Relationship As Medicine

In this week’s episode, I was so happy to talk with Katie Kurtz about trauma-informed care. During this talk, we emphasize that being trauma-informed requires not just knowledge, but also active practice and integration of skills. We go into: Katie's working definitions of trauma and trauma informed care The difference between trauma awareness, trauma-informed care, and being trauma-responsive Why we DON’T use the term “safe space” And we look at the myth that trauma-informed care is a clinical approach reserved only for clinicians to use. …and so much more! Listeners can expect to gain a deeper understanding of trauma and the knowing that having your own lived experience is enough to be trauma-informed. About Katie: Katie Kurtz, MSW LISW-S (she/her) is a subject matter expert on trauma-informed care and its application across multi-disciplinary industries. Using the Trauma Competency Framework™, Katie trains and mentors leaders of all kinds of ways to make trauma-informed care inclusive and adoptable for all professions.  Katie is the author of the Contain Card Deck©, a reflective tool to hold space for yourself and others. Additionally, Katie is a partner and Chief of Content and Consultation for the Evellere Group, a social impact consulting firm specializing in trauma responsive cultures of care. Website: Katie-Kurtz.com Instagram: @_katiekurtz LinkedIn

In this deeply personal episode, I’m interviewed by Danielle Cohen for her private online group, Visibility Medicine, which she generously offered to let me publish on my podcast. This discussion bridges my personal life and business, where: Danielle asks me about my visibility wounds and we explore my experience of neurodiversity and the impacts of complex trauma I share about an unfortunate experience I had that kept me silent in the coaching world for years I describe the ruptures that shook me to the core as I lost my voice and am still finding words to speak again, and how that has inspired my intention to be a refuge for myself and others through my work and in my life Many of the stories I share are about breaking unspoken contracts in many venues of life and how I found the empowerment to make that happen. Connect With Danielle: Instagram: @daniellecohenphotography Websites: www.visibilitymedicine.com + www.danielle-cohen.com Connect with Shelby: Instagram: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh Facebook LinkedIn www.creatingsaferspace.com www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com Body Of Work

In this episode, Juna Mustad, SEP joins me again for a meaningful conversation about Anger. What is anger? Where does it come from? And how can you learn to welcome and embrace anger to live a more expressed and authentic life with energy and clarity? In this episode, we'll be exploring these questions and shine a light on: How learning to welcome and embrace anger allows us to live a more expressed and authentic life with energy and clarity. Why it's important to set boundaries around your feelings How safety plays a crucial role in not letting us get in touch with anger and express it. How anger shows up in our bodies Benefits and tools for creating a greater relationship with anger Top 6 things that anger stuffers can do with their anger. About Juna: Juna Mustad, SEP is a Coach, & Intuitive. Over the last 13 years, Juna has been supporting people to develop emotional intelligence, grow their intuition, create healthy relationships and embrace their full potential. She works with individuals and groups around the world to support them in healing, embodiment and enhancing overall wellbeing. Juna is trained as a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, a coach, and is also an intuitive. Through her work, she aims to bridge the worlds of spirituality with greater body awareness and emotional intelligence. Check out Juna’s upcoming course, The People Pleaser's Guide to Anger, a 6-week journey of cultivating a healthier relationship with your anger, boundaries, and innate power, beginning on March 5, 2023. Website:  www.JunaMustad.com Instagram: @juna.mustad  Facebook: Juna Mustad Connect with Shelby: Instagram: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh Facebook LinkedIn www.creatingsaferspace.com www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com Body Of Work

Will Rēzin and I got together today to discuss the importance of leaning into support as a coach, therapist, healer and/or helper. We not only talk about many aspects of my own Body of Work and my program Body of Work... we talk about how high integrity and ethical care providers can up-level their skill so they can be regulated, centered and skilled when sitting with clients and running their businesses with ease. Curious about Body of Work? Find out more about it here: www.shelby-leigh.com/body-of-work  And, here is Will and his incredible work: www.rezinconsulting.com/ Connect with Shelby: Instagram: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh www.creatingsaferspace.com www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com Body Of Work

This is Part 2 of a 2-part series. Following up on the last episode,  Ryan McGladrey, DOMTP and I bring you more conversations as well as somatic practices around embodying presence and the "how-to's" of meeting each moment.  Some topics we delve into in this episode are: Listening as a skill: The how-to’s of that + exploring the concept of active receptivity Going deeper by going lighter Coming home to ourselves in each moment How to meet each other with genuine presence How to welcome what's been exiled and care about anything that shows up with ourselves or  the people we work with Download the 9-minute guided experience from this episode directly on our website. We hope that there’s something you can take away and integrate from this episode that will support you in finding home in your mind, heart, and body, and in the present moment. About Ryan: Ryan is trained as an osteopath, somatic coach, and body-mind educator, his work is the fruit of over two decades of ongoing study and practice in a wide range of specialized approaches to healing and growth. He works with clients to resolve pressing life challenges, especially concerning physical function, emotional development, and spiritual motivation. Through addressing restrictions in movement and feeling, Ryan helps people reconnect with their abilities to heal and thrive. He also offers innovative trainings in how to effectively use whole-body intelligence to meet the challenges and possibilities of twenty-first century life. You can email Ryan at: bendtuina@hotmail.com Connect with Shelby: Instagram: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh www.creatingsaferspace.com www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com Body Of Work

This is Part 1 of a 2-part series. In this episode series, Ryan McGladrey, DOMTP and I nerd out about the nuances of embodied presence and how that can serve and support those we work with. The foundation of our conversation is exploring the simplicity of being present with another human and the power of seeing people just as they are. Throughout both episodes, we examine the following: Our top tips on how do we go deeper by going lighter and how can we come home to ourselves in each moment? We get vulnerable on how do we meet each other with genuine presence and what medicine, healing and growth comes from it for each of us. How do we welcome what's been exiled and care about anything that shows up with our clients and patients in sessions? Ryan and I have known each other for nearly 20 years and this episode is a glimpse of our many conversations discussing how we can be most supportive in our therapeutic connections. Click here for Part II, where we go into more of the "how-to's" and practices of what we explore here. About Ryan: Ryan is trained as an osteopath, somatic coach, and body-mind educator, his work is the fruit of over two decades of ongoing study and practice in a wide range of specialized approaches to healing and growth. He works with clients to resolve pressing life challenges, especially concerning physical function, emotional development, and spiritual motivation. Through addressing restrictions in movement and feeling, Ryan helps people reconnect with their abilities to heal and thrive. He also offers innovative trainings in how to effectively use whole-body intelligence to meet the challenges and possibilities of twenty-first century life. You can email Ryan at: bendtuina@hotmail.com Connect with Shelby: Instagram: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh www.creatingsaferspace.com www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com Body Of Work

How do we use marketing as a force for good?  Natalia Sanyal joins me in an engaging conversation around how we can connect with our audiences and clients in a way that doesn't cause harm. Drawing from our own lived experience and our work with clients, we discuss: The potential to feel more aligned with the way we share our work to the world in a marketing space that has historically been oppressive, manipulative and demanding How we can give ourselves more space for marketing in a trauma-informed way, while giving ourselves so much permission to be imperfect and to truly have space to be ourselves By working together as a culture, we can find ways to create choice, empowerment and inspiration towards marketing that is high integrity. About Natalia Natalia is an anti-oppressive copywriter and brand messaging strategist. In the last decade, she has worked with billion-dollar businesses, New York Times bestselling authors, and award-winning marketing agencies. Now she teaches high-integrity personal brands to use marketing as a force for good—so that they can create demand without causing harm to humanity and to themselves. Website: www.nataliasanyal.com Check out Natalia’s Get Embodied marketing program for high-integrity personal brands. Connect with Shelby: Instagram: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh www.creatingsaferspace.com www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com Body Of Work

