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		<title>Cutting Your Cord</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 23:46:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today one of my clients asked how she could cut her cord: Here is my answer to her question: I dreamed last year that I needed to cut my cord in order to be happy here with my children and my husband. (As you know, all of my family is in Germany and I am [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>Today one of my clients asked how she could cut her cord:</p>
<p>Here is my answer to her question:</p>
<p>I dreamed last year that I needed to cut my cord in order to be happy here with my children and my husband. (As you know, all of my family is in Germany and I am the only one here in the States)</p>
<p>I had no idea what it would look like. I kept holding onto an intention: a curiosity to find out what cutting my cord in a healthy way would look like.</p>
<p>Previously I had thought I had already cut my cord, but the truth was I was just running away and pretending I didn’t need my family and my roots. This did not make me happy and I did end up in a far away country.</p>
<p>I knew after cutting my cord in a healthy way I would feel different. I would feel at peace and connected. I would feel at peace with me being so far away from the rest of my tribe. I would feel like I could finally settle and build my life here while feeling deeply connected to „there“ (My parents, my siblings, my roots).</p>
<p>My task throughout this year was to practice keeping my heart open, even around my parents. (I did spend 5 months in Germany to be able to do that)</p>
<p>This was difficult at first. Because of all the stories from the past.</p>
<p>One of the key elements was to allow myself to feel the way I was feeling even if it was irrational.</p>
<p>If I was feeling afraid I would just be with that feeling. Even though part of me thought it was ridiculous to be afraid of my mother now that I am a grown up.</p>
<p>Now that I am making decisions for myself and not her.</p>
<p>I started parenting my inner child by giving it the attention it needed.</p>
<p>Usually when you are feeling disconnected and mentally confused, those are the times to take a &#8220;break&#8221; from the world and just be with yourself and do some inner work.</p>
<p>I also did several family constellations around this issue.</p>
<p>The practice of keeping my heart open at all times and tending to my feelings no matter what, was what enabled me to let go of my ties (cutting my cord).</p>
<p>I feel free to choose to be here or there or both now. I feel free to have my own life, in honor of my roots. I do feel connected and supported.</p>
<p>I feel at peace.</p>
<p>I invite you to pose the question of how you can cut your cord as an intention for 2012. See what comes to you. Remember that this whole journey into love is an ongoing process so be gentle with yourself.</p>
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		<title>How to Find the Love of Your Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2011 05:59:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are anything like me then you have spent a lot of time and effort trying to find the one. You might be in a relationship at the moment or you might be on your own. If you are in a relationship you may be finding yourself doubting if he is the right one [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>If you are anything like me then you have spent a lot of time and effort trying to find the one.</p>
<p>You might be in a relationship at the moment or you might be on your own.</p>
<p>If you are in a relationship you may be finding yourself doubting if he is the right one at all times. You feel confused and unsatisfied and this not knowing and not feeling your heart’s fulfillment is just such an energy drain and makes you feel heavy and unhappy.</p>
<p>If you are by yourself right now, you have probably altogether given up on the hope that true love is out there for you  and you have tried to learn to give it all to yourself.</p>
<p>On some days you succeed, but on others the raucous yearning of your heart is all you can see, smell, hear and feel.</p>
<p>Either way you would give the world to experience certainty and happiness in your loving.</p>
<p>In other words, you would give the world to finally be with the „one“ &#8211; the love of your life.</p>
<p>If you were with him you know all doubts would vanish, your heart would jump for joy, and you could relax and be happy. He would always be there and hold you, stay by your side, support you, love you and you would never be alone.</p>
<p>Why is it that he hasn’t found you? Why has your prince not arrived on his white horse to sweep you away?</p>
<p>(Or maybe he did for a while but then he left and now you think it will never happen again)</p>
<p>You are wondering:</p>
<p>“What is wrong with me?”</p>
<p>“Will he ever come or am I stupid and in vain to keep hoping?”</p>
<p>“What can I do to make him find me?”</p>
<p>I want to tell you my story because I think it will inspire you and give you hope and help you on your quest of attracting true love.</p>
<p>As a little girl I made a promise to myself that I would only marry out of true love.</p>
<p>I would only marry my prince and no less.(not like all the grown up couples who had settled for less, who were super unhappy, who didn’t talk with each other, or if they did, they only yelled and screamed)</p>
