Meet Carolyn
Carolyn Candela is a life coach, writer, and yoga instructor based in Bend, Oregon. In early 2024, Carolyn found herself in a life-altering situation. After suffering from persistent, mysterious illnesses for two years, she discovered black mold in her home. This discovery forced her to get rid of most of her belongings and move out of her home of 5 years. Reluctant to sign another lease, Carolyn chose to live a nomadic lifestyle. She reduced her life to what she could fit in a 5x5 storage unit and her Subaru Forester. For the next 7 months, Carolyn alternated between living out of her car, and staying in temporary housing situations such as Airbnbs and friends’ homes.
While frequently moving from place to place, Carolyn learned how to create a home within herself. She fully healed herself from codependency, a wound she had been carrying her whole life. Carolyn became radically present in every moment, appreciating each place that she stayed for its own unique attributes. She spent a lot of time in nature, observing the take-off of the expansive season of spring, relating to the cycles and seasons of nature in a whole new way.
About a month into her nomadic lifestyle, Carolyn realized that she was going through an intense and rapid awakening. The seeds for Grounded & Free were planted back in May while she was on a wildflower hike up Dog Mountain with one of her best friends. Several months out of a living situation that was killing her, Carolyn found herself reborn, bursting open like the wildflowers surrounding her. After she let go of everything that was keeping her sick and stuck, Carolyn’s entire life shifted. Her light started flowing freely through her body and her being.
Carolyn came back to life, brighter than ever before. Throughout her process of surrender, Carolyn had let go of everything that wasn’t really her, all of the layers she held onto for comfort for years, and came home to her true self. As she tapped into her true, unique light and joy, she began attracting aligned opportunities into her life left and right: friendships, a new career, opportunities to share her gifts with others, aligned housing situations, support… the list goes on!
Carolyn believes that when we come home to ourselves, we liberate ourselves. Her goal is to help you build a solid foundation from within, so that you can access greater levels of freedom, joy, love, and abundance in your life.
Why work with Carolyn?
Carolyn’s work offers a unique approach towards cultivating self-love, confidence, and internal stability so that you can create the life that you desire. Carolyn believes that when we become grounded in ourselves and step into our fullest expression, we open ourselves up to all things good and beautiful that life has to offer.
Here is what you can expect to learn by working with Carolyn:
Build Your Home Within
- Learn proven techniques for grounding the body and calming the nervous system. Carolyn offers tools to help you come back home to your body during or after stressful, life changing situations. As a registered yoga teacher, one of Carolyn’s passions is helping her students and clients feel safe within their bodies.
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Gain a strong sense of self. When we come back home to ourselves, we have a strong sense of who we are. You’ll build self-love and self-confidence so that your true self can shine!
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Practice healthy non-attachment. When we become overly attached to anything (material items, our identity, our surroundings, etc), we can actually lose our sense of self. You’ll learn how to use your intuition to know when it’s time to let go, and how to handle life’s uncertainties and changes with gratitude and grace.
Empowered Vulnerability
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Tap into self expression. Remove blocks that are preventing you from fully expressing yourself. You’ll explore what makes you feel your best, and how to incorporate this into your lifestyle.
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Hold space for your emotions. Life is full spectrum. We often forget this because we live in a society that is uncomfortable with emotions such as sadness, grief and anger. You’ll learn how to hold space for your emotions in a healthy way so that they can be integrated and transformed. This is where we have great potential to alchemize our experiences.
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Live an empowered life. We can’t control what happens in life. We can control how we respond to it. You’ll learn how to engage with life as an empowered, embodied, confident human.
Create the Life You Desire Using the Three Principles of Manifestation
- Create space. Calling in new manifestations requires creating space. You’ll learn how to identify what is old, outdated and keeping you stuck, and how to clear it out.
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Envision and call in desires. You’ll be able to identify your current desires, and learn proven techniques for bringing these desires to life.
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Alignment. You’ll become an energetic match for your desires. Through reprogramming limiting beliefs and stepping into a high level of self-love and self-worth, you’ll attune to all things good and beautiful that life has to offer.
