A Prayer For Love
/This week I give you a prayer. A prayer for love. A prayer for all of us. A prayer from my heart to yours.
Letting Go of Your Inner Good Girl with Steena Marie Brown
/Steena Marie Brown’s journey has gone from good-little-girl to Sexual Empowerment Coach for women and their men. This required a deep release of fear, shame, perfectionism, and self-sabotaging patterns. Training to become a birth doula...and her healing path through marriage, motherhood, and entrepreneurship...taught Steena the art of sacred, aligned, sexy success on her own terms which she now uses in her work with her husband, Movement Specialist, Adam Brown. Her unique blend of deep energy alchemy and soul work awakens women to their inner V-Power (that’s V for vagina, voice, and visibility) as they shift out of victimhood and live as fully embodied women - transforming their lives, relationships, and work.
Here are a few of the big topics we talked about:
How Steena went from a very good girl, to learning how to fully embracing her deviant, bad boy energy.
Steena shares her fantasy of turning a bad boy, good.
Steena defines sexuality as who you are and how you relate to others. So it literally comes into every relationship
Steena’s book “Worship Her”
Perfectionism can safely play a role in some areas of our life, and not in others.
Learning how to choose your priorities and being integrity with yourself
Steena explains the middle ground between good and bad.
I am, is a fully embodied statement and ownership of who you are.
V-Power - vagina, voice and visibility - can help us shift how we speak our truth and show up in the world.
When you’re actually in power, sex doesn’t have to necessarily be separate from your business.
The process of self-massage
In Steena's Voice:
“We all have a different kind of perfectionism.”
“I find that there is so much stigma around sexually pleasuring ourselves that most women can barely give themselves a platonic massage."
“Tuning into this deep power in our vagina and in the sacral space, we find that there is this deep well of confidence and magnetism and allure and just this magic that we each have.”
“We have to take care of ourselves first and then we can start moving into action that will put out this power."
“We’ve been in this really intense birth process, and it’s time to expand and go out in the world and really start to serve even more.”
Connect with Steena:
Protect Your Energy
/Ever wonder why you feel so physically drained after having a hard conversation? I mean, it's not like you are running a marathon for that time, right? Ever wonder why you have a tendency to get super negative or down when you are really tired?? We are energetic beings and our energy is all connected - physically, emotionally and spiritually. Listen to this episode for ways to protect that energy as you move through life each and every day.
Summer Innanen on Radical Self-Love
/Summer Innanen is a professionally trained coach specializing in body image, self worth, and confidence. She helps women all over the world to stop living behind the numbers of their scales through her private and group coaching at summerinnanen.com. She is the best selling author of Body Image Remix, creator of the You, On Fire online program and host Fearless Rebelle Radio, a podcast dedicated to anti-dieting, body positivity, and feminism.
Here are a few of the big topics we talked about:
We've been conditioned to believe that our value is in how we look and that it’s our currency in this culture
All of our time, all of our energy, and often our money goes into the way that we look, the size of our body, what are other people think of us, how we present ourselves to the male gaze. It takes away from knowing who we really are.
Diet culture, and why it doesn’t work!
Summer shares her struggles of pivoting from weightloss coach to body image coach.
We are wired to want to avoid emotional discomfort as humans beings.
We’ve been a victim of this system of oppression [how we look being our currency], and it’s okay to be angry.
Starting the process of learning to love yourself
Get rid of everything that doesn’t make you feel good, and then learn how to speak to yourself more compassionately.
When you get to a point where you’re not always thinking about your body, you start to find time to do other things that you’ve always dreamt of doing.
Accept all of who you are, and nurture the spots that are tender and need love.
In Summer’s Voice:
“What I found was that the stronger I was with my voice, the stronger I was with my convictions, the more praise I received, and the more followers I received.”
"I'd rather be somebody's cotton candy ice cream than everybody's vanilla."
“It's like learning a new language. So the metaphor that I like to use just to give people a good solid idea of how hard this process is that it's like trying to learn let's say german in the United States while everyone around you is speaking english. It's hard because everyone around you is still speaking the language of diet culture, everyone around you is still performing the behavior of diet culture.”
