It’s week 6 of our exploration of the Life Balance Wheel, and this week is all about the relationship with oneself. Izzy will explore how close and aligned you feel with a deeper sense of who we are and how it is expressed in all the corners of our lives.

She'll ask some very important questions about the time and effort you have taken to grow intellectually, emotionally, and spiritually in your life and give you some ideas for ways you may want to continue on your journey of personal growth.

Welcome to week five as we work our way around the Life Balance Wheel, taking that inventory of your life. This week Izzy is going to help walk through a topic that can feel very vulnerable for some! We'll be exploring our love life – our significant other.

This week it's all bout significant others. How satisfied, on a scale of "0" or the least amount of satisfaction to "10" the most satisfaction.

In the episode, Izzy explains how you don't have to have a significant other in your life because some of us have one, and our level of satisfaction is like a 2, and sometimes we don't have one, and it feels more like an 8. What matters is overall, how satisfied you are with this aspect of your life? And if you aren't, are you willing to take steps to change it?

If you've been following along the past few weeks, you'll know this week we've made it halfway around the Life Balance Wheel Izzy has walked you through taking an inventory of your life. And this week and next, we are going to talk about your most important relationships.

We'll kick off the exploration of your relationships by first focusing on your friends and family. Why, because we can choose our friends but not our family!

Follow along as Izzy asks some thought-provoking questions to help you understand how satisfied you really are with your relationships.

Over the last couple of weeks, Izzy has begun to walk you through taking an inventory of your life using the Life Balance Wheel.

Today we will visit the third pie on your wheel, your health. Allow Izzy to ask various questions to help you get a perspective of your health and its elements. She'll have you break health down into three smaller pieces of pie. focusing on your satisfaction level for NUTRITION, EXERCISE, AND SLEEP. These represent the foundation of health, both mental and physical.

This week, Izzy is continuing to take an inventory of your life using the Life balance wheel by diving into a very important and complex area of life, the MONEY. It is complex because it's not just about the quantity of money coming into your life; we also need to consider one's ability to manage money and, most complicated of all, our relationship with money.

If you haven't yet printed out the Wheel of Life handout, you can do that on izzylenihan.com. Be sure to follow the instructions and check out week one's topic in this recent post.

Here we go! Over the next 8-weeks, Izzy will dive into your life and take an inventory of where you are. We are going to hover over your life as if in a helicopter and notice what the landscape looks like. We'll note the nice green lush areas as well as areas that look a little brown, parched, and ignored. 

You must first be right where your feet are today in order to move anywhere else.  

If you haven't yet, please print out the Life Balance Wheel here so you can join Izzy on this journey.

We will begin with your sense of purpose, which could also be defined as your career. But really purpose, in this respect, represents where you spend the majority of your day

Some call it the Great Exit, the Big Resign. Employers throughout the nation are struggling to fill positions to meet the demand of the customers and business operations. 

In this episode, Izzy explores how the complexities that this pandemic has caused have a lot to do with the current crisis in filling and maintaining staffing levels. Parents are exhausted with the unpredictability of childcare and safety concerns for themselves and family. 

For many, it may be the workload is more than one can handle, given the burdens of life. Some have expressed boredom or burnout. And, based on the floods of emails and calls that I have received, it seems many people are reassessing their priorities. 

According to Izzy, perhaps one of the greatest gifts of this pandemic is that we were all forced to stop and listen, be, and experience in ways we haven't, while there wasn't any other choice.

She offers a powerful practice she'll be leading starting in January to help you answer the nagging question of, now what?

Because sometimes it is helpful to know what we don't want in order to know what we do want.

In this episode, Izzy asks if you would attempt to write a book without an editor? Most people would probably say NO!  

Whether it's the first time writing a book or an experienced bestseller, an editor can help you refine what you want to say. They can save you from your worst writing weaknesses. They can help you distill your narrative, tighten your plot, and pace your story. 

So if you are serious about writing a successful book, investing in an editor can most certainly be the best support for achieving that goal. 

With this in mind, she explores how using an expert to unlock your greatest potential and maximize your efforts to achieve any goal or objective can make a HUGE impact on your life.

In this episode, Izzy explores the sacred practice of Deep Listening by asking, "When listening to others, are you really listening?" and questioning how well we listen to our own inner voices. Discussing her own experiences from her years of working at Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health and as a mother, she demonstrates just how powerful it is to truly begin to listen.

In this episode, Izzy offers a little wisdom as to why self-compassion can be our greatest ally when faced with life adversities or when support, motivation, and encouragement are needed. And she discusses how practicing self-compassion isn't always easy--breaking the habit of self-criticism is a hard habit to change especially when it’s been modeled and imposed by some of our closest relationships. She offers a short practice of self-compassion to get you started on your journey to more self-compassion and less self-criticism.