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Welcome to the audible world of content creator, digital nomad and third culture kid, Sian McKeever. Get your weekly Friday fix of stream of consciousness voice notes that inspire, uplift and motivate you to be your most authentic self.
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In classic InspiraSian fashion, take a dive into Sian’s stream of consciousness in this episode, after 3 weeks of deep reflection and and healing. If you’re feeling stuck, overly identified with your mental illness/ sickness / trauma, Sian’s story of taking her power back from having cystic acne / narcissistic figure in her life will inspire you to redefine who you are and what your life can be like. You deserve freedom from the mind and the body. You deserve to be happy.
I can’t believe Jannik agreed to do this with me!!! So excited to share with you all our very first episode (and my first guest!) where we dive deep into your most hard hitting questions on love and dating, how to navigate feeling lonely post breakup, whether we HAVE to love ourselves before we get into a relationship, and why it’s so important to have clear standards when you go into your first date.
Alcohol lowers your vibration. You don’t need to be an alcoholic to be negatively affected by alcohol. Mentally, physically and spiritually, alcohol can hurt your soul. I knew this for years but kept making excuses as to why I couldn’t quit (it’s not fun / i love drinking with my friends / I don’t drink THAT much) until one day I decided to quit cold turkey and haven’t looked back. Could this be the year you go sober for good too?
Unpopular opinion, I don’t think everyone should be an influencer. Nor do I think everyone can. For good reason - not everyone has the right foundations within themselves to have their souls bared to hundreds of thousands of people daily. I’ve been on this journey and I’m just getting started! I have learned so much along the way and everything has only made me not only a better person but a better creator.
I get asked this question ALL the time: “how did you meet your boyfriend?” Well I’m finally going to share the story leading up to how I met him on the 3rd day that I arrived in Bali last year. There were so many synchronicities leading up to our meeting, but there was also a lot of work done on my part a year prior. Manifestation goes beyond the wishing and dreaming. It’s in the action too.
In the age of overstimulation, overconsumption and overwhelm from absorbing far too much information from social media / the internet… we’ve lost our ability to think critically for ourselves. Society has become paralyzed by too many options, opinions, and ideas. Addicted to the idea of learning more and more that we lose sight of what really matters to us. The human experience IRL.
So turns out I wasn’t okay, and only recently have I decided I want to work on being okay again. In this episode I start off with a new segment: the grateful game - where I share 3 things I’m grateful for today. Along with my current wellness habits that have been helping me whilst I learn to have more compassion towards myself after a pretty challenging few years. Here we go!
Am I a bad person for not giving a f about my career? Am I selfish for wanting to live out my days on a beach and not hustling to create generational wealth? In this day and age of modern day capitalist consumption… have we completely abandoned our natural human instincts and interests of community, creation and flow? Our generation is burnt out and uninspired. Here are my thoughts on why..
Getting plastic surgery and filler is so normalized that nowadays it’s become rare to meet someone who HASN’T had any work done. As someone who has suffered with body dysmorphia, I’ve been tempted to change my face to feel more beautiful, but resisted it in the name of learning to love myself wholly without external fixes. It’s a constant battle in an age where photoshop, editing apps and lack of transparency is rife on and offline. What are your thoughts?
Reflections on the past 12 months - exactly a year ago I decided to walk away from a 3 year long term relationship, the home I thought I was building and a career / income stream I was reliant on… all in the name of pursuing my heart’s calling to something MORE. It felt like everything I knew had collapsed around me and I had no way of knowing how to move forward. I just kept the faith that life had to be planning something better for me beyond the collapse. All in divine timing, all in divine plan.
So update! I’m in Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam visiting my dad for a month. After 2 hectic months of London life, I’ve been gifted this opportunity to slow down, recalibrate and reflect on some hard truths about myself. One of those being that I am not actually very good at being neutral when it comes to my triggers. My automatic response is to either react in an extreme high or an extreme low and it’s been causing a lot of stress on my nervous system. I never felt safe existing in the neutral - my core belief growing up was that life is either fucking amazing or fucking awful. No in-between. It’s just not true though. And I’m learning more than ever now that the neutral space is healing and necessary.
Send this episode to a broken hearted friend who needs to hear this too 🤍 I wrote this letter to myself in November last year after a painful breakup. Reading it back today I am able to see just how much has changed since then, my life is completely unrecognizable in the best way. No matter how difficult it was at the time, choosing to honor myself and my truth was the ONLY option. I hope it touches your heart today, and gives you the strength to carry on. I love you!
This was meant to be my triumphant return to the podcast. But instead I’m in a funk that I can’t seem to get out of yet. Oh the art of duality. I was feeling on top of the world the other day, and this week came around and knocked me down hard. Here is a totally unfiltered stream of consciousness on my frustrations with my acne, feeling like I’m not good enough, normalizing the other side of the high vibe optimistic persona, and realising that this is a inevitable experience. Especially as a woman.
Let’s talk about the commercialism of the self help and spirituality industry right now. And how they will try make you feel like you NEED things outside of yourself to become more awakened. That without your crystals, your tarot cards, your yoga, your books, that you are not enough. That you are not able to reach your highest self without it. But my love, the truth is, you were born a child of God, already fully equipped to access your gifts.
Are you energetically holding on to people who no longer need to be in your sphere? Are you waiting for an apology that will never come? You might not like this but.... the responsibility to close a chapter is on you. Not them. Your freedom is waiting on the other side of your decision to let go once and for all. What are you waiting for?
In a world that tries so hard to make you feel like you’re falling behind if you’re not doing doing doing, learning how to to do nothing is a powerful act of rebellion in returning to yourself. The performance of “doing” disconnects us from the beauty of life. Especially for those of us living in cities that glorify speed, hustle and excess. Can we learn to be happy with just enough? Can we love ourselves when we are in stillness?
A stream of consciousness on our perceptions of “work” in 2022. Does work have to be a struggle? Can work feel in flow and effortless? In an era where there are so many types of work available to you, what’s holding you back from turning your skills and talents into something that pays you, to be you?
In November 2021, I packed up my belongings, put it in storage and officially became a nomad. And already I’ve been on planes trains and automobiles in Mexico, London, Ireland and Cyprus - Exploring the depths of myself on the way. But despite it looking like I’ve been “living my best life” on the gram, I wanted to keep it real (duh) about the highs and lows that come with traveling on your own. Here’s the real tea.
TW: eating disorders. I went to the gym today for the first time in 8 months and it made me think about the times I used to be absolutely obsessed with the health & fitness world. I thought it would be a good time to talk about my past as a fitness influencer, how and why I started and stopped, and the mental and physical problems I experienced during this phase of my life. Wild times. But grateful I’m on the other side of it.
After my impromptu 1 month hiatus I’m back with a new episode, an update on where I am in the world and what happened to my mind body and soul when I decided to accept I was burnt OUT.
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