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Mining for Gold: An Interview with Nisha Moodley

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As many of you know, I've recently transitioned my web zone over from wavesoffire.ca + igniteyourtruth.blogspot.com, to one happy, centered, and aligned space - bethkatherine.com (wootwoot!). This means though, that the blog posts I wrote previous to November of this year (and theres a lot of them!) are getting left behind. 

Well, that won't do! ;) :D

So I've decided to mine some of that work, looking for the gold - looking for what I want to highlight. The thoughts and words that still have as much relevance now as they did then (and maybe even more!).

This post was originally shared on February 26th, 2013 - it's an interview with Nisha Moodley, one of my ultimate sheroes. Nisha is a) A total genius, b) A total babe and c) A total cheerleader for all things woman.

 

She's a life coach for ambitious entrepreneurs and next generation thought leaders, who need help refining their message, rocking it in business, while having lots of play and down time to keep things balanced + luxurious. 

 

Her ultimate message is that the world will be set free by women who are free.

Check out her website at www.fiercefabulousfree.com and make sure to sign up for her emails! They're that good. 

 

What would your advice be to a young woman who is still in her "old life", yet wants to transition to a lifestyle that feels more authentic to her?

Photo of Nisha: Abi Q Photography

Your freedom is in the journey, not the destination. Instead of being frustrated at where you are, notice where you want to go and really, really savour all the little steps. There can be deep pleasure in the moment, if you're open to it.

Also, have amazing girlfriends that you give your full trust to. 

Share the things you think and feel about yourself that you're ashamed or embarrassed about; you'll find that you're more connected than you think, and these women will serve as your cheerleaders, tear-driers and mirrors throughout your journey. Women thrive in sisterhood.

 

What was one of your biggest life changing experiences over the last few years?

Divorce. It was the worst thing I've endured in my adult life so far, and it definitely showed me that I'm stronger and more resilient than I gave myself credit for. It also showed me things about myself that I didn't want to acknowledge were there. Shadow and light. I was faced with it all, and thank goodness I had amazing friends to help see me through.

 

What is the secret to a sustainable business?

Having sustainable human beings running it, and a focus on being of service.

When we're not sustainable as individuals (healthy body, mind, bank account and relationships), we can easily fall into a what-can-I-get mindset.

When we're tending to ourselves as individuals - making sure that we're healthy and sustainable - we can really show up in service of others.

 

Who are your sheroes? (Women role models, girl crushes)

Moms (including mine) who know how to take care of themselves and their families. My clients -- I am totally awe-struck by the stand they're taking in the world, and their dedication to giving and growing. Every single one of my amazing girlfriends.

 

Photo: Abi Q Photography

I have a 'toolbox' that helps me to feel grounded when I get off center - Meditation, Green Juice/Smoothies, Singing, Nature, etc. What's in your toolbox?

Sex. A glass of wine with a girlfriend. A shower. A long walk with some great music in my ears.

 

What is your future vision for your career? Where do you see yourself in 5 years time?

In 5 years, I'll still be sharing my message of the importance of women's freedom, helping women thought leaders unblock the things in their life that keep them from living in full alignment with their vision and mission. The primary mediums for my work will be books, retreats and my mastermind.

I'll also have some mini humans to care for, and we'll trek around the world with them.

5 Ways to Instantly Up Your Mood

1. Take Vitamin D - Winter can be a beautiful time of coziness, inward expression, and warm times indoors. However all this indoor time usually results in less exposure to sunlight, and therefore, less exposure to the 'Happy Vitamin' - Vitamin D! We can circumvent this by supplementing. When I started on the Vitamin D about 3 weeks ago, I noticed an instant improvement in my mood.

Keep in mind, it's important to be taking a high quality source, as some forms of Vitamin D don't readily absorb into our system. To learn about your best options (like Cod Liver Oil + Liquid Drops), check out this post by Harmonic Arts. You'll also find out lots more (+ totally herbalist) information, on how to stay happy and healthy in the winter!

 

2. Put On Your Favourite Classical Music, Lie Down, and Breathe - Mine is the soundtrack from the movie Ever After, composed by George Fenton (who also created the music for Planet Earth). Classical music has an incredibly soothing and inspirational effect on our systems. Plenty of scientific research backs this up. The trick to this tip, however, is to lie down, while you're doing this, and breathe deeply in your belly. This will ease tension you've gathered in and around your Second Chakra, making it easier to relax and find joy in the simple things.

Photo: Aida Coronado

 

3. Spend at least 2 Hours Outside - Yes I said 2 hours. ;) :D Most of us are keenly aware of the magic that happens when we spend time outdoors, but often, especially in winter, our forays out into nature tend to be short lived. Challenge yourself by organizing an activity, either solo or with friends, that will motivate you to be outdoors for that long. Whether it's skiing, skating, garbage collecting on your favourite beach, or simply going for a hike, get your body and lungs breathing in that gorgeous air. You'll feel amazing!

