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Ep: 116: Shauna Rose - Finding inner love with microdosing
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Happy Woo Wednesdays : Today's hot topic is about finding inner love with microdosing.
Shauna would love to break the stigma of shrooms a bit! People are SCARED of taking them. She wants to spread the word about how healing and beautiful this medicine is. I'm her client and we have become very good friends.
Her company Magic Mama doesn't just offer products, it's the whole integration and healing package! You can't buy something from her and then never hear from her again (unless that's shat you want ) Shauna willbe there every step of the way supporting you!
Shauna is a mom in her healing era who swapped an overindulgence of alcohol and sugar, for a healthier obsession with plant medicine and breathwork. Her transformative journey led her to sharing what’s in her healing toolbox with other moms, and to the creation of her company, Magic Mama Microdosing.
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https://www.instagram.com/shaunarose.love
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Transcript
Introduction and Commonalities
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Happy Boo Wednesdays! I have my friend Shauna Rose in the Heck Yes House. She is my friend now, and yeah, I just love her. She's so cool. She has two kiddos, so we have that in common. And she's helped me with my microdosing journey and my healing journey, so I really owe her a lot of thanks.
Addressing Burnout in the Wedding Industry
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I know wedding professionals, it's end of crazy wedding season, so I know you guys are burnt out.
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So I hope this episode helps you with if you're feeling anxiety, if you're feeling overwhelmed. Also, if you guys haven't heard, I have a free demo training. It's 20 minutes long. It's for all wedding professionals and it's how to get 10 to 15 quality leads in your inbox. I mean, quality. And people are going to be start getting engaged, you know, now till January 15th. So it's engagement season.
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Welcome
Exploring Success with Dream Clients
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to Get a Heck Yes with Carissa Wu. I'm your host, Carissa, and I've been a Los Angeles wedding photographer for over a decade. I've traveled the world, built my team, and seen it all. I now coach wedding photographers hit 10K a month and build a thriving business. In this podcast, we are going to deep dive into how top wedding creatives get that heck yes from their dream clients. We are not holding back on the struggles of the business and how to push through the noise. Some healthy hustle, mindset shifts, up-leveling your money story,
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time hacks because I'm a mom of two, a little bit of woo-woo, and most importantly, self-love and confidence are just a few of the many things we will talk about. I want to give you a genuine thank you for following along my journey. I hope to inspire you every Woo Wednesday so that you say heck yes to listening to this podcast. See you guys soon!
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Hey, everyone.
Carissa's Microdosing Journey
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Welcome back to Get a Heck Yes with me, your girl, Carissa Wu. I have my now friend, Shana Rose, in the Get a Heck Yes house. We met at Mesh Kids in Redondo. It's like a co-working space. I meet a lot of cool people there. And yeah, now we're friends. And I actually am one of her clients. I buy micro-dosing mushrooms from her, and she's
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not to take this lightly or be over dramatic, but she has changed my life. So I really wanted her to come on this podcast and welcome Shawna Rose. Thank you. I'm so excited to be here and thank you for your kind words. I love changing people's lives. Yeah. It's like, I don't want to be so dramatic all the time. You're like, Shawna, you've changed my life. You know, when we hung out and like, just be like super fangirl, but you know, kind of tread lightly, but you have changed my life.
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I don't know. I think I was drawn to you. We met at a networking event at mesh and, you know, your little elevator speech was pretty impressive. I must say. And you said a lot of cool things that really sparked my ear. And I just had to talk to you after. And yeah, I became one of your clients and you do the full like experience. Like we're going to talk about, but before that, tell me about you.
Shauna's Sensitive Childhood
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growing up a little bit about you and like what you're like as a kid and like walk me through a little bit of your journey. Yeah, sure. Well, yeah, me as a kid, I was very sensitive. I felt very deeply. I wanted to show
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Everyone beautiful things like if I saw something that I thought was beautiful, which was like almost everything I would want to show other people I once I remember once saving a candy wrapper because I thought it was so beautiful and it was green and I'm like I had to save this to show my mom and my cousin was like throwing out its trash, but um
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But yeah, I was very sensitive and my parents and caregivers really didn't know how to handle me. And yeah, and my and what I heard growing up was like, you know, be quiet, your dad just got back from work. Be quiet, you know, don't bother him.
