Erin Power: The first thing I did once this interview was done was I went to labyrinthlocator.org and I found like about six labyrinths in my neighborhood.

Erin Power: Did you know that labyrinths are everywhere?

And it's a really amazing mindfulness tool.

Erin Power: And it's one that Elaine Glass, our podcast guest today, used to help have her own spiritual awakening that brought her to us and to the world of holistic wellness.

Erin Power: So Elaine is a transformational coach, author of the book Get Quiet, and a former dental hygienist.

Erin Power: Over the course of her 30-year career, she sat with over 40,000 patients, listening to their fears, their stresses, and their longing for peace.

Erin Power: You think about it, when you're in that dental hygiene chair, you really are a vulnerable little creature.

Erin Power: Her own life took a profound turn during a painful divorce and autoimmune burnout when Erin Power: she discovered a labyrinth just half a mile from her home.

Erin Power: And the walk in the labyrinth awakened her intuition and set her on a new path of helping Erin Power: others find stillness and reconnect with themselves.

Erin Power: Elaine now helps people embrace holistic healing for mind, body, and soul, sharing the transformative Erin Power: power of getting quiet.

Erin Power: And she's working on a certification program for health coaches that teaches her methodology, Erin Power: which you're going to learn all about in this amazing, fascinating interview.

Erin Power: Please enjoy.

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Erin Power: All right.

Hey, Elaine.

Great to see you.

How are you today?

Elaine Glass: I'm doing great, Erin.

Thanks so much for having me.

It's just a thrill to be here with you.

Erin Power: I'm excited too.

Your book is called Get Quiet, which just a title alone, I'm very intrigued by Erin Power: because I think I love being quiet.

I think I love being quiet.

When I say that I love being quiet, Erin Power: what does that say to you?

What does that mean to you?

Do humans love being quiet?

Elaine Glass: Well, I think that's our natural state.

Yeah.

Interesting.

But our modern life has taken us Elaine Glass: to a completely different place in believing that that is our quiet state.

You know, Elaine Glass: the thinking was always, well, you know, that person's an introvert if they're a quiet person.

Elaine Glass: And I think they're just really connected to their natural state.

Now, we'll have in this Elaine Glass: conversation, we'll find out really what I found out get quiet meant to me.

It's not just being in Elaine Glass: state of quiet and stillness.

It's much more than that.

So it'll be fun to have this conversation

Erin Power: with you.

I'm very excited about it.

So fill us in.

Give us the old origin story that brought you

Elaine Glass: to where we are today.

I would say I would start as a little girl growing up in Northern California Elaine Glass: in the Redwood Forest, coming from mother, grandmothers, just a line of holistic women in my Elaine Glass: family that loved nature, loved growing their own gardens.

I remember going with Elaine Glass: my mom to the health food store in the 70s and just always trying to find a Elaine Glass: very natural holistic way to live.

And that was my life.

That's what has been Elaine Glass: passed down through the generations to me.

So I feel very blessed and I honor Elaine Glass: or the generations before me who've lived that way.

Elaine Glass: Well, then fast forward to life happening Elaine Glass: and going to college, getting an education.

Elaine Glass: I went to Northwestern University.

Elaine Glass: I went to the dental school there.

Elaine Glass: I became a dental hygienist.

Elaine Glass: I was doing that for over 25 years Elaine Glass: and sat with over 40,000 patients one-on-one.

Elaine Glass: And that was a life class for me, Erin, Elaine Glass: because I was able to see people's overall health, not just their physical health, Elaine Glass: but a holistic approach to where were they at mentally, spiritually, emotionally?

Elaine Glass: How were their relationships?

Elaine Glass: So I gathered so much information just based upon that, Elaine Glass: that I finally dropped my dental instruments and became a life coach.

Elaine Glass: And that has really morphed into me being more of a health coach and a holistic health coach.

Elaine Glass: And what that really means to me is not just looking at nutrition and fitness, Elaine Glass: but looking at the whole person in a holistic sense.

Elaine Glass: And so the get quiet way that I write about is really that holistic approach to healing Elaine Glass: and living in that type of lifestyle.

Erin Power: Wow.

It's a fascinating, call it a career pivot, something that I hear a lot of.

Many health coaches, most health coaches and life coaches to a certain extent, we all pivoted from some other professional career.

Erin Power: Although, for whatever it's worth, I'm meeting a lot more people who are doing it as their primary vocational training out of high school, which is pretty exciting.

Erin Power: But, you know, the way you describe that, in 25 years, you sat with 40,000 patients in that sort of vulnerable dental hygiene relationship.

Erin Power: And you learned so much from them.

Erin Power: I'm just curious, like, on one hand, you're not having conversations with them per se because your hands are in their mouth, are you?

Erin Power: But is it just sort of in the way they carry themselves?

Erin Power: And it's just fascinating to me what you can learn from being in that proximity with 40,000 people.

Elaine Glass: Some of the things did you learn from those folks?

Elaine Glass: And your original question to me was, you know, where did the original story come from?

Elaine Glass: And I'll tell you what I learned because that's a whole.

