Thought Provoking Questions with Izzy: Recent Episodes
Izzy Lenihan
Join Izzy Lenihan, certified life, career and wellness coach as she explores thought provoking questions that lead to powerful transformation.
Should you look for another job, end a relationship, move cross country, or stand up to your mother? Life is filled with decisions each day, from choosing what food we eat to the careers we choose and everything in between.
How do you make important choices in your life?
In this episode Izzy shares a tool for helping make choices and decisions. This discerning practice or process can offer a strategy that aligns with everything important to you and supports creating a thriving life.
You see, the premise by which you made decisions in the past may no longer work for you today. Some of those decisions may have resulted from what was expected, what was popular, or your inner rebellion. Perhaps you feel as though there is nothing left to prove, defy, or even chase at this moment of your life.
Instead, there is an inner voice that wishes and craves to make a choice from a deep knowing. A feeling of alignment and direction that supports your truest, most authentic self. Welcome home! You see, this part of you has always existed but, at times, may have been distracted or ignored.
In this episode, Izzy talks about all things EGO. She explains how noticing our EGO has been a hot topic in her coaching sessions lately and how the EGO often gets a bad rap, deservingly so at times.
But can the EGO also have a positive role in our lives? Can you spot your ego when it is present? And, is it possible to release and let go of this thing called EGO?
You see, if you are human, there is a good chance that you will live with EGO. But with awareness and conscious attention, you can live and thrive when you become aware and befriend your EGO.
Give this episode a listen, and perhaps you'll find the insight you need to befriend yours and find more inner freedom and peace.
Over the past few weeks, Izzy has been talking a whole lot about prosperity and abundance. This week Izzy is sharing an important and different perspective on prosperity.
She shares a powerful story that demonstrates just how easy it is to give away our time, this valuable commodity, as if it were limitless, at the expense of our health, relationships, financial freedom, integrity, peace, balance, and JOY.She also shares some simple but powerful questions that could be a game-changer for you to begin living in congruency with what you want and the actions you take... inviting more abundance and prosperity in all ways!
Go ahead and give it a listen and if you feel like you need help in any way, check out Izzy's one-on-one packages here, or contact her to see what may be the best next step for you!
This episode explores why tapping into your passion, purpose, and gifts can lead to living life with more abundance.
We all know creative individuals who have turned their gifts, talents, and passions into a prosperous living. So the question is, why can't you?
Perhaps you have convinced yourself that it might be too hard, you don't know how, you are not good enough, you can't afford it, or maybe you don't have the support to commit to this journey.
These are legitimate obstacles, but have these excuses denied you and the world from experiencing your gifts and talents?
In this episode, Izzy shares a secret that just may change your perspective.
Give it a listen to begin your journey toward abundance by tapping into your own passions, purpose, and gifts.
And if you think you want a hand, consider my one-on-one package Passion, Purpose, and Gifts, to help you awaken the possibilities of living this inspired-filled life.
You can learn more here.
In this episode Izzy talks about shifting the scarcity and lack mindset to that of abundance and prosperity.
Abundance and prosperity are about all things, not just about money but also love, creativity, time, space, and JOY. All can be impacted by the attitude we hold.
She invites you to consider, how does fear of not enough hold you back? How and where are you living in scarcity? And, if an abundance mindset is a practice, as is a scarcity mindset - which one have you practiced?
And for those ready to let go of any area where you may feel scarce, you are invited to join Izzy and her two amazing colleagues, Michelle Marie and Elise Manzo, on Sunday, October 9th, for the full-day retreat, Unlocking Prosperity, to help you change and cultivate more abundance from the inside out.
Come to uncover old limiting beliefs, shift your vibration, and heal your mind, body, and soul in order to invite more prosperity, abundance, and joy into your life.
Held at the beautiful Stable Gate Farm and Winery take part in this transformational work. And as a bonus, it's peak foliage week in the Berkshires!
