Transformation with Lions, and Tigers, and Bears...OH MY!

Transformation

Scary...exciting...powerful...Like lions and tigers and bears...oh, my!

Transformation can keep you from going into the forest of change.

We just wrapped up 6 months of transformation with the women who joined us in Woman on Fire : 7 Steps to Reignite Your Passion, Purpose and Play. Each of the 6 months were filled with powerful one-on-one work with the women of Hot Pink YOUniversity. The months held steps to contain the process of transformation. Life isn't always like that, steps to transformations.

Sometimes transformation is like a butterfly, gently releasing from a tissue-like cocoon. But, more often it is like a lotus, surrounded by muck and mud, rising slowly through the ooze and emerging bright and brilliant, better than you were before. Or, transformation is a wrecking ball, bashing out of nowhere, unexpected, unwelcome and with devastating outcomes.

We don't always get to choose what our transformation will be like. Or, can we?

When these women chose to join the 6 month program, they raised their hand and said "YES" to transformation. And, there were still wrecking balls and muck along the way, life is like that. And yet, there was a container of safety and positivity along the way. Having Hot Pink along for the transformations that take place is like having Dorey help you find Nemo....just keep swimming, you can do it, we believe in you.

The program is not a safety net, cocooning you from life's inevitable muck and wrecking balls, the program invites you to face those challenges in the way that grows you. A new YOU.

And, it is powerful.

What we saw for these women in just 6 months, through illness, death of a loved one, major doubts, old stories and old habits...to perspective shifts, self-love and self encouragement, providing a powerful tribe of women to hold space and keep you swimming along the way. Even if things get tough!

It was powerful for us as well to see what lotus emerged, or what was once wreckage become a beautiful new landscape.

Transformation is inevitable...how you do transformation and show up for it is all a choice.

Ann Soe and Christie Gause-Bemis are the women of Hot Pink YOUniversity. They provide coaching, programs, events, retreats, and travel to support women through transformation. Find out more at www.hotpinkyou.com

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