Elaine Glass: I could write a book just on what I learned from 40,000 souls.

Elaine Glass: But after finishing those 25 years in health care, a coach of mine at the time said, Elaine, what did you learn from sitting with all of those human beings?

Elaine Glass: And the only two words I could think of was I just want people to get quiet.

Elaine Glass: Yeah.

Elaine Glass: And I didn't know really what that meant.

Elaine Glass: So I went on a decade long journey to really dive deep into that.

Elaine Glass: And so what I learned was that I learned why people get sick.

I learned what causes disease.

Elaine Glass: I learned about energy medicine and stuck energy because here I am with my hands hovering over Elaine Glass: bodies for 25 years.

So it's almost like you don't really need to talk to the person.

You can talk to Elaine Glass: the body in so many ways, as you know.

And of course, there were a lot of conversations as well Elaine Glass: because people felt very safe in that room with me.

So I was sort of privy to a lot of intimate Elaine Glass: conversations of people sharing personal things about their life and their struggles, Elaine Glass: particularly around their health struggles.

And what I learned was that people, and even myself Elaine Glass: at the time very much so needed to get quiet and what that means is we need to not only look at the Elaine Glass: health of our bodies but the health of our environments, the health of our mental state, Elaine Glass: the health of our emotional state.

You know I was just reading that the average aged school child Elaine Glass: in an average classroom is more medicated for their mental state than the average Elaine Glass: ward, mental ward, children's mental ward in the 1950s.

So the mental state, the emotional state, Elaine Glass: how to holistically heal, and those are the lessons I learned and I applied them to myself because at Elaine Glass: the time, my life transitions, like my life was crashing down around me.

I was going through a Elaine Glass: difficult divorce.

I had two small children at the time.

And so I needed to get healthy.

So I think Elaine Glass: it always starts with us.

We always have that, you know, life crashing down story.

And how did I help Elaine Glass: myself?

And essentially, how did I coach myself through this?

And of course, I had amazing and Elaine Glass: and beautiful mentors and healers along my path.

But I figured it out myself.

And I want to share

Erin Power: how I did that with the world.

That's amazing.

I mean, in discussing your origin story, you Erin Power: really were raised in this holistic kind of family dynamic.

And then, you know, you touch on Erin Power: how you could feel sort of energy, having hands hovering over people.

Do you think that you are Erin Power: uniquely wired to be this way or are all humans potentially wired to be this way?

Elaine Glass: I think we all have the ability to have these sensitivities.

We don't know what we, Elaine Glass: we don't know what we're encoded with when we come into this lifetime.

Everyone has a certain Elaine Glass: superpower.

I believe this is mine to have sensitivities around the human body on how to Elaine Glass: heal and how to facilitate healing.

I do believe we all can tap into that.

But as you can see now, Elaine Glass: the health coaching industry is what now a $4 trillion industry around worldwide.

So people Elaine Glass: are waking up to these abilities that they have because they see that the world is getting Elaine Glass: quite sick and environments are toxic.

And so more people are rising to the occasion of Elaine Glass: tuning in to their bodies and finding those abilities because I think we do all have them.

Erin Power: Yeah.

I mean, to your point, health, wellness, fitness, beauty, this ginormous industry that's Erin Power: all kind of interwoven.

I always throw the beauty industry in there because I won't get into my Erin Power: reasons why, but I do think it's all connected.

It's multi-trillion dollar industry.

And it's very Erin Power: noisy, though.

I mean, if I had to pick a word to describe it, I would say it's the opposite of Erin Power: quiet.

You're constantly being marketed to, jumping from trend to trend, message to message.

Erin Power: But you feel, I mean, if I'm extrapolating what you just said correctly, that humans we are drawn, Erin Power: and maybe we're pivoting and seeking the quietness.

Erin Power: I also want to get more clear about what you mean by quiet, Erin Power: but to me, the industry is very noisy.

Erin Power: Would you agree?

Elaine Glass: Oh, yes.

Elaine Glass: I mean, we are bombarded.

Elaine Glass: We are bombarded.

Elaine Glass: And if we don't get healthy ourselves Elaine Glass: and create the space of quiet in which to tune in Elaine Glass: and do that inner work, Elaine Glass: then we will not be discerning for ourselves.

We won't even know how to be discerning for products and services.

Elaine Glass: I will just any shiny object that will come our way.

Elaine Glass: Oh, I want to do that.

Elaine Glass: You know, I need that product.

Elaine Glass: And the marketing is so great today that you can be sold in an instant just doing a doom scroll for 30 minutes and all of a sudden have six products from Amazon at your front door.

Elaine Glass: You know, and so the quiet that I'm talking about is the ability to tune in, listen to the body, listen to the heart, and not the ruminating, overthinking, traumatized mind, and know what your body truly needs.

Elaine Glass: Yeah.

Erin Power: No, that's powerful.

Erin Power: That's really, I think, applicable to health coaches.

Erin Power: So just to kind of reflect that back, your use of the word discerning was really important because the average health consumer, I would say, is overwhelmed.

Erin Power: To your point, they're just buying, shopping, shopping carts, Amazon, jumping from thing to thing.

