This interview on Relationship Geekery is hosted by sex positive educator Tristan Taormino of Sex Out Loud on her May 10, 2013 radio show. 

Tristan writes: This Friday is our third interview from the CatalystCon series and the second time we talk with relationship geek Reid Mihalko. This time he brings along his creative collaborator, Cathy Vartuli aka The Intimacy Dojo. They discuss coaching, communicating, and why being relationship geeks can lead to better sex. Reid discusses how he’s improving people relationships by 10 and Cathy shares how she creates a place where people can learn, practice and play the art of intimacy.

Listen (58:07) or Download MP3

Cathy quotes:

“People are holding themselves back by the stories they tell themselves.”

“People are exposed to over 300,000 messages a year saying fat is bad. Half of 10-year-old girls have started dieting. Society has picked fat as a scapegoat, like they have picked other groups as the scapegoat in the past.”

“Most people are shy and awkward.”

“We have so much stigma on our body, when we’re in bed we may not even be present. Be where you are, accept yourself, and CONNECT.”

“Find one area of your body that you don’t hate, and start there. Teach your Being that it isn’t bad to be connected to your body.”

“EFT Tapping helps us face the present NOW without all the stories from the past interfering.”

Your can engage with Cathy as a coach privately or as part of our group coaching program and on TheIntimacyDojo.com.

Cathy and Reid along with Rick co-created Breaking Out Of Your Shell. In this series, we’re focused on basic issues: feeling worthy, having a safe and powerful NO, and making rejection work FOR you rather than against you. So our conversation is PG-13 so to speak in this series. We invite you to learn more.

Reid Mihalko’s Relationship 10x free videos are an excellent resource for lover-types.

How can you be calm, confident, and engaged with your mission when not everyone is going to give you a thumbs up?

Social resiliency is about knowing that you can be “out there” — visible, sharing, being your authentic self — and be surprisingly okay when not everyone is your fan.

In this call on Saturday, May 11, 2013 at 230pm EDT, we’re going to explore together:

• How is resiliency different from detachment?
• How do we use EFT Tapping when we interact with people who criticize, complain, reject us – our message, our energy, our services, our skills, our products?
• Can’t we just get our vibration right so we never experience rejection?
• What is the difference between rejection and divine filtering?

This will be a one hour call and the downloadable MP3 recording is included with your admission. (You do not need to attend “live” to benefit.)

Please join us…as we combine our energy, thoughts, and intentions to co-create a better life for ALL of us.

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(Thriving Now team members will also be joining us… the call is included with team membership! http://thrivingnow.com/team )

Warm smiles,
Rick & Cathy

P.S. Rick recently did an interview on a sister social resiliency topic, EFT For Fear of Rejection In The Age Of Invitation. You can listen here:

http://www.thrivingnow.com/eft-fear-of-rejection-invitation/

Interview with Rick Wilkes by Gene Monterastelli of TappingQandA.com

Gene writes: We live in interesting times. Every morning when I wake up I am bombarded with friend requests, invitations to attend events, fund projects, and try new programs. At the exact same time it is possible for me to go through an entire day and not have one single profound connection with another person.

In this conversation with Rick Wilkes we talk about how scary it can be to put yourself out in the world with the intention of making genuine connections when it feels like we will be judged. This is Rick’s fourth appearance on the podcast. The reason I have him back so often is because he is so insightful!

This conversation is one of my favorites and I really encourage you to listen to it! Listen (46:58) or Download MP3

I’m learning EFT. How often should I tap? Should I tap everyday? Three times a day? Once? For how long each time? — Patty

Hi Patty,

We get that question a lot.

After you have been tapping for awhile, you’ll find a good rhythm and frequency for you. Each person is different and some issues may process more quickly if you stay focused for awhile. Other things may benefit from shorter, more frequent reminders.

To start out with, some people like to tap for a short period (a few rounds of tapping) of time 2-3 times a day, but there isn’t a minimum requirement for this to work. If you tap once a week and it helps, great!

It can help to get in the habit of tapping at specific times so you remember and teach your body that tapping can bring relief. You might tap in the car before you leave the garage for work and before you go in the house after work. That can help you transition and reduce stress.

Rick suggests drinking lots of water, and then use each bathroom break to tap a round or two on whatever is coming up for you. You don’t have to say the words out loud for them to work.

