Relationship As Medicine: Recent Episodes
Shelby Leigh
From the Founder of Creating Safer Space and Creating Safer Healthcare, introducing Relationship As Medicine: Trauma Informed Stories From The Field with Shelby Leigh. Exploring trauma informed healing through the lens of the relationship. Coaches, Therapists, Healthcare Providers and Facilitators learn about the power of the therapeutic relationship in helping clients and patients with trauma to be able to truly receive the support that's being offered. This podcast is supportive for practitioners inspired by Embodied (Somatic) approaches to supporting people with trauma AND themselves.
Join us in "Peace with Self, Peace with Food," where we dive deep into the intricate relationship between nourishment, body image, and our nervous systems. This podcast explores the barriers to true nourishment, both physically and emotionally, and how attachment, development, and physiology shape our eating behaviors.
We'll uncover why certain behaviors and experiences can't be changed through thinking alone, and how healing can involve profound physiological shifts, as we support the nervous system in regulation and the attachment system with care.
You’ll learn how nourishment goes beyond food, touching on boundaries, chronic illness, and even breathing practices that support a deep connection inside and out.
Discover a new paradigm emerging in the understanding of nourishment and well-being, and gain practical insights into how to support yourself and others on this journey toward peace with both self and food.
While this episode centers around food and body image, Galina's book and this conversation supports healing around many different types of challenges in our lives. We could call it all: tending to nourishment challenges in mind, body and heart.
Galina Denzel is a somatic practitioner and author based in Colorado. She helps people who struggle with emotional eating recover and enjoy peace, well-being and authentic connection with themselves and their loved ones.She is the author of Peace with Self Peace with Food - a trauma healing approach for emotional eating.
Galina's Current Offerings:
Free chapter of Peace with Self, Peace with Food
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Shelby's Current Offerings:
Remembering Who You are: A 3-Part Series on Belonging, Becoming and Being
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The result of nervous system regulation isn't just being calm all of the time.
As our regulation increases, we gain range. It gives us this incredible ability to welcome all parts of ourselves and be present for many more experiences.
We get to voraciously experience life's highs and lows without shutting down. Instead we are here for it - grounded, centered and connected to each moment whether it being fast or slow, high or low, pleasant or unpleasant or anywhere in between.
My definition of healing trauma is "to embrace." When we are able to slow down enough and allow anything to come up and meet it with warmth and care.
As we begin to practice slowing down, our entire histories tend to show up in our bodies/hearts and minds. In a healing process... we have space to allow all of it and meet it in a new way.
We can either do old school pushing into the discomfort and try to dig it to the root OR we could softly welcome it like we were welcoming an old friend and follow the body's wisdom to see what wants to unfold next.
When we can allow all parts with this level of spaciousness and range - we don't have to effort to cut out past experiences, try to figure them out or fix them. Instead we have the bandwidth to expand wide enough to be with all that arises - sensations, emotions, experiences... all of it.
When we're healing through nervous system regulation work, we're growing a greater sense of somatic safety which brings us a wide range to face all of life's experiences.
How do we grow ourselves wide enough to welcome it and be with it just like we would be with an old friend?
And that naturally allows for trauma resolution... we come into new relationship to it. We learn that we can be with discomfort, we learn that we can be with pain and suffering and grief because it's part of being human.
And we ALSO learn that we can be with joy and play and pleasure and aliveness. The more we have capacity for one of these, the more we have capacity for all of them.
It allows us to have that full spectrum of our humanity. It gives us back who we are, what we want to do and how we want to be.
As our trauma physiology gets updated to the safety available in the present moment, we get to exhale into infinite possibilities of how to engage with life, with ourselves and others.
We make empowered choices out of our greatest intentions - moving from an entirely new paradigm.
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In a culture that tends to drive a state of urgency and action, it’s an act of rebellion to practice and choose spaciousness. That old paradigm is one I no longer subscribe to and I’ll tell you why and how.
The more regulated our nervous systems get, the easier it is to consciously choose peace and ease within - even amidst challenge.
I am adamant about the power of discernment and choice. It’s not easy… especially when our physiology has been conditioned to a state of survival and stress. It goes against the stream to find ways to pause when we believe we need to be in action.
When we can commit ourselves to spaciousness, presence and peace - there are so many possibilities of healing, growth and awakening in ways we may have only dreamed of.
Less becomes more. More wisdom, more precise action, more boundaries, more clarity. Because when we know how to slow down and come back home to our own center in a moment - everything we need is right there.
This is also true of how we sit with our clients as coaches and therapists. When we learn that slow is the new fast and we go lighter to go deeper we give our clients some of the greatest gifts.
When we push for big transformations out of a state of urgency and wanting to feel helpful, fix or figure out - we’re out of the present moment and we’re possibly putting more pressure on our clients when what would be healing is to take the very familiar pressure off.
What might be possible when we’re settled deeply in ourselves and we can trust that state of being fully and completely?
When we can learn to sit with the unknown, the discomfort and what’s truly alive here in the present moment (even if we don't’ like it), we have the ultimate super power. Especially when we can sit with it with curiosity and care. We can learn to do that for ourselves and others.
This is a revolutionary gift.
Too often we’re trying to heal with the same oppressive mechanisms that we were hurt by. Through standing in this revolutionary commitment to an entirely new way of being with ourselves and others - we are choosing a new paradigm to move from.
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Having taught meditation for decades and sharing various practices, I have learned that for me… I need both consistency AND variety. Others need the same thing every day. And others need to scattered bouts of showing up.
Listen in and see if there’s one thing that you can take with you that helps you give yourself permission to see what most supports YOU. There’s so much space to remember who we are through practice and it doesn’t have to look any particular way.
Practicing what’s nourishing for us brings us towards our highest goals. Can we do that while putting perfectionism aside and allow it to be a never-ending experiment?
It’s easy to get distracted or shut down, especially when practice starts opening us towards what we most want (that old “rubber band” effect). How do we keep showing up no matter what we’re facing whether pleasant/unpleasant/neither? While life keeps lifing?
We’re all different. We all need different practices and permission to explore where we put comparison and rigidity aside.
There is one big thing I share in this podcast about what ultimately helps us return again and again to what helps us expand into our greatest intentions for ourselves. Listen in and see what that is.
Whether your regular or daily practice is meditation, journaling, feeding yourself well, budgeting, showing up for therapy or healing work, a movement practice… can you find a way to fight for yourself and what matters most… whole-heartedly? Here’s how.
Ask yourself… “what is the most loving thing I can do in this moment?” Maybe today it’s 3 breaths and saying “it’s safe to feel this.” Whatever it is.
Start listening in to your mind/heart/body and see if you can show up as best you can. It takes practice and remind yourself you get to start over and have do-overs anytime.
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Start here and see where you go with your practice(s). Have you ever started a practice thinking it would help you get to where you want to go? Only to realize a day or weeks or months in that it felt impossible to keep going?
This applies to everything from exercise to meditation to money management to therapy or coaching or nutrition. If resistance didn’t exist… there are so many more possibilities of healing.
Check out this episode to learn about how to move from stuck to effortless over time.
I explore concepts around why we stop or get stuck or shut down and how we can compassionately and curiously move towards ease and flow in showing up in our lives in a way that is nourishing and wildly supportive so that we can move towards our greatest goals of self-trust, freedom, awakening, strength, power, steadiness, flow, connection, AND MORE.
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This episode we bring something different. Mari Mu interviews me, Shelby Leigh on my thoughts and views around a new paradigm of healing. It's a revolutionary path towards trauma healing and beyond.
Both practitioners and folks in a process of healing their own trauma will take something meaningful away from this episode. We also talk about an exciting new 9-Month offering that starts in September 2024!
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Kristin joins me again as we settle in to the moment and really explore and enjoy the aftermath of my Soulful Retreat in Panama. If you were curious how it went and also about some of my behind the scenes process... here's a window in to all of that. It was an epic coming home and a remembering of our deepest hearts. This time spent reflecting together really anchored in the nourishment of it all.
Kristin Mathes, LCSW is a psychotherapist specializing in trauma, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Anxiety, and Depression. She owns and operates her own private practice where she works with women and adolescents who are finding themselves trapped by physical symptoms of trauma, anxiety, and depression. Much of her therapeutic practice is inspired by her time spent as a Wilderness Therapist guiding clients through wilderness expeditions. Nature has always shown her how much our present-day activities disconnect us from our Self, our body, and our relationships. And, importantly, how our physical and emotional health issues can arise from such disconnection.
Kristin is launching registration for FLOW, her surf therapy retreat in March of 2025
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Natalia Sanyal returns to The Relationship As Medicine Podcast for a second time. We dive into trauma-informed and anti-oppressive marketing PRACTICES for business owners.
We take a look at how to care for our audience AND ourselves when marketing from this perspective. We look at some outdated ways of marketing and talk about possibilities of an entirely new foundation and paradigm of marketing that's inspired, supportive and creates ease and connection.
Stephen Terrell joins me for a third time in this inspiring episode about bringing a caring heart to our work in supporting clients on their trauma healing journey.
We:
- Talk about a pet peeve of how clinicians talk about trauma.
- Explore the difference between pain and suffering
- Share about nervous system regulation work vs. pathology
- Look at how a somatic trauma treatment without words can actually work
- Emphasize how having an agenda in trauma healing can be counter-productive and make us and our clients work far too hard.
And... SO much more.
Have a listen and let us know how it lands for you. We truly want to know.
More about Stephen:
Stephen J. Terrell, PsyD, SEP, is a leading expert in the field of Developmental Trauma and Adoption and is recognized around the world for his work in Developmental Trauma and Healing. He understands Developmental Trauma from the inside out and the outside in. Terrell has performed more than 25,000 individual Transforming Touch® sessions and taught thousands of students from around the world in the art of Transforming Touch® as it relates to healing Developmental Trauma.
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Gail Susan Gordon joins me as we look at nervous system regulation within the therapeutic relationship, whether working with individual adults or supporting parents, caregivers and children. As we support and foster attunement and regulation within the healing relationship, we create the conditions that allow people to grow and flourish.
Gail describes her compassionate view on how to best support the healing process for adults who’ve had challenging childhoods. You're sure to leave this episode feeling warmth in your heart and more grounded and at ease.
About Gail, in her own words:
My own journey has taught me that healing is not only possible, it’s a reality one can count on. When I bring together my training and my personal experience, I’m able to support people to move forward in a meaningful way.
I’ve worked as a psychotherapist with children and adults for almost 15 years. My training includes advanced studies in early development, trauma and somatics (body-oriented therapies). My work incorporates the impact of culture and social/political oppression in our daily lives.
A special interest has been integrating the body into therapy through many programs, including Somatic Experiencing, Somatic Resilience and Regulation, and Transforming the Experienced Based Brain/Transforming Touch. Learning the abundance of ways the body and mind are designed to heal from stress and trauma is an ongoing revelation. I share with you what I learn, incorporating it into my approach to working together. I’m looking forward to our journey.
You can learn more about Gail and her services on her website
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Jivana Heyman shares how accessibility flows naturally from ethics. We explore how accessibility and trauma informed care weave together as we support those in our care. This conversation applies not only to. yoga teachers and facilitators but to anyone in a supporting and healing role.
We delve into the theme of sharing power and why we do this with those in our care. Collaboration is key in how we show up and empower students, clients and participants. This conversation is sure to leave you feeling inspired and with some fresh perspectives in your approach to healing whether you're facilitator or participant.
About Jivana:
Jivana Heyman, C-IAYT, E-RYT500, is the founder and director of Accessible Yoga, an organization dedicated to increasing access to the yoga teachings and supporting yoga teachers.
He’s the author of the books: Accessible Yoga: Poses and Practices for Every Body; Yoga Revolution: Building a Practice of Courage & Compassion; and a new book, The Teacher's Guide to Accessible Yoga: Best Practices for Sharing Yoga with Every Body.
Over the past thirty years of teaching yoga, Jivana has focused on welcoming all people to yoga and celebrating our individuality and our differences. His work has focused on dismantling ableism in the yoga world, as well as looking at the intersection of yoga and social justice.
His books, classes, and trainings offer support to yoga teachers and yoga therapists in finding ways to bring creativity and collaboration into their teaching while still respecting the ancient yoga tradition.
More information at jivanaheyman.com
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Justin Salamon and I explore the intersections between the therapeutic power of working in the outdoor industry and supporting clients in our healing modalities. We explore river running, nature, regulation, intuition, sharing power and why we don’t give our clients “psychic downloads”. Listen in a find out more about how we can become a safer space for those we support.
