Revolutionary Love & Resilience

In the final episode of Season 2, this solo episode with Shelby honors and explores endings. We navigate so many endings with clients whether planned or not and many of us don't have a lot of experience how to move through these transitions and closures with ease. Shelby shares about the shifting directions with the RLR podcast and also honors this beautiful past season of exploration with Maira. Email the podcast: revolutionaryloveandresilience@gmail.com Tell us what's landing for you, and if there's anything you'd love for us to cover in a future episode. Maira: www.somatictherapypartners.com Shelby: www.shelby-leigh.com

Maira and Shelby explore how they understand the concept of tracking progress in their clients. They also share personal stories about how they approach tracking their own progress in coaching, therapy and other personal healing and growth areas. Email the podcast: revolutionaryloveandresilience@gmail.com Tell us what's landing for you, and if there's anything you'd love for us to cover in a future episode. Maira: www.somatictherapypartners.com Shelby: www.shelby-leigh.com

In this solo episode, Shelby debunks why “mindset” work doesn't work very well unless we include the wisdom of the body. So many people are talking about the power of mindset these days and in not-so-trauma-aware ways. Here are some ways to enjoy mindset work that are supportive and able to integrate over time. Email the podcast: revolutionaryloveandresilience@gmail.com Tell us what's landing for you, and if there's anything you'd love for us to cover in a future episode. Maira: www.somatictherapypartners.com Shelby: www.shelby-leigh.com

Shelby and Maira describe what embodiment is and how coaching in an embodied way can be incredibly supportive to both the coach (or therapist!) and client. They debunk a lot of ideas about people's expectations of what embodiment means in any given moment. Email the podcast: revolutionaryloveandresilience@gmail.com Tell us what's landing for you, and if there's anything you'd love for us to cover in a future episode. Maira: www.somatictherapypartners.com Shelby: www.shelby-leigh.com

In this solo episode, Shelby debunks why “mindset” work doesn't work very well unless we include the wisdom of the body. So many people are talking about the power of mindset these days and in not-so-trauma-aware ways. Here are some ways to enjoy mindset work that are supportive and able to integrate over time. Email the podcast: revolutionaryloveandresilience@gmail.com Tell us what's landing for you, and if there's anything you'd love for us to cover in a future episode. Maira: www.somatictherapypartners.com Shelby: www.shelby-leigh.com

In this solo episode Shelby shares her thoughts on the power of repairs. Repairs are important in every type of relationship. She breaks down the how's and whys of creating repairs the deepen relationships and build trust. Email the podcast: revolutionaryloveandresilience@gmail.com Tell us what's landing for you, and if there's anything you'd love for us to cover in a future episode. Maira: www.somatictherapypartners.com Shelby: www.shelby-leigh.com

Maira turns the tables on interviewing Shelby about her business, her offerings and what she's excited about launching in the near future. This one's a great episode for people who consider themselves multi-passionate and find themselves with lots of ideas and offerings. Email the podcast: revolutionaryloveandresilience@gmail.com Tell us what's landing for you, and if there's anything you'd love for us to cover in a future episode. Maira: www.somatictherapypartners.com Shelby: www.shelby-leigh.com

Shelby dives in deep, interviewing Maira about starting her business, providing trauma informed care and the magic that happens in sessions with clients. You'll get to listen in on what motivates and excites Maira about being a healer and running her business. Email the podcast: revolutionaryloveandresilience@gmail.com Tell us what's landing for you, and if there's anything you'd love for us to cover in a future episode. Maira: www.somatictherapypartners.com Shelby: www.shelby-leigh.com

Shelby and Maira break down what each of them consider "trauma informed" details as care providers. Whether you're a coach, therapist or healthcare professional, these apply to you! When we ask the question "what is trauma informed care", here are a few ranty thoughts on the matter. Email the podcast: revolutionaryloveandresilience@gmail.com Tell us what’s landing for you, and if there’s anything you’d love for us to cover in a future episode. Maira: www.somatictherapypartners.com Shelby: www.shelby-leigh.com

Have you ever asked yourself “what’s my capacity to provide care?” Shelby and Maira discuss the importance of identifying YOUR personal capacity level and how it impacts the service you provide.

Maira and Shelbly explore the idea of engaging with stress as a motivation to push forward. They discuss the “scarcity mentality” and its impact as practitioners in the field and Shelby shares her recent self-examination of her relationship with stress. It’s tender, it’s empowering, it’s support in action - take a listen now!

Shelby and Maira dive into topics of embodying confidence in each of our fields. We also discuss how we can support each of our own unique gifts to thrive in the world.

Maira and Shelby explore more ways to support folks (and not support folks) with developmental trauma. We talk about some commonly used trauma interventions that don't necessarily work for folks with early trauma and why.