Erin Power: So leveraging this quietness to help people be more discerning in their choices is actually in the purview of a health coach.

Erin Power: You know, I think about that, you know, if I'm on a discovery call with a prospective client, guiding the conversation around, you know, how discerning are you currently being as you seek a solution for this struggle you're having?

Erin Power: And I think that's really powerful for health coaches because, you know, we're in the age of products.

Erin Power: We're in the age of artificial intelligence.

Erin Power: Health coaches, though, are humans.

Erin Power: We're humans working with humans.

Erin Power: And there's something about that human-to-human connection that does have an energy to it, maybe a deeper quietness in some way.

Erin Power: we have the opportunity to tap into that.

Oh, 100%.

And at the heart of who we are as coaches

Elaine Glass: is we're educators.

And so people come to us because the allopathic world has disappointed Elaine Glass: them because of the five to 10 minute appointments you get.

And what doctors used to be, they used to Elaine Glass: be decades ago, educators, but now they don't have time to do that.

And so that's why this industry Elaine Glass: of ours is exploding because people want that heart to heart.

They want that connection.

They Elaine Glass: want to be educated.

They want to know from an expert with all the noise out there that's Elaine Glass: available, what is true for me.

And this is, this is not just a one size fits all.

That's what Elaine Glass: you're going to get on the outside world.

When you go to the doctor, when they come to us, Elaine Glass: when they come to you.

This is a one fits one.

And people are longing for that.

And that is the Elaine Glass: opportunity that we have, is to be educators and to sit with people and use our abilities.

That's Elaine Glass: using our intuition, not just like, oh, you know, go work out and here's your nutrition, Elaine Glass: but use the health coach to use their intuition.

Elaine Glass: And that's what I was doing sitting with all those patients and sitting with my clients.

Elaine Glass: I'm listening to not just their words, but the things in between their words, Elaine Glass: the space between their words.

Elaine Glass: I'm listening to their bodies.

Elaine Glass: And that is my superpower because over 40,000 patients, you can't help not get that superpower.

Elaine Glass: So I'm blessed to have had that.

But everybody has that ability, even with the clients you're going to see today.

Think about just listening in the deepest way you possibly can, because they will eventually tell you exactly what their pain point is.

Elaine Glass: And most people won't tell you what they truly want to tell you unless you create that really, really safe space.

Elaine Glass: And the only way a space can be safe, and I learned that with, again, going back to my dental years, Elaine Glass: because that is a very scary place for people, is to immediately create a safe place.

Elaine Glass: And that would be a place of listening, of honoring, of respecting that human being in front of you who is so vulnerable.

Erin Power: Yeah, I like that.

Erin Power: And that's something that I actually teach health coaches when I'm training health coaches.

Erin Power: You touched on it, which is consider that the client already knows the answer.

Erin Power: And our job is to guide them to the answers that are already inside of them.

Erin Power: Sometimes the health consumer, especially, you know, the health consumer can feel very disempowered.

Erin Power: And I'm going to use the word, I'm going to use this really terrible word.

Erin Power: They can feel a little dumb about their own health.

Erin Power: Like, I don't know what's wrong with me.

Erin Power: I don't know what to do.

Erin Power: I need somebody to tell me what to do.

Erin Power: But one of our opportunities and our jobs as a coach is to tease out what's already known within them.

Erin Power: So it's self-determined and autonomous and empowered in that way.

Erin Power: So I think that's a mark of good health coaching is being able to have those conversations with clients.

Elaine Glass: Yes.

Oh, yeah.

I would have loved for you to have been my health coach just with that whole philosophy.

And so when I bring in this get quiet way is my method in the book, I know exactly where this person is in the road, in the path to healing.

Elaine Glass: And not just the path to their own healing, but their path to self-discovery.

Elaine Glass: So if I'm looking at somebody and they're really just focusing on the supplement they want to take, Elaine Glass: the food, the diet change, that's my path one.

Elaine Glass: So I have eight paths that people will walk in this process called the Get Quiet Way.

Elaine Glass: I know they're on path one and that's where we all start.

We all want to, if someone has, Elaine Glass: you know, just been diagnosed with something that, you know, they need to change their life around Elaine Glass: big time, the very first thing they're going to change is what's going in their body.

Elaine Glass: So they're going to cut out the sugar, the gluten, the dairy, you know, anything anti-inflammatory.

Elaine Glass: This is an intuitive way that humans heal.

Elaine Glass: They know the first thing, the first path is their body, the health of their body.

Elaine Glass: What I noticed after that, and that's what makes what I do a more holistic approach, Elaine Glass: is I now go to seven other awarenesses that I offer my clients.

Elaine Glass: And the second path is the health of their environment.

Erin Power: Okay.

Elaine Glass: So not only what's in their cupboard, what's in their closets, who in their home, you know, is there outside storage units that you're paying for that you don't even know where the key is, you know, just cleaning and clearing your whole entire environment.

Elaine Glass: And every and so I go on these seven or eight different paths and every path is associated with an energy point in the body.

Erin Power: Okay.