About Justin
Justin Salamon, MA - Certified Rolfer:
"My first experience with Rolfing® SI was in 2000 when I was seeking help for chronic shoulder dislocations. I was an avid climber, backpacker and paddler working in the outdoor industry but injuries threatened my ability to continue my livelihood. My first ten series was transformative – walking was joyful in a way I had never experienced, breathing was effortless, my coordination improved and old pains disappeared. I realized that I needed to study Rolfing SI to understand the changes that had occurred in my body and to share the work with others.
Since 2002 I have been privileged to practice Rolfing Structural Integration, and in the process help clients of all ages and backgrounds. I approach each session as an opportunity to understand the physical and psycho-biological patterns that make each client unique, and enjoy the challenge of helping each person become pain-free, embodied, and more comfortable in his/her everyday life. Rolfing fuels my passion for deepening my knowledge of the human body and the human experience through formal education and independent study.
When I am not Rolfing you can find me helping with the management of Canyon Explorations where we offer 13-18 day human powered river trips through Grand Canyon. I still get on the river as a Guide and Trip Leader but have more time to devote to Rolfing and management. My free time is spent exploring the mountains, rivers and canyons. Most importantly my time is spent learning, adventuring and growing with my children."
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In this episode, Sarah Buino and I dive into the current business landscape of therapists and care providers. We shine a light on the prevalent issue of burnout gripping many within these professions, particularly in our current times.
Sarah shares her personal journey, from the early days in community mental health to running group therapy practices. Through her experiences, we uncover valuable lessons and insights that have shaped her path. As we navigate the conversation, it becomes evident that a pandemic of burnout is silently affecting therapists and care providers on a wide scale.
This episode serves as an illuminating exploration of the challenges within these professions, offering a candid look at the struggles many practitioners face. Together, Sarah and I discuss strategies to navigate and alleviate burnout, emphasizing the importance of finding ease and steadiness in the midst of demanding roles.
Whether you're a therapist or a care provider of any kind, this episode provides valuable insights into the unique challenges faced and the crucial role of self-care and support. Tune in for a conversation that sheds light on the realities of the field and offers guidance on cultivating resilience and well-being in the face of burnout.
About Sarah
Sarah Buino is a speaker, educator, therapist and the founder of the therapy practice Head/Heart Therapy, Inc and consulting organization Head/Heart Business Therapy. She’s a member of the adjunct faculty at Loyola University Chicago and a podcast host. Her podcast called Conversations With a Wounded Healer examines the role of one’s own healing while being a care-giving professional. Sarah’s new podcast series The Burnt Out Practice Owner discusses the current state of group therapy practice ownership—the good, the bad, and the ugly.
Sarah’sAuthentic Leaders Group, an 8- month program for therapists who want to enhance their leadership skills, begins this Friday, February 9, 2024
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Te and I dream together about the upcoming retreat in Panama, exploring how somatic-focused movement offers deep nourishment and support for the nervous system work we'll be diving into on the retreat. We delve into Te’s inclusive approach that honors all bodies that carry diverse stories and experiences about movement.
Take a peek into this conversation to get a feel for Te’s morning practice, which will set the tone for each day of our retreat.
Join us in Panama for Soulful in May - there are still spots left, and it would be an honor to support you on your journey from burnout to inspiration and newfound clarity as a health and wellness provider.
This retreat is designed especially for those on a trauma-healing journey, aiming to deepen the understanding of the impact of "less is more". Join us to find your True North through gently settling your nervous system and sinking into spaciousness so you can listen, receive and respond to the wisdom of your body, heart and mind.
In addition to our daily movement practices, you’ll find teachings and workshops on how to welcome all parts of yourself, alongside coaches, therapists, and health and well-being professionals surrounded by the sea and tropical forests
Reserve your place today and step into a space of renewal.
About Teresa
Teresa Prado has been a movement instructor for the past seven years after finishing the Rizze Yoga Immersion Training in Vancouver. Since then, they have done extensive training in somatic movement alongside training and volunteering with Yoga Outreach to offer free trauma-informed movement practices to a diverse population, from rehab centres to seniors' homes.
With a slow and steady rhythm in order to be inclusive of all bodies and abilities, Teresa encourages folks to tap into their needs to experience the class however they wish. The main objective is to offer a safer space for people to connect with their bodies and explore what movement, breath and mindfulness means to themselves.
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Learn new concepts around nervous system regulation and healing, to be guided in 20-25 minute daily practices, meditate, breathe, move, laugh, love it, hate it, and everywhere in between.
You are invited to my 7-day live free series starting Monday, January 8th through Sunday, January 14th at 9-9:30 AM PST. Just 30-minutes a day. Come home to yourself, add support for your trauma healing, and get in touch with your innate capacity for healing and growth. Learn more here.
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This week, I am so grateful to welcome Kristen Ales, LPC & Kristin Mathes, LCSW of the Wilder Wellness Podcast. Our conversation delves into the power of connection through group experiential work - a topic that we’ve been reflecting a lot on lately. We also explore how we as practitioners learn to let go of old habits, particularly the tendency to push ourselves too hard in not only our own healing journeys but also in our professional lives.
The three of us also share our experiences facilitating retreats in nature and the power of connecting in groups. Kristin gives us a preview of her deep prep for launching EMERGE, a surf therapy retreat which involves a lot of somatic-based practices with Mother Ocean - happening in February 2025. And in a very vulnerable and honest share, I open up about my process around planning my upcoming retreat and what it’s been like in getting the word out about it.
This episode invites you into a circle of kind, regulated, well-intentioned, compassionate and wonderfully inspired humans. For healing practitioners (especially for those who focus on trauma healing and nervous system regulation), I hope this episode serves you as a deep exhale.
Wilder Wellness is a podcast all about exploring our relationship with our bodies, minds, and communities through an adventurous lens. Tune in each week as Kristen Ales & Kristin Mathes navigate new topics around emotional health, physical health, and living life outside of the box. Kristen and Kristin are two licensed therapists, & friends, for empowering and inspiring interviews with wellness professionals, outdoor enthusiasts, and big thinkers, dreamers & doers who are changing the prescription for true well-being.
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About Kristin + Kristen
Kristin Mathes, LCSW is a psychotherapist specializing in trauma, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Anxiety, and Depression. She owns and operates her own private practice where she works with women and adolescents who are finding themselves trapped by physical symptoms of trauma, anxiety, and depression. Much of her therapeutic practice is inspired by her time spent as a Wilderness Therapist guiding clients through wilderness expeditions. Nature has always shown her how much our present-day activities disconnect us from our Self, our body, and our relationships. And, importantly, how our physical and emotional health issues can arise from such disconnection.
Check out Kristin’s website to learn more about her work.
Kristin is launching registration for Emerge, her surf therapy retreat on February 21, 2024
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Kristen Ales, LPC is a licensed therapist who specializes in disordered eating and negative body image. After years of disordered eating and hating her body, Kristen built a more trusting and respectful relationship with her body through outdoor activity. Since her early twenties, Kristen has spent years guiding outdoor adventure trips which led to her receiving her Master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling with an emphasis in Wilderness Therapy.
Since receiving her Master’s degree, Kristen has founded her own company Wilder Wellness. She works with women of all sizes to help them build confidence in their bodies, on and off of the trail. In this work, Kristen has created and facilitated size-inclusive outdoor adventure retreats, designed online group programs, and courses, and works with clients individually in her clinical practice.
In her free time, she enjoys exploring new places, cooking, and finding new ways to bring her creativity to life.
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I am so moved and honored to welcome Kelly McDaniel LPC, NCC to the podcast to discuss her book Mother Hunger, a personal life-changer that I frequently recommend to my clients. During this powerful conversation, we explore the term “Mother Hunger” and its various impacts on daughters with mothers who weren’t able to tend to them in nurturing and supportive ways.
We also discuss:
- The importance of using non-pathologizing language on experiences that are often so shamed
- Yearning for nurturance, protection, and guidance and how someone might start the healing process
- Mother Hunger as an Epigenetic inheritance from our maternal lineage and how it affects a mother-child bond
- Implicit Memory and how our bodies carryexperiences that elude verbal expression for many
- Disorganized attachment and confronting the labels society attaches, such as “bipolar disorder” and “borderline personality disorder” and how these may reflect deeper, unmet needs.
Whether you’re a mental health professional or someone healing their own Mother Hunger, this conversation will offer insights and connection in a kind and compassionate way.
I left this conversation feeling deeply touched by the depth and topics we navigated through and truly in awe of Kelly’s ability to put words to such a heartbreaking experience that I have not only experienced but I know many of you have as well.
About Kelly McDaniel, LPC, NCC
Kelly McDaniel is a licensed professional counselor,author, mother, and women’s advocate. In her first book Ready to Heal, (2008) she named an attachment injury as “Mother Hunger” and started a movement.
Women resonated with the concept and wanted treatment. Since then, Kelly devotes herself to nurturing insecure attachment and maternal deprivation in adult women. In her second book, Mother Hunger, Kelly speaks to the millions of women who suffer with a life-long emotional burden that adversely affects self-worth, eating patterns, and relational wellness.
Catch Kelly speaking at Hay House’s I Can Do It! event in March 2024, located in Pheonix, AZ.
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Michelle Saltz and I get together to chat about how our healing and embodiment work can be supported by nature. In this episode, she takes us through what inspires her to support people in this work and the ways in which she supports them through art therapy and coaching.
We also talk about:
- Breathwork and other impactful tools to support us in being present
- The importance of being consistent with practices that actually support us in a way that is authentic and unique to us
- Listening to the body and to nature as a way of regulating and being at ease in life in a connected way. Being with the natural changes that occur.
- How we can allow ourselves to just be and sit with the ever-changing landscape of life
About Michelle
As an Art Therapist, Intimacy and Relationship Coach and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, Michelle has been guiding clients for over 20 years using tools such as breath, meditation, imagery and movement to regulate and shift their experiences to make powerful choices. She is a passionate believer that the body speaks its own language, carries infinite wisdom and can serve as compass and guide. She embraces transitions, relationships and nature as teachers and her experience informs her practice. Her life has been an evolving journey of self-discovery and an ongoing resource in her work.
Read more about her upcoming program, HOME IN, an intimate 12-month container designed for women who give so much and do it so well, to feel nourished, replenished and fall madly in love with themselves and their lives.
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Registration is open NOW for Soulful: A Somatic Embodiment Retreat for Healing & Wellness Practitioners.Born out of burnout, this gathering of deep feelers, sensitive souls and adventurous spirits is a grounding, spacious, connecting way to return home to your deepest heart. 🌴This unique trauma-informed retreat will take place in Cambutal, Panama at Sansara 5-Star Luxury Resort from May 12-18, 2024. Get ready and mark your calendars! ✨
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I am so excited to be joined by Megan deBoer again as we reflect on expanding, receiving money/abundance, what we see in the clients we work with and what inspires us to do this work.
We touch on:
- Expanding our capacities to cope with ebbs and flows within our businesses
- The “Nourishment Barrier” and how we can lean into support and learn tools that help us know that money is safe to receive and hold
- The intersection of love, money & security and how the lack of safety in one of these domains can ultimately lead to dysregulation and shape our responses to receiving abundance
- Importance of embodiment work and nervous system support in healing our relationship with money and abundance
- How to trust ourselves to receive and give ourselves permission to receive
This work not only applies to money, but about whatever it is we need to flourish in our businesses and lives.
We also announce our upcoming workshop A Somatic Approach To Receive & Expand, happening on September 7th.
This workshop is geared toward service-based business owners and people in the healing & helping space. This is about learning to receive, being in the conversation and exploration you need to flourish in your business, and learning to open up to trust. Together, we will guide you in building resources of safety and how to do this in a slow and mindful way to bring a layer of stability to our relationship with money and abundance.
When we have safety in our systems, so much more is possible. We hope to see you there! Click here to Sign Up.
Check out our previous episode together here.
Megan deBoer is the founder of Tended Wealth, a business that helps individuals heal their emotional and practical relationship to money. As a certified Financial Recovery Counselor, her approach considers the context of our current financial circumstance: our lived experience, our family of origin, and the broad culture that together shape our beliefs about money. She is passionate about transforming this fundamental part of our lives from shame and overwhelm to a sense of agency, clarity, and potential. She specializes in helping women who are self-employed to radically increase their earning. Her course participants and 1:1 clients regularly attest to the life-changing power of this work.
You can read more about Megan's work on her website.
Registration is open NOW for Soulful: A Somatic Embodiment Retreat for Healing & Wellness Practitioners.Born out of burnout, this gathering of deep feelers, sensitive souls and adventurous spirits is a grounding, spacious, connecting way to return home to your deepest heart. 🌴This unique trauma-informed retreat will take place in Cambutal, Panama at Sansara 5-Star Luxury Resort from May 12-18, 2024. Get ready and mark your calendars! ✨
Put your deposit down now to save $300!
