Finding Balance and Emotional Well-Being with Vanessa Shippy

We all experience moments when emotions overwhelm us, especially if we have trapped emotions that build up over time. In today's fast-paced world, it’s easy to feel overloaded with anxiety, stress, and negative news. How can we find balance and set boundaries to protect our well-being? In this episode, I sit down with Vanessa Shippy, an expert in energy work and emotional healing. Vanessa is dedicated to helping individuals release trapped emotions, cultivate self-awareness, and create a more balanced life. Through her work at Dawning Hope, she guides clients on their healing journeys by integrating energy healing, mindset shifts, and self-care practices. We discuss how emotional buildup affects our nervous system, why setting energetic boundaries is essential, and how self-compassion plays a key role in emotional well-being. Vanessa shares real-life experiences from her clients, practical tips on processing emotions, and ways to stay grounded despite life’s challenges. Whether you're dealing with stress, anxiety, or emotional overload, this conversation will provide actionable insights to help you regain balance. Tune in for an enlightening discussion! --- Listen to the podcast here: Finding Balance and Emotional Well-Being with Vanessa Shippy Welcome to Action’s Antidotes, your antidote to the mindset that keeps you settling for less. Today, I want to talk to you about a common situation where we have some trapped emotions, and what I mean by that is you want to get some stuff done, you have an important meeting maybe or even just a list of tasks that you would really like to accomplish and do well, yet something someone said or something someone did just kind of stays tracked in your mind, like it triggered you in a way, and you don’t even oftentimes know why do I keep thinking about that but you just can’t stop thinking about it. Why was her tone of voice like that? Why did he slam the door? Etc. So, today, I want to talk to you about how we can possibly get past some of these and other energetic and balanced situations by introducing to you my guest, Vanessa Shippy, and she is the founder of Dawning Hope. --- Vanessa, welcome to the program. Hi, thank you for having me. Thank you and welcome to Action’s Antidotes. First of all, tell us a little bit about Dawning Hope. Yeah, so Dawning Hope is my business. I’m honored to serve in a way. I get to offer intuitive energy reading, clearing, balancing, and channeling sessions, and I’m actually also currently putting together resources and a guide to help people come into touch with their own energy and body. I typically will encourage this through like nervous system regulation and emotional processing, like through gaining knowledge and restoring balance to the mind, body, and spirit as a whole. I myself went from bedridden to feeling better than I ever have. My vision for my business is to let others know that even after the darkest night, the sun always rises and the dawn brings new hope. With my initial statement, am I even thinking about it properly? Because I guess I was thinking about a situation where, okay, this person said something like this, this person was in a bad mood and it’s weighing in my mind, but is that even the situation or is it about something way more than what happened yesterday, what happened this morning that I just can’t stop ruminating on? Yeah, so that can be more of the effects of what maybe actually happened. Typically, some of our deepest, you could say, traumas or trapped energies will occur in childhood. I personally have a theory that children are so open and, in openness, it’s a gift but it can also be a vulnerability, and so, oftentimes, the way that they perceive the world is rather deep and they can internalize it more than adults might just because they don’t have the same understanding or experience as adults. Say, if someone said something to you this morning and you’re just wondering why did they have that tone of voice or why did they shut the door so hard, like you said, and that can be more so like an echo and a hyper-fixation that can occur from maybe when you were a child and something happened that you perceived as kind of traumatic possibly. So it’s not necessarily about what happens to you, it’s more about how you perceive what happens to you.Share on X Maybe someone did slam the door and then, that same day, something terrible happened, maybe your parents got in a car wreck or something like that. It can be something like that so it doesn’t even need to be something that happened directly with slamming the door or it doesn’t have to be something that, say, someone yelled at you and then slammed the door. It can just be kind of associations more so, the mind going and going, kind of overthinking things. That’s often more of an echo of trapped energies than the thing that you’re overthinking actually being the trapped energy, per se. When I think about the slammed door situation, the only reason that really matters is that it has the potential to wear your door out a little bit and maybe you’ll need to buy a new door earlier than otherwise anticipated. And, of course, you heard a loud noise, but it’s not necessarily like a bad thing happening to your life. Yet a lot of people can think of it that way and a lot of people can respond in the way, and so it sounds like what you’re saying is that at some period in the past in your life, usually it’s childhood but people can have openness even later on, you developed a mental association, and what I love about this and you can correct me if I’m thinking about this one incorrectly as well is it’s not necessarily about this whole idea of my parents did this to me, it could just be a mental association that could be happenstance. It could be that horrible teacher always slammed the door at the end of sixth period when you were in sixth grade, seventh grade, or something like that. Or it could be when this happened, the day that my grandparents died, I smelled this horrible odor and now every time I go anywhere near a raccoon, I just lose my shit. Yeah, exactly. And if you think about the concept of PTSD, my mind sometimes will go to the war veterans and things so it’s not ––- well, after they come home, it’s not often that they are present to the same noises, per se, but just loud noises in general can reiterate that stress response and then you might associate that stress response with something negative because, oftentimes, when something overwhelming is happening, we do go into a stress response and so then maybe your body begins to panic when you begin to go into a stress response in general. So it doesn’t necessarily have to be what’s happening around you, it could be also how you are responding to what’s happening around you. Yeah. And so, just wild guess, if you were to take, say, a thousand instances in which people today are going into stress responses, what percentage of them or what number of those thousand do you think are genuinely responses to stress versus some of these associations that we’ve built in our heads? A high percentage would be my guess. A high percentage. It’s just the way that our species has evolved in recent centuries, that the body is just kind of, I guess, overwhelmed, like there’s just been so much build up. And you can inherit things from your ancestors and I’m not sure of certain people’s beliefs but some people believe that you can bring them in from other lifetimes and it’s not necessarily even just what happened to us in this lifetime but there is science backing up that we also are carrying, you could say trauma from ancestors. I don’t know the exact number but it’s many generations back. And so then you add that to the modern world where we’re constantly present to so much overstimulation and even having to work every day, that didn’t used to be a thing centuries ago, and if you think of the ancient ancestors, you could say, that just lived in nature and were constantly connected to the earth and it was more of a calm and quiet life than what we live in now. I mean, it makes sense that our bodies are kind of ramped up, and then on top of all the wars and all the history that we have in our cellular DNA, it makes sense that we’re overwhelmed often. One thing I want to make sure I continue to reiterate is that Action’s Antidotes, I’m not telling anyone what to or what not to believe in, but some of the things that are really wonderful about some of these concepts is that there’s a way to explain it to people who believe in the spiritual concepts and a way to explain it to people who are way more logic driven, because, in the spiritual sense, you can say, “Okay, my ancestry had these experiences and it’s kind of just built into my soul contract on Earth,” and stuff like that, whereas in a more on-Earth practical context, you could just simply say, “Well, these patterns kind of continued,” and if you look back at your parents patterns, they probably took some things from their parents’ patterns. The story about the woman who always kind of cuts the legs off the turkey every single time she cooks it and she asked her grandmother, eventually, after 30 years of doing it this way, she asked her grandmother why they do it like that and she just simply explained, “Well, when I was a kid, our oven wasn’t big enough so we had to chop it off,” yet we kind of never really thought that through and I think there’s a lot of situations like that where we look at patterns, even the argument I commonly make is that our pattern of work, our eight-hour work day or nine-to-five shifts are a holdover from when we were doing factory work that was applied to some of these more creative problem solving jobs that we just never really thought through, does this work. Yeah, exactly. That’s very good example. ...