Warrior Heart Yarns with Aunty Shan
What does it take to be your bravest, boldest, most fully expressed self without apology? What does it take to stand in your power, be your truth and follow your heart in a world that wants you to play small, to be defined and stay in your lane? It takes a Warrior Heart. Come along and join me for some deep yarns, insights, lessons, wisdom and tough love on what it takes to create a life from your heart, without apology and a warrior spirit.
Warrior Heart Yarns with Aunty Shan
I'm choosing to live my life. Over survival, auto-pilot and existing. It is time to learn how to live over surviving
Warrior Heart yarns with Aunty Shan is back. It is has been a long while since I have had the capacity and resources to record and share my experiences in this medium and online. I retreated into survival and autopilot and toxic coping strategies because of some events that happened and the compounding overlay of grief, shame, guilt and avoidance I have been living in and with.
Slowly the last few days I have felt things beginning to shift internally, my Dreaming whispering to me. My heart whispering me to wake up. That my kids needed me, I could no longer go on like this and this season is literally a life and death battle for my physically, spiritually, mentally, emotionally and for my Dreaming. It is no longer enough to survive. What served me in previous seasons is now keeping stuck.
I share in a raw, real and vulnerable passage of my experiences, how ending relationships, being willing to let go of and lose people, relationships and dreams to be able to come home to myself, and find me again. What this season has cost me so far and what I am fighting for.
A powerful message that was set to me that cracked me open, woke me up and activated me into this moment. By someone that was impacted by a podcast episode I did on the Rich Blak Woman podcast sharing my story and experiences, speaking my truth. This episode was recorded in 2023, and yet it landed for this person over 1 year later. And they shared with me how hearing my truth, story and example has planted a seed for their own journey and transformation. And it was a deep reminder and remembering and validation that being myself, wholly as I am. Nothing less and nothing more is enough.
This message was the whip, the hammer crack open the armour and shell I had wrapped around myself. It woke me up and called to me.
I hope this yarn empowers you to find the courage to start again as many times as you need to find your path and clarity. I have shared the episode below that empowered and inspired this person to step into and up to her life and calling.
Rich Blak Woman Podcast - Shantelle Thompson https://open.spotify.com/episode/5ACjUB6HA6esPIbCxDAuQc?si=c8Yw0nc6TvizWF4diyg1lw