Sign up here before September 24th and get $30 off the registration fee
In this episode Izzy explores the root of our sense of value and worth.
You see, if we quantify our sense of worth and value based on who we are, what we do, and/or what we have, then it can be a moving target dependent on many circumstances and conditions.
She shares a story of a young girl and how so often we experience defining moments that establish our relationship with self-worth, value, and prosperity.
Are you ready to peel back the layers and explore what is holding you back from experiencing more prosperity and abundance in your life, relationships, creativity, and JOY?
Come join Izzy and the PROSPERITY TEAM, on Sunday, October 9th, for a full day of self-exploration, where we will be emotionally, physically, and spiritually shifting the energy of prosperity in order to attract more abundance.
Click here to find out more and take advantage of the $30 savings if booked by September 4th.
Chances are if you are taking the time to listen to this episode, you didn't win that GINORMOUS lottery windfall. If you had, you would probably be busy planning the rest of your life or at least getting your affairs in order to collect that check!
Like so many, if you bought a ticket, you most likely spent a little time fantasizing about what you would do with the winnings.
So, what would you do with all that money?
This week Izzy talks openly about money, prosperity, and abundance--exploring your relationship with prosperity and examining some deep-seated blocks that are potentially getting in the way of experiencing more abundance in your life.
In this episode Izzy asks what keeps you from practicing meditation? You might say time, ability to quiet down or stay focused. Many say that the greatest obstacle is that they don't really know how or are not sure they are doing it correctly.
She clarifies that mindfulness simply means present moment awareness and meditation is the most powerful form of mindfulness.
Izzy invites you to give yourself self-permission to pause for just 15 minutes and allow yourself to experience this by guiding you through a simple meditation practice.
Life is filled with lots of unpredictability. The question is not how to do you avoid these adversities but how you can be with them with as much equanimity as possible.
This episode explores the first and most important tool to help you how to walk through fire as opposed to around it-- mindfulness. Mindfulness simply means PRESENT MOMENT Awareness.
Izzy explains that mindfulness and meditation are the paths. They are the most powerful tools to help create that space or gap in order to help slow the mind and live more consciously. To respond versus react. And, it's when you do this that you find inner freedom.
And if you aren't sure where to start to create more space and find more Inner Freedom in your life, you can explore Izzy's packages to find one that speaks to you here.
In this episod Izzy explores finding comfort in the discomfort.
Discomfort is something that we have all experienced in life. Discomfort in our bodies, relationships, jobs, finances, and lately, the state of the nation and world. A discomfort that clutters our minds, our emotions, and spirits.
So how do you find comfort in the discomfort?
Listen to find out.
In this episode Izzy has an honest conversation about your life! The life that you have spent so many years building, maintaining, sacrificing, and paying for. She explores how although you have dreamed and worked so hard to have this life, there could be a part of it keeping you living in a prison and asks if there is a monster in your life that you keep feeding?
Last week we began a conversation about compassion fatigue and the symptoms and risks of being an empath – feeling too much! One might say that the world is really struggling right now, and if you are sensitive to the suffering and struggles, your compassion meter is on overdrive.
This week Izzy explores something we should all consider, we often overgive what it is that we need.
She asks: How and where do you overgive? This might be a clue as to what you need. Do you overgive into kindness? Do you overgive in patience, support, encouragement, financial support, or nurturing?
And, once you answer this question, what would it look like to turn that giving onto yourself?
In this episode Izzy explores compassion fatigue and her own experiences with it. She explains that if you are an empath, meaning that you feel your way through the world, you probably have at some point felt compassion fatigue. And, because the state of the world has provided us with plenty of opportunities to practice feeling deep, deep compassion, you may even be experiencing it now.
Stay tuned over the next couple of weeks for much more on this topic, including benefits and ways to practice self-compassion.
