The doors to my signature program are opening soon, so today I’m inviting you to consider what it would look like to make this A Year of You. We’re talking the steps it takes to actually make a change, finding momentum in accountability, an update on my dentist drama, plus journal prompts that will snap you out of the habit of overperforming so you can settle into a refreshing pool of enough.

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Journal through these 7 prompts to snap out of the habit of overperforming so you can settle into a refreshing pool of enough:

where am I doing more than I need to?
what would it look like to do less?
who might notice? what might they say?
what’s my definition of enough?
how do I know when I’m there?
where do I already have plenty?
how can I sink deeper into what’s in my life now?

When you’re done journaling, come over to Instagram and DM me @kaileenelise with your reflections. Tell me what feels surprising or true? What do you feel called to do?

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Listen to Episode 232 of Celebrate Cultivate

Hello. You are listening to Celebrate Cultivate. I am your host, intuition coach, and voice in your earbuds, Kaileen Elise Sues. How are you? What is going on? Are you hanging in there? Middle of May, it feels like a lot doesn't it? I am good, I am happy, and I am low-key overwhelmed. I feel like I'm wedged between a big stack of ideas, a long list of family admin and planning, and an inbox that I am tending to carefully like an overgrown garden.

I have been trying to get myself back down to inbox zero, and I make a little bit of progress, and then I feel like it's gone with more stuff coming in. And that's just, like, how life feels across the board. You know, I have, like, stacks of paper on my desk, and I have, like, again, all these ideas and creative things that I wanna do.

And then, like, time passes. I literally just spent two and a half hours working on my website, updating old show notes, putting in show notes from past episodes that as I'm recording the episode I'll say, "I'll link that in the show notes," and then sitting down to actually link those things in the show notes doesn't always happen in real time.

So as an example, my episode about my 41st birthday, which happened in March, I just now fully got those show notes up on the website. Which I don't even know if you are going to my website. It's kaileenelise.com/podcast, will take you to all of the archives of all of the past episodes. For example, on the 41st birthday one, I linked, like, all of the old episodes from my past several birthdays since the podcast started.

Now- Are you gonna go back and listen to those? I don't know. But for SEO and for my own personal pleasure, I feel the compulsion to keep those things updated and nice and looking good and having links that work, and it's not perfect by any means. But it is something that maybe it's because, like, I've been blogging in one form or fashion since 2009.

But I just feel like I want to do that. I get really a lot of pleasure and, like, joy from doing that, and then I look up and I'm like, "Oh my gosh, I've been spending two and a half hours on my website." So it's, it's tricky, right? Like, I'm sure that if it's not you updating your show notes, there are things in your life that you do that while you enjoy them, still, like, take a fair amount of time, and then you wonder, like, "Is it really necessary?

Is there a reason for this?" Like, how are... how is this moving the needle forward towards my goals? And those sorts of questions start to swirl around inside my mind, and I'm sure they, they might for you as well. In talking with my clients and my community members, I know a lot of you are also feeling this, like, May shifting seasons crunch with kids in school, out of school, summer break approaching.

What that means, like, the shift in schedule can be really nice. The change in weather can be really enjoyable. Getting into the pool and going to the water and all of the different things that summer brings. But it's also like, "How am I gonna juggle it all?" And you might be eager to keep all of the balls in the air, but also at this point in your life, you're probably also realistic enough to know that a few of them are going to drop.

And something I've been thinking about a lot, I've been sharing about it here on the podcast, is this concept of trust, and trusting and remembering that even if you let a few things slide or you totally space out and forget, like- You know, it's gonna be okay. You're gonna handle it. You'll get it done eventually, or maybe someone else will get it done, whatever it is.

Or maybe it just won't ever get done, and that's also okay. In last week's episode, I confessed that I've been dragging my heels on booking a dentist appointment for months and months. I actually went back and looked, and the last time I had been to the dentist is January 25, so it's almost been a year and a half, and I'm a pretty regular every six months to the dentist kind of gal.

So this is unusual for me, and there's really no reason for it other than the fact that I just didn't wanna keep going back to that dentist's office. It's a little bit too far away. The vibes weren't vibing for me anymore, and I just, like, knew I didn't want to, to go back. And I'm happy to report that as of recording this, I have scheduled myself at the new dentist office that I've had my eye on for a while.

