Archive | July, 2009

Meet July’s CYC Guest Speaker: Candace Suarez!

WELCOME TO THE
CHANGE YOUR CHI™ NETWORK
FREE MONTHLY TELESEMINAR SERIES!

Meet July’s Inspiration Expert:

Candace Luma Suarez —
Soul Awareness Energy Healer

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Wednesday, July 29th
7pm-8:30pm E/T

“Demystifying Energy Healing”

(can’t make it on this date? Don’t worry —
it will be recorded and available for download!)

(dial-in info will be emailed to you once enrolled,
and will be recorded so you can download and listen after the call)

We have a real treat this month!

I’m sharing another one of my best-kept secrets with you: Join us as my OWN energy healer — the beautiful, gentle, wise and gifted Candace Luma Suarez — opens your eyes to the power of energy healing: specifically the “Soul Awareness” work that Candace has embraced for it’s spiritual depth, expansiveness and results.

You’ll be lead through meditations, gain a better understanding of your energy body, have a deeper and more profound respect for the complexity and power of your own energy system, and experience a live example of Candace’s unique technique. Ask questions, open your awareness… it’s going to be an amazing and magical night!

About Candace…

Candace is the epitome of unconditional love, gentleness, kindness and heart!

http://www.lumalighthealing.com

Candace Luma Suarez received her M.S. in Counseling Psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has more than ten years of experience as a Child, Adult and Family Therapist.

Through her own deep physical, emotional and spiritual healing, Candace was led to become certified in Soul Awareness Energy Healing with the Transformational Attunement School of Advanced Energy Healing, and to become an ordained minister through Inner Focus, a nondenominational New Thought Christian Church.

Combining her skills as an energy healer with her years of experience as a psychotherapist, Candace guides you on a journey to your soul, wherein can be revealed peace, clarity, self-acceptance, a connection to yourself and to God, a transformation of your present challenges and a greater sense of your life’s purpose.

Soul Awareness Energy Healing is a gentle, non-invasive healing method for restoring physical, emotional and spiritual health through universal life force energy.

What is Soul Awareness Energy Healing?

We all have an energetic body surrounding our physical body. Any challenge we experience manifests first in our energetic body. Through the process of Soul Awareness Energy Healing your soul is prayerfully invoked, bringing light to where your present challenges currently reside within your energetic body; your energetic, physical, mental and spiritual bodies are then naturally brought into alignment via the light of your soul. Since our souls know what is needed to bring us into wholeness at any given moment, this healing method is quite effective for the challenges we face and can bring about lasting transformations.

Sessions begin with an invocational prayer summoning your soul to create, maintain and sustain that which is for your highest good and greatest growth. Then, through a guided process of awareness (a quality of your soul), your energetic, physical, emotional and spiritual bodies are checked for blocks, discomfort and stagnant energy. In a deep meditative state, and with guided intention, energetic blocks are then located, identified and released. The divine light of your soul then naturally integrates more fully into your body, culminating in a process of deep gratitude to complete the healing, bringing about desired transformations.

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July 21st, 8pm E/T

(dial-in information will be sent to all CYC members)

Also join me for live online group chats in our
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Thursday, July 9th , 4-5pm E/T

Thursday, July 16th, 8:30-9:30pm E/T

Wednesday, July 22nd, 8-9pm E/T

Wednesday, July 29th , 8-9pm E/T

*When you enroll in this month’s featured lecture, as well as our bonus lectures listed above, you’ll automatically become a FREE Member of the Change Your Chi Network.

The Change Your Chi™ Network…

As a gift to all of you for joining us for this very special and very personal event, I’m also giving you a membership into my charter Change Your Chi™ Network, with your first 2 months absolutely FREE, and I want to share it with ALL of you for 60 days—no strings attached, no future payments ever required — simply 2 months of fun where you can meet new people, set personal goals (and achieve them!), be a part of something positive, and most importantly… Change Your Chi!

