Self Care - Little by Little, Peace by Peace
This is your small dose podcast for self-care, personal growth, mindset shifts, and creating lasting change thru small, consistent steps. This 20 minute or less show delivers practical strategies to help you reduce stress, improve your mindset, and build a more peaceful, purpose-driven life. Whether you're seeking improved mental health, clarity, emotional balance, or motivation to move forward, each episode offers real tools, empowering insights, and inspiring conversations to support your journey.
Shirley is a certified life and mindset coach who uses her own life experiences to give you easy, small tips to help you move forward with small changes that can lead to powerful life-changing results. This self-care podcast is for busy parents trying to find balance, high-powered professionals trying to do it all, students managing work and school, retirees trying to find themselves again, or anyone else looking to prioritize their mental health and become more mindful as they build the peaceful life they deserve.
This show is for you if you’re asking yourself:
* How do I ensure my mental health becomes and remains a priority?
*How do I learn to let go and reduce stress?
* How do create more peace in a hectic life?
* How do put myself first and still care for others?
* What are simple self-care habits that actually work?
* How do I learn to love and trust myself?
* How can I build a strong mindset to deal with anything?
* And how do I stay consistent and true to building the life I deserve?
Episodes
82 episodes
82| Mental Health (and Physical) Impacts of Loneliness & Free Ways to Reconnect
What if the thing most hurting your health right now isn't your diet or your workout routine, but how alone you feel, even when you're surrounded by people? Chronic loneliness is as risky as smoking almost a pack of cigarettes a day but the cur...
81| Secret Self Care Thru Random Acts of Kindness
What if self care isn't always about doing something for yourself at all, but doing something small for someone else instead? Have you ever noticed how doing a random act of kindness for a total stranger can feel almost as good as when someone ...
80| Self Care in Grief - Supporting Both You & Grieving Loved Ones
Have you ever sat next to someone who just lost their husband, wife, or partner and felt so helpless that you just didn't say anything at all? Maybe the thing you're most afraid to say wrong is actually less important than simply sitting with t...
79| How to Stop Living Inside Old Emotional Stories
What if the anxiety you feel has nothing to do with what's actually happening, and everything to do with a story your brain wrote before it happened? Isn’t the same rain that ruins your beach day the same rain that makes you feel cozy on ...
78| Stop Carrying the Guilt of Managing Everyone Else's Happiness
Have you ever apologized, truly meant it, and still felt like you owed someone your peace, even years later? Why does loving someone sometimes make us believe we’re responsible for their healing and their happiness? Listen in and we will learn ...
77| Stop Equating Perfectionism or Over-achievement With Enough
What if your relentless drive to achieve isn't ambition at all, but fear wearing a really convincing disguise, or someone else’s voice in your head? Let’s talk about the difference between overachieving and perfectionism, how they overlap, if o...
76| Right or Wrong Is the Wrong Question: A New Way to Think About Every Decision You've Made
What if the decisions we’ve been calling the biggest mistake of our lives wasn't actually wrong at all but what we needed in order to get here right now, even if there were an easier path? How do we stop looking at decisions as right or wrong, ...
75| Stop Waiting to Feel Ready – Why Waiting For the Feeling is Keeping You Stuck
What if the reason you're still stuck isn't because you're not ready, but because you're waiting for a feeling but what if ready isn't something you feel at all, what if it's something you simply decide?Have you ever wondered why s...
74| Why Prioritizing Yourself Isn't Selfish & Why Everyone Needs You To
When was the last time you did something purely for yourself, not to be productive, not to show up better for someone else, just for you? Can you even remember? Do you find yourself regularly running on empty and calling it normal? And how do y...
73| Reflective Self Care, Not Regrets - Look Back to Move Forward
What if the moments you once overlooked, rushed through, or even regretted are actually the key to understanding your growth, healing old wounds, and learning how to experience more self care in your everyday life right now? Learn how taking a ...
