Get the Gunk Out Shannon Halberstadt

This week, Shannon chats with Erika Straub, who is an anxiety & trauma coach for women.
She graduated Magna Cum Laude with a BA in Psychology, earned a MA in Depth Psychology, holds 500+ hours of yoga teacher training credentials and is a nationally certified personal trainer.
As a coach, Erika operates through the lens of Polyvagal Theory, Somatic Experiencing, and Jungian Depth Psychology. Her deep knowledge in psyche and soma are the genesis for her coaching programs.
Erika specializes in resolution and repair from symptoms of complex trauma, childhood trauma, sexual trauma, and post-traumatic stress.

Topics discussed:

What is trauma?
How do you know if what you're feeling and experiencing is the result of a trauma (whether complex or acute)?
How traumas show up in our bodies (symptoms)
What fight, flight, or freeze is and what it all means for us
How simple routine tasks like going to the grocery store made Shannon become paralyzed with fear
Erika and Shannon's experiences with panic attacks
What panic attacks are, what they feel like, and how they can actually change your brain and your life
Why Erika and Shannon are both grateful for their traumas
Shannon's experience with claustrophobia
What "dissociation" is. What it feels like and why Shannon says it's the worst feeling she's ever felt
Why dissociation happens after trauma
How our brains can't distinguish between "having" an actual experience and just simply "thinking" about an experience. Symptoms arise from thought alone.
How Erika and Shannon both managed their panic attacks (and it's not by "just trying to relax and calm down")
How shame plays a role in trauma
How our brains physically change from trauma, and why self talk alone isn't enough
Shannon's traumas throughout her life that led to a constant feeling of "what's coming next"
The vagus nerve and why it's important
How the mind and body are connected
The difference between general anxiety and panic attacks
Links mentioned in this episode:

https://www.instagram.com/_anxiousfemale/
https://www.instagram.com/getthegunkout/
https://www.anxiousfemale.com/

This week, Shannon chats with Tamara Leszner-Rovet, who is a registered psychotherapist (RP), certified music therapist (MTA), and registered music teacher (RMT) with over 20 years experience working with individuals with neurological disorders and developmental delays. She holds an Associateship of the Royal Conservatory of Toronto (ARCT), an Honours Bachelor of Music Therapy Degree from the University of Windsor (BMT), and has received additional training as a Neurologic Music Therapist (NMT). Since 2007, she has been the owner and director of Tamara’s Piano Studio and Music Therapy Services (TPSMTS), a private practice specializing in providing music therapy services and adapted music lessons to children and adolescents. She believes strongly in presuming competence and the right to high quality music lessons and music therapy services, regardless of an individual’s age or ability. In addition to running a full time private practice, she is also a mom to an incredible 8 year old with his own unique challenges!

Topics discussed:

Tamara's health struggles with Hashimotos and the misdiagnosis she dealt with for 10 years (on and off meds that she didn't actually need)
Shannon's experience living with a thyroid condition
Why it's important to see our own lab results and advocate for our own health - what's "normal" on a lab, doesn't mean its normal for you
What to do if you're having unusual symptoms and can't find an answer
How your thyroid can affect temperature regulation issues, mood, fatigue, weight gain/loss, brain fog, pain, infertility, miscarriages, etc...
What histamine intolerance is - and how to know if you have it
Tamara's experience with a gifted son with autism and ADHD
Tamara's music therapy background - how she helps kids thrive through music (using music as a catalyst to achieve therapeutic goals, rather than musical goals)
Why what works for one person may not work for another
How music can change your mood - for better or worse
Links mentioned in this episode:
Email: tpsmts@gmail.com
Website: www.tpsmts.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/TPSMTS
Twitter: @TPSMTS
Instagram: @tpsmtstor

This week, Shannon chats with Barbie Liss who is a Maternal Empowerment Coach, helping Women heal Mother Wounds and reclaim their Goddess Energy!

As Mom to 3 grown children, Barbie has travelled the path of Motherhood, from typical to not at all typical experiences. Her life altering experience, and subsequent healing journey as a Mom of a rape survivor, and ultimate Restorative Justice outcome, led to her current path.

She has been featured in Forbes, on Sirius XM, the Great Canadian Women, Empowerography Podcast, and more.

Through a deep dive virtual Coaching Program, Barbie nurtures her clients through unlearning generational wounds and rewriting limiting core belief. She is an UNteacher of damaging messages and a perspective shape shifter. As a Maternal Empowerment Coach, Barbie helps heal old wounds that bleed into new moments, so that You can step fully into Your Goddess Energy!