Elaine Glass: And so that's my method.

Elaine Glass: And that energy modality is a modality I teach separately, even from the get quiet way.

Elaine Glass: So because I learned so much about energy medicine throughout my years, I really do believe that that is also a key way to heal and facilitate healing.

Erin Power: Amazing.

Elaine Glass: Is that the chakras then that align with your or something different?

Elaine Glass: No, it's something that I is an innovative approach that I came up with.

Erin Power: Oh, fascinating.

Wow.

Well, I mean, since we're into the thick of it now, the get quiet method, Erin Power: way, the get quiet way method?

Yes.

Yeah, the get quiet way.

The way.

So there's eight paths.

Erin Power: You've given us two.

One is food and nourishment.

Path two is environment.

Would you be open to

Elaine Glass: sharing the other paths?

Oh, absolutely.

So the third path is the mental, the mind.

Elaine Glass: And I even write in the book, the beauty of moments of no mind.

Erin Power: You got my attention.

Elaine Glass: And how healing that can be as well, is to absolutely just have no mind and be okay with that and feel safe in our bodies without the constant rumination.

Elaine Glass: So that's a really exciting path.

Elaine Glass: And these are all paths, like I said, that I just intuitively went down in healing my own life.

Elaine Glass: Yeah.

And then the path after that is actually, in my opinion, they're all sort of like, you know, it's like children.

You never want to like say you love one more than the other.

Elaine Glass: But this next path around emotions and healing emotions, to me, that really is a game changer because our thoughts do become things.

Elaine Glass: And holding on to anger causes a disease.

Elaine Glass: I mean, these are all the definite dots that I connected with 40,000 patients.

Elaine Glass: Anger, sadness, frustration, resentment, worry, all of those things cause stress in our bodies Elaine Glass: and literally cause our bodies to, you know, with the four trillion cells in our bodies, Elaine Glass: literally we tell those cells, I'm angry.

Elaine Glass: Okay.

Elaine Glass: I mean, it's just, I connected those dots so clearly, Erin, that I really, truly feel emotions.

Elaine Glass: have a huge, huge part of causing disease.

And so this is a whole approach to helping Elaine Glass: with those emotions.

The path after emotions is grounding.

Elaine Glass: And so going back to emotions.

So like I said, each energy point, each path has associated with Elaine Glass: an energy point in the body.

So I'll go back.

So the, and I don't want this to be too confusing, Elaine Glass: but your listeners are extremely intelligent.

So I will go through this.

So the path of nurturing Elaine Glass: our body, that energy point is our abdomen, where life begins, where the womb is, where our life Elaine Glass: force is.

The second path we talked about was cleaning and clearing our environment.

Elaine Glass: That is the path of that's the heart energy.

So when you clean and clear out all the clutter, Elaine Glass: it really allows this area of your body to open and not be so closed.

The mind, that path is the head.

Elaine Glass: The emotions, that path are the hips.

So the cup-shaped hips, the ileum, that's where I saw Elaine Glass: the stuck energy of emotions pooling and pooling in this dark energy.

And so literally I teach Elaine Glass: people how to shift that energy and really energetically remove those stuck emotions from your hips.

Elaine Glass: Okay, so now we're at the feet.

So that's grounding.

So that is now you've really learned Elaine Glass: from the first four paths so much information and now you're grounding all of that new information Elaine Glass: and new habits and behaviors you're really grounding that into not only physically the ground Elaine Glass: but really integrating it into your life so that's that's the next path once you're able to Elaine Glass: integrate it all, the next path is the knee region and the area of our knees where like if you Elaine Glass: imagine under your kneecaps, stuck energy under your kneecaps.

And so I show people how to release Elaine Glass: that energy because that's the energy that will move your life forward.

If you think about the Elaine Glass: knees and the way they move your life forward as you walk forward in life.

The path after that, Elaine Glass: which is the one right before the center, is your tailbone.

Think about all the injuries we have, Elaine Glass: either in sitting all day, or falls, or childbirth, or anything.

This is the tailbone area that gets Elaine Glass: stuck.

The energy gets stuck, and that is the path of intuition.

And for women especially, Elaine Glass: If we don't shift the energy around our tailbone, we wonder why we feel lost in life.

Elaine Glass: It's because our intuition is stuck.

We can't access it.

And then you finally, Elaine Glass: after shifting all this energy, learning all this new information, you finally come back to yourself.

Elaine Glass: And that's the center.

That's the last energy point is our shoulders.

Elaine Glass: And what I have people do, because it's a whole visualization, is literally cross your arms, put each hand on the opposite shoulder.

Elaine Glass: And it's almost like giving yourself a big hug that we've come back to ourselves finally.

Elaine Glass: And this is the deep quiet that we finally can tune into when we want clarity in our life.

Elaine Glass: where we want to be discerning and know exactly how to do that and what's right for us.

Elaine Glass: When we're looking for answers and are desperate to know what to do next in life, Elaine Glass: this is all we have to do to get back to who we are Elaine Glass: so that the noise of the world no longer affects us.

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Erin Power: Wow, that's really beautiful.

