In this episode, Kim Basler shares her journey to accepting herself and working through the shame stories that she has been carrying and telling herself since she was a child. Kim shares how she started her first diet when she was 12 and got her first gym membership at 14, which ultimately became her career. 

Kim shares how working within the fitness industry perpetuated the shame related to their self-worth and body image. After multiple burnouts, she reached the point of no return. Kim shares so much vulnerability in this episode, but most importantly, the permission to feel all of the feelings. 

Please tune in to hear all about her journey and the tools she uses every day to stay on track and show up as her best self. 

Meet Kim:
Kim Basler is Food Freedom & Mindset Coach, Speaker, and co-author of the best-selling book “Owning Your Choices”, stories of courage from inspirational women worldwide. Her global reach has allowed her to support 1000s of women with self-love, finding peace with food & their bodies, and igniting the fire within to go after their dreams.

After being named “Group Fitness Instructor of the Year” and sharing her passion for Health & Wellbeing at Canada’s largest fitness company chain, her secret 30-year long battle with disordered eating, body image, overexercising & burnout required her to surrender to her inner struggles and begin to heal from the inside out. 

Through her certification in eating psychology & mind-body nutrition and 100s of hours she has devoted to self-development, she exists to empower women worldwide to go deeper than another diet. To learn to love the women, they see in the mirror, cultivate intuition, and take care of themselves unapologetically.

Connect with Kim:
https://www.facebook.com/kim.basler/
https://www.instagram.com/kimbasler_foodfreedom

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In this episode, Sara shares a recent realization of her continual battle with self-worth. Although she has spent the last two years working on herself and can now see endless possibilities in her life, she does not always believe that she is worthy of it. This lack of worth leads to the spiral of procrastination, not taking her own advice, and making things so much harder than they need to be. 

But the result of all of this work is that she now realizes the spiral much faster: mood swings, Netflix's, and fatigue. But she has also surrounded herself with women that recognize it and ask the hard questions. 

Sara can now take the steps that she needs to head back on track, getting up and cleaning the house (vacuuming solves ), regular meals, regular fitness, scripting, journals, conversations, and identifying specific action steps to get focused and back to work. 

Sara also what she is thankful for with Canadian Thanksgiving just passing. We so often get caught up in life and mindset of lack, wanting this or that, more money, a different lifestyle, wishing and praying for things to be different. So many of us are lucky to have access to basic things that most of the world does not. Hydro, running water, heat, medicine, choice of health, choice of nutritious food. And how if we remember those things that we often take for granted and live from a place of abundance and creation and not lack, we would live much happier and fulfilled lives. 

Sara asks some thought-provoking questions at the end of this episode. She encourages you to take some time to answer them as you continue down your path you.

How do you define abundance?
What does it mean to have an abundant life?
Do you believe you are worthy of an abundant life?

Link to Connect with Sara to join the:

Owning Your Story Coaching Grouphttps://www.marshavanw.com/offers/SEZQcqh9/checkout?coupon_code=OYSPRESALE

Radical Responsibility Mastermind
https://calendly.com/saraghope/taking-atction

Meet Sara:
She is the founder of Sara Hope Podcast Productions, Host of Path to Me Podcast, and author. After being diagnosed with a learning disability at a young age, Sara began hiding from the world, afraid of not being capable or worthy of achieving her dreams. After realizing her worth, Sara now knows how competent she is. Sara genuinely believes she can live the life of her dreams, that it was only herself that was holding her back. She has made it her mission to inspire others to overcome the fear of others' judgment but primarily themselves. To ultimately show up as their true selves and live the life of their dreams. 

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In this episode of Path to Me, Peggy shares that after years of feeling resentful towards the broken medical system, and blaming the system for making her fall out of love with the job she always wanted. She was experiencing exhaustion, compassion fatigue, and general unhappiness with life as work-related stress began overflowing into her personal life. She finally got tired of waiting for the system and people to change. 

Peggy shares how after following those she finds inspiring online, realizing that even those that seem to have it all together also struggle, she began investing in herself, attending retreats and taking personal development courses. She began to shift her perspective and started taking responsibility for her anger towards the health care system.

Peggy shares the importance of intentionally doing the things that bring you joy every day, taking time to disconnect and move. For her, this looks like a consistent morning and bedtime routine. Peggy advises that this may look a little different for everyone, as long as you do something. Peggy shares that when she first started being intentional, she set reminder alarms in her phone to ensure that she takes the time for herself, that she still has set years into her self-care journey.

