The Awakened & Aligned Podcast with Shannon Kaiser

When is the last time you had a wonderful night's sleep? Most of us would call ourselves lucky if we could fall asleep easily, sleep soundly through the night, experience and remember our dreams, and wake up feeling refreshed. But for one in three adults in the US (about eighty-four million people), experiencing uninterrupted sleep and getting a great night's rest is only just a dream. The reality is sleep makes up one-third of our life (a good twenty-five to thirty years), and it impacts everything we do.1 I know firsthand the impact of poor sleep and how it can cause mental stress and break down the body. Which is why I had to write my next book, 365 Happy Bedtime Mantras: Improve Your Sleep, Release Stress, and Enjoy Your Dreams. Dive into this new podcast episode as I share behind the scenes of the making of the book, you'll get a sneak peek of the book and I pull a mantra from the affirmation deck for you.

You've changed over the last 10 years — right? We all have, but how often do we stop and look back to think about how far we've actually come? We are so used to hustling forward and not celebrating ourselves or what we have overcome, that we often miss that the journey can be a revitalizing reward. But it can be hard to focus on the good when everything around us does not seem so great. If you've felt overwhelmed, insecure, or stuck in seemingly never-ending cycles of self-doubt, stagnate energy and feel disempowered by life circumstances you are not alone. Learning how to embrace reinvention and navigate uncertainty can be a challenge if we feel hopeless, which is why I invited my good friend Andrea Owen back on the Awakened & Aligned Podcast. Andrea's a renowned life coach and author, and she shares how she took action and faced dissatisfaction with her life head on, changing her path forever. In the latest edition of her first book, 52 Ways to Live a Kick-Ass Life, she talks about the power of looking inward and uncovering our inner badass as we strive for our full potential and confront all the things holding us back.

It's time to be excited again...about life, your dreams, goals and new possibilities for yourself and loved ones. How would you like to successfully move past doubt and step into more effortless flow? What if you could wake up each morning stress free and in harmony with yourself and all of life. This way of living is possible with intention, and a steadfast dedication to showing up for yourself, even when you can't see the whole picture. Sometimes manifesting requires unshakable faith, even in the uncertainty and unknown you can have clarity. I invited manifestation expert George Lizo's to share tips from his new book Ancient Manifestation Secrets: Working with the 7 Laws of the Universe to Manifest Your Life and Purpose onto the Awakened & Aligned Podcast we talk about how to manifest from this place of authentic alignment. Listen in here...

Whether we fully understand it or not, we are living in a collective time of crazy chaos. And there is a reason—we are being asked on a soul level to advance, evolve, to wake up to the truth that the time is now to be you. And there is no better person to talk to us about this than my dear friend, healer, and creative AMY B. SCHER, an award-winning and bestselling author. As a former marketing director for Harley-Davidson and someone who built her own successful business from scratch (with no college degree), has overcome life-threatening Lime disease, traveled the world in search of answers, fallen in love with a woman when she previously only dated men, she's learned how to navigate life's experiences and surrender to what life truly has in store. To help us all understand how to live with more intention and ease, I invited Amy back on the Awakened and Aligned Podcast.

We need simple solutions to help us through complex times, especially when it comes to our bodies.  Meet Danielle Walker, diagnosed with an extreme form of ulcerative colitis at age 22, Danielle was terrified she'd never be able to eat all the wonderful, great-tasting foods she loved growing up or host warm, welcoming gatherings with family and friends. So when the medicine she was prescribed became almost as debilitating as the disease itself, Danielle took matters into her own hands, turned her kitchen into a laboratory, and set to work creating gut-healthy versions of the foods she thought she'd never be able to enjoy again. For anyone who has suffered through body frustrations, doctor visits with no avail, autoimmune disorders, chronic muscle pain conditions or health issues that seem impossible to turn around, today's podcast is for you. I speak with Danielle Walker, multi New York Times best selling author, food blogger and recipe creator. She shares more of her story and through resilience, we can all find more hope―hope that despite your ailments or hardships, you can live a full, happy, and healthy life without ever feeling excluded or deprived. Listen in here for Make it Easy – a Conversation with Dannielle Walker  

When I asked Michael how his first ketamine experience was, he shared, “It was like I had noise canceling headphones on for my brain. For the first time I could see I didn't have to attach to my thoughts.” He was calm, he felt peace, he basked in self-love. Sounds amazing, right?  Ketamine is a trusted and wildly used medicine that helps the brain create new, healthier patterns via new neural growth. I've been in the program for the past three weeks, and I personally have seen shifts already. I've been able to reframed limiting perspectives, which has led me to heal from past pain, accept reality, forgive myself and others, even release burdens I used to ruminate on, and my self-doubt has shifted into deeper self-love and worth. I've been so impressed with my healing journey on ketamine, and the ethics and integrity of Mindbloom as a company, that I wanted to bring on Michael Petegorsky, the chief strategy officer at Mindbloom to talk breakthroughs in mental health, ketamine treatment, what to expect, and why and how it's transforming lives and the world. 

