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Labor of Love

Love: Romantic Phase

Let’s face it, there’s no denying the level of heartache around the planet presently. Many of us long to live whole-hearted and yet we feel that when life gets lifey, exhaustion overwhelms us, and keeps us stuck in negativity & grief. 

Let’s take a moment and focus on what your tender heart can do. Sign up:

Labor of Love mini-retreat, Monday, September 7

Refill your cup, fuel your creative fire, and align with your own personal power points in this mini-retreat from the Hawaiʻi Island.

I promise you will come away feeling inspired, resourced and tender.

here’s my quick video invite:  

Quick Video Invite 

Let’s step in the command central of our nervous system with the support of some trusted guides, hand-picked friends of mine who are transformational coaches, all of us are ready to pour into you so your cup runneth over. 

This virtual love offering supports you in developing key practices to ground in the peaceful paradise wherever you are. This is important for us all to do right now, particularly if you’re feeling the trauma and the drama is too much and you want more aloha and compassion: this is the place for you.

Here’s a schedule so you can join us for what resonates:

  • 8am: Power of Sovereignty:   Amy Elizabeth will offer warm welcome, tune-up, breath-work and launch ignition of the 3 power centers in each of us to get the most out of this mini-retreat.
  • 9am: Power Center of the Mind:   Alexandra Deubner from Vienna, Austria leading us in a beautiful visualization and Moonshot Meditation to help you energetically align with what matters most to your head. 
  • 10am: Power Center of the Heart:   Tia Christiansen from New Hampton, Massachusetts guiding us in a cosmic smash booking exercise to help fuel your creative fire and energetically align with what matters most to your heart. 
  • 11am: Power Center of the Core:   Mark Van der Gaag from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania inspiring shift and making miracles happen to help you energetically align with what matters most to your soul.

This half-day mini-retreat is an opportunity to recharge your batteries.

Please take what you can use and leave the rest.

This is designed to uplight you, not drain you further. 

Sign on when/if you can and come and go as needed. 

This is a love offering and any payment, now or later, is welcome and appreciated. 

Love Offering

What to bring to my Zoom Room from the comfort of your own room:

  • coffee, tea, water
  • comfortable cushion/chair (there will be ample breaks)
  • journal, crayons, markers
  • favorite tree (sit by a window or have a photo)
  • favorite place in natural Great Beauty (a place you can access right now whether in your minds eye or actually through modern technology).

We are going to ground in the great Natural Great Beauty and play. 

Together, we rise. We divide our sorrows and we multiply our joys. We cannot do this gig called life alone.

We are going to spark joy, fuel our creative fire and fill our reservoirs in order to be resilient and compassionate change agents in the world.  

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Gravity always wins

Are you feeling in fit spiritual condition? This is the most important question you can ask yourself on a daily basis.

Everything is connected. How you start your day affects the rest of the day. How you go to sleep at night affects the start of the day. How you live the day affects how you go to sleep at night. It’s all connected.

So the common denominator of how we experience life (and how life experiences us) really is that spiritual connection to a higher power.

This spiritual connection is always reminding me I’m not alone, always reminding me of my intrinsic worthiness, and always embodying unconditional love.

Some days I choose to call this higher power God. Other days it’s the universal creative energy that connects us all. Some days it’s natural great beauty and the elements of the natural world.

And on days when everything feels a little less spiritually high vibe, my higher power is as simple as gravity.

Yes, GRAVITY. It’s a power greater than myself. It’s a power holding us all here, there’s no discrepancy there’s no preferential treatment, there’s no need to work harder to be held.

We are all held and we have a choice in front of us in every given moment to feel held or feel trapped.

We can choose to wrestle against the nature of gravity. I feel this sometimes when I don’t wanna get out of bed and the pillow goes on top of my head in a feeble attempt to try to block out the sunlight and the rooster and the snoring and the traffic (and the worrisome thoughts). 

So as you contemplate the ever present presence of gravity holding you here now in this moment, take a moment and get honest with yourself. Did you wrestle with gravity this morning? Or did you wake up, smile upon awakening before your feet hit the floor, and realize you’re alive for some reason?

