Lynn Motley Wellness, Psychotherapy and Life Coaching

03/21/2025

What to Remember When Waking...DDavid Whyte

03/06/2025

My son, who is an IFS fan sent this interview with me!

Give it a listen! Let me know what you think.

My guest is Dr. Richard Schwartz, Ph.D., therapist, author, and founder of Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy. We discuss how IFS views the mind as a coll...

01/25/2025

Celebrating life and honoring our natural rhythms in nature and life to ignite the fire within at our Women's New Year Retreat! Our monthly SoulCollage® group and gatherings has been cultivating the collective creativity and connection to allow for this experience...so grateful!
Appreciating the community, laughter, creativtiy, joy and deep sharing that allowed for this to be all that it was. Excited and curious about the possibilities that will continue to unfold from this rich experience!

01/05/2025

Love this podcast on Commune with Gabby Bernstein discussing her healing journey with IFS.

We are all growing in this world of psychotherapy and leaning into the spiritual journey of healing.

In today's episode, author Gabby Bernstein discusses the transformative power of Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy, how IFS informed her own trauma recovery, and her mission to make this therapy accessible to everyone. She also introduces the concepts of self-energy, protector parts, and how unb...

12/29/2024

Would you like to make some space to connect, play, reflect and create some intentions for the New Year?

I had a New Year retreat last year for my SoulCollage group and they loved it so much they requested a “command performance.”

I have two more openings for the Women’s New Year Retreat, Wisdom Rising: Awakening the Fire Within.

The retreat will be at the Center for Transfiguration and Renewal just outside of Cincinnati the weekend of January 17-20.

This retreat offers a unique opportunity to pause, reconnect with your innate wisdom—your inner spark born of both lived experience and intuition—and draw on the collective energy of our group to ignite your fire with discovery, clarity and purpose as we step into the New Year together.

The retreat will provide ample time to unwind and reflect on the power of your life’s journey at this meaningful juncture. You’ll engage in activities designed to deepen your connection with your inner guidance as you step into the New Year. Our time together will include the following:
* A safe, welcoming women’s circle for connection and intentions.
* Rituals to support invoking new energy/awareness and releasing the old.
* SoulCollage® Cardmaking and journaling (SoulCollage® experience not a requirement) to connect with your challengers, guides and allies to support you in the coming year.
* Crafting a vision board as a guiding light for the coming year.
* Time in nature and labyrinth walking for deep listening and soul connection.
* Creative sessions to compliment the retreat’s theme and your journey.
* Light movement/yoga nidra, meditation, and opportunities for rest and reflection.

The cost is $375 with lodging and meals included.

DM me if this speaks to you!

11/03/2024

A little glimpse into the healing energy of Bali. Grateful! 🙏🏽

10/17/2024

Some fun pics from our retreat that I am co-hosting with Susan Weber at Ghost Ranch— Celebrating Women; flourish with aging!

We’ve been reflecting, dialoguing, SoulCollaging, making goddess crowns and a wisdom vision board, a pilgrimage to Campasanto with a releasing ceremony, yoga! So much richness and wisdom gained from these deep and rich activities and connections.

09/08/2024

My morning unfurling into something I absolutely love…planning our monthly Women’s Circle Open Studio SoulCollage gathering today!
We are using the astrological forecast as we move into Autumn to connect and harmonize into and with the rhythms of nature in our lives. And what better of an invitation for the fall element of air—than to feel and breathe the cool crisp air?

We’ll be pressing the pause button and listening to the heartbeat and rhythm of this potent season of transition and transformation.. it’s there for us all of the time, you know?

And, today we can pause and begin to walk through the door into Autumn: Embracing Change: follow the breadcrumbs!

Some themes we’ll explore through guided mediation, breath work and (SoulCollage card making) and sharing:
*Grounding and centering… creating stability so we can be open as we move through transitions
*Nourishing and nurturing ourselves with what fills up our cup
* Building inner resources through cultivating discipline and inner strength and boundaries. Making choices that reflect our inner truth- staying clear of others’ projections and expectations.
All of this with ourselves and each other as we navigate our lives to move more fully into possibilities and feeling the freedom of who we are.❤️

DM me if you are ever interested in an Introductory workshop!

08/20/2024

I am hosting a SoulCollage gathering next Tuesday, August 27th, 6-8pm.

I find this one of the most powerfully connecting practices on all levels.

Newbies are welcome! You don’t have to be an artist. All you need is a journal — and an open heart.

If you are interested, please DM and I can support you in getting started.

08/14/2024

Come and help me and my co-facilitator Susan Weber Celebrate Women; Flourishing with Aging- as we are hosting this retreat at Ghost Ranch (New Mexico) October 13-18th.

The retreat will be generous and spacious with reflection, movement/self-care practices, creativity and in finding connection with one another, along with hikes and labyrinth walks. My hope is that this is a time for participants to pause, listen and explore and find healing and clarity as they move back into their lives –to find new meaning and value in the aging process and to live with more intention and joy.

I came to GR several years ago to take a mixed media retreat and fell in love with the people and place --and returned several years later for another retreat—meeting Susan! This is a healing and powerful place!

I turn 60 next month, and that, along with becoming a grandmother and my husband’s retirement have created an opening for me to really dive into this topic and to support flourishing with aging.


I will be leading the creativity component of the gathering as I have found creativity as a healing and clarifying way to listen and get to know your inner wisdom in a way that talking or thinking can’t always access. We will do several creative activities and you do not have to be an artist – collage and playful fun creative experiences.

If this speaks to you- please grab a friend or just register and make new friends. Registration is limited to 12 participants.

Click here to learn more and register!

https://www.ghostranch.org/program/g24100302/

08/06/2024

A secure internal attachment is when we love and accept ourselves just as we are- when we can do this, we can access freedom, confidence in challenge. This happens because our needs were met as we were being our authentic self as a little one.
My experience is that very few of us have known this kind of connection.
The good news is we can learn to attune to those places inside where we feel stuck feeling inadequate, unloveable, and bring our healing presence to build that type of accepting, loving connection to those abandoned parts. ❤️

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3bynimi8HQ

06/25/2024

The new Inside Out 2 film is out!
If you haven’t seen it or the first one, they are great IFS informed and can be really powerful as we continue to get to know our own systems and become more Self—led. 😍

🚨make room for new emotions🚨Watch the new trailer for Disney & Pixar's Inside Out 2, only in theaters June 14! The little voices inside Riley’s...