Hopefully, when you listen to this, I will have successfully gone into the office and will have a happy mouth with freshly cleaned teeth. One of the reasons why I've, you know, wanted to check out this particular dentist is because it's much closer, the parking is very easy and reasonable, and it has, like, an in-office whitening offer, which is something I've want to get.

Like, I've been interested in that. I've done, like, the white strips, and I've done the white- whitening trays. Ugh, I hated, hated, hated that. But I am a coffee drinker. I'm a tea drinker. I'm a wine lover. And so, like, it would be nice to have a regular process for having my teeth whitened since I do some damage to them with the beverages that I drink.

In reflecting about all of this, my confession and also just, like, why, I think it's, it's always tricky when, like, you are a full-grown adult who has a lot of responsibilities and considers themselves on top of it, and then to have something that, like, you're very actively and clearly not doing. That's like...

There's a lot of tension there. And the thing I'm seeing on myself, but in my clients as well, and in my friends and just, like, in, in the world in general, is that change- Takes time and I know that when we are in the, the more spiritual and woo communities, when we listen to Abraham-Hicks and, and all of those things, like one of the famous things that Abraham-Hicks says is, you know, you- if you can manifest a button, you can manifest a castle.

And even in goal-setting, in business and all of these different areas, like you don't wanna limit yourself on time because sometimes change happens quite quickly, right? But when change happens quickly, it's usually from a foundation and from a base of, like being ready for that change. And in this season of life that I'm in, that maybe you're also in, when there are so many different pots boiling at once, it can take a while to make a shift.

So, like simple things, like changing housekeepers, changing hairstylists, changing babysitters, changing jobs, changing who supports you in your business or in your company, changing support staff. Like all of these different things, they are processes, especially when they're involved... You know, it takes...

Like changing deodorant. There's so many things that when you want to make a change, there's all these different steps that have to happen in order for that change to occur. So you gotta realize that you want or need a change, and then you might be somebody who likes to research. Like, "What are my options?

What might I do next? Where am I gonna go? What..." You know, for me, it took a long time to change my natural deodorant and that was because I had to research and then order a bunch of different kinds and land on the one that I like, you know? So same thing with the dentist, like I knew I didn't wanna go back to my old dentist, but where was I gonna go next?

Like you have... It takes time. So you gotta research, you gotta communicate that change to yourself or to others. Maybe you gotta talk about it to your friends first before you actually can like get up the guts to make the change. You gotta act on it, you gotta implement it. And doing all of that alone is possible, of course, but it's usually easier and faster and smoother and more efficient and all of those things when you have support, when you have community, when there is a source of accountability, either from within or with the others around you.

So saying it out loud on the podcast last week, like admitting to you, and also I shared on Instagram and I got a lot of comments back. Like, this was probably one of the highest commented things I've ever shared in Instagram stories. I'd mentioned like an episode was coming on the podcast and I- Hadn't booked my dentist for a really long time or something.

I don't even remember what I said. And I got so many messages back being like, "Oh my gosh, me too. Been there." Like, "Ugh," you know? And just saying it out loud and then corresponding with people in the DMs about it, it's what motivated me to finally this morning, like, book a new appointment at the office that I know I wanted to go to.

So ridiculous as it may be, having accountability, having others, and also just being very generous with myself about time has made that shift possible. And the same is true about so many things. And I think, like, especially now in my 40s, which I'm, I'm a newly 40. I'm 41, you know? I'm not, like, deep into my 40s.

But something I have been seeing over and over again in myself lately is just that there are changes I desire, but I've been really struggling with this, I guess the difference between, like, having years e- of experience or years baked in with a provider of service or company or whatever. Like, if you've used the same tampons your whole life, trying to, like, get yourself to try new ones could be hard, you know?

We're talking about deodorant and tampons. It's, I don't know why self these, like, bathroom items are coming to me as examples, but it can be really difficult to just, to change when you've been doing something the same way for a decade or two. And I guess now that I have enough life experience to have built up a timeline with things, for example, like when I knew it was time to change housekeepers, it was, like, a deep inner struggle I had for a really long time.

