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Creating Her Best Life Podcast

Welcome to Creating Her Best Life Now, the go-to podcast for women ready to step into their full potential and design a life they truly love. Hosted by certified Master Life Coach Shannan Christiansen, this inspiring show is tailored for women who seek clarity, empowerment, and actionable strategies to overcome life's challenges and achieve personal and professional success.
Each week, Shannan dives into topics ranging from mindset mastery and goal setting to self-care and relationship building, providing expert insights and practical tools that empower listeners to take bold steps toward their dreams. Whether you're navigating a career shift, building confidence, or looking for ways to enhance your well-being, Creating Her Best Life Now delivers the guidance you need to thrive.
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Ep. #114: Disconnected and What it Really Means

Dec 30, 2024

Ladies – we are in the full swing of the holidays!

I have been thinking about today’s show because especially during busy seasons of our lives or during holidays, we disconnect from ourselves. We stop showing up for ourselves, we go into our automatic brains, old beliefs and patterns.

Disconnection is a trigger – an alert warning that you are believing you must be perfect and do all the things. When you disconnect, you are taking care of everyone else and not yourself.

Join me in this episode as I teach you how to stop disconnecting and start showing up for yourself.

Just by starting with 1 simple step, and doing it again and again. Then failing. Then taking the next best action. And repeat.

What one small thing will you do today for you to show up for yourself?

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Ep. #113: 10 Lessons From the First 50

Dec 30, 2024

Today is a very special episode.

I am turning 50 this week!

I want to share with you what I have learned in my first 50 years and what I want to do with the next 50 years.

Join me in this very special episode as I give you 10 lessons, I have learned in my first 50 years. Things like forgiveness, beliefs, failing, and most of all, love.

And how each of these lessons has led me to where I am today.

How each of these lessons helped me to lose weight for good and to live in a body I love.

I will also share 5 things I am going to do in my next 50 years. 

Things like less hustle and more rest. Helping women live their best life in a body they love.

Thank you for being a part of my first 50 years. I can’t wait to see what we do together in my next 50 years.

I believe in love. And Love, we are going to keep moving forward.

And if you want to go deeper on this work – do the free 8-day podcast challenge, go to bflycoaching.com/podcast8

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Ep. #112: Habit Eating and Breaking the Habit

Dec 30, 2024

Do you find yourself always overeating at night or on the weekends? Maybe it is when you get home from work or after you pick your kids up. This is what I like to call habit eating. In this episode I am going to help you start to change the habit for good.

I wanted to do this episode because I get so many questions around eating at night or weekends or certain times of the day.

We have developed so many habits, you know the ones I mean – every day at 2 p.m. you are looking for the candy bar, or at nighttime when watching TV you are reaching for the popcorn.

I will dive deep in this episode how these habits are caused by triggers and how to recognize those triggers in order to understand them, and what to do when a trigger happens.

Join me in this episode as I teach about how to change your habits by coming into awareness of these triggers.

I will give you tips on how to break these old habits and create new ones.

Are you ready for some new habits?

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Ep. #111: Mourning the Loss of Your Overweight Identity

Dec 30, 2024

For most of my life, I was overweight. I developed an overweight identity. As I was losing my weight, I had to step into a new version of myself and develop a new identity. I had to start creating the mindset of a person who was not battling her weight, who loved her body, who did not obsess about food – Developing what I like to call my BFLY identity.

Join me in this episode as I will be talking about our overweight identity, and how to mourn the loss of that overweight identity in order to move on to the next version of yourself.

We have tied so many (false) beliefs around food and what we make it mean about us. Made it our identity. And all it does is sabotage our success and keeps us stuck.

I will teach you how to step into the next version of yourself and how to practice new thoughts and beliefs around this – to let go of your overweight identity once and for all and become your BFLY identity.

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Ep. #110: Making Weight Loss Easy

Dec 30, 2024

I think for so many of us women we have always thought weight loss was hard. But, what if you thought it was easy?

Join me in this episode as I talk about both sides and how your thinking is what really keeps you stuck.

The diet culture has just led us to believe that weight loss is hard – creating diet trauma.

The process I teach is easy – make a plan, feel your hunger/fullness, feel some feelings, decide what you want to believe and think, get your water and sleep in.

It is our thinking that is hard.

I will give you tips on how to make weight loss easy.

To lose weight you have to think differently – it starts with one thought – I am learning to lose weight by believing something different today.