Did you say thank you? Do this now, say thanks to your higher power and ask yourself, gently, what are you gonna do with your one wild and precious life?

I’ve been to hell and don’t want to go back. That is the essence of my spiritual development. So I surrender. 

Gravity always wins.

With much Aloha,

Amy Elizabeth

Relational Health Coach & Compassion Activist  

Invest in Yourself. You Matter. Your Relationships Matter. 

p.s. Surrender.

Let us surrender to win.

Let us surrender to success. 

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Trauma as Alchemy

alchemy

Peanut Butter Falcon

This is a great movie that a friend recommended and I watched it the
other night. Near the end of the movie, a scene knocked me sideways and I just started balling. It knocked on the neighborhood of old trauma in my mind and brought it back.

Fresh. Tender. Ow.

During this journey of integration, I’ve dedicated my energy toward 
building resilience, cultivating compassion, and living a life of
service. 

To appreciating the Fresh. To having a Tender Heart.
To acknowledging the Ow (but not dwelling in the past).

I’ve finally made peace with the idea that I will ever have a different past. It’s part of the path of forgiveness. While watching Peanut Butter Falcon, I held onto myself and allowed another layer of old hurts to emerge to the
sunlight of the Spirit. And I asked for extra hugs and allowed myself to be real, raw, and vulnerable with my Beloveds.

Here’s what I believe:

We feel it to heal it. And we forgive. And we grieve. And we shift. 

Forgiveness: Letting go of the idea of ever having a different past.

Consider that possibility as we ask the next big question:

How can we shift our perspective and see trauma as a portal to
alchemy?


Trauma: A deeply distressing or disturbing experience


Alchemy: A seemingly magical process of transformation, creation
or combination. 

What if your life is a movie on the screen of your mind?
What scenes do you replay over and over?
How do they make you feel?
Which ones do you feel dissociated from and wish would be different?
What if you could switch out the reel of the old movie and play a new ending? 

Watch the movie Peanut Butter Falcon and you might get inspired.
Pick up a pen and starting writing answers to the above questions and besure to write about the ideal outcome of your life.

Describe the legacy you’d like to leave behind. Describe in granular detail the joy and pleasure you’d like to experience now.

You matter. Your relationships matter. If you feel stuck, reach out to me.I’m here for you. Holding both you and your unique Moonshot high in my heart.   

 p.s. on a different note, but related on the spectrum of human existence


Time for us to get inspired and have some fun! Please join me tomorrow as I go live, once again, with my beloved friend, Maria Aleandra, in her
Goddess Jam Sessions 


what’s that, you might ask?


‘Goddess Jam Sessions’ is a weekly live show where MA features
incredible women in conversations about following our Intuition,
accessing the Divine Feminine, stepping into Power, leading with Love,
activating Wisdom and living like a Cosmic Creatrix.  

https://www.facebook.com/groups/rockyourlifegroup/ see you there! 

On Wednesday We-Day I make a point to connect with others in
deeper way, face to face if can, which is increasingly challenging
in this pandemic time! I’m headed out on a walk with a friend
soon and wanted to send you a quick message to let you know I’m thinking of you and wishing we could go for a walk together. It’s
incredibly therapeutic. Instead, I’ll offer movie recommendation
and some writing prompts for integration. And invite to join me
in the world of social media. 
see you there
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Aloha Friday: an extraordinary life of service

This week we are exploring the 3 Realms we dwell in which I wrote about in my transformational memoir, Moonshot: aim high, dive deep, live an extraordinary life. If you would like to purchase my memoir from an independent seller, my friend Mary has some on the mainland she can mail more easily than I can so please send me your interest and we’ll make arrangements. I also just found a great new link buying books at bookshop.org

whew, I digress, back to the topic: 

These 3 Realms are Resilience, Compassion, and Service.

In essence, we feel the tender heart of sadness in order to heal it. We remember we are connected to others in order to live an extraordinary life of everyday enlightenment and uplift the world. 

