Taking leaps. Small ones. Big ones. In between ones. Whether we are leaving a job or changing careers... or moving our home... or starting or ending a marriage or relationship... or choosing to make a change, break a pattern or complete something without knowing exactly what's on the other side...

Taking leaps is like an olympic sport most of us didn't get training for. So we figure it out as we go. If we are fortunate, we find guides along the way who have leapt before us.

People who can give us some wisdom and practical steps for how to take leaps with grace. People who can support us to tap into our gumption to fuel the courage and clarity we need to leap.

I've lept many times into the unknown, followed the unconventional path, made choices for freedom over security, trusting that it would all work out in the end. So far I am still standing, still smiling and while I have some stretch marks from the stress that leaps almost always bring, the rewards in my heart and soul bank far outweigh the stretch marks.

Taking leaps is how people who live fully and freely live. We don't wait for all things to be in place or feel comfortable. But we also aren't 'dummy pants' and leap with no net. And the net isn't always what you think it is.

Wisdom Byte: If you never step into the unknown you just keep repeating the same reality.

I sat down to create this session of Feminine Power Time #191: Taking Leaps, Doing Beginnings, Endings, and Cycles with Grace & Gumption, on the 6th evening of sleeping in my new house, in a new city on the other side of America. A marker of 9-month cycle of making signficiant and intentional leaps in many areas of my life - from career to relationship to health to home to financial. Whew! Exhale.

So many of the people I advise and coach, and the women in the leadership councils and wisdom schools I founded, are also moving through big cycles - some they welcomed with opened arms, others they've resisted for some time. 

I imagine you might also be going through a cycle with endings and beginnings too, whether you are conscious to it or not. 

So i poured some tea, put on my downshifting white jammies, sat at my desk for the first time in 9 months and created this for you - to share what I've learned and noticed about cycles, about going through this current transition and what I'm seeing in other conscious humans currently. 

I've got some inquires, stories and elevated perspectives to share that I hope will give you some grace and gumption in whatever leap you are making or is calling you. 

I'll end us with 4 inquiries to elevate you and/or do with a friend. 

See you there!
Christine 

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Elevation Wisdom Inquires

Write these out and contemplate them or conversate with a freind 

1. What is the cycle, begining, ending I am in, approaching or resisting? 
2. What do I know?
3. What am I unsure of?
4. What do I need to take the next step?

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Upcoming Happenings & Trainings & Retreats

1.  Self Love Essentials Professional Training - www.SelfLoveTraining.com 

2.  Women's Leadership Experience - A Path to Sustainable Success, Impact & Wellbeing for professional women daring to do it differently. www.PathofSustainbleSuccess.com 

3. Gather and Guide Your People: Transformational Program Design Training, Incubator and Council www.GatherandGuideYourPeople.com 

4. Receive Equinox Retreat - Chicago - www.PowerPauseRetreat.com 

** To be notified of upcoming progams, sign up for Christine's twice a month wisdom letter here https://christinearylo.com/wisdom-letter-signup/

Or join the Feminine Wisdom Cafe (its free) - private online community site  https://community.christinearylo.com/share/ICzZ3ZdHAspOUkyQ?utm_source=manual

Fierce Grace. If you asked me to describe embodied Feminine Power in two words i would say "Fierce Grace." When we are truly rooted in our unique expression of fierce grace we have access to  our full power, presence, purpose and wisdom.

Fierce grace comes through our presence, through our words both spoken and written, through our passion and purpose, through both courage and compassion - it's all about embodied pure heart.   

Now more than ever the world needs each of our pure hearted power, presence and purpose in the world. Imprints of what it looks, feels, and sounds like to embody both fire and water. 

This month is the two year marker of my fourth book, Overwhelmed and Over It was sent final edition to the printers ... this book was the first book in which I fully unleashed and embodied the energy of fierce grace. I had spoken from this place many times, including this podcast and all of my programs and trainings. But a written book or really any written form is a different animal. One I think all of us can use some wisdom on.  

I was inspired to re-run this conversation to dive into how we can share our words and writing with the world.

Whether you are a writer, or want to be, or you want to write a book, or a blog, or just show up more powerfully in your authentic presence in your communications -- or just start writing for JOY because you have something to say or you just want to! COME to this conversation. 

I invited Kristine Carlson, NY Times Best Selling Author of Don't Sweat the Small Stuff for Women, founder of the Book Doula incubator and community that starts every September, and a woman who has been like a big sister to me in my writing and book career to join us for Fierce Grace Talk #1: Sharing Your Words & Writing with the World"

It seems like the perfect time to pull the veil back and have a heart to heart about what writing a book is like ... how it catalyzes your personal growth ... and what support and structure is really needed. And HOW to just get started.

And to also explore at this time when so many voices are speaking out there -- how do YOU want to show up, speak up and share ? In a way that matters to you? Feels good to you? And is adding to the world you desire to create for yourself and others? This is the power of Fierce Grace. 

Take us with you for a walk.. pour some tea and settle in... take us out in the sun to do some earthing, heck pour a bath or snuggle up in bed ... it's a heart to heart ... supporting us each to share our words and writing in the world in ways that light YOU up and light up those you touch. 

Wherever this finds you... the words you share and the presence you share them through - in your voice, your energy, your purpose - matters. Nothing is too small, we start where we are. 

You matter. Believe it.

Christine 

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Resources for Sharing Your Writing and Words with the World

the BOOK DOULA incubator and community with Kristine Carlson - learn more or reach out to Kris for a conversation at www.BookDoulas.com ... her incubator starts early September. Check it out and you can also schedule a conversation with her. If you decide to do it, Kris offered 10% savings to all of us. Just use christinearylo10 as the discount code. 

Learn more about Kris Carlson, her blog, podcast and books at www.KristineCarlson.com 

Every year I take a pause to make this these inquiries: "What is calling to be liberated.. within me, within my work/career, within my relationships, and within my physical foundation of health/wealth/home?"

And "What 'skins' am I shedding/ do I need to shed, so I can more powerfully, fully and freely express as who I am now, and who I am evolving and elevating into?" 

Think of your 'skins' as the roles, responsbilities, robes of expression, and robes of repression you have taken on consciously or unconsciously. 

I do this practice every year because it's one of the most empowering, effective practices I know to support us to make conscious change. 

When you actively and intentionally choose to catalyze yourself, and you pause to put language to what is being called to catalyze (in your life, relationships, career, money, health, etc.), you are much more likely to have the resiliency needed to meet the challenges that arise... and the wisdom to create the reality your heart and soul are calling you to. 

The practice uses the Feminine Super Power of Catalyze - which is:

The power to use the circumstances & situations that life brings you as liberators and elevators that lift you (and others) up into expanded levels of consciousness & reality. To initiate and call forth oneself out of the comfort zone, through the lightening fire of transformation with focus & quickness. And as a result, take a self-empowered step into your evolution, liberating yourself to a more full & true expression. 

This year, I felt inspired to bring us all through this ritual here in episode 190: Shedding What No Longer Serves. Tune into as we:

• Invoke the feminine super power of catalyze for whatever catalyst is calling you or is present for you
• Invoke both courage and compassion to support you to meet whatever challenge and stretch is showing up for you
• Boldly name what you would love to catalyze, and be honest about what is calling you to catalyze (that you may be avoiding)

At the end, I will take you through a 5 step process to reveal what wants to be liberated and freed within you, what skins are ready to be shed, and what support you need to make the transformation with grace.

I love this super power and this ritual - see you there!
Christine 

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Upcoming Classes, Feminine Leadership & Professional Develoment Programs 

1. Choosing ME & WE - 4 Week Relationship Pop Up with me and Noah Martin, my partner.  www.ChoosingMeandWe.com 

2. Overwhelmed and Over It: Path to Sustainable Success, Impact & Wellbeing - 4 month Council & Experience for Professional Women - Starts first week of October. www.PathofSustainableSuccess.com (registraton opens 8/17)

3. Self Love Essentials - 12-week Training for those who guide others in emotional, mental, physical, spiritual and relational wellness. Starts Sept 13th  www.SelfLoveTraining.com 

4. Gather and Guide Your People - A Feminine Leadership Training, Creative Catalyst & Collaborative Council - for people who do or desire to create potent experiences -workshops, programs, classes, circles, events, retreats - online and in person - that lead to real connection & lasting transformation... AND sustain you. Starts early November. www.GatherandGuideYourPeople.cpm  

To get notifications of events, programs and happening - subscribe to my Wisdom Letter e-mail list at https://christinearylo.com/wisdom-letter-signup/

Or join the Feminine Wisdom Cafe, our private online community at https://community.christinearylo.com/share/ICzZ3ZdHAspOUkyQ?utm_source=manual

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Inquiries from the Skin Shedding Ritual (from the Feminine Wisdom Way book, page 162)

1. What inside of me desires to be more free to Express?

2. What do I desire to be more fre to RECEIVE? 

3. What skins am I shedding (name them)? Roles, responsibliities, robes of expression, robes of repression

4. How have these skins served me? Why must I shed them now? 

5. What support do I need as I make this transformation? 

About two to three timess a year I feel the call to do one of these Feminine Wisdom for Intense and Changing Times sessions - where we take a pause, put our wise woman / wise being glasses on and take a deeper look at what is going on in the Field (the bigger collective world) and in our field (our own inner experiences, relationships and reality.)

