Working On Me

A Journey to Self Awareness with Shauna Hoffman

46 Keep the Gratitude Flowing

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WHAT THIS EPISODES ABOUT…

Hello and welcome, I’m Shauna Hoffman.

It’s right after Thanksgiving and I want to keep the gratitude flowing! So I thought it was time I reached out to all of my podcast listeners to say thank you! I have such deep gratitude for you coming along on this journey with me. This is the 46th episode! WOW! That just floors me. When I first started this undertaking I knew that my voice as a speaker, therapist, woman, entrepreneur, and part of an amazing family had so much to say. I didn’t really imagine 46 episodes later that so many people would be listening. Many of you have been on this adventure with me through the name change and rebranding of the podcast. And many of you are my new podcast family. To all of you, I say a magnificent thank you! Believe me, as I have recorded these episodes for you, I have learned so much about myself. For it has also been a journey to awareness for me! When I said take this journey with me I had no idea!

On this shorter than usual episode as I thank my podcast listeners, and family and friends, and my adoring husband, who have all supported me through this I thought I would share some of my favorite books, songs, quotes about life with a grateful heart. This week I want to join you on this journey to that beautiful soft spot in our souls… gratitude!

I’m going to start by sharing with you a book with the same name. “A grateful heart. Daily blessings for the evening meal from Buddha to the Beatles”. Seriously any book with that tagline has already made me grateful for picking it up! It’s edited by M.J. Ryan. The first time I heard about it was on my 40th birthday when my precious friend Dexter read this prayer by one of my favorite writers, Daphne Rose Kingma. And it is perfect to start this podcast. It hearkens back to podcast episode #36 For the love of friends.

Tonight we give thanks for the great gift of friendship. Thank you for the circumstances that brought us together and have bound us together into the sacred bundle of life. Thank you also for the gift of our friendship: for knowledge that comforts, for words that encourage, for insight that blesses, for all the experience shared, for the sweet bliss of knowing each other deeply in so many ways; for history and a hope of the future, for conversation and laughter, for silence, for bearing each other’s witness truly, for holding each other safe in our hearts with great love and tenderness.
—Daphne Rose Kingma ( 28th May)

There are so many things in our lives to be grateful for. Though we are struggling through some of the hardest times of our generation, definitely the hardest times of this century, I can’t help but stress that if we can each find things to be grateful for, no matter how small they are we can give our psyche and our souls a rest… a moment to remember the truth.

So let’s have some fun and see where you can find it. Certainly in books, and poems and quotes. But we also know the amazing power in music to change our moods! So I went searching for music and quotes from great songs. Lo and behold there are so many great sites to help us heal on that journey!

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45 Big Bad Beautiful Boundaries

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WHAT THIS EPISODES ABOUT…

Hello and welcome, I’m Shauna Hoffman

I thought for this week’s podcast I would delve into boundaries. It’s funny, one of my original ideas for this podcast is the A to Z of self-awareness. Well, since I have done quite a few episodes on what awareness is it’s time for me to go to B. Boundaries! Stick with me as I navigate the whole alphabet of self-awareness.

So we hear the word “boundaries” thrown around a lot in the personal growth world. Let’s delve into the big bad and beautiful of boundaries in your world.

Basically, a boundary is a personal guideline you set up for yourself. Limitations that guide you to your own behavior and the kind of behavior you accept from others. Personal boundaries in the simplest terms are what you create to establish how other people treat you. Or how they behave when they are around you. When you have healthy boundaries you empower your relationships to be truly caring, emotionally respectful, and appropriate. Most importantly these are the kind of limitations you put on yourself and around yourself to keep you safe. These boundaries can be anything from physical boundaries, to emotional, social media, material, financial boundaries, sexual boundaries, personal space boundaries, tolerance. WOW! Where do we begin?

First, let’s delve into the reality that self-awareness and boundaries go hand in hand. Sometimes in order to set boundaries, you have to be really self-aware of what you DON’T want in life or in a relationship. You need to be able to check in with your own needs, emotions, hurts, growth. All that stuff that is wrapped up in self-awareness. You need to be able to see what is working in your life and what isn’t.

