January 21, 2009 at 4:56 pm (Abundance, Links to other amazing programs, Personal Growth, holistic, soul driven business, spirituality, vision)
Tags: a free gift, a gift, America's Dream Coach, coaching, creating the life of your dreams, creating your dreams, Dream University, e-books, life coach, living your dream, Louise Crooks, Marcia Wieder
Marcia Wieder, America's Dream Coach
Dear Friends
Marcial Wieder, America’s Dream Coach has generously given me the opportunity to offer a wonderful gift to all my blog readers!
The gift is 10 free easy to read E-Books, that are content rich and designed to help make your dreams come true!
Just click on the link to get your gift! Marcia’s Gift
I must add, that a number of my clients received a gift from me which was Marcia Wieider’s ‘Dreams are Whispers from the Soul’ and they loved it! Especially as it is New Year and a time to reflect on what you want to create and bring into your life! These 10 e-books will certainly do the same. Enjoy and let me know what you thought!
Warmly,
Coach Louise
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January 18, 2009 at 12:54 am (Abundance, Emotional and Physical Healing, Event, Personal Growth, coaching, holistic, soul driven, spirituality)
Tags: blogtalkradio, business coach, business coaching, challenged, clarity, coach, coaching, conscious awareness, conscious choices, creating clarity and focus, getting past fears, getting past negative thinking, getting past obstacles, group coaching, igniting the spark of what inspires you, inner intuition, inner wisdom, Jeff Cardwell, KeystoClarity! Coach, keystoclaritycoach, looking for something more, Louise Crooks, making conscious choices, podcast of show, radio, seeking more, seeking passion in your life, small business owner, struggling, wisdom wide open
WISDOM WIDE OPEN
Dear Friends,
My friends Susie and Craig have invited me to be part of a panel of coaches discussing wonderful topics tomorrow evening on the Conscious Coach Circle, on their radio show Wisdom Wide Open!
You can find their show at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/wisdomwideopen and if you want to go to their website …www.wisdomwideopen.com you can find out more about them! I have had the opportunity to have wonderful conversations with them on their inaugural show and on another show I was a guest on (in the chat room) and we are on the same wavelength! LOA!
So I invite you to come and listen, or even join in the banter in the chatroom, or call in and ask your questions or comment on the topic being discussed – your thoughts and opinions matter!
WISDOM WIDE OPEN says…..
‘Opening wide, the doors to YOUR Wisdom, and providing ‘Keys to Clarity’ in making ‘Conscious Choices’ in YOUR life!
Join Susie Bonham-Craig, Craig Hannas, Louise Crooks and Jeff Cadwell for an enticing journey into discovering your innate ability to ‘deliberately’ create, co-create and find your true path right from where you stand.
We will be taking calls from you on ANY subject that is important to YOU. Whether you’re struggling with something, seeking understanding, looking for new ways to evoke passion from yourself, or just plain curious…Join in and you just might hear something that stirs you… Its not about where you are, its about where you’re going! Receive a User ID and password and join the circle (its free!) Find out what Louise and Jeff have in store!’
The show starts at 6pm EST (-5hrs GMT) and goes until 8pm EST. When you go to the show link you will find a number on the screen to call, or just turn up your volume and listen! Looking forward to catching you on the waves!
Warmly,
Coach Louise
PS Don’t forget you will be able to listen to the archived podcast on their site, after the show.
I appreciate your comments on the show! Let us know what you thought here!
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January 16, 2009 at 3:39 pm (Abundance, Personal Growth, soul driven, soul driven business, spirituality, vision)
Tags: alternative treatments, awareness, being and doing, business coach, business coaching, characteristics that you want to acquire or attain, coach, coaching, coaching exercise, complimentary medicine, connection, creative coaching, group coaching, holistic practitioner, images that inspire you, KeystoClarity! Coach, life, life coach, Louise Crooks, networking group, preparing for 2009, preparing for the New Year, purpose, sandbox exercise, small business owner, spiritual connection, symbols that inspire you, symbols that represent who you want to be, who are you going to be in 2009
strength, leadership, knowing, intuition, groundedness, balance
I had such fun last week with my group coaching program that I’m running and with an exercise I facilitated with my Holistic Healing Networking Group! It was an opportunity to take a step back and look at how you wanted to be in 2009! What do I mean by that? Well, what qualities do you want to exude? How do you want to be with your clients? How do you want show up every day, to feel connected with yourself and others around you? What kind of characteristics do you want to have for you business to grow, for your relationships to flourish? I think you are getting the ‘picture’ now!
