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Creating Her Best Life

Shannan Christiansenbflycoaching.libsyn.com
It's time to create your best life. The life that you want and deserve. It starts with simple steps forward and Shannan can show you how. Coaching will change your life. This podcast is designed to help you heal, find more happiness, and create the life of your dreams. Your host Shannan Christiansen is a Fortune 100 Executive and Master Coach. She was a single mom, overweight, and barely making it through the day. She changed her life, lost the weight, found the love of her life, got her MBA, and started living her best life. She now coaches women to do the same. Each week, we’ll explore the thoughts and feelings that contribute to the struggles many women have. Shannan will use her experience as a Master Coach to share real life examples, tools and tips to help you change the way you think so you can experience real transformation. To learn more, visit bflycoaching.com.
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Ep #37: Loving the Process of Losing Weight

Listen in this week as I show you how to love the process of weight loss now , and why learning to love it is what will get you started in transforming your weight. This not only makes you feel better about the journey, but you’ll find that you have more love and curiosity for yourself along the way too. Get full show notes and more here: https://bflycoaching.com/37

Jun 10, 202011 minEp. 37

My Heart

A message to my loves about this time and how I am deciding to act.

Jun 03, 20201 min

Ep #36: But I Want It

The simple thought, “But I want it,” is one that has kept many of us on the diet roller coaster and it makes us forget what we want long-term. Join me on the podcast today as I show you how to disrupt the hostage negotiations you have with your own brain in these moments, and how you get to choose to keep your commitments to yourself and be in integrity instead. Get full show notes and more information here: https://bflycoaching.com/36...

May 27, 202013 minEp. 36

Ep #35: The Number

This week I'm showing you why there is so much power in learning that the number on the scale doesn’t matter and that it doesn’t define you as a person. I’m also sharing what your natural weight means, why this is something I tell my clients to aim for, and how learning to love the process is what will help you love yourself and the life you create. Get full show notes and more information here: https://bflycoaching.com/35

May 20, 202012 minEp. 35

Ep #34: How Perfectionism Shows Up in Weight Loss

Join me on the podcast this week as I show you why the lie we tell ourselves about being perfect keeps us stuck in any area of our lives. Learning that failure and mistakes are part of anything you do will help you take more courageous actions and get you on your way on your weight loss, and I’m laying it all out for you here today. Get full show notes and more information here: https://bflycoaching.com/34

May 13, 202012 minEp. 34

Ep #33: When You Think You Can’t Lose Weight, You Don’t

Join me on the podcast this week as I show you why telling yourself that you can’t lose weight leads to just that: not losing weight. Working on your mindset is so important, and it’s really the secret to your weight loss. It’s not some magic pill or secret food plan that you’re missing, and I’m sharing what I used to practice telling myself when my brain would tell me I couldn’t lose the weight. Get full show notes and more information here: https://bflycoaching.com/33...

May 06, 202011 minEp. 33

Ep #32: Accepting the Mess

Tune in this week as I share why I have decided to accept the mess in whatever form it comes, and how believing things should be different keeps us stuck. I have seen amazing results since I started accepting the mess, and this might just be the missing piece of your weight loss puzzle. Get full show notes and more information here: https://bflycoaching.com/32

Apr 29, 202010 minEp. 32

Ep #31: How Worry Keeps Us Stuck

Listen in today as I show you what you do have control over, and why staying in worry is keeping you stuck. We are never promised anything other than the moment we have right now, and letting go of worry will help you move forward. I’m sharing my own discoveries of my experience of worry this week to show you that you too can find control and peace in uncertain times. Get full show notes and more information here: https://bflycoaching.com/31...

