Free To Be: The Journey To Reclaiming Your Soul With Shirin Etessam

Here’s a quick personal update. It’s official. I have a kindergartener and a middle schooler. It’s interesting being a mom of kids that are 6 ½ years apart and seeing their different transitions. Just like other moms know, you get a handle on one season and think, “I’ve got this” and then another season comes. And we’re in one of those new seasons in our household. If you are in one of these new seasons, whether it's with parenting, at work or personally, have compassion and grace with yourself. That’s what I’m planning to do this summer as I navigate tween conversations. Walk up and down the aisles of Target to buy all the school supplies, and cry as my little one goes off to the big school. Thinking about transitions, have you ever had one of those moments in your life where you get to where you thought you wanted to be and said, “Is this it?” I’m successful, I’ve reached my goals, now what? Why am I not happy? And what do I need to do to get happy? My guest, Shirin Etessam, and I are going to talk about that uncomfortable realization when we realize we have followed our parents’ or society’s programming. And hit the gold stars but realized we weren’t happy and need to reclaim our souls and who we are. It’s a topic that I don’t think we talk about enough. During my chat with Shirin, we discussed:What led Shirin to write her book, Free to Be: A Six-Week Guide to Reclaiming Your Soul.What soul work means and why we need it.What spiritual bypassing is and is not.How Shirin identified the categories for reclaiming your soul and breaking them up into six weeks.What info-xication is, and how does it fuel our feelings of disillusionment and discontent? How does it impact our productivity?What a spiritual coma is and how to avoid one.How spiritual work relates to your professional life.