Have you ever walked away from a conversation feeling confused, off-balance, or doubting yourself? That’s not love — that’s covert control at work. In this episode of She Saves Herself, Shannon Kaiser reveals how trauma bonds begin, the subtle tactics predators use to groom you, and the anchors that bring you back into your power. If your gut says something feels “off,” this conversation will help you trust yourself again.

Not all conflict is unhealthy, but when communication turns controlling, it can drain your peace and self-worth. In this episode, Shannon Kaiser shares insights she also discussed on Afternoon Live TV about spotting the hidden signs of toxic communication, protecting your energy, and reclaiming your power in every relationship.

Welcome to the She Saves Herself Podcast. In today’s powerful conversation, Shannon sits down with Dr. Jennifer Caspari, author of You Are More Than Your Body, to explore what it really means to heal, emotionally, spiritually, and physically, when your body feels like a battlefield.

Jennifer was born three months premature and lives with cerebral palsy. Navigating the world as a disabled person and working as a licensed clinical psychologist, she brings a rare and deeply personal insight into the healing process. Her lived experience, combined with her professional training, offers a compassionate, empowering lens for anyone struggling to reclaim their identity after illness, injury, or emotional trauma. Jennifer reminds us that we are not broken. We are not our diagnosis. We are not what happened to us. And healing doesn’t mean going back to who we were, it means becoming someone new, someone wiser, someone freer.

When is the last time you had a wonderful night’s sleep? Most of us would call ourselves lucky if we could fall asleep easily, sleep soundly through the night, experience and remember our dreams, and wake up feeling refreshed. But for one in three adults in the US (about eighty-four million people), experiencing uninterrupted sleep and getting a great night’s rest is only just a dream. The reality is sleep makes up one-third of our life (a good twenty-five to thirty years), and it impacts everything we do.1 I know firsthand the impact of poor sleep and how it can cause mental stress and break down the body. Which is why I had to write my next book, 365 Happy Bedtime Mantras: Improve Your Sleep, Release Stress, and Enjoy Your Dreams. Dive into this new podcast episode as I share behind the scenes of the making of the book, you’ll get a sneak peek of the book and I pull a mantra from the affirmation deck for you.

You’ve changed over the last 10 years — right? We all have, but how often do we stop and look back to think about how far we’ve actually come? We are so used to hustling forward and not celebrating ourselves or what we have overcome, that we often miss that the journey can be a revitalizing reward.

But it can be hard to focus on the good when everything around us does not seem so great.

If you’ve felt overwhelmed, insecure, or stuck in seemingly never-ending cycles of self-doubt, stagnate energy and feel disempowered by life circumstances you are not alone.

Learning how to embrace reinvention and navigate uncertainty can be a challenge if we feel hopeless, which is why I invited my good friend Andrea Owen back on the Awakened & Aligned Podcast. Andrea’s a renowned life coach and author, and she shares how she took action and faced dissatisfaction with her life head on, changing her path forever.

In the latest edition of her first book, 52 Ways to Live a Kick-Ass Life, she talks about the power of looking inward and uncovering our inner badass as we strive for our full potential and confront all the things holding us back.

It's time to be excited again...about life, your dreams, goals and new possibilities for yourself and loved ones.

How would you like to successfully move past doubt and step into more effortless flow? What if you could wake up each morning stress free and in harmony with yourself and all of life. This way of living is possible with intention, and a steadfast dedication to showing up for yourself, even when you can’t see the whole picture. Sometimes manifesting requires unshakable faith, even in the uncertainty and unknown you can have clarity.

I invited manifestation expert George Lizo’s to share tips from his new book Ancient Manifestation Secrets: Working with the 7 Laws of the Universe to Manifest Your Life and Purpose onto the Awakened & Aligned Podcast we talk about how to manifest from this place of authentic alignment. Listen in here...

Whether we fully understand it or not, we are living in a collective time of crazy chaos. And there is a reason—we are being asked on a soul level to advance, evolve, to wake up to the truth that the time is now to be you. And there is no better person to talk to us about this than my dear friend, healer, and creative AMY B. SCHER, an award-winning and bestselling author. As a former marketing director for Harley-Davidson and someone who built her own successful business from scratch (with no college degree), has overcome life-threatening Lime disease, traveled the world in search of answers, fallen in love with a woman when she previously only dated men, she’s learned how to navigate life's experiences and surrender to what life truly has in store.

To help us all understand how to live with more intention and ease, I invited Amy back on the Awakened and Aligned Podcast.