Woman Awake - The Soul-led Journey of Awakening

Who sold us the lie that the goal is a life free from pain?

Who told you that we must avoid suffering at all costs?

How did we end up believing that our human existence is only a worthy one if its overflowing with love, joy, ease, grace and contentment - at all times.

I’ve had many moments of suffering - most of the ones in my adult years were the result of my own internal warfare. 

As Jewel so beautiful mentions in Joe Rogan’s interview with her recently - Anxiety is leaving your house, to go and look for the thiefs that you are so worried will break and rob your home. 

And I get this. I really do. 

I have had many moments in my life where unfounded, unnecessary anxiety has been the  reason for my own pain.

I remember once pushing a pram with a screaming baby up a hill on a cold winter’s day - nothing I could do would settle my little boy. This was my second time on the merry go round and I was fuming - at life, at god, at myself - that I was having a similar experience to the first. Unsettled baby, feeling at the mercy of so many elements out of my control.

I recall that in my mind I was having a very heated and vivid conversation with god - in fact I was fuming. “Why is it like this again. How did this happen? What have I done wrong? Why won’t you make this better?…. 

And on it went.

Until, that is, I was stopped short in my tracks. And I heard these words (who they are from I can only guess - my highest self, a guide, the goddess herself… it doesn’t matter).

But the words I heard were: “Why don’t you stop asking me to fix this and instead trying surrendering to it…”

These words literally stopped in short, half way crossing the road. Disbelief, astonishment, relief, surprise. 

And then I realised this - where did I get the message that any form of struggle and suffering is wrong? Makes me wrong? Isn’t ok? Is not and should not be part of my story.

Why was I fed expectations that life should be hunky dory, sweet as, cruisy and chilled ALL the time? When I was clearly, NOT a cruise and chilled person?

And I started to unpack this idea of surrender a little more - which by the way I had been working through for years at this point. It seems to be a reoccurring theme of mine.

Looking back throughout my life, my childhood I was witness to many moments of pain and suffering.

However, despite that, the story embedded is one that says pain and suffering must be avoided. If by some chance you do experience challenging times you must fight and push against it.

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Celebrating 100 episodes:

I'm so thrilled to offer you this little gift to celebrate 100 episodes on this podcast (One Woke Mama and also the latest Woman Awake iteration!)

This will be my last episode for 2021 so I wanted to offer you a way to nourish yourself and keep me plugged into your ears before I'm back on the mic.

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Show notes:

1.The Amrita - Breathwork, Somatic and Light Language Journey: ONLINE Class - Immediate Download. Journey into sweetness, delighting in delicious, high vibrational lightness and love.

GET THE CLASS HERE: https://claireobeid.com/the-amrita-breathwork/

2. Inner Alchemy - In person event here on the Central Coast: December 19th 10am - 2pm.

A transformational journey to free your mind, feel your body, feed your soul and heal your heart. Ceremonial Circle. Light Language. Breathwork Journey, Somatic Movement and Energy Medicine.

GET YOUR TICKET HERE: https://events.humanitix.com/inner-alchemy-breathwork-somatic-and-light-language-journey

Love + light,

Claire

claireowellness · Woman Awake - Episode 099 - Unembodied Knowledge to Embodied wisdom and light

Listen to Episode 099:

I was reflecting on something my friend and biz coach, Rach Macdonald said the other day - this is foundation year one in my business, even though this is technically the 10th year of my business. And if I look back through the last 10 years I can see the journey of healing, transformation and embodiment through the lens of my business alongside the maiden years, early motherhood and now through the other side of much shadow work. 

A journey from the unembodied knowing that I have lived from since childhood, through the shadow work and wound healing into the embodied light.

In this episode I share a personal story from when I was 14 in the Cedars of Lebanon having my future and my soul read by a mystic.

I share how my rite of passage and initiation HAD to happen through the challenging ride that was early motherhood (for me) and how each of us has an activation and initiation at different times and in different ways.

Motherhood for me has been - at times - about the shadow, moving through the fire. Unearthing wounds.

I dive into shadow work and the healing journey - not as a destination or a forever place but as a necessary way through towards embodiment and of our own soul, destiny and ancient wisdom. 

I unpack how many of us 'KNOW' alot - intellectually, or though an unknown source of wisdom and how this can remain in a really heady, un-integrated space until we have our own human experiences and fire-initiations to embody the knowing into wisdom that can be shared and felt.

Personally, I KNOW alot. Information, ideas, thoughts, clear insights - they land within me fast. Sometimes it feels quite random, but in THIS human incarnation I've had to have embodied experiences to fully appreciate and comprehend the ancient wisdom that lives within - it has needed life experience to move from "knowing" or information into wisdom, space holder, teaching and more.

