Eryn and L' Shawn interview Christina Holohan, the founder of Celebration of Life Colorado. Christina is a death educator, end-of-life doula, thanatologist, and trauma-informed breathwork facilitator. Christina describes her professional journey, explaining how her background in event planning and personal loss led her to support families through death, dying, and grief. She highlights the importance of end-of-life conversations to prevent family strife and discusses how she uses circular connected breathwork to help survivors release guilt and emotional heaviness. Christina also shares her experience transitioning from a corporate event career to her current calling, emphasizing the fear and eventual fulfillment of the shift. The group discuss the paradox of healing that can occur through death and the value of creating safe spaces to talk about grief. The conversation ends with each participant sharing a "coaching nugget of wisdom," focusing on intuition, courageous conversations about end-of-life wishes, and the importance of putting oneself out there to find supportive communities.

Find out more about Christina and Celebration of Life Colorado at Email: celebrationoflifecolorado@gmail.com

Website: https://www.celebrationoflife-colorado.com/

In this episode, L' Shawn and Eryn discuss patience in coaching and the coaching process. They explore how patience involves balancing "floating" and "swimming" - allowing time for reflection versus taking intentional action toward goals. The conversation covers how patience requires wisdom and trust, particularly in coaching relationships where coaches must be patient with clients' progress, the unfolding of insights, and the co-created nature of the coaching process. They discuss how patience relates to time perception, underlying beliefs about success and life accomplishment, and the difference between feeling rushed versus having enough time. The episode concludes with each sharing examples of patient people in their lives who demonstrated wisdom and steady presence.

L' Shawn and Eryn discuss the unexpected twists and turns that occur in coaching and healing modalities. L' Shawn shares insights from her family constellation certification course, including how seekers often experience transformations when representatives in the field reveal unexpected aspects of their situations, such as inner children appearing when adults expected to be represented. Eryn describes how grief coaching reveals layers of processing and mystery as clients explore their relationships with lost loved ones, sometimes discovering they need to honor both the person's humanity and their own capacity for greater love. They explore examples of transgenerational trauma where unexplained fears or illnesses in clients were connected to ancestors' experiences, and discuss how coaching creates space for these unexpected revelations while helping clients expand their belief systems.