“Immerse yourself in body positive communities."
“When you start to deprogram all the limitations that have been put on you, you start to really know who you are and have more space in your mind, you realize that you are so capable of powerful and incredible things and you’re capable of changing other people's lives.”
“Any time we step outside our comfort zone we're going to hear the voice of our inner critic.”
“Laughter and sarcasm are such a good form of therapy.”
Connect with Summer:
Devotion
/What are you devoted to? How do your actions, thoughts and words reflect your devotion? Is it important to be devoted to ourselves? This is real talk on devotion and how what we think we are devoted to might not be what we are actually devoted to!
Elizabeth DiAlto on Wild Self-Love
/Known for her raw, honest and grounded approach to self-help and spirituality, Elizabeth DiAlto is the founder of Wild Soul Movement, author of Untame Yourself, and host of the popular Untame The Wild Soul Woman podcast. She’s been a teacher, leader, speaker, coach and trainer to groups and individuals for 15+ years in three different industries, and she also consults organizations ranging from start-ups to large corporations such as Dove UK.
Here are a few of the big topics we talked about:
What it means to “free the women”
The Wild Soul Pledge http://wildsoulmovement.com/pledge/
How Elizabeth honors and respect herself, despite what anyone else thinks or says
Elizabeth explains how to tap into our own sensual energy
Body image and what it means to wholly love yourself
Women need to give themselves permission to trust, Elizabeth explains how
Elizabeth shares how she has “untamed” herself
A daily practice doesn’t need to be long and drawn out, use the time you have to move into alignment
Elizabeth shares what her inner voice is telling her to do
In Elizabeth’s Voice:
“Let’s liberate ourselves from the mindsets, from the belief systems, from the programming and conditioning, and the systems of our culture that have us feeling not free or not worthy or like we don't belong or that we're not capable or that we're not good enough.”
“Sensuality is an absolute epic and innate bridge into aliveness”
“We're all a work of art. There's something beautiful about everyone.”
“It's about untaming yourself because you've been tamed by everyone else's rules.”
“The mind judges. The mind is constantly evaluating and placing value on things, but the body is discerning. The body knows.”
Connect with Elizabeth:
Remember you can support In Her Voice AND Circles of Change this month by contributing at www.kellycovert.com/together. Become a warrior for change.
The 5 Year Old You
/Your 5 year old self is your super power. That little girl in you hold the key to understanding and owning just how amazing you are. How will you connect with her?
Dr. Melody Moore on Fierce Self-Love
/Melody Moore, Ph.D., RYT is a social entrepreneur, a licensed Clinical Psychologist, yoga teacher, author, and speaker. She is the founder of the Embody Love Movement Foundation, a non-profit whose mission is to empower girls and women to celebrate their inner beauty, commit to kindness, and contribute to meaningful change in the world. Dr. Moore’s work has been featured in the books Yoga and Body Image (eds. Klein and Guest-Jelly) and Yoga and Eating Disorders: Ancient Healing for Modern Illness (eds. Costin and Kelly) as well as National Geographic Magazine, Yoga Journal, Yoga International, Mantra, Elephant Journal, and Origin Magazine. She created the collegiate BodyImage3D program for Delta Delta Delta, and is their subject matter expert on self-love and body acceptance. She is the National Eating Disorder Association’s advice columnist, an advisor for World Muse, and a faculty member for Off the Mat, Into the World, a social-profit that empowers leaders to become conscious activists. In 2015, she was featured as one of ten “Game Changers” by the Yoga Journal and chosen as one of 100 “Most Influential Global Leaders Empowering Women Worldwide” by EBW2020.
Here are a few of the big topics we talked about:
How women “grow into” body dissatisfaction in their families of origin
What FIERCE self-love looks like and feels like
How self-love is contagious
How to love ourselves despite of all of our darkness and imperfections
How the practice of yoga plays into Melody's practice of self-love
Yoga is about feeling and not doing
How can we release our shame around being who we are
When we release our own self-criticism we are also able to release our judgement of others
What it means to “outsource your self-worth” and how to change that
In Melody's Voice:
“Offer yourself the chance to keep coming back to the truth of who you are.”
