Little by Little, Peace by Peace - Small Dose Self-Care
This is your small dose podcast for self-care, personal growth, mindset shifts, and creating lasting change thru small, consistent steps. This 20 minute show delivers practical strategies to help you reduce stress, improve your mindset, and build a more peaceful, purpose-driven life. Whether you're seeking clarity, emotional balance, or motivation to move forward, each episode offers real tools, empowering insights, and inspiring conversations to support your journey. Tune in weekly and discover how small changes can lead to powerful, life-changing results.
Shirley is a certified life and mindset coach who uses her own life experiences to give you easy, small tips on how to create the life you are seeking. This podcast will help you move forward and find your strength to build the peaceful life you deserve.
This show will provide answers to questions like:
* How do I learn to let go and reduce stress?
* How do create more peace in a hectic life?
* How do put myself first and still care for others?
* How do I learn to love and trust myself?
* How can I build a strong mindset to deal with anything?
* And how do I stay consistent and true to building the life I deserve?
Episodes
74 episodes
74| Why Prioritizing Yourself Isn't Selfish & Why Everyone Needs You To
When was the last time you did something purely for yourself, not to be productive, not to show up better for someone else, just for you? Can you even remember? Do you find yourself regularly running on empty and calling it normal? And how do y...
73| Reflective Self Care, Not Regrets - Look Back to Move Forward
What if the moments you once overlooked, rushed through, or even regretted are actually the key to understanding your growth, healing old wounds, and learning how to experience more self care in your everyday life right now? Learn how taking a ...
72| Good Intentions, Wrong Energy: How Tone Might Cost You Real Connection & Peace
Have you ever said exactly the right thing and still walked away feeling like the conversation went completely wrong? Or that certain people just drain you the moment they start talking, before they've even finished a sentence? And wha...
71| 4 Steps to Habit Stacking To Make Self Care Habits Stick
What if the reason your good habits never stick has nothing to do with discipline, and everything to do with where you’re putting them? What if you could easily swap the bad habits without your brain fighting back? And what if the good habits y...
70| Evolving Relationships: How to Stay Connected When You and Your Partner Change
What happens when the person you love is no longer the same version you first met because they are growing and evolving just like you are, or maybe they haven’t evolved at all and you’re just no longer going in the same direction? And how do yo...
69| Stop Justifying Your Actions and Start Living With More Peace
Have you ever caught yourself justifying your actions with "After everything I've been through, don't I deserve a pass?" "They started it, so why should I be the one who acts better?" "If people knew what I'd been through, they'd understand why...
68| Stop the Blame Game: How to Reclaim Your Power and Find Real Peace
What if the story you've been telling yourself about who's at fault is actually what’s keeping you stuck? Is the harshest critic in your life not someone else but your own voice inside your head? And what if letting go of blame, both towa...
67| Increasing Peace While Building Your Adversity Muscle
Are you inadvertently shrinking the life available to you because you’re avoiding hard things? Are you unknowingly making yourself, or the people you love, more fragile with too much protection? And what does science say about using discomfort ...
66| Finding Peace in Change: Why We Resist Change & How to Finally Move Forward
Need to change but every time you think about starting it just feels too late, too hard, or too overwhelming to even try? What if the story you've been telling yourself about why change isn't possible is actually the thing standing in your way?...
65| Less Perfect, More Present, Fully You
When was the last time you finished something and genuinely thought, that's good enough? Or are you beating yourself up for not having done more, for not having done it better, more perfectly? Or so anxious about what others think that you keep...
64| Self Care Relationship Reset: How to Truly Know Someone & Communicate Better
How do you really get to know someone and when does that all happen? How do you get to know each other when you have different communication styles? Where is the line between sharing and oversharing and more importantly, where is the line betwe...
63| Your Journey, Your Pace, Your Life: Why the Path Matters More Than the Destination
Are you focused on the path or only the destination? Are you comparing your journey to someone else who is going for the same things, not getting there the same way? Did you know every stumble, detour and doubt is actually shaping you into exac...
62| Four Reasons You’re Anxious and 5 Ways to Stop the Anxiety Loop
How many of you find yourself lying awake at 3am, your brain spinning through the same thoughts over and over again? The same worry, the same what-if, the same conversation you had weeks ago that you're still mentally rewriting? You’re not brok...
61| Your Self Care Superpower – What Your Body Already Knows About Healing Stress & Anxiety
Do you know that you have a built-in biological brake pedal for stress? Today we're talking about the vagus nerve, what it is, why it controls so much of your mental and physical health, and the simple everyday practices that help you activate ...
60| Stop Tolerating, Start Loving: Boundaries, Acceptance & Real Connection
'I tolerate people who are different from me.' Sounds progressive, right? But what if that mindset is actually hurting everyone, including you? How do you move from tolerance, from how you treat others and how you allow others to treat yo...
59| Protecting Your Peace from Manipulation & Real Friends vs. Bots
"Let's see who my REAL friends are…" 🙄 If those posts drive you crazy like they do for me, this one's for you. We're talking pressure in relationships, social media bots, and how to show up authentically — online and IRL. We'll even...
58| Small Changes For Happiness While Progressing Thru Life: Practical Mindset Shifts for the Journey
This episode is packed with practical life tips for finding peace in the in-between where you are and where you want to be. I'll help you answer:✨How do you stay happy when your life isn't where you want it to be yet? ✨How d...
57| Stop Acting Your Age: Embracing Joy, Authenticity, and Calm at Every Stage of Life
This episode is packed with practical life tips for living authentically and learn to participate in life at ANY age or stage in your life. Discover:✨ How small changes in self-perception boost well-being strategies ✨ Daily w...
56| Manifesting Your Partner: How Small Self Growth Changes Can Attract the Right Partner
Are you truly ready for love or just hoping it will somehow complete your life? In this episode we’ll help you find answers and share how personal growth, wellness habits, and learning to be at home with yourself can attract and transform these...
55| Lifequakes to Healing: Small Changes to Heal, Rebuild, and Grow After Life Shakes You
When life feels like it’s falling apart, it might actually be clearing space for something new. In this episode, we talk about “lifequakes”, those big life disruptions that shake your identity, relationships, or direction, and how small m...
54| Coincidence or a Sign? Finding Peace Being Open to Synchronicity
Have you had those moments where you hear a song you need to hear, someone says something that you were just wondering about and at the same time you’re feeling disconnected with life? Well those meaningful coincidences can be used to change th...
53| From Parent to Friend – Small Changes That Bring More Peace With Adult Children
Are you trying to navigate your relationship with your adult child, trying to figure out how to let go but at the same time support them as they create their own adult lives? Should you stop being a parent and try to be more of a friend and wha...
52| Me, Myself and I, Using the Power of Talking to Yourself to Heal and Grow
You see someone talking to themselves and you wonder if they have a case of the crazies, well that could be me on any given day! Talking to yourself isn’t crazy—it’s self-connection. Today’s episode explores spoken soliloquies: u...
51| One Foot, Then the Next: Finding Trust in Yourself
What does a talking dog, running and rock climbing have to do with finding peace? Running reminds us to place one foot in front of the other, climbing reminds us to pay attention to the 6 feet within our circle of control. We’ll use inspiration...
50| How to Find Good, Kind Humans, And How to Be One!
Good humans really are out there I promise you! The news won’t tell you because good doesn’t sell, fear and anger do. Good humans don’t have to be loud, perfect, or impressive and if fact they rarely are.In this 50th episode, we ...