So we can see what is real, what is needed, what the patterns are, and find the wisdom to navigate the now and the next. 

This session was taped live during the time span between July 25th and August 8th which is always a powerful time to elevate and expand your consciousness ... and liberate yourself from stuff you just don't want to carry with you or create from (you can google Mayan Day Out of Time, Lammas, Leo New Moon, or 8 8 Lions Gate to learn more). 

The intention of our exploration is to give you perspectives & practices to prepare you for the now and the next. 

Some of the wisdom models, practices and tools we'll work with is:

• Triangle of Transformation
• Sovereignty in the Swirl
• This is not that
• Co-Create from Momentum and Intention 
• Be aware of the now and what's needed, AND keep the long game in mind. Put energy in both.
• Focus on your part and your design. If you are not clear, create this space to get clear this year.
• EOE - Evidence of Elevation
• EOM - Evidence of Momentum

Lots of good wisdom to share - that's all I am going to say here. Tune in for more. Resources below. 

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Upcoming Classes, Feminine Leadership & Professional Develoment Programs 

1. Choosing ME & WE - 4 Week Relationship Pop Up with me and Noah Martin, my partner.  Starts August 9th. 

2. Overwhelmed and Over It: Path to Sustainable Success, Impact & Wellbeing - 4 month Council & Experience for Professional Women - Starts first week of October.

3. Self Love Essentials - 12-week Training for those who guide others in emotional, mental, physical, spiritual and relational wellness. Starts Sept 13th  www.SelfLoveTraining.com 

4. Gather and Guide Your People - A Feminine Leadership Training, Creative Catalyst & Collaborative Council - for people who do or desire to create potent experiences -workshops, programs, classes, circles, events, retreats - online and in person - that lead to real connection & lasting transformation... AND sustain you. Starts early November. www.GatherandGuideYourPeople.cpm  

To get notifications of events, programs and happening - subscribe to my Wisdom Letter e-mail list at https://christinearylo.com/wisdom-letter-signup/

Or join the Feminine Wisdom Cafe, our private online community at https://community.christinearylo.com/share/ICzZ3ZdHAspOUkyQ?utm_source=manual

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1. Triangle of Transformation - video and model posted on Feminine Wisdom Cafe here. https://community.christinearylo.com/posts/how-we-make-change-meet-uncertainty-the-wise-way

2. The Feminine Super Power of Catalyze Podcast #161 - https://christinearylo.com/2021/08/161-feminine-super-power-catalyze-release-the-comfortable-embrace-the-call-to-shift/

Are you clearing your emotional and energetic fields? What do you do when you get "gooped" by the world, a person, the news, the physical and virtual environments you find yourself in, or even by your own emotional triggers?

"Gooped" is my partner Noah and my term for what happens to us when we get emotionally, mentally, energetically, and physically weighed down, swirled up, affected by external forces. 

In the times we live in, it's really wise to ask yourself : What am I doing to keep my energy clear? 

Are my energetic and emotional boundaries strong? How do I know when they are weak? And how do I strengthen them?

Today, in part 3 of our 3 parts series called STAY LIGHT - how do we keep our life force strong, our minds clear, our emotions stable, our radiance bright in our current reality - individually and collectively - I invited in the person who often supports me to "de-goop"- my partner in life, love, business and service, Noah Martin.

The centerpoint of our exploration today is this:

"What does it mean to be gooped? How do you know you are gooped up? How does it happen? And what do you do in the moment or as prevention to keep the external forces from knocking you off kilter?"

Clearing your emotional and energetic fields is a must in our world today. Just like you brush your teeth and get in your steps. Or you get too much plaque and too much fat, which creates dis-ease.

Our exploration will take part in four sections:

1. Wisdom About Energy - What we need to know about our energetic connections and energy fields - and how they interact with other people and situations.

2. 5 Kinds of Boundaries - Emotional, Mental, Energetic, Physical and Environment. How to work with yours, know when your boundaries have been breached and how to re-find your center and clear your field.

3. Goop Prevention - what you can do proactively to not get gooped. 

4. Emergency Care & Culitivating Your Energetic Support Team and Structure - practices & modalities that can support you to clear your being , strenghten your internal system, and clear out energetic and emotional interference.  

Get your practitioners, practices and people in place that keep you at a high frequency and keep your being light. Get these into your rhythm to support your radiance. 

Tune in. We look forward to diving in with you. Stay Light! De-goop daily, weekly and monthly :) 

With great heart,

Christine and Noah

p.s. BIG HEART SHOUT OUT and THANK YOU to those of you who have been leaving reviews for the Podcast + Overhwelmed and Over It Book, helps more people find us and tune into the wisdom. XOO

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RESOURCES 

1. Meditations by Noah - subscsribe and get on your Podcast app - Special Ungooping Meditation - And also tune in here. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ungoop-meditation/id1456311845?i=1000570044008

2. Stay Harmonized Practices to stay clear, calm and centered www.stayharmonized.com 

3. Overwhelmed and Over It Book - Section 2 Liberate Your Life Force www.overwhelmedandoverit.com 

4. Daily Morning Flow Kit - book+ video - www.DailyFlowPractice.com 

5. Monthly Live Stay Harmonized Sessions - RSVP on the www.FeminineWisdomCafe.com 

6.  Energy Clearing Sessions with Noah - contact him at Noah@CoachingByNoah.com 

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MODALITIES for De-Gooping and Staying Light TO CHECK OUT

• EMDR
• Seemorg Matrix
• Family Constellations 
• Chi Gung
• Tai Chi
• Kundalini Yoga
• Kriya Yoga
• Pranayama 
• Earthing 

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ELEVATION ACTION:

1. From Noah - Take 10 Deep Belly Breaths to start your day - to find aligned connection to the world, and release what is not yours to hold. 

2. From Christine - Get your practitioners, practices and people in place that keep you at a high frequency and get these into your rhythm. 

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PRACTICES from the PODCAST:

In the Moment:

1. What of this is mine? 

2 What support do I need to protect my boundaries, so I can make right choices? What allows me to be supported so I don’t get cooped?

3. Don’t bite the fishhook or the bait. 

Preventative

1. Where do you continue to get gooped? Think relationships or situations or environments. Look at where this is happening:

• Reveal it. 
• Get Real with what keeps you stuck in the energy. 
• Then Make Shifts and Changes or Set Yourself up so you can be in those situations without getting gooped. Reduce the energy that is creating the groping. 

2. Start your day connected & protected - with your daily morning practice, everyday (see Overwhelmed and Over It, Section 2 Liberate Your Life Force + Get the Daily Morning Flow Practice Kit)

3. Who are the practitioners? the practices? in my regular rhythm that clear out the goop so it doesn’t build up. Find who and what works for you.

Freedom is one of the most essential human needs, and desires. People have died fighting for it, many have never tasted it, and most of us, even if we live in a 'free' world have many ways in which we are NOT free. 

Every year as we pass through July 4th marker, which in America is celebrated as Independence Day, in a country that is supposed to be founded on freedom (but in many ways is not, and was not for all people)... I take a pause to shine a light on all the ways I personally am not free or feeling free, and what is happening collectively that is so not about freedom of the people or the planet. 

I tune in every year also for what conversation to have with all of you here at Feminine Power Time around Freedom. And this year, well wow,  unprecented with the repealing of rights to our body, rights to be safe from gun violence in schools and public spaces, rights to vote, rights to affordable housing, and ....

So today I tuned in after my morning practice to what was needed for ust to gather around ... and out flowed Feminine Power Time #187: Fighting for Our Freedom, the Feminine Way. A power pause to consider how we channel our energy and influence.

We'll dive into:

• Freedom "Power Points" - where to focus our attention, energy to stand for freedom vs. add to the chaos and waste our energy 
• Practices for how to emote our anger, rage, grief, and to express from wholeness vs. the wound, so we add to mometum of elevation 
• Perspectives on freedom and control through our "wise" eyes - to see what might 

I will lead you through: 

• 5 inquiries to ask yourself at this time to choose how you can consciously channel and direct your energy, time, money, life force and influence.  

There is wisdom here for navigating these times.

Not to just get through them. But to break through. 

We've each got a part to play. We are all being called to awaken even more. And none of us can do this on our own.

Tune in to this touchstone for your radiance, rootedness and rememberance.

Christine 

p.s. THANK YOU for those who have left reviews and ratings for the Feminine Power Time Podcast and Overwhelmed and Over It book. Appreciate you leaving a review for one of these. Helps others find the light!

