Thank you so much for tuning in and taking the time to keep the oxygen mask on you.

I’ve been sober for twenty years. I’ve struggled with anxiety and depression. I took antidepressants for almost two decades. 

I was told that I needed meds to balance my brain chemistry. I was told that the “dose that got me well, would keep me well.” 

I was told that I had a progressive mental illness that was TREATMENT resistant. But sixteen years later, parked on a multi-med cocktail, I was numb and completely disconnected from the real me and I didn’t even know it. The medications were suppressing symptoms of trauma and once I was off them, I learned the drugs were never designed to heal trauma in the first place. 

That’s why I am creating the Real Joy Recovery podcast--because it’s time to have a REAL-conversations about generating mental wellness and we just cannot get there without addressing trauma.

We are complex, dynamic human BEINGS. Our brains, our nervous systems, and all of the systems in our bodies are interconnected.

It’s time for us to take our power back, listen to the wisdom of our bodies, heal our trauma, and truly connect with ourselves and one another like never before.

This podcast is designed to help you understand what that means for YOU. And I promise you this—You are not broken.

I’m on a mission to connect you to the TRUTH of what is possible!

Thanks so much for tuning in today and I can’t wait for you to dive into the next episode. 

We live in a fast-paced, performance based, quick fix, biohacking, get shit done, get to good, sleep when you die kind of culture.

We’re dealing with a pandemic, cancel culture, prejudices, polarization, isolation, exponential increases in anxiety, depression and we’re freaking tired, stressed out, and overwhelmed but instead of resting and having compassion for each other we’re medicating, numbing, dissociating and feeling shame for not being positive all the time or living a life that matches what we see on social media.

Mainstream doctors, therapists, and psychiatrists treat symptoms and assign diagnostic codes so insurance companies can be billed and then hand pills out like candy, increasing the dose every time we feel the shit we’d rather not feel instead of saying “yes, it makes sense that you’re tired, overwhelmed, not sleeping, have a foggy brain…”

We must stop reducing people down to labels based on a cluster of symptoms and start getting curious about the whole person—mind/body/spirit—in the context of their whole life.