Transformed by Grief with Ellie Thomas

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A new season of EllieFlow and The Fountain is emerging! The same great offerings, but with more energy and power!

On this episode, Ellie shares the internal reorganization process she has been through in the last 7 weeks, and how these shifts have called her to focus on the foundational of belief systems that allow for flow and transformation. Ellie speaks to the intersection of our humanity and our divinity,  the beauty and energy alive in you, and the power of coming into conscious relationship with all parts of yourself and greater being. She explores the importance of moving with pain on the path of liberation, as well as releasing the need to force or push anything to happen. Lastly, she offers space for you to turn toward yourself and see what is here for you right now, and what foundations in your life need to be remembered, or rearranged. 

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In this episode I offer supportive teachings, reflections, and guided practice to support you in sitting with what is present and alive deep within in order to promote processing and restoration. This will also allow the experience to ground you into listening and moving from your greater being instead of purely from intellect (the mind). 

At the beginning I explore the questions: "What does it actually mean to sit with your sadness or pain?!" and then offer guidance (almost like a meditation), using the episode as a container to support you, to help you: 

• Slow down and ground your energy
• Connect with and explore safety
• Understand emotion from an energetic perspective  
• Become an neutral and curious observer
• Growing your capacity to feel
• Engage your body for gentle primal release
• Reap the rich benefits of the "after"

This is part one, I had a lot more to say to there is a part 2 coming in the next few days!

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I am so happy to be back with you! In this episode I share about the process of the last few months and reflections from a recent void space I dipped into. 
I also share:

•  Insights and wisdom for moving through this time of year, and opening to the transition that is upon us;
• Deepening into the call to connect with the soft hum of vitality that is available to us all amidst times of inner or outer winter;
• Tools for creating 'fluid structure' in seasons of transitions, so that we may be carried forward with gentle momentum instead of becoming weighed down by dullness or heaviness;
• That my pricing (is lower) and options for working with me have expanded- check them out here if you're interested in working together;
• I am hosting a Community Workshop on January 9th to support you in fully releasing 2023 and opening to the energy of 2024.

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Feeling drained and disconnected? I sure was last week! Join me in this episode as we explore the process of reconnecting to our greater beings amidst overwhelm and living within the current energetic atmosphere. In this episode I speak to the disconnection from Self that I'm sensing all around us as we navigate life right now, what this disconnection looks like and feels like in my life, how we avoid what we most need when we are drained, and how the highlighted uncertainty is bring up deep fears and calling us into more conscious connection. I also introduce the journey from doing to being, and speak to the tenants of flow, and how they relate. In the second half of the episode I lead a self-inquiry and reconnection practice to help you shift.

In this episode we'll explore: 

• Feeling full of energy that isn't authentic, and how it can stifle our energy and create disconnection
• The challenge of carving out space for connection when feeling drained or overwhelmed
• Doing vs. being and evolving from a focus on doing and perfectionism to being and presence
• Connecting your body and needs, and tuning into your pulse as a reminder of being alive
• Choosing to sit with and be with pain as a liberating experience
• Exploring the dance of uncertainty and examining fears, stories, and beliefs it highlights within oneself

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This is such a special episode and raw conversation on reclaiming our relationship to Self and Life after loss with my friend, Laura Thomas.

Laura and I met in college and then reconnected years later amidst our evolving grief journeys.  In this conversation (which we recorded in May 2023), we both reflect on grief and she shares her story of self discovery and self-love, catapulted by her brother's death to suicide in her early 20's.  Her story perfectly exemplifies what it means to say and live out, "I am willing, even though I am scared", and the wisdom she embodies through her 'born through grief' journey is deeply touching and encouraging.

Content Warning: Depression, Mental Break and Suicide

Laura Thomas is a writer, TEDx speaker, and the founder of Next Level Story, where she is a professional editor and ghostwriter. After graduating, Laura wrote, produced, and performed a one-women play about her brother’s loss to suicide, which she toured around the U.S., hosting discussions on grief and healing. Her first book, The Magic of Well-Being: A Modern Guide to Lasting Happiness, distills masterful advice for living a better life, and her upcoming memoir shares her evolving journey with loss. She works with aspiring authors to overcome internal barriers and experience the power of telling their story.

You can connect with Laura on Instagram here.

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In this episode I am sharing the energy of the 'Born Through Grief Journey'. I speak to the origins of the phrase, what it means in our lives, the initiation that it entails, and its undeniable power in our lives when we say "Yes, I am afraid but willing" to grief and loss portals and initiations. 

I specifically cover: 

• An introduction to the concept of "born through grief"
• Personal experiences and insights related to the transformative journey of grief
• The choiceless choice of surrendering to the pain of loss
• The atomic bomb analogy for loss and the disruption and transformation it brings
• Navigating through the ripples and waves of grief
• Each ripple as an opportunity for growth and embracing the new version of oneself
• The unique nature and duration of the "born through grief" journey
• Surrendering to the path and being present with the rawness and fragility of grief
• Living authentically in the midst of grief and defying societal expectations
• The importance of allowing the journey to take the time it needs and evolving through the process

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This episode is all about bringing a conscious moment of welcoming to the grief and pain that is alive in ourselves and the world, while also centering in the heart, releasing energy that isn't our own, and moving with the energy that IS our own.  I lead you in a short breath practice that I call the Fountain Breath, to help you do this. It is calming, cleansing, and centering.

If you would like to move with music during this time, try out the Grief Flow October Playlist that I used in this week's workshop. It is perfect for a 20 minute time of release or meditation. 

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This is one of those episodes that feels like a meditation or a transformational session**. The energy current that's flowing right now is one that is calling us to presence, to slow down, to open ourselves to FEEL, and be in awareness of our bodies, thoughts, emotions, and the conditioned contractions of our inner system. I start off the episode by offering an energetic read of this season and what I feel we are being called toward. Then I share a prayer* that helps me empty and make space to be fully present in my day.
 
The second half of this episode is all about learning to recalibrate ourselves to our emotions, and allowing our bodies and energy systems to be clear and open vessels through which emotion can flow. I speak to how to begin this recalibration, beginning with Awareness and then using the breath to gently unblock the body and create safety to experience what we are feeling more fully.
 
 *Prayer goes from 11:00-19:58 minutes. Please note I do use the word God. I often pray like this in more specifics to me as I walk in the morning. Feel free to adapt to your needs.
 
 **Helpful Note: This episode is RICH, and the cadence of it is slower than usual. As I was editing this one, it didn't feel right to shorten the pauses like I usually do. I highly recommend listening to it as is, but if you need to, feel free to increase your player to 1.1x+ speed if it's easier for you to take in that way. 

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This centering meditation is a gentle and connective practice that is perfect to use any time (even daily) during the 'Emergence' or 'I am ALIVE' spheres of transformation, as explored in the last episode.  Along with relaxing music, this meditation leads you through a simple visualization practice to release energy that isn't yours, call your energy back to your body, and then attune to what's ready to emerge and what's ready to release. 

This practice will support your awareness in what's brewing energetically for you, and help you move throughout the day in connection to your body and energy. Use daily or as you'd like.

This is an original meditation. Music for this meditation can be found here.

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