Women's Grit & Grace ~embrace Your Power As A Woman In Life & Love

Life is challenging and life can be overwhelming, so who's got the time or the energy to do or give more? What if I told you that despite what you might believe, life gets better when you choose "being +1". Just what the heck do I mean by that? When you choose to live your life with being +1, you choose to offer yourself as the inspiration, the joy, the smile someone needs that day. Being +1 means committing to a little bit more kindness, a little bit more courtesy, a little bit more compassion you bring through your actions and choices in life each day. Choosing to live as the positive experience that someone you meet, you intereact with, you don't even know may really need that day.  Join me as I share more on how choosing to live as +1 may be the easiest way you have in your power every day to change the world, to bring about the peace we all seek within and around ourselves and our world.

Today's headlines make it pretty clear love is in critically short supply these days, or at the very least, spread too thin. But what would you say if I told you that it's really self-love which is truly lacking? Yes, self-love, for self-love is the foundation of authentic love for another and for the ability to extend love to others. But what exactly is self-love? It's not what you think and why I feel it's important to spend some time talking about it. Self-love is not only loving yourself and caring for yourself. Self love is also the understanding and living of compassion as the most powerful choice one can make. Compassion does not mean letting people treat you badly nor does compassion mean you put up with BS. Self-love is the choice to view and live the knowledge that in the end, love is the only choice which creates healing and making a difference which last. Join me as I share with you how embracing more love for yourself is the most powerful choice you can make for creating more love for our world

So here's the deal-while marketing and your family may make you feel as though you and your life are flawed, what would happen if you picked up the cards you were dealt and played them? Meaning, instead of apologizing for how sensitive you are or how you don't like certain people, you simply allowed yourself to be as you are and went forth into life as such? Too often we censor and distort ourself in order to fit in, to get the approval of others. Yes, we all need community and we all are diamonds in the rough who benefit from our relationships, but how we do so is critical. Seeking to be as everyone else means you deprive yourself and others of just what you were born to bring to others, to the game we call life. Join me as I share how trying to be different from who you are to be something better, actually keeps you from being just who the world and your community needs. Even spirituality is being marketed in ways which homogenize the most intimate and sovereign of all relationships-the one with your uniq

We live in a time when information is abundant as to how to be happy. Even the US Declaration of Independence offers "unalienable right" to happiness as guaranteed by it's government. And yet happiness can be elusive, as realized by any measure of today's level of happiness in the human race. So what gives? Happiness lies in being congruent with your soul's purpose and your own sovereignty. Yet we have been taught our soul is for matters not earthly and to fit in with the crowd keeps you safe and normal. And therein lies the rub-claiming your happiness, your right to happiness, will require you get uncomfortable, take risks, and be true to yourself first. Join me as I share wisdom from around the world on happiness and how to realize more of it in your life and in your relationships. Too many women settle for complaining about their unhappiness and blaming others for it as well. Tune in and learn how to avoid the trap I experience far too many women making in choosing their fears as more powerful than the g

Anger gets a bad rap, especially so for women whose anger may subject them to being called "a bitch, witch, negative"  or worse. By not giving yourself permisssion to feel and consciously engage your anger, you dismiss or suppress an energy critical to your well-being and transforming your life. Anger-as with all forms of energy-has a range from hot to cold, and while hot anger gets most of the press, cold anger is no slouch when it comes to being destructive when not befriended.  Anger is an energy all women will benefit from having a relationship with, for women's history with men has left scars and historical rage, which needs healing for realizing happier relationships with men. Without honoring the anger from our past and transforming it into compassion, peace in our future will not be possible. Join me for an episode certain to be provocative!  Sign up for my enewsletter to read my article on inviting your anger to tea at  www.gracegritandgratitude.com

Women are the leaders the Dalai Lama has said will lead us to a better world. But here's the catch--it won't be through leadership as we know it, nor through power as you've been taught. Women's power is a "both-and" form of power and requires a woman to have an intimacy with her grace grit and graitude as a woman. Tune into this session to learn what you were not taught about exercising your power as a woman and how power is commonly exercised is not a wise choice for women. Learn how power for women is an inside job, one which requires her to be intimate with her soul and spirit as a woman.