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I just remember not, you know, not knowing what to do with my emotions, whether it was, you know, happiness or sadness. Like I was afraid to cry in front of people and I was afraid to express myself. Yeah, I remember in preschool, we had this preschool graduation where we were all singing a song together, like the the students. And I was lip syncing because I was so I didn't want anyone to hear me. Like, yeah, so I kind of just
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I shut down at a very early age, even though I felt like I was a very creative and I was very creative and I loved to sing, but I just shut down and I made myself really small.
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And that carried me into my teenage years, you know, like I said, not knowing how to process my happy emotions. I found alcohol
Teenage Struggles with Alcohol
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and alcohol gave me, yeah, it was fun. And it like gave me permission to be happy and it gave me permission to express myself, you know, like lowered my inhibitions. I'm like, oh, this is great. I can party now.
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Yeah. And that, uh, that lasted a while. That's funny. I think back on like, I used to go to Carson parties and from West horns, but you know, I thought it was cool. And it was like, I felt so awkward being there, but you know, my first bottle of alcohol, I felt like I belonged and I remember that. I was like, um, Oh, I feel kind of cool. You know, I felt like I was.
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I was meant to be here and it carried me through a long time. I won't talk about that so much, but it's also funny that you mentioned, you know, being a kid and sensitive because the way I explained you to my sister, she's like, oh, how was it? You know, you guys went hiking. And I was like, oh yeah, Shauna's so cool. She's like, oh, oh, oh, oh. She's like, oh, ocean. Like you just hear her so much and I'm like, oh, I didn't even hear the ocean.
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Oh, that's funny. Yeah. Okay, so alcohol, coping with pain. We don't have to go jump forward too fast. But like, take me back to those days, like, how you were like, you know, were you maybe struggle a little depression? Or how did this alcohol make you feel like, you know, after a while after many years? Yeah, I like
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First of all, immediately, like I started drinking when I was 15 and I was immediately a blackout drinker, you know, I would just, and I would never throw up. And so I had this like, this reputation of like, oh, Sean, I can really put it down. But like not everyone knew that I was like completely blacking out.
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Yeah, but yeah, that lasted a while and pretty quickly the depression set in. I remember it was probably 17 when I was like begging my mom to take me to the doctor to get Prozac.
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Cause I like heard about it on the radio now and I'm like, I'm so sad. Like, can you please just medicate me? And she refused. Yeah, we didn't, I didn't get like really any help aside from, you know, she took me, my mom took me to
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the Buddhist center, which was wonderful. But that was about it. I didn't get any therapy or anything like that. So the depression, yeah, it was really heavy on me. In my teenage years, even though I drank and I partied, I had a lot of
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FOMO, and I felt very isolated. I didn't feel like people loved me, and I did a lot of things that would try to make people love me, I guess. I was just seeking approval. Wow. So interesting. And me and you talked about, yeah, drinking is really fun until it's not.
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Yeah, it's like useful until it's not, it's fun until it's not, and then it gets really not good.
Early Motherhood and Drinking Challenges
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Yeah, okay, so I guess fast forward to meeting your now hubby, you know, you have two kids and you told me you started your healing process when you had your first daughter, like, take me back to that time. Yeah, well, right, I met my now, well, we're not legally married, but I usually call my husband, but I met him at a house party.
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I was not blacked out yet when I met him, but I got there. Yeah, so I met him, we were still partying, and when we started dating, I think it was probably, I don't know how long, we've been together for 15 years, so, and our first daughter is six, yeah, so we were together for nine years before I got pregnant, and it was just,
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It was just chaos between me and him constantly. And it was, you know, we were both drinking. But then when I got pregnant, I was like, you know, my drinking has been really unmanageable. But I think when I'm a mom, I'm definitely gonna be able to manage it. Like, there's nothing more important than having a kid and being a mom. So like, of course, like, I'm just gonna stop drinking. It's gonna be fine.
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But that did not happen and my baby was born Rosemary and for the first 3 months of her life I was pretty blacked out. I was drinking a lot and it's. Yeah, it's not a great memory, but and you didn't tell me that because when I told you I was like that you didn't say anything so that's very vulnerable to you thank you for sharing. Oh yeah, of course. It's hard to be open about it, but
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Yeah, it's important. Because, you know, yeah, it's really it's relatable. No, totally. I remember coming home. Well, first I was like on cloud nine for about 24 hours after childbirth, and then it really got dark. They're like, Hey, you need to feed your baby. I was like, What the heck? I thought you're gonna feed her. Because you're the ICU for some weird reason. I was like, Are you serious? Like, it's
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frickin' I was there two hours ago. So, you know, darkness really set in fast. And then, you know, I get home, not even my favorite restaurant could make me happy. So I was downing, you know, me and my husband were killing bottles of vodka, splitting it and just, you know, like, you know, like numbing, numbing, numbing, numbing that whole year. Yeah. Oh, that's crazy. So how did you start the healing process? And then where is it taking you now?
