Permission to Shine: Empowering Women to Overcome Obstacles and Lead with Authenticity

Episode 144: How to Heal Toxic Relationship Patterns and Stop Seeking External Validation

In this powerful episode, Sherisse is joined by somatic practitioner Jeni for an honest conversation about toxic relationships, emotional healing, and what it truly takes for women to reclaim themselves after years of losing their identity in unhealthy dynamics.

Jeni shares her deeply personal story of spending 15 years trapped in toxic relationship patterns before reaching a breaking point that ultimately led her toward healing, self awareness, and the work she now does supporting other women.

Together, they explore why so many women stay stuck in cycles of emotional pain, people pleasing, overgiving, and seeking validation externally, while unknowingly abandoning themselves in the process.

This conversation goes beyond surface-level advice and looks at the deeper emotional patterns underneath toxic relationships, including the importance of rebuilding self worth from within rather than waiting for someone else to finally choose, validate, or apologise to you.

In this episode, we explore:

• ​Why women often repeat toxic relationship patterns
• ​The emotional impact of seeking validation outside yourself
• ​How somatic healing helps women rebuild safety and self trust
• ​Why closure and apologies are not required for healing
• ​The importance of understanding what you no longer want
• ​How to reclaim your identity, confidence, and worth after emotional pain

Jeni also shares insights into her “Release, Reclaim, and Rise” program, designed to help women heal from toxic relationship dynamics and reconnect with themselves on a deeper level.

This episode is for the woman who knows she deserves more but is learning that the real transformation begins when she finally chooses herself.

Sherisse’s Free Meditations https://sherissebisram.com/freemeditations

https://sherissebisram.com/main-character-energy-activations1-1

Jeni is a Coach and Somatic Practitioner supporting ambitious women who are successful in every area of life… except love. Women who keep finding themselves in the same toxic relationship patterns, no matter how hard they try to choose differently.

Her approach blends coaching and trauma-informed somatic tools to understand why those patterns keep repeating and heal them at the root, so you can go from doubting your own judgement and accepting treatment you don't deserve, to becoming a confident, grounded, and secure woman who finally knows your worth and never settles below it.

Follow Jeni at the links below.

IG: @coachingwjeni

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Website: www.coachingwjeni.com

Episode 143: What to Do When the Life You Built No Longer Feels Aligned

What happens when the life you once worked so hard for no longer feels aligned?

In this solo episode, Sherisse explores the identity shifts many women are moving through right now and why so many high achieving women are being called to rediscover who they are beneath the roles, expectations, and versions of themselves they thought they were meant to become.

With the energy of the New Moon in Taurus highlighting themes of stability, safety, self worth, and foundation, this episode dives into what it means when parts of your life begin to feel unstable, misaligned, or no longer sustainable. Combined with the shift of Uranus into Gemini, many women are experiencing internal awakenings, questioning old identities, relationships, careers, and definitions of success.

This episode is a reminder that sometimes what feels like everything falling apart is actually life creating space for something more honest and aligned to emerge.

In this episode, we explore:

• ​Why high achieving women often outgrow the identities they built their lives around
• ​What the New Moon in Taurus is revealing about stability and self worth
• ​How Uranus in Gemini is accelerating change, awakening, and reinvention
• ​Why feeling lost can actually be a sign of expansion
• ​How to reconnect with your true self when the old version no longer fits

Sherisse also shares reflections from conversations with women navigating this exact season of change and why returning to your baseline, your truth beneath survival and performance, is where real clarity begins.

If you feel like your old life no longer fits but you are not fully sure what comes next, this episode will help you understand why.

https://sherissebisram.com/freemeditations

https://sherissebisram.com/main-character-energy-activations1-1

Episode 142: Finding Your Inner North Star After Loss, Addiction and Emotional Pain

In this deeply moving episode, Sherisse is joined by commercial fisherwoman, health coach, and author Colleen Clifford for an honest conversation about alcohol, grief, trauma, and the journey back to yourself.

Colleen shares her powerful personal story of living with binge drinking for decades without identifying as an alcoholic, until a devastating tragedy changed everything. Following the alcohol-related loss of her husband 14 years ago, she was forced to confront her own relationship with alcohol, emotional pain, and self-awareness in a completely new way.

What followed was a profound journey of healing, reflection, and transformation.

Together, Sherisse and Colleen explore the ways alcohol can become a coping mechanism for unprocessed emotions, particularly for women carrying stress, grief, pressure, and unresolved pain beneath the surface.