<p>Fast forward to my 26th year of life&#8230;</p>
<p>Boyfriend number x, who I was sure to marry and have kids with (after just knowing him for 3 weeks) had dumped me and I was completely heartbroken (again and again and again).</p>
<p>I meet this very nice man. He helps me get back on my feet. He cooks for me, spends time with me and is just nice and things are easy.</p>
<p>(You know what I mean: he calls, he’s there -none of the usual drama)</p>
<p>We hang out and hang out and hang some more and of course eventually one thing leads to another.</p>
<p>We did use birth control but the universe had a different plan for us.</p>
<p>After just knowing him for a couple months I found out that I was expecting.</p>
<p>We got married, we have our daughter and we live life together. We have our issues but all in all we are a very good team.</p>
<p>If there just wasn’t that promise that I had made to myself.</p>
<p>I just didn’t feel anything. I just didn’t feel like I had been swooped by my prince.</p>
<p>I kept being pulled towards this other imaginary man.  I would call him the love of my life and I was convinced that he was still out there waiting for me. (The one who would just cherish me as if I was his most precious, the one whose love for me was so steadfast that none of my moods or emotional storms would blow away)</p>
<p>After our daughter turned 4 and I finally had some time to be myself and not just a mommy anymore and I woke up one morning realizing that I had not been true to myself. I had not married out of love and I had to rectify this.</p>
<p>So I took off my wedding band and presented my very surprised husband with my newfound truth.</p>
<p>He had known that we had issues, but he never thought I would leave. He was shocked. As it turned out he loved me very much.</p>
<p>I separated from him and moved out and on with my life. (Or so I thought).</p>
<p>I wanted to have my own space so I could meet other men and most importantly find my true love and have him stay with me.</p>
<p>I started seeing other men and every time the same thing would happen.</p>
<p>(It was actually the same thing that had been happening with me and men before I met my husband).</p>
<p>I would fall in love but they just didn’t. Every time I would think: he really is the one because, blabla bla bla bla and then he wasn’t.</p>
<p>So, I gave up on the whole “the love your life is out there” thing and started buying into thinking I have it all within me. I didn’t need anyone out there to feel loved.I didn’t need anyone to be happy.</p>
<p>So I tried being on my own and being completely satisfied and happy with that for a while, but that didn’t really make it go away either.</p>
<p>I grew more desperate and afraid. It seemed like a lot of self help books promoted that you need to fully be happy on your own before you can attract true love.</p>
<p>I doubted that I would ever get there.</p>
<p>Luckily, the whole time I was going through this, my husband didn’t stop loving me and wanting to be with me. Shortly after I had broken up with him we did find out that we were expecting again. To him, the fact that we were having another baby  was a sign from God that we belonged together. For me it so was not. (At that time it was the most annoying thing for me that he thought this was the case, he just wouldn’t go away.)</p>
<p>After a big fight in front of our midwife, I agreed to see a therapist (but just for the baby’s sake).</p>
<p>So we went to see her and her first question to me was, “So Carolin, you told me that you are a therapist yourself so when I ask you what your core wound is, you know what I mean right?”</p>
<p>And I said: “Yes, of course I do.” (Your core wound is that thing in your childhood that messed you up).</p>
<p>So she asks me, and my answer is: “Well I was abused as a little girl.”</p>
<p>Then she says:  “Well I hope you are aware that your problem is that you are still not trusting men?”</p>
<p>I go: “Huhhh? I totally trust men. He is just not the right one!”</p>
<p>She pauses: “Well he says he loves you and he wants to be with you”.</p>
<p>Me: “No, he doesn’t, he is just saying this. And either way I don’t care because my one is still out there waiting for me”</p>
<p>After the session I went home, very rattled within my paradigm.</p>
<p>I started trying to translate what this woman had said to me, and I came to the conclusion that she had basically said that even though I spent half of my life in therapy and worked through most of the self help books out there, I still hadn’t healed my past and because of that I wasn’t able to see true love when it was right in front of my eyes.</p>
<p>Part of me was very doubtful. Part of me just wanted to move on and make my husband wrong and responsible for my aching heart. But part of me also wanted to see. Part of me wanted to heal. Part of me wanted to have the love of my life.</p>
<p>This part, as it turned out the bigger part of me, wanted to find out if the love of my life had always been just right in front of my nose. I was wondering, “Did I still have to learn how to let love in?”</p>
<p>So I got curious and started to play with what I would need to change in order to have what I wanted.</p>
<p>I got clues and insights. I realized that a lot had to do with me getting into my true feminine nature, which meant letting my guard down, becoming vulnerable, showing my true face and keeping my heart open at all times.</p>
