Revolutionary Love & Resilience
By Shelby Leigh and Maira Holzmann
Maira and Shelby are both trained psychotherapists who wear a few different hats working in the field of healing. Together they focus on somatic based and other leading edge approaches to healing trauma. They’re here igniting a revolution around embodiment, life after trauma and nurturing resilience.
If you’re a coach, therapist, care provider or someone impacted by trauma, this podcast is for you.
Revolutionary Love & ResilienceMay 02, 2021
Transitions and Conscious Closing
In the final episode of Season 2, this solo episode with Shelby honors and explores endings. We navigate so many endings with clients whether planned or not and many of us don’t have a lot of experience how to move through these transitions and closures with ease. Shelby shares about the shifting directions with the RLR podcast and also honors this beautiful past season of exploration with Maira.
Email the podcast: revolutionaryloveandresilience@gmail.com Tell us what’s landing for you, and if there’s anything you’d love for us to cover in a future episode.
Maira: www.somatictherapypartners.com
Shelby: www.shelby-leigh.com
How We Track Progress in Ourselves and Clients
Maira and Shelby explore how they understand the concept of tracking progress in their clients. They also share personal stories about how they approach tracking their own progress in coaching, therapy and other personal healing and growth areas.
Email the podcast: revolutionaryloveandresilience@gmail.com Tell us what’s landing for you, and if there’s anything you’d love for us to cover in a future episode.
Maira: www.somatictherapypartners.com
Shelby: www.shelby-leigh.com
Is Mindset Work Really That Effective?
In this solo episode, Shelby debunks why “mindset” work doesn’t work very well unless we include the wisdom of the body. So many people are talking about the power of mindset these days and in not-so-trauma-aware ways. Here are some ways to enjoy mindset work that are supportive and able to integrate over time.
Email the podcast: revolutionaryloveandresilience@gmail.com Tell us what’s landing for you, and if there’s anything you’d love for us to cover in a future episode.
Maira: www.somatictherapypartners.com
Shelby: www.shelby-leigh.com
Embodiment is a spectrum: Embodied Coaching Experience
Shelby and Maira describe what embodiment is and how coaching in an embodied way can be incredibly supportive to both the coach (or therapist!) and client. They debunk a lot of ideas about people’s expectations of what embodiment means in any given moment.
Email the podcast: revolutionaryloveandresilience@gmail.com Tell us what’s landing for you, and if there’s anything you’d love for us to cover in a future episode.
Maira: www.somatictherapypartners.com
Shelby: www.shelby-leigh.com
The Power of Repairs
In this solo episode Shelby shares her thoughts on the power of repairs. Repairs are important in every type of relationship. She breaks down the how’s and whys of creating repairs the deepen relationships and build trust.
Email the podcast: revolutionaryloveandresilience@gmail.com Tell us what’s landing for you, and if there’s anything you’d love for us to cover in a future episode.
Maira: www.somatictherapypartners.com
Shelby: www.shelby-leigh.com
Shelby and Team Revolutionary LOVE
Maira turns the tables on interviewing Shelby about her business, her offerings and what she's excited about launching in the near future.
This one’s a great episode for people who consider themselves multi-passionate and find themselves with lots of ideas and offerings.
Email the podcast: revolutionaryloveandresilience@gmail.com Tell us what’s landing for you, and if there’s anything you’d love for us to cover in a future episode.
Maira: www.somatictherapypartners.com
Shelby: www.shelby-leigh.com
Maira and Somatic Therapy Partners
Shelby dives in deep, interviewing Maira about starting her business, providing trauma informed care and the magic that happens in sessions with clients.
You'll get to listen in on what motivates and excites Maira about being a healer and running her business.
Email the podcast: revolutionaryloveandresilience@gmail.com Tell us what’s landing for you, and if there’s anything you’d love for us to cover in a future episode.
Maira: www.somatictherapypartners.com
Shelby: www.shelby-leigh.com
Trauma Informed Rants for Health & Wellness Professionals
Shelby and Maira break down what each of them consider "trauma informed" details as care providers. Whether you're a coach, therapist or healthcare professional, these apply to you! When we ask the question "what is trauma informed care", here are a few ranty thoughts on the matter.
Email the podcast: revolutionaryloveandresilience@gmail.com Tell us what’s landing for you, and if there’s anything you’d love for us to cover in a future episode.
Maira: www.somatictherapypartners.com
Shelby: www.shelby-leigh.com
Different capacities don’t mean we’re better or worse care providers
Have you ever asked yourself “what’s my capacity to provide care?” Shelby and Maira discuss the importance of identifying YOUR personal capacity level and how it impacts the service you provide.
