From Darkness to Light

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What is a good parent? Is there different demands or expectations on us as parents when we are depressed? In this episode I explore depression both from the child and the parent perspective. Good parenting has a lot of presence, authenticity, honesty and transparency in it as I see it, and I explore ways how to be all that when we are depressed. I think it's time to realize that depression is more common than cancer and what our children have experienced now during the pandemic can actually reduce our fear and stigma around depression. Let's talk about it!

If the vaccine is the quick fix, what is the long term solution? To live well. Stress and anxiety suppress our immune system, and the best way to fight Covid, or rather, to handle and cope with it, is to strengthen our overall health. A good mental, physical and emotional health makes us less vulnerable, moves us out of risk groups and prepares us for an eventual life crises.   #covid #health #wellness #stress #anxiety #recovery #addiction #sobriety #healing #mentalhealth  

DISCLAIMER 1: The sound is not perfect! DISCLAIMER 2: These are my personal standing points In Todays episode I share where I stand in the vaccine mandate situation and what forcing people against their will does to them. Covid is a proof of how trauma, fear, stress and anxiety supresses our immune system, and to violate people when they have a firm NO inside is abuse. If you have a big YES to the vaccine, take it, and respect the ones who has a big NO inside. Don't push their boundaries, as this causes major stress and trauma. Be kind. See the other side. Walk the talk you teach your children. Listen and share with the ones you feel need to listen.

In this episode I inquire into our ability to feel joy for life when we lose people we love. For every loss, do we change inside, does something essential become affected, or do we still have the same capability to feel joy for life without these people? Our "normal" assumption is that someone else will come along and we will be happy again, but is that true? Can we feel the same amount of joy for life, to be alive, with separation happening? Join me in my inquiry and comment on my Instagram @shama_persson, I love to hear what you think!

In this episode I explore the massive attacks I've been under during the last two months on social media and the freedom of speech. I also dive into how we project our own pain onto other people, to avoid looking inside ourselves.  

A very short and intense podcast about longing and anxiety, and how it feels in our body.⁠ To me, longing has the same physical quality as anxiety, and I can't really live with it. Longing makes me wanna move! Is this healthy or unhealthy and am I right or am I stumbling in the dark?⁠ I'm so open to your feeback, come share with me on Instagram @shama_persson.

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Ageism is as present as racism and sexism, it's time for a change. In my new episode I turn 9 judgements and/or fears about ageing into an advantage, or I at least question their truth. What if the fear of getting old has more to do about the present moment and or level of happiness and self-love today, than of getting old?   The definition of a midlife crises: "Midlife crisis refers to a phase in a middle-aged person's life (usually between the ages of 35 to 65) wherein they feel compelled to face and/or reevaluate their mortality, confidence, identity, and accomplishments."   #ageing #ageism #midlifecrises #podcast #fromdarknesstolight      

I received a wish to share around this topic and I took it on and it was a challenge! First, I didn't understand the question, second, I totally turned it around at nailed it in the end. I love this platform this podcast that gives me the room to freebase in my mind and in my heart in search for the truth. Listen in, I love to receive your feedback. #podcast #fromdarknesstolight #mentalhealth #growth #healing #love "shamapersson

Today’s episode is about social media addiction and the effect Clubhouse has had för me. After four weeks on Clubhouse, I feel stressed, drained, hung over and a bit depressed.   I’m not the person who hangs out on social media 24/7, but with Clubhouse I made an exception, I felt this was “my platform”. Finally, voice, the spoken word, real conversations and no longer a written monologue!   Link in my bio, From Darkness to Light, available where you normally listen to podcasts, the episode is called Social Media Addiction - Clubhouse.   I will follow up the podcast with a room for sharing and reflection probably tomorrow, on Clubhouse of course…! So if you are on Clubhouse and would like to have an honest talk about what Social Media does to us, join me.   Love you!   #clubhouse #addict # socialmediaaddiction #podcast #fromdarknesstolight #sharingswithshama

Maybe the level of self-esteem and self-love we have today is ok? Maybe we don't need to adjust it, strive to increase it, just embrace ourselves and accept that it is what it is, today. Tomorrow is a different story. New episode of my podcast is out where I share 3 major insights around self-esteem and self-love, available where you normally listen to podcasts. #selflove #selfesteem #mentalhealth #writer #author

My response to my all the hatred I received for the post I made on Instagram January 7th 2021 regarding Donald Trump and the riots at Capitol hill.

