Step-by-Step to Superior Self Care

What's missing from these big QUESTIONS?

Why am I here? What is my purpose? What are my gifts?
How can I serve at my fullest, and give all I have to give?
How can I share my gifts with the world?

You've probably asked those questions plenty. We certainly have!
...But what's missing?

Often on the path of service, we forget THIS big question:

Am I taking care of MYSELF—not just adequately, but ABUNDANTLY?

After all, there's no serving, no sharing, and no fulfilled purpose...
if there's no YOU left!

Dear Friend,

Have you been called into service—to fulfill a higher purpose? In your journey of bringing your blessings, gifts, messages and expertise to the world, have you had difficulty taking care of yourself?

Are you a "roller coaster"? Moving at high speed on the fast track, and suddenly dropping into a spiral of disharmony, discontent or dis-ease?

Do you secretly say to yourself "I'm exhausted!" as you try to keep up the pace in a rapidly evolving world?

Have you been looking in the mirror and seeing BAGS under your eyes because you are spending SO MUCH TIME working on your heart-driven business and you aren't getting enough rest?

Have you ever planned for an early bedtime, and ended up in bed hours later and feeling guilty, frustrated or disappointed?

Do you ever forget to eat, because you YOURSELF are 'consumed' by work?

Does your heart and soul KNOW that it's time for you to make some significant changes before you end up really down for the count?

Have you tried to create or stick to a program of self-care but find yourself again and again putting yourself last on the list?

Are you yearning for a system of support that will hold you in a sacred and non-judgmental way to finally institute a self care program that you can sustain over time?

Well we are HEARING you – the message is loud and clear – in order to go beyond surviving and move into thriving in these rapidly accelerating times of transformation,

the single most important thing YOU can do

is to learn how to gather, store, conserve and modulate your own energy and power.

Learning how to be still and care deeply for yourself will allow you not only to create a work life that doesn't compromise you, but to have the "juice" to respond with inspired action and agility when things suddenly shift.

Being grounded and balanced in your OWN center, and caring for your OWN well being, is essential for you to be able to hear and receive the guidance and signals that direct you gracefully into fulfilling your purpose, and living your life of empowered love, wisdom!

EMPOWERED, because really, if you're drained, exhausted, overwhelmed, overworked or 'crashing', then your power isn't going to fuel your Love and your Wisdom. If your love and your wisdom don't have power behind and beneath them, then they're just sleeping in a cave somewhere.

Remember on the airplanes—when the flight attendants do their oxygen mask safety demonstration, they emphasize to all the passengers that you must put on your OWN mask first before helping others.

In your journey into service, have you, up until now, too often put the mask on others first?

Do you CRAVE to:

eat better food on a better schedule?
spend less time in front of the computer screen?
improve your sleeping habits?
get outside more, move your body, and breath fresh air?
take more time to relax, rest, and enjoy what you love?
organize your days to match your rhythms?
smile more, laugh more, and have more fun?

If you have found your way to this page we know that you are a heart-driven entrepreneur or visionary leader who wants to leap fearlessly and gracefully into your highest level of service to the planet and who wants to make a divine income by being on your spiritual journey, in full heart, with no compromises.

We also know that you are on a TWO FOLD path – that your "business" side can get so carried away that you lose your connection to your passion, your calling, your Source, and the inspiration that got you into this business in the first place!

You've been so BUSY with the BUSI-ness that you may have lost sight of how much time, energy and personal power you have invested.

If you've landed here, we know it's because you have been GUIDED —
because you KNOW you need to

Receive increasingly
SUPERIOR
Self-Care
from YOURSELF!

You and We both know...

You, your Message, and those you're here to Serve, are all WORTH IT!

A story from Amethyst

As the CEO (Chief Enjoyment Officer) of my business I know where you are. Before I was Chief Enjoyment Officer, I was Chief Excitement Officer, and I myself have been on the rollercoaster of discovering my gifts, being called to deliver them into the world through entrepreneurship, and then discovering and attempting to fill in all the holes in my own skillset that running a business has surfaced for me.