In this episode, Danielle Cohen and I discuss what's happening in the field right now in ourselves and our clients around business growth. We approach questions like: How do we approach business growth authentically? How do we stay healthy, inspired and in a state of self-trust when we can't control external circumstances around income, marketing and industry "standards"? If you are a helper, a wellness entrepreneur, a creative, a coach or a therapist, this might resonate with you and offer you new ways of grounding down into your business - doing your thing, your way. We can be in our work in a connected, embodied and supported way. Whatever your bank account doesn't or doesn't do - you get to feel more steady and secure. About Danielle: Danielle Cohen (she/her) is a visibility coach and brand photographer with a unique approach to helping pro-social creative entrepreneurs, coaches, visionaries, and healers (aka beacons) step into and offer their greatest work by becoming more visible on their terms, owning their story and their magic, having the impact they’re here to have and thriving while doing it. Connect With Danielle: Instagram: @daniellecohenphotography Websites: www.visibilitymedicine.com + www.danielle-cohen.com Connect With Shelby Instagram: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh www.creatingsaferspace.com www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com Body Of Work

This is a behind-the-scenes follow-up conversation to the Nourish Experience that Tamsin Crimmens and I offered last month. We were so fired up about the themes and concepts that we wanted to keep going. We cover topics such as:  How we define and experience success somatically  Moving from capitalist/patriarchal productivity, performance and comparison to sustainable, healthy and connected business  Institutionalizing Empathy and Feeling  Creating structures that support and nourish your body and all the other bodies you know  Anchoring inner resources and stitching them together  More definitions of what regulation really is and how we support it  Supporting unique brains and approaches to work in ways that are supportive  ....and more! If you love the conversation and want to sign up for Nourish to be guided through a 2-hour somatic experience of this, it's available for you to sink into right now! https://shelby-leigh.thinkific.com/pages/nourish Here is a little bit more about Tamsin: Tamsin is a writer and mentor for (quietly) revolutionary coaches, healers and world-changers. She’s obsessed with helping best-kept-secrets who’d love to be more “industry famous” to discover the medicine in their message, feel safe enough to share it, and get paid for their ideas. A rare mix of space holder, storyteller and entrepreneur, she helps women who are tired of playing small to activate their Inner Creatrix (that all-powerful creative energy that makes magical messaging) so they can freak their audience out and have them saying “How are you inside my head!!?” As a former journalist with bylines in ELLE, Stylist, Grazia, The Guardian, The Telegraph, and The Sunday Times Style mag, she’s written about it all and interviewed everyone from Caitlin Moran to Stella McCartney. Along a journey that’s taken in everything from political communications and women’s magazines to the world of yoga, womb and somatic healing, Tamsin follows the philosophy of 'Body First, Mind Second’, to support her clients to access their deepest truth and express it in a way that builds sustainable success. To explore more of her work, check out these links: www.tamsincrimmens.co.uk Instagram: @tamsincrimmens Connect with Shelby: Instagram: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh www.creatingsaferspace.com www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com Body Of Work

In sitting down with Stephanie Somatics, we dive into how our body is more than just a vehicle that transports us from place to place - it's an interpreter for life. Coming home to the body is a practice that we can practice for the rest of our lives. In this episode we look at how we move from looking for what's wrong and how to fix it to a more empowered and connected approach to healing, we see what's possible in terms of deep trauma healing for ourselves and those we work with.  We talk about pacing, creating the therapeutic container together with our clients, permission to practice embodied and curious relationships and put aside assumptions, so that sitting in a regulated nervous system becomes a way of living instead of a concept in our minds. We also laugh and rant about our views on building trust... you might be surprised at what you hear!   About Stephanie Stephanie Somatics is a body-focused mental-health practitioner, and supports folks through her offering of Somatic Healing. She has a MA in Clinical and Mental Health: Somatic Psychology and blends this with her own intuition and flavor to help guide clients towards themselves and healing. She works with people who are ready to overcome the ways their past traumas impact their present life from a body integrated perspective. Teaching how to find safety in the body, anxiety management, and emotional validation, Stephanie facilitates with the belief that we follow your body’s lead.Through her own journey of healing, she found great power in listening and learning from the body about how to better connect and deepen our relationship to self. Her goal is to walk alongside her clients, helping them discover their own bodies' natural wisdom and come home to themselves. Connect with Stephanie Website: stephaniesomatics.com Instagram: @stephaniesomatics Connect with Shelby: Instagram: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh support@shelby-leigh.com www.creatingsaferspace.com www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com Body Of Work

Natalie Smalls, MFT shares with us about the power of community, relationship to the ocean, and how holding safer and braver spaces in surfing can support womxn to reclaim their healing, power and belonging.  She talks about her own path of healing and how the ocean guided her into living a life now that is beyond anything she had ever imagined and how she now gets to see this unfold in those she works with all around the world in her program Groundswell Community Project. Natalie is a licensed California Marriage and Family Therapist with my back ground in utilizing art, somatic, and eco therapy for trauma recovery. She founded Groundswell Community Project as a surf therapy non-profit in 2016 with the mission and vision of holding safer and brave spaces for intersectional communities of womxn to reclaim their healing, power, and belonging in mother oceans waves together. Since 2016 they have developed the first trauma informed somatic surf therapy curriculum and trainings that are accredited by CAMFT for CEUs and have trained and support surf therapy programs around the world. Connect with Natalie: Website: www.groundswellcommunity.org/ Instagram: @groundswellcommunityproject Connect with Shelby: IG: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh www.creatingsaferspace.com www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com Body Of Work

Joe Clements and I sit down to reflect on the power of trauma informed mindfulness and the emotional awareness.  He shares about his story growing up in Santa Cruz and how he never could have anticipated being where he is today and what got him here.  We share our own snapshots of how we move from overwhelm to being in relationship to emotions in new ways.  Joe also shares about how he brings his love of punk music into mindfulness and how it helps him come into contact with the present moment in ways that works for him and his nervous system. Connect with Joe: Website: josephclements.com Instagram - _joe.clements_ TikTok -  Hella_Meditated Connect with Shelby: Instagram: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh www.creatingsaferspace.com www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com Body Of Work

In this Solo episode, I talk about the main thing I see that gets missed MOST as care providers - coaches, therapists, doctors, facilitators.  It takes a lot to be able to catch these precious, important moments with clients.  Especially clients who have insecure attachment and past trauma.  When we can get comfortable and regulated enough in ourselves to stay with our clients through these cycles of everything from challenges to lightness, we create a safety and intimacy and empowerment that goes beyond that which most practitioners are offering. Have a listen and let me know how it lands for you! I’m really excited about this new podcast and want to keep shaping it around what’s supportive and engaging for YOU.💙 Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3B6jUij Apple: https://apple.co/3nkLzaA Stay tuned for solo and guest podcasts with these three themes: → trauma and trauma informed care → the power of therapeutic relationships → embodied practice as care providers And as always, I am so grateful for all your incredible emails and comments on how this podcast is impacting you - keep ’em coming!  And if you ever want any of your questions and inquiries around these 3 above topics addressed in the pod, let me know what they are and I’ll do my best!  It’s you, my listeners, that keep me going…and I have so much gratitude for you! Connect with Shelby: Instagram: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh support@shelby-leigh.com www.creatingsaferspace.com www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com Body Of Work

Selena La’Chelle Collazo, M.A., M.Ed., A.M./Ph.D. takes us on an incredible journey of her life's path and how embodiment practices like yoga and mindfulness saved her life.  She shares deeply around how bringing these practices in various ways around the world have impacted the lives of so many. This episode sparks so much inspiration around how to wake up and drop into our bodies amidst everything from suffering to joy.  We also explore the concept of relational mindfulness and how it's an incredible tool for social justice and connected leadership. About Selena: Selena La’Chelle Collazo, M.A., M.Ed., A.M./Ph.D. (she/her) is certified yoga teacher, mindfulness educator, and psychotherapist offering mindfulness-based and Solutions Focused interventions rooted in Brief Therapy, Narrative Therapy, and Liberation Psychology. Selena is also a Partner at WholeSchool Mindfulness, a non-profit organization working at the intersection of education, justice, and mindfulness where she stewards Mindfulness Director outreach, recruitment, and selection. Connect with Selena: www.pramanawellness.com @pramanawellness (IG, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube) www.wholeschoolmindfulness.org www.ibme.com Connect with Shelby: IG: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh support@shelby-leigh.com www.creatingsaferspace.com www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com Body Of Work

