This Thing Called Wellness
🎙️ Welcome to This Thing Called Wellness — a heart-centered space where women over 40 come to heal, empower, and connect—one meaningful conversation at a time.
I’m Shannon D. Martin, Certified Health & Wellness Coach, host, and a woman rediscovering herself after years of showing up for everyone else. After more than a decade of navigating anxiety, depression, and burnout, I chose to pause, pour into my own healing, and start again. 💚
Now, I’m learning to define wellness in a way that honors what feels right for me not by outside expectations, but by my own rhythm. And I’m inviting you to do the same.
Every other Wednesday, I sit down with guests who have lived through transformation or are creating healing spaces where others can rise. Some are women rebuilding their lives. Others are leaders, guides, and change-makers helping women rediscover who they are through support, storytelling, and soul work.
Together, we explore real stories, heartfelt wisdom, and gentle tools to support your emotional, spiritual, mental, and physical wellness.
✨ If you’ve ever asked, “Who am I now?”—this space is for you.
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Because your wellness doesn’t follow a timeline or a checklist.
It flows. It evolves.
Wellness is a rhythm—not a destination.
And we’re walking it together. 🌿
Episodes
43 episodes
Winter Wellness: Nourishing Your Mind and Body
Are the winter blues getting the best of your skin and spirit? Fear not, as I guide you through my personal winter wellness arsenal that's sure to nourish both mind and body during these frosty months. From battling dry skin with a mix of exfol...
Holiday Self Care: Navigating the Holiday Season with Intention
Feeling the holiday stress creeping in? Find comfort in knowing that you're not alone. Join me, Shannon Martin, as I share my strategies to navigate through the frantic holiday season with purpose and intention. From tackling the shopping frenz...
Holiday Grief: Navigating the Empty Chair
The holiday season can be a fusion of joy and sorrow, especially if you're facing the 'empty chair' at the dinner table for the first time. I take you along on my personal journey through my first holiday season without my mother. Together, we ...
Transforming Anger into Powerful Self-Realization
Have you ever felt an emotional storm brewing within you and struggled to control it? I, am sharing my journey of transforming my intense anger into powerful self-realization. The undercurrent of this storm was deep-seated trauma and a lifetime...
Family Support on the Path to Mental Wellness
Navigating the emotional labyrinth of mental wellness not only takes a toll on the individual struggling, but also their loved ones who offer support. During this episode, your host, Shannon Martin, takes you through her experiences of mutual s...
The Quest for Connection: Overcoming the Barriers of Disconnection
Join me, Shannon Martin, on a soul-stirring voyage as we tackle the complexities of rebuilding and holding together relationships after periods of solitude and disconnection. I found myself on a solitary island following a personal breakdown, a...
Buidling a Support System that Sustains You
Join me on a truly personal journey as we navigate the importance of treasuring relationships and fostering formidable support systems that can sustain us through life's toughest moments. In this heartfelt exchange, I'll share a chilling tale o...
Embracing the Seasons of Loneliness
Every so often, a season of loneliness can sneak up on us, even when we're surrounded by those we love. You might feel a void, experience anxiety or even depression. I found myself in that exact predicament, and it took navigating and embracing...
The Transformative Power of Art Therapy
Do you ever find yourself reaching for a pen, a paintbrush, or even a dancing shoe when life gets overwhelming? You're not alone. Art therapy, the practice of using creative mediums to express and process emotions, is gaining momentum as a powe...
The Key to Wellbeing: It Starts with Sleep
Did you know that your bedtime routine could be the key to tackling mental health challenges? This episode is a wake-up call to the internal battles many of us are facing, such as anxiety, insomnia, sleep apnea, and restless legs syndrome that ...
The Pursuit of Inner Calm: Lessons from My Life's Journey
Join me on a personal journey of self-discovery, as I, recount my struggle with emotional distress and the steps I took to find my inner calm. It was a moment of shocking realization, when my own family pointed out my escalating anger and melan...
Overcoming Emotional Exhaustion
Do you ever feel like you're walking through a fog, struggling to remember even the simplest of tasks or losing grips on your emotions? It's a battle I've known too well, and it's called emotional exhaustion. This week on "This Thing Called Wel...
Setting Healthy Mental Boundaries
Join me on a transformative journey where we uncover the power of setting boundaries to protect our mental peace. As a reformed people pleaser, I reveal the cost of constantly being there for everyone else and the toll it took on my mental heal...
The Power of Stories: Inspiring Hope A Mental Health Story
Imagine living a life full of darkness where every day is a fight against anxiety and depression. This was my reality for ten years - a decade of struggles, challenges, and misconceptions about mental health that nearly broke me. Yet, in the da...
Unearthing the Healing Power of Self-Compassion
After years of blindly following diagnoses and trusting experts, I hit a wall. This was my wake-up call, my turning point, where I realized that my mental health was in my hands. I opened my eyes to the healing power of self-compassion, and it ...
Charting a Personal Course in Mental Health
Are you ready to embark on an enlightening journey towards mental health wellness? As your host, I'll be your guide, sharing insights from my personal experiences — the good, the bad, and the challenging. From my trials with medication to the r...
The Power of Family: Confronting Mental Illness Together
As your host, Shannon Martin, I want to take you through a personal journey that changed my perception of mental health forever. Discover how a caring intervention from my family, including detailed observations from my children, opened my eyes...
Introduction to "This Thing Called Wellness"
This thing Called Wellness is a conversational series about Shannon Martin’s 10-year battle with mental illness. Through her stories, Shannon courageously discusses her struggles and successes with depression and panic disorder. Discussing t...