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🎨 10th September: Su***de Prevention Day. Focus on the next minute, the next hour. One breath, one step at a time.. you got this. ❤️ if you need to talk to anyone you can call the Samaritans, UK on 116 123 anytime or 988. When you call, text, or chat the 988 Lifeline, your conversation is confidential. The 988 Lifeline provides you judgment-free care. Connecting with someone can help save your life ✨✨the darkness can be overwhelming, and no words seem to cut through it, just know that the light (dawn) always comes in the morning. Always. Even when you can’t see it. It’s coming. Love you # # #

Are you blooming? 🌺

I’ve realized recently that I’ve spent a long time waiting to bloom. 🌻

I’ve kept busy with other ideas. Other projects. “I’ll do that when I have more time” “I’ll do that when the kids are older” “Remember that idea we had? Do you think we’ll ever do it?!” “Let’s just wait another couple of years” …

🥀I’ve felt less creative, less inspired, less confident of my own ideas

But here’s the thing: we don’t need perfect conditions to bloom. We bloom right where we are, with what we have. 🌱

Today, I’m choosing to nurture my creativity, to water my ideas, and to let myself grow - imperfectly, but authentically. Because the truth is, there’s never a “perfect” time. The time is now.

So, lovely, what seed of an idea have you been waiting to plant? What dream have you been putting off? Remember, you don’t need to have it all figured out to start. You just need to begin. 🌷

Let’s bloom together, right where we are. Share one small step you’re taking today to nurture your dreams in the comments below. Your courage might just inspire someone else to bloom too! 💐

Enjoying this incredible learning experience as I build up my coaching tool kit to best support my clients 💥

✨Not only do I get to support amazing individuals daily, but I also get to meet a lot of creative ND people along the way

💛I love hearing their stories, often of undiagnosed women determinedly wrestling with thoughts and ideas that don’t fit into the neurotypical structure that much of the world is built on

🌞Honest, open, deeply moving and often hilarious stories that become the fuel and passion that drives them to create businesses and lives that impact them, their families and communities

⚡️I have created The Business Belief Plan that really gets to the foundations of why you do what you do - and gets to the core of who you are and what you believe you can do - rooting out long-term negative thinking and creating lasting confidence and resilience in its place, coming to the website soon, DM for more info 😘

“You are more powerful than you know: you are beautiful just as you are” Melissa Etheridge

This SATURDAY 🎉🎉 Creative Confidence Club 10-12 20th April, 27th April & 4th May (only need to book once on Eventbrite link in bio and you will be automatically booked for all three for only £6 🎉🎉) ✨ packed full of fun, creative inspiration and easy self confidence tools that your child can make their own 💖 a few spaces left ⚡️ please share with a friend if you think their child would like it. Inclusive space, held by myself (trained coach and art teacher) ✨ with thanks to the and encouragement of .cic

Self-doubt can be paralyzing, but it doesn’t have to define us ⚡️let’s challenge the voice of doubt and replace it with words of encouragement and empowerment. You are capable, you are worthy, and you are enough. If I haven’t done it, it’s just because I haven’t done it YET.. there’s still time. You’ve got this xx

Want to join us? and I are super excited to extend this invite out to women in Devon ✨

⚡️Want to define and own your true identity?
⚡️Build a solid foundation that prepares you for major and minor life transitions?
⚡️Learn to trust your decisions and path?
⚡️Recognize how much you are capable of, boost self-confidence and cultivate courage to pursue your greatest dreams💥

We’ve collaborated all of our ideas, training and tools to bring a small group of women a transformational & impactful experience that will reach to the very core of everything that you do! 💖

Work & Business?
* Gain clarity over your career goals
* Uncover what you’re here to do
* Change jobs, companies or industries
* Return to work after a career break
* Work on more gratifying projects
* Feel heard and valued in your role
* Achieve a promotion and/or pay rise
* Increase your productivity
* Elevate your performance
* Establish a better work/life balance 

Relationships?
Discover how to make hard changes
See a shift in old patterns
A desire to build deeper relationships and define your boundaries

Self Belief?
Recognize how much you are capable of
Learn to trust yourself
Cultivate courage

AND SO MUCH MORE ( I m shouting cos I m really excited about this!)

So, if this resonates, or you have a friend who you know is looking for something like this - please share or DM me ✨⚡️💖

⚡️EmpowerHer is a female led collaboration dedicated to coaching and mentoring women in how to become their most confident self. When first coming up with the idea Amy and Jo both declared “this has to be about what we wish we knew when we were younger!”

💥We believe that EmpowerHER delivers this - and so much more.

💖Our mission is to make a difference to women by inspiring them and supporting them to have the confidence levels they have always dreamed of - so that they can do the things they dream of doing!

📚Through our own training and lived experience we deliver tried and tested tools and strategies for creating long lasting change and empowerment.

