Elyse On Life

Make peace with seasons. Beginnings and endings and starting again. Relationships, careers, roles, homes, friendships, your view of yourself, the hard phase you’re in, or your kid is in … it is all only right now, not always. Breathe.What would change about the season you are in if you knew it wasn’t forever? Today’s episode dips into the concept of impermanence and the various seasons we are in simultaneously. I walk you through an exercise on seasons and landscapes and how to use your visual cortex and imagination to take stock of where you are now. This is one of my favorite episodes I have recorded, I hope you enjoy it too!Cheers,Elyse Get full access to Elyse’s Substack at elysesnipes.substack.com/subscribe

Hey there, Back at this 40 Things journey with Episode 228: Possibility. Resolve to not know everything. Commit yourself instead to wonder, to what if, to why not. May this episode open for you new paths and moments of exploration along your way. Cheers,Elyse Get full access to Elyse’s Substack at elysesnipes.substack.com/subscribe

Hey there,Happy back to all the things … I don’t know how your week is going but I am feeling inundated by all the back to school-sports-extracurriculars that are now on my calendar. I was talking to myself in the car about the different carpool schedules, trying to figure out which days would work best to drive when my husband asked me what I was doing … I didn’t even realize I was talking out loud. So there’s that. And then the creation of this episode … finding neutral. In the urgency and good chaos of all that is life right now, I need neutral, I need pause, I need exhale and peace and ease. This episode moves through two different exercises to help you find your neutral - breath work and guided visualization. I hope they bring you some sweet relief this week as you navigate your To Do lists. May we find neutral so we can find joy.Cheers,ElyseP.S. I just opened my calendar for Fall bookings if you are interested in doing some work together: www.elysesnipes.com. 20% off an appointment when you mention this episode. Get full access to Elyse’s Substack at elysesnipes.substack.com/subscribe

Hi There,Interrupting our regular flow with some back to school thoughts on good grief. Didn’t see that coming huh? This week I sent my two sons to middle school and my daughter to fourth grade. Cue the memory lane of middle school moments and feeling like maybe parenthood is finally going too quickly. Then I ran into a friend of mine who is sending her first son to college so we both cried, naturally. What hit me after this interaction was the concept of good grief. What if there are good things, really good things that we have been hoping and planning for and praying for and they happen and then we just want our baby back thank you very much? What good things are happening that are also kicking up some grief? Give this episode a listen and let me know what you think. Do you have any good grief?Cheers,ElyseP.S. I am now accepting appointments for Fall if you have been considering doing some work together. www.elysesnipes.com Get full access to Elyse’s Substack at elysesnipes.substack.com/subscribe

Dismantle the idea that you have to earn good things. That you have to somehow work hard enough or be good enough to rest or laugh or enjoy something. Instead go all in on simple free accessible right now joy. Listen to this episode to stretch your experience of accessing joy here and now. Let yourself linger in the good stuff. Elyse Get full access to Elyse’s Substack at elysesnipes.substack.com/subscribe

Find a hobby or a thing you have no business doing and enjoy the thrill of being new at something. Find freedom in learning. When was the last time you laughed at yourself? Risked public scrutiny in the name of spontaneity? How could foolishness be a growth edge for you?There is immense learning and liberation for the beginner’s mind. There is no pressure to be good at whatever the thing is because you’re new to it. You showing up, trying, taking a swing at it, is enough. As adults, we can become obsessed with mastery and being “good” or getting “better” at our hobbies or work. We rarely continue to do things that are fumbly or awkward or foolish … what a bummer. There is so much life to be lived right at this intersection. Today’s episode is an invitation to your own humanity, to doubling down on joining the fun and giving yourself the opportunity to get to know your own wonderful weirdness. Do something unexpected this week, I double dog dare you.Elyse www.elysesnipes.com Get full access to Elyse’s Substack at elysesnipes.substack.com/subscribe

INDULGE: Figure out what you do for fun. Don’t underestimate how much we need to laugh and do something just because. Make time for your fun unapologetically. What if I asked you, “what do you do for fun?” … be with that for a moment. What do you actually do for fun? When was the last time you did your fun thing? How does fun change your experience of your life?A couple years ago, as I was planning my children’s fun summer, I realized I didn’t have a single fun thing for myself on my calendar. In fact, I hadn’t even thought about it and couldn’t remember the last time I had. I wasn’t on my own list. How sad. So, I made some changes …This episode explores finding fun again and prioritizing it, actually doing it, not just thinking about it. So, tell me, what do you do for fun?Elyse Get full access to Elyse’s Substack at elysesnipes.substack.com/subscribe

