Relationship As Medicine

In this episode of the podcast, I chat with Lacey Nagar Ammerman on how practitioners and care providers can best support individuals with different abilities or chronic health conditions through a trauma-informed approach to ensure they feel seen, acknowledged, and understood in their healing journey.

Lacey also shares her deeply personal journey through navigating muscular dystrophy in her personal life and in her business and how it has fueled her passion for supporting her clients with disabilities and body challenges. 

We also discuss: 

About Lacey: 

Lacey Nagar Ammerman is a Confidence & Certified Body Image Coach, author, and mentor. Her mission is to make a difference in the lives of women through confidence in their bodies, businesses, and relationships so they can show up fully, make more money, and create yummy partnerships.

Instagram: @gracefulrisingcoaching

Website: confidenceandmagic.com

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Janel Phillips, founder and co-owner of Sansara Resort in Cambutal, Panamá joins me for an inspiring conversation about the experience and land where we’ll be hosting our Soulful Retreat. 

She shares the synchronistic story of how she and her husband found themselves in picturesque Cambutal and how it's unfolded into the special and sacred place it is today. 

Together we look at the experience of retreat participants, including the delicious cuisine, the adventures along the Southern Panamanian coast, and the interactions with staff.  

Learn why this retreat destination serves as the perfect place for allowing our nervous systems to find balance and regulation and how you can truly take up nourishment and goodness from each moment during this experience.

You can register for Soulful now, which takes place on May 12-28, 2024. Born out of burnout, this gathering of deep feelers, sensitive souls and adventurous spirits is a grounding, spacious, connecting way to return home to your deepest heart. 

About Janel: 

As a former high-school teacher, Janel continued her studies around the world to encompass her passion for yoga, working with educators, healers, and yoga teachers before opening a Canadian-based yoga business. Through her experiences and passion, she began to realize how important it was to me to develop a business model that focused on the mind-body-earth connection and healthy living for both clients and the earth. Along with her husband Mike, they wanted to create a place that catered to all, and shared their passion and belief in a simpler, more organic lifestyle, where people can slow down, unplug, and escape their hectic lifestyles, and thus Sansara Resort came into fruition. 

Janel and Milke strongly  believe in giving back to and improving our community by utilizing the benefits of tourism to promote sustainable development and employment in Cambutal. They  support our community by employing local residents and purchasing local products whenever possible.

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In this episode, I am joined by Nuria Reed to explore embodiment-focused decolonization work from her perspective as a white-bodied practitioner with European lineage. 

We delve into the power of this work in fostering a sense of deep belonging - whether it’s with the natural world, with each other, or inside themselves.

She explains the concept of Embodied Ancestral Awakening, shedding light on its important role in trauma healing. By becoming more rooted and secure in our own identities, we can forge more compassionate and connected relationships with each other, our work as practitioners, and the world.

Nuria is a certified sex coach, anthropology enthusiast, animist practitioner, and professional in transformation and liberation. Her approach is trauma-informed somatic-based coaching specifically for sexuality, spiritual awakening, and ancestral healing and her philosophy is planted in the reclaimed animist traditions of her ancestors and the Tantra of her yogic lineage. With 10,000 hours of teaching and training experience and two decades of transformative personal work, Nuria lives, breathes, and embodies liberation through pleasure.

Nuria’s 6-week program Ancestral Awakening will begin in November 2023. Ancestral Awakening is an intimate group course for women who long for an authentic and ancient spirituality. Find out more about the program here. 

Instagram: @embodied_ancestral_awakening

Website: www.nuriareed.com

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Registration is open NOW for Soulful: A Somatic Embodiment Retreat for Healing & Wellness Practitioners.⁠⁠Born out of burnout, this gathering of deep feelers, sensitive souls and adventurous spirits is a grounding, spacious, connecting way to return home to your deepest heart. 🌴This unique trauma-informed retreat will take place in Cambutal, Panama at Sansara 5-Star Luxury Resort from May 12-18, 2024. Get ready and mark your calendars! ✨ Put your deposit down now

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In this special episode of the podcast, I wanted to take the time to talk with you about my upcoming retreat, Soulful. I dive into my intentions that will go into this retreat and share the inspiration behind this offering. I give a glimpse of what your experience will be like, exploring the day-to-day schedule and the deep HOW and WHY of it all.

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Michelle Saltz and I get together to chat about how our healing and embodiment work can be supported by nature. In this episode, she takes us through what inspires her to support people in this work and the ways in which she supports them through art therapy and coaching. 

We also talk about:

About Michelle

As an Art Therapist, Intimacy and Relationship Coach and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, Michelle has been guiding clients for over 20 years using tools such as breath, meditation, imagery and movement to regulate and shift their experiences to make powerful choices. She is a passionate believer that the body speaks its own language, carries infinite wisdom and can serve as compass and guide. She embraces transitions, relationships and nature as teachers and her experience informs her practice. Her life has been an evolving journey of self-discovery and an ongoing resource in her work.

Read more about her upcoming program, HOME IN, an intimate 12-month container designed for women who give so much and do it so well, to feel nourished, replenished and fall madly in love with themselves and their lives.