In this episode, Izzy discusses how a person can live among a million people and still feel lonely, how someone can be married with a family and feel all alone while on the other hand one go through a pandemic, isolated at home for over a year, with barely any human connection, and feel neither alone nor loneliness.
She explores how in these times of uncertainty, many of us became highly aware of the feelings of fear, isolation, anxiety, and anger. The more we tried to resist or loath them, the more they seemed to cling on.
There are many events that happen in life that may seem like the worst thing ever at that moment, but after time you recognize that the uncomfortable event was the very thing that propelled your life forward and led to something better.
The same can be said for good or lucky events in our lives. How many times have we read about individuals who won the lottery only to end up poorer or less content than before the big win?
This week, Izzy will explore how grasping and clinging to an outcome can contribute to personal suffering by sharing a story shared by many Buddhist teachers. This is an opportunity to explore the perspective of what it means to experience nonattachment to the outcome.
There are many ways in which we humans contribute to our own suffering. Attaching to a particular outcome or a perspective is certainly one of them. In this episode, Izzy explores the idea of impermanence and nonattachment.
What is there not to WORRY about lately? In this episode, Izzy discusses how the world has given us plenty to worry about, and for many (including herself) worry has certainly been the most dominant, uncomfortable emotion. It may be a struggle to stay hopeful, especially when some things feel much bigger and more complex than we can control or influence.
However, marinating in worry all day and night is not helping the situation. So today, Izzy offers you a tool to help you confront your worries.
If you've been following along as Izzy explored the Life Balance Wheel over the last 8-weeks, your wheel is now completed. You now have a view, an inventory, of your current life! Congratulations!
In this episode, Izzy asks if your wheel was to roll down the hallway, would it be a bit of a bumpy ride? Are you able to notice the areas of your life that you are most satisfied with are the areas you have put the most energy into?
Do you notice the areas you are least satisfied with are perhaps the areas you have ignored or neglected?
You may be asking now what? Where to go from here?
Well, according to Izzy, the idea is to start small. Small goals, Small doable action steps.
Intentionality, consistency, and accountability (even just to yourself). This is the path to building confidence, increasing trust, and encouraging change.
And, If you are overwhelmed and feel like you need a little personal guidance, stick around to the end for a one-time bonus offer from Izzy to help you to create a plan that feels achievable and personal to you.
In this episode, Izzy guides you through week 8 of exploring the Life Balance Wheel. Today the last pie piece on the wheel is all about your environment.
Your environment has to do with various things. It can begin by asking how satisfied are you with the part of the world or country you live in? Your community? And, very importantly, your home?
Izzy's job as a coach is to help you figure out where you are today to help you move forward, and that's exactly what these past 8-weeks have done. Remember, if you have missed a week or two along the way, you can catch up here.
It is week seven of Izzy's exploration of the Life Balance Wheel. This week she's digging into Fun and Recreation by asking "How much fun do you have?"
Although experiencing "fun and recreation" in life sounds easy, many people struggle with this area. According to Izzy this area is actually a bit complex as it can reveal a lot about old and deep conditioning.
Go ahead and listen and consider how much fun do you have in your life, and do you give yourself permission to have fun?
Don't forget, you can still join in and follow along by downloading your wheel and listening to previous episodes at izzylenihan.com/#wheel.
It’s week 6 of our exploration of the Life Balance Wheel, and this week is all about the relationship with oneself. Izzy will explore how close and aligned you feel with a deeper sense of who we are and how it is expressed in all the corners of our lives.
She'll ask some very important questions about the time and effort you have taken to grow intellectually, emotionally, and spiritually in your life and give you some ideas for ways you may want to continue on your journey of personal growth.
Welcome to week five as we work our way around the Life Balance Wheel, taking that inventory of your life. This week Izzy is going to help walk through a topic that can feel very vulnerable for some! We'll be exploring our love life – our significant other.
This week it's all bout significant others. How satisfied, on a scale of "0" or the least amount of satisfaction to "10" the most satisfaction.
