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BEAM: A 30 Day Creative Soul Retrieval with Sarah and Inger

October 30, 2024

Many of us put creativity off, but creativity is too delicious, too holy, too magnificent, and too dang YEEHAW-generating to be put on hold. To quote Elizabeth Gilbert, “A creative life is an…

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Best Holiday Gifts Created By Sarah Seidelmann for People Who Love Transformation!!

November 16, 2023
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 A Mug for Your Friend Who’s Been Mentioning She Could Use A Few More Boundaries…. (“There’s No Way In HAELLLLLL I’m DOing That” 2. A Daily Reader for That Friend…

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Guest Post: Jennifer Bauer Shares How the Beasties (Rattlesnake and Stingray) Help.

June 5, 2018
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As a relatively new coach, I have been calling upon my beasties for guidance and wisdom about my spiritual journey, as well as how to build my practice. Using tools…

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Limitations are Your Invitation

March 7, 2017
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How do you know when you are getting really warmed up and ready to create something as an artist/writer/comedian/blogger/cakemaker/interior designer/decoupager fill-in-the blank creator of your dreams? August Kleinzahler Author of…

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Do You Have ZUGUNRUHE? A Sign It’s Time for You to Fly from the Winged Beasties

November 17, 2016
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Over the past few years, I’ve spent a preposterous amount of time studying wild animal behavior as it relates metaphorically and literally to human behavior. As an animal totemologist who…

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Alice the Elephant, an excerpt from Swimming with Elephants (Conari Press 2017)

November 15, 2013
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Chapter 15- an excerpt from my book Swimming with Elephants (Conari Press 2017) Alice Arrives “Who is Alice?” asked Mother. “Alice is somebody that nobody can see,” said Frances. Russell…

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What the honey badger knows about FREEDOM.

July 18, 2013
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Originally published at Maria Shriver’s Architects of Change Site The honey badger is a ferocious, weasel-like animal with incredibly thick skin and few natural predators. It was this particular beast…

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How Working with Animal Totems (the Beasties!) Helped Me Navigate Big Change.

May 6, 2012
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Transcript from a  TED -style talk I was peer selected to give at The Martha Beck Coaches Summit in Phoenix in 2012. BIG change can be scary.  You want to…

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What The Walrus Knows Video

January 13, 2012
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You may be feeling called To something different. A different life. A project… A big change… Something epic… But is scares you. The Beasties can help. They can show you…

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