures of my life looked good. I had some good jobs, had a good partner (who was quite handsome and I knew it!) and had some good friendships. Life looked good...even great!

On the inside though, life felt really empty and mundane. I knew there had to me more to life than this, I just didn’t know what was missing and certainly didn’t know how to get it.

As my “good" life started to crumble (...because, my friend, most “good" lives do....surface level good can never survive), my life started to rebuild in a way that felt magical.

Part of that magical life rebuild was meeting some other women who are passionate healers (like me!) who are out to help women (like you!) create their own magical life.

One of these passionate magic making healers I’ve met and adore is the beautiful, Elyse Santilli. I knew when I wanted to bring Elyse on the show during the month we talked about spirituality. To me, Elyse is an earth angel. When she speaks, I instantly feel more connected to my higher self and spirit. She brings out the best in people and gives information that’s SO good. This girl is packed full of goodness!!

Elyse is a qualified life coach and spiritual mentor who is based in Sydney, Australia. She works with women from all over the world who have that niggling feeling that there could be more magic to life. She helps her clients discover who they really are, build self-love and worthiness and manifest the life of their dreams.

Today, she’s going to help you transform YOUR life from mundane to magical. She shares with you her story about how she transformed her life including how by connecting to one thing in life, it allowed her to create the life SHE loved.

This episode is packed FULL of inspiration and information. If you’re ready to take your life up a major notch or two or ten, you’ll want to listen to this episode!

To get Elyse's FREE mini guide to soul writing and bonus resources, visit: http://www.NotesOnBliss.Com/Bonuses

Loved this episode and want to learn more about Elyse? Visit her digi-home here: http://www.NotesOnBliss.com or find her on Instagram http://www.Instagram.com/ElyseSantilli or Facebook http://www.Facebook.com/ElyseSantilli

Books mentioned in this episode: E2, The Power Of Now & A Course In Miracles

I grew up in an environment where I was taught that the only way I could connect with spirit was through one of three ways: going to church, reading the Bible or praying. I felt like everyone around me was connecting with spirit using these methods and loved it!

But...I didn’t feel like they were my thing. I felt left out. I was frustrated with myself. I would think, “Why can’t you do this, Lindsay?!” I so badly wanted those methods to work, but they just weren’t doing it for me.

I have yet (even to this day!) to find the right church for me. Many of the churches around where I live (deep in the heart of the Bible belt of Texas) are either negative or I find the Preacher to be a bit too into himself. (Harsh I know, but true.)

The Bible I could never quite understand. The lingo didn’t make sense and even though I tried to understand it as best I could, I just barely passed. (I know this because I took an “Understanding The Bible” course in college and scrapped by with a low C in the class!!)

And, praying - don’t even get me started. I didn’t know what the heck to say! Plus, my parents weren’t religious people and always grumbled when they heard people praying. So, I felt stupid and shameful for even trying to pray. (Sad, I know!)

Yet, I craved a connection with spirit as a child and into my early adult years. I really wanted to have the connection that others gushed about with spirit, I just didn’t know how.

It wasn’t until just a few years ago did I learn how to connect with sprit! (#Hallelujah!) I didn’t go back to the conventional ways either, I instead starting finding ways of my own. From these unconventional ways I practiced, my spiritual life has blossomed 100 times over!

Having a spiritual connection now is one of the things I love MOST about my life. Life feels magical! I feel like nothing can ever NOT go my way because I know without a doubt that spirit has my back. It’s truly incredible to live life this way. I have less anxiety, less grief and instead SO much joy and happiness.

If you’re feeling the way I used to feel where you want to up your spiritual connection game but, need some new ways on how, this episode is for you.

Today, I’m sharing my top 10 unconventional ways to connect with spirit. While not all of them may be your thing, I hope you’ll find a few that you’ll feel inspired to try today!

