Children’s fairy tales, popular music and movies depict stories of  thrill and passion of romantic love, with couples falling in love, facing and overcoming an obstacle (usually the wicked witch or the fire-breathing dragon), concluding with “happily ever after.”

In real life, “happily ever after” is where mature love begins, with the challenges of everyday life, growing a family, putting down roots, paying the bills, and setting mutual goals for prosperity and success.   Have you ever wondered where the script is for that?  How can couples maintain their connection and love, amidst the stressors of everyday life?  It certainly doesn’t happen automatically, but After working with couples every day in my counseling practice, I’ve seen couples improve their relationship once they learn and use practical communication tools on a regular basis.

I’ll even give you the “script” for your part in keeping the love alive.  Listen to this podcast to learn a powerful tool called the Daily Temperature Reading, which will help you express appreciation, address frustrations before they build into resentment, and share your wishes, hopes and dreams for the future.

To listen to an MP3 download:  http://www.orensteinsolutions.com/2013/02/the-daily-temperature-reading-a-powerful-tool-from-a-marriage-therapist/

Julie Seibert says, “Are you a clock watcher?  Do you dread Monday mornings?  Do you cross off the days on your calendar? Were you passionate once but that’s changed & your struggling to find that excitement again? Think you cannot make a living doing what you love? Are you planning to follow your dreams “someday” or is your life slipping away?  I can ask these questions because I have been there myself.  I want people to learn how to follow their passion!” http://youtu.be/L-F4HshVojs

Seibert continues, “Finding your true passion is about following you heart.  What’s preventing you from following yours?  Learn where you are blocked and how to move beyond to create your passion.  This workshop will help you get unstuck and move forward in fulfilling your dreams.”

This online workshop features:

·     3 PASSIONATE & NATIONALLY KNOWN experts

·     SEE (not just hear) from the comfort of your home/office

·     INTERACT Ask, chat or Skype a question to our experts

·     REVIEW the workshop as much as you want for a week

·     LEARN three different perspectives on how to Find Your Passion

Join three passionate, prosperous, authentic experts, who have helped thousands change their lives by teaching them how to discover what they truly love and want to do.  During this interactive class, discover easy, life changing, tools on how you can reconnect and live your passion every day.

One person will win Lisa Transcendence Brown’s video course (Value $333).  You can also view almost 100 FREE interviews on Reawaken Your Brilliance—with people you’ll want to hear from: Bruce Lipton, the Fly Lady, Vincent Genna, Sunny Dawn Johnston & much much more!

For more information and to register for the event, please visit: http://howtofindyourpassion.eventbrite.com

Seibert created the Get Off the Couch! series because she wanted to create personal development events to allow for people to have a more interactive experience.  “I have been fortunate enough to interviewed amazing body, mind and spirit practioners; I wanted to create personal development workshops where people could learn more in depth about a topic and make real changes to their lives.”

Julie Seibert’s Reawaken Your Brilliance Get off the Couch! series is sponsored by Delta Force Technologies. http://www.deltaforce.net/

Julie Seibert can be reached at 919-559-3925 or Julie@reawakenyourbrilliance.com

About Reawaken Your Brilliance Get Off the Couch! Series

The Get off the Couch! Series provides quality body, mind & spirit online and live streaming events and workshops as well as local events in Raleigh, North Carolina.  All panel members are personally selected for quality, ethics, education value and speaking skills. Panelists range in a variety of Healing & Alternative therapies for spiritual development.  You will come away with tools for self-help, personal growth and personal development to help you on your journey to a healthier and happier you.

About Reawaken Your Brilliance

Reawaken Your Brilliance is a free weekly internet TV and radio show based in Raleigh, NC, that airs Wednesdays 9-10 PM EST.  The internet TV and spiritual radio show features body, mind and spirit experts who show you alternatives for personal growth and spiritual development. Host Julie Seibert talks with a variety of personal development experts. Guests include The Fly Lady, Peter Walsh, Dr. Bruce Lipton, Vincent Genna and Angela Beyer Coulter.

For more information about Paige: http://www.paigehallferraro.com/

We are taking the week off. Check out our you tube channel–all our shows are posted and archived!

