Join Louise LeBrun and Naomi Irons in this video exchange as they invite you into the world of possibility that ACES can bring to your life!

Accelerated Coaching for Entrepreneurial Stars (ACES) is for those who are willing to discover how to move beyond the boundaries of their own perceived limitations. In addition to your commitment to your own evolution, for its own sake, ACES invites you to explore your impact in the larger community, sourced by unique intention and fuelled by the simple act of being your authentic Self… visibly and out loud!

Whether you’ve completed the requisite programs and are ready to engage; or whether you are simply in pursuit of a new way of considering your own life, this candid and intimate conversation will inspire you to discover more about YOU… and your willingness and ability to let go of ‘fixing’ the world we have and engage in the creation of the world you desire.

Make the time to put aside the demands of the moment; find a quiet place where you can be with your own thoughts as they emerge… and enjoy!

Comments:

An awesome video for all to watch and to listen to… not only for those women who are thinking about and/or are committed to the ACES process.

I have just watched this video with my sister, who has had her own health challenges, and the video has engaged us in a very different conversation – the one about ‘running away’ from Self; the one about what is a ‘thought virus’; the one about ‘create, discover and let go’. My sister now tells me that watching and listening to this video has ‘made me understand what it means to stay in the tough conversations and ‘what it means to create, discover and let go’ and ‘it resonates in my body’.

As a WEL-Systems® Institute Affiliate, I know that, like it takes a village to raise a child, it also takes a collective to free – as Louise has said to me – a powerful woman. At the beginning, in the middle and at the end, it is resonance that makes a difference; the resonance of the individual inside a greater collective of like-minded souls who are committed to personal evolution for its own sake – this is the invitation to others to free oneSelf from history, habit and habituation – from the story of our individual lives.

Engaging in ACES with Naomi is the certainty of conversations that are powerful, potent and profound – and that will propel you forward into the more that you can become. I know; I have enjoyed the security that her presence provides, as I have continued to step into my own life emerging.

Aloha to all!

So beautiful to hear this conversation between 2 of my stars!
I started to listen and then had to stop and go get a pen and paper and began making notes for myself
– manager to creator
– live in the now
– clarity in what I want
– what is possible for me and others
– women willing to be themselves and tell the truth of their experience
– consider how habituated we have been in our lives
and then it hit me how fully in my head, my intellect I was in my listening !!!
I put down my pen and relistened with my body and the tingling, the fire energy came all over me and the wave moved as you spoke of the deep knowing that has always been with us and indeed this for me is what my evolution is all about – bringing to the surface and living the truth of who I know myself to be – being the invitation for experiences for others to join me when it calls to them.

I had the privilege to be part of Naomi’s MORE group this past year and know her capacity to grow and be present to herself is a huge invitation to others to find their own giftedness and to bring that into creating a life where they become all they were created to be.

Thanks gals – what a lovely start to my day 
Leona

Accelerated Coaching for Entrepreneurial STARS (ACES)

The Accelerated Coaching for Entrepreneurial STARS (ACES) experience unfolds over a full year, with face-to-face experiences spanning four, 2-day weekends of real-life, real-time connection. This is the ongoing conversation that explores possibility and bridges intention to practice.

“How we must choose:
We choose to make the choices that will move us toward our declared intention; and to not make the choices that will simply move us away from our fears.”

Declaration of Evolution by Intention™

Big! Bold! Boundless and formless! Edgy, provocative, compelling… not because it’s a predetermined pathway but because it calls upon and awakens the unsettled, feral essence of our potential being. It is not that we move casually through those conversations, it is more that we trek… climbing the rock faces of our own uncertainties, as they unfold and rise up from those increasingly deeper states of awakeing… making our way, in the dark, through the underwater caves of our own fears… with nothing but the good company of each other and our unique inner truth to lead the way. For me, this experience has become a living expression of The Great Adventure that is my life… destined to continue to grow and evolve in impact and scope.

The ACES conversation is for women who have experienced the power of a WEL-Systems approach in their own lives and want to know more about how to embrace this paradigm as a way of being, for themselves and with others. ACES is for those who are ready to allow the immensity of who they know they are – inside, where they live – to make its way into and through the outside world, to be experienced by others; who know the power of a WEL-Systems® approach and want to share it with others; and who recognize that what they can create alone will never bring the joy, the freedom and the immensity of what will manifest in co-creation with others of like mind. For this, we must be able to engage authentically with others, knowing that we can never lose ourselves.

Whether entrepreneurial in their own business or practice; or whether entrepreneurial within their corporate and community systems, candidates for the ACES experience know that they are destined to shape their worlds rather than be shaped by them; in a way that awakens others to their own potential. No longer willing to sit in silence and long for things to be different, participants in the ACES experience become living expressions of what it is to live large, live fully and live lives by design!

