Sophia Peng_Amanda Interview

In this podcast episode, host Sophia interviews Amanda Kemp, a life coach at IOIHS. Amanda shares that she has been practicing various modalities like NLP, hypnosis, astrology, Reiki, and sound healing for four years and decided to become a coach to help others. Coaching is different from therapy as it focuses on moving forward and creating a strategic plan to reach goals. Amanda compares coaching to having a coach in sports who helps athletes improve their performance. She believes that coaching is beneficial for anyone looking to make a change or transition in their life. Amanda incorporates energy work into her coaching practice to clear blockages and help clients build new things in their lives. She believes that everything we go through is a building block for growth. Amanda also introduces her coaching program called GREATER, which stands for Guide, Reflect, Energy, Awareness, Truth, Evolve, and Remembering You. Each step helps clients align with their beliefs, reflect on their s Hi, welcome to the first episode of our informal podcast for the Institute of Integrative Health Specialists. My name is Sophia and I'm your host and also the public relations director at IOIHS. And today I'm here with Ms. Amanda Kemp, who is a soul-centered life coach and she's been with IOIHS for, oh, how many months now? Yeah, almost a year. And she's super, super awesome. And today she's going to be talking to us about her coaching program, GREATER, and also why coaching is a super helpful and exciting part of her practice. So I did introduce you a little bit, but I'm going to give you the opportunity to say a little bit more. Yeah, tell us a little bit more about yourself, Amanda. Well, I am Amanda, of course. I'm a life coach. I deal with NLP, which is Neurologic Logistics Programming, hypnosis, an astrologer, a Reiki practitioner, and sound healer as well. I've been doing all these practices, I want to say intentionally, over the past four years. But I've naturally done everything all my life. And I decided to go ahead and take a step in really serving and helping other people. So I decided to go full tilt in this direction. I worked for another company prior to, for about 15 years. And I did move around, but it was always like, what is it? And I naturally did it with the people that I worked with. So it was only natural for me to go ahead and decide to go and be intentional through my life. That's so cool. Yeah, what is coaching? Coaching will go in the lines of like therapy and counseling. But except for coaching, it has to do with helping you with a task and allowing for you to be held accountable, coming up with a actual strategic plan and how to get that done. So it's not necessarily like your therapy where you may go back in the past. It's coaching, it's more like, how do we move forward? And these are the steps to move forward. So anybody that's really trying to make a change, it is an area that you can go into that will allow for you to say, these are my goals and this is kind of where I'm trying to go. And yes, does from the past sometimes come up? Yes, because those are some things that may hinder you. But your coach is always, all right, let's go. And I always like to put it in their mind of being an athlete. Athletes naturally already have the talent that they need. They're in the sport, they're doing something and they're doing great. But they can't necessarily see on the outside what could be causing something else and not letting them go forward or what allows them to be great. And I always like to talk about, like, Phil Jackson. When you think of, like, Kobe Bryant or Michael Jordan, they have their coaches. Not to say that they were struggling athletes. They were great athletes naturally on their own. But their coach allows for them to be even better because they have that outside view that someone that they can talk to and see additional things that they could do to be better. But they put the work in themselves. So it's kind of like coaching. That's what it really is when you deal with it just on an everyday basis. It's like, I want to be even greater. And so it's like, I'm going to call on my advisor. Hey, this is kind of what I'm thinking about. And then you can kind of have that sound board. You can talk about the things that you want to do as well as being able to actually create the steps to go forward. Because sometimes you can't fully see it or you may not be looking at every area. So it's always good to have somebody that you can talk to to kind of help you move forward in those areas. When should people come to you for coaching? I think you should always have a coach on hand. I don't think there's a moment because I think, especially when you're getting ready to gear up for a new stage in your life, say a student graduated from high school. This is a good time to probably talk to a coach to kind of make your decisions on where you want to go. No knock on counselors. No knock on them. But a coach is actually building. So it's like, you know, dad, what do you want to do with your life? We're going to filter through that, but we're going to come up with some steps. I've helped plenty of high school students or even college students. And they're like, I kind of want to do that. I'm like, we've got to come up with a plan. We've got to make some moves. Kind of help them kind of remove those excuses from them because it's going to a new level. You're going from being in a state of like almost a child to being an adult. And there's some processes that need to happen. And even as an adult, there's people that want to change their job, but they don't know how to go about doing it. Or stepping into a new field or