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      <image:title>Welcome - Welcome!</image:title>
      <image:caption>I’m Olena, a certified hypnotherapist, mindset coach, and a highly intuitive being. By working with both conscious and subconscious minds, I help people create deep internal transformations that lead to sustainable change. Through this work, my clients get to the root of unhelpful patterns, heal trauma, tap into their intuition, and find clarity and self-belief on their path. I guide others in dissolving anxiety, low self-esteem, procrastination, comparison patterns, imposter syndrome, and other painful beliefs that hold them back. I’m also the creator of the SHIFT TO PURPOSE™ process, designed to help others find their way to soul-aligned work and a purposeful life. In addition to my intuitive guidance, I draw on award-winning methods like Rapid Transformational Therapy (RTT) and Wayfinder Coaching, along with tools such as NLP, Cell Command Therapy, CBT, and inner child work to uncover root causes, shift perspectives, and create sustainable change. Many of my clients experience breakthroughs in just 1–3 sessions and often feel lighter, more confident, and free from beliefs that once held them back. Most sessions are held online, making this work accessible wherever you are. If you’re tired of thinking and talking about your problems and want real, lasting transformation, we might be meant to work together. I would love to hear from you. In service, Olena</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Welcome - About Me</image:title>
      <image:caption>I’m a purpose-seeker, a world traveler and an ever-evolving courageous soul. After having a few rocky years of soul-searching, I’ve discovered what lights me up the most, and it’s helping people shed the heavy weight of destructive beliefs and seeing them transition into living life full of purpose, self-expression and infinite possibilities. In addition to being certified in Hypnotherapy and trained by incredible Marisa Peer in her award-winning RTT method, I went through the Wayfinder Coach Training with Dr. Martha Beck, named one of the smartest women by Oprah herself. I’ve been religiously meditating and exploring the quantum model of reality with Dr. Joe Dispenza, and my inner-world has been impacted immensely by the teachings of Eckhart Tolle and Byron Katie. Community, spirituality and plant medicine also play an important role in my life. I dive deep into working with fears and subconscious mind, but I never forget to also enjoy life and have fun! I love experiencing myself through senses - singing, dancing, writing and self-express through fashion. I believe that a journey to transformation doesn’t have to take a long time. Working directly with the subconscious mind helped me witness something so simple, yet so profound: We always are just one choice away from a completely different life! Let’s work together to reprogram your mind to start making new empowering and life-changing choices!</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Personal support for specific challenges I start with a free discovery call to understand what you’re going through and see if I can support you. Some areas I work with: confidence, anxiety, people-pleasing, fears, childhood trauma, procrastination, addictions, weight, insomnia, pain, and life purpose.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://olenagisys.com/blog/medicine</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-11-21</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Blog - Here’s How You Find YOUR Medicine</image:title>
      <image:caption>If you're drawn to healing or helping others and want to make a career pivot, what I’m about to share might save you years of confusion and thousands of dollars.. Here it goes  You already have a unique gift. A one-of-a-kind way energy moves through you that no one else has. It already exists within you. You don’t need to add anything to find it. It simply needs to be excavated from the layers of false conditioning you’ve picked up throughout your life.</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2024-12-30</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>If you were challenged by life this year, I invite you to take a step back and zoom out. Picture your life as a bus ride. Before you board the bus, you’re handed a unique opportunity: to choose an assignment, a lesson to learn before arriving at your next stop. You might’ve asked to learn patience, self-reliance, love, trust, or forgiveness — just to name a few. Then, the journey begins... but here’s the twist: you completely forget the request you made once you’ve stepped on that bus. The Universe, however, does not. It remembers and sends reminders through the teachers you meet. But not the ones that show up in classrooms. They’re disguised as people that challenge you the most.</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2024-11-25</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Blog - Low energy and zero motivation? Read this..</image:title>