“The more loving I am toward myself, the more you're going to love you in my presence.”
“It's necessary to learn to be with ourselves.”
“I'm not waiting any more to love myself.”
“Our brilliance comes to us in stillness.”
Connect with Melody:
What Are You Creating?
/What we focus on expands. So what are you focusing on? Your dreams? Your desires? Your world-changing vision?
Or your heartbreak and sorrow, the past, or negative thoughts that bombard you throughout the day.
We get to choose everyday what we want to nurture, so let's start getting really clear on that and setting the intention to create something beautiful and amazing.
I'm excited to welcome in several new coaching clients who are ready to nurture their big vision. Wondering what inner voice coaching with me is like? Sign up for a free discovery call and let's chat about your dreams and what that would feel like!
In Her Voice Ep. 48: Jill Catherine on Authentic Self-Love
/Jill Catherine, a woman of many expressions in the world, is a professional dancer and drummer, speaker, author, and educator, who helps others to integrate body-mind-spirit. Her work in the world is not just a job; it is an extension of her heart.
A seasoned communications professional since 2003, Jill has been speaking, educating and inspiring others on topics including eating disorders, body image, women’s issues, finding purpose, emotional intelligence, and life’s big questions. She has worked in corporate, non-profit arts, human services, and higher education sectors. Currently, Jill is the Spokesperson and Lead Warrior for Ophelia’s Place, a member of the Oiselle Muses, and the author of the recently published book, A New Body Consciousness.
An all-around athlete, Jill was a collegiate volleyball player and NCAA Final Four Finalist. She bridged into the world of cultural dance and drum arts in 2002, and has been studying in the styles of West African, Brazilian, Cuban, Indian, and Hawaiian, both in the states and abroad. Her movement is a unique blend of the traditions she studied with her own authentic expression.
Embracing all cultures and religions, Jill’s artistry centers around personal and global peacemaking, empowerment, love of self and body, and the understanding of our body as an instrument to be of purpose, service, and expression in the world.
Here are a few of the big topics we talked about:
What it means to be a “body-centered” person
How Jill uses movement to connect with her inner voice and body and teach women how to do the same
Using forms of movement as an active practice of self-love
How to stay authentic through moments of our own shame
How to respond to negative thoughts about your body
The power of affirmations and intentions as a practice of self-love
Jill's book, A New Body Consciousness
In Jill's Voice:
“In our body is where our head connects with our heart.”
“Our body is our instrument to be in the world and to do what we are called to do.”
“I listen to how my body wants to move.”
“You have the power to choose a different thought.”
“What could we be doing, expressing, living and loving if we stopped spending our energy focusing on changing our bodies?”
Connect with Jill:
You can be a warrior for change too! Support Ophelia's Place, Circles of Change AND In Her Voice by making a donation at kellycovert.com/together.
In Her Voice Ep. 47: Living With Vision
/Why do we need to live with vision? How will it make a difference in our lives? How do we get clear on it and then what do we do with it once we have it?? All of this and more in this episode of In Her Voice.
To learn more and register for Wake Up Worthy, my one-day journaling and yoga retreat on October 27, 2017, go to www.kellycovert.com/retreat.
Can't make the retreat? No worries! Let's sit down for a discovery call!! I'd love to hear about your vision and see if I might be able to support you in that. Click here to schedule a free discovery call now.
In Her Voice Ep. 46: Circles of Change
/Ophelia’s Place began out of a mother’s desperation to provide the treatment and care her children so desperately needed. Through an ad in the local paper and a billboard downtown, an immense need was identified in the community for those seeking support and resources for eating disorders. After days spent lobbying for mental health parity, months putting together workshops and organizing conferences, and years establishing a treatment and business model that was effective and sustainable; a mother’s desperation was transformed. What started as a crisis center grew into a comprehensive care center offering support, treatment, education, and a safe community for anyone affected by eating disorders, disordered eating, or body image.
Circles of Change is a movement created by Ophelia's Place with three intentions in mind:
To change the culture and conversation surrounding health, beauty, and body image.
A creative way to provide long-term sustainability for Ophelia's Place.