Afternoon Live TV Show invited me on to help viewers learn the signs of master manipulators, con artist and scammers. "After learning that her friend was actually a con artist, she set out to learn more about master manipulators so she could help others avoid getting conned. Trauma-informed coach Shannon Kaiser, author of, "Find Your Happy", shares how we can all protect ourselves from falling victim.

I just had one of the best conversations on resiliency, reinvention and reclaiming your true power with my friend Jessica Zweig, and I am thrilled to share it with you on the Awakened & Aligned Podcast. You don't want to miss this conversation, as we talk about rising through fear, setbacks, trauma and body breakdowns, to finding the light within to rise up and be who you are destined to be. One of the things I love about Jessica is her resiliency and courage to look inward and rise above difficulty. In this episode she shares more of her personal journey of experiencing multiple rock bottoms, from finical ruin to burnout, and how she looked her fears straight in the eye so she could move past fear and rise up into her true power. From a kundalini spiritual awakening in Egypt to selling her company for millions, ego deaths, and the power of living your values and aligning with like-minded and -hearted people in sovereign sisterhood, this episode is one to dive into to help navigate these challenging times. Jessica Zweig is the author of the new book The Light Work: Reclaim Your Feminine Power, Live Your Cosmic Truth, Illuminate the World. We share insights from her book on navigating transition, overcoming trauma, awakening to your true self and doing the inner work to serve and help others. Plus you'll see a sneak peek of my new Guidance from Gaia Oracle Spirit Animal Deck, where I draw a card for Jessica. Wait till you see what animal she got . . . so powerful. As Bernard Beckwith, who wrote the forward of her book, says about Jessica, “She is an authentic disciple of Truth who lives on the edge of continual growth and expansion” and you will get nothing less in this incredible episode. If you are ready to discover, embrace, and reveal your own true self and love deeper than you ever imagined, tune in here.

I used to suffer from chronic overthinking. But this helped. 

Despite all of our differences, at our core, we all want the same thing. To be understood, seen, acknowledged, appreciated, and loved for who we are, as we are, and to give this same appreciation and love to those we care about.  This is why I brought in my favorite human behavior specialist to the Awakened & Aligned Podcast, my friend, Mark Groves, the founder of Create the Love, @createthelove, a social media sensation with over 1 million followers, and the co-author of the new book, Liberated Love: Release Codependent Patterns and Create the Love You Desire, to talk how to be healthier in love and life. Mark Groves and his wife, Kylie Macbeth, wrote this much-needed new book to help us navigate our relationships and create healthier connections in all areas of our lives.   Whether you are single, ready to mingle, dating, divorced, engaged, married, separated, or obsessing about the one who got away…this transformational conversation will leave you inspired to create the love you deserve from a place of empowerment rather than fear and insecurities. Mark shares clear strategies to help you feel more balanced in life and love. Including signs, you may be in a codependent relationship. 

If you are ready to up-level in your life, watch this week's resource here.  I share a powerful process to help you raise your standards and set clear boundaries.

The inner work doesn't always have to be work…and it doesn't have to be so hard. It can actually be fun and quite easy, especially with a step-by-step process. Today, I share five easy steps to help you cultivate healthier relationships. Because I practice what I preach and live and breathe my message and teaching, today's video shares more vulnerability as I peel back some layers of past relationship blunders turned into wonders... Plus you'll discover: • How to get your needs met in relationships (even when you feel unheard and unloved) • An easy tweak to align to your true self and upgrade your value system • how to communicate effortlessly with honesty, vulnerability, and trust in yourself and others • How to build trust with yourself and others • How to detach and love others for who they are instead of who you want or need them to be • the single most important question to ask yourself to call in healthier dynamics This video training shares a little bit more about my own personal journey but for tangible steps that you can apply immediately to increase the love and appreciation and all of your relationships including the one with yourself.

Have you been hurt or betrayed? When we start doing healing, inner-child, and shadow work sometimes repressed anger activates. If you were ever told to not be angry or you grew up in a household where anger was overly expressed, or not expressed at all, you could be dealing with hidden anger that wants to be noticed. In today's resource video, I talk about how anger can help us heal, when we address it, and process it in healthy ways. Plus, I share a 5 steps process to help you turn your pain into gain. I share strategies for releasing anger and choosing  boundaries. Because YOU deserve to live with peace of and harmony. 

