Melanie McGhee
LCSW, EFT
Free
Peace of Mind Expert
Melanie McGhee Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Confidence and Self-Acceptance and Inner Peace
- Best Sellers
- An Illumined Life
- Career Focus
- Author, Speaker, Psychotherapist, Personal Coach, Retreat Facilitator, EFT
- Affiliation
- National Association of Social Workers, Ewomen Network, and the East Tennessee Coaches Association
Melanie McGhee, L.C.S.W. is an award-winning author, relationship expert, psychotherapist and spiritual coach. She is also the founder of Abhimukti Yoga Coaches - providing coaches training to yoga teachers.
For more than 25 years, she has been helping people cultivate rich relationships with themselves, others and Life. A long-time yoga practitioner and meditator, Melanie sees relationship as one of Life’s perfect practice spaces for experiencing yoga. Melanie's experiences and training led her to create a coaches training for yoga teachers. Her understanding of the sanskrit term yoga is that it means union with the Divine in yourself, others and Life. It is her intention to generously share tools and practices that support your personal and spiritual growth, using relationship as the practice ground. In this way, you learn to take your relationship with yourself, with others and with Life to the next level, exploring and practicing the yoga of relationship.
Free Articles & Book Excerpts
Melanie McGhee Audio & Video Programs
Reclaim YOUR Life & Learn to Live in Balance
http://www.peacefruit.com/reclaim-your-life-and-lea -to-live-in-balance/
Clear Your Money Fears Teleclass
http://www.1shoppingcart.com/SecureCart/SecureCart.aspx?mid=464DB665-979F-43F0-B200-D914D7EBE76C&pid=422a3ee6790e9c862afe1b4a5af1666f&bn=1
Release Pain Reclaim Health
https://wahmcart.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi?adminid=2288&pid=4631&quickbuy=1
Say YES to Better Health CD
https://wahmcart.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi?adminid=2288&pid=5840&quickbuy=1
Say YES to Better Health Download
https://wahmcart.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi?adminid=2288&pid=5839&quickbuy=1
2010 Message - Jou ey to Great Self-Awareness
https://wahmcart.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi?adminid=2288&pid=6059&quickbuy=1
Melanie McGhee Books
Articles by this expert
SelfGrowth articles and saved writing connected to this expert.
Article
Patience as a Refe ece Point
I went to see my daughters for an all too brief visit not long ago. This trip landed smack dab in the middle of several stressors that aren't part of my usual routines; the car was having trouble, house repairs from storm damage were underway and some critters that were supposed to live outside were making their homes in my home. I was ready for a little break from all the doing and chaos.r
Recently added
Article
Gather ye Rosebuds
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may” is perhaps my favorite line of Robert Herrick’s poem, To Virgins, to Make Much of Time. Remember this poem? Maybe you’ve never heard it. Maybe you have and you’ve forgotten it.r
Recently added
Article
Dancing With Time
“Come out of the circle of time, and into the circle of love.” ~ Rumi As this month draws to a close, I’m sitting cozy in my office, three large dogs sacked out on the floor around me, while sheets of ice fall from the sky. This is by no means a typical winter day in east Tennessee. I’m finishing up the final touches on my “plan” for the year — all the while knowing that God is laughing.
Recently added
Article
Dance Like No One's Watching
“What the hell; you are what you are, and self honesty occupies a definite and vital part in the ever-growing process to become a real human being and not a plastic one.” ~Bruce Lee
Recently added
Article
Serve the One You’re With
Recently, several of the yoga coaches I’ve trained were talking about how their class and client numbers are down. I shared a few tips with them about how to bring those numbers back up coming from a dharmic place of service. If that’s also been a challenge for you, this might help. I invite you to come into this inquiry from a heart felt place of service. That’s a good place to start.
