(00:00:00) Grief, Love & Recovery - Love Fools Episode 29 with Terri Lee-Shield

(00:00:29) Introduction

(00:03:44) Grief as Detachment

(00:06:43) Grief is Unique

(00:10:08) Invitation to Evolve

(00:13:01) Processing & Stages of Grief

(00:26:12) Grief as Spirituality

(00:30:19) Healing Attachment Wounds

(00:34:00) Heart Expansion

(00:37:49) Soul Purpose

(00:39:39) Summary

In this episode I am unpacking the grief process as we use these experiences of loss to evolve and grow to allow more unconditional love into our lives as we heal. 

Grief is a part of life that connects all human experience. As we grow, love and lose we must face the emotional process of grief as we expand ourselves to accommodate our emotional responses to life's challenges. Grief can be an invitation to evolve and to connect more deeply with ourselves and others as we embrace it as an invitation to connect with spirituality and the true nature of love. 

We chat about:

• What grief is and the process or stages of grieving.
• Looking at grief as an invitation to grow spiritually.
• How we can expand our capacity for love as we embrace grief.

Love School recommends our PDF guide Evolving Through Grief 

This will help you to explore ways to process grief to find healing. Connect with yourself or others as you evolve. Grow spiritually to open yourself to more love through the grieving process. 
To access the guide visit www.loveschool.uk/grief

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At Love Fools we are hopelessly devoted to exploring and embodying the universal language of love!

Join host Terri Lee-Shield and guests as we talk about what love it means to love self, others and life. Through our episodes we discuss how love expresses itself, how to find, keep and develop through love.

We explore all the tangents and aspects love can bring into our lives, with foundations based on finding natural ways to heal, be aligned with our true selves and find authentic love in our lives. We consider the skills need to communicate, to care and to be present with ourselves and others to embrace and enhance the loving relationships in our lives. We look at how our live for life can bring a sense of fulfilment, accepting all of the challenges and responsibilities of living equally as much as the beauty and sacred nature of life.

Love Fools is brought to you by Love School where we explore loving yourself, others and life!
Using life design tools to create a path through natural, holistic healing from abuse, neglect or trauma or to simply improve your life as we evolve.

Visit www.loveschool.uk to find out more about our courses.

(00:00:00) Exploring Love, Healing & Being Alone – Love Fools Episode 28 with Terri Lee-Shield

(00:00:32) Introduction

(00:05:04) Changing When Healing

(00:07:53) Ending People Pleasing

(00:11:58) Opportunity of Space

(00:15:43) Grief & Loneliness

(00:19:31) Healing Alone

(00:24:24) Spiritual Growth Alone

(00:28:11) Learning About Self

(00:33:31) Expanding Through Loneliness

(00:37:57) Healing Attachment Wounds

(00:42:12) Summary

In this episode, I am exploring how we can appreciate the space we have when we are alone to heal and the spiritual growth we can gain when learning to love ourselves, others and our circumstances in this period of change. 

Being alone due to circumstances, choices or necessity while healing and growing can lead us to grapple with feelings of loneliness. But through the process, we are invited to find ourselves and embark on a recovery process, building more self-confidence, releasing any relational wounds and building a foundation of a secure attachment style when we are ready or able to reconnect with others again.

I chat about:

• The reality of change as we heal.
• Appreciating the opportunity for space to recover ourselves.
• The spiritual growth we can achieve through releasing our loneliness and attachment wounds.

Love School recommends our free PDF guide, Growing Through Loneliness.

This will help you feel more peace & security while navigating loneliness. Build confidence & a stronger sense of self as you explore your own needs, wants and likes. Learning to appreciate and use the space being alone gives us for healing. 

Visit www.loveschool.uk/lonely to access the guide.

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At Love Fools we are hopelessly devoted to exploring and embodying the universal language of love!

Join host Terri Lee-Shield and guests as we talk about what love it means to love self, others and life. Through our episodes we discuss how love expresses itself, how to find, keep and develop through love.