The Change Your Chi Community was created to help you kick-start your life by taking action, taking heart, and taking hold of your life! With monthly lectures from myself and other inspirational experts, we’ll teach you how to move more deeply and more powerfully through life — and all it’s amazing ups, and challenging downs. We’ll share insights and information only found in this community. And we’ve created an online interface for you to meet new people, give support and ask for help — all at once. But best of all is the monthly Change Your Chi™ Challenge! This is where you put it all together — education, community and action — and take the steps to change one part of your life over a 30 day period.

You’ll have access to all our past lectures and audio downloads, weekly e-Chi-Uppers, book group, online contact with our monthly speakers, loads of inspiring articles, member resources, online chats, support groups, personal blogs, and so much more…

You’ve got nothing to lose, and SO much to gain!

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More about Stephanie:

Stephanie McWilliams is the host of HGTV’s Fun Shui, John Edward’s “Infinite Quest”, and founder of EvolvingArts. She is a successful designer, feng shui consultant and life coach. She supporting people from all walks of life to live more playful, purposeful and passionate lives through her down-to-earth approach to transformation, spirituality and healing. She offers coaching programs, design consultations, workshops and retreats, providing a unique blend of practicality, spirituality and humor as she helps change the world, one happy person at a time! Join her, and Change Your Chi!

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Feng Shui Q&A

This week Tanna wrote:

What’s the best way to handle something you just can’t change without a construction team?  I.E., your door faces a direction that’s not beneficial for you.  Or your bed is under an open window with your feet pointing toward the door, but all the other walls are too narrow for the bed and the best wall for it has a closet there, etc.

I have a few thoughts for you Tanna… ready?

Without seeing your home, it’s tough to answer feng shui questions. It’s like talking to a doctor via email and expecting a clear diagnosis. If anyone DOES give specific advice via email without seeing your space, or if you get advice via a book, etc. then beware of taking the advice to heart in any stressful or limiting sort of way.

1. While you may be right, quite often there are fixes to the issues you’ve mentioned above that are far less extensive (and expensive) than breaking down walls. So keep an open mind that other alternatives might exist…

2. Many of the things that people THINK are “bad” for them from a feng shui perspective isn’t quite so bad. Sometimes it’s not bad at all! Reading a feng shui book, even my own, can only give guidelines and generalizations. We all know that no one diet works for every person, no one home style fits every personality, no one outfit works for all folks, and no one region fits everyone’s lifestyle. We MUST keep this in mind.

3. The first thing to take into account with feng shui is: How’s your life working?

If your life is going great, and your home or bedroom, etc. doesn’t fit into some common feng shui guidelines, then perhaps you’re doing just fine. Although if you’re not sleeping well, struggling through life, or challenged with relationships, and you can’t quite seem to find solutions that fit, you may need to hire professional help to get more specific and creative suggestions to your home’s design.

4. If you can’t change something, LOVE IT! That goes for ourselves and every other person and situation in our lives. Fighting “what is” creates undue stress and frustration, so embrace the home you have, yet keep reaching out joyfully for more insights and info if you’re moved to do so. Remember, the end result of good Feng Shui is to FEEL wonderful — so if anything you read has to thinking stressful thoughts about your home, release them, put a smile on your face, and move forward.

I see far, far, FAR too many people learning about feng shui and feeling less-than-fabulous about their homes afterwards. They feel badly that their home isn’t “right” or feel like everything is “wrong” in the space. Your home, as it is, found YOU – and is utterly perfect. And so are you. You have a relationship with one another, you and your home – and the sooner you embrace, accept and heal that connection, the more you two will begin to dance together.

Do the best you can with what you have. ALWAYS. Love your home – no matter what, no matter what, no matter what.

WRAP UP:

To get some general guidelines SPECIFIC to your home or room, please remember to join the CYC Network and get onto our Online Community – that way you can post specific questions and photos so we can take a deeper look. Up for the challenge, Tanna? Hope so…

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Five Summer Tips to Get You out of Reverse and Back into the Driver’s Seat of Life!