Resources & Links

Upcoming Programs

1. FLOW Mid Year Power Pause - www.FlowPowerPause.com 

2. Strengthening Sisterhood, Healing the Wounds Between Women So We Can Lead Together. Interactive Wisdom Session - https://christinearylo.lpages.co/strengthening-sisterhood/

 Practices for Staying Light

1. 4 Rs Morning Meditation - Root Down. Rise Up. Relax Back. Receive. Access video here.  

2. Daily Flow Practice Kit - Practices for Staying Clear and Centered. Video + Book. Access here.

3. The Radiance Wheel - See samples here on the Feminine Wisdom Cafe.

Resources

1. Join us and Get connected to other conscious women. www.FeminineWisdomCafe.com 

2. Overwhelmed and Over It Book - www.OverwhelmedandOverit.com 

Power Pause Inquiries Shared

1. Where am I being called to direct your life force, energy, time, resources and influence these next 6 months? 
2. What have I been tolerating that is no longer working? Personally? Professionally? 
3. What is my part now? 
4. Where are my community touchstones?
5. What is calling for my devotion this next 6 months, so I am deeply supported and sustained?
6. What do I need these next 6 months to stay light, keep bright, and stay focused?  

Today we dive into this inquiry: "What is draining, dimming or distorting your radiance? " Remember, Radiance is your light.

The brightness and strength of your radiance effect everything from your wellbeing, your physical health, your ability to get your gifts and genius into the world, your access to your intuition and power, and how you feel about  yourself, your life and the world. 

Our theme for this series is STAY LIGHT - not as a spiritual platitude but as a directive from the Universe and a real practice we put into place in our daily lives. Last session we explored what Radiance is, and what restores and retains yours.

In this Feminine Power Time #186, our intention is to illuminate what's draining or dimming your radiance, so you can see it, name it and be at choice with how to work with the forces that pull you down and dim, so you can can stay light and bright even in this challenging time in the world.

We'll start where we always start which is where you have the power within you to make shifts, no matter what the outside world does.

We'll dive into 5 different ways I've noticed our Radiance gets drained,  dimmed or distorted because of what's happpening within us. to help you remember, we use alleteration, giving them all F's ... for "What's f-ing with my Light! :) LOL> we need to stay light as we dive into this heavy stuff.

Here are 6 ways we drain, dim or distort our Radiance

1. Forcing

2. Forgetting 

3. Feeling Like...

4. Frustation at Feeling Stuck

5. Fragmenting Your Focus 

6. Frequency 

I'll share the signs these are present within you, give real life examples and share some of my practices for how I transform the radiance dimmers, and elevate my mood, perspective and energy. 

At the end I'll guide you through a embodied meditation that tunes you into where your Radiance is getting drained, and a 3-step process to rise out of the muck into the light. 

Lots of good stuff in here. Exhale. This is all in service of supporting you to name and see the patterns in what messes with your Radiance, so you can catch it sooner, shift the energy, and find your way to back to the Flow and the light beam of the "Force" :) Like in Star Wars :))

See you there.

May the light always glow and flow within you, 
Christine 

p.s. THANK YOU for those who have left reviews and ratings for the Feminine Power Time Podcast and Overwhelmed and Over It book. Appreciate you leaving a review for one of these. Helps others find the light!

Resources & Links

Upcoming Programs

1. FLOW Mid Year Power Pause - www.FlowPowerPause.com 

Practices for Staying Light

1. 4 Rs Morning Meditation - Root Down. Rise Up. Relax Back. Receive. Access video here.  

2. Daily Flow Practice Kit - Practices for Staying Clear and Centered. Video + Book. Access here.

3. The Radiance Wheel - See samples here on the Feminine Wisdom Cafe.

Resources

1. Join us and Get connected to other conscious women. www.FeminineWisdomCafe.com 

2. Overwhelmed and Over It Book - www.OverwhelmedandOverit.com 

Stay Light Elevation Practice Shared 

1. Step One: Get real. How does this manifest in my Body? Being? Balance?

2. Step Two: What do I need that I am not receiving?

3. Step Three: What do i need to get back into the flow? back into the
"beam"?  

STAY LIGHT. These are the two words that will frame and focus this series, with the intention of supporting you to restore your "radiance" levels to be bright and vibrant, and then keep that brightness and lightness strong, growing and glowing the rest of this year. 

RADIANCE is one of those words we hear but why does it really matter? Wouldn't it be better just to focus on self-care, wellness and stress-management? Well if you want more "to dos" sure, you can go that way.

Or you can go deeper to get what is at the roots of what keeps your wellbeing strong - mind, body AND spirit and heart. Like instead of focusing on the leaves of the tree, you get into what's happening inside the trunk and within the roots and soil that allows that tree to stand tall, strong and briliant even in stormy weather. 

Radiance is defined in the dictionary as brightness and lightness. And there is SO much more!

In episode #1 of 3 in our STAY LIGHT series we will dive into:

• What is Radiance and why it matters
• How Radiance dictates your health, relationships, ability to attract and receive opportunities, intution and overall mental and emotional wellbeing.
• The difference between life force and radiance, and where Radiance lives in your body.

We'll pose this central question for you to contemplate and give you creative processes to reveal practical wisdom you can apply to how you structure and make choices these next few months. 

"What sustains and supports my radiance?" 

I will share some of the common things that support and restore our radiance such as these wisdom bites from two beings whose work I respect very much:

"Radiance is a function of stillness." - Ariel Spilsbury

"Radiance acts as a hidden instrument of your intuition."  - Richard Rudd

Lastly, I'll lead you through a meditation and visualiization that starts the creative juices flowing of what lifts you up and lightens you up in 7 areas of the foundation of our radiance.

And share how you can take this and create what I call the "Radiance Wheel" - which will support you not to do more, but to put structures in place and make choices to keep your light shining and wellbeing glowing, for many months and years to come.

As leaders, change makers, beings daring to do things different to create a better more beautiful world, we need to Stay Light, even in, especially in the face of challenge and chaos.

It's HOW we lead and live through this time.

Tune in
See you there

Christine

p.s. Remember: SHARE this podcast with a friend and explore Radiance together.

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HAPPENINGS

1. Flow Power Pause - starts June 22 - Register at www.FlowPowerPause.com 

LINKS

• Overwhelmed and Over It book - www.OverwhelmedandOverit.com 
• Feminine Wisdom Cafe - www.FeminineWisdomCafe.com 

I titled this episode of Feminine Power Time: "If Mothers Ruled The World: Embracing Our Collective Power to Create a More Sacred World" with the intention for it to be center point we could stand in, together, to look at what is happening in the world - that is so not honoring the sacredness of life, of women, of children and really of humanity.

I offer this as an invitation for us to take a step out of the ideals, politics, ideology and polarizing forces that have kept us stuck in a reality that keeps humans fighting against each other, vs. coming together as human beings, living on a living planet, to focus our power, wisdom and resources on creating a 'sacred world' -- sacred meaning "Devoted to wholeness, with respect, without violence to the self or others."

One is which we stop asserting our power and beliefs over one another. 

In wisdom traditions, we are taught not to defend our position or have all the answers. 

We are taught that when things seem insane, when we don't like what we see, to step back, to elevate so we can see the whole, to make an inquiry and then sit with it. And we wait for wisdom, which often comes in the form of an inquiry to arise. This inquiry opens the portal to a way to see things differently. 

The inquiry I received was "What if Mothers Ruled the World?"  Which doesn't only include people who give birth to human children. 

Wisdom also teaches us how to speak from both fierceness and through grace. To create a field that connects and opens. Which was my intention.

Tune in. Bring an open mind and open heart. Take in what resonates. Leave what doesn't. Most of all, I am inviting us to open up our imaginations. To see through our wise eyes. To see the reality playing on the world stage.  To see and speak what could be. 

See you there,

In devotion to love,

Christine 

Hello Dear One ... Every May I love to re-listen to and re-share this episode on MOTHER LOVE which I recorded in 2017, and the wisdom still stands... and the message still so needed for us all to hear, contemplate and put into practical action. I've updated the start and end with a special reading and practice this year.
What is Mother Love? Mother Love is so much more than we think it is.) So many of us are feeling stretched - being called to make changes, expansions, trust. In times like you need more "mother love" - it's so powerful! MOTHER LOVE does not just come from your birth mother.  And since most of us aren't taught what that is or how to source it, I am replaying this Feminine Power Time. If you've never heard it, tune in. If you have, re-listen this is medicine and a message that will bring clarity, confidence and courage to you at this time....

"THERE IS A GREAT MOTHER LOVE AVAILABLE THAT CAN ACT AS THE SAFE AND SOFT HARBOR YOU NEED TO STAND STRONG + FEEL SUPPORTED. IT WILL HOLD YOU, SOOTHE YOU, AND GIVE YOU UNSTOPPABLE COURAGE."

When you read the words ‘mother love’ you likely go right to thinking about the mother who gave birth to you or the mother who raised you. And while that mother definitely has a role to play in our lives, she cannot be our only source of “mother love.”