 

4. Learn about Something You're Really, Really Interested In - When we spend time learning about what we love, something happens. Perhaps it connects us to past lives, our life missions, or even to a fond childhood memory. Either way, it's a pretty awesome feeling to get engrossed in new subject matter. My super love right now is learning about herbalism. I'm currently reading this book, loving it, and learning so much. I feel more purposeful, more powerful, when I sit down to engage my mind in what I love.

What about you? Does history tickle your fancy? Perhaps you'd like to learn about Ancient Egypt, the costumes, and the culture? Maybe it's nutrition. Or the lymphatic system. Or how waves are created in the ocean. It could be anything! Just get learning, it'll brighten your spirits!

 

5. Laugh - Simple? Yes. Obvious. Yes? How often to we make a point of it? Uhhhh.. Good Point. :)

Laughter is the best medicine ever. It instantly uplifts the spirits. But how we can laugh on cue? What can be funny when we're not feeling that great? Well dear, dear friends... I introduce you to the wonders of YouTube. There are some hilarious people on that beautiful website. My go to for laughter is Ellen, the girls gets me. I'm also a big fan of Kid President. Go searching. Find something hilarious. Spend an hour laughing. Your life will be WAY better, I promise! ;) :D

 

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Pinspiration // A Crystal Love Affair

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In the last few years, I've developed a beautiful passion for crystals. Feeling them, looking at them, touching them, wearing them, creating spaces with them. There's just something about stones that creates this mystical, otherworldly connection. I know many of you agree.

I read in one of Doreen Virtue's books that those who wear crystals do so because they have past lives in Atlantis. They wear stones so that others who were also there will recognize them.  ... It's so we can find each other. 

Whether that's true or not, it tickles something inside of me. Crystals are a sea unto themselves, whose mysteries I am perfectly OK with not ever fully grasping.

Lots of love,

xo Beth

A Meditation to Get Clear on Your Hearts Goals for 2014

There's no doubt about it. 

There's just something about New Years that makes us want to clean, switch our rooms around, get rid of old clothing in favour of our new finds, set goals, create intentions, and generally get stoked about the new reality we are creating for ourselves.

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And really, it makes sense. But it makes even more sense from a metaphysical perspective.

The entire world is sharing in the collective energy that 'We can do it!' 'We can make changes! We can achieve our goals!'

The whole world is supporting our desire for something more. 

Yet often times we can set goals or intentions for ourselves without even checking in to see if we want them fully.

Inevitably, when we find out our level of commitment isn't as deep as we thought is was, we lose conviction in our disciplines.

If the Why isn't there, and if the Why isn't deep, then the What quickly loses it's pull. (ex. Exercising to look hot in a bikini {surface level 'why'} vs Exercising to get happier and channel inspiration out into the world {heart aligned 'why'} )

When our intentions are aligned with our cores, however, when they come from the deepest space in our heart centers, and when they're aligned with our life missions, there is an inexhaustible fuel for our fires. Commitment becomes easy, because the effort often feels joyful and fun, even if it requires a certain amount of discipline. The path we've chosen is one of the heart.

So this year, I ask you to go deeper with your desires - I challenge you to quest into the space of your heart's desires.

This is an experiential process, best done in a space of meditation. 

Here is a great exercise for you to become clear on your desires before the New Year hits. Please keep in mind that this is just one version of the activity. Feel free to change this exercise up in any way. For example, if it's too icy outside for your liking, but you feel really grounded when you're in a bath, then to this exercise there! 

 

Go outside with a journal and a pen, and find a tree.

Go to a space where you'll be left relatively alone. A quiet nook in the park, a forest trail down a ravine, or even a spot in your backyard. 

Sit down underneath the tree and breathe. As you do so, become conscious of your back touching the tree, and the way your spine is resting against it. Wiggle your toes and your fingers to help you get really in your body, and then ask Archangel Michael to stand by you and energize you for the duration of this session.

Now start to concentrate, again, on your breathe, and feel yourself breathing not only into your body, but into the trees body aswell. On the exhale, feel the release. 

After a few cycles of doing this, put your awareness in your heart. 

Ask it, 'Heart, what are your truest desires? What are the visions of my life purpose?'

Now keep breathing, and do your best to let go of expectations. You might not get anything back right away, you may see a visions in your mind's eye. You may hear words, or have an intuitive knowingness. You might even feel anxious, afraid that you're not doing it right, or you're not talented enough to get the answer. (Hold space for those voices, and move on, you can do this!) 

Whatever you experience is completely perfect. Anything you experience is normal and natural. 

