Episode 431
Ep. 431 — The Couple Who Healed Their War Zones w/Frannie and Danny Frannie and Danny · Jun 2026 · 45 minThe Couple Who Healed Their War Zones w/Frannie and Danny
Zach sits down with Frannie and Danny, a married couple and wellness practitioners based in Florida who run an energy center in Palm Beach Gardens and lead workshops rooted in trauma recovery, energy work, and conscious relationship practices. Both come from what Frannie calls "war zones." Danny grew up in Israel with an Egyptian-French mother. Frannie was raised in Canada by Holocaust survivors, kept her Jewish identity secret, and spent decades working through what she describes as inherited PTSD. Their life together, and the tools they use to sustain it, form the backbone of this conversation.
What emerges is a vivid picture of what intentional partnership looks like in practice: morning hugs with spoken affirmations customized to each other's tender spots, humming exercises to shift body chemistry in real time, inner child meditations done side by side, and a shared commitment to flooding the end of every day with joy and laughter before sleep. Danny talks candidly about going from hot-headed and heavy to lighter in every sense over the past six months. Frannie traces the roots of that transformation to the willingness to stop fighting your old story and start feeling a new one.
The conversation goes deeper when Zach asks about the "woo-woo" question and Frannie's answer grounds all of it: the quantum field, nitric oxide, vagal nerve activation, heart-brain coherence. None of this is fringe anymore. It is the science behind why these practices work. And when she walks through the inner child work she and Danny do together, including forgiving the inner children of parents who caused harm, something clicks about why this couple carries so little weight for people who came from so much pain.
Key Takeaways
- Wars between people, and within relationships, often begin with a war inside the self. Healing starts with learning to love who you are.
- Affirmations work best when they are personalized to your actual vulnerable spots, not generic positivity scripts.
- A daily heart-to-heart hug of over a minute creates measurable physiological shifts in the body. It is not sentimental. It is chemical.
- Humming is an ancient, science-backed tool for stress regulation. Exhaling on the word "home" activates nitric oxide and the vagus nerve throughout the body.
- Shame is often the hidden block that keeps people from changing their story. It is not about accountability. It is about the fear that if you could have shifted sooner, you wasted time.
- Inner child work is not just about forgiving yourself. Visualizing your parents as innocent children who only wanted love is one of the most effective ways to release intergenerational resentment.
- Affirmations require emotional alignment, not just words. The mind and the emotion have to move together, or the words are just noise.
- Ending your day on purpose: choosing funny, light, joyful content before sleep is a form of nervous system hygiene, not just a preference.
Guest Info
Frannie Sheridan
Wellness practitioner, performer, storyteller, and workshop facilitator specializing in stress management, inherited trauma recovery, inner child work, and humming-based somatic techniques. Originally from Canada, raised by Holocaust survivors. Decades of international work in healing and performance. Recipient of multiple Mayoral Awards and accolades.
Book: I Tried to Be Normal, But It Was Taken (Kindle version now available on Amazon; audiobook coming July via ACX/Amazon)
Amazon link: https://a.co/d/03D3L5zR
Companion guide: The Post-Traumatic Joy Overload Playbook (32 actionable stress management techniques)
Website: franniesheridan.com
All social links: linktr.ee/StressBUSTERHumFEST
Danny
Co-facilitator and Frannie's husband of twenty-plus years. Background in business; grew up in Israel. Co-leads workshops and runs Loving Light Regeneration (lovinglightregeneration.com), a holistic light frequency center in Palm Beach Gardens, with Frannie.
Transcript
Franny and Danny, what's shaking? How are you guys doing this morning?
So good to finally meet you, Zach. Thanks for having us on.
Mm, it's not this morning anymore. It's this afternoon 'cause you're in Florida, yeah?
Right. Right.
It's morning for us all the time. Yeah, it's sunny. It's nice all the time.
It's morning for you all the time.
Morning, yes. The morning of our life. Danny's thing very deep and philosophical.
Tell me tell me about your day. What how does your day go? When you do you wake up together in the same bed? No.