Like, longer than I wanted it to be. So having others there to support me and, like, talk through it with me was nice. Like, eventually some of my friends were like, "Kaileen, you've, you've brought this up enough now." Like, "You have to act on it," you know? So all of this is leading to something I wanna talk to you about today, which is my signature program, A Year of You.

A Year of You is a one-year guided experience to help you stop overthinking and start trusting yourself so that you can show up feeling confident and embodied and connected to your truest self in work, in your relationships, in your own relationship with yourself and your body, and in every season of life I mention A Year of You here and there, like, as the episodes unfold, but the doors to join are only open a few times a year.

And then the rest of the year, it's just I'm focusing on the group that's inside of it. And the doors are going to be opening soon for summer enrollment. We currently have 10 women in the program, and when I open the doors in the spring, I, I had one person come in. It was, like, a very quiet launch. I didn't do a lot of sales emails or anything.

It was just like, that's what I had the time and the capacity for, and that's what felt right. And this season, I have to be, like, so honest with you. I am not certain what the launch and the communication about A Year of You will be. This is going to be a small episode. Like, I... There's, like, a 6,000 things I wanna tell you about it, but I'm gonna rein it in and just share a few bits and pieces.

Mostly, I just wanna open the door to this conversation and this idea of, like, what would happen for you personally if you gave yourself a year to be, become, and allow yourself to be the you-est version of you. Like, what does even being the you-est version of you mean? And of course, if you have been in A Year of You or you've worked with me, then you probably already know that it is so common for people to join A Year of You and then to sign up for another year or then another and another.

I have a few people who have been in the program for several years now, and that's because it's like yoga or walking or brushing your teeth or anything else. Like, you can do it on your own, and it's something that needs to happen on a very regular basis. But having community, having a group, having a person like me guide you through, having that accountability and the space dedicated to doing it makes it easier, makes it more efficient, and makes it s- certain that it's gonna happen.

You know? Like, once I have established care with this new dentist, I'll be on that every six-month plan, and I will be with them probably for years and years as long as I like the vibes and, you know, it feels good. I'm gonna probably stay there. And so the same thing is true for some people when they join A Year of You.

The intention is to join for a year to really explore and deepen this intuition practice of living with your inner voice on an everyday basis and in all of the rooms that you are living in. But then what happens is, like, it feels really good to be in that energy and be in that space, and it- I know that some of you, I'm thinking of one person in particular, she's like she can do it totally on her own.

You know? Like, it's, it's not necessary for me to guide her anymore, and yet I know that when we commit to it and we work together for a year it holds that space so that she's certain and sure that she will make herself a priority, and she will make listening to her intuition a priority. And the reason why I created it as a year is because I wanted my community...

I know you are all so busy. And I know you are juggling a lot, so to have to decide, like, every quarter, "Oh, it's time for me to do an intuition session with Kaileen," it can be, like, another thing on your to-do list. Whereas if you just sign up for a year then I book those appointments for you. So what do you get when you join A Year of You?

Let's talk about that for just a hot second. So when you join A Year of You- It's a group program, but it's also individual coaching. So you get four one-on-one sessions with me, one every season. This happens to be the ideal cadence for most of my community. If you need more sessions, we can definitely add in more sessions at a discount, and I have certainly done that with clients who were in acute situations in their life, like a divorce or a death in the family, or wanting to up-level in their business.

There's, you know, times where concentrated effort is beneficial, and so we can make that shift. But generally speaking, if you're in a bit of a intuition maintenance mode, once a season is really perfect because a lot changes in our lives as the seasons shift. Like, what we are feeling and thinking about and planning and grappling with right now is very different, although feels similar, that to like, you know, December when the holidays are here and all of that's happening.

So it's nice to have this dedicated one-on-one session. And what does that session look like? It can be all sorts of things. The standard approach is typically a intuition session where it feels like a guided meditation. We're on Zoom. It's audio only. I help you get into the energy of your inner voice, your inner wisdom, and then we listen for the guidance from your intuition on the topics that are most pressing for you in your life, and then also whatever else your inner voice wants to say.

