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 9/13/23 Milisa Burns 9/13/23

Boundary-Setting Inspiration from Lord of the Rings

I’ve long struggled with setting boundaries, personally and professionally, in a way that is more compassionate and self-compassionate, rather than rigid and resentful. A perennial people pleaser, I’ve had to practise saying anything other than a full on “yes” when responding to a request. In this post I share a big shift I had around boundary-setting which has resulted in me feeling both encouraged and understood by my family when I need to take time to myself, to gather my strength and reconnect with my courage and clarity.

Milisa Burns 7/28/22 Milisa Burns 7/28/22

Savouring the Rest of Our Summer

Let’s Seize the rest of our summer by savouring some of our favourite summer moments or actiivities! What do you want to savour?

Milisa Burns 5/9/22 Milisa Burns 5/9/22

Hope You Enjoyed Mother’s Day

I hope you enjoyed some moments of goodness, even joy, yesterday, however and with whomever you celebrated.

I savoured some time outside in the backyard reading our book club choice this month, Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole by Susan Cain. A highlight for me was taking in the beauty of our young magnolia tree, which is covered in blooms for the first time ever.

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 12/22/21 Milisa Burns 12/22/21

Pareto's 80 - 20 Principle - A Slight Twist

I wanted to share one thing I’m celebrating, hoping it’s meaningful and maybe helpful to you too, during what can be a very overwhelming time of year even without the Pandemic.

Milisa Burns 2/4/21 Milisa Burns 2/4/21

Permission to Be Kind to Ourselves

In the last few years, I’ve become increasingly fierce about promoting and validating qualities that have been labelled “feminine”, such as kindness and compassion, and therefore seen as weak or at best, secondary to, “masculine” qualities like rationality and logic. It's time for us all, as human beings, to own the power of these "feminine" qualities within us and each other, and using them for more good, for ourselves and for the world.

Milisa Burns 12/15/20 Milisa Burns 12/15/20

Celebrate? Right Now? Pardon?

I’ve had the concept of “celebrating” swirling around in my head for the last few weeks. It was an intuitive decision and since I made it, I’ve been trying catch up with my intuition about it. ("She" tends to be a bit more audacious than the regular "me". :-)) I’ve been asking myself, why was it so important to celebrate, in this very difficult year, of all years?

Milisa Burns 10/21/20 Milisa Burns 10/21/20

Want to Unlock the "Fullness of Life", Even Now?

More than ever these days it's important to Make Room for gratitude in our lives. And it's likely easier to do than you think, with very potent researched-backed benefits. Leverage the power of gratitude and unlock the fullness of your life right now!

Milisa Burns 1/29/20 Milisa Burns 1/29/20

Do You Believe in Synchronicities?

Do you believe in synchronicities? (I do. I want to make empowered meaning wherever I can get it!) I want to share a very fresh synchronicity – it just happened a few minutes ago. So, as you may know, I am hosting the first ever Making Room For YOU Circle tomorrow night. And, I have been planning on using the brilliant Claire Zammit’s Feminine Power visioning circle outline as the main structure for the Circle. It’s what I have used for the last two years and it is hugely effective.

Milisa Burns 1/28/20 Milisa Burns 1/28/20

It’s Cold and I’m Tired… Why Would I Go Out to a Circle?

You might well ask: Why would I make the effort to brave a dark, cold January night, after a long day, to join a Visioning Circle? Well, to answer your question, the bottom line is, the effort will pay off for you in spades – you may arrive tired, and even overwhelmed, but you will leave with a level of energy and clarity about your intentions for the year (and beyond!) that will be galvanizing for you. You will have clear steps to implement right away and a feeling that you are well supported.

Milisa Burns 1/24/20 Milisa Burns 1/24/20

Nourishing Conversation About Resilience With Allison Wolf of Shiftworks Coaching

My friend and colleague Allison Wolf of Shiftworks Coaching For Lawyers invited me to join her in a virtual conversation about Resilience, which we recorded for you. Back story: Last Fall, Allison and I collaborated on a Canadian Bar Association Webinar on Resilience (our third collaboration!). This nourishing conversation explores some of the themes we shared on the webinar.

Milisa Burns 1/24/20 Milisa Burns 1/24/20

Powerful and Fun Conversation with Kim Ades of Frame of Mind Coaching

My friend and colleague Kim Ades, Founder of Frame of Mind Coaching invited me to her podcast. We discuss coaching leadership, parenting, why I run women's circles and the importance of Feminine Power and SheEO.

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

Pressing Pause

The beauty of pressing pause is that you make room for a meaningful and compassionate conversation with yourself - time for empowered reflection. You know how we tend to pass people and say, “How are you?” automatically then they say “Fine, thanks” automatically? It’s a friendly but relatively meaningless exchange. Rarely are people actually honest about what is really going on for them. True, it may not be the time or place for a meaningful conversation with that other person. But, for many of us, we repeatedly have this kind of automatic and relatively meaningless conversation with ourselves - or no conversation at all.

Milisa Burns 9/12/19 Milisa Burns 9/12/19

Did You Know Personal Courage Cannot Exist Without Fear?

The Latin root of "courage" is cor, which mean "heart". So, at the centre of personal courage is the heart. To be personally courageous means, by definition, that we are fearful but act anyway from our heart. This type of courage does not exist without fear. This is how I experience personal courage.

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 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 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.

Milisa Burns 12/8/17 Milisa Burns 12/8/17

Reignite Your Divine Spark - SOLSTICE Gathering

I am so excited to be offering a special event right in my neighbourhood in downtown Toronto on the Winter Solstice. I’m offering this special event to celebrate the completion of my 2 years of training with Dr. Claire Zammit and my pending certification as a Feminine Power transformational facilitator (yay!) If you have been curious about Feminine Power, this will be an excellent way to get an experience of it!

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