I I'm a ridiculously early bird, usually 99%, literally up at four today. ⁓ but also I'm completing a project. So I'm filming when Danny's asleep. ⁓ and that's very helpful because you know, we engage, we spend a lot of time talking. You might find that hard to believe. ⁓ so when I have quiet time. I'm putting together a companion guide to my new audiobook. And ⁓ it has 52 ⁓ stress management methods that are, you know, disguised. It's they're fun, they're playful, and they're very, they're actionable, they're very short, ⁓ you know, three minute, three times a day type of thing. So I'm videotaping them and I was up at four and but I I get up at that time and I do my four or five my thing first, which is basically you know, I meditate and I I do like a little bit of a stretch workout and and then I do a little bit of a weight workout and then just do and you can see it's paying off. Right. And and yeah, Danny's usually up at seven thirty. ⁓ I get him up and I get him up with ⁓ stuff that I've recorded actually, right? Usually that he likes. ⁓ Which is like you know, a h kind of a humming meditation. And then ⁓
I get my beauty sleep until 7. love her voice. nothing better to wake up than with our boys anymore.
Don't you I mean, I can't think of a better that's just like twenty years and he says that. That's just to me the sweetest thing. Right. You know?
That's awesome. Okay. So that's part of your gig too, the humming thing. I want to hear more about that in a second. But ⁓ all right, so Danny, y then you get up at seven thirty and then what do you guys do?
I do a little bit of exercise in the morning to wake up. My Shigang, I exercise in the morning to wake up. We have businesses that we are running, so we have to check what's going on, see what's happened from the night before. then we, to the whole morning we are talking, you know, we communicated nonstop.
Lavosauruses. There's no you know and which is why I get up, you know, in the night to do certain things because it's you know, we're very, very engaged with each other.
Yeah. What do talk about? What do what do you
I mean, well, like this morning honestly, we had a meeting with one of our business partners and that went on for twenty minutes. So we we did, you know, some preamble for that. Different stuff that is not all that exciting. but but we also mind meld over you know what we're creating. Like I'm very excited about this stuff.
What you don't talk about Show and stuff.
project I mentioned and ⁓ we're also we're going to Mexico next month ⁓ for ten days too an old friend's home we've not been to in Play Del Carmen and things so we're just like everything and anything, really.
Yeah. Okay. ⁓ so you get up, you're hanging out, you're doing your thing in the morning, you're talking to each other. what then what happens? What does there a shift in the middle of your day somewhere? Do you have a
Usually, 12 o'clock is exercise time, so we are busy.
Exercise done. ⁓
Okay. 'Cause you wake up and you do a little exercise and then you have another one.
wake up in the morning, I shigang and like 10 minutes of movement of shigang and all kind of exercise waking up. The real exercise start around 12 when we start doing weights.
For Danny, I'm done by the time he's up.
and wait at least good hour. That's the real exercise. And then breakfast lunch because I am on a...
Second breakfast. Yeah, like the hobby.
No, yeah, it's only breakfast.
For Danny. Danny does a a gluten free thing. Got him on intermittent fasting. It's something that I've done for years and he was very much not into, but then I locked him in the closet, you know, just a very progressive way to hand. No, but he's really I mean he's I'm so proud of him. Zach, he's lost a lot of weight.
I do intermittent fasting. I dropped about 20 pounds. It's not an easy drop, so you drop it slowly but...
So we do that and then we also, you know, we listen to a lot of ⁓ wisdom, everything from ⁓ you know, Dispenza to Hicks, a lot of the so called modern day sages. And ⁓ you know, what else do we do, sweetness? Then it's time for us to have another nap.
You're living your best life. You're
Right, so we have our afternoon coffee, but usually we go outside.
Yeah, but also Zach, we run one of our businesses we have an energy center in North Palm Beach, which is about, you know, twenty five minutes from here. And so we're there ⁓ a few days of the week and our partner is our business partner is there. to come. We use we love to go sit in the garden at the Breakers, which is this exquisite old hotel in Palm Beach Island. We sit in the courtyard, it's our favorite place. It is orchids and and squirrels and we feed the birds and Yeah.
know some people.
