Renee Rafferty, MS, LPC is the Director of Behavioral Health Services in Anchorage Alaska for Providence Health & Services.  Renee has been in the behavioral health field for 27 years.  She is committed to helping leaders grow and has provided coaching and training for leaders over the past 5 years. She has lead trainings on stress management, emotional intelligence, and team development.   

In her leadership roles at Providence, Renee has designed processes and programs to address mindfulness, wellness, and resiliency for leaders and teams. In her clinical work, she has specialized in treating mood disorders, eating disorders, family conflict, and complex trauma.  She has led and developed the crisis debriefing team for Providence Alaska, ensuring resiliency and healing for professionals. 

In this episode, Renee and Katherine discuss deep topics like body love, self love, self esteem and learning how to follow your bliss. 

Episode Notes: https://www.katherinephifer.com/blog/body-love-self-love-and-following-your-bliss-with-renee-rafferty

In today’s episode of The Happy Love Project, we have the treat of listening to an interview with Erika Young, a Pre and Post Natal Fitness Specialist.  In her work as a personal trainer, Erika helps women maintain and regain strength at all stages of motherhood.  Erika has fabulous insights on pelvic floor healing, yoni eggs, sex and body image while making huge lifestyle changes.  Prior to her work as a trainer, Erika taught middle and high school English. Her athletic background includes track and field, speed skating, triathlon and roller derby.  

Today Katherine riffs on how to let go of all the things that aren’t serving you.  Whether it's saying goodbye to habits or setting boundaries with people, Katherine has you covered on how to let go of the things that are getting in the way of your high vibe so that you can attract the relationships and love that you really want. 

Sometimes we get into huge, unpleasant funks. They come on and plague us with lots of information about what we are doing in our lives.  In today’s episode, Katherine lets you in on the 10 most effective and practical ways to get out of a funk. 

Jolinda Johnson is a Fertility Coach who takes the struggle out of trying to conceive.  She helps women who want to become mothers turn their longing into positive action so they have the best chance at getting pregnant and creating the family of their dreams.  

In today’s episode, Katherine chats with Jolinda about all of the ways a person can get really clear on their self love in order to live the life of their dreams.

For many people, their intuition lies in their stomach.  That’s why the phrase “trust your gut” is so powerful.  Your stomach is your second brain and computes your emotions on a much more basic level.   What that means is your brain (which has all those thoughts, and can try to discern things from a practical state and get in the way) can’t get in the way of what your primitive second brain says. In today’s episode, we get clear on how to start trusting our intuition.  

Who here has a complicated relationship about money?   Until recently I sure did!  We need money to live and to survive.  But, we also have behaviors around money.  How we manage our relationship with money is important to everything we do, but especially in love partnerships. 

When it comes to relationships, knowing how you both operate around money is helpful when it comes to partnering together around bills and other expenses. When you are looking for that next love, knowing how you operate is powerful when you start to date someone new.  And, if you are currently in a relationship, it is so helpful to understand how both of your behaviors around money impact your life. 

In this episode, we get clear on how you can get clear on your relationship with money,  understand your mindset around money and set financial goals.  

It took me such a long time to understand and recognize my scarcity mindset.  Here's something I used to say when it came to men: "There are not enough fish in the sea."  

A scarcity mindset is all about not enough.  There isn't enough to go around and we have to hold on tightly to what we have.  We are going to run out.  We have to compete to get it because there's only one and five other people want it.  Things are scarce. 

This way of thinking can keep us small, clench-y and competitive.  It can also keep us from finding and cultivating happy love.   In today’s episode we chat about the difference between a scarcity mindset and an abundant one, and five easy ways to shift to an abundant mindset quickly.

So many of my clients have issues with their physical health.  From stomach issues, to general malaise to autoimmune disorders.  Health issues like these are on the rise.  And while I am not a doctor or health coach, I have been through quite a journey over the past few year in trying to understand my own autoimmune condition.  

When I was starting out with healing my own autoimmune conditions, there wasn't much information out there on what to try.  In this episode, I am sharing with you some different diets that you can try to systematically change how you body responds to issues. 

Sleep and love are two topics that correlate.  Did you know that 50 to 70 million people report sleep issues?  And that’s in the United States alone!  It makes sense really.  In today's culture where everything is accessible 24 hours and many people are waking earlier and earlier or staying up later and later to get things done, our sleep is impacted.  

Think about it, when was the last time you had a fabulous night's sleep?  When was the last time you woke up feeling refreshed, lighter and brighter?  It could have been yesterday or it could have been last year.  Either way, good sleep is important to have!

In this episode, I share with you five ways you can get better sleep.  And to top it off, I also share five reason why sleep is important to your love life.