Speaking to Shame
The safe place to identify your shame, call it by its name, and ditch it cuz it's lame.The place where we answer the question "Who was I before the world and shame said I wasn't enough?" The place where we talk about the heartbreaking and unfair, because the joy and the healing are worth that fight. The place where you can set down the heavy burden of the shame that never belonged to you.🧡
Episodes
Hot sauce and Viola Davis: the potent combination that shaped my intentions for 2023!
The new year is nearing ever closer, and I’m more excited to see where this journey takes me than I think I’ve ever been.
As I endeavor to follow my inner knowing and stop using outward indicators to measure up, I’m going to take you along with me. Want to join?
Here’s to growing without “should’s” in our way!Â
✨HAPPY HEALING MY FRIEND!✨
Mr. Logan Roe has a lot to say:
-Emotions are cool.
-Dad’s are totally capable of being emotionally present with their kids.
-Saying “I love you” to those we love matters.
-Toxic masculinity is a problematic placeholder for real emotional validation and love.
-We are our guardians; all the little kids living in us can look to grown up us to guard and protect us.
Listen on for Logan’s powerful discussion around parenti...
Writings from a shame slayer; a mix of poetry, 2 a.m. notes-to-self, instagram captions, and post-therapy emotions.
✨Happy healing, my friend.✨
LOOK AT YOU, HEALING YOUR SHIT! ✨🧡
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Did you know Frozen 2 had so much to say about healing, inner-knowing, and becoming a loving parent to yourself?
Listen for a discussion of Frozen 2’s song “Show Yourself” and all the ways it made me (and now maybe you, too) cry in the middle of the theater!
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Maternal mental health IS HEALTH.
⚠️CW: Talk of suicidal thoughts/ideations and intrusive thoughts ⚠️
On today’s episode, I sat down with Karla Carlston, CEO and founder of J.O.T. Journals. Karla’s mission is to get the tool of journaling into as many hands as possible.
Her own journey through postpartum anxiety/depression drove her to the creation of a journal that would show all the moments in life, even the difficult ones.Â
Joan Gardner used muck to describe her experience with starting over after divorce. As a coach for women in the same spot, she wants you to know that your life is not over, and you aren’t alone
As you navigate the loss, you’re also learning how to rebuild a life that looks different than before. In that space, it’s easy to feel like an island. An island of muck, perhaps?
Joan shares how she navigated all of that, as well as how she c...
What if it had a name?
The knowledge you can't pretend everything is okay anymore with small talk.
The mid-life crisis that has you wondering what it's all been for.
The realization that you can't ignore the dysfunction around you.
Like waking up and not being able to go back to sleep again.
It does have a name, and you're not alone. The Dark Night of the Soul is the "wait a mi...
What would it be like to not hate your body? ⚠️TW: Eating disorders ⚠️
Cara Cifelli, a food and body image coach, wants you to know that there is peace in rejecting diet culture's rules for you, including the idea that you are the problem.
In this episode, Cara discusses the ways she supports her clients in their inner knowing, and shares ways you can reject other people's rules for your body.
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Erika speaks EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) and what it can do for our healing.
We know and love Erika, our in house Shame Slayer! She’s a:
Licensed clinical professional counselor of nearly 10 years
CEO of Greenstone Counseling
EMDR Trained Therapist
PUBLISHED AUTHOR (this is big, fam. HERE’S HER DAMN BOOK)
Human being dedicated to helping you ✨healurshit✨
From me and my amygdala to you and yours 🧡
WOW. Speaking to Shame has GROWN! I am floored and humbled and weepy. What a journey this has been! As the podcast grows, so too do my abilities to share incredible stories and people with you. As my time investments increase, so does my need for support. If Speaking to Shame has ever helped you feel seen, I’d be honored if you donated ANY amount to the show. Here’s to continued heali...
When Kobe Campbell set out on her healing journey, it was truly to stay alive. Now, years later, she has much to say on healing, connection, and the divine purpose of her life.
This interview is for anyone seeking a reminder that they're not alone. It's for the person seeking answers on what healing can look like for them. And it is, especially, for the person questioning if the hard work to heal is worth the en...
What does an engineer-pastry chef-Thrive Coach-entrepreneur have to say about shame? Listen to find out. 🙌
Lisa Hansen can design an airplane, whip up a tart, teach you about thriving, and help you find your business niche. It's all in a days work for the woman who has made it her goal to support women.
Join me as I discuss thriving, shame, and knowing yourself with Lisa. ✨
Grab your ticket for Thr...
WOW. Speaking to Shame is here for season two and it has GROWN! I am floored and humbled and weepy. What a journey this has been!
As the podcast grows, so too do my abilities to share incredible stories and people with you. As my time investments increase, so does my need for support. If Speaking to Shame has ever helped you feel seen, I’d be honored if you donated ANY amount to the show. Here’s to continued healing. 🧡
Season two of Speaking to Shame is less than a month away!
Here's a glimpse of what to look forward to.
More experts, more helpers and healers, more human beings just like you and me, ready to remind you that you are not alone.
With much love and less shame,
Em 🧡
P.S. If Speaking to Shame has impacted you, I'd love a review 🧡 Review on Apple or Audible.
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I know it’s heavy and heartbreaking to think about children being harmed. It sucks. Deeply. 💔 But we will not protect them by ignoring the problem. If Uvalde is teaching us anything, it’s that children will continue to pay for things first; they will be on the front line until we, the adults, the parents, take educated, informed, and assertive action.
⚠️TW: explanation of childhood sexual abuse.⚠️
Join me and my...
The fight to feel valid, supported, and seen is one the queer community knows well.
I sat down with Cameron Stearman for a vulnerable, authentic conversation about his experience with that fight.
Cameron shares his story of growing up gay, his fight for validity, love, and acceptance, and the shame that lived with him in that place.
⚠️TW: discussion of suicidal thoughts/ideation, self-harm, and coming ...
No, you read that right.Â
The Vagus Nerve is a big old chunk, in charge of things like:
-digestion
-heart rate
-respiration
-activation of your parasympathetic nervous system
AKA it is IMPORTANT. AND YOU HAVE ONE!
Tuning into vagus nerve stimulation can help reduce the sympathetic stress response! Meaning, learning about this awesome part of your anatomy is an additional, shameless tool in your mental health tool box.
Join me on toda...
What got you through the hardships of your childhood?
When Tammica Dowd was young and living in a group home, at times she’d be locked in a closet by a counselor. In order to keep her mind strong and pass time, she envisioned what she wanted for her future.
-Graduate high school.
-Marry her dream guy.
-Have five children who’d never go through what she went through.
-Go to Maui.
-Win a Grammy.
All her goals but one were achieved! (But don...
GUESS WHO’S BACK?
Erika Nordfelt, our in-house shame slayer, is back for a conversation on shame!Â
Erika, an LCPC with almost nine years of experience, is the CEO of Greenstone Counseling in Rexburg Idaho. She loves shame in the same way we all do; the unpacking of it and speaking to it way.
Get a comfy seat and a tasty snack and join us for an easy conversation on shame, worth, and healing.🧡
Find Erika on Instagra...
⚠️TRIGGER WARNING: Childhood sexual abuse disclosures and descriptions⚠️
Dear Survivors.
You are brave, but I'm sorry you've had to be.
I believe you. You're safe to share your story here.
There is no more shame in surviving.
Love,
Em
P.S. For those who listen to this who are not survivors, thank you for sitting with us. Remember that survivors are people yo...
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