Have you ever lived your life as a series of chapters, without realizing the connection and what you were meant to be doing? Are you reaching to try to find your calling, only to realize that you are burned up and out of traction? Your search for purpose and calling is a passionate one, and this week, Aurora has a guest who is going to help you live your life loving what you do and who you are!

Also in this week’s episode:  

• Selena shares how women tend to underestimate our significance.
• Battling the people-pleasing attitudes we carry with us.
• Evaluating draining and toxic relationships.
• Being a people-pleaser had an impact while Selena was growing up.
• Dealing with illness and intensity.
• The Love You More Project has impacted so many women by allowing them to be vulnerable.
• Selena’s habits will help you love yourself in the day-to-day.

 Selena Recommends

You Can Heal Your Life by Louise Hay

The Desire Map by Daniele DePorte

Resources

Find the Love You More Project Online

http://www.loveyoumoreproject.com/#welcome-1

https://www.facebook.com/groups/LoveYouMoreProject/

Reach out to Selena (She likes to talk!)

selena@loveyoumoreproject.com

Aurora's Website:

auroraremember.com

League of Excitable Women:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/leagueofexcitablewomen

Harness Your Power Challenge:

http://www.auroraremember.com/harness-your-power

Is being a parent everything you expected? With Aurora's background and skills in education and behavior supports, you'd think she'd be much more prepared for parenting than she was.

Parenting always brings surprises, but parenting an intense child as an intense parent adds additional challenges - especially as a single parent most of the time. 

In this episode:

• Aurora shares the early signs that she had an intense child. 
• Some of the challenges she found along the way.
• The most important things she's learned over 9 years of intense parenting.
• Her own next next steps in refining this whole parenting thing. 

Links:

League of Excitable Women

https://www.facebook.com/groups/leagueofexcitablewomen/

Find Your Superpower

http://www.auroraremember.com/find-your-superpower

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:   

• Melanie grew up as an intense kid with a bit of an existential, otherworldly perspective.
• A fascination with twice exceptional minds.
• Working within the extremes of life, and when life doesn’t seem to want to work with you!
• Speaking up for intense kids in schools.
• Learning to trust yourself and your instincts.
• Why is it so hard to recognize our gifts?
• Overcoming fear and letting go of limitations.
• Life-coaching a holistic being.
• Roundabout career paths and connecting to the work you do.

Links:

Melanie Recommends

Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

Melanie’s Website

http://www.bigmindsunschool.org/

Find Melanie’s Book on Amazon!

We Tried Normal

Join the League of Excitable Women

https://www.facebook.com/groups/leagueofexcitablewomen/

Sign up for the Free Find Your Superpower Course

http://www.auroraremember.com/work-with-me

Were you the black sheep of the family or from a family of black sheep? So many intense and creative people grow up feeling like few people "get them." Aurora was fortunate to have a whole family who mostly understood her. 

In this week's episode she shares lessons learned on how to survive and thrive in an intense family, including:

• 4 keys to successfully navigate intense families. 
• How instead of bringing home stray dogs, they brought home stray people. 
• The power of open communication. 

Links:

League of Excitable Women

https://www.facebook.com/groups/leagueofexcitablewomen/

Find Your Superpower

http://www.auroraremember.com/find-your-superpower

Embracing Intensity Unconference

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/embracing-intensity-unconference-tickets-34930767867