A Life That Lets Me Breathe

In this episode we'll explore how important it is to practice living more in alignment with your true self.  

Learning your human design energy type gives you the language to explain what you've always known about yourself.  The parts of your personality that make you feel different tend to hold the information about your true gifts.  

If you get stuck looking outside of yourself for the answers, that's a sign you're living out of tune with your intuition.  If you have limiting beliefs that make you think you should be like everyone else, you end up living your life feeling like you don't have enough, that you don't do enough and that you aren't enough.  

It's time to break free and be who you're meant to be.

You are designed to shine.  Learn more about your true design and check out my new Energize Your Life sessions!

Thanks for listening.

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Hello friends!

I'm back with a short episode checking-in this summer as we are slowly emerging after a year of the pandemic.  I've received so many emails and messages about how you all are exploring life after what once felt "normal," and how you're learning to embrace the reset that is helping you return more to your authentic self.

One of the gifts of the upheaval, unknowns, discomfort and changes from the past year is that so many of us are learning what it feels like to live more in alignment with our true nature.  And it seems like we like it here! 

What about the shifts from this past year have resonated with you?
What about it do you want to carry with you moving forward?  What awakened in you during this time of deep transition?

During this time of change, I've rediscovered my love of watercolor and created a new course, Inspired Flow, where I integrate energy healing with intuitive creative, art journaling.  It's all about using the playful modality of watercolor to spark creativity, raise your vibration, get you in-tune with your energy centers and connect to your intuition, so that you can experience more ease, balance, alignment, joy and playfulness in your life.  

It's not about painting a beautiful piece of art (although it is quite beautiful when you express yourself intuitively), but it's about learning how to be in the moment.  It's about learning how to listen to your heart and discovering what your soul wants to express.  Intuitive creating in this way helps you notice how you feel, without your restless mind getting in the way.  It's a powerful healing, self-discovery journey.

Shoot me a DM on Instagram and tell me:

What are you feeling creatively inspired by? 
How are you taking care of yourself during this life-altering time?
What does your heart need most in this moment?

In honor of the change and the summer solstice, I'm offering a summer special.  For the next 10 coaching clients, if you sign-up for a Human Design reading or a personal life coaching session, you'll receive one free week of Voxer coaching support!  VISIT HERE to learn more.

I also announce my Fall, 2021 retreat in this episode.

Happy Summer and thanks for listening.

Warmly,

Shannon

www.afreespiritlife.com

 

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In today's episode, we'll explore energy, connecting to your intuition (through your human design energy type) and the gentle hands-on healing modality, Reiki.

We've been born with an inner wisdom.  It is your intuition - your teacher and guide.  Your intuition is nudging you subtly in life, sometimes really loudly - hitting you on the head, to get you to listen.  It's our job to learn how to pay attention to it, and find the courage to follow where it's leading.  

We've been taught that our mind is really the place to make decisions from.  We end up getting stuck, fixing problems and mulling over solutions in our head.  The mind is a great place to generate ideas and process information, but to make decisions that are in tune with our authentic self, that's when the mind can get in the way.  

Maybe you get headaches from over-thinking, worrying, or ruminating about the past.  It can feel like a mental game of ping-pong - bouncing back and forth from past regrets to future worries.  We find ourselves stuck in our heads, while missing the present moment.

Today I'm talking about how to get in tune and in touch with your intuition, and how to become your own guide and energy healer through the Reiki.

I am now teaching Reiki online!  You can take Reiki with a group or as a self-study program, and get a personal Reiki Level One attunement with me.  Visit HERE to learn more!

I'm also offering a free course, Energize Your Life with Human Design, where you can learn more about your energy type.

Thanks for listening.

Be well and keep taking good care of YOU.

www.afreespiritlife.com

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In today’s show, I am so excited to share this lovely conversation with Theta Healer and Business Coach, Amelia Critchlow.

Amelia is the creator of Soul Space Healers.  She’s an intuitive healer and experienced coach who has a deep passion for helping you break free of the mental, emotional and energetic blocks that keep you from seeing how powerful you are.

Amelia shares how the modality of Theta Healing® can clear the body of the self-sabotaging beliefs that keep you from living your most authentic and prosperous life. She believes true abundance is your birthright.

Amelia leads her signature program, Passion to Profit, where she guides service based teachers, healers and heart-centered solopreneurs how to make a profitable business doing what they love so they can share their gifts with the world.  Amelia has a gift of merging practical business strategies with the intuitive healing modality of Theta Healing® to make lasting, impactful changes to your business and to your life.

This is a beautiful episode full of enthusiasm, inspiration and wisdom.

We encourage you to look at your own life.  What page in your life’s story did you turn to today?  This is a new moment – a fresh, clean slate.  You have an opportunity to pause, to learn something new, to think a new thought and to dream a new version of your dream – and it starts right now.

