Annah Elizabeth

Twice a month I share insights and resources with my Five Facets Neighborhood members.

Here's some of what I shared in this week's newsletter.
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Dearest Neighbor,

Returning from a walk the other day, I came across a tiny set of keys lying on the path. A few steps later, I spotted a small padlock.

Sure enough, they belonged together.

What struck me wasn't the lock or the keys themselves.

It was the realization that I had walked that exact same path just minutes earlier and never noticed either one of them—even though they were sitting in plain sight.

It made me think about how often that happens in life.

Sometimes we don't see what's right in front of us because our attention is elsewhere.

Sometimes we're moving on autopilot.

Sometimes we're so focused on where we're going that we miss what's already available to us.

And sometimes, the very thing we've been looking for has been there all along.

I brought that little unlocked padlock home, and it now sits beside my computer as a reminder.

A reminder that at any moment we can choose to unlock a new possibility.

A new perspective.

A new level of healing.

A new way forward.

That little lock also reminds me of something else.

The potential I know exists within every one of us.

Whether we're navigating heartache, facing a professional challenge, trying to make sense of a difficult chapter, or simply wondering what's next, there is often more potential available to us than we realize.

Sometimes we all need a simple reminderof that truth.

For years, I've dreamed about creating a deeper way for people to engage with The Five Facets® Philosophy on Healing beyond a single workshop, coaching session, or presentation.

A place where individuals could not only learn the framework but begin applying it to their own lives in meaningful, practical ways.

Neighbor, that dream is finally here.

Beginning July 14, I'll be leading the inaugural Five Facets® transformational coaching cohort—a guided experience designed to help participants better understand the intrinsic drivers influencing how they heal, communicate, relate, lead, navigate conflict, and move through life's challenges.

As a valued member of this community and The Five Facets® neighborhood, I wanted you to be among the first to know.
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🧭 If you're interested in forward movement and aren't yet a part of the Five Facets Newsletter community, you can learn more about the program and join the waitlist here!
https://mailchi.mp/annahelizabeth/2hq0arvx5o
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Sometimes the key really is right in front of us.

And sometimes it's simply waiting for us to pick it up.

With wisdom, warmth, and a welcome path forward,
Annah
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📅 Upcoming Events & Support
5 Steps to Heal Conflict & Grief, and Choose What's Next

🗓 Wednesday, July 8
A free, interactive session grounded in The Five Facets® Philosophy on Healing™, designed to help you understand how conflict and grief impact identity — and how to move forward with clarity, direction, and purpose rather than platitudes.
👉 Save Your Spot https://calendly.com/healingspecialistmedium/5-steps-to-heal-conflict-grief
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🧭 Unlock Your Healing and Forward Movement
In your complimentary, Heal It Your Way Discovery call, we'll look at where you're at, where you want to go, and help you create steps to help you achieve your next level potential or dream, whether it's in personal or professional growth.
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📚 Additional Resources

🫶 Open to Hope Foundation Support Systems. Open to Hope founders Dr. Gloria and Dr. Heidi Horsley offer a wealth of resources to help your journey through loss, grief, and healing, from TV to events, articles, and podcasts.

🎥 If you’re newer here — or would like a clearer window into the purpose behind The Five Facets® work — I recently shared a short introductory video offering context and orientation.
Watch here https://youtu.be/Td3FYwOc-JQ?si=JFx6d5s5rwnsvDNc
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In Case You Missed It
🗳 Live, Learn, Leverage: A Doltam Creative Solutions Podcast
Doltam Creative Solutions is a New York City–based personal and professional development company helping professionals in transition gain clarity, redefine their direction, and build purpose-driven careers or businesses. with Heather Dolland Tamam

When Life Falls Apart: Healing, Reinvention & Finding What Comes Next: "A powerful conversation about healing, grief, reinvention, resilience, and discovering purpose after life’s most difficult seasons."
👉 Watch Here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKMQzMYqwUk&t=13s

🎤 The Five Facets® Organizational and Leadership Programs
These workshops explore how our intrinsic human wiring influences the way we lead, relate, communicate, grow, and navigate conflict — personally and professionally. Through The Five Facets® presentations, audiences gain a deeper understanding of the Facets that influence and drive behavior, as well as redefine loss, grief, healing, and what’s truly at the root of human potential.
👉 View our signature workshops https://annahelizabeth.com/speaker-service/

📺 My memoir, Digging for the Light: One Woman's Journey from Heartache to Hope to be featured in the pilot episode of Melissa Heathers upcoming TV Series
👉 More coming soon
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🏘️ Neighborhood Spotlight
Shared in the spirit of community and connection.

