Meet Emma Mulvany

We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Emma Mulvany. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Emma below.

Hi Emma, we’re so appreciative of you taking the time to share your nuggets of wisdom with our community. One of the topics we think is most important for folks looking to level up their lives is building up their self-confidence and self-esteem. Can you share how you developed your confidence?

I struggled with self-esteem and confidence a lot growing up. I had preoccupations with my appearance and struggled to find my worth as I absorbed a lot of societal messaging telling me I wasn’t good enough as I am.
But that all changed when I welcomed my first daughter into the world. As motherhood tends to do, it cracked me open to all the ways in which I was living out of alignment with my own values and diminishing my self-worth.
I went on a journey of empowerment – to heal old wounds and reclaim my self worth – and it was nothing short of life-changing!

Great, so let’s take a few minutes and cover your story. What should folks know about you and what you do?

I recently closed my holistic wellness business in order to focus on Women’s Empowerment, because I was seeing women come into my practice with goals of addressing health-related concerns, but as we journeyed deeper we discovered that there were hidden layers of beliefs, messaging, and traumas that were at the root of their whole wellness.

As I continued to excavate these layers with clients, it became apparent to me that nutrition and diet culture were just one aspect of a complex web of disempowerment women were experiencing.

So I made the bold move to close my wellness business and work in Women’s Empowerment full time and it’s been a transformative experience – for my clients and for me!

I use a model called the Pillars of Empowerment, which include Self-trust, Personal Integrity, and Intuition, to help women reclaim their confidence, pursue their purpose, and live authentically so they can make decisions with ease, feel fulfilled, and feel genuinely at home in their bodies.

This model is an invitation to dive deeper into our inner landscape. It asks us to look closely at the beliefs, values, and messaging we’ve inherited or been raised with and this is where my clients see the biggest transformation. When we get curious and honest about the ways in which we’ve been living according to external definitions of success, we can identify more aligned ways of being that allow us (women) to feel confident, powerful, and at peace.

I put this model to work in my time with private clients and in group coaching experiences both online and in person in the Chicagoland area. A new online group coaching experience, Homecoming, will be launching in September and it is the place to be for women ready to step into their power, to banish self-doubt, and to reclaim their joy.

I love to adapt my offerings to meet the needs of women in my world so different groups, retreats, and classes are being announced all the time.

I currently have a free training available for women ready to reclaim their confidence called, From Chaos to Calm: The Empowered Woman’s Guide to Building Confidence from the Inside Out and it’s a free 3-part series women can watch to get started on their empowerment journey. It’s available at https://emholisticwellness.com/free-training.

Finally, as a Women’s Empowerment Coach, I am committed to bringing my client’s powerful feminine energy to the forefront so together we can advance the position of women in society, to better a world that is desperately calling for it.

If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?

The 3 qualities I am most grateful to have cultivated are intuition, curiosity, and empathy. When I look back on my entire life’s journey so far, I can see that my intuition was guiding me every step of the way – even when I didn’t realize it. Reconnecting to my intuition and allowing it to be a source of support and guidance for me really helped to return me to a deep wisdom, peace, and trust that I hadn’t experienced before. Curiosity also keeps me growing in a way that releases any judgment my Inner Critic may try to bring forward. When we bring curiosity to our growth process, the work gets fun! And empathy has always been a superpower of mine. To be able to connect with women in a way that often has us saying, “I feel like we’ve known each other forever” is deeply rewarding and expansive for both my clients and myself.

To strengthen your intuition (we all have it!), I suggest beginning with a stillness practice. Just a few minutes a day is all you need to reconnect with your intuitive gifts. In this practice you can sit quietly, with your eyes closed, and tune into your body. Ask what wisdom it has to share with you today, and then listen. See if any words or feelings or images bubble up from your core.

Bringing curiosity to your growth process is super simple. When you reflect on an experience or dig into an emotion, ask yourself, ‘what do I need to know? What can I learn here? What is this experience/emotion trying to tell me?’ And be open to the answer.

Empathy is an essential quality at any time in history, but especially now. Cultivating empathy can be as simple as catching yourself in a judgmental thought and replacing it with curiosity and wonder. One of my favorite phrases is, ‘every person you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.’ This quote reminds us that we can only ever speculate about another’s behavior or motives and offering them compassion goes a lot further than judgment.

As we end our chat, is there a book you can leave people with that’s been meaningful to you and your development?

My journey of empowerment was aided by the beautiful book, Untamed, by Glennon Doyle.

I read it at a time when I was extremely vulnerable but also very open to finding a new way of being.

Glennon’s book spoke to a dormant part of me that was just aching to wake up. Her reflections on what it means to be caged as a woman in 21st century society were thought provoking and pivotal in opening me up to my own experiences, thoughts, feelings, and reflections.

I had everything I ever wanted – a home, beautiful marriage, 2 healthy kids, and my dream business – and I still felt empty. It wasn’t until I cracked open the spine of Untamed that I knew what was missing: me.

It sparked the next chapter of my life and work – one that is deeply rewarding, rich, and deep – and I now recommend it as required reading for any woman ready to release the shackles.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://emholisticwellness.com
• Instagram: empowerment_by_emma
• Facebook: emholisticwellness

Image Credits

Lisa Kathan Photography