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In this week’s Safe Home Podcast, Beth talks with Leela Davis. She is a neurodivergent who combines her lived experience self-healing her Bipolar 1 and CPTSD symptoms and managing ADHD symptoms with training in the healing modalities that she found the most powerful in her own healing journey.  She is certified: as a Holistic Health Coach, in Somatic Attachment Therapy, as a Yoga of Sound and Vinyasa Instructor, in Astrology and Human Design, and has spent decades as a multi-passionate creative finding healing in the process of art-making-performing. Her mission is to mentor and support folks with emotional and mental health challenges or diagnoses and live a meaningful and beautiful life beyond the limitations ascribed to certain diagnoses.  Her vision is a world where all medical and healing practitioners will learn to heal by addressing the roots of symptoms rather than covering up the symptoms.

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RESOURCES:

Leela’s information:

• Website: LeelaDavis.com
• Instagram: @mypeaceofsanity
• Podcast with Jude Gorini: What I Didn't Tell My Therapist - on all major podcast platforms
• Podcast instagram: @whatIdidnttellmytherapist

Other resources mentioned in this episode:

• An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness by Kay Redfield Jamison: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00W8JX3KK/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
• Beth’s episode on What I Didn’t Tell My Therapist: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/season-2-episode-14-healing-addictions-as-a/id1473447399?i=1000568510708

Other Resources:

• Other Parents Like Me -  https://www.facebook.com/other.parents.like.me
• Heather Ross - Life Coaching for Parents of Addicted Teens: https://heatherrosscoaching.com/
• Find a Tele-Therapist: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/online-counseling

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Music written and performed by Joseph Nakao

Cover art by Joseph Nakao, photo by Beth Syverson

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TIME STAMPS:

2:34 What is the difference between Bipolar I, Bipolar II, and depression?

5:35 Leela’s diagnosis at age 37

7:44 Childhood trauma and genetic predisposition to mental illness

10:41 Did Leela’s Bipolar diagnosis help or make things worse?

12:40 Leela’s Bipolar medication hijacked her body and mind

21:21 How Leela found healing without meds

24:55 Meditation and yoga are key tools, incl. Yoga of sound

28:55 How Leela evaluates medication and substances now

31:15 What does Creative Wellness coaching look like?

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