Have you ever looked around at the world, an aspect of society, or the organization you work and felt like WTF !? This is not working for me. This seems crazy? Sometimes we feel empowered to 'do' something about it, and others, we feel overwhelmed, like there's nothing I can do to change this reality?

We have more power than we know. 

As humans, we are 'makers' of culture.

We create the culture by how we grow & change ourselves, how we interact with others, what we choose to 'make' & the choices we make.

Here's a few wisdom bytes about our power to be 'makers' of the cultures we live in, from our own inner culture of self, to our family and tribe, to our teams and organizations and from there society. 

• We are the makers of culture - our family, our organizations, our teams, our society - through the choices we make in our lives, big and small.
• Our reality and the world around us is like clay - we have the power to shape it. We don't make the clay, we work with the clay, and like a sculptor or potter, we let it inform us, we engage in a co-creative process with it.
• We don't force it. We work with it. Or we start over and create a different piece. We have more power than we think, when we focus on where we can have the greatest influence, and choose not to waste our energy on where we don't.
• We create the culture around us in and in this world by how we grow and change ourselves - how we 'make' and shape ourselves. The 'work' we do within the Self contributes to the evolution of the collective.    

This wisdom is potent and practical, if you know how to apply it and use it. 

Which is why we are doing this 3 part series, diving into 3 realms of where our power lies to do things differently, to be conscious creators of reality and culture and society and our lives. Archetypes we have within us that we can access to be and feel empowered to see where we can make shifts: the Mother, the Maker, & the Co-Creator. 

Tune into this episode of Feminine Power Time with leadership advisor and social impact leader Christine Arylo: 156: Be a Maker of Culture: Embrace Your Power To Create the World You Desire to Live In and explore:

• What does it mean to be a Maker?
• What are you 'making' through your choices and through your own inner self expression?
• How your courage to look within your Self honestly and then do the 'work' to heal and elevate on the inside is creating a better world
• How to look at what you don't like in the world today or in the cultures around you, and find where that lives in you, and then embrace your power to do things differently
• How to 'shape' your reality and become more adept at 'shaping' the realities you want to live.  

One of the things I think you will really love after this conversation is starting to see how your choices just in your very own life have the power to shift this world, and the environments around you.

May this session ignite your power of Harmonic Defiance ... to make choices that align for you, even if they are different than those around you, choices that create more HARMONY for you and others, and as a result create a world in more harmony.

We'll end with a super powered way to make this practical in your life today.

See you there

Christine

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Action:

1. Join in the conversation on the Feminine Wisdom Cafe and post: 

What is one way you have reshaped a belief, a habit or a way of living or working because you didn’t like the world you were seeing around you?

Post yours and be inspired by other courageous souls - click here. 

This is our private online community off of social media, where we connect and share on the topic we are exploring in these podcasts and more. 

2. Get the Overwhelmed and Over It Book - learn about your power of Harmonic Defiance - www.OverwhelmedandOverIt.com

3. Share. Rate. Review this podcast - THANK YOU. This is  how we get the wisdom out to more people 

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GO DEEPER. Learn More.

Current and Upcoming Programs with Christine

1. The Mid Year Power Pause - FLOW Focus Your Lifeforce On What Matters the 2nd half of the year - starts June 20th, through July 22nd. Do with us at our pace or follow your own. Learn more:

www.FlowPowerPause.com 

2. Personal Transformation and Feminine Leadership Mentoring and Coaching: www.HarmonizeandRise.com 

3. Elevate Feminine Leadership Councils - applications open now, we start in October. www.ElevateLeadershipCouncils.com 

Special Thank You to Sharon Zeugin for background art we are using for this series.. http://sharonzeugin.net/

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Special guest wisdom teachers I shared wisdom from:

Anam Cara by John O'Donohue

Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home by Toko-Pa Turner

We have so much power within to create the world we desire to live in, for ourselves, those we influence and our society - but in the current reality, with the current stressors, we face, that can seem so far away or like self help rah rah. When it's anything but.

