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Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeWhen Pain Becomes A PortalIn this episode of Beautiful Work Beautiful Life, host Laurel Boivin explores what it means for pain to become a portal—not because pain is good or required for growth, but because when we meet it with presence and support, it can open us to deeper awareness.Against the backdrop of collective uncertainty and emotional heaviness in the world, Laurel reflects on how personal and collective pain intersect. She names the many ways pain shows up—physically, emotionally, psychologically, relationally, and spiritually—and offers a compassionate reframe: sensitivity is not weakness, it’s intelligence.Rather than num...
2026-02-0214 minBeautiful Work Beautiful LifeEase As An Inside JobIn this Beautiful Work Beautiful Life episode, host Laurel Boivin invites listeners to pause and check in with how the first month of the new year has actually felt. While fresh starts often bring motivation and momentum, they can also create pressure to push harder, do more, and stay productive.This episode offers a gentle reframe: ease isn’t something we earn after working harder or reaching a future milestone. It begins with awareness, self-support, and compassion. Rather than forcing progress, noticing what drains or supports us can create more sustainable energy, clarity, and connection.La...
2026-01-2617 minBeautiful Work Beautiful LifeWhat's Around You Is Within YouIn this episode of Beautiful Work Beautiful Life, Laurel Holland and Laurel Boivin invite listeners into a quieter, more contemplative kind of inner work—one that begins not with fixing or forcing, but with noticing. Through a thoughtful exploration of how our outer environments reflect our inner landscapes, they offer a powerful truth: what surrounds us is often a living mirror of what’s happening within us.Rather than approaching our homes as projects to complete, this conversation reframes them as teachers. Each room, object, and surface becomes an invitation to reflect on relationship, ener...
2026-01-1932 minBeautiful Work Beautiful LifeMake Your Life EasyAs we begin a new year, cohosts Laurel Holland and Laurel Boivin invite you to slow down, tune inward, and ask a powerful question: What would it look like to make your life easier?In this episode, they explore the idea of ease—not as a life without challenges, but as a gentler, more conscious way of meeting whatever life brings.This conversation isn’t about fixing yourself or flipping a switch overnight. It’s about beginning—softly, honestly, and with compassion—so your inner work can support a more beautiful, ease-filled life.You’ll hear about:* The practice of “what’s o...
2026-01-0532 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeOpening The Door To Inner WisdomExploring inner wisdom as the quiet compass that brings clarity, steadiness, and deeper alignment, host Laurel Boivin invites listeners into a grounded conversation about reconnecting with the guidance that already lives within them. She shares how the most trustworthy direction often arises not from effort or analysis, but from spaciousness—those moments when we slow down enough to hear what’s speaking beneath the surface.
Drawing on the framework of four intelligences—heart, intuition, spirit, and mind—Laurel walks through how each one offers a different lens of insight. Through simple practices, reflective questions, and gentle examples, she help...
2025-12-0820 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeBeyond Form, A Guided MeditationWhy do we meditate? There are many reasons, but sometimes it’s because we want to know a self that exists beyond the body that carries us through our life's activities. To have a glimpse, or an experience, of sensing that you have moved beyond your form and into a space that feels more vast, more ethereal than body, is one of the gifts of meditation. In this guided meditation, you’ll be invited to relax into and through the body, to let go, and to enter a space that feels like being more than your body.
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2025-12-0115 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeAwakening Creativity Through GratitudeIn this episode of Beautiful Work Beautiful Life, co-host Laurel Boivin invites you to explore the powerful connection between gratitude and creativity.
Laurel guides you through a gentle breath and grounding practice, teaching how embodied gratitude awakens authentic creativity from within—because when we feel safe enough to receive, creativity comes alive. Through science, spirit, and soulful reflection, you’ll learn how gratitude softens the nervous system, quiets the stress response, and creates the inner safety that allows inspiration to bloom. You’ll also be guided to sense gratitude in your body and notice what creative energy begins...
2025-11-0312 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeOne Step at a Time: Walking Across America with Nick TuckerWhat does it take to walk across an entire country—3,400 miles, 16 states, and 7 months on the road?
In this episode of Beautiful Work Beautiful Life, cohost Laurel Boivin sits down again with Nick Tucker, a husband, father, speaker, and storyteller whose journey of resilience has inspired many. At just 23 years old, Nick felt a calling he couldn’t ignore: to walk from Maine to Los Angeles with nothing more than a backpack, a friend, and faith that the road would provide.
Along the way, he discovered the power of kindness from strangers, the lessons of resi...
2025-10-131h 10
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeThe Power of Small StepsIn this solo episode of Beautiful Work Beautiful Life, Laurel Boivin explores how tiny, consistent actions can create extraordinary change.
If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed by the gap between where you are and where you want to be, this conversation is for you. Laurel shares stories from her own journey—including the lessons learned while walking 1,500 miles in a single year—and client experiences that show how starting small builds momentum, confidence, and self-trust.
You’ll discover:
* Why small, ordinary steps are more powerful than giant leaps
* How consistency shapes confiden...
2025-10-0615 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeTapping Into Your Inner WisdomDo you ever wish for more clarity, confidence, or ease in your life?
In this episode of Beautiful Work, Beautiful Life, Laurel Boivin invites you to slow down and tap into one of the most powerful tools you already carry within you — your inner wisdom.
Laurel explores what inner wisdom really is, what often gets in the way of hearing it, and simple practices you can use to connect with that quiet inner voice. You’ll also discover how to begin trusting your wisdom through small steps, reflection, and gentle self-compassion.
If you’ve bee...
2025-09-2917 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeThe Art of Becoming ResilientIn this thought-provoking episode of Beautiful Work, Beautiful Life, Laurel Holland and Laurel Boivin dive into the transformative journey of becoming resilient. They explore the richness of the words "resilience" and "becoming," sharing personal insights, client stories, and reflections on how adversity can be a powerful teacher.
From the importance of finding safety, physically and emotionally, to cultivating emotional intelligence, reframing your story, and nurturing the four intelligences (physical, emotional, mental, spiritual), they guide listeners through the inner work that fosters lasting strength and growth.
This conversation is an inspiring reminder that resilience is not...