In this episode, we explore:

• The hidden emotional impact of binge drinking and numbing behaviours

• How grief and trauma can shape our coping mechanisms

• Why many women struggle to ask for help

• The role of self-awareness in healing and recovery

• How to reconnect with yourself after loss and emotional pain

• Finding your “inner North Star” and creating a more aligned life

Colleen also shares insights from her upcoming memoir and offers a deeply grounding reminder about the importance of connection, honesty, and staying rooted in yourself during difficult times.

This episode is not about shame or labels. It is about truth, healing, and the courage to face what has been avoided so you can begin living more fully and freely.

www.lifebeyondthebinge.com

www.purepotential.health

Colleen Clifford | Life Beyond the Binge (@purepotential.health) • Instagram photos and videos

Book

The Exhale Retreat/Bali

Colleen Clifford is a former binge drinker who knows the struggle firsthand.  As a commercial fisherwoman, a lifestyle that fueled the drinking pattern of denial she now calls the 95-5 factor; she knows what it takes to stay stuck, losing sight of her inner compass.  With the death of her husband to alcohol-related suicide in 2011 it was like she was sinking.  After looking to the sky, her North Star spoke to her, guiding her home.  She made a promise to Scott, share the message, and be a beacon for change.

Her upcoming book, Life Beyond the Binge, a Commercial Fisherwoman’s Journey Home blends raw honesty, lived experience, and eye-opening facts and insights for anyone ready to break free from destructive cycles.   Colleen inspires others to discover their own inner North Star and that it is never too late to change course toward home.

Why Everything Feels Heavy Right Now Scorpio Full Moon, Uranus Shift and Beltane Energy

If this week has felt heavier, more emotional, or slightly unsettling, there is a reason.

In this solo episode, Sherisse breaks down the energy of the Scorpio Full Moon and why so much may be rising to the surface right now. Scorpio is not a surface-level sign. It brings depth, truth, and the emotions we often keep hidden, asking us to finally face and release what we’ve outgrown.

This Full Moon is not happening in isolation. It comes after seven years of Uranus moving through Taurus, shaking foundations, disrupting stability, and forcing many of us to rebuild in ways we never expected. Now, as Uranus shifts into Gemini, there is a noticeable energetic change, one that invites movement, new perspectives, and a greater ability to adapt.

At the same time, Taurus season calls you back into your body, asking you to ground yourself even as everything begins to shift.

This episode explores the deeper invitation of this moment. Not just what is happening externally, but what you are being asked to release internally.

In this episode, we explore:

• Why the Scorpio Full Moon can feel so intense and emotional

• The impact of Uranus moving from Taurus into Gemini

• What this energy is asking you to let go of in your life

• How external disruption reflects your internal sense of safety

• The connection between your cycle, emotions, and Full Moon energy

• The deeper meaning of death, rebirth, and emotional clearing

Sherisse also shares personal insights into how this energy has been showing up in her own life, particularly through instability in the home, and how it has revealed deeper patterns around safety and control.

With the energy of Beltane also present, this is not just about release. It is about creation. Clearing what no longer serves so something stronger, more aligned, and more authentic can take root.

If you’ve been feeling the intensity, this episode will help you understand why, and guide you through what to do with it.

Watch the workshop here:

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Episode 140: How Women Awaken Their Intuition Turning Breakdown Into Breakthrough

In this episode, Sherisse is joined by Jennifer Davey, also known as the Wellbeing Warrior, for a deeply honest conversation about burnout, motherhood, healing, and spiritual awakening.

Jennifer shares her journey from working as a secondary school teacher to experiencing postnatal depression after the birth of her second son, a turning point that ultimately led her to completely transform her life and career.

What began as a period of struggle became the catalyst for stepping into her true purpose. Since then, Jennifer has transitioned into women’s empowerment coaching, while also developing her intuitive and spiritual gifts in a way that now supports her clients on a deeper level.

Together, Sherisse and Jennifer explore the powerful shift happening for women right now, where success is no longer just about external achievement, but about alignment, intuition, and inner truth.

In this episode, we explore:

• ​ How burnout and postnatal depression can become a catalyst for transformation
• ​ The journey from traditional careers into purpose-led work
• ​ The rise of spirituality and intuitive development in modern women
• ​ How to trust your inner voice and reconnect with your intuition
• ​ Turning pain into purpose and stepping into a more aligned life

This conversation is for the woman who feels like there is more for her, more depth, more alignment, and more truth, even if she cannot fully see it yet.

A powerful reminder that what feels like a breaking point can often be the beginning of something far greater.

