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25 Encore Of The Three Selves

July 4, 2020 By Shauna

WHAT THIS EPISODES ABOUT…

Hello and welcome to Guy Free Working on me, a woman’s journey to self-awareness. I’m Shauna Hoffman. I’m so glad you’re with me today.

Today I am sharing an encore of a very popular episode called the path of the three selves. We’ve heard these phrases before. These are what I call the three selves self awareness, self esteem and genuine self. I bet most of you have never really given much thought to what each of them means, but these three phrases are the roots of self-learning and the tools to find peace in any relationship. We’ve been already talking about self awareness and that it means the awareness of your true feelings, dreams, needs, desires. Being able to look at yourself, become aware of the things you need to change your boundaries, your defense mechanisms, things that you need to do differently in order to have a really happy life. We are so going to delve into that much, much deeper in the weeks to come, but for right now we’re going to jump over to the other two selves.

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22 The Voice of a Woman

June 13, 2020 By Shauna

WHAT THIS EPISODES ABOUT…

Hi Everyone, I’m Shauna Hoffman

Welcome to Guy Free, Working On Me. The last episode was pretty profound for so many people, including me. The feedback that I have gotten as to the soul searching it brought up for my listeners has been eye opening for all of us. I hope that as we fly through these episodes you continue to dig deep into your thoughts and beliefs, morals, ethics and values. For that is the true path to Self Awareness.

But what good is our new found values, opinions, thoughts and desires if we as woman are afraid to use our voice and share it with the world?

I find myself in therapy constantly trying to empower women to share their voices. In my book I talk about the Adaptive Child State in all of us. It is a side of our personalities that woman have been made to embrace for thousands of years. It is the side of us that adapts our needs and wants to do what others desire versus what we desire. We become adaptive to their needs, their dreams, their lives. And we learn to quiet our brilliant, strong and powerful voices. I call it the No VOICE state. But there is a new shift in the world. It is a shift where woman are not only taking back their voices, but they are shouting them to the heavens. In this time of protests and bloggers and podcasters we are seeing the voices of women claim back our rights. Not only out in the public for the world to see. But in our work places, in our families and most importantly… in our relationships.

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15 From Lover to Friend

April 25, 2020 By Shauna

WHAT THIS EPISODES ABOUT…

Welcome Ladies, I’m Shauna Hoffman. Thank you or letting me pop into your life again today. I have to say I have been so grateful for the emails and messages I have gotten from so many of you about the podcasts. You know sometimes when you record alone in your office you feel like you are talking to a void. So it is so fun for me to hear from my listeners about how the podcasts are helping you. Or just making you think!

I thought I would take a happy jaunt through Guy Free World today and talk about the idea that when a relationship ends you can still have a relationship! Ok, maybe its not the same kind of relationship. But what if you could change the form of the relationship and still be in each other’s lives? Ha! Some of you are saying no way! I just want him out of my life. Fair enough! But there are many of you that miss the friendship or the love.

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13 When it’s a Hard Day’s Night

April 11, 2020 By Shauna

WHAT THIS EPISODES ABOUT…

Hello, I’m Shauna Hoffman. And today I am going to talk about the fact that some days just suck. I mean totally suck. I am throwing out all of my great, self-help therapy terms today and just talking about reality. There are days that seem to be a perfect storm of everything that brings your heart and soul to a standstill. Whether you are single or in a relationship right now, it doesn’t matter. There are times that no one can lift you out of that dark space. And maybe for some it isn’t even that dark. Maybe it’s just that weird gray! Sometimes we know what is causing it and sometimes we have no clue. It is just there.

OK, a few facts we need to remember! We women do go through hormonal changes that attribute to this …sometimes. And so what! No! I am not taking away your gray, blue or black! I am just saying that sometimes we have no idea what is causing it and it could just could be hormones. After all, we are goddesses that rage… I mean have a range of emotions that are often triggered by our physical makeup of the day… or hour or minute! And so it is!

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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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