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In this soulful Q&A episode, I answer the questions you've been quietly holding inside, the ones that are hard to ask out loud and many times you feel shame for even having. Trust me, we have all been there. 

You are not alone.

How do you walk away from a relationship and break up with kindness? What do you do when you're raising children inside a marriage that’s breaking you down? How do you survive life's darkest moments when it feels like the light has completely left? And how do you begin to live your full potential — when all you’ve known is survival? How does an avoidant person believe in hope?

These are the questions I received, and in this episode, I answer them with love, honesty, and compassion. We talk about breakups, identity loss, emotional exhaustion, parenting in pain, dating yourself, and rebuilding from the ground up.

 Nothing is surface level here this is for the part of you that’s tired, searching, and ready to come home to yourself.

If you're navigating heartbreak, stuck in a hard season, or feeling unsure of who you are anymore… this conversation is for you.

I’m honored you trust me with your questions and if you need a sign to keep going, this might be it.

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There’s a reason dismissive avoidants shut down when things get too close. It’s not just cold behavior, it’s protection. In this episode, we go deep into the world of dismissive avoidant attachment: where it starts, how it shapes their personality, and why love feels like a threat to their nervous system.

You'll learn how many avoidants grew up in emotionally neglectful environments, taught to be independent before they were ever ready. They didn’t learn to rely on others, they learned it wasn’t safe to need anyone. And that story? It doesn’t just disappear. It becomes the blueprint for how they handle relationships.

Whether you’re anxiously attached, in love with someone who pulls away, or you recognize yourself in this dynamic, this episode will meet you where you are. You’ll leave with a deeper understanding of avoidants, not from judgment, but from compassion.

This is for anyone who's ever felt confused by a dismissive partner who “needs space,” struggles to open up, or shuts down right when things get real. 

🧠 Understand the Dismissive avoidant’s early wounds

💔 What their core wounds are

💔 Why connection triggers their flight response

🛑 And how you can stop personalizing their distance by understanding them

🛑 If you are the dismissive avoidant listening, how to begin to just heal and be present 

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Self Confidence! I thought so hard about this episode and I did not want to just add to the millions of videos and podcasts already teaching the amazing ways to grow your self confidence. I researched this topic long and hard and then I decided to dump all 7 ways to grow your self confidence and take you through a hypnosis. I wanted you to get to know fear and anxiety within you, and get to know the part of you that is self confidence!

This episode is all about teaching your body how to embody true self confidence by allowing fear, anxiety and self confidence to reside peacefully and trust each others purpose. This is not a motivational talk. It’s not a quick fix.

It’s a deeply soothing, science informed practice that speaks directly to your subconscious  helping you rewire limiting beliefs, release emotional tension, and reclaim the quiet strength that’s always been yours.

If you’ve ever:

• Shrunk yourself in relationships
• Overthought every decision
• Or questioned your worth when things got hard

Then this episode is for you.
 You’ll be guided gently through the places where fear hides and confidence feels out of reach and you’ll leave with a grounded sense of power that lives in your body, not just your thoughts.

🎧 Find a quiet place. Lie down. Let go. And allow this hypnosis to bring you home to yourself.

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I SEE YOU. 

If you’ve ever felt like you’re giving everything in a relationship and still feeling like it’s not enough… this episode is for you.

Anxious attachment isn’t just about “needing too much.” It’s about core wounds that were formed long before your first heartbreak — and today, we’re going straight to the heart of it.

In this episode, I unpack the emotional and psychological experience of anxious attachment in a way you may have never heard before. We’ll go deep into three rarely-discussed core wounds:

🌙 The fear that if you’re not chosen, you disappear.
 🕯️ The belief that your worth depends on how others feel about you.
 🫀 And the panic that closeness won’t last — so you have to hold on tighter, even when it hurts.

I’ll also walk you through how these wounds shape who you become in relationships: the fixer, the self-silencer, the chameleon, and the one who overfunctions just to be seen.

If you’ve ever spiraled after a text, lost yourself in someone else’s world, or felt like love is something you have to earn — I want you to know: I see you. And this episode is your mirror.

You’ll leave with more than just awareness. I’ll guide you through a healing shift called secure self-attunement — a practice to begin coming back home to yourself, regulating your reactions, and choosing love from a place of worth instead of fear.

