The Forward Movement Podcast

Know Thyself

Trigger Warning: In this episode we briefly talk about the cruelty and death that is taking place through genocides and war crime. The perspective shared here is simply one view, of many, that leans towards the belief that we individually have the power to create heaven on earth. May you receive all that feels good and may you let go of anything that doesn't align with your own belief systems. May this episode support the highest good of humanity across all space and time. And so it is.

In this week’s episode we meet with Colleen Lindstrom, an intelligently wise doctor who is currently reminding the collective that, YOU are the one you’ve been waiting for.

From Doctor of Chiropractic to Doctor of Divinity, here she comes! Colleen believes that we’re more than just our physical body and we can heal from anything.

Some golden nuggets from Colleen during this conversation:

“Forward movement for me is a spark inside that keeps me moving.”

“It’s always been me, it’s always been me choosing to educate and gain more wisdom and knowledge from what I already know or what I am hungry or seeking for.”

“Allowing for the heart to rise and speak and give the vision to the mind.”

“All of us came from Heaven. All of us came from, we all have the same, it’s just how many veils or traumas or untruths are we giving our power away to?”

“In the work that I do, first it’s the goal of the other…then my goal is to help them know to themselves. Know thyself, heal thyself, know thy energy, um know thy higher self be connected to that voice.”

“We all add like a symphony to the one song and when we are singing our song by showing up as the “I am” and authentically expressing we’re adding to the one song and that creates that God is good, it creates the harmony, it creates the truth, and the miracles, and the shift in consciousness.”

“The pulse of the higher self it, it has a boundary, and it’s usually more strong and solid.”

“My dream is to have healing hospitals and haven schools and these are places where individuals are healing through ancient and new medicine, energy medicine, detoxing…”

“We need the duality, we need the, it felt so good to be in the body and like working on the pain, like you can’t feel that if you don’t have the pain, you don’t feel the good.”

“How important it is to know thyself, and know thy energy, and have boundaries, and listen to that inspired action.”

Book Colleen referenced: The Power of Your Subconscious Mind by Joseph Murphy

To be in community with Colleen and receive from her, head to Colleen’s IG: @colleenlindstromdc or head over to www.drcolleenlindstrom.com

Colleen’s signature program “Heal Your Energy, Heal Your Life” is now available!

To continue the conversation of what Forward Movement means to you, direct message me, Renée Jeanne Lemieux, on Instagram @iamreneelemieux

We are moving forward together, through the act of individual curiosity 🫶🏼

With Love,

Renée Jeanne Lemieux

The Roots of Humanity 

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With a heart full of gratitude I am deeply honored to welcome Riona to the room today. Riona identifies as a queer woman, a medicine woman, a healer, a spiritual teacher, an artist, and so much more. Her life’s focus is to foster space for medicine and magic, while she enters this new chapter of joining in union with play.

Riona focuses on the depths of the shadows within her and others. She perceives her life as a series of medicine, healing, and growth opportunities that she gets to play with. Riona riffs on the expression of Queer Joy and how we all have access to experiencing the feelings of Queer Joy, regardless of how they identify.

Here are a few life changing statements from Riona during our conversation:

“Forward momentum, forward movement really for me is so anchored within my spirituality, my spiritual practice, my spiritual teachings…”

“How can I just be more of a light for the world and it is just it’s my North Star for sure, and just has me keep going in that forward movement um even why times are HARD and challenging....”

“When you suppress something so big within your identity for so long there’s so much grief that comes up, there’s so much heartache that comes up, there’s also so much joy and liberation that also comes up…”

“Within our human experience we are tasked to deeply feel, if we choose to, to deeply feel what’s within us.”

“There’s a big shift that’s happening … this really is the most potent modality of healing, is to go into the thing directly and hold space for it, not just try to put a bandaid over it or wave a magic wand over it and hope it goes away.”

“To have our own inner world, where we are just really getting to know it, and it’s expansive nature and the depths of it.”

