Stacey Curnow
CNM, MSN
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Midwifery and Life Coaching Expert
Stacey Curnow Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Midwifery, Life Coaching, Women's Wellness
- Career Focus
- Life Coach
- Affiliation
- Midwife For Your Life
Stacey Curnow works as a certified nurse-midwife in North Carolina, and over more than 15 years her career has taken her from western Indian reservations to a center-city Bronx hospital to the mountains of southwester Mexico.
She has been an enthusiastic
student of positive psychology for years and applies it to her midwifery and
life coaching practices with great success.
She is the creator of a
thriving blog
and many of her articles have been published in print magazines and online.
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Lessons of the Albatross
Last night a friend and I were talking about some challenges in his life and I remembered a line from a poem by Robert Bly: The albatross that lands on the mast began flying a thousand years ago. A long time ago, back when we were pure positive energy, we didn’t doubt for a minute that manifesting would be pretty cool. But when we arrive in our physical forms and challenges pop up, we forget that every experience is an opportunity to discover what we really want and to become our best selves.
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Resilience
If you were to gather up the day's news you would invariably come to the conclusion that the world needs saving, right? Well, I expect it will need saving tomorrow, too. And in the meantime, I am going to reflect on what it means to "do something" in the face of great suffering. Yes, the reports from around the world are dire, but they reflect something else, too: The scale of suffering is balanced by resilience, courage, and hope.
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From Chaos to Clarity
One of my coaching clients is struggling with clutter. And although I don't advertise it as a service, I actually love to declutter and organize. So I offered to help her—and started the conversation by stating that I wouldn't try to compel her to give up anything she didn't want to let go. At the same time, I did share with her the thoughts that I will share with you now. You imbue everything you own with a certain kind of energy. Things that are loved, used and appreciated have strong, vital energies. Clutter, which is anything unwanted, unloved, or unused, can diminish your energy.r
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How to Be a Completionista
Sometimes the "incompletes" in our lives can add up and we can start to feel overwhelmed. There are big incompletes -- our long-held dreams, our unpursued passions -- and then there are the little incompletes -- the stuff we see every day that niggles at us, the "to-dos," the lists of tasks we really want to do … someday. You don't need many of these incompletes before everywhere you look (even into the future) you see things you haven't done instead of the things you have done. This can undermine your energy and happiness.
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10 Ways to Wake Up Your Mornings
1. Get Up.
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Celebrating YOU
Many of my clients are women who understand the importance of self-acceptance and appreciation because they want their children to exhibit these traits, but they often get stuck on how to do it for themselves. Of course, the ultimate goal is for us to model being and loving ourselves in an authentic way. If we truly love ourselves, most of what we want in life—again, usually happiness for ourselves and the ones we love—comes so much more easily. We may still have some worries, and we'll definitely continue to have goals, dreams and desires.
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Don't Worry. I Got This.
I recently wrote about the power of your story in anticipation of meeting 12 women for The Power of Your Story event I was hosting. All of the women were truly amazing and I would love to write about each one of them. Today, with her permission, I will tell the story of one of them.
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Exercising Hope
Hope is not just some ephemeral emotion. Nor is it the abstract one-size-fits-all concept put to work in poetry and political campaigns. It’s actually a deeply felt neurochemical stance that our minds take toward our current circumstances—a stance that alters our outlooks and our actions, as well as the life paths that unfold before us.
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Finding Peace
Peace doesn't require two people; it requires only one. It has to be you. The problem begins and ends there. - Byron Katie I love Byron Katie. I really do. I had a read a ton of literature on happiness – from academic studies to the Dalai Lama - and nothing helped me let go of my stressful thoughts like her simple process called “the Work.“ Earlier this year I had a pretty challenging phone conversation with my father. He wants his grandson vaccinated, but my husband and I have decided not to vaccinate our son.
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Notes From the Bottom of a Well
Before you start reading this article, I'd like you to sit quietly for a few seconds. Take in a full breath, let it fill your lungs, and then release it slowly. Repeat this simple breathing exercise and include the words from my favorite meditation: Breathing in, I calm my body. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment, I know this is a wonderful moment.~ Thich Nhat Hahn I try to remember this little meditation practice when I feel challenged, tired and inadequate.
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10 Steps to a Happier 2010
Step #1: Define Happiness First ask, “What makes me happy?” Think carefully about this because your definition of happiness may be very different from the cultural norm (I know mine is!) and it will influence every other significant decision in your life. For example, my husband and I both choose to work part-time. We make much less than we could if we worked more, but we enjoy the balance we’ve created in our lives.
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No Success Like Failure
"I haven't failed. I've found 10,000 ways that don't work." ~Thomas Edison There is a field of research that studies how scientists study things. And by scientists, I mean anyone who acquires knowledge by forming a hypothesis—essentially a belief about what they expect to see—and then tries to prove it. Most of the time, this testing of hypotheses takes place in sterile clinical settings that allow scientists to control for every possible variable.
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Contacting Stacey Curnow
Please feel free to contact Stacey at info@midwifeforyourlife.com