In this Solo episode, I get up on my soapbox around quitting the hustle, the comparing and the push as care providers and entrepreneurs growing businesses. So many of my clients are often stunned by the power of slowing down and simplifying and what happens in their businesses and relationship to their businesses when they can work with themselves to allow more space and rest. When we feel safe enough to let the urgency go (or go into the background), there's an immense amount of space to listen, to be inspired, to generate income, to welcome dream clients, to hold money... and more. While often not easy at first because it goes against so much conditioning and survival responses - it is deep medicine for the soul of any growing business. Connect with Shelby: Instagram: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh support@shelby-leigh.com www.creatingsaferspace.com www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com Body Of Work

Kim Coffin vulnerably shares her story of betrayal, loss and abandonment. We explore topics of money, power and control as they have related to both of our experiences in our families of origin. We explore how we have both moved through complex relational trauma in different and similar ways and how we both hold it now. They're vulnerable stories of trauma and incredible healing and empowerment.  A bit about Kim  Kim Coffin is a Trauma Informed Somatic Sex, Love & Relationship Coach, as well as an Empowerment & Sexuality Coach, Female Sexuality Coach, Tantric Sex Coach and founder of Get Your Sexy Back! She specializes in empowerment, confidence, creating trust and safety in our bodies and in our minds, self-love, pleasure, sensuality, intimacy with self and in relationships, as well as relationship transformation for couples, jade egg, tantra and sacred sexuality.  Kim teaches singles and couples how to RECONNECT to their body, ACTIVATE their turn-on, HEAL heartbreak & shame at a body-based level, RECLAIM the places they’ve been disempowered, so they can come back into their body and step into their UNAPOLOGETIC POWER through sacred sexuality. In their relationships, in their businesses, in their body and in their lives. Connect with Kim:  Facebook Instagram - get_your_sexy_back_coach Private Facebook Group - Get Your Sexy Back Sacred Pleasure Membership Book a Complimentary Discovery Call Free Grounding & Balancing Practice Have a listen and let me know how it lands for you! I’m really excited about this new podcast and want to keep shaping it around what’s supportive and engaging for YOU.  Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3B6jUij  Apple: https://apple.co/3nkLzaA  ALSO…we will be transitioning to a new podcast schedule of twice monthly (1st and 3rd Wednesday) starting in June. It has been a wild journey recording 32 weekly podcasts since fall of last year and while it’s been super fun, twice a month feels easier and we’re ALL ABOUT ease here at Team Revolutionary Love. 💙 I’m excited to keep bringing you high-quality conversations with so many incredible trauma-informed people from many modalities this year. Thank you so much for all the people you’ve sent my way to the podcast as well. It’s been incredible to watch the audience grow! Connect with Shelby: IG: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh support@shelby-leigh.com www.creatingsaferspace.com www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com Body Of Work

This episode will leave you feeling loved, inspired, on fire with purpose and ready to challenge some norms. SharRon Jamison, life strategist, author, minister, entrepreneur, and corporate leader, joins me for a powerful conversation around the 4 things needed in healing trauma to get to full liberation.  She motivates and supports high performing womxn around the world to tap into their own unique purpose, pleasure and unstoppable courage. We explore human-centered, dignity-affirming trauma informed care for people who carry various identities and how trauma informed care is not one-size-fits-all. Have a listen and let me know how it lands for you! I’m really excited about this new podcast and want to keep shaping it around what’s supportive and engaging for YOU.💙 ALSO…we've to a new podcast schedule of twice monthly (1st and 3rd Wednesday) starting in June. It has been a wild journey recording 32 weekly podcasts since fall of last year and while it’s been super fun, twice a month feels easier and we’re ALL ABOUT ease here at Team Revolutionary Love. 💙 I’m excited to keep bringing you high-quality conversations with so many incredible trauma-informed people from many modalities this year. Thank you so much for all the people you’ve sent my way to the podcast as well.  It’s been incredible to watch the audience grow! A bit about SharRon SharRon Jamison is a life strategist, author, minister, entrepreneur, and corporate leader who is committed to helping you BE who you were born to be and not settle for what society has taught and told you to be. Through her coaching programs, innovative workshops, wisdom-filled books, empowering sister circles, and speaking events, she passionately challenges people to shed societal “shoulds” and outdated beliefs so they can live  purpose-centered lives SharRon earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Hampton University, Hampton, Virginia. She earned a Master of Business Administration from Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Connect with SharRon: For Free Resources, please click here: https://solo.to/sharronjamison Free on-demand event, Belonging To Me: https://sharronjamison.com/events/ www.SharRonJamison.com Have a listen and let me know how it lands for you! I’m really excited about this new podcast and want to keep shaping it around what’s supportive and engaging for YOU. Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3B6jUij Apple: https://apple.co/3nkLzaA Connect with Shelby: IG: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh support@shelby-leigh.com www.creatingsaferspace.com www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com Body Of Work

How do we create togetherness and safety when things are really hard? Kendra Cover shares 3 embodied tools to deepen and connect in intimate relationships. We explore how there's such an opportunity to open to our fullest expression when we deepen relationships to whatever we're committed to, whether it's ourselves, our businesses and our relationships. When we can have a respite, so much is possible. A bit about Kendra Kendra helps women and couples experience more intimacy, love, and pleasure in their relationships and lives. After volatile beginnings in parenthood and marriage; she co-created a relationship with herself, mothering, and her partner that exceeded her wildest dreams on a daily basis. She specializes in moving from rupture to rapture in a relationship through our fullest expression and going from dull and overwhelmed to alive and well in our bodies as women. Connect with Kendra: IG: kendracover FB: Kendra Cover Website: www.kendracover.com Have a listen and let me know how it lands for you! I’m really excited about this new podcast and want to keep shaping it around what’s supportive and engaging for YOU. Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3B6jUij Apple: https://apple.co/3nkLzaA ALSO…we will be transitioning to a new podcast schedule of twice monthly (1st and 3rd Wednesday) starting in June. It has been a wild journey recording 32 weekly podcasts since fall of last year and while it’s been super fun, twice a month feels easier and we’re ALL ABOUT ease here at Team Revolutionary Love. 💙 I’m excited to keep bringing you high-quality conversations with so many incredible trauma-informed people from many modalities this year. Thank you so much for all the people you’ve sent my way to the podcast as well.  It’s been incredible to watch the audience grow! Connect with Shelby: IG: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh support@shelby-leigh.com www.creatingsaferspace.com www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com Body Of Work

Episode 29: Safer Space In Action Worldwide I don't know if my heart could get any more full! This conversation just left me feeling grounded, clear, purposeful, inspired and EXCITED for the revolution that trauma informed care brings. This episode is packed full of tips, information and embodied experiences and perspectives on trauma-informed care from 6 incredible humans from around the world. Each of my guests in this episode have been through my course Creating Safer Space. I am moved and inspired by what comes through in this conversation. Anyone interested in becoming trauma informed can find value and takeaways from this episode! These 6 incredible humans share about how trauma-informed care (and my course Creating Safer Space!) has impacted their lives and the lives of those they work with. They share tools, new perspectives and SO MUCH valuable information. Even If you just drop In for a few minutes, you'll gather something that could support you for decades. In this episode I am joined by: Anakha Coman, Leadership Consultant and DEI Trainer www.awakeatworkinstitute.com Joyce Victoria Honey, Success & Sexuality Coach www.victoriahoney.com/eroticradiance IG: @ovictoriahoney Lacey Nagar, Confidence Coach IG: @gracefulrisingcoaching Maggie Reyes, Marriage & Life Coach www.MaggieReyes.com Belinda Wiley, Sex & Relationship Coach www.belindawiley.com/ Misha Tsozik, Therapeutic Massage & Bodyworker https://mbodilouisville.com IG and facebook: @mbodi.life Have a listen and let me know how it lands for you! I’m really excited about this new podcast and want to keep shaping it around what’s supportive and engaging for YOU. Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3B6jUij Apple: https://apple.co/3nkLzaA And if you love it, hit subscribe on your favorite podcast platform so you don’t miss an episode.  They’re weekly now!  We’d so appreciate it if you can leave a 5-star review on Apple podcasts so others can find it and this revolutionary mission around supporting folks with trauma can spread further out into the world. And feel free to forward this to anyone you know who might love it. PS. Creating Safer Space is open for enrollment! And we have a live round starting May 2. Read all about here. Connect with Shelby: IG: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh www.shelby-leigh.com https://shelby-leigh.com/embodied-coaching-experience www.creatingsaferspace.com www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com