<p>I started looking for tools that would help me to accomplish all of the above.</p>
<p>Slowly but surely they started appearing one by one.</p>
<p>Today I am in deep gratitude for the love that my husband and I share.</p>
<p>After being separated for more than 8 months, on our anniversary last year I decided to put my wedding band back on and I made a commitment.</p>
<p>The commitment wasn’t to him, but to love itself.</p>
<p>Because the moment you are able to live as love and with an open heart, you will either realize that the love of your life has always been right in front of your nose, or if that isn’t the case, it will show up and stay with you, and I don’t just mean in an esoteric sense, I mean that the moment that you truly love with an open heart, your man will be there to share it with you.</p>
<p>If you would like to get help healing your past so you can live with an open heart, <a href="http://blossomjourney.com/now">check out the Blossom Journey</a>, it’s the exact tool that I used to heal my broken heart and to find the love of my life.</p>
<p>I know he is out there for you, go and get him  (-:</p>
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		<title>Are You OK with where You are?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 18:46:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolin</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>Why is it important to your own growth and peace of mind that you are ok with where you are?</p>
<p>Being OK with where you are accomplishes two things.</p>
<p>First of all, it gives you a clear picture of where you are. Second, it gives you piece of mind, and an honest foundation from which you can start healing your early sexual trauma. When you are honest with yourself, you have a solid base to start from. It gives you a starting point from which you can begin to trust yourself.</p>
<p>When you are able to trust yourself, you can slowly but surely begin to trust somebody else, too. You then can allow that man in that you have been so desparatly waiting for.</p>
<p>As I am sure you know, love and intimacy can’t be experienced without trust.</p>
<p>When you know where you are starting from, and where you are going to, you can, at any point, check whether you are heading in the right direction or not. If you are off-track, make the necessary adjustments to get back on-track.</p>
<p>Being OK with where you are in life implies that you are no longer lying to yourself about the state of your wellbeing, about the state of your relationships, or about the way you feel. As long as you are thinking thoughts like “Well, I don’t really have a problem, all is good, my relationships will get better one day, he will change someday or I am happy just being by myself”, then nothing will change, and you will continue to be unhappy and your hearts yearning will continued to be unfilled.</p>
<p>Some people spend their entire life that way.</p>
<p>You don’t have to be one of them. Change is a good thing. Intuitively, I am sure, you know this already.</p>
<p>I know in some ways it is easier to pretend that all is well, because it allows you to keep going with the seemingly safe “status quo”. The status quo, even if it is not what you really want, seems much safer, much more comfortable to you, compared to real change and all the unknowns that come with it.  The reason for that is, for almost everyone, we are primarily dominated by our scared, two year-old selves, also known as our ego. In reality it is our ego that doesn’t want the change.</p>
<p>You, however, your adult self, your “woman”, wants to be grown up, wants to move ahead and evolve.</p>
<p>Being honest with yourself, accepting and seeing the real state of your internal affairs, takes a lot of courage. You have already mustered quite a lot of it simply being here and reading this.</p>
<p>Honesty is key to any real growth. Being honest with yourself is the foundation of real growth. Being honest with yourself allows your hurting parts to emerge and be seen, then transformed and healed.</p>
<p>As you may have realized, your mind’s many voices have been the leading contributor to your inability to trust, as well as your inability to have the relationship you say you want.</p>
<p>Your mind has a great deal of power over you. You want to make it your friend, so you can use its brilliance to help you in accomplishing your goal.</p>
<p>Once you recognize what you have been lying to yourself about, you’ll also be able to recognize when the lies start to fall away. When this happens, it will serve as proof to your mind that what you are doing is good for you. Then, it will no longer advise you to stop changing.</p>
<p>Your mind will begin to feel safer with the new, “evolving you”, and then will allow you to go deeper. It will, perhaps for the first time in a long time, stop coming up with all kinds of reasons why you shouldn’t change. When you begin to open up emotionally, the mind’s voices will not advise you to run and close down anymore. It will encourage you to stay.</p>
<p>To learn more about how you can get your mind &#8220;on board&#8221; with you attracting the &#8220;man&#8221; and on board with you creating your dream relationship check out the <a href="http://Blossomjourney.com" target="_blank">Blossom Journey- A Seven Step Journey to Healing Yourself from Early Sexual Trauma and Creating a Deeply Connected and Trust-filled Relationship with a Man.</a></p>
