Do you feel like life is an impossible balancing act? The world comes at us on many levels—spiritual, physical, mental, emotional— and for the Intense Person, that can mean a lifetime of struggle. Or does it have to be? This week, Aurora has a chat with JJ Flizanes, a self-proclaimed Empowerment Strategist who has found a way to shift her life into balance. JJ describes herself as an intense personality and was always a Why Child. Her curiosity fuels her passion for Astrology, Health and Wellness, and an overall deep understanding of the world around her. JJ is the host of her own 6 day a week Podcast, where she shares her considerable knowledge on overall wellness in more than just the physical. 

Dive into this week’s episode of “Embracing Intensity” to:

• See how JJ’s three missions: truth, freedom, and fun all incorporate into wellness. 
• Uncover how your passions can align with your interests, and how you can hone that power. 
• Learn the difference between negative and positive intensity
• Discover how intensity played into JJ’s need for sisterly connection. 
• Learn how to stop the grind and embrace inspiration instead. 
• Hear as JJ shares advice on how to identify the source of your intensity. 
• Learn how to prevent yourself from relying on the rational, and live life in balance. 
• Demystify “Non Violent Communication,” and see how it transformed JJ’s life. 
• Experience validation from within, rather than relying on external validation to get by. 
• Play the Gratitude Game, and watch your world transform around you. 

JJ Recommends 

Writing by Marshall Rosenberg on Non-Violent Communication

Links

JJ’s Website 

http://www.jjflizanes.com/

Fit2Love Podcast 

http://fit2love.tv/

Join the League of Excitable Women on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/leagueofexcitablewomen/

Aurora’s Website

http://www.auroraremember.com/

Power Zone Toolkit  

http://www.auroraremember.com/power-zone-toolkit/

Do you know what your body is trying to tell you? Are you trying to keep up healthy habits, but finding them to be more draining than helpful? As an Excitable Person, those signals can sometimes seem misleading. It that’s you, then listen in to this week’s episode of “Embracing Intensity,” where Aurora interviews Melanie Brown, a registered natural health practitioner and Highly Sensitive Person. Mely spent years suffering from chronic conditions that only got worse as time went on. It was not until Mely discovered she was Highly Sensitive that these conditions became to make sense, and she could finally heal. 

Aurora and Mely dive deep into her transformative embrace of sensitivity: 

• Get tips and wisdom about how to tailor healthy lifestyle habits to the Highly Sensitive mind. 
• Mely tended to put other’s needs before her own. Discover how the broke the cycle, and how you can too. 
• Find out what the power of a positive environment really is for the HSP.
• Learn from Mely’s story as she describes her path to becoming a natural health care practitioner. 
• Find your Flow: Mely explains some of the best parts of being Highly Sensitive, and how that transformed her healthy lifestyle. 
• Gain insight on how to ground your energy and harness the power that is already there.
• Learn how Mely harnessed her understanding of HSP, and used that wisdom to help others, and you! 
• Find out how to get an amazing free eBook. Aurora calls it one of the most comprehensive freebies she’s ever seen! 

Mely Recommends 

The Highly Sensitive Person by Elaine Aron 

Links

Mely’s Website

http://www.selfcareforsensitivewomen.com/

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Join the League of Excitable Women on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/leagueofexcitablewomen/

Aurora’s Website

http://www.auroraremember.com/

Power Zone Toolkit  

http://www.auroraremember.com/power-zone-toolkit/

How do you escape “the Void?” Do you numb yourself to it with distractions and addictions, or do you stare over the edge brave and unafraid? Wendy Holthaus, this week’s guest on “Embracing Intensity,” has spent much of her life trying to drown out the terror of the void. Clinging to relationships, addictions, and her own insecurities, Wendy realized that much of what she was missing was her own sense of self-assuredness. Listen to hear Wendy’s inspiring story, and find out how she, through her own self-exploration in Excitability, is now helping many women ditch codependency and addiction, and live fulfilled in their own inner strength. 