Do you feel like you need to be “high vibe” all the time? In this episode Ellie and I discuss how as coaches and care providers we don't need to be "high vibe" all the time, and we talk about how that might actually be re-perpeutating traumatic patriarchial experiences for people socialized as women. We talk vulnerably about how we show up as whole humans both running our businesses and supporting others with businesses. This podcast supports coaches and care providers and helps them to look for signs of burnout, to support and welcome the ways your nervous system to thrive, and to embrace our full spectrum human expression. Have a listen and let me know how it lands for you! I’m really excited about this new podcast and want to keep shaping it around what’s supportive and engaging for YOU.💙 ALSO…we will be transitioning to a new podcast schedule of twice monthly (1st and 3rd Wednesday) starting in June. It has been a wild journey recording 32 weekly podcasts since fall of last year and while it’s been super fun, twice a month feels easier and we’re ALL ABOUT ease here at Team Revolutionary Love. 💙 I’m excited to keep bringing you high-quality conversations with so many incredible trauma-informed people from many modalities this year. Thank you so much for all the people you’ve sent my way to the podcast as well.  It’s been incredible to watch the audience grow! A bit about Ellie Ellie is the business coach for the radically fabulous. With 12-years of experience as CEO-for-hire and consultant for aggressive high-growth social start-ups in emerging markets, she realized that success meant nothing if she was too burnt out to enjoy it. She decided that there had to be a way for the over-the-top, more-is-more, lovers of life to define, have, and hold success that makes sense to them and serves their people. With a healing-centred coaching approach that focuses on the biggest levers in business and life, she's now served 100+ clients via her signature programs: Magnetic Business Uplevel; Energetic Styling, and Enough is Enough. Connect with Ellie: www.ellie-barclay.com IG: @ellievbarclay Tiktok: @ellievbarclay Have a listen and let me know how it lands for you! I’m really excited about this new podcast and want to keep shaping it around what’s supportive and engaging for YOU. Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3B6jUij Apple: https://apple.co/3nkLzaA Connect with Shelby: IG: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh support@shelby-leigh.com www.creatingsaferspace.com www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com Body Of Work

How do we “be with” ourselves and others to foster a sense of connection and safety?  In this powerful new episode of the podcast, Enrique Collazo joins me in a conversation about how we welcome vulnerability, suffering, pain and injustice with regulated nervous systems and open hearts. We look at how to be in action in the face of injustice while also staying with ourselves. A bit about Enrique: Enrique is a new generation Mindfulness meditation teacher.  He was born and raised in Los Angeles and has been teaching and living in the Bay Area for the last 10 years. His passion is teaching the practice of mindfulness to teens. He is well loved and respected for his inspirational work at Challenge Day during the school year where he facilitates social and emotional learning workshops for thousands of young people all over the country.  Enrique’s skill with teens has led to teaching internationally for Inward Bound Mindfulness Education. Connect with Enrique: www.ibme.com www.wholeschoolmindfulness.org www.challengeday.org www.dharmahomies.com Have a listen and let me know how it lands for you! I’m really excited about this new podcast and want to keep shaping it around what’s supportive and engaging for YOU. Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3B6jUij Apple: https://apple.co/3nkLzaA ALSO…we will be transitioning to a new podcast schedule of twice monthly (1st and 3rd Wednesday) starting in June. It has been a wild journey recording 32 weekly podcasts since fall of last year and while it’s been super fun, twice a month feels easier and we’re ALL ABOUT ease here at Team Revolutionary Love. 💙 I’m excited to keep bringing you high-quality conversations with so many incredible trauma-informed people from many modalities this year. Thank you so much for all the people you’ve sent my way to the podcast as well.  It’s been incredible to watch the audience grow! Connect with Shelby: IG: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh support@shelby-leigh.com www.creatingsaferspace.com www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com Body Of Work

In this episode we explore a pathway to our fullest expression through anger and aliveness. Juna Mustad and I dive into ways to feel safe enough to be in a healthy relationship to anger. Through this, tapping into an expanded capacity for life force, more energy and health.  We share our own tools and personal stories in creating new relationships to anger and its important messages. Over the last 13 years, Juna has been supporting people to develop emotional intelligence, grow their intuition, create healthy relationships and embrace their full potential. She works with individuals and groups around the world to support them in healing, embodiment and enhancing overall wellbeing. Juna is trained as a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, a coach, and is also an intuitive. Through her work, she aims to bridge the worlds of spirituality with greater body awareness and emotional intelligence. Where you can find Juna Website: www.JunaMustad.com Instagram: @juna.mustad Facebook: Juna Mustad Have a listen and let me know how it lands for you! I’m really excited about this new podcast and want to keep shaping it around what’s supportive and engaging for YOU. Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3B6jUij Apple: https://apple.co/3nkLzaA And if you love it, hit subscribe on your favorite podcast platform so you don’t miss an episode. We’d so appreciate it if you can leave a 5-star review on Apple podcasts so others can find it and this revolutionary mission around supporting folks with trauma can spread further out into the world. And feel free to forward this to anyone you know who might love it. Connect with Shelby: IG: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh support@shelby-leigh.com www.creatingsaferspace.com www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com Body Of Work

I’m excited to share with you this behind the scenes peek into my relationship with Ellen May who's been my virtual assistant for three and a half years.  It's a vulnerable story of friendship and navigating work relationships even with dysregulated nervous systems and trauma histories. It's a celebration of all the awesome-ness that can unfold when there's some structure for the magic to flow. This episode is for business owners, entrepreneurs and CEOs wanting more warmth and celebration in their work relationships. Connect with Ellen Instagram - @ellenismagic & @_maker_of_things Website - www.ellenmay.com.au Facebook - @ellenmaycoaching Have a listen and let me know how it lands for you! I’m really excited about this new podcast and want to keep shaping it around what’s supportive and engaging for YOU. Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3B6jUij Apple: https://apple.co/3nkLzaA Connect with Shelby: IG: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh support@shelby-leigh.com www.creatingsaferspace.com www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com Body Of Work

How much do you share with your clients? In this episode I share about how so many of us coaches, therapists and facilitators are told that we should tell our stories to build trust with clients and potential clients. On the other hand, some of us are told not to share anything about ourselves so we can be blank slates and so that we don’t influence our clients with our experiences. I share my perspective on both sides of this conversation and tips on how to strike a balance between the two. This applies to our marketing and your direct interactions with clients and students. ✷ How can we check within our own bodies to understand how, when and why sharing our stories can sometimes be beneficial. Have a listen and let me know how it lands for you! I’m really excited about this new podcast and want to keep shaping it around what’s supportive and engaging for YOU.💙 Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3B6jUij Apple: https://apple.co/3nkLzaA ALSO…we will be transitioning to a new podcast schedule of twice monthly (1st and 3rd Wednesday) starting in June. It has been a wild journey recording 32 weekly podcasts since fall of last year and while it’s been super fun, twice a month feels easier and we’re ALL ABOUT ease here at Team Revolutionary Love. 💙 I’m excited to keep bringing you high-quality conversations with so many incredible trauma-informed people from many modalities this year. Thank you so much for all the people you’ve sent my way to the podcast as well.  It’s been incredible to watch the audience grow! Stay tuned for solo and guest podcasts with these three themes: → trauma and trauma informed care → the power of therapeutic relationships → embodied practice as care providers And as always, I am so grateful for all your incredible emails and comments on how this podcast is impacting you - keep ’em coming!  And if you ever want any of your questions and inquiries around these 3 above topics addressed in the pod, let me know what they are and I’ll do my best!  It’s you, my listeners, that keep me going…and I have so much gratitude for you! Connect with Shelby: Instagram: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh support@shelby-leigh.com www.creatingsaferspace.com www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com Body Of Work

