Reach Your Zenith with Shelley Anne Turnbull

Reach Your Zenith with Shelley Anne Turnbull I work with people to reframe their emotions so they can live the life they deserve. Rapid Transformational Therapy Practitioner certification from Marisa Peer

What are you carrying that was never yours?Imagine arriving in this world carrying an empty suitcase.Then, as you grow, ...
22/08/2026

What are you carrying that was never yours?

Imagine arriving in this world carrying an empty suitcase.

Then, as you grow, other people begin putting things into it.

A parent adds:

“You need to keep everyone happy.”

Someone else adds:

“Don’t be difficult.”

A teacher adds:

“You’re not very good at that.”

Society adds expectations about how you should look, behave, succeed, love and live.

Someone hurts you and perhaps you add:

“I’m not good enough.”

And eventually you’re dragging around this incredibly heavy suitcase thinking…

This is just who I am.

But what if it isn’t?

One of the most powerful parts of the work I do is helping people unpack that metaphorical suitcase.

Where did this belief come from?

When did you first start believing it?

Was it actually true?

And most importantly…

Does it still belong to you?

You don’t have to spend the rest of your life carrying beliefs that somebody else handed you when you were too young to question them. Together, we can:

Open the suitcase.

Have a bloody good sort-out.

And give back what was never yours to carry.

think I love the word lifequake because, when I look back over my own life, I can see I’ve had a few of them.Those momen...
22/08/2026

think I love the word lifequake because, when I look back over my own life, I can see I’ve had a few of them.

Those moments when life didn’t gently suggest I might like to change direction.

Oh no.

It picked up the whole bloody table and flipped it.

At the time, those moments didn’t feel like opportunities for growth. They felt painful, frightening, unfair and sometimes completely bloody exhausting.

But looking back, I can see something else too.

Some of the biggest disruptions in my life have also led to the biggest changes in me.

They made me question what I believed.

They made me look at the patterns I was repeating.

They made me let go of versions of myself I’d outgrown… even when I was desperately trying to hang onto them.

And they ultimately led me towards the work I do today.

That doesn’t mean I’m grateful for every painful thing that happened. I think we can be far too quick to slap a positive affirmation over genuine hurt and call it healing.

But I can acknowledge this:

I am not the same woman I was before my lifequakes.

And I wouldn’t want to be.

Sometimes the thing that feels as though it has shattered your life becomes the catalyst for rebuilding it differently.

Not back to how it was.

But forward into something that fits who you are becoming.

If you’re in the middle of your own lifequake right now, perhaps the question isn’t only “How do I get my old life back?”

Perhaps it’s also…

“Who could I become from here?”

And if you need some help discovering her, that’s exactly the kind of work I love doing. Message me to talk about how RTT could support you. ❤️

Sometimes numbness isn’t about feeling nothing.Sometimes it’s what happens when you’ve been feeling far too much for far...
20/08/2026

Sometimes numbness isn’t about feeling nothing.

Sometimes it’s what happens when you’ve been feeling far too much for far too long.

Grief. Anger. Fear. Disappointment. Stress. Responsibility. Hurt.

Layer upon layer… until your mind and nervous system seem to say, “That’s enough for now.”

And everything goes quiet.

You might wonder why you can’t cry. Why you don’t feel excited about things you normally love. Why you feel disconnected from yourself.

Numbness can be a protective response to overwhelm. It doesn’t necessarily mean the feelings have disappeared. Sometimes they’ve simply become too much to process all at once.

This is why healing isn’t always about pushing yourself to “feel your feelings.”

Sometimes we need to create enough safety to begin gently unpacking what’s underneath.

One emotion.
One experience.
One layer at a time.

You don’t have to unravel everything today.

If you’ve been feeling emotionally shut down, overwhelmed or disconnected from yourself, RTT can help us explore the patterns and experiences sitting underneath that response.

Message me if you’d like to talk about working together.

Self-worth is not a group decision.You don’t need everyone to understand you, approve of you, choose you or validate you...
20/08/2026

Self-worth is not a group decision.

You don’t need everyone to understand you, approve of you, choose you or validate you before you decide you are enough.

Other people’s opinions belong to them.

Your worth belongs to you.

Stop handing out voting rights. ❤️

Someone upsets you.They make a comment.Send a message.Cut you off in traffic.Say something that hits a nerve.Ten minutes...
19/08/2026

Someone upsets you.

They make a comment.
Send a message.
Cut you off in traffic.
Say something that hits a nerve.

Ten minutes of your day goes sideways.

And then… we give them the other 23 hours and 50 minutes as well.

Think about it this way.

If you had $1,000 and someone took $10 from you, would you throw the remaining $990 in the bin because you were angry about losing the $10?

Of course not.

So why do we do it with our time?

You’re allowed to be annoyed. Hurt. Angry. Disappointed. Feel it.

But you don’t have to hand that person the rest of your day as well.

That part still belongs to you.

Take your power back.

The $10 is gone.

Keep the $990. ❤️

“What if I had…?”What if I’d said something different?What if I’d tried harder?What if I’d noticed sooner?What if I’d st...
17/08/2026

“What if I had…?”