I predict I’m going to ruffle some feathers and potentially get some hate mail with today’s episode because the title of this episode says, “What Religion May Not Be Giving You.” I know that it appears just from the title alone that I’m putting religion down. Looks though can be deceiving, friend! ?

In today’s episode I want to help you take whatever religious or spiritual beliefs you have and intensify them to be stronger!

You see, I was once a girl who sat in Christian sermons and LOVED the messages I would hear from positive Preachers which were things like, “Love and forgive others. Trust in God. Diminish the feelings of defeat. Live your best life."

I would sit in those sermons and think, “YES! I want all of that in my life.” I would pull out a pen and paper or be full of questions that I thought for sure would be answered with step-by-steps on how to do those things and it NEVER happened.

I walked away from those sermons feeling like I had NO idea how in the world to become the person that I (and God) wanted me to be.

These lack of steps made me feel like a loser. I felt like something was wrong with me that everybody else seemed to be living a great life and I was stuck trying to figure out how in the heck I could be the person I so wanted to be and what I was told God wanted me to be like.

It wasn’t until I discovered coaching did I finally get the steps-by-steps I was seeking on how to become the person that I (and God) wanted me to be! I would like to say that coaching was the answer to the prayers I had been praying but, truth be told, I had given up praying a long time ago. This is just how bad I used to despise religion, friend!! I thought for sure it wasn’t for me.

I’m SO thankful that coaching taught me exactly how to get what I wanted from life. I now encounter clients who too felt the way I did and felt like religion was giving them the right focus in life but, they wanted the steps.

Today, I’m going to break down some the how-to steps on some general religious/spiritual principles. No matter if you’re a Christian (like me), a Jew, a Hindu, just a spiritual person or not a spiritual person at all, these principles apply to you.

This episode is for anyone who wants to open their mind and increase their spiritual life. I’ve learned first-hand just how amazing living in a place connected with spirit can be and I would love to teach you how to feel this way too. I hope you love this episode!

One of the questions I get asked most often is, “How can I make big changes in my life in the shortest amount of time?” I laugh when I hear this because I know all too well how us Millennials are stereotyped. (I say “us” because I’m a Millennial too!)

Millennials are labeled as impatient and wanting it all now...and who could blame us! We grew up in the tech age where we’re used to getting what we want at the snap of our fingers through a Google search, a text message or ordering on Amazon. We’ve been spoiled!

Being a “spoiled” Millennial or not though, I know that when most people invest their time and money on something, they want it to be highly impactful and they want it to happen fast! Nobody wants to waste their time and money on something that doesn’t work. (I know I sure don’t!)

So, as time has gone on, I’ve pondered a lot how how to best answer this question of how someone can make big changes in their life in a short amount of time and I’ve come to a killer answer!

I’ve discovered a series of 5 mindset shifts that when someone makes them, BIG changes can happen! These mindset shifts aren’t anything that’s difficult to understand or difficult to implement either, it’s just a simple shift in someone’s way of thinking! (You can’t get easier than that, friend!)

Today on the podcast I’m sharing what those 5 mindset shifts are. If you’re itching for some fast and impactful change, this episode is for you. In just under an hour, you’ll walk away from this episode with the awareness you need to start making big, impactful changes in a short amount of time! #You’reWelcome ?

This past month on the podcast, I’ve been talking all about mental mind blocks. Regardless of if you’ve listened to those episodes or not, today I’m going to wrap up this topic by giving you a FREE resource on how to release your mental mind blocks: a guided meditation!

Within this free guided meditation, you’re going to very naturally and easily start to release a pattern of thought that isn’t serving you.

We ALL have those thought patterns that we hear time and time again and we wish we could overcome them. We ALL think that at some point that will be too hard or that it’s impossible to stop thinking about something that consumes our mind day after day. It’s not true!

Within this guided meditation, I’m going to give you a taste of what it’s like to release a pattern of thought that consumes you! This meditation is all backed by neuroscience to work and boy, does it ever.

