114. Self-acceptance is hard. Abandoning yourself is harder with Shani Chantel

What if the hardest person you've ever had to make peace with... is you?

Meet Shani Chantel. Curve model. Self-acceptance shero. Mumma. Speaker. A big-hearted, empathetic badass who's made it her mission to break every rule that told women to shrink, mask, and pretend they're fine.

But Shani didn't arrive here by accident. She fought for it.

In this episode she gets real about self-acceptance, what she calls the longest journey there is. Not a destination you arrive at, but daily work. The kind that asks you to keep choosing yourself, even when everything in you wants to abandon ship.

Shani shares the turning point that changed everything: becoming a mum, and realising the self-hatred she'd been carrying for years was never actually hers. It was handed to her by an absent father, by society, by a world that profits from women feeling not enough. And she made a decision. She wasn't passing it down to her daughter.

We talk about unmasking after a late autism and ADHD diagnosis. The self-forgiveness practice that cracked her open (this bit is everything). And why she walked away from the fake, gatekept world of women's "empowerment" events to do the real work instead.

This is the conversation for any woman who's ever felt like she had to hold it all together. Who's tired of the performance. Who's ready to actually come home to herself.

Shani is proof: you're not too much. You never were.

Have a listen, girlfriend. This one's a force. 🔥

🌸Connect with Shani Chantel
📲@shani.chantel
https://www.tiktok.com/@shanichantel

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🩷Connect with our host: Katelin Vincent 🧡
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