Anne and I go back a long way! Smart, curious, determined... these were my initial invitations to discover more about how Anne was choosing to move through her world. Here we are now - almost two decades later - and the joy of any exploration with her, remains. I was recently invited by Anne to join her on her Podcast Embodied to explore the power of ... Continue Reading >>
Louise LeBrun
Owning Your Mind: Louise on ‘The Poetry of Predicament’
I have been deeply disturbed by the degree of censorship I have witnessed in the last 18 months of my life. Never would I have dreamed such a thing would profoundly shape my reality, having long taken freedom of thought and choice to be a 'given' in my homeland. And now, I am no longer sure that its presence will grace the lives of my children and ... Continue Reading >>
Louise and Dean: New Conversation in Chaotic Times
My conversations with Dean Walker of The Poetry of Predicament podcast always open doors to my own as-yet unexpressed thinking. This one proved particularly potent for me. For some time, I have had no interest in speaking, blogging or even journaling. Every thought I have seems to be one that I've had so many times before. As I listened to the podcast ... Continue Reading >>
Whispers from Within: Day 10
Good morning! Here I am on Day 10: The first day of the rest of my life. I think of the completion of this cycle of enquiry as the end of a long, steady and deep inhalation… of my Self. Now, I pause… and in this continuing cycle… I enter into the long, slow and deep exhalation as I choose to live my life as an expression of the integration that now ... Continue Reading >>
Whispers from Within: Day 9
Good morning! Day 9: the penultimate, in this journey of inner exploration. We are almost complete, ever mindful that we can begin anew anytime we choose. There is never an end - only pauses along the way to live out discoveries and re-awaken the desire for yet another deep dive into the unclaimed possibilities. How does it go? The purported Chinese ... Continue Reading >>
Whispers from Within: Day 8
Good morning! Inside myself, the ’tone’ of my own enquiry has shifted. As I move from what I know or have known, to what I know I don’t know, there is a sense of being set adrift in a weightless environment. Perhaps this is what a walk in space might feel like. I am more present to the moment; more in the ’now’ as I release myself from searching and ... Continue Reading >>
Whispers from Within: Day 7
Good morning! In my own life and with others, I became aware of patterns and how these patterns, themselves, become the very fabric of our existence; aware that they come to shape our very lives into what we come to call ‘reality’. These patterns come to be relied upon as not only the right thing and the appropriate thing, but the essential thing for our ... Continue Reading >>
Whispers from Within: Day 6
Good morning! It has been the longest 5 days of my life! :) Great surges of insight! Deep undulations, reminiscent of those from so long ago. Churning and swirling and twisting….. constant movement of the Soul, as is to be expected when a Great Journey is undertaken. And in this moment, calm. This is what it must be to enter into the eye of a ... Continue Reading >>
Whispers from Within: Day 5
Good morning, All! Today, I feel the wrenching. And the truth is: sometimes, when something has been fixed for so long, the wrenching is required for it to be dislodged. A very, very old wave activates as I notice an inner voice speaking to me, in the timbre and cadence of a much younger me, chastising that I have gone too far. That I have asked too ... Continue Reading >>
Whispers from Within: Day 1
I begin with much appreciation for your enthusiastic willingness to be part of this journey with me. Many of you already know that those who step into our worlds are, in some way, a living expression of an as-yet unrecognized aspect of our own consciousness. I enter this journey with all of you with the recognition that what calls to me requires… and ... Continue Reading >>
Women’s Retreat with Louise: Nov. 22, 23 & 24, 2016
It’s that time of year, again! With the rapid approach of Fall, my thoughts turn to the annual Emerging Futures retreat for women; at the Fairmont Chateau Montebello. The Sharp Edge of Your Own Evolution: Contouring the Curve of Creation November 22, 23 & 24, 2016 Such an odd way to define this event! How do we make sense of recognizing that our own ... Continue Reading >>
Timelessness….
Yesterday, was a really lovely day! In my cozy sanctuary, my Ohana gathered to be in the good company of each other. My always-funny, sometimes-outrageous and ever-loving sons; their wisely-chosen and equally-compelling partners; and long-time, close friends gathered for good food, great conversation and side-splitting stories of long-ago mishaps and ... Continue Reading >>
When Our Illusions Collapse: Do they make a sound? (Part 1/3)
I grew up in the post-war, baby-booming ‘golden days’ of cookie-cutter housing projects, rayon blouses, muscle cars and the infinite miracle of plastic. That war-to-end-all-wars was over and it was time to build; to create and invent; to design high-consumption, mass-expression lives. The feeding frenzy went on for decades… imbedding in two generations ... Continue Reading >>
Boundaries… and Beyond! ~ New podcast with Louise
In the midst of many and significant changes in my life, I had the great opportunity to be in an open, expansive and compelling conversation with 'open heart specialist' Deb Ozarko on her 'Unplug!' podcast. My conversations with Deb always lead me into new thoughts and through fields of potential, to that point untapped. In Episode 75 (Boundaries... and ... Continue Reading >>
Radical Money!
