What a Month!

Hello Beautiful Human, How are you feeling?

I’ve been talking with many passionate caring humans who are struggling to stay both informed AND not overwhelmed with outrage and anger?

This month alone we have witnessed multiple ICE murders and a continuation of extreme inhumane violence by the current administration. (Feel free to reply with the tidbit of news that is running around in your head – it’s good to vocalize your care and concern, seriously I can help hold it.)

Protective policies for our health, the earth, and the most vulnerable continue to be stripped away in exchange for private profiteering.

An honest desire to stay informed quickly leads to emotional dysregulation.

A refusal to “stick your head in the sand” seems like a sentence to chronic outrage.

It doesn’t have to be this way. Thanks to the tools and practices of working with the embodied nature of emotions and conscious leadership.

I refuse the ‘either/or’ and ‘all/nothing’ approach that leaves us feeling helpless and outraged, or disengaged and apathetic.

Through conscious emotional processing and mental fitness I choose to embody an empowered way forward in my leadership. Below I share what that looked like this month.

Staying engaged without the toxic rage or debilitating overwhelm and moving forward with powerful agency is the work we do inside my coaching containers.

Our imagination, courage, love and vision are an astronomical force in creating a more equitable, regenerative, and thriving future.

Your unique skills, perspective, and brilliance are needed.

We cannot let our brilliance lie dormant under fear, anxiety, self-doubt, frustration and disillusionment.

Coaching is the process of unlocking your empowerment and compassionately addressing the blocks keeping you stuck.

Through coaching:

• We cultivate courage to take aligned action.
• We hold space for the emotional load of life while also identify your inner resources to show up with love.
• We build the mental fitness to focus your energy on desired outcomes without feeling like you aren’t doing enough.
• We allows you to dream big AND demonstrate to yourself, by working with your mindset and nervous system, that it’s possible.

If and when this feels like your next uplevel, book a discovery call to explore coaching options.

July’s Emotional Capacity in Practice:​​

At the beginning of this month the USA celebrated its 250th year since founding. In reflection, despite past years of disengagement, I found myself stepping in to a place of self leadership and ownership of my role in democracy. I shifted from seeing myself as a victim to a co-creator in what is possible for our society. You can my reflection in the July 4th issue.

Just three days later I witnessed on instagram a father, not much different than my own, be shot and killed by a federal agency bloated with funding and blatant racism. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was shot and killed by an ICE in Houston TX. As I write this I can feel the energy of anger from the tips of my toes through my body and I have the urge to yell and scream about the injustice. (I have taken time yell in my car and I wrote about it in my newsletter the following week.

I let my body feel it and move through the emotion and then powerfully returned to my vision board and conviction: Abolish ICE.

Not a week later I found myself listening to the utter heartbreak of a young wife and mother who’s world collapsed with the murder of her handsome husband. Joan Sebastián Durán Guerrero who was shot and killed by ICE in Maine. Did you know the electrical charge of our hearts can be felt outside of our body? Our bodies experience and hold the emotions we feel. I honored what I witnessed and released it as not mine to hold alone. I cannot change her story, but I can show up utterly clear that ICE has got to go.

These moments and the ones I know unfortunately will continue to come could render me emotionally drained and helpless, but leadership asks me to develop the mental, emotional, and embodied resources to transform the fear and anxiety into commitment, courage, and empowered loved filled action.

These internal resources doesn’t just happen. They are cultivated.

As Mr. Araujo’s son said this weekend at an ICE OUT rally in Houston – Let us be fueled by Radical Love… we cannot fight hate with hate.

Our mind is a garden that we are responsible for planting, pruning, and weeding. Our emotional capacity is capable of expansion when given attention.

Coaching is not therapy, it’s a different kind of safe space to develop and embody the emotional skills to navigate whatever arises in your leadership.

We have the power to decide how we want to interpret this moment in history and choose how we will engage.

If you are struggling to step out of outrage or have numbed yourself to the pain by over-working, over-thinking, or over -(fill in the blank), I want you to know, there are ways to find your grounding and calm and to navigate this chaos with empowered joy and ease.

I teach the internal leadership skills necessary to build resilience, create & contribute to healthy organizational cultures, and stay physically well.

As I considered the summer and what so many social impact leaders are facing right now created my next Holistic Leadership Masterclass:

These virtual masterclasses are my generous offering to my community and anyone desiring to make a different AND lead more effectively.

For this class I’m collecting donations to support legal aid for immigrant children. Here’s a one minute video on what’s currently happening. Doing something (even if it’s small) is better than nothing.