Shed the Shame with Jenny Whitens
by Jenny Whitens
Welcome to Shed the Shame - a podcast for women looking for inspiration on how to take and make time for themselves to be their best without the shame of doing so. Host Jenny Whitens puts into perspective the importance of taking time for yourself to be healthy in body, mind, and soul so you can truly model health and happiness for yourself, your friends, and your family and live a life of fulfillment. Seeking a healthier and more joyful life? Hungry for tips on reenergizing, reevaluating, and resetting so you can feel like YOU again? Then it’s time to Shed the Shame and make yourself a priority - and you can start with this podcast.
Episodes
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How to Rewire Your Mind to Trust Your Body Again
Welcome back Shed the Shamers! Jenny has a beautiful new episode for us that lays out the path for us to reconnect to ourselves physically and emotionally. In this episode, we'll explore the reasons we may be feeling out of touch with our emotions and the physical signals our bodies may be…
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Hot Tips For Starting Fresh & Creating Consistency Without Overwhelm
Show yourself some appreciation today by listening to some of Jenny's best tips to staying on track, or creating a new track and keeping consistency in a FUN and loving, supportive way for ourselves. It's time to build habits slow and steady, and learn how we like to celebrate ourselves with…
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Awareness and Intention - the Keys to Mindset: a Refresher on the Reason Why We Are All Here!
Hello and welcome to 2024 Shed the Shamers! Today is a detailed recap on why we are all here. The holidays can make it tricky for us to stay on track with our mental and physical habits, so refreshing our minds with Jenny's mindset coaching brings us back to center on our paths to having a…
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When Your World is Falling Apart: How to Persevere in Your Weakest Moments
The world can cut us down in subtle or grandeur ways, but only if we aren't in control of our emotions, and our body's response to those emotions. In today's episode, Jenny gives us some great pointers and places to start for building that emotional control as well as maintaining it. Looking…
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Master Your Future: Harness the Power of Reparenting for Habit Transformation
Parenting can be a difficult task, and that can be seen by anyone - with or without children. It can be even more difficult when we ourselves have not received the parenting we needed when we were in that child's shoes; when we have not received that love and support that we may have needed so...
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When Taking Care of Yourself Does More Harm Than Good (and What To Do About It)
In today's episode of Shed the Shame, Jenny discusses how taking care of yourself can sometimes do more harm than good when we overload ourselves with too many things at the wrong times and set impossible expectations for ourselves. We start off with a sweet and simple gesture to give ourselves...
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Heal Your Shame, Release Self-Judgment, & Explode Your Confidence!
In past episodes, Jenny has talked about practicing self compassion and ways that we can do that. But there are other areas in our journey that go along with that like bread and butter - and she's here to give us the lo-down. Topics like negative self talk, invalidating ourselves, and being…
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From Grief to Greatness: Kate Douglass' Triumph Over Mental Health Challenges, Pandemic Stress, and Divorce
Welcome back Shed the Shamers! Today Jenny interviews a very special guest and friend - Kate Douglass! Kate Douglass is a certified behavior change and weight loss specialist with a deeply personal understanding of her field. After experiencing the trials of the pandemic and undergoing a divorce,...
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Imperfectly Powerful: Turn Your Flaws into Your Greatest Assets
In today's episode of Shed The Shame, Jenny teaches us how to turn perceived flaws and weaknesses into some of our greatest strengths. One of the things that society is best at is teaching us to hide our flaws, to be ashamed of them, and focus on avoiding them. But today, we learn to embrace…
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Mind Over Matter: 5 Keys to Unraveling the Tangled Web of Your Deceitful Self-Doubt and Achieving Your Dreams
In this episode, Jenny discusses how the brain tries to protect us by coming up with 'reasons' we feel we can't succeed or achieve their goals, but those 'reasons' are just negative thoughts and limiting beliefs that stem from past experiences, voices we've internalized, and fears around change…
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Hurdles to Healing: Conquering Challenges on the Path to Peace
In today's training, Jenny discusses the difficulties and obstacles that arise during our emotional healing journeys. While healing can be painful, confusing and exhausting, Jenny encourages us to be patient, celebrate small wins, seek support, set clear goals, process emotions and prioritize...