🔖As Founders, Creators, employees, partners & M/Others we know that it’s easy to lose your sense of self in the details of life. EmpowerHER gives you space to reconnect, listen to your inner wisdom and to start living intentionally

Friday fun - because my brain has run out of things to say as it’s still recovering from January 🙃

These women here?

⚡️⚡️⚡️WOW⚡️⚡️⚡️

The power of female collaboration was felt all the way down to my toes yesterday as we gathered, got creative, got curious, explored how our thoughts influence our whole lives, got vulnerable and took steps to create lasting change 🎉

is one of my fave hashtags - we saw it, and felt in in action yesterday, it felt amazing to be in a room full of cheerleaders ✨✨

As we explored negative self beliefs that hold us back it was super cathartic to share them out loud, realize that we are not alone and then spend time coming up with some intentional, positive thoughts that help build our confidence and help us show up, unafraid, valued, strong and confident ⚡️⚡️⚡️

AND NOT ALONE 💖

As for Jo and I? This was only our fourth time of meeting IRL!!! Celebrating and a bloody fabulous workshop that had us laughing and crying and super excited for our next adventure- you are amazing 💖💖 thank you for everything , you are such a champion of women and I love you for it! 🌞🌞

We are super excited and getting ready for tomorrow’s workshop! 🎉🎉 EmpowerHER is a passion project for me and , we’ve just been writing about WHY we are doing this and I wanted to share, cos I am SUPER excited about it! ⚡️⚡️⚡️

“EmpowerHer is a female led collaboration dedicated to coaching and mentoring women in how to become their most confident self. When first coming up with the idea Amy and Jo both declared “this has to be about what we wish we knew when we were younger!”

We believe that EmpowerHER delivers this - and so much more.

Our mission is to make a difference to women by inspiring them and supporting them to have the confidence levels they have always dreamed of - so that they can do the things they dream of doing! Through our own training and lived experience we deliver tried and tested tools and strategies for creating long lasting change and empowerment.

As Founders, Creators, employees, partners & M/Others we know that it’s easy to lose your sense of self in the details of life. EmpowerHER gives you space to reconnect, listen to your inner wisdom and to start living intentionally.” ✨tomorrows workshop is all booked up, DM to find out about free resources or up and coming workshops 💖

“See it. Say it” - a phrase that I’ve repurposed from the train station 😂…

Being stuck can bring its own kind of comfort.
We can get comfortable with being stuck, and we stay there.. often bemoaning the fact that we feel stuck, but getting to the end of the day without actually taking action to getting ourselves unstuck 🤷🏽‍♀️

A simple “see it and say it” session with yourself is enough to start the process/journey out of the quicksand of stuckness .. “I’m stuck. I don’t want to live with my life on hold anymore. I’m changing this pattern today”

Some people think you need confidence to do this, that’s not it! You need courage. White knuckle, take a deep breathe, scream-if-you-have-to kinda courage ❤️‍🔥
(Confidence comes later 😘)

Your brain, heart and gut know, trust them to lead the way.
I’m here, cheering on anyone that feels stuck 🎉🎉

Drop a ⚡️ or DM if you’d like me to do a fist pump for you while shouting “go ______” loudly into the universe 😘🙃
(Or book a 20 min discovery call if you want more proactive Confidence Coaching 😁

Who inspires you? 🌞 I’ve met a lot of people recently who are wondering about setting up a CIC (community interest company) …
I wanted to share with you as she’s been the main motivator behind getting .sw set up and going✨ Kelly has an ace course, workbook and templates that guide you through the set up process, in addition to an encouraging online community and EXPANSIVELY helpful YouTube channel ⚡️⚡️⚡️ if that’s not enough she is so inspiring as she leads by example, does incredible work in her local community as well as her online community 🌟🌟🌟 never short of ideas or encouragement, I’d def recommend giving her a follow (or better yet, purchasing her course 😊)

A couple of new followers recently so wanted to pop my face on the grid to say ‘hi’ and introduce myself 👋🏼

My name is Amy, I am a confidence coach for wom+n based in Torbay, Southwest England ✨
I’m a neurodivergent mum to 3 sparkly ND kids, an art practitioner and small biz coach.. and many more things 🌍🌞

One of the main reasons I do what I do, and what .sw is all about, is creating spaces that wom+n of all ages feel seen, heard and empowered.

