Mindful Souls Podcast

With special guest with Shelly Burton, host Dana Massat

Dana Massat, Founder of Ascend Your Soul, a Shamanic Holistic Practitioner, Healer & Teacher for over 15 years and Psychotherapist is the Mindful Momma. Author of The Shaman's Daughter. Her podcast talks about Mental Health, self-work, awareness, spirituality, kids, relationships, wounds, childhood, parenting and life.

Her next guest on Mindful Souls is Shelly Burton is an internationally acclaimed Energy Medicine Woman. After enduring a life-altering concussion, Shelly Burton found her true calling as a facilitator of knowledge and inner-connectivity. Her ability to form bonds and connections with others, and various aspects of nature led her to excel in healing dances, horse training, drumming, and hands-on healing practices. Shelly interprets the world through a comprehensive lens that combines her academic proficiency in both biomedicine, and medical anthropology, along with her deep-rooted understanding of spiritual and emotional healing. In fact, her innovative approach to self-improvement practices has garnered the attention of large media outlets including the BBC World Service, The Toronto Star and the Huffington Post. https://www.shellyburton.com/



Time Marks

0:00 - Introduction

2:00 What happens to help align you with your purpose? Life altering incidents.

4:00 Drawing out the healer in you.

5:00 Covid as evolutionary pressure. Learning to sit with and heal uncomfortable feelings.

7:15 Questioning reality and creating a new society.

8:30 You don’t have to figure it out on your own. Energy medicine and trauma healing as self-love.

9:00 My training, how I practice and what my sessions are like.

12:55 Outgrowing your teachers and listening to yourself. Living the practice.

14:20 What is Samhara Energy Medicine?

17:10 Finding your unique gifts as a healer and learning to trust yourself. How this creates freedom.

18:05 How Shelly supports empaths. Empath life hacks. Clearing overstimulation to hear your intuition.

20:10 Not taking on other’s feelings or trying to “fix” them for them.  Holding the vision for others as being capable of healing their own wounds.

21:00 Boundaries: the importance of being able to say no and how this helps you trust yourself.

23:30 Understanding and healing co-dependency.

25:00 What to do if you feel bad for not taking on others emotions.

25:45 Empathy as love.

26:20 Empaths, highly sensitive souls and addiction. The core of addiction being a lack of emotional connection.

28:15 How are you living? Doing the work to feel better rather than dissociating. 

28:50 Applying love to our deepest wounds.

29:40 Healing childhood wounds. Why exploring these doesn’t mean mom and dad are “bad”. The power of self-empathy.

31:10 The adult perspective. 

31:50 Feel to heal. Transmuting the emotional body through the application of love.

33:20 Upcoming offerings.


For more healing wisdom,

Monday Medicine

Monday Medicine

Say this affirmation daily for the next 7 days, to encourage your expression and powerful presence here:

“I am powerfully present in my life. I allow Spirit to fill me with my nature. And I understand that my life is meant to be one of fulfillment, but first I must fill up who I am with love. Spirit, guide me to inhabit all parts of myself with love, and may I take up the space I so desire to on this plane. May others too share in the experience of expansion of the Self, and may the work place start to lighten up for me as I find more and more joy and connectivity within. I am capable of creating change in my life. Thank you for helping me know this.”

Monday Medicine

Monday Medicine

Say this affirmation daily for the next 7 days, to help you enter into a state of coherence with your heart centre:

“I am clear and open to my heart’s intelligence and I now deem it as acceptable, not only to the world but my own true self. I understand the language, the words used now will be ones of clarity, connectivity and of allowing myself to find situations in which I am loved, heard and appreciated. May this become the language of my life, and may others who feel the call have the courage to join me and all those who are traveling along the path of the heart’s activation.”

New Moon Medicine

New Moon Medicine

Say this affirmation daily for the next 7 days, to help you centre in your soul:

“I am complete and I am receiving all of my requirements in this moment. I need not question who I am today. I declare my worth and enjoy each step of my life as I live in full measure of the joy, of the love I deserve. I patiently move through life and allow my soul to be the anchor for my actions.”

Monday Medicine

Monday Medicine

Say this affirmation daily for the next 7 days, to help you open to new possibilities in your life:

“Today I am choosing to believe that I am worthy of feeling support, that I am worthy of the joyful path I wish for in my life. I am opening my arms to receive the abundance life wishes to give to me, and I need not give up any part of who I am to receive it.”

How to deal with a lack of physical nurturing

How to deal with a lack of physical nurturing

We have an epidemic of trauma in the West...Stemming from a lack of physical nurturing in our upbringing.This can manifest as being “stuck in our heads” as adults, a lack of self confidence, or endless chasing of external validation in an attempt to fill a void within. Here’s my thoughts on why this happens, and what we can do about it! 

Monday Medicine

Happy Monday!

Please enjoy your weekly medicine from my guides. My intention is that it helps you curate a little more space of inner love and peace. As we create room within us for love, we become portals for it's expression in the world. And change begins to happen both within and around us.

You are a beautiful soul, with an intelligence that radiates from the depths of your being. May you tap this intelligence and begin to remember just how precious you are with the help of these channeled readings, which I like to call "energy transmissions."

If you're new to channeled reading, I encourage you to learn more about them here. To best absorb the medicine, I recommend: please listen in a quiet space, and not while you are operating a vehicle. It is a channeled journey and can make you very relaxed. Remember to breathe deeply, and let the words be absorbed by your body, as you listen through your heart.  If you feel tension arise, simply breathe into it, and allow it to dissipate. Tension in the body just means it needs a little love and attention through your breath, so that an emotional release can start to happen.


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Transcript

Opening your heart to what could exist for you in terms of support, love and solid relationships in your life. Understanding that relationships come to you when you are in proper connection with who you are. So this means that if you want good relationships in your life, you’ve got to have a good inner connectivity.

And so how to you build inner connectivity? You build it by honouring who you are and what you are capable of. You build it by hearing who you are and what you require. And then you in turn let yourself be heard as you are by others. And you hear what they are actually saying to you. Despite what it could seem to be, they are saying. So if they are saying, “I’m hurt, I need you”…. perhaps they are saying “I’m having a hard time believing in myself.” 

So today, we would urge you to open up your heart, and say the following affirmation:

“I am in love with all that I am, I am choosing to build myself up by choosing to believe that life is wanting to support who I am. And I believe that as I continue to say ‘YES, GOOD THINGS ARE COMING, AND I AM MAKING INCREDIBLE STEPS IN MY LIFE’, that more and more joy-filled situations will arrive, because I am ready and I deserve to feel supported."


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