Hello and welcome! I’m Michelle Swann Young, and I’m so glad you’ve found your way here. I’m a Wellness Educator, and everything I do is designed to help guide and support you as you discover how to live your best, most fulfilling life.
What I believe...
I believe that the world needs more love, more grace, and more kindness, and if we want to be part of that, we must start with how we show up in relationship with ourselves.
The way we relate to others is a reflection of how we relate to ourselves, and vice versa – we can’t show up in our external relationships with the love, kindness and grace we want to bring if the way we relate to ourselves is hateful, judgmental and intolerant.
I also firmly believe that the best way to create true, lasting, real life change is to start with love and compassion.
Shaming and rejecting ourselves when we make mistakes might motivate us for a few minutes to change our outward behavior, but ultimately it reinforces the belief that we’re not worthy of love and acceptance just as we are. And that keeps us from being able to truly love and accept others when they make mistakes and have shortcomings as well.
Come explore with me...
What if you could change that narrative? What if you started not by trying to change outward behavior, but instead by focusing on learning how to love, accept and care for yourself right now, just as you are? What if you could find simple, practical, potent practices that don’t take much time or brain space but continually support you and bring you back to a place of balance? What if you could do that in community with other women who are also pursuing the same thing?
I’ve spent a lifetime pursuing what it means to live a meaningful life, 8 years and counting learning to take good care of myself so that I can live my best life and care well for other people, and a year in formal wellness educator training. I’d love to come alongside your journey and guide and support you in your quest to live your most meaningful life. We’ll dig deep and work on listening to our own voices and honoring our own needs in a culture that’s deafeningly loud with all the things we “should” do. We’ll focus on just one idea at a time, exploring its different facets and discovering how it might serve us in this very moment of life – or how it doesn’t. And then we’ll honor what we’ve learned about ourselves and what we need right now as we choose what to practice and make into habit.
You are worthy of love and care simply because you are alive. You matter because you exist. Won’t you come explore with me as we take the journey in learning to live that way?
Learn to Cultivate Calm with my free mini-series!
I invite you to join me in exploring some ways you can being right now to take good care of yourself, starting with reclaiming a calm mind in the stressful moments of your day. My series Cultivating Calm includes five simple practices you can use to bring your mind and body back to calm and is available for anyone who subscribes to my monthly newsletter.
If you're interested in going deeper, come join me on on Patreon! There you'll find monthly video practices along with encouraging reminder emails to guide you in practicing self-care along with other like-minded people. They're crafted to be short but potent so you can easily fit them into your schedule and discern what truly serves you well in this season of life.
Questions? Send me a message here! I'd love to hear from you and send you a personal reply.
Here's to continuing the journey of learning to love and care for ourselves deeply.
With much love,
Michelle
What I believe...
I believe that the world needs more love, more grace, and more kindness, and if we want to be part of that, we must start with how we show up in relationship with ourselves.
The way we relate to others is a reflection of how we relate to ourselves, and vice versa – we can’t show up in our external relationships with the love, kindness and grace we want to bring if the way we relate to ourselves is hateful, judgmental and intolerant.
I also firmly believe that the best way to create true, lasting, real life change is to start with love and compassion.
Shaming and rejecting ourselves when we make mistakes might motivate us for a few minutes to change our outward behavior, but ultimately it reinforces the belief that we’re not worthy of love and acceptance just as we are. And that keeps us from being able to truly love and accept others when they make mistakes and have shortcomings as well.
Come explore with me...
What if you could change that narrative? What if you started not by trying to change outward behavior, but instead by focusing on learning how to love, accept and care for yourself right now, just as you are? What if you could find simple, practical, potent practices that don’t take much time or brain space but continually support you and bring you back to a place of balance? What if you could do that in community with other women who are also pursuing the same thing?
I’ve spent a lifetime pursuing what it means to live a meaningful life, 8 years and counting learning to take good care of myself so that I can live my best life and care well for other people, and a year in formal wellness educator training. I’d love to come alongside your journey and guide and support you in your quest to live your most meaningful life. We’ll dig deep and work on listening to our own voices and honoring our own needs in a culture that’s deafeningly loud with all the things we “should” do. We’ll focus on just one idea at a time, exploring its different facets and discovering how it might serve us in this very moment of life – or how it doesn’t. And then we’ll honor what we’ve learned about ourselves and what we need right now as we choose what to practice and make into habit.
You are worthy of love and care simply because you are alive. You matter because you exist. Won’t you come explore with me as we take the journey in learning to live that way?
Learn to Cultivate Calm with my free mini-series!
I invite you to join me in exploring some ways you can being right now to take good care of yourself, starting with reclaiming a calm mind in the stressful moments of your day. My series Cultivating Calm includes five simple practices you can use to bring your mind and body back to calm and is available for anyone who subscribes to my monthly newsletter.
If you're interested in going deeper, come join me on on Patreon! There you'll find monthly video practices along with encouraging reminder emails to guide you in practicing self-care along with other like-minded people. They're crafted to be short but potent so you can easily fit them into your schedule and discern what truly serves you well in this season of life.
Questions? Send me a message here! I'd love to hear from you and send you a personal reply.
Here's to continuing the journey of learning to love and care for ourselves deeply.
With much love,
Michelle