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		<title>It&#8217;s All About Love</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 23:28:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No it’s not Valentines yet. I was invited to speak on a radio show just a few days ago. On air we talked a lot about trauma, how it happens, and what to do about it. We talked about how trauma is such a taboo in our society, yet it is everywhere and a lot [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>No it’s not Valentines yet. I was invited to speak on a radio show just a few days ago. On air we talked a lot about trauma, how it happens, and what to do about it.</p>
<p>We talked about how trauma is such a taboo in our society, yet it is everywhere and a lot of people think that being abused is a part of life.</p>
<p>We asked the question, “Why is it that people stay in relationships that aren’t good for them and why is it that they choose to be treated badly over being alone?”</p>
<p>The answer that I have come to is that it is all about love.</p>
<p>When we come into this world we expect it to be the way that the spirit world, the world that we came from was. We expect our family and earth to be a safe place-a place filled with love and kindness.</p>
<p>We expect it to be a place of oneness.</p>
<p>But it isn’t.</p>
<p>We leave the spirit world to incarnate into duality. The relationship with our mother then becomes the first experience of duality. Then all the other experiences we make with people and in life contribute more to that sense of separateness.</p>
<p>A yearning gets instilled in our heart. A yearning that will ultimately not only lead us to heal our own broken hearts but the heart of the planet as a whole.</p>
<p>First we think it’s about our mother’s love and our parent’s approval. We go out into the world and study hard, work hard, and maybe even have financial success, but inside we are still yearning.</p>
<p>Then we think it’s about loving ourselves and being happy and fulfilled with just that. We stand our own man, become independent and not “needy”, but again we realize the yearning hasn’t ended, we are still searching.</p>
<p>Still searching for love.</p>
<p>We try to quench our thirst for love with food, with work, and even with our children. But still there is this yearning.</p>
<p>The pain that feeling unloved, or feeling separated creates in us is the fuel that keeps us moving forward towards a greater depth of ourselves. It keeps us moving forward in the search to find the answer to our deepest hearts’ desires.</p>
<p>It’s all about love.</p>
<p>Even if you think that your boss and your work has nothing to do with it. Even if you think your ex or your car has nothing to do with it.</p>
<p>Whatever triggers you and makes you upset acts as a pointer.</p>
<p>It says: &#8220;Right now you are afraid or angry or sad.&#8221;<br />
It says: &#8220;When will you love yourself enough that having these feelings is okay?&#8221;<br />
It says: &#8220;Stay with the feeling and give yourself permission to be all of who you are.&#8221;<br />
It says: &#8220;It’s all about love, remember?&#8221;</p>
<p>We stay in bad relationships until we wake up and remember that it’s all about love. We stay in bad relationships until we realize that love doesn’t come from our parents, love doesn’t come from our partner, love doesn’t even come or go from me. Love always is and I am either open to seeing, feeling and living it or not.</p>
<p>The question then becomes, how can I live life as an expression of love?</p>
<p>I couldn’t stay in abusive relationship when I had arrived at that question. Leaving was an expression of love for me and for him.</p>
<p>As I am writing this today, I have no idea where this is coming from, but I trust that you need to hear these words to make the next step on your journey.</p>
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		<title>Why Occupy Wall Street When you can Occupy Yourself?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 04:09:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oftentimes when we start with a new program or follow a new “healing”path, it is because we want our life to get better, we want it to get easier, and we want to feel better. But here is the thing, when you actually start transforming and shifting, it seems that life gets worse for a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>Oftentimes when we start with a new program or follow a new “healing”path, it is because we want our life to get better, we want it to get easier, and we want to feel better. But here is the thing, when you actually start transforming and shifting, it seems that life gets worse for a while. It’s kind of what you are seeing happening in the world today. People lose their jobs, people lose their houses and so on. I am sure you have noticed that too. </p>
<p>Todays’ article explores why that is and that at first when you are starting to make changes, when you are starting to open your heart, and when you start doing the inner work, things get so chaotic. We will not just look at why that is but also at what you can do about it.</p>
<p>Why occupy Wall Street when all that we really need to do is own ourselves. We should occupy ourselves and create the change from the inside out.</p>