Now, today I am not fully realised. NO. However, I am now embodying the wisdom I’ve carried for eons. I’m living it, breathing it. I'm finally starting to understand in my heart and body and soul what embodiment means. Integration between mind, body and soul. Knowing, mentally understanding is only the beginning of the journey. The deepening and refining that comes through initiation is where the wisdom has flourished and poured forth. 

Why am I sharing this?

1. Accepting where you are at… and knowing and trusting that this is the place you need to be.

2. Learning to appreciate the shadow times. This is a rite of passage, an initiation. This is always part of the spiral journey of the feminine. I know this place well. I’m comfortable here. But I am no longer IN this place (well at least for extended periods of time) It’s part of the process, but not the end goal.

3. Embodying the light, creating from the light, being in the light, being your true essence, or BEING your sovereign self, this can take time for some of us. This can be years of undoing karma, a coming of age that is required and so on… and when you get here, celebrate it. Own it.

Show notes:

1.The Amrita - Breathwork, Somatic and Light Language Journey: ONLINE Class - Immediate Download. Journey into sweetness, delighting in delicious, high vibrational lightness and love.

GET THE CLASS HERE: https://claireobeid.com/the-amrita-breathwork/

2. Inner Alchemy - In person event here on the Central Coast: December 19th 10am - 2pm.

A transformational journey to free your mind, feel your body, feed your soul and heal your heart. Ceremonial Circle. Light Language. Breathwork Journey, Somatic Movement and Energy Medicine.

GET YOUR TICKET HERE : https://events.humanitix.com/inner-alchemy-breathwork-somatic-and-light-language-journey

Love + light,

Claire

They can exist at the same time.

You can be a SOVEREIGN Being who places her/his needs and wishes above all else AND still be a compassionate, kind, caring and attentive human being who values others.

However, lately I've noticed that people believe it's ONE or the other.

You believe you are sovereign and pro choice. Someone else believes you are selfish and do not care for others wellbeing.

You believe you are allowed to make decisions based on what's right for you (or whatever you feel like doing). Someone else believes that you should forgo YOUR needs and your desires for the betterment of others - always - even at the expense of your own health/sanity.

You are expected to sacrifice yourself for the greater good (hello virtue signalling) and need to reminded (often) that YOU are not more important than the collective... intriguing.

And whilst I do very much and passionately believe in unity, in connection, in coming together, in collaboration and supportive the collective. I do not believe that should ever be at the expense of your own health, happiness, sovereign self. 

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This week on the Podcast I'm responding to a few (only a few) comments that filtered through in response to my email, post and IGTV last week where I spoke on finding your yes in the face of NO, Chaos Vs Grace and the current climate of segregation and restrictions.

Some of these comments felt my perspective is selfish and self-entered.

MOST of the comments (and there were hundreds of responses, shares and waves of love!) were incredible supportive and full of resonance. Truly, I've never seen my work shared SO MUCH.

This is a conversation about Selfishness Versus Sovereignty. 

How do we contribute in acts of services for the greater good AND be supportive the collective. Whilst also ensuring we are doing what our heart feels is true and right? What our body is asking for (or not). Holding boundaries and nourishing your own nervous system.

People pleasing at the expense of yourself.

Utter self sacrifice at the expense of your own wellbeing or that of your family.

Does this feel good to you?

Why do we have to label people and always filter another person's choices and decisions through our own conditioning and the lens of our unhealed wounds and unworthiness?

There is SO much I have to say about this. Selfishness. Self-entered. Sovereignty.

The best way forward is to tune into my little download on the Woman Awake podcast.

Show notes:

1.The Amrita - Breathwork, Somatic and Light Language Journey: ONLINE November 20th 7:30pm AEDT. Book your place now (replay available) and journey with us into sweetness, delighting in delicious, high vibrational lightness and love.

GET YOUR TICKET HERE: https://claireobeid.com/the-amrita-breathwork/

2. Inner Alchemy - In person event here on the Central Coast: December 19th 10am - 2pm.

A transformational journey to free your mind, feel your body, feed your soul and heal your heart. Ceremonial Circle. Light Language. Breathwork Journey, Somatic Movement and Energy Medicine.

GET YOUR TICKET HERE: https://events.humanitix.com/inner-alchemy-breathwork-somatic-and-light-language-journey

Listen to Episode 097:

This episode is taken from an Instagram Live I did which was inspired from THIS post from Instagram. 

