217. Creative but Stuck? The Key to Simplicity with HeatherAsh Amara
HeatherAsh Amara is one of those women who was really cracked open the code to what we need to feel free internally, and what we need to understand that our inner knowing is probably going to be our best guide. She skillfully and unconditionally guides people to shift from self-judgment to discernment, from victimhood to authentic vulnerability. She helps us shed limiting domestication so we can ground into the self-intimacy, steadiness, and stillness that exists all around us. HeatherAsh’s love of writing started when she was a child. She started working as a journalist, working with women and business and eventually landed a job at a publishing company. Her boss encouraged her to write her own book. She says the draft of her first book was terrible. She was under stress and felt it had to be perfect. HeatherAsh realized she had to get out of her head. She’s written nine books so far and runs her own company. “Writing is not an easy choice of things to do because the amount of tension that you have to hold in your body for something new to come through is pretty intense,” says HeatherAsh. She compares her body to a container where all her ideas bounce against each other. She needs to let the discomfort happen before she can create something new and bring all of the experiences and learning into language. “What I love writing about is tension; we want it to be simple,” says HeatherAsh. “And there is a way that it is simple. But the simplicity is that learning how to hold the contradictions and getting big enough to understand that two things can be true at the same time, and how do we metabolize that in our bodies? How do we show up in challenging situations and have our hearts stay open?” When it came time for HeatherAsh’s second book, her world was falling apart. She was going through a divorce. The center she was working at was having trouble. But her publisher was asking for the material. She eventually shared a program for a course that she’d written for women. Every month, she did two-hour calls, and wrote about what the group needed. This became Warrior Goddess Training, which reached Number 1 in Goddesses and Shamanism on Amazon for four years. HeatherAsh talks about contradiction in movement that happens in dance. As a kinesthetic person, she sees our relationship with life as a dance and that we’re always learning about how to be better dance partners. There has been a lot of upheaval over the years and if you think about it in a way of how do you become a better dance partner? How do you get more grounded? How do you get more present? It's not about changing the world, and it's not about fixing yourself. You're not broken. You just have a lot of beliefs and patterns and habits that aren't serving. Let's fix those. Dance is a beautiful metaphor to use. #WarriorGoddess #HeatherAshAmara #DivineFeminine #AskExpert #WomenInBusiness #IntuitiveBusinessCoach Mentioned: Believe It: How to Go from Underestimated to Unstoppable https://amzn.to/3SgHzZy Warrior Goddess Wisdom Weekend in Austin: https://insighteventsusa.com/warrior-goddess-wisdom-weekend-austin-2024/ Connect with HeatherAsh Amara: https://www.warriorgoddess.com Other GoG episodes you might want to check out: How to Run Your Business When Life Happens https://sarahwalton.com/when-life-happens/ How to Coach Yourself Through Hard Times https://sarahwalton.com/coach-yourself/ You can check out our podcast interviews on YouTube, too! http://bit.ly/YouTubeSWalton Thank you so much for listening. I’m so honored that you’re here and would be so grateful if you could leave a quick review on Apple Podcasts by clicking here, scrolling to the bottom and clicking “Write a review.” Then we’ll get to inspire even more people! (If you’re not sure how to leave a review, you can watch this quick tutorial.)