Topics discussed:

Finding your true self through ancestral wound healing
Barbie's story as a mom of a rape survivor, and her personal healing journey
What restoritive justice is, and why Barbie and her daughter chose a restoritive justice outcome
How generational patterns are passed down and how that affects us as individuals
How we can all choose a resoritive justice approach in our daily encounters
Shannon talks about her parents divorce and how she felt/feels today
Teachable moments vs. punishable moments
The lesson Shannon teaches her kids about empathy and understanding
Unlearning patterns and messaging that doesn't serve us
Why Shannon feels fortunate that she experienced trauma in her life
How to not let your circumstances control your emotions and actions
Why it's ok to be ok, even when we're not entirely ok
How the word "and" can positively impact your mindset
How Barbie healed herself in order to help her daughter heal
How generational messaging and language is passed down and why it doesn't work in a new generation (ex. using "because I said so as an answer to our kids" or "just do what the doctor says", etc...)
Barbie's tips for de-gunking your life today
Links mentioned in this episode:

www.barbieliss.com
https://www.instagram.com/_barbieliss/
https://www.instagram.com/getthegunkout/

This week, Shannon chats with Sarah Deitcher who is a reiki and energy practitioner. After her first certification in Reiki 15 years ago, she fell in love with this healing modality and quickly moved to the next level and continued to practice daily. She uses energy work, essential oils, and meditation to holistically look at the deeper meanings of everything from self love and dis-ease in the body, to relationships and soul purpose.

Topics discussed:

What energy work is, who can benefit from doing energy work, and what positive effects you might experience
Shannon’s personal experience with energy healing, the effects she felt and how she went from being super skeptical to a full believer of energy healing
What you need to know if you’re skeptical about energy work, or you’re considering doing some energy work on your own or with a practitioner
How are are all made up of energy and what that means for us
Why and how we can feel other people’s energies when we interact with them - ex. they’re negative energy can make us feel bad, they’re positive energy can make us feel better, etc.
How energy is at work when you randomly think of someone and the next day you bump into them or they call you out of the blue (what does this mean?)
The odd experience that Shannon had during her first experience with energy work when she was in nutrition school
Why it’s important to get to the root cause of our illnesses (both physical and mental) in order to heal. (Getting to the source of our ailments, rather than focusing and “bandaid-ing” the ailments themselves)
How Sarah finally healed from chronic bladder infections, when nothing was working
How our thoughts and experiences in life actually embed themselves in our bodies and cause disease/illness/pain/etc…
How all of the systems in our bodies are connected to each other, and how we all have an innate ability to heal ourselves
Links mentioned in this episode:

https://www.instagram.com/essentially_high/
https://www.instagram.com/getthegunkout/

This week, Shannon chats with Melissa Maker, who is an accidental cleaning expert - because she hates to clean! In 2006 at age 24, she launched Clean My Space, a cleaning service in her hometown of Toronto, Canada, to help out people just like her. In 2011, she decided to create digital content to help drive bookings by launching the Clean My Space YouTube channel. Since then, the channel has amassed over 200 million video views and over 1.7 million subscribers along with a healthy Instagram following and busy website. She also founded a microfiber cleaning tools company in 2016, called Maker's Clean. While Melissa has delivered her expert advice on cleaning products, tools, and DIY substitutes for over ten years, she wasn’t always a cleaning pro and understands that people are looking for practical, time-saving solutions to everyday problems.

Topics discussed:


How Melissa became an “accidental cleaning expert” with over 200 million views and 1.2 million subscribers on YouTube, as well as owns a cleaning company called “Clean my Space.”
How to de-gunk your home/space to help de-gunk your life in a simple, manageable way.
Shannon and Melissa’s most disliked household chores, as well as their favourites.
Why it’s ok if your home isn’t perfectly neat and clean, especially during a pandemic.
The 3 things you need for any cleaning task to save time and energy.
Simple cleaning hacks
How to not let mess become a source of stress.
Finding your MIA’s (most important areas) - what that means and how to do it.
Basic cleaning tools that everyone should have in order to keep cleaning simple.
What Melissa does to her shower after every use so she never has to actually clean her shower.
Melissa’s simple takeaways that you can implement into your cleaning routine today!

Links mentioned in this episode:
www.cleanmyspace.ca
www.cleanmyspace.com
https://www.youtube.com/cleanmyspace
https://www.facebook.com/cleanmyspace
https://www.instagram.com/cleanmyspace
https://www.instagram.com/melissamaker
www.makersclean.com
https://www.instagram.com/getthegunkout

This week, Shannon chats with Dr. Angele Close who is a clinical psychologist and a certified mindfulness meditation teacher. Her academic studies included graduating with a Double Honors in Psychology and Women’s Studies from Carleton University in Ottawa and a Masters in Counseling Psychology from the University of Western Ontario. She was awarded prestigious National Scholarships when pursuing her doctoral studies at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto where she received her Ph.D. in 2014.

As a practitioner of mindfulness meditation for over a decade, she received her certification as a Mindfulness Meditation Teacher when completing Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield’s Two-Year Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program in Scotts Valley, California, in 2019.

Topics discussed:


Dr. Close's personal story about substance abuse, personal struggle, how she overcame it, and why she does the work she does today
How to feel more present, calm, and self-aware
What mindfulness means, and the benefits of it
How and why to practice mindfuless and meditation
How mindfulness and meditation helped Shannon heal from PTSD and a debilitating panic disorder
What Shannon says was the hardest part of starting and practicing mindfulness
How to pull yourself out of living on autopilot and become calmer, more present, and less overwelmed
How to be compassionate with yourself and let go of needing to be "perfect"
Acknowledging your own faults for self-improvement and to get to know your true self
The simplest way to calm your nervous system in less than one minute, as well as how to practice the STOP technique
Building confidence and living life YOUR way

Links mentioned in this episode:


www.drangeleclose.com
https://www.instagram.com/getthegunkout/
https://www.instagram.com/drangeleclose/