Hey you guys,Happy Summer … I am on a break from social media (that I might not come back from) … so I am happy to still get a chance to connect here. Today’s episode is number 21 on our 40 things journey. Feel - Don’t be afraid of death or grief or feeling. There is life here. And wisdom. And the very thing you’re after but afraid to face. Feel it. Get to the other side.Your feelings aren’t the enemy. They are the check engine light of your life. They are turning on so you can deal with what is happening and then have a fully functioning car/life so you can go on. Your feelings are here to heal you. So feel them … and live to tell about it. Listen and let me know what you think …Cheers,ElyseP.S. I have some limited summer time availability if you wanted to connect, find me here.P.S.S. Here is the PDF of our 40 Things journey if you wanted to see them for yourself. Enjoy! Get full access to Elyse’s Substack at elysesnipes.substack.com/subscribe

Hi there,Coming in hot with an expletive warning … this episode is riddled with some choice vocabulary, so if you have littles around, consider using some earbuds. The point of this episode is to rile you up, to push on you a bit, to get your goad. So, if you’re not in the mood, listen another time. But if you feel like leaning in … today’s your episode. Break the rules - challenge your deepest beliefs about the way things are supposed to go and the way you’re supposed to be. If you have rules about what you do and don’t do, who you are friends with or how you wear your hair or what you’re allowed to be … break your rules. See what still fits and live into the next iteration of you.As always, let me know what you think … Cheers,Elyse Get full access to Elyse’s Substack at elysesnipes.substack.com/subscribe

Did you know you choose what you carry and for how long? What’s in your hands? Your heart? What are you longing to let go of? What do you need to release to be free of the weight of your past? This is sticky in my mouth, yet I have to say it. It’s hard to swallow, this idea that I somehow participating in my own suffering. Introducing the option of agency can be challenging and can feel rude/dismissive/uncaring … and yet, I have returned to this grindstone with my own story again and again and have come to this same conclusion. So, here I am … sharing with you, truths that may be inconvenient and unpopular, but here none the less. May you listen with a ton of compassion for the parts of your story that still feel unbearably hard, may you be met with tenderness and also openness to seeing if there is another way. Sincerely,Elyse www.elysesnipes.com Get full access to Elyse’s Substack at elysesnipes.substack.com/subscribe

Hi! Ok, let’s go! Today’s episode is about going first … about being the one to step in, send the invite, show up, start the party, do the thing … moving out of our bystander role and into main character energy. Also, I probably should have included this already … but here is a link to the entire 40 Things pdf if you wanted to hold them in your hands. Then you can see the whole story unfold. Cheers!Elysewww.elysesnipes.com Get full access to Elyse’s Substack at elysesnipes.substack.com/subscribe

Hey guys, Hope you’re having a great week! I am getting caught up with posting and have a few episodes coming your way. It is a funny thing for me to share this series of episodes - I originally had them as a just for me, as journal entries and maybe something to share with my kids one day. But as I looked at each entry, I thought, what if I also shared those here? Even though I have shared a lot of personal things on my podcast, there is something that feels a little extra vulnerable about this series. Maybe because they are just a response to my own human experience versus a question from a listener, or a clients experience … whatever the reason, I am grateful for your listening and sojourning. Today’s episode is all about LOVE. Love as our origin story, love as every first step, love as where we start and end and return to again and again and again. Love. Nothing you need to do to earn it or keep it … you already are, so loved. What would happen if you lived from here?Cheers,ElyseP.S. In other news, I am working on a couple other offerings … check out the Journey Within Session to see if it is a fit for you. Get full access to Elyse’s Substack at elysesnipes.substack.com/subscribe

Hi There and Happy Monday,Today’s episode explores going all in on yourself … choosing something that has been an idea and deciding to actually go for it. I share a couple of my own moments and invite you to consider yours. Let’s dream together … www.elysesnipes.comCheers,Elyse Get full access to Elyse’s Substack at elysesnipes.substack.com/subscribe

