You cannot solve a problem

with the same mind that created it

This quote, attributed to Einstein, seems more apt than ever. How are we going to create new solutions and build a new world, using only the bricks—and the bilding plans—from the past? Has the need for new thinking, new solutions, imagining something new and different ever been more apparent?

My need and desire to create a new story for myself, not living in reaction or reference to the past….has been getting louder these last several years. My personal journey and my transformational healing work with women isn’t only about resolving and releasing wounds and old beliefs….but like almost all therapy and healing it is more heavily focused on that.

That’s how I’ve been led in the last few years, following the breadcrumbs of “new story creation”—for myself and for guiding clients. First, I found Claire Zammit’s Women Centered Coaching and trained in that. (I like that coaching is generally more solutions and future oriented, but feel it can also be superficial and overly mental…change must be embodied, awareness alone is almost always never enough).

And now I am immersed in Intentional Creativity—most passionately—with Shiloh Sophia. This includes leading Red Thread women’s circles, the 13 step Medicine painting process and more. .

Clarity is arriving as to what I want to do with this Substack and what I want to offer here—and in the world. Beyond the Box will continue, with a bit more focus on my favorite themes—embodiment and healing through the body, empowering women, learning from the natural world, and fresh models, fresh perspectives and stories around money, business and prosperity, and opening up our self expression and aliveness.

In gratitude and wonder,

Ellen

Meantime, here’s my haiku inspired by another Substacker, Chris J. Franklin, who invited us, on the anniversary of the show Bewitched, to write haikus on the theme of Magic.

We overlook magic

Seeing today through old lenses

Future, as the past