We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Ashara Morris and Glenn Weissel. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Ashara Morris and below.

Ashara Morris and , thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. We’d love to have you retell us the story behind how you came up with the idea for your business, I think our audience would really enjoy hearing the backstory.

It took us a long time to take a lot of elements that interested us and turn it into a business. Ashara loves animals and shamanism – she is an animal communicator in addition to being a gestaltist and baby shaman. Glenn loves art, and the healing aspects of the artistic process. It took a while to meld it all together. There was a lot of trial and error. We started out by keeping everything separate, but realized that everything we do is associated with healing. So even though Ashara talks with animals, she is helping the humans heal their own pain (through their animals). Glenn conducts art classes, but they are always focused on what can art do to tell us about where we are in life and where we’re going. Gestalt colors everything we do. It is a therapeutic modality that works well whether coaching, talking with animals, or doing any form of art.
So keep asking yourself – what feels good for me? Does this flow? Could I do this for the rest of my life and be happy even if I wasn’t getting paid? Your passion is your purpose. It might not look the way you thought it would, but if you keep asking and being flexible, it will reveal itself.

Ashara Morris and , before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

Glenn and Ashara both spent most of their younger years and careers in Information Technology. Life was…life, but it always seemed as though something was missing. City boy Glenn took to Country girl Ashara’s lifestyle as if born to it (pretty amazing for someone who spent his early years in Brooklyn, NY!) Ashara always lived on the fringes of civilization, growing up with the wide open spaces around her, but modern conveniences less than an hour away.
After many years in Corporate America, Ashara knew she wanted to do something different, and if she could do it with animals, even better. Not long after that, an email arrived in her inbox inviting her to listen in to a presentation from Touched By A Horse, a company that trained people to coach with horses as partners. Appealing! She listened and signed up. Within six months, Glenn followed her into the program. This is the great thing about Touched By A Horse. A person can’t coach without doing their own personal work, and Touched By A Horse requires that you work on your own $#1T in addition to learning techniques and tools to help others AND run a business. It’s two years, intensive, and requires Continued Education Units (CEUs) to continue being certified. That in itself makes this coaching training unusual. In addition, both Glenn and Ashara did another two year program with Touched By A Horse which delves deeper into the Gestalt modality, so they each have a total of four years training, constant education, and a community of like-minded people to bounce ideas off of and keep each other on track.
The term Gestalt is a German word. There is no English eqivalent. The closest one can come is “wholeness”, because people who coach using Gestalt don’t see someone who is broken. They see someone who is whole and who has merely forgotten. Gestalt employs somatics (what you feel in your body), full body release, talk, laughter, tears, and in the case of Equine Gestalt Coaching, horses to create an experiential environment that allows the client to let go of what they’ve been carrying around for their life, (or sometimes just a little while, depending on the trauma), and continue on with a fresh outlook on who they really are and how much they matter in the world – because EVERYONE matters.
We provide lots of different avenues for growth and relief – There are art classes, The Hero’s Journey, retreats, individual coaching, animal communication. We are intent on building a community of healers who visit our 40-acre piece of heaven just outside of Elizabeth, Colorado and provide their services as well – Yoga with the horses, individual healing sessions, special art classes.
We are thrilled to be on this journey, and want Harmony’s Heart to become a place of healing and safety for everyone.

We’d love to hear about how you keep in touch with clients.

Glenn and Ashara both write weekly blogs, which go out to our mailing lists, and are posted on social media. Since neither of us are “in your face” kind of people, we like to provide a platform that people can read at their leisure and make sure we always have something interesting to say.
Using this mode of communication takes time to build a following, but it is happening. People comment on the content; they are getting involved in what they’re reading – and we always make sure we respond when someone offers an opinion or comment.
We feel that people want to know we’re not here to sell them something. We’re here to be a sounding board, and to provide support if someone is struggling. It doesn’t matter if it’s an animal who is dying or a teenager who is lost – we are here to listen and respond.
At the same time, this is our business, so some of our services have a price tag. We feel that by being available for good customers above and beyond what they expect will serve us (and them) in the long run. It’s important to keep the roof over our heads – and it’s also important to make sure people know we care.

We often hear about learning lessons – but just as important is unlearning lessons. Have you ever had to unlearn a lesson?

We had to unlearn that just because everyone else was going at Mach 3, so did we.

Being a business owner is a 24/7 career, and it’s vitally important, especially if you’re introverted as we both are, to give yourself the grace to move at your own pace.

When we first started our business, we spent almost all of our time thinking about, planning, and executing our business. We were anxious. It wasn’t growing like it was “supposed” to. This is a bad energy to bring to your business.

Over time, we’ve learned to let things flow. We still spend a lot of time thinking, planning and executing, but it’s at a pace that suits who we are. When we are in flow, when we take care of ourselves, opportunities arise that are doable, and clients come. When we “push”, nothing happens. That doesn’t mean we don’t work at it. When the opportunities come, you do need to respond. The Universe puts lots of opportunity in our way, and we respond to the ones that resonate most with the way we want to live our lives.

Some people like chaos and feeling like there’s too much to do and not enough time to do it, and for them, that’s Flow.

We do not. When we start to feel chaos and feel overwhelmed, things come to a grinding halt. We need to recharge our batteries a lot. When we do that, when we recognize that we are not the go-getters that need to set the world on fire, we get results. People look for our kind of energy, just like others look for a different energy. “Our people” come to us.

We had to realize that our business model may not be the same as someone else’s, and we had to realize that our business is going to grow based on who we are, not what some statistics say is the way a business should grow. It’s been a real eye-opener.

Contact Info:

• Website: Www.harmonysheartcoaching.com / www.harmonysheartanimals.com
• Instagram: Asharamorris5525, GlennFWeissel, wisekittyry, harmonysheartcoaching
• Facebook: Ashara.morris.7, asharamorrisanimalcommunicator, gweissel, harmonysheartcoaching
• Linkedin: Ashara Morris, Glenn Weissel, Harmony’s Heart Coaching

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