<p>This article is not only inspired by my own journey but also by the women that have joined this year’s Blossom Journey and by everything that is going on in the world at the present time. We are all facing some real challenges in life right now. (Which is actually a good thing)</p>
<p>Here is why you feel worse and life seems to be getting worse when you start going for real change.</p>
<p>This is how this whole healing and integration thing works: Life will trigger you and it will trigger emotional imprints. Emotional imprints are energetic signatures that were created in your nervous system when trauma happened- when things happened to you that were less than ideal and painful.</p>
<p>Life will trigger these imprints until you take the time to just feel them out.</p>
<p>So far you have been taught to be safe in life. You have created shells of not feeling.</p>
<p>All of this has caused you to close your heart. You spend most of your life in your head. The healing journey we are all asked to go on is the one from the head into the heart. This can only be accomplished by feeling everything unconditionally.</p>
<p>Let me give you an example from my own life.</p>
<p>One of the emotional imprints I used to carry was a thread of survival.</p>
<p>When I first started with the integration work, life would bring all these situations to me. For example, I had no money to buy food or my car would break down or my friend would get upset with me. To my conscious mind, all of these events seemed unrelated, but as I started paying attention to the feelings that all of these seemingly unrelated events evoked in me, I realized that they put me in the same emotional state. An emotional state that seemed to have been with me for a long time.</p>
<p>So, instead of arguing with my friend and trying to convince her that she had things wrong, or frantically trying to make money,I just stayed with the feeling.</p>
<p>I allowed myself to completely feel every ounce of it. (I did get my car fixed though!)</p>
<p>Slowly but surely, „life threatening events“ (they felt like that to me) would not feel that way anymore. Money still is tight sometimes, and friends often disagree, but my emotional imprint of survival threat is healed.</p>
<p>What I am hoping for you to take away from this article are three points:</p>
<p>1.When you consciously commit to healing yourself, life will bring stuff that will trigger emotional imprints so that you can heal them.</p>
<p>2.The only way to heal is to feel these imprints and by feeling them completely you can integrate them so that you no longer see life through a filter of a painful past. Only then can you be the free women you want to be and live in peace.</p>
<p>3.Your feeling capacity is single handedly the most important skill you can learn in order to be present here in the moment. </p>
<p>Everything I teach is about just that.<br />
It’s about developing your feeling capacity.<br />
If you’d like to learn more on this topic, listen to <a href="http://blossomjourney.com">this call</a> I did a little while ago and subsribe to my blossom Ezine!</p>
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		<title>A Woman’s Way to Enlightenment</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:05:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have two small children, a husband, a household and my work. I do want to connect with Source (or whatever you call that higher part that governs the Universe) and I do want to be the best I can be. I do want to be enlightened. Many spiritual teachers suggest that a true state [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>I have two small children, a husband, a household and my work.<br />
I do want to connect with Source (or whatever you call that higher part that governs the Universe) and I do want to be the best I can be. I do want to be enlightened.</p>
<p>Many spiritual teachers suggest that a true state of divine connectedness can only be attained through stilling your mind, sitting quietly and by detachment from the world.</p>
<p>Well, that has not been working for me.<br />
And I am pretty sure it hasn’t been working for you, either.</p>
<p>So I started questioning this paradigm.</p>
<p>It is, after all, the “male way” of doing things.</p>
<p>Let me explain what I mean by that. (Because in my opinion, this holds the key to an authentic female spiritual practice, a practice that will bring you, as a woman, closer to living your joy and love in everyday life.)</p>
<p>Lately, I have become really interested in the theme of female and male essence.<br />
For a long time, I thought that having equal rights and liberties in my marriage would make for a truly balanced and fair relationship with my man. I thought that if we both became more and more “the same” in terms of what our roles were, I would feel happy.</p>
<p>This didn’t turn out to be so.</p>
<p>Today I know that the reason I didn’t feel better and happier after creating a “fairer” marriage was the lack of sexual polarity between my man and me.</p>
<p>I am happiest when I am in my true feminine nature, my true sexual essence.<br />
I had to learn that being in my true feminine essence didn’t mean that I was weaker, or had less power, just because I had a different role then my man.</p>
<p>I thought I only had power if I was making tons of money, had lots of influence, lots of freedom and was independent.</p>
<p>Turns out everything I had equated with having power are male qualities.</p>