Enjoy the show!

Visit Amelia’s website, Soul Space Healers, to learn more about her Passion to Profit Online Program and her 1:1 Theta Healing® Sessions.  You can follow her on Instagram here.  Make sure to join her free, private Facebook group here.

Thank you for listening and thank you for being you.

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I'm so excited to share this beautiful conversation with you today.  

My guest is Amy Zoe Schonhoff. Amy is a mindfulness and meditation teacher and the founder of Mindfulness in the Heartland. She is a qualified teacher of Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and a trained Mindful Schools Educator for grades K-12.

Amy has had a lifelong fascination with the human condition, especially how we meet life's challenges and foster personal resilience. Having had a personal mindfulness practice for over 25 years, she has found the practices and principles of mindfulness to be the most instructive and transformative approach to embracing this experience of "being human."

Amy is certain of one thing, we cannot genuinely experience the joy of life without also accepting its moments of sorrow; because they are two faces of the same coin. Fundamentally, we are all naturally creative, resourceful and house the answers to our innermost needs and desires. The practices and teachings of mindfulness can bring us home to this truth, time and time again.

It is Amy's intention to inspire you to walk through life with a sense of reverence—fully honoring your moment-to-moment experience, to bravely lean into life’s challenges—relinquishing attachments to what “should be” for the sake of what is, and ultimately, to live more joyfully—with compassion and kindness for yourself and others.

You can learn more about Amy at Mindfulness in the Heartland.

Here is information about her free mindfulness workshop in January, 2021.

As we explore in this conversation today, mindfulness is as practice.  We have many opportunities in our beautiful, messy lives to practice mindfulness.  Amy talks about the quality of our attention and that having an open, compassionate and friendly attitude are the qualities we can practice infusing into the moment and how they are so critical in how we experience the present moment.

We talk about how to practice mindfulness in our daily lives, when healing from trauma, in family life, in the chaos from this past year and how to set heart-based intentions for the New Year.  

This is a rich, full, in depth exploration of practicing mindfulness in the middle of daily life.  Let's dive right in!

To join my A Free Spirit Life private community on Facebook, visit here.

To learn more about my upcoming self-discovery / energy healing online course, The Power of Being You, visit here.

Thanks so much for listening. Enjoy the show!

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I'm happy you are here listening during this tender time in your life and in the world.  I'm glad our paths have crossed.  I see you. I feel you.  I hear you!  

If you're like me, maybe you're feeling a little run down, tired, drained...  This has been a trying year, that is for sure.  We are all being faced with the fact that - everything is temporary.  The one thing that is for sure is - everything changes.  We are especially learning that lesson this year!

In today's show, I want to invite you to pay attention to how you feel.  Are you listening to what you need?  Are you allowing yourself to rest, to renew, to find stillness and to slow down? 

I'll also share more details about my New Year online self-discovery and energy healing course - The Power of Being You - that starts January 7th, 2021.  (Registration is now open!)

Thank you for listening and thank you for being you.  Keep taking good care of your heart and soul during this time.

Visit here to learn more about my new course.

Visit here to join our private group on Facebook!

With love,

Shannon

 

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Today's show is all about mindful parenting and the powerful modality of Human Design.  I'll explore how Human Design has helped me on my quest to practice mindful parenting and how it can help you.

If you have children, grandchildren or simply love children :), you'll love this episode.  I'll share in detail the 5 energy types in Human Design and how this info can be used as a parenting tool to help raise authentic, resilient, confident, connected and empowered kids.

Now, more than ever, we are ready for this.  I've spent many years guiding women back to their authentic selves (as I've stumbled and fumbled along the way, too).  As we've moved through life and experienced challenges and pressures from the past, most of us have been pulled further away from who we naturally are.  We've learned through the years to doubt ourselves and judge what makes us unique as personality flaws, rather than embracing and celebrating what makes us different.

When you learn about Human Design, you are reminded what you know deep down inside yourself, of who you truly were before you were conditioned to be someone else.

Rather than raising kids who will have to spend years rediscovering and reconnecting to their authentic selves in their adult years, let's raise our children to be aligned and in-tune with their inner power, beauty and wisdom - starting today.

You know that magic and presence you see in young children and how they walk through life uninhibited, creative, fearless and full of wonder?  That's when they are living in the flow of their true essence.  They don't get consumed by self-doubt, question their uniqueness and think there's something wrong with them.  They simply enjoy being who they are.

Think about how you were at that precious young age when you still believed in magic.  When you believed in things unseen.  Human Design helps you return to that place where you believe, see and connect with the unlimited possibilities, magic and flow that comes from simply being who you really and truly are.