Mother love is... a specific kind of love that every human being needs – we don’t outgrow the need for it, although we sadly forget how much we do need it.

Mother love is… the deep, all-embracing, all-accepting, nourishing, nurturing, warm, safe, supportive love that soothes the places inside our hearts that feel scared and lonely.

Mother love is… the strong love that we can fall into when we are stressed, stretched, uncertain, and feeling like we just can’t handle what’s happening in our life.

Sourcing Mother Love is not something most of us were taught how to do. In this Feminine Power Time with Christine Arylo: Mother Love: The Feminine Love That Will Hold You Through Transition:

• Reveal why one mother cannot be our only source of love – and how embracing this can wipe out all kinds of baggage and free you to receive the support, nurturing, courage, acceptance, patience, understanding and compassion
• Define Mother Love – this is SO much more than the story or situation between you and your birth mother. Even if you had the greatest mother growing up, your need for more Mother Love doesn’t end.
• See how the lack of Mother Love is often at the root of things like loneliness, feeling like you don’t belong, fear, not feeling like you have enough, are enough, not being cared for, not feeling supported  – these patterns will keep showing up if you don’t get to the root
• Explore the powerful 3 Sources of Mother Love that are here for all of us - there is SO much of this support here for us beyond what we have been taught exists.
• Learn simple practices you can do to invite this powerful, potent, feminine love into your heart and life –  including the Great Mother Bath

P.S.
If you have not gotten your copy of Overwhelmed and Over It: Embrace Your Power to Stay Centered and Sustained in a Chaotic World... here's the link - Get a copy and join the women daring to do it differently:

www.OverwhelmedandOverit.com 

This book is at it's heart mother love ... first advocating for ourselves and those we love and lead to be sustained, nurtured, cared for, safe, supported ... so then we can create organizations, a society, a culture, a world that reflects that for all people and planet. 

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Other Links

1. Sovereign Woman. Sacred Relationship. wisdom session. Get access here.

2. Read the full write up and definition of Mother Love on the Feminine Wisdom Cafe and share how you receive Mother Love. https://community.christinearylo.com/posts/mother-love-the-feminine-love-we-need-but-that-cant-come-from-just-one-person

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How do you stay centered, clear, calm and sustained as you go through changes in your life - relationship, career, home, health? Whether you want the change and are intentionally creating it or it's a happening that you didn't ask for but find yourself in, when you can name the change as a 'threshold' you are crossing and moving through elevates everything. 

Almost everyone I know if they are aware, conscious and choosing to grow through the catalyzing times we are in, is walking through a threshold crossing. While they are always challenging, they don't have to take you down or drive you to push through or run the other way.

There is wisdom - practices and perspectives - to share and apply now and in the months and years to come to whatever changes and shifts we find ourselves in -- in ways that empower us to be in co creation with the Universe and each other. 

Most of us didn't get this wisdom in our traditional education or leadership training. I've crossed thresholds many times (more on the word threshold in the Podcast) and have learned some things I thought might help bring more ease, empowerment, and grace to you. 

Wisdom and pratices that seem simple that one could discount them for lack of significance. But in truth, true wisdom is usually stated quite simply but is anything but simple.

In this episode of Feminine Power Time #182: Staying Sustained Through Change: Practices & Perspectives for Making Shifts with More Ease, we will dive into some of these such as:

• Thresholds - what their nature is and why you want to name yours 
• Purposeful Patience
• Focused Fluidity 
• It's Happening!
• Travel in Flock Formation
• Wise Advisors to the Left 

And also we'll dive into some of the teachings in Overwhelmed and Over It about sustainable change and growth and apply them to whatever current shifts you are going through, including:

• Setting the pace and rhythm of your day, week, month and year
• 3 Harmonic Rhtyhms of a Sustainable Pace

And I will walk you through practices to:

• Keep your heart and spirit light vs weighed down
• Keep your mind clear and open vs. future tripping and wound up
• Keep your body free from holding stress 

Tune in. See you there. 

Christine 

p.s. This week my ask is for you is to rate, share or leave a review on the podcast page. Would so appreciate it!

>> Go to Itunes here and click Listen from Apple Podcasts and scroll to bottom where it says Write a Review. Or do it from the Show Podcast Home page on your podcast app.

Happenings - RSVP and Attend

1. Sovereign Woman. Sacred Relationship. Wisdom Session. Live May 1st. Also Recorded. RSVP. https://christinearylo.lpages.co/sovereign-woman-sacred-relationship-wisdom-session/

2. FLOW Mid Year Power Pause - Starts June 22nd.  Learn more www.FlowPowerPause.com 

Resources

1. Overwhelmed and Over It Book - www.OverwhelmedandOverItBook.com 

Elevate the Consciousness and Conversation

1. Choose one wisdom perspective or practice from the podcast and share it with a friend.

2. Come over to the Feminine Wisdom Cafe and share your ideas in the conversation from last week's podcast "What is Sovereignty" -click here.

Self Empowerment.... Be Empowered... Own your Power ... Stand in your power ... these are words that we see and hear alot more these days, but what does embodying our power really mean? What is self-empowerment? What does sovereignty have to do with all of this?

How do you know if you are coming from your pure power rooted in wholeness or distorted power rooted in woundedness? How do you reveal where you are giving your power away - leaking power - in subtle but signifcant ways?

I've been exploring, researching and teaching self-empowerment as one of the 10 branches of self-love for over a decade. I first heard the word sovereignty in 2006 and it rang through my body like a deep truth I knew in my bones, but didn't have a mental understanding of. 

Being the wordsmith and wisdom student I am, of course I looked up the current definitions of both - unsatifactory. I started studying power and realized pretty quickly how distorted our cultural concepts and expressions of power are. And I dove deep into where we as humans, especially women and girls, give away our power in unconscious ways. Or express power in distorted ways that actually diminish our influence.

Over the years I have created new defintions of power and sovereignty, practices to strengthen both, and ways to reveal where our leaks and strengths lie.

For starters - here's the definition of self-empowerment

Self-empowerment is choosing to take care of and responsiblity for your life by acting to create the life you really desire, without apology or requiring approval from others. 

In this episode of Feminine Power Time, #4 of 4 in our Self Love Series, we'll dive into the top branch of the Tree of Self Love, Self Empowement: Power Leaks, Sovereignty, Embodying Our Pure Power :

• Define Self Empowerment and Sovereignty
• 5 Signs of a strong self-empowerent and 5 signs of weak self empowerment 
• Difference between 'power' that is reckless , suppressed or distorted in you, and power rooted in wholeness 
• 5 Power Leaks - which are affecting you
• How this all shows up in our relationships to others, ourselves and the organizations we work in/with
• How to speak from and stand in your pure power in everything from relationships to salary negotiations without being an ass or a pushover.

I'll guide you through some self-reflection inquiries as well. If you have the Madly in Love With ME book or Overwhelmed and Over It, grab them as I'll be referencing them in our conversation and exploration. 

And come over the Feminine Wisdom Cafe where I've posted the full definition of Sovereignty and we're inviting everyone to share what Sovereignty means to them. 

See you there!
Christine 

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Go Deeper. Get Connected. Receive Wisdom, Structure & Support.

1. Wisdom Session: Sovereign Woman. Sacred Partnership. Live May 1st, or receiving recording. RSVP and get access here.
2. Burnout to Balance - 40-Day Practice. www.burnouttobalancepractice.com 
3. Overwhelmed & Over It! A Path to Sustainable Success - 16 week transformational experience,using Christine's newest book, to release ways of working and relating that drain, distract and distress you. And embrace different ways of achieving, leading, succeeding and living that support and sustain you.  Register now or at any time www.OverwhelmedandOverItProgram.com 
4. Harmonize to Rise 1:1 Transformational Mentorship with Christine Arylo- learn more www.harmonizetorise.com  
5. Get your copy of Overwhelmed and Over It: Embrace Your Power to Stay Centered and Sustained in a Chaotic World  www.OverwhelmedandOverit.com

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Connect on the Feminine Wisdom Cafe -www.femininewisdomcafe.com

Join the conversation! 

What does Sovereignty Mean to You? 

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Here's the Self Love Tree one more time.

Join Christine Arylo for this Feminine Power Time, POWER PAUSE - HARMONIZE: 4 Inquiries to Shift Your Habits, Choices, & Relationships into Harmony for the Months Ahead. One of the four Power Pauses she shares each year, this one focused on what wise leaders and people do:

1. Illuminate the imbalances in the different realms of your life - so they don't become drama, disease, disaster and distress 
2. Shift habits and patterns in your daily life that might have been aligned before, but need to shift as you head into this next cycle 
3. Focus on and committ to the intentions, projects, relationships that are ready and ripe to grow and prosper 
4. Set a new rhythm for your day and week that supports and sustains where you are now, and what you are creating and managing these next three months, into June Solstice. 

When you pause at near the equinoxes and solstices, your internal rhythm aligns with the natural rhythm... you gain the power to reset habits that might have been okay in months prior but need a shift.