We s yeah, we we ignore a lot of people, but we're nice. We politely ignore people. Don't get involved in anything heavy, you know. But yeah, but our our thing is that, you know, we've been married for ⁓ twenty twenty hundred years. And ⁓ you know, ⁓ we're both from war zones. Danny's from the Middle East, his mom was ⁓ my mother in law Egyptian French and he grew up in Israel and I grew up in Canada. And I I ⁓ I my parents are Holocaust survivors. So there the war never ended. So my whole thing is having healed my inherited PTSD, which has been my work internationally for decades in various forms. And then Danny, you know, coming from his background and so we lead you know, workshops that that deal with different methods that we use to ⁓ mitigate our stress and to rise above and remember who we are, you know. And that's something we practice every day in addition to what we shared with you. ⁓ you know, all these different methods and so forth. And it and it it has helped us, I would say, you know, like radically, tremendously, as Danny says.
All right. Okay. So how do you do that? How do you how do you like if you were ⁓ you know beginning a conversation with somebody who was coming in and they were having challenges, navigating through some of this carried trauma that you're describing, like what is the what's the cliff notes? What's the low hanging fruit that you offer them right away?
I think that the most important thing is Franny Sheridan's belief is that wars don't happen because of hatred of the other, which I used to believe, Zach. It's because of not being in love with self. And so for me, my journey has been about learning to love myself. And many well-intentioned, usually, not always, parental figures start us off on this path when we're we, which is don't do that. Be careful, the world is a scary place. And so we get imprinted or betted or patterned, whatever want to call it. Worry and terror and you're not good enough. And who are you to th and so diminishing of the fact that we are love, we are the love we've been waiting for. So I tr try, you know, everyone has a different depending, there's no one size fits all. Everybody is in a different place according to where they're at emotionally, yada yada.
I'm worried all the time.
So I have a whole slew of different techniques and stuff to offer people based on where they're at emotionally. And some things work then and some don't. I mean, if you're feeling like crap, you don't want to, you know, ⁓ kind of get up and do the Franny dance and just find the joy and shake it off. You're gonna want to do something more subtle. One thing that Danny and I spoke about before meeting you today and being interviewed by you is how. We changed over the past six months. And for example, what we do, which might work, depending again on where that person is, ⁓ what we spoke about was affirmations. Affirmations. So
I love that.
We will, I was a different person six months ago than I am now. A little bit heavier.
Wow, okay.
In more ways than one, is I think what Danny's
I'm a little bit more hard headed, getting annoyed from everything. And we start to find out what's the cause of everything, nail them down. And we came up with our formations.
Affirmations are really working for us. Again, everyone is unique and you know, and unique snowflake.
Yeah
I love that you're making that clarification because
What we do is we hug each other very deeply every day, especially one in the morning or if she takes a nap and she gets up from there she gets a hug.
But even I'm gonna interrupt Danny a little bit, ⁓ just because and he interrupts me. So don't think we're being that's just who we are. We're interrupters. Hi, but it's Franny. It's Danny. We're interrupters. Yes, I'm It's an hour. But but but basically, like ⁓ it we do this affirmation stuff a lot during the day, not just from a nap or in the morning. Because like, I know we do it before we get in the car, we do before we get out of the car.
for a Do it before you make a phone call to the bank or the police.
Yeah, any business, but especially when we're doing something together. And we have our so what I would do with somebody is I would get to know them a little bit and know what their vulnerable points are. And in our case, for example, because Danny shared with you that he was a little bit hot-headed, so he we say, you know, first of all, we're hugging, so it's a heart hug because you know there's actual physiological shifts that happen. when it's heart to heart without getting too long over a minute. And so it really kicks in in terms of the heart connection, the brain heart coherent con coherence connection. And so in our case we say Danny says ⁓ I am bringing you peace that speaks to Danny. I am bringing you kindness and gentleness tenderness what else of
over a minute. Peace. Love.
So he's putting it not only in his mind's eye intellectually, but in his heart, and I mirror that. I say the same thing essentially. We've kind of worked on these for our own unique union and our own relationship, elationship. And so and we do this and it just brings it to the forefront because ⁓ my you know, our experience and my experience is that it really all has to do with like telling being willing to tell a different story. And all of the audiences and clients that I've worked with, where it works is when people are willing to shift their perspective or tell a different story. But what I find, Zach, is the thing that gets in the way without unbeknownst to certainly me and many of us is shame. Because people start thinking, wow, if my old story doesn't work, I could have stayed in that marriage, kept that job, not moved from that city. If I had shifted my story. And so there's a lot of self-flagellation, you know, beating up of oneself that isn't necessary. Like there's shame is so systemic in our society. It doesn't mean people shouldn't be accountable. That's not what I'm saying. But people I find are unwilling to change their story because underneath that they feel like they've wasted time. And that is never true. There's always more time. You know what I mean? Maybe not this incarnation, but you know, we're eternal as far as We're concerned anyway. Yeah.
