Episode 180 ~ Understanding Ourselves & Each Other: Human Design Through a Family Lens

Understanding Ourselves & Each Other: Human Design Through a Family Lens

What happens when you look at Human Design not just as a tool for self-discovery… but as a way to understand the people you live with every day?

In this episode of Rising Inner Shift, Tanya continues her Human Design series with guide Margaret Lipsey, taking the conversation into deeply personal territory.

Margaret now has the Human Design charts for Tanya’s entire family and together they explore what happens when you begin to see your household as an energetic ecosystem rather than a group of people trying to operate the same way.

In this conversation, they explore:

• How Human Design can help us understand the natural differences between family members

• Why conflict in families is often energetic misalignment rather than personality clashes

• What parents can learn about supporting their children’s unique design

• How awareness of aura types, authority, and profiles can transform the way we communicate and coexist

As Margaret walks through the charts in real time, Tanya begins to see her family dynamics through a completely new lens. One rooted in curiosity, compassion, and respect for each person’s natural rhythm.

If you’ve ever wondered why the people you love the most can also challenge you the most, this episode offers a powerful new perspective.

✨ This episode is part of a special Human Design series exploring how alignment can reshape the way we live, relate, and lead.

The journey toward alignment continues.

To find out what your Human Design is, go to www.myhumandesign.com/ 

Find out more about Margaret at www.margaretlipsey.com 

✨ As this series continues, listeners are invited to stay tuned for a unique opportunity to experience Human Design in person through an upcoming women’s wellness retreat with Margaret. The waitlist is now open, and more details will be shared throughout the series.

This is Human Design as remembrance. As self-trust. As a return to your natural rhythm.

If you’re feeling called to experience this work in a more embodied, immersive way, Tanya hosts Inner Shift retreats designed to help women slow down, reset their nervous system, reconnect with truth, and step into aligned action.

👉 Join the retreat waitlist to be the first to know about upcoming dates, locations, and early-access spots.Link in show notes.

🎙️ If this episode resonated with you, please follow the podcast, leave a review, or share it with a woman who’s ready for her own inner shift.

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Episode 179 ~ How to Know When You’re Out of Alignment (And What to Do About It)

What does it actually look like to live out of alignment with your energy?

In Part 2 of this Human Design series on Rising Inner Shift, Tanya continues the conversation with Human Design guide Margaret Lipsey by exploring the emotional and energetic cost of ignoring your aura.

Together, they unpack:

• The subtle (and not-so-subtle) signs you may be living out of alignment

• Why frustration, exhaustion, bitterness, or anger are not character flaws — but energetic signals

• How different aura types experience misalignment in unique ways

• What becomes possible when you stop forcing and begin honoring your natural rhythm

Margaret also shares her perspective on a bigger question:

What would the world look like if people truly respected their energetic capacity instead of overriding it?

This episode is for anyone who feels tired of pushing, proving, or performing — and is ready to experiment with a different way of living.

✨ In the next episode, the series becomes deeply personal. Margaret will walk through Tanya’s Human Design chart — along with the charts of her entire family — to explore what it looks like to understand each other’s energy in real time and coexist with greater clarity at home.

The journey toward alignment continues.

To find out what your Human Design is, go to www.myhumandesign.com/ 

Find out more about Margaret at www.margaretlipsey.com 

✨ As this series continues, listeners are invited to stay tuned for a unique opportunity to experience Human Design in person through an upcoming women’s wellness retreat with Margaret. The waitlist is now open, and more details will be shared throughout the series.

This is Human Design as remembrance. As self-trust. As a return to your natural rhythm.

If you’re feeling called to experience this work in a more embodied, immersive way, Tanya hosts Inner Shift retreats designed to help women slow down, reset their nervous system, reconnect with truth, and step into aligned action.

👉 Join the retreat waitlist to be the first to know about upcoming dates, locations, and early-access spots.Link in show notes.

🎙️ If this episode resonated with you, please follow the podcast, leave a review, or share it with a woman who’s ready for her own inner shift.

