Unsettling times unsettle us, making us edgy and irritable. And this global pandemic has unsettled us all at some level. When we’re feeling compassion for others who are less fortunate, let’s also have a little compassion for ourselves, our own foibles, our own roller coaster of emotions.

Lorianne Speaks is an expert in the area of Speaker/Author support, helping them amplify their visibility.

When her company was sold, Lorianne found herself laid off at 60 years of age - not the prime hiring age for Corporate America. Not ready for a rocking chair, Lorianne took a different path. Today she has a team of five who support Speaker/authors in various stages of their business growth. Though not her original plan, Lorianne has found an exciting path for her genius to thrive.

Are you ready for an adventure? Like it or not, the coronavirus and our efforts to contain its spread has brought us into uncharted territory. And, for the most part, we’re all doing our best to figure it out for ourselves - and as a whole. Could this be a Divine Reset for humanity? What can we do to ride the wave?

Best-selling author and life coach, Melissa Lyons, helps people find hope and healing after heartache. Using her own experiences, she connects with people in meaningful ways. Her personal journey inspired her ability to deal with traumatic breakdowns and facilitate breakthroughs. She leads people to rediscover their purpose, reminding them of their potential and possibility. Her heartwarming and profound books have helped thousands embrace fresh perspectives during times of struggle, grief or loss.

These times are particularly challenging as there’s so much uncertainty: What’s really going on? How long will it last? How will I/my family/my work be affected? Uncertainty breeds a sense of powerlessness and loss of control which stirs up fear and a whole range of other emotions.

The roller coaster of emotions is natural, but we don’t have to stay in the anxiety. Let’s talk hope instead. Make hope relevant.

It’s a paradox. Courage requires vulnerability (and vice versa). And in our culture, we still equate vulnerability with weakness, with being easy prey. No, thank you!

Most of us have tender hearts, at the core. But early wounding causes us to build walls and shells to protect ourselves from further hurt. It’s a brilliant strategy that works really well - until it doesn’t. Until having an impenetrable wall hurts the heart that wants and needs connection.

In this episode, Kamala shares about developing wholeheartedness - a soft heart with a strong back, or as she puts it...heart and chutzpah!

Our lives are filled with periods of trials and hardships. Some are relatively easy to bounce back out of. But some are meant to bring us to a deeper level - of our understanding, our compassion, or of our soul.

The process may turn our lives upside down, leaving us feeling lost and stranded, angry or confused - or all of the above. Recognizing the process as a deconstruction and rebuilding of a next, higher version of yourself can ease the discomfort - not remove it, but at least ease it.

For those who are about moving the mountains of their lives, these dark nights are to be expected periodically as the means of forming and then birthing the heroine (hero) designed for moving this particular mountain

The recent deaths of Kobe Bryant, his daughter, her friends and their families serve as a reminder of the preciousness of life - that tomorrow is guaranteed to no one.

This reminder is also a call to live life as fully as possible. Life is meant to be lived FLAMBÉ - feeling like a million bucks everyday - allowing the passion and life force within to guide the way.

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Quotables:

"When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love." ~ Marcus Aurelius "Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" ~ Mary Oliver "Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself." ~ Walter Anderson "Every moment of life is precious and can never happen again and therefore is a reason to appreciate, be grateful for and celebrate the fact that you are alive." ~ Zelig Pliskin

For many women, being raised to be ‘good girls’ created a prison they dared not try to escape. Breaking out, being wild and free, was dangerous. 

But, it turns out that stifling the wilder heart within can suffocate the soul - a perhaps more subtle, death of its own.

Kamala invites the listener to notice where good girl (or boy) shackles might still be in place - and to allow a little of the wilder nature within be expressed. Life is meant to be lived FLAMBÉ - feeling like a million bucks everyday.

“Within every woman there is a wild and natural creature, a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity and ageless knowing. Her name is Wild Woman, but she is an endangered species. Though the gifts of wildish nature come to us at birth, society’s attempt to ‘civilize’ us into rigid roles has plundered this treasure, and muffled deep, live-giving messages of our own souls. Without Wild Woman, we become overdomesticated, fearful, uncreative, trapped.” - Clarissa Pinkola Estes

One hundred years ago, the world entered an era known as the Roaring 20’s. The Roaring 20’s were marked by a sense of change, breaks with tradition, a letting loose - a new energy to life. Doesn’t it seem like we’re experiencing some of that today - even if we’re being riled up, it’s an energy that’s rising.

In this episode, Kamala brings through an activation for the accomplishment of our goals and dreams for this year, connecting with Divine Possibillity. She also invites taking a closer look at the “sludge” that might be impeding the flow of possibility - those thoughts, beliefs, and feelings that we may have just stepped over, but that wind up hindering our progress. Past disappointments, heartaches, and resentments that close our hearts ever so slightly, but add up to major blockage in the long run.