Right on. That's fascinating. I actually love that you are highlighting that maybe this doesn't work for everybody, but it works for you. And that there's exactly part of the work is figuring out like what works for us. ⁓ but there's nothing wrong with pursuing affirmation, you know, nothing wrong with you just figure out whether or not that affirmation is gonna apply. And I think you're exactly right. People are telling themselves stories from the minute they're born, even if they're not conscious stories. ⁓ we reinforce those for the rest of our lives. I wanna ask you about something I heard yesterday, ⁓ 'cause you're from Can
Can I just add one thing about the information before you continue? I'll find out that if I stand in of the mirror and I say before we head out, what a nice road we're having, what a light traffic I'm having, what a calm traffic I'm having. Usually I will go outside and it's a road that usually a lot of traffic, it's not gonna be any traffic. So most of the information that we do before doing anything happening.
Right.
Annie, do you think that that changes the number of cars on the road or do you think it changes the way that you perceive traffic?
Con quoi ça?
Good question. I think it would proceed this number of the car that will be on the road at that moment. And it's also a, it will be less cars. would feel that it's less traffic compared to too many cars and too much traffic. So at that moment for me, it's like more flowing, more ease to drive. Yeah. Too much traffic. know, it's happy.
gonna I'm gonna hop in and say I agree and I raise it just a little sprinkle and then I'm gonna shut up so you can ask your question, which is that it depends on not just what we say, but where we're at with our frequency because everything is energy. Right. So if I'm going, for example, my case, I'm gonna get on the road and there's gonna be absolutely no traffic all the way to Miami, but I'm like in it there has to be. So I've got this aggression and this sort of Come in then I'm gonna actually attract tension. I may attract more more and but if I'm actually in a peaceful place in in a in a place of having some you know certainty, some trust, then then I will magnetize it. You know what it's it's it's
See, there was something to- You it happen already, you're not commanding it to You're seeing it happen.
Feel it. So it's the mind and the emotion working in tandem. Otherwise I can talk about anything I want.
From her, used to do affirmation about what was it that she used to see stuff before. She imagined seeing it and it's happening. Most, nine out of 10, it's happening, you know? We tried to do it with a lot of money, but that's...
Chocolate. No. We've got to let the ham sack Okay. Well we've got it with all there, we are there. All right. So let's ask let's let ⁓ Zach ask a question before the sun sets.
All right. Now I have two questions. Well, let me ask this. This is not the question I wanted to ask a couple minutes ago, but this is now the question I have, which is what do you say to people who are listening or who you are talking to, you run into and they're like, Man, all this is too woo woo for me. It's a little too esoteric. Like how do you how do you speak to those folks who are coming in with ⁓ with like skepticism about this whole ability to move energy?
For me, it might not gonna work for somebody else that's sitting next to me, but for me, it's working. So I see it as, I see that it's working for me. I believe that it's working for me. I have experience that it's working for me. I know it's working for me. I tried before and it's working for me. So for me, it's working. Now, if I speak to somebody, it's not you and somebody and I tell him exactly what to do to do the same thing, he might do it and it's not gonna work for him. It's all perspective how you see things. I see it in a way that it's happening already.
Okay, and if I can jump in and answer ⁓ so quantum physicists speak now at Yale and many of the, you know, principal univ so called principal or you know Ivy League universities about the quantum field. It absolutely is proven. They will say it without flinching. So that the this field exists, this field of energy. It's a matter of you know what do you call it the field or the darkness or energy. It is no longer woo-woo, except for people who, you know, haven't ⁓ kind of woken up to this information. It it has to do though with being able to access it and implement it. And again, it's not j an intellectual ⁓ you know exercise. It is ⁓ together with an open heart because there are actually more neurons in our heart. The the heart has a brain that has more neurons, and this is all pr this is not woo-woo. This is You know, proven stuff. It's just it it you know, the research is there and it it is being you know, it the h the next generation is going to have this knowledge and it'll be far from woo-woo. It's just that it hasn't been in the mainstream and for a number of reasons. But so, you know, it the the proof is in the pudding, but it takes ra listen, just like going to the gym. I mean, if If Pilates was gonna get me buff, you know, I would have just like, you know, ⁓ stared at my arm in the 70s and I'd be like, you know, Mrs. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Yeah. It's you have to go to what I call the spiritual spa. It has it's all about repetition and practicing because think about how long we and anyone else has, you know, been pro programming themselves or unconsciously practicing something that hasn't served self and hasn't hasn't like really allowed us. to ⁓ magnetize our our dreams, our our goals and so forth. And so yeah, God.
