Tracie Nichols, Holistic Coach
holistic life and business coaching for body-centered practitioners and highly sensitive women
Life flows tidally.It seems we’re always navigatingincoming or outgoing waves of change.Tracie Nichols In my just-before-sleep reading these past few nights, I've been settling my roots into the paradigm-shifting goodness that is Sharon Blackie's book If Women Rose Rooted. It's one of those books, you know? Where one reading only scratches the surface. Anyway, while …
(More details about Essential Now will be in my Sunday Oct. 28 newsletter. You can subscribe here: Notes from the Field)
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 …
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 …
Continue reading "Applying nature’s wisdom to social change work"
If you’re exhausted and emotionally on edge, you’re not alone. We are inextricably connected to each other and there is massive pain in the world today. -Brene Brown I have been feeling battered raw by the inescapable sea of emotions in which we're all swimming.Times like this test people like us who feel EVERYTHING deeply. …
I was having a quietly pleasurable researching, big-picture information-integrating kind of week... Diving into the role mirror neurons play in empathy: Did you know HSP's have more mirror neurons than average? No wonder empathy is one of our superpowers. Makes sense they're also our kryptonite... Exploring articles on aging and the impact of ageism on …
Continue reading "We are antennae for waves of fierce emotions"
So, there I was, feet sinking into cold mud, rain sliding down my neck, arms flung to the sky, joyful laughter spilling from my throat... When the self-care conversation comes up with clients, how often do you find yourself suggesting they spend time in nature? With studies supporting the benefits, time in nature as self-care has moved into …
"We cannot change the way the world is, but by opening to the world as it is we may discover that gentleness, decency and bravery are available, not only to us, but to all human beings**." Chogyam Trungpa, Buddhist teacher (**I would say "to all beings." We are interdependent and interwoven...we cannot leave wild nature …
For body-centered, body-wise, body-guided, practitioners everywhere, with love and so much appreciation. You feel their unease. It rolls through your body almost as if you were wearing their skin. Almost as if your breaking heart was their own. You have studied ways to ease unease have etched new trails on your inner landscape, have carved …
An amazing woman friend reminded me this morning how so many of us are looking for a neon sign that signals to us it's ok to be who we are. This theme comes up so often in conversations with clients. She described - with exquisite accuracy - the experience of being highly sensitive in a …