deciding I want to go ahead and, you know, do this additional thing in my life. Create this hobby or do these things. So coaching is kind of good for that. And it gives a person that goes to therapy, even if they want to go ahead and change what they're doing. So for me in particular, I have a big thing with energy. So for my coaching, I incorporate a lot of energy work to make sure that we're clearing some stuff to build new things within your life. So that's why I incorporate all the things that I do into my coaching. I can do it all out of the cart, but I love the fact that I can incorporate it because it helped me. I was my first person, my first client. And I'm all like, what do I need? And getting into coaching programs and dealing with other coaches. I have my own coach to make sure that I can talk to and get those things that I need to kind of move forward. Because sometimes I do get my own walls. I'm human. And I'm all like, I don't see. And I'm like, well, wait a second. Let's reevaluate the things that you did. And let's kind of restructure the steps that you're doing to go forward. I think anybody at any stage of wanting to get into something new or change something in their lives should always have a coach. I feel like maybe you kind of answered this. That like, you know, coaching is for everything and at all points and for anyone, of course. But I'm kind of curious because you draw this contrast between coaching and therapy. And obviously, of course, there's a lot of different overlaps. And there's different types of coaching and different types of therapy. But in your practice, just because I know that you also have all of these like sound healing or energy healing backgrounds as well. Do you find yourself working with people in more of like an emotional and like mental capacity? Or is it very like action oriented? Like here are the practices you should change in your life. For me, I think at times I have a balance of both. Because I understand that there are blockages that prevent you from going forward. So I'm like, let's address it. Let's get past that. So we can move forward. Because I can't push you to move forward because it still will be lingering. But what I will say is I don't allow for it to last long. Like let's not stay in this state because the more we stay in this state, the more we accept it so it can be here. We have to kind of like move forward. So let's talk about it. Let's do, you know, maybe a sound bath to kind of help. And then that allows for them to kind of go in. Because you kind of know your best answers for yourself. You're just probably having a hard time of accepting what those answers are or the clarity to get to that answer. So kind of usually like when you get a chance to talk about it. And then you go into a meditative state. You kind of get some of those answers. But the great thing about coaching with me is when you get out of that state, I'm all like, okay, so let's talk about what came up. And then that usually points us in a very particular direction that we need to go in order to kind of get past that. And then we can build steps on how do we deal with it. Or how do we use the situations that we've been in to use it as a building block to go where we're going. Because I feel like everything that we've gone through, I feel like it's a building block. It's a building block. It's a building block. It's a building block. It's a building block. It's a building block. It's a building block. It's a building block. It's a building block. It's a building block. It's a building block. It's a building block. It's a building block. It's a building block. It's a building block. It's a building block. 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So what GREATER is, GREATER stands for Guide, Reflect, Energy, Awareness, Truth, Evolve, and Remembering You. So you go through each step. So the guide part allows you to say what do I believe in? What do I honestly believe? What does my inner self tell me that we believe in and do I act on it? If you don't act on it, we need to make that align so it can give you more power to move forward. The reflection part is let's look at because I also believe that people are a reflection of you. So when you start getting in certain areas and you start seeing like oh man I'm around these people and they do some really great stuff. Well guess what? You're probably on your way doing some great stuff too because you're calling those things in and allowing for it to be attractive so you can see your reflection. Sometimes it's kind of irritating or you get all these situations where it's trying to teach you something so you can build upon it but how you tend to reflect on it and perceive it allows for you to go ahead and use it or not. And then you have your energy. Of course, like I said, I'm an energy person so sometimes some stuff is not said and you may write off something that happened when you were a child but it affects you as an adult but you keep writing it off and you see it crossing the street and this dog barked at you and it didn't like change but you think it's insignificant but it still plays a role and with energy healing it allows for you not to always have to say stuff but still be able to clear those things out to kind of get past those things and even with hypnosis and stuff that's an energy type of thing because that's a meditative state that you get in and then you can make stuff stop so those are some things with hypnosis and then awareness once you are aware of something you can actually make a change if you're unaware of it you can't do anything about it because you have no idea what's causing it so that's why the awareness part and then the truth so you