Join Cat Meehan, owner of ReVisioning Life on the journey towards a renewed life..… Unlimited potential and endless possibility awaits - for actively creating the expansive vision that is found within each of us. Fresh reality in your life will unfold, by deeply connecting with yourself and those around you in a different way. Find your path...to be the truest and the best that you are inspired, and desire to be.

Consider ReVisioning with Cat if you want to:

1.    Allow yourself the time to think about and review where you are right now.
2.    Take the time and the steps to rediscover you, identifying your unmet desires and needs.
3.    Renew yourself in mind, body, soul and spirit, reintegrating those things that have been blocks in your life.
4.    Feel the shift of revitalization, new space and energy open up to allow VISION to flow.
5.    Respond in action to your vision - ReVision!

With abiding vision for you, Cat welcomes you to ReVisioning and to the journey of discovery on which you embark. Here is her remarkable story:

Cat, tell me about your business.

My business is based on the idea that we are in control of ReVisioning our Lives as many times as we need to, my web site, ReVisioning Life.com, reflects that idea. I provide “insight and visioning” services which include one on one life coaching and transition coaching. The model I like to start a client with, is a sixteen week Essentials coaching...this is an amazing process that allows a great deal to be revealed, shift and new potential emerge and unfold.

I also lead workshops and support circles for visioning and coaching techniques as well as teaching/leading an amazing fun, easy and accessible transformative art process called SoulCollage®, a visual reflection of an individual's "inside knowledge". In this process we work with the many parts of our self, our sub-personalities, people and community, archetypes, dreams, and many other important elements of our personal world. SoulCollage® is a truly an astonishing practice for individuals, one that can be continued on your own or in a group setting.

Who is your target audience?

I work with a wide age range, mid teens to 70’s. More women then men but I have both as clients!
What makes your business unique?

I love this business because it is multi-faceted, always interesting and exciting, filled with potential for learning and growth, and most importantly it is a business that is based on my innate talents, and on my desire to guide people to recognize their innate talents and potential in their life.
What inspires and motivates you as an entrepreneur? From where do you draw inspiration?

I draw inspiration from several sources, the first one is myself, through recognizing all that I have learned, continuing my discoveries and practicing this work on a daily basis. The life journey I have had to this point has not always been easy, and yet the journey itself has had great purpose in my life. It was a powerful shift for me to realize the gifts of those difficulties and to make peace with some of my shadow parts such as “perfectionist”, “fixer” and “rebel” (amazing, they can all live side by side!). I could abandon the role of victim, as I more clearly saw the vicious circles that I had created, and learn to step into my life with renewed strength and determination.

I also admire and learn from other entrepreneurs and business leaders, not only in the classic business world, but I look to the arts and the not-for-profit world for inspiration as well. I still have enough “rebel” to want to provide services in a different way, to serve and to create a solid business.

How do you attract customers?

Word of mouth, speaking engagements, getting involved in community and business groups and through my web site. I have an artistic and strong visual “art” logo on my business cards and postcards, which I use, as an informational source, for follow-up and recognition of my work.
What is the most remarkable thing you did to get to where you are?

I had a terrible back injury... I stressed myself to the breaking point in my life, with my obligations, all of the “shoulds” to the point where something remarkable and life changing happened, a very serious herniated disk. That was a turning point for me, but it took several years to go through the different steps that further contributed to changing my life completely.

What was the most difficult business decision you've had to make?

I think because I have been true to myself, during the time I have established this business; I have made much better decisions. I have found that I am willing to do many things myself, trusting my skills to be “good enough” and I have not overextended financially. I have taken building my business seriously, but have given appropriate time to establish different aspects of it. Not rushing myself has been a supportive choice for me, although not always easy to do. It has been important for me to trust that the business will continue to open, to grow and reveal new avenues of possibility to me as I move forward. But like most of us I have periods of doubt, comparing my choices to others. These are counter-productive and self-sabotaging options for me, so I have to occasionally go back to the drawing table, re-evaluate my “right now” and re-affirm my goals and plans.

What's the best advice you've received?

To be present in the now, to be present in my life. This took a lot of practice for me and I actually spent a year dwelling in this concept. It was eye opening to at times sit and do nothing, to listen to the wind in the trees. It allowed me to experience a different kind of living that I had never realized before. It created a new perspective that I apply to every part of my life.
What's your perspective on balancing life and work?

My perspective has become that “life and work” or “work and life” are reinforcing the idea that each is separate, reinforcing a divide. I personally want to live and experience my “lifework” in everything that I do. That doesn’t mean that one has to love everything that they doing all of the time, or that someone might not be (temporarily) buried in a passionless job. What “lifework” does mean is that we can each take responsibility for our life and all of the choices we have, making new ones when needed, and changing our perspective on what is not possible to change at the present time…Although change in some form can always occur!

Lifework includes understanding what your desires and goals are, what your big vision is, what your default patterns are (the many ways we fool ourselves), where you really are in your life right now, being honest with yourself and others, dismantling counterproductive fantasies, taking personal responsibility, and experiencing all that happens as valuable and useful (which can be very difficult at times).

What is the biggest challenge you faced and how did you overcome it?

In establishing this business I have not faced any terribly difficult hurdles. In life, I have gone through a serious illness with one of my three children. I have also experienced how much a parent can lose themselves in the course of the “normal” parenting process of the first 20 years. I have gone through a divorce, after a long marriage. All of these difficult life experiences have allowed me to appreciate for myself, and others, the immense value of personal discovery, recovery and healing.

What book(s) are on your nightstand?

The Skystone by Jack Whyte
Why Good People Do Bad Things (…about Self-Sabotage) By Debbie Ford

What one thing would you like to learn this year?

One thing?? The list is endless, but I do tend to replace the word learn with experience!
Do you have a secret to your professional success?

Don’t talk about it but do it…
If there was one piece of advice you could give to other women
entrepreneurs or women just starting out, what would it be?

Don’t underestimate yourself, trust yourself and take risks – jump in and try it!

To learn more about Cat and ReVisioning Life, visit ReVisioningLife
Cat can be reached at cat.meehan@comcast.net