What if Corona isn't a curse, but a guide to healing? Did you ever consider why children are unaffected and why some of us get extremely ill? Why doesn't the virus treat as equally, why does it distinguish between blood types and underlying conditions? What i the virus actually is a sign, a guide that points to a weak spot or area inside us? Maybe it's a clue that we have some healing inside to do.Listen to my latest episode around Corona and healing and how we can prepare our physical and emotional beings to better sustain and manage catching COVID-19.#covid19 #corona #healing #wellness "mentalwellness 

We live in a world where everything is a race, something to accomplish or show. Money, power, looks, success, happiness, even love is something we show as if it's a price on social media. This can never be the purpose of our lives, to become or earn or win against each other. The meaning of life must be the opposite, to be here for each other, without demands and conditions. Just being, together. Listen to my new episode today.#mankind #meaningoflife #lifepurpose #wherearewegoing

If we would heal, would we then be able to feel and communicate with each other the way we do? Isn't the wounds and traumas what makes us the most vulnerable and the most human? That make us open up or shut down the most?What if to become whole isn't the goal, but to learn to live and enjoy our wounds as a way of communication?#healing #growth #podcast #fromdarknesstolight #sharingswithshama

In todays episode I share about the importance of giving in life in relationship to childhood traumas. When connection is broken, it's not only what we didn't receive as children that we're missing, it's also the giving of love, care and support. Thankfully we can project this missing part into other paternal or maternal figures in our lives, once the part that was unfulfilled in us is fulfilled.#chidlhood #traumas #healing #love #mentalhealth

Suicide is like a minority, a discriminated cause of death. We've learned that it's all us priviledged people who need to stand up for black lives and fight racism, and it's the same with mental health. To fight for your life when you are struggling, instead of getting the support from a helping hand is different. Just like the one's who's never been discriminated must take action, the ones who've never suffered from mental illness must take action. It's not ok to say it doesn't concern me because I don't suffer from it. We see an increase in suicides in young girls age 15-24 and in today's episode I talk a lot about puberty and how important it is that we step in as parents with greater support these sensitive year going from being a child into being a young adult.#suicidezero #spes #suicideprevention #fromdarknesstolight #podcast

How many times do we find ourselves drawn into someone else's drama, because of their bad behaviour or judgement? This is the root of being codependent, you engage in someone else's life and put their problems and issues first and you second. We didn't ask to be let down, dissapointed or lied to, and we didn't ask for all the consequences that come together with this. In this episode I share about disengaging and not participaing, and by doing so, no longer being an enabler. The result is more peace, joy and freedom.

It seems as if lying is part of our personality, we all lie to some extent. White lies, big lies, hidden agendas, twisting facts, covering up. How did we become like this? Listen to my exploration of the connection between birth and death, fear and love, parents and children and why lying has become almost natural to us. We lie in order to protect ourselves or others, the question is, is it ever right?#fromdarknesstolight #podcast #sharingswithshama #love #fear

Sometimes the dynamic in the family changes in an unhealthy way, and the child becomes the parent and the parent becomes the child. Out of guilt a parent can become a victim, and the child takes the place as the superior in the family. This interferes with the dynamic and makes the natural flow of love and affection impossible. Listen how this can play using my own present life as example, and what can be done to shift the relationship into a more healthy one.

In todays episode I explore the pros and cons of social media, the connection and social side versus the addiction and isolation. Does all the time we spend on social media elevate our level of happiness, or does it bring us down? Is what makes us happy the small dopamin kick that we receive or is it the connection to other people? To be an addictive personality on social media is equipped with a hidden risk that many of us don't recognise as "everybody does it". 

Are we always able to chose what we know is the best? Can we chose to make the right decisions at times when we struggle emotionally, financially or mentally? Can we be judgemental and tell that sobriety, veganism, environmentalism or even kindness is a choice available to everyone.I don't think so. Listen to my new episode "Freedom of Choice" on my podcast From Darkness to Light, available on iTunes and Spotify.

Can we have strong opinions and not voice them in public to avoid hurting people? Do we really create change by pushing our beliefs onto other people? In this episode I share about the practice Live and Let Live and how we can stop belittling our fellow human beings for not thinking the way we do.

