Choosing A Different Future With Siris  Welcome to our heartfelt sequel to the “Honoring Those Who Have Passed” episode from 2022. This year, we invite you to join us in honoring the lives that have touched ours. We earnestly, gratefully and tenderly ask that you send us the names and messages for your loved ones who passed in 2023 or any other time. Let's celebrate their legacies, fostering connections beyond time and space. Life’s challenges, from illness to loss, often leave us feeling...

Choosing A Different Future With Siris  Toxic relationships can exist in your personal and your professional life and can deplete you in so many ways. They can leave you feeling stressed, overwhelmed, and frustrated because life seems to be running you instead of you running life? Have you looked into how often you put the needs of others ahead of your own? Taken an inventory of the health of your current dynamics? The issue could be people pleasing in the midst of a toxic relationship. In...

Choosing A Different Future With Siris  Have you ever found yourself questioning your life choices after a relationship ends? It’s a sentiment many can relate to. The end of a relationship can leave us feeling lost and afraid, but with the right tools, you can rediscover our joy. In this episode, we delve deep into the realm of post-breakup healing with Siris Raquel Rivas-Verdejo, a seasoned Life Coach, Self-Care Specialist, Speech-Language Pathologist, and Therapeutic Energy Worker. With...

Choosing A Different Future With Siris  Have you played with kink or polyamory? What have your experiences been? What do you do when a play scene goes array or when there is a breakup in your polycule? It often doesn’t just affect you, but multiple people, homes, or spaces so it’s important to have ways to navigate these situations with more ease. Preparation, self-awareness, and communication are all key to this in addition to having a more informed and nuanced perspective beyond right and...

Choosing A Different Future With Siris  How would you describe the experience of discovering your passion and then unexpectedly losing it? Have you ever had a moment where it seemed like a part of yourself was suddenly missing, and what was that like for you? Ever found yourself doubting your abilities and questioning your self-confidence? What led to those feelings? Even after experiencing all those challenges, an individual can still rediscover their true path as a creator. All it takes is...

Choosing A Different Future With Siris  What does seducing your business mean to you? Why in the world would you want to seduce your business?! What do you already know about seduction that you could use to take your business to the next level? This isn’t about marketing. This isn’t about accounting. This is receiving with and through your business in a way you haven’t considered before! In this episode, Siris Raquel Rivas-Verdejo, will highlight some tips to flirt your way to a more...

Choosing A Different Future With Siris  Like many of us, I grew up on Disney Movies and they played a huge role in my childhood, and I still revisit them as an adult. When you start to delve into their messages about relationships through the eyes of a conscious, empowered adult you realize there are A LOT of points of views that we may have internalized, and even created as a part of our lives. Have you chosen things or people that matched the narratives or themes of some of those movies?...

Choosing A Different Future With Siris  Energetic Hygiene is important for overall health and well-being particularly mental-emotional health. When things get stressful and you start to feel more anxious, it’s easy and very common to put the very self-care routines and habits to the side that could keep you afloat. Next thing you know, you’re sinking and wondering how you got there. In this episode, Siris Raquel Rivas-Verdejo, Life Coach, Therapeutic Energy Worker, and the Creator of the...

Choosing A Different Future With Siris  We discussed how relationships can lead us toward knowing and respecting ourselves better or lead us astray on our previous episode “When You’re Relationships Influence You Away from Exuberant Living.” Now, we get to talk about how to choose the dynamics that expand our worlds through intimacy with the Door Openers and Influencers, two interwoven categories of the Elements of Living (EoLs). In this episode, Siris Raquel Rivas-Verdejo, Life Coach,...

Choosing A Different Future With Siris  Building your confidence requires considering multiple factors. When someone feels powerless, worthless or loss, partnering with their body and awakening the powers within them allows them to feel clearer on their past, present, and future so that they can take action, shifting effortlessly from one way of being, speaking, receiving and creating to another with ease. Without an awareness of the Powers, a category of the Elements of Living, people...

Choosing A Different Future With Siris  What are children’s bodies trying to tell you? Children’s developmental age, interests, state of mind, mood or behavior can provide a lot of information and it’s just the beginning! As we have discussed in Part 1 HERE and Part 2 HERE, they are super tapped into their bodies and aware of energy. What if that was an invitation for you to perceive and receive more so that you can have a greater understanding of their needs, how you can advocate for them,...

Choosing A Different Future With Siris  Do you know anyone raising children with unique needs? One? Two? More? Each one, balls to juggle while spinning plates and oh wait, where do your needs come into play? What if we could meet everyone’s needs and have the entire family thrive? Join Siris Raquel Rivas-Verdejo, Family-Child Coach, Speech-Language Pathologist and Learning-Behavioral Specialist, with her mother, best friend, business partner and travel companion, Zulma I. Verdejo-Carrion,...

