Permission With Shadia Akle

Welcome to Permission, a space for the conversations that ask us to come home to ourselves.For the first episode, I sat down with Annalie Howling, author of Unapologetic and a trauma specialist. We talk about shame, self-abandonment, and what it actually means to come home to ourselves.In this conversation:Why shame is a liar.The difference between guilt and shame.The inner critic as the custodian of your comfort zone.Fawning and why it carries the most shame of all trauma responses.Pleasure as self-responsibility.Self-compassion as the cure.For the woman ready to stop carrying what was never hers to carry.Follow @permission.pod and @shadiaakle on Instagram.Annalie's book Unapologetic is available on Amazon.

Welcome to Permission with Shadia Akle. Here's what nobody talks about in wellness: you can do everything right and still not feel right. The supplements, the protocols, the labs, the clean eating, and your body is still asking for something none of it can give.Your body isn't broken. It never was. It's been carrying what you couldn't. The job that drained you. The relationship that shrank you. The version of yourself you kept performing because somewhere, quietly, you were taught your needs would have to wait.No supplement in the world can speak louder than a life that needs you to finally listen.Every week, I sit down with brilliant doctors, scientists, researchers, and healers, and together we talk about the part most health conversations leave out. Not just what's happening in your body — but why. The science and the story behind it. The biology and what it's been holding for you. The conversation your symptoms have been trying to start.I don't come here as the woman with all the answers. I come as someone who has been in the question, is still in the question, and has picked up enough along the way to want to share it.This is for the woman who has done everything “right” and is tired of pretending that's enough. Who senses her body is trying to tell her something her labs can't explain. Who is done waiting for the right time to come home to herself.You don't need another protocol. You need permission.Permission to rest. Permission to listen. Permission to stop waiting and start becoming.Welcome to Permission. Your body's been waiting for this conversation.Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@shadiaakleInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/permission.podhttps://www.instagram.com/shadiaakleTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@permission.podLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shadia-akle