On today’s episode, I’m going to walk you through that neuroscience research and I’m going to talk you through the steps of the meditation so that you can grasp the logical side of what you’ll be doing. I’m a girl who likes to see the logic of things before I try so, if you’re like me - you’ll want to listen to this episode first.

If you’d prefer to just bypass hearing about the logic and would rather just get to the meditation instead, simply visit: https://www.lindsayepreston.com/BlockMeditation

If you saw the title of this episode, you may think it’s going to be one that’s a little doomy and gloomy because the title states, “How Your Mental Blocks Are Impacting Your Life (..and you may have no idea)”.

I laughed a bit when I came up with this title because it does sound a bit negative and dramatic. Goodness knows, we DON’T need more negativity in life! I must admit that I did it to get your attention for a good reason though because today’s episode is actually NOT dramatic and gloomy at ALL. In fact, today’s episode is one of my most positive episodes EVER!

Today, I’m going to share stories from my life and the lives of my clients on how mental mind blocks have impacted our lives and all of us had NO idea! My intention in sharing these stories with you is so that you can hear things that YOU may be doing in life (...and you have NO idea!).

We all have patterns of behavior that are holding us back at any given time no matter how evolved we are in our personal growth journey. It’s just our beautiful human way. We’re always evolving and growing! Which means there’s ALWAYS new blocks to overcome.

As you’ve heard me say in previous episodes time and time again, awareness is ALWAYS the first step to change. If you aren’t aware of your disruptive and harmful mind blocks, there’s NO way you’re going to change ANYTHING! I don’t want this for you. I want you to feel what it’s like to have the mental blocks released from your body. (...because spoiler alert, releasing your blocks feels incredible!)

As you hear the stories from my life and my client's lives today on how mental mind blocks were impacting us and we had no idea, you’ll hear that once the awareness of the block or pattern came, change happened pretty quickly after that. My hope is that hearing these stories inspire you and fill you up with hope that you can do this too and that overcoming your crap isn’t as hard as you may initially think.

We’re talking about a topic today on the show that I’m SUPER excited to share with you: self-sabotage! Self-Sabotage is something that comes up for ALL of my clients at some point in their journey in working with me. Until we learn how to train our brain NOT to sabotage ourselves, we are self-sabotaging ALL the flippin’ time!!! Seriously - all the time! For some people they may be self-sabotaging all day, every day!!!

It’s crazy and oh-so sad for me to hear about the extremes of self-sabotage behavior. Like people who weight hundreds of pounds overweight and they can’t leave their bed. People who are addicted to drugs or alcohol and lost their job, their friendships, their family in the process. People who even do horrible, unthinkable things like murder, cheat and steal.

I must admit I used to judge those people so harshly. I would think things like, "WTF is wrong with you! How disgusting! Pull your life together. You’re a bad person."

Now, I know better. I know how our brains can sabotage and convince us to do things that harm us even when we know deep down we don’t want to do those things. I’ve had SO much experience with self-sabotage in my own life and feel like I’ve become quite a pro at helping others deal with their own self-sabotage.

I’ve seen over time in my work as a Life Coach AND as a human being the patterns of those who self-sabotage. I’ve found that we don’t have to have extreme setbacks in life to have self-sabotaging behavior! There’s little things we do every day that hold us back.

The funny thing with self-sabotage is that many times we don’t even know that we’re flippin’ doing it to ourselves. We walk around thinking we have bad luck, something wasn’t meant to be, we blame others, or worse yet, think we aren’t worthy or deserving or feel enough to have what we want from life.

Today, I want to give you clarity if you’re self-sabotaging in life. I’m going to ask you 8 questions for you to answer honestly so that you can know with certainty where you’re self-sabotaging in your life b/c with that awareness it will be HUGE as I teach you about mental mind blocks in the upcoming episodes.

Awareness is ALWAYS the first step to change. Always!

And today, I want to you take that first step with me to help you gain the awareness you need in order to star to make big changes in your life.

