SHED - Sense Healing Every Day

In episode 7. Yes episode 7 not 5, Ms. Aishia, an exceptional therapist and professor, and I talk about navigating life in a world that doesn't seem to want to include everyone. Yes, still in 2024! 

We talk about how our experiences in our careers, the corporate world and in life in general, can be seen and interpreted through the lenses of our childhood trauma, intergenerational trauma, microaggressions and sometimes overt racism. 

How do we deal with all of that? 

I reference two books in my intro, "What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma" by Stephanie Foo and "They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us" by Prachi Gupta, to explain that this is not just a "black" issue. 

To all my racialized sisters, I see you and I know we can sometime navigate the same journey, so you are not alone.

This is not an easy topic... So let's please put our biases aside and listen with an open heart and think about our friends, our colleagues and people in our families, that may have experienced some of these very complex and subtle situations.

As always, we're here to foster empowering conversations and Sense Healing Every Day!

Ms. Aishia can be found on Instagram and YouTube: @mytherapistlife

In this episode Dr. Stephanie Finn and I talk about everything Peri and Menopause related. 

I’ve been wanting to have this conversation for a while on this Podcast. 

I’ve been through a lot with Perimenopause symptoms and I have a lot of friends and cousins who’ve suffered for a long time not knowing what was happening to them. When I started MHT (Menopause Hormone Therapy) formerly known as HRT, I felt I discovered the Holy Grail and I knew I had to share it with every woman I know. Granted, not everyone has the same experience, I think that it’s an option everyone should know about. Unfortunately, there are many failings in our medical system and sadly enough not all doctors are informed on the slew of symptoms that come from peri/menopause and still prescribe anti-depressants and sleeping pills, or tell women to exercise and lose weight, while they could simply benefit from MHT! Anywho, who am I to say??

Let’s listen to this chat with Dr. Finn to get all the necessary information from the expert herself.

P.S. The intro is a little long but well worth the wait.

NOTES:

Dr. Finn can be found at www.drstephaniefinn.ca and for more certified practitioners, visit www.menopause.org. 

https://portal.menopause.org/NAMS/NAMS/Directory/Menopause-Practitioner.aspx

Hello Friends,

EP5: You’ve taken Ozempic* and lost a ton of weight! Now what? is now live.

As I announced I have a line up of 4 new episodes with amazing guests coming up, starting with Sabrina Noel, Health & Wellness Coach.

In this episode we tackle the topic of GLP1s and Semaglutides like: Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro, etc. and weight “loss”. And it’s a different take! Our opinions might surprise you…

As always, I say weight has been my teacher. It has led me to a lot of healing and that’s why I believe, and a lot of us out there believe, that we must look at our trauma and what is truly at the root of our weight gain.

Why do we overeat, soothe or numb with food?

In this episode we talk a lot about Self-Worth, but I want to be clear, there are many different facets to Self-Worth.

Some can have a wonderful career, a beautiful home or healthy family life because they believe they are worthy of those things, but still not invest in their health. It’s not all or nothing!

So please sit back, have a listen and enjoy, as always, let us know what you think by engaging with us.

Sabrina Noel: Health & Wellness Coach, can be found at the following:

FB/IG: @balancingselfcare 

Email: [email protected]

Healing Practices mentioned: 

Internal Family Systems (IFS) https://ifs-institute.com/

MAP coaching Institute: https://www.mapcoachinginstitute.com/

Welcome to the SHED podcast a place where you can Sense Healing Every Day. In this podcast we’ll explore ways of shedding the hold that Shame and Guild has on us in order to show up in the world as our authentic selves and fully self expressed. My hope is to bring you some practical tools and new awareness so you too can find relief. This is why I’m here. I’m here to serve and I’m here to go on this life journey with you to heal, grow and transform together. So let’s begin to SHED and Sense Healing Every Day.

In this episode I dive deep (which for some reason I had trouble saying during the episode...lol) into my story. 

When it all began & why. 

I talk about the different messages around exercise and the all so confusing multiple theories and advice on food and diet. 

I talk about some of my own solutions like Intermittent Fasting that really help with my mood & focus, which is why I'm sticking to it, because honestly I didn't see much change in weight. 

I also talk about my go-tos: meditation, journaling, somatic exercise and muscle testing (Kinesiology). 

Explanation on muscle testing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ol2vC27AMvs Ultimately, the aim of this Podcast is to give us tools to heal, grow and transform together and find new ways of being to unlearn the old principles that have kept us stuck and not showing up in the world as our authentic selves and fully self expressed. 

Please engage and let me know what you think. 

Enjoy! M

In this episode I introduce myself, talk about my journey of self discovery and healing. From meditating in India for 3 weeks in an Ashram to walking on fire - twice. Below I share some of the works (to name a few) that have inspired me to create this podcast. 

How I created SHED, the premise behind the name. Why me? Well as a woman of
color I believe that some folks need to hear the message from someone who looks like them and who can relate to their experience. Why now? The epiphany that led me to this project at this specific time in my life. 

BOOKS:
The Power of Now and Awakening to a New Earth by Eckhart Tolle
The Seat of the Soul by Gary Zukav
The Myth of Normal by Dr. Gabor Maté 
What Happened to you by Bruce D. Perry & Oprah Winfrey
No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the
Internal Family Systems Model by Richard C. Schwartz 
Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving by Pete Walker 
 
TOOLS:
EFT: Emotional Freedom Technique - Tapping with The Tapping Solution App with Nick Ortner
Daily Practice with The Crappy Childhood Fairy - Anna Runkle 
Journal Speak with Nicole J. Sachs
Affirmations
Meditation
Muscle Testing/Kinesiology
Visualization
SEMINARS/COURSES:
Ayahuasca 
Inner Engineering with Sadhguru
Klemmer
Landmark
Transcendental Meditation
Unleash the Power Within with Tony Robbins (fire walk!)

• Fight
• Flight
• Freeze
• Faun