As I learned in my professional training in Imago Therapy, we are wounded in relationship, and it is in relationship that we are healed. 

We dwell in the Realm of Service

  • we live and breathe interdependence
  • we practice response-ability
  • we practice generosity: we give to live
  • we choose wisely to uplift our consciousness

Service ordinary definition: the act of helping or doing work for someone

Service extraordinary definition: the way of living that uplifts the world 

Ready to join me in the new extraordinary story of tenderness and uplifting the world vs. the old story of toughen up and suffer? Great, letʻs talk, hit reply now, leave your number and time zone, and we’ll hop on the phone. 

With much Aloha,

Amy Elizabeth Gordon MA 

Relational Health Coach & Compassion Activist  

  • clear your mind
  • open your heart  
  • rekindle your spirit  
  • energize your life 

p.s. Here’s a panel interview I had earlier this year with 3 powerful beings (including my beloved, Marc) to discuss service. 

check it out >>https://vimeo.com/383149750 

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Resilience is about tenderness, not toughness.

Whenever we toughen up to get through difficult experiences, it is as if we prolong the inevitable need to feel it to heal it.   How do we find the courage and the heart space to feel all the feels when it seems like another relentless headache, bellyache, broken-hearted moment after another?   

  • we trust ourselves to no longer abandon ourselves
  • we focus on our own hula hoop and let go of comparing our suffering to others (the only person we can legitimately compare ourselves to is ourself left over from yesterday)
  • we repair our part of whatever nightmare is happening
  • we allow faith to hold us in a web of grace and surrender

We dwell in the Realm of Resilience

  re·sil·ience /rəˈzilyəns/  

Resilience ordinary definition:

the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness.

Resilience extraordinary definition: 

the capacity to transform hurt into opportunity; tenderness. 

Ready to join me in the new extraordinary story of tenderness vs. the old story of toughen up? Great, letʻs talk, hit reply now, leave your number and time zone, and we’ll hop on the phone. 

With much Aloha,

Amy Elizabeth Gordon MA 

Relational Health Coach & Compassion Activist  

  • clear your mind
  • open your heart  
  • rekindle your spirit  
  • energize your life 

p.s. Hereʻs a panel interview I had with 3 powerful women to discuss resilience and the power of declaring your Moonshot.  

check it out >>https://vimeo.com/371968695

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Compassion for self, skillful means with others

On Monday I wrote about the importance of resilience and relating to the challenges of life with tenderness vs. toughness. Today I’d like to dive a little deeper into how you do this. You can actually keep it quite simple.

  1. When you wake up, smile upon awakening, before feet hit the floor.
  2. Make the bed, closing that chapter of your day.
  3. Adopt an attitude of gratitude. 

Tender connections start with compassion for yourself.

Compassion for self, skillful means with others.

What is compassion? com·pas·sion /kəmˈpaSHən/  

  • Compassion ordinary definition: sympathetic pity or concern for the suffering or misfortunes of others 
  • Compassion extraordinary definition: connecting with the tender heart of sadness buried in the layers of life 

Dwell in the Realm of C.O.R.E. Compassion. 
 

Set your intentions to:

  • clear your mind
  • open your heart  
  • rekindle your spirit  
  • energize your life 

With much Aloha,

Amy Elizabeth Gordon MA 

Relational Health Coach & Compassion Activist  

p.s. Hereʻs a panel interview I had (Dec. 2019) with 3 powerful beings to discuss compassion. Joining energy from California, Hawaii, and Vienna, we declare our Moonshots and invite some Magic. The message holds relevancy today in pandemic times. 

This is the SOS  of our times. Tune in now. 

We do the deep dive into the Realm of Compassion. Explore the concepts of Clarity, Openness, Reactivation, Energy with these powerfully kind souls. 45 minutes of thoughtful consideration to your media diet, we discuss the collective unconscious, and the necessity for compassion of Self, Other, Society.

Please take good care. you matter, your relationships matter.  

And let me know what support looks like.