Shameless Leadership

551: Stephannie Weikert: Making Peace With Stress, Surrender & Sexuality


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Stephannie Weikert is a Certified Yoga Therapist who teaches smart, capable men and women to manage stress with some of the most fundamental, yet little-known principles of yoga.

She’s been teaching therapeutic yoga for stress in studios, hospitals, businesses, and with her 1:1 students since 2005. And now she’s on a mission to make meaningful personal growth doable and practical with her signature Make Peace with Stress method so more people can get unstuck from patterns of stress and be more present, calm, and confident—all without becoming a die-hard yogi.

When not mentoring people who struggle with stress, Stephannie can usually be found under a pile of books or working on writing her first book about how to take charge of your chaotic mind and focus on what’s really important to you.

I asked Stephannie to come on the show to talk about how she helps people manage stress, but also to share her own stories around mental health and sexuality that have guided her coaching over the years.

 Listen in to hear Stephannie share:

  • How compartmentalizing different parts of our lives leads to hiding and shame
  • How she used numbing habits (esp drugs & alcohol) to cope
  • How her compartmentalization led her to struggling with Trichotillomania to the point of pulling out all of her eyelashes and eyebrows
  • The moment when she finally and truly saw herself and decided to start to change her habits
  • How she was able to create an entire new set of coping skills that served her throughout her life
  • How her she noticed shifts in her sexuality in her forties and how she responded
  • How we all have a inner compass that is exactly right
  • How to use self study, surrender and intention setting to manage stress and your life
  • Why you should pay more attention to discomfort and stress - and what it’s trying to signal
  • The gifts of yoga that carry over into all areas of life
  • Links mentioned:

    • Connect with Stephannie
    • Stephannie on Instagram
    • Stephannie on LinkedIN
    • Stephannie on Facebook
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