Trust Your Truth: Heal Self-Doubt, Awaken to Your Soul's Purpose, and Live Your Badass Life (A Guide to the Chakras) Paperback – March 1, 2021

This is such an informative, enlightening read! With powerful encouragement and gentle humor, Shannon shares instructive wisdom on how to trust your truth instead of the people-pleasing “shoulds.” He offers numerous tools for taking our power back by grounding ourselves in the unshakable peace within. I know I feel tremendous relief when I remember nothing outside of me has to change for me to experience peace!Throughout the book, Shannon shares insightful nuggets from his yoga expertise in a highly digestible way. There are excellent educational descriptions of each chakra at the beginning of each chapter that can be referenced and referred back to quickly. The chapters flow beautifully into each other, connecting each energy center to the next. Shannon also has guided meditations for each chakra available online, allowing you to connect with his intent on a deeper level.Shannon has a way of making lofty concepts relatable and very easy to understand. For example, on the importance of being present: “When you’re stuck playing an old tape of the past or playing out some future outcome, your power is leaking to the past and to the future, and your attention becomes diluted.” And another, on what A Course in Miracles calls the “one problem,” which is our perceived separation from God: “The ultimate cause of our suffering is our denial of connection to Source.” So succinctly put!Be sure to grab a notebook/journal to answer the self-inquiry questions prompted throughout. Realize that your truthful answers, no matter how messy or shameful you think they are, are the key to your release, and have the power to reveal the blocks to the awareness of your divine perfection. By writing down the thoughts behind our fear and pain, we often can then “see the ridiculousness and the holes in our logic.”Shannon provides strong support for us to acknowledge and have the courage to look at our trigger areas with love, knowing that whatever comes up is coming up to be healed. He shows us how to have a warm sense of gratitude when we are triggered, instead of feeding the reaction with more negativity by feeling bad, denying/ignoring, being ashamed or beating ourselves up.For example, Shannon included a very illuminating story of his own experience with rage. I too experience waves of stormy fury with the sweet kitty pictured in my review photo. She has inflammatory bowel disease, and to her disappointment, she can only eat certain foods or she gets horrific diarrhea. The food restrictions make her beg throughout the day and night, pleading for food other than the healthy stuff in her bowl. Her incessant meows can be like nails on a chalkboard. Sometimes they hit me at just the wrong time and I’ll scream at her with the same madness Shannon described, “burning with the fire of a thousand suns.” Immediately after this happens, I feel overwhelmed with shame, embarrassment, and astonishment of the intense emotion that just overtook me. I meditate regularly and have asked for guidance on this issue, but Shannon’s book made me realize that I need to take a closer look and dig a little deeper. As he explains, “When you see rage within yourself for what it is- a deep and desperate outcry for help, attention, love and care- you can begin to parent yourself and wield this fire in ways that are nonharmful to yourself and those around you.” Thank you Shannon, for the reminder that this reaction keeps coming up to be healed, and for the gentle guidance on how to heal it.[ Side note: Ironically, I didn’t stage the pic of my cat and the book- I returned to the couch and found her leaning into it. I think she was trying to tell me in her own way, “Please do the work so Satan doesn’t yell at me anymore!” ]I am so thankful that I discovered Shannon through his SoulFeed podcast years ago. I can honestly say that several podcast episodes have led me to make many beneficial life-changing decisions. Trust Your Truth showcases so much wisdom that Shannon has gained through years of insightful interviews, life coaching, teaching yoga, and meditation. This book is a truly helpful reminder that we are all connected and “supported beyond our ability to comprehend.” I know I will be gifting it to friends and keeping it at close range for motivation and encouragement (the 6 power-packed pages of Chapter 8 NEED to be a part of my morning routine!!). Let’s embrace our power together soul warriors- cheers to healing and waking up to truth!

I am a counselor and read more books in this genre than the average bear I’d say, and this held my strict attention all the way through and I kept a exclaiming yes Thats it exactly. Well written, clean, clear and well read by the author on audible. Exercises and writing prompts were To the point and effective. I have been working with energy of my chakras for many years and appreciated how he applied it in this very focused way. I rarely get this excited about a book like this. I feel like this should be required reading for every high school senior, not because it will all be accessible but because it is solid truthful guidance that will unfold in accessibility over time. Solid tools to follow ones own inner truth/self and the scaffolding for them to land, that is not always culturally readily accessible, at least in my experience. When growing up with dysfunctional family system and childhood trauma it can be challenging to find ones way back to self trust, that is the key. As more and more people are waking to the impact of trauma/s on this body, this book is right on time. See what happens when humans do the work to heal and stay in flow? This book makes me hopeful and even a little excited. There is no life manual, well no, id probably reject it if there was but well a person cannot go wrong with this one, if it appeals or speaks to you, you will not be disappointed. It is very well done. Shannon nailed it.

Trust your Truth is like sitting down for tea with a friend you’ve known for years. Shannon shares down to earth tools that make the process of working towards healing self doubt.This is a guidebook to embodiment. Starting with the root chakra we go inward on a journey to rediscovering the energy body. Trust your truth is a brilliantly succinct guidebook for inspiration. At the end of each chapter there are tools like meditation movement practices and writing prompts to dig deeper into self discovery from a space of unconditional self love.Shannon is a treasure. This book is fantastic.

This book helped to bring me back to myself. It is rooted in ancient wisdom but with a current lens. I will be referring to it often and will be gifting this book to many loved ones. It really has me listening to myself in new ways as I deepen my understanding of how my body responds to the world. I'm definitely adding Shannon Algeo to my shelf of modern sages like Gilbert, Brown, and Chopra!

What a masterpiece! Learn how to begin the challenging and exciting journey inward. This isn’t “just another book”.... this is a bible, an invaluable guide, a friend to return to over and over again. Thank you Shannon Algeo for this incredible contribution to healing self- doubt. Amazing. It’s a must read.

I couldn’t put the book down. It definitely taught me things

This book will challenge you to slow down and dig deep into what is most important to you in life. A much needed reset especially in 2021! Shannon is a true confidence builder and will have you feeling more connected to your mind, body, and spirit!

A quick read packed with power. Truly one of the best books on learning to trust yourself I've ever read.

By far my favourite spiritual healing book, I own quite a few self healing books & this one is by far my favourite read. It is a very intimate read where the author shares his personal life lessons & tells of the practices he used to gain clarity and find his purpose. The story telling, thought provoking questions & invaluable practices, all combined ensure you literally cannot put this book down. The flow of each chapter help make this an “easy read”. If you are on the a your personal journey of enlightenment, then this is definitely the moon you should read!

Nice book.Didn’t expect the main structure of the chapters to be going through each chakra individually.Language was nice and playful and friendly but it did get a little annoying to read “bad-ass” so repetitively! ☺️Nice uplifting book. Read once and gave to charity as didn’t feel a keeper.Wouldn’t buy again but appreciate having read it.