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Episode 178 ~ Your Energy Blueprint: Understanding Aura and Authority through Human Design with Margaret Lipsey

What if the reason life feels exhausting or misaligned isn’t because something is wrong with you but because you’re living out of sync with your energy?

In this episode of Rising Inner Shift, Tanya is joined by Human Design guide and creative practitioner Margaret Lipsey to begin a multi-part series exploring Human Design as a lived, embodied experience.

Together, they unpack two of the three core elements of your energetic blueprint:

• Aura Type & Strategy → how your energy is designed to move and interact in daily life
  

• Authority → learning to trust the body’s intelligence over mental conditioning
  

Profile  (understanding your role, relational patterns, and life themes) will be discussed in more details in later episodes.

Margaret’s work is rooted in presence and the sensory intelligence of the body. Drawing from her background as an abstract painter and guide, she speaks to Human Design as a practice of emotional precision where intuition, rhythm, and clarity emerge through attunement rather than force. Her involvement with the Human Design Hotel in Montreal reflects this same philosophy: creating environments where alignment is felt, not explained.

This conversation is especially for women who are burned out from over-efforting, questioning their direction, or longing to reconnect with their inner authority and purpose.

✨ As this series continues, listeners are invited to stay tuned for a unique opportunity to experience Human Design in person through an upcoming women’s wellness retreat with Margaret. The waitlist is now open, and more details will be shared throughout the series.

This is Human Design as remembrance. As self-trust. As a return to your natural rhythm.

If you’re feeling called to experience this work in a more embodied, immersive way, Tanya hosts Inner Shift retreats designed to help women slow down, reset their nervous system, reconnect with truth, and step into aligned action.

👉 Join the retreat waitlist to be the first to know about upcoming dates, locations, and early-access spots.Link in show notes.

🎙️ If this episode resonated with you, please follow the podcast, leave a review, or share it with a woman who’s ready for her own inner shift.

Find out more about Margaret at www.margaretlipsey.com 

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Episode 177 ~ The Art of Trusting What Is: Remembering Who You Are

What if nothing about you needs fixing?

In this first episode of the year, Tanya opens a new chapter of Rising Inner Shift by exploring the art of trusting life exactly as it is — even when it’s uncomfortable, unclear, or not unfolding the way we planned.

This episode is an invitation to slow down, surrender control, and listen more deeply to the quiet intelligence within you. The part of you that knows how to respond, not react. The part of you that remembers who you are beneath conditioning, expectations, and “shoulds.”

Together, we explore:

• Why transformation happens on the other side of discomfort

• How surrender is not giving up, but releasing the illusion of control

• What it really means to trust yourself in the midst of uncertainty

• Why alignment restores energy, clarity, and ease

• And how remembering who you are changes the way you move through life

This episode also introduces an upcoming Human Design series, where we’ll explore how understanding your unique energetic blueprint can help you make decisions, honor your natural rhythm, and live in greater harmony with yourself and with others.

If you’ve been feeling friction, burnout, or a quiet sense that there must be another way… this episode is for you.

Take a breath. Trust what’s unfolding. And begin again.🌿 Ready to Go Deeper?

If you’re feeling called to experience this work in a more embodied, immersive way, Tanya hosts Inner Shift retreats designed to help women slow down, reset their nervous system, reconnect with truth, and step into aligned action.

👉 Join the retreat waitlist to be the first to know about upcoming dates, locations, and early-access spots.Link in show notes.

🎙️ If this episode resonated with you, please follow the podcast, leave a review, or share it with a woman who’s ready for her own inner shift.

Episode 176: What Story Are You Willing to Rewrite as You Enter 2026? Releasing old identities, reclaiming self-trust, and stepping forward with clarity, focus, and direction

As we approach 2026, many of us are carrying stories about ourselves that quietly shape our choices, our energy, and our sense of direction—stories that may no longer be true.

In this reflective solo episode of Rising Inner Shift, Tanya invites you to pause and ask a powerful question:

What story about yourself are you willing to rewrite as you enter 2026?