Five Summer Tips to Get You out of Reverse and Back into the Driver’s Seat of Life!

Summer is in full swing. It’s a time of growth, movement, change and action — a time to start new projects, commune with nature, leave old patterns behind and pave bold new pathways! While the sun is here to provide us with longer hours to pursue dreams and desires,  take advantage of this naturally fiery, energetic time of year and soak up all it has to offer. Especially if you’ve been feeling stuck in a rut, throw your life out of reverse and get back into the driver’s seat by following these 5 fun ways you can rev up your Chi (energy) this summer:

5. LIGHTEN UP!

When we’re wanting to make any sort of changes in life, it’s usually comes down to adding new behavior and releasing the old. And since your home is a direct reflection of your entire life and belief system, you want to remove and release all those things that are no longer serving you or reminding you of old and limited thinking.

Home-work: Go through your objects one by one, starting with a small area like a junk drawer, cabinet, dresser or corner of a room. Ask yourself the following questions to help you purge, sort and off-load all your stagnant stuff: 1. Do I need this? 2. Do I love this? 3. Does this represent who I’m going to become? Surrounding ourselves with environments that only speak to our ideal futures can provide mind-blowing inspiration at every turn through your home (or office), catapulting you into a life you’ll love!

4. STRAIGHTEN UP!

You likely know what I’m about to say… Yes, it’s time to clean things up and begin to organize your “stuff” – especially if you managed to slip past the whole Spring Cleaning boom!  The easiest and cheapest way to transform your home (and vicariously, your life) is to do some deep-down, hard-core cleaning. Touching and tending to all the nooks and crannies of your home can rev up the Chi and release old energy in a flash. And your mindset is important too – clean with reverence, joy, gratitude and thoroughness.  My teacher Jackie has a saying that truly says it all: “Clean like God is coming!”  I couldn’t have said it better myself…

Home-work: So what areas or objects around your home need some TLC? What hasn’t been touched, loved or dusted off in far too long? Look for those places that are out-of-sight and out-of-mind (like the tops of shelves, filing cabinets or underneath the couch)? Make a list of 3 areas that need some of your loving elbow grease this week and get to work! You’ll feel the difference, and your home will thank you too.

3. FRESHEN UP!

With summer being such an outdoorsy season — ideal for camping, sports, picnics and gardening –  the more we can surround ourselves with nature, the better!  Why? Because nature is one smart cookie — it has an order and balance built into it’s design that helps us stay healthy, grounded, light and uplifted. Not only does it create fresh air, water and food to nourish our bodies, but the precise shapes and colors have a calming effect built right into their cell structures.

In our modern age, we’ve moved farther and farther away from the innate wisdom of the great outdoors and more deeply into an artificial man-made world. Bringing nature and its healing effect into your life in any way possible will let you start breathing easy (in more ways than one).

Home-work: Do you have enough plants in your home? Or how about stones, bird baths or furry pets? If not, the easiest place to start is by bringing green living things into your space this season. Also consider opening up those heavy blinds and letting the sun flood in (at least for a few hours a day) – it’s an instant mood-booster! Or try diffusing high quality organic essential oils (straight from nature) to add an amazing jolt of joy to the air.

Also make sure to open up your windows each and every week — air can get stagnant, especially in air conditioned, sealed-off spaces. Start by opening one window in your home, continuing around in a giant circle until you get back to the starting spot – then begin to close them all up again. Adding this easy ritual to your weekly cleaning routine is a super-simple way to boost your home’s Chi!

2. CHEER UP!

Every person on the planet is after the exact same goal: to feel better. That desire comes through different forms, goals, beliefs or processes, but the end result is all the same. Adding in objects, artwork and items to your space that up your spirits and reflect your goals, loved ones, muses and mentors helps change your internal Chi by lifting your spirits and changing your entire biochemistry.  Any time we view something beautiful or uplifting, we begin to resonate with the energy of that thing. Those of you well-versed in the Law of Attraction know that what you think about, you bring about. And as James Ray says, “Where your attention goes, your energy flows!”