Women today are expected to do it all, be it all. And while that may work when you are young or healthy or inspired, what happens when you get overwhelmed, or discouraged, or need some help yourself? Many women simply keep over-riding their own needs to keep up with the tasks of their roles and their jobs, which serves only to deplete their health and their spirit.  If your spirit has gone AWOL, tune into today's show and learn how you can call back your best support for the many roles and responsibilities you have today as a woman. Learn how calling upon your spirit will lessen your feelings of overwhelm and helplessness for meeting the changes and challenges of the roles and responsibilities you have in your life.

Our times are awash in information like never before, yet what do we DO with all this information? Our bodies will have their responses-which we tend to dismiss or medicate-and our mind will be insatiable. Yet, a life well lived is one in which we live OUR life, not the reflections of other's lives.  There is information never before shared but with a privileged few, now yours for the reading. But how do you go from the plethora of information to wise use of the information for your purposes in life? How do you go from "The 10 Steps to Enlightenment" mode of information to using all this information for wise action in your life? In this episode, JaiKaur will share how an intimacy with your self and soul are essential for your happiness and satisfaction. An intimacy in which you learn what to trust within you and then choose to exercise your courage for living what you know to be true for YOU and your one precious life.     

We live in times most interesting, a time when many a truth we were taught is evolving before our eyes. Truths such as what is power, what is family, what has authority are breath-taking in their change. And terrifying can be the change to what we thought was true and secure.  Women have been invited to step forth into more of their power, their impact, and their purpose to be leaders, healers and teachers of the changes we are in the midst of. Yet even planned revolutions bring unplanned course-corrections for staying true and on purpose to the heart of the revolution. Women are being asked to both heal historical rage and wounding while offering forth new forms of power which respect the living and purposes in life. Join me as I share my thoughts of the revoution we have begun, it's traps and it's treasures, and how you can navigate the impacts in your life and relationships. We live in times which can take your breath away and which call upon you to live the grace and grit being born a woman gives you.

Women are gifted with many graces, not the least is the capacity for an intimate relationship with the medicine of their soul. Within your soul are wisdoms and strengths not available through your mind nor through your emotions. Wisdoms and strengths you need for meeting the changes and challenges in your life as a contemporary woman. Life’s changes and challenges are many and meeting them with only your thoughts and emotions will leave you feeling hopeless or helpless about making things better. Learning to respond to life’s changes and challenges with the wisdom and strengths of your soul will grace you with the healing and changes you desire. Your soul medicine as a women is vast and victorious, dependent only upon your commitment to becoming intimate with your soul. When a woman learns how to call upon her soul’s guidance and strength for living her life, her relationships will improve as will her happiness and even her health. Mark your calendar, invite your friends, and learn how engaging your soul me

Welcome to “Women's Grace Grit & Gratitude: Ancient Wisdom for Contemporary Life”. Each week I share wisdom and inspiration for women to live happier and on purpose. As a women you have all the wisdom and strength you need for meeting the changes and challenges of your life when you call upon the guidance and support of your spirit and soul. When you learn to trust yourself as a woman and make your choices with integrity to your deepest values, more happiness in your life and your relationships will be yours! In this episode, JaiKaur talks about how happiness has many myths, one being how others are to make you happy. This myth is a major factor in the break-up of marriages and in the acceptance by women of a life less than happy. Learn how happiness can be yours when you are willing to be the author of the story of your life and update how to be happy as a women in contemporary times!

Welcome to “Women's Grace Grit & Gratitude: Ancient Wisdom for Contemporary Life”. Each week I share wisdom and inspiration for women to live happier and on purpose. As a women you have all the wisdom and strength you need for meeting the changes and challenges of your life when you call upon the guidance and support of your spirit and soul. When you learn to trust yourself as a woman and make your choices with integrity to your deepest values, more happiness in your life and your relationships will be yours! In this episode, I talk about how to not become overwhelmed by all which calls to your heart for healing, concluding you have no power to make a difference. Quite the opposite is true, for when you "care where you care", you show up, speak up, and stand up for what you care about. Women can often feel overwhelmed by their sensitivity and our grace as stewards for all life. And, when you trust where you care, take action in alignment with your care, you feel better and make a difference. Learn how t

Welcome to “Women's Grace Grit & Gratitude: Ancient Wisdom for Contemporary Women”. Each week I offer information and inspiration for women to live happier and on purpose. As a women you have all the wisdom and strength you need for meeting the changes and challenges of your life when you call upon the guidance and support of your spirit and soul. When you learn to trust yourself as a woman and make your choices with integrity to your deepest values, more happiness in your life and your relationships will be yours.  In today's episode, I share how women are afraid of their anger, defaulting to being fake nice instead. Yet, anger is but information that something is off, and ignoring this information so as not to make waves or others uncomfortable never ends well for women. Learn how to engage your anger for what it is-an essential ally-and learn how to truly care for yourself and others by updating what it is to be nice!

