Self-Care Little by Little, Peace by Peace
This is your podcast for self-care, personal growth, mindset shifts, and creating lasting change thru small, consistent steps. This show delivers practical strategies to help you reduce stress, improve your mindset, and build a more peaceful, purpose-driven life. Whether you're seeking clarity, emotional balance, or motivation to move forward, each episode offers real tools, empowering insights, and inspiring conversations to support your journey. Tune in weekly and discover how small changes can lead to powerful, life-changing results.
Shirley is a certified life and mindset coach who uses her own life experiences to give you easy, small tips on how to create the life you are seeking. This podcast will help you move forward and find your strength to build the peaceful life you deserve.
This show will provide answers to questions like:
* 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?
* 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
46 episodes
Stop People-Pleasing, Start Choosing Yourself This Holiday Season (And Everyday!)
On this week’s episode we’re diving into people-pleasing, how it drains your peace, how we’re emotionally and physically exhausting ourselves twisting ourselves into knots trying to keep everyone happy and how to gently shift back into authenti...
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Episode 46
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20:13
Finding Peace and Self-Care in Detachment
Sometimes what looks like peace is actually resistance in disguise. Detachment and aversion can both look like letting go, but only one frees you. This week we’re exploring how to tell the difference, how to shift from avoiding to allowing, and...
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Episode 45
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17:58
Self Care and Your Energy, Effort vs Outcome
Are you giving your energy to people, tasks, or projects that truly matter? Sometimes we work hard, care deeply, or show up consistently, but the results don’t match the effort. In this episode we explore how to recognize when your effort...
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Episode 44
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17:38
Self-Care by Self-Compassion — How Being Kind to Yourself Changes Your Life
Are you treating yourself as kindly as you treat others? Self-compassion isn’t a luxury and this week we’ll explore the science of self-compassion, practical exercises for daily life, and small ways to respond to yourself with understanding ins...
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Episode 43
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17:59
3 Self-Care Steps to Prevent Burnout And 5 Steps to Recover
Sometimes burnout doesn’t show up as collapse, it shows up as constant tiredness, irritability, or feeling disconnected from what once mattered. This week we’re talking about how to spot the early signs of burnout, how to prevent it before it t...
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Episode 42
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16:55
Self-Care Reset Rituals to Transform Your Day
This week’s episode is all about reset rituals, those tiny, intentional pauses that bring you back to center when life starts spinning. They’re simple, free, and powerful. A few seconds of awareness can shift your whole day. You don’t have to w...
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Episode 41
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16:55
The Pause Button: Learning to Respond, Not React
We all know that moment when emotions take the wheel — the quick text, the sharp reply, the rising heat in your body. Your first reaction is sometimes automatic. But your second reaction is a choice. And that choice is where your peace...
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Episode 40
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17:37
Finding Peace in Recovering, Not Just Surviving
There’s a difference between getting through and truly healing. Survival is what keeps you going when everything feels heavy. But recovery… that’s when your body and mind finally start to believe you’re safe again. It’s when you begin to rebuil...
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Episode 39
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18:26
Mindfully Rebuilding and Remolding Your Life
Life has a way of molding us into forms that don’t always fit. Expectations. Labels. Roles we never chose. But you can always rework the clay. You can soften what’s hardened. You can begin again. Becoming who you are isn’t always ab...
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Episode 38
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18:00
Edit Your Life...Crop, Filter & Enhance It!
We crop distractions out of photos, add filters to bring out beauty, and enhance the details to make an image pop. But what if we did the same with our lives?🌿 Crop out negativity and the things that drain you. 💛 Filter your per...
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Episode 37
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15:53
Moving Forward in Life from the Messy Middle
We love the fresh start. We love the finish line. But the middle? The part where progress feels slow, habits get hard, and you’re tempted to quit—that’s where the real transformation happens.The messy middle isn’t proof you’re failing. I...