Louise LeBrun

Can you say YES to the following questions?

• Has the WEL-Systems® body of knowledge and your experiences of/with it profoundly transformed your life?
• Are you seeking your own onging evolution, as a way of being?
• Are you drawn to engage an awakened, perpetually-evolving community of women who are choosing to live large and live out loud?
• Do you have the desire to invite others to reconsider their lives/worlds through a WEL-Systems® approach?
• Are you clear that you’re The One to make a difference in your own life and in that of others you care about?

Then you’re ready for ACES!

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From your existing WEL-Systems experiences, you have already discovered the limitless potential that you carry; and your ability to bring it to life in how you live! Every day becomes an invitation for you to open your eyes and ask: How does the godforce that I AM choose to live my life, today? History falls away and we become both willing and able to create a life of our own design, playing the game at the level of intensity we desire.

STARS Those massive and self-emanating expressions of Light that seek to shine at their most potent in the Universe of our daily lives; that have the desire to move beyond a start/stop way of living; that intuitively know that a much larger world awaits; and that know the deep desire to live large and live out loud!

ACES takes you beyond that knowing and recognizes that for those who know themselves to be STARS, it is imperative to be part of a living, organic collective that is AWAKE and willing to ENGAGE at this level of the game! Acceleration and expantion are sourced from the individual and amplified by the collective. The ACES experience offers the opportunity to discover – up close and personal! - the power of contagion of an awakened collective.

The ACES experience will:

• challenge your existing model of the world and invite you to consider a world of your own design, without limitation;
• awaken you to a simple truth: You are at the center of your Universe. What you create, emmanates!…with your inner truth becoming your external reality; and
• allow you to find and claim what it takes to be a living expressions of the power of a WEL-Systems perspective at work, at home and in the community.

ACES is a testing/proving ground for women, to themselves, to explore and discover their willingness and ability to translate their internal dialogue to external experience. It is the environment that encourages and welcomes the to-ing and fro-ing that often accompanies the strength of an inner ‘knowing’ and the fear associated with having that ‘inner’ truth revealed to an external world, where one might be judged, challenged, ridiculed, dismissed, etc.

ACES is a place to flex your muscles and discover what you’re made of. It’s a place to be unsure and afraid… and choose to do it anyway! It’s a place to consider and reconsider… and choose to allow the Signal from Self to lead! It’s intended to be a place for those who are unsure… don’t quite know… and yet, cannot seem to shake their attraction to the truth of their own experience. It’s a place where ‘Choice’ looms large – exploring what the choices are, what it takes to choose, implementing that choice – or NOT! – and discovering growth and evolution from it all!

Through ACES, you’ll become effective at discerning longing from intention; at knowing the difference between an intellectual truth and a body truth; and at knowing when it’s time to let go. You’ll discover a reservoir of personal willingness and ability to carve out a meaningful life – with respect, integrity and generosity of spirit (RIG) – for yourself; and how to help others discover this, within themselves. You’ll experience what it is to be authentically yourSelf in a powerful and compelling collective, knowing that the only way you can lose yourself to the group is first, to be lost to yourSelf. You’ll discover the intensity of the creative power of Fire energy to accelerate what takes shape; and become willing to evoke this force in others, to create their lives differently. And perhaps more importantly than any other, you’ll learn when to let go and walk away… and trust that it all unfolds exactly as it should.

The ACES experience beckons to a deeper understanding and more visible expression of that unique truth that calls each of us forward, in our own way – without apology, without explanation and without the need for approval.

During this bold, intense and life-affirming year-long experience, you’ll get to discover if creating you’re own WEL-Systems-based experiences (independently, in your own business; or within your coproate environments) is for you. You’ll work directly with Louse LeBrun, the creator of the WEL-Systems body of knowledge – including The CODE Model™, CODE Model Coaching™ and Quantum TLC™ – to come face-to-face with all that keeps you uncertain, reluctant and hidden. In this provocative and incomparable process, you’ll be part of a highly resourceful, committed and non-competitive awakened collective that will lead you to answer the question: Are you The One to make the difference that will transform your world?

Whether you’re currently in your own business; whether you’re currently employed in a government or private sector corporation; or whether you’re ready to ‘retire’ and launch your next wave of expression, the ACES experience will offer you not only the specific discoveries that will create the change you seek, but help you identify – for yourself – the discovery process that works best for you! If you’re seeking to explore and discover whether or not this WEL-Systems® World is for you, in your own life and in engaging with others; if you’re curious, wondering, unsure, etc… ACES is the place to find out if this is for you.

Coaching week-ends will engage for accelerated personal evolution as well as explore how to become the framework for a meaningful and sustainable expression of the authentic YOU through business. Whether you create your own business; or whether you choose an entrepreneurial approach within your corporate environment, ACES will give you what you need to be willing and able to be open, clear, honest and direct in inviting others into their own accelerated evolution.

