Life's Toolbox On Empower Radio

Have you ever left a conversation questioning whether your thoughts actually made it across to the other person? Have you ever walked away from a chat with a friend and could not remember much of what you talked about? Communicating is not always easy. “Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.” ~Stephen R. Covey On this show we chat about common listening mistakes, the LOVE model and more. Join in as we move towards Authentic Communications.

Are you the responsibility enforcement officer in your life? We often find ourselves upset when someone else’s definition of responsibility is not the same as ours. This causes us to act from a place of anger in an effort to rectify the situation or to take on everyone else’s responsibility and just do it ourselves. Either way, we cheat ourselves, the situation and others. This tool is about taking realistic responsibility, embracing it with love and knowing all is well. Life can be a beautifully serene experience when we serve ourselves with a healthy dose of responsibility and allow all else to be as it is.

On this episode we dive into the act of blaming. Using some recent examples of how blame sneaks into our lives, we take a look at what blaming is and what it does to us, we look at why it happens and then we look at what we can do instead. Join us and learn how to take control back of your life.

This is the show you will want to make sure you hear. We are introducing you to one of the most amazing people in the world. This is a person you would love to have in your life for guidance, encouragement and strength. You will want to have their embrace and their love and their peace as a way to feel loved and peaceful. You will want to have their intelligence and wisdom to assist you in moving forward in life. You will want to take them home with you as your own personal guru. Well you can. You can have them with you at all times…and you already do. This person is you, your truth, and your essence. Listen in today as we tell you how amazing your essence really is and how you too can connect with the real you. Awareness is the key and you can have that by simply acknowledging the truth within you.

Not to be confused with the life after death spoken of so much in religion, living after death is a talk about living after someone in our life has transitioned beyond the human realm. Whether your relationship was good or bad, if it held any energy at all for you, there is an adjustment, a change that you will need to deal with. Listen in and open your awareness to the change faced when someone near to us has passed.

Are you living behind a mask? Is your façade hiding your true identity? Often times we tend to live life as a performance of what we believe everyone else needs to see to prove we are adequate, good enough or valuable. We hide behind illusions of what the world tells us to be in hopes of being loved. It is time to live beyond a performance and allow your beautiful, fabulous, powerful authenticity a chance to shine. Be a beacon of your own truth out into the world. Live your truth now and free yourself to be you. Join our chat as we talk about Living Beyond Performance.

Spring has sprung for most of us and everywhere we look there is new life to be seen and appreciated. Flowers are blooming and trees are budding out. Here where I live we see new colts and calves playing in all the pastures. Even in religious circles we see the focus this time of year is on breaking through death and awakening to new life. Our dear friend Jan Lundy joins us to talk about the importance and possibility associated with beginning again. Jan has created a beautiful Sadhana to assist in preparing your soul for vibrant, new growth. This is a 28 day contemplative practice will uplift you and empower you to make a fresh start, rededicate yourself to your inner growth, cleanse and release what no longer serves you and this is just the beginning! Join us as we chat about beginning again, spring back into life by fully living.

Remember back when inner child work was all the rage and it seemed that every self help teacher was creating a program to help you tune into your inner child? Well the many programs available kind of went away, but the importance of knowing, acknowledging and engaging your inner child is still extremely important. This discussion will be a great reminder of the importance of that connection; that relationship. This topic is important enough that it is presented to you in two shows. The wonderful Cindy Hively joins the show as my guest for our chat and promises beautiful insight and clarity. Last week we talked about how to recognize and acknowledge your inner child, this week we chat about honoring and embracing the child within.

Remember back when inner child work was all the rage and it seemed that every self help teacher was creating a program to help you tune into your inner child? Well the many programs available kind of went away, but the importance of knowing, acknowledging and engaging your inner child is still extremely important. This discussion will be a great reminder of the importance of that connection; that relationship. This topic is important enough that it is presented to you in two shows. The wonderful Cindy Hively joins the show as my guest for our chat and promises beautiful insight and clarity. This week we will be discussing how to recognize and acknowledge your inner child as well as the importance of doing so and next week we will talk about how to embrace and honor that part of you.

We face many objections in our lives each day. Some of them are tiny little issues that are easily moved aside and others are perceived as quite large. They come in many forms with the dreaded "NO" among the most common. Pam Thomas is here to chat about overcoming these objections. We are talking about where our fear of objection comes from and what to do with it so that we can move beyond the NO's and into the life we are meant to live.

