Simone Clement

I am currently pregnant with my first

And like any other type A, first-time moms out there I decided to do some research about labor and delivery.

Only to quickly realize that I don’t know what the hell I’m in for!

So apart from reading articles, upon articles with generic information, I wanted to get a first-hand account of labor from the badass mommas who have been there, done that.

20 amazing ladies offered to share their #1 tip, and it’s coming straight from the horse’s mouth (or a more flattering animal…like the butterfly’s mouth! yeah butterflies!!) and a lot of these lovely contributors are professionals as well as mothers!

Enjoy and don’t forget, in the comments below, to tell us what your #1 tip about labor and delivery is :) Cause this momma needs all the help she can get.

In the movies, pregnant women get sick maybe once…

And it’s usually cute and/or funny…and then in the next scene she’s 4 months pregnant battling some other cute pregnancy symptom.

WRONG!

Don’t f*cking believe it, its a lie!

Hahah ok yes I know that some women do make it through their pregnancies without ever facing that morning sickness demon, but for those of us unlucky enough to find our heads in the toilet several times a day…here are some tips, tricks, & hacks for morning sickness, nausea, vomiting, and generally feeling like crap!

One of the most surprisingly difficult parts of pregnancy has been my mental state.

Seriously…I did not expect this!

Before I got pregnant I just assumed that it would be this magical time in my life. Little did I know, that your mind actually goes through almost as many changes as your body during pregnancy.

So for those who have experience mental health issues before (or even those who haven’t) new issues might crop up!

What helped me the most? Hearing that other women go through it too. Because then a little click happened in my brain and I was able to see these problems not as problems with myself, but as just another strange, and or even debilitating pregnancy symptom.

we only get one shot at this

You know the whole life thing. And I’ve seen so many people waste their time thinking that their lives have to be a certain way.

Or that the only way to survive is to stay stuck where you are in life. Like that job is the only way you can make money. Or that person is the only one who will make you happy.

The truth is, that the big changes that we secretly want, are 100% possible.

They lie just beyond 3 super easy to comprehend, yet slightly harder to make happen concepts:

1. Goals

2. Habits

3. The Subconscious Mind

Today, in this article, I’m gonna walk you through these three concepts so you can ultimately make the big changes you want to make in your life.

Like, where is your career heading? Are you in a job because it feels safe?

What about those talents you’ve had since birth, that you’ve never really developed? A book you want to write? A song you want to sing?

It’s all possible, it just takes a lot of determination. Notice I didn’t say “a little bit” I said a lot, because that’s what it takes.

Let’s take a journey today!

A journey to making some seriously simple changes in our daily lives, so that a year from now, those new years goals come true!

Cause I know last year’s new years goals, went unfinished.

Maybe written down in a gorgeous little planner that has also gone unused during the year.

So let’s make this year different. With a simple step-by-step plan to change up how you look at your goals, and how to change your habits to actually make your goals happen.

In this article:

1. What Habits Are (how they work)

2. The Step-by-Step Plan to Changing Your Habits

3. How the Subconscious Mind Sometimes Interferes

There’s nothing more satisfying than finally getting round to sifting through the clutter that’s accumulated in your home over time. As the new year rolls in, it's important to cleanse your living space. An organized space leaves plenty of room for free-time and mental clarity. Research shows that an organized home and workspace helps creativity. Clean space, clear mind, right? Whatever the reason for your decluttering, we’ve got home (and mind) organization tips for you.

I love new years.

And I love spring cleaning…and setting new goals in the fall.

Basically I love any excuse to set new goals & start afresh.

But there would always be this pattern in my life. I’d get really stoked about my new goals, write them down, maybe even make a vision board or two, but then a few months down the road…I would find myself back at start…do not pass go…do not collect 200$.

It took me a while to figure this sort of obvious thing out:

Just writing down your goals doesn’t mean you’ll actually acheive them.

If you’re like me, setting goals is a monthly habit.

But if you’re also like me….they don’t always work out.

Sometimes I write them down, sometimes I even make a plan to reach those goals…you know…like daily, weekly, and monthly habits.

Only to find that by next month nothing has changed. I’m back to square one, and things aren’t really any different.

It took me a while to figure out what was going wrong.