Join Aurora and Wendy as they discuss: 

• Wendy’s own personal journey, growing up as “a square peg in a round peg family.” 
• Learn how Wendy went from feeling like it was wrong to be highly sensitive, to understanding and harnessing her own intensity. 
• See how Wendy learned to appreciate her excitability, and how you can learn to appreciate your own unique brand too. 
• Know the ways we so easily try to fill the void and numb ourselves from excitement. 
• Obtain your copy of the Brave Girl Manifesto, and get Wendy’s advice for women struggling to take back and take over responsibility for their own choices. 
• Join Wendy and her crusade for “Kick Ass Recovery.” 

Links

Join the League of Excitable Women on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/leagueofexcitablewomen/

Wendy’s Website

http://www.wendyreneeholthaus.com/

Aurora’s Website

http://www.auroraremember.com/

Power Zone Toolkit  

http://www.auroraremember.com/power-zone-toolkit/

Wendy Recommends 

The Slight Edge by Jeff Olson 

Are you an Approval Addict? How about a Gold Star Chaser? For so many Excitable People, it can be exhausting and unfulfilling simply living life under the shadow of the approval of others. If that sounds like you, listen in to the latest installment of “Embracing Intensity.” This week, Aurora interviews her mentor Amy Pearson about her own struggles as an Approval Addict. Amy is a life coach, mother, and deep believer in helping women come into their own authenticity. In this episode, she dives deep into what it means to live free from approval, and gives you the tools and opportunity to be who you truly are! 

Join Aurora and Amy to experience all that Episode 1 has to offer: 

• Amy shares how she journeyed from people pleaser to fearlessly fulfilled.
• Discover what it means to be an Approval Addict, and how to break the cycle.
• It is time to drop the façade of likability, and start embracing that inner fire. Find out how!
• Learn how to channel your intensity instead of pursuing affirmation from others. 
• Moms really do know best—learn what wisdom Amy embraced to change the course of her life. 
• Unlock what it means to Amy and Aurora to unearth your own authenticity. 
• Amy describes what it means to find her Tribe, and discover how you can find your Tribe too. 
• Check out your Approval Personality with Amy’s specially designed quiz.

Links

Join the League of Excitable Women on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/leagueofexcitablewomen/

Amy’s Website

http://www.livebrazen.com/

Approval Personality Quiz

http://www.approvalquiz.com/

Aurora’s Website

http://www.auroraremember.com/

Power Zone Toolkit  

http://www.auroraremember.com/power-zone-toolkit/

Have you ever felt like you’re “too much?” Too intense? Too consumed by whatever life has in store, that you cannot ever feel fulfilled? Aurora Remember Holtzman has news: you are not too much. Perhaps you simply haven’t embraced your naturally excitable self? In “Embracing Intensity,” Aurora will take everything you think you know about what it means to be intense and excitable, and show you how intensity is not a weakness but a hidden power. Each week, Aurora will interview a strong, creative, and sensitive woman who embodies what it means to embrace intensity in order to show you how to embrace your life in its fullest. Listen to unlock ways to unleash your inner fire— without getting burned!

 In the first installment of Embracing Intensity, Aurora interviews herself to bring to highlight how her own misconceptions about Excitable People became some of her greatest strengths. 

• Aurora captures you instantly with her personal and poignant struggle with feeling like she’s “too much,” and how the revelation of being an Excitable Person changed her life for the better.
• Find out some of the most common misconceptions you might have about being an Excitable Person.
• Find out Aurora’s single best piece of advice for Excitable People. 
• Discover the 5 Types of Excitable people, and which types you might be.  
• Find out how you can help yourself regain control over your own passion and intensity. 
• Learn the S.T.A.R. method, and other resources for non-violent discourse. 
• Stories and tips about embracing who you are, and living a satisfied life
• See how to get your free 7 Day Power Zone Toolkit.

You can access the full show notes and all the links and resources at www.embracingintensity.com.