Episode 92 ~ with Noreen Mejias-Bennett Today's exploration launches us into a series of topics of great meaning for and relevance to the lives of women! In the new, one-day experience of 'Radical EVEolution: Reclaiming LeaderSelf', we make our way to the sharp edge of possibility and reconsider how else we might choose to live our lives, today! ... Continue Reading >>
Crones: The Power of Permission
Episode 91 ~ with Holly Irons Today, we’re going to take a look at what it can mean to be a Cultural Crone.... to be that woman who has lived long and knows deeply; who has trusted the power of innocence and known intimately its great consequences; who has danced in the magic of creation and the ongoing responsibility of its expressions; and who now, is ... Continue Reading >>
The Journey to ‘Radical’
Be mindful of the company you keep. My world - and yours - is shaped by the conversations that we have and the people with whom we choose to have them. For my world to expand, I must first expand my conversations. I don’t know about you but I have long tired of the blah blah blah... as we continue on, deep in our denial and mindless march to the edge of the ... Continue Reading >>
Sanity, Silence and the Sacred
Sometimes, there is more going on than I can manage with logic and reason. The pieces on the playing board of my life seem to have minds of their own and I fall into believing that my job is to just try to keep up! That awareness becomes my cue to stop... pay attention... and make the time to enter into a deeper, more conscious and intended exploration with ... Continue Reading >>
Reconsidering Commitment
Today, I am revisiting the things that have long held meaning, and wonder: do they still? My commitment is and always must be, first, to mySelf. Today, I am mindful, that without a willingness to revisit my life as a living and evolving expression of 'being', my commitments become hollow and empty. I share this recording with all of you and invite you to ... Continue Reading >>
Reaping what we mindfully sow
It's Wednesday and I'm mindful of my commitment to myself to listen to/for something that will expand my world. This one (on Evolution by Intention), I've listened to a few times, mindful that it's not a quick listen; it's not an easy listen; and it's not a catchy little ditty that you can hum when you're leaving the show! It has however, reminded me of who ... Continue Reading >>
Reconsidering ‘Coaching’
As we launch our first gathering for Affiliates 2013 and anticipate the same of ACES 2013, I am mindful of two thoughts: interconnectivity and leaps! I've been working with others for more than 20 years and am clear: we need to make leaps in how we engage in the accelerated evolution of our own lives; and in our work with others. The following short ... Continue Reading >>
Voices and Choices: Tapestry of Sounds
I spend much of my time in conversation with others. As magnificent as these experiences most often are, there are times when I long for the sound of my own inner truth; the time to pause… take a breath… and listen for the sound of that which is deeply authentic to me. Perhaps in taking this pause, you too, will have the opportunity to hear ... Continue Reading >>
Men Waking Up
Recently, I was in contact with a man who has been my pen-pal for more than ten years. We met during one of the many programs I have attended and for whatever reason, chose to stay in touch through the years. We live on different sides of the world so, although I consider him my friend, I have not seen him in person since that first meeting. In a recent ... Continue Reading >>
The Power of the Process
There are lots of different ways to see the world... At the close of a recent gathering of WEL-Systems Institute Affiliates, Louise LeBrun shared her thoughts on what the WEL-Systems® body of knowledge offers those who are seeking transformation. In her usual candid way, Louise speaks to the power of context for shaping our lives; and to 'process' as ... Continue Reading >>
Endings and New Beginnings: In conversation with Louise LeBrun
Episode 69 - Reclaiming Your Self ~ 11/06/30 ~ Endings and New Beginnings: In conversation with Louise LeBrun Guest Host: Naomi Irons Today’s Episode of ‘Reclaiming Your Self: Women Unedited and Engaged!’ will mark the completion of 69 hours of compelling, provocative and life-altering explorations of how else you might choose to live your life, today! It ... Continue Reading >>
Mental Health: A new view from a different window
Episode 65 - Reclaiming Your Self ~ 11/06/02 ~ Mental Health: A new view from a different window Sometimes, because we don’t know what else to do instead, we just keep doing the same-old/same-old, hoping that one day we’ll be surprised and it will have made a difference. Despite the ever-increasing use of pharmaceuticals without results; and the frequently ... Continue Reading >>
Death and Dying: Reconsidering the Inevitable Journey
Episode 60 - Reclaiming Your Self ~ 11/04/28 ~ Death and Dying: Reconsidering the Inevitable Journey ... Continue Reading >>
Compromise: Virtue or Vice?
