Create Your Magical Life – Alana Sheeren

A gentle reminder, just in case you need it too: We are living in turbulent times. We are inundated by information. It’s easy to feel overwhelmed, triggered, and even traumatized (or re-traumatized) by news stories, sound bytes, videos and the conversations that swirl around them. Self-care is an essential practice at all times and even more so when life feels challenging. Self-care means different things to each of us and can be practiced alone or in community. Find what works for you and fit it in where you can. Please, take good and gentle care of your precious self – you’re the only you the world has.

My guest for today’s show is writer, coach, and minister, Leela Sinha. She is the author of You’re Not Too Much: Intensive Lives in an Expansive World, a book that introduces a new framework for understanding who we are and how we show up in our lives. If you’ve ever been told you’re too intense, too emotional or too much, or if you’ve ever loved someone who you’ve thought those same things about, this conversation is for you.

What you’ll hear in this episode:

• Intensive/Expansive framework – it’s a continuum
• An Intensive: someone who is INTENSE
• An Expansive: someone who likes things ordered and logical
• How each category responds to deadlines and procrastination
• How to know your essential nature
• The impact of being an intensive
• Why visionaries and CEO’s are usually intensives
• The general population: 30% intensive and 70% expansive
• De-centering the dominant culture
• The importance of expansive: keeping the fires burning
• Intensive organizations vs. expansive organizations
• The 80% problem
• Ways intensives stop themselves
• Navigating the workplace as an intensive
• Using Leela’s book as a communication tool
• Intensives and expansives in relationship
• Tips for intensives on navigating love
• Big feelings can go to an extreme
• Building the right community
• The British expansive cultural lens

Resources:

www.yourenottoomuch.com

You’re Not Too Much by Leela Sinha

Do you feel you’re allowed to be who you are, to feel what you feel, to want what you want? If someone waved a magic wand and gave you full permission to be yourself, would anything in your life change?

Unfortunately, some people don’t feel safe enough to be themselves (and some people truly aren’t safe – something I hope we’re collectively working to change). You may feel like you’ve been hiding and “playing small,” afraid to show your true colors. Today’s show can help you find the courage and the skills to share your real voice with the world.

My guest is Dr. Michelle Mazur, a speech coach and the CEO of Communication Rebel. She specializes in taking those with something they want to say, helping them find their voice, and turning them into sought-after speakers. Michelle knows how to influence others through eloquent, persuasive speech. She has personally logged over 10,000 hours speaking to groups of all sizes, and teaching coaches, entrepreneurs, speakers, authors, and thought leaders how to ramp up their presentations. Her newest book is an Amazon bestseller titled Speak for Impact, and she’s also written Speak Up For Your Business. Do you want to make an impact and use your influence and persuasion for good? Join us now to learn more.

You can read the full show notes and access all the links and resources at www.alanasheeren.com

Are you familiar with EFT or “tapping”? Chances are, if you know much about the world of personal development, then you’ve heard something about Emotional Freedom Technique. Introduced to the world in the 1990’s, EFT has positively impacted millions of people with astonishing results. Most of us have dealt with phobias, childhood traumas, anxieties and fears, PTSD, or other emotional issues. All of these can be greatly improved—and even permanently healed-- using EFT. Are you curious about how it works? The difference EFT can make in your life is nothing short of amazing.

While you can find many versions of “tapping” on the internet, and many teachers who claim different benefits, we wanted to go straight to the source: Emotional Freedom Technique originator and founder, Gary Craig. His website has tutorials, techniques, and other helpful information—all free! Check out our resources below for more information.

What you’ll hear in this episode:

• The two types of EFT Gary developed are Gold Standard and Optimal.
• Gold Standard EFT is the “emotional version of acupuncture without needles.”
• The healing process can be reduced to hours and minutes instead of weeks, months, and years!
• Gary talks about working with veterans to heal their PTSD.
• Gary’s website includes two free tutorials to teach you everything you need to start working with EFT.
• “Easy EFT” occurs when you “tap” along with someone else—also called “borrowing benefits.”
• Buyer beware in the world of EFT! Be sure to check out a teacher or practitioner thoroughly before working with them.
• Gary explains how he developed EFT and discusses a deeply spiritual experience that changed his perspective on life.
• In Optimal EFT, spiritual methods are added to tapping for deeper results.
• Optimal EFT has the goal of removing the blocks to love’s presence and helping us to “climb our spiritual ladder.”
• Gary explains “The Unseen Therapist” and “The Guardian at the Gate.”
• Optimal EFT has two steps and it brings faster results, more efficiency, and greater love, joy, and peace.
• In this episode’s segment of Alana’s Guide to Magical Living, we meet Maree Gecks, the founder and designer of Marzipants, which are beautiful, Bohemian-style trousers. They are a comfortable, form-flattering pant, styled after the loose, wrap pants of the Thai fishermen. They are ethically and sustainably made in luxurious organic cotton. Check our Resources section for more information!

Resources:

www.emofree.com

www.eftcertification.com

www.marzipants.co.uk

How do you feel about change? If you’re like most people, you’re excited and ready for desired changes and completely resistant to everything else. Sometimes even the change we think we want can challenge us immensely when we’re in the midst of it. (Think moving, or starting a new job.)

Change happens—and it often means letting go of some things, experiencing wild inner growth, and taking in more magic as you stay open to possibility. But what if the change you’re in the midst of is unwelcome, difficult, and leaves you scared or sick or just plain miserable? It’s hard to find the magic in THAT kind of change. But we’ve all been caught in unwanted change and that’s what today’s guest is here to talk about. How do you find magic when you’re ill or in pain or suffering?

Grace Quantock is a coach, speaker, author, and consultant from Wales who became ill in her teens. Instead of giving up on life, Grace believed that her dreams were worth pursuing and she found ways to keep moving forward – to keep finding magic in her life – no matter what. She is an award-winning entrepreneur with a global business and a successful non-profit. She helps others go “from sick chick to trailblazer” with humor, compassion, and lots of body glitter. Join us!

You can read the full show notes and access all the links and resources at: www.alanasheeren.com

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