Shelah Marie: Your Mess Is Your Power

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Tami Simon

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Too many Black women are living other people’s stories for their lives, making themselves smaller to serve other people or society’s expectations. Shelah Marie is here to inform us that we can break free from cultural restrictions and our self-imposed barriers and unabashedly be who we really are, including our imperfections, our growth areas, our unacknowledged successes, and everything in between. In this podcast, Tami Simon speaks with Shelah Marie about her new book, Unruly, an empowering work that gives you full permission and practical support in fully being yourself.

Tune in now as Tami and Shelah discuss: how specificity leads to universality; embracing our inner contradictions; the gifts of self-investigation; how many things can be true at the same time; the practice of writing a self-acceptance letter; ritual and celebration; performing true; “main character” energy; owning your mess; vulnerability and the courage to “show your seams”; becoming friends with yourself; the crooked room metaphor for the experience of being a Black woman; personal accountability and self-compassion; the Serious Daydreaming practice; and more.

Note: This episode originally aired on Sounds True One, where these special episodes of Insights at the Edge are available to watch live on video and with exclusive access to Q&As with our guests. Learn more at join.soundstrue.com.

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0:00.0	Hello, friends. My name's Tammy Simon and I'm the founder of Sounds True, and I want to welcome you to the Sounds True podcast, Insights at the Edge. I also want to take a moment to introduce you to Sounds True's new membership community and digital platform. It's called Sounds True One.
0:21.7	Sounds True One features original, premium, transformational docu series, community events,
0:29.0	classes to start your day and relax in the evening, special weekly live shows,
0:36.0	including a video version of Insights at the Edge with an after-show
0:41.3	community question and answer session with featured guests. I hope you'll come join us,
0:47.6	explore, come have fun with us, and connect with others. You can learn more at join.
0:53.7	at join.strue.com. I also want to take a moment
0:57.6	and introduce you to the Sounds True Foundation, our nonprofit that creates equitable access to
1:05.5	transformational tools and teachings. You can learn more at soundstrueoundation.org. And in advance, thank you for your
1:14.6	support. In this episode of Insights at the Edge, my guest is Sheila Marie. Sheila is an expert at
1:25.4	bringing black women together to help them celebrate themselves
1:30.3	and expand their visions of who they are and what their lives can be.
1:35.3	She's the founder of the curvy, curly, conscious movement,
1:40.3	and since 2016 has been leading what she calls unruly retreats.
1:47.0	And we're going to learn more about what an unruly retreat is and what Sheila Marie's
1:54.0	philosophy of unruly is all about.
1:58.0	She has a master's degree in performance studies from the Tish School of
2:02.6	the Arts in New York City and has developed a unique process of self-inquiry that combines
2:09.5	her experience as an actor with her expertise in self-development. And I am proud, honored to say that Sheila Marie is the author of a new book
2:22.4	and the creator of a new audiobook called, you guessed it, unruly, a guide to reclaiming your true self.
2:32.9	Sheila, welcome.
2:35.0	Thank you. Thank you.
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