Tracie Nichols, Holistic Coach
holistic life and business coaching for body-centered practitioners and highly sensitive women
We often choose a name that seems accurate for us, but that isn't big enough to contain our entire life. -- Margaret J. Wheatley I've been thinking a lot about identity these days as I talk with women about things like aging, being body wise, being highly sensitive - about planting our staffs in our …
sometimes riding life's currents requires a wider stance a lower center of gravity spacious fluid joints sometimes rubbing along life's twists is as comfortable as tender new skin abruptly meeting sharp, shifting gravel shards sometimes life's molten, shaking growth spurts ask us to be something we've never been that's OK every mountain and river and …
I'm slowing down. That's a stage of life rhythm - not an indictment. - Tracie Nichols The most interesting stuff happens when I’m showering. In my head, I mean. This morning, for example, this cloud of mosquito thoughts dodging around the periphery of my brain came together finally and handed me this insight: No matter …
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It's just past the equinox. Autumn in my corner of the world. Spring for friends in the southern hemisphere. I've always loved equinoxes. I love their twice yearly invitation to experience balance. To pause. To rest into a hemispheric in-breath and dance for a few moments on the edge between growing dark and diminishing light (or …
on days like this ....heavy, ripe, still... the simple act of lifting hands to ease silver-brown tendrils away from time-etched hazel eyes becomes a lazy dance of languid fingers leading listless palms trailed by reluctant elbows... August ... your haze consumes impetus. early summer's green and gold momentum restlessly trapped in endless soft, in blurs …
Being body-wise is the act of believing what your body is saying. It’s a presence to life that is beautiful and vulnerable and essential to the work of creating lasting, substantive change in yourself...and in the world. It's also how we can create businesses that are disentangled from the manipulative, dismissive, objectifying messages hammered into …
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I have these groovy cards (kinda like flashcards) from Toby Lynn Herzlich of Biomimicry for Social Innovation. They talk about applying nature’s wisdom to our social change work. To restructuring leadership and organizations as living systems so they are more effective. To making organizations function as living systems based on the principles of life so …
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"Take and eat," she says as she offers us an apple, a papaya, a fig, the fruitfulness of our own souls. "It is good." Joanna Powell Colbert (from her description of The Gardener Card in the Gaian Tarot.) Cicadas are singing again, here in the edge-of-wild suburban ecosystem where I live. The thunderstorms are wild. Breezes …
“The energy now spent on self-protection can be converted into positive energy if we're willing to encounter reality and see it clearly. Facing reality is an empowering act - it can liberate our mind and heart to discern how best to use our power and influence in service for this time.” Margaret J. Wheatley Looking …
time unspools........ my attachment to this body thins dipping her softening curves and valleys into the landscape of this edge-of-wild Place immersion feels easier edges less clear separation dissipates I like it. © 2018 Tracie Nichols All rights reserved. Image credit: Me and a misty sunrise.
