In this episode, I share some exciting changes coming to the Finding Joy in The Journey podcast. With my primary focus shifting to the Awesome Autism Tools podcast, I'll be releasing new episodes of Finding Joy in The Journey every other week until the end of 2025. Despite the changes, I'm committed to delivering content that brings joy and value to our listeners, and I look forward to your input and feedback on future series and episodes.
Aug 11, 2025•3 min
On the final day of the Loving Yourself More experience, I encourage you to reflect on your journey of self-love. Ponder using the idea of implementing a 'fast, feast, ask' approach for the next 40 days. Some examples you could choose from (or create your own!): fasting from negative self-talk - feasting on kind words for yourself - asking for increased self-lovefasting from victim energy - feasting on gratitude - asking for more 'hero' energyfasting from mean girl energy - feasting on being you...
Aug 04, 2025•7 min•Season 3Ep. 21
I encourage you to continue using the self-love techniques you have learned over the past 19 days. Here is a recap of all the strategies discussed so far and suggest you choose one or two techniques that resonate with you the most to incorporate into your daily routine. Show up for yourself!Visualization of unlocking love balls and placing them in the heart.Embracing all feelings (good and bad), practice how to feel feelings.Seeing yourself as the hero of your own story.Clarify your desires and ...
Jul 28, 2025•5 min•Season 3Ep. 20
I love the transformative power of gratitude and how it can elevate your journey towards self-love. Learn how gratitude is intertwined with forgiveness and love, and how it can change your energy and perspective. From simple daily acknowledgments to profound insights, discover the hidden tool that can bring more joy into your life. Don't forget to write down five things you're grateful for about yourself as part of this weeks challenge!Join the online classroom for a special forgiveness squared ...
Jul 21, 2025•7 min•Season 3Ep. 19
Harness the transformative power of forgiveness. Learn why we struggle with self-love and how feelings of guilt and judgment hold us back. Discover how forgiving ourselves, others, and even inanimate objects can free us from negativity. Take time to embrace forgiveness today and unlock the love you deserve. https://sheridanripley.com/14-hooponopono-squared-a-silly-name-for-a-powerful-healing-tool/ Or join the online class to access a visualization of Forgiveness Squared - specifically for forgiv...
Jul 14, 2025•7 min•Season 3Ep. 18
Loving Yourself through good and challenging timesHow can you love your life and experiences, especially the challenging ones?Discover tools to bridge the gap between challenge and love, and the significance of forgiving yourself and moving forward with faith and hope. Here is a link to The Mexico Miracle - https://amzn.to/4gvSPtu
Jul 07, 2025•6 min•Season 3Ep. 17
Dive into the concepts of grounding and shielding to enhance self-love. Learn why it is important to stay grounded and protect your energy from external influences.This will help your heart to feel safe to love itself more! Ground - https://sheridanripley.com/7-grounding-in-3-steps/ Shielding - https://sheridanripley.com/8-color-shield-crazy-way-to-stay-safe/ Sign up for my newsletter for my Ground and Shield with a Song Class https://sheridanripley.com/about-me/enjoy-life-newsletter/...
Jun 30, 2025•8 min•Season 3Ep. 16
Let’s explore how to remember and embrace past experiences of love, either love for ourselves or for others. By tapping into these moments, we learn how to feel that love deeply and accept it into our hearts. This practice helps in increasing our self-love, reminding us that every little bit counts in our journey to love ourselves more.Here is a link to The Mexico Miracle - https://amzn.to/4gvSPtu
Jun 23, 2025•6 min•Season 3Ep. 15
Today we focus on the power of affirmationsand how they can help us speak kindly to ourselves. Let Affirmations build on each other to help our minds and bodies accept them.Downloadable PDFs and Word documents containing these affirmations will be available in the online classroom.Join the online classroom here for more tools! https://school.sheridanripley.com/56472
Jun 16, 2025•6 min•Season 3Ep. 14
Today, we dive into the importance of positive self-talkand how it can transform your relationship with yourself. I'll share my personal journey from negative self-chatter to loving self-communication. Drawing on my experience as a birth doula, I emphasize the power of speaking to yourself with kindness, much like you would to someone in a delicate situation. Join me in setting small, manageable goals to improve the way you speak to yourself, ultimately creating greater self-love. Remember, ever...