A lot of people love tapping before they go to sleep.

And/or right when they wake up.

You can tap anytime you feel anxious as well.

Some people find that tapping for a longer period of time once a day is more their style. They may set aside 20-30 minutes to tap through a specific issue they’ve noticed. Or they may choose to tap along with an audio recording.

If you have a particular problem you can find articles on many subjects by searching on Thriving Now, and we offer various solutions in our store.

If you find it difficult to remember to tap, or aren’t sure what to tap on, it can help to be part of a group that encourages and offers suggestions. Our group coaching program has 10 or more calls a month where you can tap along or ask for guidance on your issues. There is an extensive library of tapping recordings for you to borrow benefits, and the forum is a caring and safe space to share your problems and get guidance and suggestions. And a lot of members find tapping along with other people helps them identify blocks and fears they didn’t know they had.

As you keep tapping and your body and mind learn how helpful it is, you will probably find it easy to know when to tap. And you’ll learn how long and how often to tap for your vitality and happiness.

Are you happiest when your heart is engaged with what you’re doing? Do you feel satisfied and fulfilled when you love the people you work with and care about what you’re creating in the world?

For people like us, we want to bring our hearts into collaborative work. Sure, we also want to to be logical and productive and make good decisions… which are all wonderful things. But without a flow of love and connection, work feels dry as dust and heavy as lead.

We invite you to our call where we’ll discuss heart-centered work and how you can join with others to make more abundance.

What is your passion? What blocks you from feeling it more powerfully? Who do you want to share it with?

Collaboration and Co-Creation: How to leverage your own skill set and support others to increase abundance
This call took place on Saturday, April 27, 2013 and is now available as part of the extensive Thriving Now Team Coaching Library. 

Most of us have been taught to leave our love and passion at home… to be professional and polished and competitve at the job. And then we wonder why it’s so damn boring and tiring and stress-filled!

What if you brought new energy to your work? What if you invited your passion back into your job?

Can you reconnect with what you started doing the work for to begin with? For us, we coach because we never want anyone to struggle alone with pain the way we did. We want to add joy and value to the life of each tribe member and let the love and healing ripple out and make the world a better place. That’s our passion. We want to help people all over the world to release the fears and limiting beliefs that keep them stuck, so they can live, laugh, and love with confidence.

You may say that it’s much easier with a coaching job than, say, YOUR job. But we can bring this to any job. For instance, Cathy is also an engineer. She is passionate about improving technology. She believes that her work on cell phone chips makes it easier, less expensive, and faster for people to connect and communicate. The smart phone most of us carry in our pockets can do more than a computer that took up a whole FLOOR of an office building in the 1980′s. We can text, call, email, Google, and video chat from our phones. So we can share our love and life with people lots easier.

What are your passions? And how do you want to share them?

Let’s do some EFT Tapping!

Karate Chop: Even though I’ve been feeling disconnected and disjointed at work lately, what if I brought my heart to work?

Even though my work feels like a job, not a passion, what if my heart could engage and create that joy again?

Even though tasks feel heavy and boring, what if I reconnected to my heart and rediscovered my purpose and power?

Top of the Head: It has been feeling heavy.
Eyebrow: I don’t feel connected.
Side of the Eye: I feel bored and distracted…
Under the Eye: When I even hear the word “work”.
Under the Nose: When did I lose my passion?
Chin: How can I bring it back?
Collarbone: I can bring my heart to work,
Under the Arm: And let it guide me and reconnect me!

Top of the Head: I do care deeply.
Eyebrow: That’s who I am!
Side of the Eye: I can retune my passion,
Under the Eye: And start loving what I create again.
Under the Nose: I miss that passion.
Chin: The feeling of jumping out of bed.
Collarbone: The flow of creative energy,
Under the Arm: And productive purpose!

Top of the Head: I’ve been leaving my heart at home.
Eyebrow: I invite it to come to work with me.
Side of the Eye: I ask it to shine.
Under the Eye: To brighten up my day,
Under the Nose: And the days of everyone around me who can see.
Chin: I can ask how each task,
Collarbone: Could add love to the world.
Under the Arm: And I can celebrate my passion,
Top of the Head: And dance with my heart!

Take a deep breath.

What are you noticing after the tapping? Are there good feelings in your body? Great! Or are there some fears you could tap out that might be holding you back?