I also have clients who really feel super connected to their inner voice in their journaling practices or in their meditation practice, and so they don't really want to do the inner voice work with me anymore, especially after, like, years and years of getting support from me. So then we'll do more of, like, a conversational session where we're talking about the season and what kind of rituals and practices they can implement, ideas from their inner voice that we can make an action plan for.

So it can vary what that hour is spent doing, really depending on you. And then in addition to those one-on-one sessions, each- month, we have two group calls. If there's a beginning of a season and an end of a season, we have special calls where we wrap up a season and then we welcome the new season, and those are happening on our group calls.

And then in between the rest of those, we have the together sessions, which are group coaching calls where we do a guided meditation, journaling, and then conversation. And the women in the group really show up for these and share from their hearts, and it's really supportive from a... Like, you could just do it for your own personal practice, right?

Like, if you just wanted to know you were gonna get a meditation in, you were gonna get some journaling in, you were gonna get connected to your inner voice, that would be enough. And for a lot of people, that is. But then also to share space with women who are also on this path of living in alignment with their inner voices, trusting flow, building businesses, raising children, like living lives that are in this practice can be very affirming to your own practice because it's like, "Okay, I'm not crazy.

I'm not making this up." And it's interesting the topics that get covered in those group sessions can be similar or different to the one-on-one sessions. But lately, something that's been kind of coming up a lot is not feeling the desire to work even though we know we have work to do kind of across the board of, like, actual work in your life or work in fitness or work in your business.

Another thing that's been coming up is, like, hormonal shifts and changes and how that impacts your, your life and the way that you show up. Communication with family members and friends is always an interesting conversation that we often have. And then, you know, various points of what it means to be in relationship with others, in motherhood, in empty nesting, in raising little babies and teenagers.

We have a group of women, and the group changes, you know, every quarter. But right now this group of women is, like, multifaceted in so many ways, different places in the country and the world, different places in their careers, different places in their lives, having children, not having children. Like, it just really runs the gamut, and that is so nice because, you know, in a lot of our spaces in life, we're surrounded by people who are similar to us or in similar life stages.

I personally don't have as much exposure to people in different life stages as I do when I'm in the rooms of A Year of You, and that's, like, a beautiful thing to experience. And it's very fortifying because then it's like, okay sometimes you hear things and you're like, "Oh, I've been there, and this is, like, how I felt."

And then other times you hear about things that are beyond the experiences you've had, and you're like, "Okay, something to look forward to, something to be aware of." So those calls are some of- some people love those calls, and it's a highlight for them. And then other people, you know, it doesn't fit in their schedule, it doesn't fit on their calendar, and they, they watch the replays or they listen to the replays on a walk, or they skip them completely, and that's okay, too.

One of the things I always say inside A Year of You is, like, this idea of being the you-est version of you. Like, does she have to get 100% on every assignment, or is the more true version to blow off class and, like, not do everything to the max? So I'm always encouraging the women in the program to really listen to their intuition and really listen to their energy and to know, like, you don't have to do all of this be- to get the fullness of this experience.

Sometimes not doing things is the practice that we need, and that might resonate with you or not, I'm not sure. But it is something that is important to be aware of, is like, I'm not expecting 100% attendance. I'm not expecting 100% of responses to the journal prompts that I offer and, and whatnot. What I am really wanting each and every one of my clients and my community to do, you included as you listen to this, is to learn how to make that conscious choice of which ball to drop, as opposed to just, like, having so many balls in your arms that they, you know, you can't possibly carry them all.

And so some of them just fall. When we are able to consciously choose what you don't, what you're not gonna do and make that okay, find a way to make that okay things change. And that is really a... That's one of the ways that you can be the you-est version of you, is to own the stuff that you're not gonna do as much as the things that you desire.

And obviously, from the way that I started this episode, you know that this is a personal practice that I am working on because, you know, was I okay putting the dentist on the back burner for so long? Ultimately, yes, but it is so... It takes a lot of work for me to be okay with that, if that makes sense. So one of the other things that you get when you join the program is access to the studio, which is an online platform where the replays are held and all of the call information is held, along with supportive rituals, journal prompts, and meditations for every season.