🌱 HER Health Collective by Crissy Fishbane & Cindi Michaelson
Founded by two moms, their mission is to redefine and change the way moms take care of themselves physically, mentally, and emotionally, through community and connection.
👉 Learn more about them and their Resources here https://herhealthcollective.com/

🫶 Get Griefy Magazine
A resource for navigating life's ups and downs. "Grief sucks but Life doesn't have to."
👉 Learn more about the initiative here https://www.getgriefymagazine.com/

This space is dedicated to highlighting neighbors who are living, leading, creating, and contributing in meaningful ways—because growth doesn’t happen in isolation. It happens together.

Do you want to improve your relationships, to heal some heartache or struggle, to better understand your habits or to make forward movement toward a goal or dream, Neighbor?

I just announced something very special and priority access with my Five Facets of Healing online community!

I'll be sharing publicly on June 18th, but if you're curious, ready to move toward feeling better and living a life you love, and you love gifts, join the neighborhood here!

I look forward to seeing you there!
https://annahelizabeth.com/blog/

Blog - Annah Elizabeth Blog News, Updates & Strategies What’s On Your Mother’s Day Heart? by Annah | InsightsAs Mother’s Day approaches, the world fills with messages of celebration—what it means to be celebrated as a mother and to be loved by a mother. But for many, this day brings grief, longing, or conflict tha...

Dearest Neighbor - May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and lately I’ve found myself thinking less about the phrase mental health alone and more about what Simon Sinek refers to as mental fitness.

Because we all have mental health.

The question is: What state is that health currently in?

And much like going to the gym, mental fitness is often strengthened through small, repeated choices over time. The more often we incorporate supportive strategies into our days, the stronger and more steadfast we are when life inevitably brings stress, uncertainty, grief, pressure, overwhelm, or change into our day.

And let’s be honest… there’s a lot happening in the world right now.

Many families are wrapping up the school year and navigating transitions, schedule changes, graduations, camps, childcare, and shifting routines. Some parts of the world are hunkering down for winter, while others are moving into summer calendars packed with travel, activities, and nonstop motion.

Many people are carrying concerns around finances, job security, AI disruption, government and organizational cutbacks, caregiving responsibilities, loneliness, loss, relationships, health challenges — or simply the cumulative weight of being human in a very full world.

Do you feel the weight of your many obligations and are thinking you can't possibly fit one more thing into your day?

I feel you.
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I’m also familiar with the many versions of the quote that basically say: When you least feel like doing the things that support you is often when you need them most.

So today, I simply want to share 3 quick reminders/tools you can return to anytime, but especially during heightened periods of mental stress:

🔹 Pause long enough to notice what’s happening within you.
Sometimes we move so quickly that we don’t even realize how overloaded, dysregulated, anxious, emotionally exhausted, or disconnected we’ve become until we hit a wall. Even taking 60 seconds to ask yourself, “What’s actually going on with me right now?” can interrupt autopilot and create awareness.

🔹 Support your nervous system in ways that genuinely work for you.
I have a client whose Emotional Facet sits at the top of her hierarchy, and she runs 5–8 miles almost every day. Not because she’s training for a marathon, but because she’s learned that movement helps regulate her nervous system and creates ease for the rest of her day. For someone else, that same routine might feel miserable or draining. This is one reason I teach that healing, growth, and support are not one-size-fits-all experiences. Different people regulate differently.

What works for you, Neighbor?