In the episode, Izzy explains how you don't have to have a significant other in your life because some of us have one, and our level of satisfaction is like a 2, and sometimes we don't have one, and it feels more like an 8. What matters is overall, how satisfied you are with this aspect of your life? And if you aren't, are you willing to take steps to change it?
If you've been following along the past few weeks, you'll know this week we've made it halfway around the Life Balance Wheel Izzy has walked you through taking an inventory of your life. And this week and next, we are going to talk about your most important relationships.
We'll kick off the exploration of your relationships by first focusing on your friends and family. Why, because we can choose our friends but not our family!
Follow along as Izzy asks some thought-provoking questions to help you understand how satisfied you really are with your relationships.
Over the last couple of weeks, Izzy has begun to walk you through taking an inventory of your life using the Life Balance Wheel.
Today we will visit the third pie on your wheel, your health. Allow Izzy to ask various questions to help you get a perspective of your health and its elements. She'll have you break health down into three smaller pieces of pie. focusing on your satisfaction level for NUTRITION, EXERCISE, AND SLEEP. These represent the foundation of health, both mental and physical.
This week, Izzy is continuing to take an inventory of your life using the Life balance wheel by diving into a very important and complex area of life, the MONEY. It is complex because it's not just about the quantity of money coming into your life; we also need to consider one's ability to manage money and, most complicated of all, our relationship with money.
If you haven't yet printed out the Wheel of Life handout, you can do that on izzylenihan.com. Be sure to follow the instructions and check out week one's topic in this recent post.
Here we go! Over the next 8-weeks, Izzy will dive into your life and take an inventory of where you are. We are going to hover over your life as if in a helicopter and notice what the landscape looks like. We'll note the nice green lush areas as well as areas that look a little brown, parched, and ignored.
You must first be right where your feet are today in order to move anywhere else.
If you haven't yet, please print out the Life Balance Wheel here so you can join Izzy on this journey.
We will begin with your sense of purpose, which could also be defined as your career. But really purpose, in this respect, represents where you spend the majority of your day
Some call it the Great Exit, the Big Resign. Employers throughout the nation are struggling to fill positions to meet the demand of the customers and business operations.
In this episode, Izzy explores how the complexities that this pandemic has caused have a lot to do with the current crisis in filling and maintaining staffing levels. Parents are exhausted with the unpredictability of childcare and safety concerns for themselves and family.
For many, it may be the workload is more than one can handle, given the burdens of life. Some have expressed boredom or burnout. And, based on the floods of emails and calls that I have received, it seems many people are reassessing their priorities.
According to Izzy, perhaps one of the greatest gifts of this pandemic is that we were all forced to stop and listen, be, and experience in ways we haven't, while there wasn't any other choice.
She offers a powerful practice she'll be leading starting in January to help you answer the nagging question of, now what?
Because sometimes it is helpful to know what we don't want in order to know what we do want.
In this episode, Izzy asks if you would attempt to write a book without an editor? Most people would probably say NO!
Whether it's the first time writing a book or an experienced bestseller, an editor can help you refine what you want to say. They can save you from your worst writing weaknesses. They can help you distill your narrative, tighten your plot, and pace your story.
So if you are serious about writing a successful book, investing in an editor can most certainly be the best support for achieving that goal.
With this in mind, she explores how using an expert to unlock your greatest potential and maximize your efforts to achieve any goal or objective can make a HUGE impact on your life.
In this episode, Izzy explores the sacred practice of Deep Listening by asking, "When listening to others, are you really listening?" and questioning how well we listen to our own inner voices. Discussing her own experiences from her years of working at Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health and as a mother, she demonstrates just how powerful it is to truly begin to listen.
In this episode, Izzy offers a little wisdom as to why self-compassion can be our greatest ally when faced with life adversities or when support, motivation, and encouragement are needed. And she discusses how practicing self-compassion isn't always easy--breaking the habit of self-criticism is a hard habit to change especially when it’s been modeled and imposed by some of our closest relationships. She offers a short practice of self-compassion to get you started on your journey to more self-compassion and less self-criticism.