<p>Most of us are looking at a “male model” of doing things and being in the world.<br />
For some reason, it seems like you must adapt that model if you want to be successful as a woman.</p>
<p>And it doesn’t matter in which area of your life you want to be successful.<br />
Be it your career, or your proximity to enlightenment.</p>
<p>It just seems like there is only one way, but if you take a closer look, you can see it is the way men propose to do things.</p>
<p>I hope you can see now what I meant when I spoke of following the “male way” of doing things.</p>
<p>I have realized lately that in order for me to find an authentic way of being spiritually “successful”, I have to stop looking at how the male teachers are attaining enlightenment and bliss.</p>
<p>I realized that we as women have an entirely different path to “success”, be it in our work or on our spiritual path.</p>
<p>(And I am putting success in quotation marks because the concept of success is in, and of itself, a very masculine concept. To me, success means: “attaining my heart’s fulfillment” in any area.)</p>
<p>While the male thrives on focus and stillness, the feminine thrives on connectedness and movement.</p>
<p>While a man’s way to finding God might be sitting by himself, hidden in a cave and meditating, a woman’s way is not. (Big newsflash here for me, and for you, too, I bet!)</p>
<p>What both genders have in common is a commitment. The commitment to being as conscious and awake as possible.</p>
<p>Here is where I do see us as women falling short, at least in this respect. We have been thinking that we must sit in a quiet room and be still. (After, of course, the family is all taken care of and nobody is in the house.) So the reality is, we often don’t get to it.</p>
<p>Let’s face it, as a mother and working woman, taking 30 minutes of uninterrupted time out of your day just doesn’t work, when four or more people are involved (and some of them are still nursing and in diapers).</p>
<p>I mean, you could get up at 5 AM, but then again, it doesn’t seem fair to ask that of yourself when you are already seriously sleep deprived already.</p>
<p>The long and short of it is that we give up on a committed spiritual practice all together because it just doesn’t seem “doable“. </p>
<p>But doing your spiritual practice shouldn’t add stress to your plate; it should help to relieve it.</p>
<p>I found myself in the above dilemma.</p>
<p>I knew it was so good for me to have a practice. I knew I was much more patient and happy when I did tend to my spiritual needs. So I started holding the intention of finding a way that suited my family and me. I searched for a woman’s way to enlightenment. A practice that I could commit to and really keep that commitment, without it being an outrageous challenge.</p>
<p>A woman’s way to enlightenment looks different to that of a man’s way.</p>
<p>Men and Women are different. And that is a good thing.</p>
<p>Here is the practice that I have committed to, one that works for me. It is really the point of me sharing this whole article with you.</p>
<p>I as a woman connect to God through the sharing of my heart and through movement. I as a woman connect to God when I am flowing. I as a woman have many opportunities throughout the day to be present in my movement.</p>
<p>When I carry my child to the store, when I pick up the laundry, when I embrace my man. In all of it, I can bring my attention to my body, my whole body, and feel the moment. One moment after another. Many moments spun together create eternity.</p>
<p>As a woman, I have many opportunities to share my heart. Through my community service, through looking the grocery store clerk in the eye, through watching my children play.</p>
<p>You as a woman don’t have to sit still in the morning or in the evening (or both) in order to attain enlightenment.</p>
<p>You as a woman can flow throughout your day, as long as you are committed to your practice.  You as a woman can turn any moment you chose into the way that brings you closer to God, truth and your hearts fulfillment.</p>
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		<title>A Different View on Trauma</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 11:35:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the Western World, trauma is mostly seen as psychological impact but there is actually a different view on trauma that not many people do not know about or understand. One of the most common approaches to healing trauma is to have someone to talk to so that you can be heard and feel understood [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>In the Western World, trauma is mostly seen as psychological impact but there is actually a different view on trauma that not many people do not know about or understand.</p>
<p>One of the most common approaches to healing trauma is to have someone to talk to so that you can be heard and feel understood and supported. That is very important because it can make you feel better and enable you to move on, however, it does not clear out your trauma.</p>
<p>Another approach to healing trauma is to get in touch with yourself by getting into your emotion, releasing it, and undergoing a really cathartic experience. You can get in touch with your rage and anger and allow yourself to feel the emotions and act them all out, and while this may feel good for a while, it doesn’t bring lasting change, and I am speaking from experience.<br />