“To be a human being and to be one who’s deeply spiritual, it asks you to be in the human realm. And in the human realm there’s a lot of shit that happens.”

“How am I leading in this world that ultimately creates more light, but what are the shadows that I have to sit with in order for me to create more light?”

“I will forever be a student of this, of understanding my humanity.”

“How are you leading for all of humanity?”

“Allowing the body to be a very sacred vessel. So this is creating a relationship with your body where you feel yourself.”

“To me the body is the bridge that allows us to explore the shadows, and not be in the downward spiral, and also allows us to ascend upwards and play up there for a little bit and then come back down.”

Head over to Riona’s Instagram page to receive nurturing loving guidance within the realms of shadows of yourself and the expansiveness of the Akashic Records.

Riona's IG: @rionarising

Riona's Offering for our community: Free Monthly Akashic Record Readings through her email list | https://little-bonus-57647.myflodesk.com/qhgozyztys

We are moving forward together, through the act of individual curiosity 🫶🏼

With Love,

Renée Jeanne Lemieux

Experimenting with Life with guest Charmaine

I'm beyond excited to introduce everyone, whether you’ve connected with her or not, to Charmaine. This being, one who embraces her multi-dimensional essence as a nurse, woman, mother, wife, daughter, creative, coach, Akashic Records Reader, Reiki Guide, tour guide, and so much more, truly lives life through the lens of playing with the day to day. 

Charmaine focuses on feeling it all, while curiously witnessing and observing her own perspective of reality. 

In today’s conversation we dip into the world of the Void and life experiences through the lens of experimenting the ever evolving experiences in life.

Here are a few life changing statements from Charmaine during our conversation:

“Can I be comfortable, can I feel at home in my body? Regardless of where I’m at, regardless of my environment, and regardless of my feelings can I sit with myself, can I be with myself“.

“Life is always giving us feedback whether it’s in our body, pain points, pain, tension in our body. Systems that we feel, that is all information. Information we can always do something with, right. It’s data points, it’s a ll data. What we choose to do with the data is completely up to us. We can either use the data to reinforce a belief, right, we can so oh oh, that’s just always what it’s going to be … or you can use it as a data point to shift a variable.”

“I like to see life as an experiment.”

“A lot of times the big things we do can be such like a huge shock on our nervous system that it’s not sustainable, so even the little things do count.”

“I was looking for old ways to feel better again. Ah my weight over my lifetime has gone up and down, so there was a period of time when I was really energized, I was working out, and ya know I just felt good, I lost weight …”

“Even though I was skeptical of everything she told me, that Reiki component, like ooo, it kind of sent me on down the rabbit hole...it gave me permission to explore my curiosity.”

“It’s not my job to heal other people. It’s my job to hold the space for them to heal themselves.”

“I trust that whatever it is that I am doing right now, whatever it is that I’m shifting right now will eventually show up.”

Head over to Charmaine’s Instagram page to witness, engage in, and be part of her experience of experimenting with life!

We are moving  forward together, through the act of individual curiosity 🫶🏼

With Love,

Renée Jeanne Lemieux

With so much excitement, I am deeply excited to introduce you all to a powerfully playful and artistic soul, Crystal McIntyre.

Crystal is an illustrator and Human Design Expert. Crystal focuses on helping people gain more confidence and self trust through the lens of Human Design and illustration. 

In today’s conversation we dip into the world of Human Design through the lens of personal experiences and curiosity. 

Some golden nuggets from Crystal during our conversation are:

“….Indecision is kind of the worst place to be, because we more forward and we either learn or and we’re growing, so you know we are either getting what we want or we’re learning along the way.”

“Spending money cause I think I’ll be better I’ll get, you know, than I’ll be better, than I’ll be enough. And those have been some very very powerful to learn.”

“The body has the answers, and so when we’re in the mind trying to make decisions, when we have that pros and cons list, and we’re trying to do the most logical thing, we’re often ignoring the truth that lives in the body.”