After a few more breaths with the tree, ask again:

'Heart, what are your truest desires? What are the visions of my life purpose?'

Keep breathing, and keep grounding. Now get your pen and journal out and start writing whatever answers are coming up for you. 

At the end of the session, you will likely be left with a strong intuitive imprint of what your heart would like more of in the next year. It might be anything from creating more community, to growing a flower garden. It might be as simple as 'breathe more' or 'slow down' or as specific as, 'make a documentary about plastic pollution'.

Finally, remember to thank the tree before you get up and leave. :)

Remember, no matter what you have in your journal, you asked a powerful question, and over the next few days, you will continue to get answers to it in all sorts of interesting ways. The key is to pay attention, and to keep asking if you feel like you need more information.

Once you feel like your heart has answered (and it always does) - use your deeper clarity to craft your New Years intentions, and they will guide you to a more heart driven, purposeful 2014.

 

Happy visioning!

xo Beth

A Christmas Eve Meltdown - Why I Embraced Anger on a Holy Day

Good girls, this is for you.

Do you remember growing up? Quiet behaviour, soft speech and gentle actions were prized among us. Our parents and our teachers commended us for our 'good' behaviour - rewarded for rarely yelling or 'acting up'. We were depended on for being the meek, kind and shy voices in the group, even if we had leadership tendencies or the occasional riled up way of being.

Our grades? Good. Our manners? Good. And later, when we grew older... our sexual tendencies? Good. Whatever that means.

Well...

I was a 'good girl'.

Photo: Unknown

Photo: Unknown

And when you're a good girl, all that anger has to go somewhere. The frustration, the upset, the loud words, the desire to yell and scream - we all have it. We're all human. But when we're raised in the paradigm that softness is rewarded and frustration is frowned upon, we can stuff our true feelings. However, these true feelings stay in our beings. Usually around the tummy area, or even in and around the heart. Sometimes the angry words which we long to say, but are told are 'bad', are stuffed. Our throats suffer. They get lodged.

So yesterday, this all came full circle for me. As it tends to do sometimes.

I awoke to a Christmas Eve morning, full of potential. My family was coming to visit me in Tofino, we were to have a great dinner and a beach walk later that evening. I still hadn't finished the fun task of Christmas shopping, and all in all, it was shaping up to be an amazing day.

So, I enjoyed the morning, and I spent some time in bed after opening my eyes, doing Reiki on my tummy and lower back, which were yearning for some attention. I could feel the heat, the cool, the movement, and the tingling of Reiki moving around in me, and I knew I was unlocking something.

Little did I know what I was unveiling!

Shortly after I slid out of bed and got in the shower, I was met with an uncontrollable anger, which rolled into sorrow and back again.

Now, I'm at the point in my practice when I can recognized pent up, hidden emotions.

When this happens, I know I have an opportunity for an extreme release, so I just go with it.

My old self, the one operating under the 'good girl' paradigm, would have said, 'NO! This is not a time for anger, this is Christmas Eve, and you are supposed to be happy. Stop acting out, and start thinking happy thoughts!' - Well, that doesn't work for me anymore. I've come to realize that the suppression of the very natural emotion of anger, has lodged it's way into my system, and now, I am all for letting it out.

So, instead of censoring myself, and instead of going by the 'shoulds' (I should be happy, I should be positive, I should be kind, it's Christmas Eve!) I just went for it. All in the very safe container of angelic assistance, I asked that my anger and temper tantrum harm no one, but that the outburst be sent straight to God (I use the terms God, Goddess, Spirit, Universe, etc interchangeably). This is a very important part of the release. When you get to the point in your practice when you realize that there's nothing actually wrong with anger, it just needs to be channeled responsibly, then please keep this in mind! We don't want to be sending negative energy and attacks to people, we just want to feel it, and release.

Instead, we can ask that Archangel Michael surround us in his blue light, to ensure that no one is harmed in the release of our pent up rage. We can send it straight to God. (And sometimes, this can even sound like 'I hate you God') This is safe. The Universe will always love you and accept you. Our safe container, as good girls gone wild, is in the arms of the divine. Even if you feel like Source energy is a piece of shit when you're in that space, say that, don't direct it at any person, place or thing, without a bubble of accepting light around you.

So I did that. For at least a few hours I screamed, I cried, I raved, I ranted. I let it out. And for the whole day, the raw, exposed, vulnerable part of me, was there. The suppressed anger that my good girl has collected over the years.

But since I just went for it, crying, screaming, stomping, it was a release. And it felt damn good.

It didn't matter that it was Christmas Eve. It didn't matter that I had lots to be grateful for. In that moment, all that mattered, was that I got honest with myself. I'm fucking angry. And I'm gonna say it.

Today, I feel better, clearer, lighter.

I've honoured myself, I've moved long held suppressed emotions.

