We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Jennifer Gulbrand a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.
Hi Jennifer, thanks for joining us today. If you had a defining moment that you feel really changed the trajectory of your career, we’d love to hear the story and details.
Hello Beautiful Souls! Corporate DropOut Gone Goddess here. I spent 21 years owning and operating a sales training business in the life science industry and found tremendous value serving in a leadership role, building and supporting a team’s professional development, and providing best-in-class customer service to our clients. I was genuinely grateful for our success however, 15 years into the role, I began to feel as though something was missing. The business mission was worthy, it supported my family and my employees and their families, but the role was not feeding my soul. For years, I ignored that inner calling or cravings of the heart telling me I was meant for more. Like most of us, I fell victim to negative self-talk and allowed those limiting beliefs to prevent me from moving forward.
YOU KNOW THE STORIES…
“Do I have anything unique to offer? Can I risk walking away from this secure life I have created to follow my passion? What if my dream isn’t well received by others? I can’t risk it!”
And then a very close friend was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer, and everything changed. Suddenly the world looked very different to me and I was reminded me that we really only have today in this present moment. Conversations with her inspired me to stop living small and start following my heart. I knew I had to find a way to recalibrate and get back own alignment with the life I was designed to be living and my true nature.
In 2016, I bravely stepped out of my comfort zone and created SheBreathes Balance Women’s Collaborative with the intention to create and hold space for women to practice self-care, experience sisterhood and be supported by a tribe of like-minded women. It was in that moment that I came into my energy, helping to change lives and living a more authentic and soul-filled life.
Three years later, I put fear aside again and took another leap of faith. I released ownership of my sales training business and completely let go of people and circumstances that no longer served me. Two weeks before the global COVID pandemic hit and shut down the world, I signed a lease to expand our physical space to create WeBreathe Wellness, an inclusive retreat center for men and women to experience growth and healing. My timing may not have been ideal on the expansion but I stayed the course. As an individual contributor to the collective, I stepped into solopreneurship as an Embodiment and Empowerment Coach, Sound and Energy Healing Practitioner, and holder of safe, supportive space for others growth and healing.
My spiritual awakening was painful at times but I know now that Source was driving me to take actions that were for my highest good so I could use be of service to others. I put faith over fear and followed my soul’s calling.
Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.
I’m Jenn Seasoned Entrepreneur with 36+ years leading businesses in the health & wellness space. After some life changing events, I found my true calling a builder of communities and safe supportive spaces designed to help heal the human heart and raise the collective vibration.
I founded the SheBreathes Balance Women’s Collaborative to create community & the WeBreathe Wellness Center tohold sacred and safe space for women to lift one another up in sisterhood and s upport. We offer so. much in the way of self-care and wellness with a full service Wellness SPA, creative co-working space, a café, and community space where we gather for educational program and events.
As an individual contributor, I am an Intuitive, Trauma-informed Embodiment Coach, and Healing Facilitator. I work primarily with women in transition who want to make dramatic shifts to rebalance and embody their true essence. I help them to awaken their feminine power, tap into self-awareness, and reconnect with who they truly are, what they need, and where they are going.
Most of us as women in the western world are “in our heads” because we have been socialized to lead with our masculine “doing” energy – trying to think and strategize our way through life’s challenges. We can become disembodied and disconnected from our emotional and physical sensations, from the innate wisdom in within ourselves and in our bodies. We shut down and may feel confusion, have difficulty making decisions, or hold beliefs that we’re stuck or not good enough.
Whether you’re suffering from anxiety, depression, or feeling “stuck” and unable to move forward, I will teach you to drop from your head back down to your heart – to your “being” energy. Using modalities such as breath work, mindfulness, meditation, integrated energy work, sound healing, and somatics, we will access your deep inner knowing and empower you with tools & strategies to help you become fully embodied and more balanced in body, mind and spirit. I know from personal experience that it’s never too late to re-align with your higher soul self to live the radiant life you deserve.
Learning and unlearning are both critical parts of growth – can you share a story of a time when you had to unlearn a lesson?
