Voices Rising Podcast with Sarah and Shelly

Join us as we explore, Brene Brown's book, The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think Your Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are.

Together we go in deep into courage, compassion, and connection. 

By tapping into our courage and doing even the scary and hard things we are embracing our imperfections. With the help of compassion, we explore self-compassion and with Brene’s deep work and research, we learn how we can move into connection. This piece comes not only from having courage and allowing ourselves permission to have compassion not only for others but ourselves.

Brene’s work with shame and guilt transforms from book to book. Here inside of The Gifts of Imperfection, we learn how guilt can be helpful. Guilt is found in action from mistakes we make, whereas shame is deep-seated into who we think and believe we are.

This book helps us better explore the possibilities of owning our imperfections and stepping into them with vulnerability.

Short Bio: Brene Brown is a storyteller, writer, American professor, lecturer, mother, wife, and podcast host. Her work with shame and guilt has allowed vulnerability at new levels and believes we all are capable of shame resilience.

Thank you Brene for the deep work you put into the world!

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Join us this morning as we go deep into the three M's. 

***BONUS*** Built-in mindfulness practice!!!

Starting with mindfulness and how we can bring it into our everyday lives and then bringing it into how we mother. 

We break down mindfulness and then dive into the many roles we play as mothers. 

The third M is the unrealistic expectation of multitasking and the toles it takes on our lives. We recreate what multitasking is and come up with tangible ways we can be more productive with our time.

This is a great episode for parents and especially mamas who want to bring more mindfulness into how they mother and help heal the multitasking wounds.

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Vulnerability is something most of us shy away from. 

Yet we have found the healing power of writing the unedited parts of life. 

Yes it is hard to say the things, yes it hurts to write the things but there is also this freedom. 

When we write from our heart and even from the wounded parts of ourselves there is a resonate healing that lives here. 

Together with Sarah and Shelly go deep into the writing process, and pain and growth, and the healing power writing has brought into our lives.

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Get to know Sarah Caton, writer, mama of three, musician, avid reader, and the co-founder of Voices Rising Press.

Connect with Sarah's story and learn how she overcame her childhood and the inspiration of her Memoir The Preachers Daughter. The past holds deep treasures, memories, and pain. Just past the pain, Sarah's healing journey has unraveled through music, writing, art, and a willingness to grow. Sarah would escape to the library and crawl into stories rescuing her as a girl, which lead Sarah into finding her authentic voice.

Sarah shows us no matter how painful or challenging our past was with personal will and standing up for what we believe in we can conquer the obstacles of life even when it's hard.

Join Sarah and Shelly for the monthly book club Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert.

Together we learn how creativity is for everyone.

Ideas are things from the Universe waiting for the right person and moment to make an agreement.

Creativity and fear are synonymous.

Creativity is Big Magic.

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Today we interview Sarah Monares, an incredible woman and soul who lives a vulnerable authentic life.

Sarah passionately believes in the healing power of vulnerability. That by learning to speak our truth and to fully embrace who we are, we become free. She loves helping women shine light in the places they hide and learn to walk in the full power of all they were created to be. Sarah has a devastating story that she vulnerable shares in order to help others learn to own their whole story. Even the hard and messy parts.

Sarah is a licensed counselor and private practice owner since 2009. She is the founder of CEO Collective LLC and The We Spot LLC. She is a writer, blogger, counselor, coach, speaker, and host of The We Podcast. 

Follow her journey on Facebook and Instagram The We Spot and The We Podcast and follow and connect with an incredible community of women at thewespot.com

Join Sarah and Shelly for Writers Cafe where we talk about life, writing, what we are reading, and more. Here we find a space to share the struggles and gains of the writing journey and hope to inspire writers to work beyond self-limiting beliefs.

Learn more and read our blogs at www.voicesrisingpress.com

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Whether you have read or not join Sarah and Shelly with this month's book club, The Second Mountain by David Brooks. Often it can be time-consuming to read entire books that is why we are here sharing our book club edition, so you can gain the insight in a much shorter time. Please head over to Itunes and leave us a 5-star rating and please leave us a review! 

Learn the metaphor of the first mountain and how we can climb our way up the second mountain. Going from the ego to the soul or from the head to the heart.

Explore the difference between happiness and joy. 

Moving along to relationships and marriage. 

Individualism versus community. 

There are many great takeaways from this book we want to share it all with you!

Learn more about us and read our blog at https://voicesrisingpress.com/

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Dorje Dolma is a visual artist, an inspirational speaker, and the author of Yak Girl: Growing Up in the Remote Dolpo Region of Nepal.

She has been touring the world with her uplifting story and artwork and has given over hundred presentations for all ages in Europe, Nepal, Canada and the United States. She speaks about the centuries-old way of life in her isolated homeland, how it’s being changed by the slow trickle of modernity now reaching it, and the most effective ways for first world citizens to help those in the third world. Her mission is to inspire others through writing, art and speaking to help spread kindness to others and the need for medical and educational resources in remote parts of the world, such as Dolpo.

Dorje was born in Dolpo, Nepal, one of the most inaccessible places on earth, 4,000 meters high in the Himalayas. She was the oldest of eleven children, only six of whom survived the harsh conditions of their lives. She began herding the family’s goats and sheep at age five and by seven she was defending them from attacks by wolves and snow leopards. At ten, Dorje’s parents took her on a month-long trek to Kathmandu to find help for a serious health condition. There they encountered Westerners who arranged to bring Dorje to the United States and get her the surgery she needed to save her life. She eventually graduated from the University of Colorado with a degree in Fine Arts. She is the first female writer from Dolpo.

Follow Dorje Dolma’s Journey

Website: https://www.dorjearts.com/

Store : https://www.etsy.com/shop/DorjeArtsCollection

Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/dorjeartsyakgirl/

Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/dorjeartsyakgirl/

Yak Girl: Growing Up in the Remote Dolpo Region of Nepal

Join the First Edition of Writers Cafe, listen in while Sarah and Shelly connect on a heart level. Learn what books the authors are reading, how writing is going, and explore the stories of the evacuation of their small mountain town, mama talk, and much more.