Even though I teach, mentor, coach and help others to heal when they are BOOB (Badly Out Of Balance), at a certain point I discovered that I myself was rapidly heading in that direction. (What's that little saying about the cobbler whose own shoes are falling off?)

I realized that I could not be in integrity with my teachings if I didn't put on the brakes and get back to what matters most to me – my connection to Source and Nature, my relationships with family and friends, my creative pursuits and most importantly my own evolving deep desires for peace and joy.

I created a LOT of stress for myself and realized that I was NOT the only one out there who might be in this position.

I also realized that much as I tried to get back on track with a daily practice of self care – I had created a habit of driving myself again and again right up against the wall. Not only was it that when I made a promise to myself that "tomorrow" I'll get back to caring for myself, and then I didn't keep it... But guilt started to set in and that of course is just ANOTHER form of self abuse!

Guilt! Self-Judgment! Frustration! ...Yuck!

It was absolutely time for a change!

I've come a long way since then in redefining my boundaries, balancing my schedule, letting certain things go, and creating new personal and business structures that SUPPORT my self care, rather than run at odds with it.

And my life on every level has blossomed in new ways. My life with my son, my life with my business, with my clients, my sleep, my business partner, with nature, my guides, my health, and my income. Somehow creating space, taking care, and backing away helped create a more peaceful life, a more successful business, more focus, clarity and power than ever before.

As this unfolded for me, I began asking for guidance and inspiration, in how I could best support others in a similar situation to build momentum in their practices of self care. To see some serious progress, and not just see 'another failed attempt'.

Soon after asking for this guidance, I was on a business trip to Vancouver, and a colleague shared with me a brand new innovative technology platform that allows for an easy daily check-in to affirm progress and encourage accountability through reasonable daily action in the intended direction—even if it's slight.

I learned it has a proven track record of again and again helping people accomplish seemingly insurmountable tasks through small consistent action taken over time, and held in an intimate progress-oriented community.

This platform provides a small, tight group to be built of people who are all striving for the same objective! And it provides space for a coach to help hold the space, and offer insight, creative strategies and encouragement—whether we're on track, or get off track from time to time.

I realized right away the vast potential for this tool, and decided one of the first things I would do is use this simple, easy-to-use, but incredibly POWERFUL new technology to create a SELF CARE program that was affordable, accessible and hugely supportive for people seeking to take far better care of themselves, and prosper more so because of it.

So I, with my divine business partner Mikhael, created it.

Step-By-Step to Superior Self Care

has been designed to help you

cultivate and exercise that Self Care Muscle!

Because if that muscle has lost tone and atrophied, it needs some seriously skillful and loving attention to nurture it back to health. Like a fallow garden. It needs to let go of old habits, have the soil turned, and to gently seed powerful new habits and ways of being, to germinate and be fertilized, so they can really take root, grow strong, and bear fruit!

For us to create and encode new habits and ways of being into our lives, we need:

A vision. An intended new direction.
Focused, targeted strategies that help us change course
Appropriate action steps we know we can do, aligned with the intended direction
A supportive environment to help us stay on track, and build momentum.
Action

We've brought this momentum-building and online coaching tool together with thirteen core self-care practices we've distilled and streamlined precisely for this group, plus interactive monthly phone coaching, to make an affordable but tremendously potent option in getting on track and building momentum in your self-care.

At the Momentum Studio, we emphasize and encourage

reasonable consistent action over the long-term (not binge-purge, stop-start)
encouraging and affirming daily progress whether massive, moderate or miniscule
graceful, practical and attentive coaching to stay on track or get back on track
regular next-day goal and intention-setting
small, intimate, private community interaction, dialogue and support
long-term relationships cultivated and built over time
empowerment, responsibility, accountability, non-judgment, love and honesty

"Great! I think I got it, I definitely feel it, but what's it actually look like?"

Well, let's take a look at one of our accountability tools, the Daily Progress Log (see below). Each of the check marks represents someone 'reporting in' about their progress for that day.

You will access the Progress Log online and use it to structure your daily self-care practices. By providing a place for you to log in daily to evaluate and share about your progress, you and no more than 13 other like-minded participants will generate sustained momentum.