Drawing inspiration from deep self-inquiry, nervous-system awareness, and the insights shared in Key lessons to enter 2026 with clarity, focus, and direction, this episode explores:

• How outdated identities keep us stuck in familiar patterns

• Why clarity comes from alignment—not hustle

• The role of the nervous system in decision-making

• How to rebuild self-trust and reclaim personal power

• What it truly means to let go in order to move forward

This episode is not about fixing yourself.It’s about releasing what no longer belongs—and choosing your next chapter with intention.

✨ Reflection Prompt:As I enter 2026, I am no longer the person who _____.I am becoming the person who _____.

If you’re feeling called to experience this work in a more embodied, immersive way, Tanya hosts Inner Shift retreats designed to help women slow down, reset their nervous system, reconnect with truth, and step into aligned action.

👉 Join the retreat waitlist to be the first to know about upcoming dates, locations, and early-access spots.

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Episode 175, The Wisdom of Touch: Listening to the Body’s Path to Healing with Jenika

What if healing didn’t start with fixing—but with feeling?

In this episode of Rising Inner Shift, I sit down with my friend Jenika, a certified massotherapist (CMT) who has been practicing since 2014 and offering in-home massage experiences designed to meet clients where they feel safest—physically and emotionally.

Jenika is also the founder of The Self-Care Bully, a brand created to remind us that caring for ourselves is not a luxury, but a necessity. Her approach to massage therapy goes far beyond relaxation, focusing instead on nervous system regulation, intentional touch, and the body’s innate capacity to heal when it feels safe and supported.

Together, we explore how stress, trauma, and emotions are stored in the body, why so many high-achieving women feel disconnected from their physical selves, and how body-based practices can help restore trust, presence, and balance.

✨ In this episode, you’ll discover:

• How the body holds onto emotional and energetic experiences
  

• Why nervous system regulation is foundational to healing
  

• The deeper role of massage therapy beyond muscle relief
  

• How in-home, intentional touch can support emotional release
  

• Simple ways to reconnect with your body in everyday life
  

If you’ve been living in your head, pushing through stress, or feeling disconnected from your body, this episode is a gentle invitation to slow down and listen.

🔗 Connect with Jenika and learn more about her work here

Follow Jenika on IG and on Facebook

🎧 Tune in and allow this conversation to shift the way you relate to your body—and your healing.

✨ Ready to take your reflection deeper? Join me at my upcoming women's wellness retreat in the Laurentians — an experience designed to nourish your body, mind, and soul. 🌿 Click here to get on the waitlist

Episode 174 ~ Healing After Unimaginable Loss: Theresa James on Grief, Faith, Resilience & Purpose

In this deeply moving episode of Rising Inner Shift, Tanya sits down with Theresa James, author of Healing Tears, to explore what healing looks like after unimaginable loss.

In the summer of 1998, just days after her divorce was finalized, Theresa’s ex-husband broke into her home and murdered their three children before taking his own life. Theresa lived with this story in silence for nearly twenty years—focused not on retelling tragedy, but on surviving, healing, and rebuilding her life.

This conversation is not about fear or trauma alone. It is about resilience, faith, grief recovery, and how purpose can emerge from the deepest pain. Theresa shares how seeking a deep connection with the divine and surrounding herself with like-minded, compassionate people became central to her healing journey—and how those same values led to a profound friendship between her and Tanya.

This episode is for anyone who:

• Is navigating grief, loss, or trauma

• Wonders if healing is possible after devastating experiences

• Is seeking meaning, faith, or spiritual connection during difficult seasons

• Needs a reminder that they are not alone

✨ Trigger warning: This episode includes references to murder and suicide. Please listen with care.

Find out more about Theresa at theresajames-author.com 

🎧 Listen now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube.

Episode 173 ~ Healing From the Inside Out, Part 2: Nervous System Regulation, Inflammation & Emotional Wellness with Émilie Gauthier

In this second part of Tanya’s conversation with integrative health mentor Émilie Gauthier, we continue exploring the deep connection between stress, unresolved emotions, inflammation, and women’s overall well-being.

