A short and sweet chat with Megan Swan from @meganswanwellness about the best ways to detox from all things digital. I've been mostly digitally detoxing this summer as I downshift from my previous workload and look towards the next chapter of life for myself and my family. It's been wonderful but repatterining really does take practice. As with anything, Megan reminds us that the magic happens with small shifts. Wishing you a wonderful summer and we'll see you in September for season 2 of The Grit + Grace Podcast @fallonpublishing 

Victoria is a homeschooling mom of 2, Author, and Emotional Energy Empowerment Coach. In 2019 she became a widow losing her husband of almost 11 years to suicide. By harnessing her extensive background in yoga, mindfulness, NLP, Hypnotherapy, and an array of other mind/body modalities, she has turned her pain into a purpose by educating others on the importance of living happier and healthier.

For the last decade Victoria has been empowering and inspiring others to live happier and healthier through her business Yogi Mami where she shared healthy living tips and recipes and created a strong community of people passionate about healthy and wellness. Since embarking on her grief journey she has been using her knowledge and skills for networking and connecting like-minded people to create a safe and healthy environment for other grief warriors to heal. Victoria uses the following mind-body techniques to help with grief and trauma support:

Interested in learning more about how to access grief and trauma support. Visit here for more: https://victoriaannemoore.com/services/

Hi and thanks for joining. Today I'll talk about the three elements of grit that contribute to resiliency: self-soothing, self-regulating, and self-delaying. Resiliency helps us arrive at the next chapter of life feeling nourished and excited, not depleted and drained. And grit helps us get there. 

We often think of grit as this big mud-covered masculine energy that is forcing its way up a hill aggressively. But grit can play a vital role in helping us ride the waves with ease. 

Find out more at:

fallonpublishing.ca

@fallonpublishing

I am constantly amazed at the narratives I hear from women about themselves that are not their own. I’m this. I’m that. I’m too old. I’m not good enough. I’m not qualified enough. I don’t have enough education / credentials for that… Ahem. Said who?

This week on the show that has no name with @meganswanwellness…

B is for boundaries and boundaries are there to protect us all, especially ourselves from… ourselves. Boundaries also help us identify where previous overstepping has been taking place in the form of resistance (to these boundaries) by others. That’s step one.

Two… triggers. notice how you react when parts of your story (or new boundaries) are challenged. What are you taking offence to? Can you create space between the thing that offends you and your reaction to it? Ask yourself, is it trigger, or is it truth? Can you change your perspective to think of triggers as emotional feedback for the parts of your story that need to be challenged, changed, or dropped.

Let’s go further…

Then, appreciation. Appreciate your triggers. They are there to show you where you need more love, compassion, patience, trust, and meditation. They are love notes in disguise. And finally, “cut the cord”, sage, buy some crystals, do your thing to let that shit go. As my five year old says, don’t hate, mediate.

Other takeaways and snippets:

Notice where stress responses pop up for you in your body

You don’t have to play with your kids all the time, seriously

Take cold showers or plunge into water when you’re stressed, it works

You are not the project manager of everyone else’s life, focus on your beautiful self

Resources:

MIchaleen Doucleff, Hunt, Gather, Parent: What Ancient Cultures Can Teach Us about Raising Children (March 2021)

www.meganswanwellness.com 

Today I speak with Senior Graphic, Marketing + Product Designer Mae-Lynn Slater about #femtech, imposter syndrome, and how to hold your own in toxic work environments. I enjoyed this chat especially because Mae is able to take some pretty serious, sticky topics and still see the upside. Like, how to speak up, how to be heard, and how to bring continuous creative learning into your career... and seriously, how to have fun. This episode is for any creative who works in a tough environment. Follow along as we continue to amplify the voices of exceptional women @gritandgracepodcast 

What a pleasure to be joined by Therapeutic Yoga Instructor and all-round badass healer Melanie Lynch-Major. The title of this episode really says it all and during this chat we go even deeper than expected ('tis the season for shadow work!) so I hope you enjoy what, so far, has been the most watched episode on IGTV. 

If you have any questions about yoga therapy, auto-immunity as it relates to anxiety, or imposter syndrome, Mel is your gal. Learn more at www.mountainmovement.yoga and get in touch at [email protected]

Find me on IG at @gritandgracepodcast or at my biz www.fallonpublishing.ca 

When Rachel was 28 years old, her husband was diagnosed with leukemia. What they thought was the flu after working too many hours, turned out to be the life altering illness that would forever change everything they knew. Rachel became a cancer wife, manager, team cheerleader and expert juggler at life, while supporting her husband throughout his illness, until he died two days after she turned 31. She had to reboot her life and learn how to start over as a widow, without a map or guidebook to lead her. 

Rachel's humor, moxie and faith helped get her through the cancer world, and survive the calamity of errors that kept-on coming after he died. She fought tooth and nail to survive and is thankful for everything that brought her to present day, despite how hard it was to get there. She wishes she had had this advice and a story to reference when she was in the jungles of her cancer life and widowhood. Her hope is to provide you with some laughter, comfort, solace and guidance on your own journey. Helpful links below and Rachel invites listeners to get in touch if they have questions about the cancer journey or would like to interview her about her book. 

Website:   https://www.amazon.com/Wife-Widow-Now-What-Navigated/dp/B08KBV5DBL/ref=nodl?fbclid=IwAR1V08ZQLkWRCDFMvjEfxu8rWSJAuCJXJkFYbzogkoCrHXIvJUDi55hetvE

The Grit: living a story that isn't serving you. The Grace: being brave enough to change it. It starts with owning your story and it entails learning how to lead with your vulnerability rather than being ashamed of it.

On Episode #20 of The Grit + Grace Podcast, "How To Be Brave", I get to speak to a real gem of a human. Alwynn Taylor, Pilates Instructor + Owner of Taylor'd Motion (Digital Studio) walks us through her non-linear life, meeting bodies where they are at, movement as therapy and a metaphor for life, the need for tension in all areas of our lives, and of course, imposter syndrome.

What you'll learn during this podcast:

- How to be brave enough to begin again,

- the importance of community,

- what the heck tensegrity means, and

- that Alwynn makes me cry.

PLEASE NOTE - I will also add that we touch on a topic that made us realize we need to have another important chat: systemic racism in Pilates as an industry and within studios and their hiring practices.

We put a pin in this topic because we were / are both out of our depth without the input of voices from men and women of color. Alwynn and I are not letting this go but it is not our story to tell. We are going to come back to you with another episode when we have connected with the right people who will share their experiences on how this has impacted them as movement instructors. Importantly, they will share what we can do as a whole to be better, do better, act better, speak better.

Important Links:

- @commandofitnesscollective

- @personalvictory

- @alwynntaylor

- @soulgayoga

www.tmotion.ca

Torontto-based Content creator, editor, and copywriter Tiffany Regaudie gives you the gems you need to hear - especially if you are early on in your career - about how to hack introversion, how to stay creative within capitalism, and what you must have in place before you go out on your own as a freelancer or business owner. Find Tiffany at www.tiffanyregaudie.com and follow us @gritandgracepodcast