Over a calendar year, the ACES experience will unfold with a maximum of 10 women – committed to their own evolution and yours! – engaged in a high-level of play. Discover what it takes to BE the STAR that you know yourSelf to be!

Included in this process:

4 Quarterly weekend experiences at Whole SELF Wellness Center (106 Stellarton Rd, New Glasgow Nova Scotia)

Your choice of a 5 day Decloaking and Living Authentically or Engaging and Awakening Others Experience

Ongoing contact via email, Skype and/or telrphone

The ACES experience is not for everyone – and it is for YOU if you’re ready to BE the difference you know your world is looking for! As you move through this process, you can expect to move forward in your own life in leaps and bounds; and you can count on becoming the attractor for others who are seeking to create these leaps in their own lives. Your year-long experience in ACES will leave you marvelling at your own genius, delighted by your potential and celebrating your authentic expression in ways you had never imagined. All that AND the great company of nine other courageous, compassionate and powerful women – just like you! – to make it that much more fun.

If you’re ready for more, contact Naomi directly to explore if the ACES experience would gratify your interests and feed your soul!

Details:

	The ACES experience runs the calendar year, with the first quarterly gathering in February
	Maximum number of participants: 10
	Participant Cost: $3495 plus HST
	ACES participants who are Certified CODE Model Coaches™ are licensed to create and facilitate WEL-Systems®-based workshops, events, retreats and group processes, using the trademarked and copyrighted materials.

Of Interest To Those Who :

* have completed ‘Engaging and Awakening Others’; and who are registered into the March offering of ‘Manifesting a Meaningful Life’; * have completed ‘Manifesting a Meaningful Life’; * are Certified CMC’s who are seeking to more effectively engage others in a WEL-Systems Perspective, including workshops, events, etc.

In this 1 evening/2 day intensive discover a different place to stand as you consider yourself in your world.  Life is deeply personal and the more we strive to remove the personal the more we are left at the end of the day questioning and wondering who we are and where we have gone.

In our willingness to find our own deep inner truth and be found by it we discover life becomes deeply personal again and this becomes the great journey of discovering not only who we are but who we are becoming.

An excerpt from What is WEL-Systems:

“It has been said that before we can change our lives, we must first change the way we perceive our lives. The WEL-Systems® approach offers a proven pathway to access a context for change that will do just that: profoundly alter the way you see your ‘self’, your world and the way you move through that world.

The WEL-Systems approach is a startlingly powerful and compelling invitation to become a living expression of the transformation that many desperately seek. Field tested for more than 20 years; and abundant in the evidence of its impact and outcomes, this proven body of knowledge consists of a series of stepping stones (the WEL-Systems models) that make it easy, safe and inviting for you to follow the path to the gateway of the paradigm shift so many desperately seek. Once at that gateway, the choice is yours to make the leap into a more powerful way of being your Self.

The WEL-Systems body of knowledge offers complex and powerful discoveries through simple and easily-understood images and language so that you can have the experience of transformation within yourself. Move beyond philosophical discussions and esoteric explorations and discover – in the tissue of your being – what it is to ‘know’ your Self!

Drawing from a number of disciplines and perspectives, culminating in original and cutting-edge conclusions, this collection of information – chunked and sequenced intentionally to safely accelerate our journey of personal discovery- allows us to begin to perceive our world, ourselves and our experiences in this world in a unique and distinctive way. Bridging the gap between the scientific and the spiritual, the physical and the metaphysical, the WEL-Systems information creates a perceptual filter – a lens – through which we can see what has always remained hidden; and allows us to pull back the veil that we might know and touch all that we are capable of becoming! Bringing together what has often been held separate and frequently been in competition, we no longer experience polarities but an accessible continuum along which to move to engage a new reality. That which was once held as separate – body and mind, conscious and unconscious, logical and intuitive – are reclaimed in their wholeness and experienced as one flow. The journey through this material creates a new perceptual filter, or window on our world, that allows us not only to see things differently but to see different things.”

Join Naomi Irons, (WEL-Systems® Affiliate, CODE Model Coach™, Massage Therapist and Doula) in this organically unfolding conversation that allows the teaching component to become woven through real life, real time life altering experiences.

