Carolyn Townes
O.F.S.
Free
Life Transitions Expert
Carolyn Townes Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Life Transitions, Grief and Healing, Women's Issues
- Career Focus
- Speaker, Workshop Facilitator, Writer,
As a Spiritual Animator, Author and Advocate, Carolyn Townes has been teaching, coaching and facilitating workshops for over a decade in the areas of women’s wellness. Her company, Spirit Women Institute, is dedicated to equipping, empowering and encouraging women to lead lives of inner peace, passion and prosperity.
Trained and certified in life coaching, clinical hypnotherapy, grief counseling, death education, hospice care, bereavement services, chaplain and pastoral ministry, and neuro-linguistic programming, Carolyn has journeyed with women and men going through difficult life transitions through her workshops, one-on-one counseling, group coaching, and courses in grief, healing and life transition, dealing with topics such as anger, change, and forgiveness.
Carolyn delivers inspiring and power-packed seminars, workshops, and classes propelling audiences and clients to lead a more passionate and purposeful life. Carolyn also blogs at Becoming a Woman of Purpose.
Carolyn Townes Books
Articles by this expert
SelfGrowth articles and saved writing connected to this expert.
Article
More Meditating, Less Medicating
I am not a medical doctor, nor do I play one on television! I am someone who has lived with chronic pain all of my adult life. My pain can manifest itself physically, emotionally and spiritually. Whatever way it chooses to manifest itself, it can be extremely debilitating. Over the many, many years, I have gone to one medical professional after another and another. Each one prescribed something different that dulled the pain temporarily. I was even told that it was all in my head and promptly sent off to see a therapist. Fine, but I was still in pain.
Recently added
Article
Deliberately Choose Your Focus
It has been said that what you focus on expands. This is very true, yet there is one critical element to focus – it is your choice what you focus on. You can consciously choose to focus on those things that do not serve you and do not add value to your life – like scarcity, lack and not enough. Or, you can choose to deliberately focus on the things that you desire and want to see expand in your life – like prosperity, health and wealth.
Recently added
Article
Practice Being Consistent
“A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli “In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.” ~ Anthony Robbins Being consistent is critical to on going and long-term success. It is easy to be a one-hit wonder; but manifesting prosperity means being consistent. The word “consistent” means “harmonious uniformity or agreement among things or parts” meaning the same throughout in structure or composition.
Recently added
Article
DARE to Live Abundantly
Living abundantly is something I believe everyone aspires to. Yet, very few people truly live an abundant life. Rising poverty, divorce and unemployment rates speaks of more and more people not living a prosperous and abundant life. Part of the problem is most people are turning their attention to the wrong thing. After seeing movies and reading books like The Secret, there is this misconception about manifesting prosperity. Firstly, prosperity is and never was about money; and so many are focused on the money. Money is a means to the end, not the end itself.
Recently added
Article
Passion Partners: Finding Your Nutritious Muse
"Be around people who can keep your energy and inspiration high. While you can make progress alone, it's so much easier when you have support." ~ Dr. Joe Vitale “Who is the most nutritious person in your life? Think about how that person makes you feel about yourself. Does he or she constantly challenge you; constantly encourage you; cause you to come up just a little higher than you would normally?
Recently added
Article
Yes, Life is Difficult - Now What?
"You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them." ~ Michael Jordan, basketball star Throughout the course of my coaching practice, with individuals and groups, I often hear women say things like, "But it's so hard!" or "That's easier said than done." M. Scott Peck's wonderful book The Road Less Traveled opens with the line, "Life is difficult." So, my question as a coach is yes, life is difficult, now what? Okay, we have established that life is difficult, life is full of obstacles, challenges, disappointments, and upsets. That is a given.
Recently added
Article
Dealing with Fear and Negative Self Talk
"NOW is the operative word. Everything you put in your way is just a method of putting off the hour when you could actually be doing your dream. You don't need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating." ~ Sam Ewing Is what you are consistently saying to yourself contributing to your fears? Are you allowing your negative self talk to dictate your life and sabotage your dreams? Are your fears being fueled by the energy of your negative inner chatter?
Recently added
Article
The Grace of Gratitude
“Grant me daily the grace of gratitude, to be thankful for all my many gifts, and so be freed from artificial needs, that I might lead a joyful, simple life.” rn~ Edward Hays Throughout all of the writings on manifesting prosperity there is one common denominator – gratitude. We are told over and over, again and again, that unless we are in a spirit of gratitude, we cannot manifest what we truly desire. I have read dozens of books, reports, and articles on creating an abundant life and manifesting prosperity, and they have all spoken of gratitude.
Recently added
Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Carolyn Townes
What we resist, persist;
But what we befriend, we transcend.
The Story of The Two Wolves
An old Cherokee chief is teaching his grandson about life: "A fight is going on inside me," he said to the boy. "It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. "One is fear - he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, self-doubt, and ego. "The other is love - he is joy, peace, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. "This same fight is going on inside you - and inside every other person, too." The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather, "Which wolf will win?" The old chief simply replied, "The one you feed."
“He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.” ~ Aeschylus
Contacting Carolyn Townes
Contact me at carolyn@carolyntownes.com
How to get started
Connect with me on the web:
Connect with me on Facebook