Self-Help

33 The Lessons of Mothers and Daughters

August 29, 2020 By Shauna

WHAT THIS EPISODES ABOUT…

Hello and welcome! I’m Shauna Hoffman.

Today I am finally talking about mothers and daughters. I have promised this podcast for a few weeks now. I think the reason that I kept putting it off is that it’s such a profound conversation. It’s filled with so much emotion, joy, or pain for so many people. And where do I begin? This is a relationship that is different for each and every one of you. Whether you are listening today as a Mom, or as a daughter or as both, the story of moms and daughters weave a very colorful canvas. There are those of you who have had truly beautiful relationships with your mothers. There are those of you whose biggest sadness, heartache, and pain is from what should be a truly sacred bond. And there are those of you who are currently trying to navigate this journey every day with your own daughters, young, teen and adult.

This podcast is meant to be a journey to self-awareness. And there is no way that I can help you do that if you don’t take a deep look at the relationship you had with your mother. There are models online that talk about the different kind of mother-daughter relationships. From best friends, or sister relationships to cheerleaders or authoritarians. But the best way that I can help you today is to help you see that this relationship is one that deeply affected your idea of who you are. It is the relationship that helped you know what unconditional love is or isn’t. It is the relationship that either empowered you, or broke you down. It is the model for you of what a woman is. And what a woman’s role in society is. Most importantly it is what you were programmed about who you are and what you deserve in life.

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32 Talking Power with Laura Piening of the Power Peers Network

August 22, 2020 By Shauna

WHAT THIS EPISODES ABOUT…

Welcome, everyone. I am so excited about today’s podcast because we have a wonderful guest by the name of Laura Piening. Laura has created something called the Power Peers Network. It is a forum to explore the heroic nature of who you truly are. Seriously! Can it get much better than that? Let me tell you a little about Laura.

Her professional path includes experience as a Wall Street banker, corporate organizational consultant, nonprofit executive, motivational speaker, and writer. The depth and breadth of these experiences have strengthened her ability to inspire vision, to bring people together, and to develop successful partnerships.

As a child, Laura’s mother asked her if she wanted to be a big fish in a little pond or a little fish in a big pond. Laura responded, “Neither. I want to be a big fish in a big pond with other big fish, loving life, and living in harmony!” She knew, even then, that true power seeks peers.

Today, the Power Peers Network is the actualization of this intention. The one-hour Power Peers video-conference calls encourage participants to speak from their hearts about what matters to them. They engage in conversations based on respect, with the integrity of listening, and understanding. The experience is exciting and rewarding for all who participate. So now let’s welcome Laura Piening.

Quotes by Laura Piening-
“We have to grab back power as a positive force.”
“The feminine power is the one that’s connected to the non-material reality.”

Shauna’s favorite quote about power
“When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.” ~Audrey Lorde

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31 Time to Dump Those Bad Habits

August 15, 2020 By Shauna

WHAT THIS EPISODES ABOUT…

Hello Everyone! I’m Shauna Hoffman.

Let’s start with a quick check of your self care this week. I end every episode telling you to take care of yourselves. Eat good food, drink lots of water, get lots of sleep. Well? Did you? I started to formulate today’s episode with the intention of talking about Mother’s and Daughters. OK, I promise that will be next week’s episode. Because if I were to let the universe guide me today, which I try to do everyday, it seems that talking about YOU and your self care is where I am being led! And today we are going to delve into the fabulous word- habits.

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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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12 Creativity Out of Chaos

April 5, 2020 By Shauna

WHAT THIS EPISODES ABOUT…

Hi ladies, I’m Shauna. Are we all ready to jump into some wild creativity? You see a funny thing can happen when we’re in crisis or the world around us is in crisis. We grasped onto a side of our personality that I call the free child our minds and our souls are looking for a way out of the circumstances that we’re in, so we let that wild side of us loose normally in life when we’re healthy, we jump back and forth between different sides of us.

Those of you who’ve read my book know what I’m talking about. We go from our critical side to our child-like sides our adult sides to our parent like side. But for this podcast, I’m gonna talk about a free child or a rebellious child state.

It’s no wonder that after a woman leaves a man or is left by a man, she has the tendency to let her hair down and experience the world in a new way.

She has no one to tell her what she should do or shouldn’t do, so she starts to experience her life with no judgment from someone else or… so, we hope. It could be, in her life before the end of the relationship, she was in a place where she had to be logical, or really adult as a partner or a parent or she had all kinds of boundaries and expectations as an employee or a boss, Now in a state of crisis, or what I like to call a state of change, all of a sudden she wants to play again.

We’ve all seen it with friends who are newly single. This can be a really exciting time if it’s healthy.

We’ve also seen in history that some of the best and most ground-breaking art music, theater and books are born during crisis times in our world times, when the world is changing and we have to look at it differently.

Wars are sheltering at home, in a pandemic or whether a peoples or deaths of loved one, anything that causes change in the norm and offers us a place to think differently than we ever have before, opens a place within us where our creative child can flourish.

This creative side of humanity is born out of this free child state that empowers us to think outside the box, to rock the boat for change, to lift expectations that others have for us and live a little bit vicariously.

When I see a woman who is newly single, practice the healthy side of creative child, I see a new sense of playfulness spontaneity, creativity, it’s healthy action with no fear of consequences.

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