Victoria Shaw is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Certified School Counselor in the State of Connecticut.  She is also the author of four books, for tweens, teens, and adults, and the mother of two spirited, adult children.

Victoria shares the loss of her sacred, beloved self, as she refers to her then self; the part of herself who she always was, however, lost touch and connection with over the passage of time and the beginning of motherhood. 

She shares how her life experience led her to the intuitive counseling work she does today, and also fully expressing her gifts as a medium and how that blends in and supports her work and her clients. 

This episode has a gift of wisdom for everyone. There is something you will take from this, regardless if you identify yourself as a griever or not. 

There is a lot of depth to this conversation, and we discuss the following topics and more:

• The mother identity - loss of self
• Leaning into the gift of being empathic + tips for empaths
• Intuition - the key to connecting to your higher self
• Grievers - How to know what to do next
• Answering the Question: Do we need to suffer to grow?
• What happens when we die?
• Unhelpful things, from Victoria's perspective, we do as grievers to ourselves and others
• How to connect with a departed love one

Victoria speaks my language in this episode. You don't have to be "into the woo" to get something out of this episode. In fact, I'm going to address the idea of the "woo" in Episode 27 where I share my Takeaways & Reflections (along with an amazing realization I had upon editing and listening back to this episode).

Listen with an open mind and an open heart, and if you do listen, know that it was meant for you to hear.

Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion. - Buddha

Resources Mentioned:

• Activating Your Intuition - Course by Victoria Shaw, Ph.D., LPC

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