Jun 09, 2025•7 min•Season 3Ep. 13
Today's focus is on doing something kind for yourself, recognizing yourself as your own best friend. Whether it's reading a book, listening to a fun song, going on an adventure, or simply enjoying a cup of herbal tea.The key is to find what feels right for you and make time for it. Remember, acts of self-kindness can be small or bigand it's important to listen to your needs and desires. Join the online classroom here for more tools! https://school.sheridanripley.com/56472...
Jun 02, 2025•3 min•Season 3Ep. 12
This week I recap key highlights from our recent Zoom class in the online classroom, where we cleared a negative energetic weapon, symbolized by a giant hammer of judgment and criticism. We replaced it with comforting images of a soft blanket or pillow embodying love and acceptance. Additionally, we visualized repairing our love bucket, transforming it into a beautiful, ornamental bucket brimming with love. Tune in to explore how we can remove hurtful energetic weapons from our lives and replace...
May 26, 2025•6 min•Season 3Ep. 11
Today, we'll explore a unique tool to help you love yourself and your body more. By focusing on something you love in nature, like a flower, tree, or animal, and transferring that love to yourself, you can boost self-love and acceptance. Try this exercise and let me know if it makes a positive difference for you!
May 19, 2025•6 min•Season 3Ep. 10
This weeks challenge involves looking into the mirror and expressing gratitude and love for the parts of yourself that you may not like. Whether it's a scar, your hair, or a part of your arm, acknowledge it, thank it, and tell it you love it. This exercise aims to help you cultivate self-love and acceptance. Tomorrow, a new idea will be shared to further support this specific challenge .
May 12, 2025•4 min•Season 3Ep. 9
Explore two powerful tools for increasing self-love: prayer and angels. Learn how to ask for divine assistance from God, Jesus, and angels, and discover how specific prayers can help you foster self-compassion and kindness. Here is how to access a free 5-day course on asking angels for help.https://sheridanripley.com/ask-the-angels-they-are-anxious-to-help-you/Join the online classroom here for more tools! https://school.sheridanripley.com/56472Join my VIP group for a coupon code! :) https://she...
May 05, 2025•4 min•Season 3Ep. 8
Learn the importance of being your own best friend and nurturing self-love. We can not depend on other people to fill our love buckets!By focusing on loving and appreciating yourself, you can increase your inner love!
Apr 28, 2025•6 min•Season 3Ep. 7
This week we delve deeper into the beliefs that obstruct self-love. Discover how to identify and clear limiting beliefs efficiently, using various tools and techniques. We discuss sorting beliefs into core categories for rapid clearing, and link to a related podcast episode for more insights. You'll also find practical exercises and resources to start shedding these beliefs and enhancing your self-love journey. In the online classroom, the hour class I did was a session on clearing out limiting ...
Apr 21, 2025•6 min•Season 3Ep. 6
This week our focus is on identifying and understanding your motivation for self-love. It is important to recognize what you want and why you want it, as this awareness helps maintain momentum and overcome obstacles. Join the online classroom here for more tools! https://school.sheridanripley.com/56472 Join my VIP group for a coupon code! :) https://sheridanripley.com/about-me/enjoy-life-newsletter/ Also join us in my MPoWeR Facebook Group of Instagram @powerupyourprayers for discussion! https:/...
Apr 14, 2025•4 min•Season 3Ep. 5
This week we explore the difference between a victim mentality and a victor mentality. Learn how to stop hiding your love away due to past hurts and take control of your narrative as the hero of your own story. Gain insights into transforming your mindset with helpful tools, stories, and analogies (even Snow White!). Embrace the power of choice and self-love, and become the hero in your journey to love yourself more.Join the online classroom here for more tools! https://school.sheridanripley.com...
Apr 07, 2025•5 min•Season 3Ep. 4
This week we explore the importance of feeling your emotions and recognizing that it's safe to experience both positive and negative feelings. Using a series of reflective questions, you will learn how to tap into feelings of calm, love, self-worth, acceptance, and compassion. Practice these exercises daily to improve your emotional awareness and self-love. Don't forget to check out the linked episodes and simplified feeling wheel for further guidance!Links Mentioned:Feeling Feelings Episode wit...
Mar 31, 2025•5 min•Season 3Ep. 3
This week we'll explore the concept of how we are born filled with love and how life experiences can cause us to lock that love away. Through a short and sweet guided visualization, you'll learn how to unlock that love within yourself and allow it to shine out. This practice aims to help you love yourself more, promoting self-acceptance and inner peace. Let's take practical steps to unlock those 'bubbles of light' and let our hearts shine brighter.Join the online classroom here for access to the...
