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My amazing guest, Sarah Jane Smith takes us into an aspect of embodiment that creates healing of the heart through the cultivation of trust towards the body. 

Our relationship with our bodies can be complex and nuanced as our minds create disconnect through traumas big and small. For many childless not by choice women, the relationship with the body suffers, especially when it seems to fails at creating  deeply desired motherhood. 

Listen as we discuss: 

• Our mutual mission of cultivating and uncovering joy in the childless life.
• Consciously and compassionately giving healing to the parts that suffered on this journey
• How the body can feel like the problem but is actually the way back to joy and confidence if we allow it 
• Recalibrating your senses through self- awareness and empowering your decision making process

In Sarah's words:

WHY I TEACH EMBODIMENT 

I teach to support other childless, not by choice, women on their path to recovery from the struggles of their infertility journey. These are potent practices of self-awareness that can increase confidence, ease anxiety, nurture self-compassion and uncover joy.

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https://thenestyogastudio.ck.page/8530ddd025

"I hear you, the holidays are hard for childless women. The feelings of loss loom large, part of you wants to skip the whole thing, and another part wants to celebrate. I get the paradox."

INTRODUCING ... RECLAIM THE HOLIDAYS:

A guide with 13 suggestions on how childless women can take care of themselves and create meaning during the holidays. Plus journaling prompts to help you create realistic goals and take manageable action steps towards reclaiming the holidays this year.

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Why is it so hard to get out of our heads? 
Why is dropping in to do breath work scary for some people?
"working on the problem" vs working on the problem.

Today's topic is EMBODIMENT.
First of all, what does the word embodiment mean?  We're going to go a little more than skin deep here. So hold onto your hat. We are talking quantum flips brain building, connecting with soul and forming good habits. We're going to talk body versus mine, dirty pain versus clean pain. 

Learn the 90 second rule. 
How you can power boost the help you get from your self help books. 

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"Don't wait until your kids are older to live your bucket list life, take them with you."
- Sarah Isely

Linda dishes with Sarah about the journey from adventurous world explorer, to traveling mother, to creatrix of bespoke travel experiences for family.

INSIDE THE EPISODE:

Are you a Charlotte? Or a Samantha? A Carrie or Miranda? Linda schools Sarah on important takeaways from Sex and the City. 

Join us for another MOTHER & OTHER conversation where we :

• share the wisdom
• share what we are learning on the journey
• look at dating pre-motherhood
• explore relationship with your partner post motherhood
• think about what creating legacy looks like
• discuss the transformation of identity through motherhood and otherhood
• We get into the beats of the life lived, vs the one not lived. 
• Land on creating value from within and becoming "real" through the ultimate teacher, LIFE. 

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This episode is for mothers, alterna-mothers, the motherhood curious, and anyone needing a booster shot to own their motherhood dreams.

Lori Wear is a friend, colleague, and sister in arms. She's a recovering fine jewelry maker, now a powerful coach. She's a builder of villages  and her leadership is characterized by curiosity, humor, peer support, and no bullshit. She is also a mother of two.
Speaking with Lori makes me feel like a facet of the same gemstone. I coach women on their motherhood possibilities and she powerfully shows up as one of the possible outcomes: creating motherhood on her own terms and without a partner.

Lori is an SMC -- SINGLE MOTHER BY CHOICE.

Remember that acronym.
As a curator and caretaker for this community Lori has some visions for creating easier passage on this voyage. 

Be ready to:

• Challenge the status quo and legitimize a modern version of family
• Laugh a LOT
• Get seduced by the pirate life
• Get spiritual about motherhood
• Get your beer/life/bio clock goggles blown off your face and into clear vision 
• Hear how a vulnerable story can blow you away with empowerment
• Hear what creating space for motherhood really entails
• Hear the word asshat as it relates to parenting.

Lori Wear is currently building her community and can be reached through https://www.facebook.com/groups/smclifestyleredefined

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Welcome to your giving fewer f*cks guided meditation. You're welcome.

Linda wants you to know:

You are a perfect being with a truth that no one can F*CK with.

Challenge yourself to accept the word fucks in this meditation. You know why you're here. Each time I say this word more of what does not serve you, will fall away. Feel the energy of giving fewer f*cks just by intending and declaring it.