📖 Intelligent Change: Check out the Productivity Journal and 5-Minute Journal here.
Connect With Shelby:
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I am beyond grateful to have gotten to share this time with my teacher and mentor, Stephen Terrell. I’ve been eager to get this episode out since we recorded it last month. Can’t wait to hear your thoughts.
I’m often asked “how is THIS nervous system regulation work different from other regulation work?” and “HOW does it actually work?” and so many other questions. If you want to hear more about how this deep trauma healing modality was created from the man who created it, now’s the time!
Join me as I sit down with Stephen J. Terrell, PsyD, SEP, a renowned expert in the field of nervous system regulation work. In this conversation, we delve into the intricacies of this practice and explore its profound impact on healing and wellness. Together, we attempt to demystify the concept of nervous system regulation work as we ask, what exactly does it entail? In an attempt to answer this question, we explore:
- The distinction between working with a trained practitioner versus engaging in guided nervous system regulation practices on our own
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The relationship between faith and science in nervous system regulation work
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Practical insights and techniques to help these professionals navigate the demands of their work while maintaining their own well-being
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Why self-regulation is vital for creating safe and grounded spaces for clients and how practitioners can cultivate this skill both in and out of sessions
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How to find a skilled practitioner in the field of nervous system regulation work
We hope that this episode gives you great insight into this kind of work, let us know what you think!
More about Stephen:
Stephen J. Terrell, PsyD, SEP, is a leading expert in the field of Developmental Trauma and Adoption and is recognized around the world for his work in Developmental Trauma and Healing. He understands Developmental Trauma from the inside out and the outside in. Terrell has performed more than 25,000 individual Transforming Touch® sessions and taught thousands of students from around the world in the art of Transforming Touch® as it relates to healing Developmental Trauma.
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Registration is open NOW for Soulful: A Somatic Embodiment Retreat for Healing & Wellness Practitioners.Born out of burnout, this gathering of deep feelers, sensitive souls and adventurous spirits is a grounding, spacious, connecting way to return home to your deepest heart. 🌴This unique trauma-informed retreat will take place in Cambutal, Panama at Sansara 5-Star Luxury Resort from May 12-18, 2024. Get ready and mark your calendars! ✨
Put your deposit down now to save $300!
Connect With Shelby:
Free 1:1 Intro Call
@fierceheart.shelbyleigh
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www.shelby-leigh.com
Welcome to Part 3 of a special 3-session series with Tamsin Crimmens, who generously offered to go live with me for some focused business coaching and nervous system support. During these discussions, we delve into deeply personal topics that bridge the personal and professional aspects of her life.
My intention in recording these sessions is to offer examples of embodied support and to demonstrate how we tend to trauma in a somatic and slow way. My hope is that these sessions bring us all more regulation and clarity as we're navigating significant moments in our lives and businesses.
Tamsin is a writer and mentor for (quietly) revolutionary coaches, healers and world-changers.
To explore more of her work, check out these links:
www.tamsincrimmens.co.uk
Instagram: @tamsincrimmens
If you’re interested in working with Shelby, sign up for a free intro call here
PS: ✨ SAVE THE DATE: Born out of burnout, this gathering of deep feelers, sensitive souls and adventurous spirits is a grounding, spacious, connecting way to return home to your deepest heart. 🌴 Get ready and mark your calendars for the Soulful: A Somatic Embodiment Retreat for Healing & Wellness Practitioners. This unique trauma-informed retreat will take place in Cambutal, Panama at Sansara 5-Star Luxury Resort from May 12-18, 2024✨
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@fierceheart.shelbyleigh
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www.shelby-leigh.com
Welcome to Part 2 of a special 3-session series with Tamsin Crimmens, who generously offered to go live with me for some focused business coaching and nervous system support. During these discussions, we delve into deeply personal topics that bridge the personal and professional aspects of her life.
My intention in recording these sessions is to offer examples of embodied support and to demonstrate how we tend to trauma in a somatic and slow way. My hope is that these sessions bring us all more regulation and clarity as we're navigating significant moments in our lives and businesses.
Tamsin is a writer and mentor for (quietly) revolutionary coaches, healers and world-changers.
To explore more of her work, check out these links:
www.tamsincrimmens.co.uk
Instagram: @tamsincrimmens
If you’re interested in working with Shelby, sign up for a free intro call here
Other Ways To Connect With Shelby:
@fierceheart.shelbyleigh
Facebook
LinkedIn
YouTube
www.shelby-leigh.com
Welcome to Part 1 of a special 3-session series with Tamsin Crimmens, who generously offered to go live with me for some focused business coaching and nervous system support. During these discussions, we delve into deeply personal topics that bridge the personal and professional aspects of her life.
My intention in recording these sessions is to offer examples of embodied support and to demonstrate how we tend to trauma in a somatic and slow way. My hope is that these sessions bring us all more regulation and clarity as we're navigating significant moments in our lives and businesses.
Tamsin is a writer and mentor for (quietly) revolutionary coaches, healers and world-changers.
To explore more of her work, check out these links:
www.tamsincrimmens.co.uk
Instagram: @tamsincrimmens
If you're interested in working with Shelby, sign up for a free intro call here
Connect With Shelby:
@fierceheart.shelbyleigh
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LinkedIn
YouTube
www.shelby-leigh.com
How 3 weeks on and 1 (or more) weeks off each month changed everything. In this solo episode, I share about the incredible work structure I've set up for myself that supports my nervous system and my heart and soul's highest purpose. I talk about the anxieties and fears and stories that show up each time I do this and the subsequent freedom that comes afterwards.
I share about the very real benefits of pausing intentionally to go inwards - these feel like the biggest and most significant investments in my business, my health and my entire life. I also share a very simple way that I add spacious structure to keep myself grounded and nurtured during these times. This is truly an act of revolution against cultural messages to hustle and I love getting to welcome you into it.
Connect with Shelby:
Free 1:1 Intro Call
@fierceheart.shelbyleigh
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www.shelby-leigh.com
Dené Logan and I delve into the realms of self-discovery, authenticity, and spirituality. In this episode, we explore the power of presence and trust in one's unique path. We dive deep into the experience of struggle and suffering and the meaning it plays in our lives. Our conversation takes us on a journey towards a connection with something greater, whether it be spirit, source, or the divine. Join us as we give you permission to drop the "shoulds" and create space for your own authentic expression of this present moment.
About Dené:
Dené is a therapist, facilitator, and co-host of the podcast, Cheaper than Therapy. She is known for her nurturing presence and authenticity. Dené specializes in supporting couples in finding more fulfillment in their relationships, and utilizing her background in depth psychology to explore how each of us can reclaim the aspects of our authentic selves we’ve been societally conditioned to turn away from. Her first book, Liberated Love: A Guide to Healing Relationships by Reclaiming the Masculine and Feminine Within, will be released in May of 2024.
IG: @dene.logan
TikTok: @msinterdependent
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www.shelby-leigh.com
www.creatingsaferspace.com
www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com
Body Of Work
Katie returns for a second episode as we explore the importance of being trauma-informed in any industry that involves caring for humans. Katie and I discuss how this form of care is a practice of humanity and connection, and how it can lead to boundless possibilities for healing and growth for all parties involved. We emphasize that trauma-informed care is a long game and stress the importance of showing up in this way, even if we think we may not need to. Tune in to learn more about the significance of trauma informed care!
About Katie:
Katie Kurtz, MSW LISW-S (she/her) is a subject matter expert on trauma-informed care and its application across multi-disciplinary industries. Using the Trauma Competency Framework™, Katie trains and mentors leaders of all kinds of ways to make trauma-informed care inclusive and adoptable for all professions. Katie is the author of the Contain Card Deck©, a reflective tool to hold space for yourself and others.
Website: Katie-Kurtz.com
Instagram: @_katiekurtz
Also, right now in April if you'd like to deepen your skills, knowledge and embodiment of trauma informed care there's an incredible offering happening - Shelby's Body of Work and Creating Safer Space programs are available for up to $850 off! Check it out here
Connect with Shelby:
Instagram: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh
www.creatingsaferspace.com
www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com
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In this week’s episode, I was so happy to talk with Katie Kurtz about trauma-informed care. During this talk, we emphasize that being trauma-informed requires not just knowledge, but also active practice and integration of skills. We go into:
- Katie's working definitions of trauma and trauma informed care
- The difference between trauma awareness, trauma-informed care, and being trauma-responsive
- Why we DON’T use the term “safe space”
- And we look at the myth that trauma-informed care is a clinical approach reserved only for clinicians to use.
…and so much more!
Listeners can expect to gain a deeper understanding of trauma and the knowing that having your own lived experience is enough to be trauma-informed.
About Katie:
Katie Kurtz, MSW LISW-S (she/her) is a subject matter expert on trauma-informed care and its application across multi-disciplinary industries. Using the Trauma Competency Framework™, Katie trains and mentors leaders of all kinds of ways to make trauma-informed care inclusive and adoptable for all professions. Katie is the author of the Contain Card Deck©, a reflective tool to hold space for yourself and others. Additionally, Katie is a partner and Chief of Content and Consultation for the Evellere Group, a social impact consulting firm specializing in trauma responsive cultures of care.
Website: Katie-Kurtz.com
Instagram: @_katiekurtz
In this deeply personal episode, I’m interviewed by Danielle Cohen for her private online group, Visibility Medicine, which she generously offered to let me publish on my podcast. This discussion bridges my personal life and business, where:
- Danielle asks me about my visibility wounds and we explore my experience of neurodiversity and the impacts of complex trauma
- I share about an unfortunate experience I had that kept me silent in the coaching world for years
- I describe the ruptures that shook me to the core as I lost my voice and am still finding words to speak again, and how that has inspired my intention to be a refuge for myself and others through my work and in my life
Many of the stories I share are about breaking unspoken contracts in many venues of life and how I found the empowerment to make that happen.
Connect With Danielle:
Instagram: @daniellecohenphotography
Websites: www.visibilitymedicine.com + www.danielle-cohen.com
Connect with Shelby:
Instagram: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh
www.creatingsaferspace.com
www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com
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In this episode, Juna Mustad, SEP joins me again for a meaningful conversation about Anger.
What is anger? Where does it come from? And how can you learn to welcome and embrace anger to live a more expressed and authentic life with energy and clarity?
In this episode, we'll be exploring these questions and shine a light on:
- How learning to welcome and embrace anger allows us to live a more expressed and authentic life with energy and clarity.
- Why it's important to set boundaries around your feelings
- How safety plays a crucial role in not letting us get in touch with anger and express it.
- How anger shows up in our bodies
- Benefits and tools for creating a greater relationship with anger
- Top 6 things that anger stuffers can do with their anger.
About Juna:
Juna Mustad, SEP is a Coach, & Intuitive. Over the last 13 years, Juna has been supporting people to develop emotional intelligence, grow their intuition, create healthy relationships and embrace their full potential. She works with individuals and groups around the world to support them in healing, embodiment and enhancing overall wellbeing. Juna is trained as a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, a coach, and is also an intuitive. Through her work, she aims to bridge the worlds of spirituality with greater body awareness and emotional intelligence.
Check out Juna’s upcoming course, The People Pleaser's Guide to Anger, a 6-week journey of cultivating a healthier relationship with your anger, boundaries, and innate power, beginning on March 5, 2023.
Website: www.JunaMustad.com
Instagram: @juna.mustad
Facebook: Juna Mustad
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Instagram: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh
www.creatingsaferspace.com
www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com
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Will Rēzin and I got together today to discuss the importance of leaning into support as a coach, therapist, healer and/or helper. We not only talk about many aspects of my own Body of Work and my program Body of Work... we talk about how high integrity and ethical care providers can up-level their skill so they can be regulated, centered and skilled when sitting with clients and running their businesses with ease.
Curious about Body of Work? Find out more about it here: www.shelby-leigh.com/body-of-work
And, here is Will and his incredible work: www.rezinconsulting.com/
Connect with Shelby:
Instagram: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh
www.creatingsaferspace.com
www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com
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This is Part 2 of a 2-part series.
Following up on the last episode, Ryan McGladrey, DOMTP and I bring you more conversations as well as somatic practices around embodying presence and the "how-to's" of meeting each moment. Some topics we delve into in this episode are:
- Listening as a skill: The how-to’s of that + exploring the concept of active receptivity
- Going deeper by going lighter
- Coming home to ourselves in each moment
- How to meet each other with genuine presence
- How to welcome what's been exiled and care about anything that shows up with ourselves or the people we work with
Download the 9-minute guided experience from this episode directly on our website.
We hope that there’s something you can take away and integrate from this episode that will support you in finding home in your mind, heart, and body, and in the present moment.