have gained your guidance you know how you're being guided in these worlds regardless of what it is it could be a combination of different backgrounds of different cultures of their beliefs but you have found this you got your practice you got your reflection now you have your energy work because you're working on your energetic health because what you suppress tends to come out physically in some way so if I work on that energy then I can kind of get more of what I'm wanting now that I'm aware so now I can stand on my truth now I know what this is and then it gives me the E the next E, evolve I can evolve because now I know my truth I can remember who I am and I can actually stand on it and work with it wow I love it because it's so comprehensive and that these are clear steps but they're also not steps that are necessarily focused on being so clear or that through it you're supposed to have this perfect narrative or something more actually about the first letter E that you brought up, energy and what you said about how with energy healing you can get through some of these emotional baggages without needing words can you talk a bit more about that because I feel like in therapy it's all about words yes because some stuff you don't want to talk about or it hurts so much that you really can't say anything about and I feel like the more that you allow for yourself to be an energetic moment even stuff like yoga to move, to stretch to allow for the energy to find its way out so emotion is energy in motion so anytime you stop the emotion then you won't allow for the energy to proceed so it has to find a way out so when you are doing energy work it's finding its way out so what was held on to something that was bothering you it started to find its way out and I remember I heard this story one time and it was talking about how ducks release energy and they talked about how these two ducks got into a fight and they were real big they got at each other and then they like swam away from each other but as they swam away from each other they got really big and shook and almost as if they took that energy or that moment and shook it off them being ducks swimming like it never happened so when you take that and you think about your energy period, it's like how much have you let go are you still holding on to it that is bothering you and you don't even know why it's bothering you that's how it shows up, that dog that when you were a kid, when you were crossing the street and it barked at you your mom yelled at you and you were really trying to figure something out and you think it's insignificant but a part of you never got a chance to release that so when you do energy work and you're in a meditative state you may even go back to being a child I've been with people and I've done Reiki and I've picked up them being a child lonely somewhere and I'm all like, that came up for me can you tell me more about it and they're like yes, this happened and now they're rambling it off and by the end of the session I'm like I feel so good, I'm glad I got that out do you feel the same way about it? well, no, not really because the energy found it's way out the emotion escaped the emotion was released, it let go so then now it's like ok well, what can you do with it now that you know that that's happened and you no longer feel that way well you know what, now I know why I have issues with dogs I can also say you know, I can forgive my mom for that moment you know what, granted I was outside maybe singing and dancing and now as an adult I don't do it because that moment happened once I release that energy maybe I'll fall off once again I feel like singing and dancing again because now it's not such a burden because it was trapped hidden energy in me this whole time but I probably would have never gotten there had I not had this moment to be in a meditative state of any kind to be able to view it along with having somebody to talk to that's the part that I have to also say because people, we get into these situations in meditative states but sometimes they come up and then you be like, ok it was there and it's important, that's why when I do my coaching, it's important I'm all like, let's talk about it let's get on it right now so we can continue to allow for it to flow out because it may have not came up had you not gotten a chance to be there and then given the space to talk about it without judgment in a very safe environment of just, let it out there's no judgment here I want you to get it out not much shocks me when people tell me certain things but I'm all like, ok I was going to mention if you hadn't brought up and emphasized as well the importance of having that debrief afterwards because not to throw shade on all of these other ways of practicing mindfulness and self-care are really big buzzwords and people obviously have the right to practice them however they choose to part of it is if I come out of doing Pilates for an hour or trying to meditate maybe I did reach a lot of conclusions or think about a lot of things but it's hard to know what to do with that information so I really like that in your practice you have the capacity to work with people in more non-verbal forms such as through a sound bath or through an energy healing session but at the same time that coaching element is also a really strong through line can you also tell people who aren't familiar with it what sound baths are? sound baths are when you it's an ancient practice they did it way back in the day it's healing chambers because we are vibrating people I know we look solid but all of us our atoms, our molecules are constantly vibrating to create this structure and so you take sound healing and you use