I said 'No thank you!' to the shoulds, and 'Yes please!', to the rawness of my being.

One note I should make is that it's important to know the difference between a release, and an ego party. A release feels cathartic, like you really, really, need to get this out. An ego party feels icky, like the more you rant, the shittier you feel. Again: Release? Feels good, kind of like your bleeding on a battlefield your deepest wounds out of you kind of good, but good none the less. Ego Party? Icky. When it doubt, just let it out.

So dear ones, especially you good girls out there. When you feel it, express it.

When the anger comes up, don't stuff it down anymore. Let it out. Stomp your feet on the ground. Scream. Cry like a maniac. It's all good. It's human. It's beautiful. And it will free you. Use your spiritual tools, even in those moments. Do it in the safe container of Spirit, and allow your anger to just pour out of you.

Your wild self will thank you.

 

Merry Christmas loved ones,

You are so loved, and so heard,

xo Beth

Pinspiration // The Sweet Moments of Christmas

Merry Christmas everyone! Thank you so much for your support, love, and cheerleading in the last year. I hope every single one of you feels blessed this Christmas :) Let's all take a moment to feel the energy of the season, and feel the joy of the world, as we all celebrate our family, our friends, and our faith, whatever that may be!

Here is some Christmas inspiration to remind you of the sweet moments that this season has to offer!

xo Beth

He Came to Me in a Dream

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He came to in a dream.

How many times has he come? I don't know, often. 

This time, in a different body. He likes to do that. 

His familiar energy makes my whole being light up, and it lasts long after I awaken. I feel playful, intrigued, already fully in love with whoever this is. I know him. No. I know it. This is a soul, not a human, and it's that realization that makes this all the more exciting. 

We intrigue each other. Sometimes he's my brother. Sometimes my lover. Sometimes he's even Justin Bieber. Hahaha. Yes. I did just say that. Perhaps he uses the little Bieb's body to tell me about music, or wild success, or maybe he just knows that I love boyhood, and always will. That rebellious, silly, wild and free energy, that so many men seem to lose as they move onwards in life. But not him. His boyhood is fully present and untamed, and that makes me really really happy. 

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When will he come? Out of the dreamworld, and into my life in the physical?

I don't know. 

Perhaps next month, or next year. Maybe not even then. Maybe it will take longer. 

But in this moment, it doesn't seem to matter. 

 

Because I feel him. No... I feel it. He's just an energy. As are all of us. 

The support, the encouragement, the love, the fun, the play. The laughter, the promise, the openness, and the cosmos. I can feel it like a guardian angel surrounding me. And it's beautiful.

He told me near the end of the dream, 'You feel this? This love, this excitement? All of this is within you. You don't need me for it. You can experience it anytime you want.'

And so I will. I will take it with me today, and everyday. Not because I'm desperately waiting on some promise from the future, but because I'm opening up to the true, valid, very accurate fact, that everything I desire to feel, is already within me now. 

 

Happy cosmic dreaming lovers, 

Pay attention to the whispers, pay attention to the dreams, 

xo Beth

5 Ways to Honour your Divine Feminine

Art: wyldraven

Art: wyldraven

1. On a clear night, when the moon is bright and large in the sky;

Go to the beach, the park, or some other still, beautiful place. Dance playfully around and look at the moon directly with your heart. Tell her all you hope to achieve and feel over the next moon cycle. Let her help you with it. Dance your way back home.

2. Have a bath in the pitch black. Make it real hot. Sweat. Purge. Release. Then stay there until it gets cold. Meld into the beauty and darkness of your deep, luxurious soul. Think about anything any everything that makes you feel amazing. Meditate. Sing. Cry. Swoosh. Be. Let yourself be honest and real. Go insane. Give the water everything when you're done. Release.

Art: wyldraven

Art: wyldraven

3. Pet a kitty. Be gentle with her. Respect her space. Let her guide you as your hand brushes over her soft, gentle fur, and wait for the cues that tell you she's ready. Go further. Deeper. Let her roll over and pet her open tummy. Lightly, playfully, gently. Give her a kiss on the head, and walk away. 

4. Pick or buy flowers and put them on your altar. Choose the colour of the flower that relates to the chakra or energy you'd like to embody more of. For instance, orange is the colour of the sacral chakra, also known as our Goddess centre. Red is of the root, a primal, sexy centre, associated with home and wealth. You get the idea. Now bathe in their beauty, and know you just did something really great for yourself.

5. Go be with a tree. Just be with her. Sit under her languid, mysterious branches for quite some time. Get lost in your connection. It's OK if you only have 5 minutes. Sometimes, that can feel like forever.

 

May the Divine Feminine breathe within you, and upon you,

xo Beth

Art: wyldraven

Art: wyldraven

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