Today Alana and Amie share thoughts and get real about how perfectionism not only is an exhausting way to live, but it can inhibit your healing journey. 

Perfectionism can be something we have had our whole life, or it can come from the onset of betrayal. Perfection around body image and making everything we do mean something about our worth and value is dangerous. 

We hope today we get you starting to think about how you can recognize this in your life and find these tools helpful to start being more aware and start practicing self compassion.

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Today Alana and Amie talk about how important hope is in the healing journey, but also how an unwise amount of hope can work against us. Learning to navigate this can greatly impact how we move forward. Often times we are putting all our hope in other people or even God to change things towards the expectations we have and this actually takes us out of our own power to act.

Our hope today in this episode is to help you determine where you might be in your ability to have hope and offer you tools and thoughts that will ultimately give you the hope you need to move forward. 

For more help in your healing journey please reach out to our team at Choose Recovery Services 

Today we are talking with a one of our awesome certified betrayal trauma coaches, Hali Roderick and Co-Owner of CHOOSE and certified life coach Luke Gordon. Triggers are a huge part of healing and also just a huge part of being human. Learning how to tame those triggers is a skill worth developing. Hali shares her thoughts and tools on how to do just that!

When the spouse who has been betrayed has these triggers, it's often frustrating and confusing to the other partner and can often cause further damage. So learning more a bout why they show up, and how they are often not because you the partner did anything at that moment,  it's just part of the healing journey. Learning to work through these will not only help you get unstuck but help you heal as a couple. 

To register for Hali's Transforming Your Triggers click HERE

For more information on recovery and healing, go to www.chooserecoveryservices.com and check out our awesome coaches

Due to the amazing feedback and growing interest for help and tools around the topic of abuse and addiction, Kimberly Day and myself have a NEW COURSE starting October 10th to help with this very thing!

Today I talk about how this course will be an amazing tools and place to start for those who are looking for help and haven't yet found it. 

To register for this course please email your name and phone number to [email protected] 

Spots Limited. Confidentiality strongly encouraged and implemented. 

*If you have missed this course or registration is full. Please email [email protected] to be put on a waitlist for the next one!

Welcome to Season 2 of the CHOose To Be Podcast with Alana Gordon and Amie Woolsey. What an amazing first season and its thanks to all of you amazing listeners for joining our conversation each week and sharing it with those around you. The number of our listeners have grown more than we had hoped for our first season and hoping to reach even more! The message of hope and healing is so important for us all to not inly feel for ourselves but important to share with others who may not have any. 

In the first episode of Season 2, Alana and Amie discuss the importance of acceptance in out healing journey. Acceptance is not approving, so we talk about the difference and show how the willingness to see things as they really are is where you can access the power to heal and move forward. 

It's important to accept the emotions we are having as well, from sadness to anger to peace, it's about being in the present moment with all of it and seeing things as they really are. When we don't we just layer the negative emotions one on top of another and that's when we feel like life it too much to handle, that's when we feel the suffering.

What about accepting your body as it is? Amie shares her journey to accepting her body and unraveling the trauma from her past and learning to accept her body as it is. Join us in this powerful episode and we hope that you too will begin to practice accepting what is in your life so that you can not only see the reality of it, but choose to change it if and when you want!

To work with one of our amazing coaches please visit our website at Chooserecoveryservices.com

This is the last episode of Amie and Kim Day's virtual lunch date and conversation around a very difficult topic. With awareness and acceptance of reality being addressed, the next step is the power of action. Now that you see what you have control over, what's your next step. You get to pick up the pieces and rebuild your house. You start with what resonates with you, what feels right and you take it one step at a time. 

As Kim and Amie mention throughout this whole series, please reach out to a professional who is experienced with this topic to help you navigate this journey. You don't have to do it alone and in many cases you can't. Please call 1800-799-SAFE if you are in immediate danger of abuse.

Amie continues her conversation with Therapist Kim Day as they discuss why it's so imperative to not only be aware of what IS REAL, but to then accept the reality of what's happening. When you can see things as they really are you put yourself in a place of empowerment, power to act. When you avoid reality and stay in denial you are stuck as a victim. Until we get to a place where we can accept the truth, it can feel very ugly and dark. Accepting what IS, moves you into truth and towards the light, hope and healing.

Join Amie and Kim's as their virtual lunch date continues.

On today's show we welcome Kim Day, LMHCA, CCPS therapist who specializes in relational abuse. For the next three weeks Kim and Amie discuss the different elements of abuse in relationships. We start the discussion today by discussing the importance of awareness. 

"I spent a lot of time studying addiction and I knew that was a component, but there was this nagging feeling like I was missing something.  And it wasn't until I read Lundy Bancroft's book, Why Does He Do That? That I started to put it in this other and make sense of this other picture that I had never seen. It just hadn't really crossed my mind that there was abuse in the relationship."

If you are experiencing abuse in your relationship please reach out to someone who is trained to help you navigate your path and healing. 

Please call 1800-799-SAFE for more information and help with abuse

This week join us as we explore thoughts and stories that keep us stuck. As we look deeper into why we create stories, which ones are helpful, and which ones imprison us, we can break free from the trauma and continue to move forward. 

If you are ready to do your own individual work, visit Chooserecoveryservices.com and check out our team to choose YOUR healing.

For more information and to register for the YSA dating program please go to Lifecoachingwithamie.com/YSA

This episode is from Amie's first webinar ever! Tune in today as she shares parts of her own journey and talks about how to move forward when you feel like you have an ocean in front of you and an attacking army behind you. 

Using the biblical story of Moses and the children of Israel's escape from bondage, she likens her own to the fear that comes from moving forward and how essential it is to notice and seek the miracles in our life.

Miracles will look different to all of us, sometimes what we think isn't ever going to be miraculous ends up being the greatest miracles of all. 

We know that everyone has a different journey, different paths and our desire is to help you move forward, however that looks. 

We at Choose Recovery are here to help you choose healing, choose recovery and choose YOU!

Book a session today by visiting Chooserecoveryservices.com

To hear more webinars and vlogs from Amie visit Lifecoachingwithamie.com