      <image:caption>If a plant isn’t growing, would you blame the plant?  Or would you first check if something’s off with its environment — like the soil, sunlight, temperature, humidity or nutrients? So often, we blame ourselves for feeling stuck and stagnant instead of first checking if the outside factors are supportive of our growth.</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2024-11-25</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>For many women, there’s nothing more triggering than witnessing another woman shine and step into her power. As someone who has experienced being on both ends of this dynamic, I can attest that this energy is palpable and can be felt by both parties, even from afar. I used to call it jealousy. Now, I call it sister medicine — an invitation to self-inquire:  What part of me am I denying or hiding from the world, and why?  What am I being asked to step into that I’m avoiding?  Where is this inferiority/ superiority coming from?  Why am I choosing to give my power away?</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2024-11-25</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Blog - Feeling trapped? Read this  - Feeling trapped? Read this</image:title>
      <image:caption>If you're feeling trapped &amp; powerless in your career (or another aspect of life) - it’s likely that your situation also feels: 1. PERMANENT (it will never end/ improve..) 2, PERVASIVE (everything else also sucks..) 3. PERSONAL (It happened to me because something is fundamentally wrong with me..)</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2023-07-25</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Blog - Are you an overeducated underachiever?</image:title>
      <image:caption>Truth bomb..! No matter how much healing we do and self-development content we pump into our systems on a daily basis, it means NOTHING if we don’t integrate the learnings into our lives. Podcasts, retreats, courses, medicine journeys, healing containers, educational programs are FLOODING our inboxes and feeds.. and some of them can be helpful BUT the mind can also trick us into thinking they’re helpful - because it’s a guilt-free excuse to avoid taking actions.</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2023-07-16</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>Psychologically, there are only 2 ways we can feel around others: safe or unsafe. Be it a friend, a partner or a relative - there’s either an intangible invitation that makes you feel expanded, accepted and seen or there’s a constriction and an underlying feeling of judgement/self-judgement that can turn you into a chameleon that chooses a path of lie.</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2025-10-20</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Blog - Overwhelmed with negative thoughts? Read this..</image:title>
      <image:caption>If you tend to wake up in a bad mood, already worrying about the day ahead or your future in general, this post is for YOU. When we sleep, we operate in the unconscious slow and healing DELTA brainwave frequency, and when we’re awake we’re operating in the conscious fast and logical BETA frequency. But as we’re falling asleep and waking up, we’re operating in the magical subconscious ALPHA and then THETA frequencies - which are bridging our feelings and vital memories with our rigid and logical thinking and behaviours.</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2023-06-28</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Blog - How to handle emotional discomfort: 2 strategies - Are you talking to avoid doing? Or overdoing to avoid feeling? </image:title>
      <image:caption>When we’re experiencing emotional discomfort, we typically follow one of these 2 scenarios:  1. We get too caught up in the story instead of taking the steps to change.  2. We avoid what we’re feeling and put our energy outward by constantly doing something.  And based on this, we need different strategies when it comes to handling life’s challenges. </image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2023-06-28</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Blog - Let's unpack ANXIETY</image:title>
      <image:caption>Let’s make this clear: another word for anxiety is FEAR. Fear of the unknown. Fear of failure. Fear of rejection. Fear of something that usually has a very low probability of happening.</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2023-04-09</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Blog - Looking for your life's purpose? Read this..</image:title>
      <image:caption>"The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why." – Mark Twain. If you’re struggling with finding your calling in life, remember this: you will not find it through the logic of the rational mind.Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2023-03-05</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>Grade 9. I’m 15. It’s the graduation day I’ve been waiting for. Large school auditorium filled with students waiting to receive their diplomas on stage. Friends &amp; families are there to support. I am wearing all white, mentally rehearsing how I will be receiving my “Diploma with Merit” in front of everyone. Deep down I don’t feel I deserve it, but I also have a need to be seen. I crave acknowledgement. My heart starts pumping when I hear my name. I get up and walk to that short staircase in the centre of everyone’s attention. I think there’re only 4 or 5 steps to take. I walk up. And then.. I trip and FALL FLAT in front of the entire school. Moment of silence. Audible whispers. And then some giggles..</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2023-02-15</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Blog - What the FAQ is Hypnotherapy (part 2) - Here’s what to expect during the hypno session..</image:title>