And when I finally did, things changed. Because I wasn’t just writing down those daily, weekly, and monthly habits. I was building them into my life in a methodical way that meant my goals really did come true.

In this article I’m gonna break down:

1. How to understand habits

2. How to change your habits

3. How to ultimately change your life using small, daily habits

If you’re wondering what the hell your subconscious mind has to do with losing 17lbs, or writing that book you’ve always wanted to write, you’re probably not alone!

That’s where I come in…

A year ago I was suffering from a slew of bad habits, but have since learned to rock some amazing systems to make sh*t happen in my life and business.

I dove deep into my subconscious mind, guys it was scary in there, and now it’s what I teach, because it really revolutionized my life.

So my question to you now is….what’s your biggest goal?

Close your eyes, yes right now, and just let the first image that comes to your mind show up.

What was it?

Did it surprise you, or is this something you’ve known that you wanted for a long time?

Either way…there is only one path to reaching that goal, and that is to make small daily changes with the help of your subconscious mind.

With the dawning of every new year, or new season….we always get this itch…

…to change, reformulate, declutter, & start afresh.

Maybe we even make a big list of shiny goals!

…Pay off debt, get thinner, clean the house more.

But usually, after just a few weeks have passed. The goals lie on a forgotten page in our journals, or a stack of papers on our desk.

And we’re back to square one…until the next season change or new year.

Read more on how to change your habits with this habit tracker, and subconscious mind workbook.

Have you ever paid for an expensive course thinking that it would revolutionize your business?

Like you’d be a millionaire…or at least making 6 figures in the next 90 days or whatever.

Then you get into the course feeling really fired up about it!

Put things on your calendar.

Fill up your to-do list.

Start dreaming about how you’re going to spend that money….etc.

Only to then find yourself, two months into it, extremely overwhelmed with the products you have to purchase to make it happen, or the difficult things the course is asking you to do, or your own mind telling you that it’s impossible.

And then you find yourself 6 months down the road, the course half-finished and a couple of serious attempts at “making instagram work” or “booking out your practice.”

Am I saying that online courses are useless?

Well…yes and no…but mostly no.

In this video I talk about the importance of bluiding the four steps in your client roadmap. Aka, how do your clients find you, connect with you, trust you, and buy from you!

0:00 Introduction - Overview of the four steps, they are ESSENTIAL to booking clients.

4:00 #1 How do your clients find you. And why you NEED consistency in your marketing.

6:39 #2 How do your clients connect with you/get to know you!

11:41 #3 Trust & authority. P.S. this doesn’t necessarily come easily to empaths.

13:20 #4 Making sales, also not easy for empaths!

14:40 Your next steps!

How Discovering You’re an Empath will Change how You Run your Biz

In this video I talk about the 3 bigs changes ALL empath entrepreneurs need to make, to run healthy, wealthy online businesses!

0:47 Introduction - Overview of what being an empath means for online businesses

2:00 #1 Your Intuition & Your Intuition Type

5:34 The Different Types of Intuition in Empaths

7:53 #2 Boundaries! The empath entrepreneurs MUST-HAVE tool.

11:11 #3 Creating Systems for off days

14:15 My puppy joins in on the video!

How Your Chakras Influence your Business

In this video I talk about the 4 most common marketing mistakes I see (and I too have committed) and which imbalanced chakra is the culprit!

0:00 Introduction - Overview of the 4 Mistakes

1:13 #1 Fear of Being Seen

3:52 #2 Fear of Asking for the Sale

7:30 #3 Fear of Being too Salesy

10:24 #4 Second-Guessing Ourselve & Low Motivation

Empath Entrepreneurs have a different set of difficulties that arise when they’re in the online space trying to run successful businesses…Watch the video to find out what the differences are and download the Intuitive’s Guide to Running a Modern Business to find out how to work through these problems!

This post is going to serve as my open love letter to rose quartz...a crystal that I orginally shunned because of it's popularity!

Now...it's my absolute favorite crystal ever.

Rose quartz, pictured below, is a light pink form of quartz that you can find in most jewlery shops, crystal shops, and yoga stores. 

Like I mentioned earlier, I kind brushed off rose quartz because it was so popular, and I didn't really see it as a powerful stone...more like just pretty and around a lot of influencer's necks.