Welcome to “Women's Grace Grit & Gratitude: Ancient Wisdom for Contemporary Life”. Each week I offer women information and inspiration for creating a life happier and on purpose. As a women you have all the wisdom and strength you need for meeting the changes and challenges of your life when you call upon the guidance and support of your spirit and soul. When you learn to trust yourself as a woman and make your choices with integrity to your deepest values, more happiness in your life and your relationships will be yours! Today's episode will focus on why simply talking about your problems with your friends or reading self-help books will not create the changes you seek in your life. I know from the priceless wisdom my life experiences have garnered me, how conscious action is needed as well as the inspiration. Far too many women fall into the trap of talking and talking about what they don’t like, yet take no action for making things better. Women who then end up feeling badly about themselves and feel

Jennifer Dawn Gabiola is a poet, designer and inspirational teacher. Her company, Dawning Soul was born out of her basic belief - that we all have our own unique story and innate gifts. And it is essential that people “Live Their Poetry” and share it with the world. She incorporates her personal poetry into her collection of “Poetic Goods” - apparel, accessories and gift items. She also helps to empower people to live to their full potential as their own “Dawning Souls” through personal growth programs, resources and private coaching.

Contemporary spirituality for women is spirituality lived everyday, spirituality that honors their body as a teacher, and spirituality that rests on the foundation of being a woman first and then flowing the roles of living from that foundation. Join JaiKaur today as she talks about how to transition your spirituality from one based on authority outside yourself to authority within yourself, with discernment and sophistication. To learn more about JaiKaur and her services with women to to http://www.jaikaur.com.  

Slim Chandra-Shekar today is a shaman, healer, writer and spiritual coach, a life different from his former entrepreneurial and venture capitalist life, a transformation initiated when his wife was diagnosed with multiple myeloma in 2001 and he left the corporate world to become her primary caregiver. After his wife passed in March 2005, he embarked on what seems to be a pre-destined journey of healing and self-discovery.  He became a certified hypnotherapist and began working with cancer patients for helping them deal with their difficult treatment options. Slim also began to support an orphanage for blind children in Bangalore, India "The Rakum School for the Blind"http:// www.rakum.org and in early 2007 Slim recorded “The Magic of Gayatri” a musical and descriptive journey with one of the oldest prayers known to humanity The Gayatri Mantra www.magicofgayatri.com. (A third of the net proceeds from the CD go to this institution in Bangalore).    With his new partner in life Penelope, Slim divides his tim

Women's spirituality is lived in the temple of daily life, the everyday actions of life lived as sacred. Be it taking the time to make and serve food with love, taking the time to play when the to-do list is long, or knowing how to decipher the hurt in the anger of a communication, women's spirituality transforms darkness into illumination. JaiKaur will muse on how life's challenges offer clear invitations for offering illumination and love.....and women are the masters of doing so in everyday life. To learn more about JaiKaur's services for women, go to http://www.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 ad

Initiation means "to begin" and is the perfect word for reminding ourselves to begin to bring our infinite and divine knowledge and power to our challenges.  Our physical minds and hands alone cannot meet the changes and challenges life is bringing us in spades these days.  Alone we never are if we initiate engaging our infinite power and knowledge for what challenges us, and what challenges us offers us the beauty, satisfaction, and legacy of our infinite, divine, creativity as human beings. Join JaiKaur as she talks about how initiation is our invitation into what we call the divine feminine, what JaiKaur calls our "power with" what challenges us.  It is a highly creative time we live in, simply we will need to meet our times with choices different than what we chose to create it with, for as Einstein offered, insanity is otherwise! For more on JaiKaur, go to http://www.jaikaur.com and learn about her new monthly membership program for living your power, purpose, and passion as a woman!