Jennifer Davy is an award-nominated Women’s Life Coach and founder of Wellbeing Warrior®️ — a coaching practice built on the belief that the inner work is the business work.

With 20 years of experience and hundreds of women coached 1:1 across Ireland, the UK, and the US, Jennifer blends spirituality with strategy in a way the coaching industry rarely does. She’s been featured in the Irish Independent, Stellar magazine, RTÉ, Fox News, Newstalk, and across multiple podcasts.

She doesn’t do vague. She says the thing, names the pattern, and stays right beside you while you do the work.

https://hello.wellbeingwarrior.ie/3-part-audio-funnel

Episode 139: Why Fear of Judgment Is Holding You Back and How to Finally Feel Safe Being Seen

If you know you’re meant to be seen, heard, and fully expressed, but something keeps holding you back, this episode will help you understand why.

In this solo episode, I dive into the fear of judgment and how it often begins much earlier than we realise. This isn’t just about confidence or showing up online. It’s about the patterns we formed in childhood around being seen, accepted, and safe to express ourselves.

I share parts of my own journey and how those early experiences shaped the way I showed up, held back, and questioned my visibility, even when I knew I was meant for more.

Because for many women, the fear isn’t really about being judged now. It’s about what being seen meant back then.

In this episode, we explore:

• ​ How childhood experiences shape your relationship with visibility
• ​ Why fear of judgment can feel so strong even when you’re “ready”
• ​ The subtle ways you hold yourself back from being fully seen
• ​ The link between being accepted as a child and expressing yourself as an adult
• ​ How to begin rewriting the story and showing up differently

I also share why I created my Visibility Activation, to support women in stepping into their visibility from a place of self trust rather than fear.

If you’re ready to stop shrinking and start expressing yourself more fully, the link to the free activation is in the show notes.

This is your invitation to be seen as you are, not who you think you need to be.

Listen to the visibility activation here: https://sherissebisram.com/free-visibility-activation

Episode 138: Reclaiming Your Voice How Confidence, Identity and Healing Transform Your Life and Business

In this episode, Sherisse is joined by confidence coach Savannah Madden for a powerful conversation about reclaiming your voice, rebuilding your identity, and stepping into your full expression after adversity.

Savannah shares her journey from a performing arts background to building a successful theatre school and coaching business, alongside the personal challenges that shaped her path. After experiencing a difficult divorce and losing her voice due to vocal nodules, she was forced into a period of deep reflection that ultimately became the foundation for her work today.

A decade later, Savannah returned to the stage to deliver a keynote speech, marking a full circle moment of healing, confidence, and self reclamation.

Together, they explore how confidence is not something you are born with, but something you build through self trust, ownership, and the courage to be seen.

In this episode, we explore:

• ​What it really means to reclaim your voice after difficult life experiences
• ​How confidence is built through identity, values, and self ownership
• ​The connection between expression, visibility, and personal power
• ​Why stepping outside your comfort zone must feel safe to be sustainable
• ​How to move from survival into authentic self expression

Savannah also shares her coaching framework, which supports women in expanding their capacity, owning their identity, and expressing themselves more fully in both life and business.

This episode is for the woman who knows she is meant to be seen, heard, and expressed, but is ready to do it in a way that feels safe, grounded, and truly aligned.

FREE main character energy activations https://sherissebisram.com/main-character-energy-activations1-1

Drop me a DM here: https://www.instagram.com/sherisse_bisram?igsh=MWdlODl4d2Z1eG50bg%3D%3D&utm_source=qr

Listen to our joint episode here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7qrGGJwS1n0QLv7RS8A9ju?si=mLxCv-sIRLCkdvAi1BoNzw

Find Savanna here:

@iamsavannamadden (insta)

www.savannamadden.com

https://product.savannamadden.com/reclaim-your-voice-audio-series (free gift)

Episode 137: Why High Achieving Women Struggle to Receive and How to Expand Your Capacity

If you feel like you’re doing everything right but life still isn’t moving in the way you desire, this episode will shift your perspective completely.

In this solo episode, I explore the concept of capacity and why it may be the real reason so many high achieving women feel stuck, overwhelmed, or unable to receive what they truly want.

So often, we believe we need more strategy, more discipline, or more effort. But the truth is, if your nervous system is already at full capacity, there is no space to receive more, whether that’s success, love, opportunities, or expansion.

I also share a personal reflection from a recent night out where I was fully expressed, free, and embodied. The response to that moment revealed something powerful. Women are not just watching for inspiration, they are craving the freedom, liberation, and safety to be fully themselves.

And that level of expression does not come from doing more. It comes from expanding your capacity to hold it.

