Hot Pink YOUniversity

As you hang the 2016 calendar and throw away 2015, it is a symbolic ending and beginning that causes us to pause, for just a moment.  What did 2015 mean for you?  What did you create?  And, what can you celebrate.... Hot Pink YOUniversity invites you to create a ritual to review your 2015. Take a moment and think back, month by month....what was happening?  What did you learn about yourself and about the world?  What feelings did you create?  What did you manifest for yourself? As you think of these for yourself....Hot Pink YOUniversity will exemplify the ritual we invite you to create. January launched the very first Woman on Fire:  7 steps to Reignite Passion, Purpose and Play.  We combined everything that we knew to be true academically and personally into this 6 month intensive program.  We felt nervous, excited and humbled as we began the work that felt like birthing.  Birthing our ideas into the world and hopin...

      I am feeling another rush of powerful emotion as I sit down to share this story with you.  There is no doubt that I have been forever changed in many ways by my recent trip to India and that the transformation continues. Christie and I talk and teach often about The Art of Receiving .  Most of us tend to be great givers but we struggle with receiving .  Christie and I had just decided this would be the playshop we would be holding for our travel tribe on this trip-little did we both know how we would personally be in the need to receive on this trip!   My story shows that we are always able to learn more and that the Universe will provide the divine right opportunities at the divine right time-often when we least expect it!      We were just coming off an amazing, deeply spiritual sunrise ceremony on the sacred Ganges River .  I was in a truly open, loving, peaceful state as we entered the streets of...

It is the morning of our adventure.  My bags sit packed by the door.  My family still lightly sleeps.  I am feeling a mix of emotions....excited, yes.  Curious...no doubt.  A little afraid...stories trickle in from a variety of solicited and unsolicited sources on precautions and concerns.  It is this time before the trip, the books on India splayed out before me, my imagination centers of my brain on fire for what I might see, feel and hear.  These are the moments I feel plugged back into life, reignited with passion and perhaps a little purpose as I seek to understand and experience the various cultures of the world. For many of us, that fear holds us back from these experiences and we say "no" before we even consider the potential of a YES in our lives.  When you retrain your brain to say "YES", you plug back into that passion-seeking side of you.  Motivation is lost in 5 seconds.  If we look at the obstacles or potential...

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 tran...

What Does it Mean to Self-Love " Hot Pink Style "? February....ahhh, the month of love.   Relying on the one you love to pull through for you in a big way.   The right flowers, the right dinner, the right card.   It's a lot of pressure! But what about self-love ?   Loving yourself regardless of external things.   Regardless if the right card, flower, or dinner is in your life.   Regardless of whether you are in a relationship with someone or not.   Self-love is that internal, gushy feeling that gives you confidence and the voice of positivity in your head. Loving yourself is required for life's sometimes bumpy road.   It is easy to do when life is smoothly moving along and the people around you are doing oh-so-well.   More difficult when things get rocky.   How do you love yourself when someone else is telling you not to?   Or, when you make a blunderous mistake?   Or, when the external things you relied on to af...

Authored by:  Christie Bemis I wrote this on the Saturday before Mother's Day and wanted to share this as we leave spring and move into summer.   I am hoping it will inspire you! As this Mother's Week wraps up...yes, you read that right....in my home I lovingly refer to the week before Mother's Day as Mother's week, I am basking in the glory of being a mom.   Last night, my son and I went to a concert together. Today, my daughter and I will spend some quality time together, a bike ride or a snuggle with a movie....we will see what the weather allows.   And, tomorrow, I will wake up and wait and wait and wait, listening to the noises of my kids in the kitchen making me crepes with strawberries and banana foster topping.   And....yes, there's more, there will be the perfect gift and dinner on the grill. So, how did this magic   happen?   Are my kids just exceptional?   Did they get some kind of bizarre gene that included Mother'...

Radical S elf-Love:  Part Four of Four Photograph by Christie Gause-Bemis   Imagine being asked out on a date with that one person in your life you are most excited to share your time with.   The anticipation, the thought put into your hair, your make-up, your outfit and your attitude, your personal pep-talk.   Now, imagine that date is with yourself....who more important to primp and prep for? When I turned 29, it was a milestone for me.   One more foot towards 30; but, more importantly, I was now older than my big sister.   She passed away the day after her 29th birthday party after a long battle with brain cancer, and here I was, alive and grateful.   I always wanted a surprise birthday party and remembered the one we had given my sister for her 29th.   I wondered, who, if anyone, would ever give me a surprise birthday party.   I know, a weird dream from childhood.   I decided that year, "why wait?".   Why wait f...