Elisabeth Chambless Wolfe

01/22/2025

Remember when you could spend hours watching clouds shape-shift? When a cardboard box could become a spaceship? When wonder was your default state?
That capacity didn't disappear. It got buried under 'should's and 'must's and endless productivity demands.
But here's what research shows: Play reduces stress, enhances problem-solving, and increases creative capacity. Wonder expands perspective and promotes neural growth. Exactly what we need in these complex times.
This isn't about escaping reality. It's about accessing states where innovation naturally emerges. Where solutions arise not from pushing harder, but from allowing space for possibility.
In a world obsessed with seriousness, choosing play is a revolutionary act.

01/14/2025

Did you know your heart has its own neural network? 40,000 neurons forming what scientists call the 'little brain' of the heart. This network can learn, remember, and make decisions independently of your brain.
Yet we've been taught to override our body's signals. Push through fatigue. Ignore gut feelings. Suppress emotions. All in the name of being 'productive' or 'rational.'
That tension in your shoulders, that pit in your stomach, that racing heart - these aren't inconveniences to push past. They're your body's intelligence trying to communicate.
When you learn to listen to these signals through heart frequency, something profound happens: Your body becomes an ally instead of an enemy. Your sensitivity becomes a superpower instead of a weakness.
In a world that demands disconnection, staying connected to your body's wisdom is a radical act.

01/11/2025

I was driving my kids home one day, overwhelmed with the demands of a full time job and three kids, when I looked up and saw the most stunning clouds. For a moment, pure joy. Then the thought crashed in: 'You don't have time for this--there's too much on the schedule'
How many times have you rejected moments of joy because it felt frivolous? Because there's 'too much wrong in the world'?
But here's the truth: Your capacity for joy isn't self-indulgent - it's revolutionary. Science shows that positive emotions create the exact physiological state where creativity and innovation flourish.
When you allow yourself to feel good, you're not ignoring the world's pain. You're creating the conditions to respond to it with wisdom instead of burnout.
Joy isn't a luxury. It's a gateway to your full human capacity.

01/07/2025

'Just push through.' 'Stay busy.' 'Keep going.' "HUSTLE"
But here's what's really happening: When your system is constantly in crisis mode, your body can only focus on survival. Everything else - creativity, healing, joy, innovation - gets put on hold.
Think about it: In true survival situations, you don't need to write poetry or solve complex problems. You need to run or fight. That's what your body is designed for.
But we're living in constant 'threat' mode. The news, the economy, climate change - our bodies interpret it all as immediate danger. No wonder we're exhausted. No wonder creativity feels impossible.
Heart frequency isn't about escaping reality. It's about creating the internal conditions where you can respond wisely instead of react from fear. Where you can access your full human capacity instead of just your survival mechanisms.
This is how innovation happens. This is how we find new ways forward.

12/30/2024

In times of unprecedented change, our bodies are constantly signaling 'danger!' But within you lies an astounding power: your heart generates an electromagnetic field 5000 times stronger than your brain's.
This isn't mystical thinking - it's measurable science. Your heart's field extends several feet from your body, affecting not only your own system but those around you. When you learn to access this field consciously, you tap into an intelligence that transcends the chaos of our times.
Ancient cultures understood this. The Egyptians saw the heart as the seat of intelligence. The Greeks recognized it as the center of the soul. Modern science is now proving what they knew intuitively: the heart is the master controller of our entire system.
This isn't just theory - it's a practical path through turbulent times. When you align with your heart's frequency, you access clarity beyond mental chatter, creativity beyond blocks, and wisdom beyond fear.
Ready to discover what your heart knows?

10/16/2024

A haunted house in which you have to repeatedly share a different fun fact about yourself with people you don't know

10/09/2024

Thank you for all of the lovely birthday wishes! I'll do my best to answer each individual one, but if not--I love you all. Thank you for thinking of me.

I am now 62 years old. Technically, retirement age. It's taken a bit of processing to embrace that, even though I didn't feel comfortable in my skin when I was younger. I ALWAYS wanted to be older. I knew that if I lived to be an elder, that is when my significant work would come.

And it has. I just made my new endeavor, The Work of Your Heart, public. I'm linking the website in the comments--who knows what the algorithm is demanding these days, but it probably doesn't like links.

The website is my birthday present to myself. It feels very tender--this is bringing together ALL of my work, and now I'm seeing why I've had such seemingly disparate "careers".

This is the first time I have been totally satisfied that the real me is represented. All of the other businesses were fragments. The Work of Your Heart brings in the art, the politics, the health and scientific research, the philosophy, the spirituality, all of my rabbit holes over the years...And it turns out they are all connected.