Healthy boundaries are the ultimate guide to successful relationships. Without healthy boundaries, relationships do not thrive—they result in feelings of resentment, disappointment, or violation, but for empaths or people pleasers this can be hard. In today's podcast, learn signs of someone who is in a relationship for control vs connection, and 4 ways to draw boundaries to protect your peace.   

A fake friend is not a reciprocal friendship they do not have your best interest at heart and they "view the friendship from the perspective of what they can get from you rather than a place of genuine care for you." In today's transactional culture, protect yourself from being used, or mistreated with new tips on how to spot fake friends early and save yourself trouble down the line.  It's time to take a relationship inventory...

If you grew up in a household with absent parents, or caretakers, either emotionally or physically, it could be impacting your subconscious behaviors in adulthood. In today's video, I share more about how childhood neglect can impact our adulthood. If you want to have healthier and more reciprocal relationships, this video is a must-watch. And make sure to stay till the end where I share 3 steps you can take today to start to feel better in your body and reclaim your happiness.

Motivation for people pleasers on and some things to consider to protect your peac. 

As a trauma-informed empowerment coach and author of several books on the psychology of happiness, I now make it a priority to support people through their own healing journey by identifying the toxic behaviors of people in their life and finding powerful ways to reclaim their personal autonomy. Because my ultimate mission is to help you know your amazing worth, and strengthen your realtionships with more self-respect and love. In today's new resource I share patterns of toxic or manipulative people and how to respond in a healthy manner.

If you have ever felt like it is hard to put yourself first, then you will enjoy today's resource.  I go through the top differences between genuine self-love and ego-based selfish love.

Brand New Series: Shannon Shares: Healing Through Self-Awareness and Self-Love. I cover mental health, psychology, and spirituality topics to help you feel empowered, and centered, so you can reclaim control and confidence in your life. As with all my work, these resources support you on your life journey and help you know, love, and be your true self. Today we dive into the signs of emotional manipulation and what to look out for.  Blog: https://www.playwiththeworld.com/are-you-being-emotionally-manipulated-signs-and-what-to-do/ Youtube: https://youtu.be/JA8JCpYVElo  

Dr. Jeff McNairy, the chief medical officer of Rythmia Life Advancement Center has focused the past couple of decades on helping people find healing and happiness through the most breakthrough modalities, psychology, and he is an advocate (like me) for plant medicine. He is a trauma-informed phycologist, so I wanted to see first-hand how mother nature has the ability to heal and transform our minds and bodies, especially with plant medicine. Through Dr. McNairy's intense experience and programs with the most desperate patient populations (addition, acute mental health, and trauma), he has seen that the only real healing can come from within. Today we talk about healing and the fastest path to wholeness.

George Lizos is an expert on energy protection and boundaries. He literally wrote the book on it. If you've been feeling low energy, or stressed, overwhelmed and frustrated, it could be a lack of boundaries and all the energy around you. As George shares, “I define energy protection as the art of being energetically authentic. It's about identifying and clearing what's not yours so you can reestablish your connection with your authentic self and then taking protective measures to secure your authenticity. Energy protection ensures that what's yours is yours, and what's theirs is theirs.” Today I talk with George on the Awakened & Aligned podcast about reclaiming your true power and protecting yourself from unwanted or harmful vibrations. You'll discover   A step-by-step system of clearing, shielding, and strengthening your energy What is an energy attack on social media, and how to protect yourself from it Empowering practical methods for protecting your energy around toxic people How to clear energy attachments from your field The three types of shields and the degree of protection they provide A practical meditation-based process for clearing energy attachments How to go beyond the law of attraction and create from a place of alignment Rituals and meditations to shield your aura from unwanted people and energy How to create firmer boundaries and why they are By the end of our chat, you'll have filled your spiritual toolkit with powerful energy-clearing and shielding processes, and learned a proven step-by-step system to protect your energy from toxic people and vibrations.  

Couples therapist, Jessica Baum, guides us through an understanding of the attachment styles and why it is important to cultivate self-awareness, inner strength and self-love, which will lead to more secure and satisfying relationships.

Asa part of the series about How To Survive And Thrive As A Highly Sensitive Person, I had the pleasure of sitting down with Authority magazine for an interview about my experience as a Highly Empathetic and Highly Sensitive Person. This is the audio version of the interview. I share 5 Things You Need To Know To Survive And Thrive As A Highly Sensitive Person.  

