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
68 episodes
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 ...
49 Stop, Start, Continue: A Compassionate Reset for a Peaceful New Year
This episode invites you to slow down and reflect—without pressure, resolutions, or self-criticism. Using the Stop, Start, Continue method, we explore how to release what no longer serves you, gently begin what supports your growth, and honor w...
48 Stop Trying to Fix Yourself: A Year-End Reflection on Forgiveness, Growth, and Choosing Peace
We’re not doing resolutions this year. We’re doing reflection. In this episode, I share some of the most meaningful lessons this past year taught me in my own personal live—about forgiveness, letting go of control of others’ lives, healing aban...
47 Say Your Role, Play Your Role, How Your Words Become Your Life
Your words aren't just empty air, they are the foundation of your identity, and your nervous system is listening. Every time you say, "I'm always anxious," or "I'm just bad at boundaries," your brain works to make those statem...
46 Stop People-Pleasing, Start Choosing Yourself This Holiday Season (And Everyday!)
On this week’s episode we’re diving into people-pleasing, how it drains your peace, how we’re emotionally and physically exhausting ourselves twisting ourselves into knots trying to keep everyone happy and how to gently shift back into authenti...
45 Finding Peace and Self-Care in Detachment
Sometimes what looks like peace is actually resistance in disguise. Detachment and aversion can both look like letting go, but only one frees you. This week we’re exploring how to tell the difference, how to shift from avoiding to allowing, and...
44 Self Care and Your Energy, Effort vs Outcome
Are you giving your energy to people, tasks, or projects that truly matter? Sometimes we work hard, care deeply, or show up consistently, but the results don’t match the effort. In this episode we explore how to recognize when your effort...