Feeling judged or criticized by your family for being true to yourself? In this episode, host Gillian Shields shares three powerful tools to help you stay authentic and find happiness, no matter what others think. Tune in for practical advice on how to embrace your individuality and make life choices that feel right for you. Join Gillian's news letter: The Conscious Corner for monthly guidance and special content about her new book coming out this year Buy Happy Boundaries Buy This Is Gratitude ...
Apr 02, 2025•31 min
Have you ever struggled to decide if you should stay or walk away from a difficult relationship with a family member, friend, or romantic partner? I have! And my decision making process used to be a complete mess. How I make decisions now is totally different. I now do it with confidence and without regret. In this episode, I share: 4 popular factors that I used to highly consider when it comes to staying or walking away from a relationship. These 4 factors although felt big, typically left me m...
Feb 27, 2025•24 min
People either sink or they rise when a personal crisis or disaster hits. Today, I talk about becoming the one who rises. Whether your crisis is a breakup, being single, toxic family, a friend who betrayed or let you down, or a career let down, what's the difference between sinking or rising? I share 3 things that helped me become my most resilient self yet, and go on to have a better life than I did before difficult events hit. Join my newsletter community The Conscious Corner for monthly guidan...
Jan 28, 2025•18 min
Going home for the holidays is a great feeling for some. But for others, it’s a feeling of discomfort and even dread. Choosing to not go home for the holidays or visit some people can be a decision that comes with a lot of feelings - doubt, guilt, frustration, and burn out. This used to be my emotional experience. Since then, I’ve done a lot of work to honor my goals, growth, and happiness during the holiday season. You can too. In this episode, I talk about: The reason I don’t always go home fo...
Dec 11, 2024•13 min
Healing advice - you see it everywhere and from everyone. Whether it’s from friends, family, therapists, mentors, coaches, or a person you don’t know on the internet, people who want to help you feel better will share healing advice. I started my own healing and transformation journey over a decade ago, and I’ve heard it all. Some advice helped, and others really did not. In this episode, I share 4 pieces of healing advice that never worked for me versus what did when it came to turning around m...
Nov 18, 2024•27 min
Welcome to Season 4! Gratitude is often thought of an ‘OG happiness tool’ by therapists, researchers, coaches and mentors, and pretty much anyone else who wants to help you with feeling better about life. Why? Because practicing gratitude works at improving our well being. Despite all the research and books written about the power of gratitude, there’s a lived experience about practicing gratitude that I often don’t see talked about. The truth is that for many people (including myself), practici...
Oct 25, 2024•24 min
Summer has been different, in a good way. In this episode, I talk about: Summer reading and what I've been up to this summer Releasing pressure and FOMO about "Having the best summer" Surprising ways I've felt this summer that I didn't expect How I unintentionally created more peace and still accomplished goals The one perspective I return to when deciding on boundaries for my life and relationships My surprise for you coming this Fall! Join The Conscious Corner - I'd l...
Aug 26, 2024•27 min
In today’s episode, I hold an incredible conversation with Erika Mason about boundaries. Erika is a holistic Occupational Therapist, spiritual and energetic coach and healer, Akashic Record consultant, and more. She has been doing energetic and intuitive work for over 20 years, and through her work, she has seen a very clear link between chronic pain and other health issues, and lack of boundaries. Erika and I discuss what you might not know about boundaries and share perspectives that will insp...
May 31, 2024•50 min
In today's episode I share with you what I've been up to and: * 3 things you can do to move into self love, specifically when it feels difficult * What is really means when you're struggling with self-love * The connection between the self-concept and your tangible goals like loving relationships and success. Enjoy! For more info and to buy my self-love course, LOVED: https://www.gillianshields.ca/loved My free e-letter community, The Conscious Corner for women becoming better than e...