The reason why these approaches and several others do not work is because when trauma happens, it is not just a psychological impact. It is literally a physical and an energetic impact.  Think of your physical makeup like so – you have a soul, you have a spirit, you have a body, and you have a nervous system inside of your body. Life and life energy comes into you through each of these components and makes you feel alive through flowing freely through you and your nervous system.  Your senses are connected to your nervous system and you are feeling and experiencing the world through your senses so that when you experience trauma, especially as child at an early age, you cannot handle it. For example, if you try to blow too much electricity through a cable that is not wired for it, it will cause short circuits, just as trauma will cause short circuits in one’s nervous system. Therefore, the energy that used to flow freely through you as child comes to a halt and gets stuck in your physicality and in your body and because it feels too horrible to be in the body anymore, we unconsciously leave our bodies.</p>
<p>So, when you experience trauma, you leave your body, the energy gets stuck in the nervous system, and you can’t really live freely and experience life as you could before. This different view on trauma focuses on the energetic and physical impact and in order to release it, you have to work that pathway. While talking, having a support, and getting in touch with your emotions is good, it will ultimately not release the trauma from your nervous system.  In order to do this, it is really important for you to re-inhabit your body and there are several, gentle ways that you can do this without reliving the trauma. It is really more about being here in the now, learning to feel again and using all your senses so that you can slowly but surely “thaw” the frozen energy from your nervous system and release it.</p>
<p>My upcoming Teleseries the &#8220;Blossom Journey&#8221; is all about teaching you how to set your self free and create the relationship you so desire.<br />
You can check it out by going <a href="http://blossomjourney.com/now"> here</a></p>
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		<title>What if I Wasn&#8217;t Traumatized, But Another Family Member Was</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 18:53:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have gotten questions recently that I thought might apply to many of you, so I decided to share them: &#8220;Can my relationship problems come from someone else in my family being abused?” Also, “ Can my relationship problems stem from me being abused in a past life?&#8221; My answer to both of these questions [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>I have gotten questions recently that I thought might apply to many of you,<br />
so I decided to share them: &#8220;Can my relationship problems come<br />
from someone else in my family being abused?”<br />
Also, “ Can my relationship problems stem from me being abused in a past life?&#8221;</p>
<p>My answer to both of these questions is “yes.”</p>
<p>Relationship problems frequently come from being the child of a parent that had a traumatic fate.</p>
<p>Often times, the children of abuse survivorstake on a heavy burden by assuming a kind of “blind love”,<br />
in an attempt to make the parent or close relative happy.</p>
<p>I am calling it blind love because no one can carry someone else&#8217;s fate.<br />
These insights are from my experience leading, seeing and participating in hundreds and hundreds of Family Constellations.</p>
<p>Now to the second question:</p>
<p>“Can relationship problems come from negative past-life experiences?”</p>
<p>Although I am not doing any past-life work, I intuitively know that sometimes we &#8220;bring&#8221; stuff with us into this lifetime.<br />
What I work with is the “now” moment.</p>
<p>If you feel limited in the way you are able to express and receive love, then that is all that matters. You may not know the “story”<br />
of why that is; it could be from a past life, it could be from this life. If you don&#8217;t have any memory of being abused yourself,<br />
but you do feel limited in intimate relationships, then everything that I am going to share on my free call<br />
this Thursday, September 1st, at 10am PST will help you transform.</p>
<p>In a hurry? Grab your seat here: http://blossomjourney.com</p>
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		<title>Shame Free and Open-hearted Loving Free Call</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 08:14:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the last 3 years,I went from thinking that my husband was the cause of all my anger and pain (during which time I left him), to realizing that my early sexual trauma was really at the root of all my relationship problems. Today I am back together with him, having the deeply connected and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>In the last 3 years,I went from thinking that my husband was the cause of all my anger and pain (during which time I left him), to realizing that my early sexual trauma was really at the root of all my relationship problems. Today I am back together with him, having the deeply connected and intimate relationship I so was longing for!