About Ryan:
Ryan is trained as an osteopath, somatic coach, and body-mind educator, his work is the fruit of over two decades of ongoing study and practice in a wide range of specialized approaches to healing and growth.
He works with clients to resolve pressing life challenges, especially concerning physical function, emotional development, and spiritual motivation. Through addressing restrictions in movement and feeling, Ryan helps people reconnect with their abilities to heal and thrive. He also offers innovative trainings in how to effectively use whole-body intelligence to meet the challenges and possibilities of twenty-first century life.
You can email Ryan at: bendtuina@hotmail.com
Connect with Shelby:
Instagram: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh
www.creatingsaferspace.com
www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com
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This is Part 1 of a 2-part series.
In this episode series, Ryan McGladrey, DOMTP and I nerd out about the nuances of embodied presence and how that can serve and support those we work with. The foundation of our conversation is exploring the simplicity of being present with another human and the power of seeing people just as they are. Throughout both episodes, we examine the following:
- Our top tips on how do we go deeper by going lighter and how can we come home to ourselves in each moment?
- We get vulnerable on how do we meet each other with genuine presence and what medicine, healing and growth comes from it for each of us.
- How do we welcome what's been exiled and care about anything that shows up with our clients and patients in sessions?
Ryan and I have known each other for nearly 20 years and this episode is a glimpse of our many conversations discussing how we can be most supportive in our therapeutic connections.
Click here for Part II, where we go into more of the "how-to's" and practices of what we explore here.
About Ryan:
Ryan is trained as an osteopath, somatic coach, and body-mind educator, his work is the fruit of over two decades of ongoing study and practice in a wide range of specialized approaches to healing and growth.
He works with clients to resolve pressing life challenges, especially concerning physical function, emotional development, and spiritual motivation. Through addressing restrictions in movement and feeling, Ryan helps people reconnect with their abilities to heal and thrive. He also offers innovative trainings in how to effectively use whole-body intelligence to meet the challenges and possibilities of twenty-first century life.
You can email Ryan at: bendtuina@hotmail.com
Connect with Shelby:
Instagram: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh
www.creatingsaferspace.com
www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com
Body Of Work
How do we use marketing as a force for good? Natalia Sanyal joins me in an engaging conversation around how we can connect with our audiences and clients in a way that doesn't cause harm. Drawing from our own lived experience and our work with clients, we discuss:
- The potential to feel more aligned with the way we share our work to the world in a marketing space that has historically been oppressive, manipulative and demanding
- How we can give ourselves more space for marketing in a trauma-informed way, while giving ourselves so much permission to be imperfect and to truly have space to be ourselves
By working together as a culture, we can find ways to create choice, empowerment and inspiration towards marketing that is high integrity.
About Natalia
Natalia is an anti-oppressive copywriter and brand messaging strategist.
In the last decade, she has worked with billion-dollar businesses, New York Times bestselling authors, and award-winning marketing agencies. Now she teaches high-integrity personal brands to use marketing as a force for good—so that they can create demand without causing harm to humanity and to themselves.
Website: www.nataliasanyal.com
Check out Natalia’s Get Embodied marketing program for high-integrity personal brands.
Connect with Shelby:
Instagram: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh
www.creatingsaferspace.com
www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com
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In this episode, Danielle Cohen and I discuss what's happening in the field right now in ourselves and our clients around business growth. We approach questions like:
- How do we approach business growth authentically?
- How do we stay healthy, inspired and in a state of self-trust when we can't control external circumstances around income, marketing and industry "standards"?
If you are a helper, a wellness entrepreneur, a creative, a coach or a therapist, this might resonate with you and offer you new ways of grounding down into your business - doing your thing, your way.
We can be in our work in a connected, embodied and supported way.
Whatever your bank account doesn't or doesn't do - you get to feel more steady and secure.
About Danielle:
Danielle Cohen (she/her) is a visibility coach and brand photographer with a unique approach to helping pro-social creative entrepreneurs, coaches, visionaries, and healers (aka beacons) step into and offer their greatest work by becoming more visible on their terms, owning their story and their magic, having the impact they’re here to have and thriving while doing it.
Connect With Danielle:
Instagram: @daniellecohenphotography
Websites: www.visibilitymedicine.com + www.danielle-cohen.com
Connect With Shelby
Instagram: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh
www.creatingsaferspace.com
www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com
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This is a behind-the-scenes follow-up conversation to the Nourish Experience that Tamsin Crimmens and I offered last month. We were so fired up about the themes and concepts that we wanted to keep going. We cover topics such as:
- How we define and experience success somatically
- Moving from capitalist/patriarchal productivity, performance and comparison to sustainable, healthy and connected business
- Institutionalizing Empathy and Feeling
- Creating structures that support and nourish your body and all the other bodies you know
- Anchoring inner resources and stitching them together
- More definitions of what regulation really is and how we support it
- Supporting unique brains and approaches to work in ways that are supportive
....and more! If you love the conversation and want to sign up for Nourish to be guided through a 2-hour somatic experience of this, it's available for you to sink into right now! https://shelby-leigh.thinkific.com/pages/nourish
Here is a little bit more about Tamsin:
Tamsin is a writer and mentor for (quietly) revolutionary coaches, healers and world-changers. She’s obsessed with helping best-kept-secrets who’d love to be more “industry famous” to discover the medicine in their message, feel safe enough to share it, and get paid for their ideas.
A rare mix of space holder, storyteller and entrepreneur, she helps women who are tired of playing small to activate their Inner Creatrix (that all-powerful creative energy that makes magical messaging) so they can freak their audience out and have them saying “How are you inside my head!!?”
As a former journalist with bylines in ELLE, Stylist, Grazia, The Guardian, The Telegraph, and The Sunday Times Style mag, she’s written about it all and interviewed everyone from Caitlin Moran to Stella McCartney.
Along a journey that’s taken in everything from political communications and women’s magazines to the world of yoga, womb and somatic healing, Tamsin follows the philosophy of 'Body First, Mind Second’, to support her clients to access their deepest truth and express it in a way that builds sustainable success.
To explore more of her work, check out these links:
www.tamsincrimmens.co.uk
Instagram: @tamsincrimmens
Connect with Shelby:
Instagram: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh
www.creatingsaferspace.com
www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com
Body Of Work
In sitting down with Stephanie Somatics, we dive into how our body is more than just a vehicle that transports us from place to place - it's an interpreter for life. Coming home to the body is a practice that we can practice for the rest of our lives. In this episode we look at how we move from looking for what's wrong and how to fix it to a more empowered and connected approach to healing, we see what's possible in terms of deep trauma healing for ourselves and those we work with. We talk about pacing, creating the therapeutic container together with our clients, permission to practice embodied and curious relationships and put aside assumptions, so that sitting in a regulated nervous system becomes a way of living instead of a concept in our minds. We also laugh and rant about our views on building trust... you might be surprised at what you hear!
About Stephanie
Stephanie Somatics is a body-focused mental-health practitioner, and supports folks through her offering of Somatic Healing. She has a MA in Clinical and Mental Health: Somatic Psychology and blends this with her own intuition and flavor to help guide clients towards themselves and healing. She works with people who are ready to overcome the ways their past traumas impact their present life from a body integrated perspective. Teaching how to find safety in the body, anxiety management, and emotional validation, Stephanie facilitates with the belief that we follow your body’s lead.Through her own journey of healing, she found great power in listening and learning from the body about how to better connect and deepen our relationship to self. Her goal is to walk alongside her clients, helping them discover their own bodies' natural wisdom and come home to themselves.
Connect with Stephanie
Website: stephaniesomatics.com
Instagram: @stephaniesomatics
Connect with Shelby:
Instagram: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh
support@shelby-leigh.com
www.creatingsaferspace.com
www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com
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Natalie Smalls, MFT shares with us about the power of community, relationship to the ocean, and how holding safer and braver spaces in surfing can support womxn to reclaim their healing, power and belonging. She talks about her own path of healing and how the ocean guided her into living a life now that is beyond anything she had ever imagined and how she now gets to see this unfold in those she works with all around the world in her program Groundswell Community Project.
Natalie is a licensed California Marriage and Family Therapist with my back ground in utilizing art, somatic, and eco therapy for trauma recovery. She founded Groundswell Community Project as a surf therapy non-profit in 2016 with the mission and vision of holding safer and brave spaces for intersectional communities of womxn to reclaim their healing, power, and belonging in mother oceans waves together.
Since 2016 they have developed the first trauma informed somatic surf therapy curriculum and trainings that are accredited by CAMFT for CEUs and have trained and support surf therapy programs around the world.
Connect with Natalie:
https://www.groundswellcommunity.org/
instagram: @groundswellcommunityproject
Connect with Shelby:
IG: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh
www.shelby-leigh.com
https://shelby-leigh.com/embodied-coaching-experience
www.creatingsaferspace.com
www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com
Joe Clements and I sit down to reflect on the power of trauma informed mindfulness and the emotional awareness. He shares about his story growing up in Santa Cruz and how he never could have anticipated being where he is today and what got him here. We share our own snapshots of how we move from overwhelm to being in relationship to emotions in new ways. Joe also shares about how he brings his love of punk music into mindfulness and how it helps him come into contact with the present moment in ways that works for him and his nervous system.
Connect with Joe:
josephclements.com
Insta - _joe.clements_
TikTok - Hella_Meditated
Connect with Shelby:
IG: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh
www.shelby-leigh.com
https://shelby-leigh.com/embodied-coaching-experience
www.creatingsaferspace.com
www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com
In this Solo episode, I talk about the main thing I see that gets missed MOST as care providers - coaches, therapists, doctors, facilitators. It takes a lot to be able to catch these precious, important moments with clients. Especially clients who have insecure attachment and past trauma. When we can get comfortable and regulated enough in ourselves to stay with our clients through these cycles of everything from challenges to lightness, we create a safety and intimacy and empowerment that goes beyond that which most practitioners are offering.
Have a listen and let me know how it lands for you! I’m really excited about this new podcast and want to keep shaping it around what’s supportive and engaging for YOU.💙
Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3B6jUij
Apple: https://apple.co/3nkLzaA
Stay tuned for solo and guest podcasts with these three themes:
→ trauma and trauma informed care
→ the power of therapeutic relationships
→ embodied practice as care providers
And as always, I am so grateful for all your incredible emails and comments on how this podcast is impacting you - keep ’em coming! And if you ever want any of your questions and inquiries around these 3 above topics addressed in the pod, let me know what they are and I’ll do my best! It’s you, my listeners, that keep me going…and I have so much gratitude for you!
Connect with Shelby:
IG: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh
support@shelby-leigh.com
www.shelby-leigh.com
https://shelby-leigh.com/embodied-coaching-experience
www.creatingsaferspace.com
www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com
Selena La’Chelle Collazo, M.A., M.Ed., A.M./Ph.D. takes us on an incredible journey of her life's path and how embodiment practices like yoga and mindfulness saved her life. She shares deeply around how bringing these practices in various ways around the world have impacted the lives of so many. This episode sparks so much inspiration around how to wake up and drop into our bodies amidst everything from suffering to joy. We also explore the concept of relational mindfulness and how it's an incredible tool for social justice and connected leadership.
About Selena:
Selena La’Chelle Collazo, M.A., M.Ed., A.M./Ph.D. (she/her) is certified yoga teacher, mindfulness educator, and psychotherapist offering mindfulness-based and Solutions Focused interventions rooted in Brief Therapy, Narrative Therapy, and Liberation Psychology. Selena is also a Partner at WholeSchool Mindfulness, a non-profit organization working at the intersection of education, justice, and mindfulness where she stewards Mindfulness Director outreach, recruitment, and selection.
Connect with Selena:
www.pramanawellness.com
@pramanawellness (IG, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube)
www.wholeschoolmindfulness.org
www.ibme.com
Connect with Shelby:
IG: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh
www.shelby-leigh.com
https://shelby-leigh.com/embodied-coaching-experience
www.creatingsaferspace.com
www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com
In this Solo episode, I get up on my soapbox around quitting the hustle, the comparing and the push as care providers and entrepreneurs growing businesses. So many of my clients are often stunned by the power of slowing down and simplifying and what happens in their businesses and relationship to their businesses when they can work with themselves to allow more space and rest. When we feel safe enough to let the urgency go (or go into the background), there's an immense amount of space to listen, to be inspired, to generate income, to welcome dream clients, to hold money... and more. While often not easy at first because it goes against so much conditioning and survival responses - it is deep medicine for the soul of any growing business.
Connect with Shelby:
IG: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh
www.shelby-leigh.com https://shelby-leigh.com/embodied-coaching-experience
www.creatingsaferspace.com
www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com
Kim Coffin vulnerably shares her story of betrayal, loss and abandonment. We explore topics of money, power and control as they have related to both of our experiences in our families of origin. We explore how we have both moved through complex relational trauma in different and similar ways and how we both hold it now. They're vulnerable stories of trauma and incredible healing and empowerment.