If you’re interested in creating more collaboration and co-creation, whether you work in a corporation, teach in a school, or run your own business… we invite you to join our Thriving Now Team.

Looking forward to engaging with you,

Cathy & Rick

P.S. These type of calls (and more!) are a part of the affordable team membership.

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Cathy and I were special guests on the Love On Purpose Revolution call on April 16, 2013 which be replayed towards the end of the series. We would LOVE IT if you would add your energy and engage with us on this mission to LOVE with more grace, power, freedom, and CONFIDENCE.

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As I prepared for the call, and looked at my heart’s feelings towards others, this thought kept coming to me:

If we truly want to thrive in love in a world with this much freedom, we need new Emotional Technologies to support us.

Yeah, I know that sounds pretty geeky. Here’s why I feel that way…

When people came together primarily out of survival, the structures that formed — until-death partner pair bonds, extended families (blood ties), tribal identities, church-centered spiritual communities, people-like-me business networks — served to make sure that we “took care of people like US.” There were Rules, Obligations, Commandments. If you didn’t follow etiquette or the dress code or danced the right dance to the right music, the group corrected (punished) you. If you went “too far” you were cast out, expelled, excommunicated.

Our “freedom to love” was predominantly within the boundaries of the tribe (or religious or socio-economic order). And frankly, that is easier to emotionally manage.

Today, we have freedom to love and connect and co-create… to MIX IT UP… with people across the world and of any and every belief system! What’s more, we are free to LEAVE a relationship, our family, our tribe, our church, our country. Such diversity and freedom honestly exceeds our natural emotional savvy.

That’s why so many people have started to re-integrate proven PRACTICES into their life. Meditation changes our brain and makes us more resilient. It is an ancient emotional technology. Prayer does, too. Yoga as well. These practices are healing and help with our emotional resiliency.

For me the pace of life and the dynamic nature of my connections means that I also need tools that help me respond quickly, effectively, intentionally… in the moment. That’s why I’m so in love with EFT Tapping.

The essence of tapping is that:

a) It is available at your fingertips at all times.

b) You consciously tune into your emotional state, both your feelings in the body and the thoughts in your mind  (however painful or negative)… and acknowledge them rather than suppress them.

c) You give that energy a new direction… towards acceptance, confidence, or curious engagement.

d) You comfort yourself with gentle tapping of powerful spots on the body.

Amazingly, in a few minutes you can OFTEN (but not always) go from pissed at yourself, your partner, or your life to being surprisingly OKAY.

And why do I call this an emotional technology? Well, I remember when learning to drive a car that you used to have to try to “pump the brakes” when trying to stop quickly. Today, anti-lock braking systems make emergency stops vastly shorter, easier, and more CONTROLLED. Traction and stability control technologies keep us “on the road” and airbags help keep us alive if we (or someone else) causes a crash.

Emotionally… EFT Tapping can do those same things for us. It can help us feel more emotionally self-managed. It can bring us back to emotional safety and stability when we slip… and when we crash. When done with purpose and practice, EFT builds social resiliency. And social resiliency is crucial if you truly want to live a thriving life, infused with safety, freedom, and authentic expression for yourself and those you love.

So… I hope you’ll join Cathy and me in this mission… and if this speaks to your heart and soul as much as it does to ours, we’d love for you to engage more actively with us.

Warm smiles,

Rick

Letting Your Heart Attract Resonant People (And Filter Out Ones That Are Not)

A part of us wants EVERYONE TO LOVE US. And oh the hoops we’ll jump through…

How would it be for you if your heart could let you know gently and with clarity who is right for you… who comes into your world with the right pre-requisites to be a match for work, for play, for love, for co-creation?

We’ll explore the energies of “attraction” vs. “self-expression” — and how that fits into the Law of Attraction. And we’ll do EFT Tapping togther!

This will be a one hour call and the downloadable MP3 recording is included with your admission. (You do not need to attend “live” to benefit.)

Please join us…as we combine our energy, thoughts, and intentions to co-create a better life for ALL of us.

This call took place on Tuesday, April 9, 2013 830pm EDT. If this is the type of call you would like to benefit from in the future, we invite you to join our Thriving Now Team… the recording of this call is included with team membership!

