PODCAST · health
From Darkness to Light
by Shama Persson
Shama openly shares her insights and wisdom from a life lived in the shadows of early childhood traumas, anxiety, addiction and suicide attempts. She’s active as a coach guiding women all over the world in mental health and relationship issues. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
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How to be a good parent when you are depressed?
What is a good parent? Is there different demands or expectations on us as parents when we are depressed? In this episode I explore depression both from the child and the parent perspective. Good parenting has a lot of presence, authenticity, honesty and transparency in it as I see it, and I...
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The Sustainable and Long Term Solution to Handle Covid
If the vaccine is the quick fix, what is the long term solution? To live well. Stress and anxiety suppress our immune system, and the best way to fight Covid, or rather, to handle and cope with it, is to strengthen our overall health. A good mental, physical and emotional health makes us less...
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The Covid Vaccine andOur Freedom to Choose
DISCLAIMER 1: The sound is not perfect! DISCLAIMER 2: These are my personal standing points In Todays episode I share where I stand in the vaccine mandate situation and what forcing people against their will does to them. Covid is a proof of how trauma, fear, stress and anxiety supresses our…
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Does Separation Decrease our capacity to feel Joy for Life
In this episode I inquire into our ability to feel joy for life when we lose people we love. For every loss, do we change inside, does something essential become affected, or do we still have the same capability to feel joy for life without these people? Our "normal" assumption is that someone…
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The freedom of speech and projecting onto others
In this episode I explore the massive attacks I've been under during the last two months on social media and the freedom of speech. I also dive into how we project our own pain onto other people, to avoid looking inside ourselves. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Longing and Anxiety - TwoSides of the Coin?
A very short and intense podcast about longing and anxiety, and how it feels in our body.To me, longing has the same physical quality as anxiety, and I can't really live with it. Longing makes me wanna move! Is this healthy or unhealthy and am I right or am I stumbling in the dark? I'm so open…
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The imposter syndrome and the importance of being our authentic selves
Happy Ceasefire Day and Happy Podcast Day! 🎉 Do we have a responsibility to the world to show up as our selves? What is the price we pay for putting up a show? And what happens when the real in us is exposed? In today’s episode I explore our responsibility to be authentic, especially when we…
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Turning Ageing into an Advantage
Ageism is as present as racism and sexism, it's time for a change.In my new episode I turn 9 judgements and/or fears about ageing into an advantage, or I at least question their truth.What if the fear of getting old has more to do about the present moment and or level of happiness and self-love...
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How to love each other even when we disagree
I received a wish to share around this topic and I took it on and it was a challenge! First, I didn't understand the question, second, I totally turned it around at nailed it in the end. I love this platform this podcast that gives me the room to freebase in my mind and in my heart in search for...
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Social Media Addiction - Clubhouse
Today’s episode is about social media addiction and the effect Clubhouse has had för me. After four weeks on Clubhouse, I feel stressed, drained, hung over and a bit depressed. I’m not the person who hangs out on social media 24/7, but with Clubhouse I made an exception, I felt this was “my...
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Self-esteem and Self-love - 3 major insights
Maybe the level of self-esteem and self-love we have today is ok? Maybe we don't need to adjust it, strive to increase it, just embrace ourselves and accept that it is what it is, today. Tomorrow is a different story. New episode of my podcast is out where I share 3 major insights around...
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If the way is not peaceful, it's not the way
My response to my all the hatred I received for the post I made on Instagram January 7th 2021 regarding Donald Trump and the riots at Capitol hill. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Corona as a Guide to Healing
What if Corona isn't a curse, but a guide to healing? Did you ever consider why children are unaffected and why some of us get extremely ill? Why doesn't the virus treat as equally, why does it distinguish between blood types and underlying conditions? What i the virus actually is a sign, a guide...
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The meaning of life - To be for each other
We live in a world where everything is a race, something to accomplish or show. Money, power, looks, success, happiness, even love is something we show as if it's a price on social media. This can never be the purpose of our lives, to become or earn or win against each other. The meaning of life...
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Emotional Healing - To become whole is not the goal
If we would heal, would we then be able to feel and communicate with each other the way we do? Isn't the wounds and traumas what makes us the most vulnerable and the most human? That make us open up or shut down the most?What if to become whole isn't the goal, but to learn to live and enjoy our...
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Childhood Traumas - Also what we didn't give matters
In todays episode I share about the importance of giving in life in relationship to childhood traumas. When connection is broken, it's not only what we didn't receive as children that we're missing, it's also the giving of love, care and support. Thankfully we can project this missing part into...
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One Day at a Time - Let's talk about suicide episode 5
Suicide is like a minority, a discriminated cause of death. We've learned that it's all us priviledged people who need to stand up for black lives and fight racism, and it's the same with mental health. To fight for your life when you are struggling, instead of getting the support from a helping...
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Not My Circus, Not My Monkeys
How many times do we find ourselves drawn into someone else's drama, because of their bad behaviour or judgement? This is the root of being codependent, you engage in someone else's life and put their problems and issues first and you second. We didn't ask to be let down, dissapointed or lied to,...
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We Are All Liars
It seems as if lying is part of our personality, we all lie to some extent. White lies, big lies, hidden agendas, twisting facts, covering up. How did we become like this? Listen to my exploration of the connection between birth and death, fear and love, parents and children and why lying has...
