I've decided to spill the tea on my engagement year and wedding planning!

Getting engaged is often portrayed as one of the happiest, most exciting times of your life. And while there was plenty of joy, I discovered that stepping into engagement was also a huge emotional, psychological and relational transition.

In this episode, I’m sharing some of the behind-the-scenes drama of my engagement year — including changing my wedding dress — and what the whole experience brought up for me.

I chat about:

• Why my feelings after getting engaged weren't quite what I expected
• The fear, uncertainty and doubts I experienced around getting married
• Why I hated wedding dress shopping (and ultimately changed my dress!)
• The pressure and guilt that came with creating the guest list
• Learning how to work with my fiancé on one very big collaboration
• Why I chose connection — and my relationship with my fiancé — as my north star throughout wedding planning
• Navigating everyone else's opinions
• Why I wanted my bridesmaids to choose their own dresses
• How my engagement year became an unexpected self-healing process
• Weddings, archetypes and the collective unconscious

If you're engaged, married, planning a wedding, or simply interested in the psychology of major life transitions, this is a very personal episode about everything that can sit underneath the picture-perfect version of getting married.

🌷Links and References 🌷

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• Book mentioned: The Conscious Bride by Sheryl Paul
• My dress designer: Emma Manley
• Our wedding video by David Ryan Photography
• Some of my wedding snaps on Instagram

If you’re doubting yourself in some area of your life, or finding yourself doubting somebody else’s capacity, this episode is for you.

This week, Lisa reflects on a conversation from the Menstrual Coach Academy, where a student brought her fears about starting her own menstrual cycle coaching practice.

Menstrual cycle coaching can be tender, delicate and deeply personal work, particularly when supporting clients with experiences such as PMDD, endometriosis, PCOS, period pain and difficult menstrual cycles. But what happens when our desire to honour someone’s vulnerability means we begin to see them only through the lens of their struggle?

In this episode, Lisa explores the balance between tenderness and empowerment. How can we acknowledge vulnerability, pain and difficult experiences while also trusting in our own capacity and the capacity of the people we support?

Lisa chats about:

• Her recent personal win of joining a new running club
• Her complicated relationship with sport and exercise over the years
• Learning to step into your own empowerment and believe in yourself
• Making space for tenderness and vulnerability without losing sight of your strength
• Power dynamics in menstrual cycle coaching and facilitation
• Supporting clients without unconsciously reinforcing disempowerment
• Empowerment when working with PMDD, endometriosis, PCOS, period pain and menstrual cycle challenges
• Why sometimes we need the reminder: you are well able, and so is your client

Whether you’re a menstrual cycle coach, therapist, facilitator, practitioner, or simply navigating your own self-doubt, this episode is an invitation to hold both truths. You can be tender and vulnerable, and incredibly capable at the same time.

🌷Links and References 🌷

🌻 Doors open soon for the Menstrual Cycle Mastery Collective over at: https://lisadejongcoaching.com/menstrual-cycle-coaching

💜 Join the Menstrual Coach Academy waitlist at:
https://www.menstrualcoachacademy.com/mentrual-coach-training

⭐️ Grab a free course at: https://lisadejongcoaching.com/take-a-course

🌿 Join Lisa's Newsletter over at: https://subscribepage.io/ibNdL0

Follow Lisa on Instagram over at: https://www.instagram.com/lisa_dejong_coach/
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Watch on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@LisadeJongCoach

Is your inner critic giving you a hard time for where you are at? Or where you are not at? Take a step back and ask... "What am I already doing well?"

In this episode Lisa catches up with you after her house move, how life is a little bit in chaos at the moment, how the inner critic creeps in, and what she is doing well. We chat about yoga, self-care, our intuition, and how our intuition might always be guiding us!

🌷Links and References 🌷

🌻 Doors open soon for the Menstrual Cycle Mastery Collective over at: https://lisadejongcoaching.com/menstrual-cycle-coaching

💜 Join the Menstrual Coach Academy waitlist at:
https://www.menstrualcoachacademy.com/mentrual-coach-training

👉 In-person October Retreat Wicklow, Ireland
⭐️ Grab a free course at: https://lisadejongcoaching.com/take-a-course

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Follow Lisa on Instagram over at: https://www.instagram.com/lisa_dejong_coach/
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Watch on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@LisadeJongCoach