Hey there, friend–-
Life can sometimes feel like a huge whirlwind, can’t it? I don’t know about you but I’ve really been feeling it lately.
Unexpected changes, relationship challenges, or simply the pressure of holding everything together can leave even the strongest among us feeling unsteady.
If you’ve been feeling emotionally stretched lately, you’re not alone.
Many women (and maybe men, too) are navigating these undercurrents of uncertainty and tension, often wondering if there’s a better way to approach life’s inevitable difficult moments–and seasons.
The good news? There is.
And, while better approaches may not change what’s actually happening in your life, they will change how you perceive what’s unfolding.
Assigning meaning to events, circumstances, ourselves, and others is how we make sense of the world around us–and our place in it.
There are 2 ways to interpret our experiences: one is an empowering interpretation and the other is a disempowering interpretation.
Empowering interpretations create unity and help us move forward in our life. Disempowering interpretations create separation and rob us of our peace and happiness.
For many people, when it comes to interpreting life events, very often their default mode is to unconsciously make negative or disempowering interpretations.
My work is about helping people reorient themselves to looking for the positive, whenever possible, and to take ownership of their projections, behaviors, and patterns.
Let’s start here…
Recognizing the Patterns That Hold You Back
When life feels overwhelming, it’s easy to default to old habits: reacting impulsively, taking on too much responsibility for others, or clinging to control in an attempt to feel safe.
While these responses might feel instinctive, they often leave us feeling more drained, frustrated, or disconnected from ourselves.
The truth is, it’s not about doing more or “fixing” your emotions. It’s about learning how to relate to life’s difficult times differently.
Shifting from Reaction to Resilience
What if, instead of reacting out of habit, you could pause and meet life’s uncertainty with grace?
This is the heart of G R A C E, a program designed to help you navigate life’s ups and downs with calm, clarity, and emotional resilience.
Here’s how G R A C E supports this transformation–-and how you can start taking actionable steps in your own life today:
- Cultivating Awareness: By becoming aware of your emotional triggers and reactive patterns, you’ll learn how to pause before responding, giving you the power to choose your actions consciously.
- Action Step: Next time you feel triggered, pause and ask yourself, “What story am I telling about this? How can I reframe it in a way that feels empowering?”
- Action Step: Next time you feel triggered, pause and ask yourself, “What story am I telling about this? How can I reframe it in a way that feels empowering?”
- Accepting What Is: Resistance to reality only creates more tension. GRACE teaches you how to accept life’s unpredictability while staying rooted in your truth and boundaries.
- Action Step: When faced with an unexpected situation, try saying to yourself, “This is what’s happening. How can I meet this moment with openness rather than resistance?”
- Action Step: When faced with an unexpected situation, try saying to yourself, “This is what’s happening. How can I meet this moment with openness rather than resistance?”
- Detaching with Love: For women who over-give or people-please, GRACE offers tools to hold space for others without absorbing their emotions, so you can care for those you love without losing yourself.
- Action Step: Before jumping in to fix or support someone, pause and ask, “Am I giving from a place of fullness or depletion? What do I need to replenish myself first?”
- Action Step: Before jumping in to fix or support someone, pause and ask, “Am I giving from a place of fullness or depletion? What do I need to replenish myself first?”
- Trusting the Process: Uncertainty can feel daunting, but GRACE helps you build trust in yourself and in life, empowering you to take inspired action while surrendering what’s out of your control.
- Action Step: When feeling overwhelmed by uncertainty, journal on this question: “What is one small, inspired step I can take today while trusting that the rest will unfold in time?”
- Action Step: When feeling overwhelmed by uncertainty, journal on this question: “What is one small, inspired step I can take today while trusting that the rest will unfold in time?”
- Embodying Feminine Energetics: In a world that rewards striving and hustle, GRACE teaches you how to step into flow, ease, and receptivity, helping you achieve your goals without burning out.
- Action Step: Begin your day with this intention: “Today, I will honor my energy by balancing inspired action with moments of rest and presence.”
Finding Grace in Everyday Life
Life doesn’t stop throwing challenges your way, but when you embody grace, you become better equipped to handle whatever comes. You develop the tools to navigate emotional waves, set boundaries without guilt, and embrace change with trust instead of fear.
If you’re ready to break free from reactive patterns and step into conscious self-leadership, GRACE is here to guide you. Click here to explore the G R A C E program.
Remember, you don’t have to navigate life’s challenges alone. GRACE offers a pathway to not only survive these moments but to thrive through them—with calm, clarity, and grace.
With love,
Tris
P.S. If this blog post spoke to you and you’re wanting to explore these practices more deeply, you will LOVE my brand new program starting in February called, G R A C E. * Get on my email list (below) to get in on the details!
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An International Bestselling Author, Lifestyle and Leadership Coach and speaker, Tris Thorp is one of today’s leading experts in the field of personal growth and leadership development, specializing in emotional healing, women’s empowerment and shadow work.
Having spent a decade traveling the world, being trained by and sharing the stage with Dr. Deepak Chopra in the field of social emotional learning, consciousness and mindfulness-based practices, Tris has a real gift for integrating the ancient spiritual teachings with modern-day science and mindfulness to help people all over the world let go of their past and create an empowered new future.
During her tenure at the Chopra Center, Tris apprenticed under the Chopra Center’s co-founder Dr. David Simon, co-facilitating the Healing the Heart and Emotional Freedom workshops alongside him. Prior to his passing in 2012, Dr. Simon appointed Tris as the person to carry on his teachings in the field of emotional healing. In addition, Tris was fortunate to be mentored by the late Debbie Ford prior to her passing in 2013, which is where she continued her extensive studies of the unconscious mind and concepts of the persona and shadow. After the loss of her two mentors, Tris went on to become certified through the Ford Institute as a coach specializing in Shadow Work and reconciling mental and emotional issues stemming from past experiences. She continues to share the gifts of emotional healing and facilitating this work in the footsteps of her former mentors.
Tris is the International bestselling author of Healing Your Heart: Rewrite Your Story with Awareness and Intention. A guide book to understanding your emotions, how we create our story and workable tools and techniques to heal from the past, Healing Your Heart stewards you through the process of releasing mental and emotional baggage, forgiving yourself and others, setting and enforcing boundaries and consciously communicating your needs in a loving and effective way so you can be who you’re meant to be, do the things you want to do and have all that you deserve to have in this life.
Tris is also the co-author of bestseller Mental and Emotional Release® with Dr. Matt James. Written in a language both professionals and non-professionals can understand, Mental and Emotional Release® offers real life case studies, an overview of MER and its foundation, step by step scripts to follow, and clinical efficacy studies comparing MER to other therapies.
Clearly in her dharma, Tris’s passion and dedication to gently guide people on their inward journey through personal growth is evident in her work as a Lifestyle and Leadership coach, Trainer of Mental and Emotional Release and workshop facilitator. She teaches various courses on leadership development, personal empowerment, social emotional learning and higher states of consciousness – both in online courses and her certification programs, live workshops, VIP retreats and 1-1 clients.
Tris Thorp is Board Certified by the Association of Integrative Psychology as a Trainer of Mental and Emotional Release ®, Master Practitioner of Neuro Linguistic Programming, Hypnosis, and Mental and Emotional Release ®, a Certified Reiki Master, and an Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance.
Tris is devoted to inspiring and empowering others to cultivate and maintain mindfulness-based lifestyle practices that lead to greater clarity, purpose and fulfillment. Through one-on-one coaching, online programs and live events, Tris specializes in helping people to fully release negative emotions, limiting beliefs and unconscious patterns, enabling them to make quantum leaps into the life they are truly meant to be living.