2025-08-1830 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeNavigating ChangeLaurel Holland and Laurel Boivin celebrate their podcast's fifth year and its recognition as one of the top 100 inner work podcasts. They discuss navigating change, emphasizing the importance of self-awareness and intuition. Laurel Boivin shares her experience of moving after 20 years, highlighting the challenges of initiating change and dealing with others' reactions. They stress the significance of journaling to explore personal feelings and the need to trust one's intuition. Laurel Holland recounts selling her house intuitively, which led to multiple offers over asking price. They conclude by encouraging listeners to explore their responses to change and develop self-awareness.
2025-08-0429 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeWhat Does Thriving Look Like For You?What if thriving isn’t a goal to chase, but an everyday way of living that’s deeply personal and true to you?
In this episode of Beautiful Work Beautiful Life, Laurel Boivin invites you to pause and gently turn inward to explore that beautiful, liberating idea. She unpacks what thriving really means — beyond hustle, perfection, or someone else’s expectations. She also shares inspiring, real-life stories showing how thriving can look wildly different for each of us: from savoring slower mornings and setting heartfelt boundaries, to boldly saying yes to dreams that once felt out of reach.
2025-06-3010 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeMaking Peace with Loss with Rachael PawlikIn this episode, Laurel Boivin is joined by photographer and homesteader Rachael Kloss Pawlik for an honest and inspiring conversation about navigating loss, surrendering control, and creating a life rooted in gratitude, love, and intention. Rachael opens up about her fertility journey, the heartbreak of multiple miscarriages, and the inner work that helped her heal—from Reiki and retreats to seasonal living and simple daily gratitude. Her story is a beautiful reminder that even through grief, we can build a life that feels aligned, grounded, and deeply meaningful. If you're walking through a difficult season or simply looking for en...
2025-05-1228 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeLoss As An InvitationIn this episode, Laurel Boivin explores the transformational power of loss. Losses that shake our identity — the end of a job, a relationship, a dream — also bring opportunities to rediscover ourselves more authentically.
Through her own story of career loss and reinvention, Laurel shares how listening deeply, even when fear is louder than hope, can lead to a life of greater meaning, purpose, and connection.
If you’re navigating a season of uncertainty, feeling the ache of loss, or standing on the edge of change, this episode offers gentle guidance, inspiration, and practical tools to help y...
2025-05-0516 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeYour Leadership, Your LegacyIn this episode of Beautiful Work, Beautiful Life, Laurel Boivin invites you to embrace a transformative truth: your legacy isn’t just something you leave behind—it’s something you live every single day.
Inspired by Mary Oliver’s iconic question, “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”, Laurel explores how leadership and legacy are shaped by the choices we make, the values we embody, and the energy we bring to each moment.
Leadership, she reminds us, isn’t reserved for titles or formal roles. It’s about living w...
2025-04-2811 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeWomen, First as Leaders of Their LivesLaurel Holland and her co-host Laurel Boivin discuss the evolution of their podcast, which has shifted from weekly conversations to seasonal themes. They emphasize the importance of inner work for personal growth and leadership, particularly for women. Laurel shares her journey of self-improvement as a mother, highlighting the impact of inner work on her parenting. They stress the significance of leading one's life from the inside out, advocating for self-care, self-talk, and authenticity. The conversation also touches on the concept of women as creatrixes, the power of intuition, and the need for safe spaces to foster authentic leadership and...
2025-04-2137 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeMeditation and Inner Work, An Enlightenment PathLaurel Holland and Laurel Boivin discuss the importance of meditation as a path to inner work. They debunk common myths about meditation, such as the need for a quiet mind or a still body, emphasizing that meditation is about self-observation and mindfulness. They highlight various meditation practices, including moving meditations and guided meditations, and stress that meditation can be practiced anywhere, anytime. They also discuss the benefits of meditation for self-awareness, emotional regulation, and reducing loneliness. Both hosts share personal experiences and recommend books and practices to help listeners integrate meditation into their lives.
3:30 The myth of...
2025-03-2439 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeAn Honest Conversation about ManifestationLife coaches Laurel Holland and Laurel Boivin discuss the complexities of manifestation, emphasizing that it is a layered, nuanced process rather than a simple affirmation. They highlight the importance of clarity, self-observation, and alignment in achieving one's goals. They stress that manifestation involves not just visualizing but also taking concrete actions and maintaining a positive mindset. Examples include Laurel Holland's desire for a TED talk and Laurel Boivin's career transition. They also discuss the role of boundaries, gratitude, and overcoming limiting beliefs to truly believe in infinite possibilities. The conversation underscores the need for ongoing self-reflection and support from...
2025-02-1744 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeManifestion: The Intersection of Science and MagicManifestation is not just about thinking positively and hoping for the best—it’s about aligning your mindset, emotions, and actions to create tangible results. That’s where science and magic meet.
Laurel Boivin reveals the science and magic behind manifestation, including neuroscience, psychology, and quantum physics, intuition, energy, visualization, and belief. She also offers five simple steps to help listeners harness the power of science and magic for manifestation to create a beautiful life.
00:01 Welcome and introductions
01:04 What manifestation is and what it is not
02:12 The science of manifestation
06:04 The...
2025-02-0316 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeTo Be Willing to Not Get it RightThis podcast conversation explores the theme of embracing imperfection and the importance of being willing to not get it right. Life Coaches, Laurel Boivin and Laurel Holland, discuss how this shift in mindset can lead to a more fulfilling life, freeing oneself from self-imposed burdens and societal expectations. They share personal anecdotes, as well as emphasizing the role of self-identity in perfectionism, and the need to question and challenge personal rules and assumptions. The discussion highlights the importance of mastery through repeated attempts and the benefits of adopting a "perfect mess" approach to life.
3:00 Laurel and Laurel...
2024-12-2325 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeOvercoming PerfectionismLaurel Boivin discusses the challenges of perfectionism, sharing her personal journey and experiences. She identifies some key traits of perfectionism, such as unrealistic standards, fear of failure, and self-criticism, and explains how it leads to stress, anxiety, burnout, and reduced productivity. Laurel also discusses how perfectionism impacts creativity, self-esteem, relationships, and health. She provides strategies to overcome perfectionism and emphasizes the importance of grace and self-acceptance on the path to allowing imperfection.
0:11 Laurel explains why she doesn’t love the topic of perfectionism.
1:11 Laurel introduces herself and her podcast partner and cohost, Laurel Holland.
2:3...
