I'm excited to welcome Kaye back on the show. For all of you who like to look at him, sorry! This one had to be audio only.

We discuss cheating, dating in the modern world including technology and social media. This is a great convo and always fun to have Kaye on. We go live each Sunday at 1 pm EST, 6 pm in the UK.

You can find Kaye on Instagram at @kaye_chasr and on TikTok- @kaye_ch.

My Instagram and TikTok- @coachbrit. My website is ⁠www.anchoredcc.com⁠. Click on scheduling to book your coaching sessions. *If you would like to be a guest on the Podcast or know someone who has a great story to share, please email me at [email protected].

Join us for Part 2 on our discussion about Narcissistic relationships.

My wonderful guest, Edward Popsil. He has a BS in psychology, minor in human development from WSU, MSW from EWU. Registered and practicing hypnotherapist from 2007-2017. Mental Health Clinician, Former CASA advocate, NLP practitioner.

 “Narcissistic abuse can take many forms: physical violence, emotional manipulation, financial exploitation, sexual assault, verbal abuse or even gaslighting.” –Fahim Chughtai

If you are ready to transform your mind, heart and soul, and choose healing, please click on the link for scheduling ⁠⁠https://linktr.ee/coachbrit.

I am so happy to introduce my colleague and friend, Edward Popsil. He has a BS in psychology, minor in human development from WSU, MSW from EWU. Registered and practicing hypnotherapist from 2007-2017. Mental Health Clinician, Former CASA advocate, NLP practitioner.

This is a two-part recording discussing some important information about narcissism.

 “Narcissistic abuse can take many forms: physical violence, emotional manipulation, financial exploitation, sexual assault, verbal abuse or even gaslighting.” –Fahim Chughtai

If you are ready to transform your mind, heart and soul, and choose healing, please click on the link for scheduling ⁠⁠https://linktr.ee/coachbrit.

In this episode, Robin and I discuss what her life has been like after moving out and on from her relationship. I appreciate the rawness and vulnerability of anyone who can look within, address their own toxic traits, learn, grow, and share with us. If you haven't heard part 1, check it out!

You can find Robin on Instagram- @rpsully.

A spiritual awakening is not usually pleasant. Often it feels like confusion, frustration, anger, sadness, grief, or being “out of place. A spiritual awakening can be an intense time of personal growth. But despite how difficult it may feel, you’re not going crazy; you’re evolving."

If you are ready to transform your mind, heart and soul, your healing, please click on the link for scheduling ⁠https://linktr.ee/coachbrit.

Today's guest is Robin, my beautiful, brave friend. We discuss life, love, reflection, betrayal, growth, and her battle with Alopecia. We never get to choose how life betrays us, how people fail us, or what the universe will throw at us. While not everything that happens in life is bad, and there is much good to notice, we learn. We choose to heal, we choose to find a counselor or a coach, and we do the work. Even though life can betray us, we often betray ourselves by ignoring our intuition, being a people-pleaser, and not setting boundaries. The great news is we can always unlearn our toxic traits, choose healing, and choose how we respond to what life throws our way. The awakening within ourselves that we experience through healing is painful, messy, sad, angry, and then somewhere it starts to become helpful, empowering, and delicious. I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as we did. Thank you for listening. You can find Robin on Instagram- @rpsully.

A spiritual awakening is not usually pleasant. Often it feels like confusion, frustration, anger, sadness, grief, or being “out of place. A spiritual awakening can be an intense time of personal growth. But despite how difficult it may feel, you’re not going crazy; you’re evolving."

If you are ready to work on yourself, your healing, or even need to learn more coping skills for resiliency to handle what life may throw at you, please click on my link for scheduling https://linktr.ee/coachbrit.

I am happy to introduce my friend Annalee to discuss Narcissistic Abuse Recovery. We share a bit about our own lived experiences and share about our healing. The term narcissist is overly used in today's society. Social media has blown this word up. As discussed in this episode, below is the DSM criteria for Narcissistic Personality Disorder.

My hope is that something resonated with you as you listen. You might be a survivor of this, of other trauma's, and/or know someone who is or was in an abusive relationship. Be kind to yourself. Be kind to others. We are all going through hard times, living with trauma, grief, pain, and so on. If you'd like to follow Annalee, her Instagram and TikTok is @annaleed.wellness.

If you are ready to work on yourself, your healing, or even need to learn more coping skills for resiliency to handle what life may throw at you, please click on my link for scheduling https://linktr.ee/coachbrit.