A few weeks ago, I was having some really hard days. I had a marketing campaign that did NOT go my way. I ended up losing money on it. It stunk big time.

While sometimes things don’t work in entrepreneurship (or in life!), it really put me in a funk. Life felt heavy and hard. I felt so sad and disappointed. Time seemed to go by so slowly because I just wanted the ickiness to go away but, it wouldn’t.

Luckily, I knew the steps on how to pull myself out of this funk so that I could get back to loving life again. I predict had I not known or done these steps, I would probably STILL be feeling icky today which would make me less productive and lose valuable time in life!

There’s nothing worse to me than feeling icky and not knowing how to overcome it. I spent SO many years of my life feeling that way. And, let me tell you, it STUNK! It made life feel heavy, hard, uneventful, unproductive and sometimes hopeless. I felt like the life I wanted for myself was just out of reach but, I didn’t know how to grab it. I felt stuck and I hated every second of it.

I’m SOOO grateful that I now know the steps on how to overcome crappy times. I’m certain that because of knowing and using these steps, it allows me to continue on a pathway for greatness and living a life I love!

Regardless of where you are on creating or living a life YOU love, you’re going to have hard days.

Because, I hate to break it to you but, having a life you love does NOT mean having a perfect life.

Having a life you love to me means that you know who you are (and love yourself!), know how to get what you want from life (and go after it!) and know how to overcome crappiness so you can have more happiness.

Having a life you love does NOT mean that you will be happy 24/7 and that you won’t have hard times or have moments that feel icky. While we can learn the tools and strategies to diminish crappy feelings, they won’t go away fully. This I know can be discouraging to hear but, remember this....we wouldn’t know light without dark, we wouldn’t know warmth without cold and we wouldn’t know happiness without crappiness.

Having crappiness (aka: hard days) is just part of the human experience. To diminish the impact these hard days have on us, we MUST know the steps on how to overcome it so that it DOESN’T weigh us down for a long time and we can get back onto the pathway for rocking and loving our life.

If you’re ready to learn the steps to overcoming a hard day, today’s episode is for you! I’m going to teach you the step-by-step on how to overcome this hard day(s) and give you a much needed pep-talk to help you get through this so that you can back on your journey to creating what YOU want from life!

A few weeks ago, I did an episode on Life Luvers™ Radio where I got vulnerable about a struggle I’m facing in life right now. (Missed it? Listen to season 2, episode 8!)

The response was so overwhelming and beautiful to this episode. Messages of gratitude poured in from listeners who said that by hearing that episode, it allowed them to realize that having (or creating) a life you love isn’t always easy.

Hearing those messages inspired me a lot for this week’s episode. (Thank you SO much to everyone who messaged me!)

So, this week, I’m taking the vulnerability up a notch big time with you and sharing all about the blocks I’ve had to overcome in order to have a life I love.

My intention in sharing my story with you today is to help you tap into your own blocks that you may have and have NO idea. I also want you to see that getting a life you love requires perseverance and work! I didn’t just wake up and have a flippin’ great life, I had to work for it!

Many people don’t know this but, while my upbringing on the outside looked peachy, within the closed walls of my home, it was very hard. I didn’t get the emotional support that I needed and many times the environment at home was tumultuous. It was hard and those experiences had a lasting impact on me. I felt very weighed down by the emotions of it all.

Then, tack on a slew of icky relationships and poor choices in my 20's! By 28, I felt like the weight of the world was on me. I thought my life was done for and I was just meant for unhappiness and depression.

Many say that I should not be where I am today. I should be a girl who’s depressed and highly anxious. But, I’m not! Why? Because of block work.

Block work by far is the most impactful and transformational work I’ve done in my entire life. It healed me of so many wounds that haunted me from childhood and beyond. By doing this work, it allowed me to become the person I was meant to be!

I hope this story inspires you and teaches you a bit about finding your own blocks...because it’s time you too start tapping into the person YOU were meant to be.