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Dr. Charleanea Arellano

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Dr. Charleanea Arellano

Psychologist | Board Certified Life Coach | Keynote Speaker | Host of She Is Mother Podcast

I am a psychologist and psycho-spiritual transformational life coach who helps people create and experience the lives they crave.

11/13/2025

Staying locked in a story can hurt you. Instead, lock OUT.
Curiosity and taking things less seriously can free us.

10/18/2025

Owning the experience. Don't turn away from it. Don't fight it. Don't run from it.

Lean into the experience. "I am uncomfortable right now. I am feeling these very uncomfortable sensations in my body. And they're mine."

I'm going to own them. I'm going to be in them. And I'm going to trust that not only can I handle it, I can understand what the message is that this pain is trying to deliver.

The purpose of pain is to deliver an important message to you so you're able to take care of yourself.

This is the opposite of everything we've been taught. We've been conditioned to immediately fix, medicate, distract, or escape from discomfort the second it shows up.

But what if your pain isn't the problem? What if it's the solution trying to get your attention?

When you say "I own this feeling," something powerful happens. You stop being a victim of your emotions and start being the one in relationship with them.

"This anxiety is mine. I'm not going to pretend it's not happening. I'm going to listen to what it's trying to tell me about this situation."

"This sadness is mine. I'm not going to rush through it. I'm going to hear what it knows about what I've lost."

Your pain isn't random. It's intelligent. It knows things about your life that your logical mind hasn't figured out yet.

When you lean in instead of away, when you own instead of disown, you gain access to wisdom you can't get any other way.

10/16/2025

Our minds are amazing. They can do wonderful things, and they can get us into a lot of trouble.

Here's a technique that changes everything: When you feel that constriction—maybe it's your diaphragm, your chest, your throat—instead of buying into the story your mind creates about it, you go directly to the sensation.

Instead of "I'm not okay, I'm not safe," you say: "This is a sensation. I'm feeling constricted in my diaphragm."

Then you close your eyes. You go to that exact place where you feel the tightness. And you visualize taking this big, slow, gentle breath that will expand your rib cage, expand your torso.

Just try it. Just do that.

Most of us get hijacked by the story our mind tells us about what the sensation means. "My chest is tight, therefore I'm having a panic attack, therefore something terrible is happening, therefore I'm in danger."

But what if you skipped the story entirely? What if you just went straight to: "Oh, interesting. Tightness in my chest. Let me breathe into that space."

Your mind wants to make everything mean something dramatic. Your body just wants to be heard and helped.

The sensation itself isn't the problem. It's all the stories we pile on top of it that keep us stuck in the spiral.

Breathe into the constriction. Expand the space. Watch how quickly your nervous system gets the message: "Oh, we're safe. We can relax now."

10/05/2025

What would bring me a sense of peace? What would bring me a sense of being open and expansive?

These are the questions that'll change everything about how you make decisions.

When you're considering your next move—whether it's a job, relationship, or life change—ask yourself: When I think about this thing, when I imagine getting there, does it create urgency? Or does it create excitement?

There's a huge difference between the two.

Urgency feels tight in your chest. Like you're running toward something because you're running away from something else. It feels desperate, frantic, like you have to have it or you'll die.

Excitement feels expansive. It feels fun. There's flow to it, like you're being pulled toward something that genuinely lights you up rather than pushed by fear.

That's how you know where you're making decisions from.

Most of us are so used to operating from urgency that we've forgotten what genuine excitement even feels like. We think anxiety and enthusiasm are the same thing.

But here's the kicker—typically, the thing we're desperately trying to avoid is gonna bring us right back to the very thing we're actually running from.

You can't outrun your internal landscape. You can only change it.

So before you make your next big decision, pause. Breathe. Ask yourself: Does this feel like peace and expansion, or does it feel like fear disguised as ambition?

10/04/2025

When we're in hustle, we're in fear. We're in urgency. We're trying to make up for something.

You're hustling because you're trying to get somewhere else other than where you are, right? Instead of coming from the place of "I am not that…"

Here's what I mean. Hustle energy feels frantic because it's rooted in "I'm not enough yet, so I have to work harder to become enough."

It's exhausting because you're literally running away from yourself while trying to run toward some future version of who you think you need to be.

But what if you flipped it? What if instead of "I am not successful enough," you started from "I am someone who creates value"? Instead of "I am not where I want to be," what about "I am exactly where I need to be and moving forward from here"?

Same actions, totally different energy.

When you hustle from fear, every setback feels like proof you're failing. When you create from wholeness, setbacks are just information.

When you hustle from "not enough," success never feels satisfying because you're still operating from scarcity. When you create from "I am enough," success feels like a natural expression of who you already are.

The work isn't about working less. It's about working from a different place inside yourself.

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15321 Heritage Circle
Thornton, CO
80602

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Tuesday	11am - 6pm
Wednesday	11am - 6pm
Thursday	11am - 6pm
Friday	8am - 5pm

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http://www.drcharleanea.com/

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Dr. Charleanea Arellano's life work is inspired by the beautifully powerful resilience of the human spirit. Her heart has been deeply moved by stories of people who have not only overcome personal adversity, but have used this adversity, courageously, as a springboard into greatness. These stories of courage, hope and strength have fueled her passion to help and support others, as they heal, reclaim their personal power and pursue their highest potential.

Dr. Arellano pursued formal training in psychology. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Denver with Honors in Psychology, Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa. She received her Doctorate in Psychology from the University of Denver. Dr. Arellano has been a psychologist and Work/Life Coach for over 25 years.