Luminous™ - A community BY women, FOR women

0:00 how are you wonderful to see the Chad I see we have so many people here so I don't want to disturb your Suzy what were you saying it was just saying we have so many people from Switzerland Croatia South Africa and I think during this time especially women are just really needing and craving and grateful for the extra support and just they've come to the place of sisterhood support like this is the mecca of sisterhood support right

0:27 here you guys hit it amazing yes so welcome everyone was so excited I'm sure Suzy and Greta have already told you how excited we are that so many new people from all over the world joining us and you know when we started this two years ago I believe it was two years to the day almost yeah we really started it because of what Suzy was saying because we saw that we didn't have a place to go

0:57 to where we felt it could be trusted it was safe it was non-judgmental we wanted people like us to talk to and so what better way to create that except by creating it so this is why we created luminous and I think each one of us brings a different element so when I invited Greta and Suzy to be part of this it's because each one of us is so different we're all similar but so different and each one of us sees the

1:30 world in a slightly different way and so we can offer you a slightly different perspective so the reason why I thought Greta was such a wonderful addition is because you know Greta is as real as they come and just got this very gritty real-life look to life I mean she's she's just real and and I think that's that's where anything pretty Greta for a reason pretty great huh yeah Brennan gritty was your real name and then they they

2:01 thought that would be my cutoff so they changed to Greta goody grater the great so you know if you ever want a true honest opinion and some real transparent perspective Greta is that person for you in your life so that's why grant is here so better tell them a little bit about yourself and what you do and um what I do well I do a number of things I'm a mom I'm wife I am a spiritual being having a human

2:33 experience I am privileged to work with dr. Shefali in all of her offerings her business and her wisdom I she's truly this is teacher appreciation week so can I just pause for a second and give thanks to you Shefali and you Susie you both are two of the greatest teachers that I've ever had in my life and to our community you are also our teachers we learn from you as well so my

3:05 deep and sincere appreciation to all of my teachers I also am a therapist I'm going to board certified educational therapist so I work with or I used to work with children and families in conflict struggle either at home or at school and I love what I do in all ways and I am just everyday every minute actually every moment that I am present I am learning and growing and growing in

3:36 this community there's just nothing better I'm so grateful right so since when I came on board she did so many things to help me you know we launched the coaching Institute and many of you are coaches we set up shop we sell these t-shirts right we weekly helped create luminous so all these things has come to fruition because of Greta so Thank You Greta okay

4:06 Susie Susie you know is someone who have known for six years now we rediscovered that lately and have really walked this path together Susy is an extraordinary counselor she does online sessions if ever you're looking for someone to go deep into your inner child and heal your wounds Susie's the person to take you there she is somebody I refer people to all the time because I trust her wisdom she's an honest seeker she does this every day of

4:38 her life this is her life so there was no question that Susie would be a natural co-founder with us so Susie tell them a little bit about yourself I think just what you said I mean I'm a seeker and learning from all of you a therapist dive deep every day you know in the inner workings and the inner landscape of everyone helping to put it in a spiritual context so that you can really discover what these wounds

5:09 ultimately have to teach you so I'm definitely a deep diver and it's one of the reasons that I just crave any time to get to be with all of you with Greta with dr. Shefali to support dr. Chapelle work to the nth degree it utterly changed my life absolutely changed my relationship with my son with my husband so I'm a continual also student of yours and any chance that I can we've done

5:40 like the conscious cleanse together some things together so just any chance that I have to to support you and the work and whatever you know deep dive we all want to take yeah I think the three of us have grown together and learned to share space together and know each other's strengths in a way that we want to see out in the world where women don't compete there's no need to compete because there's enough for everybody no

6:10 one is trying to be like anyone else and this is what we want luminous to be about where each person can come forward to be themselves vulnerable scared embarrassed fumbling you know lost messy abusive like say I was abusive say I was terrible to my partner I was inconsiderate to my child this is where you get to be human we're not trying to be an image of perfection we are just trying to be the best

6:43 versions of ourselves not each other just ourselves and this is what women have lost out in the world together as we compete you know women are competing with each other and setting the bar so high that it's impossible to arrive there you know because each woman has objectified herself you know men don't have to objectify us anymore we are our greatest subjective fires you know we want perfect earlobes and perfect fingernails and perfect knuckles you know it's gone down we've objectified