Meet Peggy:
A nurse of 30 years, most of that time in the ER, understands the effects of shift work, constant stress, and continual change. She is passionate about helping other nurses navigate the hard stuff of nursing, helping them understand the need to tend to themselves first, restore their energy, work-life harmony, and wellness and stressing the importance of leaving work AT work. 

Peggy is also a mentor, speaker, author in She Is Strong And Free II, and adventure seeker who loves the outdoors and travel. She truly believes if you can help another woman elevate her life, creating a ripple of change, it will become a wave that spreads to those around her.

Peggy is creating a community to support nurses to live their best lives on and off shift. Connect with her further 
www.instagram.com/peggybirr

In this episode, Sue discusses how becoming open to doing things that do not make sense lead to shifts in her life that she could never have imagined. Sometimes the gifts we justify in the worst ways end up being the greatest gifts we can give to ourselves. 

How after being stuck in a mundane day-to-day routine and greatly unhappy with the way her life was going, she finally started listening and trusting her gut and connected with women who created opportunities to discover the possibility in life she didn't see before. Women who began as strangers and mentors who became real-life friends and remain connected today.

Sue shares how she uses intuition, sleep, and hydration to stay on track as she continues down her path. Sue has taught me many things, my favourite being the ability to laugh every day, even when things feel impossible. 

Sue Ruhe B.A., R.M.T., is an Intuitive Myofascial Release Therapist who taps into the physical and emotional traumas that lie deep within our cells. She has been evolving her practice for over 13 years, helping her clients shift restricted areas found within the fascial matrix to create more fluidity and alignment within the body. In doing so, she has been able to help her clients overcome the anxiety they unknowingly hang onto so that they can move beyond it. Beginning in 2020, Sue has transitioned her in-person practice to the virtual space, offering Grounding Foundations where she guides clients to tap into their fascia to help reduce stress, anxiety and other body pain as a New Revolutionary self-care practice.Sue lives in London Ontario Canada, with her partner Jared and their angel daughter Avalina. Published in 'The Great Canadian Woman - She is Strong and Free' in 2019, and host of the Love Your Cells Podcast and a Co-host of the Every Body Holds A Story Podcast. Ultimately, her mission is to help guide the next generation of humans with understanding and loving their bodies.
Connect with Sue:
www.instagram.com/_sueruhe

In this episode, Sara shares the 5 lessons she has learned this year, that have changed her life in ways that she never could have seen coming.

1. The power of forgiveness, even when you don't think it is neccesary
2. The power of your voice 
3. The power of language
4. The power of ownership
5. The power of self belief

Sara never could have expected what has occured over the last year as she started working through events of her past to change the view of her future. 

Sara asks some thought-provoking questions at the end of this episode. She encourages you to take some time to answer them as you continue down your path you.

What is a life lesson or insight you have gained from a recent struggle?

Thank you for listening and sharing!

About the host! Sara Glendenning is an author, podcast host, and registered nurse.  After being diagnosed with a learning disability at a young age, Sara began hiding from the world, afraid of not being capable or worthy of achieving her dreams. After realizing her worth, Sara now knows how truly capable she is. Sara now genuinely believes she can live the life of her dreams, that it was only herself that was holding her back. She has made it her mission to inspire others to overcome the fear of others' judgment but mostly themselves. To ultimately show up as their true selves and live the life of their dreams.

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In this episode of the Path to Me Podcast, Sara has the pleasure of conversing with Raven Blu. 

1. Raven discusses how she was born sensitive. She has learned throughout her life that sensitivity is not a negative as she was taught to believe but that it is a blessing. She shares how it is her sensitive side and her ability to read the emotions of others that kept her safe throughout her childhood

2. Raven shares about one of the wake-ups calls she had in her life where she lost the ability to walk in multiple accidents. She shares how she allowed herself one day per week to feel her emotions and focused the rest of her time looking for solutions within her own gifts, where she began to see that she could use her sensitive side as a gift to help others

3. Raven discusses how dancing is the best medicine to release emotion within the body while honouring the events that lead to the emotions. She shares how when you do not physically move emotion out of the body; it remains stored as pain or discomfort. 