Home-work: Walk through your house and look at each bobble, photo, painting or sculture. Try to move out of your head and down into your body to see how you feel as you view each one. Do you feel better, neutral, or worse? Note these responses, since they are the key to their effect on your life.

Try boxing up or giving way those that no longer uplift you, and feature those items that open your heart, put a smile on your face and make you want to boogie! Life’s short, and your home is the best and easiest way to inject joy, comfort, love and lightness directly into your life.

1. SHAKE IT UP!

I heard an old Chinese saying once: “If you want to change your life, move 21 things in your house”.  Whether this is true or not, the point is still a great one. When you’re feeling stuck in a rut, the best thing to do is to make a change – and what easier way to do that than movin’ your stuff? It’s not important the number of things moved, but rather the change itself. Ever notice that after hanging a photo or posting a note, quite often you don’t even notice it a week or month later? Sometimes just the repurposing of something old can breath new life and excitement back into it…and us!

Home-work: Try moving around 21 (or more) things in your home this month.  Using your home as a tool for inspiration can honestly be just like having your very own live-in therapist encouraging you forward at every turn, 24-7. Making sure that things stay alive, uplifting and energized in your home can sometimes do as much good as getting professional support (and far cheaper too). You’ll feel the difference, and you won’t have spent a dime.

WRAP IT UP…

Now it’s time to go lighten, straighten,  freshen, cheer and shake up all the Chi in your home, putting these 5 points into action. Review the Home-work above and see how well you do. Notice any resistance or discomfort that comes up. Honor it, release it, take a deep breath and see if you can continue moving forward. Slowly over time, begin to allow your home to become medicine for your life – and trust me, you’ll be amazed at your own transformation!

So get to work on caring for your precious home and your precious self — It’s time to go LOVE IT UP!

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Join the Change Your Chi Network

Join the Change Your Chi Network

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Are you a professional woman looking to take your life,
career,  finances and relationships to a whole new level?

Are you tired of all the stress, to-do lists and distractions of your life?

Are you wanting to be more, do more and feel more in life?

Are you looking for a supportive community made up of like-minded positive people?

Do you know deep inside that you’re wanting more out of life?

Are you ready to Change Your Chi?

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The Change Your Chi Community was created to help you kick-start your life by taking action, taking heart, and taking hold of your life! We’re providing you with the three things missing from most professional women’s lives that keeps in them feeling overworked, overwhelmed and headed for burn-out.

I call them the Three C’s:

Community, Connection and Coachability.

1. COMMUNITY

We all know that women need community…but in these modern, busy times we simply don’t have the support we need to thrive and blossom.

We’ve created an incredibly heart-felt, supportive online community — full of like-minded, positive-thinking, forward-moving women like yourself. Share thoughts, get feedback, ask questions, write blogs, share music, trade recipes, talk to our experts and meet for live online weekly chats! The opportunities are endless…

1. CONNECTION

When we forget our connection to something greater than ourselves — to God, the Universe, Mother Nature or whatever we choose to call it — we naturally feel a deep inner void and our lives begin feeling meaningless.

Through amazingly talented monthly guest speakers — our “Inspiration Experts” I like to call them — we discuss a wide and wonderful variety of inspirational, spiritual and healing topics that help keep you tapped-in and tuned-in to your deeper awarenesses. We’ll help you heal your thinking, your body and your environment as you learn from some of the most cutting-edge spiritual teachers I know. These women will give you insights into your own spiritual development as their wisdom becomes your own. Since these women walk their talk, their wisdom can become your own,  expanding what you believe to be possible.

2. COACHABILITY

We all need a mentor. I know I’ve always had someone in my life whom I could count on as a teacher, friend and guide. To be lovingly coached through life’s challenges is the most invaluable gift I know… We also need the willingness to do things differently, to upload new ideas and to change old behaviors.