I don't know if my heart could get any more full! This conversation just left me feeling grounded, clear, purposeful, inspired and EXCITED for the revolution that trauma informed care brings. This episode is packed full of tips, information and embodied experiences and perspectives on trauma-informed care from 6 incredible humans from around the world. Each of my guests in this episode have been through my course Creating Safer Space. I am moved and inspired by what comes through in this conversation. Anyone interested in becoming trauma informed can find value and takeaways from this episode! These 6 incredible humans share about how trauma-informed care (and my course Creating Safer Space!) has impacted their lives and the lives of those they work with. They share tools, new perspectives and SO MUCH valuable information. Even If you just drop In for a few minutes, you'll gather something that could support you for decades. In this episode I am joined by: Anakha Coman, Leadership Consultant and DEI Trainer www.awakeatworkinstitute.com Joyce Victoria Honey, Success & Sexuality Coach  www.victoriahoney.com/eroticradiance  IG: @ovictoriahoney Lacey Nagar, Confidence Coach IG: @gracefulrisingcoaching Maggie Reyes, Marriage & Life Coach www.MaggieReyes.com Belinda Wiley, Sex & Relationship Coach www.belindawiley.com/ Misha Tsozik, Therapeutic Massage & Bodyworker https://mbodilouisville.com IG and facebook: @mbodi.life Have a listen and let me know how it lands for you! I’m really excited about this new podcast and want to keep shaping it around what’s supportive and engaging for YOU. Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3B6jUij Apple: https://apple.co/3nkLzaA And if you love it, hit subscribe on your favorite podcast platform so you don’t miss an episode.  They’re weekly now!  We’d so appreciate it if you can leave a 5-star review on Apple podcasts so others can find it and this revolutionary mission around supporting folks with trauma can spread further out into the world. And feel free to forward this to anyone you know who might love it. PS. Creating Safer Space is open for enrollment! And we have a live round starting May 2. Read all about here.

I am so excited to share with you this special episode! Tamsin Crimmens is back for a powerful discussion on trauma informed business expansion. We explore HOW to surrender to the momentum while expanding in business in a gentle and authentic way. Tamsin shares honestly about her path from feeling like a hot mess to feeling empowered as an entrepreneur and as someone who fiercely and lovingly supports others to grow their businesses and messages. Here is a little bit more about Tamsin: Tamsin is a writer and mentor for (quietly) revolutionary coaches, healers and world-changers. She’s obsessed with helping best-kept-secrets who’d love to be more “industry famous” to discover the medicine in their message, feel safe enough to share it, and get paid for their ideas. A rare mix of space holder, storyteller and entrepreneur, she helps women who are tired of playing small to activate their Inner Creatrix (that all-powerful creative energy that makes magical messaging) so they can freak their audience out and have them saying “How are you inside my head!!?” As a former journalist with bylines in ELLE, Stylist, Grazia, The Guardian, The Telegraph, and The Sunday Times Style mag, she’s written about it all and interviewed everyone from Caitlin Moran to Stella McCartney. Along a journey that’s taken in everything from political communications and women’s magazines to the world of yoga, womb and somatic healing, Tamsin follows the philosophy of 'Body First, Mind Second’, to support her clients to access their deepest truth and express it in a way that builds sustainable success. To explore more of her work, check out these links: www.tamsincrimmens.co.uk Instagram @tamsincrimmens Have a listen and let me know how it lands for you! I’m really excited about this new podcast and want to keep shaping it around what’s supportive and engaging for YOU. Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3B6jUij Apple: https://apple.co/3nkLzaA Connect with Shelby: Instagram: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh support@shelby-leigh.com www.creatingsaferspace.com www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com Body Of Work

This solo episode is a conversation I think is so important for all practitioners. Many of us, as care providers, find ourselves in places where we’re on a big or little emotional rollercoaster. Dysregulated, struggling with health issues, stuck in stress responses and facing chaos and instability in our lives in various ways. In this week’s episode I share my thoughts and experiences as someone who spent years overwhelmed by what felt like daily crises and how showing up as a coach and therapist helped me. And also how I stabilized myself enough to be able to show up in the first place.I will give tips on how to gauge if we need to step away from supporting others, how to regulate ourselves and care for ourselves if we can’t step away and also how to allow ourselves to be human - tender, vulnerable and with expertise in our fields as life happens. If you saw the FB live last week - this is it!  Because it felt important enough to put it in all the places that people might want to hear it. Have a listen and let me know how it lands for you! I’m really excited about this new podcast and want to keep shaping it around what’s supportive and engaging for YOU. Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3B6jUij Apple: https://apple.co/3nkLzaA Connect with Shelby: Instagram: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh www.creatingsaferspace.com www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com Body Of Work

This is GOLD…listen in is as Shelly Bhowmik, MD MPH, describes a pivotal moment in her career as a physician. She went from questioning her life on a subway platform to creating space and support for herself to really begin to thrive. In this episode we talk about how this type of revelation is more common than we’d like to think in the medical field. We acknowledge the layers of stress and trauma that so many people in healthcare face and a way towards more ease and purpose. A bit about Shelly Shelly Bhowmik, MD MPH is the founder of Platform Wellness, a practice dedicated to helping people heal from burnout. Her practice is based on the belief that mindset is medicine, a belief she came to realize through her own journey that began at the edge of a subway platform. Dr. Bhowmik is a double board-certified physician specializing in Preventive Medicine and Lifestyle Medicine. She earned her medical degree from the George Washington School of Medicine and Health Sciences, and completed her residency at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her previous roles include being a design thinking strategist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles and serving as medical director of digital health for an executive health firm in New York City. As the founder Platform Wellness her mission is to help people, especially women and people of color, excel personally and professionally without having to sacrifice their health and wellbeing. Connect with Shelly Website: www.shellybhowmik.com Have a listen and let me know how it lands for you! I’m really excited about this new podcast and want to keep shaping it around what’s supportive and engaging for YOU. Connect with Shelby: Instagram: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh www.creatingsaferspace.com www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com Body Of Work

This podcast is for entrepreneurs of many kinds. It's for people with periods and those who support them. Masie and I explore all sorts of themes around creating safer healthcare - whether we’re patients or practitioners. Together we leave no stones unturned…can healthcare professionals be allies for women and those with menstrual cycles? How can patients feel safer as their own advocates? How can we as entrepreneurs allow deep vulnerability and strength to navigate life impacted by overwhelm and health challenges? How does being knowledgeable of our own cycles shape our approach to life and work? We touch also touch on: How to build a new relationship with your cycle Altering your experience of life and business How you can thrive long term as someone who experiences a cycle. A bit about Maisie Maisie Hill is a highly qualified and sought-after menstrual health expert with over 15 years of experience as a practitioner, coach, and birth doula. Maisie knows the power of working with the menstrual cycle and believes that our hormones are there to serve us and help us get what we want out of life. What lights Maisie up is helping others to understand the inner workings of the reproductive system so that they can make sense of their menstrual cycle and use their hormones to great advantage in their lives. Maisie is also the author of Period Power and Perimenopause Power. Connect with Maisie: WEBSITE: www.maisiehill.com INSTAGRAM: @_maisiehill_ FACEBOOK: Maisie Hill TWITTER: @maisiehill_ Have a listen and let me know how it lands for you! I’m really excited about this new podcast and want to keep shaping it around what’s supportive and engaging for YOU. Have a listen here: 🎤 🎧 Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3B6jUij Apple: https://apple.co/3nkLzaA Connect with Shelby: Instagram: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh support@shelby-leigh.com www.creatingsaferspace.com www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com Embodied Coaching Experience

We have more access to creativity, intelligence and expression when we feel safe. In this episode I interview Danielle Cohen, a visibility coach and brand photographer. She describes how no single image COULD EVER tell the full story of who you are…and in this episode she shares with us that we can build a body of work and a body of expression to share our work with the world. We also talk about and breakdown: How we contribute to growing "safeness" with our clients and the groups we facilitate  How being explicit with our roles, expectations and agreements is kind to those we are working with  Attachment theory, CPTSD, developmental trauma and various ways to build a foundation between us and those that we support when in the role of care provider How to co-create space with others and acknowledge each of our individual needs for safety. These tools are helpful for everyone - not just folks with trauma.  About Danielle: Danielle Cohen (she/her) is a visibility coach and brand photographer with a unique approach to helping pro-social creative entrepreneurs, coaches, visionaries, and healers (aka beacons) step into and offer their greatest work by becoming more visible on their terms, owning their story and their magic, having the impact they’re here to have and thriving while doing it. Instagram: @daniellecohenphotography Website: www.visibilitymedicine.com  www.danielle-cohen.com Connect with Shelby: Instagram: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh www.creatingsaferspace.com www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com Body Of Work