Warm smiles,

Rick & Cathy

by Cathy Vartuli

I just heard that someone I cared about passed away. She wasn’t someone I was close to day-to-day. In fact I hadn’t seen her in a couple years. But she was very kind to me when I was a confused and lonely teenager, and I liked knowing she was in the world.

I didn’t expect to feel the grief and sadness I’ve been experiencing. She was someone who knew and loved my father, had fun stories about things we’d all done together, and she genuinely seemed to love me.

Most of us have lost someone, and grief can come in layers. Just when we think we’re done… we find another chunk of it. Unexpressed grief can keep us from living as fully as we’d like.

Whether you lost a family member, a beloved pet, or heard that a college roommate passed on, doing some tapping can help you release the loneliness and sadness that can well up unexpectedly… or lurk in the corners of your mind.

One of the things I love about EFT Tapping is that it allows us to test how clear we are. Tapping won’t create beliefs that weren’t there. It always leads us closer to the truth. So if you tap on something that isn’t true for you, all you get is clarity. It’s delightful to do some tapping on an issue that used to be huge for you… to discover that it’s much smaller or might even have disappeared!

Would you like to do some tapping on grief? On missing someone you love? Tap along. Feel free to change the words to better match what you’re feeling or use the words shown here and get clarity on where you are at as you release your pain.

It is ok to cry and laugh and feel angry or sad as you tap. See if you can allow all your emotions and feelings as you process. Doing so will reduce your internal resistance and clear much more deeply. And if you have lots of pain around loss, get some help from a coach or therapist so you can be supported while you clear.

Karate Chop: Even though she died, and I feel unexpectedly sad, I am ok right now, and I am loved.

Even though I miss her being part of the world, love is eternal and I can allow that love to support me now.

Even though this grief makes me feel so alone and isolated, thousands of people have tapped along with these true feelings and I can tune into that energy and feel the community and strength we all generate.

Top of the Head:  I’m so sad!
Eyebrow: My heart hurts.
Side of the Eye: I feel alone.
Under the Eye: I miss her!
Under the Nose: I wish she would hug me one more time.
Chin: I wish I could tell her I loved her again.
Collarbone: This hurt is more than I want to face.
Under the Arm: And I wish someone would make it all go away.

Top of the Head: She did love me.
Eyebrow: I’m grateful I got to experience that.
Side of the Eye: This grief hurts.
Under the Eye: And I want to clear the pain so I can connect with the love.
Under the Nose: I am ok right now.
Chin: Even though this hurts.
Collarbone: I can love and support myself…
Under the Arm: And ask my friends and family and tribe for kind attention.

Top of the Head: I’m glad she existed.
Eyebrow: She added value to the world.
Side of the Eye: I miss her so.
Under the Eye: And I can feel this grief…
Under the Nose: And release it.
Chin: So I can remember the love and joy more clearly.
Collarbone: I honor my feelings…
Under the Arm: I invite love…
Top of the Head: And I remember the warmth of our connection.

What are you noticing in your body now? Has the grief gotten a bit easier to be with? Or has it moved to a new area of your body?

It may seem like it’s never ending, but there are only so many tears. This loss may remind you of earlier pain. Reminding yourself that you have support and new ways to take care of yourself can reset some of the fear and resistance. Often our earliest pains were when we were little… and had few resources and little understanding of what was going on.  Connecting with your power and options now can comfort and help heal those old wounds.

When we lose someone, we often feel alone and isolated. Turning to friends, family, coaches, or therapists can make a big difference. Having support to work through grief can make the process much less painful and often makes it quicker.

Know that wherever you are, we’re holding good thoughts for you. Allow yourself to connect with the other people who have tapped on this type of pain, and found peace, joy and renewed love. Remember you aren’t alone!

With love,

Cathy

P.S. During times like these I cherish my circle of support. If you’d like Rick and I and our tribe to be a part of yours, drop us an email at support@thivingnow.com.

Do you feel stuck with regret over past relationship mistakes? Are you in a relationship and having trouble keeping the passion and connection alive? Are you wishing and hoping that one day you’ll finally meet the love of your life?

Wanting to have it all – a great career, love, and family life – is causing so much stress and heartache in our world today.

When we first start looking at all we want to accomplish around love, it can feel overwhelming. Some gentle EFT tapping can help us open up to new solutions and new approaches…so we can start attracting the love we long for. You DO deserve love!

