Outlier Parenting Podcast Interview

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XO brooke jean

Make it your BEST YEAR YET by Starting with a Vision

Make it your best year yet by starting with a vision:

Here are some strategies to make 2018 your best year, by starting with a VISION, breaking it into goals with action items.

Learn more about how coaching might help you have your best year yet!

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XO brooke jean

Feeling out of Control with Eating? Learn more about Intuitive Eating

Are you feeling out of control with eating this holiday season?

Watch this video to learn how to eat intuitively to remain healthy during the holiday season and during the entire year.

Intuitive Eating is NOT a restrictive dieting, because we all know those don’t work, nor are they long-term health solutions.  Its a way of listening to your body’s cues, and stropping when you are satisfied, rather than full.

It’s about strengthening your mindfulness around eating.  Are you eating because you are hungry, or because you are sad?  You will learn your triggers so you can put some strategies into place during your most vulnerable times.

The body is wise and there is a difference between being physically hungry and emotionally hungry.

Learn more about how I support women with these types of struggles here!

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XO brooke jean

Ways to take Care of Yourself During the Holidays

Ways to take care of yourself during the holidays! Especially for those working mamas trying to make miracles happen every season.

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XO brooke jean

How to be an Effective Leader: Have a People First Mentality

Are you in a leadership role, but are struggling to build a healthy team culture that ultimately delivers outstanding business results?

So many leaders focus on results first and in this video, I flip that way of thinking and share how having a people first mentality is much healthier and will just feel good.

People are your biggest assets, and let’s be real, can be your biggest obstacles so learning how best to show up for your people is worth every ounce of investment.

If you are ready to learn to be an effective leader, this video is for you!

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XO brooke jean

Need Better Sleep Now? Consider these quick strategies

Are you ready to get better sleep now? So many of us are not getting adequate sleep each night, which has a detrimental effect on our overall well being.

Being a recovering insomniac, and a therapist, I can honestly say that I have tried just about everything to sleep better. It took many years to find what has worked for me and while its not a “one size fits all” approach, I wanted to share some of my findings.

In this vlog, I share quick and simple strategies for getting better sleep while also providing you some things to consider if poor sleep is something you are struggling with.

Getting to the root of what is causing sleep issues is something we can dig into in therapy, learn more about my counseling services here.

And, if you’re ready to work on some things, I am here for you!

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XO brooke jean

Lost in Grief? Here are 3 Ways to Grieve CONSCIOUSLY

Grief can be such a complex, unpredictable, and exhausting experience. No two people will grieve the same, grief is NOT linear nor does it follow any kind of timeline.

BUT…if we take time to CONSCIOUSLY grieve, we can work our way through it, rather than burying it deep inside of us (which tends to bubble up in unconscious and unhelpful ways later on!)

So, regardless of what phase of grief you are, these tips will support you in surviving today’s wave.

If you have suffered a loss, I highly recommend working through the loss with a counselor. Learn more about how I help clients with bereavement here.

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XO brooke jean

How to Increase Productivity: How You Start Your Morning Sets the Tone for Your Entire Day

What does your morning routine look like?

Do you wake up to the annoying beeping sound of your alarm clock, just to groan, roll over and check your email. Only to discover some major stressor what’s waiting for you when you arrive at work?

Insert stress and anxiety….

And an adrenaline, or cortisol release in your brain…

Which feels heavy, yucky and all sorts of unpleasant things.

Is this the motivation you need to crush life today?

I don’t think so.

In this video, I share how transformative your day can be, how you can INCREASE PRODUCTIVITY and fly high just by cleaning up your morning routine.

This is a game changer, my friends. I hope it helps you!

Learn more about the ways in which I help folks with all the things here!

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XO brooke jean

Live in your Integrity: Get Out & Show Up

You know the ol’ saying…If you want different, you have to be different.” Yea, that’s kind of a truth bomb.

If you have personal and/ or professional goals, most often an up-level willl need to occur in order for you to reach your goal.

And in order for an up-level to occur, you will be challenged with breaking through old barriers getting in your way.

If you want to play BIG – you have to get out there and show up.

You are strong and courageous, and have what it takes to break out of your comfort zone.

So…request that meeting.

Make that call.

Ask him out on that date.

And no matter what…show up. Because its often the engagements we are most dreading that turn out to be the most fruitful.

As a bonus, you will just feel good, living in your integrity.

Watch to hear more about why it matters and how to do it.

Enlisting a coach is a great way to break through your barriers.

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XO brooke jean

Effective ways to Cope with Intense Feelings

Check out my video to learn effective ways to cope with intense feelings.

Do you ever feel lost in your intense feelings? Or that you are drowning?

Perhaps you worry that you will always feel this way.

Feelings, even the intense ones come and go.

Treat them like visitors. Be kind, gentle and gracious to them, and become curious about what you could gain/ learn leaning in and spending time with them.