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Unlock Your Potential: 5 Powerful Strategies For Unwavering Self-Commitment
If you’re struggling to stay focused and committed to your journey, Jenny has some concepts to revisit that will reinspire that motivation we need to keep working on ourselves and on our growth. With exploring the concepts of Self Discipline, Self Sabotage, Growth Mindset, Self Care, and Self...
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Unlocking Your True Purpose: Embrace Your Story and Change Lives with Laura Pfeiffer
Hello and welcome to today's guest Laura Pfeiffer! Laura is a wife, mother to a special needs child, and career oriented woman with over 20 years of entrepreneurial experience, both as an independent business owner and an award-winning multi-unit franchisee. She is currently the host of the Moms...
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Let Go Of Your Fears and Let Them INSPIRE You to Achieve Your Goals and Dreams!
Fears are important to pay attention to, and equally important to sooth. What's a little more difficult yet equally rewarding is being able to let go or overcome those fears and allowing them to inspire you - allowing them to get you excited for the road ahead of you to reaching your goals and...
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Building Superhero-Like Resilience: Strategies to Conquer Life's Obstacles
In previous episodes, Jenny has talked about celebrating ourselves and our lives because it’s generally a healthy thing to do. But did you know, one of the ‘side effects’ of celebrating yourself and your accomplishments is increased resilience and confidence? Those are some pretty nice ‘side...
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Ditch The Guilt, Embrace Your Dreams: Q’s To Help You Escape Expectations & Take Action For True Happiness
There's a pretty standard list of boxes that society pushes us to check off in order to look like we're passing as happy and successful; you have a job, you have a family, you have a house...ta da! You're happy and successful, right? ...Maybe not quite. While those things are great to have, so…
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Redistributing the Mental and Emotional Load: How to Shift Family Dynamics Towards Equality
We've talked about the delegation of physical house chores before...but what about the mental work load? The society we grew up in has, for a long time, expected women to be the ones to keep the household together both physical chores and mental chores like keeping the kids on schedule…
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Does Past Trauma Have A Chokehold On Your Current Relationships?
Not everyone’s trauma is the same - trauma is a spectrum, whether it happens in childhood or adulthood. Trauma that we leave out of our control can cause a multitude of other health issues, spiral our lives out of balance and into darkness, and dwindle our relationships with ourselves and others....
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The Power of Emotional Self-Mastery: Unlocking Your True Potential in Life So You Can Die With No Regrets
AWARENESS is key when it comes to emotional self-mastery. Being aware of your reaction to your surroundings, and to events both in the present AND the past can help you break out of emotionally unstable patterns now, and in the future. Not only will Jenny help you break out of those unstable...
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The Comfort of Misery: Why We Choose to Stay Stuck and Miserable and How to Prioritize Happiness NOW
It’s been programmed into us from older generations that life has to be all work, and little or no play until we’re 65 and retired, and too old to do the things we wanted to when we were younger. We’ve been programmed to think that we have to choose one thing and one thing only, even if that…
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Shattering Expectations: It’s Time To Live Your Life Without Holding Back!
Are you living in the shadows of others, doing what makes them happy instead of focusing on yourself? Are you afraid of doing what you know will make you happy because others haven't supported you in the past? Then it's time to start supporting yourself! Focusing on your strengths, allowing...
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Breaking the Hope and Disappointment Cycle: Finding Peace in Life’s Constant Ups and Downs
Disappointment is a natural feeling in all of us, but when it spins us out of control into a breakdown...it's time to take a step back and look at what's REALLY going on. Are we setting our expectations too high? Probably. Are we expecting things out of people that we know deep down aren't able…
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Breaking Free from the Procrastination-Shame Spiral: Strategies and Insights for Overcoming Paralysis and Regaining Control
There comes a point when we talk about how much we procrastinate, that we almost start boasting about how much we procrastinate. You might even call yourself a 'procrastination queen/king', and realizing that may just be your turning point. That realization sets in, and the feeling of failure and...
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Going Down the Rabbit Hole That Feeds Your Soul with Ang Curro
Welcome Ang Curro to Shed the Shame! Join Jenny and Ang as we explore Ang’s story and how she turned a complete 180 in her life from working in corporate finance to reading tarot as a full time gig. Ang and Jen explore faith, spirituality, childhood trauma, and working through our shadows so we…
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STOP Downplaying Your Suffering & START Living Your Life!