And I think for a lot of the people that watching us, if you have a chance to watch Dr. Jody Spencer or Esther Hicks, they are talking about this constantly. mean, all the time, nonstop. those are people that study it with the Jody Spencer have scientists that check that out.
And would used to not shake his hand. I don't know if you know his story, Zach, but he had he would, you know, he wouldn't ⁓ invite scientists to his, you know, he now sells out like this huge stadiums all over the world. He has, you know, so many different universities doing studies, San Diego University of you know, his it the stuff works, but it needs to be practiced. In his case, he has seven day retreats because You know, the empirical evidence ⁓ is ⁓ screams the loudest to people. You know, most people need to see it before they believe it. And so when he has seven day retreats, so many people are healing themselves that all of a sudden the next person and the next person gets the idea. So really, if you have the desire, do the research. Like, you know, it's it's it comes down to that.
Yeah. No, I I I get it. I I think I'm waking up more and more to the idea that there's a lot more that I don't know than that I do know. And so when I commit to what I do know, I limit myself. I limit my ⁓ capacity for growth and all of us and for influence. And so I'm I'm always interested in what else is might be out there. Let me ask you this other question that I heard yesterday, because you're from Canada and you have a broader experience than I do, but ⁓ someone shared with me, and I won't be able to quote this like precisely, but it was something like a survey. of nations or or people asking whether or not they thought their neighbor was morally good or their neighbor was morally, you know, not good. And Canadians were most inclined to say that their neighbor was morally good. They were at the top of the list. Really? And at the bottom of the list was Americans. Americans generally thought that their neighbor was not morally good. Wow. And that there was a giant range in between. And I wonder if your experience in living all over the world and coming from world zone wor war zones and being, you know, ⁓ you know, just exposed to different people. If you have a sense of how neighbors and morally good I don't know, if you have a a sense of like how that works on the planet.
That's so what an interesting question, Zach. I've never been asked that. Well, I was I thought you were gonna say you have a broader being Canadian, a broader sense, you know, broader ⁓ experience apologizing, which is true. But as far as morally good goes, ⁓ that the word moral in itself is in question in my mind because we all have different, you know, kind of definitions of what isn't or isn't moral. And yeah, mostly as long to me as female and as just a human being on planet Earth, I really ⁓ you know, don't feel like it's my business so much to determine that. If I see abuse, physical, emotion, or spiritual, to me, that's you know, nothing that's okay with me ever. I would never condone it. But other than that, I try not to kind of poke my nose in other people's business because it's so hard to determine. Yeah. Why people, you know, make a decision to do what they do and things that were determined immoral not so long ago, like women weren't allowed to vote until the sixties. you know, gay people were not treated with respect, you know, ⁓ minorities, ⁓ you know, I mean, all of this stuff. So the word moral, but it's it's such an interesting question. I I mean for us living, we live in a condo building here. You know, what gets our goat is if if if neighbors are, you know, disrespectful and super loud. We don't attract those kind of people. But in Canada, I have to say, you know, I I I never really I can't say I see it any different here or anywhere else. And I mean, culturally in certain places, maybe people are louder, like in the Middle East, but then you guys are louder in general. So then I'm more but moral is a different
I'm just asking about whether or not people move through the world trusting others or not trusting
Rusting is a different thing. How does that thrusting? Well, listen, it's such a different time in the world than you know when I grew up in Canada. ⁓ trust well, I grew up with so much terror because my parents were Holocaust survivors and we were undercover. We I was raised Catholic, and I wasn't tell allowed to tell anyone I was Jewish. So that in itself was systemically terror. You know, there's parasit. My my when I found out. This this ⁓ that we're supposed to be scared of the world, my you know, Walt Disney-esque childhood all of a sudden transformed into sepia toned, you know, grays. And so so I was kind of terrified of like Bugs Bunny, you know what I mean? Like is Bugs Bunny anti-Semitic, you know what I'm saying? So it was a different sort of a reality for me. but as so as far as trusting, once I got past. ⁓ my my childhood so to speak and i came out of the kniche closet and and i realized it was so much more than ⁓ a religion or culture it has to do with falling in love with yourself whether you're you know a Muslim Christian Jewish gay straight it has nothing to do with it and as far as trusting goes I feel that most people are good I really do I feel that The it's a really an anomaly for me if I think, that person is really kind of creepy or whatever. I can't think when I last saw that up close and personal. I'm not talking about somebody in the press or media or whatever. That's a whole other, you know, nightmare. But I really try not to get too involved with, to be honest. Because you can't do anything about that. I like to take care. Of my