In today's episode we continue 'The 5 Apology Languages' quiz live — revealing all our shadowiest and most judgmental initial responses, and exploring more compassionate alternatives. This is the second episode in a four part series.

We talk about how our needs show up in our apologies, words vs intentional action and repair, and the painful practice of keeping score.

As always, our work here is to empower you with compassion and self-regulation tools to use in heightened moments and their aftermaths — so you can make repairs and receive them, and bring your whole heart to your relationships.

Our online program for live calls and deep practice using our simple self-connection tools starts in September! Registration is open now, learn more at ⁠http://www.wholeheartedloving.com/priming-the-body-for-peace⁠.

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Every episode comes with prompts for journaling and reflection. You can find these, submit your Qs and topic ideas, and learn more about Georgianna and Steph at ⁠wholeheartedloving.com⁠.

What you yearned for as a child will show up for you today in many ways — including what styles of apology feel true and complete for you, along with what expectations you have when the need to repair arises in relationship. Discovering your patterns in these areas is a powerful tool for personal growth and meaningful self-connection that improves the quality of your life and relationships.

In today's episode we start 'The 5 Apology Languages' quiz live — revealing all our shadowiest and most judgmental initial responses, and exploring more compassionate alternatives. This is the first episode in a four part series.

Our online program for live calls and deep practice using our simple self-connection tools starts in September! Registration is open now, learn more at ⁠http://www.wholeheartedloving.com/priming-the-body-for-peace⁠.

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Every episode comes with prompts for journaling and reflection. You can find these, submit your Qs and topic ideas, and learn more about Georgianna and Steph at ⁠wholeheartedloving.com⁠.

Lying doesn't mean we're bad or wrong — it's just a behaviour we develop to protect ourselves, or to stay in connection with people who are important to us. Bringing compassionate curiosity to this natural defense against shame and fear is key to freeing yourself from the burden of needless lies, past and present.

In today's episode, we talk about how we come to a place of needing to tell lies as children, how that translates into our adult lives, and how to move deeper into a truer expression of ourselves.

Our online program for live calls and deep practice using our simple self-connection tools starts in September! Registration is open now, learn more at ⁠http://www.wholeheartedloving.com/priming-the-body-for-peace⁠.

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Every episode comes with prompts for journaling and reflection. You can find these, submit your Qs and topic ideas, and learn more about Georgianna and Steph at ⁠wholeheartedloving.com⁠.

We can't be everything for everyone. We know this, yet we unconsciously believe we must be more than we are a lot of the time — and we hold much guilt and shame about this without realizing it. Bringing attention and compassion to how we're feeling and what we're working so hard to hold can be such a liberating relief!

In this episode we expose some of our own unconscious guilt and how we've moved through it using simple, practical tools and a healthy dose of self-acceptance.

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Our online program for live calls and deep practice using our simple self-connection tools starts in September! Registration is open now, learn more at ⁠http://www.wholeheartedloving.com/priming-the-body-for-peace⁠.

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We talk about repeating patterns across relationships (hello, Drama!), rebirth in your relationships, how to stay connected through it all — and about how Steph was made to listen to country music that one time until her heart broke open and she met a new version of herself.

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Our online program for live calls and deep practice using our simple self-connection tools is open for registration now! Learn more at http://www.wholeheartedloving.com/priming-the-body-for-peace.

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There are always situations we could have handled better. Our capacities for compassionate connection are constantly limited by time, energy, and our personal programming. This is true for our parents, and for us too — and the resulting guilt & shame get in the way of our connections. It's never too late to make repairs though, and holding your own shame with love is a great place to start.

In today's episode we talk about everything that builds up for us that gets in the way of our connection to loved ones, and how to work with it. There are so many great tools available for conscious parenting, gentle parenting, and conscious relationship in our modern world. We are all learning to use them collectively, and things are changing — we're adding more compassion to human interactions, and we all have a role to play.

Mentioned in this episode:

- Sheleana Aiyana's fantastic book Becoming the One

- Our online program starts in September — REGISTER NOW! (P.S. It's free for schoolteachers and ECE! Spread the word)

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Every episode comes with prompts for journaling and reflection. You can find these, submit your Qs and topic ideas, and learn more about Georgianna and Steph at wholeheartedloving.com.

When we're caught up in the beginnings of a potential relationship, our systems are easily hijacked by hopes, dreams and hormones. It's especially important that we make less meaning and observe more reality during this time, and pace ourselves so we can fully discover how we feel in relationship to the person in front of us — not our stories about who we hope they might be.

In today's episode we share personal and vaguely embarrassing stories about our own meaning-making in past relationships (SPOILER! Our meaning-makers were wrong!) and how we worked to uncover our felt sense of how things are, as opposed to how we might hope they could be.

REGISTER NOW for our upcoming online program, Priming the Body for Peace.

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Every episode comes with prompts for journaling and reflection. You can find these, submit your Qs and topic ideas, and learn more about Georgianna and Steph at http://wholeheartedloving.com.

TFW when you're called into leadership, and you resent having to do it — but part of you is ready. You resent that it will interrupt your healing, and take your energy — and you're afraid it will set you back. Can you relate?

Today we're speaking with Mia, who finds herself in these circumstances, plus a lot of personal backstory. From a military family, Mia has been on her healing journey and away from home for 10 years — gathering steam and tools, it turns out, for a perfect storm of situations happening now: starting a new business, moving home to care for a family undergoing significant challenges, and facing all the family trauma she's been healing from.

We talk about stepping into leadership, while managing the big feelings of fear and (past & present) resentment that come up as we work to fulfill our new role with grace and compassion.

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Every episode comes with prompts for journaling and reflection. You can find these, submit your Qs and topic ideas, and learn more about Georgianna and Steph at http://wholeheartedloving.com. ⁠

REGISTER NOW for Priming the Body for Peace at wholeheartedloving.com/priming-the-body-for-peace.

In part 2 of this series on Impact vs Intention, we move the conversation into the friend zone — where abandonment wounds can get just as activated as they do in romantic relationships. How do we handle it when friends can't break free from the pain of their past? ⁠

We talk about inner and outer abandonment patterns that tend to express themselves in friendships. Noticing what we're making things mean, learning not to take things personally, and respecting the limits of our compassion are all keys to managing these relationships, and your energy within them. ⁠

And, we reveal THE BEST live coaching program we're launching in September — Priming the Body for Peace. We can't wait to share the simple tools we know will make your life feel so much better. REGISTER NOW at wholeheartedloving.com/priming-the-body-for-peace.

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Every episode comes with prompts for journaling and reflection. You can find these, submit your Qs and topic ideas, and learn more about Georgianna and Steph at http://wholeheartedloving.com. ⁠

Someone's impact on us — the ways we feel in response to their words, actions, energy — often has more to do with us and our past experiences than it does with them or the present moment. For everything we think and feel now, our bodies recall something from our past and that old wiring is engaged. In this episode we talk about it, and how to connect with what's happening right now so you can best manage your many levels of responses to it.