Dates:

Friday Sept 23rd 7-9:30pm

Saturday Sept 24th 9:00-5pm

Sunday Sept 25th 9-3pm

Location: Whole SELF Wellness Centre (106 Stellarton Rd)

Investment: $395.00 +hst

Early registration before Sept 1st $365.00+hst

Space is limited to 7 participants so register early to ensure your spot

Recommended reading: Fully Alive by Louise LeBrun found at Healthy Selections Health Shoppe or Naomi Irons

To register please email Naomi at conversationsfromwithin@gmail.com or phone 759-8089

The first 5 day Experience Decloaking and Living Authentically created the platform for you to begin to consider yourself and your world differently. It created the space to discover you are safe inside where you live as you began to claim the truth your body carried. You also allowed yourself to experience your body as a Quantum Biological Processor, metabolizing information and creating change in thought and tissue in a breath.

Engaging and Awakening Others is the next leap in the WEL-Systems® Experiences. A 5 day powerful invitation that dives deep into the systems (family, community, school, religion, work) that have had a profound impact in shaping who and what we are as individuals and as a result, how we see our world from the outside-in and inside-out. These processes birth the external reference point we use to move through our world until we become willing and able to come face to face with ourselves internally, to discover we have the option of a differentchoice.

This experience will allows you to safely engage your Self and explore areas you often have avoided going, to discover you have been waiting there for yourself for a long time. As we integrate more of ourselves, the wholeness we have been searching for becomes revealed from the inside and the external search begins to loose it’s hold on us. As internal referencing is born we go back out into our world willing to stay engaged as the leaders we know ourselves to be without loosing ourselves in the systems we live and work in.

This conversation will launch you from the solid platform you create for yourself into designing a meaningfully sustainable life for your Self…not from the past, rather one of your choosing.

What to expect:

The primary consideration in this experience is to make sure that the space within which it unfolds is safe at all levels – physical, behavioral and emotional. Expect environments, people and conversations that will offer you respect, consideration and tremendous support to become who you are destined to become. And all along the way, you decide how far and how fast you want to engage.

• Old ways of being/living falling away and creating a space for the new
• The resources required to be willing to stand alone and trust your creative process
• Understanding of the dynamics of self-organizing, living organic systems and the leadership implications
• Awakening to your unique ability to shape family, work and community systems

Dates: Monday February 13th-17th 2012 9:30am-5:00pm
Location: Pictou County, Nova Scotia

Investment: $2800.00+hst (included in the price and only available in this program is the CD audio production…Enagaing and Awakening Others, value $600.00)

Early Registration Investment: Register before January 13th $2650.00+hst

Save my seat (non refundable deposit) $1000.00+hst

]]> http://www.naomiirons.com/headline/engaging-and-awakening-others-october-10th-14th/feed/ 0 http://www.naomiirons.com/uncategorized/decloaking-and-living-authenticallyoctober-24th-28th/ http://www.naomiirons.com/uncategorized/decloaking-and-living-authenticallyoctober-24th-28th/#comments Wed, 18 May 2011 20:37:38 +0000 naomi http://www.naomiirons.com/?p=824 Decloaking and Living Authentically

~Transformation is the natural byproduct of our willingness to be the truth of our experience~

Have you been seeking transformation in your own life? Are you ready to move beyond technique, practice and strategy to reclaim a life worth living?

Transformation in a WEL-Systems® paradigm is a way of thinking but so much more beyond that, it is a way of being, a way of engaging with yourself that allows you to press up against your invisible limitations to see beyond your perceived barriers.

Over the course of 5 days we will journey through our existing paradigm integrating experiences that have run our lives for decades, to discover a new paradigm full of our own unique potential.

Decloaking is an invitation to explore and experience the simple truths of our internal state in the body. The WEL-Systems® body of knowledge invites us to consider a different way to think about what we are are as human beings making transformation a way of being and not the long, hard path we have been taught it is.

~We are so much more then we have been taught to believe ourselves to be~

What to expect:

Unlike other experiences, this program is not a training, rather a real life real time, powerful, potent, intimately personal conversation with a small group of women.

The primary consideration in this experience is to make sure that the space within which it unfolds is safe at all levels – physical, behavioral and emotional. Expect environments, people and conversations that will offer you respect, consideration and tremendous support to become who you are destined to become. And all along the way, you decide how far and how fast you want to engage.

Whether it is your first experience or you are re-engaging yourself, Decloaking is discovering that the connection to Self resides inside the body where Spirit meets tissue. In a world where we have become conditioned to calibrate our outside experiences as self measures, Decloaking is the invitation to spend 5 days awakening to our own deep internal cues and coming to trust ourselves and our experiences from the inside out.

Information and experiences will begin to flow in the tissue of your body letting you know what your body has long known. This experience in tissue will become the gateway to your own internal transformation as you come to trust yourself and your own sensations in flow. You will discover you are the leader you seek on your journey of life.

5 Questions to ask yourself:

Am I open to considering my life from a different perspective? In a time when the earth was believed to be flat, Columbus set out because he believed something different. This journey is that deep inner knowing that more lies beyond the horizon of what we know and realizing it is ready to be discovered.