Apr 22, 20209 minEp. 31

Ep #30: Fall in Love with Movement

Join me on the podcast this week to discover why finding a way to move your body that you love is way more important than just getting your steps in or trying the hot new workout. Especially now that we’re all stuck in the house, now is the best time to turn your focus towards your body and find out what works for you. Get full show notes and more information here: https://bflycoaching.com/30

Apr 15, 202011 minEp. 30

Ep #29: How to Create Meaningful Connections

Join me this week as I show you why connection is so important, and how you have to think if you want to have results you love three or six months down the line from here. We all have a choice right now to think thoughts on purpose that serve us, and connecting with your loves ones are going to help you lean on them for support. Get full show notes and more information here: https://bflycoaching.com/29

Apr 08, 20209 minEp. 29

Ep #28: Feeling Your Feelings in a Crisis

Listen in this week to discover how to actually feel all the emotions in your body, and what the difference is between feeling and indulging a negative feeling. One is going to help you process and release the thought causing it, and the other will lead to you buffering or taking actions that you don’t want. Get full show notes and more information here: https://bflycoaching.com/28

Apr 01, 20208 minEp. 28

Ep #27: Solutions to Help You Manage Your Fears

Join me this week as I remind you that this too shall pass, my love. It’s easy in times of fear to push that feeling down with food, but it will never work. I want different, better results for you, and these two simple life rafts I’m offering up today are going to help you feel the fear and take care of yourself and your loved ones regardless. Get full show notes and more information here: https://bflycoaching.com/27

Mar 25, 20209 minEp. 27

Ep #26: Pain Vs. Suffering

Join me this week to see how suffering might be a choice you’re making in your life. Showing up as your best self makes you unstoppable, and once you start the process of rewriting your past, you’ll see transformation not only in your weight loss journey, but everywhere else in your life too. Get full show notes and more information here: https://bflycoaching.com/26

Mar 18, 20209 minEp. 26

Ep #25: Our Expectations and Manuals

Join me this week to gain a better understanding of how you can make your relationships healthier and happier. Practicing this concept is going to free you of unnecessary drama and it has helped me in so many ways, so I’m excited for you to start seeing how you can apply this in your own life too. Get full show notes and more information here: https://bflycoaching.com/25

Mar 11, 202014 minEp. 25

Ep #24: Why Diets Don't Work

Join me this week as I show you why diets don’t work, and instead, what you can begin focusing on to start losing weight long-term, without the fluctuations and binging and restricting. Losing weight doesn’t have to make you feel crazy or frustrated all the time. You don’t even have to white-knuckle your way through it, and I’m showing you how. Get full show notes and more information here: https://bflycoaching.com/24

Mar 04, 20209 minEp. 24

Ep #23: Why Weight Loss Is Lonely

Join me this week to learn how you can fall back in love with yourself to end the struggle and free yourself of shame and judgment. Freedom from all of this negativity is possible for you just by making different choices, and I’m giving you a couple of ways you can start doing this today. Get full show notes and more information here: https://bflycoaching.com/23

Feb 26, 202010 minEp. 23

Ep #22: Stop Overeating on Weekends

Join me this week as I show you how it’s completely possible for you to stop overeating on the weekends, to not go into a full-on binge and beat yourself up over not following your realistic plan. If pleasure and joy is what you’re seeking at the end of a busy week, I’m sharing some tips on how you can incorporate more of it into your day-to-day and end this struggle once and for all. Get full show notes and more information here: https://bflycoaching.com/22...

Feb 19, 202011 minEp. 22

Ep #21: How Confirmation Bias Is Keeping You Stuck

Join me this week to discover how your confirmation biases might be keeping you stuck and how to start asking different questions so the process starts working for you, instead of against you. I love using this process in all aspects of my life, including business, which has never been easier, so trust me on this one. Get full show notes and more information here: https://bflycoaching.com/21

Feb 12, 202011 minEp. 21

Ep #20: How to Stay Clear of Indulgent Emotions

Discover what indulgent emotions are most common when coming up with your realistic eating plan, and how you can see these emotions for what they are, so you can stay clear of them when they come up instead of getting trapped in inaction. Get full show notes and more information here: https://bflycoaching.com/20

