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Roberta Hughes is the Founder and lead instructor at PeaceFull Living, a boutique hybrid studio that conveys a delicate and personalized Peaceful Living instruction through customized Pilates, Meditation, and Yoga classes. Peaceful Living grants clients a way to filter out life’s pressures through a delicate and highly personalized approach through its livestreams and on-demand classes. Its nurturing and customized approach guides clients who desire to change their relationship with stress. Learn more by visiting https://www.peacefullliving.com/

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This is part three of our Freerangecoach round table where we talk with a number of different coaches from the newly formed FreerangeCoach group. Our guests include Terry Barkman, Melissa Boychuk, Laura Giusti, Amy Hackett-Jones, Dave Urichuck, and Kevin Venn whose coaching practices take place on sailboats, rivers, dating, homes, and under the sea!

What you will learn in this episode:

A formula for team building

Tips on how to meet people

How to prepare for the worst-case scenario

The importance of paying attention

How getting out and trying something new can help you

Where the future lies

The three levels of listening and how to apply them to our lives

Go out and give things a try

Become deeply self-aware

David Urichuck provides us with a few final words

For more see https://www.freerangecoach.com/

Telecare Crisis & Caring Line is hosting “Love Listens” February 17, 7:00 p.m.--a virtual event focused on active empathetic listening for better relationships. While the event takes place during the week of Valentine’s Day, it applies to all close relationships. Telecare is a faith-based registered charity based out of Abbotsford where trained volunteers use empathetic listening to support callers who are often in estranged relationships.

“As media studies show, our digital technologies permit us to communicate with many, thinly, and more and more the same way when we are face-to-face,” states Bill Strom, Telecare’s executive director and the event speaker. Evidence of this is the global downward trend in empathy – the ability to see and feel from another person’s perspective—and fewer close friends’—now just 1.9 on average.

The event presents three ways we can approach relationships and how good and poor listening habits spill from each. Attendees will also consider barriers that create shallow listening and practical tips for fixing that.

Attendees can anticipate break-out room discussions, offering “chat” feedback, and enjoying humorous videos during the 75-minute event. Ideally, people will attend with a friend or close relative—even the entire family. It is intended to be a fun time.

Strom also serves as professor of communication at Trinity Western University specializing in close relationship interaction and will share from a recently published study, “Do Moral Communicators Make Better Listeners?” He found that the loving virtues of faithfulness and wisdom rate as well as one’s personality and attitudes in explaining who listens well.

The event is free with the option to donate to support Telecare, a registered non-profit B.C. Society. Those interested in attending “Love Listens” can register online at www.telecarebc.com. While registration is free, a $25 donation is suggested.

Meet Don Joseph Goewey:

Don Joseph Goewey is the director of the Center for Spiritual Exchange, the official archive for the works of Anthony De Mello, regarded as one of the great spiritual minds of the 20th century, influencing the likes of Eckhart Tolle and Thomas Moore. Don Goewey recently edited a new book published by Simon & Schuster entitled Stop Fixing Yourself / Awake Up, All is Well, based on Anthony DeMello’s practical spirituality. He is also the author of the Amazon bestseller, The End of Stress/Four Steps to Rewire Your Brain. He has committed his life to helping people understand and quiet stress and anxiety, navigate life’s challenges more creatively and live happier, more fulfilled lives.

In this episode we discuss:

- Who was Anthony DeMello and his impact on some of the major contemplative thinkers of our time.

- The discovery that revolutionized DeMello‘s life

- The reasons why we are unhappy and unfulfilled

- How change happens

- How working with DeMello‘s approach to things impacted his life and helped him with his fear of dread.

- Awareness and psychotherapy and how they work together to help us.

- An awareness process for dealing with stress and our difficult feelings and emotions

- Why it’s OK to try to stop fixing ourselves

- Watch little children. When we watch children we are observing our nature

- How very few people are actually happy

- How the ultimate problem facing us is fear

- The importance of not identifying with our negative feelings and suffering.

- Stop making your happiness depend on the material world.

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This is part 2 of our interview with coaches who are a part of the FreerangeCoach Group. Our guests include Terry Barkman, Melissa Boychuk, Laura Giusti, Amy Hackett-Jones, Dave Urichuck, and Kevin Venn. During this segment we ask:

Why be a part of a FreerangeCoach group?

What are examples of experiences our guests have offered?

For more see fuelradio.com and freerangecoach.com

This is the time of year where people reflect and project about the kind of upcoming year that they want to have. And as I think about this upcoming year, what keeps surfacing for me is that I'm being drawn to spend more time practicing silence.

I have to admit that I’m not super excited about practicing silence more. There are a lot more fun things to do! At the same time, I know it will be good for me.

Silence is a practice that will change how I show up in the world. Whenever I have consistently practiced silence in the past it has always brought about more peace in my life. As I practice silence this year I also anticipate being more present, and open to others and reality.

The practice of silence isn’t limited to the absence of sound. It can also be experienced as emptiness, awareness, nothingness, formlessness, and spaciousness. [1] Also, I sometimes experience silence as stillness, just being, and as a gap or a void.

Read more - https://www.hintsofgladness.com/bringing-in-the-new-year-with-silence

Happiness (like love) is a choice! Today. I want to invite you to consider the question. Do you want to be happy? Or do you want to be right?

I remember being asked years ago by the facilitator at a personal growth seminar, “would you rather be right, or would you rather be happy?” I find that question to be as pertinent today as it was back then because I still want to be right at times, even when it might unconsciously hurt a relationship.

Read more at https://www.hintsofgladness.com/right-or-happy

This week, I'd like to invite you to consider the practice of savoring.

Savouring reminds me to slow down and to really enjoy life. I want to even savor the mundane things of life. Doing so enriches every aspect of my life. Savoring is one of those things that is not necessary, but can be so beneficial. It's just a practice. When we savor we are actually practicing being aware, and being aware is so vital to our spiritual lives and to our wellbeing.

Read more here http://www.hintsofgladness.com/savour

How are floods and pandemics impacting your Real Estate needs? During this conversation, we talk with Real Estate expert Mike Wilson about flood insurance, how a lack of supply impacts the market, interest rates, and new Real Estate Rules on the horizon in BC, and how they could impact you if you are selling or buying a home.

This week on Hints of Gladness Rod invites you to practice detachment through mindfulness and letting go. This practice will help free you from obsessive thinking and identifying with your small self; at least temporarily!