Do I feel restless inside and continue to seek what I have not yet found on my path to living a meaningful life?

Do I question “Is this all there is to life?”

Am I hungry for deeper, intimate, more meaningful, life changing conversations with other women?

Am I willing to Invest in mySelf and trust change need not take a long time or be hard work?

If you have answered yes to most of these questions you will find yourself in great company on your journey. I will become your guide as you discover what is beyond the horizon in your own life knowing it is safe as I have been there in my own life and continue to carve out a path that is meaningful to me. These 5 days are always a great honor as I witness the unique beings we all are under the sometimes heavy cloak we carry.

Next Experience: March 26th-30th 2012

Location: Stonehame Chalets

Investment: $2500.00+hst (includes a set of 20 Decloaking and Living Authentically CD’s only available in this Experience. Value $500.00)

EarlyRegistration (on or before February 26th) $2350.00+hst

Please contact me to register. A payment of $1000.00 is required to hold your spot.

]]> http://www.naomiirons.com/uncategorized/decloaking-and-living-authenticallyoctober-24th-28th/feed/ 0 http://www.naomiirons.com/uncategorized/radio-show-birthing-a-new-paradigmintimately-reclaiming-yourself/ http://www.naomiirons.com/uncategorized/radio-show-birthing-a-new-paradigmintimately-reclaiming-yourself/#comments Fri, 22 Apr 2011 11:01:29 +0000 naomi http://www.naomiirons.com/?p=802 To listen to the live podcast of the show click here

Are you seeking depth and intimacy in your relationships and/or with yourself?

This conversation will invite you to discover intimacy from within as a way of being and as a way to co-create authentic meaning in relationships (marriage, parenting, friendships etc), rather then the outdated alternative of looking outside yourself to ‘get’ what you need from another, or on the flip side to ‘give’ what you think they need.

It takes great courage to reveal what we hold to be personal and private with the one person who can create a safe, intimate environment- ourselves.

We often compromise ourselves to create a sense of belonging in a relationship and end up creating experiences to recognize a ‘familiar’ sense of closeness. What we do not always recognize is, it is the closeness we feel inside ourselves in another’s presence that allows us to discover more, instead of making it another’s responsibility to make us feel a certain way. What we have been taught and modelled by those close to us in our lives, becomes the template for the intimacy we are re-creating with ourselves and in our relationships with others.

Get ready to step beyond the techniques and strategies of creating intimacy in your relationships and with yourself, to discover the courage that it takes to become both willing and able to reclaim yourself-intimately.

Join guest-host Naomi Irons with Lisa J Weiss and Angela Burton as they reclaim more of themselves through intimately sharing their journeys and their many discoveries along the way!

In conversation with: Lisa J Weiss andAngela Burton.

Lisa Weiss, WEL-Systems Institute Affiliate, CODE Model Coach™, is a sucessful busines woman who is ready, willing and able to guide and walk with you through your own journey of self-evolution. Lisa is founder of I of the Storm Coaching & Consulting; to find out more visit Lisa’s web site

Angela Burton, an information technology professional, has worked as a project manager and operations manager, leading the delivery and support of business solutions in private and public sector organizations for over 15 years. On her journey of self-discovery Angela has become very curious about authentic leadership and the impact on employee engagement. She has discovered, authenticity is a way of being, and all she needed was the courage to show up and be herself.

 

 

]]> http://www.naomiirons.com/uncategorized/radio-show-birthing-a-new-paradigmintimately-reclaiming-yourself/feed/ 0 http://www.naomiirons.com/uncategorized/birthing-a-new-paradigmconscious-parenting/ http://www.naomiirons.com/uncategorized/birthing-a-new-paradigmconscious-parenting/#comments Mon, 21 Mar 2011 19:40:29 +0000 naomi http://www.naomiirons.com/?p=767 To listen to the podcast of the live show please click here

Birthing a New Paradigm requires that we as parents, grandparents, birth professionals, teachers, community leaders etc. redefine who and what we are as human beings. As we begin to create this new level of thinking we can discover ourselves through our experiences, as expressions of Lifeforce in tissue, similar in our physical structure but unique in our expression!

It is this unique expression of Lifeforce that enlivens tissue at the point of conception, that the experience of parenting really begins.

Parenting is the most powerful force that shapes us as individuals and the culture we live in. It is time to own the powerful process that parenting is and the potency it carries to create our world. Our physical earth is reflecting this back to us with increasing force daily.

Whether we are parents or not, we have been parented and this experience has set the stage for who we have, in most cases, unconsciously become.

Conscious Parenting is the call, to discover the courage and curiosity that live within each of us and to see that our our earth and our children are reflecting back to us what we have been unable and unwilling to see inside ourselves. As we discover and courageously own the truth of our own experiences we have the choice to move from an old oudated paradigm of unconscious living and parenting, to birth a new paradigm where we as parents/guardians consciously create our lives and model this to our children, allowing them to create their own!