Lose the Limiting Beliefs!
Everyone of us carries limiting beliefs about ourselves that are formed in early childhood and carried through most of adulthood. This is old programming that can impede our growth and maturation. The only way to move through these blocks is to see right through them.
All too often, we’re plagued by limiting beliefs mostly subconscious and developed between the ages 0-7. We are taught from a young age that achievement results in approval, and that approval makes you successful and deserving of joy. Therefore, if you don’t continuously receive outside confirmation of success, you kind of feel unworthy. On a subconscious level, you adopt these as self-limiting beliefs where you start to believe that “the wants and needs of others are more important than my own.”
These limiting beliefs result in you acting for the sake of serving others. Chances are those actions probably are not in alignment with your true self and are not serving your highest good. Our beliefs about ourselves, our life, and the people in it shape our every moment. The more we believe, the more we can be imprisoned by those beliefs. The more we adhere to beliefs, the more we become attached to them and, as will discuss a bit later, attachment to any of our beliefs is the root of all suffering.
It is our core beliefs that frame who we are and how we show up every day. If we stay stuck in those old limiting belief systems that we have created for ourselves, we will remain powerless. If you feel unlovable, you will not attract love. If you think about your lack of financial wealth, you will not attract abundance. If you feel unworthy, you will never measure up to expectations you’ve set for yourself.
I too have suffered from core beliefs and unconscious stories about myself that kept me from moving forward toward the light for many years. But one I was able to name then, claim them, release them, heal for them and replace them with more positive affirming truths about myself, everything changed for the better.
You. may wonder how you can you make the shift for yourself? It begins with identifying your limiting beliefs and then working to find emotional liberation where you can remove the blocks and be in the present moment…and then you rewrite your own story!
Learning and unlearning are both critical parts of growth – can you share a story of a time when you had to unlearn a lesson?
Raise Your Vibration and Keep Your Vibes High!
Everything in the universe is energy – every rock, tree, chair, animal and living being. People are energy and our thoughts and emotions hold the positive or negative frequency that make up who we are as unique individuals.
When we refer to a person’s energy, we’re simply referring to YOU, your Higher Soul, Self, or Source. When you’re aligned with your heart-felt desires and your intuitive knowing, you are aligned to your Higher Self – and you’re vibrating at higher frequency.
When you’re in tune with you, you raise your vibrational frequency and attract even more positive energy, people, and situations around you. Our energetic vibration attracts similar frequencies, so when we operate on a higher frequency, we attract other people vibing higher. It’s The Law of Attraction.
Developing an energetic intuition and awareness will significantly improve your life. You will feel more grounded and open to possibilities. You will communicate with more clarity and power. You will send a higher vibration out into the world around you and begin to see everything shift. You will experience life with more ease and abundance.
It is challenging to stay in that high-vibe state, in alignment and connected to Source every day. That’s why I’m doing this work. I want to help women facing life’s transitions to learn how to work with energy, how to stay connected and attract higher frequencies, and to manifest an abundant life.
Remember, your vibration is SIMPLY the energy that you’re sending out, which is what you’re attracting to you. Energy attracts like energy. Your feelings and emotions impact your vibration. When you notice yourself feeling negatively about anything or anyone, become consciously aware and try to shift that energy back into alignment. To shift your energy, you can stop yourself in that moment and just breathe deeply, meditate, go outside and take a walk, or put on your favorite song and dance it out. Whatever it takes to come back into yourself fully.
The more aligned you are and fully embodied and connected with your true nature, the happier and healthier you will be, and life will begin to flow effortlessly to you and through you. You get to choose.
Contact Info:
- Website: www.webreathewellness.com www.shebreathesbalance.com. www.jenngulbrand.com
- Instagram: WeBreatheWellness + SheBreathesBalance + EmpoweredtoElevate
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WeBreathesWellness
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifer-gulbrand/
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-r__LwI-Gvp9BDsNZ4Wn7Q
Image Credits
Ali Rosa Photography