Gift Of Pure Presence: The Love Series
Welcome to a transformative journey dedicated to the profound essence of love and relationships. At the heart of every connection, the purest and most enduring gift we can offer is love—a love that recognizes the brilliance and divinity within each of us. It’s a love that transcends, a way of being and relating that acts as a mirror reflecting the greatness and divinity residing in others.
As we approach the holiday season, my deepest aspiration is for families worldwide to seize this time to mend, fortify, and enrich their relationships. The Gift Of Pure Presence is my contribution to aid you in this noble pursuit.
This 30-day expedition we’re embarking upon holds the potential to cultivate a remarkable ability within you—to harmonize the dualities that exist within yourself, within your household, and extend far beyond. It’s a transformative odyssey, promising to reshape and elevate every relationship you hold dear.
Your choice to accompany us in this adventure signifies a commitment to amplify your impact and extend your influence like never before.
Join us as we delve deeper into the layers of love, unveiling the secrets of profound connection and the nuances of meaningful relationships.
Together, let’s embrace The Gift Of Pure Presence and embark on this remarkable path toward deeper connections and boundless love.
Day One
The greatest gift we can ever give, and the greatest legacy we can ever pass on is love. The kind of love that sees the greatness and Divinity within others. This is a higher way of loving and being in relationship with one another where we, through our presence and listening, become mirrors to the greatness and Divinity within one another. When we show up for others in this way, we become a catalyst igniting a remembrance of who they truly are.
As the holiday season approaches, it is my deepest desire that families around the world will use this time to repair, strengthen, and deepen their relationships. The Gift Of Pure Presence is my gift to you to support you on that journey.
If you choose to engage with us on this 30 day journey, you will develop a greater ability to harmonize the polarities within yourself, in your home, and beyond. This is a journey that has the power to transform every relationship you have.
I am so honored to have the extraordinary Sarah Stone join me on this wonderful journey. I am honoring and celebrating you for your decision to become even more impactful with your ripple effect by joining us on this adventure.
Day Two
I believe our greatest longing is to be deeply seen and cherished for who we are- messiness and all, yet how many of our conversations remain at the transactional or superficial level?
What does it look like to truly and deeply connect, and how can we develop the ability to become that safe space emotionally for those in our lives?
Join us in this conversation where I also share my personal experience of how a conversation with a friend shifted the trajectory of my life.
Day Three
Our most sacred and challenging relationships are with those we are closest to. This is why our emotionally intimate relationships hold the keys to our greatest The ability to be present in powerful ways to those we care most about will
To be present for others in this way requires the courage to feel. Today we explore the role and power of the willingness to feel with another human being, and how even our own heartbreak can become a blessing that enables us to be the change we want to see in the world.
Day Four
How do you determine the health of a relationship? It is the absence of conflict, or having the amount of happy moments outweigh the challenging ones? Is it based on how we feel being around the other person?
As a society, we tend to understand the principle that when you workout and feel the burn, that is a good thing because it makes you stronger. Does that principle apply to our hearts with emotional pain? Can the challenge/resistance/friction from being with someone who may be your perfect opposite in many ways become the necessary force to catapult you into a higher level of functioning?
In this discussion, Sarah and I explore how we will not experience deep internal peace, or the power to love resiliently from trying to minimize/avoid the challenge/resistance/friction, or in trying to heal our human hearts. Rather, the magic is created as we surrender to allow the human heart to completely break. To shatter. To melt away through the refiner’s fire . . . for our higher nature to emerge.
Day Five
Have you ever felt like you wanted to connect more deeply with people, but not sure exactly what that would look like, or how to actually get there?
This has been the story of my life . . . the longing for deep emotional intimacy, yet fearing it at the same time, and messing up attempts at it. In this conversation, we explore The Ladder of Emotional Intimacy, what gets in the way, and why developing the ability to be safe emotionally for others is the best gift you can give anyone you care about.
Day Six
Who do you believe yourself to be? What do you believe defines who you are?
Who we believe ourselves to be determines what we believe we deserve, what we magnetize to us, how we interpret our experiences, how we see others, and what we believe is possible in our lives. What external factors or experiences have we allowed to influence our worth and value?
Today, I will bring you through an experience of identifying your view of self, so grab your pen and paper and join us as we begin our journey inward.
Day Seven
You are so much more than you may even know.
Individually and collectively, we have forgotten who we truly are.
Today, we explore who we truly are . . . our Divine identity, inherent worth and value, higher purpose for our lives, and our direct access to a Higher Power.
Day Eight
Have you ever felt lonely even when surrounded by people close to you? It can feel like an emptiness, a void, or like something is missing. What causes this?
When we feel this way, we search for something or someone to fill that void, emptiness, or loneliness. We look externally for validation, acknowledgment, success, relationships, or physical intimacy to create the fulfillment we seek. When that doesn’t work, we begin to self-soothe through shopping, substances, distractions, work, food, excessive exercise, sex, etc.
The truth is that nothing and no one else can fill this emptiness for us. What we have been searching for outside of ourselves has actually always been within us. Spiritual Fragmentation is the disconnection or separation from the Divinity within us (the source of our validation, peace, love, safety, fulfillment, and a sense of purpose). It is the root cause of our loneliness and internal turmoil, which leads to the breakdown of relationships and, ultimately, human disconnection. Join us as we explore this today.
Day Nine
Have you ever felt lonely even when surrounded by people close to you? It can feel like an emptiness, a void, or like something is missing. What causes this?