When the news that fellow Queenslanders (who have not received the JAB) will face restrictions and essentially be locked out of society (as we are here in NSW and also VIC) I felt to respond to this. Reflection on how - on Planet Polarity - there is always an equal and opposite to every experience, energy and attitude. As the restrictions tighten and we are faced with hearing and feeling the energy of 'NO' I raise the question - where and how can you cultivate YES in your life?

Where and how can you tap into GRACE over Chaos. Liberation and freedom over control? Joy over sadness and grief. Love over fear. Surrender instead of stress.

Tune in to this episode and feel into where you currently sit - energetically, emotionally and mentally and how you can amplify and work more with your YES. Remembering there is always a choice.

Show notes:

1.The Amrita - Breathwork, Somatic and Light Language Journey: ONLINE November 20th 7:30pm AEDT. Book your place now (replay available) and journey with us into sweetness, delighting in delicious, high vibrational lightness and love. 

GET YOUR TICKET HERE: https://claireobeid.com/the-amrita-breathwork/

2. Inner Alchemy - In person event here on the Central Coast: December 19th 10am - 2pm.

A transformational journey to free your mind, feel your body, feed your soul and heal your heart. Ceremonial Circle. Light Language. Breathwork Journey, Somatic Movement and Energy Medicine.

GET YOUR TICKET HERE: https://events.humanitix.com/inner-alchemy-breathwork-somatic-and-light-language-journey

Listen to Episode 096:

It's been ONE year since we moved into our beautiful little home here on the CC. I can't actually quite believe we are celebrating this anniversary already.

If you haven't already please listen to the back story - the manifesting and calling in of this home and relocation. 

This has been a year of so much abundance, ease, flow and joy. Integrating, recalibrating and attuning especially to this home, the land and the nature we are surrounded by. Cycling through the seasons and rooting in.

A year of expansion and growth in my business, through my own awakening of spiritual gifts and talents, in community and connection and so much more.

In this year I have launched three programs, coached countless women, hosted multiple in-person and live workshops, co-facilitated a retreat for the divine Lorraine Murphy. Travelled twice (pre lockdown!). Learnt to garden and grow veggies.

For those of you interested in knowing what I've studied/explored over the last 18 months see below. Some of this I've been immersed in for longer (and in fact the list is longer than this!) There has also been quite regular Kinesiology, Acupuncture and other forms of self-care.  But I just wanted to honour these people for their contribution to my mind-body-soul growth and healing. 

I'm studied Reiki with Jason McGrice, Queen School with Julie Tenner, Deepened my training in Magdalene Frequency, Womb Yoga and Energetics with Ana Otero. Worked with hypnotherapist Rachel Crethar and my own secret weapon Julia Byrne from Soul Mastery. Business Energetics with Brittany Eastman. Marriage Counselling with Sarah Tolmie. Parenting course with Big Little Feelings. Gardening with The Healthy Patch.

Tune in to the rest of the episode to help me celebrate this incredible year. 

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Beautiful one, thank you for being here and listening. It would mean the world to me if you would hit subscribe and stay connected to One Woke Mama – join me on this journey of awakening. Your feedback, comments, reviews and shares would always be gratefully received but also help us to reach more mamas who need support as they navigate the choppy waters of motherhood and all it asks of us.

Love + light,

Claire

Listen to Episode 095:

This episode is brought to you via my beautiful 3.5 yo boy. This week his sister returned to full time learning at school. I was anticipating alot of push-back and rejection from him, but in fact I witnessed the opposite.

What I witnessed was a return to his innate nature and frequency as he was able to recalibrate after being in her powerful, dynamic and creative energy. A beautiful experience unfolded for them both over the last 4-5 months. They have grown as siblings in countless ways, but my daughter - being the eldest and much more imaginative, wild, creative and persuasive energy - has definitely been the LEO Leader.

My son, this week, has reminded me of the importance of creating time and space daily to be with ourselves, to be true to our own soul frequency, energy, essence. He has also reminded me how easily we allow ourselves to absorbed into someone else's way/energy/story/ideology and forgetting ourselves in the process.

Fitting in versus going your own way

Rejecting our own nature to flow with the energy of another.

Learning to read our energy and know when it's time to PLAY, go on adventures, be swept up by another and when it's time to hold a boundary for ourselves and know when it's time to ground and be with our own energy and space.

Show notes:

1) I've opened up 3 x coaching spots for Oct - Dec 2021. My coaching books will be closed until Jan 2022. This is the last opportunity to work with me privately for 2021.

Please email me directly [email protected] and let's start the conversation.