Julie Seibert says, “Are you a clock watcher?  Do you dread Monday mornings?  Do you cross off the days on your calendar? Were you passionate once but that’s changed & your struggling to find that excitement again? Think you cannot make a living doing what you love? Are you planning to follow your dreams “someday” or is your life slipping away?  I can ask these questions because I have been there myself.  I want people to learn how to follow their passion!” http://youtu.be/L-F4HshVojs

Seibert continues, “Finding your true passion is about following you heart.  What’s preventing you from following yours?  Learn where you are blocked and how to move beyond to create your passion.  This workshop will help you get unstuck and move forward in fulfilling your dreams.”

This online workshop features:

·     3 PASSIONATE & NATIONALLY KNOWN experts

·     SEE (not just hear) from the comfort of your home/office

·     INTERACT Ask, chat or Skype a question to our experts

·     REVIEW the workshop as much as you want for a week

·     LEARN three different perspectives on how to Find Your Passion

Join three passionate, prosperous, authentic experts, who have helped thousands change their lives by teaching them how to discover what they truly love and want to do.  During this interactive class, discover easy, life changing, tools on how you can reconnect and live your passion every day.

One person will win Lisa Transcendence Brown’s video course (Value $333).  You can also view almost 100 FREE interviews on Reawaken Your Brilliance—with people you’ll want to hear from: Bruce Lipton, the Fly Lady, Vincent Genna, Sunny Dawn Johnston & much much more!

For more information and to register for the event, please visit: http://howtofindyourpassion.eventbrite.com

Seibert created the Get Off the Couch! series because she wanted to create personal development events to allow for people to have a more interactive experience.  “I have been fortunate enough to interviewed amazing body, mind and spirit practioners; I wanted to create personal development workshops where people could learn more in depth about a topic and make real changes to their lives.”

Julie Seibert’s Reawaken Your Brilliance Get off the Couch! series is sponsored by Delta Force Technologies. http://www.deltaforce.net/

Julie Seibert can be reached at 919-559-3925 or Julie@reawakenyourbrilliance.com

About Reawaken Your Brilliance Get Off the Couch! Series

The Get off the Couch! Series provides quality body, mind & spirit online and live streaming events and workshops as well as local events in Raleigh, North Carolina.  All panel members are personally selected for quality, ethics, education value and speaking skills. Panelists range in a variety of Healing & Alternative therapies for spiritual development.  You will come away with tools for self-help, personal growth and personal development to help you on your journey to a healthier and happier you.

About Reawaken Your Brilliance

Reawaken Your Brilliance is a free weekly internet TV and radio show based in Raleigh, NC, that airs Wednesdays 9-10 PM EST.  The internet TV and spiritual radio show features body, mind and spirit experts who show you alternatives for personal growth and spiritual development. Host Julie Seibert talks with a variety of personal development experts. Guests include The Fly Lady, Peter Walsh, Dr. Bruce Lipton, Vincent Genna and Angela Beyer Coulter.

Tuesday, May 14th, 7-9 PM   I will be moderating this panel!

• Are you losing money because you haven’t gotten around to joining your company’s matching contribution retirement program?
  
• Do you get sick often because you are always doing everything at the last minute exhausting yourself?
  
• Are you following your passion or are you planning to do it “someday”?
  
• Do you need to lose weight but put off going to the gym or cooking healthy meals?
  
• Are you stressed in your marriage because your spouse doesn’t finish projects or pay bills on time?
  
• Do your co workers resent you because you aren’t completing your projects on time?  

Procrastination is more than a bad habit; it can hurt your health, career, finances, and even your relationships. Plus, people who procrastinate tend to engage in bad habits, like binge drinking, overeating, and abusing drugs.

HOWEVER, it is possible to overcome procrastination! Discover the keys to live a more productive, happy and healthy life with wisdom fromthree OVERCOMING PROCRASTINATION experts, who have helped thousands enhance the quality of their lives by teaching them how to tackle pesky postponing and overcome perceived obstacles. During this program, they will share their expertise and insights on how to stop dragging your feet and get motivated!
Psychologist Susan Orenstein shares, “Procrastination is one of the most common causes of stress, interfering with your productivity and peace of mind, but until you can identify what and why you’re putting something off, it’s hard to change.”  In this seminar, Susan will show you how to identify your specific procrastination traps and then provide powerful tips to set you free.  You won’t want to put this opportunity off!
Professional Organizer Geralin Thomas works with procrastinators and knows the typical reasons why many tasks remain unfinished, items purchased remain unopened and unused, and *stuff* sits buried in closets, cabinets and drawers – – untouched. It’s not about the stuff, it’s about getting to the stuff and getting stuff done.  Thomas believes that, procrastination is not a destination; it’s more about motivation and education. Listen in as she shares tips she uses to motivate underwhelmed and overwhelmed clients who are procrastinating.
“When you understand what procrastination really is, you’ll quit beating up on yourself for it. It is not a character flaw, it’s an adaptation you’ve made to try and regain your energy autonomy!” states Author and Spiritual Growth Facilitator Julia Rogers Hamrick. She’ll give you a new perspective on why you put things off, show you what to do when you find yourself resisting doing something you need to do, and offer you some strategies for shifting out of procrastination and into productivity with ease. She explains, “Procrastination doesn’t exist in Easy World, the world that Love creates.”

