Meredith - The Midlife Coach

Do you trust yourself?

If you had asked me that 5 years ago, I would have said, "Of course I do."

But it turns out, not so much.

When I did the deep, healing work, I found that there were a lot of ways that I didn't trust myself.

I didn't trust myself to handle tough emotions. Any emotion that was deemed "weak," I found a way to stuff it with food, denial, caffeine, or alcohol, or sometimes all four!

I had been taught to work hard, to put other people's needs first, and the reality was, I wasn't a trustworthy friend to myself.

So, while I spent 2017 getting rid of a lot of relationships with other people who weren't there for me when times were tough, I have spent the last few months cleaning up my own act and becoming a trustworthy friend to myself.

So, are you a trustworthy friend to yourself?

Would you like to be?

I'm opening 2 group opportunities to start in January 2023.

🤔 January is all about Tapping Into Your Intuition and Being a Trustworthy Friend to Yourself, which is perfect when you're working on New Year's Resolutions.

💖And for Valentine's Day in February, it's all about Letting Love In.

💪 In March, we'll Increase Your Confidence!

🎤And in April, you'll be Speaking Your Truth.

😁 In May, it's So Long, Stress! Embracing the Peaceful Present.

🎁 In June, it's So Long, Superhero Complex! Opening Up to Receiving!

Whether you have 2 hours a month or 10 hours a month to devote to it, I've got you covered! (2 programs, 2 prices, 2 opportunities!)

Who's ready to jump in, do a deep dive, and transform their lives?

You'll get access to a FREE, deeply healing, recorded hypnosis every month, 2 group coaching sessions a month, a private Facebook group, and of course, a training video for each month with exercises to do. Pick and choose your favorite topics to dive into, or pick all 6! You get the deepest discount if you pick all 6, of course.

And the first 3 people to sign up for the 6-month program get a FREE individual hypnotherapy session with me ($500 VALUE)! That's in addition to the deeply discounted Early Bird Special!

Message me EARLY BIRD or drop an emoji below to secure your spot!

Have just 2 hours a month for self-help? Or like to do things slow and steady, dipping a toe in first?

I've got you!

In my new membership program, we will cover the same themes each month, but we will just dip a toe in instead of doing a deep dive. You'll get a training video and one or two exercises to do over the course of the month. There will be one Q & A session per month, and you can submit your questions in advance to be answered on the call. There is NO private Facebook group. This is predominantly a self-study option.

The first 50 people (men or women) to join this month will be locked in at $19.99 per month. After that, the price goes up to $25 per month!

Message me 1999 to get into the membership. (Now, I don't know about you, but I'm singing, "Tonight I'm going to party like it's 1999," in my head now.

Have a friend who would love the membership? BOGO! Get her a month of membership absolutely FREE when you join! Message me BOGO 1999 to make it happen!

So, again, ready for a deep dive into your best year yet? Message me EARLY BIRD! First 3 to register get a FREE hypnotherapy session with me (VALUE $500)!

Only have a couple hours a month available? Want to dip a toe in and see how it goes? Message me 1999! First 50 to sign up this month get grandmothered in at a low rate!

Let's make 2023 your best year yet!

Operators are standing by! (OK, it's just me. For now. 😂)

I just love the Old Wheeler Hotel !

Networking at Astoria Brewing Company with the Astoria-Warrenton Area Chamber of Commerce . Great space and great people! ❤️

A-W Chamber Lunch & Learn Series

I'm looking forward to offering a FREE group hypnotherapy session today to members of the Astoria-Warrenton Area Chamber of Commerce ! ❤️

A-W Chamber Lunch & Learn Series Lunch and learn with fellow members as we dig into different topics each month. - 11/16/2022

Do you get in your own way when it comes to getting your work done?

This can look like

🙈 procrastinating

📚 procrastilearning (feeling like you have to keep learning, keep taking courses, and never implementing what you've learned because you never feel good enough or ready)

🧹procrasticleaning (tidying your house or your office instead of just doing what you're avoiding)

🤯 analysis paralysis (doing the research, but not knowing what the right decision is, so doing more research, or just not making a decision at all - which is also a decision)

🏃‍♀️ going for a walk or a run or to the gym to get rid of excess energy

😶‍🌫️ hiding in bed under the covers.

This can feel like

😖 stressed out

😖 anxiety

😨 fear

😖 dread

🤯 can't concentrate or think

😶‍🌫️ just want to hide.

You don't have to "feel the fear and do it anyway." That's a recipe for burn out when that's your only strategy.

Instead, why not let me help you to get rid of the fear? Then, you can quickly and easily get your work done. Easy, peasy.

I'm offering a free taster session of hypnotherapy this Wednesday, November 16, 2022, at the Seaport Masonic Lodge in Astoria, Oregon.

And every participant will have access to an exclusive FLASH SALE price to work with me!

Can't make it? DM me FLASH SALE and I'll give you the FLASH SALE price, too! 💖

Let's get you out of your own way! 💖

I had so much fun kicking off the Small Business Management series (SBM) with the Tillamook Bay Small Business Development Centerlast night!