      <image:caption>There’re multiple approaches to hypnotherapy, but the one I practice is, in my opinion, superior to others - because it uncovers and treats the root cause of the issue before offering any positive reinforcements.</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2023-02-15</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Blog - What the FAQ is Hypnotherapy (Part 1) - Hypnotherapy’s got a rep..</image:title>
      <image:caption>I was asked if hypnotherapists can make people cluck like chickens while flapping their wings in front of the audience - because it was broadcasted far and wide on TV at some point.. - Will I lose control and share all of my darkest secrets? - Does it only work for quitting smoking? - Can bad ideas be embedded in my mind? - What If I find out something I don’t want to know?</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://olenagisys.com/blog/triggers</loc>
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    <lastmod>2023-02-15</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Blog - Here's why triggers are treasures</image:title>
      <image:caption>In “The Mastery of Love”, Don Miguel Ruiz shares some profound wisdom about physical and emotional wounds. If there’s an open wound on the skin, someone touching it (ever accidentally) will cause a lot of pain. And we know exactly what to do when it happens: We protect the wound and help it heal until the pain is gone and touching it doesn’t hurt any more.Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://olenagisys.com/blog/lifequake</loc>
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    <lastmod>2023-01-18</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Blog - Going through a LIFEQUAKE?</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whether you want them or not, big life transitions will keep happening - shaking you up and changing your perception of the world and of who you are.Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://olenagisys.com/blog/gardenofyourmind</loc>
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    <lastmod>2023-01-17</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Blog - Here’s how your mind works.. - The Garden of your mind..</image:title>
      <image:caption>Picture these two ways of removing weeds from the garden: 1. Trimming the surface part so it appears clean - but the weeds will grow back in a few days 2. Removing the weeds with the roots to make sure they’re gone for good! Now think of the weeds as destructive thoughts and the garden as your mind..</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://olenagisys.com/blog/self-belief</loc>
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    <lastmod>2023-01-04</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Blog - How to start believing in yourself.. AGAIN!</image:title>
      <image:caption>As babies, we all are born with unshakable confidence. We expect to be fed, so we express ourselves by crying when hungry. We have no shame about our imperfectly perfect bodies when witnessed naked as newborns. We fall a thousand times before learning to walk, and not even once during this process we perceive ourselves as losers. We keep trying until we proudly stand on our feet.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://olenagisys.com/blog/loneliness</loc>
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    <lastmod>2023-01-04</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Blog - Let's talk holiday loneliness..</image:title>
      <image:caption>Here's the biggest paradox nobody talks about: You can be surrounded by many people and feel very lonely. At the same time, you can feel the strongest connection to the world around you and to yourself when you’re in solitude.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Why making change is so hard?</image:title>
      <image:caption>While Nike made it sound easy and glamorous, people usually don’t “just do it”. Before any significant life transition – be it ending a relationship, changing a career or even trying therapy for the first time – we go through a series of sequential stages that often span months and sometimes even years.e.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - The choice is yours. Always.</image:title>
      <image:caption>There’re only 3 paths to any major change in life. Interestingly, they all start with a “C”: 1. Crisis. When negative circumstances force you to change (ex. you lose your job and must urgently find a new one to survive). 2. Chance. When “positive” circumstances change your life (ex. you win a lottery and finally have an opportunity to buy whatever you think will make you happier). 3. Choice. You decide to take ownership of an undesirable situation and make an effort to get from where you are to where you want to be.</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2023-01-04</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Blog - You vs. your ego. Who wins?</image:title>
      <image:caption>The desire to simply be ourselves develops when as children we stop needing our parents for everything, and begin to claim things for ourselves. If this process continued without external pressure, we would enjoy infinite freedom. But at a certain point, the choice to be independent becomes problematic. We want to have our own experiences and beliefs, but we also have a survival need to fit in and conform to how society expects us to live and behave.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - You vs. your ego. Who wins? - Let’s fix this!</image:title>