In this episode, Izzy discusses the habits or tendencies that you have adopted in your life that convince or discredit your sense of value and the message given to others. Despite the title, this isn't really about food, but more importantly, about the actions or intentions you practice. This is about self-worth and self-love.
What if the struggles you are experiencing in life actually hold a gift? Our perspective in life can be the difference between feeling defeated, or resilient. In this episode, Izzy shares a story that she hopes will change your perspective and perception around your life struggles.
Are you feeling a lack of focus, energy, disconnected from your life, job, family, and friends? Perhaps you are feeling a bit negative, cynical, or impatient? These can all be the symptoms and signs of burnout. After all, look at what the last 1 ½ year has been like. In this episode Izzy explores the nuances of burnout vs. boredom and how you can identify, and then adjust accordingly.
In this episode, Izzy discusses how a book called "The Rhythm of Life," written by Matthew Kelly, helped her to align her priorities with her values, needs, desires, and dreams leading her to live more authentically in all areas of life. Especially those areas that she had neglected—like friendships. She explores how she shifted to nurturing her friendships and how these friendships and what these friendships say about who she is.
Does the blueprint by which your pre-pandemic life was built on, still work? Yes, that blueprint, road map, that once directed your work, environment, relationships? How you spend your time, money, and efforts? What you nurture, allow, and tolerate in your life? It’s time to reevaluate, because if not now, when? After a year and a half of life turned upside down, inside out, I predict several things have changed the landscape of your life, in probably a very profound way!
Is your well EMPTY? Yes, your well, your tank, or some may say oxygen. We can certainly recognize it when it happens with our cars, if our children are tired or hungry, or when a wilting house plant becomes thirsty for water and light. But can you recognize the symptoms in yourself?
What if what so many of us are currently are experiencing and perhaps do not recognize it—is GRIEF?
No one can argue that this past year has been like no other. For many, life has drastically changed. Some may claim for the better, while many others are struggling to keep their heads above the water. Nonetheless, everyone has experienced changes. A simple trip to the grocery store can feel cumbersome. Going to the bank, dentist, and hairstylist will forever be different. So many of the things that used to take a little effort now take twice as much, often leaving me feeling irritable and snarky.
Now, if I think going to the market is frustrating, I can’t imagine the effort and complexity of raising a school-aged child in these times while holding down a job and working from home! Or what it must be like to be an educator or healthcare worker! Heck, let’s face it, there are very few occupations that are not affected by this pandemic. It has impacted almost every corner of our lives. As much as we have tried to stay optimistic and hopeful that we’ll get through this together, the uncertainty is exhausting and unbearable at times.
Then added to this, there is the physical loss of life, health, careers, and relationships. Both because of the pandemic and other life circumstances.
Now when asked how grief is expressed, many would probably say sadness, depression, sorrow, or misery. And yes, all those are true. Yet what if sarcasm, judgment, cynicism, and jealousy could also be grief in disguise?
This week Izzy takes a deeper dive into exploring the essence of our true calling and the complexities that keep us from living our life’s purpose. Do you know what your life’s purpose is? Have you had a glimpse of this purpose but have not yet found a way to live it fully? Does living your life’s purpose mean that you must financially support yourself using it? Are there rules or beliefs that you live by, that stand in the way of living this purpose?
Now what? A simple two-word sentence, packed with so much energy and reverence for what WAS, IS, and COULD BE!
This simple question can evoke scores of reactions and feelings from anger to JOY and everything in between... a recipe of uncertainty. And, if vulnerability is something you try to avoid at all costs, how do you begin moving forward when faced with so much uncertainty?
