You know when you are going through it...maybe you have a headache, chronic pain, burnout, anxiety, perimenopause, or any other symptom, and you just want it to be gone? For most of us, our automatic reaction is to get rid of it, soothe it, cure it, or try to "release" it. Fair enough. I don't like to suffer either, but in doing that, we are missing something incredibly important. When we shift from asking "What's wrong with me and how do I change it" (old paradigm) to an unshaming paradigm, we ask this instead: “What’s that like?” Instead of jumping to get rid of our symptoms and change our experience, we develop a curiosity FIRST: - What’s it like to feel exhausted? - What’s it like to feel anxious? - What’s it like to be in perimenopause? - What’s it like to have this headache? - What’s it like to feel stuck? - What's it like to have this constant pain that never goes away? This new direction of thought and exploration will take us to places we never knew existed. It unlocks information about ourselves and our experience that would have been missed had we immediately jumped to fix it/cure it/change it. There’s deep medicine in this question. xo, Amanda

I've been working behind the scenes reimagining this space and I'm excited to share it with you. I want more connection with all of you. I want more unshaming live, in action! Things are starting to come together. Thank you for your patience. Stay tuned, xo, Amanda

Now that the summer is coming to a close, my daughter is back to school (this week!), and I have a bit more time to think (phew!), I want to share about what's been on my mind and heart for several months. I want to connect more deeply. Have conversations in person (online but together in the same virtual room) so we can dive deeper into the unshaming conversation and implement what we're learning here. I want to build community. This looks like gathering regularly, sharing whatever is coming up in our experiences, and having a group of women to lean on and become unshaming witnesses for each other. I want you to have an experience of what unshaming looks like in real time. Not just journal prompts and courses to study and learn from. The in-person experience is a necessary part of this unshaming journey and will blow your mind! That leads me to what I want to create here in our UnShaming for Women community, and I want your feedback! Here's what I'm thinking: - a monthly gathering to connect, share, learn, listen, and become unshaming witnesses for each other - experience unshaming in real time with opportunities to work with me directly and ask questions in a group setting So what do you think? I'd love to hear your feedback. Is this something that you would like to experience? If so, I'll set something up for mid to late September. :)

This is your space to stop trying to fix yourself and start seeing yourself through unshaming eyes. We're going to learn about what shame is, what it isn't, and how it impacts our lives. You'll also learn how to dismantle shame so you can reconnect with all the parts that shame taught you to hide. Here's how to get started: 1️⃣ Head to the Classroom and find the 'Understanding Shame: Your Foundation For Freedom' mini course. It's only 20 minutes and will give you an excellent starting point and foundational understanding of shame and what to do about. You most likely have never heard shame explained in this way before. 2️⃣ Check out the resources, exercises, and other material in the classroom under the mini course video. Do each exercise in order, at your own pace. There is no rush. This journey will take some time. You'll see the classroom grow over the weeks and months to come so stick around, you'll be the first to know as new content drops. 🚀 Founding Member Opportunity - Premium Plan Because we're just getting started, there's a unique opportunity right now: Lock in Founding Member pricing and get access to all future paid content I add to the classroom, at today's price, forever. → See plans: skool.com/unshaming/plans 🎯 VIP Tier (Apply If It's Right For You) Want a 60-minute monthly coaching session with me? The VIP tier might be a fit — but let's make sure first. Book a free connection call and we'll see if I can help: Connection Call 👋 Introduce Yourself! Drop a comment below and share: - Your name - What brought you here - What you're hoping to experience in this community - A pic of something you love: yourself, a pet, your garden, or something else! I'm looking forward to getting to know you. See you inside! xo, Amanda Ps. A picture of my little urban garden! It's my nature's therapy :)

Gentle nutrition is the tenth and final principle of intuitive eating — and the fact that it comes last is really important. Before we can think about nourishment, we need to do all the other work first. Making peace with food, letting go of rules, learning to trust our hunger again. You can’t skip to nutrition and expect it to feel any different from a diet — it just becomes another set of rules. But when you’ve done that groundwork? Gentle nutrition feels completely different. It’s about making food choices that honour both your health and your tastebuds. In practice that looks like eating a variety of foods across all food groups — carbohydrates, protein, fats, fruit and veg, and dairy with flexibility not perfection. You don’t have to eat a perfect diet to be healthy. One meal, one day, one week doesn’t define your health. It’s what you eat consistently over time that matters. 🤍