This episode is for people who are entrepreneurs running their own coaching, therapy and wellness-based businesses. Do you ever secretly (or not so secretly) get stuck comparing your offerings to others in your industry?  Do you get stuck in freeze or get bogged down overwhelmed by what everyone else is doing? In this episode, I share how I recently navigated this inside myself and investigate my own experience of comparison in relationship to running a coaching business. Being an entrepreneur comes with all sorts of emotions and internal processes. I share 4 ways to embrace insecurities: staying "in our lanes,” focusing on our own mission, committing to our visions and leaning into support. Connect with Shelby: Instagram: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh www.creatingsaferspace.com www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com Body Of Work

Do you ever wonder what specific things you can do and say to better support your clients who've experienced trauma?  In this episode, I go over 9 key takeaways that you can start integrating into your practice NOW (whether you're a coach, therapist, facilitator, healer or healthcare professional) to bring more trauma sensitivity into your workplace and provide trauma-informed care to your clients.  The thing is...we don't always know what trauma our clients have endured, nor do we always know how trauma shows up in the individual we work with.  These broad-spectrum tips will help you help folx who've experienced trauma - by developing trust, honoring where they're at in their journey, and establishing a safe-enough setting for healing.  As you'll discover...trust is also developed in the repair, that is...how we acknowledge, address and hold space for when we screw up.  If you don't already have it, here's access to my 7 Step Process for Revolutionary Repairs video! This is a perfect follow up lesson to my Tip #9: Trust is Built in the Repair. Connect with Shelby: Instagram: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh www.creatingsaferspace.com www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com Body Of Work

Anakha Coman joins me for a connecting, deep and insightful conversation around healing in relationships. We talk about personally about our personal friendship and relationship as colleagues. She shares 4 clear and simple concepts and practices to deepen our relationships, especially when there’s overwhelm, which can be supportive in both personal and professional settings. Both Anakha and Shelby share how these principles shape their lives and how they've been foundational for their own healing and growth. About Anakha: Anakha speaks, teaches and consults with leaders and organizations worldwide. Companies she’s worked with include Intel, Nike, Microsoft, Eli Lilly, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Zappos, SalesForce.com, the Mindfulness as Medicine Initiative, Save the Children and Parker Hannifin. She designed and co-authored the foundational curriculum for Intel’s corporate mindfulness program and co-founded and launched Awake@Intel, a successful initiative to realize the potential of employee and corporate intelligence. She created and facilitates Awake at Work, a mindfulness based program with a focus on increasing employee engagement, intentional inclusion, creativity, resilience and collaboration. With an emphasis on mindful leadership, intentional culture, equity and inclusion, and creativity, Anakha’s expertise is in organizational and leadership development. She holds a Masters in Organizational and Leadership Development, a Masters in Consciousness/Divinity, and a professional certificate in Spirituality, Health and Medicine. Anakha is a certified Unpack Biases Now facilitator, a certified embodiment practitioner, a certified Expressive Arts therapist and an ordained interfaith minister. Connect with Anakha at www.equitybydesignusa.com/about/ Connect with Shelby: Instagram: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh support@shelby-leigh.com www.creatingsaferspace.com www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com Body Of Work

How can we thrive as coaches & entrepreneurs amidst life's chaos? Crystal and I explore regulation, titration & pleasure (even If we aren't in the mood for pleasure) from a business perspective. We investigate how we can embrace our familiar survival responses around stress and urgency through care, pleasure, regulation and connection as we operate our businesses. Crystal shares how her near death experience showed her what's important and how to come into presence and breath to stay regulated through it all. About Crystal Avila Langen  Crystal is a Coach for Revolutionary Entrepreneurs who want to run their business with the principles of fun, play, and pleasure.  She is a Certified Speaker, Online Course Creatress and Thought Leader.  Crystal is the leader of the women’s movement The Red Lip Revolution™ and is passionate about reclaiming the lost Sacred Art of Adornment and how such a simple and accessible act can provide such profound shifts. She loves anything entrepreneurship, business, marketing, branding, money, spreadsheets, friendship, and music. Crystal lives in the SF Bay Area and has 3 amazing children and has been devoted to her beloved for 22 years. She has a degree in Instructional Technology. You can find her at www.crystallangen.com  and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/groups/522219611482293 Connect with Shelby: Instagram: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh www.creatingsaferspace.com www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com Body Of Work

Casey and I find so many personal and professional similarities as we explore concepts like Slowing the F down in our work and in our trauma healing. We share:  Our histories as highly competitive athletes, ignoring our bodies and living in a state of pushing through to perform. The highs and lows of being athletes from such young ages.  Casey brings her steadiness, joyfulness and spaciousness - modeling the deep embodiment and inner connection she’s gained now and is an advocate for in all of her work. About Casey Hall: Casey has spent the past 12 years fine-tuning her passion for helping people improve their relationship with themselves. Now, she's a Healthy Sensuality Coach. She began her career teaching nutrition and physical activity to children and adults with disabilities and was even a high school sex-ed teacher! Casey went on to teach wellness on a larger scale, focusing on disease management, weight loss, and holistic stress management.After coaching thousands of people, she recognized there was a missing piece to the holistic wellness equation. Through spending 2 years getting certified as a Sex, Love, and Relationship coach, she realized that forming a healthy relationship with your sensuality was the missing piece. Healthy sensuality means being connected to your senses, to the messages that your body is constantly giving you, and understanding how this connection plays a crucial role in your relationship to yourself and others.Sensuality is a tender topic and Casey attributes her ability to navigate it lovingly and effectively to her trauma-informed training. Casey is now a full-time Healthy Sensuality Coach and co-hosts the podcast "Slow The F Down Show". She also is co-founder of The Love School - A Group Coaching Program. Have a listen and let me know how it lands for you! I’m really excited about this new podcast and want to keep shaping it around what’s supportive and engaging for YOU. Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3B6jUij Apple: https://apple.co/3nkLzaA Connect with Shelby: Instagram: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh www.creatingsaferspace.com www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com Body Of Work

Ellinor Grace and I explore what it's like to welcome the "inner bitch" part of themselves and share their past experiences of what it's like to not have access to anger, healthy boundaries and personal needs and wants. Through connected conversation, we honor the inner people pleaser and those parts that were trying so much to help us feel safe, loved and with a sense of belonging. A bit more about Ellinor, in her words: “I'm Ellinor Grace, an Embodiment Guide, Soul Alchemist, World Wanderer and Creative. I work with individuals who desire to live their truth & BE (Brilliance Embodied). I am a guide on the journey to connect to the healer within and your unique code of brilliance. My values of courage, truth, devotion, flow and creation anchor my work and life. I bring my brilliance: vulnerability and intuition, to cultivate sacred space for deep healing and transformation. This transformation movement is about growing roots deep to anchor us as we courageously step into the unknown. By doing so, we create a powerful community of world changers, healers and creatives who embody their inherent brilliance and intentionally move towards a more equitable, just and free world for us all; While also in harmony with Mother Earth and all its inhabitants.” To connect with Ellinor:  www.brillianceembodied.com  IG: @brillianceembodied Have a listen and let me know how it lands for you! I’m really excited about this new podcast and want to keep shaping it around what’s supportive and engaging for YOU. Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3B6jUij Apple: https://apple.co/3nkLzaA Connect with Shelby: Instagram: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh support@shelby-leigh.com www.creatingsaferspace.com www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com Body Of Work