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Parent-Child Relationship Gone Wrong
Sometimes the dynamic in the family changes in an unhealthy way, and the child becomes the parent and the parent becomes the child. Out of guilt a parent can become a victim, and the child takes the place as the superior in the family. This interferes with the dynamic and makes the natural flow…
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Social Media Pressure
In todays episode I explore the pros and cons of social media, the connection and social side versus the addiction and isolation. Does all the time we spend on social media elevate our level of happiness, or does it bring us down? Is what makes us happy the small dopamin kick that we receive or…
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The Freedom of Choice
Are we always able to chose what we know is the best? Can we chose to make the right decisions at times when we struggle emotionally, financially or mentally? Can we be judgemental and tell that sobriety, veganism, environmentalism or even kindness is a choice available to everyone. I don't think...
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Live and Let Live - To not let Your Opinions Hurt People
Can we have strong opinions and not voice them in public to avoid hurting people? Do we really create change by pushing our beliefs onto other people? In this episode I share about the practice Live and Let Live and how we can stop belittling our fellow human beings for not thinking the way we…
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Hurt People Hurt People - Taking Responsibility for Your Pain
Life is relationships. If we instead of shutting dow and cutting people off when we are hurt, see the pain we feel as a gift and act from there, we can heal and change. Hurt people hurt people and create a chain reaction that can be lethal and lead to self harming and detructive behaviour. In…
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Nothing Fails Like Success
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Recovery to Restore the Sanity of Humanity
In this weeks episode Shama shares about recovery, from addiction to codependency and relationships. To recover means to find something, to discover somethings that is missing. When removing all the ways we escape from pain, we slowly restore our sanity as humanity. The work we do with ourselves...
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Friendship - Healing Your Wounds to Become a Better Friend
In this episode I share about how our wounds can be obstacles in friendship. I share how we can notice signs of wounds and work on healing them, instead of braking up or blame the other one for us hurting. Friends are angels who come into our life and follow us for shorter period of time, or for...
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Therapy - Transforming Shadows from the Past into Gratitude and Forgiveness
What if all that is real in the past is all the love we gave and all the love we received? What if going into therapy can help us reveal all the love we received in our childhood, instead of only seeing the mistakes and the errors? What if going back into our past, we can atone and take...
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Let's Talk about Suicide - episode 4
In this episode I have a guest, Khadeeja Nicolle, a 41 year old stay at home mom from St Louis, Missouri. At the age of 36, she walked out on her 1 year old daughter and her 2 months old baby son and jumped off a bridge, wanting to die. Listen to her story, learn about her childhood and the years...
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I love, therefor I am
In this episode I share about how if we show up as ourselves, it's impossible not to love us. If we focus on removing all blocks to love, we are not as easily hurt if love breaks down. When we show up with our masks and our judgements, the pain is bigger because as ourselves we cannot be hurt.…
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Motherhood - Ending the blame and owning a life's work
In this episode I share about my mom and her motherhood, and how important it is to me to end the blame. Buy blaming her for what she did wrong, instead of giving her tribute for how amazing my sisters and I became can never be right. By ending the blame towards her I also give myself permission…
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Medicine - A way out of depression
In this episode I share openly about the life changing effects medicine can have on depression. I also share about the judgements and beliefs that yoga, mindfulness and meditation can replace medicine, or is a better way to deal with depression.To sit with pain is not the same as to sit with...
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A Crash Course to A Course in Miracles
In Today's episode I share about the book A Course in Miracles. I give you an insight to its teachings of truth and knowledge versus illusion and perceptions, and how to apply it to your own life. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Identity Crises - When we let a role become our essence
In this epsiode I have a guest, Mirjam Johansson Grant, and we share openly around the crises that often comes when we lose a job, a partner or someone dies. Why do we mix up a role with who we are in our essence, and why can it totally swipe us off our feet?If we equal who we are with the role…
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Depression - Sharings from the Inside
How is to be inside a depression? A rare challenge and opportunity to document what's really going on when we go from being ok to going down. What happens in the mind and in the body? How does depression affect all our senses, from self esteem and awareness, to the ability to communicate and...
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Stop Talking about Suicide - Do Something! - Suicide episode 3
Every 20th second a person commits suicide. 1 million people die from suicide every year, and 20 million people try to take their life. How can we not treat suicide as one of the major causes of death on the planet? How can we not have crises centers, mental health clinics and tons of money...
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Letting Go of Your Children - The Necessary Pain of Separation
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How to Handle a Crises when Your Mind is Racing
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Corona Virus Comfort Podcast
Shama shares her thoughts of how important love, care and equality is instead of letting fear and panic guide us in these difficult times. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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All You Need to Know About Perimenopause with Author Katarina Wilk
Famous author and journalist Katarina Wilk shares about her research and findings about Perimenopause and her book Perimenopower. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Codependency - Relationships with Partner, Friends and Family
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The Freedom of Aloneness or the Prison of Loneliness
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Aging - Growing old or growing up!
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Anger - The Healthy Power or The Unhealthy Reaction
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Let's talk about suicide - episode 2
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Beauty - Routines that really matter
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Parenthood - part 1
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A Love Story - Understanding the impact of trauma in present relationships
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When love breaks down
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Spiritual Seeking versus Authentic Being
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Shama openly shares her insights and wisdom from a life lived in the shadows of early childhood traumas, anxiety, addiction and suicide attempts. She’s active as a coach guiding women all over the world in mental health and relationship issues.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Shama Persson
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Shama openly shares her insights and wisdom from a life lived in the shadows of early childhood traumas, anxiety, addiction and suicide attempts. She’s active as a coach guiding women all over the world in mental health and relationship issues. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more...
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