The Shahna Show Shahna Sarpi

Isabella Catena is an expert on kids, more specifically raising empowered kids! She helps parents navigate parenthood in a more easeful, aligned and  empowered way. Supporting with things like boundary setting, behaviours and navigating big emotions. Isabella is someone I personally love to learn from and have learnt so much about not only empowering kids, but also parenting my inner child!



In this episode, Isabella shares:


Noticing kids be more receptive based on the ways she was showing up.
How inner child healing benefited her approach to supporting children.
How to navigate tantrums in private and public.
Understanding that kids don’t have the capacity to regulate their emotions and need a calm adult to soothe.
Creating a safe space for your children.
Loving kids through their full range of emotions.
How our relationship with our emotions impacts our children.
Learning not to take things personally.
The importance of regulating your own nervous system around children.
Exploring our triggers and healing underlying wounds.
Ways reflection can be a game-changer.
Setting healthy boundaries with kids.
The ‘this or that’ technique.
Giving kids the opportunity to be involved and have a choice.
Cultivating patience and how this impacts our ability to parent.
Allowing kids to have a go and dropping our perfectionism.
Helping your kids believe in themselves and develop confidence, self worth and competence.
What she would change about the schooling system and why.
Learning through play.
Being open to learning from our kids, not just teaching them.
Remembering that kids are humans too.
Being present with children.
Building a deep connection with our kids.
How to get kids to respect you.
And so much more!



Learn more about Isabella and her offerings via her website https://www.raising-empoweredkids.com/ and follow her on instagram @raising.empoweredkids for lots of supportive content.

While many people think the reason they’re not losing weight has to do with eating too many calories or not exercising enough, it actually comes back to 2 key areas... nervous system regulation and emotional health.



In this episode, I speak more about the real reasons that you’re struggling to release excess weight, including:


Your nervous system is fried and the excess cortisol in your system is making it hard for your body to feel safe to release excess weight.
You’re carrying emotional weight and baggage from years of stress, surpassed emotions and stored trauma.
Your hormones are imbalanced from chronic stress.
You might not be eating enough food for your body and that’s creating added stress in your system.
Emotional eating or binge eating have a hold on you and you’re eating more than you need.
You’re attached to your weight loss goals and that’s adding to the stress and pressure that you feel.



If you’re ready to gain the tools to heal your relationship with food, regulate your nervous system and support your emotional health, join me inside my next round of my 10-week program Mind Body Food Freedom: https://shahnasarpi.com/mind-body-food-freedom



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In this episode of the podcast, I share the definition of emotional eating and some of the unexpected (& expected) signs that you're doing it.



I dive into why signs like this are showing up:

- Looking for food out of boredom

- Eating when you’re sad or upset

- Rewarding yourself with food

- Mindlessly eating while you watch tv

- Find it hard to stop snacking once you start

- Snacking when you’re not hungry

- Eating past when you’re full

- Craving particular foods / types of foods

- Getting irrationally hungry

- Finding yourself staring at the fridge/pantry

- Generally eating more food than your body needs

- You’ve tried your fair share of fad diets

- You’re unhappy with the way your body looks



Learn how to overcome this unhealthy pattern via my FREE masterclass 'How to stop emotional eating', which you can sign up for here.



Or to go all-in and heal your relationship to food so you can overcome emotional eating once and for all via my program Mind Body Food Freedom.



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Disclaimer: this is not medical or health advice, please consult your health professional for personalised advice and guidance.

In this episode, I share some of the main reasons that diets long term and how to reach your health / weight release goals in a more sustainable way.



I go into reasons diets don’t work such as:


Following an ‘all or nothing’ approach
Lacking education
Not being sustainable
Celebrating quick wins
Not being holistic
Not being personalised



I also share the ways you can do the opposite and actually achieve lasting results around your health and weight release goals.



You can learn more about the holistic approach to health (a.k.a. the ‘Ingredients for a Nourished Life’) via my free 10-day challenge via this YouTube playlist.



