When in doubt ... smaller and slower!

Discover the key to creating a lasting and impactful body of work with my top tip.

In somatics, pushing too hard or pushing your movements beyond the limit of your body’s comfort is counterproductive. It causes additional strain, contraction, and injury. Instead, we engage the smallest movements with full awareness to open, soften, and strengthen the soma’s pathways.

In this way bit by bit we build a platform of full mobility and freedom on all levels. You cannot engage somatics from green light.

Similarly, most start-ups and new ventures fail in the first one to three years because the founders urge to go fast and push beyond the natural cycle.

The statistic is even higher in the transformational coaching and counselling services milieu. Founders often feel the elation of early success and the inner urge for more and faster. Differentiating too fast, looking at the next version before fully developing a rich, deep foundation, and truth testing as a true Master of their new craft predicts failure.

Driven by excitement and possibility they feel assured they must go into the next step. Most startups in the transformational services field never make it. I know hundreds of these cases and have witnessed thousands of others.

The Bold & Visible Integrated Business Method is predicated on going deep, gaining true mastery, and laying a solid foundation before differentiating to new products, services, and significant scaling. It builds in the somatic pulse that allows you to expand and regulate along with your new venture. It generously curates a new pace, patience, and embodied rhythm. This NEW business model includes YOU. The space to grow safely to take bigger and bigger risks and own your value in your bones.

We approach building our premium-value body of work just like learning the floor work. Notice … is going slowly agitating me? What do I miss when I speed through the movements? What happens when I mentalize my floor work, thinking, "I know this already; let’s move on?”

Building your unique body of work - one that is solid and will grow abundantly for the rest of your life - rests on simple, slow, deliberate movements, repeated and repeated with patience and awareness.

This model helped me build high-value ventures in the conventional world, and it is how I built and am building the Bold & Visible Empire of Love and Impact.

As our brilliant Somatic Educator Ethann Elwayns always says …

“When in doubt, smaller and slower.”

By: Callie B. Elwayns, Founder and Curator

You are not Separate ... a practice in clear-seeing

The transformative power of gratitude and repentance.

You can watch Callie’s video and listen to her ‘clear-seeing practice’ below.

Overview: In order to truly embrace our authentic selves, it is essential to wake up to our core existential fear and sense of separation from the larger universe, God’s love. Our physical body plays a critical role in this process of awakening and reconnecting to that unified field. To better align with our authentic life force, we must let go of past traumas, outdated survival mechanisms, and any feelings of victimhood and instead take responsibility for our own reality.

It is true that we have been shaped by circumstances, experiences, and people that, through help or hurt, have contributed to who we are today. Yet our freedom lies in taking 100% responsibility for our responses to those circumstances and for what is showing up in our lives because of our choices and our primitive yet intelligent survival reflexes. To do this, we must cultivate self-compassion and release internal somatic patterns of shame and self-blame.

The clear-seeing repentance practice is courageous work. It requires us to turn toward ourselves with sincere honesty and identify the places where we may have harmed others (or ourselves), intentionally or unintentionally. In this practice, we admit our wrongs, release all blame, and sincerely repent. As always, we will do this practice from a place of curiosity, wonder, and sovereignty without taking on the old yoke of shame or self-loathing.

To see clearly is:

1. To honestly review one’s actions, to feel and express contrition for past wrongs, accompanied by a deep commitment to actions that show and prove a change for the better.

2. To recognize and admit how one’s actions hurt others and/or oneself - even if those actions were unintentional, unconscious, or arose out of pure survival instincts.

3. Acknowledge, feel, and express sincere remorse about one's actions that caused harm or confusion to oneself or others.

In doing so, we move out of blame and into sovereignty, restoring the equilibrium of our true inner nature. We have a choice. When we admit our wrongs, release all blame, and repent sincerely, the inner emotional toxins begin to empty out of our physical body, and our somatic patterns soften and release.

As we take radical responsibility, we become increasingly free from what has blocked our truest expression. We naturally become more authentic, dissolve our sense of separation, and open to the unified nature of who we really are. Our relationships heal. Our bodies and our hearts heal, and our Divine inner nature, which is ever present, naturally begins to shine forth.

Locked-up and, or erupting emotions are the cause of disease, disconnection, exhaustion, isolation, and chronic invisibility patterns. These emotions arise directly from relationships with others because there are things that we have never fully acknowledged, expressed, or taken responsibility for. They are often at the deep root of our embodied patterns of limitation.

