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Ready for the juiciest, most fascinating 4-hours of your life? Have you ever been curious about who you were in a previous life? Have you ever had the impression that you just KNOW a person when they walked into your life —but couldn’t explain HOW you knew them? Have you been experiencing the same pattern over and over without knowing where it came from? All of these things (and more) can be addressed by a past life regression and life between lives hypnotherapy session. Each session is approximately 4-hours long. I only offer the sessions on Saturdays and Sundays, and only 2 per day. They’re the coolest sessions, because not only can you heal patterns and habits that don’t belong to you in this current life, but you can also get to know other important souls that sometimes show up in our different lifetimes. https://www.instagram.com/p/Cgh-uTHpzsn/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

I’m not a licensed therapist (I didn’t pursue licensure after I left the field early on in my career), and I don’t offer therapy to my clients when I work with them. However, it’s because of situations like this that remind me of how necessary it is for me to keep my programs affordable for the people that need it. Coaching and hypnosis can be amazing resources for folks that aren’t dealing with serious mental health concerns. I could raise my prices so that I can keep a smaller caseload of clients, or I can keep my prices as they are, meaning it would take me longer to leave my day job and work full-time for my business, but be more affordable for the folks that need help to find help. I even work with folks that need to adjust payment plans accordingly so that they can get the help they need. https://www.instagram.com/p/CdYbt8TOia-/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

When I first started writing this post, I intended for it to be educational with an experiential activity tacked on at the end for those who want to try something new. In the end, it turned into something more akin to an introspective journal entry that I decided to share with my audience. Self-awareness and self-discovery are some of my favorite things to talk about with clients, so its only fitting that I practice what I preach for you all. I spend a lot of time in my head—in my mind. Everything I eat, breathe, and do is related to the mind. My job as a coach is to help my clients make powerful shifts in their mindset so that they can live successful, empowered, and confident lives. In a lot of ways, it is a good thing. I’m a writer, an aspiring published novelist, so spending a lot of time in my head, creating characters, scenarios, and worlds, is an important part of the process. I’m thinking about the ins and outs of human behavior, thoughts, and feelings. In the ways that it hinders me is that I spend so much time in my head that I struggle to allow myself to look inward – to hear what my soul or body needs. To connect with my emotions appropriately. I know the value of emotions. I know the value of listening to your body and its needs. I know the value of taking care of your soul (the YOU at your core beyond the noise of the outside world and the Critter Brain chattering away under the guise of self-preservation). I preach to my audience, my clients, that a thought is just a thought—we don’t have take it as truth; we don’t have to label it as meaningful. We don’t have to ingrain it as part of our being. That a belief system is really just a story we tell ourselves is important – that has to be believed and has to be followed. (More in the comments!) https://www.instagram.com/p/CdLn8CxLyZl/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

When opportunity knocks, do you listen? Do you open your mind and heart up to curiosity, creativity, and courage? Do you open the door, despite knowing what’s truly on the other side? Do you play and explore and try something new? I had a potential client reach out to me about my services. It was outside of my usual client pool/audience, and I froze up. And I was still in a place where I wasn’t sure if I was ready to dive back into my business again. I didn’t respond right away (because it was a virtual conversation). Instead I went through a mental tailspin of thoughts like: “I’ll respond when this looks perfect” or “if I tweak this, then I will be ready.” This delay—getting into my own way by shutting down, dodging the question, and overly self-correcting—this is how I often self-sabotage. And often, it’s because of my delay in responding that the person walks away. It’s happened before, and it will keep happening as long as I allow it to happen. I am grateful for the work I’m doing inside of @yessupply, because I’m getting so much clearer on my own mind and behavior in ways I haven’t before! I have a very healthy strategy for showing up and sharing my truth, as long as I don’t let my inner dialogue turn into negative self-talk. As long as I don’t block my own creativity, passion, wisdom, and intuition. (And, it’s funny how the Universe presents you with what you need to work on next, because I’ve been working on perfectionism, self-doubt, and self-sabotaging behaviors with my students at my day job, too.) The next few posts I’ll share will be perfectionism related. I hope you enjoy them! https://www.instagram.com/p/CdDZ0j8OX0J/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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This quote came up as a status memory from 12 years ago on my Facebook page. Apparently I was watching Mulan in 2010, which is a pretty accurate description of how I spent many afternoons in college with my friends. Disney movie, horror movies, and Fast & the Furious movie marathons for the win. When I first saw this quote today, I felt inspired, and something clicked in place. I knew it was truth, because I’m so many ways, I have grown, changed, and experienced such joy that I can’t help but love my life. I also thought about how if I saw this quote last year (hell, even yesterday) I would’ve been turned off, frustrated, and sad. Because in the last 12 years, there has also been a lot of pain, frustration, failure, sadness, and missed opportunities. Quotes like this were bullshit to me, because I couldn’t see the good that was coming. When I took my break from my business, I was caught up in the heaviness of my life. I’m still there, in a lot of ways, but as I consider how to enhance my programs and improve my business for the better, I also feel a lot of excitement for what is to come. There is so much blame, shame, and envy in how we look at the world and other people, and I will be honest that I can get caught up with it, too. I blame myself and the world around me for what I perceive as my failure to meet expectations, and I get envious of the folks that can achieve the goals I have earlier and/or faster (or even at all) compared to me. And, I feel like shit as a result. But quotes like this one reminds me that there can be good in the pain/as a result of the pain. There can be lessons learned and goals achieved. And there can be so much love, joy, and gratitude for what has happened and what is to come. I’m not sure when @amandaleecoaching will reopen (aka when I will be ready), but I’m excited for what beauty awaits me. Let me know in the comments if my stream of conscious ramblings resonates with you. And, if you’re in the thick of adversity and pain, I see you; I honor you; I love you. https://www.instagram.com/p/Ca20RuXp7Rp/?utm_medium=tumblr

