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Big Shift Energy

Release Date: 06/07/2025

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Big Shift Energy

In this episode, Amanda walks you through how to create a bubble of protection: a soft, breathable boundary that keeps you grounded, regulated, and self-led. This isn’t about shutting the world out. It’s about choosing what gets access. We talk about energetic hygiene, daily maintenance practices, and how to protect your nervous system without becoming rigid or closed off. This episode also includes grounding resources for anyone who doesn’t feel emotionally or physically safe right now because protection is not optional, and support is not weakness. You’ll leave with simple practices...

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Ever leave a room, a holiday gathering, or a “quick coffee” and think… Why do I feel like I left parts of myself in three different conversations? Yeah. Same. In this episode, Amanda guides you through a short, grounding meditation designed for after people-time when your energy feels scattered, stretched thin, or not quite yours anymore. This isn’t a “clear your chakras and manifest abundance” situation. It’s a practical, protective, non-woo reset that helps you come back into your body, reclaim your attention, and remember that you don’t need permission to rest. You’ll...

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If you feel different after being around people, even people you love, this episode is for you. In Big Shift Energy, Amanda breaks down why social energy costs more than we realize and offers compassionate, practical ways to re-center after people-time. This is about soft boundaries, quiet rituals, and letting yourself come back online in your own time. 🌒 Key Takeaways Re‑centering is necessary after people‑time, even when nothing “bad” happened. Masking and managing energy costs more than we admit. Softness is not collapse. Softness is regulation. Tiny rituals can bring you...

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Pull up a chair by the river. Or better yet—lie down on the moss. This episode is an exhale. A permission slip. A reminder that you were never meant to bloom year‑round.  In this episode of Big Shift Energy, Amanda invites you into the slow, quiet intelligence of winter. This is a conversation about resting without shame, releasing the belief that you must earn your pause, and letting your body move at a seasonal pace instead of a hustle-driven one. Through breath, gentle reframes, and cozy real-life practices, this episode offers permission to soften, slow down, and stop treating...

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Big Shift Energy

In this episode of Big Shift Energy, Amanda guides listeners through small, compassionate body-return practices to help you feel more grounded, connected, and present. Through tiny movements, warm-touch cues, and soft orientation exercises, she shows how the body can come back online without force or expectation. This episode is a reminder that your body isn’t the problem — it’s the partner. The loyal one. The one that’s been waiting for you. 🌈 Key Takeaways Your body isn’t ghosting you — it’s protecting you. Tiny movements = big reconnection moments. Warm hands on your...

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In this episode of Big Shift Energy, Amanda guides listeners through the soft world of micro-joys, or the tiny sensory sparks that help you feel just a little less crispy, even in the middle of stress, grief, or emotional burnout. Through bare-minimum breathwork, subtle mindfulness, and pocket-sized art prompts, Amanda shows that joy doesn’t have to be big, loud, or high-vibe to be meaningful. Sometimes the smallest comforts are the ones that get us through. 🌈 Key Takeaways You don’t have to be joyful to hang out here. Neutrality is welcome. Joy can feel fake after stress… that...

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Amanda explores the “buffering” phase — that floaty, slowed-down feeling after upheaval where you’re still processing and not yet ready to sprint. The episode normalizes emotional lag, offers grounding somatic exercises, and suggests tiny actions (not productivity tasks) that help you feel safe and choose your next step with clarity. 🌈 Key Takeaways This episode is for the weird, floaty feeling that arrives after big change. Buffering is legitimate processing, not failure. Emotional lag is normal. Your body is catching up. Tiny, safe actions are the real breadcrumbs for...

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If you’re heading into the holidays already running on fumes, this one’s for you. Amanda opens the door to a season that feels both tender and tiring — the holidays, with all their glitter and grief. If you’ve been pivoting nonstop, holding it all together, and wondering when the “break” actually comes… this one’s for you. Through gentle reflection and grounding pauses, Amanda explores what happens after the big emotions — when the breakthroughs fade and the fatigue lingers. She invites you to name the exhaustion, release the pressure, and remember that you don’t owe the...

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Okay Shiftie, unclench your jaw and roll your shoulders back — this episode is a full-body exhale. Amanda sits down with the radiant human Leslie Brooks for a soul-stirring conversation about what it really means to get out of your head and back into your body. They dive into the messy magic of self-trust, how breath can shift your entire emotional weather system, and what happens when you finally stop performing calm and actually start feeling peace. This convo is your permission slip to slow down, breathe deeper, and say a big, unapologetic “fck yes”* to your life — not because you...

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Some episodes are meant to teach. This one just needed to breathe. In this quiet minisode, Amanda opens her heart and invites you into a moment of stillness. It’s been one year since her dad passed, and just weeks since saying goodbye to Disco, her beloved kitten with the world’s biggest personality. Instead of rushing through grief, she’s learning to pause inside it and to let the ache and the love coexist. This isn’t a how-to or a fix. It’s a soft place to land. Through gentle breathing and reflection, Amanda holds space for anyone navigating loss, change, or the quiet chaos of...

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💫 New Ep Drop: “Parenting From the Inside Out with Grace Williams” 💫

On this heart-to-heart edition of Big Shift Energy, Amanda links up with the wise and wonderful Grace Williams to talk all things parenting, big emotions, and making those major inner shifts 🌀✨

From messy teen moods to inner child healing, this one’s got layers.

Plus, things get tender (and a little playful) during a round of Worksmith Roulette—a reflective game that brings up big questions about grief, healing, and how we find meaning in tough moments. They also challenge the “everything happens for a reason” trope, share personal wins, and remind us that growth doesn’t need to be perfect—it just needs to be yours.

🦋 This one’s for the cycle-breakers, soft-hearted parents, and anyone choosing to grow, even when it’s hard. You are not alone—and you’re doing better than you think.

Press play for grounded insight, big feels, and that signature BSE realness. 💖

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🌈 Takeaways:

  • Reparenting = healing the past so you can show up in the now
  • Breathwork for when your nervous system’s doing the most
  • Emotional safety over perfection parenting
  • Teenagers be feeling everything—and so do we
  • Family dynamics (aka why you’re not “too much”)
  • Discomfort ≠ something to fix
  • Building community in unexpected places
  • Choosing connection > control
  • Hot take: kids' shows sometimes say what adults won’t

🎧 Sound Bites for the Feels:

  • “I just want to have the world's okayest day.” -Amanda
  • “I've been able to see like the evidence of quality relationships of people who are so happy and content and good to themselves.” -Grace
  • “Because discomfort doesn't always mean that you're not moving forward.” -Amanda
  • “You're a person, not a project.” -Grace
  • "And if they didn't love you in the way that you receive love, that doesn't mean they didn't love you." -Amanda
  • "The time to heal from something can often take longer than the time to experience it." -Grace

🕰️ Chapters (CD tracklist energy):

00:00 – Introduction
05:01 – Breathwork as a grounding tool
09:59 – Big shifts in parenting
20:03 – Emotional awareness with kids
30:08 – Reparenting = real growth
39:18 – Love, acceptance & seeing clearly
42:46 – Feeling it all + staying connected
45:45 – Parenting through the messy parts
53:39 – Building real community
01:01:21 – Choosing connection over fear
01:10:02 – Self-worth & the journey inward
01:19:17 – Worksmith Roulette intro
01:20:06 – Grief & the healing process
01:25:20 – When “everything happens for a reason” doesn’t land
01:31:45 – Toot Toot Time: celebrating small wins
01:38:28 – Self-love tools + shifting forward