In this episode, I'm sharing reflections questions that you can explore so you can gain more clarity on what you want to take into the next year ahead, and what you want to leave behind. I also share how the reflection exercise can help you not only set your goals, but achieve them with more ease.  Get access to journal prompts here

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Episode 116: How Reflecting On a Year Gone By Can Help You Set Your Goals (Includes Journal Prompts)

I am sharing something completely different this week and answering a question I get so often: "How do you create so much content consistently?" If content creation is a major part of your business, like it is for mine, I'm sharing my personal process that helps me stay connected, consistent, and committed to creating content and keeping the creative juices flowing.  "Your value and your worth is not defined by how many you likes you get." 

Episode 115: My Personal Process For Creating Consistent Content

I am so excited that Emily Harrington and I were finally able to sit down and have this conversation. Emily and I have been wanting to record a podcast together for over a year. We have conversations often where we say, “Why weren’t we recording this?!” Emily is an entrepreneur, blogger, online educator and all around amazing woman. Her main mission is to help other women, especially moms, as she is a mom of two young girls who are only 18 months apart, launch and grow their businesses.  We share our thoughts on women in business, the importance of women supporting other women, and how we are both passionate about how what we do with our uterus is no one else's business.  You can follow Emily on Instagram @emilyharrington.ca or her website: www.emilyharrington.ca

Episode 114: Women Supporting Other Women + What You Do With Your Uterus Is No one Else's Business With Emily Harrington

In this episode I talk about how to create terms of success that are based on your needs, wants and desires, not on the external world + Knowing how to listen to your inner guide so that you don't make sacrifices that affect your mental and emotional health. If you have been working towards success and you still feel unhappy, unfulfilled and burnt out, this share is for you. Instagram: @contagiously_positive Email: lauriesheldrick@contagiouslypositive.ca Digital Workshops: www.contagiouslypositive.ca/services 

Episode 113: Defining Your Terms of Success & Giving Yourself a True North Compass To Follow

In this episode, I'm chatting with stress management expert Jolene Watson of Clarity Coaching and Development. We chat about the impact that stress has on you mentally, emotionally and physically. And we discuss how to recognize normal stress vs chronic stress.  You can learn more about Jolene here: www.jolenewatson.com At the end of our conversation, I share an exercise with you that you can begin to practice to help to you to manage the emotional and mental impact of stress. The show notes below support this practice.  Time Stamps My conversation with Jolene begins at: 21:08 The Emotional Scale Practice begins at: 1:22:15 Show Notes  The Emotional Scale: https://contagiouslypositive.ca/the-emotional-scale/ Supporting Workshops: https://contagiouslypositive.ca/services/

Episode 112: A Conversation About Stress With Jolene Watson

We all get scatterbrain, especially when we are taking on too much. When that happens, we feel overwhelmed, frustrated, irritated and mentally and emotionally exhausted. In this share I am giving you one tool you can practice, just one because I don’t want to add on to your overwhelm, that will help you calm your scatterbrain and experience mental and emotional freedom, which will also impact your physical well-being as well. Journal Prompts: How do I feel when I'm not living in the moment and taking on too much? How do I feel when I am living in the moment and I'm not worried about the next thing that I have to do? How does my body react when I take on too much and/or I'm future-tripping? https://www.instagram.com/contagiously_positive/ https://www.facebook.com/contagiouslypositive

Episode 111: Tools For Calming Your Mind When It Feels Scattered + Journal Prompts For More Clarity

In this share, I am talking about 4 things you can do to prepare yourself mentally in a difficult situation so that it doesn't have an emotional and/or physical impact. I’m using examples based on my past experience, but these tools can be used in any situation. JOURNAL PROMPTS Do you have any fear that has turned from normal cautious fear to panic? Where are you not feeling safe and why? If there is, go into a meditation for 10-20 minutes and ask yourself this question, "How can I turn off these alarm bells of panicked fear so that I feel safe?"  When you get out of the meditation, grab your journal and free-write what came up for you. INSTAGRAM: @contagiously_positive UNLEASH: www.contagiouslypositive.ca/unleash

Episode 110: What You Can Do When Your Mind Gets The Best of You + Journal Prompts

Since early March, we were all given a massive wake-up call. Whether we expected it, were ready for it, liked it, or not, it was forced upon us. For many of us, this forced wake-up call has made us look at many parts of our lives and examine what needs to be changed. One question I have been asking myself lately is, “do I really want every area of my life to go back to “normal” after this is over?”  So here we all are, experiencing so many collective wake-up calls. As you sit there, reading this, your life might be on the edge of a precipice. You may be in need of a change, and quite possibly, your life needs a shake up. Don’t worry, that is your wake-up call. It might feel scary, but I promise you, it gets so much better. But it only gets better if you wade through the emotional discomfort. In this episode I’m sharing how to recognize the whisperings of a wake-up call and how the practice of embracing change. JOURNAL PROMPTS Let’s take the conversation to our journals:  ·  What are the whispers you have felt that is time for a shake-up? ·  What has been coming up for you when you think about making a change? Is it fear, excitement, uncertainty? ·  What has been the obstacle preventing you from taking that first step? ·  What support do you need to help you fully embrace and take action towards making the changes you want and need to make? Related Workshops: www.contagiouslypositive.ca/unleash Instagram: @contagiously_positive

Episode 109: Embracing Change + Recognizing When You Need a Shake-Up

I wanted to share these steps with you because there is something really powerful when we can claim what we are feeling, instead of it claiming us. This is how we are able to move through the stages of grief (over any loss) with more ease. Not by bypassing our feelings, but in the awareness of what we are feeling. My hope is that knowing what each stage might feel like for you, the awareness will guide you through it.