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Episode 36
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17:23
5 Reasons We Don’t Ask for Help, and 5 Steps to Change
So many of us carry heavy loads in silence—not because we have to, but because we’re afraid to ask for help. We fear being judged, rejected, or becoming a burden. But the truth is that asking for help isn’t weakness, it’s wisdom. It’s how we bu...
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Episode 35
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17:57
10 Ways to Love and Support Others, Not Rescue Them
This week’s episode is all about finding the balance between helping and enabling, and how to give others the confidence to say “I can.” Support builds strength, rescue builds dependence so let’s discover 10 ways help them without hold...
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Episode 34
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19:16
Braver. Stronger. Smarter. Loved.
This week’s episode is all about breaking down this timeless quote: “You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think, and loved more than you know.” 💛We’ll talk about -Bravery do...
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Episode 33
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16:12
Happy Anniversary to Us - Let's Keep Growing!
One year ago, I pressed record with just a hope—that sharing small steps toward peace might help someone else keep going. Today, we celebrate a year of reminders that change doesn’t have to be drastic to be powerful. Let's take a mo...
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Episode 32
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16:22
Fog is Feedback – 5 Simple Steps to Find Your Focus
Ever feel like your brain is moving through mud? Forgetting simple things, losing focus, or just feeling “off”? That’s mental fog, and it’s more common than you think.In this episode, we’re unpacking why it happens, how it shows...
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Episode 31
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16:23
Make Peace with Your Body & Find Your Voice
Your body has carried you through every single chapter of your life — the heartbreaks, the sleepless nights, the laughter, the milestones. And yet, so often, we treat it like it’s never enough. Today’s episode is about laying down the sword, st...
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Episode 30
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15:57
3 Ways to Deal with Conflicting Emotions
Feeling two things at once? That doesn’t mean you’re broken, or weird, it means you’re human.In today’s episode, we’re talking about emotional duality—those moments where joy and sadness, love and anger, peace and frustration all ...
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Episode 29
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15:26
The Power of One Choice
You didn’t press play by accident—today’s episode is all about choice. The small ones. The scary ones. The ones that remind us: life doesn’t just happen to us, we shape it, we create it with our choices.Whether you’re stuck, sca...
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Episode 28
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15:38
A Good Cry: Let It Flow, Let It Heal
Ever feel like you're holding back a flood? This episode is your permission to let it out. We're talking about crying, from silent tears in the kitchen to full-on snotty sobs that reset your soul, crying helps our bodies and minds release what ...
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Episode 27
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15:04
Finding the Courage to Reconnect
Ever think about someone you used to be close with… and wonder what happened?This episode is your gentle nudge to reach out. 💛 We’re talking about the quiet drift that happens in friendships and family — and how one small, brave...
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Episode 26
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14:24
Let Go & Let Flow: 3 Steps to an Easier Life
Today we’ll talk about how life will never be perfect — but it can be easier when we stop fighting it. When we stop carrying baggage, and those heavy life rocks we were never meant to carry. When we stop arguing with reality and start fl...
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Episode 25
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15:23
Imposter to In Progress: Re-framing Your Fears
This episode dives deep into imposter syndrome — that sneaky voice that says “you’re not enough” even when you’re doing the work, showing up, and trying your best. I’ve been there too, especially when starting this very podcast....
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Episode 24
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16:56
Finding Peace in Nature's Free Therapy
Need a mental reset? Nature’s already waiting!The July 5th episode dives deep into the healing power of green space and ocean therapy—real, science-backed ways to improve your mood, ease anxiety, and reconnect with your calm. Whether it’s f...
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Episode 23
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19:09
Letting Go: 10 Ways of Finding Peace Through Detachment
This episode we’re diving deep into the art of detaching with love—from people, outcomes, old identities, and the illusion of control.Letting go doesn’t mean you stop caring—it means you start choosing peace over fear, trust ove...
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Episode 22
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18:35