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.


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