THIS EVENT IS A LIVE, INTERACTIVE CLASS VIA SKYPE YOU WATCH ON YOUR COMPUTER OR SMART PHONE. You will be able to call or chat in questions after each guest and at the end.  CAN’T MAKE IT LIVE? Workshop will be recorded & available to view up to 7 days after the event.

Our Panel of Experts include:

Susan Orenstein (http://www.orensteinsolutions.com) is a licensed psychologist and the founder of Orenstein Solutions, a group psychology practice in Cary, NC dedicated to the emotional well being of individuals and their entire family. Dr. Orenstein received her Bachelor’s Degree from Brown University, Master’s Degree from Georgia State University, and Doctoral Degree in Counseling Psychology at Temple University. She has pursued advanced training in marital therapy, couples communication and family mediation, and is a certified PAIRS instructor. She is listed on the registry for “marriage friendly therapists,” which lists therapists committed to supporting to viability of troubled marriages.  Susan is also an Adjunct Faculty Member with the Center For Creative Leadership (CCL), where she provides feedback coaching to business managers and executives. She enjoys helping her clients be more productive and less stressed by learning tools to overcome procrastination.

Geralin Thomas (http://metropolitanorganizing.com/) is a Certified Professional Organizer/Chronic Disorganization and a Level 5 Master Trainer but her true superpowers are her warmth and humor, which are useful when working with clients and coaching new organizers. Geralin enjoys sharing the marvels of organizing on Twitter, Facebook and Pinterest as well as on her blog, Managing Modern Life.  A Tarheel fan and graduate from UNC Chapel Hill, Geralin makes her home in Cary, North Carolina. She’s a Past President of the North Carolina Chapter of National Association of Professional Organizers and if she looks vaguely familiar, perhaps you know her from A&E TV’s Emmy-nominated show, Hoarders.

Julia Rogers Hamrick(juliarogershamrick.com) author of Choosing Easy World and the Easy World Magic Lessons series, has been a spiritual growth facilitator since the mid-1980s and is a pioneer in teaching that our vibrational frequency determines our experience of life. In a whisper from the Divine in 2007, Julia was given the mission to share with humanity that the difficult world they’re experiencing is not the only world available to them and that a realm of ease, “Easy World,” is always available. Julia is devoted to helping humanity learn to access Easy World, the primordial reality in which we were designed to thrive, for lives of greater joy, peace and fulfillment.

As people become more aware of hoarding through news stories and watching Hoarders, I’m often asked to differentiate between those with hoarding disorders and people with large or unruly collections. While each individual is unique, I’ve found that three cognitive and behavioral attributes help us distinguish the differences between hoarders and collectors.

Perceiving Value

Most collectors consider the monetary value of their collections to be, at least in part, motivation for ownership. However, those with hoarding disorders tend to keep things that have little (or no) financial worth – and perceive value according to personal interpretations that might seem arbitrary to others.

Visual or functional appeal may inspire collectors to begin collecting, but most plan to sell items for a profit if (or, they hope, when) opportunity presents itself. Collectors also often aspire to upgrade their collections, selling or trading items of lesser value to acquire objects that they (and other members of a collecting community) consider of superior value.

Hoarders discern value differently and are usually at odds with culturally-accepted norms of valuation. Hoarders rarely accept money or are willing to trade the things they amass, and the value they place on objects is based on sentiment or other emotional attachments. For them, the idea of letting go or severing the relationships they have with possessions, even in return for money or something of similar financial value, is painful.

