Featured Guest of The Week: Amy McCae
Amy offers mindfulness based coaching and training to improve wellbeing and success. She focuses on holistic health, empathetic leadership and developing self awareness. She enjoys writing, yoga, lifting weights, plays, concerts, meditation, or anything with the mind, the warm sun and every moment with her girls. Welcome Amy
Amy, can you share a bit about your spiritual journeys, perspectives and how your perspectives evolved?
I couldn't make sense of some bearded man in the sky passing judgment on all I did. So I recall even maybe being six or seven. And trying to figure out how I was in a body and on the earth and make sense of it. So from a very, very young age, I was curious and trying to figure things out. My mother was very open to the ideas of spirits and other dimensions of time and space. So it wasn't talked about often
What are your thoughts on the interconnectedness of professional growth and holistic wellness
Even something as simple as, like Kundalini. Yoga is a favorite meditation practice that, a variation of meditation that I practice, and I found that to be on all levels, it works all levels. It's considered meditation practice, but it's doing all those things so you don't have to necessarily work on one of them. But I don't think that you can disconnect. I guess that's my point, is they're all interconnected. All of it's connected
You is the focus now increasingly moving on to the spiritual quotient besides emotional quotient and intelligence quotient, with concepts such as mindfulness, empathy, and self awareness. Taking center stage is
If we do that, and we do it without judgment and truly open our minds and hearts, we're cultivating compassion and curiosity, and we'll naturally, I think, through that, develop spiritual intelligence. Empathy is a key domain of emotional intelligence. And I think that is a good reminder since there's these various forms of different types of empathy. Different types of empathy lead towards. We have this type of empathy in which you feel somebody else's feelings