Examples of some of the f*cks we wish we didn't give: Worrying about what other people think of us-- how we live, our choices, how we present, how we are aging, etc. Worrying about how people are perceiving us or things we said. Playing the people pleasing game when you really don't feel like it. Worrying about the judgment we feel from all different corners. The judgment we place on ourselves for not feeling like we're enough, or that we have enough.

Think: Who could you be, if you didn't care about all of these things that don't tell the story of who you truly are?

Do you know, you are not who you think you are, not the body you left behind. Nor the thinking mind that gets caged into giving too many f*cks and can't feel free. You are a perfect being with a truth that no one can F*CK with, and you don't have to give so many f*cks because what's in you is true. 

This energy is yours and it's fierce and beautiful.
So lean in, and remember your greatness. Remember who you are, because you are the one. The singular expression of a once in a lifetime consciousness. You are whole, you are strong. You are ready for anything, including this meditation.

Now inhale. We're gonna let that shit go... 

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What comes up when we say:
 "I want to give fewer f*cks about what the world thinks of me." 

For women in the Otherhood, the f*cks given can be felt in a lot of different ways. But what are those f*cks we give? Where are we allowing that energy to go? 

In this episode Linda teaches you how to give fewer f*cks in ladylike fashion: this work is not just for non-mothers. If you have any societal conditioning, people pleasing tendencies, or fear of coloring outside the lines, this episode is for you.

While we're at it, we will talk about how to double down on Unconditional Love by BEING Unconditional Love. Lean in. 

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Are you sick of the same old story you are telling yourself? 
Do you feel like your best was in the past or in an imagined future? 
Does your life soundtrack sound like a busted re-recorded bootleg album?

Our stories are in our past, we are in the present and the future is in our imagination.
What if we allowed our present self to rewrite the past to support our current desires and build our future?

As we compare the facts of our life to the stories we tell ourselves about it, we can identify the main themes, reveal the unresolved chapters, and assess how the current story is serving you now. 

The facts of our lives are few, but the stories are many: Learn  we can use this to our advantage. We can literally write a new story, and this rewrite tool  actually help us in our future life.

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Linda has a candid chat with her friend Nicole Briggs about circumstantial infertility. The circumstance here is the lack of a partner, but with her abundant resources, Nicole is ready to graduate from plant Mama to real life Mama and family unit. 

Listen in as we unpack Nicole's motherhood vision and gain some some wisdom from this Lady Like US. 

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Do you want what you want because YOU want it? Or was that desire implanted in you? 
Today we turn over this question and ponder what informs the complete life checklist. 

Who decides what a complete life looks like? If we don't answer, "I do" –who have we given the power to?  Your parents? The patriarchy?  Society at large? 
Is it inside of you or is it outside of you? What matters most is that you know it's there. 

Following this question through the wormhole of "Old Rules" and old programming, Linda shares the moment she realized that she wasn't marching to the beat of her own drum after all. 

Desires and goals are a beautiful thing, but if you aren't clear on your why, or your why is about fulfilling outside expectations, your energy gets tripped up  and creating results will be challenging. A goal like motherhood, is beautifully complex, so it makes sense to examine your why(s). We are going there!

Here's the thing: 
Insights can go poof in the night if you don't take action right away.  When you uncover some gnarly, stinky, old rule in your life, register that awareness, AND THEN TAKE ACTION! 
First: write a new rule. Nature abhors a vacuum. Then put that new rule into action-- the tiniest step to let you know what it's like to live in the new rule. THEN: get it grounded in you. Grid lines are pretty powerful. You're going to get right back on that track unless you bust a move. So find a buddy, get her in that sidecar with you and make a pact to expand and evolve. 

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How do we forgive? How do we fall back in love with ourselves? And what do Julie Forbes and Maria Shriver have in common? Listen, and find out.

Linda met Julie in a Facebook group called Childless Not By Choice. A vibrant community where the ache in your heart, triggers, or otherness can be expressed in the safest of ways.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/344118628954828

What they found out that had in common was a desire to see themselves as whole, regardless of past trauma specifically related to how they missed out on Motherhood. We all have a story, but you won't want to miss this one!

Julie tells her "It Happened to Me" story with grace and humor, and shares what tools helped her heal. Inside: How she tried to make it happen, how she made the bold moves to reinvent herself, how she recognized the healing she still needed, and how she found love again-- both with her fiancé and with her Little Sister.

Here's the Thing: As your Sisters in the Otherhood, we want you to know that healing is possible, suffering is optional, and finding joy in your life is always possible.