Melanie McGhee
LCSW, EFT
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Melanie McGhee Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Confidence and Self-Acceptance and Inner Peace
- Best Sellers
- An Illumined Life
- Career Focus
- Author, Speaker, Psychotherapist, Personal Coach, Retreat Facilitator, EFT
- Affiliation
- National Association of Social Workers, Ewomen Network, and the East Tennessee Coaches Association
Melanie McGhee, L.C.S.W. is an award-winning author, relationship expert, psychotherapist and spiritual coach. She is also the founder of Abhimukti Yoga Coaches - providing coaches training to yoga teachers.
For more than 25 years, she has been helping people cultivate rich relationships with themselves, others and Life. A long-time yoga practitioner and meditator, Melanie sees relationship as one of Life’s perfect practice spaces for experiencing yoga. Melanie's experiences and training led her to create a coaches training for yoga teachers. Her understanding of the sanskrit term yoga is that it means union with the Divine in yourself, others and Life. It is her intention to generously share tools and practices that support your personal and spiritual growth, using relationship as the practice ground. In this way, you learn to take your relationship with yourself, with others and with Life to the next level, exploring and practicing the yoga of relationship.
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Melanie McGhee Audio & Video Programs
Reclaim YOUR Life & Learn to Live in Balance
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Clear Your Money Fears Teleclass
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Release Pain Reclaim Health
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Say YES to Better Health CD
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Say YES to Better Health Download
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2010 Message - Jou ey to Great Self-Awareness
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Melanie McGhee Books
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Dancing With Time
“Come out of the circle of time, and into the circle of love.” ~ Rumi As this month draws to a close, I’m sitting cozy in my office, three large dogs sacked out on the floor around me, while sheets of ice fall from the sky. This is by no means a typical winter day in east Tennessee. I’m finishing up the final touches on my “plan” for the year — all the while knowing that God is laughing.
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reclaim life balance, reclaim peace
I think that it's possible to cultivate a life of balance and peace? Do you? Seriously, do you? As a young mother, I knew that to be the kind of mom I wanted to be, I needed to take time for myself --- to meditate, to take care of my body, and reflect on my life. As an older mother, and so much more, the same is still true. I still need to take care of me. No one else is going to do that, it's entirely up to me. Having learned this early on, I bravely took up the mantle and make time for self care.
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Restoring Your State
Your state of being is at the heart of how you experience yourself in life. It informs your perspective and your choices. It is your responsibility to protect and restore your state. Yet, when your state is jangled by the challenges of life, you get thrown into a variety of very human reactions — anger, sad, frustrated, scared or even wild, over the moon joy. These reactions can be like a filter for a camera lens that distorts the perspective a bit. You cannot get a clear read on a situation through a distorted lens. These distortions color your view and disrupt your state.
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Gather ye Rosebuds
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may” is perhaps my favorite line of Robert Herrick’s poem, To Virgins, to Make Much of Time. Remember this poem? Maybe you’ve never heard it. Maybe you have and you’ve forgotten it.r
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Dance Like No One's Watching
“What the hell; you are what you are, and self honesty occupies a definite and vital part in the ever-growing process to become a real human being and not a plastic one.” ~Bruce Lee
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Playing Consciousness
I happen to enjoy foggy days every once in a while. There’s a sense of the world turning inward, veiling itself so that only the most immediate can be seen. It’s a different perspective than my usual wish to stretch the eye as far as it can see to find out what’s over the next horizon. In the last few days, when the weather has been more rain and fog than sun, I’ve been thinking about the play of Consciousness --- well the real truth is I spend a good bit of my time thinking about the play of Consciousness.
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becoming a life artist
Thich Nhat Hanh a contemporary Buddhist monk, writes with great elegance of the joy to be found in bringing our awareness to the present moment. He encourages us to be so completely immersed in the task at hand that it becomes to us the most important thing in our life.
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Trust Yourself or Trust Your Yoga Teacher?
Another yoga rock star, John Friend, has fallen, see this NY TImes Article. The unfortunate truth about people in power is that they sometimes abuse that power. Initially, these abuses of power are not typically grand. They are small betrayals that can lead up to big abuses if left unchecked. And we, as students and teachers are all vulnerable when we ignore those small betrayals, when we trust our teachers more than ourselves.
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Immerse Yourself in the Ocean of the Heart
The yogi who is established in a steady posture easily becomes immersed in the ocean of the heart.rn ~ Shiva Sutra 3.16 As I reflect on this sutra, what is most compelling to me is the phrase “ocean of the heart.” As we all know, the ocean can be still and smooth as a mirror reflecting the thousands of tiny diamond lights of the sun. Or, it can be swirling with tumultuous waves reflecting a sky of darkened clouds. In the same way, the heart can be calm and serene or it can flutter with anger and anxiety.r
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Serve the One You’re With
Recently, several of the yoga coaches I’ve trained were talking about how their class and client numbers are down. I shared a few tips with them about how to bring those numbers back up coming from a dharmic place of service. If that’s also been a challenge for you, this might help. I invite you to come into this inquiry from a heart felt place of service. That’s a good place to start.
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The One Desire
The desire to know and recognize God, Truth, to experience that sweet space of Oneness is thought by some philosophers to be the root of all desire, the one desire. It may be that the desire disguises itself, showing up as a wish for a new car, or a particular job. Perhaps it shows up as some wanting for a girlfriend, a boyfriend, a relationship. However it comes to us, there is desire.
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Understanding Anger
Anger generally has an outward directed energy. Someone in your life does something that does not meet your expectations or standards and you get mad. Or they don’t do something they said they would do and you get mad. Or they fail you or someone you care about and you get mad.
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PeaceFruit
Blog aimed at providing inspiration and support for people interested in cultivating sustainable personal peace of mind...
April 7, 2009
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Peacefruit
A blog for sharing inner-peace
March 25, 2009
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Illumined Life
Personal peace, it’s a more precious commodity than many other treasures held dear. Yet, how easily we lose it, forget about it, take it for granted. My work is to help restore, sustain and protect peace, one person, one group at a time.
September 4, 2008
Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Melanie McGhee
As a longtime meditator, I founded Illumined Life, LLC to help people build better relationships with themselves, others and God. I aim to be respectfully adept in supporting my clients release the emotional and cognitive blocks that keep them from living fully. I am committed to self-acceptance, helping people learn to experience themselves without the inhibition of self judgment, self evaluation and self criticism. For I see such acceptance as a means to more fully connect with the divine in one’s self and in others.
I’ve been lucky to have exceptional teachers. They have helped me develop my communication skills, especially teaching me to listen deeply and with compassion. Through the grace of such teachers, I’ve found and cultivated the insight and intuition that resides in each of us. Using skill and insightful listening, I am committed to helping people free themselves of emotional pain and supporting them as they craft richly fulfilling lives.
For more than 20 years, I have been helping people engage more fully in life, attain their goals and reach their potential in what I hope to be an atmosphere of unconditional acceptance and respect. In addition to maintaing my psychotherapy and coaching practice, I have worked with individuals and groups in boardrooms, the deep wilde ess and a variety of retreat sites. Among the organizations I have served are NASA, Methodist Medical Center, Baptist Hospital, Tennessee Valley Authority, Michigan Unemployment, the SYDA Foundation and the US Army.
Contacting Melanie McGhee
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865-384-4104
melanie@illuminedlife.com
How to get started
Visit my website http://www.illuminedlife.com or give me a call 865-384-410.