And you gain clarity on how to focus your life force so what you spend your time, energy & money creates what you desire.

Power pauses are personal and organizational leadership best practice, a wise way to run your business, organization or team. And I believe a must if you want to stay sustained and sane in a world in which we feel so much pressure to do so much. And then don’t have what we need to sustain ourselves.

Every year I hold power pauses at this 4 key shifting points, the equinoxes and the solstices, March, June, Sept and Dec - within my Feminine Wisdom Way training, some virtually, some weekend retreats and some for companies and organizations.

I do this because this yearly practice of pausing 4x a year I believe is something most of us where not taught how to do, but when we do it, everything in our life works in better harmony. It’s how I run my life, business, partnership, relationships, and grow what is important to me.

Each power pause has a different focus and flavor depending on the time of the year.

In Feminine Power Time, I can’t share with you entire power pause process for March Equinox but I can give you a 50 minute power pause with 4 simple but mighty inquiries - like a mini Harmony Adjustment for your life

1. Look at your sacred work and career - what is in harmony? What is out of harmony? What is calling for your attention? 
2. Look at your relationships - what is in harmony? What is out of harmony? What is calling for your attention ? 
3. Look at your health, wealth, home - what in harmony? What is out of harmony? What is calling for your attention now?
4. What if you chose to create from a place of joy? What would JOY feel like in you or for you?  

Bonus. What is ONE habit or pattern in your morning flow that isn't in harmony to keep doing into this next season? RELEASE this. Then what is ONE habit or pattern you can EMBRACE and place into your morning flow this next cycle?

We don’t give up everything or go militant. We choose a few things to elevate and release, and also receive pleasure too.

Tune in. 

Listen to the power pause. Journal on the questions.

Invite a friend to do the Power Pause too and ask each other the questions. And support each other to make soul-aligned, supportive, sustainable choices. 

With Great Heart

Christine 

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Go Deeper. Get Connected. Receive Wisdom, Structure & Support.

1. Burnout to Balance - 40-Day Practice. www.burnouttobalancepractice.com 
2. Overwhelmed & Over It! A Path to Sustainable Success - 16 week transformational experience,using Christine's newest book, to release ways of working and relating that drain, distract and distress you. And embrace different ways of achieving, leading, succeeding and living that support and sustain you.  Starts April 11th. Register now or at any time www.OverwhelmedandOverItProgram.com 
3. Harmonize to Rise 1:1 Transformational Mentorship with Christine Arylo- learn more www.harmonizetorise.com  
4. Connect on the Feminine Wisdom Cafe -www.femininewisdomcafe.comJoin the conversation!
5. Get your copy of Overwhelmed and Over It: Embrace Your Power to Stay Centered and Sustained in a Chaotic World  www.OverwhelmedandOverit.com

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For a visual of the 8 Realms of a Whole Life, from the Overwhelmed and Over It book - its here on the Feminine Wisdom Cafe

https://community.christinearylo.com/posts/12674162

Self-compassion, self-care and self-pleasure are three of branches of self-love that make up the 'heart line.' When these kinds of self love are strong within us, we are stronger and healthier in our hearts - emotionally, physically and spiritually.

With a strong heart line of self-love we are able to be both compassionate and courageous. Able to give sympathy and empathy to others, with healthy boundaries, and without becoming too emotionally entagled that we lose ourselves. 

We have the internal foundation to both give and recieve, without guilt. Able to give to and support others and the work and causes we care for, and receive what we need to be sustained and valued in our exchange. 

Instead of giving and giving like well that runs dry, we give and receive, so the water keeps flowing. So instead of feeling like we have to sacriifce our souls for work, success, stability or a cause, we feel nourished.

We RETAIN our radiance vs become dried up prunes, burned out lights, and self sacrificing martyrs or machines. 

This heart line trifecta is core to our power, our presence and our personal wellness and happiness. But like most of the realms of self-love, few are educated on what self-compassion, self-care and self-pleasure really are. And even fewer are taught how to practically apply this to our lives, relationships, work, and choices. 

Which is why in this episode of Feminine Power Time #180: The Heart of Self Love: Self-Compassion, Self-Care & Self-Pleasure (#3 of 4 in our Self Love Series) we will dive into each of these three branches including:

• Self Compassion - 5 of the 8 facets of self compassion and how to identify what kind of compassion you need most right now
• Self-Care - what self-care really is and how to tap into your true needs so you give and receive, both.
• Self-Pleasure - this is how your SOUL gets nourished. 

I'll lead you through a meditation for each branch to tune into the ENERGY of these branches  and give you a PRACTICE for each. SO we can infuse this into your life now.

The truth is - we can do more for the world and those people and causes we love when we are full in our hearts. 

Self sacrifice to the point of making ourselves sick, resentful and giving in ways that are not valued or given a harmonious exchange is a learned behavior. Supported by the burnout matrix.

You can choose to liberate yourself out of the burnout matrix, and in doing so, you unleash more of your radiance to be a light in this world.

Tune in. And then come to the personal wellness and leadership wisdom session - Overcoming Overwhelm - and we'll dive in more.

with heart

Christine   

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Wisdom Sessions + Transformational Progams with Christine

1.  Free Wisdom Session: Overcoming Overwhelm: Cultivating Sustainability in a World that Needs So Much. RSVP and Receive Access Here.

2. 4-month Transformational Experience: Overwhelmed and Over It: A Path to Sustainable Success. Starts April. Learn more www.OverwhelmedandOverItProgram.com 

3. Yoga of Self Love - www.YogaofSelfLove.com 

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Here's the Self Love Tree -

What is self-trust? How do you know if your self trust is strong or weak? And how do you strengthen your self-trust? I would love to live in a world in which all people from 11 to 111 knew the answers to these questions... where we were taught the fundatmentals of self trust this from a very young age ... but alas, we are not there yet.

But change starts with each of us, so today we take a deep dive into self-trust, these inquiries and apply this self trust practically to your life now ... where you need it the most.

This episode of Feminine Power Time - "Strengthen Self Trust" is the 2nd in a 4 part series on Self-Love. Self-trust is one of the 10 branches of self-love.

When I created the body of self-love work that breaks self-love down so you can see where you are weak and strong, the metaphor of a tree came through. Self-trust is the trunk of the tree - everything stems from here. Self-acceptance is the root ball. Self-worth the roots.

Self trust is: 

Choosing to listen to and follow the guidance of your inner voice, believing you know what is right for you, even when other people think or say otherwise.

Join me for this exploration as we:

* Illuminate the signs of a weak and strong self trust 

* How self trust shows up in our careers, relationships and life choices.

* I pinpoint from a self love perspective, what we need to do as adults to regain and rebuild self-trust 

* I take you through one of the most powerful self trust processes I created, to bring self love to the places and ways you have not followed and betrayed your inner knowing and guidance ... which when healed, keeps you from making unconscious choices. 

If you want to learn more about self-trust, read chapter 8 in Madly in Love with ME and chapter 1 in Overwhelmed and Over It. 

A little heads up: Be prepared to connect with yourself at a heart and self honesty level. Nothing to be scared of, going here is where your power and freedom is. Just wanted to let you know we aren't skimming the surface here when we dive into self-love. 

I'll share my journey with self-trust from a self-love perpsective too. I wouldn't ask you to do something I have not done myself, more than one time.

With great heart, 
Christine 

In 2008, I founded the international Day of Self Love - February 13th -  to bring a deeper and practical awareness and understanding to self-love. This was meant not to be one day to celebrate ourselves, but a day to pause and look within at our inner foundation, and reveal what kind of self-love we needed to receive and strengthen this coming year. And then practically choose to do so.

You see, "Do I love myself?"  is not a yes/no question. There are areas you are strong and weak in. Areas that need tending THIS year. Self-love, or a lack of it, is at the root of the choices we make everyday, the big life choices, and the way we feel in relationship, career and own skin. Self love is primary to emotional, mental and physical wellness. 

Our leadership presence. Our prosperity. Our sense of belonging and being valued. Our thoughts, emotions, health. All linked to self-love.

But most of us were never educated on the different kinds of self-love - what I call the 10 branches of self-love. And in the world of business, money and 'serious' things, self-love is often fluffed and woo wooed away. When honestly if self-love was part of primary education and a sign of a healthy leader, we'd have less narcissitics, less greed, and more of a society where sovereignty and unity could co-exist and healthy inter- connection was the norm.

There is SO much power in exploring and embodying each of the 10 branches of self-love which make up the "Self Love Tree."

Which is why, this month, we'll explore 4 of the primary branches, one at a time, with perspectives, a practice and inquiries to ponder. And then I encourage you to put them to practice to what you are desiring to create or dealing with in your life, career, wellness and relationships. 