In this episode, Shannon reads the introduction of her new book Return to You. In Return to You, this acclaimed life coach and visionary shares her 11 spiritual lessons for finding unshakable inner peace―a complete guide to her most effective strategies for tapping your innate wisdom and stepping into your true power. Here you'll find the exact lessons she used to remain grounded during one of the most disruptive times we've faced as a culture.  By using the lessons laid out in this book, you will come back into alignment with who you really are. From this place of wholeness, everything that does not serve you―whether it is added body weight, self-sabotaging patterns or addictions, toxic relationships, drama-filled days, or anxious tendencies―will naturally give way to peace and love.

If you pre-ordered my book Return to You and got the gifts, then you  then may have already heard from Sherianna Boyle as part of the summit I did in Jan. Her talk was so important I am adding it to my podcast. In this interview we go over a simple cleanse system that will help you process difficult and overwhelming emotions, no matter what they may be. We give you the tools to take on whatever life throws your way. It takes only a few minutes to move through the cleanse process, but you will find that the practice transforms your attitude. By checking in with your body and allowing your emotions to fully manifest instead of brushing them aside, you will be able to process what you are feeling and step back into your life refreshed and empowered to confront whatever challenge you may be facing.   Join us for a Zoom Event! Thu Apr 7, 2022 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT Return to You Book Launch Event with Shannon Kaiser and Sherianna Boyle https://www.tickettailor.com/events/newrenaissancebookshop/668972  

To help us through this supercharged emotional time, I recruited my friend Andrea Owen, the bestselling author of the new book Make Some Noise, to help us learn how to be better communicators so we can take back control of our lives.

It's no doubt we are living in a time of great chaos and change. As a planet, we are waking up to the fact that the ancient prophecies and warnings of the elders are no longer predictions—we are living them right now. And whether we realize it or not, we all have a role to play. I have found one of the best ways to personally navigate this time and understand the role we have is by spending more time with my soul, and no one does this better than my dear friend Rebecca Campbell.

In a time of such diversity and chaos, to help us find our way back to full integrity, I invited Martha Beck onto the Awakened & Aligned Podcast show. We talk about the power of integrity and how it can align us back to our true selves. When we are connected to this part of ourselves, our true self, we are free from suffering, illusions and conflict that has previously held us back. The way of integrity is one of ultimate freedom. You were born in full integrity—it's your nature. In this episode, we show you how to align back to your true self. 

We may not have control over many things right now, but we can control our own experience in each moment. This guided meditation is part of the full meditations album and Feear Detox course to help you overcome overwhelm. This program is designed to help you eliminate fear-based thoughts, actions and habits and step into a peaceful way of being. Access Full Course here https://www.playwiththeworld.com/fear-detox-5-day-digital-course/

As we shift fully into summer, the world looks unlike anything we've experienced before. Usually, summer is full of carefree moments of relaxation, travel, beach trips, play and peace. But this year tapping into joy can be tougher than usual. During such painful times, the idea of cultivating personal happiness might seem trivial—selfish, even—but it might just be more important now than ever before. Here are some powerful and easy ways to tap into joy in your own life through this ever-changing time.

Today's topic inspired by my Joy Seeker podcast interview with Josh Trent of Wellness Force.   Josh and I talk about expectations, and how you can discover how you can create the life you actually want to live; not the one that society or your parents have deemed for you. He shares his personal story to finding true love and the courage needed to live a fulfilling life.   

In today's new podcast episode I talk about the quest for happiness and how it's making us unhappy. If your self-help journey has become self-judgment, this ones for you. The #1 Way We Sabotage Ourselves (and How to Fix it)

Joy Seeker Podcast: Do this right now to help heal yourself and the world! The world is in a lot of anger, fear and frustration; we are at a tipping point. What is happening outside of ourselves is reflection of what is happening on the inside of us. We can help each other and the planet by first helping ourselves. yourself, when you fall into anger towards yourself or others, and be kinder. You are magnificent and wonderful and the world needs you and your love and light. Believe that you have the power to make a difference but it starts with the love you have for self. This message dives into what you can do to reach more peace in your own life and for the world. 

Lessons inspired by Shannon Kaiser's book Joy Seeker. This lesson will share the 5 step process for getting anything and everything you want.

I share 3 easy things to implement and powerful strategies to be mentally strong this year. You'll learn How to release the pressure to be farther along then you actually are How to reframe your goals so they uplift you instead of drain you How to release resistance and get massive support Plus, I pull a mantra card from my deck just for you, and it's a good one.

I sit down with author, speaker and founder of the life advancement center Rythmia to learn more about the secrets to happiness and what it takes to live a fulfilled life. Learn more about Rhytmia here: http://rythmia.link/kaiser or call (877) 861-3300