Just by looking at our feelings with curiosity, rather than judgement, disempowers them.

Watch on to learn more about how to effectively cope with intense feelings.

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XO brooke jean

Being In Transition: Part II – Becoming

Being in Transition.

Welcome to Being in Transition – Part II – BECOMING…..which just so happens to be my favorite part of the transition process.

My last blog, Being in Transition – Part I was all about the grieving process. Its important to process the feelings we have about what was and what we are leaving behind so we can make space for what’s next in our lives.

If you just lost your job, lost your relationship, became a mother, or entered into mid-life, (among many other love, life and career transitions) listen up, these blogs are for YOU!

Transition can be tough, no doubt. Who we thought we were, how we believed we operated, our values, our perceptions, everything comes into question with the movement around transition. However, as scary as this can be, this is also an opportunity to get clear on WHO we want to become, and HOW we want to be going forward.

I mentioned how difficult it can be to find yourself swimming in the grey area of transition. You might find yourself no longer in that marriage, but wondering if you’ll ever be in a relationship again. Or you might be anxious about what is next in your career, or how you will be adjusting as a new mom. Not knowing tends to bring up many emotions, and typically a great deal of worry.

If you can, give yourself permission to not know, to not try to plan, predict and control, and to trust in yourself and in the universe that all will be OK.

Ask yourself, “What is the opportunity here?”

This part of the process is all about BECOMING.

We are under absolutely no obligation to be the person we were five minutes ago, let alone last week, last year, in our past job or relationships.

So use this time to reflect.

Reflect on who you have been.

Get to know yourself better. What do you enjoy doing? Get out and try new things. Remember what you loved to do as a child and try to reconnect in some way.

I encourage you to create more quiet time in your life. Whether it be through meditation, hiking in the mountains, sitting at the pool, its in these quiet times that we gain clarity and can tap into our creativity to find solutions, next moves, and our life’s vision.

Read books, listen to podcasts, follow people you admire on social media.

Get clear on WHO you want to be.

Get out a sheet a paper. On one side write out what you like about yourself, who you are, your strengths, your values, what makes you proud. Then, on the other side write out the things you do not like about yourself. With the “do not like” list, ask yourself how have these things been helping you? For example, perhaps one thing you do not like about yourself is your short temper. Well, how has having a short temper helped you? I know, on the surface level, it appears its NOT been helpful.

But I challenge you to dig much deeper.

We do things, sometimes subconsciously for good reasons. Perhaps you’re short tempered to protect yourself, to appear stronger than you are, to get your needs met. There might be unresolved anger from previous life experiences that are calling your attention to clear out so it no longer holds you back.

The goal is to change our relationship with the things we don’t like about ourselves so we can then address them accordingly. When we understand why we do what we do, we can then develop self-acceptance and self-compassion which is a much stronger foundation to create real sustainable change from. Having this self-awareness is the first step to change, to progress, to become.

Then, look at your list again, and decide what you want to keep as part of who you are now and going forward, what you want to discard, and what you want to tweak.

Working with a counselor or coach can help you make those changes!

Dream Big….my coach always says, “If your life vision doesn’t seem totally impossible right now, its not big enough.”

Ask yourself in the quiet moments what you want out of life? What values do you hold most dear to you? What legacy do you want to leave behind, what do you want to be known for?

Transition is the perfect time to course correct. To get clear and to change gears. To be empowered to take ownership of your life and go out and get the best there is to offer. It all starts with reflections, dreaming and believing.

There are many additional exercises and conversations I have with clients to support them in the process of becoming. From there, they take intentional and mindful action which creates new and meaningful outcomes in their lives.

So, being in transition, we heal, become and then adjust (which will be the final part of this blog series!)

SO…WHO ARE YOU BECOMING?

If you or someone you know is in a love, life or career transition, please send them my way! This is the life work I am PRIVILEGED to guide folks through.

Take care of yourselves and therefore each other,

XO brooke jean

Feeling Stuck? Ask Yourself This One Question

Don’t overthink it, just ask yourself this ONE question to get unstuck.

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Need Help Making a Decision? Slow Down Enough to Pay Attention

Do you need help making a decision?

As human beings, we have a “being too busy” problem.

We admire those who can multi-task and as working Moms are typically juggling at least 27 things a day.

But, there is a major problem with this way of being.

When we are “too busy”, mentally and physically, our channels are closed, not open to receive guidance as to what to do next.

Have you ever seen a brain wave that is in a busy state versus a meditative state? Science shows that slowing down, calming the mind and body, sitting in quiet can open our channels so that we can see what we need.

Whether that be a creative idea that is needed for your business growth.

Or an out-of-the-box solution to a complex problem you are experiencing.

Or just an answer to your question.

It’s in those quiet moments that you will see, hear, and know just what’s best for you.

In this video I explain how slowing down enough to pay attention can help you to receive guidance in your life.

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XO brooke jean