Choosing A Different Future With Siris  What is your Inner Child trying to tell you? Many of us are experiencing ups and downs and all arounds and we can find ourselves desiring more joy and wonder. The Discoverers are a category of the Elements of Living (EoLs) that partner beautifully with your body and your intrinsic compass to guide you when you feel lost or are looking to awaken your sense of wonder and curiosity once again. There are many ways Discoverers can assist you in knowing...

Choosing A Different Future With Siris  Do you overthink how others feel about you and run on a hamster wheel in your mind in an effort to find ways to keep others happy? Are you drained at the end of the day because you're overwhelmed with all your duties, obligations and meeting others' expectations? Is a good day defined by how much approval you received from the people in your life? Are you secretly (or not so secretly) angry at people who tell you no? If you answered yes to any of these...

Choosing A Different Future With Siris  It may seem like an odd source for inspiration, but in my personal journey post trauma of evolving, healing and resilience and facilitating it with others, I have found humor helpful, and the stories and experiences shared by stand-up comedians incredibly beneficial. Their vulnerability, irreverence and strength through their jokes, self-deprecation and choices can start to shine a light on a path forward that we wouldn’t otherwise have perceived or...

Choosing A Different Future With Siris  Back in 2018, I facilitated a conversation on “Have You Been Told the World Would Be Better without People with Special Needs?” which opened the door to an exploration of the messaging we are told not just about people with special needs, but also about those from marginalized groups, different minorities and people with identities that are less understood or valued by mainstream society. A better world is possible when we illuminate ourselves on the...

Choosing A Different Future With Siris What or who influences us? Relationships can lead us toward knowing and respecting ourselves better or lead us astray. If you’ve asked yourself, “What’s wrong with me?” “How did I get here?” “Who am I?” while in relationship with someone or wondered if you are creating a codependent dynamic, this episode is for you. Furthermore, when we uncover, acknowledge, and embrace the Elements of Living (EoLs), including our Influencer selves, we can have clarity...

Choosing A Different Future With Siris  Are you a sexual healer? What would it look like for you to use sexual healing to your advantage more? People can use their innate gifts with bodies, energy, and healing to add energy, joy, clarity and abilities to their repertoire. What would you like to add to your life? In this episode, Siris Raquel Rivas-Verdejo, Body Relationship Coach and Therapeutic Energy Worker, will provide questions, examples, and action steps on how anyone can use sexual...

Choosing A Different Future With Siris  There are so many movies that have pleasure and intimacy in them and sometimes it’s tricky to know which are actually good representations of what is possible and which aren’t. Wondering what movies would be great for giving you insight into pleasure and intimacy? Have you considered exploring some films out of your comfort zone and not sure where to start? Not all movies are created equal and you don’t need to rely on pornography for tips. In this...

Choosing A Different Future With Siris  When our body has an awareness that is counter to what is showing up so far it can be uncomfortable and in more extreme cases painful or deadly. What can we do when our body is asking for something different? In this episode, Siris Raquel Rivas-Verdejo, Life Coach and Therapeutic Energy Worker, will guide listeners on the various ways our bodies can be trying to let us know that they desire something else, and clear steps we can take to honor our...

Choosing A Different Future With Siris  Do you know anyone raising children with unique needs? One? Two? More? Each one, balls to juggle while spinning plates and oh wait, where do your needs come into play? What if we could meet everyone’s needs and have the entire family thrive? Join Siris Raquel Rivas-Verdejo, Family-Child Coach, Speech-Language Pathologist and Learning-Behavioral Specialist, with her mother, best friend, business partner and travel companion, Zulma I. Verdejo-Carrion,...

Choosing A Different Future With Siris  What are children’s bodies trying to tell you? Children’s bodies are constantly sending us messages. Their behavior, their words or their lack of words can be a doorway for us to walk through to get to know their inner world. They are deeply connected and tapped into their bodies so if we are willing to lean into our inner knowing and partner with our bodies, as we engage, play, and communicate with them, we can better figure out what they require. What...

Choosing A Different Future With Siris  What are the signs that you’re in a codependence? What if relationships could be a co-creative process where they could be mutually beneficial for everyone involved? In order to have your Phantastical Voice and be true to yourself, it’s important to know how to say “No” and yet it’s one of the hardest things for us to do sometimes especially if we haven’t had great models for how to do it. In order to respect and love yourself and those you’d like to...

Choosing A Different Future With Siris  Does the age old pattern of codependence have you ditching yourself? Abandoning what’s important to you to take care of other people’s needs or wants and burying your own dreams to prioritize others’ dreams? If so, you’re not alone. This is a real epidemic that plagues too many modern women. But there is hope. There is a way to break free from self-abandonment and come home to yourself. In this episode, Megan Walrod, Mentor in the Art of Brave Living,...