Do you ever feel big energy, big emotion or big ideas in your body that seem to demand attention? Explore the transformative power of different modalities of expression in channeling emotional energy. This week on The Love Your Truth podcast we delve into the intricate ways art, music, writing, movement and other creative outlets can be utilized to navigate and release emotions. Discover how these modalities serve as a cathartic release, offering a path towards healing and self-discovery. Tune in to explore the profound connection between creative expression and emotional well-being.

This one feels incredibly vulnerable to share. In this episode, we dive into finding your own voice, recognizing what is your voice versus the conditioning from our upbringing, society, culture, religion, relationships, etc. I talk about my own faith transition, how I experience my spirituality now and how exploring my own belief system has helped me find my voice. I have decided this will most likely be a two part series because while religion has been a huge voice in my own life, there are other voices that may cause us to quiet our own and they deserve to be talked about. Stay tuned for part two. I encourage comments, feedback, and questions. If this episode resonates, I’d love to hear from you. Leave a comment, send an email at [email protected]. Let’s chat.

Taking the time to reflect on our intentions from the past year, lessons that we learned and how we can apply those lessons going forward with new intentions for the coming year. I talk about recognizing our self judgement and our shame points and shedding light into those spaces to show compassion to ourselves so that we can grow from those spaces from a place of love rather than resistance. Have you spent time reflecting on your past year? What lessons have you learned from your experiences this past year? How do you plan to integrate those lessons into your life this coming year? What intentions are you setting for the year? How do you want to feel and who do you want to be for 2024?

Triggers happen. You get emotionally flooded. Your logical brain shuts down and your body goes into fight or flight mode. What do you do? How do you manage those moments? In this episode, Coach Sherrie talks about how to pay attention to the signals in your body, how to calm the mind and return to yourself during a trigger through connection with your body.

Every time I complete a big running event, I learn more about myself and life. I wanted to share some of the life lessons mulling in my mind after my 50 mile race this past weekend. In this episode, I talk about my running journey and experiencing a shift in my thought processes. We all have stories we write in our minds, about ourselves, about the people in our lives, about everything we experience. The stories we tell ourselves come from the thoughts we continually think, those thoughts create the beliefs we hold. This episode is about examining those stories and questioning if they are true or not. For example, I had a story in my head that, because it had been almost two years since I last participated in an ultra event, that I no longer had the fitness required to complete it. But, as I made the decision to show up and do it anyway, my experience and my body showed me that the story I had in my head wasn’t true. Deciding to think something different creates belief, and that gives us motivation to take action to create the result to promote that belief. Examining your own mind and realizing it all comes down to choices is so empowering!

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I'm tackling a big event this weekend: my first ultra distance race since the beginning of 2022. And I've got some pre-race jitters. In this episode, I talk about re-visiting my why, again; giving myself permission to opt out and then choosing to still opt in, even though I feel the least physically prepared for a race than I've ever felt; and the positive effects of gratitude on my mindset. How choosing to participate in things like ultra running, or chasing any big goal, is less about the activity, and more about being the type of person who dares to show up. I talk about how we typically identify with the things we do instead of the why and how we do them. And why that distinction is important. Are you what you do? Or Why you do it? Can you still be you, either way? Listen to learn how to discover the answers within yourself.

A follow up to my previous episode about what it feels like to experience betrayal trauma, and how to recover. I had so many people reach out to me and share their stories, that I felt it appropriate and needed to record a follow up episode to address a few things that I felt were left out of the first one, as well as addressing and sharing the thoughts expressed by those who reached out to me. Thank you to everyone who has shared. Please keep speaking your truth. Your voice matters. Speaking up is healing. Sharing and helping others heals you and them. It is beautiful to witness so many humans doing the work to correct their mistakes and move forward from them. There is so much more life and beauty to experience after betrayal. It gets better, I promised you, it does.

It’s been my intention for a while to discuss my experience with betrayal, and it has felt like it’s time to share. I’m this episode, I spoke about the effects of betrayal, how it can affect the nervous system, why it is considered trauma, and my perspective on how I worked to heal from it. I spoke about the importance and empowerment of owning your story, taking charge of your healing, accepting your scars and setting boundaries to honor the wounded parts of you. If you are navigating the effects betrayal in your life, I hope this episode will resonate and bring some peace. Reach out if you have questions, need a listening ear or want coaching on this topic.

I had a beautiful experience, sitting down to talk with Abbey Daw, creator of the Live Your Magik podcast, business owner, somatic healer, breath work coach, yoga instructor, energy work and the list goes on. Abbey teaches how you can have magic in your everyday life. We talked about our past experiences, creating wholeness through accepting all the past, present and future parts of ourselves. We talked about how to stop hustling for your worth, deconstructing conditioned limiting beliefs, owning your intrinsic worth and recognizing the gifts the universe provides for us. This episode turned into a follow up about my Kilimanjaro journey, what I gained and learned from my experience there, navigating feelings of imposter syndrome, learning to recognize, accept and embrace our own infinite and intrinsic worth. You can listen to Abbey's podcast Live your Magik, find her at abbeydaw.com, or Abbey Daw on social media.