      <image:caption>The easiest route most people take is to lie to themselves and make the above list “bearable”. This numbing helps tolerate things short-term, but imagine waking up in your 70s/80s &amp; looking back at life just to realize that you never gave your true self a chance to be heard. That you followed someone else’s rules. That you lived the wrong version of your life.  If this resonates, and you can’t take it any more – reach out and let’s work on making your true self win. Learn more about my signature program here</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Feeling unhappy? You are likely focused on chasing pleasures..</image:title>
      <image:caption>We all want to be happy, but most of us end up pursuing momentarily satisfactions, while remaining deeply unhappy on the inside. We rarely ask ourselves: “What actually makes me happy?” Instead, we think: “How can I make myself feel good at this moment?”, “How can I fill this emptiness?”, “What can I do right now to avoid pain and gain pleasure?”</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Here is why comparison is your creativity killer..</image:title>
      <image:caption>I really enjoyed drawing when I was little. Then, sometime around grade 4, I sat next to a girl who was sketching stunning portraits with ease and a natural sense of proportion. This is when I decided that my attempts at drawing one-dimensional flowers and butterflies should stop. Same happened with my love for singing, dancing and writing. As soon as I saw someone doing it “better” than me, I lost any motivation and just gave up on myself…</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Boundaries and emotional aftertaste..</image:title>
      <image:caption>We usually associate aftertaste with food. But it can also be related to interactions with other people.⁣⁣.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://olenagisys.com/blog/karma</loc>
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    <lastmod>2023-01-04</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Blog - What goes around comes around</image:title>
      <image:caption>Newton’s third law of motion: For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. This applies to everything in the material world, but it also applies to the energy between people (aka Karma)</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2020-11-08</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Blog - Read this if you're feeling behind in life</image:title>
      <image:caption>No matter how much stuff I do, it never feels enough. My inner critic is very loud and I am sure many of you can relate to this feeling of being “behind” in life, guilty of procrastinating and comparing yourself to a handful of “successful” people. It’s very easy to go down this rabbit hole and focus on the negative, but what’s the point? So I decided to write this shameless post of self-love to celebrate myself and all the amazing things I was able to accomplish this summer. And I’m encouraging YOU to create a similar list for yourself! It's something I‘m now doing on a regular, because I’m no longer waiting for someone else to tell me how amazing and worthy I am.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Personal development audiobooks to listen to while staying at home</image:title>
      <image:caption>If you prefer audiobooks to hard covers, here are a few titles that I enjoyed recently, with my thoughts on each. All available on Audible. I only do audiobooks if narration is really good, and try to go back and revisit my bookmarks to ensure the best ideas are not lost - as the experience is quite different than reading a print copy. I hope you enjoy these!</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Coaching vs. psychotherapy? Which route should I go?</image:title>
      <image:caption>When a personal crisis hits, a choice between psychotherapy and coaching might not be straightforward. The lines are blurred, and conflicting information can cause confusion.</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2020-05-25</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Blog - It's time to choose hope over despair</image:title>
      <image:caption>From a spiritual teacher Byron Katie, I learned that there are 3 types of business: 1. My business (what I think, feel and do) 2. Your business (what you think, feel and do) 3. Universe/Nature’s business (things happening in the World outside of my &amp; your control). Our current COVID-19 situation belongs to the third type.⁣⁣⁣⁣</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - 5 ways to take advantage of social distancing</image:title>
      <image:caption>So here comes the time when a lot of us will have a chance to involuntarily meet our real selves. We are so busy filling our days with “productive” stuff, that most of us don’t remember when we consciously made the decision to spend time alone and be present for more than a few minutes. And this, I must say, is very challenging, especially for those who will be spending time during this quarantine alone, just like me ‍♀️⁣</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - The price you pay for lying to yourself</image:title>