</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>I want to share with YOU exactly how I healed my own sexual trauma, and how you, too, can heal yourself, so you are able create a trust-filled and deeply connected intimate relationship with your man.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>I has helped many women to feel safe again, so they now are free to live and express ALL aspects of who they truly are: wild, gentle, passionate, powerful, vulnerable and loving.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>I want to teach you all of it. And I am doing it for free in my BRAND-NEW Tele-class: “Healing Sexual Trauma: 3 Simple Secrets to Shame-Free and Open-Hearted Loving” on Thursday, September 1st, at 10 am PDT/1 pm EDT.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>In a hurry?<a href="http://blossomjourney.com" target="_blank"> Grab your seat here</a></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>On this ground-breaking call you&#8217;ll learn:</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<ul>
<li>EXACTLY how to release Trauma, not just from your own      system but from your entire FEMALE LINEAGE, so your children can be free.      (Hint : It doesn’t need to be released from your psyche, it’s embedded      within your nervous system)</li>
<li>The #1 ingredient you MUST understand to heal your      Trauma. (Not knowing this could cost you many more years in therapy,      without seeing any real change!)</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Two simple steps that will help you regain Control over      your Emotions (rather than them controlling you!)</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>The secret to staying in Love even when times get rough</li>
<li>How to go from a place of feeling that, when it comes      to love, your “story” always gets in the way, to a place where YOU are free      to express all that you truly are</li>
</ul>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s that <a href="http://blossomjourney.com" target="_blank">link again</a> to reserve your spot in this complimentary Tele-class:</p>
<p>See you on the call!</p>
<p>My  Love to You,</p>
<p>Carolin</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>P.S. As you probably know, opening up to love and trusting a man is easier said then done. Let me walk you through my steps to creating safety and intimacy when it comes to love. <a href="http://blossomjourney.com" target="_blank">Here&#8217;s that link again</a></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
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<p>PPS: One in three women have experienced early sexual trauma. Many of these women choose to live by themselves, or to guard themselves even if they are in a relationship, rather then risking love and being hurt again.</p>
<p>All of these women long for love and deep connection, all their children long for happy moms, all their men long for feminine, open-hearted lovers.</p>
<p>If you are one of the “one in three”, please take me up on my offer and let me teach you.<br />
If you are not one of the “one out of three”, I am sure you know a friend who is. Please let them know of this free call, and my work.</p>
<p>This work is so important. It doesn’t just heal our own hearts, but the feminine and the masculine heart as a whole.</p>
<p>Love is the end to all suffering.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
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		<title>Carolin Hauser Interviewed by Leading Self Esteem Expert Susyn Reeve</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 08:40:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Susyn Reeve is a very inspiring woman. Here is what she says about herself: As a teen I wrote in my journal, “What would the world be like if everyone loved themselves?” This question has informed my life: personally to continually deepen and expand my capacity to give and receive love; and with my clients [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>Susyn Reeve is a very inspiring woman.</p>
<p>Here is what she says about herself:</p>
<p>As a teen I wrote in my journal, “What would the world be like if everyone loved themselves?” This question has informed my life: personally to continually deepen and expand my capacity to give and receive love; and with my clients as a guide partnering with them to remove the blocks and obstacles to living their inspired life vision.</p>
<p>During my 35 year career as a Coach, Corporate Consultant, Educator and InterFaith Minister I have consulted in multi-national organizations (American Express, Exxon); world renowned hospitals (Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York University Medical Center) and with groups and individuals from all continents. I have been honored to be a delegate to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women.</p>
<p>I am the co-creator of www.Self-Esteem-Experts.com and the award winning author of Choose Peace and Happiness. The Inspired Life: Unleashing Your Mind’s Capacity for Joy is your map – your personal GPS – to articulate and embody your inspired life vision.</p>
<p>Susyn just did an interview with me on what it means to lead an inspired life.<br />
You can read the full article on <a href="http://susynreeve.wordpress.com/2011/08/17/carolin-hauser/" target="_blank">Susyn&#8217;s Blog</a></p>
<p>Enjoy!</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>My Love to You</p>
<p>Carolin</p>
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