In this episode, we explore:

• What capacity really means and why it limits what you can receive

• Why high achieving women often operate at full emotional and nervous system capacity

• The link between control, responsibility, and feeling stuck

• Why freedom, expression, and embodiment feel out of reach for so many women

• How expanding your capacity creates space for more success, joy, and alignment

This episode is an invitation to stop forcing your next level and start creating space for it instead.

If you’re ready to begin expanding your capacity and reconnecting with your most expressed, embodied self, I’ve linked a free activation in the show notes to support you.

Episode 136: Healing the Mother Wound Through Unconditional Love From Survival to Safety and True Expansion

In this deeply honest and powerful conversation, Sherisse is joined by Geraldine Crane, creator of the SOUL Shift™ Method, to explore the mother wound, survival patterns, and why unconditional love is the foundation of true healing and expansion.

This is not a surface-level conversation.

Geraldine shares parts of her lived experience, from being a young carer to working in probation and supporting individuals through addiction and trauma, alongside navigating her own profound life challenges. Her journey is one of resilience, depth, and transformation, which shapes the grounded and trauma-informed way she now supports ambitious women.

Together, we explore how many high-achieving women are unknowingly operating from survival identities rooted in early experiences, particularly the mother wound, and how this impacts their sense of safety, visibility, relationships, and ability to fully receive.

In this episode, we explore:

• ​What the mother wound is and how it shapes your identity and patterns
• ​How survival responses are formed and why they keep you stuck
• ​The link between emotional safety, self-worth, and expansion
• ​Why unconditional love is a powerful and necessary part of healing
• ​How to move from control and protection into trust and openness
• ​The deeper truth behind confidence, visibility, and growth

Geraldine also shares how reconnecting with your own inner wisdom and spiritual guidance creates the safety needed to step into your next level, not through force, but through alignment.

This conversation is for the woman who has done the work, built something meaningful, and yet knows there is another layer of healing and expansion available to her.

A grounded, powerful reminder that healing is not about perfection. It is about meeting yourself with truth, compassion, and the courage to evolve.

Unforgettable 12 week program https://sherissebisram.com/unforgettable-an-embodied-leadership-visibility-experience

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About Geraldine

Bio - Geraldine Crane is the creator of the SOUL Shift™ method, working with ambitious businesswomen who have built something real but know they are capable of so much more. Using her signature framework, she gets to the root cause of what is holding them back, the survival identity patterns often rooted in the mother wound, connecting them with the unconditional love of their Spirit Guides and the wisdom of their own soul, so they feel safe to expand, safe to be visible and safe to be bold in their business and beyond. Geraldine brings over a decade of professional experience working in probation, substance misuse and supporting survivors of domestic abuse, alongside a trauma-informed practice, to work that is as grounded as it is transformational.

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Episode 135: The Sisterhood Wound Isn’t What You Think It Is A Truth About Women, Jealousy and Connection

The “sisterhood wound” is a phrase that gets used often in conversations about women, connection, and community. But what if the way we understand it isn’t entirely true?

In this episode, I share a perspective that may challenge what you’ve heard before.

After spending months in rooms full of women, speaking, hosting, and observing, I began to notice a subtle but consistent undercurrent beneath the surface of empowerment and connection. Not overt conflict, but quiet comparison, internal judgment, and unspoken tension.

What I realised is this. The sisterhood wound is not something inherently wrong with women. It is conditioning.

In this episode, we explore:

• ​Where the idea of the “sisterhood wound” really comes from
• ​How comparison, competition, and separation are learned behaviours
• ​The difference between observation and judgment and why energy matters
• ​Why jealousy and envy are not problems, but signals
• ​How over-identifying with the “wound” can remove personal responsibility
• ​Why conflict is necessary for real connection, not something to avoid
• ​What it looks like to lead with integrity in female spaces

This conversation is not about blaming or calling women out. It is about increasing awareness so you can choose how you show up in rooms, relationships, and communities.

Because true connection is not built on labels or forced unity. It is built on honesty, resonance, and self responsibility.

If you’ve ever felt tension in female spaces, questioned friendships as you’ve evolved, or noticed comparison creeping in, this episode will invite you to see it through a different lens.

Unforgettable 12 week program https://sherissebisram.com/unforgettable-an-embodied-leadership-visibility-experience

FREE main character energy activations https://sherissebisram.com/main-character-energy-activations1-1

Drop me a DM here: https://www.instagram.com/sherisse_bisram?igsh=MWdlODl4d2Z1eG50bg%3D%3D&utm_source=qr