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44 The Glass Ceiling Is Shattered, Rebroadcast of The Voice Of A Woman

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WHAT THIS EPISODES ABOUT…

Hello and welcome to a Journey To Self Awareness. I’m Shauna Hoffman.

This last week has been a whirlwind of excitement and emotion, fear, and confusion. So, I decided rather than trying to focus on a new podcast… which, honestly is a stretch for me this week… I would honor the fact that we have the First Female Vice President in our History! No matter if you are a man, woman, democrat or republican, the shattering of the glass ceiling to elect a female into the second-highest office of the land is groundbreaking and historical.

So I thought I would rebroadcast episode #22 The Voice of a woman. Oh, and just an FYI, when I speak of The last episode I am referring to Episode #21, The Great Unlearning.

So with great pleasure and with unbelievable pride in the fact that so many women came out to vote in this election, I offer you…The Voice Of a Woman.

Listen in…
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43 Talking Creativity With Mary Robinette Kowal

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Hello and Welcome, I’m Shauna Hoffman.

I hope you have been kind to yourself this past crazy week. Today I am so excited to welcome another conversation that will help us breathe a little easier and get in touch with one of the most joyous sides of ourselves, our creativity!

There is no one I am more excited to have as a guest than Mary Robinette Kowal. Let me share with you a little of the magic she brings to the world.

Mary Robinette Kowal is the author of the Lady Astronaut duology and historical fantasy novels: The Glamourist Histories series and Ghost Talkers.

She’s a member of the award-winning podcast Writing Excuses and has received the Astounding Award for Best New Writer, four Hugo awards, the RT Reviews award for Best Fantasy Novel, the Nebula, and Locus awards. Stories have appeared in Strange Horizons, Asimov’s, several Year’s Best anthologies, and her collections Word Puppets and Scenting the Dark and Other Stories.

Her novel Calculating Stars is one of only eighteen novels to win the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards in a single year. As a professional puppeteer and voice actor (SAG/AFTRA), Mary Robinette has performed for LazyTown (CBS), the Center for Puppetry Arts, Jim Henson Pictures, and founded Other Hand Productions. Her designs have garnered two UNIMA-USA Citations of Excellence, the highest award an American puppeteer can achieve. She records fiction for authors such as Seanan McGuire, Cory Doctorow, and John Scalzi.

Seriously! And there is so much more to this creative woman that is not in that bio! Welcome, Mary Robinette!

Mary Robinette, you are one of the most creative people I know. You exude creativity. Not just what’s on your bio, puppeteer, writer, but the clothes you create, every social media post that describes your feline family, your passion for creating or finding the most delicious libations, your pie making! All of that is born out of your beautiful creative mind. Have you always been in touch with that side of you?

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42 Calgon Take Me Away

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WHAT THIS EPISODES ABOUT…

Hello and Welcome, I’m Shauna Hoffman.

It’s the week of the election. You may be listening to this before the results are announced or after. Either way, I know that the world is so filled with anxiety and fear that all of us must be feeling it somehow. It’s like the whole country is holding its breath waiting to see what will happen. It’s a feeling of being out of control of the outcome even though we have donated, campaigned, and… or voted for who represents our values. So for this podcast, I decided to bring you back to the one thing you can control. YOU.

Calgon take me away! OK… I hope I am not showing my age with that one.

This podcast is going to be a total lovefest where we bring down your anxiety and give you an escape! For the length of this podcast, I want to take you away to a different kind of reality. Not one on the outside of you. Not one based on the election, follow up, news, chaos, craziness! The best way I can do that is to take you on a journey first into your best memories. Your favorite memories! The moments that brought you joy! A respite to the deepest parts of you. And then we will explore your most magical dreams. The dreams of where you want to go! Who you want to play with! The music you want to listen to! The food you want to eat! The space that no one can create or recreate except for you. This week we step away from fear. We step into beauty, joy, and peace.

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Shauna Hoffman is a Marriage Family Therapist and Speaker in private Practice in Santa Clarita, CA. She gives workshops and seminars in Newhall, Valencia and all of Southern CA.

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