family, my friends, what's around me. I think people are generally so good. And we get off kilter when we haven't done our own work remembering how loved we are. Like hurt people, hurt people that all the dash is true. And so a lot of the work that, you know, I don't like to call it work, but what what Danny and I do, and and you know, again, somebody who you know, want something bite-sized is what I find is such a beautiful method, Zach, is inner child stuff. So, you know, not just ⁓ falling in love with our own inner child, but our parents' inner child because they were once little children who were innocent and came every child was, even the worst of the worst. And that's the thing. And that way we don't hold the hardheartedness in ourselves. It's the only way to let go of and and it doesn't make us naive. And it doesn't it actually what I find it does is it allows us to be more centered in our body so that if, you know, God forbid something should happen, just like in Eastern martial artists, when you're centered in your own breath and in your heart and in your mind, you can, you know, if there's a shark attack, which is not gonna happen very often, you can defend yourself from a place of. Centeredness.
I find the Canadian basically very, very polite compared to other places. So polite. So obviously when people are so polite, want, you feel like you can trust them more. Somebody that is not polite. That's my thing.
Yeah, I'm not asking a question about international relations as much as I'm asking a question about how are we like postured inside of our own bodies. And ⁓ so it's intriguing to hear about that. I I think I will, Franny, it's ⁓ it's really intriguing to hear you talk about your parents' inner child. I think I will spend time thinking about that because that is you know, we're i those of us who are traumatized by our parents, sometimes it's worth noting that they were traumatized by their parents. And they were traumatized by their parents and they were traumatized by their parents and and you know, now we have a choice as of whether we're gonna continue to traumatize our own children or not, and ⁓ and that's where that inner work comes into. When you first reached out to me, ⁓ there was you have a project that is involves humming, which I was like, That's intriguing. I don't know if I've ever even considered that that would be a thing other than what I would do in the shower. So what tell me about what this is and how how this flows, yeah.
yeah. Well, this came to me. You know, I was trying to quiet my mind. Different humming things have come to me over the years and I've used them. The humming thing came in full force maybe I don't know, two years ago when I was meditating, trying to quiet the mind. And I just started humming and I was like, What is going on? I it was obnoxious to me. And then it it kind of came and I realized it was some sort of vibration that was h happening. Through me. And so I began to, you know, research it and I found that it's ancient and indigenous and ⁓ a lot of people who have, you know, so-called dementia ⁓ hum automatically, kids with so-called ADHD or ADD or whatever hum automatically. It's a self-soothing thing, and also bizarrely, some indigenous cultures use it, not really bizarrely, but to communicate with rocks. That believe it or not, all this is done. I mean, there's some very interesting things. But humming is ancient. And so I began to explore it, ⁓ teach it in you know, teach workshops, interchild workshops and also hunting workshops, you know, ⁓ techniques and methods for you know fun stress management. So the physiological benefits are massive. Of course, it activates nitric oxide as opposed to nitrous oxide when you go to the dentist. So it's it's nitric oxide and the vagus nerve is activated, which runs basically through your whole body. They used to just think it it was kind of just in this area and it runs through your whole body. And ⁓ and so I experimented, Zach, with it to find the best way to implement it together with breath holds and the sound. And so I'll just show you it. You want me to show you super easy, quick? Yeah. So Breathing in through your daddy and I will do it together. So, and by the way, we do this inner child work together. So we can show you if there's time. If not, fine too. But anyway, so basically what we do for for humming is we often think like of a color because that's another piece of it. Color has, you know, whatever comes to mind. It's not an intellectual. So let's say, I don't know, for me right now it's gold. What what are we? Blue of the top. So we breathe in through your nose. Okay. So breathe in through and you hold it for a few counts. And then we exhale on the word home as opposed to ohm or because it has more velocity. Home. And I've experiment with that, you know, data backed, you know, with audiences and stuff. And we exhale for as long as we can. So the breath hold activates CO2 carbon dioxide, and then the That's the inhale rather when you hold it. And the exhale is nitric oxide. So we'll show you. Okay, so you go with your color. So we breathe in color through the nose. Hold it. Hold it. Hold it for three. And then we exhale as long as we can, humming on the word home. Danning is an Olympic level, huh? And so the more you do it, the longer you do it. We do that three times, three times a day, and you're golden. And if you're in the car, your hands on the steering wheel, somebody cuts you off, you get that weird phone call, whatever. It is one of the I mean, there's so many different methods that I have that are so quick and actionable and they work, but this changes the chemistry in your body immediately.
