Back To Self is a psycho-spiritual podcast for those who are self-aware, spiritually curious, and seeking deeper alignment within. If you feel quietly disconnected or unfulfilled, this space is for you. Blending therapeutic insight, accessible spirituality, real conversation and seasonal astrology, each episode invites you to slow down, reconnect, and return to yourself with more compassion, clarity, and self-trust.
Back To Self Through Creativity with Amy Thomas-Owen
Do you believe you’re “just not a creative person”? Or has perfectionism, self-doubt or the pressure to be productive made creativity feel uncomfortable, indulgent or out of reach?
In this warm and thoughtful conversation, I’m joined by creative therapist Amy Thomas-Owen to explore creativity as a powerful route back to yourself.
Together, we unpack how childhood experiences, comparison and cultural messages can disconnect us from our creativity—and why being creative is about far more than being able to paint, draw or produce something impressive.
We explore how reconnecting with creativity can help you:
Soften your inner critic and perfectionism
Build self-trust through small, low-stakes choices
Feel more present, grounded and connected to yourself
Rediscover your preferences after people-pleasing
Become more comfortable with mistakes and uncertainty
Make space for play, curiosity and self-expression
Amy also shares accessible creative practices for beginners, including intentionally making “bad” art, using your non-dominant hand, taking a colour walk and noticing one to three ways you have already been creative each day.
If you’ve lost touch with your creative side—or never believed you had one—this episode offers a gentle invitation to become curious about what creativity could look like for you.
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🩷Connect with Amy
📸 Instagram: www.instagram.com/therapyinyourthirties (http://www.instagram.com/therapyinyourthirties)
👩🏽💻Website: www.seasonschangetherapy.com (http://www.seasonschangetherapy.com)
Disclaimer: Just to say, this podcast isn’t therapy or a replacement for professional support. Although I am a therapist, I show up here as myself- sharing ideas and experiences. If you are struggling, I’d encourage you to seek support with a registered mental health professional.
8 Oct 2026
From Self-Doubt to Self-Trust: 6 Ways Back to Yourself
Do you struggle to trust your decisions—even when part of you already knows what you want?
Perhaps you make a choice, feel settled for a moment and then begin second-guessing yourself. You seek reassurance, worry about disappointing someone or absorb so many outside opinions that you lose touch with your own voice.
In this episode of Back To Self, Sian explores why self-trust can feel so difficult and how it may have been shaped by conditioning, people-pleasing, fear of making mistakes and the need for approval.
You’ll discover why self-trust doesn’t require complete certainty—and why trusting yourself isn’t about always making the “right” decision. It can mean listening to your feelings, needs and values, seeking support without surrendering your autonomy, and responding to yourself with compassion when life doesn’t unfold as expected.
Sian shares six grounded pathways for rebuilding self-trust, and the episode concludes with a gentle guided reflection to help you explore a decision you may be facing and identify one small step that keeps you connected to yourself.
Because self-trust isn’t built through one perfect decision. It grows through the quiet moments in which you listen, respond and return to yourself.
Thanks for listening 🙏🏽🩷
🗓️New episodes every Thursday
🎙️Follow now to join the conversation
🩷Connect with me
📸 Instagram: www.instagram.com/the.soulshine.therapist (http://www.instagram.com/the.soulshine.therapist)👩🏽💻Website: www.thesoulshinetherapist.co.uk (www.thesoulshinetherapist.co.uk) 📧Email: sian@thesoulshinetherapist.co.uk
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Disclaimer: Just to say, this podcast isn’t therapy or a replacement for professional support. Although I am a therapist, I show up here as myself- sharing ideas and experiences. If you are struggling, I’d encourage you to seek support with a registered mental health professional.
1 Oct 2026
The Spiritual Law of Balance
What does balance really mean when modern life often rewards overworking, over-giving and pushing beyond our capacity?
In this episode of Back To Self, Sian explores the spiritual law of balance and its connection with Libra season.
Rather than treating balance as a perfect 50/50 split—or another standard to judge ourselves against—she considers it an ongoing dance between work and rest, giving and receiving, connection and solitude, doing and being.
Together, we explore masculine and feminine energy, light and shadow, the relationship between mind and body, and the ways imbalance can show up as burnout, overthinking, emotional overwhelm or disconnection from ourselves.
You’ll also be invited to consider whether imbalance might be valuable information: a sign that a need has been neglected, the pendulum has swung too far, or something within you is asking to be restored.
The episode closes with reflective questions to help you explore your current relationship with balance—gently, honestly and without expecting yourself to have it all together.
Thanks for listening 🙏🏽🩷
🗓️New episodes every Thursday
🎙️Follow now to join the conversation
🩷Connect with me
📸 Instagram: www.instagram.com/the.soulshine.therapist (http://www.instagram.com/the.soulshine.therapist)
👩🏽💻Website: www.thesoulshinetherapist.co.uk (www.thesoulshinetherapist.co.uk)
📧 Email: sian@thesoulshinetherapist.co.uk
🛎️InsightTimer: https://insighttimer.com/thesoulshinetherapist (https://insighttimer.com/thesoulshinetherapist)
Disclaimer: Just to say, this podcast isn’t therapy or a replacement for professional support. Although I am a therapist, I show up here as myself- sharing ideas and experiences. If you are struggling, I’d encourage you to seek support with a registered mental health professional.
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