Hi there, happy Monday … this week’s podcast is a note to my 15 year old self. Along this 40 things journey are some things that my teenage self really needed to hear, so I am saying them now. IT IS NEVER TOO LATE TO SAY WHAT YOU NEED TO HEAR. It is such a myth that we would think “the past is in the past”, or “that was so long ago”, that is irrelevant when it comes to healing. What you needed then, you most likely need now. So, speak up. Say the thing. Listen to this episode to get an idea of what I mean and what healing might sound like now. Find me here to let me know what you think … www.elysesnipes.com.Cheers,Elyse P.S. I had the opportunity to be on the other side of a podcast interview and wanted to share that with you too … my friends Kristina and Holly’s podcast: Good Girl Gone Human. Enjoy! Get full access to Elyse’s Substack at elysesnipes.substack.com/subscribe

How do you know who you are and where you fit into things? How familiar are you with your edges? Your yes? Your no? Get real clear on where you stand, on what makes you up. Know how to find yourself again and again. What returns you to you?This weeks episode dives into some real life practical lessons in regards to the ocean and navigation and swim safety as large life metaphors for how to find ourselves. If this conversation piques your curiosity and you want to chat together, I’d love to be in this place of discovery with you. Visit www.elysesnipes.com to connect.Cheers,Elyse Get full access to Elyse’s Substack at elysesnipes.substack.com/subscribe

Hey There,Happy Monday :) Today’s episode we go right for the jugular of the difficult conversations we have been avoiding. And by we, I mean me. As a part of this 40 things journey, I am sharing 40 things that I have come to live by, today’s concept is #12 - Speak Up. I tell you the whole back story of why this concept is included on my top 40 and a few other times when I risked speaking up. Speaking up can be both saying the uncomfortable hard thing or the uncomfortable easy thing, the good and true thing or the brutal thing. We are opening the door to intimacy here, to real, to a relationship you can trust and lean into and show up in and evolve through. What do you have to say? And to whom? Cheers,ElyseP.S. Interested in doing some work together? Let’s chat … elyse@radicalwellness.co Get full access to Elyse’s Substack at elysesnipes.substack.com/subscribe

Originality - Make your original sound. Offer it generously. You are the only you there is. The way you see things is unique and necessary and totally phenomenal. We need the way you see it, the way you feel it, the way you paint it, or surf it or make it or write it. Let us hear you. What if delighting in who you are is the way towards authentic living? Could you recognize the perfect uniqueness of you and live your life as an original gift? Listen to this episode and let me know what you think. Cheers,ElyseP.S. If you are interested in individualized coaching, I have both online and in-person availability www.elysesnipes.com. Would love to connect with you. Get full access to Elyse’s Substack at elysesnipes.substack.com/subscribe

Hi there,This week’s episode draws us further along our 40 things journey with the concept of simultaneously occurring opposing truths. Do you disagree with your partner or your parent or a sibling about the way things “actually happened”? Do you see it one way and they see it a totally different way? Have you ever agreed to disagree? Then this episode is for you. Simultaneous truths might be the bridge we have needed to find each other again. As in all things this podcast, give it a listen, try it on, see what fits, leave the rest. Cheers,Elyse P.S. Interested in working together? I am offering 20% off sessions this month :) www.elysesnipes.com to schedule. Get full access to Elyse’s Substack at elysesnipes.substack.com/subscribe

Hey There,We are back with some more paradox, with the tension between two opposing concepts, and the intersection of integration and embodiment. We’re talking about change and how we internally message ourselves. We’re talking about how we move closer to a wise, kind source in order to show up to our lives. Try softer. Try harder. Try. That’s all we’re doing here, learning how to live, practicing how to be human, deeply accepting ourselves just as we are. Already good. Already enough. I hope this episode meets you right where you are this week. Let me know what you think.Cheers,Elyse Get full access to Elyse’s Substack at elysesnipes.substack.com/subscribe

Hi There,Happy Monday! This week’s episode we are further along the 40 things journey with this week’s topic being the worst things we experience and the best things we experience. The worst things that have happened to you and the story you carry because of that and the best things that have happened to you and how you allow yourself to experience joy. Today’s episode is challenging and delightful, confronting and inviting, it is both and simultaneously. If you have any questions or want to look at your own story in relationship to these concepts, you can connect with me here www.elysesnipes.com.Cheers,Elyse Get full access to Elyse’s Substack at elysesnipes.substack.com/subscribe