2024-12-0229 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeHeartfelt Living in a Heady WorldLaurel Holland and Laurel Boivin reconvene to discuss living through the heart instead of in the head as a powerful act in work as well as at home. They introduce their podcast episode titled "Heartfelt Living in a Heady World," inspired by an interview with Erica Lewis on heart-centered leadership. They emphasize the significance of being present, using all faculties, and integrating spiritual practices into daily routines. They highlight the challenges of balancing personal and professional lives and the need for heart-centered leadership in the workplace. They conclude by encouraging listeners to commit to full-body awareness and presence.
2024-11-1838 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeThe Illusion of ControlLaurel Boivin discusses the illusion of control, particularly relevant during the busy end-of-year months, where the need to control comes from, and what it causes. She shares her struggle with control, highlighting a recent personal experience, and offers suggestions to let go of control.
1:28 The inspiration for this episode
2:44 Laurel introduces herself and her podcast cohost, Laurel Holland
3:23 Where the need for control comes from
4:32 Laurel shares a recent experience when she realized she was not in control and had to let go
6:31 The downside of trying to control...
2024-11-0413 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeThe Path of TruthLaurel Boivin explores the concept of “the path of truth.” She explains that the path of truth involves aligning with core beliefs and values, requiring self-reflection, introspection, courage, authentic self-expression, and the willingness to adjust and evolve. She also offers suggestions and contemplative questions to help you discover your path of truth.
3:28 Laurel introduces the episode’s topic: the path of truth.
5:45 Laurel explains that the path of truth involves living in alignment with core beliefs and values, requiring self-reflection, introspection, courage, and authentic self-expression.
7:47 Laurel tells a personal story about a path of truth...
2024-10-0721 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeLiving Your Whole SelfWhat does living your whole self mean?
In this episode, Laurel Boivin shares her thoughts about why it’s important and how to do it. She explores what it takes to live your whole self, touching on authenticity, vulnerability, values, boundaries, self-awareness, self-reflection, quiet time, and safety.
1:54 What living your whole self means.
2:44 Why living your whole self is essential.
3:39 Laurel questions how it is possible to be authentic and remain authentic when there are so many pressures to be who others need us to be.
4:02 Getting clear about yo...
2024-09-3021 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeThe Inner Work of SpiritualityLife coaches, Laurel Holland and Laurel Boivin discuss the importance of inner work in spirituality, emphasizing the need for individuals to explore their spirituality through mystical practices, archetypes, and universal themes. They highlight the importance of choosing guides and mentors, and the inner conflict that can arise when interpreting spiritual teachings. Additionally, they discuss the importance of exploring diverse spirituality and culture to promote female empowerment, and learning from and being inspired by different cultures and traditions to deepen one's spiritual practice and create a more beautiful life.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is...
2024-09-2329 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeLoving All Your PartsIn this podcast episode, Laurel Boivin explores what it takes for us to love all parts of ourselves. She dives into the importance of self-acceptance in personal growth and fulfillment and living to our full potential, and shares her knowledge, experience, and personal stories about self-acceptance and inner work.
Laurel also gives practical advice for cultivating self-acceptance through self-reflection, journaling, and forgiveness, highlighting the need for self-compassion, loving self-kindness, and inner work.
1:46 Laurel shares what she’s excited about and why.
2:33 Laurel introduces herself and Laurel Holland as co-hosts and life coaches.
4:0...
2024-09-0224 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeThe Confidence to Be YourselfLife coaches, Laurel Boivin and Laurel Holland, discuss their personal journeys towards self-awareness and authentic living and developing confidence along the way. They emphasize the importance of inner work, mentors, and supportive surroundings in creating a fulfilling life and knowing that you have the power to create what you want in your life. Discussing the significance of cultivating intuition and inner knowingness, they share that these qualities lead to deeper self-awareness and personal growth. Both coaches stress the value of trusting one's intuition and honoring one's authentic self.
Journaling prompts are suggested to further your exploration.
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2024-08-2627 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeLonging for Beautiful Relationships with Laurel HollandLaurel Holland and Laurel Boivin, the hosts, are life coaches who work with individuals helping them navigate the rocky waters of inner life and what can be the messy reality of their day-to-day lives.
Laurel and Laurel kick off the season interviewing each other about their "beautiful" lives. In this second episode of the season, Laurel Boivin interviews Laurel Holland about her beautiful life and her inner work. Laurel Boivin and Laurel Holland discuss the importance of living authentically and true to oneself, emphasizing the value of inner work, self-discovery, and taking risks to pursue one's dreams. The...
2024-08-1929 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeThe Discovery of Self-Confidence with Laurel BoivinLaurel Holland and Laurel Boivin, the hosts, are life coaches who work with individuals helping them navigate the rocky waters of inner life and what can be the messy reality of their day-to-day lives.
Laurel and Laurel kick off the season interviewing each other about their "beautiful" lives. In this episode Laurel Holland interviews Laurel Boivin about her beautiful life and her inner work. Laurel Boivin shares her journey of self-discovery, revealing how she reevaluated her values after a series of situations with her ex-husband, husband at the time, and a friend. Laurel Holland shares her personal ex...
2024-08-1229 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeSourcing Earth Energy Guided MeditationUsing imagination, visualization and breathwork, this meditation guides you to connect with the Earth and purposefully draw energy from the Earth into your body. Focusing on the three power centers of the body, you’ll use imagery to infuse your power with the power of the Earth. Music by Chris Collins accompanies this guided meditation.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
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2024-04-2314 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeSensitivity, Anxiety, and Hyper vigilanceHyper vigilance, anxiety and sensitivity can create a web of inner stress and discomfort. For anyone who feels they struggle with any of these feelings or qualities, this podcast aims to sort out the differences and the root of how they arise within. How do you work with these conditions? Suggestions for this work, and ways to self-soothe are included in the talk.
Journaling prompts are suggested to further your exploration.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to...
2024-04-2248 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeWhy Do We Feel Guilty?Guilt has been used as a tool to modify behavior, and in some instances, in ways that can be harmful to people. Have you thought about your own patterns of how guilt may be motivating you? This podcast episode is an invitation to turn around any bad habits you have around guilt and use guilt as a way to both gain clarity about the truth of who you are and to help you become the person you know you want to be. Strategies to work through automatic patterns and to empower yourself to free yourself from the habit of...
