Transformed by Grief with Ellie Thomas

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Lots of grief reflections pouring in this season. After a potent Grief Flow in The Sanctuary last week, so many important reflections have been pouring through around: 

• Allowing yourself to meet your unique grief ripples
• Attuning to your body and emotions so you can release expectations and begin to show up as you are
• Working with discomfort, to tap into deeper emotions beyond it
• Summertime grief and how strange it can feel
• Ceasing your fight with where you are in your grief process

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My sister, Sylvia, interviews me on so many great topics in this one! We explore everything from how and why I started coaching, to what makes this work different from "normal" coaching, to how transformational work liberates energy. She also shares about her experiences with this approach to healing and many great reflections!

I have also been writing a lot about my journey from 2016 onward, you can read more here:
Read part 1 (2016-2020)
Read part 2 (2020-2021)
Ready Part 3 (2021-present)

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It's finally here! The long awaited and teased episode on my background. Plus, The Sanctuary membership is live too!

In this episode I go into depth on: 

• My early years
• My mom's early cancer diagnosis and how it impacted me
• The many survival and fear energies I lived with for years
• My relationship to my mom and the Cancer
• My ebbs and flow of holistic wellbeing over the years
• My unconventional career journey and how my sensitivities impacted it
• Beginning my business and why I left me nutrition career behind
• My journey with spirituality, growing up Jewish, being agnostic, and the moment I felt Divine presence enter my life

I have also been writing a lot about my journey from 2016 onward, you can read more here:
Read part 1 (2016-2020)
Read part 2 (2020-2021)
Ready Part 3 (2021-present)

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I've been reflecting on how everything EllieFlow, all of my work and offerings, is born from the viewpoint that simply by engaging with life, and with all that it is bringing to the surface for us (emotions, thoughts, resistance, energies of fear, scarcity, grief, joy, gratitude, and more...), we engage in the process of organic transformation.

What I teach and guide here, in client sessions, and my programs, and in the upcoming membership is all about connecting with what is here right now, in trust that it will open the next door on your path as you deepen into presence with it. 

This may entail opening to feel and process emotions that have been suppressed for years, or learning to sit with discomfort and uncertainty. It may entail engaging with anxiety, your mind and intellect, or returning to your body....there are hundreds of different ways this can look, but the core is the same: as you meet what's present for you now, the next piece of your journey will unfold and your transformation is underway. 

Let's explore more in the episode!

I also share about:

• How engaging with life as a portal for transformation changes over time
• How this pertains to grief and pain
• Examples from my own life

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Join The Mother's Day Grief Flow

Join me this Sunday for a special Mother's Day Grief Flow Ceremony. I created Grief Flows to be an intimate and sacred personal and community space to turn toward your grief with spaciousness and multi-dimensional support as you process and connect to the vibrancy of life, within and without.

This {Virtual} Grief Flow is for anyone experiencing grief or pain around their relationship to their mother or child, mother loss, being or becoming a mother, motherhood in general, or for anyone simply desiring a space to move with grief right now!

I invite you to join me and see what is ready to unfold for you.

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This episode is POWERFUL! Consider it your masterclass on resistance, and how to shift into current, present energy so you can engage with your life and flow. I discuss what resistance is, where it comes from and what the energy of it is. I also discusses the importance of acknowledging anger when working through resistance, rather than bypassing it, to achieve liberation and deeper self-connection.  I guide you through a process of softening towards resistance and embracing embodied acceptance, emphasizing the transformative power of engaging with the present moment and allowing the natural flow of emotions.

In this episode I teach on: 

• What the energy of resistance is
• The ways resistance shows up in our thoughts
• How resistance keeps us in our heads and disconnected from the present
• Which energetic approaches actually work to dissolve resistance, and which don't
• What might be underneath the resistance and how to work with it
• Why simply 'not thinking about it' doesn't offer us the relief that engaging resistance openly does
• What 'embodied acceptance' is, and how it's different from mental acceptance
• The energetic shift that is available to us when we learn to work with ourselves in this way

Reach out via instagram message or email to share your experience with this episode! I'd love to hear what resonated with you!

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Spring is here on the outside, but how are you feeling on the inside? Does your inner season line up with the outer season? Spring time is a dance of energies that move us forward, but that does happen without the surfacing of the fear, limiting beliefs, and limitations to be worked with and alchemized. In this episode, I explore the dueling, and non-linear energies of Emergence (the 3rd phase in the 5 Spheres of Transformation), offer wisdom, awareness and perspective shifts to support you in this season. We close with a meditation to help you ground into your inner season and receiving the important information that is here for you at this stage of your journey.

Listen to the 5 Spheres of Transformation episode here

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The idea of being fluid with grief has been on my mind and heart for the last week. Join me in an exploration of:

• What fluidity with grief is
• How to meet grief and allow grief to meet us with less rigidity
• The softness that fluidity invites us into and where that might be leading you
• The freedom available to us through this cultivation
• Allowing grief to look and be different in our lives in different moments and seasons.

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