Chapter One: Trust

moonshot

We all come from hard times. We all have a story to tell. Mine is about alcoholism, abuse, and awareness.

Mine leads me to discovering more fully the depths of resilience, compassion and service that are vital to living a life worth living. 

In these days of growing darkness and despair, I wish to fan the flame of light and love within you.

We can overcome addiction, racism, overwhelm. And we cannot do it alone in the broken structures of our dominant culture.

The first part of wellness is “we” and the first part of illness is “I”

That said, let us share our stories and cultivate wellness and inner peace in these trying times.  We can listen and imagine and create a more beautiful world our hearts know is possible. 

Many of you have read my transformational memoir,

Moonshot: aim high, dive deep, live an extraordinary life. 

Do you want to hear me read Chapter One?

 

For those of you who haven’t, and want to get a teaser, listen to me read Chapter One: Trust.  Please click above for a heartfelt half-hour of the real, raw, vulnerable me. 

Those who want an audio version to take on your next walk outdoors, click here. (alas, I cannot get this link to work. If anyone wants to help me get audios set up in podcast form, I welcome the help.)

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The time is now to overcome our addiction to dominant culture and start to trust ourselves to no longer abandon ourselves. 

It’s time to quit playing small. Here’s to being stretchy and vulnerable, together, as a way of empowering ourselves and our societies. 

Warmly,

~ Amy Elizabeth 

Symptoms of Inner Peace

Symptoms of Inner Peace

Be on the lookout for symptoms of inner peace. The hearts a great many have already been exposed to inner peace and it is possible that people everywhere could come down with it in epidemic portions.

This could pose a serious threat to what has, up until now, been a fairly stable condition of conflict in the world.

Some signs and symptoms of inner peace:

  • A tendency to think and act spontaneously rather than on fears based on past experiences
  • An unmistakable ability to enjoy each moment
  • A loss of interest in judging other people
  • A loss of interest in judging self
  • A loss of interest in interpreting the actions others
  • A loss of interest in conflict
  • A loss of the ability to worry (this is a very serious symptom)
  • Frequent, overwhelming episodes of appreciation
  • Contented feelings of connectedness with others and nature
  • Frequent attacks of smiling
  • An increasing tendency to let things happen rather than make them happen
  • An increased susceptibility to the love extended by others as well as the uncontrollable urge to extend it

Warning: If you have some or all of the above symptoms, please be advised that your condition of inner peace maybe so far advanced as do not be curable. If you’re exposed to anyone exhibiting any of these symptoms, remain exposed only at your own risk.

Remember Amy: You cannot transmit something you haven’t got. 

Together, we rise, as we stand on sacred ground in unconditional love.   

Warmly,

~ Amy Elizabeth 

p.s. Allow me to pour into you as you join us for the 2 free monthly moon gatherings (full and new) in order to spread Aloha, build the altar of awareness, and create connection around the world. This month we have 3! Friday is a blue moon, the second full moon in October. 

Let me guide you to:

  • Clear your mind.
  • Open your heart.
  • Rekindle your spirit.
  • Energize your life.

Join me Friday, October 30th, in my free Zoom Room @ 11am Hawaiʻi Time

we can continue building greater connection and adding to the altar of awareness in order to empower ourselves during this tumultuous time 

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What Matters Most

trifecta of bliss

The Fall Season of What Matters Most coaching program

launches September 29, 2020 

Just imagine a life of energy, integration, integrity and a golden opportunity to be of maximum service to an uplifted, transformed world. Enjoy everyday enlightenment. Explore more deeply your relationships with Self, Other, Spirit.  

The problem is that sometimes we get overwhelmed by how messed up the world seems. 

We want other people, places and things to be different than they are presently. 

We might conclude that if only ______ were different out there, things would be better.  

While this may have some legitimacy, an improvement in the environment, the systems, the governments could certainly enhance our lifestyle, we must aim high and dive deep.  

The solution is to dive deeper into ourselves and change in here to ignite out there. 

Join the next season of What Matters Most: The Uplifters. We meet weekly on Tuesdays at 1pm Hawaiʻi time for up to 1.5 hours. Sign up today and get 3 bonus 1:1 laser love calls with me each month.  

The results are extraordinary. The More Beautiful World we know could be becomes an inner reality. And when our relationship with ourselves transforms, our world transforms. Time is now. I promise we will have fun in the process. 

HOW? 

Make This Commitment  

Declare your Moonshot, that something extraordinary that wouldn’t otherwise happen 

Be Specific about What Your Heart Desires 

Allow Accountability to Uplift You  

Share in a Group 

Learn Mentorship 

Adopt a System of Success (based on your own chosen standards) 

Cultivate A Long-Term Plan 

Each month features: 

  • New moon intention setting for that Realm 
  • Full moon celebrations for that Realm 
  • Weekly training on the distinction 
  • Panel interview for each Realm 
  • Writing Prompts 
  • Breathing Exercises 
  • Accountability & Inspiration 
  • surprise coaching opportunities (Q&A with Amy E) 

We will explore each of the 12 distinctions of an extraordinary life from Moonshot: aim high, dive deep, live an extraordinary life and Moonshot Magic Playbook.  

Realm of Resilience: (distinctions 1-4) 

Realm of Compassion: (distinctions 5-8) 

Realm of Service: (distinctions 9-12) 

  1. trust 
  2. focus 
  3. repair 
  4. faith 
  5. clarity 
  6. openness 
  7. reactivation 
  8. energy 
  9. interdependence 
  10. responsibility 
  11. generosity 
  12. consciousness 

A BIGGER WHY? 

To fully enjoy a heart-centric life of deep compassion, we invite transformation to rocket us into the next dimension of existence. The promise: get out of chronic busyness and overwhelm and get into committed action, feel the magic, find inspiration and accountability and surrender into grace and ease. Enjoy a deeper sense of what’s possible and join other Uplifters in the process.  

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.  

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. 

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