Feb 05, 202010 minEp. 20

Ep #19: Stop Journaling and Start Reflecting

Reflection work is an incredibly powerful tool to gain some insight into what’s going on in your brain and how you are doing in terms of eating to your realistic plan. Recording just three types of data every day is so much more sustainable than journaling everything in your life, and the revelations you’ll have when you look back over the data are huge. Get full show notes and more information here: https://bflycoaching.com/19

Jan 29, 20209 minEp. 19

Ep #18: Why Drastic Action is Stopping You from Losing Weight

Join me on the podcast this week for some insight into why your lizard brain loves the idea of taking drastic action, and why you’re way more likely to see the results you want if you slow down and take small manageable action every single day instead. Get full show notes and more information here: https://bflycoaching.com/18

Jan 22, 202011 minEp. 18

Ep #17: 50-50: How to Embrace the Positive and Accept the Negative

Tune in this week as I share why, even though we want it, nothing in life is ever 100% positive for long, and how accepting the inevitability that we will experience negative emotion will help you avoid reaching for that cupcake when things do get stressful. Get full show notes and more information here: https://bflycoaching.com/17

Jan 15, 202012 minEp. 17

Ep #16: 4 Beliefs that Are Stopping You from Losing Weight

Tune in this week as I discuss the four most common limiting-beliefs when it comes to weight loss and how to become the watcher of these unhelpful thoughts so that you can catch them as they come up for you and look at what you can believe instead. Get full show notes and more information here: https://bflycoaching.com/16

Jan 08, 202011 minEp. 16

Ep #15: New Year’s Resolutions Busted

We are officially in 2020 and I’m thinking deeply about what I want to accomplish, so I’m coming at you with a short and sweet demonstration of my process for setting goals for the next year. Join me this week for a guide to setting simple, realistic goals, and most importantly, sticking to them. Get full show notes and more information here: https://bflycoaching.com/15

Jan 01, 20209 minEp. 15

Ep #14: Your Future Self

Join me on the podcast this week as I introduce a concept called Future Self. This work has propelled everything that I do today. Everything I do, even the small stuff, takes who I want to be in the future into consideration, and this practice is changing my whole world. The future starts today, not tomorrow. Get full show notes and more information here: https://bflycoaching.com/14

Dec 25, 201912 minEp. 14

Ep #13: How Wanting to Be "Normal" Leads to Deprivation

Listen in this week, love, and discover the truth about what it means to really be normal, why our perception of normal is not grounded in reality, and how chasing this idea of eating whatever you want and being comfortable is always available to you. Get full show notes and more information here: https://bflycoaching.com/13

Dec 18, 201913 minEp. 13

Ep #12: Diet Beliefs Busted

Join me this week, loves, as I crack eight diet beliefs - of which I’m sure there are hundreds of others out there - to give you a new perspective on how to start losing weight for good. Some of these will be hard to let go of, but I hope this work helps you see that you’ll be better off without them. Get full show notes and more information here: https://bflycoaching.com/12

Dec 11, 201919 minEp. 12

Ep #11: 2 Simple Tools for Weight Loss that We Overlook

Join me this week to learn more about these two really simple, free tools that will keep your weight loss journey going. They aren’t necessarily the sexiest things, but I can assure you, they are super effective and will give you other incredible benefits too, besides the weight loss. Get full show notes and more information here: https://bflycoaching.com/11

Dec 04, 201916 minEp. 11

Ep #10: Why Fear Keeps Us Stuck

Our lizard brains feed off of our fears. They tell us things are scary because they don’t know any better, but there is no room for fear when we’re losing weight for good. So listen in this week as I discuss the 3 types of fear that keep us stuck and how you can work past them once and for all. Get full show notes and more information here: https://bflycoaching.com/10

Nov 27, 201917 minEp. 10

Ep #9: Become the Scientist of Your Body

Different foods feel different to each of us, and one thing that works for one person won’t necessarily work for you too. Becoming the scientist of your body and tuning into your body signals is key, and I’ve got some tips for you on how you can start doing this. Get full show notes and more information here: https://bflycoaching.com/9

Nov 20, 201916 minEp. 9
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