What if I’d said something different?
What if I’d tried harder?
What if I’d noticed sooner?
What if I’d stayed?
What if I’d left?

We can spend years mentally rewriting the past, convinced that if we could just find the moment where we went wrong, we could somehow make sense of what happened.

But sometimes there was no perfect combination of words or actions that would have changed the outcome.

Sometimes you could have done everything differently… and still ended up in exactly the same place.

That doesn’t mean there’s nothing to learn from the past.

It means you can stop using hindsight as a weapon against yourself.

You made choices with the knowledge, resources and understanding you had at the time.

Take the lesson.

Release the guilt.

And stop asking the person you are today to somehow go back and rescue the person you were then.

If you’re stuck replaying the past, RTT can help uncover the beliefs and emotions keeping you caught there, so you can finally begin moving forward.

Message me if you’d like to talk about working together.

Unprocessed trauma can be a bit like having 47 tabs open on your computer.You might not be looking at them.You may have ...
16/08/2026

Unprocessed trauma can be a bit like having 47 tabs open on your computer.

You might not be looking at them.

You may have even forgotten some of them are there.

But somewhere in the background… they’re still running.

Using energy.
Taking up space.
Slowing everything else down.

Our subconscious can work in a similar way.

Experiences we haven’t fully processed can continue to influence how we respond to relationships, conflict, rejection, success, love, boundaries and even how safe we feel simply being ourselves.

And sometimes we don’t recognise the connection because the original experience happened years — even decades — ago.

You don’t necessarily need to spend your life analysing every tab.

Sometimes you need to understand why it opened in the first place, what your younger self learned from that experience, and whether you still need that old programme running today.

That’s a big part of the work I do with RTT.

We go beneath the surface behaviour and look for the beliefs and patterns sitting underneath it.

Because imagine how much lighter life might feel when you finally start closing some of those tabs.

If you’re tired of carrying something you thought you’d “gotten over” years ago, message me and we can talk about whether RTT could help.

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“Why can’t they just understand how I feel?”People can often only hold space for your emotions to the depth that they’ve...
16/08/2026

“Why can’t they just understand how I feel?”

People can often only hold space for your emotions to the depth that they’ve learned to hold space for their own.

If someone has spent their life avoiding sadness, your sadness may make them uncomfortable.

If they were taught to suppress anger, they may struggle when you express yours.

If vulnerability feels unsafe to them, they may minimise, dismiss, fix, joke, change the subject… or tell you that you’re “too sensitive.”

And sometimes we take their response personally.

We think we’re too emotional.
Too needy.
Too much.

But their inability to meet you emotionally isn’t necessarily a measure of the validity of what you’re feeling.

Sometimes you’re simply asking someone to meet you in a place they haven’t yet learned how to go themselves.

That doesn’t make them bad.

And it doesn’t make your needs unreasonable.

It simply means you may need to stop looking for emotional depth from people who are only capable of meeting you in the shallows.

You deserve relationships where your feelings don’t have to be made smaller to make somebody else comfortable.

What you believe about yourself matters, because what you hold within becomes part of what you attract. Your beliefs, th...
15/08/2026

What you believe about yourself matters, because what you hold within becomes part of what you attract. Your beliefs, thoughts and energy send a message about what you expect, what you feel worthy of receiving, and what you believe is available to you. When you begin to shift those inner beliefs, you change the energy you bring to your life… and you create space to attract experiences that reflect the new story you are choosing for yourself.

If somewhere deep inside you believe:

“I’m not good enough.”
“People always leave.”
“I don’t deserve success.”
“I have to keep everyone happy.”
“Nothing ever works out for me.”

…those beliefs can quietly become the lens through which you experience your life.

And often, they weren’t even consciously chosen.

They were formed through childhood experiences, relationships, rejection, criticism, trauma and moments when your younger mind was simply trying to make sense of what was happening.

That’s why I’m so interested in the subconscious.

Because sometimes changing your life isn’t about trying harder.

It’s about discovering the belief underneath the pattern.

Where did it come from?

Is it actually true?

And most importantly…

Does the person you are today still want to live by a belief created by the person you were then?

You can question the old story.

You can rewrite it.

And when what you believe about yourself begins to change, the choices you make for yourself can change too. 💙

That’s where some of the most powerful work begins.

Happiness is a mood, not a destination.We’ve been sold this idea that one day we’ll finally get everything sorted.We’ll ...
13/08/2026

Happiness is a mood, not a destination.

We’ve been sold this idea that one day we’ll finally get everything sorted.

We’ll heal enough.
Earn enough.
Love ourselves enough.
Find the right relationship.
Get our life together.

And then… happiness. Permanently.

Except humans don’t work like that.

Happiness comes and goes, just like sadness, frustration, excitement, grief, contentment and everything else we’re capable of feeling.

A happy life isn’t a life where you’re happy all the time.

It’s a life where you have space for all of yourself.

Where a difficult day doesn’t mean you’re failing.

Where sadness doesn’t mean you’ve gone backwards.

Where you can have a crappy Tuesday and still have a bloody good life.

Maybe the goal was never to find happiness and stay there.

Maybe it’s learning to notice it when it arrives… and letting yourself fully enjoy it while it’s here.

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