Join co-host Naomi Irons and guests Angela Burton and Ella-Jean Schatzmann as they explore their own profound shifts in parenting, discovering it began with reclaiming themselves…And it is a journey that never ends!

To listen to the podcast available later that day please click here

]]> http://www.naomiirons.com/uncategorized/birthing-a-new-paradigmconscious-parenting/feed/ 0 http://www.naomiirons.com/uncategorized/living-large-and-out-loud/ http://www.naomiirons.com/uncategorized/living-large-and-out-loud/#comments Tue, 08 Mar 2011 16:50:09 +0000 naomi http://www.naomiirons.com/?p=750 I have lived the better part of my life attracted to small apartments and small spaces that felt comfortable and cozy. I lived a well maintained, safe, manicured life that reflected that small area inside myself that was content with it all.

It wasn’t until I began to venture off the well manicured path that I found mySelf in the wild, untamed, ragged, vast and raw terrain I would begin to re-claim as my birthright. It felt strangely familiar and as much as I would have moments of turning to make sure the well beaten path of my bloodlines still existed I knew it would never be the same placid unquestioning existence that it was before. I was home. I was on my journey back to the organic, untouched, magical existence of being whole. As I wonder aimlessly, life takes on less of a direction and more of a journey of discovery. I know each experience of the terrain is different and sacred, for it is all me. Every flutter of sensation inside my body, every conversation along the way is for me to pay attention to knowing there is nothing to know and each discovery does not necessarily build on the one before.

I am alive in my senses, I am enlivened by my own presence. I am my own gift. No longer is the search for someone elses path or acceptance along my own. It is purely in the wide open space and possibility that exist as I open my eyes to my own unfolding. No longer seeking solitude or company my life is a reflection of the moment that exists within me that I may unfold the tightly wrapped truth I have had to tell myself to find the truth of my experience held as delicately and innocently as the day I decided it was too precious to have taken away from me. I kept it there all this time and forgot the truth I had to tell myself to keep it safe was not the truth at all. It is time to remember, to unwrap this gift and know the raw, unfiltered, powerful and yet innocent experience laying inside is me waiting to be integrated into the whole of me. In this context the most painful part is seeing the untruth wrapped around what is precious and true inside…forgotten and yet guarded with my life. The best way not to have had my power destroyed was to hide it…even from myself!

I am unwilling to go even a single day with any of me left wrapped. I know each experience is an opportunity to remember and is best opened with others who can bear sacred witness to the preciousness of what lays inside.

I am here to run wide open, unwrapped for the world to see it is indeed safe to live large and out loud!

Mahalo to all who have and will come to bear witness. And to all who have and will trust themselves in my presence.

And as a good friend often reminds me…there is always more!

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To listen to this show click here

There are times when it’s difficult for women to come to terms with the depth, immensity and intensity of emotion that runs through them… particularly if that emotion is rage!

It’s not nice for women to know rage, intimately. Although many women have become adept at facing into and managing the rage of others, to know that force from within – as an aspect of her own being – can be overwhelming, given the cultural myths that surround what it is to be a woman… and what it can never be.

Dare to be part of this conversation, as Louise engages with her guests on their own discoveries about rage; and about the potential that it carries to transform lives, in a life-enhancing way.

Put aside the time to explore, inside yourself, what comes into your awareness; and what makes its way into voice that has, for too long, been silent.  Listen to this conversation and engage what is meaningful to you.

In conversation with: Lisa Weiss (WSI Affiliate), Naomi Irons (WSI Affiliate) andStephanie Nelson (Certified CODE Model Coach™, in progress). Discover how to make that journey more meaningful: from pressing up against what you don’t want to carving out, what you do

]]> http://www.naomiirons.com/uncategorized/radio-showpower-passion-purpose/feed/ 0 http://www.naomiirons.com/uncategorized/728/ http://www.naomiirons.com/uncategorized/728/#comments Tue, 01 Mar 2011 14:46:48 +0000 naomi http://www.naomiirons.com/?p=728 By: Louise LeBrun

