Shed the Shame with 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
122 episodes
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 emoti...
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Episode 122
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25:02
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, a...
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Episode 121
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28:10
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 bri...
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Episode 120
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27:40
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 emot...
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Episode 119
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25:46
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 receive...
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Episode 118
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33:17
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 of...
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Episode 117
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33:26
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 negati...
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Episode 116
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30:40
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 experien...
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Episode 115
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2:08:41
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 ...
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Episode 114
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30:33
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,...
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Episode 113
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44:16
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,...
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Episode 112
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51:45
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, S...
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Episode 111
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24:02
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-win...
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Episode 110
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52:45
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 <...
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Episode 109
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36:28
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 ...
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Episode 108
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30:18
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 n...
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Episode 107
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35:09
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 menta...
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39:41
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...
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Episode 105
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17:52
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. No...
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Episode 104
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44:03
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 c...
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Episode 103
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34:51
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 s...
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Episode 102
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46:30
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 thin...
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Episode 101
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31:19
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 tur...
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Episode 100
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49:57
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, ch...
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Episode 99
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1:32:15
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', ...
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Episode 98
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35:44