7:13 we've taken our whole cells and made it into objects parts instead of a whole and luminous is about being home as you are there is no part of you so even if you're expressing a part of you we see you in the whole of you so there is no objective lens objectified lens through which we see we see you through the holistic lens in and on the other side started in r-cubed on the other side and

7:38 what dr. Solley saying which is so true the shadow is we're we're we want to be in relationship with the shadow parts of ourselves so that we are holistic beings and the other side that women have been trained is to dim our light dim dim dim dim them so because we have broken out of any kind of competition competition is all about lack and scarcity and small and shrinking the other part about luminous is that you are so supportive

8:07 to shine and we just really support you in a number of different ways that we're going to be talking about to shine shine shine like maybe you've never been given permission before yeah so Greta is going to take us through how luminous is organized and and the beautiful thing about people who are just joining is they get to go back for the past two years and get all the teachings we have met almost every single week every

8:36 Monday night at 9:00 p.m. Eastern and I don't know any membership for 25 bucks a month that meets every week and we have a Facebook page that is so active and Susie is going to talk about all the things we cover in luminous and you're going to see that this is such a unique place where not only do you get a very intimate Facebook support we also have smaller whatsapp groups according to your time zone where

9:05 you can meet an even smaller cut clusters and really connect and get your help like one of my friends said yesterday or the other day you know I was going to call one of you but I didn't I went to my luminous whatsapp group and i got support from there so luminous is creating tears of support this is one place for our weekly meetings we have the Facebook page we are smaller whatsapp groups and of course then you meet up with your own

9:34 friends or you make Depot individual one-on-one connections on your own so Greta is going to show us the organization of it Suzy is going to talk about all the topics we've covered and then it'll return to me so go ahead Greta okay so I'm going to share my screen looks oh let's see okay hopefully can everybody see my screen mm-hmm this is the Luminess membership content on teachable

10:07 so I get a lot of messages and emails daily I miss the zoom call where can I find the recording and it's all half-assed here in the membership area on teachable it is outlined and laid out in a sequential order so it starts at the very top with an introduction and just kind of describes what Luminess is and then all of our zoom replays are organized by year from start to finish so our very first live luminous was

10:36 almost two years to the date it was on May 7th 2018 but the reason I'm highlighting this sequential order is because I really want to emphasize you do not have to start at the top and work your way to the bottom it is not a linear course you won't if you jump in middle or you jump in in April to 2020 and start there you will not have missed anything so we've done our best and you'll notice most of the sessions that

11:06 are recorded are named something other than just the date some are not yet but we're getting there so if you're looking for some inspiration or teaching on intimacy you can scroll through and see is there anything like intimacy oh here 8:13 intimacy in our body temple if you're looking for something to inspire you to for a new exercise we have tons of exercise videos we have videos about cellulite I mean you name it we have videos and content for you so a lot of

11:38 people when they first joined they're confused because they're looking for the most recent content at the very top the way this is laid out as it goes in order by year until we get to the current year 2020 and it's at the bottom and then it's organized by month so you can see on my screen January 2020 March April and then we'll have May as well and the ones that are not labeled please feel free to

12:06 listen and send us potential titles it's just that we maybe it was so many titles were covered so many topics were covered but please feel free to help us finish titling all the ones that are not yet title we would love your help also at the bottom under the 2020 replays there's sections for recipes we've got expressive art activities that you're welcome to print if you wish and I know some of you one of them is drawing

12:35 yourself as a tree and I've seen a lot of people being uploading their drawings of themselves as a treat or Facebook group so we encourage you to take advantage of these we also did a luminous life challenge we covered I think it was a whole week of the mind the body and the spirit that's all here and then we have a 14 day luminous cleanse so there is just we just have a ton of content it does look overwhelming

13:01 go at your own pace there's no start or finish line and it's not linear so jump wherever you feel called to jump in and also you don't have to go back at all you start right now the way we've designed every week it's that it's a totality in itself there is no sequence to it there's no part 1 part 2 part 3 sometimes if there is we let you know most of the 30 minutes every week are a