2024-04-1527 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeEmpaths, Sensitivity, and ConflictHandling conflict can be precarious, but when you're sensitive or empathic, it can be painful. This podcast offers strategies that sensitives and empathic individuals can use right away to alleviate some of the pain of facing and working through conflict, both with others, but also the inner struggle with emotions. Although this episode focuses on support for those who feel that they are sensitive, it also helps those who love or care for someone who is emotionally sensitive or empathic. Anyone who struggles with conflict can discover some support through this episode as well. Learning these skills can greatly im...
2024-04-0843 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeThe Art of Saying NoAs the hosts explore the topics of sensitivity and having an empathic nature, how to say no with grace and ease is an important conversation. During this episode the hosts offer strategies to move into saying no well, facing the feelings you feel despite what can be difficult, because the goal is to align with truth, not necessarily comfort. When we go for momentary comfort and forgo the truth of what we're thinking or desiring, we end up with the longer term uncomfortable feelings of being inauthentic. Listen in to this episode and learn ways to express no in w...
2024-04-0136 min
How Leaders Think with Kenny LangeHow Donnie and Keith Boivin Think About a Better Way to Network for Exponential Business Growth
On today's episode of "How Leaders Think," host Kenny Lange engages with brothers Donnie and Keith Boivin in a riveting conversation about networking and mindset shifts for business development. They delve into the significance of genuine introductions, the growth potential from synergy partners, and the strategic mindset changes from addition to multiplication for exponential networking success.Other places to find the “How Leaders Think” podcast:* Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-leaders-think-with-kenny-lange/id1434737807* Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2wKtzb6KaF1vNlG9TsZkzh* Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aH...
2024-03-2744 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeRewriting Your NarrativeHow do you prepare so that you no longer repeat conversations you don't feel good about, negotiations that went poorly, or simple self-expressions that you wish were different? This podcast episode will guide you into the world of rewriting your narrative as a tool so that you use your focus, your desires, and your imagination to no longer feel stuck in what isn't working, and move towards what brings you to the results and life experience you most want. The participants in this discussion offer personal stories of improved relationships after employing these techniques.
Journaling prompts are su...
2024-03-2537 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeAn Open Focus MeditationOften when we meditate we use breath or another tool to bring our attention to a single focus. Because our attention is often narrowly focused throughout the day, this open focus meditation is wonderful opportunity to create a sense of openness within oneself, to relax the attention in a way that opposes that narrow focus, while also stilling the mind. In this open focus meditation we use imagination, attention and awareness to become connected with the space inside and around us.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland...
2024-03-2417 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeThe Power of Unspoken WordsThere can be unpleasant consequences to speaking words when we are in an emotional turmoil or unclear about what we are seeking as an outcome to any conversation. In order to become clear, to gain power in our speech and confidence in how to address what might be a difficult conversation, we can turn to the power of unspoken words to help us begin the process of self-expression in a productive and non-violent manner. You'll hear lots of ideas about the value of unspoken words in this episode as well as strategies to employ these techniques in your life.
2024-03-1837 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeHow to Offer Feedback Without CriticismCriticism never feels good to be received and if we're honest, it doesn't feel good to deliver, when one wants to be a supportive, compassionate person. So how do we have conversations where we share what we really think and feel without criticizing others? This podcast discusses ways to address this topic in relationship with others, beginning with the relationship with yourself. In order to have the healthy and positive relationships that most of us want, taking time to build our communication skills can be a worthwhile endeavor. Some examples of how to handle specific situations are shared.
2024-03-1136 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeAn Inner Clearing Guided MeditationUsing your imagination and your breath, use this 7-minute guided meditation to release stagnant energy, tensions, and repetitive and unnecessary thoughts to imagine an inner cleaning and clearing. Let the guidance help you relax and let go of what may feel like it is cluttering your inner life and weighing you down, preparing you for what's ahead.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost...
2024-03-1010 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeHandling Difficult ConversationsWhat if you could improve all your relationships with one strategy? Handling difficult conversation well could be the strategy. Most people struggle with difficult conversations, often walking away wishing it went differently. It's easy to get in the habit of avoiding what might become difficult conversations and inadvertently create other problems and issues through this avoidance. In this podcast, you'll learn strategies and receive motivation to become more courageous in leading any conversation you might avoid.
Links/Books mentioned - The book, Difficult Conversations by Stone, Patton and Heen. The Beautiful Work Beautiful Life 2024 Retreat registration is open...
2024-03-0427 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeThe Power of Your Inner DialogueWhen you aren’t making the progress you want, the first thing to work on is your inner dialogue. This conversation begins with a discussion about behavior change and why it can be so difficult to make the changes you want. Adele Michael joins the hosts to discuss the critical nature of self-talk, the importance of acknowledging and rediscovering the power of your body, your subconscious mind, and your inner dialogue. She explains how getting the body into a relaxed state, a state many can't seem to achieve, is often the key to making the change you want. Your inn...
2024-02-2640 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeMorning Wake-up and Inner Appreciation MeditationUse this guided meditation to employ your breath and your awareness to bring full presence to all of your body, awakening the major aspects and organs to work more fully with all you encounter throughout the day. Based on the theory of Chinese Medicine and utilizing visualizations, you’ll be guided to connect consciously with different parts of your physical form and consider the work they engage autonomically and energetically to process your life in a moment-to-moment way. Step into your day with appreciation and awareness for the miracle that is your human form. You may want to find an...
2024-02-2313 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeMorning Wake-up and Inner Roll Call Guided MeditationUse this guided meditation to employ your breath and your awareness to bring full presence to all of your body, awakening the major aspects and organs to work more fully with all you encounter throughout the day. Based on the theory of Chinese Medicine and utilizing visualizations, you’ll be guided to connect consciously with different parts of your physical form and consider the work they engage autonomically and energetically to process your life in a moment-to-moment way. Step into your day with appreciation and awareness for the miracle that is your human form. You may want to find an...
2024-02-2313 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeDiscovering Your Light WithinWhat does it mean to raise your vibration? And how can this make your life better? Do you desire a life that feels more connected to God or the Divine? How can you go about having that quality of life? This podcast goes about addressing these potent questions and more.
Often there are more questions than answers when we work in the energetic realm, and at the same time, questions seem to have simple or different answers from what we expect. This podcast shares conversation and stories to bring the listener into experiences that involve letting go...
