The Threshold

In today’s solo episode, Angie shares with her listeners a personal story and poem inspired by the question her oldest daughter brought to the dinner table last week. This one question, “What is your perfect day?”, led Angie on a journey into the truth of her heart during this stage of motherhood. Listen in to hear Angie read The Perfect Day and gently guide you home to reflect on your perfect day.

If you are in this stage of motherhood and find yourself in need of support, Angie welcomes your emails at [email protected]. While her website is under renovation for new offerings, you can catch a glimpse at www.angieschaffer.com.

As mentioned in today’s episode, you can find the work of Rachel Stafford at www.handsfreemama.com.

In today’s guest interview, Angie welcomes back Shandra LaMotte, Teen Empowerment Coach, to have an honest conversation on the impact of a mother’s relationship with her own body impacts her daughter’s own bod image and navigating body image, disordered eating and eating disorders as a mother. As shared in her last guest appearance on the show, Shandra has worked extensively with teens to help them build confidence, self-acceptance, and their voice. Angie is so exited to have Shandra back to share on this important topic for every parent.

Throughout the conversation, Angie and Shandra share insight on navigating the body image conversation with your daughter and hope the episode leaves each listener with a better understanding of the struggles faced within body image concerns and ways to give and receive the self-love for one’s body.

Shandra is also a Lead Facilitator for a transformational organization called COR and the Director of Training and Programming for COR's non-profit branch for teens.
She started her career as a middle school special ed teacher in Oakland. As she started to burn out as a teacher, she realized that her true passion lied in fostering self-acceptance, leadership, and self-esteem in young women/ That's when she became a Teen Empowerment Coach dedicated to supporting teens realize their gifts and navigate the emotional ups and downs of their teenage years. She has combined her love of teaching with her passion for personal development, concentrating on COR facilitation, a thriving personal coaching practice, and teen group programs.
Shandra has a degree in psychology and education from UC Berkeley. She's been trained in therapy modalities such as somatic experiencing, Gestalt therapy, parts work, non-violent communication, and mindfulness practices. She's completed a 400-hour Transformational Leadership and Advanced Facilitation Training through COR, where she enhanced and refined her coaching, counseling, and facilitation skills.
She is currently working on the development of new group transformational programs for teens through the CCF designed to support teens in fostering self-compassion, healthy communication tools, and a healthy body image.

You can learn more about Shandra’s work and connect with her at https://www.shandralamotte.com/.

You can connect with Angie at www.angieschaffer.com

In today’s solo episode, Angie shares a short & sweet reflection from her week on the road to tour colleges with her oldest daughter. Listen in as Angie invites the listener into how she viewed the passage of time in the past and how embracing the present moment during this trip opened up her heart to more laughter, deeper conversation, and joyful memories.

You can connect with Angie via www.angieschaffer.com or follow her on IG @angielynnschaffer. At this time, Angie is on a social media detox and is available via website and email only ([email protected]).

In today’s guest episode, Angie is joined by Emma Jensen, Human Design Guide and Expert to discuss human design and how understanding your design and that of your child’s can greatly impact how you mother, your family’s connection, and give each individual the permission to be their true self. Angie shares her personal “ah-ha’s” when it comes to learning about her human design and later utilizing this source for greater understanding of her daughters (and husband, too). It was through human design that Angie finally understood why one daughter would operate in one way while the other had different ways of navigating her days. In this conversation, Emma goes into detail on each design (manifestor, generator, manifesting generator, projector, and reflector) giving listeners a great place to begin their understanding of how our human design impacts each one of us. The conversation also includes how human design impacts mothering with specific ideas and answers. Listen in to be enlightened by Emma’s wealth of knowledge and intrigued to learn more.

As mentioned in today’s episode, you can explore your human design with your name, date of birth, time of birth and location at https://www.jovianarchive.com/ or by googling human design and exploring your preferred site. We are not affiliated with any site mentioned above.

You can learn more about Emma’s work at www.connected-consciousness.com or on IG @emmaj04. Emma offers human design readings and has recently released human design workbooks for each type.

