Becoming Parents Podcast

My parents used 2 different contraceptives to avoid having a 7th child, I came anyway, lol! I am what is called a divine birth. From the final push from my mother's womb into this world, I never felt like I belonged. I am the black sheep in my family and the outcast in the world, I never fit in despite attempting to give up my identity to try to.    I became aware that I was "different" when I was 5 years old because I began to tap into having the access to other's people's feelings and thoughts that surrounded emotional pain and trauma.  

I was a very wise soul and knew that I should not share these abilities for fear of not being believed and also possibly being sent somewhere far from my family.  I learned how to disconnect from not only my feelings but those around me.  At the age of 7, my father abandoned me and my 6 sisters and never looked back.   We suffered severely emotionally and financially and because of this, I developed a father wound that followed me into my relationships with men, myself, and money.  My life later would magnetize events, soul lessons, that had I been consciously aware of their purpose, I would have known they were there to help heal me and clear my soul. However, I did not have that awareness and continued to experience great depths of pain and trauma for nearly 40 years until I hit rock bottom and awakened.  

At the age of 47, I was left with, doing what I had helped and guided others to do in my 18-year career in social work, examine their lives, look for patterns and face the pain.  My journey towards healing led me to examine family karma and the DNA of emotional pain along with my being a Black Indian woman and my ancestry surrounding having the blood of 2 distinct cultures, Native American and Nigerian and also finally understanding the spiritual gifts that I once ran from.  Not only did I arrive at my healing with God's grace and guidance but I discovered that my healing activated fulfilling an ancient soul contract linked to my great-great grandmother Lucinda Starflower 1872-1892 who was a Shaman but had died at the age of 20 years old.  

Through my mother Rose the matriarch and storyteller of our family, I leaned in and listened again to the stories that I grew up on but this time with eagerness and attention.  It has been 6 years since my healing using the channeled messages from my ancestors that were sent to me, today I proudly step forth to use all my personal and professional experiences along with my education and gifts to guide and empower women towards using all of who they are to bring their light in serving the world in a unique way!   

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Lisa Coaching - Lisa takes me through a Loving Myself Awake session, we go over tantric sacred loving, movement, sound, breathing, and embracing sensuality.  Lisa is an Elite Certified Tantra Educator and Resident Dakini with Source School of Tantra Yoga, Certified Spiritual Sexual Educator, International Best-Selling Author, Reiki Master Teacher, Shaman, Certified HoopDance Instructor, Certified AFAA Fitness Instructor, and founder of Tantra Sacred Loving and Embark Upon A Sacred Journey.  

Lisa leads monthly Puja ceremonies in Reno, facilitates workshops, leads International Tantra Adventure Tours, and offers private sessions for men, women, and couples who wish to further explore this modality of spiritual sexuality.  

Other credentials: International Best-Selling Author, BS Elementary Education, completed coursework for MA Anthropology, Polarity Therapy, Energy Medicine, Reiki Master, Shaman, HoopDance Instructor, and Certified AFAA group fitness instructor.  

FIND HER HERE: http://tantrasacredloving.com/

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Lisa Coaching - Lisa takes me through a Loving Myself Awake session, we go over tantric sacred loving, movement, sound, breathing, and embracing sensuality.  Lisa is an Elite Certified Tantra Educator and Resident Dakini with Source School of Tantra Yoga, Certified Spiritual Sexual Educator, International Best-Selling Author, Reiki Master Teacher, Shaman, Certified HoopDance Instructor, Certified AFAA Fitness Instructor, and founder of Tantra Sacred Loving and Embark Upon A Sacred Journey.  

Lisa leads monthly Puja ceremonies in Reno, facilitates workshops, leads International Tantra Adventure Tours, and offers private sessions for men, women, and couples who wish to further explore this modality of spiritual sexuality.  

Other credentials: International Best-Selling Author, BS Elementary Education, completed coursework for MA Anthropology, Polarity Therapy, Energy Medicine, Reiki Master, Shaman, HoopDance Instructor, and Certified AFAA group fitness instructor.  

FIND HER HERE: http://tantrasacredloving.com/

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Laura Staley: A mom with a borderline personality disorder, Laura endured physical, emotional, and sexual traumas growing up, but with therapy and gifted body healers and teaching people Feng Shui in your life.  