Have a listen and let me know how it lands for you! I’m really excited about this new podcast and want to keep shaping it around what’s supportive and engaging for YOU.💙
ALSO…we will be transitioning to a new podcast schedule of twice monthly (1st and 3rd Wednesday) starting in June. It has been a wild journey recording 32 weekly podcasts since fall of last year and while it’s been super fun, twice a month feels easier and we’re ALL ABOUT ease here at Team Revolutionary Love. 💙 I’m excited to keep bringing you high-quality conversations with so many incredible trauma-informed people from many modalities this year. Thank you so much for all the people you’ve sent my way to the podcast as well. It’s been incredible to watch the audience grow!
A bit about Kim
Kim Coffin is a Trauma Informed Somatic Sex, Love & Relationship Coach, as well as an Empowerment & Sexuality Coach, Female Sexuality Coach, Tantric Sex Coach and founder of Get Your Sexy Back! She specializes in empowerment, confidence, creating trust and safety in our bodies and in our minds, self-love, pleasure, sensuality, intimacy with self and in relationships, as well as relationship transformation for couples, jade egg, tantra and sacred sexuality.
Kim teaches singles and couples how to RECONNECT to their body, ACTIVATE their turn-on, HEAL heartbreak & shame at a body-based level, RECLAIM the places they’ve been disempowered, so they can come back into their body and step into their UNAPOLOGETIC POWER through sacred sexuality. In their relationships, in their businesses, in their body and in their lives.
Connect with Kim:
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=569755109
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/get_your_sexy_back_coach/
Private Facebook Group - Get Your Sexy Back - https://www.facebook.com/groups/2251812558445958/
Sacred Pleasure Membership - https://getyoursexyback.ca/sacred-pleasure-membership/
Complimentary Discovery Call - https://calendly.com/talk-to-kim/complimentary-discovery-call
Free Grounding & Balancing Practice - https://view.flodesk.com/pages/6091f3920c791ef19c21c8ef
Have a listen and let me know how it lands for you! I’m really excited about this new podcast and want to keep shaping it around what’s supportive and engaging for YOU.
Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3B6jUij
Apple: https://apple.co/3nkLzaA
Connect with Shelby:
IG: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh
www.shelby-leigh.com
https://shelby-leigh.com/embodied-coaching-experience
www.creatingsaferspace.com
www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com
This episode will leave you feeling loved, inspired, on fire with purpose and ready to challenge some norms.
SharRon Jamison, life strategist, author, minister, entrepreneur, and corporate leader, joins me for a powerful conversation around the 4 things needed in healing trauma to get to full liberation. She motivates and supports high performing womxn around the world to tap into their own unique purpose, pleasure and unstoppable courage. We explore human-centered, dignity-affirming trauma informed care for people who carry various identities and how trauma informed care is not one-size-fits-all.
Have a listen and let me know how it lands for you! I’m really excited about this new podcast and want to keep shaping it around what’s supportive and engaging for YOU.💙
ALSO…we've to a new podcast schedule of twice monthly (1st and 3rd Wednesday) starting in June. It has been a wild journey recording 32 weekly podcasts since fall of last year and while it’s been super fun, twice a month feels easier and we’re ALL ABOUT ease here at Team Revolutionary Love. 💙 I’m excited to keep bringing you high-quality conversations with so many incredible trauma-informed people from many modalities this year. Thank you so much for all the people you’ve sent my way to the podcast as well. It’s been incredible to watch the audience grow!
A bit about SharRon
SharRon Jamison is a life strategist, author, minister, entrepreneur, and corporate leader who is committed to helping you BE who you were born to be and not settle for what society has taught and told you to be.
Through her coaching programs, innovative workshops, wisdom-filled books, empowering sister circles, and speaking events, she passionately challenges people to shed societal “shoulds” and outdated beliefs so they can live purpose-centered lives
SharRon earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Hampton University, Hampton, Virginia. She earned a Master of Business Administration from Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Connect with SharRon:
For Free Resources, please click here: https://solo.to/sharronjamison
Free on-demand event, Belonging To Me: https://sharronjamison.com/events/
www.SharRonJamison.com
Have a listen and let me know how it lands for you! I’m really excited about this new podcast and want to keep shaping it around what’s supportive and engaging for YOU.
Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3B6jUij
Apple:https://apple.co/3nkLzaA
Connect with Shelby:
IG: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh
www.shelby-leigh.com
https://shelby-leigh.com/embodied-coaching-experience
www.creatingsaferspace.com
www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com
How do we create togetherness and safety when things are really hard?
Kendra Cover shares 3 embodied tools to deepen and connect in intimate relationships. We explore how there's such an opportunity to open to our fullest expression when we deepen relationships to whatever we're committed to, whether it's ourselves, our businesses and our relationships. When we can have a respite, so much is possible.
Have a listen and let me know how it lands for you! I’m really excited about this new podcast and want to keep shaping it around what’s supportive and engaging for YOU.💙
ALSO…we will be transitioning to a new podcast schedule of twice monthly (1st and 3rd Wednesday) starting in June. It has been a wild journey recording 32 weekly podcasts since fall of last year and while it’s been super fun, twice a month feels easier and we’re ALL ABOUT ease here at Team Revolutionary Love. 💙 I’m excited to keep bringing you high-quality conversations with so many incredible trauma-informed people from many modalities this year. Thank you so much for all the people you’ve sent my way to the podcast as well. It’s been incredible to watch the audience grow!
A bit about Kendra
Kendra helps women and couples experience more intimacy, love, and pleasure in their relationships and lives. After volatile beginnings in parenthood and marriage; she co-created a relationship with herself, mothering, and her partner that exceeded her wildest dreams on a daily basis. She specializes in moving from rupture to rapture in a relationship through our fullest expression and going from dull and overwhelmed to alive and well in our bodies as women.
Connect with Kendra:
IG: www.instagram.com/kendracover
FB: Kendra Cover (https://www.facebook.com/kendra.cover.50)
website: www.kendracover.com
Have a listen and let me know how it lands for you! I’m really excited about this new podcast and want to keep shaping it around what’s supportive and engaging for YOU.
Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3B6jUij
Apple:https://apple.co/3nkLzaA
Connect with Shelby:
IG: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh
www.shelby-leigh.com
https://shelby-leigh.com/embodied-coaching-experience
www.creatingsaferspace.com
www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com
Episode 29: Safer Space In Action Worldwide
I don't know if my heart could get any more full! This conversation just left me feeling grounded, clear, purposeful, inspired and EXCITED for the revolution that trauma informed care brings.
This episode is packed full of tips, information and embodied experiences and perspectives on trauma-informed care from 6 incredible humans from around the world.
Each of my guests in this episode have been through my course Creating Safer Space.
I am moved and inspired by what comes through in this conversation. Anyone interested in becoming trauma informed can find value and takeaways from this episode!
These 6 incredible humans share about how trauma-informed care (and my course Creating Safer Space!) has impacted their lives and the lives of those they work with.
They share tools, new perspectives and SO MUCH valuable information. Even If you just drop In for a few minutes, you'll gather something that could support you for decades.
In this episode I am joined by:
Anakha Coman, Leadership Consultant and DEI Trainer
www.awakeatworkinstitute.com
Joyce Victoria Honey, Success & Sexuality Coach www.victoriahoney.com/eroticradiance IG: @ovictoriahoney
Lacey Nagar, Confidence Coach
IG: @gracefulrisingcoaching
Maggie Reyes, Marriage & Life Coach
www.MaggieReyes.com
Belinda Wiley, Sex & Relationship Coach
www.belindawiley.com/
Misha Tsozik, Therapeutic Massage & Bodyworker
https://mbodilouisville.com
IG and facebook: @mbodi.life
Have a listen and let me know how it lands for you! I’m really excited about this new podcast and want to keep shaping it around what’s supportive and engaging for YOU.
Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3B6jUij
Apple: https://apple.co/3nkLzaA
And if you love it, hit subscribe on your favorite podcast platform so you don’t miss an episode. They’re weekly now! We’d so appreciate it if you can leave a 5-star review on Apple podcasts so others can find it and this revolutionary mission around supporting folks with trauma can spread further out into the world. And feel free to forward this to anyone you know who might love it.
PS. Creating Safer Space is open for enrollment! And we have a live round starting May 2. Read all about here.
Connect with Shelby:
IG: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh
www.shelby-leigh.com
https://shelby-leigh.com/embodied-coaching-experience
www.creatingsaferspace.com
www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com
Do you feel like you need to be “high vibe” all the time?
In this episode Ellie and I discuss how as coaches and care providers we don't need to be "high vibe" all the time, and we talk about how that might actually be re-perpeutating traumatic patriarchial experiences for people socialized as women. We talk vulnerably about how we show up as whole humans both running our businesses and supporting others with businesses. This podcast supports coaches and care providers and helps them to look for signs of burnout, to support and welcome the ways your nervous system to thrive, and to embrace our full spectrum human expression.
Have a listen and let me know how it lands for you! I’m really excited about this new podcast and want to keep shaping it around what’s supportive and engaging for YOU.💙
ALSO…we will be transitioning to a new podcast schedule of twice monthly (1st and 3rd Wednesday) starting in June. It has been a wild journey recording 32 weekly podcasts since fall of last year and while it’s been super fun, twice a month feels easier and we’re ALL ABOUT ease here at Team Revolutionary Love. 💙 I’m excited to keep bringing you high-quality conversations with so many incredible trauma-informed people from many modalities this year. Thank you so much for all the people you’ve sent my way to the podcast as well. It’s been incredible to watch the audience grow!
A bit about Ellie
Ellie is the business coach for the radically fabulous. With 12-years of experience as CEO-for-hire and consultant for aggressive high-growth social start-ups in emerging markets, she realized that success meant nothing if she was too burnt out to enjoy it. She decided that there had to be a way for the over-the-top, more-is-more, lovers of life to define, have, and hold success that makes sense to them and serves their people. With a healing-centred coaching approach that focuses on the biggest levers in business and life, she's now served 100+ clients via her signature programs: Magnetic Business Uplevel; Energetic Styling, and Enough is Enough.
Connect with Ellie:
www.ellie-barclay.com
IG: @ellievbarclay
Tiktok: @ellievbarclay
Have a listen and let me know how it lands for you! I’m really excited about this new podcast and want to keep shaping it around what’s supportive and engaging for YOU.
Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3B6jUij
Apple: https://apple.co/3nkLzaA
Connect with Shelby:
IG: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh
www.shelby-leigh.com
https://shelby-leigh.com/embodied-coaching-experience
www.creatingsaferspace.com
www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com
How do we “be with” ourselves and others to foster a sense of connection and safety?
In this powerful new episode of the podcast, Enrique Collazo joins me in a conversation about how we welcome vulnerability, suffering, pain and injustice with regulated nervous systems and open hearts. We look at how to be in action in the face of injustice while also staying with ourselves.
A bit about Enrique:
Enrique is a new generation Mindfulness meditation teacher. He was born and raised in Los Angeles and has been teaching and living in the Bay Area for the last 10 years. His passion is teaching the practice of mindfulness to teens. He is well loved and respected for his inspirational work at Challenge Day during the school year where he facilitates social and emotional learning workshops for thousands of young people all over the country. Enrique’s skill with teens has led to teaching internationally for Inward Bound Mindfulness Education.
Connect with Enrique:
https://ibme.com
https://wholeschoolmindfulness.org
https://www.challengeday.org
https://dharmahomies.com
ALSO…we will be transitioning to a new podcast schedule of twice monthly (1st and 3rd Wednesday) starting in June. It has been a wild journey recording 32 weekly podcasts since fall of last year and while it’s been super fun, twice a month feels easier and we’re ALL ABOUT ease here at Team Revolutionary Love. 💙 I’m excited to keep bringing you high-quality conversations with so many incredible trauma-informed people from many modalities this year. Thank you so much for all the people you’ve sent my way to the podcast as well. It’s been incredible to watch the audience grow!
Have a listen and let me know how it lands for you! I’m really excited about this new podcast and want to keep shaping it around what’s supportive and engaging for YOU.
Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3B6jUij
Apple: https://apple.co/3nkLzaA
Connect with Shelby:
IG: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh
www.shelby-leigh.com
https://shelby-leigh.com/embodied-coaching-experience
www.creatingsaferspace.com
www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com
In this episode we explore a pathway to our fullest expression through anger and aliveness. Juna Mustad and I dive into ways to feel safe enough to be in a healthy relationship to anger. Through this, tapping into an expanded capacity for life force, more energy and health. We share our own tools and personal stories in creating new relationships to anger and its important messages.