You're welcome to sign up anonymously, although people usually sign up as themselves! Either way, the Momentum Studio is a confidential environment that allows you to discuss the self-care process openly: through difficulty, successes, ups, downs, off-track, on-track.

Each green checkmark represents your answers to a series of coaching questions. Others can click on the check mark and read about your progress and write comments. The coach will also be providing feedback and support many times every week. This way you're no longer practicing in a vacuum; and when you reach a breakthrough -- or breakdown -- in your practice, you have someone to share it with, and strategic support in landing your leap or getting back on track!

Here's a screenshot of the main progress area

Hundreds and Thousands of Little Green Checkmarks Can't Be Wrong!

That's hundreds and thousands of steps (both little steps, and huge ones) on the path to Superior Self Care!

When you practice a dance move or recite a song enough times, you learn. You get the memory INTO your body, your consciousness, your life. Hundreds and Thousands of little green checkmarks means powerful habits created, held, and continually refined to be of highest service to You, Your Message, and All that you're here to Serve.

To your right, you can see another area of the Momentum Studio: the Comments and Encouragement area. This is one place where your coach leaves you personalized messages, tips, support, questions, etc.; and where your co-participants offer encouragement and witnessing as well. This is a quick but powerful way to be SEEN for every little movement you've made.

Often, when we make a little progress, or a small step in the right direction, if it isn't celebrated, witnessed, encouraged and consciously experienced as a real and true accomplishment, then often our little progresses diffuse and dissolve away.

The Progress tracking and Comments and Encouragement areas allow you to receive that celebration and witnessing, enough so it's real, and every day little movements in taking care of yourself create BIG movement with time.

...Remember, taking care of yourself is the NUMBER ONE way to be more productive, serve more people, and live a more peaceful, fullfilling life.

Self-care, despite certain limiting beliefs we may hold, is NOT COUNTER to our path of service. We are not ascetics, renunciants, and self-sacrificers. We are here to be at home in our bodies, our lives, and our work.

We're ready to deliver this to YOU —

Step by Step to Superior Self Care provides you with:

	An Innovative Accountability System Easy online access to this daily accountability signature system that lets you track your own Self Care Progress.
	Simple Guidance & Resources to Get the Most from the Program Step by Step guidance, recommendations and questions that will bring you back to yourself time and again and encourage you to re-commit to your well being—no matter how far off track you might go.
	Supportive Intimate Small-Group Community Small intimate groups, so you will actually get to KNOW your support partners – develop deep ties to the community and be able to rely on someone (actually SEVERAL someones!) to BE there with loving affirmative support if you fall off the "self-care" wagon.
	Keeping-On-Track Personalized & Group Momentum Coaching Certified Spirit of Superior Self-Care Coaches who will monitor the community and provide regular coaching to assist you in clearing your blocks, using practical and spiritual strategies to better take care of yourself, as well as providing inspiration and motivation to get you going and keep you moving on your Step by Step to Superior Self Care journey.
	Visual Graphs and Charts to Track Progress A system of charts and graphs that will let you SEE your own and your group's progress in ways you've never been able to see before! (We thought this was a little hokey at first, but it's really incredible to see a line graph rise over time, and to be like "WOW I completely didn't notice that I'd shifted so MUCH!") A powerful visual support. Sometimes, we need to see it to believe it!
	Interactive Community Forum & Live Chat An online forum and message board AND live chat option, to discuss self-care strategies with your small group, what's happening in your lives, how others manage or respond to situations you're experiencing, etc.
	Monthly Live Interactive Small-Group Mentoring Call A monthly live interactive mentoring/support call for your small group led by your group's private coach.
	Technology Support — in case you have a question! Plenty of technology support if you need a little help — though this technology was intentionally designed to be very user friendly, and rarely poses any challenges at all! This includes a walkthrough of the software, so you know where everything is, and how to use it.
	Training in the 13 CORE Self-Care Practices Access to training in the Thirteen CORE Self-Care Practices, designed and distilled from our years of healing and coaching work with heart-driven entrepreneurs. Many of us don't take better care of ourselves because we feel overwhelmed with where to start or how to do it. At the Momentum Studio, we advise against feeding such excuses. Thirteen focused practices, with the option to concentrate on a select few of them at a time, takes that excuse out of the picture!
	Guidance in Designing a Sustainable Self-Care Regimen Guidance in how to creatively design a self-care regimen, how to create time in your calendar, how to mold a schedule that is able to HOLD a SUSTAINABLE self-care practice. Intelligently, creatively, sustainably and intentionally designing such a system to fit YOUR unique life is KEY to progress and success.
	Additional Materials and Opportunities Additional support materials and opportunities to grow the intentions, power and energy of your self care to whole new levels.
	Open doors Affordable and doable segments of time for the program so that you can choose to recommit to yourself as often as you like, and also set up so that you can come and go as you please. So try it! If it isn't serving you, then simply don't do it any more. Easy.
	BONUS Book: Magical Questions: A Spiral Journey of Spiritual Awakening ...As a bonus when you register, you'll receive a copy of Amethyst's book "Magical Questions – A Spiral Journey of Spiritual Awakening" which is designed as an interactive system of explorations, organized to help you deepen and expand your self-care journey into being a conscious, mighty vessel for all the blessings, gifts and creations you have come to deliver.