13:28 whole they're meant to inspire you some part of you activate your mind body or spirit typically I'll do the mind beretta does the body and Suzy will do the spirit typically and this is what we enjoy doing the most and if you ever have any questions you can always tag us on Facebook eventually somebody will get to it do not feel like you have to go back and hear everything it's just start where you start wherever

13:57 you are Suzy tell us all about the exciting things coming up we have two big exciting things coming up we have art therapy and the cleanse and just kind of give people a feeling of all the possibilities in this group yeah we have done so many things that have really bonded us and United us so we are going to be starting June 1st and we have done this before the 21-day conscious cleanse that dr. Shefali and I created it's

14:25 definite holistic lens it's mind body spirit seven beams we spend three days on each of the seven themes and we're gonna be going through it again beginning June 1st I'm gonna take everybody through so if you're interested in that we have a post on the Facebook page we'll be sending out more information as that comes closer but it's a wonderful opportunity to join together with with each other and get to know each other deeply as we rise up you know in our

14:55 with our own cleanse and then as Greta was saying we did the luminous life cleanse and that's a really wonderful thing if you want to go back to dr. Sproul we did six days of the mind Greta did six days of the body and I did six days of spirit so I think during this time when people are self sheltering and need the extra support that's definitely there and available for you we've done of the vulnerability

15:19 challenge we we all sent in videos of real issues real the real deal of what we're going through on a day to day basis and it just galvanized us and allowed us to really get to know each other better receive support we've done as Greta said on so many exercise food challenges we've gone through where we've exchanged recipes and taken photos and shared our

15:49 photos of what we're eating we've shared photos of micrometric you know drink more water I mean that's I always think of Greta you know when I drink more water I got that from Greta and we've done or what we have coming up as I said we have the June 1st 21-day conscious cleanse coming up if you guys want to purchase that it's half off right now we'll be saying more about that and also Monica from Italy is gonna

16:17 be leading us in an art therapy three weeks of art therapy and what that's designed for she's wonderful and that's designed to help us process any of the emotions the feelings that are coming up during this time through art through painting actually so let's start at Friday May 15th there's information on the Facebook but I'll be pushing it to the top of the feed as that gets closer as well she's wonderful right so we are constantly calling him guests I lately a

16:49 called in Jessica Ortner she's a tapping professional she taught us how to tap we bring in authors our own authors other authors so there's a lot I heard my doctor and remember right that was fun too yeah so you can give us your ideas we will follow up if you have a great guest to bring in somebody who's an expert in the area we love to look at it we can't honor every request of every guest but we certainly will try and

17:19 really this Facebook page is a chance for you to show up now you don't have to show up at all you know nobody's going to be scouring you or grading you no one cares if you only show up and your complain if you only show up and you're upset there is no judgment here it's for you to use however I will say that in groups like this in group dynamics our inner child gets triggered in many more ways

17:49 than it may have in an individual dynamic you know dyad that's why groups are very provocative so if that happens this is a learning opportunity you know so many times people will write and say well I posted something and only two people wrote back and somebody else posts and she always gets sixteen people to post or you know what Greta always gives the heart emoji to Samantha but I never get any hard emojis from Greta you know well you know

18:17 Greta is like that sometimes what to do huh but but things like that right or Susy you know is loving on this one and not on me and then dr. Shivani never notices my pose you know so your mother issues times three are gonna come up big time so just be aware but talk about it and say I'm having mother issues we should just call it hashtag mother issues because it's going to come up and we can openly

18:41 explore it openly breakthrough frontiers that ordinarily with other women we would be terrified to you know you can say I woke up today you know the other day I woke up and literally there was a new crevice on my face I'm not a wrinkle I was like what is this and I kept doing this because I was like this isn't like dividing my cheek from the mouth right it's gonna impact my speech so I didn't share it but that would have been share

19:08 worthy and then you could have shared about your crevices so anything you like is if it's of course wise and coming from a kind place and not self-indulgence you know we also don't want it to be just about me me me either so this is a beautiful laboratory a petri dish to discover your issues in a group your issues with different kind of moms you know you may find Greta and me harsh but you will never find Susie how