Over the last 13 years, Juna has been supporting people to develop emotional intelligence, grow their intuition, create healthy relationships and embrace their full potential. She works with individuals and groups around the world to support them in healing, embodiment and enhancing overall wellbeing. Juna is trained as a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, a coach, and is also an intuitive. Through her work, she aims to bridge the worlds of spirituality with greater body awareness and emotional intelligence.
Where you can find Juna
Website: www.JunaMustad.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/juna.mustad/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/juna.mustad
Have a listen and let me know how it lands for you! I’m really excited about this new podcast and want to keep shaping it around what’s supportive and engaging for YOU.
Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3B6jUij
Apple: https://apple.co/3nkLzaA
And if you love it, hit subscribe on your favorite podcast platform so you don’t miss an episode. We’d so appreciate it if you can leave a 5-star review on Apple podcasts so others can find it and this revolutionary mission around supporting folks with trauma can spread further out into the world. And feel free to forward this to anyone you know who might love it.
Connect with Shelby:
IG: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh
www.shelby-leigh.com
https://shelby-leigh.com/embodied-coaching-experience
www.creatingsaferspace.com
www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com
I’m excited to share with you this behind the scenes peek into my relationship with Ellen May who's been my virtual assistant for three and a half years. It's a vulnerable story of friendship and navigating work relationships even with dysregulated nervous systems and trauma histories. It's a celebration of all the awesome-ness that can unfold when there's some structure for the magic to flow. This episode is for business owners, entrepreneurs and CEOs wanting more warmth and celebration in their work relationships.
Connect with Ellen
Instagram - @ellenismagic & @_maker_of_things
Website - www.ellenmay.com.au
FB - @ellenmaycoaching
Have a listen and let me know how it lands for you! I’m really excited about this new podcast and want to keep shaping it around what’s supportive and engaging for YOU.
Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3B6jUij
Apple: https://apple.co/3nkLzaA
Connect with Shelby:
IG: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh
www.shelby-leigh.com
https://shelby-leigh.com/embodied-coaching-experience
www.creatingsaferspace.com
www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com
How much do you share with your clients?
In this episode I share about how so many of us coaches, therapists and facilitators are told that we should tell our stories to build trust with clients and potential clients. On the other hand, some of us are told not to share anything about ourselves so we can be blank slates and so that we don’t influence our clients with our experiences.
I share my perspective on both sides of this conversation and tips on how to strike a balance between the two. This applies to our marketing and your direct interactions with clients and students.
✷ How can we check within our own bodies to understand how, when and why sharing our stories can sometimes be beneficial.
Have a listen and let me know how it lands for you! I’m really excited about this new podcast and want to keep shaping it around what’s supportive and engaging for YOU.💙
Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3B6jUij
Apple: https://apple.co/3nkLzaA
ALSO…we will be transitioning to a new podcast schedule of twice monthly (1st and 3rd Wednesday) starting in June. It has been a wild journey recording 32 weekly podcasts since fall of last year and while it’s been super fun, twice a month feels easier and we’re ALL ABOUT ease here at Team Revolutionary Love. 💙 I’m excited to keep bringing you high-quality conversations with so many incredible trauma-informed people from many modalities this year. Thank you so much for all the people you’ve sent my way to the podcast as well. It’s been incredible to watch the audience grow!
Stay tuned for solo and guest podcasts with these three themes:
→ trauma and trauma informed care
→ the power of therapeutic relationships
→ embodied practice as care providers
And as always, I am so grateful for all your incredible emails and comments on how this podcast is impacting you - keep ’em coming! And if you ever want any of your questions and inquiries around these 3 above topics addressed in the pod, let me know what they are and I’ll do my best! It’s you, my listeners, that keep me going…and I have so much gratitude for you!
Connect with Shelby:
IG: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh
www.shelby-leigh.com
https://shelby-leigh.com/embodied-coaching-experience
www.creatingsaferspace.com
www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com
I don't know if my heart could get any more full! This conversation just left me feeling grounded, clear, purposeful, inspired and EXCITED for the revolution that trauma informed care brings.
This episode is packed full of tips, information and embodied experiences and perspectives on trauma-informed care from 6 incredible humans from around the world.
Each of my guests in this episode have been through my course Creating Safer Space.
I am moved and inspired by what comes through in this conversation. Anyone interested in becoming trauma informed can find value and takeaways from this episode!
These 6 incredible humans share about how trauma-informed care (and my course Creating Safer Space!) has impacted their lives and the lives of those they work with.
They share tools, new perspectives and SO MUCH valuable information. Even If you just drop In for a few minutes, you'll gather something that could support you for decades.
In this episode I am joined by:
Anakha Coman, Leadership Consultant and DEI Trainer
www.awakeatworkinstitute.com
Joyce Victoria Honey, Success & Sexuality Coach www.victoriahoney.com/eroticradiance IG: @ovictoriahoney
Lacey Nagar, Confidence Coach
IG: @gracefulrisingcoaching
Maggie Reyes, Marriage & Life Coach
www.MaggieReyes.com
Belinda Wiley, Sex & Relationship Coach
www.belindawiley.com/
Misha Tsozik, Therapeutic Massage & Bodyworker
https://mbodilouisville.com
IG and facebook: @mbodi.life
Have a listen and let me know how it lands for you! I’m really excited about this new podcast and want to keep shaping it around what’s supportive and engaging for YOU.
Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3B6jUij
Apple: https://apple.co/3nkLzaA
And if you love it, hit subscribe on your favorite podcast platform so you don’t miss an episode. They’re weekly now! We’d so appreciate it if you can leave a 5-star review on Apple podcasts so others can find it and this revolutionary mission around supporting folks with trauma can spread further out into the world. And feel free to forward this to anyone you know who might love it.
PS. Creating Safer Space is open for enrollment! And we have a live round starting May 2. Read all about here.
Connect with Shelby:
IG: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh
www.shelby-leigh.com
https://shelby-leigh.com/embodied-coaching-experience
www.creatingsaferspace.com
www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com
I am so excited to share with you this special episode! Tamsin Crimmens is back for a powerful discussion on trauma informed business expansion. We explore HOW to surrender to the momentum while expanding in business in a gentle and authentic way. Tamsin shares honestly about her path from feeling like a hot mess to feeling empowered as an entrepreneur and as someone who fiercely and lovingly supports others to grow their businesses and messages.
Here is a little bit more about Tamsin:
Tamsin is a writer and mentor for (quietly) revolutionary coaches, healers and world-changers. She’s obsessed with helping best-kept-secrets who’d love to be more “industry famous” to discover the medicine in their message, feel safe enough to share it, and get paid for their ideas.
A rare mix of space holder, storyteller and entrepreneur, she helps women who are tired of playing small to activate their Inner Creatrix (that all-powerful creative energy that makes magical messaging) so they can freak their audience out and have them saying “How are you inside my head!!?”
As a former journalist with bylines in ELLE, Stylist, Grazia, The Guardian, The Telegraph, and The Sunday Times Style mag, she’s written about it all and interviewed everyone from Caitlin Moran to Stella McCartney.
Along a journey that’s taken in everything from political communications and women’s magazines to the world of yoga, womb and somatic healing, Tamsin follows the philosophy of 'Body First, Mind Second’, to support her clients to access their deepest truth and express it in a way that builds sustainable success.
To explore more of her work, check out these links:
www.tamsincrimmens.co.uk
IG @the_tamsin_writes
Have a listen and let me know how it lands for you! I’m really excited about this new podcast and want to keep shaping it around what’s supportive and engaging for YOU.
Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3B6jUij
Apple: https://apple.co/3nkLzaA
Connect with Shelby:
IG: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh
www.shelby-leigh.com
https://shelby-leigh.com/embodied-coaching-experience
www.creatingsaferspace.com
www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com
This solo episode is a conversation I think is so important for all practitioners. Many of us, as care providers, find ourselves in places where we’re on a big or little emotional rollercoaster. Dysregulated, struggling with health issues, stuck in stress responses and facing chaos and instability in our lives in various ways.
In this week’s episode I share my thoughts and experiences as someone who spent years overwhelmed by what felt like daily crises and how showing up as a coach and therapist helped me. And also how I stabilized myself enough to be able to show up in the first place.I will give tips on how to gage if we need to step away from supporting others, how to regulate ourselves and care for ourselves if we can’t step away and also how to allow ourselves to be human - tender, vulnerable and with expertise in our fields as life happens.
If you saw the FB live last week - this is it! Because it felt important enough to put it in all the places that people might want to hear it.
Have a listen and let me know how it lands for you! I’m really excited about this new podcast and want to keep shaping it around what’s supportive and engaging for YOU.
Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3B6jUij
Apple: https://apple.co/3nkLzaA
Connect with Shelby:
IG: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh
www.shelby-leigh.com
https://shelby-leigh.com/embodied-coaching-experience
www.creatingsaferspace.com
www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com
This is GOLD…listen in is as Shelly Bhowmik, MD MPH, describes a pivotal moment in her career as a physician. She went from questioning her life on a subway platform to creating space and support for herself to really begin to thrive. In this episode we talk about how this type of revelation is more common than we’d like to think in the medical field.
We acknowledge the layers of stress and trauma that so many people in healthcare face and a way towards more ease and purpose.
Have a listen and let me know how it lands for you! I’m really excited about this new podcast and want to keep shaping it around what’s supportive and engaging for YOU.
A bit about Shelly
Shelly Bhowmik, MD MPH is the founder of Platform Wellness, a practice dedicated to helping people heal from burnout. Her practice is based on the belief that mindset is medicine, a belief she came to realize through her own journey that began at the edge of a subway platform.
Dr. Bhowmik is a double board-certified physician specializing in Preventive Medicine and Lifestyle Medicine. She earned her medical degree from the George Washington School of Medicine and Health Sciences, and completed her residency at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her previous roles include being a design thinking strategist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles and serving as medical director of digital health for an executive health firm in New York City. As the founder Platform Wellness her mission is to help people, especially women and people of color, excel personally and professionally without having to sacrifice their health and wellbeing.
Connect with Shelly
www.shellybhowmik.com
Have a listen and let me know how it lands for you! I’m really excited about this new podcast and want to keep shaping it around what’s supportive and engaging for YOU.
Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3B6jUij
Apple: https://apple.co/3nkLzaA
Connect with Shelby:
IG: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh
www.shelby-leigh.com
https://shelby-leigh.com/embodied-coaching-experience
www.creatingsaferspace.com
www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com
This podcast is for entrepreneurs of many kinds.
We explore all sorts of themes around creating safer healthcare - whether we’re patients or practitioners. Together we leave no stones unturned…can healthcare professionals be allies for women and those with menstrual cycles? How can patients feel safer as their own advocates? How can we as entrepreneurs allow deep vulnerability and strength to navigate life impacted by overwhelm and health challenges? How does being knowledgeable of our own cycles shape our approach to life and work?
We touch on how you can build a new relationship with your cycle, how you can alter your experience of life and business, and ultimately how you can thrive long term as someone who experiences a cycle.
Have a listen and let me know how it lands for you! I’m really excited about this new podcast and want to keep shaping it around what’s supportive and engaging for YOU.
A bit about Maisie
Maisie Hill is a highly qualified and sought-after menstrual health expert with over 15 years of experience as a practitioner, coach, and birth doula. Maisie knows the power of working with the menstrual cycle and believes that our hormones are there to serve us and help us get what we want out of life.
What lights Maisie up is helping others to understand the inner workings of the reproductive system so that they can make sense of their menstrual cycle and use their hormones to great advantage in their lives. Maisie is also the author of Period Power and Perimenopause Power.
Connect with Maisie:
WEBSITE: www.maisiehill.com
INSTAGRAM: www.instagram.com/_maisiehill_
FACEBOOK: www.facebook.com/maisiehillwombwhisperer
TWITTER: www.twitter.com/maisiehill_
Have a listen and let me know how it lands for you! I’m really excited about this new podcast and want to keep shaping it around what’s supportive and engaging for YOU.
Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3B6jUij
Apple: https://apple.co/3nkLzaA
Connect with Shelby:
IG: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh
www.shelby-leigh.com
https://shelby-leigh.com/embodied-coaching-experience
www.creatingsaferspace.com
www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com
Calling all healthcare professionals! Why don’t relationships with your patients last? You had one session…but you could have had 40. If you’re missing out on being trauma-informed in your practice your patients may not come back if you don’t build a trusting relationship from the start.
When we are trauma-informed, we learn ways to not add stress to an already stressed person.
This episode is a behind the scenes view of how I talk about my work and how I think about trauma-informed care in the healthcare setting. In the process of rebranding my site, I’ve hired an incredible copywriter, Jaqueline Paumier, to help me create new thoughts and ideas about how I share my work. In representing my work, in alignment with my values, I share how I view my work in trauma.