This episode is tender, honest, and real — and it might just change the way you understand your heart.

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You don’t have to chase love to be worthy of it.

 You are allowed to stay fully you — and still be deeply held! Its about time. 

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There comes a moment—quiet, breaking, raw—when pain invites us to become someone new. This episode is for the part of you that’s tired of carrying silent wounds and is ready to do something meaningful with them.

I’m not here to tell you to “get over it.” I’m here to walk with you through it. In today’s conversation, we explore how your heartbreak, your losses, your betrayals... might actually hold the blueprint to your transformation.

We’ll talk about the hidden strength that suffering awakens, how pain can become your deepest teacher, and what it truly means to rise—not in spite of what broke you, but because of it. This is not about bypassing your feelings. It's about honoring them and letting them fuel your healing.

If you’ve ever felt like your story is too messy to be turned into something beautiful—this one’s for you.

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Stonewalling doesn’t look like abuse at first. There’s no yelling. No name-calling. Just silence. Withdrawal. Coldness.

 But that silence? That’s the thing that breaks you.

In this episode, I’m talking about a dynamic that too many women—and men—go through and never name. One partner wants to talk, reconnect, fix it. The other shuts down. Looks away. Walks out. Days pass. The damage is done in silence, and nobody sees the bruises because they’re emotional.

I share the emotional and psychological toll of stonewalling, how it mimics abandonment trauma, how avoidantly attached partners often use it without realizing, and why this becomes an invisible form of abuse.
You’ll hear:

• What it’s like to be in a relationship where your pain is met with silence
• How stonewalling breaks trust and nervous system safety
• Why it feels like you’re going “crazy” even when no one’s shouting
• How this leads to resentment, burnout, and ultimately—divorce
• What to do if you’re being stonewalled or if you’re the one doing it

Stonewalling is a nervous system trauma for many—especially those with anxious attachment. It mimics the pain of abandonment and creates a deep, confusing form of emotional neglect. You’re left questioning your worth, feeling like you’re “too much,” when in reality, someone else has simply chosen to disengage.

If you’ve ever begged someone to speak to you, to explain, to just see you—and they shut down instead—this episode is for you.
You were never too much. They just never learned how to stay.

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I have been here myself, and I did not know I was here! I thought over giving and all the traits that came with being an anxiously attached lover was LOVE! I had no idea that not stepping into my strength and voice held me back from really finding myself and setting some really tough boundaries that my relationship needed. I was not being mean. I was choosing me too! I mattered as well. 

If you’ve ever found yourself over-functioning in a relationship — chasing, overthinking, softening your truth, or silencing your needs just to feel safe — this episode is for you.

Because when you live with anxious attachment, especially in a relationship with someone avoidant, love can start to feel like emotional survival.

You try to be easy.
You try to not need too much.
You try to be chosen.
And somewhere in all of that — you lose yourself. But you are so fixated now on the relationship surviving you forget to pause and take a step back.

But here’s the truth I want you to remember:
 Love is not meant to cost you your voice, your boundaries, or your identity.

In this episode, I guide you through the emotional terrain of what it really looks like to be anxiously attached in a long-term relationship or dynamic with an avoidant partner — and what it takes to begin reclaiming your space in that relationship without leaving yourself behind.

You’ll learn:

• How anxious attachment shows up in dating, marriage, and long-term love
• Why avoidant partners can trigger your deepest fears — and what to do about it
• The invisible ways you begin to shrink and abandon your needs
• How to set boundaries without guilt and stop trying to manage their discomfort
• The power of micro-boundaries to shift the dynamic
• Why self-worth isn’t a mindset — it’s a daily practice of not abandoning yourself
• How to stop calling emotional over-functioning “love”
• And how to rediscover yourself — not in opposition to the relationship, but inside it

This episode is not about fixing your partner.
 It’s about coming back home to yourself.
Because your sensitivity, your feelings, your needs — they were never too much. 

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Lets dive in.

You don’t keep choosing the wrong person because you're naive or broken.
 You do it because something in you is still trying to finish a story.
 To prove you’re lovable.
 To make chaos feel like home.
 To rewrite the ending.

GET COMFORTABLE WITH REJECTION! I would rather you get rejected, then settle and play small, and lose yourself!