Shelby and Maira dig in about Maira's healing path through marriage. They explore shame, early survival patterns, the abandonment wound and the gifts of staying together despite the struggles.

Maira and Shelby discuss a recent healing and reparative experience during the course of their friendship. They talk about taking up space emotionally, the felt sense of "We space," and how relationships help us step into greater possibility. It's raw, vulnerable, tender and sweet - take a listen!

In this episode, Maira interviews Shelby on her creative process - creating content, writing the book(!), playing music and more. We talk about regulation and what supports truly being able to RECEIVE the creativity that wants to flow through us in our own unique ways.

In this deep discussion, Maira and Shelby dive into what generational trauma is and how in these current times so many folks are impacted by it. They also create space and talk vulnerably about BBIPOC collective and generational trauma.

Maira and Shelby explore their own relationships to spirituality and its connection to healing. They also explore how they support clients around spirituality in the process of healing.

Maira and Shelby explore the question of "What if you just assumed that every single person walking in your door has trauma?" as well as advocating for yourself with wellness providers.

Shelby shares her wisdom and experience with insight meditation and Shelby and Maira both discuss ways to use meditation with a trauma informed lens.

Maira and Shelby talk about these current traumatic times and how we can care for each other. They also spend time acknowledging and honoring how folks may be coping.

Maira and Shelby explore what attachment is and why it makes our work so much easier when we look through this lens. They also describe how it relates to the development of a nervous system and how ANY type of facilitator/care provider/coach/therapist can create more connection and safety knowing even just a little about attachment dynamics and our impacts on the relationship.

Listen in as Shelby and Maira get angry about how clients get pathologized in the field of psychotherapy and what they do instead. Find us on the internet in these places: Email the podcast: revolutionaryloveandresilience@gmail.com Tell us what’s landing for you, and if there’s anything you’d love for us to cover in a future episode. Maira: www.somatictherapypartners.com Shelby: www.shelby-leigh.com

Maira and Shelby bust the myth that healers need to have their shit together all the time. They also talk about how to be the most regulated person in the room when we've got personal things happening. Find us on the internet in these places: Email the podcast: revolutionaryloveandresilience@gmail.com Tell us what’s landing for you, and if there’s anything you’d love for us to cover in a future episode! Maira: www.somatictherapypartners.com Shelby: www.shelby-leigh.com

Shelby gets vulnerable and super "human" sharing her story of early trauma and what happened along the way to help her move through the hard stuff. Shelby highlights some "big moments" in her healing process. Find us on the internet in these places: Email the podcast: revolutionaryloveandresilience@gmail.com Tell us what’s landing for you, and if there’s anything you’d love for us to cover in a future episode. Maira: www.somatictherapypartners.com Shelby: www.shelby-leigh.com

Maira and Shelby talk about how they met and connected. Maira shares her story of how her early trauma showed up as anger and rage and getting to the other side of trauma. Find us on the internet in these places: Email the podcast: revolutionaryloveandresilience@gmail.com Tell us what’s landing for you, and if there’s anything you’d love for us to cover in a future episode. Maira: www.somatictherapypartners.com Shelby: www.shelby-leigh.com

Shelby and Maira give a holistic definition of trauma from the personal to the systemic view. We talk about somatic approaches to healing with a focus on nervous system health. We also talk about what motivated us to create this podcast. Find us on the internet in these places: Email the podcast: revolutionaryloveandresilience@gmail.com Tell us what’s landing for you, and if there’s anything you’d love for us to cover in a future episode. Maira: www.somatictherapypartners.com Shelby: www.shelby-leigh.com

In a very special bonus episode, Shelby has a gorgeous conversation with Dr Betty Martin, exploring what Revolutionary Love & Resilience means to her in her life and work. Betty also shares some of the deep wisdom from her NEW BOOK! ~ The Art of Receiving & Giving, which is out now. Here’s some more detail: Why would most people endure unwanted or unsatisfying touch, rather than speak up for their own boundaries and desires? This is the question that Betty Martin has explored in her 40+ years as a hands-on practitioner - first as a chiropractor and later as a Somatic Sex Educator, Certified Surrogate Partner and Sacred Intimate. In her framework, “The Wheel of Consent®”, Betty traces the fundamental roots of consent to our own bodies, how we learned to ignore our own desires and needs, and the harm caused when we do not honor our own limits or the limits of others. In a world where the #MeToo movement sheds light on boundary violations, the Wheel of Consent offers a deeply nuanced and precise way to practice consent as an agreement that brings integrity, responsibility, and joy into every interaction.