So you get access to this, and it's something that you can dip into, dip out of. You can use the rituals to help you stay grounded in your intuition. It is an added support, again, just to really make it known to yourself and all of your cells and all of your senses that learning how to be you in this season of life, wherever you are now, is an art.

It is a practice. It is something that is ongoing. Sometimes the rituals and the things that we once did are not resonant anymore or don't work, and that's okay. You know, that is part of living, and sometimes we just gotta revisit things or reinvent or just find new things that feel really good and nourishing and supportive.

So A Year of You is a little bit like a personal journey with your own supported... Like, you have a whole, like, support available to you on the platform in the community. We also have a Voxer room where you can connect with the members of A Year of You in between calls and to share questions or inspirations and make connections with the women that you see on Zoom in between those times.

And then, you know, it's also this... It's, so it's like a group, you know, it's a group experience, but it's also this really amazing, fortifying, like, a- space for you to know that you care about you, and it can really help in your health, but it also can really help in your work. I do have quite a few people who write off joining A Year of You as a business expense because ultimately, like, we could really focus on your work.

And when you are able to trust your intuition in your work, in your career, if you were in corporate or if you are a consultant or if you own your own business, if you're an author, if you're a creative person, whatever it is, like, you know at this point that when you are able to trust yourself and trust your intuition and not overthink and not overanalyze and not over-perform, like, you are a better you for all of those different areas of your life.

And ultimately, the idea, the goal is that you can be who you are everywhere you go. And obviously we have to make adjustments. You know, like the way I talk to my girlfriends is different than the way I talk to my kids, is different from the way that I show up here. But the more I practice living in integrity with my intuition, the easier it is to be just me in all of those different spaces, and that's my hope and that's my goal for everyone who joins A Year of You.

So like I said, the doors are going to be opening very soon, and I'm just gonna link to the sales page in the show notes, or you can go to my website, kaileenelise.com. If you want to talk about this, I would love to have a conversation with you. I'm on Instagram @kaileenelise. My hope for you listening to this conversation today, listening to this episode, is really just to kind of get like an understanding and a taste for what A Year of You is right now, but also to just open the door to the idea that if you really committed to giving yourself a year, like, what would that look like?

And you don't have to join A Year of You to do that. You can just do it yourself, you know? Like, it's okay. I don't care. And you get to define that for yourself, right? Like, it is your life, and in this time and space where you probably are juggling a lot and you probably do feel squished and like you, the you of you, it's like the tiniest margins, like, what are you gonna do with that margin?

How are you gonna stake your claim? And, you know, like so many of my clients and so many of the women in this community, I know that your, everything that you have in your life, all of those balls that you're juggling, like, most of them you fought hard to get. You know? Like you really wanted them. And now they're just balls that you're juggling.

Like I, when I think about it, like holistically, I just, my house is such a haven and I love my house so much. My family, and my relationship, and my children, my husband, like s- just so much joy, right? Like I love my family. My business, same thing. My clients, oh my gosh, I adore you. I love you so much. My, like, body, and my workouts, and my wellness, a struggle for sure, but I love it so much.

My style, my personal style has evolved tremendously over the last several years. And my closet, I love it so much. So it's like all of these things I love, but it's a lot to, to figure out how to prioritize, and what to do, and where to go. And all of that is, like, can take these things that you worked so hard to get and make them things that you resent, or struggle through, or completely ignore.

And so when you are considering this idea of, like, what would it be like to give yourself a whole year of being you, of becoming you, of allowing you, it might include consciously taking some of these things and making them less of a priority for a while and making something else a higher priority. Or, you know, yeah.

So that's just something I want you to maybe think about and consider. And as you're listening to this, if you wanna talk about it, come find me on Instagram. I'm @kaleenelise. In the show notes for this episode, I'm going to link some of the resour- like, what you get with A Year of You. I'll, I'll link to the sales page.

But I'm also going to include some journal prompts. So that is a, a free extra nice bonus for those of you who click the link in the show notes to today's episode. You will get those journal prompts there. I appreciate you so much. I am so excited to see what conversations come out of this, and I will be back next week with our visioning practice for June.

Can you believe it? Oh my gosh. I will talk to you then.