Today, in Episode 178: Self Acceptance & Self Worth we explore:

• The Self Love Tree and the 10 Branches of Self Love
• Reveal where you are weak and strong in self-love, and where it sits in your body.
• Self-Acceptance, what it is and how it affects all areas our lives, including our confidence.
• Reveal where you are rejecting parts of yourself (ouch!) 
• Find what parts of you are calling you to embrace them, so you can be your full power and presence (exhale)
• What to do with the toxic habit of Comparison  (you'll LOVE this).

Self Acceptance is the base of the ROOT line of the self-love tree, and our bodies. So it informs everything from your self-care to your self-esteem and self-trust.

Tune in. 

Try the practices.

Take a self love pulse check and make a self love promise this year. 

And exhale - we are in this together.

Big heart, 

Christine 

p.s. Come by the Feminine Wisdom Cafe (my private online community) and share your Self Love Promise and Branch for this year.  

https://community.christinearylo.com/posts/drafts/make-your-2022-self-love-promise-how-will-you-stay-true-to-yourself-this-year

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RESOURCES:

1. The Self Love Promise Kit - www.SelfLovePromiseKit.com 
   
   
2. Madly in Love with ME Book - www.theSelfLoveBooks.com
   
   
3. Path of Self Love Website - www.PathofSelfLove.org 

Embodied Self Love Experiences & Trainings

1.  FOR YOURSELF: Make it a year of Self Love - The Yoga of Self Love - receive practices, wisdom & creative exercises, one branch of self love per month www.YogaofSelfLove.com

2. FOR GUIDING OTHERS: Self Love Essentials Professional Training for those who support others. www.SelfLoveTraining.com 

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The Self Love Tree

Download a picture of it here

https://christinearylo.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/selflovetree_arylo.pdf

Last Feminine Power Time we talked about the "meta" and "collective" - what the themes, energy and patterns are in the larger field as we go into 2022. This gives us wisdom for how to move through this year.

Today, we turn to the "personal" - what are the themes, awarenesses, perspectives and ways of looking at our lives and our choices within them. So we can walk through 2022 centered, sustained, focused on what matters, using this catalytic time for our good and the good of all. Without burning out, running back to normal or missing the possibility. 

Tune in for this year’s Feminine Wisdom for the Year Ahead, 2022, Part Two.

I'll share with you a series of "S" themed wisdom and pesronal inquiries that I'm applying myself and using with all the leaders and communities I work with.  The intention is to help us: 

• Have language for the pace and focus for 2022, so you operate in the pace of grace
• See where we are making soul-led choices that lead us forward and where we can stuck in old sabotaging imprints that keep us repeating unnecessary suffering or distress
• Find stability within the shift and stretch
• Use the catalysts to create new ways of working and living that actually create sustainable success

And I'll share some S themed wisdom bytes you can put in your pocket to guide your choices now and in the months to come. 

Simplify. 
Stability. 
Slow then swift.
Soul-led. 

And more.

Tune in with me, Christine Arylo, leadership advisor and women’s leadership and empowerment teacher, as we dive in. 

See you there!

Christine

p.s. Come over to the Feminine Wisdom Cafe where women are sharing their dreams for the world and for themselves. We'd love to know and witness yours. 

https://community.christinearylo.com/posts/what-daring-dream-do-you-have-for-yourself-for-the-world

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Upcoming Programs , Retreats & Trainings Save the Date

- February 13th - Special virtual retreat -RECEIVE. A love offering for those who support others. RSVP to come.

RESOURCES:

1.  Overwhelmed and Over It Book - www.OverwhelmedandOverIt.com 

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Every year in January I wait to do this special Feminine Power Time session until the timing feels just right. This year, it was exactly just past the first full moon of 2022 (called "the wolf moon"), in the energy of the phase of the moon cycle all about initiating primal feminine power. Which is not about running into this year from fire like hit-the-ground running energy. Nor about mentally figuring it all out. Nor about waiting around for some new normal to settle in place. 

The wolf is a symbol of free untamed feminine power, the teacher who guides through action. It reflects to us the need and desire to maintain our independence and sovereignty while also living and working in our packs, with time to play, create  ... and rest.

I’ve been thinking of you all for the past two weeks and what would emerge to be shared on the yearly “Feminine Wisdom for The Year Ahead” episode. I always wait for the wisdom and focus to emerge ... which it did, yesterday during my morning practice.

After weeks of being in my own reflection and visioning process, watching what’s happening in the world, deepening in my own practice and listening for guidance from Wisdom with a capital W, once again, a series of ‘wisdom bytes’ flowed out.

It all popped out like a stew that had been cooking for weeks. That's letting the feminine lead, stillness then swiftness (which is a theme for this year especially, more on that).

Tune in for this year’s Feminine Wisdom for the Year Ahead,  - 2022, a yearly occurrence here at Feminine Power Time. It’s not about fortune telling, it’s about reading the signs all around us, feeling the knowings within us, and then being WISE about what is happening in the world and how we desire and choose to show up.

Feminine wisdom teaches us to prepare for the intensity, uncertainty, transformation and change that is just part of how the world is operating right now.

Not to brace yourself for it, but to embrace it, pace yourself through it and cultivate the vitality, resilience and wisdom you’ll need to stay elevated above the fray and the chaos.

This year, we'll do this in a two-part series. Part one focused on the meta and part two the personal. 

Tune in with me, Christine Arylo, leadership advisor and women’s leadership and empowerment teacher, as we dive in. 

See you there!

Christine

p.s. Come over to the Feminine Wisdom Cafe where women are sharing their dreams for the world and for themselves. We'd love to know and witness yours. 

https://community.christinearylo.com/posts/what-daring-dream-do-you-have-for-yourself-for-the-world

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Upcoming Programs , Retreats & Trainings - Learn more 

1. EMERGE 4-week Visioning Journey  www.EmergeVisioning.com 

2. Feminine Wisdom Way 2022 - Vision. Lead. Live. Succeed. the way women naturally work best. Enrollment open throughout January. www.FeminineWisdomWay.com 

Free Wisdom Sessions:
1. A Different Way to Dream & Succeed . www.FeminineWisdomSession.com 

2. Year End Reflection Ritual & Power Pause  www.ReflectionRitual.com  

RESOURCES:

1.  Overwhelmed and Over It Book - www.OverwhelmedandOverIt.com 

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There are many things you could do this year, many things you think you should do, or maybe this year you have no idea what to do!? Or maybe you are feeling like you'd rather just pull the cover over your head.

Don't let the chaos and pressure of the world or the should's of your self-induced  pressure and thoughts swirl you up. Instead turn inward, tune into your heart and dare to tap into your deeper wisdom and desires and let those inspire and guide you.

Wisdom teaches us to use the power and practice of "inquiry" to consider the path before moving into action.

Not so we can have it all figured out like an agenda or project plan. But so we can be clear on our intentions, be connected to what's really in right timing, and to see what we can't see with our eyes but can sense with our deeper intuitive knowing ... if we slow down to listen. 

Wisdom also teaches us ... the wisdom is within you for your most soul-aligned path ahead, the path that sustains you on all levels - mind, body, heart and spirit. And the portal into that wisdom is not in your mental mind, it's in your heart and body.  

Every year I do an episode that takes us through 6 wisdom inquires feel  would serve us to contemplate. 

How we start the year creates the reality ahead. Use the practice of these six 'wisdom inquiries' so you can stay focused on what truly matters, create the realities for ourselves and the world that align with our deeper truth and desires, and realize sustainable success. 

Six is the number that creates harmony.

Every year the inquires are different.

Because every year, we need differently inquiries to lead us to the possibilities we haven't even considered with our limited - often fear reactive - minds. 

I comb through the many inquiries we use in the EMERGE Visioning Process to find 6 to "prime the pump" and open your visioning, intention setting and focusing for the year to come. 

And this year, a bonus inquiry jumped in! A seventh inquiry. 7 is the number associated with going deeper than we've gone before so we can emerge in a more radiant, whole form. Perfect.

Tune in with me, Christine Arylo, transformational leadership advisor and women’s leadership and empowerment teacher, for episode 175: 6 Inquiries to Tune In & Reveal What Truly Matters to You This Year

See you there!

Christine

P.S. This somatic and intuitive meditation was taped live during the Wisdom Session: A Different Way to Dream & Succeed. To tune into the full wisdom session go to https://christinearylo.lpages.co/a-different-way-to-dream/.

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Upcoming Programs , Retreats & Trainings - Learn more 

1. EMERGE 4-week Visioning Journey - starts Jan 9th, you can start any day in Jan. www.EmergeVisioning.com 

2. Feminine Wisdom Way 2022 - Vision. Lead. Live. Succeed. the way women naturally work best. Enrollment open throughout January. www.FeminineWisdomWay.com 

Free Feminine Wisdom Sessions:
1. A Different Way to Dream & Succeed - Live Jan 5th . Free. RSVP. www.FeminineWisdomSession.com 

2. Year End Reflection Ritual & Power Pause  www.ReflectionRitual.com  

RESOURCES:

1.  Overwhelmed and Over It Book - www.OverwhelmedandOverIt.com 

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6 Wisdom Inquiries Shared in the Podcast 

This year... 

