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Good Day, Beautiful Soul!

By reading my last few emails, you should now know that I'm starting the new cohorts for two groups: The Take Back Your Health and Power Program (see here) and the Health Empowerment/Deep Wellness Coach Training Program (see here).

But there is one more group that I am running this year, and this one's for you folks who are writers or who just want to write!

It’s called Mountains Rise from Earthquakes, and has evolved throughout the 25 years I have been leading creative workshops through a inspired process of crafting and experience—and I’m excited to open it up to YOU!

Good Day, Beautiful Soul!

Do you want to be inspired into your own Deep Wellness rather than cajoled or shamed?

Are you ready for change---in your health, life, and relationships? Because it is not change we fear but staying the same. The same aches, pains, suffering, crappy situations, limitations, complaints---feeling unwell, underwhelmed, disconnected, alone, sick, frustrated.

OR are you DONE WITH THAT?! You're already on your way, kicking some ass, feeling like things are already changing for you, and you want to stay on that expansive trajectory with others who want to focus not on the suffering but on the possibilities.

Good Day, Beautiful Soul!

The other day I pulled a card from my Sacred Rebels Oracle deck. I do this on occasion for insight, for something to contemplate, for fun…It was card #15: Big Bold Vision. I don’t like to assume that I know things (like what this card was going to say) and would normally sit quietly with the message, but instead I quickly read through it because I really did already know what it was going to tell me.

“You have the ability to dream big.”

Yes, and don’t we all?!

Good Day, Beautiful Soul!

Slow down for a bit. Come sit with me for a few minutes…

Yesterday I heard someone say in an interview that in response to the high degree of disruption (in mental, emotional, and physical wellness) felt by most everyone on the planet today, people are finding their own inner caves to go into to figure all this out.

I see, feel, and hear that. I am also in such a cave, myself. Writing, musing, teaching, creating…turning down the noise and becoming very discerning as to who my guides and supports might be, which is ultimately and most importantly myself. As it must be for all of us.

Brainz Magazine Article

In this exclusive interview with Coach Carla, she answers the questions:

What got you started in the health and wellness field?

What has changed for you over the years that you have spent coaching?

What happened that created those changes?

Are people healthy today?

Why are so many people suffering with what you call dis-ease?

Can you define health empowerment?

What do you think people can do to be healthy?

What do you think makes a good health empowerment coach

What is your purpose in your work?

And More!

Brainz Magazine Article

Shifting From Dis-Ease Into Kick-Ass Health Empowerment – Session 1: Shift Into Healing

My daughter was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes when she was 11. Then all 5 members of our family experienced different combinations of mold illness, depression and anxiety, Lyme and co-infection, joint pain, GI distress, anemia I even had a spontaneous dissected carotid artery with a resulting clot that could have killed me, not to mention a family history of addictions and mental and emotional instability.

Those years were hard, yes; but I knew that experience was not what the doctors were telling me: permanent, unchangeable, predictive, needing to be medicalized and medicated. I didn’t see it that way then, and I certainly don’t see it that way now.

Brainz Magazine Article

Shifting From Dis-Ease Into Kick-Ass Health Empowerment Session 2 ‒ Are You The Spider Or The Fly?

I love listening to podcasts, watching videos and films that inspire me, engaging with content created by people who inform and enlighten just by speaking their truth, exploring their genius, and sharing their wisdom, insights, epiphanies, and revelations. 

None of the teachers, gurus, and companions that I choose to invite into my life and who inspire my own personal evolution, push any kind of agenda through fear (you are going to get sick of you don’t do what I say), or coercion (you are wrong, and I am right even if you don’t believe that), or manipulation (I am only going to push my own version of reality), or claiming authority over my life (you are not a doctor or psychiatrist or other “professional” trained by a governing body created by some group of people who claim to have authority, so you can’t make your own decisions about your health). No. And no. 

Brainz Magazine Article

Shifting From Dis-Ease Into Kick-Ass Health Empowerment Session 3 – Transmuting Fear

There are many motivational factors in life, and all of them are emotional. Inspiration, joy, pain, empathy, love, shame, guilt, hope, and fear. Each of these emotions simultaneously triggers brain and body responses and can be the symphony to which we dance throughout life. Some of those dances are slow, graceful, and luxurious, with every movement felt and experienced, and some of those dances are disjointed, frenzied, thoughtless, and exhausting. Fear is one of the latter.

It is common practice in the medical model and in the fields of psychology and psychiatry to categorize any strife, uncomfortable emotion, or challenging behaviour into “mental health” pathologies or diagnoses. And when diving deep, you will inevitably experience all kinds of emotion, none of them bad, but some certainly less pleasant and even deeply painful.

Brainz Magazine Article

Shifting From Dis-Ease Into Kick-Ass Health Empowerment Session 4 – Loving What Is

Health is a word that holds so many meanings that it has, in essence, lost all meaning. So, the words I use when I talk about this subject are Deep Wellness.

Deep Wellness is not only harmony and feeling pretty good most of the time in the physical body, but also in the mind, the emotional body, and the soul/spirit, as well. As most of us know by now, it’s a package deal.

And these are not just pretty words but universal truths.

Deep Wellness equates to feeling flow, meaning, and purpose in life (including, and sometimes as a result of, the challenges you encounter or the pain you may experience) and:

To be healthy and happy (vital); To feel harmony and wholeness; To access these states through experiencing life fully; To share that with others.

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