By deciding to join Step-by-Step to Superior Self Care, you'll

Indicate to the Universe by DECIDING you're SERIOUSLY ready to take better care of yourself (and thus open the door to have it happen!)

Learn specific strategies and practices to take better care of yourself.

Root those strategies and practices into the ground of your life through our online accountability community tools.

Manifest new levels of peace, space, productivity and power in your lives.

Yes, it's simple. It's simple and it works! And it works BECAUSE it's simple!

Yet very few people can do these simple things on their own. And even most of THEM still need community and good tools. This is why we've created Step-by-Step to Superior Self-Care, and we would be honored to support YOU in moving forward in this area.

For many of us, it's time to step up, and let go of old habits of putting the mask on others first. Some of us have been playing the 'helper', the 'healer', the 'fixer' or change agent for OTHERS before ourselves, for too long.

The world absolutely needs you, and your gifts. That's why you're here, now, on this planet. To be a light, and to bring your unique gifts and blessings. But it needs ALL of you. If you don't take care of yourself adequately, then you're only partially available, and so will be your gifts.

You, your gifts, and those they're here to serve deserve more than that.

Because we are deeply familiar with the importance of aligning with natural rhythms and cycles and because we also know that it takes at least 21 days to get a new habit in place, we have chosen to organize this program on a 28-day calendar – with renewing 28 day cycles and an affordable per cycle investment of $97.00.

Enrollment is as easy as deciding – right now that you are REALLY READY to LET GO of KEEPING UP, of not taking adequate care of yourself, and to take inspired action to initiate your own journey step by step to Superior Self Care!

Our next gathering begins on December 21st. Will you join us?

When you enroll, you will receive a full 4 weeks of access to Step by Step to Superior Self Care @ the Momentum Studio, with an option to continue for as long as you're served by it! That's $3.46 a day. Are your health, your sanity, your life, your gifts to the world and those you're here to serve worth that? $3.46 – That's a bag of trail mix, Dear Hearts.

Recall the question we posed earlier.

Am I taking care of MYSELF—not just adequately, but ABUNDANTLY? Abudance is not just a money practice! Are you living abundantly in the area of care for yourself, and thus the message, and all those to be served by it?

If your strategies and progress so far have brought you to this page, they probably haven't been working as well as you'd like. If it's time to move yourself into gear, and get going with a new level of support and structure, then it's probably time to come on board.

Join us for the next cycle. See what happens!

It is often said that "No Great Thing is Accomplished Alone"

This is your chance to take action, and join together with like-minded life-opening professionals to take care of yourself, and make of yourself a magnificently more powerful vessel for your blessings and gifts of service to flow through you.

If you've been experiencing any of the challenges we listed above, perhaps it's time to make a significant change now.

You've been divinely guided to us, to read this page, to explore your options. Now is not the time to look around more and postpone your self-care. We invite you to not let your small self get away with excuses like that. If you need help in taking care of yourself, you're not alone.

