How do you receive love in your life?  Praise? Recognition? Joy?  Transformation?

 

Yesterday I received one of the most beautiful testimonials from a client and friend.  I was having one of those days where I was surfing my own edges —questioning everything—all my choices (yes, I have those moments too! –although they are less frequent and shift quickly) and I received the following email from a client.  I was so moved to tears, it brought me right back to my own purpose —it was so beautifully written and well explained about how our collaboration had benefited her to IGNITE HER LIFE…that I had to share.

 

So with her permission I am sharing her story with you…

 

When I began working with Melissa five months ago, I was battling several years’ worth of depression, unhappiness, grief, inertia, fear, and loss of self-esteem, following the loss of both my parents and my job as a successful digital marketing strategist. I was having difficulty gaining closure about my parents’ deaths. I was angry and resentful that my “glory days” were behind me, and I was unable to accept the possibility of new, positive opportunities (much less to explore or create them). I had no energy or motivation to do even pleasurable activities, such as designing and creating jewelry (which I also do professionally). I was simply stagnating without focus, direction, or optimism.

 

Melissa and I met roughly fifteen years ago, when we worked together at an interactive agency, and have been dear friends ever since. However, we had been out of touch for quite a while, and when we reconnected a year ago we both shared the dramatic changes in our lives since that last time we had chatted. I was totally awed by Melissa’s decision to create an entirely different life and to figure out, go for, and get the life she wanted, and incredibly proud of her. I wished wistfully that I had her guts, focus and determination, but when she first encouraged me to engage her as my life coach, I was very resistant. I had little faith that anything or anyone could help me escape the dark place in which I had been stuck for several years, and I was extremely fearful about the precarious state of my finances. Melissa also invited me to be a surprise guest at one of her creative retreats to introduce her clients to working with precious metal clay, and after this brief but compelling exposure to her facilitation style, the opportunity to work with her seemed like my best hope for finding clarity, focus, and passion again. Thanks to her continued encouragement, love and support, I made the difficult and scary decision to invest in a coaching engagement with her. The experience turned out to be fundamentally life-changing and valuable beyond any financial measure.

 

Melissa is an extraordinarily gifted coach, mentor and life guide. Our work together over the past five months has transformed my life more profoundly and in more ways than I possibly could have imagined when I started on this journey with her. She has helped me to appreciate and embrace self-love, self-care, self-compassion, self-acceptance, self-validation, self-trust, self-empowerment and self-responsibility. She inspired me to transform my fundamental perspective from one of lack to one of infinite abundance. She has helped me listen to my own voice and my own needs, and has enabled me to experience the freedom that comes from letting go of resentments, excess “stuff”, outdated perceptions - anything that no longer serves my highest potential. She has gifted me with the joy of awareness, acceptance and gratitude for my life and its many blessings. She has helped me to understand, appreciate, and use the power of letting go of the past, of being fully present, and of living with intention. She has taught me to pay attention to any powerful negative emotions, to practice detachment, and to transform self-limiting thoughts, beliefs and emotions into self-empowering ones. She has helped me to understand my inner family and to engage those three aspects of myself in healthy and synergistic interactions that I can trust and call on to support my well-being.

 

Most importantly, perhaps, Melissa has made me aware of my connection to the Universe and to the infinite wellspring of energy and creativity inside me that I can tap into as much as I need to, as often as I need to, to support my needs, desires, and ability to share my gifts. She has taught me to own my value and helped me to reconnect to my passionate nature. She has inspired a pervasive “attitude of gratitude” in me. She has given me tools that support ongoing purposeful growth and ever-renewing commitment to creating the life I desire and deserve.