We all need someone to lean on and look up to. Each and every one of us. And this forum is geared to do just that. Through personal contact with many of our Inspiration Experts, access to live online coaching with me, Stephanie, as well as the ability to find powerful teachers and mentors within our very own membership group, you have a world of wisdom and warmth right at your fingertips. We also will be providing you with additional group and individual coaching so that you can take dreams and truly begin to soar! What are you waiting for?

With monthly lectures from myself and other inspirational experts, we’ll teach you how to move more deeply and more powerfully through life — and all it’s amazing ups, and challenging downs. We’ll share insights and information only found in this community. And we’ve created an online interface for you to meet new people, give support and ask for help — all at once. But best of all is the monthly Change Your Chi™ Challenge! This is where you put it all together — education, community and action — and take the steps to change one part of your life over a 30 day period.

You’ll have access to all our past lectures and audio downloads, weekly e-Chi-Uppers, book group, online contact with our monthly speakers, loads of inspiring articles, member resources, online chats, support groups, personal blogs, and so much more…

How “Change Your Chi”
can Change Your Life!


1. Get the insights of our amazing monthly Inspiration Experts that will expand your way of thinking, living and seeing the world!

2. Through access to all our past teleseminars (all available for download) you’ll have the tools available to stay constantly inspired and motivated — at work, in the car or at the gym!

3. With our live online chats, you can ask questions, meet new like-minded friends and have lots and lots of fun —

4. Listen to Stephanie speak live each month on various Chi-Changing topics — encouraging and exciting you toward your own personal goals!

5. Have your very own online journal where you can write out your struggles, road-blocks, insights and inspirations — and get encouragement and compliments from other members!

6. Through the friendly competition of our Change Your Chi Challenge, you’ll stay excited and on-track as you joyfully race to become one of our monthly CYC winners!

7. With our weekly Chi-Upper homework, you’ll stay focused and moving forward with your monthly Challenge goals!

8. Through our safe & supportive online community, you’ll be building your very own network of positive, like-minded women!

Some of our past Inspiration Experts include:

Sue Gilad — author of  Financial Freedom is SEXY!

Jean Haner — autor of The Wisdom of Your Face

Alex Jamieson — Costar of SuperSize Me

Sheri Zampelli — author of  From Success to Sabotage

Pamela Rich — Louise Hay Teacher of Heal Your Life Seminars

Evana Maggiore — Author of Fashion Feng Shui

LiYana Silver — Relationship Expert: Redefining Monogamy

Laura West — Founder of The Joyful Business Guide

Carol Skolnick — Facilitator for The Work of Byron Katie

Marge Richards — Sacred Journeys Facilitator The Work of Byron Katie

Alisa Vitti — Founder of Laughing Sage Wellness

When You Join, ALL of our past teleclasses
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Stephanie, I love CYC!

The online chat this morning was great! It put me in a such a good mood and now I am zenning my day away. :) Thanks so much for starting this community — without a doubt, I know that you and all the great people I have encountered in the seminars and here are changing my life.

It is wonderful to have a community to go to that is based on being positive and attracting good things for ourselves. I have been looking for a community like this, and there is no doubt that karma brought me here. For the first time in several years, I actually am happy and am excited about to the opportunities in my life right now. I have learned so much in the short time that I have been here, that I just can’t wait to see what else is in store for me and the rest of the community. Thank you for doing this! — Jessie Campbell

sherizampelliI love CYC and it’s a great foundation for support as well as a wonderful sounding board… One of the ways more women will get courage to live boldly and bravely is by having safe places like Change Your Chi to congregate and recharge. You are providing an immensely valuable service here and it plays an important role in my “big picture.”

—Sheri Zampelli, Author of From Sabotage to Success

290957381Change Your Chi Community is like a theme park — something for everyone!  Our leader Stephanie is genuinely interested and interesting, funny and savvy.  I’m thinking of hiring her to be my hip older sister!  (Even though she might be younger than me.)

In all seriousness, CYC has quickly become a major source of support and friendship for me.  Getting the feng shui angle on things pulls it all together too.  I highly recommend it!

