After interview #11 Jess Beers and Interview #16 Greg Beckett, I introduce you to the fourth part and final piece of the Flow Group: Meg Gibbs! Meg has deep deep routes in Native American Shamanism and those style modalities; effectively having grown up in it with her family… She is also powerful in movement having being a trained dancer since a very young age. And, of course there, is more to the story… There are bombs a plenty in this one!
Episode notes:
I'm still working hard on the Tools For A Good Life Summit register here https://toolsforagoodlifesummit.com/ and actually take all the notes for this episode while I was walking... Not a bad job!
Find all things Meg Gibbs right here: www.Meggibbs.com
Arc of life. Megs mom died when she was young. Breast cancer 3 times. 9 - 24 effectively. Ended up being primary caregiver. Best friend etc. spiritual worker. Indigenous perspective. Meg effectively got mentored in the buis at a young age.
Grief - I get to decide. I like toTalk about grief w some sassyness. Nobody gets to decide what you’re going through but you. There are some universal truths but…
Mz- Kyle cease. The grief pattern. I finally feel like I’m on the other side of grief. My parents died at same time as her mom.
She joined a “the dinner party”. Gone through loss in 20’s and 30’s.
I like her idea of compounding loss…
That feeling of all my heart is being ripped out of my body again. Where other people take a couple days eat ice cream and are back out there… They’re like whatever I don’t care :-)
Don’t cry at the barista just get my chai and leave… Don’t cry at the barista just get my chai and leave.
You’ve got to do it the best way you know how… I so value people who show up… Even though they know they’re gonna say the wrong thing or do the wrong thing. They still show up.
“That sense of who is that part of me. What is that maybe wants to be rekindled And maybe what part wants to be let go of.
Transition to following her inspiration to become a coach… When I found Coaching I was like “You mean I get to get paid to have important conversations about people’s dreams and fears and shit that matters…
That’s the rainbow and butterflies version. But that’s not what happened… That’s not how it went.
People think coaching is advice giving. And it’s not. Coaching is about asking questions and drawing somebody’s answers out of themselves. Out of Their truths. Out of their knowing. It’s not my job to tell somebody what to do.
So I started a business in the midst of grief…. I didn’t know this was going to be hard. I just knew I’d like to talking to people. And eight years deep and I’m still trying to figure it out… We are in this for the long-haul. I signed up for this 10 or 20 year track.
Which direction do you want to go? Native American Shamanism and how powerful rich and deep that is in your life. Or the movement exercises and visualizations.
Has an alternative family…. Lesbian moms. Huge gay family. Lots of adopted family. Was trying to have a normal experience and failing…
When 11 Mom started working with a Lakota teacher so she started working with the Lakota teacher to…. And the Native American shamanism starts from there….
Godfather started the “First Existential Congregation” when she was 6. The first E…
The way I decided which collage to go to is I did a Medicean wheel in the back yard…
I was totally misunderstood in the outer world.
I want to help people feel safe in the world.
Shamanism is how I see the world. It’s very ingrained in how I see the world.
As a child I grew out unblocked. You told me to go outside and find spirit and that’s what I did.
When 17 yrs old. Meets her other teacher, Don Mariano, lives in the Andes of Peru. He is a mountain shaman vs a jungle shaman.
This integrated into how I see the world and how I show up in the world. Vs I learned a methodology and now I’m going to teach it to you.
She was in the “AP” class of healers at a young age. “I’m so weird”. I came out of the womb with no chance of being normal. And I was so mad about it as a kid. “I just wanted to be a cheerleader.”
I have these kind of seminal moments…
Dance…. The movement thing… I was 11 when I started dance…. I grew up really fast…. I had joined a conservatory and was dancing in New York by 12….
I have learned to name now “dance trauma”…. The body issue stuff from hitting puberty. I was “voluptuous”. It was a hard experience. We lied on our resumes about our weight when we were 14. It was not a realistic standard of how it is to be a person.
At some point I started Choreography and started to focus on the process and creating a sacred place of feeling safe in your body…
At 17 18 my life was over because I was not going to be able to be the professional dancer that I strives to be since I was twelve because my body type wasn’t right. There’s a meg shaped hole in the universe and I’m the only one that can fill it. That failure I experienced created the space that I hold for people.
She references “The Liz Lerman Dance Exchange”. https://www.danceexchange.org/.
At one point she works with disabled body dancers…. An amazing combo of humans. “There’s 17000 other ways to do this”.
The experience of just “being in my body” is probably the most powerful learning that I’ve had in all these years.
(MZ) One of the most powerful things that you did for me…. Find the fun ness! It’s been huge in my life. Honoring the little boy in me. I was wanting to have that piece of freedom again. And note have to be an “achievement”.
Her move to Colorado from Atlanta. She really wanted it to be California….
I just kept waiting and people kept mentioning Colorado. “But it’s cold!” A wise person tells her perhaps people are a little more grounded in the mountains. I got off the plane and knew it was right. That sense of release of having a place is really phenomenal. Deciding to stay is opening up that community. And that I am where I am supposed to be.
Kyle Cease. How did you end up at flow group? Comedy is what helps me get through. And he labeled himself as a transformational comedian. So…. Jaunting off to “EOL” In CA followed the breadcrumbs. Flow group, I had money to play with… Perhaps anti climactic for you. “Yes”.
No current relationship. Single and ready to flamingo 🦩:).
I’m open to whoever wants to waltz into my life and be the right person long term.
EMDR - to work on trauma around loss from her mom.
In a 9 month training with Resmaa Menakem who wrote “My Grandmother's Hands: Radicalized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and BodiesI”
f now is the time… what do I want to do with that?
I started doing some of the “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up”
To help sleep “The Power of When: Discover Your Chronotype”. Different sleep chrono types.
I’ve got to get my house in order.
There is no wrong way to do it. There is no wrong way to be you in the world.
For all things Meg go to www.Meggibbs.com
…and a meditation to take us home.
Thank you Meg the awesome :)
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