Most healthcare professionals have to armor-up pretty young in order to cope with their surroundings. A lot of my clients are doctors and midwives and have been witnessing some scary stuff throughout their experiences in their work, and the standard self care coping techniques may not really cut it.
This is why I built the course, Creating Safer Healthcare.
Trauma-informed care is about an entire team…a system…the entire team needs to be educated to provide this kind of support.
If you know a healthcare professional who could benefit from this work, please share it with them!
We didn’t know we were going to release this as a podcast so it’s super casual and not perfectly linear. Please excuse the messiness! I thought it would be fun for you to listen to anyways.
A bit about Jacqueline
Jacqueline offers a “holistic copywriting” approach. In her own brilliant words: “Look…I’m not here to give you anything you don’t already have. I’m just here to help you curate it, and get it out into the world. The right way.”
Have a listen and let me know how it lands for you! I’m really excited about this new podcast and want to keep shaping it around what’s supportive and engaging for YOU.
Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3B6jUij
Apple: https://apple.co/3nkLzaA
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For coaches, therapists and facilitators of the world…this episode is a behind the scenes listen of how I talk about my work and how I think about my work.
In the process of rebranding my site, I’ve hired an incredible copywriter, Jaqueline Paumier, to help me create new thoughts and ideas about how I share my work. In representing my work, in alignment with my values, I share how I view my work in trauma.
We get into my definitions of trauma and trauma-informed care. I share about nervous systems and how we build relationships with others. We talk about how as coaches we can be strong enough to hold chaos, establish boundaries, and clarify a safe container for regulation and growth.
We didn’t know we were going to release this as a podcast so it’s super casual and not perfectly linear. Please excuse the messiness! I thought it would be fun for you to listen to anyways.
A bit about Jacqueline
Jacqueline offers a “holistic copywriting” approach. In her own brilliant words: “Look…I’m not here to give you anything you don’t already have. I’m just here to help you curate it, and get it out into the world. The right way.”
Connect with Jacqueline:
Web: https://selfwriteous.com/
Instagram: @selfwriteously
Have a listen and let me know how it lands for you! I’m really excited about this new podcast and want to keep shaping it around what’s supportive and engaging for YOU.
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Connect with Shelby:
IG: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh
www.shelby-leigh.com
https://shelby-leigh.com/embodied-coaching-experience
www.creatingsaferspace.com
www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com
We have more access to creativity, intelligence and expression when we feel safe.
In this episode I interview Danielle Cohen, a visibility coach and brand photographer. She describes how no single image COULD EVER tell the full story of who you are…and in this episode she shares with us that we can build a body of work and a body of expression to share our work with the world.
We talk about how we contribute to growing "safeness" with our clients and the groups we facilitate. Danielle shares about how being explicit with our roles, expectations and agreements is kind to those we are working with. We weave in attachment theory, CPTSD, developmental trauma and various ways to build a foundation between us and those that we support when in the role of care provider.
This is helpful for everyone - not just folks with trauma. "What feels safe to one person may not feel safe to someone else" and we breakdown how to co-create space with others and acknowledge each of our individual needs for safety.
About Danielle:
Danielle Cohen (she/her) is a visibility coach and brand photographer with a unique approach to helping pro-social creative entrepreneurs, coaches, visionaries, and healers (aka beacons) step into and offer their greatest work by becoming more visible on their terms, owning their story and their magic, having the impact they’re here to have and thriving while doing it.
IG: @daniellecohenphotography
Web: www.visibilitymedicine.com
www.danielle-cohen.com
This episode is for people who are entrepreneurs running their own coaching, therapy and wellness-based businesses.
Do you ever secretly (or not so secretly) get stuck comparing your offerings to others in your industry? Do you get stuck in freeze or get bogged down overwhelmed by what everyone else is doing?
In this episode, I share how I recently navigated this inside myself and investigate my own experience of comparison in relationship to running a coaching business. Being an entrepreneur comes with all sorts of emotions and internal processes. I share 4 ways to embrace insecurities: staying "in our lanes,” focusing on our own mission, committing to our visions and leaning into support.
Do you ever wonder what specific things you can do and say to better support your clients who've experienced trauma?
In this episode, I go over 9 key takeaways that you can start integrating into your practice NOW (whether you're a coach, therapist, facilitator, healer or healthcare professional) to bring more trauma sensitivity into your workplace and provide trauma-informed care to your clients.
The thing is...we don't always know what trauma our clients have endured, nor do we always know how trauma shows up in the individual we work with.
These broad-spectrum tips will help you help folx who've experienced trauma - by developing trust, honoring where they're at in their journey, and establishing a safe-enough setting for healing.
As you'll discover...trust is also developed in the repair, that is...how we acknowledge, address and hold space for when we screw up.
If you don't already have it, here's access to my 7 Step Process for Revolutionary Repairs video! www.shelby-leigh.com/the-power-of-repairs
This is a perfect follow up lesson to my Tip #9: Trust in Built in the Repair.
Anakha Coman joins me for a connecting, deep and insightful episode around healing in relationships. We share personally about our friendship and relationship as colleagues. And she shares 4 clear and simple concepts and practices to deepen relationships, especially when there’s overwhelm. These are supportive for both personal and professional settings and both Anakha and Shelby share how these are principles of their lives and foundations for their own healing and growth.
Connect with Anakha at https://equitybydesignusa.com/about/
Anakha speaks, teaches and consults with leaders and organizations worldwide. Companies she’s worked with include Intel, Nike, Microsoft, Eli Lilly, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Zappos, SalesForce.com, the Mindfulness as Medicine Initiative, Save the Children and Parker Hannifin. She designed and co-authored the foundational curriculum for Intel’s corporate mindfulness program and co-founded and launched Awake@Intel, a successful initiative to realize the potential of employee and corporate intelligence. She created and facilitates Awake at Work, a mindfulness based program with a focus on increasing employee engagement, intentional inclusion, creativity, resilience and collaboration.
With an emphasis on mindful leadership, intentional culture, equity and inclusion, and creativity, Anakha’s expertise is in organizational and leadership development. She holds a Masters in Organizational and Leadership Development, a Masters in Consciousness/Divinity, and a professional certificate in Spirituality, Health and Medicine. Anakha is a certified Unpack Biases Now facilitator, a certified embodiment practitioner, a certified Expressive Arts therapist and an ordained interfaith minister.
Connect with Shelby:
IG: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh
www.shelby-leigh.com
https://shelby-leigh.com/embodied-coaching-experience
www.creatingsaferspace.com
www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com
How can we thrive as coaches & entrepreneurs amidst life's chaos? Crystal and I explore regulation, titration & pleasure (even If we aren't in the mood for pleasure) from a business perspective. We investigate how we can embrace our familiar survival responses around stress and urgency through care, pleasure, regulation and connection as we operate our businesses. Crystal shares how her near death experience showed her what's important and how to come into presence and breath to stay regulated through it all.
About Crystal Avila Langen
Crystal is a Coach for Revolutionary Entrepreneurs who want to run their business with the principles of fun, play, and pleasure.
She is a Certified Speaker, Online Course Creatress and Thought Leader.
Crystal is the leader of the women’s movement The Red Lip Revolution™ and is passionate about reclaiming the lost Sacred Art of Adornment and how such a simple and accessible act can provide such profound shifts. She loves anything entrepreneurship, business, marketing, branding, money, spreadsheets, friendship, and music. Crystal lives in the SF Bay Area and has 3 amazing children and has been devoted to her beloved for 22 years. She has a degree in Instructional Technology.
You can find her at www.crystallangen.com
and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/groups/522219611482293
Connect with Shelby:
IG: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh
www.shelby-leigh.com
https://shelby-leigh.com/embodied-coaching-experience
www.creatingsaferspace.com
www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com
Casey and I find so many personal and professional similarities as we explore concepts like Slowing the F down in our work and in our trauma healing. We share about our histories as highly competitive athletes and how that contributed to ignoring our bodies and living in a state of pushing through to perform. We talk about some highs and lows of being athletes from such young ages. Casey brings her steadiness, joyfulness and spaciousness - modeling the deep embodiment and inner connection she’s gained now and is an advocate for in all of her work.
About Casey Hall:
Casey has spent the past 12 years fine-tuning her passion for helping people improve their relationship with themselves. Now, she's a Healthy Sensuality Coach. She began her career teaching nutrition and physical activity to children and adults with disabilities and was even a high school sex-ed teacher!
Casey went on to teach wellness on a larger scale, focusing on disease management, weight loss, and holistic stress management.After coaching thousands of people, she recognized there was a missing piece to the holistic wellness equation.
Through spending 2 years getting certified as a Sex, Love, and Relationship coach, she realized that forming a healthy relationship with your sensuality was the missing piece.
Healthy sensuality means being connected to your senses, to the messages that your body is constantly giving you, and understanding how this connection plays a crucial role in your relationship to yourself and others.Sensuality is a tender topic and Casey attributes her ability to navigate it lovingly and effectively to her trauma-informed training.
Casey is now a full-time Healthy Sensuality Coach and co-hosts the podcast "Slow The F Down Show".
She also is co-founder of The Love School - A Group Coaching Program.
Connect with Shelby:
IG: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh
www.shelby-leigh.com
https://shelby-leigh.com/embodied-coaching-experience
www.creatingsaferspace.com
www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com
Ellinor Grace and Shelby explore what it's like to welcome the "inner bitch" part of themselves and share their experiences of what it's like to not have access to anger, healthy boundaries and personal needs and wants in the past. Through connected conversation, we honor the inner people pleaser and those parts that were trying so much to help us feel safe, loved and with a sense of belonging.
A bit more about Ellinor, in her words:
“I'm Ellinor Grace, an Embodiment Guide, Soul Alchemist, World Wanderer and Creative. I work with individuals who desire to live their truth & BE (Brilliance Embodied).
I am a guide on the journey to connect to the healer within and your unique code of brilliance. My values of courage, truth, devotion, flow and creation anchor my work and life. I bring my brilliance: vulnerability and intuition, to cultivate sacred space for deep healing and transformation.
This transformation movement is about growing roots deep to anchor us as we courageously step into the unknown. By doing so, we create a powerful community of world changers, healers and creatives who embody their inherent brilliance and intentionally move towards a more equitable, just and free world for us all; While also in harmony with Mother Earth and all its inhabitants.”
To connect with Ellinor:
www.brillianceembodied.com
IG: @brillianceembodied
Connect with Shelby:
IG: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh
www.shelby-leigh.com
https://shelby-leigh.com/embodied-coaching-experience
www.creatingsaferspace.com
www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com
Will Rezin and Shelby get specific about trauma healing techniques that have gone awry in the past. We talk discuss if there could be a world where "the end of trauma" exists and how we might imagine that to happen. Will and Shelby bring in pieces of their Vajrayana and Theravada Buddhist paths in relation to how we view suffering and how we view freedom in the fullest expression of humanity.
More about Will:
Will Rezinis a mystic, philosopher, somatic coach & trainer, and trauma integration specialist who guides individuals on the often mystical and winding journey of waking up to their own aliveness.
Will integrates 21 years of inner work, esoteric inquiry, and cultural research with 13 years of professional experience in the healing arts. Everything Will does supports his personal mission to end human suffering, and his professional mission to bring trauma-informed care into the mainstream so that it can be available to everyone who needs it, without stigma or exclusion.
Connect with Will:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/will.rezin
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/willrezin
Website: www.awakensoma.com
Website: www.traumaandsomatics.com
Connect with Shelby:
IG: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh
www.shelby-leigh.com
https://shelby-leigh.com/embodied-coaching-experience
www.creatingsaferspace.com
www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com
Shelby is joined by Best Selling Author Stephen Terrell in a deep and heartful discussion around developmental trauma. They touch on the power of embodied presence, hanging out, leaning back and welcoming all parts of each client. In this captivating episode Stephen shares vulnerability about his past and his experience of neurodiversity. Coaches, clients, healthcare practitioners alike will gain something from the embodied experience of simply listening and receiving this wisdom. (Stephen's photo and bio are in the CSH marketing material and sales page).
A bit more about Stephen:
Stephen is a leading expert in the field of Developmental Trauma and Adoption and is recognized around the world for his work in Developmental Trauma and Healing. He understands Developmental Trauma from the inside out and the outside in.
His background and training began as a Rogerian Approach which involves active listening skills. He continues to incorporate this approach in his work in addition to his training in Somatic Experiencing®, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Touch Training for Therapists, Didactic Developmental Psychotherapy, and EMDR for Adopted Children. Stephen combines all his training experiences to see the client holistically (Mind, Body, Psychologically, and Spiritually).