Hi, lovelies. I always preach honesty, integrity, and having the confidence to share your struggles and to ask for help. And, I’ve always tried to be very open with you about my own mental health. Right now, I’m experiencing a lot of burnout, anxiety, and exhaustion, and it’s triggering my depressive symptoms. As a result, I haven’t been able to focus on my business the way that it needs to be focused on, so for my own peace of mind, I’m going to take a step back from my business for a little while. I am healthy, friends! I promise that despite the increase in my anxiety and depressive symptoms, I’m not in a concerning place! I just know that my focus feels too split between all of my responsibilities and my concerns about family members with immunocompromised conditions contracting covid, I haven’t been able to give the care, attention, and focus to my business that it needs so that I can continue to build it to where I want it to go. Because of this, I am taking a step back from Amanda Lee Coaching. I won’t be posting new content regularly (as evident by my quietness over November and December), nor will I be taking on new clients, until I feel like I’m in the place to able to devote the right amount of my energy to my clients and this page. I’m looking forward to this time of introspection and healing, as well as to the opportunity to do some great planning about what the future will hold for Amanda Lee Coaching and the work I do with you all. I am wishing you all the best. Happy New Year! https://www.instagram.com/p/CYR7Iq6J7ij/?utm_medium=tumblr

Are you participating in gift giving this time of year? If you are, have you gotten yourself a gift yet? So much of our focus during the holiday season is on other people, and we sometimes experience burnout and exhaustion. We might not do enough to help ourselves stay healthy, energized, focused, and at peace. It’s important to remember that you, too, deserve a present, so be sure to invest in yourself! One of the ways you can invest in yourself might be by joining one of my programs. Im offering a $100 discount for ALL my services until 11:59 pm EST on December 31st as my gift to you for investing in your own wellness. This $100 is off the pay in full price or $100 off the first payment plan. What programs can you use on the discount on? •The Supercharge Your Self-Confidence Prigram is a 6-month commitment that features 12-biweekly, 2-hour sessions of hypnocoaching. This program is perfect for the people pleaser or person struggling with the imposter syndrome. It’s time to boost your confidence, feel more empowered in your ability to achieve your goals, and ditch that anxiety and doubt once and for all. •Fall in Love with You is a 6-session hypnotherapy program that is currently retired but you can get access to during this holiday season. It’s perfect for enhancing your self-confidence and self-compassion so that you can really revel in the love you feel for yourself. •The Reprogram Your Body Legacy is a 4-hour hypnocoaching half-day experience. This program is perfect for someone who is feeling shame, disappointment, or dissatisfaction within their relationship with their body and food. Let’s get to the root of your limiting beliefs about your body. •A Past Life Regression and Life Between Lives hypnotherapy session is perfect for someone who is curious about the role that past lives play in your current lifetime. Is there a habit or belief that you’re not sure what the source could be from this lifetime? Are you curious about previous lifetimes you’ve may have lived? This session is for you! It’s 4-hours of deeply transformative and impactful hypnosis that can give you a lot of insight into your soul and the many lifetimes it has lived. https://www.instagram.com/p/CXeqOk4JQR2/?utm_medium=tumblr

