Relationship As Medicine Shelby Leigh

Having taught meditation for decades and sharing various practices, I have learned that for me… I need both consistency AND variety.  Others need the same thing every day. And others need to scattered bouts of showing up.

Listen in and see if there’s one thing that you can take with you that helps you give yourself permission to see what most supports YOU.  There’s so much space to remember who we are through practice and it doesn’t have to look any particular way.  

Practicing what’s nourishing for us brings us towards our highest goals.  Can we do that while putting perfectionism aside and allow it to be a never-ending experiment?

It’s easy to get distracted or shut down, especially when practice starts opening us towards what we most want (that old “rubber band” effect).  How do we keep showing up no matter what we’re facing whether pleasant/unpleasant/neither? While life keeps lifing?

We’re all different.  We all need different practices and permission to explore where we put comparison and rigidity aside.

There is one big thing I share in this podcast about what ultimately helps us return again and again to what helps us expand into our greatest intentions for ourselves.  Listen in and see what that is.

Whether your regular or daily practice is meditation, journaling, feeding yourself well, budgeting, showing up for therapy or healing work, a movement practice… can you find a way to fight for yourself and what matters most… whole-heartedly?  Here’s how.

Ask yourself… “what is the most loving thing I can do in this moment?” Maybe today it’s 3 breaths and saying “it’s safe to feel this.”  Whatever it is.

Start listening in to your mind/heart/body and see if you can show up as best you can.  It takes practice and remind yourself you get to start over and have do-overs anytime.



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Start here and see where you go with your practice(s). Have you ever started a practice thinking it would help you get to where you want to go?  Only to realize a day or weeks or months in that it felt impossible to keep going? 

This applies to everything from exercise to meditation to money management to therapy or coaching or nutrition.  If resistance didn’t exist… there are so many more possibilities of healing. 

Check out this episode to learn about how to move from stuck to effortless over time. 

I explore concepts around why we stop or get stuck or shut down and how we can compassionately and curiously move towards ease and flow in showing up in our lives in a way that is nourishing and wildly supportive so that we can move towards our greatest goals of self-trust, freedom, awakening, strength, power, steadiness, flow, connection, AND MORE.



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This episode we bring something different. Mari Mu interviews me, Shelby Leigh on my thoughts and views around a new paradigm of healing. It's a revolutionary path towards trauma healing and beyond.

Both practitioners and folks in a process of healing their own trauma will take something meaningful away from this episode. We also talk about an exciting new 9-Month offering that starts in September 2024!



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Kristin joins me again as we settle in to the moment and really explore and enjoy the aftermath of my Soulful Retreat in Panama. If you were curious how it went and also about some of my behind the scenes process... here's a window in to all of that. It was an epic coming home and a remembering of our deepest hearts. This time spent reflecting together really anchored in the nourishment of it all.



Kristin Mathes, LCSW is a psychotherapist specializing in trauma, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Anxiety, and Depression. She owns and operates her own private practice where she works with women and adolescents who are finding themselves trapped by physical symptoms of trauma, anxiety, and depression. Much of her therapeutic practice is inspired by her time spent as a Wilderness Therapist guiding clients through wilderness expeditions. Nature has always shown her how much our present-day activities disconnect us from our Self, our body, and our relationships. And, importantly, how our physical and emotional health issues can arise from such disconnection.

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Natalia Sanyal returns to The Relationship As Medicine Podcast for a second time. We dive into trauma-informed and anti-oppressive marketing PRACTICES for business owners.

We take a look at how to care for our audience AND ourselves when marketing from this perspective. We look at some outdated ways of marketing and talk about possibilities of an entirely new foundation and paradigm of marketing that's inspired, supportive and creates ease and connection.



About Natalia:

Natalia is an anti-oppressive copywriter and brand messaging strategist. In the last decade, she has worked with billion-dollar businesses like Apple and lululemon, New York Times bestselling authors like Layla Saad & Deepak Chopra, and award-winning marketing agencies. Now she teaches high-integrity personal brands to use marketing as a force for good so they can sell better and harm less.


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Stephen Terrell joins me for a third time in this inspiring episode about bringing a caring heart to our work in supporting clients on their trauma healing journey.

We:


Talk about a pet peeve of how clinicians talk about trauma.
Explore the difference between pain and suffering
Share about nervous system regulation work vs. pathology
Look at how a somatic trauma treatment without words can actually work
Emphasize how having an agenda in trauma healing can be counter-productive and make us and our clients work far too hard.

And... SO much more.

Have a listen and let us know how it lands for you. We truly want to know.



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Stephen J. Terrell, PsyD, SEP, is a leading expert in the field of Developmental Trauma and Adoption and is recognized around the world for his work in Developmental Trauma and Healing. He understands Developmental Trauma from the inside out and the outside in. Terrell has performed more than 25,000 individual Transforming Touch® sessions and taught thousands of students from around the world in the art of Transforming Touch® as it relates to healing Developmental Trauma. 

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