Archives for March 2020

11 LaVelda Conrad, Hillbilly to Hollywood and Now Beyond

March 28, 2020 By Shauna

WHAT THIS EPISODES ABOUT…

Hello ladies. Welcome. I’m Shauna Hoffman. I cannot wait to share with you today’s story of reinvention. We’ve talked in some of the past podcasts about the idea that when we truly go off on our own journey of self-awareness, we find that the identity we have made for ourselves in our past is not who we want to be today. We realize that what we felt identified us was based on everyone else’s definition of who we are instead of our own.

It’s also true that as we grow, age and put our needs first, whether with a man or single as a parent with kids at home or an empty nester, we find that there are dreams we have for ourselves that we have chosen to put aside at some time in our life, or maybe there are dreams that we never even realized we had, until that moment that we chose to be Guy Free Working on Me.

I am so excited to share with you our guest today LaVelda Conrad and her amazing story of reinvention. She is a woman whose story epitomizes the struggles that we go through to find a way to honor ourselves, love ourselves, and take back our lives.

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10 You Are Not Alone

March 21, 2020 By Shauna

WHAT THIS EPISODES ABOUT…

Hello everyone. This is Shauna Hoffman. Welcome. I thought and thought today about what this podcast should be about and it became very obvious to me as our country is going through so much stress about the Coronavirus. I wanted to make today’s session about handling stress during a crisis, especially if you’re alone. So whether you are listening to this podcast now or a year from now, my hope is to give you so many tools to navigate stress in your life. Many of you have a partner or a roommate or a family member with you, but there are many people right now who are alone or single caring for their children or elders. We know that in a crisis we turn to those around us and for so many it’s a partner, but this is Guy Free Working on Me. So if for this podcast, I am the one to be there for you, then I am honored.

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09 What Makes a Good Relationship?

March 14, 2020 By Shauna

WHAT THIS EPISODES ABOUT…

Hello Ladies! I’m Shauna Hoffman. I am so happy you have joined me for this podcast today. This tells me that you are on a journey of self-discovery. And I am so happy to go along for the ride. Today we are jumping into a conversation about what makes a healthy relationship. I have this model of healthy loving relationships that I share with my clients… that I want to share with you. The idea behind this is that if you have a healthy relationship with yourself, you will have an even healthier relationship with someone else. And here is the truth. If the other person does not have a healthy relationship with themselves you have no chance of together surviving in happiness.

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08 Stuffing Your Feelings

March 7, 2020 By Shauna

WHAT THIS EPISODES ABOUT…

So today we’re going to talk about one of the most prevalent defense mechanisms that we women tend to use in relationships.

I call it stuffing, stuffing your feelings versus acknowledging them, processing them and speaking them to your partner or not just your partner. It could be your mom, your dad, your best friend, your kids, your boss. Oh yeah, we women are the true Queens of pushing our feelings away because they may make someone else uncomfortable or because we don’t like conflict or because someone taught us that our feelings don’t matter or because we have been told we are too emotional. We should stop that, shut down our feelings. Or it could be that we are afraid to share our feelings for fear of the repercussions of doing that. We fear that if we share our feelings, the other person may punish us in some way. Now let’s add another piece to this stuffing. I call it having no voice. You not just step away your feelings, you stuff away, your needs, your desires, your opinions.

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