19:37 much because Susie is the best mommy so go to Susie first because she never really seriously in all the years I've known like what is she drinking everyday thank you I mean like if you need us somebody to hold you softly and gently Suzy's your girl yeah now it's they need to sound like it's not a compliment it's like you all need to talk then don't be so damn great Suzy

20:09 it's a crapshoot with Brett on me that's all I'm going to say sometimes good mommy totally neglectful he's been doing this I think way longer than us and she was 11 in 16 or something she had seven years head start on me and 30 on Brenna's so Greta Greta is given the most even so so this is really an exciting moment for us where we are able

20:40 to support more and more women we're so honored and so excited that you're here with us take advantage of the smaller whatsapp groups I would like to call Andrea and Janet but better check and see if they're here we have two more wonderful women who support you from behind the scenes and Andrea is the one who will Network you with a counselor suppose you want a coach you have to hashtag help and tag Andrea and Andrea

21:08 will match you with one of the coaches for my coaching Institute one of the graduates who will give you a 30-minute free session if you want your little sisterhood in your whatsapp group she will connect you with the right people for your time zone so there's so much that we can do together and we want to build with you we want your ideas you to tell us what we can do that's will this new community school I like the

21:39 turnaround so Greta Guerra I don't think Andrea and either one is with us yes so I'm there and Janet also behind the scenes they are part of our team and just remember if you get a message from one of us you're getting it from all of us yeah so we all five can't be there on for you but we're all trying to represent each other but remember if one answers its everybody answering this sometimes I'll see Greta or Susie have

22:08 handled it I won't jump in right so just know that if you definitely want one of us to notice you then you can tag tag can attack but really it's not about the three of us it's about letting the group support you and valuing all the sisters in the group so don't just look for the three of us because that's too much pressure and you'd only get our viewpoint you want the whole community's viewpoint as many viewpoints as possible

22:35 that's the beauty of this diverse group of people is there anything else that is can I add to that because I ever experienced casue Xia and Shefali are both so wise and they often reply to questions posed with such profound wisdom obviously and I am my delivery I guess is not as poetic lyrical or poetic and so I didn't recall like when we first started luminous I was hesitant to

23:07 often provide feedback when asked or answer because my even though my answers might have been great they just didn't sound as beautiful and packaged as nicely Susie and Shefali packaged theirs and that was a learning experience and a lesson for me is that my answers in my feedback will never sound like Susie or Shefali so I just had to start being Greta and answer and Greta's voice so I encourage you to do the same it is often

23:33 intimidating when you are in the company of these women too to come off a certain way we don't want you to come up any way other than how you are so jump in share share your feet share your wisdom in your voice do not be afraid you will not be judged yes and one of the things yeah one of the things we always say about this group is about you probably especially is that we get to see Shefali

24:01 as a sister so none of us I mean we do have our ways of each answering but there is no hierarchy here oh it's really we're all answering from our heart or from our mind or wherever we are so I just echo what you're saying Gretta and the other thing I just wanted to leave everybody with is the quality of generosity and I think that um you know dr. Shefali and Gretta are two of the most generous women that I've ever

24:31 met and I'm sorry I just really want you guys to know the enormous amount of heart and intentionality of a purpose like you know dr. Shefali was a freaking Purpose Driven Life and so you know that has been sharing all all the content here but I just wanted to share this quality of generosity because dr. Shefali man is the real deal and you are a very very

25:02 generous person and if you guys really look at this community like she's staying it's $25 a month not to belittle that that is that that is a large amount to many people and we're not grudging that at all I just want you guys to know that when you dive into this community you will find generosity of spirit like you won't find anywhere else and because they are so generous we attract generous to us and so everyone in this group has

25:34 so much to offer and share you will just find a wealth of heart in this group so I welcome everybody I'm so glad we have a new group coming and hope that we can support people through this really unprecedented challenging time you are the same so people they're like we want the poem we want the poem are you going to grace us with your poem I am I am

26:05 advocating for all of our luminous ladies we want the poem [Laughter] am i speaking for all of us in that box raised Ria's gasses in there we need the poem the poem when I see too much need I

26:41 have like 100 this is too much need going on right here probably yeah I'm not you know I make these women self-reliant they cannot think that a point can make that day what is this poem poem poem I've been teaching them to focus on the inner world to be abundant within their so needy that's it no point today guys see this is how good this is what you get with me maybe

