When we think of advocacy or being an advocate, we often think of how we show up for and support others, or take stands for the causes that matter to us - which is a beautiful thing. Today, I am inviting you to turn the energy of standing for, honoring and being a voice for others towards yourself. Self-advocacy.

What would it look like this year if you chose to be an advocate for yourself? 

What would it look like to so deeply honor what you desire and require, that you were willing to stay true to yourself, even if that meant disappointing another? 

What would change for you, if instead of just heading straight into all the things you desire and need to tend to, create, cause and respond to, you paused to consider what SUPPORT YOU NEED? 

These are the questions I am inviting you step into in this series - Receive the Support You Desire and Require this Year.  And then, after tuning into your deeper truth and wisdom, start using your voice and your choices to create a reality in which you truly do receive the support you need. 

WISDOM: “In times of stretch or stress, or when you are doing something new, ask for and receive more support, not less." (Overwhelmed and Over It page 175)

In this episode of Feminine Power Time, #204 SELF-ADVOCACY: Honoring What You Need, No Matter What, we'll explore:

• Self-Advocacy and Self Honor - where do these live within you, and how do you access and apply their power to your daily life
  
  
• Personal Sustability before Purpose & Responsibility - What foundations must be in place to support us to give to those we love, lead and influence  
  
  
• Investing in Support - where do you under-invest time, energy and financial resources in the support you need? And were do you invest easily? 

I will take you through a guided process tuning into 4 areas of physical foundational support.  This will tune into your deeper wisdom and needs about: 

• What are the support structures you both desire + require in your physical and material foundation this next cycle - Home, Health, & Financial Flow? 
  
  
• What does stability and vitality in home, health, and wealth FEEL like for you?
  
  
• What rhythm and pace structures will hold and support you daily, weekly. monthly and yearly this next cycle?   

Tune in to explore and experiment with Self-Advocacy this year. 

See you there

Christine

P.S. Dare to Share --> Share this podcast episode with a friend + then share what each of you are advocating for in the 4 realms of physical foundations I take you through. You can then be advocates for each others. 

P.P.S. --> Request to Receive Support --> Leave a Review for Feminine Power Time. Go to the Show on your podcast app and scroll to bottom to Rate and Review. Thank 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?  

This is a special broadcast of a letter I wrote to from my heart to the hearts of the women around the world when I was writing Overwhelmed and Over It: Embrace Your Power to Stay Centered and Sustained in a Chaotic World. 

I often write a letter when writing a book, to help me tap into the heart and soul of why i am writing this book, and why I feel so passionate about sharing the perspectives, wisdom and stories enclosed in it. 

For this book, that letter became the opening. Today, on the one year anniversary of its publication, I am sharing it FIRST here with you on Feminine Power Time as a special podcast broadcast. 

Why? Because every time I sit down to create and tape a Feminine Power Time, I intend to connect with you heart to heart... to be real... to share openly... to bring insight and wisdom... and to be space where you can deeply tap into your deep internal wisdom. 

For 5 years, the listeners of this podcast have been with me, here, having these conversations that much of the world is just waking up to. 

The world's been crazy for a long time. It's just now, it's catalyzing at warp speed, because we MUST change. People and the planet have been burning out for decades if not centuries. 

But the game isn't over. 

You and I are the makers, creators, mothers of the world ... we shape culture by how we make our choices and use our voices ... we create reality ... but not if we get swirled into the swirl, can't see the systemically-generated and self-induced burnout games and structures. 

AND we need each other, to help us tap into what is real, she what is needed, and then from our deep wisdom, embrace our power to choose differently and say NO MORE to what's not working.

So today... I share this with you... 

Get some tea or vino or pelligrino. Or just take a chill moment in the sun. And tune in.

May this release some pressure and create more courage and clarity and connection for you today. 

with great heart,

Christine 

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p.s. If you have not gotten your copy of Overwhelmed and Over It yet, go to the book page and order a copy for you + a friend

www.overwhelmedandoverit.com 

p.p.s If you do have your copy, I'd super appreciate a review to help others find the book. Leave one wherever you bought it or here on Amazon. 

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And remember... Join us in the Feminine Wisdom Cafe, where courageous conscious women gather, including a special group exploring and experimenting with the wisdom in this book. Go here to learn more, it's free.

What does embodied power look, sound and feel like in a woman who is expressing as her whole and true self?  What does it look, feel and sound like in you? In your presence? In your voice, spoken or written? In how you are received and perceived by others? 

How do you access your truth, your voice and use it to amplify your visibility, influence, and presence in the world… in a way that is true to your expression, your authentic self?

The models for what power looks like in a person, what it sounds like, what people respond to, are distorted.

So we as women and the women before us have to distort and contort ourselves to get a seat at the table, be taken seriously, have our voices heard, or take on the qualities of men or intellectual machines without heart.

That time is over.

No more contorting, distorting our presence to fit in.

And also no more having to scream to be heard, be serious to be taken seriously, and suppressing our femininity in how we dress, speak and show up.