Also, it changed. If you have some bad thought that you are in a situation when you're pissed about something and keep bugging you, you do harm three times, it changes your thought. Your brain starts thinking about something else. It divert it somewhere and you start thinking about something else. It will take you away from being a bad thought.
Yeah, it died as And the blame shame game. You know, it gets you out of there. Yeah.
Yeah, go ahead and tell me a little bit about inner child work 'cause I'm ⁓ I'm intrigued by that in my own work and I bet you have a different perspective than I do.
Wow, okay. Yeah, sure. So
35 years she's doing that.
Well, I mean I started out doing this a storyteller, you know, doing solo shows internationally. And then I I basically okay, well let's just cut to the way Danny and I do it and the way that one of the exercises within her child, once we, for example, breathed in a color, and then I have a you know, I like to breathe the color around the body. So from the front of the body to like basically the wall, behind your back to the wall, the sides, I mean. So you're going into or you're accessing or you're feeling what's called the quantum field, as you know, or the the field, the darkness with eyes closed, and you let yourself float. And I find that my body will start to move because I'm connected to whatever you want to call it, source god, the big unified field in the sky, the you know, whatever. the apple pie in the sky. It doesn't matter. It's all we're all part of the love, unified field of love. And so, and then What Danny and I ⁓ I have led us to do is we then with eyes closed we imagine ourselves as that beautiful little child, little Danny, little Franny, looking up at us with the big eyes and wanting a hug. And so we can go ahead and we we hug little Franny, little Danny, and we rock them. Yes. And it's like you're integrating with that part of yourself. Yes. And you're saying
You're you're doing it with your actual body right now. Like you're
body and we say we say we love you. You are safe now. Little Danny and Big Danny. And then from there we move ahead. Okay. Sometimes we'll do it integrating our parents. So we think of Danny thinks of his father.
I try to remember my mother when she was a kid in this dress. A photograph that I have of my father when he was a kid and he was, he to give him his pants and it was too big on him. ⁓
A photograph. And I And I think of my mother as a little child and my father's a little and they were innocent kids. Everyone was little loving c kids who just wanted to be loved. And we imagine them again with eyes closed and look at them. And it's really quite a beautiful thing to do. It's you think my mom was Liesel, my dad was Bernie Dan dad's Danny's mama was Marguerite and Mama was yet ⁓ father was Yitzhak, sorry. And then and so he feels them a pig and said, We love you, little Lee's. so we really love, we because I do my belief, Franny Sheridan's belief, is they are still with us energetically and they can feel this. And so, and I I imagine, Zach, that we pick them up and we hug them and we say, We love you so much. And so we're integrating all the children. And ⁓ and so we'll stop there because there's other parts to this, but But that's really it. And it allows a heart opening. I had a client, Jeannie, who texted me yesterday who has some sort of ⁓ resentment to say the least with her mama. And she's you know, our client ⁓ in ⁓ coming on Saturday night, and she said the inner child stuff really allowed her to release some stuff and ⁓ and get feel closer. And she said it's so interesting. She's coming to do we have overnight sessions as well at our center the night before. Mother's Day. And so it it worked beautifully for her to see her mother as this innocent, loving, beautiful little child who just wanted love. And as you said, it's intergenerational. They're, you know, parent. How many years does it get passed on? You know, and I was told by two different healers who over the years came to my solo show, which was about. you know, my healing in a different way as a as a performer, as a storyteller, but came backstage and said to me, and I didn't understand it at the time, you through this work have healed ⁓ three generations in the in the future and in the past. I didn't know I thought they were woo-woo at the time. Yeah. I didn't know. But because we're all atomically connected and beyond that energetically for forever, this, you know, this impacts people across the world. Like all the work you're doing. And all of us, you know, we have a much bigger imprint, ⁓ in a in a spiritual sense, ⁓ you know, than we than we even know.