I grew up with many tortured soul adults including my mother who suffered from undiagnosed Borderline Personality Disorder (think Mommie Dearest or August Osage County-movies). I happened to be the one split "all bad." by my mother. I endured physical, emotional, and sexual traumas (the sexual ones that happened outside of my parent's home) that continued into my adulthood.  During graduate school, I finally broke my silence with the first of many therapists/gifted body healers. I continued my multi-dimensional healing journey by reading gobs of books by Wayne Dyer, Louise Hay, Esther Hicks, Eckhart Tolle,  and so many others, attending transformational trainings, joining a yoga class for a decade, breaking free from my family of origin, practicing gratitude, practicing and sharing feng shui, creating Cherish Your World, writing, running, swimming, biking, dancing, ending my second marriage, taking actions to save the life of my teen son, loving both my son and daughter and finally moving to Black Mountain, NC in June of 2018.   

In the mountains, I continue to experience deep safety, exceptional love with a man I met when we were in Ohio, and discovering a richer, multi-dimensional, freer voice in my writing of essays, poetry, and in my body as I learn to belly dance! The self-discovery journey continues to be rich with blessings. I have created a beautiful relationship with my Inner Fly on the Wall that seems to have grown to spider size-like Charlotte from the children's book, Charlotte's Web. I embrace with tenderness, deep compassion all my inner children and teenagers. I regularly listen from a deep well of quiet,  love, and grace.   

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Laura Staley: A mom with a borderline personality disorder, Laura endured physical, emotional, and sexual traumas growing up, but with therapy and gifted body healers and teaching people Feng Shui in your life.  

I grew up with many tortured soul adults including my mother who suffered from undiagnosed Borderline Personality Disorder (think Mommie Dearest or August Osage County-movies). I happened to be the one split "all bad." by my mother. I endured physical, emotional, and sexual traumas (the sexual ones that happened outside of my parent's home) that continued into my adulthood.  During graduate school, I finally broke my silence with the first of many therapists/gifted body healers. I continued my multi-dimensional healing journey by reading gobs of books by Wayne Dyer, Louise Hay, Esther Hicks, Eckhart Tolle,  and so many others, attending transformational trainings, joining a yoga class for a decade, breaking free from my family of origin, practicing gratitude, practicing and sharing feng shui, creating Cherish Your World, writing, running, swimming, biking, dancing, ending my second marriage, taking actions to save the life of my teen son, loving both my son and daughter and finally moving to Black Mountain, NC in June of 2018.   

In the mountains, I continue to experience deep safety, exceptional love with a man I met when we were in Ohio, and discovering a richer, multi-dimensional, freer voice in my writing of essays, poetry, and in my body as I learn to belly dance! The self-discovery journey continues to be rich with blessings. I have created a beautiful relationship with my Inner Fly on the Wall that seems to have grown to spider size-like Charlotte from the children's book, Charlotte's Web. I embrace with tenderness, deep compassion all my inner children and teenagers. I regularly listen from a deep well of quiet,  love, and grace.   

FIND HER HERE:

He discusses what it was like growing up with a dad who was a bank robber, knowing his dad tried to murder his Mom, going to school under an assumed name, marrying his love of and becoming a long-haul truck driver including on the worlds longest ice road where he wrote some of his best-selling books in his mind 

While I am in a pretty good place, I do look back on a childhood where my father was a wanted bank robber, and both my brother and I had to attend school under an assumed name. Sanity ensued when my mother sent us kids to go stay with an aunt and uncle while she tried to forge a new future with a new man who would step in as stepfather. My father's reaction to this was to kidnap my mother and her boyfriend with the intention of killing them. This was interrupted by a police takedown that would result in a 10-year conviction for armed robbery. With my father incarcerated, my mom moved across the country to a new life and sent for us kids. 

We grew up with little. By the time I decided I wanted to get a degree in writing there was no money or support available. Alternately, I met a young woman, at the age of 18. That changed my course and focus. Having a little boy, I decided I need a career, so I enlisted in the military and worked on writing as a sideline. 

I served 12 years in the military, was medically released after enduring three leg operations, and went through a pretty rough transition from soldier to civilian. By this time I was a husband and father of three boys. My wife and I did the best we could, and eventually, I signed up to get my transport truck license. I trucked all over Canada and the USA. All the while I began work on finishing my first novel. Much of written on the steering wheel of a transport truck. 

I published my horror novel, The Equinox, independently in 2012 and had no plan of writing another, until I was invited to run the world's longest ice road. I went from Long Haul to Ice Road Trucker. In Canada's Northwest Territories, between February and April, thousands of trucks drive over giant frozen lakes to resupply diamonds mines just below the Arctic Circle. These much-needed supplies have to carry them for the year. As I drove this majestic landscape, the cracking and popping ice beneath my wheels, I was mesmerized by a night sky painted with twisting curtains of the northern lights. The ice glistened lit the way in brilliant hues of green and red and even blue. Across this 18 hour trek. wold packs ran alongside me. Wolverines watched in wait and ravens ruled the track. All the while I was pumping that first novel with fellow ice road trucker, while I found my inspiration for my second novel, Acadia Event. I published that the next year, also independent, and then I got down to work on my third book, Highwayman. Highwayman is about a serial killer with one ambition. To be the most infamous killer of all time. This fictional story was born out of three years of research and the story spans two books. Highwayman and FOUR. Both were picked up by WildBlue Press and as an added bonus, they also asked for my two independent novels. 