Episode 108: Moving Through The Stages of Grief

We all have an emotional compass that guides us in our decision-making. This is really important because our decisions are made from how we feel, or how we think it will make us feel, or how we want to feel. In this share I want to guide you in creating an emotional compass to help you find your true north. SHOW NOTES Emotional Scale from Esther & Jerry Hicks: 1. Joy/Knowledge/Empowerment/Freedom/Love/Appreciation  2. Passion  3. Enthusiasm  4. Positive Expectation/Belief 5. Optimism  6. Hopefulness 7. Contentment  8. Boredom 9. Pessimism  10. Frustration/Irritation/Impatience 11. Overwhelm  12. Disappointment  13. Doubt 14. Worry 15. Blame 16. Discouragement  17. Anger 18. Revenge  19. Hatred/Rage 20. Jealousy 21. Insecurity/Guilt/Unworthiness  22. Fear/Grief/Depression/Despair/Powerlessness Journal Prompts: 1. How are you currently feeling? 2. How do you want to feel? 3. Think about every area of your life. What do you need to feel the way you want to feel it and what will take? Go through each life area: your career, relationships, personal and professional growth, your health, even your finances. How do you want to feel in each area and what will it take to achieve it? 4. Are the current actions, thoughts, reactions, response and decisions currently supporting the way you want to feel, or enhancing how you don't want to feel even further? SOCIALS + WORKSHOPS Instagram: @contagiously_positive  Facebook: Contagiously Positive with Laurie-ann Sheldrick  Unleash Your Limiting Beliefs: www.contagiouslypositive.ca/unleash 

Episode 107: The Emotional Scale + How To Use Your Emotions To Inform Your Decisions

Life can feel so hard sometimes; especially during a global pandemic where there is so much learning we have to go through. And it can definitely feel challenging when you are in a state of learning, growing, changing and even unlearning. My hope is that this share will help you become aware and open to the stages of learning that we all go through and that this awareness will make things feel easier, give you a sense of peace, faith and hope. Contagiously Positive 

Episode 106: Becoming Aware of The Stage of Learning You Are In To Make Life Less Hard

Every once in a while, I go for a walk in nature and the inspiration hits me. So I hit record on my phone and bring you a WALKSPIRATION. Last week I walked in the rain and got inspired by some ducks, had a little cry out on the trails with mother nature and felt my heart expand. In this share, I'm talking about feeling what you need to feel, including joy, stopping the negative self-talk, expanding your heart, giving yourself what you need, and allowing yourself to experience joyful moments. 

Episode 105: WalkSpiration - Giving Yourself What You Need To Feel The Way You Want To Feel

Every month Jolene and I chat about our life and give you questionably helpful tools :-) If you have ever been in a coffee shop and eaves dropped on the table beside you, that is what our conversations feel like.  This month we are talking about our visions and goals, why it is important to stay optimistic even during this COVID-19 challenge, redefining success and how we are both coping. 

Episode 104: GirlTalk with Jolene Watson

In this share, I sat down for a chat with Shulamit Ber Levtov, MA, RSW, CCTP. This was an amazing conversation and Shula is an incredible human being. We talked about ways you can cope when you are on an emotional rollercoaster, what you can do if you are experiencing trauma, what happens to our body and mind when our nervous systems response to threat is turned on, and normalizing our primal instincts to an abnormal situation. We talked about how all this relates to the COVID-19 situation we are in now and what might be happening in your body and mind. We even talked about why you might be eating more and moralizing language around food. Connect With Shula: https://www.compassionatesupport.ca/about-shula/ https://www.shula.ca

Episode 103: Ways To Cope When You Are On An Emotional Rollercoaster With Shulamit Ber Levtov

I don't know about you, but I feel like the universe has put floaties on me and I'm learning how to swim again. I believe that right now it isn't just important to do a weekly check-in, but a daily check-in. These questions are a beautiful way to connect to your inner guidance system and help you to navigate your way through this unchartered water.⠀ In this podcast I share how these four questions are helping me to take inspired action on what I need each day to wade through the daily emotional rollercoaster that myself, and many of us are experiencing right now.  What do I need mentally today? ⠀ What do I need emotionally today? ⠀ What do I need physically today? ⠀ What do I need spiritually today? Free coaching is available to anyone who needs it right now. Contact me at lauriesheldrick@contagiouslypositive.ca

Episode 102: Four Questions To Ask Yourself To Ride The Rollercoaster of COVID-19

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