Mar 24, 2025•8 min•Season 3Ep. 2
We begin a 21-week journey of fun, easy, and short activities aimed at helping you love yourself more. This week take time each day to show up for yourself! That will help you recognize you are worth loving more. Good Job! Join the online classroom for the 21-Day Love Yourself More Experience here for more tools! https://school.sheridanripley.com/56472Join my VIP group for a coupon code! :) https://sheridanripley.com/about-me/enjoy-life-newsletter/Also join us in my MPoWeR Facebook Group or Inst...
Mar 17, 2025•3 min•Season 3Ep. 1
It was a mindshift to really understand that I can actually love others more when I love myself more. This experience with my son and our automatic kitchen faucet really taught me that! Get ready for 21 weeks of loving yourself more. I am busy starting a new podcast- Awesome Autism Tools - and was so grateful I could share the audio of my 21-day challenge over 21 weeks for you. They are new to most of you and a nice reminder of those who have heard them. :)...
Mar 10, 2025•6 min
Fasting, Feasting, and Asking: Transformative PracticeIn this episode, we explore the concepts of fasting, feasting, and asking, inspired by a practice I tried during Lent in 2023, where I successfully improved communication with my husband by implementing this method.Fasting from avoiding conversationsFeasting on communicationAsking for a deeper connection. This year I was inspired by the Telepathy Tape Podcast to create a new podcast. Fasting from this current podcast of Finding Joy in the Jou...
Mar 03, 2025•10 min
Delve deep into the importance of acknowledging and feeling emotions. How do emotions manifest physically? Why is it important to allow ourselves to feel emotions? Some strategies to process emotions.... and more! 00:00 Introduction to Feelings 00:08 Thoughts vs. Feelings: Which Comes First? 01:24 Understanding and Naming Feelings 02:15 Physical Manifestations of Emotions 04:28 The Importance of Acknowledging Emotions 08:54 Navigating Grief and Low Vibrations 10:45 Tools for Managing Emotions 11...
Feb 24, 2025•14 min
Transforming Negative Beliefs: Letting Go and Embracing Positivity In this episode, we explore the process of identifying and changing negative beliefs that hold us back from loving ourselves. Learn how to replace these thoughts with positive ones and understand the impact of core beliefs related to worthlessness, failure, abandonment, and scarcity. With insights into how beliefs form and practical techniques for clearing them, you'll gain valuable tools for personal growth. Plus, get a sneak pe...
Feb 17, 2025•11 min
Breaking down self-love into three essential components: self-compassion, self-worth, and self-acceptance. Using a garden analogy, Sheridan explains how self-worth is the fertile soil that forms the foundation; self-compassion is the water that nourishes, and self-acceptance acts as the protective fence. Each aspect is crucial for fostering a thriving 'self-love garden' where you can grow and reach your full potential. Which of these 3 areas do you need to work on most? 00:00 Introduction to Sel...
Feb 10, 2025•9 min
6 Powerful Self-Healing Tools to Transform Your Life These tools include scribbling, journaling and shredding, affirmations, tapping, grounding and shielding, and deep breathing exercises. Each method provides unique ways to clear out negative energy, process emotions, and instill positive beliefs. You can use these self-healing tools during the '21 Day Love Yourself More Challenge.' Join me as I teach you these techniques 00:00 Introduction to Healing Tools 00:17 Scribbling Technique for Emotio...
Feb 03, 2025•8 min
Discover practical tips to enhance self-love and self-care. Covering the importance of self-compassion, affirmations, positive self-talk, setting boundaries, self-care practices, mindfulness and meditation, and expressing gratitude. By incorporating these practices into your life, you can increase awareness, acceptance, and kindness towards yourself. Join the 21-day 'Love Yourself More' challenge to deepen your journey into self-love. https://sheridanripley.com/loveyourselfmore/...
Jan 27, 2025•8 min
Overcoming Obstacles to Self-Love: Comparison, Guilt, Shame, and Limiting Beliefs Explore the differences between shame, guilt, and godly sorrow. Learn the importance of recognizing and changing limiting beliefs. 00:00 Introduction to Overcoming Obstacles 00:06 The Trap of Comparison 00:58 Finding Neutral Sources for Improvement 01:48 Dealing with Emotions: Guilt and Shame 04:14 Understanding Limiting Beliefs 05:28 Changing Beliefs and Emotions 05:48 21-Day Love Yourself Challenge...
Jan 20, 2025•8 min
