Milisa Burns 10/19/21 Milisa Burns 10/19/21

How Are You at Apologizing (or Not)?

Inspired by Harriet Lerner's recent book Why Won't You Apologize? Healing Big Betrayals and Everyday Hurts, I've been thinking a lot about apologizing lately and how I can be better at it.

Milisa Burns 7/16/21 Milisa Burns 7/16/21

Where's the Magic in Your Mess?

Here’s a story from my life where things were messy and magical at the same time – often the case, right?

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 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 11/13/20 Milisa Burns 11/13/20

Are You a Giver? What if...?

Let’s face it: many of us were feeling depleted before the pandemic even hit us. And now we’re looking at a long winter without many of our usual ways of coping, let alone thriving. To prepare for this time and even enjoy it, we may need some new tools or perspectives or to be reminded of some "oldies but goodies" we might've forgotten.

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 5/20/20 Milisa Burns 5/20/20

Considering Ourselves Leaders

Have you noticed that many people, especially women, don't consider themselves to be leaders, even though they are clearly often exhibiting leadership qualities? I have certainly seen this, and lived it too. Leadership needs some redefining and redesigning.

Milisa Burns 4/22/20 Milisa Burns 4/22/20

Small But Mighty Habits For More Flow (and Less Overwhelm)

Being in lack and overwhelm is an obstacle to flow. ("Flow" in this sense, is that experience of living life with more ease and less struggle... when you generally feel open to life and to others around you, working with your circumstances, growing with them, rather than being consistently weighed down, or even knocked down, by them.)

Milisa Burns 3/24/20 Milisa Burns 3/24/20

Growing: Courageous, Powerful and Connected

I have been spending the quiet time that I have in this very full “nest” of ours ;) reflecting on how to get really creative in the midst of these unusual times. The theme of growing has been front and centre for me, even more than usual. My intention is to help us all feel even more grounded and connected to ourselves and each other so that we can be courageous and can grow into this challenge, finding the opportunities in it.

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 3/6/20 Milisa Burns 3/6/20

It’s Time for Us to Be Smarter with These Big Feelings

These times are providing an opportunity for us to grow and become more emotionally intelligent. Emotional intelligence is about being smarter with our feelings, bringing our cognition and our feelings together. (Definition from SixSeconds.org) Our feelings are important data to take in; we ignore them at our peril.

Milisa Burns 2/19/20 Milisa Burns 2/19/20

More About Love 2.0 - It's So Important!

Previously, I shared a message about the re-definition of love, sourced from research by the brilliant Dr. Barbara Fredrickson and her team and set out in Love 2.0: How Our Supreme Emotion Affects Everything We Feel, Think, Do and Become (2012). This note builds on the ideas in a bit more detail - they are so important for us to take in as we become more and more immersed in our virtual worlds. The research contained in Love 2.0 emphasizes the importance of being together in flesh and blood. In fact, being together in person is a requirement of Love 2.0. The in-person requirement is what I want to highlight here.

Milisa Burns 2/14/20 Milisa Burns 2/14/20

Love 2.0 - A Super Powerful Re-Definition of Love

On Valentine’s Day, when the focus is on romantic love, I want to deliver a message about a re-definition of Love, sourced from research by the brilliant Dr. Barbara Fredrickson and her team. Dr. Fredrickson is a pre-eminent authority on “positive emotions”, where Love reigns supreme. She is the author of Love 2.0: How Our Supreme Emotion Affects Everything We Feel, Think, Do and Become (2012), as well as Positivity (which I blogged about years ago).

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.

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