Marika Holmstrom Coach

Hey you ☺️ Thank you for being here! I know I haven’t been around much lately and I want to tell you why.

Earlier this year my role at my day job changed in a big way AND I got a puppy. Both of these things happened in the same week 😬😬 Even though they were both really good changes, they had me feeling stressed and overwhelmed pretty much all the time 🥺

Adjusting to these new roles and the responsibilities they bring, left me quite drained and I haven’t had the energy for pretty much anything else. Not even to properly take care of myself. I was making sure I did my job well, made sure the puppy was happy and healthy, but then I didn’t have any energy left to check in with myself to see if I was happy and healthy.

Knowing what to do and how to take care of yourself is one thing. Implementing them is another - especially when you feel completely drained. Epic amounts of empathy and compassion for myself is what got me through. And the gentle reminder that I am doing the best I can today ❤️

Now I’m a few months into this new life of a new job title and being a dog mama 😊and I have developed a new routine, a new everyday life. But during all of this I’ve also been tossing and turning about what to do with my business which has sadly been neglected lately 💔

I even considered closing the whole business down, but as someone who for many years struggled with a lack of self-worth on a deep subconscious level, that didn’t feel like the right option. My passion is to help anyone who feels less than and unworthy of everything amazing this life has to offer, to see themselves with new loving eyes. To discover the thought patterns that have kept them feeling unworthy and unloved ❤️

And then recently something amazing happened. Something just clicked in me and I got this spark of intuitive inspiration! ✨🤩 I’m not sure yet where this spark will take me, my coaching, and my business. But something new is coming and it feels good 🥰

I’ll keep you updated! In the meantime, how have you been? ☺️

Love,
Marika

“Self-care is the act of learning
to identify and care for your physical and emotional wants and needs, especially those that were denied in childhood.”

I was reading the book How to Do the Work by Dr Nicole LePera recently and came across this sentence.

And I can’t get it out of my head.

Being truly honest with ourselves about what our physical and emotional wants and needs are is only the first part of the equation. And it might actually not be the tricky part here.

The tricky part is staying true to those wants and needs.

How much are we willing and able to prioritize them in our everyday lives?

What are some of the bigger physical and emotional wants and needs?

What are the smaller ones?

For me, an act of self-care that fills my emotional need is starting my day slowly. That’s not always possible of course but when it is I do my best to stay truly present in the moment.

Another one that fills my physical want/need (I can’t quite decide which one it is 😄), is to start my day with a glass of warm lemon water. It feels soooo refreshing after a night’s sleep 🍋💦

Have you identified some of your physical and emotional wants and needs?

❤️

xx -M

This is a friendly reminder to let go of the forcing, pushing, and white knuckling your way to what you want.

Instead try to invite in an energy of allowing.

How does that feel? 💗

Hello world! ☀️

As cliché as it sounds, every morning truly is a new start. A new opportunity to start fresh.

Every morning invites us to choose again. To choose what we want to focus on.

Even if it feels like there is just one thing going right and a 100 things going wrong, focusing on that one good thing will help us figure out the solutions to the 100 things.

Forcing things to be different doesn’t get us anywhere. It only creates dis-ease.

And from a state of dis-ease it’s very difficult to get connected to our true self, our self-worth, our happiness.

What are you choosing to focus on today? ✨💗🙏

xx - M

“Feeling lonely is not based on our circumstances, it’s based on our own relationship with ourselves.”
- Peter Crone

If someone had asked me 10 years ago what my relationship with myself was like, I wouldn’t have understood what they meant.

Relationships felt external to me. It never even occurred to me to turn my attention inwards. But that’s exactly what needed to happen in order for me to understand, take care of, and love myself better than I ever had.

Here are a few things you can do to start deepening your relationship with yourself:

💛 Getting enough sleep.

💛 Setting boundaries.

💛 Acknowledging and allowing all of your feelings without running away from them, hiding or numbing them.

💛 Breathing. And I mean those deep belly breaths ☺️

💛 Being honest with yourself.

💛 Moving your body in a way that feels good.

💛 Forgiving yourself.

💛Letting go of resentment.

💛 Becoming aware of your internal limiting beliefs.

💛 Accepting what is. It may not be ideal, but it is what it is.

💛 Accepting what never was.

💛 Letting go of the idea of all the things you “should” have accomplished in your life by now.

💛 Being kind and compassionate towards yourself.

