Women's Grit & Grace ~Embrace Your Power as a Woman in Life & Love

Challenge has gotten a bad rap in an age when "easy" is the preferred choice. Easy choices, easy relationships, what is easy (and what one can get away with) seems to have gained favor. Yet not unlike that old-fashioned virtue of courage, challenge calls to you with the promise of granting you not only more experience about yourself and life. When you greet life's challenges as empowering you-not overwhelming you-happiness awaits you. In this podcast, JaiKaur will talk about how challenge is your friend for a life happy and satisfying. And how courage, commitment, character come alongside this choice for enriching your life as well. Join JaiKaur for a show certain to be a bit provocative, but then again, change agents often are! To learn more about JaiKaur and her services for women and men CLICK HERE.

We know how what we spend our money on creates what we have in life. Do you know the same is true for what you focus your thoughts on? And what you invest your energy in is what you create more of in your life? This is not woo-woo, it is the science that people who are succesful in manifesting a life they love know and practice. In working with women seeking to change their life, we get to a point in their process in which they must choose to embrace their courage and their faith in themselves and their Spirit- or not. The women who are willing to do so realize changes they have been seeking for some time and had failed before now to achieve. I take no credit other than knowing from my own life and the scores of people I have helped over the years, how when you want to realize true change in yourself or life, you need to reach beyond the world of your five senses. Investing in your faith instead of your fear will illuminate how your life has meaning and purpose. As Einstein was credited as saying, you cannot create change from the same place you created what you want to change. We live in times which call upon the power of our spirit and souls to create the changes we seek instead of counting on our five senses intelligence to get us out of the jambs this intelligence created. And women will lead the way for doing so through the grace and grit that is within all women. To learn more about JaiKaur and her work with women Click Here!

Every day staying silent harvests victims, for when we are silent, silence is not unlike a mortal illness. An illness that claims the dreams, the hopes, the desires of it's victims who have been told to be nice girls. Nice girls don't piss people off, nice girls don't hurt people's feelings, and nice girls for certain don't put themselves first. And being nice can kill you if not your dreams, your joys, your staying true to your life and self. In this show JaiKaur will talk about the price of your silence, a major dynamic in the #metoo movement. Time and time again women recounted how the trauma of their abuse was not only what happened but the cancer of staying silent about it. Women are often put on the defensive when they speak up in matters of violation or abuse and so often stay silent in the belief that no one will believe them or that they will face shaming and abuse as bad as the original incident. Over and over in my work with women we come upon an incident in which a violation or transgression of power occurred and they stayed silent about it, often at the behest of their mother. Years later, the shame and self-condemnation they focus on themselves is like a cancer, invading how they feel and believe about themselves and the world. Their silence grew the original incident into having so much more power and impact in their life than the original incident alone could ever have had. The price of your silence is higher than you know until you uncover it and reclaim your voice. To learn more about JaiKaur and her work with women and couples go to www,jaikaur.com.

Intimate relationships are held by many Eastern traditions as the highest form of yoga. Intimate relationships will bring the darkness hidden within us all out, for transforming in the light of day. It is the longing within the heart of all true loves, and we are instead taught to engage each other as "commodities on demand". "You are to do/be/not do this if you love me" or "If you loved me, you'd behave the way I want you to, agree with me", etc. To not much surprise, such relationships hit troubled waters once one person does not agree to this, or goes elsewhere for the connection and support they are seeking. Learn how to engage the true magic of intimate relationship-to be seen and loved just as you are, warts and all. To do so requires you can hold yourself with such love enough to offer it to another. Relationships otherwise will show themselves in time to be either an exchange of commodities or caretaking by one person of the other. Unhappiness and resentment, lying and betrayal the results in time, not the intimate and soul connection desired. To learn more about JaiKaur and her mentoring of women for embracing their power in life and love, check out her website JaiKaur.com.

Seena B. Frost, M.Div., M.A., has been a Marriage and Family Therapist since 1976. Although still doing a little clinical work, most time now is devoted to SoulCollage®, the process she originated in the 1980s after study with Jean Houston. It is a simple, creative process using work and play with images, imagination and intuition to gather insights about one’s personal and unique Soul and about how to become transformative agents in the world. There is now a vital community of over a thousand Facilitators teaching this process world-wide. Seena’s first book, SoulCollage: An Intuitive Collage Process for Individuals and Groups, was published in 2001 and now a new book, SoulCollage ® Evolving, is out. It has all the basics of the first book and much more. At present Seena leads on-going SoulCollage groups in her area, conducts trainings for Facilitators, and co-leads specialized workshops. She also spends enjoyable time consulting with Facilitators by email and phone, and hearing the ways they are using and adapting this process in many community and work settings. Seena is also a poet and has published a slim book of poems and photos about an old fence she passes each day as she walks in the strawberry fields of Watsonville, California, where she has lived for years and raised her four children. It is titled Journal of a Steadfast Fence and the fence tells about the ups and downs of its aging. Check the SoulCollage® website http://www.soulcollage.com to learn more about the process, to read Seena’s articles, and to see examples of the collaged cards people are creating and ‘speaking from’ to access their inner wisdom. There also is a listing of trainings and workshops being held in many places around the world.