So here I am, 55 years old, having written four books and a fifth in progress, I can say that I am an author. I don't know how long I will keep writing, likely until the well runs dry or life winds down. But here we are. 

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He discusses what it was like growing up with a dad who was a bank robber, knowing his dad tried to murder his Mom, going to school under an assumed name, marrying his love of and becoming a long-haul truck driver including on the worlds longest ice road where he wrote some of his best-selling books in his mind 

While I am in a pretty good place, I do look back on a childhood where my father was a wanted bank robber, and both my brother and I had to attend school under an assumed name. Sanity ensued when my mother sent us kids to go stay with an aunt and uncle while she tried to forge a new future with a new man who would step in as stepfather. My father's reaction to this was to kidnap my mother and her boyfriend with the intention of killing them. This was interrupted by a police takedown that would result in a 10-year conviction for armed robbery. With my father incarcerated, my mom moved across the country to a new life and sent for us kids. 

We grew up with little. By the time I decided I wanted to get a degree in writing there was no money or support available. Alternately, I met a young woman, at the age of 18. That changed my course and focus. Having a little boy, I decided I need a career, so I enlisted in the military and worked on writing as a sideline. 

I served 12 years in the military, was medically released after enduring three leg operations, and went through a pretty rough transition from soldier to civilian. By this time I was a husband and father of three boys. My wife and I did the best we could, and eventually, I signed up to get my transport truck license. I trucked all over Canada and the USA. All the while I began work on finishing my first novel. Much of written on the steering wheel of a transport truck. 

I published my horror novel, The Equinox, independently in 2012 and had no plan of writing another, until I was invited to run the world's longest ice road. I went from Long Haul to Ice Road Trucker. In Canada's Northwest Territories, between February and April, thousands of trucks drive over giant frozen lakes to resupply diamonds mines just below the Arctic Circle. These much-needed supplies have to carry them for the year. As I drove this majestic landscape, the cracking and popping ice beneath my wheels, I was mesmerized by a night sky painted with twisting curtains of the northern lights. The ice glistened lit the way in brilliant hues of green and red and even blue. Across this 18 hour trek. wold packs ran alongside me. Wolverines watched in wait and ravens ruled the track. All the while I was pumping that first novel with fellow ice road trucker, while I found my inspiration for my second novel, Acadia Event. I published that the next year, also independent, and then I got down to work on my third book, Highwayman. Highwayman is about a serial killer with one ambition. To be the most infamous killer of all time. This fictional story was born out of three years of research and the story spans two books. Highwayman and FOUR. Both were picked up by WildBlue Press and as an added bonus, they also asked for my two independent novels. 

So here I am, 55 years old, having written four books and a fifth in progress, I can say that I am an author. I don't know how long I will keep writing, likely until the well runs dry or life winds down. But here we are. 

FIND MJ HERE:

Raised with fear and anxiety, her parents divorce and her dads suicide at the age of 10, to building a 6 figure private practice,  authoring 2 books, launching a podcast, and leading woman’s retreats.  I have overcome all the fears and anxieties that used to define me and hold me back. I married and then divorced my high school sweetheart and have built a beautiful and authentic life for myself. In the past 5 years, I've grown a 6-figure private practice, authored 2 books, launched a podcast, lead women's retreats, not to mention am raising my two teenage daughters on my own, and have found my love and recently got engaged. 

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Sonya Siglar Coaching - A lawyer and executive coach, she takes me through clarity, my top skills, exchanging tasks and time, solving problems, and mindset changes to help my business growL  Welcome to PractiGal Consulting and Consulting. 

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Raised with fear and anxiety, her parents divorce and her dads suicide at the age of 10, to building a 6 figure private practice,  authoring 2 books, launching a podcast, and leading woman’s retreats.  I have overcome all the fears and anxieties that used to define me and hold me back. I married and then divorced my high school sweetheart and have built a beautiful and authentic life for myself. In the past 5 years, I've grown a 6-figure private practice, authored 2 books, launched a podcast, lead women's retreats, not to mention am raising my two teenage daughters on my own, and have found my love and recently got engaged. 

 www.joreerose.com www.mindfulnessandtherapycenter.com