Take a moment to think about what this means to you! What image generally one from nature -animal, insect, fish, water, tree, flower etc, comes to mind and really inspires you when you think of it.
Once you thinkof the image, make a short list of words and actions that come to mind that this picture or image represents for yourself. Sit for a couple of minutes and reflect on the image and the words, and what it means to you…. (see very easy)
Don’t force an image to come to mind, if it doesn’t come straight away, take the pressure off, go and do something else, and then it will to you, just like it did for my client – his image was a Phoenix! how powerful that is! Another client had the image of a dolphin! Just think of the qualities and meaning this images can evoke in someone, maybe even you!
Now that you have your image or symbol, in the next week see if you can find a picture or memento that will be a constant reminder for you through out the year. To keep you inspired and excited about 2009.
It will give you a chance to reflect continually coming back to a central point of focusing on what you want to achieve and how you want to be, a theme by which you will run your life, and beautiful way to ground yourself when things become stressful or overwhelming or your path has been a little foggy.
I would love to hear how this little exercise helps you! Please post your sharing of your experience.
Warmly,
Coach Louise
For any enquiries to creating more focus and joy in your life as you grow personally or in your business, and would like to discover if coaching with Louise is the right step for you call her on 732-2992347 or email on louise@keystoclarity.com Don’t forget the first consultation is exploratory, and its free and without obligation.
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January 6, 2009 at 6:23 pm (Abundance, Personal Growth, World events and issues, coaching, holistic practitioners, soul driven, spirituality)
Tags: A New Year prayer, alternative medicine, business success, complimentary medicine, energy, gratitude, gratitude for family and friends, gratitude for what we have now, health, holistic, holistic practitioner, KeystoClarity! Coach, life coach, Louise Crooks, melanie at yogaphoria, retreats, sanctuary, small business owner, spiritual thoughts for the New Year, tea lounge, wellness, yoga, yoga instructor, yoga studio in New Hope PA, yoga studio on PA/NJ border, yogaphoria
My friend Melanie, and owner of Yogaphoria, in New Hope PA, shared in their latest newsletter some beautiful thoughts that were heartfelt and reflected my own feelings about life right now as we go throught the challenges that are presented to us all sides, accepting what really matters as we go into 2009! I would love to share it with you….
She wrote:
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New Year’s Prayer
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As I opened my eyes this New Year’s morning, warm in my bed, peaceful and quiet, the first thing my eyes focused on was a beautiful painting given to me by our beloved Abigail Boehm. It is one she had painted for my birthday. It’s a soft dreamy picture of a star-like figure in subtle tones of blues and golds. In the center of the painting are the words “Absolute attention is prayer.” The words are not bold, no, quite the opposite. They come at your eyes as a whisper would come to your ears. They draw your focus to them in remembrance of the gentle qualities prayer can hold. The painting is kind, soft, and loving, just as Abigail is and it holds the perfect mantra for the year to come.
Later that day, I went to Abigail and Kevin’s house for their traditional New Year’s day pot luck. A group of people had followed her other tradition of jumping into the river earlier that day and everyone came back to her house to get warm and be fed. Of course, I thought about joining in on that polar bear tradition for a moment but wisely changed my mind. As we all sat at Abigail and Kevin’s chatting about the freezing cold river, the delicious food, and the up coming plans for the year ahead, the thought “absolute attention is prayer” kept coming to my mind. There we were, all cozy and warm just being with each other like a modern day Norman Rockwell painting. Paying attention to each other’s thoughts and words and laughter. It’s in those moments you realize, THAT’S IT. That’s all there is…no matter what. Even when the world is going crazy around us…that’s it. Where we choose to place our absolute attention determines our lives. To give absolute attention to the present turns our whole life into a prayer. To bask in the love and friendship of each other is as great a prayer or meditation as any other. Perhaps even better.
What a metaphor that day was. Going from the freezing cold rapid waters of the river to the absolute warmth and attention of each other says it all. If we really stopped to think about it, is there anything more we need? Aren’t all our greatest moments about experiencing the love of each other in the fullest?