I love that you've connected it to parts of the body that makes they Erin Power: make so much sense.

I'm just curious, I have so many little like logistical questions.

Erin Power: So first of all, is this a chronology?

Erin Power: Like you have to go through them in order?

Erin Power: You know what I mean?

Erin Power: Like do you have to go through all the paths before you can get to the self-hug at the end?

Erin Power: Is it crucial to do them in order?

Elaine Glass: When I'm teaching this to clients, and I also have a, I'm working on certifying this whole program for health coaches.

Elaine Glass: So when I'm teaching this to coaches and or clients, personal clients, they do need to go and start from path one.

Elaine Glass: Yes.

But it's funny because, you know, this is a lifelong exploration.

So a lot of people will go Elaine Glass: back to a certain chapter in the book or energy point in the body because they'll just sense like, Elaine Glass: you know, oh, if they had a shock to their system, let's say they had a loss or they're grieving, Elaine Glass: and I'll say, where in your body are you feeling this the most?

And a lot of times, of course, Elaine Glass: they'll reach for their heart, but sometimes they'll reach for their head.

And it's just, Elaine Glass: and so I'll say, well, go back and remember what did that path tell you about that heart energy?

Elaine Glass: That's the, your environment.

So what do you want to clean and clear out in your environment Elaine Glass: that will help that energy of your heart expand and open again?

So that's how we work it.

And so, Elaine Glass: Yes, to answer your question, we go through the paths and the order in which I initially give them.

Elaine Glass: But then as life goes on, they'll go back to a certain energy point or a certain path in the book and say, and reread that or relearn that or re-implement skills to go deeper.

Erin Power: That makes sense.

That makes sense.

Erin Power: And the physical body parts, a couple things on that.

Erin Power: I'm just curious, is it literal?

Erin Power: Like, what I mean by that is, if I'm feeling achy knees, Erin Power: is that my body sending me a signal in terms of my path forward, moving my life forward?

Erin Power: Is it that literal?

Erin Power: Did you ever read the book, You Can Heal Your Life by Louise Hay?

Erin Power: No, I haven't, but it's on my list.

Erin Power: I feel like I'm really missing the point.

Erin Power: I really should have read that one by now.

Elaine Glass: Oh, well, no, it's very interesting the way that she will say a certain, so I had that book in my Elaine Glass: operatory for 20 years, because I was always curious when people came in with physical ailments, Elaine Glass: what was the mental, emotional aspect of that?

Yeah.

And so is it literal?

Look, everybody is Elaine Glass: different, but it's a starting point to ask yourself, well, if I've got a bad knee or something's Elaine Glass: tapping with my knees, is there something in my life that I'm scared of moving forward?

Elaine Glass: So it can be literal, but a lot of times people will go back and say, oh yeah, I could have Elaine Glass: connected the dots because I was being asked to speak at a conference, you know, one woman said, Elaine Glass: and I was so afraid, but I knew that was going to, you know, move my life forward.

And she had Elaine Glass: twisted her, you know, she had kind of tweaked her knee and Pilates that morning.

So it's like, Elaine Glass: sometimes it does really coordinate.

And it is very literal.

And it's just very interesting.

Elaine Glass: It's a starting point.

And it doesn't have to be so true for you.

But it really is a guide and a Elaine Glass: starting point for people that they feel is very, very aligned.

Yeah, no, I love that.

I mean,

Erin Power: and I know, we know we talked about this, this isn't the chakras, but I'm just going to use a Erin Power: chakra example to kind of bring this around because your method is, I quite like it, these sort of Erin Power: physical sort of biomechanical parts of the body.

But for example, I had a client years and years Erin Power: ago who I work on weight loss with women.

So she was struggling with weight loss.

And I'll keep Erin Power: this story very brief, but she also was working as an engineer at a tech company, but English wasn't Erin Power: her first language.

She was having a hard time communicating with her boss.

And I reflected back Erin Power: to the sort of the some of the psychospiritual stuff I learned in my holistic nutrition diploma, Erin Power: and I just questioned things around the thyroid, the, you know, the chakra, the communication of Erin Power: the throat chakra.

And turns out she did have a thyroid dysfunction that she didn't know it was Erin Power: had been hidden, and she went and got it checked out.

So for me, that was a real aha, not that, Erin Power: oh, because you're having trouble communicating with your boss, therefore, you have thyroid Erin Power: dysregulation.

It's like, let's explore this.

It's just a little signal for the body, a thread to Erin Power: pull.

It was conceptual.

I didn't literally believe that her failure to communicate at work Erin Power: meant she had a thyroid, but it was something.

It gives you something.

It's an interesting thread Erin Power: to pull.

That's kind of what I'm picking up with respect to your perspective on this too.

Elaine Glass: 100%.

100%.

Because that's how we know, those are the fundamentals of how we know how to take Elaine Glass: care of ourselves is to be able to make those connections.

And we need to start somewhere.

Like, Elaine Glass: I mean, I did this with my kids when they were very young.

And if they had a sports injury, Elaine Glass: they'd come home and say, oh, I, you know, I hurt my hand or whatever.