      <image:caption>Lying to yourself is expensive. I know this because I’ve been ignoring my gut feeling for years, until the discomfort I was experiencing was more painful than making a big change.</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2019-11-18</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Blog - 5 ways to stop obsessing over what others think of you</image:title>
      <image:caption>We all care about what other people think about us, we just don’t talk about it.</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2019-11-17</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Blog - Guilt and shame are not the same</image:title>
      <image:caption>If you haven’t yet seen Brene Brown’s “The Call to Courage” on Netflix where she shares the difference between shame and guilt, I highly recommend that you do.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://olenagisys.com/blog/playlist</loc>
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      <image:title>Blog - How to curate a better mental playlist</image:title>
      <image:caption>I was raised to believe that to be successful, perfect or even good enough, I must live in a pursuit of possessions, achievements and certain values. Perhaps you were raised to believe these things too.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - You Vs. Jealousy: how to win</image:title>
      <image:caption>Think of someone you are jealous of (be honest with yourself, nobody is judging!) It can be a mom of 2 with a perfect body you are following on Instagram, or your school friend who married really well and never fails to remind you about it, or a successful entrepreneur who quit her corporate job and now travels the world (major #FOMO as you spend 8+ hours daily at your desk).</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://olenagisys.com/blog/top-3-reads-for-that-will-shift-your-mindset</loc>
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      <image:title>Blog - 3 reads that will shift your mindset</image:title>
      <image:caption>When life doesn’t go our way, it often feels like we are the only ones experiencing stuckness - that our situations are unique and there is no magic pill to help us solve our problems.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>About Me - Hi, I’m Olena!</image:title>
      <image:caption>I’m a purpose guide, an intuitive being, and an ever-evolving human who blends grounded spirituality with practical, logical thinking. After a few rocky years of soul-searching, I’ve discovered what lights me up the most; and it’s helping people shed the heavy weight of destructive beliefs and seeing them create lives full of purpose, self-expression and infinite possibilities. I’m a creator of the SHIFT TO PURPOSE™ process, designed to help others find their way to soul-aligned work and a purposeful life. In addition to being certified in Hypnotherapy and trained by the incredible Marisa Peer in her award-winning Rapid Transformational Therapy (RTT) method, I went through the Wayfinder Coach Training with Dr. Martha Beck, named one of the smartest women by Oprah herself. I’ve been religiously meditating and exploring the quantum model of reality with Dr. Joe Dispenza, learning about the intricacies of the mind from Marisa Peer and Peter Crone, and my inner-world has been impacted immensely by the teachings of Eckhart Tolle, Dr. Wayne Dyer and Byron Katie. Travel, spirituality, community and plant medicine also play an important role in my life. I dive deep into working with fears and the subconscious mind, but I never forget to also have fun! I love exploring the mind and experiencing life through human connection and through the senses, especially singing and dancing. I also enjoy self-expression through writing and fashion. My core values are integrity, growth, courage, adventure &amp; empowerment. I’m a 100% Leo fire (sun &amp; moon!) born in the year of the Dragon! Oh, and my name means “shining light”! In Human Design, I am a Self-Projected Projector, and it’s very important for me to use my voice and speak the truth from my heart! I believe that a journey to transformation doesn’t have to take a long time. Working directly with the subconscious mind helped me witness something so profound, yet so simple: We are always just one choice away from a completely different life! I invite you to work with me to reprogram your mind and start making new life-changing and empowering choices!</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Shift to Purpose (Copy) - Welcome!</image:title>
      <image:caption>I’m Olena — I help purpose-seeking women find clarity on their next chapter and believe in themselves enough to make the transition, using my SHIFT TO PURPOSE™ Process. The question I get asked by a lot of women is WHY is it so challenging to understand what they're meant to do and just go after it? And what I have found is that it’s not the next degree or specific skill set that is missing. And it’s usually not the lack of resources either.. Here are the 3 things that really keep them stuck: 1. They don’t understand their unique energetic blueprint and are not connected with their desires and innate gifts. 2. The voice of their inner-critic is much louder than the voice of their inner-cheerleader 3. They don’t know how to take consistent action towards their vision And this is exactly what I'd love to help YOU with! If what I shared above resonated, let’s connect on a free clarity call to dive deeper into your challenges, go over my process and put together a roadmap for you.  In service, Olena</image:caption>
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