David Emerson, founder of Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY) offers his insights around how we can share power with our students and clients as facilitators and care providers. He shares his own history and work with folks impacted by PTSD and all that he had to learn in order to be able to share yoga and help it be truly healing. Dave is the founder of Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY) and the co-founder of the center for Trauma and Embodiment at the Justice Resource Institute in Massachusetts. Dave has trained internationally in the TCTSY model since 2006 and has developed, conducted, and supervised TCTSY groups for rape crisis centers, domestic violence programs, residential programs for youth, active duty military personnel, survivors of terrorism, and Veterans Administration centers and clinics and more. He is the author or co-author of numerous papers on yoga and trauma, is the co-author of Overcoming Trauma through Yoga, released in 2011 by North Atlantic Books and the author of, Trauma-Sensitive Yoga in Therapy (Norton, 2015).

Louiza Doran, better known as Weeze takes us on a journey from struggle to incredible empowerment. She shares the kind of inner love that emerged as she decided peace was more important than trying to keep her life looking the way she was conditioned to believe it was supposed to look. She takes us on a vulnerable, heart aching journey and towards claiming herself… her resilience and revolutionary love. Weeze lives in Oakland and is a decolonization and empowerment coach and educator. She is passionate about social equity and personal empowerment - believing that by decolonizing and empowering individuals to walk in their purpose and thus can create an equitable, diverse and inclusive society. Her “human first” approach is to help people heal through decolonizing their beliefs in order to create relationships, businesses, careers and lives that reflect their values and honor who they are and how they want to live! Decolonize all people (our burdens are different but they exist) so that we can all begin to commit to creating equitable societies and use our voices, power and privilege to create a world where all people are liberated. A world where our humanity is honored and where “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” becomes a reality for us all.

In this special solo episode, Shelby offers her thoughts and guides us through some practices around how to regulate our nervous systems while in connection with friends and family and clients during these difficult times. It helps us welcome all of our feelings and welcome each other in what we're all feeling instead of offering advice or trying to fix or figure things out. Originally recorded as a FB live so you'll hear her interacting with folks on the call as they're typing in what they're feeling and learning within the hour. She also shares a discount code for Creating Safer Space which you can use til April 5, 2020. The code is: 40offCSS. Enjoy!

In this episode, we explore transgenerational trauma and how Caitlin learned to do magic tricks. Caitlin nerds out about science and the body/mind connection and how working from the "bottom-up" can be deeply balancing for the parasympathetic and sympathetic branches of the nervous system. Caitlin is a Doctor of Physical Therapy who has spent the greater part of the last decade forging her own unique approach to healing that bridges the gap between body and mind. Early on in her career as a Physical Therapist, Caitlin dove deep into a study of manual therapy and the osteopathic traditions that manual therapy arose from. Through this, she began to understand how interconnected all of the parts of the body are, and she developed a deep appreciation of the innate healing wisdom within the body. In alignment with the osteopathic philosophy, Caitlin developed a belief that the body, mind, and spirit are all interconnected; and through personal experience, discovered that to be profoundly true on her own healing journey. In her early career, Caitlin encountered many patients whose physical health issues had an emotional component. And when she discovered Internal Family Systems, a modality for supporting mental health and healing trauma, she saw the possibilities of integrating it into her practice as a P.T. Currently in her private practice in Portland, Oregon Caitlin blends IFS with bodywork to help clients connect to their bodies, their Selves, and the healing wisdom within. Connect with Caitlin at: www.FeelingCentered.com and www.Circles-Of-Compassion.com (the retreat).

Maira brings her deep vulnerability and fierceness as she describes what it was like to have to fight her way towards who she is now… in love with herself and life and incredibly integrated and resilient. Maira is a long time personal empowerment catalyst and self-help junkie. After undergrad, she led mountaineering courses in Colorado, California and South Africa for participants ages 15-65 and from there went on to complete graduate school in Social Work. Maira is a somatically trained psychotherapist devoted to healing trauma and attachment wounding. After being in solo private practice in Denver, CO for the last three years, she has decided to expand and created a group psychotherapy practice devoted to bringing somatic approaches to healing. Her new practice set to open February 1, 2020 is called Somatic Therapy Partners. When she isn’t deep diving into healing work with clients and pursuing further education in the resolution of trauma, she is dancing, adventuring with her amazing friends and pursuing pleasure through being a total foodie! Connect with Maira at https://mairaholzmann.com/.