A way to collaborate with like-minded, mission-driven organizations to support a cause.
Here are a few of the big topics we talked about:
What Ophelia's Place and Circles of Change is and how it was created
How we begin to redefine beauty
Why body dissatisfaction is so prevalent in our society
Self-love as a practice
How Holli and her mother, Mary Ellen, healed themselves through creating a support system for others
How we can change the conversation around loving ourselves
Why being healthy and losing weight should be two separate conversations
The importance that tapping into our worthiness has in our health and well-being
The ripple effect of circles of change
The normalization of the “typical” conversations women have about beauty, diet, weight, etc.
Take the Circles of Change Pledge
Specific things we can do to start changing the conversation
Be sure to check out the Circles of Change Market and get a shirt or a mug – change the conversation AND support Ophelia's Place!
In Holli's Voice:
“I was so afraid to just show up as I am.”
“Comparison destroys any joy that we have.”
“In order to be healthy you have to start with worthiness.”
“Changing the conversation around beauty has to start with us.”
Connect with Holli and Circles of Change:
October is Love Your Body Month, and I'm so excited to be collaborating with Circles of Change and Ophelia's Place this month. In celebration of what we can all do together, I am donating 50% of my Patreon donations to Ophelia's Place. This can be you donating as well! To support In Her Voice AND Ophelia's Place, please visit my Patreon page and donate at whatever level feels right for you.
In Her Voice Ep. 45: Sleep As Soul Medicine
/We all know sleep is essential on a physical level, but have you ever thought about how sleep can affect your emotional and spiritual well being as well?? After experiencing a week of sleep as low priority in my life, I had some huge ahas about the importance of sleep in our self-care arsenal.
Take my #sleepassoulmedicine challenge! Figure out how much sleep you need, set up a nightly ritual around bedtime and do if for yourself for at least 3 days! Be sure to take a pic of your nighttime ritual and tag me on Instagram (@kellyjcovert) and use the tag #sleepassoulmedicine.
In Her Voice Ep. 44: Tara Newman on Respecting Our Cycles
/Tara Newman is a high-performance leadership coach, CrossFit and coffee fanatic, and expert in Organizational Psychology with a mission to help people find the MORE they’ve been looking for. She is obsessed with the systems of success and the science of human performance.
She left her corporate career to build a thriving business, coaching high-achieving clients ranging from NY Times best selling authors to TEDx Speakers to tech executives and multi-million dollar CEOs. She's been featured in The Huffington Post, YFS Magazine, and The Perpetual You. For almost two decades, she's been developing leaders and helping them to thrive in an ever changing, noisy and overwhelming business landscape.
Here are a few of the big topics we talked about:
How to respect the cycles of our life
How destruction is a natural and necessary process
Why it's so hard for us to let things go and how to work through that
How to push through your “what ifs”
The practice of repetitive writing to release beliefs or instill them differently
How stress is necessary for growth and how to deal with it
The importance of rest
The difference between high-achievers and high-performers
What your self-care needs to look like on a daily basis
Women as “servant-leaders”
In Tara's Voice:
“Stress is needed for growth, but it must be followed by recovery.”
“It takes courage to ground yourself in you.”
“What's the most loving thing I can do for myself right now.”
“I cannot serve from an empty vessel.”
Connect with Tara:
The Worthy Collective is my free community for women who are ready to own their worthiness each and every day!! I'd love to connect with you there!
In Her Voice Ep. 43: Get Uncomfortable
/Change is required for transformation. And, let's face it, change can be downright uncomfortable. So our choice is stay the same or get uncomfortable. Which will you choose?
Let me know how you are getting uncomfortable this week! Snap a selfie and tag me over on Instagram @kellyjcovert! Feel free to use tag it with #inhervoice!!
In Her Voice Ep. 42: The Richness of Life with Denise Duffield-Thomas
/Here are a few of the big topics we talked about:
What our money mindset is and why it's so important
The difference between our true inner voice and our voice of fear
Denise shares her secret way of connecting with her inner voice on a daily basis
How we develop our discernment
The idea of richness instead of abundance
How living a rich life has very little to do with money
Why it's important for women to feel comfortable and empowered around money
Why women need permission to earn a lot of money
Why it's important to talk about money with other women
In Denise's Voice:
“What feels rich to you?”