Our whole lives we're told that our feelings don't matter that much - if at all. We're taught that quitting just isn't an option no matter what, that we have to power through whatever struggle is causing us to suffer, other wise we are 'weak', 'stupid', and 'don't know what we're doing'....
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The Secret Key to Consistency Nobody’s Talking About
Motivation and consistency can be the hardest parts of leading a healthy lifestyle, especially when you’re just trying to start getting back on track. Here’s the thing - it doesn’t HAVE to be a mystery on how to keep that consistency going! Jenny knows the secret, and she’s sharing it today with...
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From Numbed Out to Fully Awake: Leanne Makinson’s Path to Healing
For many people, possibly even most of us, it takes getting to the very bottom of the barrel to realize just how low our lives have gotten. One hit after another, living a lie for years, not standing up for ourselves, not expressing our boundaries - all of these things pile on top of that weight…
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Handling Self-Criticism With Curiosity
ERADICATE that hurtful self judgment with Jenny’s help in today’s episode. Self-judgment, and harsh criticism can wear down on us on a day to day basis, and disappointment in ourselves is an even sharper knife. We hit triggers and go through episodes of this criticism and disappointment, which…
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This Is Your Sign to Break the Toxic Cycle That Keeps You Stuck
When we're going through life doing everything to please others, it can feel like doing the right thing for us is wrong, that it's selfish. We might even be scared to do what's good for us. And maybe you go day to day feeling scared to do what's good for you, but eventually the universe throws…
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How to do What You Know You Need to do…But Can’t
Frustrated on how to get the shit done that you keep putting off? Well, welcome to your step by step process on how to figure out WHY you can't bring yourself to do the things you want or need to do and HOW to break that pattern of avoidance! Deconstruct that illusion of perfection and…
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How You Talk About Yourself to Yourself and Others Effects Your Confidence
Do you notice exactly how you talk about yourself not only to yourself, but to others? It seems as though we have been conditioned to downplay who we are and make excuses for how we are viewed by others; we even tend to minimize our own thoughts, ideas, and experiences to ourselves and others.…
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Embracing Vulnerability to Break Generational Traumas
Feeling emotions is all part of the human experience - so why do we say ‘sorry’ for showing them? We are taught that vulnerable feelings like sadness, affection, or even disappointment in ourselves are all bad feelings and make others around us uncomfortable. Our parents tell us not to cry…
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The Limiting Beliefs That Are Undermining Your Success
Today’s episode is all about vulnerability. Learning to be vulnerable with yourself - to open up to yourself and others about what is truly holding you back; holding you down from what could be (and WILL be) your successes. Jenny walks us through what limiting beliefs are and how we exemplify…
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Cut Your Stress & Stop Taking Responsibility for ALL THE THINGS
How often do you feel like you have to swoop in and save the day? Is it a lot? ...Is it almost EVERY day? Do you feel like your switch is 'ON', ALL the time? Then Jenny has the perfect episode for you. Throughout this episode, you'll learn to ask yourself the right questions to get yourself out…
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Boldly Breaking Diet Culture's Mold with EA Coaching's Esther Avant
Today Jenny welcomes her friend and colleague Esther Avant! Esther is the founder of EA Coaching, a health and fitness community where clients can find compassion, understanding, and connection with the coaches as well as other clients on their journey towards a healthy lifestyle that lasts. In...
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Constantly Disappointed By Others? It's Time to Adjust Your Expectations
There are patterns in all of us, good and bad. Our own pattern of expecting certain or better behavior in others when we know deep down that we may never receive it, is the pattern of us hurting ourselves. We think, 'maybe this time will be different', 'maybe this time they'll understand'...but...
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Learn to Trust Yourself to Attain Your Goals
You find yourself trying the same goals you've had in the past - goals you've tried to obtain over and over again, but falling through with them...over and over again. We start telling ourselves "I told you so" when it fails, yet again, to soften the blow. We run away from it. We pretend it never...