I like to google journaling prompts every now and again to spice up my journaling practice. Sometimes, it helps me to get out of my own head to answer the questions that other folks ask, and I can do some great introspective work. (Especially if it is a day when I get caught in a self-blame and -shame cycle. Because there is no blame and shame, I like to turn to coaches, therapists, and other experts to help me.) I came accross a journaling prompt I actually don’t like and want to share it here. The prompt was: "What do you do better than others?" I don’t like this question, because it emphasizes comparing yourself to others. No two people are the same, and we all have our own unique qualities, strengths, abilities, and personalities that bring a lot to the table. We should celebrate what we're good at. We should be proud of our accomplishments. We should be excited to share our gifts with others. However, I think that we need to stop looking at our self-worth as it compares to other people. Someone might be better or worse at something than us. They might have more or less than us. These things may be factual, but that doesn't mean that our worth is any better or lesser than them. Blame and shame isn't allowed on my page and the work that I do with my clients, not only when we're thinking about all the ways that we worse off/less than, but also when we're thinking about all the ways that we are better off/more than. Because we can proud of the work that we do, the way that we show up in our lives, without shaming and blaming other people for not being at the same level as us. And, we can admire and respect where someone else is without blaming and shaming ourselves for not being there (yet or ever). I think a much better questions to ask yourself when you want to honor all the ways that you're rocking at life are: "What do I do well?" "How have I grown?" "In what ways am I doing better than I was before?" These questions are about looking at how much YOU are responsible for your own success, growth, and missteps. How empowering is it to acknowledge all the ways that YOU are succeeding rather than comparing yourself to other people? https://www.instagram.com/p/CWGVNQRrgy0/?utm_medium=tumblr

This exercise was designed to help you focus on all the ways that you're successful and creative and so freaking awesome. It was about looking at the things you currently do well, and how those things helped you to embody an identity that you know is completely true and right for you. We'll go back to posts about adopting new identities soon! In our final post for this exercise, I'm going to teach you how to combine the 5-5-7 breath with affirmations for an amazing self-hypnosis practice. I previously taught you how to do the 5-5-7 breath, but now I'll share with you my favorite way to combine it with affirmations as a form of self-hypnosis. 1️⃣ Inhale for 5 counts. 2️⃣ Hold for 5 counts while visualizing a color you love forming in your crown chakra or in your third eye chakra. 3️⃣ Exhale for 7 counts while imagining that color flowing through your body and out the bottoms of your feet. 4️⃣ Repeat the process 10 times. 5️⃣ Repeat your affirmation statements 3 to 5 times, silently in your mind or aloud. 6️⃣ Spend a few minutes visualizing the result you're creating based on these affirmation statements. 7️⃣ Smile the biggest smile you've ever smiled and open your eyes. Using my example statements from yesterday, my visualization might look something like: seeing myself post on social media and getting to engage with my audience during lives/stories; seeing emails come in from potential clients; seeing my calendar organized with 3 or 4 clients per coaching day; etc. I don't know about you, but to me that would be the most deliciously relaxing and empowering 5 to 10 minutes of my life. Try out this self-hypnosis practice on your own and let me know how it goes in the comments! I'd love to hear what the experience was like for you. https://www.instagram.com/p/CWEKK0zpgqf/?utm_medium=tumblr

I hope that reading my responses to the questions were helpful for you. In part 3 of the posts for this self-confidence boosting exercise, I'm going to teach you how to use your responses to create affirmations for your self-hypnosis practice. When creating an affirmation, you'll want to remember to use the 4 Ps so that you can create a really effective, empowering statement for your subconscious mind to hook into. The 4 Ps are: 1️⃣ Present-tense: your affirmation should focus on what you want RIGHT NOW. 2️⃣ Positive: Your subconscious mind doesn't know what the word "no" means, so be sure to word your affirmations with positively. 3️⃣ Purpose: Know your WHY. Why do you want what you want? 4️⃣ Passion: When you're excited by what you want, you're more likely to say the affirmation or really experience the visualization process during self-hypnosis. When you really WANT something, your subconscious mind is going to do everything to make it your reality. Based on my responses to question 1, I might say: "I embody trust-worthiness, kindness, and compassion." From question 2 responses, I might use the affirmation: "I am proud of my ability to share my knowledge and skills with my clients." With my question 3 responses, I might use the affirmation, "I excel at always helpin gmy clients feel safe and secure in our work together." And, because the goal of this exercise is to boost our self-confidence (in becoming a coach for this example), the affirmations might look something like this: "My confidence in myself grows every day. I excel at always helpin gmy clients feel safe and secure in our work together. I am proud of my ability to share my knowledge and skills with my clients. I embody trust-worthiness, kindness, and compassion. Because of these things, I attract clients easily and effortlessly." In the next post, I'll help you combine the 5-5-7 breath with your self-hypnosis practice, using these affirmations. https://www.instagram.com/p/CWCBT1aJYE4/?utm_medium=tumblr