La Sarmiento shares their journey from learning "it was not ok to be who I was" to cultivating and connecting with incredible sense of love and belonging. La brings us through a deep and touching emotional experience in this podcast and shows us how the Dharma and the community in the Dharma has had such a significant impact in their life and healing and growth. La Sarmiento is a non-binary, Filipinx American, body/energyworker and song-spoofing dharma teacher. They are a retreat teacher/manager and guiding teacher of the LGBTIQ and People of Color Sanghas with the Insight Meditation Community of Washington, teach retreats for LGBTIQ at the Garrison Institute, young adults at the Spirit Rock Meditation Center, are a graduate of the Spirit Rock Community Dharma Leaders Training Program, and are currently a mentor for the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program with Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield. La lives in Towson, MD with their life partner Wendy and their Cairn Terrier Annabel. You can connect with them online at: www.lasarmiento.com.

Jesse Johnson shares his passion for what can happen in Equine Leadership and the possibilities of tapping into Revolutionary Love & Resilience between human and horse. He shares much about attachment and his own experience of his experience of attachment and how it was challenging and also led to Revolutionary Love & Resilience and the work he does today. Jesse works with corporate groups, non-profits, and government agencies as an Equine Leadership Facilitator in Portland, Oregon. His drive is to facilitate high-integrity leadership assisted by the social intelligence and partnership of horses. Working primarily with rescued mustangs, Jesse combines 20 years of work across the disciplines of athletics coaching, somatic therapy, and group dynamics to create fun and transformative experiences for leaders looking to raise consciousness and impact. Jesse also presents as a speaker and facilitator around socially intelligent leadership in human-only settings. Born in an old New England town in rural Connecticut, Jesse's personal journey involves coming to terms with privilege, playing small, and now, leveraging power for the benefit of others. He enjoys regular running, bouldering, and spending time with his partner, Clara, and their son, August. Jesse also produces the Supergivers Podcast, an interview-based show giving platform to folks inspiring social change through innovative projects and viewpoints. If you're inspired to connect with Jesse, you can find him in Portland and at https://www.supergivers.com/podcast/.

Dr. Kirsten Mackey is a board-certified medicine physician and traditional osteopath with specialty training in functional and holistic medicine. In this heartfelt episode we explore challenges and celebrations Kirsten has had in her personal path and how she has brought the learning from those experiences into her practice with her patients. Kirsten uses osteopathic manual medicine (O.M.M.), homeopathy, prolotherapy/neural therapy injections, Ayurveda, autonomic response testing (A.R.T.) to holistically address a variety of health concerns. As a yoga instructor and former competitive snowboarder and Division I field hockey player, Dr. Mackey learned the importance of a holistic approach to healing and medicine. Her experiences led her to attend osteopathic medical school in the Bay Area and complete her training at the University of Nevada Reno. She formerly served as a clinical faculty member at Western University College of Osteopathic Medicine and currently teaches at the University of Nevada Family Medicine Residency as well as the Shakti School, an Ayurvedic practitioner program. Dr. Mackey is excited to return to the Lake Tahoe area after most recently working for several years at a highly regarded osteopathic practice in Santa Monica, California. If you're inspired to connect with Kirsten, she practices in the Lake Tahoe, California area and you can find her on her website drkirstenmackey.com.

In this episode, Shelby interviews Taran Walia, a registered professional Counsellor and Coach in Vancouver, BC (and worldwide). We explore the importance of embodied presence with clients. Taran shares about her experience of loss and grief and her journey towards Revolutionary Love & Resilience. Taran, a Registered Professional Counsellor and Coach approaches theories with clients that are wholesome, forward thinking, integrative, and spiritual. She uses Counselling theories such as Family Systems, Gestault Acceptance and Commitment Theory, experiential techniques as Somatic Adult Attachment. You can find Taran at http://www.taranwalia.com/ if you'd like to connect with her after being inspired by all that she shared in the podcast.

Shelby Leigh - Coach, Therapist & Founder of Creating Safer Space and THIS podcast gets interviewed by Ellen May in Brisbane, Australia. Her intentions for this first full episode is to practice what she preaches - getting vulnerable herself before asking anyone else to do that. She shares some of her experiences of Revolutionary Love & Resilience and some where she wished she had access to these qualities. If you're inspired to connect with Shelby, you can find her in Bend, Oregon and Worldwide: www.shelby-leigh.com and www.creatingsaferspace.com.

In this introductory episode, Shelby Leigh - Coach & Therapist - shares her inspiration and vision for this podcast. The Revolutionary Love & Resilience Podcast bridges the personal and the professional - creating space for experts in the wellness and well-being fields to be both vulnerable and share deep wisdom from their years of experience. This podcast weaves trauma awareness, inclusivity and inspiration for every single person to be able to heal, grow and become who they want to be. To step into their full authenticity and expand their capacity to claim their best lives as they journey through challenges towards revolutionary love & resilience. The Revolutionary Love & Resilience podcast's listeners are both practitioners and seekers - an inspiration and a resource to help folks discover and learn about various paths of healing and the incredible people who are offering it from around the world.