Honey Marie Love is an intuitive coach. Most of her clients are both service professionals and mothers. They are also high performing individuals and perfectionists. She advocates for women finding their authentic voice. Bri met Honey during the Beckwith Weidemann Awareness Day. Honey directed and coordinated the national virtual summit this year on April 6, 2019.

She shares her own story of perfectionism, losing her parents, and being a teen mom. She received a corporate job at age 21 and the pressure to provide for her family coupled with perfectionism in both work and family life led to exhaustion/burn out. She explains how it created turmoil and sickness within her body to put that much pressure on herself.

She gives all us perfectionists out there some much needed care, encouragement, and advice.

Honey has offered a free meditation to all Compassionately You listeners.

Listen to the full episode below.

If you are interested in following Honey, you can do so on her Facebook and Instagram. Or you can plug in right away by attending a virtual workshop she is hosting this July 26.

Laura Judge is on the podcast today! She is a Pure Haven consultant and also an advocate for living not only your best life, but living in a way that is best for your overall health. This is what made her interested in Pure Haven, as their products are free of chemicals and toxins. Skincare products go right on our skin and should be something we really think about purchasing before we put it on our skin.

Laura is passionate about educating others that we have a choice about what we decide to put into our bodies. This passion stemmed from losing her mother to cancer. Her mother was her best friend and her rock. She talks about the cycle of grief and how it’s incredibly hard to lose a loved one. Her first emotion during grief was fear. Her next emotion was acceptance.

She used to cry a lot over her mother’s death over small things that would trigger her. Once she went through acceptance she realized she had lost the most important person in her life. And if she could get through that, she could get through anything - she was strong.

Listen to the full podcast episode below.
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Kyria is on the podcast this week! Her and Bri knew each other in college and they have connected again via instagram. Kyria is a motivational speaker and blogger. She considers herself someone who is multi-passionate. She has multiple interests and really cares about each one of them as well as each person in her life. She shares on the podcast today about motherhood, grief after losing loved ones, and the continuous healing process of grief.

She speaks about how hard it is to take time for ourselves as mothers. We are used to doing everything for everyone else. However, their is such a need to take care of ourselves: mind, body, and soul. She attended a conference and felt inspired to share her voice and be even more genuine and focused on social media. When she stepped even more into openness and vulnerability, her following on instagram started to grow exponentially.

Within the process of grief and loss, she lost a pregnancy in 2015. She also lost her Aunt who was like her second mother in November 2018. With her aunt’s passing, she had a realization of how valuable time really was. Her aunt was an organ donor and she was able to save 75 lives with her donations.

She emphasizes the fact that setting aside time each day to take care and love ourselves is important as mothers and women overall. Each day may look different in how we self-care or when we self-care and that’s okay, but making sure we take that time is what’s important.

You can follow Kyria on instagram for daily inspiration. Listen to the full episode below.

Bree Bode is on the podcast this week! She is a fellow coach and owner of BB Mindful

Bree lists her 7 dimensions of wellness that she goes through her clients within her coaching.

1) Social – think relationships, volunteering
2) Emotional – think giving and receiving emotions
3) Intellectual – building and sustaining curiosity
4) Physical – think eating, drinking, movement
5) Occupational – finding joy in your work, hobbies, habits
6) Spiritual – think the power of connecting mind, body, spirit
7) Environmental – think nature and safe spaces

She talks about the important of giving help and receiving help and how we need to experience both within our emotional wellness.

Bree and Susan Clark, who has been on the podcast twice in this past, are collaborating to put together a summer wellness workshop. You can learn more here.

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Lisa is on the podcast today! She shares why she created Lotus Jos Yoga. She wanted to create a safe place for people to come and grow personally.

She talks about the cycle of growth metaphorically to the lotus flower. Some areas of our life we focus on more at times and bloom more there, and then we can concentrate on planting seeds in other areas of our life to focus on in different seasons of life.

She relates to how she became a mom first before having a strong sense of self. Then she reached a point in her mid 20’s where she saw that she would have time to travel and such later on. It doesn’t matter the timing. There’s no perfect timing for living life.

She talks about processing. We can process our thoughts and see if the thought is more of a fear than a truth and learn how to get through that fear and see the beauty in all we do.

We also talk about the up and downs of entrepreneurship and how focusing on growth and numbers are important, but also not to obsess about it and look at the big picture.

Follow Lisa on Facebook and Instagram.

Listen to the full episode here

Connie is on the podcast a 2nd week in a row. Her and Bri had such a filled conversation, that we decided to make the podcast go 2 episodes.

