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Shameless Leadership

833: Chantal Donnelly: How Moms Can Find Calm in a Stress-Inducing World

Shameless Leadership

Sara Dean

Education, Management, How To, Business, Self-improvement

4.7 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Chantal is a mom, physical therapist, and author of SETTLED: How to Find Calm in a Stress-Inducing World. She is also the founder of the wellness company Body Insight Inc. She holds degrees in psychology and kinesiology from Occidental College and a master’s in physical therapy from Mount Saint Mary’s College in Los Angeles. Chantal is certified in Pilates, a practitioner of the Safe and Sound Protocol, and writer, producer, and star of the exercise and rehabilitation videos Strong Knees and Pain-Free at Work. Chantal helps people find relief from stress using a body-focused approach. She believes that stress fluency can make the world a better place. Listen in to hear Chantal share: Her stress quadrant model and how we exist on the stress matrix at all times Why people internalize stress as a sign of weakness - and the cultural paradox of hustle culture + showing stress being a sign of weakness How mothers internalize stress and need to manage stress differently than people who aren’t moms The importance of normalizing the stress that mothers carry and understanding how stress impacts the ability to be patient and empathetic How rushing and “hurry up-ing” creates dysregulation between our brains and bodies How moms and dads experience stress differently and how same-sex parents experience stress differently  Counterintuitive, super simple, super quick (30 seconds) tools for self-regulation  Links mentioned: Book: SETTLED: How to Find Calm in a Stress-Inducing World  Connect with Chantal: https://www.bodyinsight.com/ Chantal on IG Chantal on FB Resources and articles from Chantal: https://www.bodyinsight.com/press-articles We love the sponsors that make this show possible! You can always find all the special deals and codes for all our current sponsors on our website: https://shamelessmom.com/sponsor Interested in becoming a sponsor of the Shameless Mom Academy? Email our sales team at [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is the Shameless Mom Academy episode 833 with Sean Tall Donnelly.

0:05.8

Show notes for this episode, including any links mentioned in the episode, can be found by going to

0:09.6

shamelessmom.com and clicking on episode 833.

0:18.1

Welcome to the Shameless Mom Academy. I'm your host, Sarah Dean. I'm here to give you and other

0:23.7

passionate, driven, unapologetic moms, tools, resources, and a little bit of humor to help you lead

0:29.8

more positive, powerful, and purposeful lives every damn day. One of the best things about the

0:35.2

Shameless Mom Academy is our community. So be sure to join us in our

0:38.4

free private Facebook group to connect with other shameless moms just like you. You can find us over

0:43.8

at shamelessom.com forward slash Facebook. All right. Let's dive into today's episode.

1:01.7

Chantal Donnelly is a mom, a physical therapist, and the author of Settled How to Find Calm in a Stress-inducing world.

1:05.8

She's also the founder of the Wellness Company Body Insight, Inc.

1:12.0

She holds degrees in psychology and kinesiology from Occidental College and a master's in physical therapy from Mount St. Mary's College in Los Angeles. Chantal is a certified Pilates instructor,

1:18.1

a practitioner of the Safe and Sound Protocol, and a writer, producer, and the star of the exercise

1:23.4

and rehabilitation videos, strong knees, and pain-free at work.

1:33.1

Shantal helps people find relief from body stress, but also mental and emotional stress using a body-focused approach. She believes that stress fluency can make the world a better place.

1:39.5

So we're here to talk today about stress in terms of emotional mental health stress more so than physical

1:45.7

body stress, although the two are definitely interlocked. And stressors in your daily life that

1:51.1

are held inside your brain and your emotions and all that definitely manifest in other ways.

1:57.1

If you're anyone who struggles with headaches or neck tension or back pain,

2:02.2

that's often a sign of stress in different ways where we're internalizing stress. We're holding

2:05.9

it in. And it's causing all sorts of physical manifestations as well. So all of this definitely

2:11.3

interlocks together. And we're going to talk about that a bit today. But we're really going to be

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