Are You Improving or Declining?🪬🖤Are You Improving or Declining?🪬🖤
Life's Spice Podcast
Shay talks about the question, “Am I improving or declining?” and links it to self-worth, boundaries and spiritual growth. She also shares direct, practical encouragement for people in addiction recovery who are learning to take life one moment at a time.
1:15:11•5 Sept 2026
Are You Improving or Declining? Taking Your Power Back One Moment at a Time
Episode Overview
- Ask yourself regularly, “Am I improving or am I declining?” in your habits, mindset and relationships.
- Stop staying in rooms, jobs and relationships that don’t support or respect you, even if they feel familiar.
- Acknowledge negative emotions, then consciously shift into gratitude to change your emotional state.
- For addiction recovery, break time down into whatever you can manage – even a few seconds at a time – instead of chasing perfection.
- Putting yourself first isn’t selfish; filling your own cup allows any overflow to genuinely support others.
“You are not your addiction. You are worthy of change, and if one day at a time is too much, take it one moment at a time.”
What drives someone to seek a life that actually feels good on the inside, not just polished on the outside? Life’s Spice Podcast host Shay (also known as Nashā) brings that question front and centre by asking a simple but uncomfortable check-in: **“Am I improving or am I declining?”** Aimed at anyone feeling stuck, drained or lost – including those in addiction recovery – this episode leans heavily into self-development, self-responsibility and spiritual awareness.
Shay shares how she once felt on a lifelong decline, chasing worth through money, productivity and other people’s approval, and how that mindset kept her feeling powerless and unworthy. You’ll hear her challenge the habit of staying in toxic relationships, unsupportive families, draining jobs and codependent dynamics. She repeats one hard truth: *every time you abandon yourself, you give away your power*.
For people in recovery, she offers gentle but direct guidance – from taking sobriety **“one moment at a time”** (or even 11 seconds at a time, as she did in treatment and while locked up) to choosing gratitude over a downward spiral of self-pity. The style is raw, funny, spiritual and a bit ranty in the best way.
Shay talks about law of attraction, low versus high vibration, and why victim mentality keeps you stuck, while still reminding you that feeling negative emotions is human – the key is to acknowledge them and then shift them. She also widens the lens, touching on safety, trafficking fears, community care and becoming more self-sufficient, all tied back to the idea of reclaiming personal power. Anyone working on sobriety, self-love or breaking family patterns will find plenty to chew on here.
The real question she leaves you with is simple: are you finally ready to stop letting yourself down and start showing up for the person in the mirror?
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