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Beautiful one, thank you for being here and listening. It would mean the world to me if you would hit subscribe and stay connected to One Woke Mama – join me on this journey of awakening. Your feedback, comments, reviews and shares would always be gratefully received but also help us to reach more mamas who need support as they navigate the choppy waters of motherhood and all it asks of us.

Love + light,

Claire

claireowellness · Woman Awake - Episode 093 Tapping Your Way Out Of Trauma

Listen to Episode 094:

Freedom is a frequency and Freedom is not for all - and that is more than ok.

Do you believe that freedom is a state of being? A vibrational experience first before it shows up in your outer reality? An embodied feeling state that first begins within our inner landscape?

Freedom and liberation for most of us requires healing - a return to our wholeness - but stripping away the many trappings we carry. From the stories of our past, our belief systems that do not serve us, the wounds from our childhood and now the narrative of control from institutions, governments. A world full of restrictions.

Freedom is a practice - a daily practice - one where we must slowly and carefully tend to our heart and soul by pulling away the cobwebs of stories, beliefs, patterns, ideas and narratives that constrict our sense and embodiment of liberations.

A powerful step is to notice where you are TRAPPED. Within your own thoughts, in your past, in the collective narrative, in institutions, controlled by others suggestions, people pleasing, what’s the right way to dress as a mama, what to watch on Netflix, where to go. Which product is the best to by, the best way to behave... there are SO many areas where we can live in a state of restriction and contraction.

Identify the areas where you feel the most trapped and notice the origin of those trappings. Most certainly it's something in the external world, a story from your past, a belief system you are carrying or a fear of a future event. 

Show notes:

The Liberty - Early Bird closes Sunday 17th October https://claireobeid.com/the-liberty/

Early bird + BONUSES - $444 (payment plan available)

+ 6 Week Journey

+ 4 Live Sessions - begins from October 23rd

+ Journalling Pre-Work Pdf - doors open now to receive this workbook.

+ The Alchemy of Emotional Freedom Bonus Masterclass - access within 24hours of signing up.

+ 1 x 45 minute private healing session with Claire

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Beautiful one, thank you for being here and listening. It would mean the world to me if you would hit subscribe and stay connected to One Woke Mama – join me on this journey of awakening. Your feedback, comments, reviews and shares would always be gratefully received but also help us to reach more mamas who need support as they navigate the choppy waters of motherhood and all it asks of us.

Love + light,

Claire

Too much, too soon, too fast. These are the hallmarks of Trauma.

There's no denying that over the last 18 months we are living through trauma. In varying degrees, each of us is experiencing trauma.

Trauma can often be described as experiencing too much stimulation, to much external distress, unfolding too fast or well before we are prepared for. 

If the environment or situation exceeds our capacity (capacity can relate to your own nervous system and bandwidth/window of tolerance) and we feel we can't process emotionally, mentally, physically, our reaction and our ability to bare through those environments and situations is what equals TRAUMA.

It's not necessarily THE actual experience (although, of course that is relevant) but how you as an individual and we as a collective move through the experience and how our nervous system (again on an individual level but also the collective) integrates the experience.

It's important to understand that our body through fight/flight/freeze/appease enters an emergency cycle. 

If that emergency cycle is not completed it's like that trauma response is now stuck in our system. Kind of like a broken record going back and forth over the same sound. We must complete that emergency cycle for our nervous system to return to regulation and quit that ongoing loop. 

We end up feeling split. There is a fragmentation and break within our internal coherence leaving us constantly feeling split, distracted, disconnected, disassociated. 

Through the Somatic Centred work that I do when approaching healing we must slowly bring these fragmented pieces back together. Slowly repair the inner split. Finish the emergency cycle in our body. Feeling through our body, releasing and discharging energetically and physically, moving the stress out of our system and gently attending to our emotionally, mental and physical health. 

Animals complete this beautiful - they will release and discharge the fight/flight/freeze response by shaking to return to a regulated state. 

We often don't get the chance to do this... especially when we are not taught too honour our bodies need to release and respond to trauma - especially now when the trauma is ongoing and part of our daily life. 

So how do we respond too and survive right now as we live through trauma?

There are SO many strategies ppl adopt and I see them daily in real time through client sessions and my own daily life. Some of these strategies are fantastic, others not so much. To some degree they will get you through to the other side, once the 'trauma' environment has passed. 

However there are other ways to creatively resource yourself that feel more nourishing and can work to continuously DISCHARGE the ongoing fight/flight/freeze/appease response. And leaving you feeling more connected, integrated.

