Are you a Creative Woman of Wellness?

Creating health is a topic of widespread interest in America, and I am passionate about both of these human endeavors: Creativity and Health. Perhaps you believe that the state of your health and wellness can be attributed to your DNA more so than any personal decisions you made today? If health is something we are born with because of our fantastic genetic gifts, I am probably going to be generally healthy until I reach my mid-sixties: at least that is how it worked out for my relatives. But what if that doesn't sound good enough to me? What if I would truly like to live the life of a vibrant woman well into my 90s? Do you think I can? Here is what I've been up to lately.

I have joined forces with both the Western medical and the Alternative Health Care communities, studying what each field can offer my personal goals in 2015. I have added to that effort another valuable degree to my education, that of Certified Holistic Health Coach and Drugless Practitioner. In the past year I have gone deep within my own personal and professional dreams and now I take 100% responsibility for my health behaviors. By doing all this, I am creating a life that far exceeds my genetic makeup, and I am also creating a community of other enthusiastic women who also want to go above and beyond their DNA. This group is called We Are Women At Wellness!

Vibrant living at every age!

From my artistic life in beautiful Colorado, where playing with fiber art and creating private commission art for others has been my focus for almost a decade, now I am using my creativity in new ways, and I am loving every minute of it! I am passionate about my ability to choose the vibrancy of my daily life. I believe that we all have enormous power to make choices and think thoughts that create for us resilience, healing energies, and nourishing experiences that both keep us young and also improve the lives of those around us!

Now that I am a practicing Holistic Health Coach in Colorado, my fiber art time in the studio is often spent teaching others to use their hands, their eye for color combinations, and their sewing skills to enjoy the crossroads between Creative Play and Stress Relief. Have you learned to use your creative hobbies to feel that bliss that surrounds people as they focus on creating beautiful things?

As this lovely new year continues, I may slowly ease away from this BlogSpot to another that I am putting my attention toward. That decision is still in the works! But I do know that I would love to have you join me in the shift that is happening in my professional offerings. Please check out all the new and valuable resources I have gathered for women who seek wellness. And let me know if there is a topic in this theme that is of particular interest to you! I'd love to hear from you.

Warmly,
Georgianne Holland
Certified Holistic Health Coach
Holland Health Coaching
Wheat Ridge, Colorado
We are Women at Wellness
info@GeorgianneHolland.com
 

Taking Care of Your 95-year-old Self

Some of us have had the privilege and the responsibility of taking care of a loved one in their old age. Whether or not anyone is prepared for being the caretaker or the elderly in this precious life situation, elder care is going to become a significant life passage experience for almost everyone.

If you reflect for a moment how you feel about being taken care of in your own old age, there are probably a few adrenaline rushes and worries that flood your system. I know this is my immediate reaction. I am an independent woman who likes to live My Way. I love my home, my community and my lifestyle. Will these cherished elements of My Life be taken away from me in old age?

Here's my thought: Vitality in your 90s and later begins today!!

Did you know that you can join me in the Self-loving Lifestyle that lets you be your own caretaker in the last decade of your life? The way you take care of yourself this very day honors your later years. Here's a few things for you to think about: know that I am here to support you.

• Did you feed yourself today to create longevity?

• Did you exercise your body today to create and maintain balance, strength, vital operating systems, and to minimize pain?

• Have you ever learned how your vital lifestyle adds to your social lifetime?

• Do you use your passions and interests to create meaningful experiences at every life stage?

• We can join forces with others to safeguard the future vitality of our Planet! It is important to have a place to live.

• Are you supported by relationships that withstand the test of time?

• Would you like to take one financial action today on behalf of your 95-year-old self?

I am 54 years old. I have attended seven funerals in the past five months. Some of these delightful friends, family, and neighbors died in unexpected ways, and others suffered months or years of decline. All of this has truly empowered me to reflect on how I can care for myself during the next 40+ years so that my final months are filled with sacred moments of loving connection and enlivened experiences. It's my life and my choice. I can make powerful efforts today to safeguard that choice for myself and my loved ones.

You may be 20 years old, or perhaps you are already raising grandkids and downsizing -- there is never a wrong time to begin caring for your one, true, precious self!

Will you join me? I would love to hear from you and we can begin brainstorming together your options for being your own primary caretaker. My work as a health coach is centered on hearing your ideas and helping you move in the direction of your choice.

Comment to this post and I promise, I will be in touch! Follow this blog and learn many ways you can create a Self-loving Lifestyle.

Until then, thanks for stopping by,

Georgianne Holland

Nestle And Soar!
Creative Health Coaching

When Life Becomes a Roller Coaster Ride

If time is flying because you are having fun, then what does time do when a need to rest presents itself? I am coming to the end of my 60-day hiatus and time is doing a very funny dance. The clock can speed up or slow down in any number of ways, and at the end of a creative hiatus, I must report, time is like a roller coaster ride!

Have you ever allowed yourself a healthy hiatus from your work life? To simply set down the tools and walk away from the work flow was not easy for me. I know that stopping work seems like it would take less effort than working, but I can report that it has been a considerable energy drain, this not working. My life was always structured with work: during hiatus, there were huge upswings followed by plunging blue moods, and always the unexpected corner or jostle. Thus, my 60-day roller coaster ride, and the coaster-car is pulling to a stop.

NEW PLAN: Play * Linger * Alternatives * New Direction

PLAY  If you could call my new Nestle And Soar Studio Plan a structure for the future, it would have to be a rather loose plan, punctuated by lots of walks in the park. Perhaps my most profound lesson during this time away from my beloved needle felting tools would have to be a new attitude about dedication to a work schedule.

LINGER  My healthy hiatus impressed upon me my need to be more playful and less structured overall -- in my life and in my work! I have also devoted myself to the notion of lingering through the process of creative design. Prior to my hiatus, I was so knee deep in commissions and producing product multiples that my schedule was an ever-ticking deadline clock. My new plan involves time to linger in the creative process.

ALTERNATIVES  New to my studio in the year ahead will be the addition of artistic mediums other than needle felting. I will continue with my passion for the needle arts, and I will add the mixed media techniques that have long distracted me from my collected works. These alternatives will require additional education on my part, and I am thrilled!

NEW DIRECTION   The rest of my plan for 2014 includes the addition of my expanded services under the umbrella of Nestle And Soar. I am excited to say that my sideline as a Health Coach is coming into full bloom in the year ahead. My devotion to the notion that Everyone Deserves the chance to Nestle And Soar has always included my interaction with experts in the health and empowerment movements. I am thrilled to be taking a new direction in my work by claiming NATURAL HEALTH as my theme for this year: both in my artwork and in my interaction with my clients. Please watch this blog as well as my newsletter for more information in the weeks ahead!

As a health coach, one of the often repeated concerns of my clients is that they just don't have enough time. No time to cook, no time to exercise, no time for continuing education or new hobbies. Perhaps your work life has become your roller coaster? Or maybe your artistic endeavors have been put away on the shelf, waiting for the "right" time? Time both pulls us and pushes us, it even can take us for a wild ride! I hope that you will find time for your very best living in 2014. I hope that you will let me share in your victories and that you will share in mine. I hope we all have a chance to play!

Thanks for stopping by,
Georgianne