We explore all the tangents and aspects love can bring into our lives, with foundations based on finding natural ways to heal, be aligned with our true selves and find authentic love in our lives. We consider the skills need to communicate, to care and to be present with ourselves and others to embrace and enhance the loving relationships in our lives. We look at how our live for life can bring a sense of fulfilment, accepting all of the challenges and responsibilities of living equally as much as the beauty and sacred nature of life.

Love Fools is brought to you by Love School where we explore loving yourself, others and life!
Using life design tools to create a path through natural, holistic healing from abuse, neglect or trauma or to simply improve your life as we evolve.

Visit www.loveschool.uk to find out more about our courses.

Exploring Mindfulness & Mind Health for Healing & Recovery with Rachel Jones-Wild
Episode 27 

In this Love Fools episode, I am exploring the idea of mindfulness and meditation as a tool for wellness and recovery. Expert Rachel Jones-Wild explains mindfulness and how we can apply it in our lives and demonstrates ways to be more mindful of ourselves and our relationships so we can enjoy more of life. 

We chat about:

• How we can apply mindfulness techniques and attitudes in our day-to-day life.
• How mindfulness can help us cultivate more self-love and compassion for others.
• How we can use mindfulness to heal, forgive and move on from harmful events to enjoy our life more as we cultivate peace.

Rachel Jones-Wild is a psychotherapist, clinical supervisor, and mindfulness practitioner with over 20 years of mindfulness experience.
As the clinical lead of Mindful Therapies Counselling Service in Newcastle upon Tyne, she has been training therapists, coaches, and other helping professionals in mindfulness since 2015.

Rachel’s journey into mindfulness began as a teenager, leading her to explore meditation and Buddhist teachings, and later integrating mindfulness into therapy. After qualifying as a therapeutic counsellor and clinical supervisor, she founded Mindful Therapies, an organisation dedicated to making mindfulness and therapy accessible to all, regardless of income.

With a deep passion for supporting practitioners, Rachel teaches mindfulness in a way that is practical, grounded, and free from dogma. She helps professionals overcome imposter syndrome, build confidence in their client work, and develop mindfulness-based skills that enhance both personal resilience and therapeutic effectiveness.

Rachel also hosts The Cynic’s Guide to Hippy Sh*t, a podcast that takes a curious yet sceptical look at alternative therapies, exploring what works, what doesn’t, and how we can engage with these practices more wholeheartedly.

To learn more about Rachel’s work, visit:
Mindful Therapists FB group
Cynic’s Guide podcast Facebook Group

Rachel is also sharing a FREE guided visualisation for therapists experiencing imposter syndrome.
To download it, click here!

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Love School recommends our Complete Mental Makeover Bundle. 
This will help you unlearn old habits and childhood conditioning, reform your mind to work for you, and support a balanced lifestyle for better health and well-being. 

To find out more and buy the bundle, visit www.loveschool.uk/mind 

In this Love Fool episode we are deep diving into how our relationship with money can be a reflection of our early trauma and attachment style. 

We look at how to recognise the patters in our relationship with money, how to heal and improve the relationship for more abundance and grow through the process. 

We chat about:

• Relationship attachment styles and how they reflect in our money habits.
• How to heal these wounds and develop a new, healthy relationship with money to improve finances.
• Why improving our relationship with money can help us grow and evolve. 

Rebekah is a Trauma Informed Master Mindset & Money coach with 18 years of experience helping others reach their financial goals.
She grew up below the poverty line with a single mother of 7 kids and I became a young teen mom herself, with not a lot of evidence that there was a way out of poverty. She went from being a single mom on government assistance to a multiple 6 figure entrepreneur and retiring from her high stress corporate job at 32.
She now helps expand their capacity to receive so that they can make the kind of money they deserve and actually hold onto it this time.