—Tanna Boran, CLC, MSLC
Life Coach & Internet Dating Expert

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Being a part of the CYC community gives me a sense that I’m not alone in the world. Even though the people in the community are new to me, I still feel connected to them because they have similar goals and they are striving to change their lifes. The boosts of inspiration I get from Change Your Chi help me to feel stronger all throughout the day. — CYC Member

The best part about CYC Network and the online community is the positive support from the members. I enjoy checking in everyday and getting a lift — even if I am not getting any direct feedback from people, I love reading the support that others are getting. I have also learned so much from the speakers, and while some have been more impact on me that others, they ALL have have had some impact on me. My Chi is definitely changing for the better. —CYC Member

I loved the positive energy of all the guest speakers. They all gave real defined examples and explanations to put their concepts to use in my own life experience. And the online community is the BEST! I’m on every day, reading what others have posted, and always feeling inspired. Thank you so much for creating such an uplifting space. —Anonymous

I just love your spirit and the beautiful way you interact with the speakers and conduct the classes. I am so pleased to have found you. — Judith

There were so many amazing speakers and such insightful discussion. I also love having the audio to listen to again and again! Great job, Stephanie!!! — Tanya

I love all the speakers! The diverse group of women really touched a nerve. Thank you Stephanie! — Helena

Want even MORE incentive to join us?…

Come take the Change Your Chi Challenge!


The missing link for SO many people is… ACTION! We’ve structured our network to focus on the positive to help you make deep and lasting shifts in your own life. Through our “Change Your Chi Challenge” you select a personal monthly goal, get support and encouragement to follow it through, and then report back at the end of the month. We select one monthly winner, and weekly featured members… YOU may be our next Change Your Chi Challenge winner!


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Congrats to Diana – our Next CYC Challenge Winner!

Congrats to Diana – our Next CYC Challenge Winner!

Please congratulate Diana Calderonello

from Las Vegas, NV!

Diana is our June winner of the CYC Challenge –
Bravo, Diana!!!

For her June Challenge Submission, Diana wrote:

“The month is almost over but I wanted to write what my goals were for this month..this year. Simply, my goal is to survive. I recently lost the love of my life at the end of March from grade four brain cancer. I feel like I’ve stepped off the brain cancer roller coaster and have stepped on the grief roller coaster. We used to live our lives between MRI’s..now I’m living my life between breathes.

I’m going through all the stages of grief and even repeating certain stages multiple times. I admit my faith in my God has been shaken and I’m hoping this whole experience will make my relationship with Him stronger than before. I’m trying to transform my negative/sad thoughts to something more uplifting and cheerful. If that doesn’t work, I have started on the gratitude montra such as :

1. I’m grateful for my paycheck.

2. I’m grateful for a modest, beatiful home.

3. I’m grateful for friends and family.

4. I”m grateful for the beautiful memories of my husband.

5. I’m grateful for all those people who have helped me.

I make myself go to work everyday to financially survive. I make myself go to my shrink appoinments and my grief share group to help me gain the tools on how to survive. And I make myself be open to my friends and family so I don’t pass up on any opportunies of love and happiness. Although I miss my husband and love him more than words can say, I know he would want me to continue on and not take the remainder of my life for granted. So by surviving..i’m going to also take better care of myself…learn to live again.”

Diana will be receiving a custom-made glass necklace with my favorite quote: “Be the Change You Wish to See in the World” by Gandhi. She’ll also receive a framable certificate, an American Express Gift card, my new Feng Shui workbook, and a lifetime featured membership to the CYC Network.

For those of you who haven’t joined the CYC Community yet, please do so today so you won’t miss out on all the amazing guest speakers, thriving online community, prizes, book group, blogs, weekly online chats, and more! Just click the link above for the Change Your Chi Community and join lots of amazing women who are dedicated to changing their lives… and changing their chi!

Lots of love,

Stephanie & the Change Your Chi family

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