2024-02-1942 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeThe Akashic Records, A Self-Discovery ToolThe Akashic Records are a self-discovery tool that one can access to retrieve information about life's journey. Would you like to be able to Google your name and ask questions about your life for insight into how and why things are the way they are in your life? This is a metaphor for what we do when we consult the Akashic Records. They can give us the opportunity to shift perspective and ultimately see life in a new way. Meena Ruchi joins the hosts in this episode to share her wisdom and experience as a reader of the Akashic Rec...
2024-02-121h 01
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeBreathe Into Your Awakening Guided MeditationThe more consciously and regularly you connect with your breath, the greater your expanding awareness about yourself and the world around you. Your breath can help you affirm all the aspects and depths of who you are and reveal new parts of yourself. Using breath as a toll of exploration, affirmation, and discovery, enjoy this 8-minute meditation to become more familiar with the subtle aspects of who you really are.
Links/Books mentioned - The Beautiful Work Beautiful Life 2024 Retreat registration is open. For details visit https://www.liveyourinnerpower.com/beautifulworkbeautifulliferetreat
The email to send q...
2024-02-0911 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeThe Enneagram, A Self-Discovery ToolOne of the biggest stumbling blocks for personal development can be a lack of objectivity when looking at ourselves. The Enneagram gives us a tool to consider what "type" pf person we are and then how this "type" has particular strengths and weaknesses, desires and avoidances. With this objectivity, we can become better problem solvers and consider our self-care in a new light. Christina Granahan, Enneagram-informed therapist and life coach joins the podcast for a lively conversation about this self-discovery tool, sharing personal examples of how her own Enneagram knowledge empowered her as mother, wife and professional.
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2024-02-0541 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeIntuition and Your ConfidenceSurprisingly, your intuition can be a radiant source of your confidence as well as a guide to discovering your own beautiful life. During this podcast you’ll be offered new ways to consider the importance of connecting to and making good use of your own intuition. Throughout the show you’ll hear how your intuition connects powerfully to a natural sense of your own bedrock of confidence.
Journaling prompts are suggested to further your exploration.
Links/Books mentioned - books by Caroline Myss include Anatomy of the Spirit, Sacred Contracts, and Entering the Castle.
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2024-01-2933 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeClear the Way for What You Want MeditationInspired by the work of Caroline Myss, this meditation focuses on your first three energy centers or chakras to support your shift from a past-focused mind to a present-focused mind, drawing you into the life you want to be living. When we quiet and begin to observe the mind, it’s easy to see that habitual thoughts are often what occupy our thinking. These habitual thoughts generally stem from past experiences, causing us to limit our potential of moving into a more creative life experience. This meditation is meant to introduce you to your three lower energy centers (chakras) an...
2024-01-2521 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeHave You Lost Yourself?Feeling lost or adrift can be really uncomfortable. It can bring up feelings of confusion, disappointment, frustration, and grief. In this episode, you'll discover the gift in feeling like you've lost yourself. You'll hear examples of losing oneself to relationships, including feeling lost in work. Join the hosts to explore any feelings you have around "being lost" in your life and decide to create space in your life to use these feelings to find a more meaningful and fulfilling life.
Journaling prompts are suggested to further your exploration.
Links/Books mentioned - The Beautiful Work Bea...
2024-01-2235 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeSelf-aware or Self-absorbed?Being too self-absorbed or too self-aware can be problematic if you're seeking a fulfilling, meaningful life and healthy relationships. Gaining awareness and choice around your habits in these aspects of your life allows you to show up in all your relationships in a more powerful way. If you're in relationship with others who are self-absorbed it can feel disappointing and uncomfortable. In this episode, you'll have the opportunity to consider your own behaviors and attitudes around self-absorbed and self-aware, as well as looking at others in your life and how they are showing up so that you might communicate abou...
2024-01-1535 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeGrow Your Confidence Guided MeditationConfidence is a feeling and a quality that anyone may experience. Often our confidence, or ability to feel it, becomes hindered through life environments, relationships, and experiences. It is always possible to renew and restore a sense of inner confidence as you connect with your inner life and reconnect with the aspects of yourself that you appreciate. Use this 7-minute meditation to help you grow your confidence and explore how to expand your confidence as a foundational element of your life.
The Beautiful Work Beautiful Life 2024 Retreat registration is open. For details visit https://www.liveyourinnerpower.com/b...
2024-01-1111 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeAre you playing it safe?Are you playing it safe? Stuck in fear-based living? Unable to get out of your comfort zone and enjoy your life the way you want to? And what does abundance have to do with all this? Listen in to this conversation to understand how you might grow your comfort zone, work with your inner fears, and grow the confidence. you need to take the risks you want to show up fully and authentically in all areas of your life.
Journaling prompts are suggested to further your exploration.
The Beautiful Work Beautiful Life 2024 Retreat registration is ope...
2024-01-0846 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeHow to Strengthen Your ConfidenceWhat breaks your confidence and how can you change that to always strengthen your confidence authentically? This episode focuses on ways to grow your confidence and directly address the blocks to feeling confident while becoming comfortable showing up as your real self. As you explore the idea of confidence in this episode you will be invited to challenge yourself to be honest about your habits. What does confidence actually feel like? You'll be invited to explore that in real time so that you anchor into your true feeling of confidence and can encourage that state in any moment in the...
2024-01-0132 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeLove and Peace for All, A Guided MeditationBorrowing from the concept of Tonglen meditation, the Buddhist practice of “taking and sending”, this guided meditation will support you in focusing on expanding love and peace to include both yourself and others. You will be led through a practice of focusing on the light and space around you, releasing feelings of frustration,contempt and disappointment and then encouraging and embodying feelings of love and peace. You’ll focus on self, a loved one, and all those around you and in the world who also experience these feelings.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel...
2023-12-2617 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeClose Your Year with Love and GraceClose out the year in celebration of what has come into your life, what you actually experienced, and what was good or what growth came from the way your life rolled out. Life becomes more beautiful when you take time to reflect and embrace the truth of our experience in a loving and graceful way. In this podcast you'll be offered different ways to reflect on the year as well as set yourself up to plan for the year ahead with more love and grace as well.
Journaling prompts are suggested to further your exploration.
Li...