In a quiet moment – nestled somewhere between phone calls, emails, family feuds and general, all’round distractions from my own inner landscape – I found myself wandering through an e-zine website. There I found articles on a variety of topics in areas of interest to women. As I browsed, something hovered just outside my awareness, not quite a distraction but more like a whispering in my mind. And then it occurred to me: the articles getting significantly more hits than the others (240 on one vs. 12 on another) were clustered around four topics:
Digestive disorders, Food/ fat/eating/size/weight control/management, Depression and Menopause
Hmmmmm… I wondered… what’s this all about? What’s the message here? What is it that these ‘obsessions’ are

trying to tell us by screaming at us through our own bodies? Each of these things has in common the sense of doing battle with or being betrayed by our own bodies. My musings continued to lead me down a path of enquiry: Are these really different and unique things or are these different expressions of the same thing? How else might I consider these if I were to see them as aspects of the same thing? What do all of these have in common? What is the underlying thread that pulls them all together?
And finally, the last thing that came to mind: what if the genius that my body carries (as offensive a notion as we have been taught to consider that to be!) was presenting me with messages rather than problems? Messages or invitations to be entertained and considered, rather than problems or challenges to be wrestled to the ground, beaten into submission and overcome? What if these were not afflictions but were instead unavoidable markers along the path of my own evolution, letting me know what’s working and what’s not? How else might I need to consider myself, my world and my resourcefulness in moving through that world?
In that moment, I was reminded of the ancient Egyptian goddess, Sekhmet. In those long-ago times, in the twisting sands and scorching heat of that most mystical of places, the presence of Sekhmet flooded the awareness of Egypt and her people. With the body of a woman and the head of a lioness, there continues to exist to this day controversy about who she was, what she stood for and the meaning of her undeniable, potent presence.
For some, Sekhmet came to be associated with notions of destruction; of power gone awry, drunk with its own potential, for its own sake. And yet there persists amongst the writings that describe the force of Her presence, references to Her as the most ancient of the deities in the Egyptian pantheon. Regarded as the Source goddess – that which seeded all other gods and goddesses – Sekhmet represents the simultaneous presence of good and evil; creation and destruction; the ability and willingness to nurture and protect life, and the ability and willingness to take it away. Hers was a presence that came to be associated with the ‘still point’, that silent, open moment of motionless engaging…watchful, awake, alive and without fear…just prior to the choosing and the will to take action as required. Her power allowed for and evoked both the Crucible and the Spear, flowing as expressions along the continuum of a single force – undivided and without conflict. Authentic… whole… aligned… and complete in Her ability to choose with power and intent.
The woman’s body that was Sekhmet carried the potential for creation – for birth and new life. The head of the lioness that was Sekhmet carried the portent of destruction – of danger and death reflected in the steady and piercing gaze of the hunter that she is. All that is soft, loving and nurturing, and all that is dark and dangerous, rolled into one being. She is all that and much more – and so are we.
Through time, women with power – and powerful women – have often been depicted as demonstrating themselves to be unable to wield that power; devoid of the mastery required to choose with intelligence and the wisdom to exercise that power with mindfulness and force. Many are the stories that depict powerful women as evil, dangerous and harmful to creation. So completely have we mindlessly succumbed to this notion that around the world, women have held the keys to the dungeons of our own demise. Women themselves have learned to teach other women that their Fire – the powerful force that moves through their own bodies, screams NO and is unwilling to comply and capitulate – is dangerous to all, including themselves and should, at all costs, be kept hidden and unexpressed or silenced completely. Worse yet, we have taught each other to hide ourselves in shame when we feel that Fire move, learning instead to lie and betray ourselves and each other rather than claim the unknown territory of its expression. For some of us, we have come to question our right to feel at all.
And yet, it is well known that when lions hunt, as much as the males bellow and roar, it is the females who come together to capture and take down the kill. Their skill and precision is what allows the species to survive. It causes me to ponder: where would we find ourselves if women were to reclaim the Fire that moves inside them; engage with each other to encourage this reclamation and move as one force to shape the world in which we live? Perhaps the time has come for us all – men and women – to reconsider what has been in order to discover what we might all become.
Over the years, in the work that I’ve done with women individually or in small group processes, I have often been struck by the restlessness of these women. Hidden in the conversations about relationships, children, work, parents, etc. is an underlying restlessness… an agitation… like a single, emerging thread twisting through the tapestry that is their lives… rising to the surface to remind them that something is missing or is calling to them, then diving deeper into the fabric of their lives, hidden and waiting for them in those dark, unvisited places inside themselves, just under the veneer of their acceptable lives. This relentless restlessness keeps pressing them to pay attention to that molten, swelling Fire that flows with great force deep in the body, well below the surface of their behaviours in the world. But before they can get to it, there are two discoveries that must be moved through. These are consistent, regardless of age, economics, religious or cultural bias:
Women are terrified of the depth of their own rage! After decades and generations of swallowing hard and holding back – years of saying ‘yes’ when we want to say ‘no’; years of doing what someone else wants because it’s just easier that way;’ years of not asking for what we want, surrendering what we care about, taking less than our share, being still so as not to disturb anyone else, curbing our exuberance so that we blend into the flat-lines around us; years of not trusting ourselves, lying to keep the peace, covering our eyes so as not to see what is in front of our face……after years of swallowing back, holding in, hunkering down…..it would make perfect sense that the Fire in our bodies would have gone into lock-down in some way. Better to kill ourselves slowly than to risk killing someone else, we tell ourselves……Women have bought the story – you know, the one that says ‘be good, be nice, be loving and understanding, and you’ll be taken care of by (fill in the blank – the husband, the culture, the system, the group, etc.) – only to discover that it’s all bogus! After decades of doing what we never really wanted to do anyway, we discover that we bought the goods and there’s no delivery. So, not only are we enraged about that – but NOW we have to learn a whole new skill set in order to be able to function effectively in the shaping of our own lives.
Fire! The Fire of our rage! The Fire of our despair! Fire moving fast and furiously! Sensations in the body that are old and familiar, yet sensations that are now moving in ways that we have no skills to manage – not because we’re stupid but because no one has ever taught us how. Fire that we’ve been told: don’t go there or you’ll hurt someone’s feelings… get hurt… be rejected… be left out. Don’t go there because you’ll be unattractive, undesirable, unwanted. And the greatest Fire of them all: don’t go there because when the other women (your primary line of defense and to be sure, your fallback position) circle the wagon, you’ll find yourself on the outside – unprotected and unsafe. Comply! Go along! Don’t make waves or you make us all look bad! And we already know the brutality with which the collective will punish its own in order to maintain ‘order’.
And then we wonder why our bodies start screaming at us, yanking and pulling and tearing at us – unwilling, for one more second, to be silenced by our own hand. And the restlessness only increases…
Control the Fire! Control your body! Lock down – curl in – be silent and be still. Disconnect from yourself, if that is what it takes (depression). Silence the scream of your rage by occupying the Fire with digestion; distract yourself by directing the Fire at controlling what has come to be acceptable to be defined by others – the size and shape of your own body (food/fat/eating/size/weight). And finally, if over decades of doing so your body is unwilling to be so managed, let the Fire move – but let it fill you up and consume your reason and your measured responses to the world around you – and let it burn only you (menopause).
For an entire generation, the exercise of power and the ability to create has often demanded of women that they choose one force at the expense of the other. And yet, there is a restlessness – inside, where we live – that will not allow us to forget the wholeness of who we are. The energy that is the Sekhmet presence in our lives – always there, always watching, always waiting for us to awaken – is the invitation for us to reclaim our natural, instinctive, innate ability to be both the Crucible and the Spear. Our natural instinctive ability to create family, community and organizational systems that honor and nurture the power of ‘relationship’ and its rewards (the Crucible); as well as our ability to make the tough choices, draw the line in the sand, hold to our intentions and demand what we know is required to make the difference (the Spear). It is not that we desire or prefer to strike; it’s that we must be both able and willing to do so. Not only to protect others but for our own wellbeing, clearing the space of body, mind and soul for us to engage a meaningful life.
Get off your knees! Stand up for what we all, instinctively, know to be true of who we already are – powerful, versatile, creative innovators. Just as we are capable of great nurturing, we are also capable of taking apart that which no longer supports and sustains life. The restlessness within your own body is not disease or something wrong…it’s something right! It is the invitation to rediscover and embrace the full range of your own potential; to allow yourself to reclaim the territory of those internal landscapes and navigate by the stars of your own inner truth.
Stop apologizing for who you are! No matter your age, the color of your skin, the size of your ass or your bank account – take back who you are and what’s meaningful to you in your own world! Don’t wait for someone or something else to declare you free to be yourself. As long as you need permission, you are at the mercy of what you hold more powerful than yourself. As long as you need permission to be equal, you aren’t.
Allow yourself to open your mouth and say what’s true for you…what’s real for you….and what you hold as meaningful in what sometimes feels like your meaningless existence. Only by allowing the restlessness to be fed – allowing the Fire to move! – will we ever be able to claim the life that we desire. We begin by claiming ourselves. We reach out into our families and communities and organizations, and we become the invitation for change within our collectives of choice. And with the unstoppable, combined forces of Attention and Intention, we come together to build new and larger collectives that are required to change the world.
If you’re ready to play at this level of the game, there are many others just waiting to play with you. You are not alone – and the only way you’ll ever know this is to step into the Fire and let it flow.

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A seeker for more than 25 years, Louise LeBrun creates and facilitates experiences for personal discovery and exploration. A provocative and compelling thinker, writer, speaker and educator, Louise is the Founder of the WEL-Systems Institute (www.WEL-Systems.com) and author of several books and audio programs that will take you to the edge of your own awareness. Creator of the WEL-Systems® approach to change, Quantum TLC™ and The CODE Model™, she is also a Reiki Master and Huna Initiate with a passion for living and great compassion for those who desire to awaken to a more meaningful life.
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