You have this one life. What are you going to do with it today?

In today’s episode, you will discover:

  • How the diet culture has made weight loss hard for us
  • What truly is hard about weight loss
  • Tips to make weight loss easy 

Transformational...

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Ep. #109: Holidays 2.0

Dec 30, 2024

Today is the last installment of our 2.0 series, and I want to dive into holidays and how to decide on purpose how you want to feel on 01/02/2022.

Holiday time is here. October is time for all the Halloween candy, then Thanksgiving feasts, and then Christmas – and all those treats!

Holidays are events, days, celebrations, a day of festivity – time for family, when no work is done.

I have designed my holidays, so I enjoy them.

You get to decide what you want the holidays to mean to you.

Join me in this episode as I dive deep into how we have tied food to our holidays and celebrations and how to break free from that thinking. How to break the people pleasing. How to make new traditions that don’t have anything to do with food.

I will give you tips on how to heal your relationship with food and ourselves.

Give a gift to your future self now. How do you want to feel on 01/02/2022?

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Ep. #108: What We Underestimate in Weight Loss 2.0

Dec 30, 2024

We are still in our 2.0 series, and this episode we are going back to the basics of being human -yes, basics that we underestimate.

We have some basic things our bodies need to survive – Water, Sleep, Food, and Air.

Without them you will die.

Our bodies are amazing – we as humans have evolved into these amazing beings.

But as time as gone on – we are busy, we overlook how important some of the basics are to our bodies.

Join me in this episode as I dive deep into the basics we need to pay attention to for our bodies.

I will give you simple tools, that just take a few minutes, that will help our bodies become stronger, more relaxed and a sense of calm. Our bodies need us to pay attention, instead of being disconnected – to give our bodies what they need.

Are you ready to come into awareness and out of survival mode?

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Ep. #107: What to Eat and How to Reconnect With Your Body 2.0

Dec 30, 2024

It is officially fall and beautiful. The cool breeze. I love this time of year. All the celebrations, all the different foods that comes with the season and coming holidays.

We are still in our 2.0 series and this episode we are going to dive into your body and hunger.

This is the 2.0 version of Becoming the Scientist of Your Own Body, which is episode 9 – take a listen if you have not listened to it.

We have been told what to eat, when to eat – but your body knows what it needs. Take your power back. Our bodies are all different – just like our fingerprints. What fuels me may not feel good in your body.

Join me in this episode as I dive deep into hunger.

I will show you all the clues to recognize true hunger, what does hunger feel like in your body, and signs you are full. How to reconnect to your body.

You will also learn about “Puddle Foods” and what that means.

I will give you tips around hunger and snacking. I will also give you 2 questions you...

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Ep. #106: Breaking Up with Dieting 2.0

Dec 30, 2024

We are in our 2.0 series, and in this episode I want to talk about how to lose weight for the last time by breaking up with dieting.

I have to tell you about my new Peloton. I just got it and I love it! I used their app before. They have all kinds of different classes – spinning, yoga, pilates, whatever you may be looking for. But I love to move my body, and the key is just finding what you like to do and what is fun for you. If you want to learn more about movement in depth make sure you listen to episode #30 on movement.

One of the fundamentals I teach is the Realistic Plan. If you want to learn more about that in depth go back to episode #6 – bflycoaching.com/6.

We have so much trauma around dieting – what we should or should not eat. Good or bad food makes us good or bad.  Food is just food. Not good or bad.

The realistic plan is about allowance not restriction.

Join me in this episode as I dive deep into how you can up-level your Realistic Plan over time...

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Ep. #105: How to Believe New Things 2.0

Dec 30, 2024

We are in a 2.0 series and this episode of the podcast, we are going to up-level our reflection work. I am going a little deeper on how you can start to believe new things.

Over these next 3 episodes, I am going to teach you how your brain is wired, how to believe new things, how to do a realistic plan so you can break your old diet beliefs and brain, and how to start trusting your body again and reconnecting with it so you can feel hunger and fullness. 

I am going to meet you right where you are at. I am going to teach you how to stop fearing food and lose weight where you meet yourself where you are at. I am going to teach you how to lose weight with love and allowance, instead of punishment and restriction.

We are going to stop this diet trauma – and I need to be perfect.

Join me in this episode as I am diving deep into Reflection work – this is not journaling. Reflection work is where the mindset change comes from. It is a daily practice of dumping out your...

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