4. Raven shares how a spiritual awakening following a car accident allowed her to embrace the wonder of being fully free in who she is now and allowed her to believe that she is truly worthy of love. 

Meet Raven Blue. Raven is a Registered Massage Therapist with more than 10 years immersed in various levels and dimensions of healing modalities. She believes that we are all here with a purpose to fulfill, not for fame or fortune. For Raven sharing her story comes with immense courage as the act of being vulnerable in sharing her own real-life story, her authentic truth, and being her honest and integral self is not something that she does lightly. Raven believes that if we are not our authentic and integral selves, we are lost in the grid of false reality. She is here purely to empower others. She is an intuitive life coach who helps others stand in their own heart and soul as she guides others to embrace their unique purpose and mission. She truly believes that to guide others, we need to heal our own wounds first. 

Connect with Raven:

https://www.instagram.com/ravenblu555/

About the host! Sara Glendenning is an author, podcast host, and registered nurse. After being diagnosed with a learning disability at a young age, Sara began hiding from the world, afraid of not being capable or worthy of achieving her dreams. After realizing her worth, Sara now knows how competent she is. Sara now genuinely believes she can live the life of her dreams, that it was only herself that was holding her back. She has made it her mission to inspire others to overcome the fear of others' judgment but mostly themselves. To ultimately show up as their true selves and live the life of their dreams.

Connect with Sara:
www.instagram.com/saraghope

In this episode of the Path to Me Podcast, Jennie shares her journey in who she has become today. 

She discussed the impact of the passing of her father when she was just 12 years old. And her memory of the pivotal moment when her life changed. Not only her relationship with family and friends but also her relationship with herself. 

Jennie discusses how the adults in her world did not have any tools to help her through this time. Her friends were no longer able to relate to her. She was isolated as the girl that lost her dad when all she wanted was for people to treat her how they had before her father's passing because she as a person had not changed.

Jennie shares how she began to hide from her world by diving into her school and work as a way of coping with her new reality. She embraced her emotions only in private, hiding them from friends and family out of the need to be treated normally.

Jennie shares how she was a victim of the date rape drug, the biggest pivotal moment in her life. She discusses how it lead to the realization that she could no longer continue to do life alone. She discusses how she has the choice in how much power the challenges in her life continue to have.

Jennie shares how her family doctor was the first person she reached out to for help as she recognized that it was a safe and confidential place. This was followed by therapy, and she shares how she was seen by a psychologist who provided her with tools. Jeanie discusses how that hard in her life has prepared her to do the things that she is meant to do in this life. 

Meet Jennie Queen! Jennie is a speaker, author and Life & Leadership Coach. She is a perpetual learner, applying each lesson to empower those around her to live inspired. She coaches people in all seasons of their life towards a passionate and purposeful future that they can intentionally live and experience fully. 

Connect with Jennie:
www.instagram.com/jennie_queen 

About the host! Sara Glendenning is an author, podcast host, and registered nurse. After being diagnosed with a learning disability at a young age, Sara began hiding from the world, afraid of not being capable or worthy of achieving her dreams. After realizing her worth, Sara now knows how competent she is. Sara now genuinely believes she can live the life of her dreams, that it was only herself that was holding her back. She has made it her mission to inspire others to overcome the fear of others' judgment but mostly themselves. To ultimately show up as their true selves and live the life of their dreams.

Connect with Sara: 
www.instagram.com/saraghope

In today's Path to Me Podcast episode, Sara shares how she found the relationships that she always wanted. She discusses how it was not until she began to work on herself that she realized that she was worthy and enough. That she can truly be herself around others because people love her for her, and that those "relationships" she has always been searching for were there all along. 

She just could not see what others were offering because she could not see beyond the story that she was too different to have "those" types of relationships. It was in learning to love and accept herself that she found authentic relationships with others. 

Sara asks some thought-provoking questions at the end of this episode. She encourages you to take some time to answer them as you continue down your path you.

What qualities do you seek out in friends?
Why are these qualities important to you?
Why donèt you have those types of relationships?
What is your role, and how can you show up differently?

About the host! Sara Glendenning is the founder of Sara Hope Podcast Productions, host of Path to Me Podcast and author.  After being diagnosed with a learning disability at a young age, Sara began hiding from the world, afraid of not being capable or worthy of achieving her dreams. After realizing her worth, Sara now knows how competent she is. Sara now genuinely believes she can live the life of her dreams, that it was only herself that was holding her back. She has made it her mission to inspire others to overcome the fear of others' judgment but mostly themselves. To ultimately show up as their true selves and live the life of their dreams.

