Show Notes – Tracie Nichols

Thinking in terms of the whole person whenever she is coaching.  Are they building in resilience practices?  Are they evaluated their self-care?  Are they working alongside their personal rhythm?  Are the things they are doing in alignment with who they are spiritually and emotionally.  What they are doing in sustainable from within and it aligns with what they believe in. 

Spiralling leaves.  When we are being in alignment with ourselves, doing good in the world, we create conditions that allow life to thrive.   Referring business out to a women colleague or sharing resources or simply talking about the amazing work that is being done by other people within the community.  Creating a thriving system.  What if we don't block the sun from anyone else and we can all do well?  The communal energy can lift you when you are having a struggling moment. 

Highly sensitive people – discovered by Dr Elaine Aron.  20% of the population (including all animals as well) have this trait.  We have five senses and they receive information from the environment all the time.  For 20% of the world that information comes in at a level of intensity that becomes physical impactful to feel.  Certain things can be disruptive to your system.  It is a unique way of experiencing the world.  They tend to deeply process information.  70% are introverts.   Tend to be quieter because they are processing things through.  But they oftentimes come up with things that other people haven't seen.  It is evolutionary trait developed so that there are people who can be the antenna of the rest of the population.  They can inform what is coming next.  They can see future outcomes that may not be on other people's radar.  It can be overwhelming.

Be quite intentional about creating boundaries for yourself.  Avoid spaces that are not conducive to your wellbeing.  Pace your day at your own rhythm.  In the morning she has more energy for task oriented things.  In the afternoon she has energy for creative things.  She schedules clients based on what kind of thinking they need and places them in times of day that make sense for her body system.  Observing your own body rhythms you can then create a working structure for yourself that can eliminate many of the triggers to exhaustion.  If you are in the situation in which you don't have control over your working environment then the key is to find those micro breaks and to just put yourself in a position when you are shutting down all the stimulation to your nervous system.

Body wise is a phrase she came up with – the ability to be grounded in your body and then allowing all of the signals and the information that your body gives you to become part of the internal conversation they have about our choices and decisions.  Being body wise relates to be embedded into your eco-system.  It keeps her grounded in her she is.

Children are very body wise.  They on their bellies rolling on the ground, they respond to the information that their body gives them.  We get socialised out of that.  Trauma can also snap you out of your body as suddenly your body becomes an unsafe place to be. 

Three-part breathing is a great yoga practice that can help us get back into our bodies.   Also Tai Chi, Yoga, Qi Gong helps.  Working with a somatic therapist who addresses body and mind.  Put your hand over your heart and sense your own heart beat.  Because your own heart beat is a sound we begin to experience in the womb and it is a sound that tells us that we are alive.  It is something simple that you can do in any moment.  Give your body permission to move however it needs to.  It can be any number of things.  Just rolling with it as weird and uncomfortable as it might feel.  In this culture we don't move a lot.  And we especially don't move if it is unchoreographed.  Unstructured movement outdoors, bare feet on the ground is even better. 

Multi potentialled people, also known as renaissance souls, you have varied interests and you have the capacity to be successful in all those interests.  It can make life fascinating but also complicated.  They think relationally.  Tend to be very innovative in their thinking.

An introduction to two authors – Margaret Wheatley and Terry Tempest Williams.

Personal tool for resilience - a very regular, committed and felt sense of a connection with the natural world.  

Find a sense of belonging that is unshakeable.