I, I literally go to Louise Elaine Glass: Hayes's book, You Can Heal Your Life and say, well, what does she say about, you know, this area Elaine Glass: of the body?

And I would just have them start to think like, could this be happening in your own Elaine Glass: life mentally, emotionally.

And it's just how it's how I taught my sons how to tune into their body, Elaine Glass: whether it was true for them or not, just to be able to connect to their body.

Yeah.

And when so Elaine Glass: many and now they're grown, and they'll be like, Mom, what's the book say?

So it's, you know, it's Elaine Glass: this is how you can really help your children as well, be able to tune in and connect.

It's sort of

Erin Power: like pulling a tarot card or something, you know, you can make that tarot card mean anything at all

Elaine Glass: you want, but it gets you thinking about something.

Absolutely, absolutely.

And if you think about Elaine Glass: the clients that you work with, that all health coaches work with, what are we really doing?

Elaine Glass: We're helping them to connect the dots and connect to their bodies.

When the noise of the world Elaine Glass: is distracting us from that.

It's pulling us further and further away from being able to tune Elaine Glass: in and connect to our bodies and to our mental emotional states.

And so this is really important Elaine Glass: work, not only our personal work, our lifelong work as coaches, but our clients grow with us.

Elaine Glass: So even if you're not in like an expert yet in a certain area on a certain path, we are lifelong learners.

Elaine Glass: We love new information.

Elaine Glass: And so our clients, I see that my clients have grown with me as I have grown.

Elaine Glass: And even if we're just one rung higher on the ladder, one step higher than somebody else, we can still be a value to them.

Elaine Glass: And I think some coaches, they think they have to know everything, or they look at other coaches and say, oh, they're the expert.

Elaine Glass: They know so much more than me.

Elaine Glass: But there are millions of people in this country and around the world, as you know, who they just want one small piece of advice.

Elaine Glass: Yeah.

Elaine Glass: And it's really that simple.

Elaine Glass: We don't have to make it that difficult as coaches.

Elaine Glass: We know we're here to serve people and take care of people and honor people and meet people where they're at.

Elaine Glass: And if you just give them one nugget that day.

Elaine Glass: Yeah.

Erin Power: Yeah.

Erin Power: I think that's really good advice for health coaches.

Erin Power: And, you know, you touched on this and just to kind of reflect it back, which is we are Erin Power: eager to be in the expert role or viewed as the expert.

Erin Power: And so sometimes we can become overwhelming in our quest to demonstrate our expertise.

Erin Power: And that overwhelms an already overwhelmed health consumer.

Erin Power: So instead, like, I go to this place of like, what if I underwhelmed somebody?

Erin Power: What if the energy I brought was underwhelmed?

Erin Power: How could I, you know, not to underwhelm, but to sort of dampen the overwhelm they're feeling.

Erin Power: And coming in with a simple, one simple objective, one simple question, one simple thing to think about would be the way to do it.

Erin Power: I can only imagine that for the overwhelmed, busy, burnt out mind, having that experience, that sort of crystal little drop, quiet drop, would just create a lot of space for somebody to actually heal and think and change.

Elaine Glass: I think you just nailed it I think it really is about simplicity and there's a quietness to that Elaine Glass: yeah and there's a peace to that because what I learned with all those patients Erin Elaine Glass: is that really what we're truly longing for is inner peace yeah and that's how the body heal

Erin Power: yeah so just I guess just by way of summary not that we're summarizing but just because we've Erin Power: gone through your paths here.

What do you mean when you say, I want people to get quiet?

Elaine Glass: What I mean by that is I want them to have new, fresh awareness of how to holistically heal Elaine Glass: and live their lives out to absolute perfection and really honor this God-given life.

That's what

Erin Power: I mean.

Yeah.

I always pick up on little language cues, but the word fresh was interesting.

Erin Power: Because when you said new, fresh perspective, awareness, I thought the opposite of that is Erin Power: like stagnant or stuckness.

And we do really get stuck in the noise, like the muck of it all, Erin Power: right?

So there is a freshness, almost like an inhale of fresh, new something that this Erin Power: and the space would allow for.

Erin Power: It feels like, yeah, I'm thinking through this, Erin Power: like the noise and the stuckness and everything Erin Power: is so hard to move forward when you're in that.

Erin Power: But you need like a fresh sort of open landscape Erin Power: to march forward into.

Erin Power: I like the word.

Elaine Glass: 100%, yes.

Elaine Glass: You're really cleaning and clearing out your life.

Elaine Glass: Where there has been accumulation for decades, Elaine Glass: now there's a purging.

Elaine Glass: Now there's a clearing.

Elaine Glass: of space.

And in that space, you can find yourself again.

Erin Power: So a moment ago, you mentioned that you are working on like a training program for coaches.

Erin Power: So I wouldn't mind just driving the conversation that way, since that is the audience of this Erin Power: podcast is coaches.

And they might be wondering, well, if I take this training program, what would Erin Power: I learn, right?

So are they, is your plan to teach health coaches, train health coaches to take their Erin Power: clients through these methods?