Karate Chop: Even though I’ve been hurt before, and I’m afraid of being hurt again, I have new ways to soothe myself now. As I release old hurts, I can move through new ones faster and more easily. I’m used to grieving like a 5 year old… and now I’m ready to move on and learn to love and live like a powerful adult!

Even though I haven’t found the love I longed for, or it didn’t last, I can learn new skills and ways of relating that make this easier and more delicious. I don’t have to be stuck with old, outdated ways that never really worked.

Even if I have amazing love in my life, I choose to nurture it and honor the joy it brings. I can see what works for others and reinforce my knowledge. We can always learn and grow.

Top of the Head: It hasn’t always been easy.
Eyebrow: Sometimes I thought it would never work!
Side of the Eye: I thought I would never have love.
Under the Eye: I would never get past the heartbreak.
Under the Nose: I thank my younger selves for doing the best they could.
Chin: I let them know it doesn’t always have to hurt this much.
Collarbone: We can heal and grow and learn…
Under the Arm: And find better, more powerful ways to connect.

Top of the Head: I need love.
Eyebrow: I miss love.
Side of the Eye: Humans require love.
Under the Eye: I haven’t felt powerful about getting it.
Under the Nose: I didn’t know where to find it.
Chin: Sometimes my parents weren’t good at love either.
Collarbone: I can appreciate their struggle,
Under the Arm: And still give myself room to upgrade.

Top of the Head: Love is a nutrient for me.
Eyebrow: Something I need to make my life work.
Side of the Eye: It brings me joy,
Under the Eye: Delight, and warmth.
Under the Nose: It makes sense to figure out how to allow it,
Chin: And how to nurture it once I find it.
Collarbone: I’m a powerful, intelligent being.
Under the Arm: And I don’t have to do this alone.
Top of the Head: I open my heart and my mind to love, and information about creating it!

Take a deep breath.

Notice how your body feels. If there are particular stresses or pains, jot them down. Write down your thoughts and questions. Then allow the Universe to bring you answers… in the form of this summit, or whatever channel feels right to you. May you have an abundance of love… starting with the love and intention in this email…

With Love,

Cathy & Rick

P.S.  Share the love and forward this to your friends, colleagues and family members – anyone who wants more love in their life – they’re sure to appreciate the invitation.

Why is clearing trauma so important and so beneficial in this day and age?

It can fundamentally change how we look at the world and how much possibility we can create!

Think about a time 10,000 years ago. If you broke your leg back then, you might have fashioned a split out of a couple of tree limbs and some leather. But from that point on, didn’t you just have to cope? There were no X-rays or surgeons, no plaster casts or titanium pins. Your leg might hurt, it might heal badly and make it hard to move, but you didn’t have much choice…

Your choice was either to cope or be leopard food. And so, the humans that survived to procreate developed coping mechanisms. We CAN just “get by.”

Unless you actively choose to see things from a new perspective, you will be subconsciously stuck in that survival mode… even if there IS a healing option available right at your fingertips!

Let’s say we lived in a world where—if you got a rock in your shoe—that was it, you could NOT get it out. It’s hopeless. The rock was something you’d have to live with forever. What would friends and family say to you about this new pain of yours?

“Well, you just gotta do what you gotta do.”

“You just gotta learn to make the best of it.”

“Stop whining and tough it out!”

And so you’d cope, right?

You’d start by trying to keep the weight off of it, trying to walk in a way that caused the least pain. Your body and mind would do everything they could to adapt to that rock. Ouch. After a month or two, you’d have disconnected from your foot, wouldn’t you? And hate that part of you…

“Well, I’ve got one foot still. I can just kind of hobble around…”

Your gait would change to minimize the pain. Now what’s going to happen to your hip? It’s going to cope, right? It’s going to start adapting. Your back’s going to change. Your whole spinal adjustment may change. And pretty soon, you’re still making it… despite that rock in your foot. And if there was nothing else that we could do…well, that’s the best that you could do, right?

Luckily, we live in a world where you CAN take rocks out of your shoes. And we have marvelous technologies that let us do much more than cope with even serious issues.

We live in a day now where someone who loses their lower leg on one side, but is an athlete, a sprinter, a runner… they may seriously looks at whether they should have their other leg amputated so that they can use amazing new technologies that allow them to sprint even faster than most humans.

