Posts by Giovanna Rossi

On this week’s episode, we’re discussing 2023.

You’re excited to make plans for 2023, right? I’m right there with you.

But first, let’s talk about 2022. Do you remember the highs and lows? Or is it a bit of a blur? Either way, now is the time to reflect on 2022 – not just because it’s a nice mindfulness practice (though it is), but it actually provides the foundation to launch you into 2023.

Without this deep reflection, it’s near impossible to move forward. Instead we spin our wheels making the same plans year after year and then face the same obstacles we always do. Nothing moves, nothing shifts and nothing changes.

That is not what I want for you, friend.

But it’s not just what I want that matters. It’s what the world needs right now. We need smart women – that’s you – who have the capacity and support to show up powerfully in 2023 and beyond. Our families need us to do this, our communities need us to do this and the world needs us to do this.

So if you thought your 2023 planning was just about you in your corner of the world, making your individual plans, you’d be wrong! Now more than ever, your bold actions matter.

Your actions to take back your health, to make the career move that is going to help you thrive, to make the impact you’re here to make or to love deeply and allow others to love you is the foundation of co-creating a world we all want. For ourselves, for our families and for our communities.

It starts with you. How do you want to show up in the world?

Part of the process is to reflect on your successes as well as the disappointments, without judgement. If it sounds hard, that’s because it is if you do it alone. I will help you do this. Then, we powerfully anchor into the knowledge we’ve either gained or remembered this year (we’ll talk about this distinction on Friday), so we can take it with us into 2023.

Join me for the Year end event on Friday: Release 2022 and Power Up 2023

This is a special FREE year end event to release 2002 so you can powerfully move into 2023, grounded and with ease and spaciousness.

Block off 90 minutes for this special event on zoom

December 30th 10:00-11:30 mountain (12-1:30 ET)

Register at wellwomanlife.com/freeyearendevent and receive your workbook right away.

I’m here to give you permission to RESIST. To slow down, take a breath and release 2022 before you power up for 2023. (And if you aren’t ready for deep reflection and release, that’s ok too. Go make a cup of tea and come back to this when you’re rested and want to get started.)

You can actually take all of January and into February to do this year end process. I want you to ease into the new year and not feel you must start “crushing” goals right away. Seriously, if you are doing self reflection, you are not falling behind.

Take your time, I’ve got you. Answer the following questions to get started:

What did you do in 2022 that most felt like you? Where did you feel yourself in your power?

Were there any surprises in 2022? Pleasant or unpleasant, recall the unexpected things you experienced.

Now, what were the disappointments? It’s important not to bypass this question.

And what do you know to be true about what happened in 2022? This can be a deep knowing, your inner wisdom reminding you of what’s important to either release or take with you into 2023.

As always, all the links and information are at wellwomanlife.com/301show

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Hello Well Woman, on Show this week, I interview NINA SIMONS is Co-founder and Chief Relationship Officer at Bioneers, and leads its Everywoman’s Leadership program. Throughout her career spanning the nonprofit, social entrepreneurship, corporate, and philanthropic sectors, Nina has worked with nearly a thousand diverse women leaders across disciplines, race, class, age and orientation to create conditions for mutual learning, trust and leadership development.

She co-edited Moonrise: The Power of Women Leading from the Heart, and authored Nature, Culture, and the Sacred: A Woman Listens for Leadership—released as a second edition in 2022 with an accompanying discussion guide and embodied practices. The first edition won Nautilus awards in the categories of Women in the 21st Century and Social Change & Social Justice. Both books are being used to inspire and ignite learning in individuals, circles and classrooms.

Nina serves on the Advisory Council for Daughters for Earth, and in 2017, received the Goi Peace Award with her husband and partner Kenny Ausubel, for “pioneering work to promote nature-inspired innovations for restoring the Earth and our human community.” Past honorees include Bill Gates, James Lovelock, and Deepak Chopra.

You can find notes from today’s show at wellwomanlife.com/297show.

The book she recommended was Luminous Darkness: An Engaged Buddhist Approach to Embracing the Unknown by Deborah Eden Tull

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On the show this week I interview Joan Lamunyon Sanford. She is the executive director of the New Mexico Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, the local connection to a national community of religious organizations and faithful individuals dedicated to achieving reproductive justice through education, organizing and advocacy.

NM RCRC seeks to elevate religious voices wherever faith, policy and our reproductive lives intersect. Joan is currently working with clergy and faith leaders across the state to shift the conversation about abortion toward compassionate support of women’s access to a full range of reproductive health services including abortion.

Joan graduated from the University of New Mexico in 1984 with a bachelor’s degree in education and worked as a teacher for 15 years prior to her work with NM RCRC. She lives in Albuquerque, NM with her partner of 25 years. She is the parent of two grown children and enjoys spending time with her grandchildren. She has won several awards at the local GLSEN queer bake-off fundraiser.

You can find notes from today’s show at wellwomanlife.com/296show.

The Well Woman Show is thankful for the support from The Well Woman Academy™ at wellwomanlife.com/academy.

Join us in the Academy for community, mindfulness practices and practical support to live your Well Woman Life.

Today, I interview Dr. Dana Suskind, pediatric surgeon and author of the New York Times best-seller “Parent Nation: Unlocking Every Child’s Potential, Fulfilling Society’s Promise”.

Dr. Suskind is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics and a fellow for the Council on Early Childhood. Her work has been profiled by numerous media outlets, including The New York Times, The Economist, Forbes, NPR, and Freakonomics.

On the show we’ll discuss:

• Why parents aren’t asking for help during the most difficult years of their children’s lives.
• What societal supports we need to prevent parents from “going it alone” in the important work of raising children
• Why paid parental leave and high-quality child care improve children’s brain development and prospects for a better future.

The books she recommended were:

AARP: America’s Largest Interest Group and its Impact by Christine Day

The Voltage Effect: How to Make Good Ideas Great and Great Ideas Scale by John a. List

Get her book: https://parentnation.org/buy-the-book/

All notes from today’s show can be found at wellwomenlife.com/293show

Resources for Women in midst of Roe vs. Wade:

Take Care:

• Sign up for the Well Women Summer Reset

Take Action:

• Six Ways You Can Join the Fight for Abortion Rights | News & Commentary | American Civil Liberties Union
• Opinion | Citizens No More

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