either Tibetan bowls which are metal form bowls that create different sounds or you have clear quartz crystal bowls or they have glass bowls but they all produce a particular sound usually geared towards the chakras you have about a hundred or so chakras but there are seven main ones which you have your crown, your third eye your throat chakra, your heart chakra sacral I mean sorry, I skipped solar plex, then sacral, then root chakra so those are your major your major chakras and the rest of them are kind of like minor nonetheless but you have these sound bowls that correlate with those sounds and those sounds is to help clear them out you get them to play in different scenes and allow for them to release what needs to be released that could be blocking again that energy, emotion the emotions that may have come up and suppressed it and for me, not everyone but most sound baths consist of just the bowls the metal bowls definitely can be placed on you and in play and like I said, they have a bunch of different versions of it but other people, like myself not only use the sound bowls because I use the clear quartz but not only the sound bowls but I have chimes, rain sticks percussion drums so there's a bunch of different sounds and your body correlates and listens to certain different sounds I know when I first get my first sound bath I could not stop moving it was weird but it was almost like I could feel the music kind of go through me and I think that's why music is so important too because depending on what kind of music you are listening to it actually aids into how you end up feeling so that's why you kind of have to be careful especially when words are put with the music those sounds create something and your body records it and creates something so when you have a sound bath it records or allows for you to release and relate it makes so much sense because that's why people if you're going to go to the gym you listen to pump up music or if you're going to a heartbreak you listen to songs you can scream to and that's why you can't listen to those too often because you're not in that state and if you want to get over it you have to start gradually changing the music to something more upbeat to keep it going so that you don't have to listen to the same heartbreak you're saying a heartbreak and don't even be like it's been two years I still listen to my songs I should be better about that that's so true I know astrology is also part of your practice could you talk more about that? that shows up in both diet and both in energy because energy is never created or destroyed so technically our bodies our energetic cells have been here for billions and billions of years so when you go to astrology it says at this moment though when you decided to enter to that vessel this is the energy that was put into this vessel at this particular time which is the human body so we are all the signs and all of the planets it just shows up differently depending on where it shows up in our houses when it comes to astrology and I love to use it because it allows for people to kind of see themselves clearly and again it gives this awareness or clarity and a sense of I can look at someone's charts I looked at it and what I'm doing now fits I have in my third house and the third house has to do with communication it's one of many things that it represents but in my third house I have Libra and I have my sun there that means I'm a Libra sun I also have my Mercury and my Pluto there so Mercury has to do with also communication and connecting with people Pluto has something to do with uncovering transformations so they are all conjunct meaning they are close together in planets and that tells me that I'm a person I'm a deep thinker I like to figure out things that are close to me and help transform me learning helps me transform but in return because in the third house it has to do with my neighborhood and my immediate community so that's why it's important for me to help my community but that's the type of thing I used to always question what do I do with my life that's why I didn't intentionally go here right away I was trying all these other positions but I was naturally constantly helping people by talking to them communication third house, right? Mercury communication and I was avoiding it thinking like oh no I like doing it but when I finally got a chance to look at my and I'm like wow that is me, that is why I like doing it and no wonder why I like to think so deep because that clue was there so it's like that, having an astrology reading that's why I bring it up in coaching that's one of the first things that we go through to kind of bring that clarity the stuff that could have been in the back of your mind I can be like oh no, that's why that's there that's been there the whole time you could, go after it I remember I'm not going to give this last example I substitute teach and I was substituting in class I forget what it's called here in school detention that's better and the students at the time because it was closer to the end of the year they didn't have much or anything to do so I asked them, I said if no one stopped you in doing anything in life, what would you do? can you give me, just write me even if it's just a paragraph, whole paper just write me something and so the kids wrote it one young lady I was like whoa she told me some things that I was all like I didn't see that coming so I said it's okay if I look at your data chart, I would love to see something and when we went through it it paralleled what she had wrote and why the things that she had went through in life was shaping her to do what she said she wanted to do and so then all the kids in class were