Welcome back, welcome to episode 44 of the Energy For Life Podcast show and I am your host Corona Brady. 

I’m offering you something a little bit different here today on the show. Recently I reached out to one of our incredible graduates of our Awakened Woman Life Mastery Program which is our high-performance Sistermind group coaching program for the woman that wants it all in life! She craves a rich, real, abundant and meaningful life on every single level (health, wealth, relationships, career/business and contribution) and she will not settle for anything less.   

As you will learn today via this episode it’s impossible to be the same woman after journeying through Awakened Woman (and by the way I mean that in the best possible way!). I had the absolute honour and privilege of working with this incredible woman initially via our Energy For Life Academy Program and it didn’t stop there she continued her personal growth journey with us via Awakened Woman Life Mastery. 

This woman’s story is remarkable and I want to thank her for her vulnerability and courage for sharing so honestly with us today.  

Every single year we have a choice. We can choose to evolve or repeat? 

To repeat getting caught in the same old destructive habits and patterns and to repeat the same old wounds. It’s so easy to get caught in the same old rut even if you know it’s not good for you. It’s all you know and it feels safer on some level. As I share this woman’s story with you today, I really encourage you to ask yourself the hard question – what are you choosing right now in your life – evolving or repeating?

After moving to Australia and landing the corporate banking job I had worked all my adult life to attain I had a sudden calling. The stress of climbing the ladder had taken its toll and I was constantly fatigued, depressed, and an anxious mess. A doctor told me that I had liver damage and would soon be diabetic. 

Then a voice told me it was time to take a new path. I left my job and began searching for a different way to live. I studied meditation, breathe work, and Kundalini Yoga. And after exploring the many ways a person can transform themselves I founded The Energy For Life Academy to teach women how to reclaim their innate power and self-worth. 

Listen in as I tell the guys how ignoring your purpose can make you ill, the best daily habits to manage stress, and how to find your Breath Of Fire.  Stress is always going to be in your life… it’s learning how to cope with the stress, it’s having tools, and routines, and beautiful rituals in your life.”– Corona Brady 

Some Topics We Discussed Include: 

Today I want to talk to you about the ‘Signs of a midlife awakening?’ 

Why, because I support so many women navigating this every day and I know many of you will relate to what I have to share today and perhaps you can pass it on and share it with another woman you know is also navigating this. 

Midlife can be a time of intense emotional turmoil for a woman. It can be a huge turning point in a woman’s life. It really can begin at any point for a woman – but commonly in a woman’s mid to late 30's or early to mid to late 40's, or even as late as her early 50’s – she can start to feel this nagging sense that something is missing from her life, there has to be more and she feels a sense of loss on some level. 

However, it spans from age 35 to 65.

Today I want to talk to you about loneliness and what to do with it when this feeling arises within you. 

I learned a lot about loneliness while on my recent vision quest. 

In fact, this was the very thing I was fearing the most before I headed out for 3 days alone. And I’ll go as far as saying that I was even ‘dreading’ it on some level. Because I won’t deny it, I have felt ‘extreme’ loneliness this year due to much change in my life. 

But something quite magical and very beautiful happened while I was out alone in the wilderness. 

Over the 3 days, I didn’t feel alone, in fact, I didn’t feel any loneliness whatsoever. I felt so connected to Mother Nature and so connected to my soul. I realised over those 3 days that I’m never really alone. That I always have myself and Mother Nature is always around us and that I realised that my experience of loneliness in the past was based off a misunderstanding that I am separate and that being with another person would ‘fix’ that ache and pain inside. 

What I realised is that what I was longing for the most at that moment is a connection to that feeling of oneness, and feeling connected to my soul.

Welcome back. I took a little break for a while as you would have noticed. I went on vision quest which was an incredibly powerful and very deep experience for 12 days (an experience I am still integrating right now and will be doing so over the next few weeks and months). I've been back from vision quest for 10 days now and I have to admit that life feels different. 

