Sisterhood: Connecting Through Meaningful Conversations

There have probably been times in your life when you felt unsafe and insecure. In those experiences, your fight or flight kicks into high gear and fear can take over your entire body.

Soul embodiment and business mentor Meghan Weir joins the Sisterhood conversation to share tools and practices that help us to feel safe.

Sometimes you don’t know how to name what you are feeling and Meghan’s embodiment practices can help you to release the emotions that you don’t know your body is holding on to.

This is a conversation about feeling safe. Feeling safe with your emotions. Feeling safe with your body. Feeling safe with being your authentic self. Feeling safe with taking off the mask you have been wearing that provided you with protection, but are not serving you. And regulating your nervous system when you don’t feel safe and secure.

Connect With Meghan

You can find all her magic over at her website: www.instagram.com/themeghanweir

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A practice for your when your thoughts turn to worry is something I think most of us can use. 

I don’t know about you, but sometimes, I catch myself in a spiral of future-tripping, which is usually triggered by worry. One worried thought creates another worried thought on top of another…and now I’m down the rabbit hole. 

Like many of us, I have had to learn many tools to help me when I’m in this spiral, and one thing that has been supportive lately is to be unattached from the future outcome of what I’m worrying about.  

I have needed this reminder so much lately, as I find my thoughts turning towards worry more often than I would like. So this practice is just as much for me as it is for you. 

Connect with Laurie-ann & The Sisterhood Community

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Written Blog Transcript For Episode: www.contagiouslypositive.ca/a-practice-for-when-your-thoughts-turns-to-worry/

A practice for your when your thoughts turn to worry is something I think most of us can use. 

I don’t know about you, but sometimes, I catch myself in a spiral of future-tripping, which is usually triggered by worry. One worried thought creates another worried thought on top of another…and now I’m down the rabbit hole. 

Like many of us, I have had to learn many tools to help me when I’m in this spiral, and one thing that has been supportive lately is to be unattached from the future outcome of what I’m worrying about.  

I have needed this reminder so much lately, as I find my thoughts turning towards worry more often than I would like. So this practice is just as much for me as it is for you. 

Connect with Laurie-ann & The Sisterhood Community

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www.facebook.com/contagiouslypositive

https://linktr.ee/contagiously_positive

Written Blog Transcript For Episode: www.contagiouslypositive.ca/a-practice-for-when-your-thoughts-turns-to-worry/

“The spiritual part of being human is feeling all the feels. It’s not unspiritual to have emotions.”

If you feel like your emotions are constantly being bypassed, or that you are a pressure cooker with emotions that are needing to be released, this episode will be so supportive. I wanted to have a conversation about toxic positivity, so I brought in the expert. 

Shulamit Ber Levtov is The Entrepreneurs Therapist. For more than 2 decades Shula has been working in the field of mental health and personal growth, and has helped hundreds of women (and men) recover their resilience after experiencing stress and trauma.  She's been an entrepreneur for more than 27 years, and in 2017, founded an award-winning holistic stress and trauma clinic in Kemptville, Ontario. She  has an MA in Counselling and Spirituality and she is a registered social worker. She is also certified in Focusing, Nonviolent Communication, the Tapas Acupressure Technique and Kripalu Yoga. She is a certified clinical trauma professional who is also trained in assessing and teaching resilience skills. 

In this conversation, Shula shares what we can do to be truly positive, without it being toxic.

We talk about:

• What toxic positivity is.
• How we use toxic positivity methods on ourselves.
• What we can do and say instead.
• How to feel your feelings in a healthy and supportive way.
• How we can support someone else’s feelings in a healthy and supportive way.
• Understanding what a negativity bias is.
• How feeling your feelings is the way to true positivity.
• A funny metaphor about your emotions and poop :-)
• How we can show ourselves self-compassion.

And so much more!