27:12 oh look now see we notice all the children see see okay so I met and that is what poem but okay bring on the point she's a follower Clement Munna is a breed leader please Charles I know crying Charles already crying Oh Peggy's got big attitude okay whatever then okay Peggy nice oh god this is like make your own poem yeah I'm noticing already trends

27:43 Melanie's like no one cares about the potency madami has to be extra cool she's right no one cares no one cares Ellen it's super quickly see Scotty's like screw the poem see these people okay let's delete let's delete they're totally reverse psychology I know spa get to share the poem okay I'm gonna share okay oh my god now see what standard for this bloody poem it's just a poem that I wrote you know I love to write poetry and so I'm writing a new

28:15 book it's not got a name yet but it is on the awakened woman and the books I write a vacation a wake ish woman yes now awakened she this my has been a week but so I don't know that the title yet but it's supposed to be coming out April 20-21 or may 2021 and I'm so excited about it it mirrors like most of my

28:46 books my own evolution and I cannot even tell you how revolutionary it's going to be so the the beginning pages have has a poem have a poem and I'm gonna read this point okay ready so I cannot publish it yet because it's top secret it's going to have to come out when the book comes out you have to buy it so yeah Suzy says he's going to play her music what better I was just saying like

29:13 luminous numbers get these amazing sneak peeks nobody else a whirl gets to see yes nobody has nobody but you yes so Suzy is a skilled pianist guys and a composer I use her music most of my videos so she's gonna play for us what I'm going to ask you is to take a pen and paper go within yourself because I want to know what it means for you to be an awakened woman and I would love for

29:42 you to share that on Facebook so each one of us can contemplate and reflect on what does it mean for me to awaken into my most awakened womanhood so I'm gonna read what it means for me but I would like you to reflect on what it means for you you ready yes [Music] the time of the awakened woman there

30:16 comes a time in the life of a woman where she discards her old ways like tossed shoes in the garbage where she shreds her list of shoulds and obligations and where impossible expectations are burned in an incinerator there comes a time in the life of a woman where the approval of others one's jewels in her crown now turned to pennies in her sock where the hunt for a man to complete her is now replaced with a hunt for herself and

30:47 where parental tentacles of pressure and tradition no longer define her truth there comes a time in the life of a woman where her desire to fit in with the crowd dissolves where many compulsion to be perfect vaporizes and where her obsession to be voted popular eviscerates there comes a time in the life of a woman where she simply says no more wear facade artifice and guile

31:18 leave her nauseated and where righteousness dharma and superiority will fall son there comes a time in the life of a room of a woman where she no longer fears conflict but faces it boldly like a lioness where she guards her authenticity as fearlessly as she guards her babies and where she discards the role of Savior knowing that there is no one to save but herself becomes that there comes a time in the life of a

31:50 woman where she no longer cowards in the shadows of her unworthiness where she no longer plays small so others can feel big and where she swaps the role of martyr and victim for the daring role of authentic self there comes a time in the life of a woman where she unabashedly and boldly occupies her ultimate sovereignty where she finally feels ready to in a space in the world and where she redefines compassion as unequivocal

32:21 self-love there comes a time in the life of a woman where she finally releases her childlike dependencies on others and where she dares to rewrite a new mandate of living for herself the mandate that says I release my unworthiness and fear I divorce civility and passivity i divest my many masks of inauthenticity I end the pretense of being someone I am

32:51 NOT and from now on I declare I will ascend into my power I will embrace my greatest autonomy I will celebrate my honest worth I will embody vulnerability and courage I will manifest the authentic me I am ready the time is now to awaken into my renaissance so that is the time and it is our time if you wish to step into the time you are ready to

33:22 be your awakened self so I'd love to hear from you about what it means for you to be in a weakened woman thanks for sharing thank you thank you guys thank you Susie and Greta and all of you and all our new members I'm so excited you're here with us let your sisters know if you would like them to be part of this community this is the time to join we're open for another few weeks and then we will close so thank you all

33:52 and we will see you next week Monday night at 9:00 p.m. Eastern bye guys not if I guys welcome you guys