Episode 56 - Reclaiming Your Self ~ 11/03/31 ~ Compromise: Virtue or Vice? Through the cultural conditioning that becomes the framework for the structure of our ‘reality’, women are shaped to be the caretakers of relationships. Whether as mother, daughter; sister or wife; ours is to preserve the peace in the relationship and ensure its sustainability... ... Continue Reading >>
Signals Dancing™: Accelerating Evolution
Episode 46 - Reclaiming Your Self ~ 11/01/20 ~ Signals Dancing™: Accelerating Evolution There are lots of different ways to see the world... and given the rapidly escalating intensity of the change occurring around the planet, we would do well to see our world through new eyes! Signals Dancing™ is one in a series of original models (see model image) that ... Continue Reading >>
Space, Movement and Flow: The Next Wave
I’ve known for some time, now, that breathing is good! Not because of the effects of the physical breath on my physical body, but because the very process of breathing graces me with a constant reminder of my own, uninterrupted potential for the next wave of expression. In that, my state of being is infinite; as are my intentions and outcomes, beyond any ... Continue Reading >>
Clearing Space for New Beginnings
Episode 43 - Reclaiming Your Self ~ 10/12/30 ~ Clearing Space for New Beginnings As the end of one year fast approaches, the beginning of the new one beckons. In truth, it is more about the rhythms and cycles of our questions, flowing through the long curved lines of our unfolding... than it ever is about the straight lines and sharp angles of our ... Continue Reading >>
Personal Coaching: Going Bigger, Moving Faster and Finding Transformation
A recording by Louise LeBrun; duration = 11:51 To change our language from 'counselling/therapy' to 'coaching' is not enough to make the difference that so many of us desperately seek. We must also change our own thoughts…our own energetic frameworks… within which we hold our definition of WHAT a human being is, for how we define WHAT we are will ... Continue Reading >>
Finding Ourselves in the Dark
A recording by Louise LeBrun; duration = 5:46 It is not easy to let go of our need to have what ' was ' continue to be the way it ' is '. All that we've clung to for so long begins to fade into the background. As we let go, those movements and sounds so foreign to all that we hold as ‘real' and ‘true' and ‘right', begin to increase in intensity and flow. ... Continue Reading >>
Accelerated Healing: Safety, Science and a Touch of the Sacred
A recording by Louise LeBrun; duration = 6:52 Accelerated Healing [audio:https://louiselebrun.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/a-healing.mp3|titles=Accelerated Healing: Safety, Science and a Touch of the Sacred|artists=Louise LeBrun|width=350] We are long overdue for a new and more powerful perspective that produces the results we seek. Accelerated healing – or ... Continue Reading >>
Balance: Bogus Bounty?
A recording by Louise LeBrun; duration = 5:54 Many devote time and effort to creating balance in their lives. Consider for a moment: what might our lives become if we were to free ourselves from the notion of 'balance' and seek, instead, to create meaning in our lives? You are invited and encouraged to add your comments and share this ... Continue Reading >>
Voices and Choices – Tapestry of Sounds
A recording by Louise LeBrun; duration = 5:33 Voices and Choices [audio:a-voicechoices.mp3|titles=Voices and Choices - Tapestry of Sounds|artists=Louise LeBrun|width=350] It is so easy for the sounds outside of us to drown out the sounds of us, inside of us. From the taking of our first breath, we are taught to focus our attention outside of us - on the ... Continue Reading >>
2012: Desperation or Inspiration?
A recording by Louise LeBrun; duration = 13:46 2012: Desperation or Inspiration? Much in our world is changing - and fast! Gaia's activity - evidenced by earthquakes and tsunamis, wildfires, flooding, punishing rains, mudslides, etc. - is occurring with an intensity and at a rate difficult to ignore. In the face of such challenges, how can we see potential ... Continue Reading >>
Sacred Spaces – Inner Places
Take a moment to stop... take a breath... and move all of your attention inside - where you live. We seek and struggle to find outside of us that which can only be found inside of us, where spirit touches tissue deep at the base of the spine. Imagine our surprise when we discover that we are indeed, the very thing that we so relentlessly seek! And it ... Continue Reading >>
From Victim to Victorious Voice
A recording by Louise LeBrun; duration = 8:09 We are not without moments in our lives that bring chaos and challenges. Seeking to press these out of awareness will serve us well... to a point. And then, the time comes when we must wrap our hands around our life, claim all that it offers and bring voice to a much deeper inner truth. In that single act, we ... Continue Reading >>
Addiction: Recovery or Re-discovery?
