Free Your Mind, Open Your Heart, and Own Your Power with Helen McMillan

In this episode, Sophia sits down to talk with Helen McMillan, the CEO and founder of Sovereign Minds. She is a highly experienced transformational life and success coach. As well as a well-being and Mindbody expert, author, public speaker, and physical therapist.  During the episode, Helen explains how she helps high achievers to develop their inner resources to realize their highest potential, without compromising their joy, health, or well-being. In the process of doing this she shares tips and strategies that everyone can use to do the same in their life. They also discuss dealing with suppressed memories of abuse, overcoming fear and self-doubt, coping with grief, using REM, reopening your heart, processing pain and grief in an empowering way.  KEY TAKEAWAYS Don´t let fear stop you from moving forwards.Trust your experience, it does not have to be validated by anyone else.Give yourself space to grieve. It is a process that can have a transformative effect.Pain can be a gift provided you use it properly.Movement and dance can be powerful ways to move old energy out.It is possible to take the confidence you feel in one area of your life and use it to improve how you perform in other areas of your life.Society educates you to take note of what you think and largely ignore how you feel about things. Ignoring your emotions or burying them is never a good approach. BEST MOMENTS‘It is important that we have a space to honor the depth of our pain.’‘Our soul, our spirit is always guiding and leading us. We’ve got to learn to follow the breadcrumbs.’‘You’ve got to connect to your heart first…the head and the heart have to play together.’  ABOUT THE GUESTHelen MacMillan Founder and CEO of SovereignMinds LLC, is a transformational life coach, success coach, mind-body expert, author, and speaker who supports high achievers in developing the inner resources that allow them to realize their highest potential - without compromising their joy, health or well-being.  EPISODE RESOURCESYou can connect with Helen at https://sovereignmindsllc.com/Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/oursovereignminds/Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/SovereignmindsllcLinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/helenmacmillan/Book – The Gift of Pain - https://sovereignmindsllc.com/the-gift-of-pain/ VALUABLE RESOURCES Webste: www.thereikihealingcoach.com ABOUT YOUR HOSTSophia is passionate about traveling  the world and personal development. She gets off on the power that travel has to change your perspective and also realizing that everywhere you go there you are. So, continuously working on herself is important so she can give the best of her to those she serves. With over 15 years in the helping/ healing space, Sophia holds a master’s degree in counseling psychology, is a certified life coach and has built her healing toolbox with lots of tools. She uses these tools to help women move from thinking there has got to be more to life than this to knowing fulfillment, more satisfying relationships, loving who they see when they look in the mirror and stepping into their power. CONTACT THE HOST Webste: www.thereikihealingcoach.com  Podcast Description The travel and transformation podcast is for women who enjoy traveling and personal transformation. You can be anywhere on your journey, just starting to travel or working on yourself or seasoned at either or both. All are welcome. You’ll be getting tools you need to start living the life you want to live by creating life your way. Forget living life for other people, whether it’s the job they want you to have, get married, have kids or any other people’s wants. It’s about finding a way to do you especially if you are single and over 40. You’ll hear from Sophia individually and the coaches, healers and others that she interviews. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.