Today I invite you to explore within yourself the ways in which if you knew how to more powerfully wield your voice and presence, you would create more of the reality you desire for yourself, the world and what matters to you.

Whether that is in your relationships, your career, your message, your business, HOW you show up and the presence you are in it, matters big time.

But how we’ve been taught to use that voice, to show up to get what we need and be heard isn’t working for us as women.

So today, in this episode of Feminine Power Time, PRESENCE: Women with a Voice, #2 of 3 in our Re-Imagining Feminine Power series, I invite you to join me, Christine Arylo, women’s leadership advisor and catalyst, and special guest Alexia Vernon, author of Step into Your Moxie, for a session that will touch your heart, open your voice, and inspire you to expand in your expression in this world this year.

We dive into:

• The history of what women have had to do to be heard or be taken seriously – thank you so much! And it’s our turn to do it differently.
  
• Why women are not taken seriously or heard – and men are often listened to over women
  
• Revealing what you do when you feel confident or insecure when speaking – are you a bunny, a bull, a cheetah or a owl? And how you may be sabotaging yourself?
  
• Reclaim what leadership is – and why we must do this as women to have the influence we desire in the world.
  
• How to have your full range of emotion and also be a powerful catalyst for change and elevation not more separation
  
• Difference between trying to BE something, and being who you are – and how to tell the difference
  
• Is what you look like on the outside reflecting who you are on the inside?
  
  
• What happens when you move from your focus from trying to inform and get other people to understand and to shifting to focusing on connection?
  
  
• Where your feminine power and voice lives in your body – and why spanx, bellies and flat abs are short circuiting our power
• How do you find and express your natural communication super power?

Here are some of the wisdom bytes from the show followed by how to connect with Alexia, including her book Step into Your Moxie – and also upcoming retreats with Christine Arylo.

WISDOM BYTES:

• Leadership is not bestowed vs. leadership is embodied and chosen.  
  
  
• Embrace your leadership power, do not try to “own” your power.
  
  
• Confidence comes from stopping to grip your body and let your body do what it knows how to do to connect with others and move the energy. It intuitively knows when to stay still, we know when to move.
   
• Your power comes from your presence, not your position.
   
• If you know what your core essences are, then you can be who you are truly are.
   
• If you don’t know who you are in your core, you will contort yourself to fit in.
   
• As women who want to have more impact in the world. we have to harness our storytelling power.
  
  
• We are being called to speak more clearly, authentically to be a vessel for the divine to come through.
   
• Speak from compassion without censoring what you have to say. 

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WISDOM INQUIRY FOR YOU:
What are you going to embody more of this year to more powerfully express your presence and voice?

What is wanting to come through you more this year? Make this year part of exploring this next season or elevation of your expression.

What do you need to embody that is already in you?

What from your past, needs to integrate into who you are now? Have an exploration. Play with how you dress, speak, write.

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MORE ON ALEXIA VERNON

Get Alexia Vernon's Book - great wisdom, fun, stories, and potent power. Practical, playful and powerful 

Step Into Your Moxie: Amplify your voice and visibility and influence in the world.

www.StepintoYourMoxie.com

Website: www.Alexiavernon.com

Social: @alexiavernon.com

UPCOMING RETREATS WITH CHRISTINE ARYLO

Feminine Wisdom Weekend – Mid Year Power Pause
Stay Strong and True to Yourself
July 2019

Kripalu

https://kripalu.org/presenters-programs/feminine-wisdom-weekend-super-powers-staying-strong-and-true-yourself

The Path of Self Love Trainiing
July 2019
Kripalu

https://kripalu.org/presenters-programs/path-self-love-training-teaching-others-love-themselves

Note: This Feminine Power Time is part of the 3 part series on Re-Imagining Feminine Power. Tune into #1 of the series - WEALTH: Women with Real Wealth with Christine Arylo and Julie Murphy.

When we look back at women's history, for over 50 + years since women fully entered the workforce, we have had to assimilate into systems for how we work, educate, govern, relate and operate in almost every realm of our lives... in which women had no say in creating.
 
The models for leadership, government, healthcare, education, business? All were created at a time when women had little power, no vote, and no voice.  

Today, we are in a different position.

Today, every woman - including you - has the potential to be a leader – in your organization, community, tribe, family, life – by consciously doing things differently.  

Leadership is a CHOICE you make, not a position, degree, or job you get.  Your power comes from your presence. Your presence comes from within. 

Your presence is that powerful, if you know how to access it's full spectrum and use it.  