2023-12-2535 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeTransform Your Anger into Loving Self-KindnessAnger can be a destructive, hurtful emotion when misused. When used to support your life, it can - help you identify your true values, be clear in what is important to you, find your voice, become focused in what you want, and set boundaries in your life well and clearly. Anger, when understood as a useful emotion, can support you in becoming more empowered and clear, aligned with your inner truth, and able to organize your life in support of what you most care about. As you listen to this episode you'll be offered 5 brief lessons in how to p...
2023-12-1836 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeLoving Self-Kindness Guided MeditationLoving kindness is a practice that's good for your heart and healing to your deepest wounds and inner child. Give yourself 10 minutes to be quiet, relax and take in this guided meditation to support you in connecting to this practice of loving kindness and use it to develop a healing practice of loving self-kindness.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
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2023-12-1211 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeAre Bad Feelings Really Bad?Do you feel like some feelings are wrong or bad? Do you feel guilty about having certain feelings? How do you think about "bad feelings" and what they may mean about you? You are invited to consider the difference between "bad feelings" and "bad behavior following bad feelings" in this episode. Emotions and feelings are explored as the energy that can help you guide yourself into your beautiful life rather than being used as weapons against yourself or the world. Bonus! - you'll be taken through a real time experience of "bad" feelings and doing the transformational work of...
2023-12-1128 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeThe Gift of Loving Self-KindnessThe practice of loving self-kindness is powerful, transformative, and grace-inducing. With a world that seems to be growing in judgment, misinformation, and separation, loving self-kindness is needed more than ever. You can begin your practice of loving self-kindness as you listen to this podcast episode as you are led into an immediate practice while listening. You'll leave this episode with a deeper understanding of not only the practice but also of how to self-soothe and self-calm.
Journaling prompts are suggested to further your exploration.
Links/Books mentioned - several previous episodes of the podcast are su...
2023-12-0429 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeHow to Nourish Yourself During the HolidaysThe holidays can be a beautiful time to nourish your spirit, your soul, you heart, your mind. How mindfully are you approaching the holidays? Do you often feel drained and overwrought throughout the holidays with too much to do and too many places to be? This podcast invites you to consider how you really want your holidays to be, how you want to feel and how you might begin a trajectory of change if you don't like the routines and habits that your holidays hold.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com...
2023-11-2719 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeReceive Your Word Guided MeditationAs we progress in our inner development and spiritual growth, a helpful practice can be to “receive” a word for a time period. This could be done at the beginning of the year which we often see as a more common practice. It also could be used anytime in any instance, as a guiding touchstone to help support you to remain open and rise into any experience in a more confident, fully expressed and embodied way. To receive a word means to intentionally be open for a word that you connect with in a powerful way, like an aha mome...
2023-11-2619 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeThe Pain of OverindulgenceHave you ever heard the phrase, "everything in moderation"? Overindulgence, lack of moderation, can be painful and stressful. What causes us to overindulge? Unconscious consumption is one of the factors. Often times, overindulgence is a habit as the holiday season ensues. This podcast episode explores the topic of overindulgence, how we might get caught in habits of overindulgence, how it impacts our well-being, and how to overcome the habit of overindulgence. As we seek to discover optimal health and well-being, the topic of overindulgence is an important one to address.
Journaling prompts are suggested to further your ex...
2023-11-2038 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeWhat are you really hungry for?Posing the question "what are you really hungry for?", we can explore different ways we consume but don't necessarily feel nourished or fulfilled. As consumers, it's can be easy to ignore what we really need, and instead take in what we want on a whim, or to attempt to fill an emptiness that has nothing to do with the real hunger or desire we are experiencing. In this podcast you'll look at different ways you are or aren't nourished, and possible reasons you may be hungry and are trying to fulfill that hunger in ineffective ways of consuming.
J...
2023-11-1327 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeNourish Yourself Guided MeditationUse your imagination as you move through this 12-minute guided meditation to help you relax, open and gain a new sense of freedom and lightness. As move through this experience, you'll invite yourself to create an intention to bring more nourishment into your life. To live a fulfilling, meaningful and uplifting life, you can intend to bring that forth and then use that intention to remain open to receive all the nourishment available to you.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
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2023-11-1213 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeExploring NourishmentNourishment isn't just about what you eat - it's about what you consume in all the ways. What you watch, what you listen to, whose energy you imbibe in, the company you keep, where you shop!, yes ... you constantly are affecting your physical and energetic state. In this episode you will hear about the many ways you can impact your own body, heart, mind, and spirit by choosing carefully and consciously making what you consume nourishing and uplifting rather than troubling or stressful.
Journaling prompts and exercises are suggested to further your exploration.
The email to...
2023-11-0633 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeHow to Create a Simple RitualDaily practices become rituals when you decide to make them sacred and meaningful. Because we have the ability to do this with everything we do, thus creating a beautiful life, it is within our power to change the quality of our life by shifting how and why we do what we do. As often is recommended in this podcast, starting small, with something simple, making that change and making it stick, starts, and can continue, a trajectory that can change your whole life. You’ll be hearing about simple rituals that can do this for you and be inspired to...
2023-10-3034 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeQuick Chakra Alignment Guided MeditationEnjoy this 10-minute guided meditation to help you both connect with your chakras consciously, as well as align and connect them to one another. Your chakra are the portals to your energy centers that feed your spinal column and inform you energetically. We give and receive energy all the time through these portals, so refreshing them, connecting with them, aligning them, and otherwise growing familiar with how they impact you, can be both illuminating and healing.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
2023-10-2811 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeHow can shifting your perspective change your life?When you have no solution to your problem, it's time to shift your perspective. When you are completely frustrated with a situation, person, or experience, it's time to shift your perspective. When you don't have the ability to make an impact that you want, it's time to shift your perspective. Shifting your perspective can be one of the most valuable tools for inner work and for outer contentment. So how do you actually do it? You'll learn about how to work with your perspective in this podcast episode.
Journaling prompts are suggested to further your exploration.
2023-10-2331 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeWhat can you learn from your shadow?Shadow work is not for the faint of heart, but is for the person who really wants personal liberation from what binds them up or keeps them from the things they most want. Knowing how to identify or seek out your shadow is the first step which you hear about in this episode. Laurel and Laurel share personal stories as example to help the listener understand how to work with bringing shadow qualities forward and work with them proactively to keep them from disrupting you from living the life you want to live and to support you in detaching...
