The Mindful Mess

Life's unversal lessons can be challenging and perplexing but they are also great opportunities for growth and clarity! If a lesson keeps repeating for you, this is a sign that not only does change need to occur but so does the energy that surrounds the essence of the lesson.   Listen as Clare explains the '5 Life Lesson Hacks' to help you not only understand why these lessons keep occurring but how to move through these lessons with more ease, compassion and acceptance towards yourself and towards others.

Keep Going! We someone in your life is holding an untruthful story about who you are, simply let it be.  Acceptance is a great teacher, for anything and for those that you cannot change or control. Understanding that when a story is created about you from another that it is and will simply be created from the matters of the mind rather than the matters of the heart.  Do not let their 'story' control the true essence of your Self and KEEP GOING! Listen to this quick Mindful Minute with Clare as she encourages you to Keep Loving, Keep Growing and Keep Shining despite what others think of you and to not EVER allow another to place their own judgements and insecurities at your feet without looking and healing from within themselves FIRST!

Everything in life evolves and changes and thriving in any business seems to peak and plateau with creativeness standing at a edge of sustainability at some point.  How can a business transform and find success in a saturated and popular market?  Join Clare Newman of the Mindful Mess Podcast and her wonderful guest Sheniz Wilkie, restauranteur and owner of Noorish Vibrant Cuisine in Edmonton as they discuss the importance behind the intention of your business and the changes needed to thrive. Listen as Sheniz shares her experience owing a vibrant and successful business for 8 years and her recent need to transform her business and how she finds the balance between motherhood, being a spiritual seeker and a business owner.   If you're in Edmonton, please visit this stunning conscious restaurant that supports not only other small businesses in our city but also farmers and producers surrounding our lovely city.   https://noorish.ca

We spend a lot of time distracting our Selves with everything outside of our Selves. From conversations, to activities, to the emotions of others, we rarely take time to FEEL our physical and emotional bodies.   It’s not outside the Self that matters the most, it IS the Self that matters the most! Listen to this quick Mindful (6) Minute(s) where Clare discusses the challenges and fears of using distractions to move away from the emotional body + a quick and simple exercise to step back into the Self!! Feel the emotion AND the experience versus just being the emotion and the experience. The two cannot exists without the other!

We all LOVE to focus on the busyness of our lives and when we're asked how we're doing or coping in life we usually respond "I'm so busy".   But what if all this busyness becomes a distraction from a deeper meaning or focus in our lives that needs to shift?  We're too busy focusing on what we don't have and trying to achieve all that we desire, but does this truly move us into happiness or joy and are we really being more productive? Hurry up and slow down!!! The process of slowing down and living more presently isn't laziness or a lack of ambition.  We're actually more effective and we accomplish more when we slow down and take the time to complete a task with more awareness.   We're all trying to pack a little more into less time and as a result, we're exhausting our physical, mental, emotional and spiritual well-being!  We need to gives ourSelves more permission to SLOW DOWN! Join Clare in this Mindful Minute (10 minutes) podcast on the importance of slowing down and living more presently throughout the day.  Listen to some of the ways in which we wasting time and energy 'rushing' and join her 5 minute challenge to SLOW DOWN each and every day!

The best advice I've ever heard in creating a successful business is to 'Find you SELF' and it was discussed in this very podcast. Meet Raeleigne Van Patten of Boundless Solutions Coaching, a successful business coach and kick-ass Mompreneur!  Raeleigne offers some sound advice for anyone starting a business, how to collect your knowledge and intelligence and how to stand apart from similar businesses in your community! There are a lot of people imitating the same business or product, so how can you show up, create your brand and continue to grow your business?  Find our here by listening to our candid conversation. For more information about how Rae can help successfully grow your business, please visit her at Boundless Solutions Coaching.

If you're navigating the depths + unchartered +uncertain waters of a separation or divorce, this podcast will leave you at the very least, taking a deep, calm and steady breath.   Listen as Clare shares her journey as a separate parent of almost 3 years, the difficult transitions and decision of leaving a unhealthy relationship and how to effectively parents your child through their own emotional need and well-being during a time of confusion.  We often hear about all the unruly and emotional tragedies a separation or divorce can cause but this is also a time of great surrender and  deep gratitude for it brings forth the ability to more authentic life and joyful life. As mentioned in the podcast, there is not such thing as perfectionism but there is such a thing as purpose.  Find yours and your children will surely find their own..

PLAY!   How much of your time is spent playing or having fun with your children?  I found out much of last year while sitting with people who were facing death that one of their biggest regrets (and sadly they had many) were that they didn't spend enough time playing, seeking adventure exploring with their children.   Where did we lose this sense of play and why aren’t we playing more as parents with our children? Join Clare for this 6 minute Mindful Minute podcast on the importance of PLAY.  How we as parents can lean into the discomforts of our own assumptions about PLAY in order to heal our relationship with our SELVES but also our relationship with our children!

We’re all aware that we’re made up of energy and structures and cells beyond the human existence. Healing modalities such as reiki have been used for centuries as a conduit of energy between soul and spirit. Meet Susanne Venaas, a Healer and founder of Soul Sense. She is a remarkable and unique healer who’s passion and calling it is to help her clients open to the infinitive possibilities and wisdom of healing from within. Join Clare and Susanne as they discuss the benefits and power of subtle energy; the challenges faced my an empath and the struggles in connecting with ones intuition. https://www.soulsenseab.ca

We all seem to be in a hurry.  One relationship ends and we jump directly into another and only to find out years later that everything seems to be a repetition of the pervious. The dating scene seems daunting but the distraction seems necessary in order to escape the emotion behind the pain of yet another failed relationship.  As a society, we're spending a lot of time and energy investing in other people and new relationships without actually taking the time to heal within.   Join Clare Newman for this amusing podcast on the 10 Actions to Dating Your Self!!  Listen as Clare shares her personal journey on navigating the fears of being a single woman, amused with being alone and all the emotions and fears that come with the loneliness.   The 10 Actions to Dating Your Self is less about rules and more of a conscious commitment to stay focused on healing your Self before entering into another relationship.  Getting to know and understand your Self before you spend your finite energy on another person will help to prepare you for a healthy, wholehearted relationship. Everything starts with the Self.  Lean in and Love!