Will Rezin and I get specific about trauma healing techniques that have gone awry in the past.  We discuss if there could be a world where "the end of trauma" exists and how we might imagine that to happen. Will and I bring in pieces of their Vajrayana and Theravada Buddhist paths in relation to how we view suffering and how we view freedom in the fullest expression of humanity. More about Will: Will Rezin is a mystic, philosopher, somatic coach & trainer, and trauma integration specialist who guides individuals on the often mystical and winding journey of waking up to their own aliveness. Will integrates 21 years of inner work, esoteric inquiry, and cultural research with 13 years of professional experience in the healing arts. Everything Will does supports his personal mission to end human suffering, and his professional mission to bring trauma-informed care into the mainstream so that it can be available to everyone who needs it, without stigma or exclusion. Connect with Will: Facebook: Will Rezin Instagram: @willrezin Website: www.awakensoma.com | www.traumaandsomatics.com Have a listen and let me know how it lands for you! I’m really excited about this new podcast and want to keep shaping it around what’s supportive and engaging for YOU. Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3B6jUij Apple: https://apple.co/3nkLzaA Connect with Shelby: Instagram: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh www.creatingsaferspace.com www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com Body Of Work

I am joined by Best-Selling Author Stephen Terrell in a deep and heartfelt discussion around developmental trauma.  We touch on the power of embodied presence, hanging out, leaning back and welcoming all parts of each client.  In this captivating episode, Stephen shares vulnerability about his past and his experience of neurodiversity.  Coaches, clients, healthcare practitioners alike will gain something from the embodied experience of simply listening and receiving this wisdom.  A bit more about Stephen: Stephen 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. His background and training began as a Rogerian Approach which involves active listening skills. He continues to incorporate this approach in his work in addition to his training in Somatic Experiencing®, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Touch Training for Therapists, Didactic Developmental Psychotherapy, and EMDR for Adopted Children. Stephen combines all his training experiences to see the client holistically (Mind, Body, Psychologically, and Spiritually). Connect with Stephen: Website: www.austinattach.com Have a listen and let me know how it lands for you! I’m really excited about this new podcast and want to keep shaping it around what’s supportive and engaging for YOU. Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3B6jUij Apple: https://apple.co/3nkLzaA Connect with Shelby: Instagram: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh www.creatingsaferspace.com www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com Body Of Work

Megan deBoer of Tended Wealth models for us what it's like to slow down as we build safer relationships with ourselves as we cultivate a meaningful relationship with money.  She shares about many somatic elements of holding and growing money in ways that our nervous systems can tolerate and expand with.  She brings her embodied wisdom of years of supporting female identified business owners as they become empowered and clear with their business and money growth. A bit more about Megan: Megan deBoer is the founder of Tended Wealth, a business that helps individuals heal their emotional and practical relationship to money. As a certified Financial Recovery Counselor, her approach considers the context of our current financial circumstance: our lived experience, our family of origin, and the broad culture that together shape our beliefs about money. She is passionate about transforming this fundamental part of our lives from shame and overwhelm to a sense of agency, clarity, and potential. She specializes in helping women who are self-employed to radically increase their earning. Her course participants and 1:1 clients regularly attest to the life changing power of this work. To connect with Megan visit: Website :tendedwealth.com Instagram: @tendedwealth Have a listen and let me know how it lands for you! I’m really excited about this new podcast and want to keep shaping it around what’s supportive and engaging for YOU. Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3B6jUij Apple: https://apple.co/3nkLzaA Connect with Shelby: Instagram: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh www.creatingsaferspace.com www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com Body Of Work

Aurianna and I explore our experiences of neurodivergence and how that relates to sensitivity, attunement and being with others in a way they feel seen, heard and understood.  We also talk about plant medicine journeys and the importance of practicing the concepts of "less is more" and "integration".  We end by getting to hear about Aurianna's passion for death and dying as a death doula. A bit more about Aurianna: Aurianna Joy is an embodiment mentor, herbalist, doula, and trauma-resolution educator who guides individuals on the delicate path of cultivating aliveness and living a life free from trauma. Using her 15 years of personal inner work and spiritual growth combined with 10 years of professional experience in the healing arts, she weaves an intricate web of awakening for those in devotion to their path of Becoming. To connect with Aurianna: traumaandsomatics.com auriannajoy.com instagram.com/auriannajoy Facebook.com/aurianna.explores Have a listen and let me know how it lands for you! I’m really excited about this new podcast and want to keep shaping it around what’s supportive and engaging for YOU. Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3B6jUij Apple: https://apple.co/3nkLzaA Connect with Shelby: IG: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh www.creatingsaferspace.com www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com Body Of Work

Renée Hilliard, MD discusses how focusing on creating a connected and warm relationship with our clients and patients can make it or break it in terms of healing.  She shares about her experiences as a physician, and now a coach, and how creating time and space for our own nervous systems and self-care are imperative in keeping us from burnout.  This thought provoking conversation shows us how tending to ourselves and those we work with in health and wellness with great humanity matters. A bit more about Renée: Renée Hilliard MD: Renée currently practices as a certified intimacy and relationship coach after being in private practice as an obstetrician & gynecologist for over 20 yrs. She takes a holistic approach to caring for people mind, body and spirit. She received a Bachelor of Science in psychobiology and was part of The Autism Project at UCLA before receiving her Medical Doctorate from University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor. Renée is passionate about the neuroscience of trauma and is deeply committed to bringing trauma awareness to healing spaces. To connect with Renée: Website: reneehilliard.com Instagram: @reneehilliardmd Facebook: Renee Hilliard Connect with Shelby: IG: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh www.creatingsaferspace.com www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com Body Of Work

Perinatal Nurse and Educator Jen Atkisson vulnerably shares her personal story that led to getting fired up about trauma informed care for nurses, doctors and their patients.  Jen and I explore: Slowing down How trauma informed care doesn't mean having to be a therapist Simple things to implement to support patients AND medical staff Having deep compassion for the lives of those working in healthcare About Jen: Jen Atkisson is a certified perinatal nurse and educator, with a Master's of Science in Clinical Nurse Leadership from the University of Portland. She has practiced in hospitals, birth centers and public health clinics for the past 15 years, supporting thousands of patients as they move through the birth process. She believes in the power of trauma-aware practices to bring joy back into our professional lives and allow us to have the meaningful patient relationships we all went into healthcare originally to have. Website: jenatkisson.com Instagram: @jenatkisson Or Contact: jen.atkisson@gmail.com Have a listen and let me know how it lands for you! I’m really excited about this new podcast and want to keep shaping it around what’s supportive and engaging for YOU. Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3B6jUij Apple: https://apple.co/3nkLzaA Connect with Shelby: Instagram: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh support@shelby-leigh.com www.creatingsaferspace.com www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com Body Of Work

Liz Riley Christiano and I wander through the power of building safety in healing relationships and in ourselves.  We explore what it's like to be seen as "expert" in our care providing roles and how to frame it in a more healthy way so our clients get to be the experts of their own experience.  We touch on some of the possible roots of this dynamic throughout the US. A bit more about Liz: Liz Riley Christiano is a Love Coach and Nervous System Whisperer. She helps people melt the trauma and stress that lingers from relational and emotional wounds, so that they may live from their own energetic centers. She is passionate about healing work that helps us to live joyful, interconnected lives, and is grateful for the melanated teachers who continue to illuminate the path towards true individual and collective healing. Liz lives in Berkeley, CA with her husband and two kids. To find out more about Liz visit: www.lizrileychristiano.com IG: @lizrileychristiano Have a listen and let me know how it lands for you! I’m really excited about this new podcast and want to keep shaping it around what’s supportive and engaging for YOU. Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3B6jUij Apple: https://apple.co/3nkLzaAConnect with Shelby: Connect with Shelby: Instagram: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh support@shelby-leigh.com www.creatingsaferspace.com www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com Body Of Work

In this episode Julia Bernard-Thompson shares new perspectives on how to be in a loving relationship with money.  We explore holding money as a practice, high-ticket sales and how to support the nervous system to feel safe with money. A bit about Julia: Julia grew up in Trinidad and Tobago and is currently based in the UK. She is a coach, TedX speaker, and founder of Radical Revenue. She encourages coaches to build revenue by focusing on consistent, high ticket, premium sales. She has worked in business development for over 15 years, and has led teams and coached clients to $300 million in revenue. If you are ready to uplevel your faith, freedom, and finances, she is the coach for you. For more information about Julia check out this link: https://www.juliabernardthompson.com/intensive/ Connect with Shelby: IG: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh www.creatingsaferspace.com www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com Body Of Work