Yes.

Yes.

Well, first they will go through the method.

Elaine Glass: So that we're working on the details now that'll be rolled out in 2026.

I mean, we're doing it now, Elaine Glass: but in a formal big launch way, it'll be in a few months and they will be going through the paths Elaine Glass: They will be transforming themselves because why?

We go first always.

So I don't know how long it Elaine Glass: will take for every individual.

I mean, this took me a decade, but I will admit I'm a slow learner, Elaine Glass: but I'm, I'm compiling all this information that I've learned through the decades of my life Elaine Glass: to put this in a certification so that I can teach this.

People can transform and then teach it Elaine Glass: to their clients.

I mean, this is so, this is my passion project.

This is what I know I'm here to Elaine Glass: do.

So they're going to learn a holistic approach to healing.

So where they might have just been Elaine Glass: focused on the body, which we said was the first path, which is the path of the abdomen, which is Elaine Glass: where life begins.

It's exactly where we need to start.

It's perfect.

But if you're a person who Elaine Glass: wants to grow and expand even more than just beyond the body in terms of facilitating and Elaine Glass: sharing a health message, which so many people want to do.

I mean, I get hundreds and hundreds Elaine Glass: of people, like we've got wait lists already for the first program because people want to, they say, Elaine Glass: you know, I'm kind of, you know, burned out on just telling people nutrition facts and fitness.

Elaine Glass: Like, I want to keep going and I want to grow myself.

Elaine Glass: And so they're excited to do the work themselves.

Elaine Glass: And then what from what they learn from each path we talked about, then they have that new information to share with their clients.

Elaine Glass: So it's really this holistic approach to healing.

Elaine Glass: We never heal someone.

Elaine Glass: We facilitate their healing.

Elaine Glass: Right.

Elaine Glass: So I think that's the main message that I want to share with people, too.

Elaine Glass: And they learn how to facilitate healing, not only their own, but their clients.

Erin Power: Yeah.

Erin Power: No, I think that's great because I do believe a lot of health coaches have an appetite or an interest in folding a spiritual type of protocol or practice into their health and wellness coaching.

Erin Power: But that can feel very vast.

Erin Power: You know what I mean?

Erin Power: It's just there's so many different spirituality type methodologies one could certify and train in.

Erin Power: And it's like, are any of these going to be actually applicable to the clients in front of me?

Erin Power: So I think this is interesting how you've made this very client-centered approach to holistic, Erin Power: mental, physical, emotional, spiritual wellness that a health coach can anchor to.

Elaine Glass: Thank you.

I'm feeling really proud about that myself because we don't want to get into the dogmas.

Elaine Glass: And, you know, is this a religious thing or is this unprofessional now if I'm talking about God or spirituality with my client?

Elaine Glass: You know, being a dental hygienist all those years, I walked a very fine line with people of, you know, sharing my own beliefs or thoughts.

Elaine Glass: And I remember when I really started going deep in my holistic practices and my hygiene practice, Elaine Glass: the people I was working with and a dentist I was working for, some of them did not appreciate these new ideas, Elaine Glass: me bringing those, these holistic approaches into, I mean, now, of course, there are, there are Elaine Glass: dentists that practice this more and more, but, you know, I'm starting to bring in energy work and Elaine Glass: in my Della practice and, you know, that was not okay.

And so I'm very sensitive to coaches Elaine Glass: staying on that professional line and knowing how far to kind of go either way so that it feels and Elaine Glass: continues to feel like a safe environment for people to learn and grow and transform.

Elaine Glass: That is all I'm doing and helping people with how to create a safe environment.

Elaine Glass: That's the main thing.

Elaine Glass: Yeah.

Erin Power: What kind of practical exercises or tools do you use with clients?

Erin Power: And will you encourage coaches to use with clients to help them slow down and tune in to themselves?

Erin Power: Well, so my book is based upon labyrinth walking.

That's how if you're familiar with labyrinths.

Elaine Glass: Vaguely.

A labyrinth is like a maze, but short.

Elaine Glass: But short and also not confusing because it's actually laid out in a formation on the ground.

Elaine Glass: It's a 4,000-year-old ancient formation, and it's been used for mindfulness, a mindfulness tool.

Elaine Glass: And it's one way in and one way out, so it's not to confuse you.

Elaine Glass: But each path that I talk about, that we've talked about, and each energy point really is the metaphor of the labyrinth that I found near my house here in Paradise Valley, Arizona.

Elaine Glass: And I just went one day and started walking this thing, and it changed my whole entire life.

Elaine Glass: And so that's one tool that we can use is labyrinth walking.

Elaine Glass: And they're all around the world.

Elaine Glass: And it's just a nice thing to do if people don't like to just sit and meditate.

Elaine Glass: This is a walking meditation.

Elaine Glass: So it's really lovely that way.

Elaine Glass: There's other tools that I use.

Elaine Glass: I mean, depending on if we're talking about the mind, body, and soul, Elaine Glass: other tools of, you know, writing letters of forgiveness, Elaine Glass: rewriting our own stories so that we aren't stuck in victimhood.