💸All profits from Found go back into the community for confidence workshops and support⚡️

I hope to collab with this year - I’d love to see their fabulous programmes in the Bay for tween girls💖I’m starting their training programme in March🌙(check their pages out to find out more)

As of Thursday 25th January and I are launching EmpowerHer workshops “Becoming Your Confident Self” … we understand that confidence is an essential element of well-being and happiness and a necessity for us to live a fulfilled life. So why not demystify it together and gain strategies to capture negative thinking - replacing them with thought affirmations that boost and empower us?! 😊⚡️⚡️(super excited about this, can you tell?💗)

I adore 1:1 coaching and have devised a “Business-Belief Plan” that fills the (‘imposter syndrome sized) gap between and implementing- the gap I find most of my amazing clients just need a little support leaping over 💫

So, whether it’s a belief plan or plain ole’ confidence coaching (which is a lot of fun too 😉) I’d love to hear from you: a 20 min chat is usually all we need to do to work out if we’d like to work together ☎️

If you think confidence is an element missing from your life, drop me a 🗝️or DM

This community interest company desperately needs magazines for collage workshops, can you help? We are based in Torquay, can travel a mile off two for the right magazine pile 😘 If this sounds like you, please get in touch 💖 🙃 In all seriousness, any donations of materials or cash go towards confidence clubs for Women, girls and kids in Torbay ⚡️⚡️⚡️ we’ve recently had a fabulous donation of pencils, paper and glue from the lovely 💗THANK YOU! DM if you hv anything you’d like to pass on, anything we don’t use will be donated to 🌟🌟🌟 thank you xx

Join us on Jan 25th 9:45-12:45 for a free taster of our EmpowerHER series: (link to book in bio)

“EmpowerHER: Becoming your Confident Self”

💡Research conducted by Hewlett-Packard shows women only apply for promotions when they meet 100% of the requirements, while men on the other hand, apply when they meet 60%. It went onto suggest that women feel confident only when perfect or almost perfect.

Thought leaders are coming to see confidence as an essential element of well-being and happiness and a necessity for s fulfilled life.

🧐So why is it so elusive, especially for women?

🤔Why is “how can I be more confident?”one of Google’s highest search requests?

If any of this resonates, we would love for you to join us on Jan 25th 9:45-12:45 for a free taster of our EmpowerHER series:


•2024 visonboard experience
• how to ‘capture’ negative thoughts that are holding you back
•build your own confidence
•start your journey of self belief and empowerment.

Delivered by coaches Amy Chadney .sw and Jo Ellicott Coaching, hosted by the fabulous ⚡️

I’m constantly changing up and redefining what I think confidence is. It’s different for so many people, and trying to capture it in one sentence is beyond challenging 😂😂🙃

I’m my life, today, this is what it is.. it may change tomorrow! 🫣

As someone who has studied confidence for 20 years (especially the elusiveness of it in my own life!) I’ve come to think of it as a doing word, rather than a having word…

I do know it’s one of the most googled characteristics and that we often long for it as humans ✨

As soon as I find confidence, on my path to forever growing and changing, some new things comes along and I feel less confident again 😂😂

What do you think of this definition? I’d love to hear!

Drop a ⚡️ if you think confidence is key!

Perfectionism leads to a cycle of burnout and low confidence

It’s an incubator for imposter syndrome - and who needs that any way??

💗I am embracing ‘getting it done’ and imperfection this year.. I relate to imperfect people because I’m imperfect.

It’s what I love about them - their humanness 💖

If we can unattached ourselves from the outcome a little and just do what it takes to start we’ll learn along the way. Creating something that’s authentic to who we are, flaws and all ✨

☀️Last year I practiced the affirmation “I can do it” even when my feelings suggested otherwise… I got new things done. ‘Having confidence’ wasn’t a gate keeper to me being able to try something new because I just decided that “I can do it” with what I have, who I am and the skills that I had at that moment.

🧠Waiting for things to be perfect has stopped me from doing so many things in the past. By re-training my thinking perfectionism and low confidence don’t have such a prominent seat at the table anymore - self belief and determination have taken their place ⚡️⚡️⚡️

💫What thoughts hold you back, and what can you replace them with?

Lots of easy to follow instructions for a relaxing crafternoon! 🎄✨

THIS TUESDAY at the Torquay 2-4pm ✨🎄 christmas crafts for all the family ✨🎄 FREE AND FUN, be great to see you there and share some Christmas spirit 🥂✨we are raising money for Turning Heads, any donations appreciated 💖🎄

I’m gonna smoosh all of that into one sentence for December - “Climb the mountains, do not carry them: no one belongs here more than you” ⚡️⚡️💖 📸 .sw

A Crappy Craft Club?! A relaxed evening hangout in a local pub with arts and crafts on the table ✨🖍️✂️a chance to hv a mess about with paper, pens & glue (maybe some glitter?!) while meeting new people and having a laugh 😁 starting up in 2024 … would love to hear your ideas and take requests! DM or comment and please help get the word out? Xx 🤩

A fabulous “A Thriving-Business Plan” session this morning with a local Founder and all round super star ✨🎉 💖 had to take a pic of the pile of colour that surrounded us 🌈🌟 Confidence, Clarity and Cosiness … not bad for a rainy work day huh?! 😉 DM if you’d like help accessing the confidence and clarity you need to take something to the next level ⚡️

Person centred coaching is at the heart of what we do.. the belief that YOU have what it takes to do the thing.. sometimes you just need a little help getting the ideas out or the plan made ⚡️