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Self-Led Besties!

Self-Led Besties!

By: Christine Dixon Hallie Shapiro & David Hilton
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Welcome to the pod, besties! You’ll find us chatting about all things Self-Leadership, parts, self-compassion, nonviolent communication & so much more. Hygiene & Healthy Living Psychology Psychology & Mental Health
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  • S1E5 | Gentle Presence Lights the Way
    Mar 29 2026

    In this episode, Hallie leads David and Christine (and you) through an incredibly helpful exercise to get to know parts around a polarization and then to bring them together to find a Self-led consensus.

    Hallie starts with the prompt, "What is something you/parts of you have been putting off?” and leads us to get to know the parts who want to do the thing and the parts who block/resist it. She guides us toward gentle inquiry of each part/set of parts to find out their fears, needs, values, and requests.

    At the end, we all share for what came up for us in the experiment/experience.

    Feel free to join us in doing the exercise and share your experience in the comments or just listen to our experiences. You cannot get it wrong!

    0:00 Intro
    0:11 Theme Song
    0:35 Exercise Preview
    1:51 Exercise Overview
    6:54 Finding a Trailhead
    8:17 First Part's Questions P1
    11:33 First Part's Questions P2
    12:39 First Part's Questions P3
    13:21 Second Part's Questions P1
    16:18 Second Part's Questions P2
    16:45 Second Part's Questions P3
    17:24 Spending Time With Vulnerable Parts
    20:23 Bringing Parts Together
    21:54 Sharing Part's Perspectives
    24:43 Inviting a Consensus
    25:54 Exercise Conclusion
    27:53 David's Experience
    36:01 Christine's Experience
    48:05 Exercise Reflection
    56:40 Hallie's Experience
    1:00:14 Closing & Goodbyes
    1:02:23 Theme Song
    1:03:23 Like & Subscribe!

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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • S1E4 | Activity: Left-Handed Letters from Love
    Mar 1 2026

    In this episode, Christine leads Hallie and David (and you) through an exercise in which we express our parts' concerns by journaling with our dominant hand and then respond from Love/Spirit/SELF with our non dominant hand.

    Christine gives an overview of the many sources which use a similar method to access wisdom from Divine Source - Liz Gilbert's Letters from Love, The Morning Pages encouraged in The Artist's Way, Journal Speak developed by Nicole Sachs to heal chronic pain, Conversations With God by Neal Donald Walsh, and Spirit by Bob Falconer. Christine also talks about the influence of Jill Bolte Taylor's ideas in her book "Whole Brain Living," which made Christine wonder if our Self exists, or is at least channeled by, our right brain. She talks about the parallels between the parts and Self in IFS and JBT's "4 Characters" of the brain in this video.

    Christine, Hallie, and David all do the exercise and share the responses they got from Love/Spirit/SELF as well as their experience using the exercise in the recent past. Check out our SLB Instagram account if you'd like to see the writing that came out of it for us.

    Please feel free to try the exercise and let us know how it went in the comments below.

    0:00 Intro
    0:18 Theme Song
    0:42 Exercise Overview
    1:52 Exercise Influences
    11:32 Exercise Preview
    16:08 Step One - Parts Writing with Right Hand
    18:00 Step Two - Parts Question and Left Hand Reply
    20:08 Christine's Experience
    24:45 David's Experience
    38:24 Hallie's Experience
    48:17 Past Experiences with Exercise
    57:24 Outro & Goodbyes
    57:57 Theme Song

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    59 mins
  • S1E3 | Activity: Three Paths to Self-Energy
    Feb 15 2026

    In this episode of The Self Led Besties Podcast, David gently leads Hallie and Christine through three groups of exercises that act as inroads to Self Energy:

    1.⁠ ⁠Presence
    2.⁠ ⁠Awareness
    3.⁠ ⁠Qualities of Self

    You are welcome to join us in these experiences/experiments or just listen. At about the 46 minute marker, Christine and Hallie share for their parts' reactions to the exercises.

    If you participate in the exercises, please share about your experience in the comment section. We'd love to hear from you!

    0:00 Intro
    0:17 Theme Song
    0:42 Exercise Overview
    4:38 First Path To Self - Presence P1
    9:28 First Path to Self - Presence P2
    18:09 Awareness Overview
    20:57 Second Path to Self - Awareness P1
    25:22 Second Path to Self - Awareness P2
    35:36 Qualities Overview
    37:46 Third Path to Self - Qualities
    46:38 Christine's Experience
    56:38 Hallie's Experience
    1:13:03 Outro & Goodbyes
    1:17:22 Theme Song

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    1 hr and 18 mins
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