We’ve entered a period of medical technology where if you have broken your leg and it was set wrong and is now three inches shorter, they would look at re-breaking the leg in order for you to be set right.

Old, Unhealed Trauma Can Be Set Right Now, Too

And now, we’re looking at trauma as something that can be dealt with in the same way… that can be INTERNALLY SET RIGHT even decades later. But culturally, when I grew up, if something bad happened… the spiritual answer, the most divine answer about what to do if someone did you wrong was…

Forgive and forget. With a heavy emphasis on the forget part! If you can’t forgive, at least forget. And stop whining about it! (That was the best they had to offer.)

Suppressing unhealed traumas is a great coping mechanism… but ONLY if you can’t do anything better about it.

There’s still something actively going on inside of you around undischarged trauma… they are like rocks in your shoes. 

Now, with tapping and our understanding of trauma, we can clear out the “old rocks from our shoes.” Or, we can live in denial and wonder why we limp through life.

We’ve seen amazing changes in people’s lives once they start releasing old traumas. The freedom and choice they discover is beautiful to see. This is why we’ve put so much time and love into creating our Trauma Relief products.

Trauma Relief Workshop
If you use EFT with others, and you’d like to deeply understand how tapping plays a key role in gently and quickly supporting the trauma healing process, we HIGHLY recommend this pre-recorded workshop with a helpful transcript and handbook. If you have trauma of your own, this can help you clear and release in profound ways. http://www.thrivingnow.com/tn-trworkshop

Childhood Trauma Relief Starter Set
For those who want an in-depth but shorter overview of childhood trauma, how it effects the body and mind, and effective ways to transform those old “rocks”, this package will guide you through the process and give you examples. http://www.thrivingnow.com/pkg-cctrauma1/

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EFT Tapping is one of the most powerful tools you can have at your fingertips. It can help your primitive brain release old beliefs… so you finally see a path you can follow to getting what you’ve always wanted… with less painful limping and a lot more grace.

Thanking the parts of you that coped for all that time can help the release go easier, as well. It’s easy to blame the parts of us that didn’t take the rocks out our shoes earlier… yet they were doing the best they knew how with what they knew then.

Karate Chop: Even though things were tough, I did learn to cope, and I’m grateful I had that skill. I thank the parts of me that did their best, and I let them know they can relax now.

Even though coping was the best I could do back then, I have new options now. I invite my system to see these new possibilities… and to help me pull the rocks out of my shoes.

Even though there is trauma stuck inside, I’m learning new ways of releasing, and I look forward to moving forward easily and with freedom!

Top of the Head: I learned to cope.
Eyebrow: I tuned out and ignored the parts of me that hurt.
Side of the Eye: I had to… in order to get by.
Under the Eye: It was the best I could do.
Under the Nose: And now I’m not even sure where all the rocks are.
Chin: I’m so used to these coping mechanisms.
Collarbone: I think it’s how life is.
Under the Arm: It’s been this way for so long.

Top of the Head: What if I could get help?
Eyebrow: What if I could tap along and get reminded of my “rocks”?
Side of the Eye: I can learn what effects other people…
Under the Eye: And get ideas for me and my tribe.
Under the Nose: I can learn new techniques for removing rocks.
Chin: I can regain my freedom and my clarity.
Collarbone: I am tired of limping.
Under the Arm: I want all of my power back!

Top of the Head: I was stuck for a long time.
Eyebrow: I love how resilient I am becoming.
Side of the Eye: I can take the best from everything I learn…
Under the Eye: And create a toolbox…
Under the Nose: Custom fit for me.
Chin: I’m glad I have the ability to cope.
Collarbone: And I’m ready for some new techniques and approaches.
Under the Arm: I remove the rocks from my shoes…
Top of the Head: And step forward with new confidence and ease!

Take a deep breath.

When you clear old traumas from your body-mind, you are literally transforming your emotional world. When you do, you’re not only taking the rocks out of your shoes, you are changing your emotional weather, smoothing out the bumps, and activating energies within you that were shut down as part of coping. This absolutely helps you live, laugh, and love with confidence.

A group of us meet through the telephone and internet to do just this. If you’d like to have a circle of support in your life, we invite you to join us as part of the Thriving Now Team.

http://www.thrivingnow.com/team

Originally published November 22, 2011