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tell us how you're feeling like I want to just know a little bit more about your thoughts. It's beautiful and you're you're awesome. It's beautiful. I'm speechless. I just like the fact that it feels like myself like I can I feel myself when I see this. Oh, man. Well, you got me pumped and excited for this. Carissa, thank you. Right. Well, so
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And this is notable to my labor with Rosemary was, it came on naturally, but then I ended up in an emergency C-section with all the drugs and all everything. That was my worst nightmare. And so I, instead of grieving, just, you know, like you said, numb, numb, numb, numb, numb for that three, for those three months.
Moment of Grace and Healing Initiation
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And then I finally,
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Hit a certain rock bottom that I was like, okay, this is this of it. I I call it like a moment of grace That's what they call it an a like it's like a God moment like God comes in and like removes the obsession with alcohol So that was really that was like the big moment for me. Nothing. Nothing, you know specific but huh? Oh after
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Then I was on a pink cloud, as they call it. When you quit drinking, yeah, I don't know, you're like on, you know, the pink cloud, you're riding the pink cloud because you're just like, you have this clarity and you're like living life and you're like, wow, like everything's beautiful. Like, you know, so much, like, so much grayness has like left your brain. Yeah, you have a lot of clarity.
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And that was one of the catapults. I just wanted to be better. I wanted to heal for my daughter. I wanted to give her the childhood that I thought I should have received. So I did that for a while. And my partner was still drinking really heavily. And I was like, oh, this is toxic. I think I need to get away from this. And so I had my one foot out the door.
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he bought a he bought a sports car so he's very happy for two months and I was like we're having another baby like this is amazing but then it got toxic again yeah it was like this cycle but it wasn't until um I think 2021 I found breath work because it was just this like slow gradual like build of like I'm finding this cool healing tool and this one leads to that one and this one so it's just like it was a slow climb to breath work and this
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but then we had another baby.
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This changed my life. Like, wow. Like I released so much trauma in the first six months. And, you know, I talked about this on my Instagram recently, but like, I am the type of person that I did not want to go to talk therapy because I don't want to talk about what happened. I don't want to relive that. Like it's terrible. Um,
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Yeah, like I don't want to bring it up. I don't want to bring that to my conscious mind like oh even a lot of like the things for my childhood but even a lot of the things that happen in my relationship like I rather I would rather just You know drop into a breathwork session and let my body release the trauma and I don't really know like what it is
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But I feel much lighter. I felt so much lighter. After every session, I felt so, so grateful and full of joy. And I noticed that as I practiced it consistently, my chronic anxiety was gone. I had this shallow breathing, even way into my sobriety.
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I had this really shallow breath pattern where I would have to occasionally catch my breath. I would occasionally just take a really deep breath because I didn't know that I was just breathing so shallow because of anxiety. And that was gone. After my first session, I was like, wow, this is what it feels like to breathe in. That's amazing. So I did that for quite a bit. And should I go on?
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No, I'm just like, I'm really intrigued. Okay, so after that, the healing process, breath work, which I'm into,
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How did you get into plant medicine and then how did you turn it into business? I know that's a
Breath Work and Psychedelic Preparation
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long question, long-winded question. So it just goes right into it. With the breath work, the type that I practice is such a spiritual experience. It was actually developed in response to psychedelics being decriminalized.
