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 this rerun 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 this episode 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
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Amy's New Website Being Amy The Blog (Active 1/1/20)
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Amy Recommends
Would you consider yourself the “Creative Type?” Does life seem to be barely within your control? Do you ever find yourself toning down your big, grand ideas for the sake of appearance and opinion? If so, you might be like this week’s guest on “Embracing Intensity. Join Aurora as she interviews Katherine North.
Katherine is a life coach, writer, and mother on a mission to lead women out of the creative storm of clutter and into a more beautiful, more authentic life. Her coaching allows women to stop stifling their joy, and embrace the things they truly love. Tune in to hear about Katherine’s journey across oceans and disciplines as she explains what it means to declare dominion over this beautiful life.
Listen in as Aurora and Katherine discuss:
Links
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Katherine’s Book Practical Magic for Secret Mystics
Katherine Recommends
Parenting Without Power Struggles by Susan Stiffelman
Steering by Starlightby Dr. Martha Beck
Three words: You are enough. For an intense person in today’s fast-paced and demanding world, it is easy to feel like you have to tone yourself down. Are you feeling burned up, beaten down, and bummed out? Then you need to listen to this week’s episode of “Embracing Intensity.”
This week’s guest is Starr Sheppard-Decker, a business coach, and spiritual leader with a passion to see women fully embrace their intense selves. Through spiritual searching and a dive into her own inner psyche, Starr realized she desired attention and acceptance from others, when all she really needed was attention and acceptance from herself. Hear Starr’s wisdom and heart for women with intense passions and a fire worth spreading.
In this episode:
Starr Recommends
A Woman’s Worth by Marianne Williamson
The Mandala of Being by Richard Moss
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This month I'm taking the month off and sharing reruns of my favorite episodes from season 1. This one is particularly timely because I've been having a lot of conversations about twice-exceptionality lately.
Impossible. The world seems to throw this word at you a lot, doesn’t it? For Intense, Exceptional, Gifted, and Intuitive people, our greatest strengths are often viewed as weaknesses and disabilities. When the world tries to label your dreams impossible, what can you do to harness your fire and show the world who’s boss? Wouldn’t you like to know there’s someone who has walked that hard road before, and come out the other end burning brighter than before?
Dr. Melanie Hayes is the founder of Big Minds Unschool, a program that allows Twice Exceptional students to thrive in their own unique gifts. Melanie is also Twice Exceptional, and she knows what it is like to be a bright fire in a world that feels too small for her. After growing up with “impossible” dreams, Melanie learned to make her vision a reality. Now she is using her fire through coaching and Big Minds to change the world. This week, she will share her stories of growing up, success through unconventionality, and wisdom to inspire you to take the word “impossible” and transform it into a force of good.
Also in this episode:
Links:
Melanie Recommends
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
Melanie’s Website
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I'm taking the month of December off again, but this year I decided to try something different and share some of my favorite episodes from season one with an update from the interviewee! This week I'm sharing one of my most popular episodes of all time with Paula Prober!
As a child, were you deemed over-sensitive, dramatic, or over-emotional? Are you a deep thinker, intellectual, or intense creative? Perhaps that just means you are gifted. Join Aurora in this week’s “Embracing Intensity” as she interviews Paula Prober, an expert on the gifted population. Paula has journeyed through many disciplines from education to counseling and now to writing. Her interdisciplinary wisdom has led to a fascinating and enlightening perspective on the mind of a gifted individual. The gifted are often intense and excitable. Paula’s mission is to show the world how the gifted adult can seek healing and live life to the fullest.
Inside this week’s episode:
Links
Paula’s Blog: Your Rainforest Mind
https://rainforestmind.wordpress.com/
Your Rainforest Mind: A Guide to the Well-Being of Gifted Adults and Youth by Paula Prober
Paula Recommends
Belonging Here: A Guide for the Spiritually Sensitive Person by Judith Blackstone