In these intense times, where we are each being called to step forward... make changes, navigate uncertainty, do things differently... respond to the now, while re-imagining our future... it can all feel so overwhelming. 

We need different ways to start our year, and vision, plan and create the year to come.

There are big misunderstandings in our culture about visioning, goal setting & achieving that stem from a "go, go , go, work hard, stay busy" mindset that many of us have been trained to operate from.... which honestly set us up for more pressure, overwhelm and self-criticism vs. true, sustainable success.

In this Feminine Power Time - #174: A Different Way to Start & Create Your Next Your we'll explore how to think about and go about the first 6 weeks of the year...setting your focus professionally and personally... and then working in "co-creation" all year.

Giving ourselves the space to rise up into the new year, and be intentional and tap into our intuitive intelligence to gain wisdom  is how we stay focused on what matters, centered in ourselves, so you we stay fluid, meet what comes and expand into the possibility.

When you shift your relationship to how to start your year, you begin the year feeling healthy time pressure AND spaciousness, which sets up your year to feel the same. 

We'll explore a different way to: 

• Think about Jan 1st as not the only new year and other   natural starts of the year.
• Set resolutions and goals that create spacious success vs. stress and self judgement. 
• Set a time span in January that gives you space to contemplate & consider where to focus this next year so you create a reality that sustains and supports you vs. just more to do or more of what you've always done.
• Think about 'planning' your year, in way that works for the times we live in.
• Timeless wisdom and new language and metaphors for how to achieve, manifest, focus and set intentions and work them into reality

I will share three Feminine Wisdom Principles for Visioning and Intention Setting, including #1 and #3 and #8 - you will love these!

#1: Work with the natural cycles and mimic mother nature, not man-made constructs of time.

#3: Wise ones don't set goals or resolutions, or say "I want." Empowered beings desire and intend. 

#8: Seek wisdom not answers. Seek a path not a plan.

I love sharing this deep and practical wisdom every year at this time as a different way to vision, succeed and reach out goals. 

This year more than ever is the time to embrace doing things differently ... as a practice and a path.

Tune in.

See you there, and for more check out below.

Christine 

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Upcoming Programs - Learn more 

1. EMERGE 4-week Visioning Journey - starts Jan 9th, you can start any day in Jan. www.EmergeVisioning.com 

2. Feminine Wisdom Way 2022 - Vision. Lead. Live. Succeed. the way women naturally work best. Enrollment open throughout January. www.FeminineWisdomWay.com 

Free Feminine Wisdom Sessions:
1. A Different Way to Dream & Succeed - Live Jan 5th . Free. RSVP. www.FeminineWisdomSession.com 

2. Year End Reflection Ritual & Power Pause  www.ReflectionRitual.com  

RESOURCES:

1.  Overwhelmed and Over It Book - www.OverwhelmedandOverIt.com 

(check out section 4 Liberate Your Time for the glyphs on Focused Fluidity and Healthy Time Pressure and Spans).

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Most of us feel like we are not doing enough - in our day to day, towards our goals, for others in need or for the planet .

It's more likely we feel like we are always behind, like there is never enough time, and like we will never have the space to get to what matters most.

Why? Because we suffer from “Achievers Amnesia.” We forget, can't see, and don't feel what we have completed, done for others, or brought more into form or how we have made an impact in our relationships, teams, organizations and world.  

Think about it this way… over the course of a year, you give so much to so many people and projects and do much to manage your daily demands while also working towards your dreams. And you forget how much you actually accomplish.

It’s way easier to see what you have not done vs. seeing all you have. So you keep driving, striving, working, until you drop from exhaustion or melt down because of overwhelm. Or you just keep persevering and pushing forward.

Achiever's amnesia is a mental disease that drives us into burnout, overwhelm and anxiety. It robs you of receiving the success and happiness you work so hard for.

Here's the remedy:

1. Your body and being need to FEEL what you have achieved and the impact you have made - or else your brain won't register it.
2. You slow down to let your heart and belly RECEIVE and SAVOR the achievements, accomplishments and ways that you have made an impact in the world through the people's lives and hearts you have touched.
3. Every year near the Solstice - the darkest day of the year- I host a live Year End Reflection Ritual. This year it will be on December 19th. You can come live or get the recording later - RSVP at www.ReflectionRitual.com 

Today, in this Feminine Power Time podcast 173:Achievers Amnesia: 3 Proof Points You've Done More Than You Think, we'll get the juices flowing, in ways that open your body and being up to see and feel just how much your presence and effort has made a difference in your dreams and goals AND with the people and life on this planet.

We'll shine a light on 3 proof points and I'll take you through an embodied meditation so you can feel the impact + give yourself some space to replenish and rest. 

Tune in. 

Take the love and wisdom in.

Then join us for the Year End Reflection Ritual and then for the Emerge Visioning. 

With great heart,
Christine 

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Upcoming Gatherings & 2022 Programs  - RSVP to get the Invitation, Save the Date

1. Year End Reflection Ritual & Power Pause - Dec 19th. RSVP for free at www.ReflectionRitual.com  

2. Feminine Wisdom Way 2022 - Vision. Lead. Live. Succeed. the way women naturally work best. Emerge visioning process starts Jan 9th. Learn more www.FeminineWisdomWay.com 

3. EMERGE 2022 Visioning & Intention Setting 4-week Experience  - a different way to set your focus and intentions for 2022 professionally and personally, the way women natural work & prosper best. Learn more at www.EmergeVisioning.com  

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RESOURCES:

Overwhelmed and Over It Book -  - www.OverwhelmedandOverIt.com 

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FEMININE WISDOM CAFE: Be inspired and join in the conversation & exploration of women daring to do it differently:

What's one way you've made a difference on the planet through a choice, project, or relationship?

Go here : https://community.christinearylo.com/posts/scheduled/dare-to-acknowledge-the-impact-youve-made-in-2021-whats-one-way-youve-made-a-difference-on-the-planet-through-a-choice-project-or-relationship

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While the holiday marketing and messages promise us tidings of peace and joy, the reality is that the consciousness of overculture is set to get you and I to buy more, consume more, and do more.

And while we all want more meaningful connection, it's way too easy to say yes to things because of obligation, habit or fear of missing out.

Every year as we go into December, we take a stand for us all here at Feminine Power Time to do things differently - in how we make our choices for how we spend our time, money and energy so that come the new year WE FEEL SUSTAINED and REPLENISHED - emotionally, physically, spiritually, financially and mentally. 

We choose to implement our practice of the "December Downshift" - so that we can begin the new year reset, replenished and rested.

This Feminine Power Podcast - 172 Avoid Holiday Overwhelm. 3 Practices to You Calm Centered Clear -builds on the previous podcast, so be sure to tune both. And then use the inquiries and the practices to support you to make small and bigger choices that sustain vs. drain you.

Here are 3 of the practices I'll share:

1. Practice #1: Create an intentional time span that creates both focus + space for what you need personally, relationally + professionally. From now through January 11th.

2. Practice #2: Make your choices in Nov & Dec based on how you want to feel physically, emotionally, & mentally and in your spirit as you start 2022. Choose your 4 Holiday Harmonizers.

3. Practice #3: Embrace & Do What Feels Sustaining.
Release & Redesign What Feels Draining. Including releasing doing things out of pressure, obligation, guilt, FOMO, “it’s tradition” or over-connecting. And mimicking the over-culture.


Plus I will lead you through a few visualizations and meditations that will help you tune into your deeper wisdom for what to say YES to, NO to, so you can stay true to yourself, even if that means disappointing another or doing things differently.

And I'll share wisdom on how to mimic the natural world to make December and January supportive and self empowering. 

Tune in.

Then remember to RSVP for the annual year end Reflection Ritual - www.ReflectionRitual.com - and the EMERGE Visioning Journey in January www.EmergeVisioning.com .

See you there!


Christine 

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Upcoming Gatherings & 2022 Programs  - RSVP to get the Invitation, Save the Date

1. Year End Reflection Ritual & Power Pause - Dec 19th. RSVP for free at www.ReflectionRitual.com  

2. Feminine Wisdom Way 2022 - Vision. Lead. Live. Succeed. the way women naturally work best. Emerge visioning process starts Jan 9th. Learn more www.FeminineWisdomWay.com 

3. EMERGE 2022 Visioning & Intention Setting 4-week Experience  - a different way to set your focus and intentions for 2022 professionally and personally, the way women natural work & prosper best. Learn more at www.EmergeVisioning.com  

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RESOURCES:

Overwhelmed and Over It Book -  - www.OverwhelmedandOverIt.com 

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FEMININE WISDOM CAFE: Be inspired and join in the conversation & exploration of women daring to do it differently:

What would you love to complete or take care of by the end of the year? 

Go here : https://community.christinearylo.com/posts/what-would-you-love-to-complete-take-care-of-and-get-done-by-the-end-of-this-year

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I have a question for you: "Would you like to start the new year feeling clear - mentally & emotionally? Like your physical space to feel clear and coherent? Like to be free of some of the relationship drama or distress in your personal or professional relationships?"