A few of the main categories of resources are: 

Creative - painting and expression. Somatic - Breathwork and Tapping. Grounding - connecting to the earth, time in nature. Spirituality - meditation, prayer. Containment - self soothing through touch, hugs. Boundaried - setting physical and verbal boundaries

I'm going to focus on a Somatic Resource here - EFT, Tapping. Tapping actually takes us directly into the felt sense experience which helps us to restore and return to calm and balanced state. To return to regulation. To discharge the emergency cycle and break the loop of hyper vigilance, flight, freeze, etc. This is an effective repair of of neuroregulation and trauma via the body and our energetic system. 

We can return to what Dan Siegel calls FACES - acronym for flexible, adaptive, coherent, energising and stable. This is our regulated nervous system and state of integration in mind-body-soul

Show notes: 5 Days to Freedom: FREE EFT and Breathwork Sessions. Begins September 28th. Private Facebook Group doors will open Monday September 27th. 

Join the wait-list HERE to be part of The 5 Days to Freedom: http://eepurl.com/cGfJMH

Listen to Episode 092:

Restoring The Sacred Feminine

“The future of the world depends on the full restoration of the Sacred Feminine in all its tenderness, passion, divine ferocity, and surrendered persistence.”

Andrew Harvey from 'The Return of the Mother'.

In this episode I unpack a powerful quote that has rung true in my heart. 

I dive into WHY this quote might be challenging for us. Why - because of generations of oppression and suppression - many of us women feel overwhelmed by the idea of stepping into, reclaiming and restoring our Sacred Feminine. And for so many of us, we don't even know what that means!

I look at why this is quote feels like an awakening to me - and what it actually means to restore The Sacred Feminine - what does that look like for us as women and mothers?

It is a quote that inspires, motivates and excites. It can feel big, heavy and overwhelming, but the purpose of this episode is to get you to consider and chew on the idea of The Sacred Feminine and how she wants to show up in your daily life - through your body, your breath, your divine actions and how you engage and  relate with others.

Show notes:

Please check out The Daily Meds HERE. https://claireobeid.com/the-daily-meds/

This is an offering of mini sacred energy practices from (I am) The Remedy

The Daily Meds is a collection of downloadable teachings and practices – grounded in a beautiful blend of Breath and Energy Medicine, Magdalene Womb Yoga, Ancient Indian Wisdom Technologies and Divine Feminine centred experiences. 

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Beautiful one, thank you for being here and listening. It would mean the world to me if you would hit subscribe and stay connected to One Woke Mama – join me on this journey of awakening. Your feedback, comments, reviews and shares would always be gratefully received but also help us to reach more mamas who need support as they navigate the choppy waters of motherhood and all it asks of us.

Love + light,

Claire

Listen to Episode 091:

It's time to be your own change-maker

When we finally face up to the reality that it's no one else's responsibility to create change for us AND that true transformation is only possible when we realise that it won't happen without our own motivation, action and willingness.

No one, no thing is ever going to rock up and say "hey, I did this for you - it's all cleaned up, changed, better. Just as you asked".

We all KNOW this - we know that life doesn't gift you with a clean slate or a new way of being/feeling. Yet the amount of people I work with and talk to who are sitting by, worrying and waiting for things to get better.

It doesn't work like that.

It's on you.

YOU are your own change-maker. Taking that first step of divine action is the beginning - it creates an avalanche of change. This should INSPIRE you, not leave you feeling defeated and deflated. 

I wish is was easier - starting/hitting the GO button on embodied transformation can feel so awkward, clunky and uncomfortable to begin with. But soon, momentum will follow. Soon those subtle yet potent shifts will become more obvious. Soon you'll start to experience the fruits of your labour.

I know you're overwhelmed. I know you are spiralling into intensity, fear, concern. I know that life can feel so hard at times.

However, it's time. It's time to start. Take one step towards cultivate the inner shifts you desire. It doesn't have to be big, bold and dramatic. Small, subtle, manageable steps.

You are the change maker. 

Show notes:

Please check out The Daily Meds HERE. https://claireobeid.com/the-daily-meds/

This is an offering of mini sacred energy practices from (I am) The Remedy

The Daily Meds is a collection of downloadable teachings and practices – grounded in a beautiful blend of Breath and Energy Medicine, Magdalene Womb Yoga, Ancient Indian Wisdom Technologies and Divine Feminine centred experiences. 

Subscribe:

Itunes | Soundcloud

Beautiful one, thank you for being here and listening. It would mean the world to me if you would hit subscribe and stay connected to One Woke Mama – join me on this journey of awakening. Your feedback, comments, reviews and shares would always be gratefully received but also help us to reach more mamas who need support as they navigate the choppy waters of motherhood and all it asks of us.

Love + light,

Claire