“I feel like we live in a world … and it creates this pressure and I think that we really need to slow that urgency down. Because I know for myself, when I have made decisions based on the pressure of time, it is often misaligned in some way. And so if I would have just given myself even an hour to sit with it, and feel into it, and drop into the body, I could have seen like, oh wait let me change let me see if I could change this one little thing…”

“The trust that that what is meant for us cannot miss us. We don’t need to rush anything, it’s not a race.”

“I’ve really been sitting with the belief that like our energy is our most precious resource and when we can learn how to protect it, by the decisions that we’re making, and seeing like who and what am I giving my energy away to? And is this urgency actually required?”

“So when we’re in a high, everything seems amazing and we want to stay up there, and when we’re in the low everything seems like it’s falling apart and we want to get out of there. But what if we just understood it is the rollercoaster and we’re there for the ride and that through it the whole point is that we know ourselves much, much deeper, through our emotions.”

“She’s raising her child as she’s designed to be and not as she sees other kids or is like, this is how I want you to be…”

“I truly believe Human Design is here for the next generation. It is here so that we can understand who these little beings are from the moment they enter the world.”

You can soak in more of Crystal’s wisdom, guidance, and artistically playful guidance by connecting with him via:

Instagram: @crystalmcintyre

May you move forward with the embracing of all who you are dear ones🫶🏼

With Love,

Renée Jeanne Lemieux

Colin Crawford Guest Speaker | From Seed to Harvest

With a heart full of gratitude, I am deeply excited to introduce you all to a dear friend and brother, Colin Crawford.

Colin is here to embrace experiences in his life that fuel his passions. A writer, climber, father, and so much more, Colin elevates the conversation of how we are all connected and how we aren’t really separated from one another.

In today’s conversation we explore the inner workings of ego traps, embodied self, synergetic, and so much more.

Some golden nuggets from Colin during our conversation are:

“If I had made a decision differently or stalled out at this moment in my life, like I could have very easily been you know in a vastly different reality right now.”

“I don’t want potential, right I like I want actualized embodied self. Potential is waisted energy.”

“As a father, almost it’s not a new chapter or a new section, it’s a whole new book.”

“This dissolving of separateness. And in a certain way it’s not a book about me … it’s a book about everyone. And how we’re all adopted, we’re all separated from our mother at a young age … we all have, in this separateness, an opportunity to come back and to reconnect to our native mother, like our real mother, like to come back to creator, to earth.”

“Nurturing the sprouted seeds of the world that will be.”

“A bad system would be anything that is arranged in a way were the net value of the pieces of the system are worth less ... a lot of the ways that we arrange our governing bodies and like the power structures in our society are bad systems, like they are synergetically poor. ”

“Having the ability to even acknowledge that hey this story that I was told, like, I don’t have to believe it, right like, even if I do believe it I don’t have to let it dictate me life.”

“Anything done well is an art. You can be an artist is any field. And and it’s just somebody who does what they do in a really elegant way. So just like bringing more art to like everything.”

“You can’t pull fruit off of a tiny little sprout, you have to let it find its time.”

“Don’t be beating yourself up about not being productive every minute of the day.”

“Being disciplined with your artistry is really important. Like, to just, keep yourself able to express authentically and and kill that comparison thing.”

“A lot of times the busy work that we think is, I think I’m being so productive right now…, what if that isn’t getting you to where you wanna go or where you need to or where you’re destined to go.”

You can soak in more of Colin’s wisdom, guidance, and action oriented energy by connecting with him via:

Instagram: @alchemic.illuminations

May you move forward with the embracing of all who you are dear ones🫶🏼

With Love,

Renée Jeanne Lemieux

TRIGGER WARNING: In this episode we briefly talk about death and suicide. May you connect with your intuition on whether this conversation is here for you to be received or not. 

With a heart full of gratitude, we are over the moon excited to welcome our first guest to The Forward Movement Podcast, Lexy Davis. 