We can use emotions like a compass to help us locate and gain access to what we have not yet acknowledged, felt, or owned.

Callie teaches from the powerful awareness of her near-death experiences.

Listen to the Clear-seeing Guided Audio Practice here:

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Dissolving into Love: how My near-death experiences transformed my life & mission in the world.

It’s time!

In this time of change and disruption, I am being called to share my near-death experiences (NDEs) with my community and anyone wanting to listen. These experiences started more than 30 years ago when I began experiencing recurring spontaneous lung collapses over a 12-month, resulting in double lung surgery.

These experiences have profoundly transformed my life and shaped my Divine mission in the world.

Today I support conscious Female Entrepreneurs, Leaders, Healers, Coaches, Consultants, and Therapists to unleash their original voice, embody their divine story and step up to the IMPACT they were born to have in the world.

For years I held my near-death experiences close. They were deeply sacred and direct experiences with the ineffable Divine force of love and creation itself. I was not ready to share outside of my very close circle.

Today I openly share these experiences and the lessons they gifted my life to the public. I have also begun incorporating them more directly into my body of work, The Somatic Transformational Story Method®. You will see more of this kind of content from me in the future.

I invite you to:

• Watch the video below, where I share my NDE with a class of my students in June 2023. Be sure to like and subscribe to my YouTube channel 🙏

• Read the Five BIG lessons my NDE taught me below the video in this blog.

You can find me here on my website or contact me at boldandvisible.com/connect

I would love to hear from you.

May you be blessed. Love 🧡 Callie

Five BIG lessons

Near-Death Experiences and Spiritual Transformation

My near-death experiences acted as profound catalysts for my spiritual awakening. During these moments, I encountered an ultimate, ineffable loving force, a process I can only describe as "dissolving into love." This wasn't an end but rather a beautiful beginning that shattered my conventional understanding of existence. I discovered a higher realm where love and divinity are the only reality, transcending the traditional barriers of individual identity and melding the self with the divine. These profound realizations shifted my life's trajectory, reshaping my values, goals, and the very essence of my existence.

The Profound Role of the Physical Body

I learned to see my body not merely as a vessel for my conscious mind but as a conduit for divine essence. I've come to understand that every cell within me is imbued with this divine essence, positioning the body as an embodied microcosm of the divine macrocosm. This perspective revolutionized my relationship with my body, inviting me to honour and cherish it not just as a biological entity but as a sacred vessel of divine love. I've developed a profound respect for physical health and well-being, recognizing them as integral to my spiritual wellness.

The Concept of Somatic and Divine Safety

Amid the chaotic and unpredictable nature of my life, I often struggled to find a deeply rooted sense of safety. However, during my spiritual journey, I discovered a profound sense of safety in the divine realm. This sense of ultimate safety was in stark contrast to the feelings of stress and danger I had experienced in the physical world. I realized this sense of ultimate safety and love is always accessible to me, reshaping my approach toward life.

Addressing Past Traumas

My life has been punctuated by personal traumas that manifested in physical symptoms like lung collapses. I've learned that addressing and integrating these traumas are crucial to realizing my authentic self and living freely. Recognizing the physical manifestations of my trauma and their impact on my health and well-being, I've dedicated myself to healing, both physically and spiritually.

Your Original Nature and Divine Mission

My journey has been about more than survival—it's been about self-empowerment and living authentically. Through my experiences, I've come to understand that everyone has the potential to experience this divine connection and can use it as a source of empowerment and self-realization. Today, I'm not just surviving but living my life fully, comfortable in my own skin and powerfully connected to the divine essence within me.

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The hidden cost of trauma: How to unleash your authentic voice

I was 20 years old the first time my lungs collapsed.

A combination of genetics and survival trauma from living homeless on the streets as a teenager had wreaked havoc on my body.

Dr Goldstein was worried about me. He told me that according to Chinese medicine, fear and shame attack the lungs. That made sense. The truth is, I had been living in a state of fear and hyper-vigilance my whole life.

Two years later I was recovering from massive double lung surgery.

The sheer joy of being alive was palpable. I was determined to live life fully, hold a positive mindset and never look back. I remember running on the beach that summer as the sun rays caressed my deeply scarred, 90-pound body.

Those early years stretched me as a single mom with two little kids, two jobs, going to university. I focused all my energy on moving forward.