Learn how to fuel your body with real food, create healthy eating habits and ditch the diets via my program The Real Food More. You can find more information about this 6-week program here.



Dive deep and heal your relationship to food via my program Mind Body Food Freedom. You can learn more here.



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Patty McDonald is the embodiment of a leader with heart. Having gone on the journey of climbing the corporate ladder and directing companies, to now stepping away from the 9-5 grind and becoming an entrepreneur and coach that guides others to becoming leaders with heart, Patty has powerful wisdom to share. Through this conversation, Patty gives us an insight how to be powerful leaders of our own life, including how we can heal through movement and become more whole with authentic expression.



In this episode, Patty shares:


Embodying different archetypes and roles in your life.
Building self awareness and really knowing who you are.
His journeys with death and rebirth cycles.
Including how to let go of old parts of yourself.
The healing power of movement and moving our body.
Bringing ritual, ceremony and intention to your life.
Creating space in life for the things that you do want.
How he called in his dream woman.
Doing less and allowing life to work with us.
The gift in releasing the resistance.
Learning to be with pain.
The link between shutting down emotions and shutting down from life.
His discovery of grief being the direct reflection of the amount of love we felt for that person/animal/thing.
The way that suppressed emotions are at the root of all illness.
How suppressed emotions impact our eating habits.
His journey of learning to move emotions through movement.
Loving different parts of himself and becoming more whole in the process.
Getting addicted to the inner work and healing and coming out the other side ready to play.
Becoming an ecstatic dance DJ and learning to facilitate cacao ceremonies.
How ecstatic dance positively impacted his healing journey.
Our event Energy In Motion and the inner transformation we’re going to be facilitating.
The 7-month journey through the chakras we’re creating through Energy In Motion.
Making 2024 the biggest year yet and having a community to hold each other through it.
An insight into the chakras including the power and wisdom they hold.
How his life has changed since he stepped into more authentic expression.
The ways that authenticity is the greatest filter.
Opening up to more life and everything that entails.
Shining the light on the darkness and doing shadow work.
How saving the planet starts with people become their highest selves.
Becoming the leader of your own life.
The way becoming a better leader starts from within.
Building trust with yourself, to build trust with other people.
How there are no right or wrong decisions.
And so much more!



You can learn more about Patty McDonald via his website https://www.leaderswithheart.com.au/ and follow his journey over on instagram @pattymac.truth or LinkedIn.



Join us for our upcoming event, Energy in Motion. Come along for one night or join the full 7-month container as we dance and activate our way up the chakras and unlock new heights. We kick off on February the 3rd! You can learn more about the event and grab your ticket here: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/energy-in-motion-an-ecstatic-dance-cacao-journey-tickets-796532348697

In this free 10-day challenge, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠New Year, Nourished You⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, we're setting a strong foundation for you to have your happiest and healthiest year yet!

Day 11 is all about integration and I outline how to carry all of this knowledge and information forward. In today's call we covered:


How to make the most of what you've learnt.
Finalising the 'Wheel of Health' process.
How to use the 'Wheel of Health' to find your next step.
Choosing one thing to focus on and taking action on that. 
The importance of keeping it simple and keeping your word to yourself.
An insight into Mind Body Food Freedom and how it can support you going forward.
Other ways you can work with me for additional support.
And more!



Learn more about my upcoming program ⁠Mind Body Food Freedom⁠ where we dive deeper into the teachings we've gone through over the past 10 days. You can ⁠find out more and join us here⁠.



Other ways I can continue to support you:

The Real Food Way: My 6-week program that helps you ditch the diets, simplify nutrition and create healthy eating habits that will get you to your health and weight release goals.

Healthy Skin From Within: A 6-week meal plan with over 90 real food recipes that optimise the health of your skin, gut, hormones and liver to help you glow from the inside out.

1:1 Coaching: A personalised approach to your health goals where we have regular coaching calls. Book a discovery call to chat about this option.