Examining the Scarcity Mentality and Stress
Maira and Shelbly explore the idea of engaging with stress as a motivation to push forward. They discuss the “scarcity mentality” and its impact as practitioners in the field and Shelby shares her recent self-examination of her relationship with stress. It’s tender, it’s empowering, it’s support in action - take a listen now!
Imposter Syndrome and Empowerment
Shelby and Maira dive into topics of embodying confidence in each of our fields. We also discuss how we can support each of our own unique gifts to thrive in the world.
Orienting and Early Trauma
Maira and Shelby explore more ways to support folks (and not support folks) with developmental trauma. We talk about some commonly used trauma interventions that don't necessarily work for folks with early trauma and why.
Exploring marriage and partnership as a healing and growth machine.
Shelby and Maira dig in about Maira's healing path through marriage. They explore shame, early survival patterns, the abandonment wound and the gifts of staying together despite the struggles.
Healing from attachment wounds TOGETHER in friendship and attuned connection.
Maira and Shelby discuss a recent healing and reparative experience during the course of their friendship. They talk about taking up space emotionally, the felt sense of "We space," and how relationships help us step into greater possibility. It's raw, vulnerable, tender and sweet - take a listen!
Creativity and Trusting the Flow
In this episode, Maira interviews Shelby on her creative process - creating content, writing the book(!), playing music and more. We talk about regulation and what supports truly being able to RECEIVE the creativity that wants to flow through us in our own unique ways.
Generational Trauma and its Impact on Healing
In this deep discussion, Maira and Shelby dive into what generational trauma is and how in these current times so many folks are impacted by it. They also create space and talk vulnerably about BBIPOC collective and generational trauma.
Spirituality and Healing
Maira and Shelby explore their own relationships to spirituality and its connection to healing. They also explore how they support clients around spirituality in the process of healing.
The compassionate, trauma-informed relationship needed with wellness providers.
Maira and Shelby explore the question of "What if you just assumed that every single person walking in your door has trauma?" as well as advocating for yourself with wellness providers.
The ins and outs of meditation and dealing with trauma
Shelby shares her wisdom and experience with insight meditation and Shelby and Maira both discuss ways to use meditation with a trauma informed lens.
The impacts of collective trauma
Maira and Shelby talk about these current traumatic times and how we can care for each other. They also spend time acknowledging and honoring how folks may be coping.
How knowing about attachment makes life easier for you and your client.
Maira and Shelby explore what attachment is and why it makes our work so much easier when we look through this lens. They also describe how it relates to the development of a nervous system and how ANY type of facilitator/care provider/coach/therapist can create more connection and safety knowing even just a little about attachment dynamics and our impacts on the relationship.
Why we refuse to pathologize
Listen in as Shelby and Maira get angry about how clients get pathologized in the field of psychotherapy and what they do instead.
Find us on the internet in these places:
Email the podcast: revolutionaryloveandresilience@gmail.com
Tell us what’s landing for you, and if there’s anything you’d love for us to cover in a future episode.
Maira: www.somatictherapypartners.com
Shelby: www.shelby-leigh.com
How we work when we don't feel like we've got it together
Maira and Shelby bust the myth that healers need to have their shit together all the time. They also talk about how to be the most regulated person in the room when we've got personal things happening.
Find us on the internet in these places:
Email the podcast: revolutionaryloveandresilience@gmail.com
Tell us what’s landing for you, and if there’s anything you’d love for us to cover in a future episode!
Maira: www.somatictherapypartners.com
Shelby: www.shelby-leigh.com
Shelby's story
Shelby gets vulnerable and super "human" sharing her story of early trauma and what happened along the way to help her move through the hard stuff. Shelby highlights some "big moments" in her healing process.
Find us on the internet in these places:
Email the podcast: revolutionaryloveandresilience@gmail.com Tell us what’s landing for you, and if there’s anything you’d love for us to cover in a future episode.
Maira: www.somatictherapypartners.com
Shelby: www.shelby-leigh.com
Maira's story
Maira and Shelby talk about how they met and connected. Maira shares her story of how her early trauma showed up as anger and rage and getting to the other side of trauma.
Find us on the internet in these places:
Email the podcast: revolutionaryloveandresilience@gmail.com Tell us what’s landing for you, and if there’s anything you’d love for us to cover in a future episode.
Maira: www.somatictherapypartners.com
Shelby: www.shelby-leigh.com
Defining Trauma
Shelby and Maira give a holistic definition of trauma from the personal to the systemic view. We talk about somatic approaches to healing with a focus on nervous system health. We also talk about what motivated us to create this podcast.
Find us on the internet in these places:
Email the podcast: revolutionaryloveandresilience@gmail.com
Tell us what’s landing for you, and if there’s anything you’d love for us to cover in a future episode.
Maira: www.somatictherapypartners.com
Shelby: www.shelby-leigh.com