May 15, 2024•22 min
A short, but powerful episode for anyone who feels too afraid to fly and soar in life after adversity, emotional hurt, and difficult relationship experiences. Free Email List Community: The Conscious Corner My book: The Dating Pattern Cure Instagram...
Feb 07, 2024•3 min
In today’s episode of So This Is Love, the podcast, I hold a powerful conversation with life coach Emily Hart, who shares her story of using heartbreak for change after her fiancé broke off their engagement 3 months before their wedding. Emily shares her dating and relationship pattern, how she became aware of it, and what she did to change her love life around. Together, we discuss: · How to know if you have a dating and relationship pattern that doesn’t align with your desire and joy · The mos...
Nov 30, 2023•27 min
In this episode of So This Is Love, the podcast, I have powerful conversation with Patsy Berridge, who shares her journey into sobriety after a childhood full of competition, and losing her brother from suicide. Patsy explains how being a highly sensitive person who had no knowledge or developed skills about emotional regulation, led her to use alcohol beginning at the age of 12 to cope with her feelings. We talk: · What is emotional intelligence? · How to become an ‘observer’ of your emotions ·...
Nov 06, 2023•28 min
In this episode, I have a beautiful conversation with women's empowerment coach, Maria Cottrell. She shares her story of how she shifted her career as a nurse to becoming a life coach after being diagnosed with bladder cancer at the age of 34. Together, Maria and I share: How to start making a passionate career shift without burnout or going into survival mode Our most important internal shifts to make a career shift happen with more ease and flow. Get in touch with Maria: Maria's Instag...
Oct 18, 2023•21 min
We’re back with Season 3! In this episode, I share with you 6 beautiful, life-changing messages I got this summer. Whether it was through my own personal experiences, or what I saw my clients experience, these messages of summer shifted how I lead my life. In this episode I share about: · How I got the second edition of my book, The Dating Pattern Cure, written by working less and having it be way more enjoyable and fun than the first time around · A deeper truth about relationships with people ...
Oct 04, 2023•34 min
Welcome back to the podcast! This episode is so so special to me - it's the LAST episode of Season 2 and it's a deeply personal share that has powerful guidance. It's been an incredible season for me and I hope for you too! I am super excited for Season 3, which will begin later in the summer. In today's episode I share with you the grief I've been moving through over the last 2 months and how you can massively thrive in grief, coming out stronger than ever. Topics: * The dif...
May 17, 2023•24 min
In this episode I chat with the lovely Tina Marie, an incredible life coach & healer. She shares her story and we have an open conversation about: Her healing after losing a child, having parents with mental illness, and leaving a toxic relationship How to become conscious of your patterns and change them The power of your environment and circles The one important practice Tina taps into to maintain her joy and peace This was such a beautiful and powerful conversation, I hope you enjoy! Conn...
Apr 27, 2023•22 min
In this episode, I have a special guest, Aveary Hamilton, a soul freedom coach. We met in a business program mastermind and discovered we had so much in common in our growth journey. In this episode, Aveary and I chat about: Our own journey of releasing unhealthy relationship patterns of codependency and toxicity to receiving a healthy love relationship The number one thing we feel is needed to start receiving healthy love The big things we now value in our love life and relationship, that we on...
Apr 14, 2023•36 min
In this episode I share: The fine balance between feeling your emotions & reality vs. recognizing when you are holding on to a disempowering story that now requires releasing My experience with being honest with myself The truth about using information/content to grow Why we get stuck in a story we no longer desire to be in and how to shift Current ways to work with me: Private Coaching & Mentorship - email [email protected] to inquire Transformational online courses My free email ...
Mar 28, 2023•21 min
In this episode, my brother and I have an intimate chat about some of our family system conditioning that called us to shift and create our own sense of authenticity and life fulfillment. Even though we are part of the same family, how our conditioning manifested, was different for each of us, and we talk all about that in this episode. We cover 3 main aspects of our own conditioning - career and abundance, self and worth, and love and relationships - and share how we release them from our own s...