Lexy is the host of the Heart Snuggles Podcast, a Relationship and Dating Coach, a Love Embodiment Coach, and a soul who loves to travel, play outside, and connect with community. 

Lexy is here to help romantics find a love that feels like home, while hosting retreats, podcasts, and community events that don't involve alcohol, religion, or sports.

In today’s conversation we explore the inner workings of healthy relations, in addition to the power of communication.

Some golden nuggets from Lexy during our conversation are:

“Be the change of your generation and take that action”

“I myself have been moving through a lot of grief, I find a lot of people around me are moving through grief in some sort of way, or things are just not going as planned and when that happens it can be so easy to just let go of everything, say f* it, give up. And instead, I know I’m struggling, I know this is hard, can I keep moving, and how can I lean on my support more.”

“We all share the same emotions. And when you fall, to not be on the ground by yourself, but to have twenty people there with you is a whole different sensation.”

“It’s really just being open. You don’t have to like, let’s say, go to an ecstatic dance and do something wild if you’re not having the energy for that. But like, go outside, get a coffee, and make eye contact with people.”

“When you do react, and you blow up, and you yell … once you take a moment and it sinks in, even if it’s a week later, going back to that person and bringing in that vulnerability and saying, last week I really overreacted and it’s something I’ve been working on and I feel so much shame even sharing this with you right now, however I just wanna, like, I’m sorry.”

“I have experienced so much death in my life and it’s been a real teacher.”

“How does my nervous system, how does my body, feel amongst this person?”

“Love should feel like home, it should feel super nurturing, it should feel where you can be all of you and accepted.”

You can soak in more of Lexy’s wisdom, guidance, and heart snuggled love by connecting with her via:

Instagram: @alivetoenjoy | @heartsnuggles

Podcast: Heart Snuggles | found on all streaming platforms

Youtube: Heart Snuggles Podcast

May you move forward with your heart snuggled and your communication open dear ones🫶🏼

With Love,

Renée Jeanne Lemieux

In today's conversation we elevate the wisdom learned from two unofficial mentors of mine, Victoria Washington (The House of WE) and Keoni (Pohala Hawaiian Botanicals), in a discussion about contribution.

What are some key elements that feed into a person's contribution to the world? Today we dive into this question and discuss the balancing of life, movement, rest, and the beautiful contribution of it all.

Together we join to explore everything from consciousness to love, from education to wellness, and from play to being-ness. Together we are moving our capability of feeling and holding sensations, as Forward Movement is the name of life's game we are choosing to play. Welcome Dear Ones and thank you for being you!

Sacred Rage shows herself here with a possibly controversial and contemplative conversation. We begin to pull back one layer of the multi-layered peak into thoughts, feelings, and beliefs on the education system.

It's moments like now where we're able to drop into a deep contemplation regarding the future generations, the future of humanity.

Together we join to explore everything from consciousness to love, from education to wellness, and from play to being-ness. Together we are moving our capability of feeling and holding sensations, as Forward Movement is the name of life's game we are choosing to play. Welcome Dear Ones and thank you for being you!

What happens in the middle of discomfort and pleasure? Today we dive into the realities of the messy middle. Who says the destination is the goal?

What if the messy-ness of the middle has really been the destination all along?

Together we join to explore everything from consciousness to love, from education to wellness, and from play to being-ness.

Together we are moving our capability of feeling and holding sensations, as Forward Movement is the name of life's game we are choosing to play.

Welcome Dear Ones and thank you for being you!

Today's conversation lives within the land of emotional waves. May we honor the pleasure that breathes within all spectrums of emotions.

*Some of today's conversation has been birthed from the teachings and wisdom of Victoria Washington and The House of WE!

Together we join to explore everything from consciousness to love, from education to wellness, and from play to being-ness.

Together we are moving our capability of feeling and holding sensations, as Forward Movement is the name of life's game we are choosing to play.

Welcome Dear Ones and thank you for being you!