In this episode Connie talks about the connotation of being single. Many times when people find out one is single in conversation, the response is “Oh, you’ll find someone!” “The right one is out there!” She provokes the question of why is it seen this way in our society. There are relationships we have with others outside of romantic ones that provide our lives with value and connection.

This is a very compelling episode!

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Connie Flachs is on the podcast this week! Connie is a body image activist, a ballerina, a co-founder of the non-profit Better Body Image, and a board member of Slow Food West Michigan.

Connie focuses on food production and systems within our society and how some food has to look and feel perfect for people to want to consume it. This idea of beauty standard in food parallels with the idea of body image beauty standards in society and the pressure to be symmetrical and look a particular way.

Connie and Bri both mention Emily, a BBI board member’s, wisdom of getting out of your mind and into your body comes up. She helps nurture people to do with her business Any Body Yoga.

We delve into the idea of thin privilege and what it is. Thin privilege is recognizing that privilege and taking action to make change. Connie then mentions how all women unite in negative body speak, so we do connect over body image, but how can we connect in a more empowering way. And herein was the idea behind creating the Better Body Image - to create a safe and supportive space to learn how to talk about our bodies in a more empowering way.

Follow Connie on instagram and check out her website.

Listen to the full episode below.

Aubrey Marlette from the group Unleash Your Heart is on the podcast today. Unleash has been mentioned in our podcast before, so Bri thought it was time to invite Aubrey on to chat more about why she created the community.

Aubrey comes in vulnerability personally as well to share about when her father went through cancer. She talks about how she struggled with body image. In the past she struggled with anorexia and then binge eating in college. Then when her dad was diagnosed with cancer and she saw how he struggled with his health, she realized how precious life really is. It set her out into a holistic journey and learning how to love herself. Even though it was a painful time in her life, she believes it took a big crisis to set her onto her current path.

Self-love is at the root of everything in life.

Her tips to loving yourself more:
1)Learning to listen to your heart
2)Honor what your inner voice is telling you
3)Every part of you has positive intentions
4)Then you feel that wholeness because you aren’t constantly feeling your “imperfections” are wrong. They are a part of you for a good reason.

If you’d like to get to know Aubrey and Unleash more, Bri is actually hosting an open, free self-compassion workshop there this June 6th from 130-3p. You can register for the free event here.

Aubrey and Bri are also running a promotion together due how aligned both their businesses are. If you join both Unleash and The Compassion Collective, the total membership to enroll in both groups saves you $10! For only $39.99/mo, you get access to both groups!

JOIN NOW.

This Memorial Day, Bri comes in more vulnerability onto the podcast she created. She reflects back on the 10 months of Compassionately You, the mission behind it, how it’s changed her, and how it morphed into adding more services to help others.

Next, she opens up about her own body image journey and describes her rare syndrome, Beckwith Weidemann, from birth to 18 years old. She adds some humor in because life needs both that open, vulnerable elements with a bit a humor to keep things light. She wanted to be more vulnerable with her own body image journey because both Compassionately Bri and Better Body Image were formed due to her own struggles with her body and her own self-confidence and self-compassion.

She mentions how there are ups and downs of self-confidence, especially when we are in the midst of personal growth and perseverance. She also mentions this summer she is debuting a free 5-day self-confidence challenge. The challenge starts on June 3 and runs through 7. You can participate anywhere you are! It’s completely digital, so you can be involved remotely. Also, it only takes 5 minutes each day. Bri loves making things easy to put into your day.

The challenge will focus on reflecting and affirming:

1. Who we are and always have been

2. What are our priorities are in this season of life

3. Feeling confident in both the 2 listed above to be more free in who we are and our lifestyle

You can apply to be a part of the challenge here.

Special BONUS podcast episode this week! Bri attended the 3rd annual fundraiser for Sheldon’s house. She was invited by fellow colleague Rhiannon McCalmount, who is also on the Sheldon House board and the photography event sponsor.

Bri had the honor of interviewing Tara Vandyke immediately after the event ended, in which over 150 people attended. Tara describes how 1 in 5 people will struggle with mental illness at some point in their lives and this specific fundraiser was helping to fundraise the unmet needs that Medicaid does not help with for funding of Sheldon’s House.

What is Sheldon’s House?
It’s a clubhouse that treats their members like a family. Through participation in the tasks that it takes to run the Clubhouse and the availability of resources, members find worth and value in themselves. Members are seen as more than someone with a mental health diagnosis but instead someone with potential and worth. It is a resource that isn’t as extreme as going to the ER or a mental health facility. It’s that transitional piece that is needed to be the in between that connects those who are suffering with mental illness into their communities with sustainable support.

You can follow Sheldon’s house in Facebook and Instagram. If you are interested in learning more or taking a free tour, feel free to reach out to them via phone (616) 242-6058 or email.