72| Good Intentions, Wrong Energy: How Tone Might Cost You Real Connection & Peace
Have you ever said exactly the right thing and still walked away feeling like the conversation went completely wrong? Or that certain people just drain you the moment they start talking, before they've even finished a sentence? And wha...
71| 4 Steps to Habit Stacking To Make Self Care Habits Stick
What if the reason your good habits never stick has nothing to do with discipline, and everything to do with where you’re putting them? What if you could easily swap the bad habits without your brain fighting back? And what if the good habits y...
70| Evolving Relationships: How to Stay Connected When You and Your Partner Change
What happens when the person you love is no longer the same version you first met because they are growing and evolving just like you are, or maybe they haven’t evolved at all and you’re just no longer going in the same direction? And how do yo...
69| Stop Justifying Your Actions and Start Living With More Peace
Have you ever caught yourself justifying your actions with "After everything I've been through, don't I deserve a pass?" "They started it, so why should I be the one who acts better?" "If people knew what I'd been through, they'd understand why...
68| Stop the Blame Game: How to Reclaim Your Power and Find Real Peace
What if the story you've been telling yourself about who's at fault is actually what’s keeping you stuck? Is the harshest critic in your life not someone else but your own voice inside your head? And what if letting go of blame, both towa...
67| Increasing Peace While Building Your Adversity Muscle
Are you inadvertently shrinking the life available to you because you’re avoiding hard things? Are you unknowingly making yourself, or the people you love, more fragile with too much protection? And what does science say about using discomfort ...
66| Finding Peace in Change: Why We Resist Change & How to Finally Move Forward
Need to change but every time you think about starting it just feels too late, too hard, or too overwhelming to even try? What if the story you've been telling yourself about why change isn't possible is actually the thing standing in your way?...
65| Less Perfect, More Present, Fully You
When was the last time you finished something and genuinely thought, that's good enough? Or are you beating yourself up for not having done more, for not having done it better, more perfectly? Or so anxious about what others think that you keep...
64| Self Care Relationship Reset: How to Truly Know Someone & Communicate Better
How do you really get to know someone and when does that all happen? How do you get to know each other when you have different communication styles? Where is the line between sharing and oversharing and more importantly, where is the line betwe...
63| Your Journey, Your Pace, Your Life: Why the Path Matters More Than the Destination
Are you focused on the path or only the destination? Are you comparing your journey to someone else who is going for the same things, not getting there the same way? Did you know every stumble, detour and doubt is actually shaping you into exac...
62| Four Reasons You’re Anxious and 5 Ways to Stop the Anxiety Loop
How many of you find yourself lying awake at 3am, your brain spinning through the same thoughts over and over again? The same worry, the same what-if, the same conversation you had weeks ago that you're still mentally rewriting? You’re not brok...
61| Your Self Care Superpower – What Your Body Already Knows About Healing Stress & Anxiety
Do you know that you have a built-in biological brake pedal for stress? Today we're talking about the vagus nerve, what it is, why it controls so much of your mental and physical health, and the simple everyday practices that help you activate ...
60| Stop Tolerating, Start Loving: Boundaries, Acceptance & Real Connection
'I tolerate people who are different from me.' Sounds progressive, right? But what if that mindset is actually hurting everyone, including you? How do you move from tolerance, from how you treat others and how you allow others to treat yo...
59| Protecting Your Peace from Manipulation & Real Friends vs. Bots
"Let's see who my REAL friends are…" 🙄 If those posts drive you crazy like they do for me, this one's for you. We're talking pressure in relationships, social media bots, and how to show up authentically — online and IRL. We'll even...
58| Small Changes For Happiness While Progressing Thru Life: Practical Mindset Shifts for the Journey
This episode is packed with practical life tips for finding peace in the in-between where you are and where you want to be. I'll help you answer:✨How do you stay happy when your life isn't where you want it to be yet? ✨How d...