Emma grew up in the corporate and government worlds. Never knowing what she wanted to do she followed in her Dad’s footsteps and went into law enforcement. After a short stint she went into the corporate world and recently transitioned into working for herself, pivoting completely. She has worked for big companies: United States Secret Service, Nike and Apple, but always felt like her impact was meant to be more meaningful and bigger than what she was doing. It was through her personal development journey that she found her way to her current calling, Animal Communication and Healing and Human Design.

Now she lives within her Human Design and creates the impact that she has been longing for all those years. She works with individuals, coaches and groups in Human Design where understanding your (and your partners, colleagues, family, friends, etc.) blueprint sets you free from the box and chains of conditioning and brings compassion to yourself as well as to those around you. This is the work she was put on this Earth to do and she loves every second.

In today’s solo episode, Angie shares what led to her 30-day social media detox and how it’s going a week later. Listen in to hear her greatest takeaway and a sneak peek of next week’s episode. As you go about your week, Angie invites you to lean into how a social media detox might be needed in your life or that of your teen. Maybe it’s time to follow your own nudge and uncover your takeaways…even if just for a day. Curious? If so, it’s time to lean in.

During the month of April, Angie will be away from Facebook, The Intuitive Mother Collective and IG. You can continue to follow her on this podcast and learn more about her work at www.angieschaffer.com. Thank you for your support and patience…beautiful things happen when we lean into where we are being nudged to go.

In today’s guest episode, Angie is joined by Jen Mons who is the host of The Embodied Healing Self and Founder of the Embodied Soul Coach Academy for a heart-to-heart conversation around being a conscious mother. Jen shares her greatest lessons she has learned from her two daughters, how motherhood changed her life course, and many nuggets of wisdom as a coach and healer. Listen in and be inspired as a woman, mother and daughter.

Sacred Soul Quotes by Jen:

“It takes a huge act of surrender to listen and allow our children to fully be who they are and not put our ego into it.”

“There have been many times my life has dramatically altered course because I allowed my children to be my teacher. We are in a time of collective rising especially around the healing of the feminine and the children (boys and girls) are here supporting us and, if we listen, our children are all teaching us.”

“Letting your children be who they are and not making it about us.”

“When we can witness ourselves as mothers and daughters and see how we do it differently and when we can stop making ourselves wrong and stop being in the guilt and shame, we can see a lot more and we create the space to allow the healing.”

You can learn more about Jen and her work on IG @jen.mons or @embodiedsoulcoachacademy, listen to her podcast “The Embodied Healing Self” and visit her website @ www.jenmons.com.

As always, you can connect with Angie @ www.angieschaffer.com or on IG @angielynnschaffer.

In today’s solo episode, Angie opens up about what it takes to heal your family and, if you are the “fixer” of your family, you may just want to listen in. Whether it is your family, marriage, motherhood, career or family of origin, healing is available to you … but do you know where to begin, what you need to do, and how to continue once you discover where the healing starts?

Angie shares a few of her go-to steps for healing her family and herself and invites you to think about where in life you may need to heal as well. As Angie shares in the episode, “we must feel to heal” and there is nothing more true. So, if you are ready, listen in and remember…If you want to heal your family, you must heal yourself first.

To learn more about Angie’s work, visit www.angieschaffer.com or follow her on IG @angielynnschaffer.

In today’s guest episode, Angie is joined by Katie Sutherland, owner of Inner Wisdom Motherhood, for a heart-to-heart on reclaiming your birth experience. Katie and Angie both share how the birth experiences of their children has impacted their lives and how Katie’s passion to mentor women to heal and honor their birth experience is such profound work. Listen in to learn more about Katie’s work and how you can heal your birth experience and what “healing your birth experience” means for all mothers.

Learn more about the books mentioned in the episode:

Walking The Tiger: Healing Trauma by Peter Levine

Mothering From Your Center by Tami Lynn Kent

Katie Sutherland is an energy medicine healer, teacher and holistic wellness practitioner who supports mothers to thrive and reclaim their empowerment and vibrancy while navigating the journey of motherhood and childbirth.

Katie has dedicated the past two decades to collecting and cultivating a wide range of tools and wisdom to support others on the path home to their inherent wholeness, wellbeing, and freedom.

Her travels around the world along with her studies in the wisdom traditions and healing arts have kindled in Katie a deep passion for offering rituals, circles and mentorship support to honor rites of passage in women’s lives.