A recording by Louise LeBrun; duration = 7:05 Freedom, like safety, is an inside job. Before we can be free of our so-called 'addictions', we must first free ourselves of our own dated and limited thinking about them. Consider the outrageous and allow yourself to get curious about: where is the intelligence in my moving through my world this way? And were ... Continue Reading >>
Thoughts On… Celebration
A recording by Louise LeBrun; duration = 6:37 It really is the little things that light up our days! And yet, how easily do we brush these aside in our scramble for what we think will be the more significant event/person/moment/outcome? Perhaps it is not our lives that need adjusting but the lens through which we notice those lives. It is amazing to ... Continue Reading >>
Staying the Course
A recording by Louise LeBrun; duration = 5:25 Staying the Course [audio:https://louiselebrun.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/a-staying.mp3|titles=Staying the Course|artists=Louise LeBrun|width=350] Creating what is meaningful in our lives is not always easy and it's not always fun - and it is always worth it. Whatever the original intention of your journey, ... Continue Reading >>
What Does it Take for Women to Lead?
A recording by Louise LeBrun; duration = 10:55 The words 'leader' or 'leadership' are rife with cultural rules and expectations - many of them holding little or no interest for the vast majority of women who ponder the possibilities. Before women become willing to lead, it may be required to redefine leadership in ways that become more meaningful. It ... Continue Reading >>
Thoughts On… Abundance
A recording by Louise LeBrun; duration = 6:08 Thoughts On... Abundance Imagine if we were to consider the notion of 'abundance' from a different perspective. What would our world look like/feel like if we were to stop... take a breath... and chose to look through new eyes? Where does abundance live in our lives, unnoticed and unclaimed? Where does it ... Continue Reading >>
Layers of Discovery
A recording by Louise LeBrun; duration = 7:00 Layers of Discovery [audio:a-layers.mp3|titles=Layers of Discover|artists=Louise LeBrun|width=350] Who would think that language could hold such power? Far beyond the meaning of any word is the vibration of the sound that shapes it, transforming tissue and lives. Yet even more powerful and profound in its ... Continue Reading >>
Sekhmet Rising: The Restlessness of Women’s Genius
A recording by Louise LeBrun; duration = 15:13 Sekhmet Rising: The Restlessness of Women’s Genius The ancient Eqyptian goddess, Sekhmet, represents what the living expression of women can be. With the body of a woman and the head of the lioness, she calls to and awakens in us the truth of our capacity to give birth, to nurture and to sustain; and reminds ... Continue Reading >>
Thoughts On… Commitment
A recording by Louise LeBrun; duration = 6:38 Our commitments hold the power to mold and shape our world. Who we choose to be in the expression of these will define our future and that of our children; shape our communities, our cultures and our systems. With what appears to be a simple declaration, we can lock things into place, hold things at bay or we ... Continue Reading >>
Bifurcation for Mothers and their Sons
A recording by Louise LeBrun; duration = 6:14 It seems to go by so fast! One minute, their hand barely wraps around a finger; and the next, they're driving themselves to college and working part-time to pay for it all! Where does the time go? With mothers and their daughters, growing up often means 'more' in life as they return with partners and ... Continue Reading >>
Families: Behavioural Fractals
A recording by Louise LeBrun; duration = 6:03 Families: Behavioural Fractals "He's just a chip off the old block!" We read those words and know instantly what they mean: that we are an expression of those who have come before us. How does that happen? How do we get to be moulded and shaped in ways that leave us believing that we ARE what we've been ... Continue Reading >>
Thoughts On… The Level of the Game
A recording by Louise LeBrun; duration = 6:15 Thoughts On... Level of the Game "Be careful!" "Take it slow!" "But what if...." Many of us grow up, finely attuned to all that might not work... might go wrong... becoming cautious about and suspicious of those internal cues that urge us to live fully and live large! Imagine discovering the capacity to trust an ... Continue Reading >>
Fully Alive from 9 to 5
A recording by Louise LeBrun; duration = 10:57 Given that as adults, we'll spend more time at work than anywhere else, 'work' provides us with an immense and constantly shifting opportunity - a living laboratory! - to discover more about ourselves and each other. Nestled into a vast array of human behaviours, the invitation to see beyond the content of ... Continue Reading >>
Living Large in an Increasingly Smaller World
A recording by Louise LeBrun; duration = 12:09 When we look around at our world and how we move through it, consider the endless invitations that present for us to begin to notice that every choice we make is a reflection of our state of being, which then defines our world. If our world is in trouble (and it is), it may be time to stop... and ponder... ... Continue Reading >>
Being Outside and Inside
A recording by Louise LeBrun; duration = 4:21 Take a gentle journey and discover how effortlessly we can move from the place where we can see our world to the place from which we create our world. Knowing that separation is an illusion, we can flow effortlessly from one place to the other... in a breath! You are invited and encouraged to share this ... Continue Reading >>
Evolution by Intention: New Beginnings for Weary Souls (audio)
A recording by Louise LeBrun; duration = 14:35 We are slowly, but surely, coming to recognize that we need a new place to stand in the creation of our lives and our world. Building on or seeking to change what is, may no longer be enough to offer the transformation that we so greatly desire and require. Take a moment to consider how else we might choose to ... Continue Reading >>
Programmed for Predictable?