like, you do me next and so I went by one by one and they were like Ms. Kemp how do you know that's crazy, how would you know and I'm all like no, but just go ask us life sometimes confuses us on what we need to do with our lives when we already knew what we needed to do with our lives now we start to adjust it and put it on the back burner because outside of us has told us to do something different when before we got here we already knew what we wanted to do I mean even one young man who was the biggest person that had the biggest issues come to find out, he was like a cancer sun, cancer moon and it was like oh he's super sensitive so he doesn't know how to deal with his emotions no wonder why he's in his class because he just acts out because people really bother him in ways that he can't describe it's coming out more explosive and disruptive but he needs someone to teach him that it's like his parents knew that this is what causes him to be a little bit more sensitive and act the way that he does he can actually get help or you can guide him differently so he can better manage his emotions so then he can be a better he can add to society a little bit differently than what he was that's what astrology does it allows you to kind of see yourself and anything that is put into you so you can know how to handle that and deal with yourself yeah that's really cool can I ask a question like because I'm curious just because especially a lot of the social media now like astrology is getting kind of big on tiktok and things like that and I think there's a lot of conversations around people being like oh is it real is it not real and I think people are entitled to have whatever relationship they want to have with their own astrology charts and everything but because it means so much to you I want to know like yeah how do you respond to people like if you're working with people especially in your practice who don't believe in astrology what does that mean what does that look like yeah I laughed so hard when you said because I was like yes I mean that's where it is yeah and I always laugh because it's only a snapshot of one piece of your life so it depends like when you look at it you'll see that's why I started off with saying we are all the signs and all the planets there's not one part of astrology that one person is not and that's what makes us almost God because it's like all the energy put in one space in one person and that's us so when I deal with people when they first do it I'm like just give me that information let's look at it real quick and let's see and then when I start going through it they're like whoa whoa wait wait why do you know that stuff I'm like it's right here it's not fortune telling at all because there's so many ways that it can point itself out that's just what I'm seeing because you can go to a different astrologer that's just what I see somebody else can see something different but I will say when it comes to social media again we are all the signs and all the planets that's why some people can feel disconnected to their sun sign and you're like I'm not really that well certain planets there's so much that goes into it that's the best way I can say have your chart read for you so you can better understand but we are all of it so it's very one-sided on social media when they talk about it because again most people only know their sun sign when you talk to somebody that deals with astrology you will hear them say rising sign which is how you appear to the world how you first come off how people may perceive you in the world it's related to your ascended sign and that's when the sun started to come over the horizon by the time that you were born your sun sign is your soul's purpose your ego what you want to do your vitality in life your moon sign is your subconscious your feelings when you're laid back that's what comes out it's more connected to your feminine side but nonetheless so you have your ego and you have your feminine side but nonetheless when you look at that combination of things you can kind of explain why you feel this way over the other way and then it goes even deeper if it's supported in that house or in that sign that's why your sun sign may be weak because it's in a position where it is weak and then that's why the moon sign may come out even stronger because it may be in a position where it's stronger and it's adopted so you look at all those different things it's so much deeper than what people even know because it comes from ancient times and I remember I was in class one time and they were like how did they come with astrology for one, let's be real here and they were putting different TVs and different things back then so of course people would lay back and watch the stars and then after a while you would record what was going on like okay when the stars is in this position at this time of year I tend to see these people act like this so those are thousands of thousands of gatherings of observation of what's happening so above so below they were taking those things and putting it with what's happening right now and that's so accurate because it's literally this observation of what's happening above and then paying attention to what's happening below I guarantee you next full moon pay attention to how people are I bet you people are very emotional people do things very erratically things just seem like what's happening because the energy is much much stronger because the moon is full pay attention to it so it's like that right now when Mercury retrograde is in play granted people get nervous it means a lot of different things retrograde definitely means introspect look inside but nonetheless when you have