Access Rebekah's free content here:

• The Soul Powered Podcast: Listen Here Visit Spotify
• The 5 Step Proven Process to go from Overworked to Overflowing: Unlock the Secrets to Living with Freedom, Fulfilment, and Financial Ease. https://www.risewithrebekah.com/pl/2148571596
• Your Financial Breakthrough eBook: https://www.risewithrebekah.com/pl/2148157088 

If you are interested in healing in your relationships Love School recommends our Being Yourself in Relationships Course.
This course will help you to understand healthy relationship dynamics, build confidence in being yourself in connections, and practice being neutral when engaging with others to build healthy foundations in a relationship.

Access the course and visit www.loveschool.uk/being-me

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At Love Fools we are hopelessly devoted to exploring and embodying the universal language of love!

Join host Terri Lee-Shield and guests as we talk about what love it means to love self, others and life. Through our episodes we discuss how love expresses itself, how to find, keep and develop through love.

We explore all the tangents and aspects love can bring into our lives, with foundations based on finding natural ways to heal, be aligned with our true selves and find authentic love in our lives. We consider the skills need to communicate, to care and to be present with ourselves and others to embrace and enhance the loving relationships in our lives. We look at how our live for life can bring a sense of fulfilment, accepting all of the challenges and responsibilities of living equally as much as the beauty and sacred nature of life.

Love Fools is brought to you by Love School where we explore loving yourself, others and life!
Using life design tools to create a path through natural, holistic healing from abuse, neglect or trauma or to simply improve your life as we evolve.

Visit www.loveschool.uk to find out more about our courses.

In this Love Fools episode, we discuss manipulation and abuse in relationships with Rie Pearson from Be Kind, No Excuses C.I.C. 

We chat about:

• Early signs of manipulation in relationships that can lead to abuse. Learn how to identify these patterns.
• Understand why we might not notice or we might be more prone to accepting unhealthy relationship dynamics.
• Discover the importance of trusting our intuition and learning how to trust ourselves to avoid manipulative, abusive or controlling situations.

During the chat we talk about red flag behaviours and early manipulative signs that can lead to abuse in relationships. We talk about how growing up in chaotic family patterns can cause us to be blind to abuse dynamics in relationships and how we can free ourselves from ideas that keep us trapped in unhealthy relationships.

Rie Pearson is from North Tyneside. She lives overlooking the sea and describes herself as Being on the Edge! Rie is happily married and has three adult children.

Rie's career background is in policing. She was a police officer for 27 years and retired on her 50th birthday due to ill health. She specialised in Domestic Violence and Safeguarding, working strategically for many years.

Focused on abuse prevention, her Mission is to flip the discussions on violence against women and girls and talk about the real problem – the majority of abuse being perpetrated by men who are violent towards others and the failure of our justice systems to effectively protect victims and prevent this from happening.

Rie's book, "Be Kind. No Excuses" is a guide for teenagers and parents to raise awareness of the red-flag behaviours that are a precursor to abuse in intimate relationships.

Please find out more about Rie or access her products and services at www.riepearson.com
 
Love School recommends our Freedom from Illusion Course if you are interested in learning how manipulation and abuse have controlled your life.
This will help you recognise the power dynamics present in manipulative situations, build confidence in your ability to address them, and free your mind from the illusions of control others may have over you.

For more information on this course and to join the waitlist visit www.loveschool.uk/illusion 

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At Love Fools we are hopelessly devoted to exploring and embodying the universal language of love!

Join host Terri Lee-Shield and guests as we talk about what love it means to love self, others and life. Through our episodes we discuss how love expresses itself, how to find, keep and develop through love.

We explore all the tangents and aspects love can bring into our lives, with foundations based on finding natural ways to heal, be aligned with our true selves and find authentic love in our lives. We consider the skills need to communicate, to care and to be present with ourselves and others to embrace and enhance the loving relationships in our lives. We look at how our live for life can bring a sense of fulfilment, accepting all of the challenges and responsibilities of living equally as much as the beauty and sacred nature of life.

Love Fools is brought to you by Love School where we explore loving yourself, others and life!
Using life design tools to create a path through natural, holistic healing from abuse, neglect or trauma or to simply improve your life as we evolve.