Website: seasonsoflove.me

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I am beyond grateful to have gotten to share this time with my teacher and mentor, Stephen Terrell. I’ve been eager to get this episode out since we recorded it last month.  Can’t wait to hear your thoughts.

I’m often asked “how is THIS nervous system regulation work different from other regulation work?” and “HOW does it actually work?” and so many other questions.  If you want to hear more about how this deep trauma healing modality was created from the man who created it, now’s the time! 

Join me as I sit down with Stephen J. Terrell, PsyD, SEP, a renowned expert in the field of nervous system regulation work. In this conversation, we delve into the intricacies of this practice and explore its profound impact on healing and wellness. Together, we attempt to demystify the concept of nervous system regulation work as we ask, what exactly does it entail? In an attempt to answer this question, we explore: 

We hope that this episode gives you great insight into this kind of work, let us know what you think!

More about Stephen: 

Stephen J. Terrell, PsyD, SEP, is a leading expert in the field of Developmental Trauma and Adoption and is recognized around the world for his work in Developmental Trauma and Healing. He understands Developmental Trauma from the inside out and the outside in. Terrell has performed more than 25,000 individual Transforming Touch® sessions and taught thousands of students from around the world in the art of Transforming Touch® as it relates to healing Developmental Trauma. 

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Registration is open NOW for Soulful: A Somatic Embodiment Retreat for Healing & Wellness Practitioners.Born out of burnout, this gathering of deep feelers, sensitive souls and adventurous spirits is a grounding, spacious, connecting way to return home to your deepest heart. 🌴This unique trauma-informed retreat will take place in Cambutal, Panama at Sansara 5-Star Luxury Resort from May 12-18, 2024. Get ready and mark your calendars! ✨ 

Put your deposit down now to save $300!

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Welcome to Part 3 of a special 3-session series with Tamsin Crimmens, who generously offered to go live with me for some focused business coaching and nervous system support. During these discussions, we delve into deeply personal topics that bridge the personal and professional aspects of her life. 

My intention in recording these sessions is to offer examples of embodied support and to demonstrate how we tend to trauma in a somatic and slow way. My hope is that these sessions bring us all more regulation and clarity as we're navigating significant moments in our lives and businesses.

Tamsin is a writer and mentor for (quietly) revolutionary coaches, healers and world-changers.

To explore more of her work, check out these links:

⁠⁠www.tamsincrimmens.co.uk⁠⁠

Instagram: @⁠⁠tamsincrimmens⁠

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PS: ✨ SAVE THE DATE: Born out of burnout, this gathering of deep feelers, sensitive souls and adventurous spirits is a grounding, spacious, connecting way to return home to your deepest heart. 🌴 Get ready and mark your calendars for the Soulful: A Somatic Embodiment Retreat for Healing & Wellness Practitioners. This unique trauma-informed retreat will take place in Cambutal, Panama at Sansara 5-Star Luxury Resort from May 12-18, 2024✨

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Welcome to Part 2 of a special 3-session series with Tamsin Crimmens, who generously offered to go live with me for some focused business coaching and nervous system support. During these discussions, we delve into deeply personal topics that bridge the personal and professional aspects of her life. 

My intention in recording these sessions is to offer examples of embodied support and to demonstrate how we tend to trauma in a somatic and slow way. My hope is that these sessions bring us all more regulation and clarity as we're navigating significant moments in our lives and businesses.

Tamsin is a writer and mentor for (quietly) revolutionary coaches, healers and world-changers.

To explore more of her work, check out these links:

⁠www.tamsincrimmens.co.uk⁠

Instagram: @⁠tamsincrimmens

If you’re interested in working with Shelby, sign up for a free intro call here⁠

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Welcome to Part 1 of a special 3-session series with Tamsin Crimmens, who generously offered to go live with me for some focused business coaching and nervous system support. During these discussions, we delve into deeply personal topics that bridge the personal and professional aspects of her life. 

My intention in recording these sessions is to offer examples of embodied support and to demonstrate how we tend to trauma in a somatic and slow way. My hope is that these sessions bring us all more regulation and clarity as we're navigating significant moments in our lives and businesses.

Tamsin is a writer and mentor for (quietly) revolutionary coaches, healers and world-changers.

To explore more of her work, check out these links:

⁠www.tamsincrimmens.co.uk⁠

Instagram: @⁠tamsincrimmens

If you're interested in working with Shelby, sign up for a free intro call here

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How 3 weeks on and 1 (or more) weeks off each month changed everything. In this solo episode, I share about the incredible work structure I've set up for myself that supports my nervous system and my heart and soul's highest purpose. I talk about the anxieties and fears and stories that show up each time I do this and the subsequent freedom that comes afterwards.

I share about the very real benefits of pausing intentionally to go inwards - these feel like the biggest and most significant investments in my business, my health and my entire life. I also share a very simple way that I add spacious structure to keep myself grounded and nurtured during these times. This is truly an act of revolution against cultural messages to hustle and I love getting to welcome you into it.

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