We had owners of established businesses -

🥧 the best secret restaurant in Tillamook County,
🌮 a Mexican restaurant where the younger generation is stepping up and into running the family business, and
📚 🧼a woman who makes her business with words - editing, ghostwriting, and helping businesses get clear on their marketing.

We had new businesses -

🧼 handcrafted soaps
📕 handcrafted journals, paper, and bookbinding.

There were "ah ha!" moments and changes already being planned when people left last night.

If you'd like to join us, reach out! It's going to be a fun 9 months together!

Ready for the 😀

If you have Clam Bucks, come spend them with me!

1 = $10 💵

I'm setting up a 6-month group program to start next month.

😀 Stress + Anxiety Relief
💝 Receiving + Asking for Help
💪 Confidence
❤️ Love
🎤 Speak Your Truth
🤔 Tapping into Your Intuition

I'm thinking of allowing participants to be able to access just 1 month or the full 6.

Which ones speak to you?

🐥 Drop an emoji below or message me if you want the Early Bird Special. 🐣

Ideation Guide LLC

I'm so excited to have joined the Astoria-Warrenton Chamber of Commerce!

Are you doing the Great Columbia Crossing? I am!

With the Great Columbia Crossing, you get Clam Bucks to be spent at participating businesses, but they're only good for a limited amount of time. I'm offering a great deal for you and your Clam Bucks! Each Clam Buck is worth $10 with me, so 5=$50 OFF and 10=$100 OFF my services. 💵💵💵💵💵

Message me to set up an appointment and cash in your Clam Bucks!

Ideation Guide LLC Meredith is a change maker, empowering people worldwide to live their best lives with her unique blend of coaching + hypnotherapy. She offers facilitation + workshops for biz + org's.

Tim just dropped off my donation to the Tillamook Estuaries Partnership (TEP) upcoming auction - a guide to using a pendulum to access your subconscious mind, with a handmade journal by Kristi Hanson and her Neat Art Studio, and a pendulum from Maggie at Adventures in Woo.

Do you ever get in your own way? You know you want to do something, you know how to do it, but you just can't get yourself to do it?

That's your subconscious mind at work, refusing to go along with what you consciously want. Using just a pendulum and a piece of paper, you can have a conversation with your subconscious mind, and perhaps even get it to change its mind!

The Silent Auction will be open for bidding starting today. I hope you'll join me in checking it out and seeing what you could win! (And also supporting the Tillamook Estuaries Partnership, of course. 😉)

Modern Prairie

I'm going to be in this Thursday's edition of Modern Prairie's newsletter as a Maven Worth Mentioning!

If you'd like to sign up for their newsletter and see the article, here's the link 👇👇

https://www.modernprairie.com/

There's definitely a part of me that is going full-out fan girl because it's Melissa Gilbert from the US TV series, "Little House on the Prairie," who created Modern Prairie, and she was part of the decision to include me in their Modern Maven Series! 🤯😎🥳

Modern Prairie Photo by Remember: It’s not selfish to love yourself, take care of yourself and to make your happiness a priority - It’s time to treat yourself to 15% off our site!!! As we head into this long weekend we’d like to honor and celebrate our artisans who are creating amazing products...

I'm so excited to be taking part in this Energy Healing Event today in Garibaldi from 10 - 7!

Come by my vendor booth - I'll show you how to use a pendulum!

We can also talk about any questions you may have about hypnotherapy.

I'm giving a talk at 1:00 pm called The Root of All Healing.

💖 We all want to feel loved and appreciated for who we are.

😢 And yet, over time, we can end up feeling quite the opposite.

😢 We may hunker down in a job or relationship in which we are miserable, believing we can't do any better.

💖🏃‍♂️🏃‍♀️We may chase love, running after people who can't give us the love we want or need.

🚫 We may wall ourselves off from others.

👿 We may say terrible things to ourselves or torture ourselves with perfectionism.

😢 We may have given up on our dreams.

😢 We may have forgotten how to have joy in our lives.

💖🌱 Healing starts at the root. In healing that part of us that feels unloved and unsafe, we set ourselves free.

💖 This class will include guided meditation to start you on your healing journey.

So, come for a visit, come for the class, come for whatever you want. Just come and check it out! 💖

So, I did a thing....

Actually, I did a lot of things in the last 30 days, and Fey, seen below on a hike we did yesterday, is just one of the new things I have going on.

Tim and I got Fey a week ago today. She is still settling in, learning our ways, as we also learn hers. As she's a rescue, she comes with her own special needs - a nervous stomach and digestive tract.

That might make me a rescue, too, since I also have a nervous stomach. 😂

Fey loves to watch the deer 🦌 in our neighborhood. She will literally sit and watch them, if they simply stay still. However, if they bound off, she wants to run after them. She probably would have been very good at sheep herding, but that is not a profession I wish to entertain in my future. 🐑🐏🚫😂

So, how about you? What's new in your life?

How about you?

Who has signed up for this INCREDIBLE virtual conference created for female entrepreneurs by the AMAZING Vicky Walters of She Speaks Business? Show of hands below. ✋🙋‍♀️

If you've been doing business online or you've been wanting to do business online, you've probably fallen prey to the miracle transformation courses that promised you a miracle 🙌🎉🥳💰 and delivered ... a lot less 😫.

