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23 Caring for Yourself While Caring About the World [PART 2/2]
Big Shift Energy
Episode Summary In Part 2, Amanda expands the conversation into emotional regulation, resilience, and the radical necessity of self-care during times of social unrest and injustice. This episode reframes “trivial” acts of care as meaningful tools for sustainability. Amanda explores how overloaded nervous systems affect our capacity to show up, and why regulating ourselves is not a luxury — it’s a form of resistance. The episode closes with an invitation to honor both visible and invisible contributions, and to celebrate caring for yourself as an act of worthiness. 🧿Key Takeaways ...
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22 A Visualization to Create Space When Everything Feels Loud [PART 1/2]
Big Shift Energy
Episode Summary In Part 1 of this two-part series, Amanda invites listeners to pause, breathe, and reset their energy amid the intensity of current events. This episode is a gentle recalibration — a reminder that self-care is not avoidance, but anchoring. Through visualization and grounding practices, Amanda encourages listeners to come back to themselves, create internal spaciousness, and reconnect with self-love as a stabilizing force in turbulent times. This episode is about remembering your humanity while the world feels loud, heavy, and overwhelming. 🧿Key Takeaways You matter —...
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21 Stop Thinking, Start Feeling: A Below-the-Chin Reset
Big Shift Energy
If you’ve been stuck in your head trying to think your way into clarity… this episode is your gentle intervention. In this conversation, Amanda invites you to drop below the chin and reconnect with the part of you that already knows what’s going on: your body. Instead of over-analyzing, planning, or spiraling, Amanda introduces a simple but powerful practice—the below-the-chin check-in—to help you notice what’s happening physically and emotionally, without fixing or forcing anything. Through breath, body awareness, and movement, this episode explores how clarity often shows up...
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20 Reflecting 2025 Like You Don’t Give a F*ck... On Purpose
Big Shift Energy
The end of the year loves to pressure us into neat little boxes: Highs. Lows. Wins. Fails. But real life? Messier. Quieter. Way more interesting. In this episode, Amanda invites you to ditch the performative year-end recap and try something more honest: intentional reflection that actually honors who you became and not just what you accomplished. Instead of asking “What went right or wrong?”, Amanda asks the BIG SHIFT questions like: Where did you choose yourself? What still counts, even if no one clapped? What parts of you showed up quietly but consistently? You’ll explore...
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19 Making Your Energy So Fresh, So Clean Clean
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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18 Too Much Peopling? This Guided Meditation Helps You Re-Center
Big Shift Energy
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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17 Re-Centering and Surviving Seasonal Togetherness
Big Shift Energy
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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16 The Season of Slowing the Hell Down
Big Shift Energy
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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15 Tiny Ways Back to Your Body When You’ve Been Checked Out
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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14 The 1% Mood Lift You Didn’t Know You Needed
Big Shift Energy
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...
info_outlineEver feel like your to-do list is auditioning for a horror movie? Same. In this episode of The Soul Fork, Amanda flips the script on overwhelm and never-ending checklists by pulling out her secret weapon: The Soul Fork Method.
Instead of choking down your chores like cold broccoli, what if you served them up like crème brûlée? From project plans built in Chat (because AI can actually be your wingman) to turning laundry into a mini party, Amanda shows how to stop surviving your list and start savoring it.
Plus, we toot our horns for small wins, roast the idea of “perfection,” and remind you that self-care isn’t just bubble baths—it’s boundaries, badassery, and reframing that pile of tasks into treats.
🦢 Silly Goose on the Loose
This week’s crown goes to Amelia @fucktheperfectlife—the ultimate silly goose reminding us that joy, silliness, and not taking life too seriously are radical acts of rebellion. Follow her flock here: Instagram.
📚 Stuff I Mentioned
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🖼️ Art for the Heart Special Edition – Special event on 9/27/25. Grab your ticket here!
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📖 The Book That Launched – This Time It’s Personal: Building a Brand That Breaks the Rules: Grab your copy
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💌 Want to connect? Slide into my DMs on Instagram: @bigshiftenergy
🔥 Sound Bites
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"Stay true to you, make it delightful because you're worth it."
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"Speaking up for yourself is not done in vain."
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"Treat yourself. Not everything we do has to feel like obligation."
- "Your soul craves things that might be more than just physical."
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💡 Key Takeaways
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A “soul fork” is your permission slip to treat one task like dessert.
- Organization can feel delicious when you blend plans with pleasure.
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Celebrating small wins isn’t silly—it’s the secret sauce of momentum.
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Self-advocacy and boundaries are the real luxury goods.
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Change doesn’t have to be heavy—it can be playful, goose-y, and oddly delightful.
📝 Episode Chapters
00:00 – Introduction
00:01 - Breathwork: Cookies in, candles out
00:50 – WTF is a Soul Fork?
02:24 – When a to-do list feels like a car chase
06:15 – Project plans with Chat (aka my AI co-pilot)
09:55 – Turning chores into treats
13:07 – Tooooooot toot time + small wins parade
16:40 – CTA: Grab your fork + brag about your win