Name: The Neuroscience of Gratitude: Not Another Toxic Positivity Talk
Start: 2025-03-12T23:00:00.000Z
End: 2025-03-13T01:00:00.000Z
Location: Historic Edgefield

**\*\*Date change\*\* Illuminate Your Path: A Gathering to Celebrate, Reflect and Set Intentions**

*"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate."* \- Carl Jung

As we stand on the threshold of a new year, join us for a transformative evening of reflection, celebration, and intention-setting. This special She Shines meetup is designed to honour your journey through the past year and illuminate your path forward.

Through guided exercises and supportive group sharing, we'll explore the delicate balance of our lives' foundational pillars - physical, mental, social, and spiritual. At the heart of our gathering, you'll engage in a profound creative exercise rooted in ancient wisdom, designed to unlock deep insights and spark your imagination.

Together, we'll:

* Celebrate your achievements and growth from the past year
* Gain clarity on your current life balance
* Identify areas ripe for transformation
* Set powerful intentions for the year ahead
* Connect with like-minded women in a supportive, nurturing environment

Whether you're seeking renewed focus, craving deeper meaning, or simply wish to start the new year with intention and purpose, this gathering will provide you with the tools and inspiration to illuminate your unique path forward.

Come prepared to reflect, create, and connect. Leave with a clear vision and empowered to make the unconscious conscious, shaping your destiny with awareness and purpose.

Space is limited. Reserve your spot now and step into your brightest future.

The host will share the private East Nashville location with you on confirmation of your place at the event.

Life hands you moments for courageous personal reinvention. Join or share [Alchemy's 'Crucible' newsletter](https://alchemylifecoaching.ck.page/33039ad899) and you'll be ready when they arrive. [Read recent newsletter editions here!](https://alchemylifecoaching.ck.page/profile)

[Alchemy Life Coaching](https://www.alchemylc.com/)
[Connect with the host on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sally-ann-eddmenson/)

**About the group**
The purpose of this group is for professional women who are called to explore their personal development at this time, to come together in the spirit of sisterhood and support, with guidance and facilitation from an ICF accredited Executive Life Coach.

You might like to make a note of any books, podcasts or other resources you have found personally helpful which you would like to share with the group.

She Shines is an in-person women's coaching group in East Nashville with a focus on personal development for women. We come together monthly to reflect on themes like personal identity, values and strengths, boundaries, personal story, archetypes, limiting patterns and beliefs, conflict and negotiation in personal relationships, negative self talk and authentic connection and belonging.

There will be the space and time to get to know each other and offer mutual support and sharing as we navigate integrating and balancing the feminine and masculine roles we play in our home-lives and work-lives. This is a small group for women to awaken and develop their personal resilience, confidence and self-trust.

*"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" Mary Oliver*

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*Date change * Illuminate Your Path: Celebrate, Reflect and Set Intentions.

Historic Edgefield

**The Neuroscience of Gratitude: Not Another Toxic Positivity Talk**

The experience of gratitude enhances positive emotions in us. While we can be more or less wired to feel gratitude as a personality trait, we also have passing feelings of gratitude, alongside a dissipated ‘mood’ of gratitude (or lack of it) in our lives.

**The ‘practice’ of gratitude** suggests we mindfully incorporate studied and science backed practices to habituate more gratitude into our daily lives.

*What might be the benefits of mindfully incorporating a gratitude practice into our lives?*
*Consider the evidence for physiological benefits of gratitude in your personal experience?*
*What other supportive and life affirming behaviours might a lens of gratitude compound in you?*
*What would be the social implications of showing up as a person with a strong gratitude practice?*

Together we’ll discuss our experience of gratitude in action on our mood, our habits and on our relationships.

**But there’s an important pitfall to avoid.**
On the other side of gratitude, **toxic positivity is the pressure to only display positive emotions**, and suppress our negative emotions, feelings, reactions, or experiences. It invalidates human experience and can lead to trauma, isolation, and unhealthy coping mechanisms.

Misunderstood, a gratitude practice could err us towards not recognising and honouring our negative emotions, which can contain important and instructive information for us. We’ll discuss the pitfalls of toxic positivity and consider the nuance within our emotional landscape, so we can avoid suppressing our negative emotions in pursuit of only the positive.

Please feel free to invite guests; however due to seat limits, and to encourage reliability, kindly have your guests RSVP for the event directly.

The host will share the private East Nashville location with you on confirmation of your place at the event.

Life hands you moments for courageous personal reinvention. Join or share [Alchemy's 'Crucible' newsletter](https://alchemylifecoaching.ck.page/33039ad899) and you'll be ready when they arrive. [Read recent newsletter editions here!](https://alchemylifecoaching.ck.page/profile)

[Alchemy Life Coaching](https://www.alchemylc.com/)
[Connect with the host on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sally-ann-eddmenson/)

**About the group**
*The Butterfly Effect is an in-person women's coaching group in East Nashville with a focus on empowerment and personal development for women after the significant milestone of divorce, to awaken and develop their resilience, confidence and self-trust.*

*"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" Mary Oliver*

Divorce can feel like a significant ending, but it is not THE end; it is also a beginning. Harness the power and support of group coaching as we hold your hand and reflect your power back to you. Life is interrupted by unchosen moments for courageous personal reinvention. Let this be one of those miraculous junctions on your path. While you navigate the uncertainty of new beginnings, united by experience, we can help you find your phoenix and discover what comes next.

We come together monthly to reflect on themes which will support your renewal. Especially the common challenges of negative self-talk, resilience and navigating uncertainty. This is a small group for women, led and supported by an ICF accredited life coach, who has herself experienced divorce, as well as expatriation and many, many new beginnings. Embrace and discover authenticity, connection and belonging, empowered by the collective wisdom and compassion of a group of like-minds.

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