Louise George is Steph’s guest in this podcast. Louise speaks openly and honestly of the journey that has brought her to where she is today, including some of her early experiences of anorexia and bulimia and her later experience of hyper-ventilation syndrome. Steph and Louise speak about, how from a young age, we often learn to wear masks and hide our ‘uncomfortable’ feelings and yet there is a huge need to shine a light on how we’re feeling without blaming or shaming ourselves. Louise also speaks about the powerful role of the Vagus Nerve, in helping us feel calmer.

In this conversation, Steph speaks with the wonderfully talented Emily Nayhree Dawson, an Irish original art & fashion designer. Emily shares her extraordinary story from growing up in inner city Dublin, painting on the walls of her mobile home in the Dublin mountains, living in abandoned buildings, to becoming a celebrated fashion designer featuring in New York fashion week, and having 10 shows in America in the last couple of years. This is an incredible story of creativity, resilience and overcoming adversity. This is Emily’s story.

In this podcast Steph and Lucy share some of the incredibly challenging and also life-changing lessons they learned and continue to practice, on their journey to living more consciously, following the Relationship Studies programme they both completed in UCC.  They are both parents of 4 children and they share how the challenges of parenting continue to change as their children grow up and how choosing to parent with trust instead of fear is an ongoing practice.  They speak about the self-care practices they have in their own lives, including journalling, self-observation and paying attention to their breath as well as trusting how their body is feeling.

Steph and Deirdre Loughlin discuss the practice of living more authentically through self-awareness and the benefits of becoming familiar with our core values.  Deirdre encourages anyone with mental health concerns to create safety for themselves, through the support of others and how finding the therapist that suits you, with whom you feel safe, seen and heard without judgement can be life-changing. Deirdre describes her personal practices that support her in looking after her own mental health.  Steph and Deirdre share their own experiences in practising self-compassion, self-forgiveness and their unexpected experiences of self-observation.

Steph and Michelle share a wonderful heart-to-heart conversation discussing everything from co-dependent relationships to developing and nurturing independent, loving, supportive relationships including the relationship we have with ourselves. This is a heart-warming and uplifting conversation between two women on opposite sides of the Atlantic who are each on a journey to self-love.

Bree Bellefeuille of the Self-Healer’s podcast shares her inspiring journey back to self-love. Bree, from Arizona, was in a place of having no love for herself, however, in the past 3 years, Bree has transformed her relationship with herself and all her relationships including the relationships she found most challenging. Bree shares the amazing self-care tools and techniques she has experienced and still practises as part of her courageous self-healing journey.

In this Conversation, Val shares her personal journey back to self love. She describes how the ending of a relationship and the time she had during the covid-19 quarantine provided her with a wonderful opportunity for self-reflection.  Val describes how she had to overcome her fear of being hurt and how much learning there is in fear and feeling all our feelings. Val and Steph share their love of journaling, visualisation and self-observation.

Steph shares some personal experiences of how she created healthy, firm and loving boundaries when her needs were not been met. She also describes a recent experience when she completely forgot to create a boundary when she really needed one highlighting how creating self-loving boundaries is a lifelong practice.

"When I create a boundary, I am championing my own needs and stepping into my own power. I am showing up for myself, being my own best friend.  Boundaries are self-love in action." In this podcast Steph speaks about boundaries, what they are, who they are for, when might we use them and how do we create and maintain them.  She shares her own checklist for creating boundaries.

Steph shares how conscious communication is hugely powerful in expressing our true feelings lovingly and compassionately. She shares one of her own early experiences and a recent poignant experience of the healing powers of 'I' messages in all our relationships.