Courageous Conversations and Limitless Living: Michele Rae on Embracing Growth, Healing, and Wholeness
What does it mean to risk being fully seen?
In a powerful Canvas Rebel interview, Michele Rae, founder of The Center Within, shares how transformation often begins with brave choices and vulnerable truth-telling. One such moment unfolded in the wake of George Floyd’s murder, when Michele found herself in an unprompted but pivotal conversation with a neighbor about race, white privilege, and systemic fear. What began as a jarring question—“Are you for the police or for people in brown and black bodies?”—became an opportunity to stay curious, to listen deeply, and to hold space for uncomfortable truths.
The experience left Michele rattled and emotionally drained, but days later, her neighbor circled back with unexpected gratitude. It was a reminder that even the smallest courageous acts can spark deep reflection and ripple outward in unexpected ways.
This fierce commitment to showing up fully—with honesty, presence, and compassion—is a core theme throughout Michele’s story.
🌀 Becoming Who You Are
In the interview, Michele speaks of her lifelong fascination with the relationship between the seen and unseen—how we respond to subtle energies, how insights emerge, and how beliefs shape behavior. Her journey into transformational coaching was not born from a single lightning-strike moment, but from years of spiritual exploration, inner work, and lived experience as a pharmacist, educator, healer, and intuitive guide.
She has studied labyrinths and led classrooms, trained in emotional intelligence and energy healing. Her lived understanding of the “Center Within” goes far beyond theory—it is a practice, a way of being, and a roadmap she now shares with others.
🔥 The Power of the Pivot
One of the most revealing segments of the interview recounts a season of extreme change—when Michele’s children moved out, her long-time spiritual community dissolved, she divorced, relocated, and left her secure corporate job to pursue full-time consulting. In her words, it was like “living two lifetimes.”
Rather than retreat, Michele leaned into uncertainty. She set powerful intentions, opened herself to synchronicity, and watched as aligned opportunities emerged seemingly from nowhere. From community invitations to teaching engagements, her story reminds us: when we move with intention, the universe meets us with magic.
🦋 Unlearning the Limits
Perhaps one of the most relatable parts of Michele’s journey is her conscious unlearning of the belief that she needed to “stay small.” Through inner healing and somatic release—even a physical clearing experience during her book launch Kickstarter—she describes how releasing old narratives allowed her to reclaim her worth and expand into a higher state of consciousness.
This is at the heart of Michele’s work: helping others live more congruently, creatively, and freely—from a place of authenticity, wholeness, and spiritual sovereignty.
✨ An Invitation to You
“Living From the Center Within: Co-Creating Who You Are Becoming” is more than a book—it’s an invitation to co-create the next chapter of our collective story with intention. Whether you’re navigating your own pivots, exploring new paradigms, or unlearning the beliefs that have kept you small, Michele offers not just tools—but companionship on the journey.
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👉 Living from Your Center Within: An Interview with Michele Rae