Mercury retrograde yes people will be late to work all of a sudden traffic seems more hectic, communication with other people starts to come into play all those things so when you hear these things and all the planet is going retrograde by the way people need to know that it's not just Mercury everybody it's not just Mercury all of them how quickly they get there is different like you don't want a Pluto going retrograde because that's going to stay there for some years until it moves out that sign which is a whole other thing and that affects the world as a whole not just you as an individual but again that's why I said astrology goes so so much deeper and when you actually dig through it especially on a personal level you will start to see how much it plays out really in your life I love that answer so so much because yeah I think it's so easy in a day and age where you know everything is at our fingertips right with all of the technology and the ways that we live life like through a screen to forget that the universe is so big and that there is so much that people that came before us and also just places so so much further away that we don't even know about influence the ways that we live our lives and I think it speaks a lot to you as a practitioner or like a healer that you work with people at the face to face at the very personal and what's going on and tell me exactly what's happening here and now but you're also really interested in people's energy and their non-verbal cues and then also their connection to a universe that's greater than them not to say that there's any sort of perfect combination of how people heal but it really sounds like if people come to you as a healer they're in for a really open sort of experience one that tries to take into account any possible ways that people might be reacting and not just like put them in a box so that sounds really really beautiful thank you I do want to share because I forget I want to say this about astrology my two favorite quotes one quote came from Einstein who said if your physician doesn't know astrology get a new one because certain depending on what's going on in the sky there may be good times and bad times to do certain things and then J.P. Morgan said the difference between a billionaire and a billionaire is that the billionaire uses astrology so I wanted to say those two quotes you know they said it yeah and he definitely did oh he had so much money for sure I feel like it'd be so cool and this can be for a later date or another project to dive into the history of astrology and who used it for what so I've gone ahead and done a little bit of this but how would you describe your healing philosophy hmm that's a good one how would I describe my healing philosophy um I would describe it as one as hmm I think it's like an energetic approach like everything starts with energy and approachment I think curiosity does not kill the cat but it definitely builds that hmm ooh like I said when it comes to like even a reflection thing it's like when you start paying attention to what's happening around you and the people that you're coming across and the things that you're saying about yourself you start to see how much powerful that you are so it gives you a chance to heal a little bit better yeah and it kind of it's informational input that isn't just kind of you in your head and being confused about what's going on with yourself exactly but instead of saying why is this happening to me like why is it happening for me oh my gosh yeah like why is it happening for me I think that's like I can assess personally right I'm human right along with everybody and I go through my own stuff and when I go back and I look at the things that occurred in my life whether it was you know my spouse or my kids they were always showing me something and I mean think about dating right getting into dating now I realized the people that I was attracting and I was like why am I getting these people but then I started paying attention to the conversations that were coming up and the stuff that how I felt feeling myself energetically like this makes me uncomfortable I'm unacceptable why didn't I say anything so then I cut that off I stepped back and I worked on how can I strengthen certain things that I was allowing so then when I stepped back into it I didn't and I saw a different reflection but then I noticed there was still things I could tweak stepped back out worked on that and I stepped back in and I was like look at the people that I'm attracting that means that's a reflection of me I've been doing the work so yes making sure that you feel energetically paying attention and being curious about your energy where is it going and what is it trying to tell you because it always works out in your favor it's never an issue can I ask a cheap question are you any good because you work with energy at reading people's energy have you seen those oh this is going to sound exactly like the type of question that a 21 year old college student would be asking but there's videos on YouTube how to tell if someone has a crush on you or all of those things about energy reading or how to read people do you believe in any of that stuff or do you have tips for how to read people trust your intuition because we are all if you get into the clairvoyance and the clairs don't get me to say those terms because I am horrible I think clairvoyant is an accurate one yeah it is a very popular one but if you pay attention to your intuition it usually tells you because if you think about it and my sister is the one who said it to me and I love it and she's like you've never heard anybody say I shouldn't have went with my first mind but you always hear I