In this episode, Izzy discusses how uncertainty is a result of change. Whether it is a change in relationship, work, family, illness, loss, displacement, catastrophic world events, or other types of conflict, change can lead to uncertainty. But, she believes we are capable and equipped to transcend, rise above and beyond our human characteristics to co-create, and influence our destiny.
You can learn more from Izzy in her upcoming workshop Making Space for Positive Change. A perfect way to stimulate, motivate, and inspire clarity, peace, and direction.
In this episode, Izzy discusses the power of creating a dream, vision, or intention for this coming year and bringing it to the forefront of your life in a vision board. It stimulates all your senses and stirs beautiful energy in the deepest parts of yourself, especially your organs; your gut, heart, pulse, every cell. Not driven by your brain—the idea behind a vision board is that when you surround yourself with images of who you want to become, what you want to have, where and how you want to live, achieve, or experience, your life changes to match those images and those desires.
In this episode Izzytakes a closer look at our personal vibration... to explore how this dominant vibration contributes to our overall well-being and the impact on the world, and let's go all out and say the universe.
Everything has energy. Every person, every thought, every action, item, and word carry a certain vibration. Why is this important? Because energy and vibration have a way of multiplying, it is as contagious as this virus we are dealing with and can change a room full of people from feeling alive to despair. From feeling fear to hope. From feeling lost and discouraged to feeling empowered and inspired.
Join Izzy as she discusses the traits of a Type E Person and the importance of their perspective now more than ever. Please note this is in no way an attempt to label anyone but simply an opportunity to share an inspirational body of work that changed Izzy's life and the lives of many clients she has worked with over the past years.
For more information or to take the Type E quiz, visit izzylenihan.com.
Whoever said that life should be all about suffering—was most certainly wrong!! Take it from Izzy, some who has mastered that art and skill of suffering. In this episode she discusses what she has learned about leaning towards suffering and sacrifice-- it is a perfect prescription for a life of resentment, frustration, and exhaustion. That joy, is our true nature.
What that means is that we were all born joyful. Simply put, it has been our conditioning along the way that keeps us from living in that state—our higher selves.
In this episode, she'll give you a quick quiz to determine if you too, have been conditioned to suffer and offer a simple way to being making changes to experience more joy and happiness.
In this episode Izzy explores a simple question -- how much fun do you have? Given all things we face today, maybe it doesn't sound like a very important question, but truthfully there are many people, who haven't spent nearly enough time in life having fun. Are you one of them? And if so, what is the cost and what can you do to change it?
In this episode Izzy discusses a recent poll she did over 20 people about their experiences during this time of COVID. As she explains, nothing can propel transformation more than adversities. Transformation begins with awareness. And awareness can only happen when we are present in our lives and world around us.
I have a question for you. What's sitting in your inbox? I know it may sound like a silly question, but bear with me. What if in the answer to that very question, lives in the answers to larger questions about you and your life?
For example, what are you procrastinating? What is cluttering your heart and mind? What problem do you long to solve in the world? What could spark more passion, purpose, and meaning?
You see, the things we collect can offer lots of wisdom of what is living alive in our hearts, minds, and souls. In this episode I discuss what insights your inbox may be holding.
What do you do when you can't run or hide from a truth that has been revealed? When your old go-to's that served as an escape from the discomfort of those truths are not so accessible? When you no longer can shop for that perfect pair of shoes, exert pent up energy at the gym, enjoy a leisurely 2-hour lunch with a friend, or escape to the office for the day?
Right now, without those escapes at our fingertips, many of us are being forced to JUST BE. To sit with the truths, the discomforts, and the things that challenge us. To notice the habits, conditions, and qualities of ourselves, our lives, and our relationships.
In this episode Izzy discusses how every day offers opportunities for truths to be revealed about ourselves, others, and the world and how you can consciously practice discernment, and self-awareness, without judgment. According to Swami Kripalu, it is the highest spiritual practice. It's neither good or bad, right or wrong—it is just awareness.