Connect With Shula

You can find all her magic over at her website: www.shula.ca

Connect with Laurie-ann & The Sisterhood Community

www.instagram.com/laurieannsheldrick/

www.facebook.com/contagiouslypositive

https://linktr.ee/contagiously_positive

Workshops & Resources Mentioned In The Episode

For additional support, these are some more resources mentioned in the episode.

How To Be Positive Without Being Toxic: Realistic Optimism: https://www.shula.ca/toxic-positivity-realistic-optimist/

Feeling negative emotion? Here are 3 steps to take: https://www.shula.ca/negative-thoughts-emotions-women-entrepreneurs/

Self-Compassion Break: https://self-compassion.org/exercise-2-self-compassion-break/

https://taramcmullin.com/parents-deserve-more-than-positive-thinking-6d26436638c9

Dr. Kristin Neff: https://self-compassion.org

The Law of Attraction, or rather, the manifestation coaching industry, sells you the promise that you can have whatever you want, and all you have to do is follow their one sized fits all practice. In this conversation I want to bring awareness to some of the things in the manifestation coaching industry that may be making you feel like a failure, or making you feel like you are doing something wrong, or like you are going mad hatter mad trying to figure it out because it is so vague or doesn’t even make any sense. You are not doing anything wrong! 

If you have been confused about manifestation, or the practices and concepts have made you feel like you would never get it, this conversation is for you. I talk about the darker side of the manifestation industry, what to look out for, how your mindset and emotions are not pushing away the things you want, and what you can start doing today to work towards the things you desire. 

Connect with Laurie-ann & The Sisterhood Community

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www.facebook.com/contagiouslypositive

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Workshops & Resources Mentioned In The Episode

For additional support, these are some more resources mentioned in the episode.

Emotional Scale Practice: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cCGi0Ds0aedgZ_08n7f4-MqKMu9qxwkd/view

What To Do When Your Thoughts Turn To Worry: https://open.substack.com/pub/laurieannsheldrick/p/from-worried-thoughts-to-peace?r=jaei0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Grounding Practice: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/episode-14-grounding-practice-for-calming-your-nervous/id1553011608?i=1000517138703

Duped Podcast: https://duped.online

You are about to experience magic with this incredible woman, Dr. Davia Shepherd. This conversation felt like sitting down with a best friend talking about life. Dr. Davia wants us to know that the power lies in the collective - connecting, collaborating and supporting each other, rather than competing. She believes the when we shine together, we become so much brighter.

We talk about:

- Deciding what is important to you.
- A new reframe from balance to alignment.
- How we don’t have to settle for just being and doing one thing when it brings us joy.
- Asking for what you want instead of staying in the struggle.
- The gift of giving and receiving.
- Shifting the way we treat each other as women.
- The practice of learning how to trust yourself.
- The importance of connecting, collaborating and supporting, rather than competing.
- Changing our belief that we have to do everything alone.

And so much more!

“Visibility means being able to connect with the people who need to hear you, in a way that they can hear you. Making real connections.”

Connect With Dr. Davia Shepherd

You can find all her magic over at her website: www.growsmarternotharder.com

Join her Facebook community: www.facebook.com/groups/ladiespowerlunch/about

Connect with Laurie-ann & The Sisterhood Community

www.instagram.com/laurieannsheldrick/

www.facebook.com/contagiouslypositive

https://linktr.ee/contagiously_positive

If you have ever asked yourself: Who am I? Why don’t I have the energy to do what other people do? Why am I not interested in what other people are interested in? Why don’t I make decisions like everyone else? Why do I want what I want? Why am I so different? This conversation is for you. 

Kristi Sullivan is Human Design and Self Care expert who's mission is to help us to STOP OVERWORKING AND START OVERFLOWING and to embrace and live our own unique design. 

We talk about: 

- What the system of human design is.  

- How human design works and how it has impacted our lives.

- Why and how it can help us to fully embrace our authentic selves. 

- How human design can help us to connect and understand to those around us. 

And so much more! 

