Perhaps you’ve looked at your horoscope, had your tarot cards read, collected some crystals, seen a medium or maybe even heard the word chakra but you’ve thought: Is there more to all of this? Where do I go to learn about it?

The answer? Yvette LeFlore.

Yvette is giving away free DIY Chakra Support eBook

Wherever you are in the grief process, Valentine's Day can be a difficult holiday. The world is focusing on love and affection and romance and we may not be feeling it - and that's OKAY! The biggest lesson I've learned is to not compare. It is one of the biggest enemy.

I'm talking this week about the importance of self love. I would like to see us all turn the day into a day of celebration of ourselves. Loving ourselves with grace, compassion, generosity, honesty, and gratitude. Let's turn it inward and put ourselves first.

Meet Kelly Daugherty, an expert in grief counseling and the founder and owner of the Center for Informed Grief, LLC, located in Malta, NY. Kelly's passion for helping individuals navigate their grief journey stemmed from her own experience as a grieving teenager when her mother died from breast cancer. Kelly found comfort in a Hospice grief support group, which led her to volunteer with the Hospice Children's Bereavement program and paved the way for her career in grief and loss. Kelly finds meaning in her grief every day by helping individuals navigate their grief and by helping teachers and counselors be more grief informed.

With over 20 years of experience in clinical settings, Kelly has helped clients and students with grief, loss, and trauma using innovative and evidence-based interventions. Her expertise has made her a go-to person for schools, providing school-based grief groups, crisis response following the death of students, training courses for school personnel and students, and developing a comprehensive School-Based Mental Health Program in collaboration with one of the largest school districts in the NY Capital Region.

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I'm ready for Spring. I'm ready to sit on my porch and enjoy watching the world wake up from its winter sleep. There is something to be said for the winter and for the hibernating that the world does.

PLUS I'll tell you how to get an advanced copy of my new book!

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We just finished celebrating so much over the last few months. Often, when we talk about grief and loss, we get depressed and sad and don’t find ways to celebrate. Today, my guest, Empress Ladan, is here to talk about celebrations of life-cycle events.

I had a great time being a guest on Elevate Summit with Linda Joy. I hope you take the time to tune in!

REFLECTIONS AND ENDINGSI don't make resolutions but I do always come up with my word for the year.

What do you do?

I think my word for 2024 will be CREATIVITY and I'd like to tell you a story about why...

Kelly Lutman is a Certified Health Coach and bestselling author who uses Functional Medicine principles to help her clients put their chronic disease into remission without the use of drugs. It’s all about YOU and reclaiming your life!

From Kelly's website:

I have been practicing as an Integrative Nutrition Health Coach for 10 years, and have incorporated Applied Functional Medicine for the past 6 years. What drew me to Functional Medicine was the focus on seeking out the root cause of a person’s symptoms and challenges. Traditional medicine responds to symptoms with medications which usually shut down the physiology causing the symptom, but doesn’t address the root problem. This can be a bit like seeing the brake warning light come on in your car and cutting the wire to turn off the light rather than checking the brakes. It can make you comfortable now, but there will likely be consequences in the long term.

What really cemented my interest in nutrition was seeing its effect in my own family. I am the mother of three sons, and I homeschooled them through high school graduation. Every homeschool family experiences ups and downs from day to day – ask any parent who is with their children 24/7 and add in academic studies – but I had some particular challenges with one of my sons. He was very smart, but easily distracted. Staying on task was a significant challenge.

I was recently a guest on "Healing With Yvette" where we discussed grief and its lessons.

I wanted to share the interview with you!

SPOILER ALERT: there's singing in this episode AND a way to get free coaching sessions!

It's hard to go anywhere without hearing music. Is this time of year full of cheerful, joyful songs for you or is it a time of darkness and sadness?

In both cases, the songs are beautiful but are they what you're feeling? Some days I don't want to get out of bed and other days I jump out of bed and can't wait to be around others.

Whatever you're feeling is OK. Let's talk about both!