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How to Find Where You Belong: Meet People Who Are Your Spiritual Family

Written by Maria Connolly. Posted in Dream Big - Start Small, Great Circle Community, Transform Your Life.

Find where you belong by finding your spiritual family or soul tribe who nourishes your soul.If you’re like many high-achieving women I work with, you’ve mastered the art of fitting in, yet you may not have truly found a group of supportive people where you belong. 

My clients know how to succeed in professional environments. They know how to support others, carry responsibility, and adapt to what is needed. They know how to be capable, dependable, and accomplished.

Yet beneath all that competence, many carry a quiet longing.

A longing to be fully known. To belong somewhere without having to earn it. To be surrounded by people who understand not just what they do, but who they are.

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AI as Mirror: What Our Relationship with Technology Reveals About Ourselves

Written by Maria Connolly. Posted in Dream Big - Start Small, Great Circle Community, Women in Leadership.

As we use AI as a mirror to our inner self, our tech habits reveal surprising things about our inner patterns, fears, and unmet needs or desires. Most of us have a complicated relationship with technology. We love what it does for us — the convenience, the speed, the immediate access. But sometimes, if we’re brave enough to look closely and use AI as a mirror, we realize it’s also showing us things about ourselves we’d rather not face.

In many ways, AI and our devices have become mirrors. Not just tools we use, but reflections of our inner patterns, fears, and unmet needs. And if we pay attention, those reflections can teach us a lot.

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Elevate Your Life: Build Meaningful Connections that Help You Grow

Written by Maria Connolly. Posted in Dream Big - Start Small, Great Circle Community, Stepping Forward, Women in Leadership. No Comments on Elevate Your Life: Build Meaningful Connections that Help You Grow

At the heart of the retreat experience lies the opportunity to build meaningful connections with others and oneself. For the past 17 years, I have had the privilege of attending a very special retreat. Each year, as I return to this sacred space, I am reminded of the profound way it helps me build meaningful connections, personally and professionally. I want to share with you some of the invaluable gifts that this annual retreat has bestowed upon me, in the hope that it may inspire you to seek out similar opportunities for growth and connection in your own life.…

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Feeling Alone? 5 Ways to Build Your Own Community of Empowering Women

Written by Maria Connolly. Posted in Dream Big - Start Small, Great Circle Community, Leadership Skills, Women in Leadership. No Comments on Feeling Alone? 5 Ways to Build Your Own Community of Empowering Women

Build your own community of empowered women by intentionally connecting every week with women you admire.In bygone eras, women knew the power of community. They met together in quilting bees, book clubs, and lunch socials. Yes, these leaned heavily toward socializing, because professional opportunities for women were severely restricted. Ironically, today women have endless professional opportunities but our community support has declined.  Are you feeling alone? Then I urge you to build your own community of empowering women.

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How to Build a Strong Social Support Network for Women in Leadership

Written by Maria Connolly. Posted in Great Circle Community, Healthy Relationships.

s our interests and needs shift, our social support network must evolve, giving up relationships that no longer work and pursuing new ones that do. Part of being human is going through different phases of life. As children, we’re dependent on our parents. Then in the adolescent years, we push for a more autonomous position. Then finally as adults, we learn to become interdependent.

However, whether by nature or nurture, a person may not fully evolve as he or she has the potential to do. Because our society values independence to a fault, often individuals aren’t taught or don’t learn skills to develop interdependent relationships.

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