You survived Valentine’s Day. Did you elevate the love between you and your spouse? What are you going to do today and tomorrow and the next day? How do you elevate love beyond Valentine’s day? Listen in as we chat about elevating and expanding love everyday. Your relationship deserves more than a few special days per year to express your love, it is a daily action. We have some pretty good ideas for taking your relationship even further.

Valentine’s Day is here and relationships are on everyone’s mind. If you are in a relationship, you are more than likely looking for the perfect gift and hoping to expand love. If you are single chances are you are either wishing you were in a great relationship or you are wishing the holiday would just go away. This show is for everyone and we are talking about being in relationship with you first. Being in complete harmony with yourself opens you to create the perfect relationship with you first. From there you are able to create a beautiful relationship with others or live fully and happily with your self. Listen in and learn how an open heart guides your way.

Are you getting enough respect? What about from your spouse or life partner? What about from your boss? How about from your kids? Friends and family keeping your respect meter fed? We all enjoy the feeling of being respected. Many of us work diligently to be respected. When was the last time you respected yourself and knew that it was enough? As with many of the best things in life, we serve our own highest good when we provide ourselves with what we desire. If respect is on your wish list, then give it to yourself. Tune in and catch the conversation on our toll for the show “Respect Yourself."

Do you hold any anger toward yourself, someone else or a situation? Do you resent someone else or a situation? Are you saddened by an action you took, the way you handled something or the way something took place around you? Are you withholding love or kindness from yourself or someone else? Then you are damaging you. These negative feelings only serve to block the flow of life and love. Free yourself from the anger and pain and live the life you desire by forgiving. Forgive yourself, and allow anger, resentment and pain to be released so that love and wholeness can take its rightful place in your life.

Welcome to 2016. Have you set your goals, resolutions and intentions for the year? How are you doing on them so far? Do you have long range plans to help you stay focused on them all the way through to completion? This year we are moving beyond setting intentions, resolutions and goals; we are connecting with them. Join in as we discuss how connecting with our intentions gives us a beautiful touch stone to completion of our intentions and so much more.

This holiday season give a better present. Give the present no one else can give and know that it is truly a gift like no other. Give the gift of your presence. Be present and give the gift of your heart and awareness. By giving this beautiful gift to others, you also allow an amazing experience for yourself. Join us on the show as we talk about fully experiencing the holidays in a brand new way. Create memories that will stay with you and others forever. Let go of all that stands in the way of you being here now. This is a season of light, let your light shine.

How would you like to experience more peace in your life? How about more peace in your neighborhood, your city or town, your state or province; what about your nation? How amazing would it be to experience peace on a global scale? We have a lot going on around us right now. We are in the middle of the holiday season and the world seems to be getting crazier by the minute. Peace would be nice but it seems like something that will come once we are done with all our running around and once the world settles down a bit. We do not have to wait. Peace is available to us all, right now. Jan Lundy joins us on this show to talk about peace; why it is important, how it can be beneficial in our lives and how we can bring make peace our go-to response in life. We will also be discussing her newest book entitled, Portable Peace which is a beautiful work and so very important for the world right now.

Do you live peacefully this time of year or do you allow the holiday season busyness to run you ragged? Does the holiday season fill you with joy or are you overwhelmed with a mile-long list of to dos? Slow down this year and give yourself the gift of peace and self care. Consider your own joy throughout the season while you are considering others. The holiday season can be a loving, joy-filled time in your life. It is a choice you make for your own well-being. Listen in as we chat about ways to practice self-care through the holidays.

Happy Thanksgiving!!! Join us on this show as we talk about authentic gratitude. With Thanksgiving approaching, take gratitude to new levels. Create a gratitude practice that expresses heartfelt appreciation and thankfulness in all situations. Open your awareness to all there is around you worthy of your gratitude. Slow down and appreciate your life and those who share it with you. Express love, peace and gratitude to yourself and others throughout the holiday and beyond.

How is your life flow? Is it easy and effortless? Does it seem like all is flowing to you in a way that gives you peaceful living or do you feel as if you are struggling through life? Every single thing that occurs in our lives is merely a step in this dance that is life. Good times and bad all make up the dance steps that have gotten us to where we are now. If you love where you are in this moment, it is a little easier to accept that the steps you took were essential to the dance. If you are in a place that is not comfortable and easy for you, those steps may seem a little less vital. Relax into the steps of the dance and enjoy the journey.