Listen to Jacqueline Freeman’s “Get Out of Your Own Damn Way Story” on June 25, 2015

Join me as I interview Jacqueline Freeman on Thursday, June 25, as part of the Get Out of Your Own Damn Way Jam Sessions. Powerful people sharing powerful stories of how they tamed their fears, embraced their greatness, and got out of their own damn way. Sign up to listen in for free by entering your name and email below.

[color-box]Thursday, June 25, 2015, 11:00AM PST / 2:00PM EST

Jacqueline Freeman | www.ritesopassage.com

Jacqueline Freeman is a relationship alchemist and celebrant that is passionate about helping people nourish Love’s roots. The starting place? Embracing your natural preferences, befriending your emotions, and being at Home in your body so you can feel the support that is always around you. Raised in a strict Southern Baptist home in Tennessee, she was told that her body was the enemy. Her graduate studies in women’s images in the media and how they impact sense of power and self-esteem confirmed her intuition that maybe its not our bodies that’re the problem, but our attitudes towards them. Since our relationship with our body and emotions is the template for *every other* relationship in our lives, it’d do us good to make sure we’ve got a healthy marriage there!

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Listen to Ruschelle Khanna’s “Get Out of Your Own Damn Way Story” on June 18, 2015

Join me as I interview Ruschelle Khanna on Thursday, June 18, as part of the Get Out of Your Own Damn Way Jam Sessions. Powerful people sharing powerful stories of how they tamed their fears, embraced their greatness, and got out of their own damn way. Sign up to listen in for free by entering your name and email below.

[color-box]Thursday, June 18, 2015, 11:00AM PST / 2:00PM EST

Ruschelle Khanna, LCSW | www.30daysofprayer.org

Ruschelle Khanna, LCSW is a dynamic speaker and health advocate for women. While suffering a severely disabling systemic infection,, Ruschelle discovered a profound presence of God. In experiencing extreme physical pain in her brain and spinal cord, Ruschelle awakened to the full meaning of present centered living and connection with Divine Spirit. Since that time, she has devoted her time to teaching women to stop running from their pain, to take control of their lives and live in the joy of the present moment. She is excited to share her first book, 30 Days of Prayer: Healing Autoimmunity for Women, an inspirational companion on your journey to healing.

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Listen to Therese Skelly’s “Get Out of Your Own Damn Way Story” on June 11, 2015

Join me as I interview Therese Skelly on Thursday, June 11, as part of the Get Out of Your Own Damn Way Jam Sessions. Powerful people sharing powerful stories of how they tamed their fears, embraced their greatness, and got out of their own damn way. Sign up to listen in for free by entering your name and email below.

[color-box]Thursday, June 11, 2015, 11:00AM PST / 2:00PM EST

Therese Skelly | www.happyinbusiness.com

Known as the “Money Mindset Mentor and Business Catalyst, Therese Skelly works with service based entrepreneurs who love what they do and are ready to grow their business in a much easier and more authentic way. Therese helps those whose business is part of their life purpose clear money blocks so they can learn how to own their value and have powerful, authentic sales conversation. This means they will make more money, serve more people and have a business that makes them happy. Drawing from her own journey of losing everything in service of living the entrepreneurial dream, Therese has created a way to teach her clients how to get their gifts in the world, so they can make the huge difference they desire to. A former psychotherapist, combined with years of marketing/strategy and consulting, Therese offer’s the perfect blend of both “inner game” work and very tactical, real world strategies that allow her clients to see the results they desire.

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Listen to Krylyn Peters’ “Get Out of Your Own Damn Way Story” on June 4, 2015

Join me as I tell MY VERY OWN story on Thursday, June 4, as part of the Get Out of Your Own Damn Way Jam Sessions. Powerful people sharing powerful stories of how they tamed their fears, embraced their greatness, and got out of their own damn way. Sign up to listen in for free by entering your name and email below.

[color-box]Thursday, June 4, 2015, 11:00AM PST / 2:00PM EST

Krylyn Peters

Krylyn Peters, “The Fear Whisperer,” is an author, speaker, coach, and singer/songwriter. Drawing on her experience as a licensed psychotherapist and her ability to easily connect with others, Krylyn creates immediate feelings of trust and integrity. Gifted with humor, saying what needs to be said, and a knack for thinking on her feet, Krylyn’s style is inviting, authentic, and fun. She motivates, inspires, and entertains – leaving people empowered with practical and proven tools to help them tame their fears and get out of their own damn way so they can step into their greatness.

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The Dance of Life: How Two Steps Back Isn’t A Bad Thing

One step forward, two steps back. The journey of life can sometimes feel like an intricate dance. Make a little progress, then things seem to slide back to where they were – to that uncomfortable place. While most people see any backward movement as a failure or at least something not good, let me just say that it’s totally normal.

Healing is a journey, not a destination. If we lived a life without having contact with others, hold up in our homes without any responsibilities to family, employers, and friends, then maybe we wouldn’t have to contend with as much juggling and backwards movement. But probably not. Typically what is responsible for backward movment has less to do with others and more to do with us – our thoughts and our habits.

When we first start making changes – any change – we might start strong, trying new things. But it takes a lot of consistency and repetition to create a new habit. We still are dealing with old ways of thinking and behaving that support our old habits. So we must be on the watch for the old stuff to creep in, catch it, then continue with our new ways of thinking and behaving to counteract it.

The first time we feel ourselves slipping back to old habits is generally where people stop trying, seeing it as proof that the new way won’t work. But this is precisely when we need to continue on with the new stuff, remembering that it is a journey, and that consistent effort is the key to long-lasting success.

So how can you continue stepping forward even slightly after a backslide? Using the dance analogy, I’d say that you just step forward again. If you watch people dance (literally), you’ll likely see that they move forward, backwards, and sideways. If they aren’t moving forward now, they likely will be in just a few beats. And if they move backward, they don’t stop dancing, declaring defeat. Backward movement is part of the dance. Just as it is in life.

Moving backward provides an opportunity to see things from a different perspective. You might find that something (a thought, belief, or action) didn’t work as you expected, so now you know to tweak it a little and see if that changes the direction of your movement.

Here’s some other suggestions on how to navigate the dance of life:

• Remember that it is the culmination of steps that matters. Today it might be two steps back and one forward, and tomorrow might be ten steps forward and one step back. If you are moving forward more than backward, you are headed in the right direction.
• You are moving forward more than you think. We tend to focus on what we don’t like, such as backward slips. We forget to celebrate and honor the forward movement.
• Expect movement in all directions. It is often when we assume that life should always be forward movement when we are most disappointed. But if you go into any new challenge expecting there to be movement in different directions, you will set yourself up for a more realistic picture of what will happen.
• Think of movement in any direction as an opportunity. We learn from everything and movement provides us an opportunity to see what works and what doesn’t.

Looking for more inspiration about navigating the dance of life? Join me for the Get Out of Your Own Damn Way Jam Sessions, where I interview powerful people who have been there, done that, gotten out of their own damn way, and boldly embraced their dream and greatness. Get prepared to be inspired. Join us for FREE at www.krylyn.com/GetOutOfYourWayInterviews.

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