should have went with my first mind which is typically your intuition which tells you this is what can come from it so typically if you feel like somebody was like hmm interested and then all of a sudden someone comes to you and is like hey you should sit next to them and then most people are like no no I won't I won't they're not feeling me like that could you imagine if you did there have been so many moments when I was like I'm going to just do what my spirit just seems like go for it and even though it seems crazy I would sit next to the person but that was because I trust my intuition so the best thing I would say is trust your intuition you actually know you just are having a hard time you are in a relationship with yourself an untrusting relationship with yourself and I think that's too much to build that self-trust back up themselves because it knows it's just sometimes you have a hard time believing it especially when it's telling you to do as in just randomly sit next to this or sit here that's why sometimes people are like for some reason I decided to sit across the room instead of my usual spot but I'm glad that I did because the ceiling had fell over there trust your intuition right they were like no I ain't going to sit over there because then they would have had a story like yeah I should have sat on the other side like I first started to instead I sat back in my normal seat and that's what happened so I would tell you to trust your intuition solid advice okay everyone listening do that trust your intuition okay and I've got one last question for you this has been so so lovely tell us a bit more about what your practice at the institute of integrative health specialists look like like how can people find you well you mean like my social media or just what I do let's start with what you do and then plug your socials at the end by all means well at the institute I wear many hats when it comes to being a practitioner I do all of my services a la carte and all together so I do sound bath I do astrology readings I do Reiki and I do the life coaching which I don't necessarily like saying life coaching I like life advisors somewhere on that line but those are all the services that I offer when it comes to astrology it can be one on one readings typically about yourself it can be synergy which is you looking at your chart with somebody else whether it's like your child your mate, you get a chance to see what type of energy that you are putting into each other or what lessons you're there for each other for and then I do bust beyond so when you first have your child it's a better understanding again there are so many possibilities of how energy can go but at this particular time I can tell you better how to navigate with your child through that type of chart but it has to be after your child is born because I need to date and time in order to do it have people come to you before their child has been born? yes and I'm all like I can't I can't do it because it's speculation at this moment where do I go funny thing is you can actually do that with starting a business you can do a natal chart for starting a business because that's you giving birth to something or an event you can do an astrology chart and everything for that because it's a date and time that you want to do my whole mind goes into this planetary days, times when it comes to astrology but nonetheless I can do all of those things for you and when it comes to sound baths I do sound baths whether it's in a group or I can also do it individually on the second Sundays of every month I do a vibrant vibe and that's when we get a chance to vibe out right we do some journaling we do some breath work meditation, sound baths and then back to some more journaling because I think it's important so you can kind of do your self check like how you first started off when we came in and I gave you a topic and like write about it and then by the end of everything you can see how your intuition spoke to you because it gives you that chance to go ahead and journal again right after the sound bath and then after all that then we fellowship we talk about the things that may have came up and then we help each other and we talk about different things and then that is it for the vibrant vibe and then with the coaching it's with NLP hypnosis so again I'm just learning how your brain works and helping you out and figuring out how can we reprogram what's going on to make it benefit you a little bit better and I always say go for the program the greater program because it embodies everything that I do all in one and it's a 3 month and a 6 month program if you do 3 months it's giving you the basis of how to do it and if you choose to go to the 6 month it incorporates the basics but it also allows you to make it practical within your life got it that sounds awesome right it's like checking in and then you get to actually put it into practice and then check in again that's awesome well that was our interview with Ms. Amanda Kemp our Soul Centered Life Coach at the Institute of Integrative Health Specialists we love her and so I'm just going to do a quick outro so yeah if you're interested in any appointments with IOIHS our office number is 832-363-5588 and you can find us on our website or call to schedule an appointment and Amanda do you want to do a quick plug for your own socials oh sure well best way I would just say Facebook is just my name Amanda M. Kemp and then with Instagram it's awaken.your.power. your.power. well I'm sorry scratch that it's awaken your divine power beautiful that's how I usually use it A-W-A-K-E-N and then you break it up with period so awaken your divine power perfect ok thank you so much