Carlie Maree - Soul Modes: You are not one ordinary woman. Youre four extraordinary ones.

Soul Modes

You are not one ordinary woman.

Youre four extraordinary ones.

Carlie Maree

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2021 Carlie Maree

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This book explores the topics of mood and mindset in a way that will be new to many people. It speaks to those who are physically, mentally and emotionally well and not currently affected by trauma or illness. Please consider the support and guidance of medical and mental health professionals, when exploring how the themes in this book might apply to your own experience. This is personal development, and not designed to interfere with or replace any kind of therapy.

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To my soul sisters. The ones who have walked with me and allowed me to pick their brains and probe their lives. This is yours as much as it is mine.

To Harry and Aria. My children and my greatest teachers. I love you.

To my lover. The man who has my back, rocks my body, and soothes my soul. None of this would be, without you.

This book is for all the women who think theyre anything other than brilliant, amazing, and capable of anything. The ones who question themselves. The ones who are up-and-down and all-over-the-place.

The ones who read the self-help books and watch the motivational videos and yet cant quite get the momentum and consistency theyre craving. The ones who start things but dont seem to stick to them.

That was me. Id wondered if I was crazy. Until the day I heard the words very clearly in my own mind There is nothing wrong with you.

I was newly separated, dating a new man, and had an unplanned baby in my belly.

My life looked nothing like the way Id planned it.

I cycled between overwhelmed, exhausted, miserable, excited, thrilled, renewed, and ready to take on the world, and then back to overwhelmed again.

There is nothing quite like being in a place of complete uncertainty to get you to really look at how youre doing life.

I went on a mission to figure myself out. At the suggestion of a therapist, I started writing down how I felt each day. I began paying attention to what I needed in order to feel okay, as well as to what I was craving in my day. Time alone, time with friends, meditating, dancing, new clothes, old photos, cleaning, resting I noted it all down.

I started reading different kinds of books. I began exploring crystals, energy, and quantum theories. I paid attention to the moon and noticed what I felt in its different phases. Being pregnant, I wasnt experiencing a menstrual cycle, but I was interested in hormones and how they affect our state of mind.

The more I studied, the more I tuned in and paid attention to myself, the more I realised that I was experiencing a very distinct pattern within myself. There was a rhythm to the up and down, an order in the chaos.

But the frustrating part was that I couldnt seem to line it up with anything.

It didnt seem to be the moon or any menstrual pattern that was causing it. I couldnt explain what was driving the very clear cycle of fluctuations in mood, motivation, and mindset that I was experiencing.

I refused to accept that I was just a hormonal, up-and-down, impossible-to-please, female human. I knew there was more to it than that.

I knew there was magic within my madness.

And I was right.

Women are magic.

But also, were tired.

We are powerful. Were here to change the world.

Yet we are living in a society that isnt set up for us to thrive.

Ive made it my mission to understand how women work what drives us and what holds us back. Ive conducted studies and gained feedback from women all over the globe on how they feel and how they tick.

Soul Modes has become a lifelong research project for me. I have dug and delved and discovered so much about this phenomenon, but also, I know there is more to uncover.

The more I talk and write and converse about this concept, the more it reveals itself to me.

I picked up a book recently while getting inspired to write this one. In the introduction, the author states that the book is a reflection of where she was at the time of writing it, and that she reserves the right to change her mind about whats in it.

That really stuck with me because its so true that a fear of changing our minds about something prevents so many of us from sharing what we know to be true.

And so, I will say this:

This book is part one of what I think will be quite a ride ahead. I believe this little theory of mine is just the tip of a very beautiful and powerful iceberg.

It takes courage to talk about something new. It requires vulnerability to stand up and say, I have something to share.

No matter what your message is, its not going to be for everybody.

But I know this - the message of this book is for many. Its for any woman - or anyone who loves a woman - who gives herself a hard time sometimes. Any woman who wishes she was better at things. Any woman who would love to be more consistent.

For a long time, we have been bombarded with advice on how to live. We read books telling us why we should wake up at 5:00 a.m., or work at certain intervals, or exercise at particular times, or eat specific things. And maybe for a time, those protocols feel good, but its rare that a system sticks long term.

And when something we committed to doesnt stick, we can start telling ourselves, See? I suck.

I hope this book is the end of that for you.

I hope that:

1) It will be easier to create consistent results in your life.

2) You will think differently about what it means to be consistent.

I conducted a survey recently, and more than half of the women polled said that they often feel exhausted.

As I read through answer after answer, I felt so sad. I felt their collective sense of depletion.

The women of the world cannot achieve what we are here to do if we are all running on empty.

It all only works if we feel good.

And different things are going to make us feel good on different days.