Connect with Sara:

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Today on the Path to Me Podcast, Sara had a conversation with Sasha Howell.

Sasha shares how she was diagnosed with general anxiety disorder and hypochondria while she was in high school. She discusses that after years of being numb on medications she began taking steps to change her view and reaction to the world and events. Sasha discusses how this work changed her life and prepared her to live through our current times in a way that would not have been possible for her previously.

Sasha discusses how after the loss of both of her parents, she has learned how important it is to permit herself to feel the raw and deep feelings and choose no to get stuck in the negative feelings. She shares wise words from a friend that reminded her that this is still her life and that she has the right to live without guilt. She is proof that you can have happiness and grief together.

Sasha shares how finding trustworthy professionals medical and otherwise in combination with therapy and workbooks about grief and anxiety was pivotal in helping her become who she is today.

Sasha Howell is a dynamic and motivating speaker and sharer. Speaking from her heart and sharing from her own experiences, Sasha touches on topics such as taking chances, adapting to change, health anxiety, grief, suicide loss, and more – all with a common theme of bouncing back, unbroken. Sasha’s work, inspired by her lived experience, and her own resilience, has been shared to engage a wide range of audiences, including healthcare workers, scientists, students, and community members. Sasha customizes her talks based on the unique needs of her audience while sharing challenges she has faced and how she overcame them. She discusses ways to conquer tough times, grow from them, and reclaim control.

Connect with Sasha:
https://www.instagram.com/the_grieving_daughter/

Here is info on some of Sasha's Favourite Workbooks!

For anxiety:

Calming your Anxious Mind (2nd edition) – Jeffrey Brantley, MD

The Worry Trap – Chad Lejeune, PhD

The Road to Calm Workbook – Daitich and Laurberbaum

For Grief:

I Wasn’t Ready to Say Goodbye (book and workbook) – Noel and Blair

The Grief Recovery Handbook – James and Friedman

Guided Journal:

Becoming:  a Guided Journal– Michelle Obama (Companion to her book)

Link to purchase my book in the presale:
https://the-great-canadian-woman.myshopify.com/?ref=Y4rQl5KDJRUNy

About the host! Sara Glendenning is an author, podcast host, and registered nurse.  After being diagnosed with a learning disability at a young age, Sara began hiding from the world, afraid of not being capable or worthy of achieving her dreams. After realizing her worth, Sara now knows how competent she is. Sara now genuinely believes she can live the life of her dreams, that it was only herself that was holding her back. She has made it her mission to inspire others to overcome the fear of others' judgment but mostly themselves. To ultimately show up as their true selves and live the life of their dreams.

Connect with Sara:
www.instagram.com/saraghope

In this episode of Path to Me, Sara discusses how not knowing her talent as a child affected her self-worth in her adult life. She shares how identifying her voice and ability to speak as her hidden talent in her adult life has changed her life as she knows it. 

Sara discusses how she has wanted to help others and make a difference for so long, but the focus was primarily on making an income. Since finding her talent and leaning into what comes naturally to her, she has learned that she can aspire to make a difference, and the wealth will come. 

Sara wants you to know that each and everyone one of us is special and has talent. Some of us have to look a little harder to find it! 

Thank you for listening and sharing!

Bonus!

Sara asks some thought-provoking questions at the end of this episode. She encourages you to take some time to answer them as you continue down your path you.

What came naturally to you as a child? 
What things came naturally to you that others celebrated that didn't feel hard for you?

Sara recommends that if you are stumped by this question to reach out to elders in your life that knew you as a child!

About the host! Sara Glendenning is an author, podcast host, and registered nurse. After being diagnosed with a learning disability at a young age, Sara began hiding from the world, afraid of not being capable or worthy of achieving her dreams. After realizing her worth, Sara now knows how competent she is. Sara now genuinely believes she can live the life of her dreams, that it was only herself that was holding her back. She has made it her mission to inspire others to overcome the fear of others' judgment but mostly themselves. To ultimately show up as their true selves and live the life of their dreams.

Connect with Sara:
www.instagram.com/saraghope

Link to Youtube video with Denzel Washington
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FB9i7P9Zs4