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So we're breathing in this way that causes us to have sort of a psychedelic experience and people have visits from their spirit guides or past loved ones. They have visions of, you know, I once had a vision come to me of like a childhood memory that I didn't remember, but it came to me. And because I was seeking to, I set my intention to heal
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feel something I don't know and this this memory came in I was in my dad's van and I felt all the feelings that like little Shauna was feeling and then and it just and it was sadness, but then it was empathy because I realized that his dad was not there for him and I just started crying and so yeah, so those experiences. It really softened or like really prepared me for
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for a real psychedelic experience. So my partner was always like, let's do mushrooms, let's do mushrooms, let's do mushrooms. And I'm like, no, like I'm sober. I want my mental state to be so clear. I don't want to alter my mind like that. But then after the breath work, I was like,
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I think I'm I think I am going to try it and everyone around me was having so much success with micro dosing. I think it was honestly like it was trending in my life and I was just like you know when that happens you were influenced. Yes I was influenced and so I started
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So I started out, I was like, okay, like I'm going to try microdosing. And I took a dose and strain that everyone around me was taking. And what it ended up being was completely wrong for me. And it actually exacerbated my anxiety. Oh, crazy. Yeah, it made my heart race. I, you know, I was trying to
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on the micro dose, I was on vacation and I was like, let's have fun, like whatever. But I was, I had my kids with me and I was trying to navigate their big feelings and the walls were breathing around me and my car was racing. And I was just like, Oh my God, I felt, yeah, I was so overwhelmed and so dysregulated. I was like, this is terrible. But something in me said to keep going. So I, yeah. So I just kept, I was like, okay, I'm going to try it again. You know, they talk about set and setting. So your mindset has to be right. And you're,
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setting your atmosphere has to be like aligned with the experience that you're trying to have. So with micro dosing, like if the micro dose is too high, it's really hard to be around our kids or if the strain is wrong for you. But I was lucky enough to experiment with a lot of different strains and a lot of different dosing
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dosages. And we landed on two really amazing heart opening strains that we still use today. Wow. Yeah, yeah. And so I called one activate because it's like great for like getting stuff done. And then I called one center because it like does just that like it brings you really into your body, it centers you so I love both. It's crazy that you said that because I have
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There's things that I say to friends, and it's like, I say it over and over again, because it's, you know, very near and dear to my heart, but I always tell people like, I've tried mushrooms, microdosing or anything, and I was very lucky that I kept going.
00:20:00
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Because, you know, I found you and it just really relaxed me. And my first experience was I went to the pool with my kids for five hours and I didn't check my phone once. I was conversing with the neighbors in not like an anxious way, but a very like connection way. And then after I went home and just relaxed, normally I would like go somewhere like a summer concert or something. So it just really like,
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Kind of zen me out because, you know, after babies and job or career is like, it just made me very anxious to the point one time I was going to a family shoot. Literally a family shoot. I've been doing this for 14 years. Family shoots are extremely easy. They're in like same spot, good light, you know, do this, do that. I was crying because I was so anxious for a family shoot.
00:20:54
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So that was just like one little example, but that kind of just stuck for me. And yeah, I forget my next question, but I guess walk us through like your business now and like what it looks like and who you work with and who you help.
00:21:10
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Sure. Yeah. So because of how rocky my start was with with microdosing and then how much success I had, I was telling all of my friends, like, this is the best I've ever felt, blah, blah, blah.
Launching Magic Mama
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And I ended up coaching some of them and they were like, give me what you have. So.
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It sort of just grew organically into this company and I named it Magic Mama because I was mostly working with moms. And I'm like, we need this magic. So yeah, so I still I work with pretty much just moms. That's who I attract. You know, I'm a mom. It's it's like a really big part of my life. And I just really resonate with their struggles. So and I want to help them. Like, I think that
00:21:53
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my purpose in life, the way that I change the world is by helping like one mom at a time because we are raising the next generation. And so it's just really deeply meaningful to me to be able to help moms heal themselves so that we
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can raise kids that don't need so much deep inner child work when they get older. And then what I've moved into recently too is helping moms navigate the trauma beneath addictive behaviors and compulsive behaviors. And that's with a lot of the healing tools that I found.
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Yeah, I have a course coming up. That's all about it. It's with healing tools and there's an option for microdosing as well. Oh, I love it. I feel like, like you said, um, I was on your Instagram and you know, sometimes I do feel anxious if I have a lot going on and it just said to like hug yourself and like sway and I was listening to the music. So little things like that could be more.
00:23:03
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um, helpful than even years of talk therapy. I think talk therapy is great, but sometimes it's just this, um, your body holds a lot of, uh, past trauma. Um, and just the way that we like talk to ourselves and the way that we like show up for, for ourselves and our family like has to do with like the trauma that we've seen, but tell us about like after.
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Deepening Connection through Healing
00:24:57
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It has been so impactful. I was just thinking about this yesterday, how before microdosing, I don't know if I can explain this, but I feel like my vision
00:25:11
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I feel like, I mean, I wear glasses, but I feel like I was in a movie. It felt more like none of this was real. I had a little bit left of the disconnection. I wasn't fully connected. And I would look at my kids like,
00:25:30
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sometimes they didn't feel like my kids. Like I didn't feel connected to them. And yeah, with further work, with breath work and releasing some of that trauma and definitely a regular microdosing protocol, I was able to like make friends with myself because part of the reason why I was so disconnected was that I hated myself. I realized that a long time ago.