Visit www.loveschool.uk to find out more about our courses.

Why Creativity is Important for Emotional Processing and Healing - Episode 24

In this episode, we explore why creativity is so important when processing our emotions, connecting with our full potential, and as part of a recovery journey to heal and find wellness.

Join Love School UK host Terri Lee-Shield in this Love Fools Podcast Episode. 

We chat about:

• The difference between being creative and being productive.
• The connection between creativity, spirituality and our emotions.
• The skills we learn through a creative process support us in every area of life.
• How creating art can improve our self-esteem and environments for better well-being.

We deep dive into topics like why oppression and repression are connected with depression and how expression helps us to heal and move out of these states of being.

We explore the way art and creativity break barriers of communication crossing barriers of culture and time.

We consider how the learning process involved in being creative, exploring, making mistakes and sometimes failing helps us be more resilient in life to help us grow or evolve and overcome bigger challenges. And when we create something we like the improvements it gives to our self-esteem and even our external environments! 

Love School recommends our Emotional ER (Emotional Expression & Regulation) course and mentorship series.

• This will help you to build confidence as you understand and process your emotions better as you gain emotional intelligence.
• Improve your communication skills as we explore non-violent communication (NVC) to express how we feel without blaming and shaming others.
• Regulate your emotions through empathy as we explore how to express ourselves with creative processes from a place of self-love to find a sense of calm.

Visit www.loveschool.uk/emotion for more information.

You can also download our free practice guide, I Think, I Feel, I Observe

Love Fools - Episode 23
Navigating the Paradox of Oneness: Setting Boundaries to Create Healthy Interdependence in Relationships

In this episode I am exploring the paradox of oneness when it comes to setting healthy boundaries in relationships. Understanding where you end and another begins is an important part of creating healthy interdependence. This knowledge empowers us to set loving limits without losing connection.

We chat about:

• How our fear of loss often prevents us from setting & holding boundaries effectively.
• Why boundary setting is an act of self-preservation & is our responsibility.
• How the skills required to manage our emotions and build self-trust as we hold our boundaries can be learned

If you enjoy this content and would love to know more, Love School recommends our How I Like to be Loved self-exploration course.

In order to set boundaries and let others know how we like to be loved, we first need to understand this about ourselves! Use this guided course and journal to explore your personal love languages and what you need to love yourself and feel loved in relationships.

Visit www.loveschool.uk/love to learn more.

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At Love Fools we explore the universal language of love - what it means to love self, others and life.

Join host Terri as we discuss how to find, keep, and grow through love. We consider the skills needed to communicate, care for ourselves and others, and cultivate fulfilling relationships.

Grounded in holistic healing, we aim to align with our true selves and discover authentic love.

Love Fools is brought to you by Love School - using life design tools to create a path to natural wellness.

Whether healing from trauma or simply improving your life, our courses provide:

• Self-exploration guidance to understand your needs and nurture self-love
• Skills to set boundaries, manage emotions, and build self-trust
• Ways to align with your inner wisdom and nature for spiritual wellbeing

If seeking lasting solutions for mental health, relationships, and personal growth, explore our offerings at www.loveschool.uk.

In this episode I am discussing the connection between our emotions, expectations and our expression and what that can mean for our relationships, health & wellbeing.

I chat about:

• What emotions are.
• How expectations feed our emotional responses.
• How we benefit from expressing our emotions and our expectations.

I explore how Non-Violent communication lends itself as a foundation to understand this connection. Why expanding and exploring our emotional intelligence benefits us personally, our work, all our connections, relationships and our environment.

Love School recommends our course Building your Energetic Power for an exploration into the world of energy and how it effects us and is expressed through the human experience .Visit www.loveschool.uk/energy

Or if you are ready to deep dive into expanding your emotional intelligence join Terri for a 6 week one to one programme Emotional ER where we explore how to identify emotions, how to express emotions creatively and how to regulate your emotional experience. Visit www.loveschool.uk/emotion

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At Love Fools we are hopelessly devoted to exploring and embodying the universal language of love!

