Living from the Center Within: Awakening Your Inner Guide to Navigate a New Era
What if the most powerful compass you’ll ever need isn’t found outside of you—but within?
In a deeply grounding conversation on Green Tea Conversations with host Candi Broeffle, Michele Rae explores this question through the lens of her life’s work. As a transformational coach, graduate faculty member at the University of Minnesota, and founder of The Center Within, Michele helps individuals and organizations access their inner clarity, align with their values, and step into co-creative leadership.
Her message is both timely and timeless: in the midst of external chaos or internal doubt, there is always a center of stillness, knowing, and power available to us.
🌿 From Health Care to Higher Consciousness
Michele’s path into transformational coaching began in the clinical world—first as a pharmacist, then as a leader in health care administration. But alongside this professional journey, a quieter evolution was taking place: an insatiable curiosity about energy work, mindfulness, and the nature of human development.
Over time, what began as a personal exploration of Reiki, meditation, and subtle body awareness became a calling. Michele realized that her deepest gift wasn’t just treating symptoms—it was guiding others to live from their essence. To release what no longer served. And to trust the brilliance already within them.
“I’ve always been drawn to what helps people grow,” she shares. “We all have this inherent wisdom—and I help people hear it more clearly.”
💫 Living from the Center Within: A Way of Being
Michele’s book, Living from the Center Within: Co-Creating Who You Are Becoming, is both a roadmap and a reflection of the work she offers. It’s not a formula—it’s an invitation.
Rooted in decades of lived experience, the book explores how we can shift from living reactively to living responsively, from fear to love, from autopilot to alignment. This journey isn’t just about spiritual growth—it’s about wholeness.
“It’s about navigating the world from a place of clarity, connection, and calm,” Michele explains. “That’s your center. And it’s always available.”
⚡ Co-Creating a New Era—Individually and Collectively
During the interview, Michele speaks to the current global transitions—social, environmental, political—as part of a larger evolutionary shift. While it’s easy to feel overwhelmed, she encourages listeners to see themselves as agents of positive change.
“We’re in a massive collective transformation,” she says. “Each of us has a role to play, and the more aligned we are with our own truth, the more we can serve in ways that feel nourishing, not depleting.”
Whether she’s working with individuals, teams, or communities, Michele brings this same message of empowerment and possibility: transformation is not just about becoming—it’s about remembering who you already are.
🧘 A Holistic Toolbox for the Journey Ahead
One of the core offerings from The Center Within is a suite of courses, coaching programs, and meditative tools that help people develop their inner clarity and leadership. In the episode, Michele touches on several of the practices she recommends for self-awareness and resilience, including:
- Mindful breathing and sensory awareness
- Energy balancing and subtle body practices
- Journaling and guided self-inquiry
- Conscious decision-making aligned with your core values
But the biggest shift, she reminds us, is internal. It’s the moment we stop looking for validation outside ourselves—and instead tune into the quiet voice within.
🌟 Your Inner Knowing Is Not Broken
Michele Rae’s presence is both calming and catalytic. Through her words, she invites listeners to trust that the inner guidance they feel is real—and that it matters.
“If you feel called to something,” she says, “trust it. That’s your center speaking. And when you live from that place, everything becomes more integrated—your relationships, your work, your creativity, your peace.”
As this episode reminds us, transformation doesn’t require perfection. It requires presence. And the courage to take one aligned step at a time.