On June 25th Izzy will be offering a powerful workshop specifically designed to take an inventory of your life—a perfect way to reveal your truths. In it, we'll hang out over your life as if in a helicopter and look at the entire landscape—noticing what areas feel green and lush and those areas that are looking a little brown and parched. This workshop, "How Balanced is Your Life?" will bring awareness to where you are and help you create an actionable and achievable plan to move forward consciously and confidently. Learn more here.
To walk the Camino de Santiago, an 800-kilometer (500 miles) trek over the Pyrenees and across northern Spain, has been on my bucket list for some time. In this episode, I discuss the challenges those who walk the Camino encounter, and the lessons and growth that comes from the journey.
These challenges are all too familiar amid this pandemic, this current world crisis. Of course, no one planned or prepared for this. We didn't carve out eight weeks in our calendars, set up our work, finances, education, and food supply in advanced to be quarantined in our homes for so long. However, the discomforts and fluctuations of feelings, emotions, and circumstances can be compared to those experienced on the journey of the Camino de Santiago. Perhaps, the lessons and growth that we will gain during this time will also be similar.
For the last couple of weeks, we've been digging in and taking charge of our clutter--so courageously diving into all the small and big things that drain energy, keeping us stagnant and stuck.
Today, we'll continue our journey to clear the clutter by focusing on a huge energy drainer we all experience—our WORRIES.
A colleague once asked me to name the five most dominant worries I was experiencing at that moment in time. It was a powerful question because what I recognized was that these worries were precisely the reason why my energy felt zapped and why I was having trouble focusing. The thoughts that were swirling around in my mind and occupying valuable real estate in my body were 100% directly impacting the quality of my life.
In the midst of this global pandemic, with many of us awakening feeling worried, only to lay our heads on our pillow at the end of each day, continuing to marinate in worry all night—I would like to offer you a tool to help you confront your worries.
You may think these are 2 questions! But I think they are one and the same. For several years, I have been teaching a program called "Clearing the Clutter." So very often, people have gone out of their way to share with me how this program inspired them to make amazing changes in their lives. They have gone on to do things like finally writing that book, going back to school, leaving a soul-sucking job, and finding work that they can't wait to do each day. How they Let go of unhealthy relationships and made room to attract nurturing ones. Bought their dream homes, traveled the world, or my favorite—discovered PEACE.
In light of the current adversities that we are all facing—I think that we (the world) could all use a shift in energy. To support this need, I'm offering this powerful workshop live online. In this 90 minute workshop, you will gain motivation, tools, skills, and the support of a coach and community—de-cluttering together. Can you feel the energy moving already—I DO!
To make this opportunity even better, in the spirit of clearing things out, giving things away, and doing good in the world, I'd like to offer this workshop for a very nominal fee of $20 and then take all proceeds and donate them to our local food bank. Imagine you can make positive impact on your life and for someone who may be really struggling. It's a WIN-WIN!
You can sign-up now for this 90-minute online workshop right here. I promise to make de-cluttering fun, achievable, and so worth it!
Times like these can bring out the best in humans. There have been so many heartwarming stories I have heard and being circulated on the internet, softening or hearts and offering hope for humankind.
As Fred Rogers shared, "look for the helpers" and I also believe we should look for the humor, kindness, and gifts.
The suffering is real, but so is the hope and goodness available and present. Perhaps this short chapter in all of our lives will inspire more kindness, compassion, patience, and generosity. I think this may be what spirit, source, GOD would ultimately want and hope for all of us living on this earth in this moment of time.
This week, ask yourself what gift has this adversity brought me so far? Maybe the ultimate practice of patience and tolerance? Perhaps finding comfort in boredom? Maybe, it has helped you to explore your relationship with money and your spending habits? Or maybe, you have been forced to reconnect with nature or your partner and family members?
Given the recent adversities facing our communities, our nation, our world, and even our universe, it all can feel so big. I liken it to trying to eat an elephant, or here at Kripalu, a bushel of kale! How do you do either when they are so big? Simply put, ONE BITE AT A TIME! A perfect time to practice mindfulness—wouldn't you say?
