The Empowering Element of Holistic Life Coaching

Have you ever found yourself waiting for a transformative moment? Holding out for a deep feeling of knowing what to do and how to do it? Ever put on the brakes until receiving an “Aha! Moment”?

Unplanned epiphanies can touch us in unexpected ways, and we are wise and living well in our hearts to be open to their illuminating spark when they happen upon us. In the meantime, however, waiting for an inspired moment rather than living, being, and acting can leave us feeling stuck. The notion that inspiration only strikes unplanned is a myth that can stagnate rather than empower.

This is just one area in which Life Coaching can transform lives. In my work with clients, my joy comes from helping them find and act on inspiration and insights fitted mindfully to their needs. I'm committed to providing tools of empowerment to my clients by helping them ask powerful questions of themselves, which solve their most pressing needs with solutions they handpick. 

The results oriented nature of coaching and mentorship is well proven. Find your right direction, work with a coach to keep your forward movement strong and to provide compassionate and objective support, and find the person you've always felt you were on the inside has become a shining reality on the outside!

What can Life Coaching help you do?

• Shift the ways that you've been thinking about challenges or areas of confusion.
• Develop the skills, confidence, and tools you need to liberate yourself from chronic frustration.
• Identify what truly brings you alive, in each moment of every day.
• Move forward in your life with enhanced engagement, vitality, and joy.

I specialize in Holistic Life Coaching for:

• Personal Empowerment/Reaching Goals
• Early Childhood Attachment and Thriving
• Diverse Family Structures
• Couples Communication and Intimacy
• Holistic Spirituality

Coaching sessions can take place over the phone, on Skype, or in person. I invite you to begin your journey today with a complimentary 20 minute phone session.  I’m happy to answer any questions you might have, discuss your goals, and make a plan for your forward movement. Let the joy of your first step happen now!

Thrive Wellness, LLC
Carrie Smith-Hardee, LMT, RM
Available By Appointment
480-452-3086

How Massage and Touch Support Wellness

Studies continue to roll in with more and more evidence that touch is vital to our wellbeing and that massage has real benefit to our wellness. Here are just some of the reasons massage and touch are so important to us.

Benefits of Massage:

-Offers drug-free humanistic support, based on the bodies natural ability to heal itself.

-Facilitates personal growth.

-Increases circulation, allowing the body to pump more oxygen and nutrients to tissues and vital organs.

-Provides healthy touch and nurturing.

-Stimulates the flow of lymph, the body's natural defense system, against toxic invaders.  For example, in breast cancer patients, massage has been shown to increase the cells that fight cancer.

-Enriches quality of life.

-Increased circulation of blood and lymph systems improves the condition of the body's largest organ- the skin.

-Offers holistic approach to wellness and thriving; mind, body, and spirit.

-Can enhance body image and self-esteem.

-Has a balancing effect on hormones; decreasing stress hormones and increasing relaxation hormones, thereby having contributing to overall wellness.

-Relaxes and softens injured and overused muscles.

-Reduces spasms and cramping.

-Encourages sound sleep.

-Increases joint flexibility.

-Assists with shorter labor for woman, shorter hospital stays, and decreased medication.

-Reduces recovery time, helps prepare for strenuous workouts and eliminates pains of the athlete at any level.

-Releases endorphins - the body's natural painkiller - and is being used in chronic illness, injury, and recovery from surgery to control and relieve pain.

-Reduces post-surgery adhesions and edema and can be used to reduce and realign scar tissue after healing has occurred.

-Improves range-of motion and decreases discomfort for patients with low back pain.

-Relieves pain for migraine sufferers and decreases the need for medication.

-Increases physical performance.

-Provides exercise and stretching for atrophied muscles and reduces shortening of the muscles for those with restricted range of motion.

-Reduces occurrence of injuries.

-Helps people live longer and feel better.

Benefits of Touch:

Simply having touch in our lives has innumerable and amazing benefits. And you don't need to be a professional to give and receive this life enhancing gift. In a nut shell, know that science and human experience have found volumes of reasons why touch is not just wonderfully enhancing to life, but vital to it. Beyond massage and body therapies, and perhaps more importantly, are the powerful and affirming everyday types of touch. The brush of a hand as you receive your change at the market. A friendly pat on the shoulder. Holding a child. Giving a "high-five". Petting your dog. A warm-hearted, "bear"  hug (one of my favorites). Holding hands with a loved one. Touch simply, easily, and often.  Enjoy!

More inspiring findings about touch:

http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/health/wellness/health-benefits-of-touch

http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/01/05/touching.makes.you.healthier.health/index.html

http://www.beliefnet.com/healthandhealing/getcontent.aspx?cid=13623

Thrive Wellness, LLC
Carrie Smith-Hardee, LMT, RM
Available By Appointment
480-452-3086