💛 Nourishing your body in a way that leaves you energized.

💛 Valuing yourself.

And from time to time giving yourself a loving hug 🤗🤗☺️❤️

Feel like deepening your relationship with yourself? Let’s have a chat 💞💞

Click this link and book your free connecting session: https://sbfm9jrszqo.typeform.com/to/SrIdrKOd?typeform-source=marikaholmstrom.com

xx,
- M

What are your underlying internal needs that you are currently looking for in your external circumstances?

In part 3 of the Live Happy minicourse we explore internal needs and external circumstances. For full content of the course go to: https://holvi.com/shop/happygoluckycoaching/product/585b6704060778a0e2dacb686e270f2a/

Happy Monday! 🤗✨

xx
-M

”Self-worth is an inside job.”
- Brianna Wiest

No one else can give it to you.

It might feel like your self-worth is attached to external things - your partner, your job, your bank account.

I want to remind you that it’s not.

If your partner breaks up with you, you are still worthy.
If you lose your job, you are still worthy.
If you lose all of your money, you are still worthy.

Reading this you might not believe me. In your mind you might be listing dozens of things you feel lacks from your life. And how if only you had those things THEN you would feel like you are worthy.

But that is not your authentic self talking. It’s your ego.

Your ego’s number one objective is to be right. And the thing it wants to be right about is it’s own inadequacy.

I’ll repeat that:
Your ego’s number one objective is to be right. And the thing it wants to be right about is it’s own inadequacy.

Therefore take your focus away from the ego and turn it to your heart and your intuition 💞🙏

Love,
Marika

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There is no such thing as a happiness checklist.

No. Such. Thing.

We can’t just make a list and only expect to be happy once we have those things in our lives.

Happiness is found in the present moment and not in our future.

So what we need to do is ask ourselves what is actually the internal need behind the things we think will bring us happiness.

What are your fundamental internal needs that you are currently expecting from your external circumstances?

One part of my Live Happy minicourse is dedicated to this very profound question.

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There you will find more information about the minicourse! 💞🙏✨

I hope you have a happy weekend!

Love,
Marika

🌟🌟NEW COURSE ALERT!!!🌟🌟

Live Happy is a minicourse to guide you to rediscover your happiness and self-worth.

It is for anyone who feels ready to finally say YES to themselves.
Anyone who is looking to make a shift in their lives.
Anyone who wants to take the first steps on the path to happiness, self-worth, and the life they truly desire.

The course consists of five parts.

❤️ Part 1 | Uncover Beliefs

Our internal beliefs are the lenses through which we view ourselves and the world.
In this part, you will become aware of:
What your internal beliefs are
How they manifest in your life
Why you are holding on to them
Where they originated from

❤️ Part 2 | Clear Spaces

In this part, we will focus on clearing your spaces and letting go of anything and everything that doesn't serve you anymore. Clear your physical space (home), mental space (mind), and emotional space(heart) from everything that is weighing them and you down.

❤️ Part 3 | Create Awareness

What if everything you are craving and needing from your external circumstances you were able to give to yourself? What if your happiness was only reliant on you?

With the guidance of the exercise in this part, you will create awareness for the external circumstances where you think your happiness is and what the internal need behind it is.

❤️ Part 4 | Feel Happiness

It is not about finding your self-worth, it is a matter of returning to it.

Ground yourself in a gentle self-worth meditation and get clear on what your happiest life consists of. The life you are so worthy of!

❤️ Part 5 | Love Yourself

How do you show yourself that you love yourself?

Learn to reframe and shift your internal beliefs and continue on the path of happiness with a 30-day self-care exercise.

You will walk away with:
✨Greater clarity about your beliefs and how to reframe them.
✨Understanding yourself better.
✨The awareness of what your underlying internal needs are that you are currently looking for in your external circumstances.
✨A feeling of lightness.

How it works
For each of the five parts of the course, there is a short video and a workbook. You will receive the links to the videos and a download link for the workbooks upon purchase.
An optional 30-minute Zoom call is included in the course. So if at any point during the course you feel like you would benefit from a 1-on-1 session to ask questions about the exercises or get some coaching you have the option to do so.

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Love,
Marika
❤️

A gentle reminder for you 💗

It’s not about discovering your self-worth. It’s about returning to it.

You were and are always worthy. It was just that life got in the way and distracted you.

But it’s always there for you to return to 💖

Hope you are having a great Monday!

xx,
-M