 

Melissa has known intuitively when to encourage me, when to challenge my excuses and hold me accountable for my choices, and when to honor and reinforce my commitment, determination and achievements. She has succeeded in breaking through the very tall and thick walls behind which I had barricaded myself for years and has pulled me firmly but lovingly back out into the light and into my life. In just five months, she has helped me progress from despair to optimism, from apathy to passion and zest, from lack to abundance, from avoiding responsibility to embracing it, from self-criticism to self-validation, and our work together has strengthened my relationship with my husband and helped him to make fundamental mental, emotional and spiritual shifts as well. Her wonderful wisdom, guidance, love and support have been invaluable, and I feel incredibly blessed to have been the fortunate recipient of them. I will be grateful to her forever for helping me to transform my experience of life so profoundly and positively.

 

If you are even considering the possibility of working with Melissa through any of her fabulous offerings, I urge you to stop thinking about it and just figure out how to make it happen! This investment will be the gift of a lifetime to yourself, to the people you love, and to those who love you.

 

Sending you much love and wishing you much JOY!

Margaret Schindel, Boston Ma

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So are you ready to join Margaret and breakthrough to courage?  Are you ready to IGNITE YOUR LIFE?

If so….. take a chance and trust yourself to discover the many ways you can get into your passion and freedom at the studio!

IGNITE YOUR LIFE.

If you are wanting to let go of your past and the inner ‘tapes’ that keep you stuck in your life from experiencing what you want, I am currently available to serve 1:1 clients and have some openings for people that are READY and willing to invest and commit to creating transformation in your life. I promise you that it will be fun, challenging at times and …massively creative!

Please contact me at 512.524.0687 or email melissa{at}firetreestudios{dot}com for further inquiry.

with love + passion + creativity,

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The Art of Creation: Intro to Intuitive Painting

TAP into your own creative authenticity in a painting class this Saturday!

Saturday May 12, 2012
1:00 PM – 5:00 PM

 

Spend an afternoon awakening and nourishing your creative spirit by immersing yourself in over three hours of exploration, expression, play and deep surrender. The Saturday painting session welcomes continuing students and first time painters, providing a space to journey through barriers of old patterns and stagnant, less=than serving beliefs that keep you from tapping into the internal well of creativity, power and life force energy that is within you.

 

• Investment: $ 75.00

 

3 Ways to register:

1. Call the studio at 512 524 0687
2. Email melissa{at}firetreestudios{dot}com
3. Sign up on our website via pay pal by clicking the button below (cash, checks & credit cards also accepted).

 

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The Phoenix Rising Experience: Breakthrough to Passion Purpose and Prosperity!

If you are ready to dive in and commit to a group intensive of letting go of your past with peace, reclaiming your power and

essential Self, identifying your life purpose and passion…. then this 3 month training is for you!  Begins in May!

 

 

To inquire, and receive an application, contact Melissa.

 

 

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Winter Weekend Intuitive Painting Retreat

Friday June 8th to Sunday June 10th

(Friday evening at 6:30pm-Sunday evening at 5pm).

This weekend painting immersion is a great way to submerge yourself in your creative process and deepen your relationship to your intuitive voice and dialogue with your most powerful vision. Join other creative explorers in a nurturing and supportive environment that supports the awakening of your inner wisdom and true creative voice.

 

 

Come spend a full weekend all for you…to revive, self-nurture and reclaim forgotten vitality and passion! We will begin each morning grounding in movement and waking up the body.   Space is available for 12 painters.  For out of town guests, the historic Adam’s House a lovely Hyde Park B&B is located within walking distance of the studio as well as the Hyde Park Inn.

This creative discovery includes:

• all materials and complimentary Hill Country Spring water + tea
• over 20 hours of painting process & guidance
• teachings on the creative process
• morning movement to get the creative juices flowing
• 3 delicious organic, gourmet & local meals: Saturday lunch & dinner and Sunday lunch catered by amazing local chef, Meg Schwartz of Spoon & Co
• Massages available for a additional investment

 

Investment: For the entire weekend $650/ person. Includes all materials, meals and complimentary Hill Country Spring Water & tea. Beginners welcome!

 

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