Elaine Glass: How do we shift these energy centers that I was just referring to in ways?

Elaine Glass: Because right now, the reason why we get disease is because our bodies are stuck.

Elaine Glass: Our energy is stuck.

And so all these tools are meant to shift your energy.

If nothing moves, Elaine Glass: then nothing changes.

Right.

So there's, there's a, we're, we're writing right now all the Elaine Glass: programming for the certification.

And so we're just going into the nitty gritty of all these Elaine Glass: tools that we're going to be using.

It's really exciting.

It is exciting.

Well, labyrinth walking

Erin Power: is a physical practice.

I'm fascinated that labyrinths are everywhere.

I'm going to have to Erin Power: open up Google Maps and find my nearby labyrinth.

Maybe I'll make one.

Elaine Glass: Yeah.

Or, well, there's a whole website.

Go to labyrinthlocator.org.

And yeah, yeah, Elaine Glass: you'll see them all around the world.

And, you know, they can be in hospitals and churches and Elaine Glass: in schools.

But I tell you, Erin, there's a boom with people building them on their own Elaine Glass: private properties now.

I've got 15 acres.

I could do it.

Elaine Glass: Oh, gosh.

Erin Power: Maybe I will.

It's usually covered in snow, happy.

Erin Power: year, but that's okay.

I can make a snow lab.

That's okay.

But the reason I think it's like Erin Power: the physical practice is interesting because like when you were talking about the body parts and Erin Power: you mentioned that the hips are the location of emotions, that is exactly what I learned in my Erin Power: yoga teacher training.

So hip opener exercises release emotions.

So is there any kind of like

Elaine Glass: physical practice like that that you're folding in?

Well, there will be definitely physical Elaine Glass: practices but a lot of this is visualization oh good for a person to be able to just get centered Elaine Glass: and go through these energy points visually in their minds and be able to shift but there will Elaine Glass: also be physical practices just like you know in yoga as well opening up of the hips is I think I Elaine Glass: mean isn't that just the most amazing thing you can do like even in the morning do those hip flexor Elaine Glass: openings and even begin to then visualize these stuck emotions and just see them just float out Elaine Glass: of your hips.

I mean, there's so much our minds can do to have our minds expect healing and our Elaine Glass: bodies then respond in kind.

And these types of exercises and visualizations are just changing the

Erin Power: way people heal.

Yeah.

I mean, you're right.

Visualizing a quote unquote hip opener would Erin Power: work just as well as a physical hip opener, right?

It's just bringing awareness to that part of the Erin Power: body.

We're just so unaware, aren't we?

Like we just kind of move through life very, very unaware

Elaine Glass: of ourselves.

Yeah.

And I would say this is how I woke up to my life.

Yeah.

Because at one point, Elaine Glass: You know, we're all going to wake up and say, well, what, how did I get here?

Elaine Glass: And what is the meaning of all this?

Erin Power: Yeah.

Elaine Glass: And this, these are the types of things that begin to wake us up to the truth of our life, Elaine Glass: the potential and promise of our life.

Elaine Glass: And really what I believe is our soul's calling.

Elaine Glass: And that's exciting.

Elaine Glass: And especially for women who are nurturing everybody else, now it's time to bring all that back in and nurture ourselves.

Elaine Glass: Yeah.

Erin Power: What is the single most important thing you hope listeners will take away from everything you've taught us today?

Elaine Glass: You can heal your life.

Elaine Glass: And I know that's what Louise Hay said.

Elaine Glass: And I'm proud to be a Hay House author because she has given me, she has mentored me from afar and now from heaven.

Elaine Glass: I truly believe we can heal our bodies and we can heal our life if we just have the right information and the right messenger.

Elaine Glass: So for everyone listening, thank you for being that messenger to the world.

Elaine Glass: Keep going.

Keep learning.

Elaine Glass: And you are making the biggest difference in healing this planet.

Elaine Glass: Very nice.

Erin Power: So where can people find your book and learn more about your work and keep tabs on your upcoming coach certification program?

Elaine Glass: Everything is at my website at elaneglass.com.

Elaine Glass: You can find the book anywhere you buy your books.

Elaine Glass: I read the book.

People love to listen to that as well.

Elaine Glass: And there are visualizations in the book as well.

Elaine Glass: And the contact page at the end of the website, just be in touch.

Elaine Glass: If you're interested in the certification or anything we do, just contact us.

Elaine Glass: Let us know that you're a part of Erin's community, amazing community.

Elaine Glass: And we'll send you information if you're interested.

Erin Power: That's amazing.

Erin Power: I'm so excited you did an audio book.

Erin Power: I'm going to download it right away.

Erin Power: I love that.

Erin Power: Wow.

Erin Power: This was really nice, Elaine.

Erin Power: I thank you so much for your point of view on this.

Erin Power: And I'm so excited to learn more from you by listening to your book.

Erin Power: And maybe I'll jump into your certification once it's ready to go in 2026.

Elaine Glass: Thanks, Erin.

Elaine Glass: I really appreciate our time together.

Elaine Glass: It's been really, really wonderful.

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