Focus Archives - Christi Daniels -Somatic Coach + Facilitator at Empower Studio
Putting Your Inner Needs First

Putting Your Inner Needs First

This morning, I’m writing to you from our family car as my husband drives us across town to pick up the grandkids (thank you personal wifi hot spots!) before we drop him off for a meeting. Next stop will be back to the house to pick up our teenage son, the only...
Learning to Prioritize Yourself

Learning to Prioritize Yourself

Dearest, big-hearted, generous soul. One thing you must know is that: When you hold yourself back, you also hold back your gifts. In a world filled with so many WTF moments, now more than ever, we need each other. We need each other to be showing up as our 100%...
7 Steps to Reduce Frustration and Gain Clarity

7 Steps to Reduce Frustration and Gain Clarity

  I’m passionate about authenticity. I love helping a person strip away the non-essential, what no longer serves, and the programmed recordings to reveal an authentic expression of themselves in the moment. To get to that point of clarity, it helps to back...
Synthetic vs. True Pleasure (Part 1)

Synthetic vs. True Pleasure (Part 1)

When you hear the phrase, “survival of the fittest,” can you feel the energy of struggle embedded into it? It makes me want to swing back the other way and focus on what is fun! Humans are wired for pleasure, as well as survival. At our core, we are...
Stretching Beyond Your Safety Zone

Stretching Beyond Your Safety Zone

As humans, we’re blessed with innate gifts of flexibility and resilience. Yet, the survival skills we acquire by leveraging these gifts, can end up being roadblocks to growth. Once we learn what is needed for survival in an environment, we tend to create a...
Move Through Fear

Move Through Fear

 “Most of our life we’re put in a cage, where we sing the same song day in and day out. But life is not about being caged, life is about flying.”                                          – The Spark by Lyn Heward and John U. Bacon I Wanted to Fly The...
I’m Worth More than This

I’m Worth More than This

Sometimes you just have to draw a line in the sand. That’s exactly what a Sabbatical from “Yes” is all about. It’s giving yourself a well-deserved break from compulsive compliance and agreement to requests for your time and energy. It’s...