Boy was I wrong.

In fact I credit this stone with some of the deepest, and most honest talks between my husband and I. 

Read more about its uses, where to find it, how to wear it, where to put it, and which chakra & zodiac sign it's associated with. 

Hey lovelies! Just a quick blog post to tell you all about the last chance you have to win this gorgeous giveaway!

Who is this for?

Anyone who loves crystals, oils, and mindfulness. But a lot of these are geared to work specifically for entrepreneurs!

What’s included?

• Rocky Mountain Oils – Chakra Blends Roll-Ons (139$ value!)

Each of these amazing-smelling blends comes with a different rollerball crystal that corresponds to each of the chakras! Find out more about what’s in each blend here.

MONEY IS SPIRITUAL

When we were born onto this earth, and our souls took the form of a human body for the next 60-100 years, we also took on the responsibility of caring for our physical bodies. Because if we don’t we can’t survive.

We also, when we came into corporeal form took on the laws of our universe and one of the laws is the Law of Gender (or the Law of Polarity also works) and therefore each of us has both masculine and feminine energy in us.

We have the survival instinct…so yeah we gotta survive!

But on a larger scale, we were meant to live abundant lives. Our natural state is a state of abundance, where we’re thriving and giving and able to share our spirituality and our gifts & talents.

I mean let’s look at it through the lense of self-care which has a similar function.

I’m sure you’ve heard the phrase “put your own oxygen mask on before helping others,” why is this necessary? Because if you don’t you die!

Same thing with self-care, if you don’t take care of yourself you get burnt-out, crabby, helpless, and hopeless.

And hey! Same things with money! If you are constantly worried about how you’re going to pay for your next meal…then you won’t be able to show up and serve.

Money has a million functions in our lives..and those don’t necessarily have anything to do with being greedy or selfish, things like paying our bills, paying for healthcare, pet care etc.

And even things that could be considered slightly more “greedy” like getting a massage, or hiring someone to clean the house, or taking a vacation all have spiritual purposes. Self-care anyone?!?

Money is love.

You might have heard of these things called essential oils…

...and you might have even heard of the benefits they can bring you!

But...if you're like me just a year ago you're probably wondering where in the hell to start!

Because it can be a little bit overwhelming to see all the essential oil options out there...like what is therapeutic grade, how important is organic, and which of the hundreds of essential oils should I actually invest in.

Chakras. Essential Oils. This was like a foreign language to me just a few years ago...but since I began seriously developing my spiritual practice...i.e. healing my energy and power centers, I've dove head first into the world of aromatherapy.

I mean like logically I pretty much thought that essential oils just smelled good. But they can do a lot more than that...like my favorite essential oil blend "perspective" it can make you cry just by opening it up for the first time and smelling it.

Because aromatherapy can actually change the chemicals in our brains, they can teach us to release pain, actually release seratonin, or at least just a smile. 

So that's why I'm here today...to help you learn about essential oils.

Well I'm hoping to help you get some clarity today with a very basic explanation of the few things you'll need to keep in mind when you're purchasing essential oils, some of their uses, and which essential oils would be good for a beginner. 

Don't worry tho we're gonna take this one step at a time!! <3 

There are many, many ways of attracting money into your life...and crystals are just one of them!

Crystals work either to attract money or to balance the energy that is responsible for attracting money.

For example some crystals are luck and money attracting, and others will balance the heart chakra...the chakra responsible for attracting wealth and money. 

Also! Essential oils can help you build and attract wealth, so we'll talk about that next. 

Finally we'll talk about the lower chakras and how each of them have their own relationship with wealth and money!

Happiness ruts happen. We’ve all been there… One moment everything feels fine and the next you’re wallowing in a pit of despair. For example, you’re all caught up at work and your boss surprises you with a massive project. Goodbye evening yoga, hello long nights at the office. Try not to stress! Even if nothing is fundamentally wrong, humans are still prone to struggle mentally sometimes. Unfortunately, these lulls also have the potential to negatively impact creative work.

One of the most common complaints that I hear from spiritual entrepreneurs is that they are overwhelmed with social media.

In fact hardly a day goes by where I don't read the typical "I need a break from social media" post.