Join host Terri Lee-Shield and guests as we talk about what love it means to love self, others and life. Through our episodes we discuss how love expresses itself, how to find, keep and develop through love.

We explore all the tangents and aspects love can bring into our lives, with foundations based on finding natural ways to heal, be aligned with our true selves and find authentic love in our lives. We consider the skills need to communicate, to care and to be present with ourselves and others to embrace and enhance the loving relationships in our lives. We look at how our live for life can bring a sense of fulfilment, accepting all of the challenges and responsibilities of living equally as much as the beauty and sacred nature of life.

Love Fools is brought to you by Love School where we explore loving yourself, others and life!
Using life design tools to create a path through natural, holistic healing from abuse, neglect or trauma or to simply improve your life as we evolve.

Visit www.loveschool.uk to find out more about our courses.

In this episode I am joined by Julie Brown women's empowerment leader, co-founder of Our Mental Health Rocks & creator of Women Who Matter.

We chat about all things boundaries. How to know what is right for you. How to set and hold boundaries in relationships and create the foundations of trustworthy connections. We also discuss how we first met and how to stay safe online.

Julie can be contacted through her public facebook profile.

Love School recommends our How I Like to be Loved self exploration course. In order to set boundaries with others let them know how we like to be loved we first need to know this about ourselves! Use this guided course and prompt journal to explore your personal love languages and explore what you need to love yourself and to feel loved in relationships.

Visit www.loveschool.uk/love


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At Love Fools we are hopelessly devoted to exploring and embodying the universal language of love!

Join host Terri Lee-Shield and guests as we talk about what love it means to love self, others and life. Through our episodes we discuss how love expresses itself, how to find, keep and develop through love.

We explore all the tangents and aspects love can bring into our lives, with foundations based on finding natural ways to heal, be aligned with our true selves and find authentic love in our lives. We consider the skills need to communicate, to care and to be present with ourselves and others to embrace and enhance the loving relationships in our lives. We look at how our live for life can bring a sense of fulfilment, accepting all of the challenges and responsibilities of living equally as much as the beauty and sacred nature of life.

Love Fools is brought to you by Love School where we explore loving yourself, others and life!

Using life design tools to create a path through natural, holistic healing from abuse, neglect or trauma or to simply improve your life as we evolve.

Visit www.loveschool.uk to find out more about our courses.

In this episode I am discussing the concept of Everything Cycles.

We chat about what it means in nature and how the permaculture principle Everything Cycles relates to our lives, healing and relationships. I give examples of how to understand this concept, how it might show up in our lives and why it is important to play attention.

Specifically, I am looking at the cycles of behaviour and how we adopt harmful or unhelpful cycles from our parents as we grow up, cycles of healing and karmic cycles of life.

Love School recommends our shadow work course Inner Child & Reparenting if you are noticing the you are effected by cycles of family abuse or neglect or are interested in addressing deeper parts of your healing cycle .Visit www.loveschool.uk/innerchild

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At Love Fools we are hopelessly devoted to exploring and embodying the universal language of love!

Join host Terri Lee-Shield and guests as we talk about what love it means to love self, others and life. Through our episodes we discuss how love expresses itself, how to find, keep and develop through love.

We explore all the tangents and aspects love can bring into our lives, with foundations based on finding natural ways to heal, be aligned with our true selves and find authentic love in our lives. We consider the skills need to communicate, to care and to be present with ourselves and others to embrace and enhance the loving relationships in our lives. We look at how our live for life can bring a sense of fulfilment, accepting all of the challenges and responsibilities of living equally as much as the beauty and sacred nature of life.

Love Fools is brought to you by Love School where we explore loving yourself, others and life! Using life design tools to create a path through natural, holistic healing from abuse, neglect or trauma or to simply improve your life as we evolve.

Visit www.loveschool.uk to find out more about our courses.