Sam Bailey is a successful Sydney based health journalist and yoga teacher who brings her whole heart to everything she does. Sam is master in taking leaps of faith and trusting herself and as we chat today, she is taking her third leap of faith and perhaps the biggest pivot of all... as she begins studying social work with plans to specialise in men's mental health counselling, after her men's yoga class 'Broga,' sparked a whole new sense of joy, meaning and as she puts it - 'dharma' (path or purpose)!

In this episode, Sam and I chat about her journey of taking leaps of faith, trusting herself and the timing of her life! Sam calls her twenties the self work years, as she nativates being independent for the first time, managing the adult things, whilst still trying to have fun and experience the carefree twenties! We talk about letting go of certain timelines of things we want to happen in our twenties! And how to stay committed when some of our twentysomething goals don't come to fruition in our twenties. The importance of not ignoring the niggles in your body! As she truly believes our bodies have all the wisdom you need to live your best life! We also touch on how to come back from setbacks and job losses and not being ruled by anyone else, which comes with a deep level of acceptance for yourself and those around. And really soooo much more! So let's dive in!

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In today's episode of Soulful Chats we are shifting gears! After reflecting on my clients journeys and my own path, I realised there was a theme of a woman experiencing a mid twenties crisis! A crisis of feeling like nothing is really wrong, but nothing feels right either. It's like there is all this pressure as we hit our twenties to figure out our lives and to have everything together by the time we are thirty!

I personally want to throw this belief out the door (cause I now know, it's not true) and begin having conversations about our twenties. I truly believe our twenties are a time of discovering who we are, building a solid foundation of who we are and as we do, everything we desire will happen because it's simply an extension of who we are!

What better way to do this, than having conversations with women who have pivoted in their twenties and who are now in their thirties and beyond!

The first guest on Soulful Chats to have this conversation is Grace Cotton. Grace is an ex-lawyer turned nutrition student, mother and wife, who has recently launched her own healthy breakfast business, Active Oats. Grace is passionate about health and wellness, and passionate about helping others start the day the right way with a nourishing breakfast. Grace also took a mega career pivot in her twenties which is why I wanted to get her on the podcast.

In this episode we chat about what led her to make her pivot, how she listened to her intuition, as well as reflect on her twenties, the expectations she had going into her twenties and the wisdom she now has looking back. Grace clearly lives with no regrets and I cannot wait for you to dive deep into this episode with us!

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We all have unique ways of handling our emotions, yet so often I see women stuck in their emotions, suppressing their emotions and unable to process their feelings, leading them to feel stuck and blocked. This happens because emotions are energy in motion and if we are unable to move this energy, we will remain stagnant and stuck, only attracting more of this lower vibrational emotion. As the emotions we feel become the energy we emit. Meaning our emotions will attract more of that type of emotion and energy.

In today's episode of Soulful Chats, I share with you how to identify your emotions using the Emotional Guidance Scale, how to handle your emotions, understanding the stories behind your emotions and the meanings you may be creating about your emotions. Plus share with you many tips and practices to release and shift your emotions so you can get back to feeling a higher vibrational emotion, like joy in your life!

We do not have to be at the mercy of our emotions. We just have to know how to handle them, so we can return to feeling good and as a result of feeling good, we attract more of what we desire in our life. Let's do this!

Have you ever found yourself saying "I don't know what I need?" I don't know how I am feeling?" In today's episode of Soulful Chat's we continue our conversation in learning how to trust ourselves, by learning how to tune into our needs and our bodies. At any one point in our lives, information is being shared with us and is our job to tune in, hear it and honour it! And when we do, we feel confident in ourselves, in what we need and what we want.

I share with you several ways to tune into your unmet needs and understand what these needs are actually sharing with you and how you can take responsibility for your needs. As well as the signs your body is sharing with you. You know that little niggle that you have been ignoring, well its trying to tell you something.

I take you through an Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) to support you in getting back in touch with your physical body. SO if your feeling disconnect, numb or struggling with physical pain this practice is a great way to begin hearing what your body is trying to tell you.

Do you feel like you're always in your head making life decisions and then doubting them weeks later? Do you long to trust yourself? In this episode, I share with you just how you can connect with your inner voice (your inner gal) for guidance on how to live your life through your heart and not your head. I share with you ways to identify when you are living from a place of your inner critic vs. living from your intuition and how to create a life that's truly aligned with who you are and what you (and your inner gal) want! Make sure you listen to the end of this episode as I share with you how my inner gal led me to meet my love!

Happy New year! The new year has begun and one of my favourite times of the year is here. Intention setting! Yet after the year we had last year, this year's intention setting practice needed to be a little bit different. So in today's episode of Soulful Chat's, I chat with you about calling in the new year, how to set your intentions with clarity and ease and the importance of taking time to BE before you set your intentions. I share with you my own practice of setting intentions and share some of my intentions for this year, how you can implement these practices in your own life and offer you specific ways to support you in getting clear on your direction for the year ahead, so you can create the year you dream of.

As we begin to close out the year, many of us are moving through mixed emotions. Some of us are wanting to make the most of every opportunity, given so much of our time feels like it has been taken from us and some of us are feeling the call to slow down. In this episode of Soulful Chats I share with you how you can surrender to what is calling you right now? To really give yourself permission to honour what you need now!

I also share the final ways we can work together this year, my own big transition and why I am choosing to slow down over the summer months. So grab your journal and pen because there are a heap of questions and journaling prompts to support you in completing this year your way!

Today's episode of Soulful Chats is about our Perfection. Do you feel the need to look perfect all the time? Perfect job? Perfect body? Perfect relationship? In this episode, we dive into what is perfectionism, how it's actually stopping and limiting your growth and how it's blocking your creativity and in turn likely to be the one thing that's stopping you from living a life that's authentic to you! I share with you how this has showed up in my own life, through a recent project and offer you 4 pivotal questions (and journaling prompts) to support you identifying where perfectionism is showing up in your life and how to embrace your imperfect (and authentic) self!

Today's episode of Soulful Chats is part two of our Friendships conversation. Thankyou to you beautiful listeners who wrote in and shared how much you loved the last episode. This episode has been created for you, to continue to support you in deepening your friendships. In this episode I share with you how to check in with a friendship for those friendships that you are unsure about, how to ask for feedback in a friendship so you can gather information about how you are showing up as a friend AND how to accept all types of friendships!

Today's episode of Soulful Chats is about our Friendships. It's a conversation topic that pops up alot in my 1:1 session and yet something that isn't spoken about that much. This episode is for those of you who want to deepen your friendships, understand why you might be feeling flat in some of your friendships and create epic and lasting friendships! I offer you 3 helpful ways to take stock of the friendships in your life, so be sure to have your journal and pen ready, there is lots to take away from today's episode!