Mindful parenting using Human Design gives us the practice to heal and return to our true selves while raising authentic children.  When you know your children's energy type, you will awaken to new ways that you can honor how they're naturally designed to be, so they experience greater health, sleep, creativity and overall well-being.  That's what this show is all about today.  Enjoy!

To learn more about design, listen to Podcast Episode 47:  What's Human Design & What's Your Energy Type?

To look up your free Human Design body graph, visit here.

To book a 1:1 Human Design Chart Reading or to purchase gift certificates, visit here.

GIVEAWAY:

If you leave a review of this podcast on iTunes, Stitcher or wherever you listen to podcasts, email me and let me know.  As a thank you for the month of November, 2020, you'll be entered into a drawing for one free Human Design chart reading!

Thanks for listening and thanks for being you.

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I'm so happy you are joining me for this episode.  In today's show, I'm going to share my favorite sleep rituals - ways to help you sleep more peacefully.

I am feeling, sensing and deeply wanting to give you a moment of peace today.  If you are listening to this live, you know in the US we are in the midst of the 2020 election.  This year is a year we'll always remember.  It's the beginning of a new shift in our lives and in the collective.  With massive shift comes massive uncertainty, which can be very uncomfortable, unsettling and even painful at times.  Sometimes, the only way to move through change is to breathe through it and take it moment-by-moment, day-by-day.

If you're feeling stressed, burned out or just plain tired of 2020, I want to offer you a little reprieve today.

Many of us have a real struggle when it comes to sleep.  Maybe you have trouble falling asleep, staying asleep, or deal with trauma or anxiety that keeps you awake at night.  It's hard for many of us to find peace in sleep.

I'm sharing my 5 favorite sleep ritual tips, as well as a guided meditation for peaceful sleep.

For more free guided meditations, visit Shannon Kinney-Düh on Insight Timer.

Here's episode 47 if you'd like to learn more about Human Design.

I would love for you to join me for my upcoming workshop, What's Your Energy Type?

Join our private A Free Spirit Life group on Facebook!  I'd love to connect with you there.

Thanks for leaving your reviews on iTunes or Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts.  Thank you so much for listening.

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What does "finding who you are" or "being your true self" really mean?

Do you know how to be yourself?  Do you know who you really are?

In today's episode, I will share more about the powerful self-discovery tool of Human Design.  What is Human Design and how can learning your energy type (and learn about the rest of your chart) help you move beyond burnout and live more in alignment with abundance, joy and peace?

The reason I love Human Design so much is it helps you decipher and affirms what you know deep down inside yourself - about what it means to be who you are.  

When we come into the world we are connected to source and our natural way of being.  But soon after taking our first breath we start to collect the baggage and conditioning that weighs us down and takes us further away from our truth and authenticity.  We learn that in order to fit in and feel a sense of "belonging" we have to look outside of ourselves and try to be like everyone else.  

Living a life that is out of alignment with our true selves eventually becomes overwhelming, exhausting and leads to burnout! 

It's time to discover who you really are and what you're here to do. Human Design and learning your energy type can support you on your path of self-discovery and healing as you gain the courage to be your true self.  We need you to feel energized, authentic and free, so you can be who you're meant to be and share your gifts with the world. 

I'm so excited to share it with you!

Visit here to join my upcoming workshop, What's your energy type?

Visit here to sign-up for a 1:1 Human Design reading!

Visit www.afreespiritlife.com for the show notes and to learn more about my Human Design workshops.

Thanks for listening!

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Welcome to Season Three of the A Free Spirit Life Podcast!  A Free Spirit Life - the podcast where you discover who you truly are and how to find the courage, clarity and direction to be THAT in the world.

Now, more than ever before, we are being called to let go of the conditioning, thoughts, habits and patterns that no longer serve a purpose in our lives and in the world.  You know, that old "stuff" that prevents us from being our most authentic selves - so that we can return to what matters most in life, remember our inner beauty, reconnect to our inner power, self-compassion and soul's purpose.  It's time to feel happier, healthier and experience the true abundance life can offer while we are here living it!

When you feel in alignment with who you truly are, you feel more energized, in love and enthusiastic about your life.  That makes you want to share your energy and gifts with us!  And we need your energy and gifts in this world, beautiful you.

When you are authentic - you are free. 

In today's show, episode 46, I'm returning from a very long break.  It's 2020 - need I say more?  Talk about learning how to let go and adapt!  Today, I share with you a brief overview of what I've been up to.  In particular, I'll introduce you to the powerful, life-altering modality that has brought immense change to my own life - Human Design.

Human Design is a powerful tool that is a synthesis of eastern and western astrology, the chakra system, Kabbalah tree of life and the I-Ching, merged together with what we are learning about quantum physics.  It teaches you your energy blueprint and shows you a map of how to live more in alignment with your energy type and design.  I'll share many more details about Human Design in future episodes.

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Thanks for listening.

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