Recently added
Article
Moments of Transcendent Awareness
The sun streamed through the late southern summer afte oon in golden rays. And, there I stood in front of my grandmother’s mirror. It seemed huge and somehow magical to me. This was not the first time I stood in front of that mirror. My grandmother often placed me in front of that mirror and told me that it was magic. I just had to look long enough to spot the magic. Whenever I was upset about something or I did something wrong, she would stand me in front of that mirror and say, “You just stand there and look at yourself until you see God looking back. Then come talk to me.”r
Recently added
Article
The Dance of Mindfulness and Thanksgiving
This time of year, many of us in the U.S. turn towards the practice of thanks giving –giving thanks. For me, this comes down to a very simple yet fruitful practice, mindfulness. Being mindfully thankful for the simplest gifts of life coupled with sense awareness not only gifts me with the Presence in the present moment, but with a very tangible interconnected thankfulness. Slowing down and using my senses to be present for as many moments as I can, brings me to a heightened awareness of the simple gifts of life for which I’m thankful.
Recently added
Article
Cultivating Sustainable Personal Peace
We each have the power to cultivate sustainable personal peace, build greater confidence and create fulfilling relationships. It’s a jou ey that can begin with intention and a willingness to love YOU, that much. Love yourself as if you are worthy of the greatest gifts life can offer. From my point of view, what greater gifts are there but a heart full of peace and fulfilling relationships?
Recently added
Article
What is Beauty?
I was recently asked by a friend of mine, Ramona Rice of DeStress Express to share my thoughts about beauty. What a great contemplation! In this day and age with so much focus on exte al beauty, I have loved thinking about what I find beautiful and when I’ve seen beauty. For me, beauty boils down to one quality, ease of being.
Recently added
Article
The Most Loving Act Part 2
In my last blog I wrote about my plans to travel with my father. By now, we have launched ourselves into the trip and I am in Turkey attempting to remember a language I spoke about 4 decades ago. The point of last week’s post was acceptance. Accepting yourself and others for who they are and how that is a most deeply loving act. This time, I want to focus on the balancing act that comes with acceptance in a relationship; the balance between accepting a person just as they are and not losing yourself or your own needs in the process.
Recently added
Article
Immerse Yourself in the Ocean of the Heart
The yogi who is established in a steady posture easily becomes immersed in the ocean of the heart.rn ~ Shiva Sutra 3.16 As I reflect on this sutra, what is most compelling to me is the phrase “ocean of the heart.” As we all know, the ocean can be still and smooth as a mirror reflecting the thousands of tiny diamond lights of the sun. Or, it can be swirling with tumultuous waves reflecting a sky of darkened clouds. In the same way, the heart can be calm and serene or it can flutter with anger and anxiety.r
Recently added
Article
Trust Yourself or Trust Your Yoga Teacher?
Another yoga rock star, John Friend, has fallen, see this NY TImes Article. The unfortunate truth about people in power is that they sometimes abuse that power. Initially, these abuses of power are not typically grand. They are small betrayals that can lead up to big abuses if left unchecked. And we, as students and teachers are all vulnerable when we ignore those small betrayals, when we trust our teachers more than ourselves.
Recently added
Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Melanie McGhee
As a longtime meditator, I founded Illumined Life, LLC to help people build better relationships with themselves, others and God. I aim to be respectfully adept in supporting my clients release the emotional and cognitive blocks that keep them from living fully. I am committed to self-acceptance, helping people learn to experience themselves without the inhibition of self judgment, self evaluation and self criticism. For I see such acceptance as a means to more fully connect with the divine in one’s self and in others.
I’ve been lucky to have exceptional teachers. They have helped me develop my communication skills, especially teaching me to listen deeply and with compassion. Through the grace of such teachers, I’ve found and cultivated the insight and intuition that resides in each of us. Using skill and insightful listening, I am committed to helping people free themselves of emotional pain and supporting them as they craft richly fulfilling lives.
For more than 20 years, I have been helping people engage more fully in life, attain their goals and reach their potential in what I hope to be an atmosphere of unconditional acceptance and respect. In addition to maintaing my psychotherapy and coaching practice, I have worked with individuals and groups in boardrooms, the deep wilde ess and a variety of retreat sites. Among the organizations I have served are NASA, Methodist Medical Center, Baptist Hospital, Tennessee Valley Authority, Michigan Unemployment, the SYDA Foundation and the US Army.
Contacting Melanie McGhee
Give me a call or send me an email
865-384-4104
melanie@illuminedlife.com
How to get started
Visit my website http://www.illuminedlife.com or give me a call 865-384-410.