Connect With Kristi Sullivan

You can find all her magic over at her website: KristiHSullivan.com

Join her facebook community: facebook.com/groups/kristihsullivan

Connect with Laurie-ann & The Sisterhood Community

www.instagram.com/laurieannsheldrick/

www.facebook.com/contagiouslypositive

https://linktr.ee/contagiously_positive

Resource Mentioned In The Episode

Get your human design map at: www.mybodygraph.com

Continuing on from my conversation in episode 48, I wanted to keep exploring anger. 

Anger is such a powerful driver, especially when it is wrapped up in our deepest empathy. I think we all know anger pretty well. We can feel it in our bodies before we even react. There is nothing wrong with getting angry. I mean, welcome to being a human being. You’re going to get angry. But do you want to act on it? That is what we are going to explore in this podcast episode.

I share:

- How my recent anger was empathy in disguise.

- A practice to help you feel, process and understand your anger. 

- What you can do when someone is directing anger towards you. 

- Learning to express your anger in a positive way.

And so much more!

Connect with Laurie-ann & The Sisterhood Community

www.instagram.com/laurieannsheldrick/

www.facebook.com/contagiouslypositive

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In this meaningful conversation, I sat down with Tricia Nelson. Tricia is an internationally acclaimed author, transformational TEDx speaker and Emotional Eating Expert.

This is a conversation that I believe many women can relate to.

Tricia shares how her own struggles with emotional eating began in early childhood, where she attempted to cope with the stresses of life and emotional pain by overeating and other destructive behaviours. And how that led her to committing the last three decades, to helping thousands of people heal their relationship with food.

In this conversation you will learn that it was never about food, it was and always has been about your emotions. Something so many of us grow up not talking about, including not being taught coping mechanisms to help us during challenging times. Which is why this conversation is so important.

She also shares:

- How restricting your eating is not the solution.

- An assessment to help you determine if you are an emotional eater.

- Why 98% of diets fail.

- Changing your relationship with yourself and with food.

- Getting to the real root of emotional eating.

And so much more!

“As an emotional eater. the quickest way to gain weight is to try to lose the weight. One of the reasons why diets fail is because they take away your one coping mechanism and gives you no tools as a replacement.”

Connect With Tricia Nelson

You can find all her magic over at her website, including her incredible podcast the Heal Your Hunger Show: www.healyourhunger.com

Connect with Laurie-ann & The Sisterhood Community

www.instagram.com/laurieannsheldrick/

www.facebook.com/contagiouslypositive

https://linktr.ee/contagiously_positive

In this meaningful conversation, I sat down with Tricia Nelson. Tricia is an internationally acclaimed author, transformational TEDx speaker and Emotional Eating Expert.

This is a conversation that I believe many women can relate to.

Tricia shares how her own struggles with emotional eating began in early childhood, where she attempted to cope with the stresses of life and emotional pain by overeating and other destructive behaviours. And how that led her to committing the last three decades, to helping thousands of people heal their relationship with food.

In this conversation you will learn that it was never about food, it was and always has been about your emotions. Something so many of us grow up not talking about, including not being taught coping mechanisms to help us during challenging times. Which is why this conversation is so important.

She also shares:

- How restricting your eating is not the solution.

- An assessment to help you determine if you are an emotional eater.

- Why 98% of diets fail.

- Changing your relationship with yourself and with food.

- Getting to the real root of emotional eating.

And so much more!

“As an emotional eater. the quickest way to gain weight is to try to lose the weight. One of the reasons why diets fail is because they take away your one coping mechanism and gives you no tools as a replacement.”

Connect With Tricia Nelson

You can find all her magic over at her website, including her incredible podcast the Heal Your Hunger Show: www.healyourhunger.com

Connect with Laurie-ann & The Sisterhood Community

www.instagram.com/laurieannsheldrick/

www.facebook.com/contagiouslypositive

https://linktr.ee/contagiously_positive