About Christie
For the past 20 years, Christie has been a leader in women’s empowerment specializing in neuroscience, sexuality and pleasure as your birthright. Initially gathering women in small retreats and groups to learn about the power of pleasure and connecting to your passions, to becoming an author, speaker and coach for women to live their next years as their best years. Her own life quest for greater joy, more heartfelt communication with others, igniting lost or disconnected passions and putting pleasure on the top of her to do list, has culminated into a variety of skills, strategies and tools EVERY woman in their 40s and beyond years can use themselves. Because credentials matter:
Christie Bemis combines psychology and research along with life experiences to create mentoring and guidance for women to remove blocks and limitations that are holding back their lives
She is a licensed psychotherapist with over 20 years of experience
She has her Master’s degree in Social Welfare
She co-authored Ignite Your Life: Live Life with Passion, Purpose and Play in 2016
She has worked with 100s of women over the course of her career to ignite to to their passions and create more pleasure in life.
Christie is a coach with Pamela Madsen’s Back to the Body: Sensuous Retreats for Women around sexuality, body love and the embodied feminine.
She is a Sex Educator and Relationship Coach using the Somatica® method of coaching
She is creator and author of Wisdom Cards, 50 Cards for Midlife Women
She is a Certified Sex Therapy Informed Practitioner, trained by Dr. Tammy Nelson
If you are a women who would like to shed her insecurities and get more out of life, who desires pleasure and living fully ignited, who wants to step into all situations feeling confident, ready for deep and meaningful conversations and really get the most out of each and every situation, then plug into Christie Bemis and Ignite Your Life.
My Vision and My Mission
After years of working with women in psychotherapy and hearing their stories, discovering their hidden desires, Christie co-created Hot Pink YOUniversity for women to have a virtual campus of learning. Teaching women how to create a life, not based on society’s standards, but based on their own powerful feminine essence and wants. From there, she does her work using those tools and more that were created over many years in the making. In addition to being the current sole owner and operator of Hot Pink YOUniversity, Christie also owns and operates a private practice, Bemis Psychotherapy and Consulting in the Madison, Wisconsin area. She coaches, mentors and creates sustainable program to support women everyday.
A woman ignited. A woman living Out Loud. A woman on fire!
This woman creates attraction energy around her. She is a manifesting magnet to draw in what lights her up. In turn, she sparks others to do the same!
Her Mission is to empower women to reignite their desires.
Passion. Purpose. Play. Pleasure.
Women are biologically wired to caretake. It is in our nature. It is innate. However, society has created a culture of how that should be done. And, it is often at the sacrifice of our desires. It is at the sacrifice of our health and wellness. It is at the sacrifice of our dreams.
And, it does not have to be that way. When women learn that through their pleasure, they have more to give to others, thus fulfilling their primal desires to care for others, they can give from a place of balance. When women learn that by stoking their own fires and passion, they will then inspire others in their lives to do the same, we create healthier relationships and richer lives.
Hot Pink YOUniversity is for YOU. For YOUR pleasure. For YOUR passions to come alive.
Now, with Ann retiring from this work in 2019, Christie is moving forward with the work and taking it to that next level.
Christie Bemis
CEO and Co-founder of Hot Pink YOUniversity
There has got to be something more...more joy, more love, more peace, more juice, more gratitude, more jazz and pizzazz... I am a believer in more. It is with gratitude of what I already have in life that I stand on and shout for "more". More for me and more for all of you, the sisters who join me on your own journey for more.
I am a writer, an artist, a mama, and a wife. I am a psychotherapist and entrepreneur. Above all, I am a woman. For many years I have been conducting women’s workshops, retreats and gatherings. Through Hot Pink YOUniversity, I joined with Ann in 2011, a gorgeous, joyful woman, to create gatherings, events, and conferences dedicated to fanning the flame that lies within each one of us. I am so very excited to continue in my own growth, share what I know, learn what each one of you know and join together in supportive succulence to gather our power as women.
Christie is a graduate of UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee. She has been a psychotherapist in private practice since 2005. She owns Bemis Psychotherapy and Consulting. Additionally, Christie has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in the counseling field. She is the creator of The Busy Woman's Retreat, Soup & Soulfood, 6 Week Ignite Your Life course and a 6 Month Ignite Your Life Mastery. She has lead numerous workshops and retreats on empowering women to live limitless lives. Christie expresses herself through art and writing. She is co-author, along with Ann Murgatroyd Soe of Ignite Your Life: Live Life with Passion, Pleasure and Play (2016). As an avid traveler, Christie has had the opportunity to travel with Jana Stanfield, singer/songwriter, and volunteer in Vietnam and Bali. Christie is an on-going graduate in the school of life. Christie also supports the work of Pamela Madsen and the Back to the Body: Sensuous Retreats for Women through creative consultation and coaching. She has studied with the Somatica® Institute and is a Sex Educator and Relationship coach. She is a Certified Sex Therapy Informed Practitioner trained by Dr. Tammy Nelson. This allows her to combine her energy around the wellness model of spirituality, creativity and sexuality.
"If you do not live the life you believe, you will soon believe the life you live." My Favorite quote of all time.