2023-10-1636 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeCreate a New Ritual Guided MeditationQuiet your mind, let go and relax, take time to go within during this 8-minute guided meditation. The focus is to connect with your creative nature as you set the intention of opening to a new ritual meant to support you at this time of your life. You’ll be guided to commune with your intuition and a sense of something greater than yourself to trust inspiration to create a ritual to support you in calling in your beautiful life.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laur...
2023-10-1412 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeWhy is curiosity a game-changer?Curiosity instead of judgment or negativity offers great opportunity to transform any difficult situation. Using curiosity as a practice rather than thinking of it as a quality, allows you to enter any conversation and discover new and interesting things in life and about people. In this episode, you'll be listening to ideas about how to bring more curiosity into your daily life as well as some standard phrases, responses, and questions to use in any situation to stay curious and bring a sense of wonder to all you encounter.
Journaling prompts are suggested to further your exploration. ...
2023-10-0930 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeHow do rituals and practices lead to a beautiful life?Do you have rituals, routines, and/or practices that are making your life meaningful and beautiful? If not, this episode may be what you've been waiting for. You'll be offered specific ideas about regular practices, some old and newly updated rituals, and simple routines that are ideas for how to elevate your life to a more interesting and meaningful level.
Many of us want to take control of our life, our days, our time but can't seem to make the changes we want. Often when we go to learn about how to do things differently, we feel e...
2023-10-0235 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful Life5 Minute Breath Break MeditationGive yourself the pleasure of taking 5 minutes to release tension and induce a refresh of your energy. In this guided meditation you’ll be focusing on your breath, including a quick self-massage for your head and neck if you choose, mindfully bringing breath to different parts of your body as you relax and release tension as you notice it in your body. Piano music by Robert Meunier accompanies this guided meditation.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our pri...
2023-09-2905 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeWhat creates a beautiful partnership?Partnerships are how we live in the world in relationships whether we recognize that as a reality or not. Learning what would make a partnership beautiful for you is a worthwhile endeavor on the road to building your beautiful life. This episode brings many facets of inner work together as you explore with the hosts how to create your own successful, meaningful and happy partnerships throughout the different areas of your life.
Journaling prompts are suggested to further your exploration.
Links/Books mentioned - Heart-Centered Living Podcast, What Does Your Nervous System have to do wi...
2023-09-2530 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeCan you avoid disappointment in relationships?Handling disappointment - well - in relationships is a skill you learn with practice. We often try to avoid disappointment and yet what we do is only postpone dealing with the feelings and often complicate them at the same time. In this episode, you'll explore the words disappointment, expectation, faith, trust, and boundaries, perhaps in new ways that will elevate your ability to handle your own disappointments better and more directly. The aha moment of the show was midway when the encapsulated message became - "Be clear in what you want, be on the lookout for it, identify it wh...
2023-09-1832 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeTrusting Relationship with Self Guided MeditationExplore the power you have within to grow a more trusting relationship with yourself. What can you achieve, experience or grow in your life with a stronger sense of trust in yourself? How can you connect more deeply to the authentic aspects inside that make you who you are and who you want to become? Be guided through this 9-minute meditation and connect with the parts of you that can help aid a trusting relationship with yourself.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
2023-09-1410 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeHow do you build trusting relationships?Do you have relationships in which you feel known and understood? Do you have safe people with whom you can share your deepest truth? Trusting relationships are often the bedrock of a fulfilling and heartfelt life and most certainly of experiencing fulfilling connection.
Knowing how important this aspect of life is, how do you build trusting relationships? There are specific elements that create trusting relationships that many won't take the time to explore or learn, and will feel disappointed in the relationships they experience. In this episode you'll hear about many of those specific elements and how...
2023-09-1133 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeWhy does Authentic Connection Matter?Why does authentic connection matter? Because we live in a world where a growing epidemic is loneliness. The remedy for this epidemic will come through experiencing authentic and more intimate connection both within oneself and with others in your life. We all long for belonging, love and connection and yet it's as if we've lost our ability to engage these qualities of connection in our own lives. This episode invites the listener to uplift and up level their life quality through learning how to engage in and grow more authentic connection.
Journaling prompts are suggested to further...
2023-09-0427 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeRooted and Grounded MeditationFeeling rooted to the Earth, grounded and present, and centered in your whole being allows you to connect more fully with others as well as with the natural power in your whole being. When we chronically live through our minds and in our heads, we often feel disconnected from our bodies and the wisdom, connection, and power latent in the lower parts of our being. In this meditation, the focus is on breath work and imagery to bring your attention and energy into the lower part of your body to encourage feeling more rooted, grounded and centered both in...
2023-08-3016 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeWhat does Your Nervous System have to do with Your Clarity?When your nervous system is stressed it becomes increasingly difficult to think clearly and make holistic life decisions. In this podcast episode, the hosts share personal stories about living with stressed nervous systems and how they recovered. You'll learn ways to identify the ways your nervous system responds to keep you safe and then becomes stressed with lasting impacts that disrupt healthy life functioning. They discuss ways to address and work towards healing and calming the nervous system and recover clarity about how to move through your life.
Journaling prompts are suggested to further your exploration.
Li...
2023-08-2833 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeFrom Inner Work to External FulfillmentDo you fear change in your life? Do you trust yourself to make good choices for yourself? Do you feel like you have a good inner compass to direct you to fulfillment? And how can you change within so that all of these questions feel resolved and you feel confident to move through life with ease and grace? In this episode the hosts invite you to explore how to develop a strong inner guidance system to bring you toward the fulfillment you desire over the course of your life.
Journaling prompts are suggested to further your exploration.
2023-08-2132 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeReturn to Your Senses, A Guided MeditationMeditation can be a time to move beyond your thoughts, to still the thinking mind. One of the ways to accomplish this is to bring your full attention to your senses, to the sensations in your body and into the power you have to direct your attention within to elicit specific sensations. Listen in to this 8-minute meditation to relieve yourself of your thoughts and return to your deeper inner world.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our p...
2023-08-1611 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeBefriending Your Inner CriticYour inner critic can latch onto aspects of your life that you don't like, ways that you've showed up in the past that felt troubled, things you've said that you don't feel good about, anything that can be used as a source of self-disappointment, and create repetitive criticisms that become inner self-talk that are the self-created limitations to finding happiness and contentment.