The evening came to a close and everyone gathered up their coats and plates and headed back out into the cold…and it was cold! Abigail and I stopped at the door and hugged. She looked at me with those pure blue angel-like eyes and with full attention said “I love you…happy new year.” I said the same in return. As I walked out the door, the wind and cold hit me hard, but I wasn’t sure what made my eyes fill with tears. Was it the cold on my face or the warmth in my heart? Did it matter? I just put all my attention on how wonderful I felt and sent out a prayer that each and everyone of us has a whole year of feeling that blessed.
Much love and many blessings,
Melanie
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You hope you found it as profound as I did. You can find their website at www.yogaphoria.com They have a beautiful space, where they do yoga, they have a tea lounge and a sanctuary for all who visit!
Warmly,
Coach Louise
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December 19, 2008 at 12:40 am (Personal Growth, coaching, spirituality)
Tags: accessing the inner child, Add new tag, Christmas activities for coaches and clients, Christmas icing, coach, coaching, icing biscuits and having fun letting out the inner kid, important having fun, important to make time for frivolous activity, letting the inner child out, life coach, Louise Crooks, not taking life to seriously, Xmas icing
Painting Icing on Christmas Biscuits with Friends.
Our friend Bill whose two boys live in Brazil, normally has them here for Christmas – they have a Christmas tradition that he normally does with them. As they aren’t coming this Christmas we had a surprise invitation to chile and biscuit icing painting last night. Bill and Daniela had it all laid out, had all the biscuits made and the icings colors mixed – ready for us to get down and dirty!
And what a surprise, it was such fun! My inner kid emerged, my creative side emerged, and even my cheeky personality emerged, as we sat painting yummy icing onto the Santas, reindeers, bells and snowflakes, complete with ‘hundreds and thousands’. We all revealed how much fun we were having and that it had been an opportunity for the child in us to emerge. My little girl sure did, and boy was she happy. I realised how neglected she was, and resolved to let her out more often and do more frivolous things! The New Year will bring art classes! I can’t wait.
sweetly yours,
Coach Louise
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November 26, 2008 at 11:11 am (World events and issues, alternative medicine, coaching, complimentary medicine, holistic practitioners, infertility, soul driven business, spirituality, vision, wellness)
Tags: coaching, life coach, Louise Crooks, gratitude, thanksgiving, world is changing, being part of the consciousness, raising consciousness, gratitude journal, James O'Dea
a moment of gratitude
Great Rivers of Gratitude, from James O’Dea
Your body loves gratitude! Not a superficial “oh gee, thanks” but a
deep, heart-connected appreciation that carries love and acceptance
from a place of higher consciousness and well-being.
Your body loves it because it washes away the biochemistry of stress
and insufficiency and replaces it with the alchemy of flow and
emotional warmth. The resonance from gratefulness warms both the giver
and receiver; it generates a field of appreciation sometimes referred
to as limbic resonance. In the field of appreciation, we create a
healing and reviving antidote to psycho-toxins such as “I don’t have
time,” “I don’t have enough,” or “I am drained.”
Each trickle of gratitude blesses us with its affirmation that we have
all we need in consciousness itself to gather our strength and honor
life. Each stream of gratitude clears out the corrosive toxins of
stress and anxiety in your body and becomes a gift to yourself and to
others.
Now visualize great rivers of gratitude coming together as we turn
collectively to face the hour in which we live. “With all of its sham,
drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world,” wrote Max
Ehrmann. Even in the face of war, violence, and severe climate
imbalance, Christopher Fry declared, “Thank God that our time is now,
when wrong comes up to meet us everywhere.” We can be grateful that we
are here in this time of earth challenges with an unquenchable sense of
hope and with a steadfast belief in our human capacity to heal, to
renew and even to go beyond what seemed our most persistent
limitations.
So I say let the gratitude flow. We are ready for the challenges that
exist now and that lie ahead. Let these great rivers of our deepest
intention flow towards a polarized and distracted world and cleanse it
with the power of love. We come from all races, all creeds, all
socio-political backgrounds with one unifying feeling of gratitude for
life, for consciousness, and for a new evolutionary path forward. We
come with gratitude for every being that came before us. We have been
given an epic moment in the journey of life on earth to bring our
greatest scientific knowledge together with our deepest spiritual
insight to change the course of history. If you ever thought you were
insignificant, consider how you are now needed in this great shift. And
be grateful that you were given such a role and such a time to live in.