You did the work, just like they said you should, but instead of earning $100,000 💰💰💰🤑 in 100 days, you earned $0, and now, you're out the money you spent on the course 💸, and you're wondering if you should just give up.

OR

You didn't do the work because you got in your own way in some fashion, and you couldn't get yourself to do the work because mindset wasn't covered in the course, and you feel like a failure and you're wondering if you should just give up 😢.

OR

You feel like everyone else is doing it faster and better than you, so you must be a failure, and you feel like no one else is struggling like you are (completely untrue), and you're wondering if you should just give up 😰.

THIS CONFERENCE IS FOR YOU!

We're Ditching the BS and keeping it real, talking about what it's really like to be a solopreneur starting out and how you can move forward in creating your business your way.

⭐ WHEN: September 28 - 30, 2021

⭐ WHAT: 15 speakers - 5 each day - providing information on visibility, marketing, mindset, branding, networking, tech, content creation, diversity, and more.

⭐ Catch me on September 28 when I'll share "Moving Out of Your Comfort Zone When Your Brain & Body Are Dragging You Back In!" That's September 28 at 8 am PT, 11 am ET, 4 pm BST.

⭐ COST: The suggested donation for 3 days of speakers and networking is ONLY 15 pounds (about $20)!

All proceeds from this virtual conference go to benefit Global Grassroots, which is an awesome nonprofit in Africa which empowers girls through education and women through coaching, education, and seed money to start their own businesses.

https://shespeaksbusiness.co.uk/ditchbs/

Four years ago, my dog, Harley, and I took a road trip around the Gaspe Peninsula in Quebec, Canada. It's a beautiful, rural part of Canada where people speak French as their native language.

I didn't realize it when I planned the trip, but it's also where my maternal grandparents went for their honeymoon.

For me, it was part of my healing journey, a way to stretch my comfort zone and take back the ability to travel, which was such an important part of my life before the attempted kidnapping, which had happened 2 years earlier.

I had planned to make the road trip alone, but I was too afraid to do so, so I brought Harley to give me an extra dose of courage and protection.

This picture was taken at the New Brunswick Botanical Garden on the way to the Gaspe Peninsula. (I have a thing for botanical gardens.)

If you're struggling, and you'd like a better life, but you're not sure how to get there, message me or drop an emoji below. I'm strengths-based and solution-focused, and I can help.
I have one spot open for coaching!

We are going to have SO MUCH FUN on Saturday in my FREE Facebook group, Living Your Best Life at Midlife and Beyond!

I’ll be interviewing Dr. Celina Criss of Delightful Mischief ! A Certified S*x Coach, Celina (she/her) encourages exploration and celebration of individual sexuality. She believes that sexual wellbeing, pleasure, and expression are essential components of the human experience. And they are essential components at midlife and beyond!

We would love to have you join us for this discussion! It's happening in my FREE Facebook group, Living Your Best Life at Midlife and Beyond!

Celina is the Curriculum Director at S*x Coach U, the premier training for Certified S*x Coaches, has a private practice online, and leads S*xual Attitude Reassessment (SAR) Trainings internationally.

Celina and I will be on together this Saturday at 10 am Oregon, 1 pm NH and Maine, 6 pm UK, 7 pm Norway. Come join us in Living Your Best Life at Midlife and Beyond! 💖

I am SO EXCITED to share with you this INCREDIBLE virtual conference created for female entrepreneurs by the AMAZING Vicky Walters of She Speaks Business!

If you've been doing business online or you've been wanting to do business online, you've probably fallen prey to the miracle transformation courses that promised you a miracle and delivered ... a lot less.

You did the work, just like they said you should, but instead of earning $100,000 in 100 days, you earned $0, and now, you're out the money you spent on the course, and you're wondering if you should just give up.

OR

You didn't do the work because you got in your own way in some fashion, and you couldn't get yourself to do the work because mindset wasn't covered in the course, and you feel like a failure and you're wondering if you should just give up.

OR

You feel like everyone else is doing it faster and better than you, so you must be a failure, and you feel like no one else is struggling like you are (completely untrue), and you're wondering if you should just give up.

THIS CONFERENCE IS FOR YOU!

We're Ditching the BS and keeping it real, talking about what it's really like to be a solopreneur starting out and how you can move forward in creating your business your way.

⭐ WHEN: September 28 - 30, 2021

⭐ WHAT: 15 speakers - 5 each day - providing information on visibility, marketing, mindset, branding, networking, tech, content creation, diversity, and more.

⭐ Catch me on September 28 when I'll share "Moving Out of Your Comfort Zone When Your Brain & Body Are Dragging You Back In!" That's September 28 at 8 am PT, 11 am ET, 4 pm BST.

⭐ COST: ONLY 15 pounds (about $20)!

All proceeds from this virtual conference go to benefit Global Grassroots, which is an awesome nonprofit in Africa which empowers girls through education and women through coaching, education, and seed money to start their own businesses.
https://shespeaksbusiness.co.uk/ditchbs/...
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