Shift Women’s Healing Resources

Women have borne the greater burden of managing the stresses of pandemic life at home and at work, and women are burning out in record numbers, eroding our mental and physical health, as well as our careers.

At Shift, women’s empowerment is one of our core impact areas, and we are committed to helping create a world that truly works for all women. 

So we’ve put together a number of healing resources from our archives that we are happy to offer at no cost, in service to women everywhere. Please feel free to share these resources far and wide, to anyone who might benefit. 

You’ll find those resources below.

Our Shift community is filled with creative visionaries — and we encourage you to join us in mounting a wave of healing support for women around the globe. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for… and our time is now. Let’s be the change — together.

You are the Medicine: Protecting Your Gift from Burnout with Joan Borysenko (audio only)

In this session you will learn: 

• How burnout is different from everyday stress.
• The stages of burnout and how to diagnose your own stage and begin to treat it.
• Ways to tap into a divine source which can flow through you and minimize your burnout. 
   

Burnout, Breathing and 'Intensation' with Dr. Ela Manga, Hosted by Jim Morningstar

In this session we explore:

• Why burnout has become an epidemic and the physiological mechanisms through which breathing impacts health and energy
• The psycho-physiological mechanisms through which conscious breathing supports healing.
• How conscious breathing can be practically applied to manage energy and prevent burnout.
• How to apply the wide range of available breathing techniques through the 'A-R-T' ( Awareness, Regulation and Transformation) of breathwork framework.
   

Qigong Practices to Generate Warmth & Wellbeing with Daisy Lee (audio only)

In this session, you’ll explore:

• A quick, easy Qigong technique to warm the body in a pinch — Hint: pinch!
• The one article of clothing that every Qigong practitioner has in his or her closet to protect their health — Hint: NOT hat, gloves, or boots!
• How to tap into the mind’s powerful force to warm or regulate the body
   

Mindfulness and Meditation Practices for Families with Mallika Chopra

In this session, you’ll explore:

• Practices to help you feel more grounded, aligned, and centered
• Ways to use breath for more peace and clarity
• How to use the I AM mantra and the simplicity of practice with mantra for children

Ancestral Help and Healing Tools for an Anxious World with Rabbi Dr. Tirzah Firestone

In this session, you’ll explore:

• How to call on your ancestors for wisdom and guidance regarding your current life issues
• How trauma works and how to address it in your own body... so you can help calm the current strife and turbulence in the world
• How contact with our ancestral allies can increase your sense of purpose and belonging in your life, as well as new channels of energy

Transforming Anxiety through Breathwork with Anthony Abbagnano

In this session, you’ll explore:

• How to witness anxiety as an external force
• The Coherence breath technique
• The Transformer breath technique
   

Lineage Clearing Ritual by Devaa Haley Mitchell & Isis Indriya

In this session, you’ll explore:

• Ritual to bring in creator and destroyer energy, and a shake to lose everything from this year that has been challenging
• Ritual to call upon our highest self for forgiveness
• Meditation using the light of the sun to transform the heart

Silent Legacies: A Family Constellation Lens by Suzi Tucker

• Personal issues can be better understood and thus resolved within the larger context of the family lineage and the historical events that impacted it
• Our so-called patterns are usually connected with hidden loyalties that create the condition where we have one foot in the present and one in the past
• Family Constellation is a gorgeously democratic work in which people find in themselves what they may have always looked to others for
   

Protection Against Stress, Burnout & Adrenal Exhaustion using Herbs with David Crow (Audio only)

In this session you’ll learn:

• How many aspects of stress and burnout can be prevented with lifestyle changes, good nutrition, time management and other methods.
• How medical plants can offer strong protection for the body and mind in stressful times through a wide range of physiological actions including nutritive support, relaxation of the nervous system, harmonizing of the endocrine system and rejuvenation of adrenal functions. 
• How to use herbs not only to recover from over-stimulated exhaustion, but to build greater resistance to stress over time. 

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Then... Do you need some support and insight about familial healing? This Ancestral Healing Journey will give you fresh insights and new ways to approach longstanding hurts.

AND... get insight on the power of care and curiosity with this mini-course on Radical Healing & Truth Telling from our very own Rev. Dr. Aliah MaJon.

Great Reads

Social Impact Heroes: Devaa & The Shift Network
By Yitzi Weiner

As part of my series about “individuals and organizations making an important social impact,” I had the pleasure of interviewing Devaa Haley Mitchell, the co-founder and Chief Impact Officer of The Shift Network, where she guides and oversees Shift’s social change initiatives as well as its philanthropic activities, leveraging its educational and network assets for the greatest public benefit.