What I didn't realize, was the early trauma and disconnection that preceded my lung surgery was still unresolved and frozen in my body.

I earned a graduate degree with distinction and grew a successful public leadership career. I was a confident speaker, trusted business advocate, pioneer and change maker in my field. Yet, I secretly dimmed down, played small and disconnected from myself and others. I felt isolated, unseen and unknown at a core level.

I longed to bring my true voice and gifts forward into the world in a much bigger and more authentic way.

So, I spent years on the mat and under the mentorship of beloved teachers, I read all the books, spent thousands of dollars on the best self-help programs, mindset and behavioural reprogramming … and I complete hundreds of hours of therapy.

Yet, years later, I was living inside the same patterns getting the same results. It was like I had one foot on the gas and one foot on the brake.

I would achieve incredible heights of career and personal success that would inevitably end in massive change, leaving me feeling exposed, uprooted, and having to start all over again.

Living in shame and unresolved trauma was painful confusing and exhausting.

Why it matters …

As pioneering women, we are being called to offer the world our own unique contribution. It requires us to stand in the power and confidence of our own voice and take much larger personal risks than we have so far.

When I stepped out of my corporate leadership role and into my own purpose-driven business, I realized that my mission was so important it required me to get visible! But how?

Despite being so strong and accomplished, many of us still struggle to speak our truth, stand in our true value and get visible with our ideas, products and services.

What it comes down to is that many of us are stuck inside of chronic invisibility patterns, rooted in embodied trauma, day-to-day survival stress and a lack of somatic safety.

Unresolved trauma shapes us

It shapes our posture, our identity and our voice. It shapes how we move into the world, how we interact with the world and how life itself responds back to us.

When I began my early somatic educator training, I was shocked to discover that I was locked inside of chronic invisibility patterns wired deep in my nervous system with roots in early unresolved trauma. 

You may not have experienced a 'large T' trauma, like a lung collapse, a tragic accident, or the sudden loss of a loved one. But you likely did have 'small t' early experiences where you felt exposed and fundamentally unsafe. These happen every day in our family of origin, at school or in society at large. To the body, trauma is trauma no matter the origin.

If you’re experiencing this, you’re not broken.

In fact, you’re quite normal, and it’s not your fault.

Our research with over 1000 women, shows that a fundamental lack of safety to speak up and be seen prevails in many women’s lived experiences today, even though they are highly accomplished contributors and leaders in their field.

When hidden trauma becomes chronic invisibility patterns ...

• You may secretly feel isolated and unseen at a core level, even though you’re an accomplished, confident woman.

• You might shrink back, dim down and avoid opportunities to be seen and heard, even though you long to be fully expressed as YOU.

• Your accomplishments may sometimes go unrecognized, even though you support and recognize the accomplishments of others.

The good news is that the solution is closer than you think. It's important to acknowledge the external structural issues that still hold women back. Yet, in my experience, the most effective way to step into leadership is through our own bodies.

To unleash my voice and get truly visible, I had to awaken and activate my body and generate a platform of SOMATIC safety and nervous system integration.

You can unleash your voice!

Most women are shocked when they experience their true voice for the first time! In fact, one small experience of your true voice can change your entire life and career trajectory.

Join me on Wednesday, June 7th, 2023, 10 am - 12 pm MST for Unleash Your Voice: Free Online Voice Experience!

Learn how to take up space and speak your truth with unshakable confidence and ease, even if you have been holding back for decades.

Discover

• The truth about where your voice is locked and how to unleash it.

• How hidden cycles of trauma and stress affect women.

• How to reconnect with your true voice and become fully expressed in every moment.

You have something to say!

Female Entrepreneurs, Leaders, Speakers, Coaches, Consultants, and Therapists. If your mission depends on getting your ideas across with massive impact this is for YOU.

Callie B. Elwayns offers life changing programs and mentorship, to catapult women into bold new levels of leadership presence, visibility, career and business success.

Her proprietary, Somatic Transformational Story Method ™ is a powerful step by step process rooted in years of applied research as a trauma informed somatic movement educator. It builds on her journey from the street as a homeless youth, to over two decades of business leadership success at the forefront of public and private companies and includes her skills as a powerful speaker, stage performer, transformational coach and mentor.

The Bold & Visible Monologues is a TED Style Stage for Transformational Women’s Stories.