Per the DSM, NPD includes:

A pervasive pattern of grandiosity (fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, and with lack of empathy, beginning by early adulthood, as indicated by at least five of the following:

The diagnosis of NPD as other personality disorders requires evaluation of long-term patterns of functioning. One needs to be cautious not to jump to hasty conclusions because NPD can trigger countertransference. A careful evaluation of the different aspects of a person's life and an understanding of the person's childhood development can assist in the evaluation and diagnosis of NPD. Reference- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK556001/

In today's episode, Britney talks about adoption, finding her birth parents, and how it affected her life throughout. She walks us through finding out at age 5 she was adopted, how it affected her life, and finding and meeting her birth parents. It's courageous to make a decision to give up a child you don't think you can provide a life for. It's courageous to adopt a child knowing that one day, they will have questions and want to find missing pieces. It takes so much love for everyone involved. I admire the strength it takes to choose adoption. I'm thankful for those who have the resources and ability to provide for children who need homes. What a true gift to children to have family.

Nelson Mandela: "Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear." Oliver Wendell Holmes: "Have the courage to act instead of react." Ovid: "Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body."

Thank you for listening! To schedule with me, cClick on the link today to schedule. ⁠⁠https://linktr.ee/coachbrit.

Today I get really vulnerable and talk about grief; my personal experiences as well as the process of grief. Here's a secret... there's no "right" way to grieve. That said, I do believe there are healthy ways to grieve. The way I have chosen to grieve the loss of my niece Alura, and my Pops, is to a live a life that honors them. I remember tall the things about them, happy, sad, good and even the not-so-great pieces to who they are.

For my own well-being, I choose breath work, journaling, and sometimes even need a "cry movie" to help me bringup the locked tears. My go-to movie is My Sisters Keeper.... TEAR JERKER!

To my Pops-

"That pain you feel is from the piece of your heart that your dad took with him so he'd always feel your love.

In the times when the pain is the strongest is when he holds that piece a little tighter and whispers, "I miss you too."

Thank you for listening! To schedule with me, cClick on the link today to schedule. ⁠https://linktr.ee/coachbrit.

"The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not "get over" the loss of a loved one; you'll learn to live with it. You'll learn to live with it. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. You will be whole again but you will never be the same. Nor should you be the same nor would you want to." ~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross and David Kessler, on Grief and Grieving.

This is my first solo episode! I gave a speech last November and much of this episode is inspired by that speech. The topic of that speech was- How overcoming fear and choosing courage provides a path to connection. I am so happy to share this with you in this intimate recording. I had to choose overcoming fear to even create this episode but here it goes! I have included my favorite quotes from that speech below. Are you ready to choose vulnerability, healing, connection to yourself, rediscover the parts of you that feel lost, understand your past and present, and choose courage in choosing you? Click on the link today to schedule. https://linktr.ee/coachbrit

Thank you for listening and I look forward to connecting! 

Brene Brown- "Connection is the energy that exists between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued."

Brene Brown- "Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren’t always comfortable, but they’re never weakness."

Brene Brown says- “I define connection as the energy that exists between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued; when they can give and receive without judgment; and when they derive sustenance and strength from the relationship.” “Imperfections are not inadequacies; they are reminders that we're all in this together.”

Shannon Adler says, Courage doesn’t happen when you have all the answers. It happens when you are ready to face questions you have been avoiding your whole life.

Michelle is just an gem of a woman. She is a fellow Life Coach-Transformational Life Coach for Women. She lives in Las Vegas and is an Army Veteran. She lost her son to Hunter's Syndrome and also has a daughter. She is a Case Manager in mental health by day and she is a beautiful example of resilience and turning pain into power. Her original Instagram was hacked and she is rebuilding that community. You can reach her at https://linktr.ee/Michelle.encourages.I always enjoy speaking with her. Michelle is so uplifting and no matter what, she is smiling.  

I can be reached through website is www.anchoredcc.com and my Linktree with additional links is https://linktr.ee/coachbrit. If you have a story you would like to share, or know someone with a great story, and would like to be a guest on the Podcast, please visit either link. Thank you for listening.

“Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.”

“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.”

BY MAYA ANGELOU

You may write me down in history

With your bitter, twisted lies,

You may trod me in the very dirt

But still, like dust, I'll rise.

Does my sassiness upset you?

Why are you beset with gloom?

’Cause I walk like I've got oil wells

Pumping in my living room.

Just like moons and like suns,

With the certainty of tides,

Just like hopes springing high,

Still I'll rise.

Did you want to see me broken?

Bowed head and lowered eyes?

Shoulders falling down like teardrops,

Weakened by my soulful cries?

Does my haughtiness offend you?

Don't you take it awful hard

’Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines

Diggin’ in my own backyard.

You may shoot me with your words,

You may cut me with your eyes,

You may kill me with your hatefulness,

But still, like air, I’ll rise.

Does my sexiness upset you?

Does it come as a surprise

That I dance like I've got diamonds

At the meeting of my thighs?

Out of the huts of history’s shame

I rise

Up from a past that’s rooted in pain

I rise

I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,

Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.

Leaving behind nights of terror and fear

I rise

Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear

I rise

Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,

I am the dream and the hope of the slave.

I rise

I rise

I rise.