In this episode, I go beneath the surface of dating and into the deeper truth:
 Who we’re drawn to is rarely random — it’s often wired in us. That's why you can end up always feeling like your dating the "same" guy or girl", and repeating patterns all over again.  

Listen, when you get clear about what you want and align that to the fact that you are so deserving of a safe, beautiful, committed relationship, watch who you attract! I swear, you will look for me and say "Shazmeen, I did my own healing and inner work, I saw my pattern's, I took responsibility for what I was tolerating and now, I set boundaries and I met someone that would have never been my first choice and here I am, no longer feeling like I am settling but finally feeling safe".

I can not wait for those stories!!

In this episode I cover:

• The need to be authentic and brave 
• What anxious and avoidant attachment really looks like in dating
• The cost of settling and not having boundaries
• The nervous system signals that tell you this is familiar (but not safe)
• Prominent red flags you keep turning into excuses
• Green flags that seen so simple & boring but are the foundation in a person
• The difference between love and emotional intensity
• And how to gently — but finally — start choosing people who don’t need fixing and stop settling and making excuses for bad behaviour. 

If you’ve ever asked, “Why do I always end up dating someone that leaves me chasing or breaks up with me, and why do i take them back?',  this episode is for you!!

You're not asking for too much. Your simply just not asking!

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Is this relationship still right for me — or am I holding on out of fear, hope, or habit?

In this episode, I walk you through one of the hardest questions we face in love: Should I stay… or leave?
It’s never a simple decision — especially when you’re still in love, especially when you’re part of a culture or family where leaving is judged, forbidden, or not financially possible.

Leaving is not something I or anyone will ever have to tell you to do. Because you know when its time. Getting to the point of walking away from someone you love that can not meet your needs, that needs patience and some gentle hand holding and no shame!

You’ll learn how to explore this question with compassion, clarity, and a grounded approach rooted in emotional truth — not guilt, pressure, or fantasy.

We’ll talk about:

• ✅ When you should stay — and what a healthy, evolving relationship actually feels like
• 🚨 How to know it’s time to leave — the emotional, physical, and nervous system signs that you’ve outgrown or been harmed in this relationship
• 💡 Tony Robbins' 6 human needs — and how your relationship may (or may not) be meeting your deepest emotional drivers (certainty, variety, significance, love, growth, and contribution)
• 🧠 What to do if you have to stay — because of culture, kids, religion, or money — and how to emotionally survive while creating inner change
• ⚠️ What makes a relationship not right for you — not just toxic, but misaligned with who you’re becoming
• ❤️‍🩹 And why it’s normal to feel guilt, grief, and longing — even when you know it’s time to let go

This is not an episode that tells you what to do. It’s one that helps you come home to what you already know — but might be too scared to say out loud.

You’re not broken for struggling with this. You’re human. You are never broken, your simply stepping into being unbreakable.

 And you deserve a love that feels safe, alive, and mutual.

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You’re still hurting. And you’re still healing. Those two things can exist together.

In this episode, I walk with you through the kind of healing that doesn’t happen overnight — the kind that asks you to slow down, feel what’s real, and show up for yourself with compassion. 

You can feel so much shame when healing, like you should never have been in this position, or shame for hurting someone. We all deserve to heal and it does not look like one perfect smooth road. But the bumps now are a blessing when you have the tools to deal with them. 

I got raw about my process to show you how human it can be and standing on the other side of all the heavy lifting, my nervous system lives more in safety now than it ever has. That can be a proud moment after all the work you put in.

I talk about what it means to sit with your emotions instead of running from them, how to label and feel your feelings without shame, and how to stop villainizing the people who’ve hurt you — so you can finally reclaim your peace. (This takes work and only happens after you do honour your pain).

You’ll learn how your nervous system holds emotional pain, why regulation is the first step toward healing, and how to build emotional safety from the inside out. I also share gentle, practical tips to support you when the pain still feels raw — and remind you that it’s okay to make mistakes, take time, and heal imperfectly.

🎧 Inside this episode:

• How to feel emotions without drowning in them
• Why labeling feelings helps calm your system
• The difference between protecting yourself and punishing others
• Nervous system basics: sympathetic vs. parasympathetic explained simply
• Self-compassion tools for when you're spiraling in guilt or shame
• Why healing isn’t about doing it perfectly — just doing it with love

✨ If you're human and hurting — this one's for you.

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