Freedom Is You Podcast
Your place to find the power YOU have in what has been troubling you, so you can move forward in a way that feels really good! I have this saying, when you change the way you feel, it changes the way you look at it and when you change the way you look at it... you interact with it differently - that whatever has been troubling you, interacts with you differently.
Shadow work and Self healing meets motherhood, infertility & everything in between. Each moment we are feeling troubled by something/someone, is simply highlighting a dysfunctional emotional connection we have to whatever is happening. So lets create a healthy emotional connection in it's place!
Here is to raising humans who feel safe, understood, calm so they don't have to heal from their childhood and have thriving relationships and a life they don't feel they need to take a vacation from.
Here is to navigating fertility struggles from a place of feeling inner peace and if you don't, knowing how to find it again so you don't lose yourself in the journey.
Here is to having a healthy relationship with your partner where you feel understood, calm and safe so when there are disagreements they get resolved in a calm manner so you can feel more connected then ever.
Here is to making your mind a place you truly want to be.
Here is to helping you be able to interact with others OUTSIDE the dysfunction, including yourself.
I fell into a depression in my first TTC journey after having two early miscarriages that I had to take a mental health leave from work. I ended up with a fertility diagnosis and cried for a week straight. I dug myself out of my depression and found happiness in my journey again, three short months later I got the pregnancy that stuff. My story doesn't end there. I ended up with a happy healthy baby girl but here was the problem - hearing her cries felt overwhelming that I would curl up into a ball and start crying. The intrusive thoughts where I felt sure I was going to accidently harm her, I remember freaking out in my psychologists office "I'm going to manifest her death! I can't stop worrying about it!" To daily fights with my husband feeling like we weren't a priority, feeling unappreciated - one day I realized, I couldn't keep going on this way. The way I felt every day, it wasn't something I wanted for my daughter - I wanted her to have the foundation to thrive in life. I had all the material things that promised me happy but inside, I was far from happy. I was forever arguing with my husband, felt isolated from friends and more like a nuisance then anything, my thoughts were hard to be with, anxiety. So I dove head first into spirituality, started practicing mediumship and offering readings, started exploring the science behind spirituality, neuroscience, mindset, hypnosis, NLP, trauma and somatics. Now? I use my daughters troubling behavior to heal unresolved emotional wounds, no longer giving her troubling behavior oxygen to breathe that the behavior completely resolves. You better bet I've applied it within every other relationship I've had too - the best part? It works. Every single time.
Freedom Is You Podcast
EP 28: Managing stress during the holidays | Navigating family dynamics
Christmas shouldn't just be about surviving the holidays - or at least that's not what I want for me! I want presence and to cultivate deep connections. I deeply crave so many of those "special little moments" during the holiday season.
But man do I find it also hard to have many of those little moments because it also comes with; an endless to do list, higher spending and more financial stress, more things to juggle/manage, navigating family dynamics, wanting things to be a certain way, wanting things to feel special... on top of the regular day to day activities of life. That, what actually feels important can get lost in the mix of it all.
I just hosted a big family gathering at my place and the week leading up to it, I noticed I was getting swept up in the stress of all the things on my to do list that I found myself getting impatient with Haedyn and saying no to the moments she was asking "mama, will you play with me?" I am sharing some patterns I became aware of, how I shifted the stress I had felt and how I began supporting myself when stress would start to creep in.
I am just so happy I became aware of this a couple days prior to the big gathering. It allowed me to make some adjustments to how I was going about my day so I was able to maintain more presence with Haedyn throughout the day, something that is super important to me. And it also left me feeling more fulfilled with my days rather then burnt out, because I was leading from a place of what felt true to me.
In this episode my hope is you can gain some practical yet super simple strategies to handle the stress and family dynamics that can come with the holidays so you can navigate the season with more ease and flexibility!
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