If you’ve ever felt exhausted, overwhelmed, emotionally overloaded, or disconnected from your own body, this episode offers clarity — and relief. Together, Tanya and Émilie dive into:

✨ How chronic stress dysregulates the nervous system ✨ Why inflammation is at the root of so many modern symptoms ✨ The emotional patterns that quietly contribute to physical imbalance ✨ The link between gut health, mental clarity, and spiritual connection ✨ Simple daily practices to help your body shift from survival mode to healing mode ✨ How small nutritional changes can support hormonal balance and reduce burnout ✨ What your body has been trying to tell you — and how to finally listen

This episode is for high-achieving women navigating fatigue, emotional overload, or stress-related symptoms — and for anyone wanting to understand their body on a deeper level.

🎧 If Episode 172 opened your eyes, Part 2 will open the door to actionable, compassionate steps toward true inner healing.

Episode 172 ~ Healing From the Inside Out: Stress, Inflammation & Women’s Wellness with Émilie Gauthier

In this powerful episode, Tanya sits down with integrative health coach Émilie Gauthier to explore the connection between chronic stress, inflammation, unresolved emotions, gut health, and women’s overall well-being.

After facing a life-changing cancer diagnosis, Émilie began a deep journey into functional health — uncovering how the nervous system, emotional regulation, and nutrition all play a role in healing the body from within.

Together, they discuss: 🌿 The hidden link between stress, suppressed emotions, and disease 🔥 Early signs of burnout your body sends before the breakdown 🥗 The most inflammatory foods, habits, and thought patterns — and simple daily shifts to reduce inflammation 🧠 How gut health impacts mental clarity, emotional resilience, and even spiritual connection 💛 The 3 daily practices women can start today to regulate their nervous system

This episode is for every woman who feels tired, stretched thin, disconnected from her body, or ready to rebuild her vitality from the inside out.

✨ Want to go deeper? Émilie will also be offering a Healing Cuisine workshop at the upcoming Nourish & Renew Retreat on December 13 in the Laurentians — where you can experience her wisdom firsthand through an anti-inflammatory, mindful, nourishing culinary experience.

If you're craving nervous system repair, grounding, sisterhood, and a full-body reset before the holidays, this retreat was made for you.

🌿 Click here to get on the waitlist

🎧 Tune in. Breathe. Let this episode guide you back home to yourself.

Episode 171 ~ Choosing What Serves You: Sisterhood, Self-Honesty & the Healing Power of Community

Many women feel the deep pull toward healing, sisterhood, and inner alignment—and in this episode, we explore why community is one of the most powerful tools for personal growth. In “Choosing What Serves You: Sisterhood, Self-Honesty & the Healing Power of Community,” Tanya opens up about the duality of life—how things can be both heavy and beautiful at the same time—and why acknowledging both is essential to true inner shift.

This episode dives into:

✨ The importance of choosing what truly serves you

✨ Why emotional honesty is key for healing and growth

✨ The role of sisterhood in transforming your life

✨ Tanya’s recent spiritual gatherings, reconnections, and the power of following the intuitive pull

✨ A moving introduction to upcoming guest Theresa James, author of Healing Tears, whose unimaginable loss became a powerful message of resilience, hope, and love

✨ How women’s wellness retreats create space for reconnection, clarity, and deep emotional release

If you’ve been craving peace, grounding, spiritual connection, and a circle that sees you, this episode reminds you that you don’t have to walk your path alone.

Highlights:

– Why you feel the pull toward community during seasons of transition

– Tanya’s emotional week and how she processed it

– A powerful moment at the REGATHER event

– Meeting women who feel like “soul-recognitions”

– A sneak peek into an upcoming life-changing conversation with Healing Tears author Theresa James

– How Tanya’s wellness retreat is designed to bring women together for renewal

✨ Ready to take your reflection deeper? Join Tanya’s upcoming Healing Cuisine Retreat in the Laurentians — a one-day experience designed to nourish your body, mind, and soul. 🌿 Click here to get on the waitlist