Life is relationships. If we instead of shutting dow and cutting people off when we are hurt, see the pain we feel as a gift and act from there, we can heal and change. Hurt people hurt people and create a chain reaction that can be lethal and lead to self harming and detructive behaviour. In this episode I share about ways to reduce the separation and increase the love and growth.

In this weeks episode Shama shares about recovery, from addiction to codependency and relationships. To recover means to find something, to discover somethings that is missing. When removing all the ways we escape from pain, we slowly restore our sanity as humanity. The work we do with ourselves have a ripple effect on our whole society and everyone needs to do their part.

In this episode I share about how our wounds can be obstacles in friendship. I share how we can notice signs of wounds and work on healing them, instead of braking up or blame the other one for us hurting.Friends are angels who come into our life and follow us for shorter period of time, or for life. They are great learning experiences on how we can heal and become our true selves and can support us in our growth. Good friends are manifestations of love in our lives.

What if all that is real in the past is all the love we gave and all the love we received? What if going into therapy can help us reveal all the love we received in our childhood, instead of only seeing the mistakes and the errors? What if going back into our past, we can atone and take responsibility for mistakes done, and change the present and the future?In this weeks epsiode I share about how therapy can make us see the past with new eyes and how we through atonement can transform past hurts and mistakes into gratitude and forgiveness.

In this episode I have a guest, Khadeeja Nicolle, a 41 year old stay at home mom from St Louis, Missouri. At the age of 36, she walked out on her 1 year old daughter and her 2 months old baby son and jumped off a bridge, wanting to die. Listen to her story, learn about her childhood and the years leading up to this day. And continue listening to hear about the miracle of her survival and how she lives her life today, being in service to other people. I am so blessed to be able to have these deep and honest conversation about suicide where we share without guilt, blame and shame. You find Khadeeja on Instagram as @khadeeja_nicolle.#suicideprevention #suicide #live #love #life #sharing

In this episode I share about how if we show up as ourselves, it's impossible not to love us. If we focus on removing all blocks to love, we are not as easily hurt if love breaks down. When we show up with our masks and our judgements, the pain is bigger because as ourselves we cannot be hurt. What is, is.I also share about the inability to feel love and to show love, and how painful that is not only for the one not receiving the love, but also for the one imprisoned in the not feeling.

In this episode I share about my mom and her motherhood, and how important it is to me to end the blame. Buy blaming her for what she did wrong, instead of giving her tribute for how amazing my sisters and I became can never be right. By ending the blame towards her I also give myself permission to rid myself from guilt of my own mistakes. Motherhood is a life's work and it should be treated as such.

In this episode I share openly about the life changing effects medicine can have on depression. I also share about the judgements and beliefs that yoga, mindfulness and meditation can replace medicine, or is a better way to deal with depression.To sit with pain is not the same as to sit with depression. In 90% of the cases, depression is the state that precedes suicide. Medicin can save lives and I share about ways to handle judgements and stigma around medicine being considered a weakness. Help comes in many shapes and is never to be rejected, but welcomed.

In Today's episode I share about the book A Course in Miracles. I give you an insight to its teachings of truth and knowledge versus illusion and perceptions, and how to apply it to your own life.

In this epsiode I have a guest, Mirjam Johansson Grant, and we share openly around the crises that often comes when we lose a job, a partner or someone dies.Why do we mix up a role with who we are in our essence, and why can it totally swipe us off our feet?If we equal who we are with the role as parent, employee, friend, boss etc, we tend to lose more than the job or partner when it happens, we lose ourselves.

How is to be inside a depression?A rare challenge and opportunity to document what's really going on when we go from being ok to going down. What happens in the mind and in the body? How does depression affect all our senses, from self esteem and awareness, to the ability to communicate and concentrate. What's emotional and what's actually chemical? An honest inside sharing of what it can be like.

Every 20th second a person commits suicide. 1 million people die from suicide every year, and 20 million people try to take their life. How can we not treat suicide as one of the major causes of death on the planet? How can we not have crises centers, mental health clinics and tons of money invested into research on how to make this stop? We must stop tlaking about suicide and raising awareness, we must take action, globally. This is a Corona crises that is on repeat EVERY year, and it's increasing.

Shama shares her thoughts of how important love, care and equality is instead of letting fear and panic guide us in these difficult times.

Famous author and journalist Katarina Wilk shares about her research and findings about Perimenopause and her book Perimenopower.