“Money doesn't necessarily make you feel rich.”
“Women enrich our world with the money they earn.”
“It's okay for women to talk about money.”
Connect with Denise:
Let us know what your biggest takeaway was from this episode! Take a picture or a screen shot of you listening to this episode and tag me (@kellyjcovert) and Denise (@deniseDT) when you share it!
In Her Voice Ep. 41: Goals
/Are you a goal-setter? Or maybe you're a list checker-off-er (that's totally a word, by the way.) This episode is all about getting clear on priorities and setting good goals! If you are ready to get going on those dreams of yours, this episode is just for you.
The Inner Circle is still open for registration! Click here to sign up by September 18, 2017!!
In Her Voice Ep. 40: Pam Grout on Manifesting with Joy
/Pam Grout is a hopeless romantic who still believes the world is a beautiful place, that people are noble and that anything is possible.
For a living (and she always wonders why people think that's such an important question), she writes books and articles for such magazines as People, Cooking Light and Travel & Leisure. She also enjoys writing bedtime stories for her daughter, but that's more about making a life than a living. She's keenly aware there's a huge difference.
In making a life, she has traveled to all the world's continents, learned 59 ways to make a fort out of sofa cushions, perfected a mean tennis forehand and volunteered at a women's prison and free health clinic.
Here are a few of the big topics we talked about:
What manifesting is
The power of shifting from problem state to possibility state
Radical gratitude
How to live a miraculous life
How we need to remove the blinders that don't allow miracles into our awareness
The set-it-and-forget-it principle
How to release control and allow
How to build your faith
How worrying creates blocks and hindrances
Pam's #1 practice for manifesting with joy
Check out Pam's new book on creativity, Art and Soul Reloaded
In Pam's Voice:
“When we start looking for what can go right instead of what can go wrong, amazing things start to happen.”
“Every single thing that happens offers a new beginning.”
“Everything is a miracle.”
“We literally get whatever we are looking for.”
“The how is not up to me.”
Connect with Pam:
The doors to The Inner Circle are open until September 18, 2017!! Click here to learn more about the group and join!
In Her Voice Ep. 39: Self-Forgiveness
/Reflecting on the most important lesson I learned this summer helped me realize how important it is to give ourselves forgiveness when we make mistakes or fail. The learning and wisdom can only come once the forgiveness has been given. I'm also talking about self-care non-negotiables and why we need them.
The doors to The Inner Circle are open!! Don't miss out on this amazing opportunity to put your inner voice into action with mastermind-style group coaching and accountability! Click here to join!
In Her Voice Ep. 38: Wild and Holy with Megan Hale
/Megan Hale is a former psychotherapist and spiritual relationship coach who works with women and couples to deepen their connection with their truth (and each other) to create lives and relationships that honor their soul. She’s the podcast host of The Enoughness Revolution, a conversation on cultivating worthiness, and Wild & Holy Radio, a spiritual conversation on being your fullest expression and doing your Holy work in the world.
She’s the founder of Wild & Holy Weekend, a spiritual retreat for women who are ready to come home to their truth and trust it so they express themselves fully and freely in life, work, and love. Her next retreat is in Austin, TX September 22nd -24th and more information can be found at wildandholyweekend.com.
Here are a few of the big topics we talked about:
What it means to be “wild and holy” as women.
Megan's story of her rebel spirit and how she began to understand and heal herself.
How we begin to integrate all the parts of who we are, including our inner rebel.
Practices we can use to build trust in our rebel self.
The practice of non-dominant hand journaling
The important process of discerning the difference between intuition and fear.
Rewriting our own rules about what enough means
Why we still need encouragement and validation from other people.
Giving ourselves the space before we start to seek external validation
Discovering what HOLY means to each of us
In Megan's Voice:
“Enoughness doesn't exist in any boxes. Enoughness exists when we let the boxes go.”
“You have this wise soul within you, and she knows a lot about what you need to do to be in alignment.”
“Every single step you take matters.”
“Give your inner voice the credit it deserves.”