A recording by Louise LeBrun; duration = 7:13 We want to think of ourselves as unique and special. Yet, how much of how we move through our lives has become habituated and repetitive... and worse, completely outside of our awareness?! Take the time to stop... and pay attention... trusting that no matter what you discover, your world will have become ... Continue Reading >>
Huna: Simplicity and Wisdom for a Busy Life
A recording by Louise LeBrun; duration = 9:58 No matter how chaotic it might be 'out there', you can find and relax into that tranquil sea within. It doesn't have to be hard or take a long time. It can be as easy as breathing in... and breathing out... and trusting that each breath will reveal its undeniable truth. All you need to do is be willing to ... Continue Reading >>
Women’s Voices – Women’s Choices
A recording by Louise LeBrun; duration = 5:49 "Stop... take a breath... and allow yourself to discover more of your own potential." You are invited and encouraged to share this recording and to add your thoughts / comments Women's Voices - Women's Choices by Louise LeBrun is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No ... Continue Reading >>
Letting Go
A recording by Louise LeBrun; duration = 5:02 It's not always easy to move on. For each of us, there comes a time when in order for us to receive, we must loosen our grip around what 'is' that something new might 'become'. You are invited and encouraged to share this recording and to add your thoughts / comments Letting Go by Louise ... Continue Reading >>
Creativity and Daily Living
A recording by Louise LeBrun; duration = 4:31 You don't need to be a rocket scientist or another Picasso to claim the creative force within, that is the authentic you! In its many and varied ways, living authentically makes it possible for you to be the unique and creative expression of the godforce that you are - easily, effortlessly and in every moment ... Continue Reading >>
A Gift to Yourself: Intimate and meaningful conversations
Happy New Year to all! I, for one, am bursting at the seams with the sense of possibility and potential that 2010 offers us all. I know that each of us will carve out our own path as we move forward into the coming days, weeks and months, remembering that it all begins with a single breath. The world is changing - and fast! There are times when I feel ... Continue Reading >>
The Year of Practical Magic
A recording by Louise LeBrun; duration = 9:17 As 2009 fades into the background and 2010 begins to offer up its opportunities, discoveries and challenges, take a moment to consider how you might choose to live your life in the coming days, weeks and months. Pause.. and consider: when December 2010 rolls around and you look back at your life, who will ... Continue Reading >>
Thinking About… Experience
Trust your experience! To trust your experience, you must first learn to trust your body since that’s the only place experience can occur. Your intuition…your instincts….your ‘gut’ feel…are your body’s way of offering you huge amounts of information in a single wave of intelligence. Life expands quickly and effortlessly when we choose to pay ... Continue Reading >>
Thinking About… Heart
Be gentle with yourself. Without that, your capacity for compassion, tolerance and patience with others will be a philosophy that struggles to become your way of life. Learning to be gentle with ourselves teaches us to recognize that moment when it is so desperately required in someone else. ... Continue Reading >>
Thinking About… Chaos
Bifurcation is such an interesting experience in the body. We feel two distinct things at the same time: the chaos of the old coming apart and the great excitement/anticipation of the creation of the new. They co-exist, occupying the same space and the same time, and the sensation plays itself out in the body. Personally? My life has been at its most ... Continue Reading >>