Messy Progress with Adrienne Smith

Do you ever feel like you are waiting to be fired so you can finally start pursing that quiet passion of yours?  

Yeah, me too...!  Too many times.  This is my story of how I stopped feeling drained and hopeless and started to live life on my own terms. 

We often think we have to do something to get something when in fact, nothing can be farther from the truth.  Every time you take a breath, you get it without doing anything before hand.  Wow!  We are a greedy bunch!  

So, take a moment to let yourself receive...

And then, conversely, let go.  

Each time you inhale, allow yourself to receive the air you breathe in.  Each time you exhale, allow yourself to let go, surrender and find more ease.  

Feeling like you need to DO SOMETHING right now?  Start a new habit, rhythm or get into a structure that supports you FEELING BETTER?  

Then this is it.  Join us in person or virtually.  To sign up anytime, head to my yoga studio website and join us.  Your life is waiting for you to fully live it and I'd love to support you.  https://www.powerofyourom.com/40dayrevival

CAUTION:  THIS PROGRAM IS KNOWN TO CAUSE THESE EFFECTS:

• Identify what may be keeping you stuck
• Accept what you cannot control
• Change old habits and create new ones
• Teach you how to be “at cause” with your life instead of at the “effect of” it
• Create a shift into a new way of living, being and breathing
• Remove self doubt
• Inspire your motivation for life
• Awaken the strong, powerful being that has always been within you
• Transform your body, your mind, and your spirit
• Improve your strength, flexibility and longevity!

If you are joining virtually, pay only for the cost of the program and get access to our virtual library of yoga classes, meditations and recorded meetings to stay in the process with us.  

Meditation can seem scary... but trust me, it's not.  It does take some getting used to, especially if you live in the world of GO-GO-GO, DO-DO-DO!  

Give this 5 minutes a try.  Then come back tomorrow, and try the next one.  

Have you ever taken a picture of toilet paper sitting on the stairs, sent it to your friends with the caption of "when is HE going to get a clue?" 

Yeah, women take on a huge amount of invisible labor - from

1) concept: we only have 1 roll of TP left, mental note made, put it on the list to get at the store. 

2) planning: look at schedule.  Wow, I have 60 minutes free between 1-2pm, kids are at camp, I don't have a meeting, guess that's a good time.  

3) execution: go to the store driving 90 mph between meetings and pick up everything - make sure not to forget the blueberries. 

Toilet paper is taking up a lot of mental space just being needed in our house - getting it to show up on the roll when we need it is just part of the puzzle.  All of that time and energy is then not spent on us day-dreaming or exploring what we could be doing that will light up our soul.  

And now the more you think about the toilet paper, the closer you are ready to get divorced...when it's really not about toilet paper, summer camps or the never ending list of things that need to get done in the home.  It's really that YOU WANT MORE TIME to explore what lit you up pre-kids. 

Instead of hoping for your relationship to change by leaving passive-aggressive clues OR putting off what lights you up, get in the driver seat and start to change it.  The way to do it is to start asking for what you need.  

Now think even bigger... Do we want our patriarchal system to change?  Hell YES!  In this conversation, New York Times Best Selling Author, Eve Rodsky shares about how the first place to set this into motion is in the home.   

Check out everything Eve is up to here.  Buy her book .  Follow her 

As we evolve as a society, we've gotten really good at fixing everyone's problems with solutions that are nothing more than just band-aids, therefore, leaving many people with pain, anxiety and complex issues that just resurface.  What if we looked at the root cause?  What if we started to ask each person individually about what they deal with each day?  What if we asked ourselves these questions instead of looking up symptoms on google?  We are all unique.  Period.  If we want to heal ourselves, feel better as a society, there is no one quick fix.  In this conversation with Chris Latham, a Functional Nutritionist out of Heal Well Nutrition in Santa Barbara, CA we share a dynamic discussion around getting to the root cause, treating each person as a unique individual that can be healed with the right questions and therefore a plan of attack fit just them.  For YOU!  This conversation is just the tip of the iceberg of information and knowledge that will help you make more informed choices so that you can feel better and live a vitality-filled life!  

Learn more about Chris here

Being in the work of personal development takes practice.  

That moment it starts is a call for us to wake up everywhere in our life.  It doesn’t just happen like that.  And if it does, it’s usually short lived.  It’s a process and a practice of peeling back the layers of ourselves.  We begin to expose our blindspots - it can happen publicly or privately.  But when you say yes to personal development, it will be revealed.  The work doesn’t end there.   We keep living and facing the world while also having a level of awareness that allows us to separate how we used to live from how we want to live.  Patty Ivey shares her heartfelt wisdom in our conversation.  Patty’s openness and relatability is a breath of fresh air and her love for personal development is felt through the sound waves of this conversation.  

Patty Ivey is the founder of DownDog Yoga in Washington D.C.  Above all things, Patty is honest and a woman of integrity.  She is a generous listener, empath, leader and a stand for everyone that wants to personally develop.  I’m grateful and honored to call her my friend.  She has an incredible Leadership program beginning March 6th for yoga teachers.  She shares about it in our conversation and you can find out more by following her on instagram at @sweetensweaty 

Have you heard the saying that when you say no to something it creates space to say yes to something else?  Or taken in reverse, when you say yes to one thing, you are indeed saying no to something else.  In any given day, we do this 1,000s of times. In this episode I explore examples of how saying no to some daily tasks can open up the time we need to get going with that....you know, workout we said we wanted to do yesterday.  I'll also give you a really simple exercise to use to make resources available for all the things you want to say yes to.  Show notes available here

Moving into Action for long term results takes some advance planning - starting with being where we are, then seeing where we want to go, we can move into action with more commitment, enthusiasm and gusto.  In this episode, I'll take you through an exercise to move important goals from a concept in your mind, into action that lives and lights up your life.