Take 10 minutes and listen to this brief podcast. In it, I discuss how times of change can bring many opportunities and possibilities if we can shift the focus away from fear to LOVE.
Next, grab your journal, a piece of paper, or even a sticky note and make a list of your resiliency tools. Be sure to keep them close by so you can visit and practice them regularly.
Notice the shifts that happen as you remember these tools and then begin to use them.
Remember, this is now about thriving in a new normal and finding strategies in a time of resiliency.
In this episode Izzy explores what it means to practice mindfulness. You see, studies show that we as humans could have up to 60,000-70,000 thoughts per day. The problem is that 95% of these thoughts are the same thoughts we had yesterday and the day before. This type of thinking is a perfect recipe for living in a prison, a prison of our minds.
Now, imagine the most powerful tool for stepping out of this prison and bringing more peace and calm into your life already lived within you. Mindfulness is a tool that is accessible to everyone, everywhere and allows you to react less and be more present.
Simply put, mindfulness means, Present Moment Awareness. There are a million ways to practice mindfulness. And, although meditation may be the most powerful form of mindfulness, mindfulness can be practiced all day, every day. You can practice while walking, while eating a meal, in conversation (simply listening rather than trying to fix and save that person) or even while expressing your creativity (writing, singing, dancing, painting, etc.).
So, how do you practice mindfulness?
Join Izzy as she explores the idea of limiting beliefs and the importance of challenging these thoughts and beliefs that are no longer serving you, especially around goals or intentions that somehow have never come to fruition or realized. In this episode, she dives into what for many is the greatest obstacle—procrastination! Whatever you call it, put off, delay, postpone, ignore, or avoid... we all do it in one form or another.
Now, why do we procrastinate? Izzy explains the reason is that in some odd way, it is serving us. We put off doing that thing because there is a payoff. We are getting something from staying where we are.
This episode includes a guided reflection exercise you can use to begin uncovering what's really keeping you from achieving your goals.
To help support this process, she created a simple worksheet that examines the reasons why you have been procrastinating. This exercise has helped many of her clients shift and transform their lives by giving them the valuable personal insight they needed to move forward.
So many of us have goals, dreams, and deep desires that we long to achieve; yet year after year these intentions keep making a to-do list but never get done. How great would it feel to finally check them off and show the world that you did it?
Download your free worksheet here.
In this episode of Thought Provoking Questions, Izzy Lenihan explores the power of our subconscious mind and how our mind shapes our reality. She teaches that our thoughts are the most powerful tool we have for change. When we change our thoughts, we can change our life.
Izzy asks you as a listener, to explore your own personal beliefs and what beliefs could be preventing you from making changes in your life. She compassionately walks you through a practice to notice and then challenge these beliefs. Because until these limiting beliefs are challenged, they have the capacity to hold you back for years, sometimes a lifetime!
Join Izzy Lenihan, life, career, and wellness coach as she explores what you have always known about your gifts, passion, and purpose. You see, how we chose to spend time as a child may hold a clue as to who you are and what you do today, where you feel most fulfilled or perhaps what is missing from your life.
Join Izzy Lenihan, Life, Career and Wellness Coach as she explores change and growth within her life and offers insight on experiencing positive growth yourself. You see, change is inevitable, but growth, that’s optional! Life offers us abundant opportunities for growth. Particularly in some of life’s most challenging moments.
In this episode Life, Career, and Wellness Coach Izzy Lenihan discusses the ripple effect of kindness. She shares her insights on kindness, how it has changed her life and asks you to reflect on the role kindness has played in your life.
You see, kindness is a practice. It is not enough to have it as an intention, it also requires action. The more you share kindness, the more you will receive it. And, if one of your deepest longings is to see and experience a kinder world… remember that kindness begins with you!