On this final episode of Digging Deep, Dr. Shokrian expresses her gratitude and appreciation for the vulnerability and authenticity shared by her guests over the last two seasons. After just recently having a baby, Dr. Shokrian was surprised to learn how prevalent the feelings of shame, sadness, and guilt are pre/postpartum.  In todays episode, she speaks up about the realities of pre/postpartum, what we must recognize collectively as a society to support women, and how to seek the proper help. 

Thank you tuning in to these very intimate conversations. For more information on Dr. Sasha Shokrian you can check out her website DrSashaShokrian.com where you can book a free consult or find her on instagram @DrSashaShokrian where she shares mental health tips. 

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• How Erin got into Human Design & What drew her to this path?
• Where do the teachings of Human originate from?
• The 5 types and the qualities we see within these types?
  • Manifestors, Generators, Manifesting Generators, Projectors, and Reflectors
• What are the different strategies and authorities and how does one begin to master them?
• What do the different profile numbers mean?
• Can human design help us better our relationships or pick more authentic careers?
• How does human design help us process our roles within our family systems?
• What you can expect from working with Erin!

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• What is resilience? 
• Do our temperaments and attachments influence our ability to be resilient as adults?
• What can you do as a  caregiver do to help foster resilience within your child?
•  Autonomy Supportive Parenting 
• Chronic vs. Toxic Stress?
• How to build resilience after growing up with Toxic Stress? 
• Building resilience within your romantic relationships? 
• Is optimism linked to resilience? 
• After 2 years of a Pandemic - How do we create certainity in the midst of all the uncertainty?
• Helpful tools that help you build resilience? 

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• What is the difference between functional medicine and conventional medicine?

• What is the problem with treating the symptom?

• What is the gut brain axis & How does it connect to our mental health?

• Why the gut extends far beyond our digestive health?

• What is the role of serotonin in the gut?

• How does inflammation play a role in our mental health?

• How leaky gut syndrome causes neuro-inflammation?

• What is Molecular Mimicry and how does the immune system lose recognition of the self?

• Why are we seeing such an influx of autoimmune issues and what is the connection to our emotions and inflammation?

• How does the environment play a role in our health?

• Whats going in our bodies physiologically postpartum?

• Whats going in our bodies on a physiological level when we experience depression or anxiety?

• Whats health protocol would you take if you’re experiencing anxiety or depression?

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Vanessa Fitzgerald otherwise known as @Vesshoney on Instagram discusses:

- Her early childhood experiences

- Growing up with a single parent and what it felt like having never met her biological father

- Where her perfectionism was born and why it pushed her to become a people pleaser

- Her addiction to Adderall: why it began, how it contributed  to her inability to develop a true sense of self, and how she was eventually able to detox

- Her take on Orthorexia and how she sees it play out into todays health world

- How she developed enough self compassion to build her brand and so much more!

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Julie Menanno also known as the “The Secure Relationship” on instagram discusses:

• What is emotionally focused therapy?
• How do we understand attachment types from an evolutionary perspective?
• How are our attachments formed in our early development?
• Anxious, Avoidant, Disorganized  
• Why an overbearing parent can lead to an anxious or avoidant attachment style
• What is happening to us individually within each of these attachment styles?
• Strengths and weaknesses we experience as adults within these styles of attachment?
• How anxious and avoidant attachment styles can work through the online dating environment and how to pay more attention to our felt experiences?
• How do couples work through relational issues when attachment styles are conflicting?
• Why  almost 100% couples fall into an anxious and avoidant match
•  What are attachment wounds and how do we work through them?
• How do we get stuck in a shame spiral?
• How does emotional validation play a part in all of this?
•  How our projections are related to our attachment styles?
• Intra-psychic blocks vs. Inter-psychic blocks
• What you can expect from her book “The Secure Relationship”

Her website: https://www.thesecurerelationship.com

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• Growing up in the midst of a divorce? 
• Why moving around so much as a child, allowed her to become adaptable
• How confronting her painful relationship  with her mother allowed her to individuate and understand who she was 
• How she has been able to foster unconditional love for her children, despite growing up within a conditional environment
• How her difficult upbringing gave her the resilience she needed to work through her romantic relationship 
• How the infidelity within her marriage became the motivation she needed to work through her feelings of resentment and anger 
• Working through the shame and judgment she faced for staying in her relationship, despite the cheating 
• Why radical transparency has now become the foundation of her marriage 

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• The trial and error she experienced before founding the Career Contessa 
• The reality of keeping your day job, to pursue your passion project 
• The truth of being an entrepreneur and transitioning into motherhood 
• How to work through the mental load that comes with being a mother and running your own business 
• Mourning an old identity and working through the feelings and emotions many women experience postpartum 
• The importance of joining communities and groups for mental health support 
• How to financially plan for maternity leave
• Why over-planning doesn’t actually help you and leads you to do more work
• Why its important to advocate for yourself, instead of expecting others to do it for you 
• Identifying as overachiever and how to practice self compassion
• How to work through the shame that comes along with being a stay at home mom 
• Some helpful tools for transitioning into motherhood 

• The trial and error she experienced before founding the Career Contessa 
• The reality of keeping your day job, to pursue your passion project 
• The truth of being an entrepreneur and transitioning into motherhood 
• How to work through the mental load that comes with being a mother and running your own business 
• Mourning an old identity and working through the feelings and emotions many women experience postpartum 
• The importance of joining communities and groups for mental health support 
• How to financially plan for maternity leave
• Why over-planning doesn’t actually help you and leads you to do more work
• Why its important to advocate for yourself, instead of expecting others to do it for you 
• Identifying as overachiever and how to practice self compassion
• How to work through the shame that comes along with being a stay at home mom 
• Some helpful tools for transitioning into motherhood 

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In this special season finale Dr. Shokrian discusses:

• How is faith born?
• What does maintaining faith mean?
• Why it’s difficult to hold on to faith, especially after growing up in an unpredictable environment.
• How faith is deeply connected to how we approach the unknown.
• Tools and steps you can practice to transform your fears into faith and push through the unknown.

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