My first workshop in a series will be late this month, and my book will be released in January, 2025.

For now, I have one-on-one sessions available and soon I'll be launching my group programs--I've missed my groups so much!

I'd love to hear what you think. I'd be honored if you checked it out and connected by subscribing or following or signing up--I'll post the links to my new ecosystem below. :)

xo

09/30/2024

Take care of your nervous system, y'all. Those of us who are not in crisis may feel we don't have the right to make exception, since we're "ok".
But this is big stuff. I have a ton to do, my website and whole new business is launching on Wednesday (YAY) --but I just recognized that I have to take a break to re-regulate. Why? I opened up my news app. It's not my mind that's off, it's my whole nervous system--because everything going on is so much.
So I'm going to take a break and go to the beach.
Because I can't be of any use to anyone in a state of fight or flight.
Take care of yourself, friends. The planet's in upheaval and the scales have dropped from our eyes. It's our job to envision the future and work actively for justice, but taking care of ourselves is part of the deal, not a luxury or indulgence.
And don't get me started on these Eclipses....

09/29/2024

Generally affirmations are not my jam but I make an exception for Snoop

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09/28/2024

I'm in the Catalyst workroom if anyone's around!

My website is almost done! I am so excited and grateful. :)

09/22/2024

I’m going to attach a post in the comments which I don’t want to repost because of the gross AI image and also because I just know pepole will respond to that wtihout reading my comments and not what I want this post to be about.

The basic idea of the attached it is that kids aren’t being taught cursive in the US, and makes some lovely points about it. When my kids went from my Montessori school in which my mother had taught them cursive, into the public school system, they were shocked that no one wrote cursive anymore. In fact Andy had his grades docked for using it!

There's no question that when writing by hand we can achieve a flow state and this is how humans have done it for centuries. We could also talk about the importance of translating ideas into the material, and this is how we get sucked into this sort of thing….

The post is great until we get to the line: “Most people cannot think.” whoops, here we go.

This is a fake nostalgia post. They're really common in right wing spaces but they are not uncommon in other areas. If anyone knows if there’s an actual name for this, please let me know.

Of course “most people cannot think” is patently untrue; we now have more educated people on the planet than has ever existed. When I was born, there were 3 billion people on the planet with a 42% literacy rate. Now there are over 8 billion humans, with about an 80% literacy rate. (obviously, there are glaring disparities in certain countries). So—1.26 billion people vs OVER 6 BILLION LITERATE PEOPLE that are alive on the planet right now.

So, literacy is different from thinking, of course, but let’s not split hairs.

The potential of 6 billion people, half of whom are under 30, is staggering. And, for the first time in history, we can communicate with people all over the world.

There’s no question that the education system in the US has been wrecked deliberately. Because educated people are dangerous to the status quo.

But I have seen an incredible evolution of the understanding and the general population, especially since 2020. Yes, there are ignorant people and uneducated people. But there has never before been a time when so many know what is happening with power structures and how the planet really functions.

So—two points:

the old days were most certainly not better than what is happening now. We’re seeing this nonsense in the tradwife movement, and ridiculous longing for the 1950s. Yes, one person’s salary could support an entire household, but women were being lobotomized and drugged because they were so miserable with their tiny little lives. And of course this mythology only really existed for a certain demographic in the US. And… the reason that one person can’t support a whole household anymore doesn’t have anything to do with the abandonment of “traditional” values!

There is incredible potential right now. And the pervasiveness of this kind of “Oh things were so much better” mythology casts a pall of decay on what is really lightning-fast evolution. In my lifetime, we’ve gone from telephones with wires and party lines to holding tiny computers in our hands with which we can communicate all over the world.

We need to realize the vast potential that exists. The people who want to keep the present system are doing their very best to make people feel hopeless, longing for something that never existed. And it’s not just the uneducated being manipulated.

We are powerful. If we only realize it.

09/09/2024

ATTN: Entrepreneur Friends (even if you're not, here's an update!) -

You may have noticed I've been quiet lately. I'm emerging from long COVID and a complete reorganization of my work and business. (Yikes!) (As you can see above!)

09/09/2024

https://mailchi.mp/8024abcfe258/attn-entrepreneur-friends-even-if-youre-not-heres-an-update Free Workshop, Short Update on The Work of Your Heart

You may have noticed I've been quiet lately. I'm emerging from long COVID and a complete reorganization of my work and business. (Yikes!) (As you can see above!)

06/27/2024

I was getting paranoid over at TikTok because was taken, I became .
Today I decided to see who had stolen my name.
You guessed it. 🤦‍♂️ Seriously do not remember making it!