00:25:55
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And I really, I think I realized that you can't fully connect to other people if you don't love yourself. Yeah. Yeah. And if you hold just so much hatred towards yourself, because whatever you
00:26:14
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I'm gonna say like, everyone is your mirror. So it's gonna, other people are gonna reflect back to you, like what is within you. So if you have a lot of hate within yourself, you're gonna see that back. You're gonna see ugly stuff like out in the world. You're gonna attract them. Yeah.
00:26:31
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Yeah, I mean, that's so deep. Shout out to your kids are amazing. When we went hiking their barefoot, jumping down like through like pretty much like hopping like through the forest, but in the mountains. My daughter is just like scared of this crab to like be in nature. So amazing. How has it, how has this journey like helped your, your marriage and your relationship with your partner?
00:27:00
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It has definitely helped. And it took a lot of patience on my part, I swear, because my partner, you know, when I stopped drinking, his drinking got worse, things got worse. And I was like, I thought like bettering myself, like you would kind of follow the lead. But it was
00:27:17
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Probably four and a half years after I stopped drinking, he finally quit drinking. And the things finally did start to rub off on him. He now is using plant medicine in an intentional way to heal, whereas before he was like, let's just hang out.
00:27:33
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You know? Yeah. So, yeah. And then also, you have to love yourself in a relationship. You absolutely have to. Which was hard for me, you know, like, like I said, like people are mirrors and like my partner came into my life to be a mirror to me so that he can reflect back to me what's within me and I can heal that. And that's like really hard. It's really hard to have somebody
00:27:59
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with you all the time that just triggers the SHIT out of you. Triggers. Yeah. But, um, where do you think, um, hating yourself came from? I mean, we talked about like in the beginning, you're so sensitive and then you kind of turned off the switch. Like you kind of muted yourself. Um, was it a lot because of that time or did, um,
00:28:25
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was it more like the drinking or just the vomit of everything? Yeah, you know, I think it might be a combination because I think now, like if I think about my younger version now, I'm like, I love her so much. Like why did I hate her for such a long time? And so when I was, a few years ago when I was doing some research and like gentle parenting and stuff, I came across a post on Instagram that
00:28:55
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have this cool trick. If you're trying to respond more kindly to your kids when they are having really big emotions or throwing a tantrum, just envision your child as your younger self. And I tried that and I was like, I'm more angry now. This was years ago, right? I'm like, if I'm thinking that my kid is me at a younger age, I'm more angry and I just wanna yell and I don't care at all.
00:29:22
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Yeah. And so that's when I realized I was like, I even texted my friend, I'm like, do I hate myself? Yeah, so I don't know exactly where it comes from. But just having the awareness was like enough for me to focus on it and heal it, you know? Yeah, yeah. It's almost like it did the opposite effect for you. But it made you understand that you were treating yourself like not so kindly like this is
00:29:52
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You saw yourself like you're like, best shot at it. Yeah, it makes me so sad to think about, but it's really cool. Also, if any adult can use that trick without doing years of inner child healing, I think that's wonderful. If you envision yourself as a young child and you have love for that child, that's so beautiful.
00:30:11
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Yeah. And I guess, um, I forgot even the hot topic, but I think it was pleasure and self-care, but what could someone do a couple tips today to add more pleasure and self-care to their lives? Most of the people listening are wedding professionals. So we're in like, um, the end of peak wedding season. So we're all burnt out. People are very like, I'm over it. You know, like, um, we've been working our butts off for the past like three, four months. So.
00:30:38
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what would you tell them to like take care of themselves? It's mental awareness month, so it's perfect. Oh my gosh, I'm so unaware of all these like holidays. I would say
00:30:54
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to like what is something that brings you joy that you haven't done in a long time like or that you haven't even ever tried do that right now like what's holding you back from that you know just go do the thing so i was telling you right before we started recording that i just started playing the ukulele and
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i don't know why i didn't do this a long time ago the ukulele was like 45 bucks and you just go on youtube and you and you literally can learn anything from youtube and i and i'm learning chords on the ukulele and now my my me and my daughter are making music together and it's like it's life changing and then that's where that's how i find joy and that is like the ultimate pleasure to me
00:31:33
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For me, it's like creating, creating music, creating art, creating art with my body. So I also just joined a dance class. I was telling you on our hike. Yeah. So the dance class was another thing. Like I love to dance. And when I, when I quit drinking, I, I finally was able to get my exercise routine, like consistent and not fall off. I didn't fall off until I got pregnant. It was like 10 months.