🔹 Reduce the mental clutter.
When life feels overwhelming, our minds often try to process everything at once — next week, next month, the what-ifs, the worst-case scenarios, the conversations, the responsibilities, the uncertainty. One of the fastest ways to reduce stress is to bring yourself back to clarity around what actually needs your attention right now.

One of the things I've learned in the twenty-plus years of working in loss, grief, healing, and human potential is this: Often times we aren't even sure where to begin.

That's why I created the Quick Clarity Guide. It’s intentionally simple because sometimes simple is exactly what helps us reconnect to ourselves when life feels loud.

👉 If you’re new to this work and don’t yet have your copy of the Heal It Your Way™ Quick Clarity Guide, this is your invitation to join the Neighborhood—where I share priority access to reflections, tools, and resources—and to receive your free digital copy.

👉 Join the Neighborhood here: https://annahelizabeth.com/blog/

No matter what you may be navigating right now, I hope you’ll remember this:

You do not have to have everything figured out to begin supporting your well-being.

Small, intentional choices matter.

And often, they matter more than we realize.

This is what growth looks like in practice.

In case no one has told you recently — you're amazing, just as you are, Neighbor.

Yours in hope, healing, and happiness,
Annah 🤝

What does success mean to you, Neighbor?Have you ever struggled with 'figuring out' how to create it or what it means to you?

If so, Dr. Caroline Sangal's Your Next Success podcast might help you discover something you've been seeking.

She has a diverse group of guests, and I'm honored to have joined her for the episode linked below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6p9Vx2gr0o

She Lost Her Newborn and Built a Healing Philosophy From It | Annah Elizabeth What if you experienced what some have called the most devastating ...

Raleigh-area Neighbors!
Join me, Diane Stakoe and Benina from Elevated Energy Healing - Sound & Wellness Studio this Friday to end your week and begin your weekend in a state of ease!

Experience deep healing and relaxation in this unique, powerful event designed to help you release discomfort, dis-ease, and restore balance within your body and mind.

Led by three skilled healing practitioners— Annah Elizabeth, Benina from Elevated Energy Healing - Sound & Wellness Studio, and Diane Stakoe—this extraordinary session combines the soothing power of source energy, sound frequencies, and light language to help you experience profound stress reduction and a renewed sense of ease in your body.

As your practitioners work with source energy, sound vibrations and light language, your body will have the opportunity to release tension, alleviate discomfort, and experience a deep sense of peace and comfort.

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This event regularly sells out! Next session:
Friday, May 22, 2026 at 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM

5-22-26 Restoring Ease: Three Healers, One Transformative Experience - Elevated Energy Healing description

I 💗 NYC and books!
Headed north to meet up with and other authors! 📕✨

Looking forward to meeting you

Last Friday I had the honor and privilege of being joined by Elizabeth Quinn, Erin Blechman, and Jennifer Ozgur MEd in a Mother's Day panel discussion.

If you are struggling with any form of loss, you might find some inspiration in this video, Neighbor.

I'm sharing some contact details in the comment below. Please check out the resources and reach out to anyone you resonate with.

https://www.youtube.com/live/f2y4Iy53WJk?si=uLvRe5Q43wVPTNfK

What’s On Your Mother’s Day Heart? — A Live Panel Conversation Join us for a relaxed, real conversation about Mother’s Day—what it can hold, what it can bring up, and the many ways it’s experienced.Together, Annah Elizab...

I love any excuse to visit NYC, Neighbor! And, oh, how I've missed her!
Shout out to Melissa Heathers and for bringing together a group of authors as we hit The Big Apple this weekend!!!

The launch of The Book Crawl on will be airing soon!

If you're looking for a summer read, check out the author list in the video! Want your own copy of "Digging for the Light: One Woman's Journey from Heartache to Hope"? Order it here!

Digging for the Light: One Woman's Journey from Heartache to Hope Annah always knew she wanted to marry, to be a mom, and that she wanted to give birth to those babies before she turned thirty. This book is a conversation that transports you through a story that is often heartbreaking, sometimes humorous, and always filled with a fierce sense of hope.Following ...