On the eve of International Women’s Day, I held this feminine wisdom session you can tune into now. Join me Christine Arylo, women’s leadership teacher and advisor, MBA, and catalyst for personal and collective transformation, for an illuminating, eye opening, soul awakening wisdom "session" where we will dive into:

• Overwhelm and Burnout: Why you can't maintain balance, or find the time and energy you need, and why it's not your fault - and why until we address and solve this, nothing can really change for you, for women or the world.
• How Women Lead, Create & Operate Best: Why the current systems and solutions don't support how you innately work as a human being and a woman. If women designed the world, we'd get more done with less effort.
• The 11 Spectrums of Power: What masculine and feminine power really are & why you need to be able to articulate and access both. I'll share a model that makes this so practical so you can begin to assess where you are strong and weak and understand your own power and value biases.
• Feminine Presence: What is it? Why isn't it valued? And how are you giving this valuable asset away without being compensated or recognized for it?
• Fierce Grace: How to access both your fiery fierceness and deep stillness and wisdom to be a force of change without having to push, force or fight. How do you channel anger and outrage in a way that serves?
• How Power Expresses for You : How can you show up powerfully in a way that feels authentic to you? How do you use your power and life force strategically to cause the impact you desire?
• Daily Structures & Practices for Staying Calm, Centered, Clear and Focused: without a recipe and rhythm for how you start and end your days, you will get swirled up into the chaos of the world. There is a different way. I'll share it.

To get the video taping of this feminine wisdom session, go to www.FeminineWisdomSession.com 

To learn more about the Elevate Feminine Leadership Immersion at www.FeminineLeadershipWeekend.com

To learn more about the 40 Day Burnout to Balance Practice go to www.40daypowerpractice.com 

To receive Christine Arylo's weekly Feminine Wisdom Letters go to www.ChristineArylo.com 

Most women operate at half power, trying to assimilate into ways of working that don't support how we naturally operate and create, undervaluing ourselves and our work, and taking more responsibility than is ours to take on. We care about the world. We want to make things better. But the way we've learned to lead and work is based on models that do not support nor tap into our 'feminine' power and wisdom. 

But what the heck is the 'feminine' and why do we need it? Can't we just all try to be better people, grow our careers, and talk about leadership without needing to gender modify it? The answer is NO.

If we desire to create a world in which there is pay equity, gender equity, connection instead of isolation, where we grow ourselves, our families and our work/business in ways that sustain and nourish us vs like some crazy Monsanto accelerated growth model, we have to LEARN what the feminine is... REVEAL the full range of our power... and then VALUE and APPLY a different way to work, live and lead.

There's much to say about Feminine Leadership and we are not going to cover it all today - I don't want to add to your overwhelm love! I want to give you the path out of it, which feminine leadership and wisdom offer us.

After studying tradition leadership for over two decades and realizing it didn't have what I needed as a woman or as a human who didn't want to perpetuate a domination and consumption model for business and living, I sought out 'the feminine' (even though I had no idea what that was at the time. Over the last decade I've applied this Wisdom to my own life and work and shared it with many more. 

Today, is the start of on ongoing conversation here at Feminine Power Time, the first of our deep dives into Feminine Leadership, a way of living, working and creating I've devoted my life to teaching and living. 

For today's session "Feminine Leadership: What Does it Look Like to Lead As a Woman?" we will dive into 5 foundational realms of Feminine Leadership, so we can open up to some deeper wisdom, new insights and expanded possibilities that and support us in being the change we wish to see, including:

• The Power Spectrums of feminine power and masculine power - what are these and why do we need them to access our full power and wisdom?
  
  
• Why the way we think about masculine power and the patriarchal power disempowers us 
  
  
• Why Mama Nature is the go-to expert on getting out of overwhelm - and how we've been conditioned to ignore her and how we've been distanced from what humans once knew intuitively to sustain life but is not called woo woo
   
• How we each contribute to the pay inequity and the disrespect we see women receiving from men and vice versa - it's not easy to embrace this but we will never have pay equity or equal rights or women and girls being valued and respected if we don't look at how we ourselves don't value the feminine, within ourselves and in how we work and lead 
• Why feminine leadership has to be part of the path to elevating human leadership, and creating a new model for what leadership in business, politics, education, government, families, healthcare looks like

When we lead naturally as a whole woman we embody both our masculine and feminine powers in ways that naturally lead us to creating realities that create more harmony, sustainability and prosperity. 

We will end this Feminine Power Time with a short meditation that leads you to connect with HOW big a difference you are making -so you can stop pressuring yourself and start acknowledging yourself. And will help you take the pressure of taking on more responsibility than is yours... feminine leadership leads us to just do our part.

We are just getting scratching the surface here on Feminine Leadership. To explore more check these out:

1. Free Feminine Wisdom Session: CRAZY WISDOM: Conjuring Up Courage and Clarity in Intense Times. RSVP for Free.

www.FeminineWisdomSession.com 

2. Art of Sacred Circle Training and Incubator 2018/19 - Starts Nov. For women desiring to birth new offerings, programs, events, workshops, gatherings and to expand the impact and presence of themselves and their sacred work. Only offered 1 time per year. Learn more at www.ArtofSacredCircle.com 

Save the Date

1. Feminine Leadership Immersion Retreat - ELEVATE. Power. Presence. Purpose. April 25-28th, 2019. Islandwood Retreat Center. Island off the coast of Seattle. Early Bird Opens in Nov.

2. Feminine Super Power Year 2019 - A wisdom school for learning, living and succeeding the feminine way. Enrollment opens Nov 11. www.FeminineSuperPowerYear.com