When we feel this way, we search for something or someone to fill that void, emptiness, or loneliness. We look externally for validation, acknowledgment, success, relationships, or physical intimacy to create the fulfillment we seek. When that doesn’t work, we begin to self-soothe through shopping, substances, distractions, work, food, excessive exercise, sex, etc.
The truth is that nothing and no one else can fill this emptiness for us. What we have been searching for outside of ourselves has actually always been within us. Spiritual Fragmentation is the disconnection or separation from the Divinity within us (the source of our validation, peace, love, safety, fulfillment, and a sense of purpose). It is the root cause of our loneliness and internal turmoil, which leads to the breakdown of relationships and, ultimately, human disconnection. Join us as we explore this today.
Day Ten
How often do you check in with those closest to you on your impact on them?
I remained stuck in the energy of blame until I was willing to look honestly in the mirror to realize how what was happening internally for me was rippling/oozing unintentionally into my relationships. This is an ongoing journey of discovery that will shift the trajectory of our lives and our ripple effect.
I discovered that what I was searching for externally had to be found within. Today, I share my journey of identifying my spiritual fragmentation and how it impacted me and those I love.
Read the article: Unlocking Enduring Love: A Path to Sustainable Relationships
Download the Journal: Gift of Pure Presence Journal
Day Eleven
Have you ever felt like, despite your best intentions, you do things that sabotage your relationships?
This has been the story of my life and something that has fueled my search to understand root causes. As a young mom, I saw polarities within myself: my whole-hearted desire to break unhealthy generational patterns that was in direct conflict with how my body instinctively wanted to react to certain situations.
From my personal experience and the sacred honor of working deeply with people worldwide, I discovered that our human survival instincts will sabotage our relationships. I call this our Human Default Setting.
Today, we explore the impact our upbringing has on our default setting and our capacity to override this default setting, to transmute anything that is a low vibration, to show up intentionally, and to make a difference for others.
Day Twelve
It has been a fascinating journey to be taken into the most private aspects of people’s lives from diverse upbringings and backgrounds and discover common human tendencies that derail our relationships. When two people desire to repair their relationship or connect deeply, why do our natural responses to one another inevitably create distance, division, and further disconnection?
It has become undeniably clear that our survival instincts sabotage our relationships.
Our human mind, body, and heart (human nature) operate in self-preservation (the frequency of fear), which causes us to struggle, settle, or fail in relationships.
When we are willing to recognize our Human Default Setting, we become empowered to shift and choose a new way of showing up in our relationships.
Day Thirteen
What is our ripple effect?
When spiritually fragmented, our Human Default Setting becomes our operating system/automatic way of being.
Living this way creates a world where people never truly see each other. Can you feel this?
This is the root cause of human disconnection and division in our homes, organizations, communities, countries, and world.
Our automaticity must be overridden if we are committed to showing up intentionally and with purpose.
How is this impacting you and your loved ones personally?
Check your vibrational frequency:
Day Fourteen
What is our ripple effect?
When spiritually fragmented, our Human Default Setting becomes our operating system/automatic way of being.
Living this way creates a world where people never truly see each other. Can you feel this?
This is the root cause of human disconnection and division in our homes, organizations, communities, countries, and world.
Our automaticity must be overridden if we are committed to showing up intentionally and with purpose.
How is this impacting you and your loved ones personally?
Check your vibrational frequency:
Day Fifteen
How we see and interpret people and experiences varies greatly depending on whether we see them through human eyes or see beyond the human aspects to their Divinity.
To become present to others in a way that we become a mirror to the light within them, we need to be aware of how we see others. Today, we begin this exploration with an experience of doing just that.
Please bring your pen and paper and come willing to be in discovery without expectations or judgments.
Day Fifteen
Are our relationships adaptive and allow us and our loved ones to evolve? Do those closest to us feel like they have the ability to influence the relationship?
Our ability to be grounded as we listen to others is paramount in creating a safe space for others to feel seen and understood. One way to enhance our ability to do this is to develop a practice of Present Moment Processing: a process of turning inward to honor our emotional experiences in a way that allows us to discover what is coming up for us responsibly.
When we can be with and learn from our own emotional experiences, we can do the same for others and shift from reactively oozing to understanding and intentionally responding.
Today, we explore this process together and discuss how this can impact our lives and relationships.
Hey, I’m Carie
I have invested over 24 years studying and working with relationships, human development, psychology, healing attachment wounds and trauma, and integrative health and wellness.
My work with clients from all over the world along with my own personal healing journey led to my discovery of the part within each of us that is unbreakable, and how we each can activate our ability to heal from within, expand due to differences, and successfully co-create innovative solutions to challenges around us.
I now work with highly conscious change makers who courageously answer the call they feel to use their gifts, influence, and resources towards a cause bigger than themselves and amplify their meaningful ripple effect in the world.
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Meet Carie Bailey
I have invested over 24 years studying and working with relationships, human development, psychology, healing attachment wounds and trauma, and integrative health and wellness. My work with clients from all over the world along with my own personal healing journey led to my discovery of the part within each of us that is unbreakable, and how we each can activate our ability to heal from within, expand due to differences, and successfully co-create innovative solutions to challenges around us. I now work with highly conscious change makers who courageously answer the call they feel to use their gifts, influence, and resources towards a cause bigger than themselves and amplify their meaningful ripple effect in the world.
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