How did you enjoy yesterday's journaling exercise? Were you able to go deep with your responses? How many of you really felt the buzz of confidence when you thought about some of the ways that you're awesome as fuck? In this post, I am going to share with you my responses so that I can model how I use these questions to boost my self-confidence when I'm embodying a new identity. Since we've explored my vegan identity for a while, I'll share with you some responses that I had to these questions that helped me I'll share with you some of the ways that I boosted my self-confidence when I first started coaching. 1️⃣ My qualities: Trust-worthy, kind, compassionate, curious, and optimistic. 2️⃣ I am proud of how I'm always looking at the bright-side and helping other people see the amazing possibilities they have ahead of them. I am proud of how much I show up every day, looking to help people experience the best that life has to offer. I am proud of how hard I've worked at developing my skills as a coach and a leader. I am proud of how willing I am to stretch myself and to get comfortable with being uncomfortable. I am proud of how much I've grown as a person. 3️⃣ I am really good at helping people feel safe enough to open up to me. I'm detail-oriented, and I do really well at getting a full-picture of what is going on. I am really good at listening to other people and helping them feel really heard. I am good at helping other people see things in a new light. My friends love to come to me for advice and to lend an ear when they need one. Honestly, I could go on forever with these three questions, but *character limitations*. In my next post, I'll show you how you can create an affirmation using key phrases from your responses to your questions. https://www.instagram.com/p/CV_QFAJJK1I/?utm_medium=tumblr

Yesterday, I gave my thoughts about the impact that our confidence levels have on our ability to embody the identities that are most important to us. In the next 2 posts, I'm going to teach you how to boost your self-confidence helping you to create affirmations or mantras that you can use during your self-hypnosis practice! Be sure to turn on the notifications for my posts so you don't miss the next post, or be sure to check back tomorrow for part 2 of some confidence boosting techniques. I enjoy combining the subconscious with the conscious, or the behavioral with the mental/emotional. I've previously taught you a deep breathing exercise that you could use as a launchpad for your self-hypnosis practice, and I gave you the affirmation "I am learning to feel more confident in myself." By saying this affirmation to yourself while you concentrate on your breath and visualize what that confidence looks like for you, you're really growing the confidence muscle. This was a great exercise for you to practice and return to, and now I'm going to share part 1 of another confidence boosting exercise. Today, I want you to journal on a couple of questions, and tomorrow I will teach you how to use your responses to make affirmations for your self-hypnosis practice! Try to come up with at least 3 to 5 responses to each question. If at any point you struggle with an answer, ask yourself "what lies beneath this?" Or, "what does this mean to me?" or "What qualities do I possess that helped me achieve or experience this?" 1. What are three to five qualities or strengths that I possess? (Choose the ones that come instantly to mind and that you know are true about you.) 2. What am I proud of doing/thinking/experiencing/achieving/receiving/believing/having? (For this one, you don't have to do all of those words, but you get the general idea of what the question is asking you. What about your life makes you feel proud. This is a great question for you to expand upon with the "what lies beneath this?") 3. What do you excel at? (Another good one to go deep with -- "what about me helped me excel at x?" or "what about me made x possible?") https://www.instagram.com/p/CV8-uu2JOrR/?utm_medium=tumblr