00:32:01
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And I was like, wow, movement is really important to my life. And I knew that I had that realization. And yet I spent, even after that, I spent so many years not dancing. Like, why was I not dancing? You know, sometimes like you just have to like push through this discomfort or like get out of your comfort zone and like go do the thing, you know? And you're gonna come back and just be like, pick up your kids. You're like a new mama.
00:32:30
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Yeah, totally. Like the dancing and the making music has absolutely been life changing. So I really encourage all your listeners, like especially because wedding photographers, like how much joy do you bring to other people? So much joy, life lasting joy. These people are going to look at their wedding photos in years, in decades, and they're going to, and they're going to have joy about those pictures. Like that's so beautiful. So you guys deserve to feel joy and feel pleasure yourself, you know? Oh, totally. It's like we put on this.
00:33:00
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face to, you know, you know, we want everyone stay to be perfect, even the parents, even the wedding party, even the guests. And then we come home and we're just like, what about us? You know, so glad that you said that. Last question before rapid fire questions.
00:33:17
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but how do you, you're like, you know, into healing process, but now you're like a business mom, like you got a business, you got two kids. You know, what is your biggest get a heck yes or heck yes sales technique? How do you get the heck yes from your dream client? I am honestly, I just, yeah, as like a healing person, I try to just keep an open heart and align with my ideal clients like that and just,
00:33:47
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I'm not a salesperson and I'm not trying to sell anyone anything unless it's completely right for them. And yeah, that's why every microdose incline that comes in, we do a free consultation call like half hour, or they come in through the free class. I want to make sure that like, this is right for you. I'm not trying to take your money if this is not right for you. And I want to see you through that transformative
00:34:10
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transformative journey. So I'm here whether or not you're in my membership or you're hiring me for coaching. I'm here if you have any questions about protocols or changing your dosage like I'm always available if you need guidance.
00:34:25
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I love that. And you are a 360 experience. Like you hold the breath work workshops that I've been a part of. So you're definitely there for your clients. So that's so cool. Wrapping fire questions. I know there's no magic wand, but there's always goal setting and aiming high. But if you had a magic wand, where would you see your business in three months, 90 days? Oh, in three? If it was a magic wand? Just like your top goal.
00:34:55
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Can it be financial? I'm just gonna say like, I would be a millionaire. I'd be a millionaire, okay? In three months, I'm gonna be a millionaire, like big CEO investments and just like blowing my company up and my course. Yeah, my course reaching, you know, thousands of women, why not? Because that money is gonna go to good things, universal. I'm glad you said it out loud because it's even hard for me to say that.
00:35:24
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Yeah, we should all be millionaires. Yeah, we should all be because we're going to do good stuff with that money. So that's now with inflation and coffee being $10. So we have to be we'll have to be millionaires. What do you say if you like ukulele dancing? What do you envision your life for your kids to be? Oh, I love that. Um,
00:35:47
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Oh, I'm gonna cry. I just want them to be able to follow their passions and hold on to their creativity and be geniuses. I just saw some, somebody did a study on like, like kids being geniuses. Like basically everyone is born a genius. And then we like snuff it out along the way. And then we have no geniuses. But so I want them to retain their genius factor, which basically just means like full creativity, like safe to express yourself.
00:36:16
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um yeah all your passions i love that for them that's a beautiful answer we'll leave it like that and tell everyone where to find you and how to work with you oh yeah i mean mainly you can go to my instagram it's at shawnarose.love i also have um
00:36:33
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I don't even know, at magic mama, microdosing. I'm obviously not over there very much, but yeah. Go to my personal Instagram and you can follow the link to work with me, whether in microdose coaching or breath work or my upcoming course, which is called Soulful Sobriety. Oh, and I love that. And I'm glad that our souls met you, at least so much with my anxiety. So.
00:36:59
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Yeah, I have a lot to thank you for that, which I've tried a lot of things, so definitely help. Thank you for telling me. That's pretty the word as well. It's so nice to hear that, Carissa. Thank you for letting me know. I really appreciate it.
00:37:17
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