Mar 20, 2023•42 min
In this episode, I have my first ever guest here on the podcast - my soul-sister and friend of 15 years, Sevan. We have a beautiful conversation about our friendship and share about our self-love journey. We touch on so many important topics that so many of us can relate to: Body love & acceptance Overcoming burn out & not feeling good enough Connecting to soul and a powerful tool we lean on for growth & evolution Boundaries and crafting a supportive environment Busting through fears...
Mar 14, 2023•55 min
If you've ever felt tired of working on yourself and on receiving your life desires, then I invite you to tune into this episode where I share with you 4 powerful, honest AF questions I ask myself to move through resistance. Ways to work with me: LOVED - the self love foundational course EMOTION PLAY - new upcoming live mini-program for emotional beings For 1:1 Private Coaching & Mentorship, you may contact me directly at [email protected] Instagram: @gillianshieldsxo Free Email-list C...
Feb 27, 2023•18 min
In this episode, I talk all about 3 super-powerful things that directly impact your ability to receive the relationship you want with more ease, flow, and fun. If finding the relationship you want feels like a struggle right now, I got you in this episode! EPIC LOVED Subscribe to my free cherished email community Download my free guide: How to quickly shift into self love anytime, anyplace Instagram & Facebook: @gillianshieldsxo...
Feb 20, 2023•21 min
Today is Valentines Day and I am back to talk about my unconventional ways on Valentines Day. And it might surprise you given that helping people find love is one of the goals I help people achieve. LOVED EPIC Join my cherished email community for all the goods. Instagram & Facebook: @gillianshieldsxo...
Feb 14, 2023•14 min
Your magnetism is so much bigger and more powerful than you might think. In this episode, I break it all down, including how to start activating aligned magnetism to receive a life filled with love, peace, joy and whatever it is you desire! LOVED EPIC Instagram & Facebook: @gillianshieldsxo Free Email Community for all the goods HERE...
Feb 14, 2023•16 min
In this episode I share with you the ONE most powerful thing I do when someone has crossed my boundary...and it creates magic for me every single time. LOVED - the self love embodiment course, open now on early bird special until Feb 6th 2023. EPIC - the course to manifest the best relationship of your life! (for singles). Now on crazy special until Feb 15th 2023. Join my cherished email community for lots of goods HERE Instagram @gillianshieldsxo...
Feb 02, 2023•24 min
Wishing so much love right now and in 2023. Instagram: @gillianshieldsxo Join the INSIDE Membership HERE Join my cherished email community HERE Happy New Year, loves!
Dec 30, 2022•25 min
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Dec 13, 2022•19 min
The dream life of beautiful self-love, peace, abundance, and love on multiple fronts is available to you, to all of us. It requires us to tap into and return to the mindset, energy and emotional frequency of that dream. In this episode, I come to you from a bench in my favorite park as I chat about the dream life frequency and how to access it in simple ways. The meditation & dream life embodiment membership and community - INSIDE Instagram & Facebook: @gillianshieldsxo Subscribe to my c...
Dec 02, 2022•13 min
Hi Friends! I'm so happy to back on the podcast for season 2. In this first episode, I am sharing my deeply personal story (parts of which, I have never before shared publicly). I share how I changed my story from one of trauma, pain, and struggle, to hope and dreams realized. In sharing my story, I help you to know how you can use your story to change your life in this way too! PLEASE NOTE: Trigger warning! In this episode I talk about some childhood traumas and relationship traumas that ...
Nov 08, 2022•49 min
I can't believe we are at the final episode of Season 1 of the podcast! This first season has been a dream for me! Thank you so much for being here with me and I cannot wait to come back for Season 2. In this episode, I get into how to evolve & empower yourself when people in your family community don't get you, when they get a bit judgy or even if they are not present in the way you desire them to be. This is such a common experience for so many people, including me, and I felt called to sh...
Sep 17, 2022•24 min