Thank you, thank you for what each one of you does to step up and to
raise the consciousness of the citizens of this world. Thank you for
feeding these great rivers, even in the face of wounding and denial.
Thank you for being you.
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November 10, 2008 at 11:19 pm (World events and issues, alternative medicine, complimentary medicine, holistic, holistic practitioners, soul driven business, spirituality, wellness)
Tags: alternative medicine, bio-energy, Brandon Bays, cellular healing, coaching, complimentary medicine, energetic medicine, healing modalities, holistic, integrative medicine, Louise Crooks, molecular healing, physical and emotional healing, practioner, spirtual awakening, The Journey
We can take responsibility for our emotional and physical healing
My husband and I had the wonderful opportunity to help facilitate The Journey weekend in New Jersey this last weekend. What really first attracted us to help out was that Brandon herself (the founder) was doing the training! We had an amazing time. It reiterated to me how important it is to let everyone know that they can take charge of their own emotional and physical healing in a very powerful way. The extra big bonus is that if you are on your own spiritual journey, The Journey accelerates it and really creates a beautiful space for your own awakening. If you are interested in find out more look at www.thejourney.com The amount of stories I hear of people healing from emotional trauma to diseases that predict death, is amazing. Especially cancer! But so many other things too. We had the opportunity to hang out with Brandon, which was amazing. She is truly an inspiration. So I came back exhausted, but really wonderfully reconnected with my soul. I am now making a commitment to do more of the The Journeys workshops and support the initial weekend, because the effect on people’s lives (as well as my own) is amazing. I encourage you to check it out for yourself!
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October 13, 2008 at 2:57 pm (World events and issues, coaching, spirituality)
Tags: death and grief, Grief, grieving, Louise Crooks, sadness when someone dies, sadness when someone passes, The Journey
The sun sets on all things, but life continues to renew itself...
Grief is probably the most painful experience anyone will have, and at some point in time we will all experience it. The subject of grief comes up for me, as I grieve the passing of my last grandparent, Madge Morrow, one of 3 grandparents I have lost this last year. I was discussing the idea with my other half as we went for a walk in the fall colours in the woods today. Such a wonderful place to feel a sense of peace and connectedness. My thoughts were that when emotions are too painful to bear, we want to stuff them, and put them away, pretend theyr’e not there etc. but the catch to that is that we never fully let go of those strong emotions because we haven’t allowed ourselves to feel them fully. This might sound a bit strange to some of you, but bear with me… I realised I was doing this as I was walking, because I don’t like feeling this way, the sadness is too painful to bear. However I recognised from some of the work I had done with The Journey, this was not a path of healing and letting go, that I was on. I was feeling impatient with myself for not being able to pep myself up, and ’snap out of it’, and then I realised – I need to embrace these strong emotions to be able feel them properly and then let them go. Only by doing that will I be able to let them go. It stopped me in my tracks! So today has become a day to nurture myself, to remember my grandmother and all that we had together, and to do it with purpose. Knowing this too, shall pass.
Bless all of you who are grieving right now… Remember we are all connected.
Warmly,
Louise
www.thejourney.com
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October 8, 2008 at 11:19 pm (World events and issues, soul driven business, spirituality)
Tags: a movement, awakening, enviromental issues, green business, holistic, holistic practitioners, Louise Crooks, making a difference, save the world, soul driven business, spiritual business, spirituality, the shift, wholistic
Preservation... we can all contribute!
Dear Friends -
This is an exciting time on our planet. We have a chance to live ‘where the rubber meets the road’ and be the pioneers of a new global civilization based on consciousness, harmony, social justice and sustainability.
Below is a link to a trailer for a movie being created by some powerful ‘movers and shakers’ like you and me who are paving this path of global transformation with love, energy and enthusiasm.
Enjoy the clip and if you’re inclined, add your energy and inspiration – the specific difference you have come here to make – as live out our finest intent and fulfill the promise of an evolutionary journey in human consciousness.
We’ve all come here, now, quite purposefully. It is our time. http://www.theshiftmovie.com
moving forward,
Coach Louise
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