Milisa Burns 5/13/24 Milisa Burns 5/13/24

Mother’s Day Wishes & Reflections

Whether you’re a biological mother or not, and no matter your gender, let’s celebrate our incredible feminine* capacity for receptivity - opening our hearts and receiving and tapping into the love that’s flowing all around us and running through us and between us.

Milisa Burns 3/8/24 Milisa Burns 3/8/24

International Women’s Day Wishes

Wishing you a fierce, tender, and playful International Women’s Day, inspired by my maternal grandmother, Mildred Maclean who would have been 113 years old today, March 8.

Milisa Burns 10/6/22 Milisa Burns 10/6/22

Transforming Leadership

What happens when… 8 highly experienced and determined leaders, in consulting, facilitation and coaching, meet regularly for a year to create something useful and valuable for leaders and their organizations? In our case, we wrote an ebook called Transforming Leadership!

Milisa Burns 4/21/22 Milisa Burns 4/21/22

You're Invited to a Special Event Next Week!

Explore pleasure & the five senses as a way to open up, connect with the pulse of life, and exhale into a sensual summer. There’s an incredible group of women forming and we’re so excited to create something replenishing and galvanizing together.

Milisa Burns 3/8/22 Milisa Burns 3/8/22

#IWD2022 - Breaking the Bias Together!

The world needs strong leaders who can sit and be present in the discomfort of the unknown and ask powerful questions of themselves and others, to rise to the challenges ahead.

Milisa Burns 4/22/21 Milisa Burns 4/22/21

Do You Vacillate Between Two Ways of Experiencing Stress?

When you’re under stress, do you ever have the experience of vacillating back and forth between feeling really rigid, constricted or tight, and then at other times, feeling almost like you're in a flood, getting swept away by your emotions and all the messiness of your life?

Milisa Burns 3/8/21 Milisa Burns 3/8/21

Inspiration at the SheEO Summit #IWD2021

I spent the day being inspired by some amazing, courageous, visionary women at the SheEO Summit - a very satisfying way to spend #IWD2021! SheEO is a global community of radically generous women building a $1B perpetual fund to support women working on the World’s To-Do List.

Milisa Burns 3/8/20 Milisa Burns 3/8/20

Happy International Women's Day!

I thought something fun might be in order today as we celebrate International Women's Day, so wanted to share this quick story.

Milisa Burns 10/29/19 Milisa Burns 10/29/19

Are You In? Let Me Tell You How and Why "I'm In"

I am unabashedly evangelistic about SheEO - have you heard of it? It's existence and the women SheEO supports give me hope for the future of our world. Below I share the short story of about how and why "I'm In" - this whole post is less than a 3 minute read... the inspiration and energy you'll receive from learning more about SheEO will be well worth your time spent!

Milisa Burns 7/11/19 Milisa Burns 7/11/19

Savouring - A Very Pleasant and Effective Tool for Success!

Savouring is a positive psychology "happiness intervention", meaning that finding ways to savour the joys in life has been shown to lead to increased happiness and well-being. And studies have also shown that increased happiness and well-being lead to more success in life - and not the other way around as many of us assume.

Milisa Burns 6/10/19 Milisa Burns 6/10/19

Seize the Summer!

Seizing the Summer may not be about the hammock for you. And Seizing the Summer is not necessarily about planning a big exciting trip, or some other splashy event, either, though those can be very fun. Seizing the Summer is about what would be really meaningful for you.

Milisa Burns 5/12/19 Milisa Burns 5/12/19

A Broader View of Mother's Day

I’m celebrating the beautiful, loving, nurturing energy that we all have inside of us - whether we have children we are responsible for in our nuclear family or not.

Milisa Burns 4/13/19 Milisa Burns 4/13/19

Waves That Can Overwhelm Us and Knock Us Down

That wave slap experience has stayed with me over the years in a visceral way. Lately, I have been noticing that my experience feels akin to what can happen to us when life comes at us in a wave - of emotions or thoughts or circumstances - and hits us unexpectedly. It's that same terrible feeling of overwhelm and of powerlessness.

Milisa Burns 2/28/19 Milisa Burns 2/28/19

Are You Pot-Bound?

There’s an inevitability to growth. Just like that plant, programmed to become a large oak tree, you are designed to grow into your potential. And yet if you are in too small a container, both your roots are contained, and your height is contained. You cannot grow tall and straight with your branches reaching out, aligned with who you are inside. How sad is that?

Milisa Burns 2/8/19 Milisa Burns 2/8/19

I Hung Up on Myself

I shut the conversation inside myself down. I disconnected from my feelings and intuition in favour of logic and common sense. And then I paid a high price for many years – I gradually became very unfulfilled in my work, overwhelmed by life, and was completely lost professionally for many years.

Milisa Burns 11/2/18 Milisa Burns 11/2/18

Why I Now Love to Share a Room at a Retreat

When I went to my first 10-day Feminine Power retreat a few years ago, I didn’t even consider sharing a room. I wanted to be able to have that refuge of a room to myself. I have a husband, three kids, and a dog and this was my chance to not have to worry about anyone but myself. I love to spend time by myself as much as I love being with others.

Milisa Burns 10/26/18 Milisa Burns 10/26/18

From Isolation Into Connection

What would it be like for you to be able to be in a circle of women where it is completely safe and, in fact, you are encouraged, to show up as your biggest self, sharing your deepest desires? Where you don’t have to show as perfect - you can show all of yourself, including your vulnerabilities, and still be embraced?

Milisa Burns 9/18/18 Milisa Burns 9/18/18

The Sweet Fruits of Transformation – A Story

I want to tell you the story of Vanessa, an imaginary woman who is a combination of many of the women I have talked to and worked with over the years, and me. I want to sketch out for you her “before and after” coaching story – so you can see the benefits of transformation. The fruits of transformation can be very sweet indeed!

Milisa Burns 5/24/18 Milisa Burns 5/24/18

Blooming as a Catalytic Act of Leadership

What is so compelling about a bloom? The list is long – I am thinking about the power and the vulnerability of a bloom. In a flower, there is beauty, there may be a magnetic scent, and there is the vulnerability of the complete openness of a full bloom. When a woman blooms, there is also so much power and vulnerability. Blooming can be catalytic, an act of leadership.

Milisa Burns 4/17/18 Milisa Burns 4/17/18

Are You Choosing to be a Victim or a Creator in Your Life?

Are you choosing to be a victim or a creator in your life? This is a moment to moment, day to day choice. One of the most influential things I have learned in the last few years is the sense that life is happening through me, not to me… and through you too… through us all. I knew this at one level before – I knew that I had many choices as to how I could behave and that those choices impacted my life and the lives of those around me.

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