I believe that sometimes we have trouble adopting a new identity (aka a new belief system about who we are and what is possible for us) because we lack the confidence in ourselves to achieve it. Having confidence in ourselves isn't about being perfect or doing only the things that we are "good" at. No, confidence is about believing in ourselves. It's about having the courage to try something new. It's about a willingness and comfort with knowing we could fail and doing it anyways. It is curiosity that something could be fun or interesting or comfortable for us to keep doing. Confidence isn't about force. Sometimes, we're bad at things at first, or things don't work out the way that we thought it would. But, we know it is right or we know it is something we want to get better at doing, so we feel confident in ourselves to keep doing it until we get better at it. Or, we never get better at it, but we keep doing it anyways. (An example: you have the confidence to get up on stage at karaoke even though you're not a great singer; you're not a great dancer, but you love having dance parties with friends or going out dancing with a partner.) Other times, we might try something new, do great at it and it works out exactly as we thought it would, but we hated doing it. The process felt forced because it wasn't right for us in our gut. Then, we have the confidence there to walk away. A perfect example of this would be folks that walk away from 6-figure jobs in a corporate setting that they were excelling at to start a small coffee shop or open an etsy store to sell their art. Confidence is about believing in yourself. It's a combination of trusting your intuition, having courage, being willing to fail, and being curious about what life has to offer. I will share more of my thoughts on confidence and identity tomorrow. In the mean time, I'd love to hear your thoughts about this post in the comments below. What does confidence mean to you? Do you feel confident in your ability to embody new identities/belief systems? https://www.instagram.com/p/CV5DI4MrQxH/?utm_medium=tumblr

In my last post, I asked you to consider the strengths you’ve used to help you embody an identity. I want to share with you what strengths I used to embody my vegan identity. 1️⃣ Empathy: My purpose in this life is to cause as little harm and suffering to others as possible and to be a vessel of love, compassion, and support. I see all animals for the unique, dynamic, and special beings that they are and believe they need to be protected. 2️⃣ Conscientiousness: I have a very strong desire to do everything I do as well as I can. I am, of course, a work in progress here. I aspire to do as little harm to the animals and to the planet as possible. I am aware that how I spend my money and what I do has an impact on the rest of the world around me, and I want to do as little harm as I can. 3️⃣ Passion -- I am a passionate person when it comes to what I believe is right. I do support the choices that other people make (especially when they are different from mine), but I feel so strongly about my own opinions on things that that passion fuels my ability to fully embody my identity as a vegan. As much as I am able to, I only purchase products that are vegan and cruelty-free/not tested on animals and that are as sustainable as possible. I'm not perfect at being a vegan or practicing sustainability. There are times when I need to purchase non-vegan, non-sustainable products or consume non-vegan products (examples being medications; the leather steering wheel and the tires on a car; plastic packaging). However, even I am in a place where I need to make these decisions to consume or purchase these products, I still fully and completely believe in my identity as a vegan and embodiment of it. We are not looking for perfection in the identities we have. We are imperfect beings, and we are all trying our best to be the best versions of ourselves. We will make mistakes, have to make decisions that are right for ourselves in that moment, and sometimes there will be resistance or challenges. The resistance and challenges are way makes life unique and beautiful. They can help us to reconfirm to ourselves what we believe is right and true for us as an individual. https://www.instagram.com/p/CV25TgHLvtz/?utm_medium=tumblr

I have really loved sharing my thoughts on identity (and reminding us all to celebrate the hell out of our successes). I want to keep the positive momentum going. Remember when I asked you to think about the identities that you adopted that felt so natural and right for you that it was "easy" to make the transition to embody that identity? Even when there were mistakes or misteps? I asked you what you could learn from that experience as you adopt other (new) identities. Today, I'm going to help you do just that by helping you identify your strengths--natural qualities that you possess that help you successfully and effortlessly embodying your current identities. What qualities do you know that you possess that help you embody identities so easily? Try to brainstorm at least 3 qualities/strengths that you can apply to embodying new identities that you’re adopting now. I urge you to consider the qualities and strengths that you utilized to adopt your identities, and consider what qualities you possess that can help you embody new identities that are right for you. In my next post, I’ll share the qualities/strengths that I utilized to embody my identity as a vegan and more thoughts on identity. https://www.instagram.com/p/CV0dFavJILk/?utm_medium=tumblr

Brag time! On this glorious Tuesday, I challenge you to find 3 to 5 things about yourself that you’re proud of doing, trying, thinking, believing, receiving, and/or accomplishing. I want to hear all the ways you rocked the fuck out of life in the last 7 days! Share in the comments below! My list: 1. I finished the first chapter of my new novel! 2. I helped to clarify something that was confusing a coworker. 3. I got a small baggy of about 8 mini skittles packs from another coworker because he wanted to share vegan candy with me after the Halloween holiday weekend. 4. I’ve been decluttering like crazy (this has been an on-going process for me for the three weeks — thanks @triciafishbune) 5. I’m in the planning stages for a new workshop for the students at the college where I work. Brag the hell out of your successes and accomplishments, folks! What had been going well for you? https://www.instagram.com/p/CVyUWvzpZUz/?utm_medium=tumblr

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