To Not Fear the Truth with Rachel Camfield

Laurel Holland welcomes Rachel Camfield to the show discussing their personal journeys towards self-awareness, inner work, and creative expression. They both emphasize the importance of embracing sensitivity, taking action, and prioritizing self-care to overcome reactivity and find fulfillment. Rachel shares her experience in business, highlighting the value of leveraging diverse skills and interests to achieve success and personal growth. Through their conversations, both women offer valuable insights into the importance of self-awareness, self-care, and intentional action in shaping a beautiful life on the inside and out.
1:00 Laurel introduces Rachel
5:00 Rachel shares what started her inner work and how living as a sensitive can be both overwhelming and a gift. Watching others suffer in not facing the truth was a wound that drove her forward to make her life different. "I'm not here to waste time".
7:30 Motherhood as a motivation to do inner work. Rachel talks about her understanding of the ramifications of not being intentional in life.
8:40 Her signal of "reactivity" as a clue that she needs to do some inner work. She shares her shame around this topic that she felt for so long and the numbing behaviors that can result from those feelings.
10:00 Calling ourselves out for bad behavior and owning our high standards for ourselves without expecting perfection.
12:10 Rachel talks about her own beautiful life and how she defines a beautiful life both in the big picture and in daily life.
13:00 Rachel talks about her life as an entrepreneur and creative - "the double dip of personal development work". How she would do anything to live the good life she knew she always wanted.
14:40 Rachel's trajectory of her career as an example of how change is part of the awakened journey even as a professional. Accommodating your choices to adapt to your personal strengths and weaknesses.
21:00 Rachel makes the decision to pivot in her career that came from both wanting to start a new chapter but also from a period of depression.
24:00 Making space to listen in instead of a crisis bringing it to you.
26:25 Rachel's story of having her business begin from sharing vulnerably in her first blog.
30:10 Beginning inner work where you are and acknowledging that there is something there that is really important.
33:30 Rachel shares her spiritual life that brings her strength.
35:50 Laurel and Rachel talk and selfishness.
39:30 The beautiful life in a day-to-day way and the choices that are made to create that.
Links/Books mentioned - Rachel’s CPTSD journal can be bought on Amazon.
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Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland, has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
Rachel Camfield is a writer, speaker, coach, and author. Her professional work focuses on the healing journey and helping entrepreneurs grow brands and lives that feel like home to them. She cheers for creatives’ beautiful, courageous living and has over 13 years of experience in sales, coaching, marketing, writing, and speaking, as well as seven figures in career sales. She has spent 20 years on her healing journey and lives with her family outside of Richmond, Virginia.
Contacts for Rachel Camfield:
Visit Rachel on her website at rachelcamfield.com
Join her newsletter, The Gentle Creative
Tune into her podcasts, The Gentle Creative and The Mother’s Embrace
Follow her on Instagram @rachelcamfieldpro