In this deeply vulnerable and connected episode, Julia shines her light on all things creativity and how so many people experience states of trauma that block them from allowing their fullest expressions through.  She coaches me through some deep things that arise around her creativity blocks.  There are tears and joys and so much presence and connection.  Julia beautifully models attunement, empathy, validation, skill and creativity as we navigate the exact thing together that comes up for so many people. ***A note on sound quality for this episode: I am SO SORRY, especially to those of you with extra sensitive ears, but my earring was rubbing on my microphone as I was recording part of this episode. It's mostly in the beginning, and the sound improves as the episode goes on.  About Julia: Julia Berryman is an Artist & Empowerment Coach. She passionately believes that each and every one of us has an Inner Artist just waiting to be awakened and that embracing our full range of expression is key to creative living! Julia’s workshops and coaching blend art, dance, emotional expression & somatic processing. Working with her, people learn to listen to their body, intuition, and emotions and become emboldened to share their gifts from a space of greater joy, delight and play. As an artist, Julia creates Soul Essence Portraits. This unique process blends embodied coaching with the creation of a custom-made intuitive painting that brings a person’s dreams, visions, and soul gifts to life. Julia is also the co-founder of AARISE, a community program that centers AAPI activist history, social justice teachings, emotional processing and somatic healing. This program was featured in Time Magazine in the spring of 2021. You can learn more about Julia’s work on her website: www.juliaberryman.com or stay in touch via Instagram @julia.joyfulwild. Have a listen and let me know how it lands for you! I’m really excited about this new podcast and want to keep shaping it around what’s supportive and engaging for YOU. Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3B6jUij Apple: https://apple.co/3nkLzaA Connect with Shelby: Instagram: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh support@shelby-leigh.com www.creatingsaferspace.com www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com Body Of Work

In this episode, Kimberly talks about her path to offering trauma informed support for her business coaching clients.  She shares her own stories of not feeling safe in other's healing spaces which inspired her to really learn and understand the power of trauma informed care.  We explore the power of not taking people over their edges and staying within their windows of presence to be able to truly receive the work they're diving into, no matter WHAT the work is. About Kimberly King: Kim is an Intuitive Business Coach and certified in Life & Success Coaching, NLP, EFT, TIME Techniques and Hypnosis. She works with creatives, visionaries and spiritual leaders to help them build a sustainable business that aligns with their values, authentically express themselves through their brand, and become impactful leaders. She integrates a trauma-informed approach to her coaching and is committed to continuously educating herself on creating a safer and more inclusive space for her clients and community. www.kimberlyking.ca www.leadwithsoul.ca Instagram: @kimberlykingcoaching Have a listen and let me know how it lands for you! I’m really excited about this new podcast and want to keep shaping it around what’s supportive and engaging for YOU. Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3B6jUij Apple: https://apple.co/3nkLzaA Connect with Shelby: Instagram: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh www.creatingsaferspace.com www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com Body Of Work

She had it backwards! In this episode, I break down the difference between being "trauma aware" vs "trauma informed" for anyone who is a care provider working individually or within an organization or system.  People who haven't been overwhelmed by the impacts of trauma also value these types of care as well. You'll learn why being trauma informed is a necessity whereas being "trauma specific" is not.  In addition, I walk you through how to start moving towards being direct and informative with people impacted by trauma instead of haphazardly tiptoeing around them. Have a listen and let me know how it lands for you! I’m really excited about this new podcast and want to keep shaping it around what’s supportive and engaging for YOU. Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3B6jUij Apple: https://apple.co/3nkLzaA Connect with Shelby: Instagram: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh www.creatingsaferspace.com www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com Body Of Work

"Receiving means to accept and we have to do that with our whole body." Tamsin shares about being allergic to strategy, the joys of sinking into embodiment and nervous system regulation, and seeing such beautiful results in her coaching business from this place. We talk about "unusual" business strategy and how much ease and pleasure can come from choosing how we want to be in relationship to our businesses from a settled and connected place. We share the piece that unlocked Tamsin's ability to receive her first 10k month, which felt so surprising to her.  Have a listen and let me know how it lands for you! I’m really excited about this new podcast and want to keep shaping it around what’s supportive and engaging for YOU. Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3B6jUij Apple: https://apple.co/3nkLzaA Connect with Shelby: IG: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh www.creatingsaferspace.com www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com Body Of Work

Slowing down into the magic of the nervous system regulation work - we explore the concept of regulation and co-regulation from the felt sense. With the power of the therapeutic relationship, we have an incredible tool we can use to help others feel safe enough to be with their felt sense so they can regulate and feel balanced and connected. Marina shares that the wholeness of who we are is what allows us to be connected with people and with this planet we co-exist with. When we can sink into embodiment, we can be more responsive to what is needed inside and out from a caring place. About Marina:  Marina Nabão is a body enthusiast, passionate about the wisdom and healing power of our bodies and all the ways we are able to integrate mind-body-spirituality in a conscious and loving way so we can thrive. As an embodiment coach and somatic healer, she supports women and non-binary vulva owners who are trapped in the chains of past trauma and have a deep desire to reclaim their sovereign power and inner freedom. She’s also a Senior Teacher at Layla Martin’s year-long VITA™  Sex, Love & Relationship Coaching Certification. Marina grew up in Brazil and now lives in the SF Bay Area, CA, with her husband and their rescue dog Jessie. Find out more at marinanabao.com Have a listen and let me know how it lands for you! I’m really excited about this new podcast and want to keep shaping it around what’s supportive and engaging for YOU. Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3B6jUij Apple: https://apple.co/3nkLzaA Connect with Shelby: IG: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh www.creatingsaferspace.com www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com Body Of Work

In this second episode, I dive right in to unpack and define "Trauma". I also answer the commonly asked question: “does it ever go away?” I share a bit more of my own personal story and what I've learned through the experience of sitting with clients over the years (and through the many trauma trainings taken). In addition, I give a really impactful definition around how trauma equals broken connections - connection to spirit, to self, to others, etc.  This podcast reveals the gift of healing through creating a new relationship to trauma. There is so much to know about trauma, and over the many episodes of this podcast, its definition, how to notice it, and work with it will become more and more clear. Have a listen and let me know how it lands for you! I’m really excited about this new podcast and want to keep shaping it around what’s supportive and engaging for YOU. Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3B6jUij Apple: https://apple.co/3nkLzaA Connect with Shelby: IG: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh support@shelby-leigh.com www.creatingsaferspace.com www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com Body Of Work

In this solo episode, I explore the power of the therapeutic relationship in any industry. I talk about how trauma can impact relationships negatively and how healing relationships can impact us in positive and profound ways. I also share some of my own vulnerable history around relationships and how tapping into co-regulation has been nourishing for me and the people I support, both in individual and group sessions. Whether you're a therapist, coach, facilitator, medical professional or someone healing their own trauma - this episode will inspire and help you exhale into this moment right here. Have a listen and let me know how it lands for you! I’m really excited about this new podcast and want to keep shaping it around what’s supportive and engaging for YOU. Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3B6jUij Apple: https://apple.co/3nkLzaA Connect with Shelby: Instagram: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh www.creatingsaferspace.com www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com Body Of Work

Introducing: Relationship As Medicine: Trauma Informed Stories From The Field, hosted by Shelby Leigh, the Founder of Creating Safer Space and Creating Safer Healthcare. This podcast explores trauma informed healing through the lens of relationship.  Coaches, Therapists, Healthcare Providers, Facilitators of all kinds will learn about the power of the therapeutic relationship in helping clients and patients with trauma to be able to truly receive the support that's being offered.   This podcast is supportive for practitioners inspired by Embodied (Somatic) approaches to supporting people with trauma AND themselves.  Practitioners who are able to be regulated, present, and connected are more at ease in their lives and work and can provide an incredible foundation for healing and growth for the people they work with. Connect with Shelby: IG: @fierceheart.shelbyleigh www.creatingsaferspace.com www.creatingsaferhealthcare.com Body Of Work