In this episode you are invited to consider how to paradoxically befriend your inner critic in order to use it as an information provider of what you want to create your fulfilled and beautiful life as...
2023-08-1425 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifePermission to Not Fit InDo you worry about fitting in? Maybe you have a deep desire to belong to a group or a community, a couplehood, or a family. Your "need" for this may come from not feeling like you fit in with your family of origin, or maybe you didn't feel like you found your "group" of peers when you were growing up.
As this podcast begins its third season, the focus of the first month invites you to consider how connected you are to your inner guidance versus feeling driven by outside influences. In this episode the cohosts offer y...
2023-08-0734 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeMorning Gratitude MeditationHow does a gratitude practice change you? How does it bring you a fresh attitude and perspective? It happens when you learn to cultivate the feeling of gratitude within you, in body, in mind, and in the heart. This gratitude meditation supports you in focusing inwardly to cultivate the feeling of gratitude and begin your day in peace.
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
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2023-08-0109 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeCreating An Abundance MindsetAn abundance mindset - one that's focused on growth, abundance, wealth of all kinds, relationships that feel full and all things rich - developing an ability to condition our mindset will transform our lives powerfully. How do we actually create an abundance mindset that will allow us to readily live a beautiful, bountiful life experience?
In this episode, one of the most popular from Season 2, Laurel and Laurel breakdown how a mindset works, in the literal, of "how you think" can bring about a sense of abundance or lack thereof. They offer examples of ways we think t...
2023-07-3142 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful Life3 Big Blocks to Inner WorkWhat blocks your inner peace, your personal development, or your happiness? This is the inner work that you must discover to move these blocks out of the way in order to live the life that will bring you the fulfillment you enjoy. Enjoy this reissue of one of Season 2's most popular shows.
Laurel and Laurel share what they have identified while coaching clients, as the 3 common blocks they see that keep people from living the life they want. In the course of this podcast you'll learn about those blocks and how you can address them in...
2023-07-2426 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeOvercoming GuiltGuilt can be both a debilitating habit and a big limiter when it comes to creating a beautiful life. This episode was one of the most popular from Season 2. To master using guilt well, liberates your heart in wonderful ways. Laurel and Laurel begin with talking about the ways guilt can be useful and to be a good guide for you in your life.
Have you thought about your own patterns of how guilt may be motivating you? This podcast episode digs into the many ways guilt becomes a pattern that you take on automatically without a...
2023-07-1733 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeSelf-love and Acceptance Guided MeditationHealthy and bountiful self-love and acceptance is the foundation of discovering your passions, your purpose, and your people. The season's most popular new moon meditation guides you inward to grow your self-love and acceptance. Self-love and self-acceptance, when experienced as a foundational inner state, allow you to live most authentically, courageously and with deep peace. Enjoy this 10-minute meditation that guide you inward, to find presence in your whole body, and using your breath guides you to embody courage and acceptance while releasing the limiting feelings that may be holding you back from true self-acceptance.
The email to...
2023-07-1613 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeWhat is "the Beautiful Work"?We're circling back to where we started - why do we do the beautiful work? Many of us decide to begin or continue because of a crisis in our lives or because we are desperate for change. We might find ourselves in emotional turmoil or pain, we may have been in emotional stress for so long that we now find ourselves physically ill. We often begin the beautiful work when life is not beautiful.
With good fortune and a courageous heart, one day you realize that this inner work has made such an impact that life is g...
2023-07-1030 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeYour Freedom, Your VoiceHow much freedom can you create personally through your voice? Your voice can include your thoughts, the words you speak, and the way that you listen. The hosts reflect on the origins of Independence Day in the US and what the theme of oppression means when it comes to using our voices well and courageously. They share personal stories as examples about their pathways to using their voices in service to the work they do in the world today. Listeners are invited to explore their own habits and patterns of how they're using their voices through journaling prompts offered...
2023-07-0328 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeRecognizing NarcissismDo you wonder if you’re in a relationship with a narcissist? Do you find yourself using this word more often? Do you hear the word narcissism being used more often? As the culture advances in understanding of the science of psychology, we hear terms that describe mental health conditions and issues more frequently. Yet we don’t often fully understand the terms and what they mean to people both experiencing these issues and being in relationship with people with these issues. In this episode you will learn about narcissism, how you might recognize narcissistic characteristics, and how you migh...
2023-06-2656 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeGetting to Know Laurel and LaurelLaurel Holland and Laurel Boivin are the co-hosts of Beautiful Work Beautiful Life and coach clients through personal and professional development. Get to know them, learn about their backgrounds, and about the podcast during this short episode.
Laurel Boivin's website is fluxlowcoaching.com and Laurel Holland's is liveyourinnerpower.com. The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
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Laurel Holland’s mission is...
2022-06-0626 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeThe Illusion of Control - Letting Go of the Need to ControlFeeling in control feels good. When we make plans and they work out, it's satisfying. Yet, there's a limit to "controlling" life and having it feel good and continue to produce positive outcomes.
Laurel and Laurel share personal stories of recovering from being controlling, and experiencing the freedom and boost of energy that results from this inner work. We talk about the nuances of what being controlling can look like, and how and why it drains your energy and often negatively impacts relationships.
In the end, our ability to release control and relax into a mor...
2022-01-1038 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeThe Path of Self-Trust"Holding myself accountable - self-trust is nothing more than simply trusting myself to do what I say I am going to do." This message from Laurel Boivin got cheers from me during the podcast!
Self-trust can be an antidote for some of the anxiety that is prevalent in the world today. As we explored self-trust on the podcast this week many related topics emerged such as faith, trust in what you believe in, trust in others as a reflection of trust in yourself, and how we are expected to trust organizations and systems in the world that a...
2021-10-2531 min
Beautiful Work Beautiful LifeSupport for the Beautiful WorkHow does the beautiful work actually happen? There are endless ways, so many tools, and possibilities of support for this beautiful work. Laurel and Laurel talk about their own support and tools along their paths and offer lots of ideas about how to get good support for the work.
Both Laurel Holland and Laurel Boivin accept new clients when their schedules permit. Contact them directly for inquiries about coaching opportunities.
Links mentioned
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.com
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2021-09-1324 min