Knowing where our power is to take the pressure off, create space for ourselves, receive what we need, focus our energy and resources is essential for anyone who wants to make an impact, in a way in which you are sustained do. This is where our feminine power comes in.

In this series, we are building from the energy of the 5-year anniversary podcast Ep 154: Embrace Your Power to Create the World You Desire to Live In, to make this profound possibility and wisdom practical and applicable to you and your life. 

The series will take us into 3 realms of where our power lies to do things differently, to be conscious creators of reality and culture and society and our lives. Archetypes we have within us that we can access to be and feel empowered to see where we can make shifts: the Mother, the Maker, & the Co-Creator. 

In this episode #155 of Feminine Power Time we dive into Valuing the Mother, exploring

• What is The Mother archetype and energy? All of us can be mothers, even if we choose not to be parents.
• The distortions in our current over-culture that cause us to undervalue or devalue the Mother, and as a result burnout, not get what we need, and stay stuck in society that requires us to produce more, grow faster, give more and do more, always. 
• Three aspects of our Mother Power:  To birth. To nurture. To advocate.

I'll take you through these three aspects of Mother Power so you can take the pressure off yourself, give yourself the space and support you need, and shake off the over-culture B.S. that is not serving you.

We'll end with a super powered stand to say NO MORE to what is not supporting you.

See you there

Christine

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Action:

1. Come by the Feminine Wisdom Cafe and post your NO MORE! www.FeminineWisdomCafe 

This is our private online community off of social media, where we connect and share on the topic we are exploring in these podcasts and more. 

2. Get the Overwhelmed and Over It Book - www.OverwhelmedandOverIt.com

3. Share. Rate. Review this podcast - THANK YOU. This is  how we get the wisdom out to more people 

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GO DEEPER. Learn More.

Current and Upcoming Programs with Christine

1. Overwhelmed and Over It! A Path to Sustainable Success - open enrollment  www.OverwhelmedandOverItProgram.com 

2. Personal Transformation and Feminine Leadership Mentoring and Coaching: www.HarmonizeandRise.com 

3. Save the date - Mid Year Power Pause - starts June 20th. To receive the invitation when it's ready go to www.femininewisdomway.com  

Special Thank You to Sharon Zeugin for background art we are using for this series.. http://sharonzeugin.net/

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. 

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....

Next week we will start our three part series on how we can tap into and focus our feminine creative power to birth, make and co create the world we desire to live in. For now, soak in the Mother Love.

Much love to you xoxo Christine 

"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. 

I am so over the moon thrilled to be able to mark this point of the Feminine Power Time podcast with you - 5 years - with 5 being a number that signifies transformation. Which is the time we are in! 

I have been contemplating for the past few weeks what this episode should focus on, how it can support you during this transformational times and how Feminine Power Time can be a structure, support and space for you.

The center point of Feminine Power Time has always been about embracing our power to create the world we desire to live in. For ourselves. For those we love, lead and influence. For what matters to you in this world. 

It's my response to breaking through what keeps us from access our full wisdom and power. 

It's a space I create for you to come weekly to turn off the chaos or chatter of the outside world, to more deeply tune into what is true and real and aligned for you. 

It's a playground and a gathering place for us to explore different ways of being, living, leading and succeeding.

Whether you just found us or you have been here for years, I am grateful for our connection. I look forward to this special conversation with you.

Tune in. 

We are just getting started .... in what it really means to embrace our power to create the world we desire to live in. What that means practically. What we need to support us to keep stepping forward. And how we do this TOGETHER.

With great heart

Christine 

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p.s. I will share the genesis story of how Feminine Power Time came to be. 

p.p.s.

• Connect with the private community on the Feminine Wisdom Cafe www.FeminineWisdomCafe.com
• Join the Overwhelmed and Over It Experience: www.OverwhelmedandOveritProgram.com 
• Learn more about private transformational mentorship and coaching with Christine www.HarmonizetoRise.com