Katie’s diverse background includes 1000+ hours of training in various bodywork and energy work modalities, Arvigo Techniques of Maya Abdominal Therapy™, Holistic Pelvic Care™, trauma resolution, advanced craniosacral therapy,  seven years as a yoga teacher, as well as being a certified Integrative Health Coach.

Katie had a powerful initiatory experience through the birth of her beloved daughter, which ultimately held a key in the awakening of her greater purpose. Through the experience, it became crystal clear how important it is to tend to the birthing container as a sacred and intentional space.  

She realized through the painful sequence of events that unfolded when these elements were not present at her daughter's birth, that these subtle yet important aspects may impact whether a mother or her child will incur trauma.

The experience and her subsequent journey of healing and integration, lit a fire in Katie to be a champion for a paradigm shift around the reclamation of the sacredness of birthing. This was a catalyst for much of the transformational work Katie now shares in empowering and supporting other mothers.

She works with women one on one, in groups via her online course “Reclaim Your Birth”, and throughout the year in live circle journeys.

You can connect with Katie @ www.innerwisdommotherhood.com and on IG @innerwisdommotherhood.

You can connect with Angie @ www.angieschaffer.com and on IG @angielynnschaffer.

In today’s solo episode, Angie shares heart-to-heart conversation on how the roles we “play” impact our life, our family, our children and beyond. She encourages listeners to think about what roles they have taken on in their life (both willingly and given) and the healthy or unhealthy ways in which we show up and thoughts on releasing the roles that cause heaviness day to day. Angie shares personal stories of the roles she has carried with her in life and the need for change for her own family to thrive.

As you listen in, take a moment to answer the questions below:

What roles are you playing in your life? (hero, confidant, nurturer, mediator, rescuer, etc…)

Do these roles feel healthy for you? For your family?

Where did these roles come from? Were they given to you or did you take them on and why?

How would it feel to release the roles that are weighing you down?

To connect with Angie, follow her on IG @angielynnschaffer or www.angieschaffer.com. She is available for speaking engagements and offers programs, coaching and healings.

In today’s special guest episode, Angie is joined by Alison Jane Ryan, Mama Mentor, for a heart-to-heart conversation on putting yourself first in motherhood. Together they explore postpartum anxiety, depression, and rage, turning your pain into purpose, and the need for self care as a mom. They share personal experiences and their go-to top tool for taking care of themselves before anyone else. Listen in to be inspired to choose yourself and reminded that you are not alone!

Sacred Quotes from Alison Jane Ryan:

“As I got deeper into my own practice of taking care of myself, how I went about doing that and really feeling myself on multiple levels~ going from a massive people please, codependency, mindset work, all the beliefs coming up for me related to motherhood~ I dove deeper into those practices and recognized such a need to show and teach other mothers how to care for themselves.”

“When I learned to put myself first ~ that is when my life really shifted.”

“I had choices and control over how I wanted to move forward.”

“What is it that I need? Not what do my children or my spouse need, but what do I need to thrive in life?”

“This generation we are in is really willing to pull back the curtain a little bit more…to learn from each other that we can really create our experience and choices we are making and enjoy the motherhood journey that is a part of who we are, but not all of who we are.”

Learn more about Alison Jane Ryan:

Alison is a Guide for Mamas who are coming out of the fog of early motherhood and recognize the deep need to prioritize their mental health and wellbeing. She helps exhausted moms prioritize their needs by guiding them through a 6-step process so they feel capable, confident and empowered. Alison is passionate about helping mamas make space & time to reconnect with who they are and what they want so they can create a life they LOVE!

Originally from the Driftless region of SouthwesternWisconsin, Alison now resides just west of Minneapolis, MN with her husband of 14 years, their two young daughters and their beloved Corgi. She loves to dance, spend time in nature, have honest & meaningful conversations with women and travel internationally (when that’s possible… ha!).

Alison is the host of The Mornings for Mamas Podcast.

Quote:
“Create space and time for YOU to reconnect with who you are & what you want so you can build a life you desire!”

Links:

Facebook @AlisonJane Ryan (https://www.facebook.com/alison.j.ryan.1)

Instagram: @iamalisonryan (https://www.instagram.com/iamalisonryan/)

Website: https://www.alisonjaneryan.com/

Email: [email protected]

Podcast: http://www.morningsformamaspodcast.com/