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Healing Old Wounds When You Recognize a Trigger
It's easy to revert back to our fight or flight responses - after all, it's a habitual trauma response that's been built up since childhood. But what if I told you, you can break free of that fight or flight (or fawn, or freeze) mode? Healing takes time, that's true. But with understanding of the...
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What to do When Your Boundaries Aren't Respected
Jenny welcomes back her friend and editor - Shelly! In today's episode, Shelly and Jenny discuss real life and personal scenarios of when boundaries were disrespected, what their reactions were at the time, and how to face that situation better in the future. Healing is tough, but it's possible...
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How to Embrace a 'Not My Fuckin' Problem' Mindset Without Being a Selfish Asshole
It's okay to help people once in a while. Heck, you might help people every day, and that's okay too! However, there's a point where this may become a problem in some situations. Repeated situations with repeated offenders, people who start to cry wolf, people who refuse to take your advice or…
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Measuring Your Worth
The morals of society can be sneaky - they imbed in us from an early age, starting as far early as mere infants. It isn't always intended to be a negative thing, until we reach a point in our lives when we don't know how to be proud of ourselves - when we don't know how to tell ourselves that WE...
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The Power of Validating Your Truths
The truth isn't always what we want to hear, but it's what we NEED to hear. Not just from other people, but hearing it from ourselves. Today, Jenny helps us find validation in our truths - whether it was perpetuated by ourselves or by others. Whatever our truth is, removing those layers to get to...
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Heal Your Inner Child to Heal Your Inner Adult
Our inner child can reveal to us many things that we might never had thought about as adults. They show us the joys we used to revel in before we sleep walked into adulthood, but they also show us where and why we used to hide. Reconnecting with these ideas and places may reveal to us why our...
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Your Past Is Undermining Your Present Performance
"Work smarter, not harder" we're told, and time and time again we're told to try 'this' way, do it 'that' way. And yet, we may still find ourselves not getting better, and maybe even feel like we're getting worse, or that we're even failures. Jenny is here to tell you - that isn't the case. There...
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Your Schedule Is Setting You Up to Fail
Expectations can be a blessing and a curse. It's good to have them at a certain level, but too high or too many can leave us feeling overwhelmed. Feeling overwhelmed and stressed can back fire on our productivity - on our mental health as well as our physical health. We may stop productivity...
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Self Denial's Devastating Impact
Self Denial is an easy shadow to fall into. It feels safe, it's an easy escape, and it allows us to ignore things so we can move on with our lives. Well, are we really moving on if we don't truly solve the issue? Jenny helps encourage us to be gentle yet honest with ourselves in order to escape…
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Your Secrets Are Holding You Hostage
"Some things are better left unsaid" can be harmful advice, especially when it comes to your experiences, and ESPECIALLY if it involves other people. Secrets might not make friends, but they make worse roommates when they're living in your head, trashing that living space with anxiety. Don't let...
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Stop Punishing Yourself For Your Past
Conditioning and trauma from our past can lead to so many knots in our ball of yarn that is life. Knots such as constantly punishing ourselves for things we did, or things that were done to us before we knew what was right or wrong; for things we were taught were right or wrong. Jenny opens up to...
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Do You Believe You Deserve What You Want?
When you lack the results you're looking for, you don't feel worthy of the goal you're trying to achieve. If that sentence resonates with you, today's episode is something you'll want to listen to. Jenny talks us through why we don't feel deserving, and how we allow that guilt to guide us all in...
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Have A Reason For YOURSELF
Having a reason to pursue your passions for your family is always a good thing. However, what about just having a reason for yourself? Showing your kids or those you love that you are good enough for them AND yourself is powerful; not only does it help inspire yourself, but it inspires others…
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About this show
Welcome to Shed the Shame - a podcast for women looking for inspiration on how to take and make time for themselves to be their best without the shame of doing so. Host Jenny Whitens puts into perspective the importance of taking time for yourself to be healthy in body, mind, and soul so you can truly model health and happiness for yourself, your friends, and your family and live a life of fulfillment. Seeking a healthier and more joyful life? Hungry for tips on reenergizing, reevaluating, and resetting so you can feel like YOU again? Then it’s time to Shed the Shame and make yourself a priority - and you can start with this podcast.
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Jenny Whitens