The best way I can explain this is that I feel like a baby chick that has just cracked open her shell and I am learning how to walk and move in the world again. Now I'm back to being of service to you guys and today on the show I am bringing a question actually that gets asked often in our energy for life academy so I know that you too perhaps have experienced these same thoughts. 

And the question is: "I feel like my family judges me and it causes me to be emotional. How do I move past this experience?" 

Firstly, check in, can you relate. Have you had these same thoughts and feelings? 

I just want to remind you today that your mind can be very sneaky and it's very good at creating stories that simply aren't true. 

You have to start challenging these repetitive stories and thoughts? Is this true? How do I know it to be true? Who would I be without this story?

Welcome back. Welcome to episode 38.   

Today I want to talk to you about the importance of taking a retreat and the benefits that this will have not only in your personal life but also in your business.   

Every single year, many people escape their country and head overseas for a break to withdraw from their everyday life for a week or two or sometimes even three or four. 

However, they often don’t get to truly relax and recharge on these kinds of holidays – it’s often aimed at rescuing them from an undesired or unpleasant situation and whisking them off to an exotic location. What often happens is that there’s an overindulgence in food and often alcohol too. So, we don’t really reap any of those powerful healing benefits (long term anyway).   

However, retreats offer something deeper and that’s what I want to share with you here today and also to encourage you to give yourself this beautiful gift where you will reap the benefits for many weeks and months to come.   

So, what is a retreat firstly? 

Well, like the word suggests it means to take time out of your every day to restore, relax and reset.    Join me on my upcoming Aquarian Women's Retreat!

Welcome back. Welcome to Episode 37 of the Energy For Life Podcast show and I am your host Corona Brady. I hope that you're enjoying the show so far and please do let us know if there is anything, in particular, you would like me to share insights on and to chat about. 

You can email my team anytime with suggestions to [email protected]. 

I've spoken about transitions before on the show and for the reason being that most women that I support via my Energy For Life Academy & Awakened Woman Life Mastery Program are navigating massive transitions in their life. I know that 2018 has been a big year of transition and change for many women (myself included). 

So I wanted to talk about the 3 different stages and steps of a transition so that it eliminates any confusion that you might be feeling right now (if you are in a middle of a transition in your life). 

You can refer to episode # 23 moving through a life transition where I explain in further detail what a transition is and what it could look like for you. 

I hope what I share with you today will support you and it will help you have some more understanding of the transition that you might be navigating right now in life.

Welcome back. Welcome to episode 36. 

Spring is almost upon us here in the Southern Hemisphere. Gosh, what a quick winter that was! We cross over into Spring on 01st Sept here in the Southern Hemisphere. I'm not sure about you, but spring is one of my favourite seasons. 

I welcome the beginning of the lighter and brighter evening's and the temperature starts to increase again. 

Spring is a season of new beginnings, beginning of all sorts of things are happening and growing. We're bringing life to new things (ideas, projects). 

Spring holds that beautiful new beginning energy. We're provided with another opportunity to grow after the quietness, stillness, and introspection of the winter. We have a chance to start again with spring and to do this we must look to the future, the past and the present. 

This is a good time for us to look at our new year intentions to see how we're tracking because we're moving into the last quarter of the year.

Welcome to Episode 35 Dealing with Loss and Grief. 

I have personally been moving through a lot of loss and grief in the last couple of months I feel I could write a book about it (and maybe I will one day). We know that change and Loss is a part of life (however we often resists this when it arrives to greet us). 

The Transformation Cycle begins with a breakdown in our life - it is a period of chaos and inner turmoil - often occurring from a triggering event that happens in our life - it could be the loss of a loved one, a separation/divorce, a change in your financial situation, a loss of job or change in career, empty nest. I want to mention here that even the happy events in life such as having a baby or getting married or getting a new job or creating a business can trigger grief (as we lose our old identity and a new identity is built). 

And so what follows during this time - is a period of utter grief. 

Grief can be different for everyone but it usually includes some of the following emotions: sadness, anger, denial, fear, anxiety, despair, bitterness, until finally, the surrender happens and we reach a point of letting go.