Hey I LOVE the fact that you take breaks when you need to.

In fact I would encourage it!

But I also want to offer you guys some tools to reduce the inevitable stress that us spiritual and empathic types can feel online. 

Because it can be a BIG energy sucker to get online and share your heart and soul...or even just reading the millions of not-so-authentic posts that people put out.

The online world is like the real world but if the real world were like a city in the wild west 200 years ago...there are different rules...made-up rules.

People act differently...and it can be exhausting if you're the healer type...because there's a lot of wild energy! People selling, buying things, hiding behind their computers while they say horrible things....

It's an energy catalyst...and let's just say there's no shortage of strange fear energy out there.

That's why sometimes as sensitive beings it can be a bit overwhelming. 

I woke up from my daily nap today....

<3 love you Spain....

...and I had this overwhelming feeling of failure.

You see just two days ago, I embarked on a new stage in my blog. 

One where I show up and get REALLY visible for 100 days.

It's part of my plan to boost up my income, and it is A LOT of work. I've set myself some really big challenges. It's had been going really well, for the past two days anyway, and today idk why but it just caught up with me. 

Then I had the realization that I'm only 3 days into a 100 day plan...and that oh yeah! It's OK not to be seeing any results yet.

So that hit me, and then I was able to fall back on my old sense of perspective. 

See I tend to get a little teensey bit dramatic...and that's because I'm such a detail oriented person that sometimes I miss the big picture.

See and being good with details is a gift! But it's easy for us detail-minded people to get lost in the fact that only two days have passed and my new blog plan isn't immediately making me any money. Lol...

To say that my aquamarine stone is single-handedly responsible for the creation and success of my blog is not an exaggeration. 

I first got my aquamarine stone about a year and a half ago, coincidentally around the same time that my blog started.

My counselor gave it to me and my husband as a spur-of-the-moment going away present. 

It was spontaneous that she gave it to me, and upon assessing the value of a stone that large I was truly shocked! 

But the aquamarine was essential to my spiritual development...because it triggers the balancing of the throat chakra.

IF you’re like me at the beginning of your business…...then you probably made a hundred offers and none of them sold.

Or maybe you sold like 3...

But it certainly wasn't enough to make a lasting income and even more certainly it wasn't equal to the major amount of time you were dedicating to your online business.

When I finally learned the magic trick for making offers that sold I sold 1000$ worth of packages in about a week. 

The entire previous year I made less than 100$. 

Anyway! I'm here to help you today and tell you the trick that got me to sell offers left and right :).

Well really it's more like a recipe!

Why Essential Oils? Why Chakras?

Learning to access and balance the chakras changed the way I related to my body.

Suddenly I understood a lot more about how my energy flowed, and how to access my power.

It helped me to open up, to heal pain and trauma that had existed in my body for decades, and taught me to say what I need to say, to have strength, integrity, and to connect to the earth.

The chakra system is just a framework within which we get to explore how energy moves through our bodies. Truthfully there are more than just the seven commonly shown chakras...but for today were going to focus on those chakras that run up and down the body's energy channel/the spine.

I'll talk very briefly about what each chakra does, what it feels like when it's out of balance, and some essential oils that can help you return that chakra to balance once again. 

Also I'm so excited to share what I got in the mail today!! My chakra rollers from Rocky Mountain Oils <3. They are amazing. 

Not Making Any Money in My Business

During the first year of my business I probably spent over 1000 hours working....with almost NOTHING to show for it. I was honestly at the giving up point.

I was thinking maybe it's just not possible for me...maybe I'm not doing it right...etc. 

And then BOOM* something happened that would change the course of this blog and of my confidence in my ability to support myself...and oh yeah the infinite nature of our universe and it's constantly supply of mon-ay!!!!

I have a favorite tree.

Which I hug every day.

Much to the embarrassment of my fiancé while were out walking the dog.

But I don’t care, because it took me a long time to be able to hug trees openly in public. I mean the word tree-hugger is practically a cussword.

But trees and their connection to divine nature, can offer us unique meditations on what it means to build a strong online business.

So here they are the 5 lessons from trees for your online business.

1.       Stay still – Staying still, or staying connected to your clear message is one of the hardest parts of running an online business.