Our ‘why’ behind creating Heart & Soul…
Heart & Soul Coaching and Retreats® was created to help people change their lives for the better. We’re simply about helping people make the changes they want to make in life in order to be the person they know in their heart and soul to be. To help them create meaningful and rewarding experiences that lead to living a fulfilling and happy life. We help people realize how important self-care (self-love, self-worth and self-reliance) is in experiencing joy – authentic happiness in life. We help them build the courage to develop their self-leadership ability – an ability we all possess, simply by focussing on six key self-leadership qualities: their self-esteem, self-respect, self-trust, self-confidence, self-motivation and self-determination. This enables them to set and accomplish goals that lead to realizing their dreams in life.
My interests in people’s human spirit and their behaviours in life…
I’ve always been fascinated with people’s human spirit – what makes their heart & soul feel loved, safe and cared for. What makes them feel excited and passionate about life. What makes their soul want to sing and dance to the beat of their own heart. In a nutshell, what brings people joy so they may experience their own kind of happiness in life. Spirituality is a broad concept and we all recognize that there are many interpretations. What I came up with is FREEDOM. The freedom to choose to be who we want to be. The freedom to be the person we know within our heart and soul to be. The freedom to create moments throughout life that have us experience happiness on a daily basis. For me, the human spirit has always meant a safe place within me that knows exactly what brings me joy in life – what has me create special moments of happiness for myself and for others. Joy is a universal feeling that connects us all as human beings. Happiness is the physical emotion we feel when we choose and trust in living a joyful life. All I know is that it’s extremely powerful and contagious. Some would even say it’s magical. It is what inspires us to reach our goals and realize our dreams in life. Let’s share it as much as we possibly can because everyone deserves to experience joy in their life.
What gets in the way of being and feeling joyful in life are the choices we make. Some are based on our values while others come from beliefs which can be empowering or limiting. What can also hold us back from experiencing happiness is our self-talk (proactive vs reactive), and of course the behavioural patterns we create ourselves or habits we adopt from others (family or society). Some behaviours can have a ripple effect on the outcome of our lives.
My mission…
My objective is to inspire each and everyone of you to develop key qualities of your self-leadership ability so that you may build the courage you need to make the changes you want to make in life. The courage you need to nurture all aspects of who you are as a person and what you need to feel and be happy in life. The courage you need to create meaningful and rewarding experiences for yourself.
You need to believe in the power and magic that is part of who you are. It’s behind each of your thoughts. Why? Because the source of all things – all material things in life, creating what you want and need to live a fulfilling and happy life, begins with your thoughts – the way you think followed by the way you act. Yes, your thoughts and subsequent actions release chemicals within your physical brain and nervous system that support and motivate you to create joy in your life. So it’s important to choose and focus on the thoughts that will create the things and experiences you want in life.
How I completely changed my mindset…
What I did to move forward, and how you can do the same. I changed my focus onto the journey itself. How? Imagining. Remembering what I enjoyed doing as a child. Remembering moments in my life that captivated my heart and soul, what I felt and why it did. I imagined being, thinking, behaving and doing what makes me feel and be happy in life, on a daily basis. I didn’t think of happiness in a distant future. I imagined it each and every day. Yes, it’s similar to reverse engineering and working our way back to move forward in life, yet your focus must not be on accomplishing goals, milestones along your journey. Your focus must be on the realization of your dream, aspiration existing in the present so that when one of your goals takes longer to achieve or if it’s not quite the success you had wished for, you stay in a positive mindset. You keep moving forward, and as you do, that’s where the magic happens. You’re teaching your physical brain to listen to soul’s mind and before you know it, you’ve changed the way you think, behave and act in order to create what brings you joy in life. You don’t worry about obstacles getting in your way, you think of these as opportunities to reset your course of action, as possibilities to grow and evolve further as a person.
I realized that the knowledge and experience I’ve acquired over the years led me to create an approach to life that helped me create the kind of life I wanted, and if this approach and life-changing tools helped me, perhaps they could help others do the same. From this mindset, a new perspective appeared. An approach, a company was created… Heart & Soul was born online before it existed through in-person events. I realized I was suppose to focus on the journey itself. You can’t create what you do not feel within you. You must imagine it, feel it with your soul, and have complete faith and confidence – a trust and belief so strong that your mind and physical brain will create the magic needed to realize it into reality. Of course, you, yourself have to take the required steps as well… help yourself move in the direction of your dreams my listening to the whispers coming from your heart and soul. By this, I mean to consistently make choices, behave and take actions that are aligned with what you value in life… what brings you joy through life. Wishing you my best to put all of this into action, I know you can.
Click on the following tapestries to dive deeper into how I create and share my story with my husband Peter, Champie (our beloved fur girl), the role nature plays in our lives, and my collection of inspiring quotes. Enjoy!
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Canada
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