that's fascinating. And I'm so grateful that you're telling me about it and that we can expose it to other people. I have one more question before we have to shut it down, which is how do the two of you end your day?
⁓ that's a nice question. It depends. Like I am a earlier sleeper than Danny generally because I get up so early. I love getting up early.
So we're dinner here usually. We have our own food. We like organic food. So we cook our own food here.
Yes. And or we go f for di depends where we are.
world. So we we have dinner together and finishing the day.
Then we will watch something educational, Zach, usually with dinner. Yeah. like a Jodis Benz or Moomap, something like that. Right? We listen to Abraham Hicks a lot during that. So we have we're reprogramming when we're not doing our stuff, we're reprogramming or I'm writing or creating, or Danny's writing, you know, not writing, but creating and you know, his things are doing business.
job dispense. Okay.
But but ⁓ or you know, if we're out having a beautiful dinner somewhere, we'll enjoy that somewhere in the world or out here on the ocean. But then I refuse to feed myself anything except joy. I'm at that place. So I do not engage in politics. I don't I mean, I'll dip my finger in, you know what I mean? But that's it. I don't because I just find this is all so divisive. And I think people are at their heart good. And the whole, you know, manipulation of sides and division. We have people from every group, you know, coming to our different businesses and in my audience, and I love I'm a lover. I love everyone. And yeah, I will not condone abuse. But other than that, you know, please don't talk to me about it because I'm gonna make up an excuse and say that I have a very busy phone call and I am without apology. Do you know what I mean? I s I have what I call my C CO, my chief chill out officer is that. Or my chief I say my C C O and I have a meeting. I totally forgot, gotta go by and I'll get out of there. But then we will watch something funny before I go to sleep. And I don't know if you're familiar with Mike and Molly, the Netflix Netflix. ⁓ I love we love it. It's just so silly. And they're really skilled. You know, that could
I'll finish with something funny before we...
Yeah, I won't, you know, and that's it and then I'm out of there and then you know, that's us together and then I feed myself, you know, stuff before I go off to Dreamy Bysland. I love
I love it. I love it. Well, if my listeners wanna learn more about what you have going on, what's the best place to point them? Sure.
My audiobook, I'm so excited, will be out with well, the Kindle version will be out in a few weeks. And it comes with 32. A companion guide with 32, very digestible, real-time stress management. and it's not just for people who've been through trauma because, like, you know, yeah, if somebody cuts your hair wrong, how are you gonna deal with the stress? So there's a companion guide called the Post-Traumatic Joy Overload Playbook. And the book is called I Tried to Be Normal, but It was taken. And the audio book will be out, like I say, in a few months on so please look for it on ACX Amazon. but you can always find me at Franniesheridan.com. I also go live. I haven't for the past few weeks just because I've been busy, but almost every Thursday at 12 noon EST on Facebook at Franny Sheridan, and on TikTok. On Fri on Friday what time am I going live now? Nine o'clock. Nine it's a little later now, I ten o'clock or nine thirty. Nine thirty. Nine thirty. And this is EST.
I love it. I love it. Yep. East 'cause you guys are in Florida.
We're in Florida.
Very cool. Well listen, thanks so much for giving me part of your day and for ⁓ just letting me behind the curtains a little bit. It's very cool to hear you.
Horrible Zach. Your energy is so it really is. We ⁓ love you and thank you so much for having us both. Yeah, what a joy. Yeah. Have a beautiful day. Enjoy Seattle. Lots of love.
I love being
Thank you.