Others are waiting to work alongside you, offer their support, and receive yours, as you gather to create for yourself a new life, a new spaciousness, a new health. Good food at good times, feeling good in your body, enjoying your life, having fun, going to bed and waking on a gentle and nourishing schedule.

Having this in place is essential for you to be at your best, in full service.

We KNOW you'll just KNOW if this is or isn't for you. Is it time to take action on this?

You're welcome to call or email us if you have any questions. If you're having difficulty because you feel unclear about some aspect of the program, please let us know how we can support you in coming to a clear decision. There's no pressure to join us—at least not from us! If there's pressure from your inner guidance, that's a different story!

Reach us (Mikhael & Amethyst) here: team@theempoweredmessenger.com
802-246-7620

We are SO delighted to support you on your journey!

Blessings to you, your message, and all those to be served by it!

We look forward to perhaps working with you!

In Peace and Sacred Partnership,

Amethyst and Mikhael

P.S. If you have a message or gift of healing, empowerment and possibility to share with the world, now is the time to share it! But you need to be properly cared-for. Just like a garden. If it's not well-tended, then it can't flourish in the way it COULD.

There are some very specific things that need to happen, for a messenger, a life-opening professional, to be properly prepared to deliver that blessing effectively. If you haven't properly prepared in these ways, if you don't have the appropriate habits, routines and ways of living embedded in your life, your message may not get very far. Consider joining us to begin your preparations at a whole new level. Just click here.

"Instead of being in Ms. Fix It mode (my pattern up until recently), I received help from you."

"The only resource that has helped me in a significant way over the past 6 months is this telecourse because it allowed me to shift things energetically which is what I do with my clients; however, instead of being in Ms. Fix It mode (my pattern up until recently), I received help from you, Amethyst and Mikhael. Thank you for this incredibly powerful telecourse. "

- Reem Shibel
The Heart Mentor - reemshibel.com

"Keeping me conscious of what I am manifesting, creating and allowing each day."

"I want to celebrate my gratitude to Amethyst and Mikhael for creating a super-duper, extra special, double duty awareness program that is keeping me conscious of what I am manifesting, creating and allowing each day.

Thank you for your hugely valuable words in the comment section of yesterday's posting. your support is deeply felt and appreciated. I so appreciate your encouragement and your perspective. Sometimes I don't totally see what's going on but ... I know big things are coming and happening right now. I am so grateful for you."

- Elizabeth Martel
The Queen of Hearts - elizabethmartel.com

"Thank you both for the personal responses and encouragement. This is an amazing forum!"

"I feel like I'm the luckiest woman and mother on the planet. I'm grateful beyond words for the opportunity to learn from Amethyst and Mikhael, and to have heard live the other participants on the call. Amethyst and Mikhael, thank you both for the personal responses and encouragement. This is an amazing forum!"

- Francoise

Meet Mikhael & Amethyst

Amethyst Wyldfyre & Mikhael Solenne - The Empowered Messenger Mentors - are Transformational and Visionary spiritual leaders, teachers and multidimensional navigational guides. They specialize in facilitating heart-driven coaches, speakers, creatives, healers, legacy leaders and other Life-opening professionals, to LEAP fearlessly into their highest level of service to the planet.

Originators of the Inner Clarity Intensive for the Empowered Messenger, they work in partnership serving small groups of Passionpreneurs to set the energetic structures in place for being in right relationship with themselves, their messages and their ventures. This signature program was developed for conscious professionals gathering in a sacred space to bust through stagnation, get infinitely more clear and connected, and stoke the energy of Creation within, emerging into a brand new story, and fulfilling their heart's mission at a whole new level of effectiveness and ease.

In their work on the Internet and Live, they have reached hundreds of thousands with their message of illumination, purpose and success through heart-powered creative ventures. Their client roster includes NY Times bestselling authors, Hay House Radio show hosts, famous internet marketing and sales trainers and other international celebrities and leaders. In the 2010 Be The Change Awards, their business was recognized as a "Movement to Watch".