Connect with Stephen:
https://www.austinattach.com/
Connect with Shelby:
IG: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh
www.shelby-leigh.com
https://shelby-leigh.com/embodied-coaching-experience
www.creatingsaferspace.com
www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com
Megan deBoer of Tended Wealth models for us what it's like to slow down as we build safer relationships with ourselves as we cultivate a meaningful relationship with money. She shares about many somatic elements of holding and growing money in ways that our nervous systems can tolerate and expand with. She brings her embodied wisdom of years of supporting female identified business owners as they become empowered and clear with their business and money growth.
A bit more about Megan:
Megan deBoer is the founder of Tended Wealth, a business that helps individuals heal their emotional and practical relationship to money. As a certified Financial Recovery Counselor, her approach considers the context of our current financial circumstance: our lived experience, our family of origin, and the broad culture that together shape our beliefs about money. She is passionate about transforming this fundamental part of our lives from shame and overwhelm to a sense of agency, clarity, and potential. She specializes in helping women who are self-employed to radically increase their earning. Her course participants and 1:1 clients regularly attest to the life changing power of this work.
To connect with Megan visit:
URL: tendedwealth.com
Instagram: @tendedwealth
Connect with Shelby:
IG: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh
www.shelby-leigh.com
https://shelby-leigh.com/embodied-coaching-experience
www.creatingsaferspace.com
www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com
Aurianna and I explore our experiences of neurodivergence and how that relates to sensitivity, attunement and being with others in a way they feel seen, heard and understood. We also talk about plant medicines journeys and the importance of practicing the concepts of "less is more" and "integration". We end by getting to hear about Aurianna's passion for death and dying as a death doula.
A bit more about Aurianna:
Aurianna Joy is an embodiment mentor, herbalist, doula, and trauma-resolution educator who guides individuals on the delicate path of cultivating aliveness and living a life free from trauma. Using her 15 years of personal inner work and spiritual growth combined with 10 years of professional experience in the healing arts, she weaves an intricate web of awakening for those in devotion to their path of Becoming.
To connect with Aurianna:
traumaandsomatics.com
auriannajoy.com
instagram.com/auriannajoy
Facebook.com/aurianna.explores
Connect with Shelby:
IG: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh
www.shelby-leigh.com
https://shelby-leigh.com/embodied-coaching-experience
www.creatingsaferspace.com
www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com
Renée Hilliard, MD discusses how focusing on creating a connected and warm relationship with our clients and patients can make it or break it in terms of healing. She shares about her experiences as a physician, and now a coach and how creating time and space for our own nervous systems and self-care are imperative in keeping us from burnout. This thought provoking conversation shows us how tending to ourselves and those we work with in health and wellness with great humanity matters.
A bit more about Renée:
Renée Hilliard MD: Renée currently practices as a certified intimacy and relationship coach after being in private practice as an obstetrician & gynecologist for over 20 yrs. She takes a holistic approach to caring for people mind, body and spirit. She received a Bachelor of Science in psychobiology and was part of The Autism Project at UCLA before receiving her Medical Doctorate from University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor. Renée is passionate about the neuroscience of trauma and is deeply committed to bringing trauma awareness to healing spaces.
To connect with Renée:
Website: reneehilliard.com
Instagram: @reneehilliardmd
Facebook: Renee Hilliard
Connect with Shelby:
IG: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh
www.shelby-leigh.com
https://shelby-leigh.com/embodied-coaching-experience
www.creatingsaferspace.com
www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com
Perinatal Nurse and Educator Jen Atkisson shares vulnerably her personal story that led to getting fired up about trauma informed care for nurses and doctors and their patients. Shelby and Jen explore topics of slowing down, trauma informed care doesn't mean having to be a therapist, simple things to implement to support patients AND medical staff, and deep compassion for the lives of those working in medical and healthcare.
About Jen:
Jen Atkisson is a certified perinatal nurse and educator, with a Master's of Science in Clinical Nurse Leadership from the University of Portland. She has practiced in hospitals, birth centers and public health clinics for the past 15 years, supporting thousands of patients as they move through the birth process. She believes in the power of trauma-aware practices to bring joy back into our professional lives and allow us to have the meaningful patient relationships we all went into healthcare originally to have.
Website: jenatkisson.com
Instagram: @jenatkisson
Or Contact: jen.atkisson@gmail.com
Connect with Shelby:
IG: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh
www.shelby-leigh.com
https://shelby-leigh.com/embodied-coaching-experience
www.creatingsaferspace.com
www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com
Liz Riley Christiano and Shelby wander through the power of building safety in healing relationships and in ourselves. We explore what it's like to be seen as "expert" in our care providing roles and how to frame it in a more healthy way so our clients get to be the experts of their own experience. We touch on some of the possible roots of this dynamic throughout the US.
A bit more about Liz:
Liz Riley Christiano is a Love Coach and Nervous System Whisperer. She helps people melt the trauma and stress that lingers from relational and emotional wounds, so that they may live from their own energetic centers. She is passionate about healing work that helps us to live joyful, interconnected lives, and is grateful for the melanated teachers who continue to illuminate the path towards true individual and collective healing. Liz lives in Berkeley, CA with her husband and two kids.
To find out more about Liz visit:
www.lizrileychristiano.com
IG: @lizrileychristiano
Connect with Shelby:
IG: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh
www.shelby-leigh.com
https://shelby-leigh.com/embodied-coaching-experience
www.creatingsaferspace.com
www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com
In this episode Julia Bernard-Thompson shares new perspectives on how to be in a loving relationship with money. We explore holding money as a practice, high-ticket sales and how to support the nervous system to feel safe with money.
A bit more about Julia:
Julia grew up in Trinidad and Tobago and is currently based in the UK. She is a coach, TedX speaker, and founder of Radical Revenue. She encourages coaches to build revenue by focusing on consistent, high ticket, premium sales. She has worked in business development for over 15 years, and has led teams and coached clients to $300 million in revenue. If you are ready to uplevel your faith, freedom, and finances, she is the coach for you.
For more information about Julia check out this link:
https://www.juliabernardthompson.com/intensive/
Connect with Shelby:
IG: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh
www.shelby-leigh.com
https://shelby-leigh.com/embodied-coaching-experience
www.creatingsaferspace.com
www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com
In this deeply vulnerable and connected episode Julia shines her light on all things creativity and how so many people experience states of trauma that block them from allowing their fullest expressions through. She coaches Shelby through some deep things that arise around her creativity blocks. There are tears and joys and so much presence and connection. Julia beautifully models attunement, empathy, validation, skill and creativity as we navigate the exact thing together that comes up for so many people and prevents them from allowing their full creative expression through.
***A note on sound quality for this episode: I am SO SORRY, especially to those of you with extra sensitive ears, but my earring was rubbing on my microphone as I was recording part of this episode. It's mostly in the beginning, and the sound improves as the episode goes on.
About Julia:
Julia Berryman is an Artist & Empowerment Coach. She passionately believes that each and every one of us has an Inner Artist just waiting to be awakened and that embracing our full range of expression is key to creative living!
Julia’s workshops and coaching blend art, dance, emotional expression & somatic processing. Working with her, people learn to listen to their body, intuition, and emotions and become emboldened to share their gifts from a space of greater joy, delight and play.
As an artist, Julia creates Soul Essence Portraits. This unique process blends embodied coaching with the creation of a custom-made intuitive painting that brings a person’s dreams, visions, and soul gifts to life.
Julia is also the co-founder of AARISE, a community program that centers AAPI activist history, social justice teachings, emotional processing and somatic healing. This program was featured in Time Magazine in the spring of 2021.
You can learn more about Julia’s work on her website: www.juliaberryman.com or stay in touch via Instagram @julia.joyfulwild.
Connect with Shelby:
IG: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh
www.shelby-leigh.com
https://shelby-leigh.com/embodied-coaching-experience
www.creatingsaferspace.com
www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com
In this episode Kimberly shares about her path to offering trauma informed support for her business coaching clients. She shares her own stories of not feeling safe in other's healing spaces which inspired her to really learn and understand the power of trauma informed care. We explore the power of not taking people over their edges and staying within their windows of presence to be able to truly receive the work they're diving into, no matter WHAT the work is.
About Kimberly King:
Kim is an Intuitive Business Coach and certified in Life & Success Coaching, NLP, EFT, TIME Techniques and Hypnosis.
She works with creatives, visionaries and spiritual leaders to help them build a sustainable business that aligns with their values, authentically express themselves through their brand, and become impactful leaders.
She integrates a trauma-informed approach to her coaching and is committed to continuously educating herself on creating a safer and more inclusive space for her clients and community.
www.kimberlyking.ca
www.leadwithsoul.ca
www.instagram.com/kimberlykingcoaching
Connect with Shelby:
IG: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh
www.shelby-leigh.com
https://shelby-leigh.com/embodied-coaching-experience
www.creatingsaferspace.com
www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com
She had it backwards! In this episode Shelby breaks down the difference between being "trauma aware" vs "trauma informed" for anyone who is a care provider working individually or within an organization or system. People who haven't been overwhelmed by the impacts of trauma also value these types of care as well. You'll learn why being trauma informed is a necessity whereas being "trauma specific" is not. You'll learn how to start moving towards being direct and informative with people impacted by trauma instead of tiptoeing around them which is not helpful for anyone.
Tamsin shares about being allergic to strategy and shares the joys of sinking into embodiment and nervous system regulation and seeing such beautiful results in her coaching business from this place. We talk about "unusual" business strategy and how much ease and pleasure can come from choosing how we want to be in relationship to our businesses from a settled and connected place. We share the piece that unlocked Tamsin's ability to receive her first 10k month which felt so surprising to her. "Receiving means to accept and we have to do that with our whole body."
Slowing down into the magic of the nervous system regulation work - we explore the concept of regulation and co-regulation from the felt sense. With the power of the therapeutic relationship, we have an incredible tool we can use to help others feel safe enough to be with their felt sense so they can regulate and feel balanced and connected. Marina shares about the wholeness of who we are is what allows us to be connected with others and with this planet we co-exist with and the people we co-exist with - when we can sink into embodiment, we can be more responsive to what is needed inside and out from a caring place.
Connect with Shelby:
IG: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh
www.shelby-leigh.com
www.creatingsaferspace.com
www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com
https://shelby-leigh.com/embodied-coaching-experience
Marina Nabão is a body enthusiast, passionate about the wisdom and healing power of our bodies and all the ways we are able to integrate mind-body-spirituality in a conscious and loving way so we can thrive.
As an embodiment coach and somatic healer, she supports women and non-binary vulva owners who are trapped in the chains of past trauma and have a deep desire to reclaim their sovereign power and inner freedom.
She’s also a Senior Teacher at Layla Martin’s year-long VITA™ Sex, Love & Relationship Coaching Certification.
Marina grew up in Brazil and now lives in the SF Bay Area, CA, with her husband and their rescue dog Jessie.
Find out more at marinanabao.com
In this second episode, Shelby dives right in to unpack and define "Trauma". She also answers the commonly asked question: “does it ever go away?” She shares a bit more of her own personal story and also what she's learned through the experience of sitting with clients over the years (and through the many trauma trainings taken). Shelby shares a really impactful definition around how trauma equals broken connections - connection to spirit, to self, to others, etc. Creating a new relationship to trauma is how healing happens. This podcast reveals the gift of this. There is so much to know about trauma and over the many episodes of this podcast, the definition and how to notice it and work with it will become more and more clear.
Connect with Shelby:
IG: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh
www.shelby-leigh.com
www.creatingsaferspace.com
www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com
In this solo episode Shelby explores the power of the therapeutic relationship in any industry. She talks about how trauma can impact relationships negatively and healing relationships can impact us in such positive and profound ways. She shares some of her own vulnerable history around relationships and how tapping into co-regulation has been nourishing for her and the people she supports both in individual and group sessions. Whether you're a therapist, coach, facilitator, medical professional or someone healing their own trauma - this episode will inspire and help you exhale into this moment right here.
Connect with Shelby:
IG: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh
www.shelby-leigh.com
www.creatingsaferspace.com
www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com
From the Founder of Creating Safer Space and Creating Safer Healthcare, introducing Relationship As Medicine: Trauma Informed Stories From The Field. This podcast explores trauma informed healing through the lens of the relationship. Coaches, Therapists, Healthcare Providers, Facilitators of all kinds learn about the power of the therapeutic relationship in helping clients and patients with trauma to be able to truly receive the support that's being offered.
This podcast is supportive for practitioners inspired by Embodied (Somatic) approaches to supporting people with trauma AND themselves. Practitioners who are able to be regulated, present and connected are more at ease in their lives and work but also are much more able to help the people they work with feel more at ease which provides and incredible foundation for healing and growth.
Connect with Shelby:
IG: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh
www.shelby-leigh.com
www.creatingsaferspace.com
www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com