Imagine how you would feel if you had more space in the last few weeks of this year and the first few weeks of next year. 

Are you exhaling yet? 

Of course our answers to this possibility are YES! Starting the new year clear is not just a nice to have - it's what any wise person would do.

But how do you 'do' that? Especially in the intense year(s) we've been through? 

My council has been the same for a decade, and it's even more essential in the times we are living in. The wisdom is clear:

You put into place simple but mighty practices that empower to you make choices that lead to you working and living and feeling in the f.l.o.w. (Focusing Lifeforce On What matters.

The practice I will guide you through today is called a Power Pause (a short and simple one). Power Pauses use the wisdom tool of 'intuitive thinking inquiries' that reveal insights you miss if you only operate from your mental mind vs your higher and heart mind.

In this episode of Feminine Power Time: a Power Pause:  3 Inquiries That Will Support Complete the Year Feeling Clear, I will share the FLOW practice I use myself every year at this time, and we do as part of living and working the feminine wisdom way. 

It includes 3 inquiries that will help you 

• Complete and put energy toward what you really desire to get done and take care of - in relation to your body needs, your money management, your home space, your work & creative projects and your mental space 
  
  
• Bring 'twiggly danglers' in your relationships into coherency in a healthy way - parts of relationships professionally or personally in where something it out of whack or alignment, that you know deep down if you don't deal with will come back next year in a more dramatic way. 
   
• Reflow projects and things you'd like to do but you know there's not really space to do until next year - which will create space for you to savor these next few weeks and the first weeks of the new year.

I will also share some very specific examples of what I do to create space, relief and release this way - including just releasing 3800 emails in one hour! 

Do this short power pause with me now and then come to the full Year End Reflection Ritual and Power Pause on Dec 19th www.ReflectionRitual.com 

So grateful we are connected!
With heart

Christine

p.s. SHARE THE WISDOM ?  SHARE this podcast power pause with friends and colleagues you think it would benefit.

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Upcoming Gatherings & 2022 Programs  - RSVP to get the Invitation, Save the Date

1. Year End Reflection Ritual & Power Pause - Dec 19th. RSVP for free at www.ReflectionRitual.com  

2. Feminine Wisdom Way 2022 - Vision. Lead. Live. Succeed. the way women naturally work best. Enrollment opens Dec 1st. Emerge visioning process starts Jan 9th. Request the invitation when enrollment opens. www.FeminineWisdomWay.com 

3. EMERGE 2022 Visioning & Intention Setting 4-week Experience  - a different way to set your focus and intentions for 2022 professionally and personally, the way women natural work & prosper best. Learn more at www.EmergeVisioning.com  Registration opens Dec 1st.

RESOURCES:

1.  Overwhelmed and Over It Book - See Section 4 to learn more about Healthy vs Toxic Time Pressure - www.OverwhelmedandOverIt.com 

WISDOM INQUIRIES

Journal on these 3 inquiries and then take focused action that creates more FLOW for you. Create a time span between now and the end of 2021 to create healthy pressure. Over the next three weeks...

1. What would I love to complete, take care of or get done?(projects, "twiggly danglers" in your health, wealth, home or relationships, aka things calling for attention to bring into coherency).

2. What would I love to let go? (Emotional or physical twiggly danglers you choose to leave behind in 2021)

3. What would feel good and aligned to re-flow (move this into next year)?

WORK WISE + LIVE WELL is the HOW we get relief from the burnout, overwork, anxiety, and overwhelm. How we stop ourselves and the organizations we work in or run ourselves from accepting the grind, the push, the hustle as the norm.

Without new language, models, elevated perspectives + space to practice and trust doing things differently, we stay stuck in our current reality or make it just a little better.

As we start to tap into true WISDOM, we become empowered to use our voices and choices to create realities for ourselves, those we love & lead, our organizations and teams, and this world that are rooted in sustainability, wellness, connection and prospering for people and planet.

In this episode of Feminine Power Time, #170 Work Wise Live Well, #3 of 3 in our Overworked and Over It Series, we will explore:

3 models + 3 practices + 3 acts of harmonic defiance
for releasing ways of working that burn us out + embracing new ways that have the power to create sustainable success, wellness + a life we can savor.

We will explore models that illuminate the distorted and unhealthy way of working and thinking that's created our current society and norms, and shine the light on other ways to approach achieving, succeeding and thriving, including:

• The difference between working Working Hard. Working Smart. and Working Wise.
• The 4-part path to Sustainable Creation vs. Unsustainable Creation.
• Toxic Time Pressure vs. Healthy Time Pressure 
• Working in the Rhythm of the natural cycles vs. the routine and prescribed man made time lines  

We'll also share practices for:

• Giving enough to work and others, vs 110% or your all - without guilt
• Reflowing projects, meetings, to dos, and goals when they start to feel crunchy 
• Harmonizing your rhythm and the way you plan your life and work with the natural yearly and moonly cycles 

This episode was originally delivered as one of my quarterly/monthly Wisdom Sessions. For the past 7+ years I've held a wisdom session on 11.11 focusing on how we can tap into our deeper wisdom - our crazy wisdom - to do things differently, make courageous, wise choices that are aligned with our heart desires and soul path.   

If you'd like to watch the session via video, or see the glyphs I mention, I included the link below. As well as in the episode I reference the book Overwhelmed and Over It with page numbers. 

See you there!
Christine  

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1.  Access Work Wise Live Well session with video + glyphs

https://christinearylo.lpages.co/work-wise-live-well-wisdom-session-with-christine-arylo/

2. Join in the conversation on the Feminine Wisdom Cafe with other conscious courageous women on this topic - taking a stand to do things differently.

https://community.christinearylo.com/share/ICzZ3ZdHAspOUkyQ?utm_source=manual

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3. Here's a link to get your copy of Overwhelmed and Over It

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4. Share? If you think this would resonate with another person, forward it and share it. That's how wisdom does it's work! 

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5. Save the Dates

* Emerge 2022 Visioning Journey - www.EmergeVisioning.com  - First session 1/9. Pre dreaming and year end reflection last week of Dec, first week of Jan.

* Year End Reflection Ritual & Power Pause - 12/19 - 12:30 PM PT.  Registration opens soon.

* Feminine Wisdom Way 2022 - a wisdom school and community for women choosing to do it differently. Registration opens Nov 19th. www.FeminineWisdomWay.com 

Time. It's one of those things that we all wish we had more of, and one of those things that contributes to the every day pressure we feel under. But did you ever... consider that time is a human made system? Or notice that many of the deadlines, must-get-done-by's, and must-do-this-nows put on us by others or generated by ourselves are in many cases preferences or unnecessary time constraints? 

I have spent ALOT of time thinking about time - lol. Going deeper underneath to find the roots of the pressure, burnout, stress, anxiety and driving forces that force us to work and operate in crazy-paced, unrealistic ways. 

As I was writing Overwhelmed and Over It, I wrote 20,000 words on Liberating ourselves from the time constraints and toxic time pressures that are just not necessary. We've just accepted the pace and pressure of how we work as normal but it's anything but 'normal' for a healthy planet and healthy humans. 

For this podcast, Transforming Tight Time Constraints & Toxic Time Pressure (#2 of 3 in our Overwhelmed and Over It Series, which will lead us into the Work Wise. Live Well. Wisdom Session).... I combed through the book to find three pieces of wisdom + 3 practices and actions you can take now to release yourself from the ways of working that are rooted in undue time pressure and ideals. 

Here's some of what we will explore:

• What are time constraints ? And how do you know they are binding you up?
• The 3 kinds of "fabricated time pressure" - how to spot it in others and in your organizations and projects, and yourself
• How to notice the self-sabotaging things you are doing in your day to day that are stealing your time, or causing you to give too much time to the wrong things
• Deadlines - why you DON"T want to work with these. 
• 3 inquiries that will help you find the toxic time pressure in your life now, and give you simple but mighty ways to release the pressure
• What is 'healthy time pressure' and how can you use it to get what matters done in a more fluid and efficient (and joyful) way

To see glyphs of what I am talking about and get the inquiries I mention, refer to Section 4: Liberate Your Time in the Overwhelmed and Over It book.

See you there!
Christine

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p.s. Remember to RSVP for the Wisdom Session : Work Wise. Live Well. Live on 11/11 or get the recording. 

Here's the link:

https://christinearylo.lpages.co/work-wise-live-well-wisdom-session-with-christine-arylo/

p.p.s. Come over to the Feminine Wisdom Cafe to connect with other conscious courageous women on this topic - taking a stand to do things differently.

Here's the link:  

https://community.christinearylo.com/share/ICzZ3ZdHAspOUkyQ?utm_source=manual

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Here's a link to get your copy of Overwhelmed and Over It

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Share? If you think this would resonate with another person, forward it and share it. That's how wisdom does it's work!