Maintaining Functionality

Perceived and actual value is only part of the equation. The impact of possessions on someone’s ability to live comfortably plays a large role in differentiating hoarders from collectors.

Just as there may not seem to be any rhyme or reason as to why a hoarder has kept something, there’s generally no apparent logic to how things are grouped or where they are stored. The hoard – the mass of uncategorized possessions – takes over the living spaces in a hoarder’s home to the point that the rooms are no longer functional.

Serious collectors usually sequester their collections, both to confer status and prevent damage. A collector may have lots of a specific type of item – china teacups, Beanie Babies or Neil Diamond posters – but can still prepare meals and eat in the kitchen, sleep unencumbered on the bed in the bedroom, bathe in the bathroom and entertain in the living room. On the other hand, a person with a hoarding disorder may be sleeping in a chair or on the floor because the bed is piled high with stuff, making it inaccessible for normal use.

Expressing Pride and Joy

Finally, there’s a vast chasm between the amount of personal satisfaction and delight that collectors feel about their possessions and the resulting emotions in hoarders.

A collector’s pride in ownership is obvious in the way the collection is curated – new acquisitions are analyzed and categorized. Thought is given to how items will be blended into the pre-existing collection. Collectors are proud to display their possessions and take visitors on tours of what they own, and are gratified by the interest others take in their collections.

Collectors’ eyes may light up when the subject of recent acquisitions comes up in conversation – they’re eager to discuss the “official” value of what they own, the manner in which an item was acquired, and any plans for an object’s future. Collectors often expend money or effort to create appealing methods for displaying their collections to show them in the best (literal and figurative) light.

People with hoarding disorders, however, experience shame about the items they’ve amassed. They avoid visitors and evade discussion of what they’ve accrued. Hoarders often keep the very existence of their acquisitions a secret. When pressed, they may exhibit anxiety when trying to discuss the items surrounding them.

Objects in a hoard are usually not arrayed into categories, and there’s generally no intention to display items so they might be appreciated, even by the hoarders themselves. Acquiring and keeping items may give hoarders a sense of comfort, but not joy.

In short, it’s not the number of possessions, or the possessions themselves, that differentiates hoarders from collectors, but three cognitive and behavioral attributes – perception of value, ability to maintain functionality in living spaces, and expression of pride in one’s possessions.

What does your house or home say about you?  What do you want it to say?

As the real estate industry continues to recover, more and more people aren’t “moving up”, but staying put and improving their homes on their own.  By decluttering, organizing and learning some design and decorating basics, you can create a brand new home!

STEP 1:

Join us to learn the basic principles on how to get organized.  Clearing space and making way for what you want in life is an important first step in getting organized.  Has being disorganized cost you time, money or peace of mind? 

STEP 2:

Now that your space is clutter free and organized, it’s time to have fun!

• Do have a favorite chair but can’t find the right fabric to reupholster it?
• What about that new area rug? Are you stumped as to how you can pull the color palette together for the entire room?
• Do you already have lots of great pieces, but are frustrated with room layout?
• Fallen in love with a granite pattern, but no idea what finish or style to use for the cabinets?

Learn design basics to help you pull your home together and create your dream space!
Use basic tips and learn how to “build” a color palette starting with one inspiration piece.

Log In, Password & Page will be given to you the day before the workshop.  Can’t make it live? Class will be recorded and you will have up to 7 days to watch and learn!

About Us:

Julie Seibert (www.healingorganization.com) is the owner of Healing through Organization. She was the first professional organizer in the state of North Carolina that specialized in green for home and business. Julie’s vision is a more sustainable world created through peaceful, joyful, inspirational, organized spaces for living and work. She was awarded the 2011 NAPO Los Angeles Award: Green Award for Most Eco-Friendly Organizing Service and the 2011 Triangle Business Journal’s Green Entrepreneurial Effort/Innovative Idea of the Year Honorable Mention Winner.

KathyLynn Gariboldi (http://reinventedspaces.com/) is the Owner and Lead Designer of Reinvented Spaces.  She enjoys a wonderful reputation for creating amazing, functional rooms with special finishing touches. Color Palette Definition, Furniture Staging, Room Makeovers, Interior Design and Accessorizing are among the services that have transformed homes in North Carolina, New Jersey, Texas and Georgia. Her services and related products have made kitchens, bathrooms, bedrooms, family rooms, dining rooms, living rooms and bonus rooms come alive.