Dare Ah New Belief

Take 25 minutes over lunch to feed your soul!

See Katie’s bio and listen to Part 1 of Nada and Katie’s Dare Ah New Belief conversation here.

In Part 2, Nada and Katie discuss: 

1. Having a breakdown at 12 years of age
2. Discovering the inner “me” that is pure love
3. Finding your own route to your inner wisdom
4. How appreciating the little things became the Little Challenges Project
5. The genius of AmikoCards, and the beneficial research behind them

Key takeaways: 

• Making herself ill and not knowing it, sowed a seed of her not trusting herself
• It is important to look inside — not outside — of ourselves to discover what we need
• “Tricking” your mind to get to the good stuff
• Make little changes in your life; become a scientist of your own experience
• Small changes make disproportionately huge changes in your quality of life

• https://www.littlechallenges.com/dare
• https://www.littlechallenges.com/amikoaccess

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Take 25 minutes over lunch to feed your soul!

Katie Elliott is the host of Adventures in Behaviour Change podcast. She is also a successful author, artist, musician, and creator of AmikoCards. As the creative mind behind Little Challenges, Katie uses ideas, inspiration, and practical tools to help make the messy business of being human just a little bit easier.

Katie had noticed that when she started something new, it would go well for a while, and then she would fall apart. It was as if she were programmed to fail. When she had a life-changing breakdown in 2016, Katie started to teach herself how to have a happier, healthier, more productive life. Within four months, she no longer qualified for any mental health diagnosis for the first time in her adult life. She has remained well ever since.

In the first part of their conversation on Dare Ah New Belief, Nada and Katie discuss: 

1. How to make being human a little bit easier.
2. Katie’s breakdowns in her teenage years, and how it got worse as time went on.
3. Having a massive breakdown in 2016, and attempting to take her own life.
4. The inner critical voice.
5. Feeling so broken that it was even painful to breathe.

Key takeaways: 

• The more we can help one another along the way — hold out our hand and offer encouragement and a bit of friendship — the better it is.
• Spending a lot of time in our heads can often make us forget we have a body attached.
• The experience of being here is quite mysterious; we don’t often have language for or understand it.
• Grand achievements are often not the answer to how miserable we can feel on the inside.
• One of the hardest things after attempting suicide is making peace with what you have done.

• https://www.littlechallenges.com/dare
• https://www.littlechallenges.com/amikoaccess

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Take 25 minutes over lunch to feed your soul!

See Carol’s bio & inspiring video message, and listen to Part 1 of Nada and Carol’s Dare Ah New Belief conversation here.

In Part 2, Nada and Carol discuss: 

1. Tapping into our own inner creator
2. How a daily practice can help us deal with trauma
3. Carol’s response to learning she had a brain tumor
4. The ways we can move beyond the stories that hold us back

Key takeaways: 

• Purposeful practice allows us to be present
• Imperfections of handmade creations are what gives them light and life
• There is a higher life force that flows through us
• It’s possible to be grateful even in the midst of trauma
• Choose to live your moments well and you’ll end up having a great day

Be sure to listen to Extreme Self-Care – Part 1 as well!

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Take 25 minutes over lunch to feed your soul!

Carol Lowell is here to talk about the power of extreme self-care habits that bring a positive impact to every area of life. She is an artist, author, life coach, wife and mother who lives in North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Carol has written two books: a full-color, print book entitled Soul Food: A 90 day Journey of Self Discovery Building Nourishing Habits, and an ebook entitled Meditative Mandala Making. Find them both on Amazon.com!

In the first part of their conversation on Dare Ah New Belief, Nada and Carol discuss: 

1. The synchronicity of this interview happening through imperfect action
2. Building the book Soul Food: A 90 Day Journey Of Self Discovery While Building Nourishing Habits
3. When you can’t find the book you want, write it yourself
4. Some days it is really hard to find something to be grateful for
5. The power of rituals

Key takeaways: 

• The mother of invention is necessity, hence Carol wrote the book she wanted, when she wanted, to build the collective habits that feed our souls
• What can stall us from doing what we would love is thinking we don’t have enough expertise or knowledge
• Journaling, a self-care habit, gives us an opportunity to have conversations you may not have had the confidence or courage to have with others
• We can always find something to be grateful for, even in dire circumstances
• Coming from a place of gratitude always put you in a high vibration

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Take 25 minutes over lunch to feed your soul!

See Judy’s bio and listen to Part 1 of Nada and Judy’s Dare Ah New Belief conversation here.

In Part 2, Nada and Judy discuss: 

1. Feeling worse and more like a victim after coming home from the hospital 
2. What prompted Judy to stop asking “Why? Why did this happen?”
3. How the family began to heal
4. When things seem too hard to bear, yet there is always something beautiful on the other side
5. How Judy’s son, Jeffrey, is living his life now, and what brings him joy

Key takeaways: 

• God makes all of us different and we don’t all have to be happy in the same way
• Stop being a victim to what’s done, and live your life as it is
• How we feel more protected and at ease when we are with others of shared experience
• Taking care of our own needs does not take away from others, it brings more life to all
• Huge turning points can happen when someone understands what we are going through

Be sure to listen to Love Grows Through Trauma – Part 1 as well!

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Take 25 minutes over lunch to feed your soul!

Judy Jonna, who was born to immigrant parents and raised in Detroit, Michigan, is a Certified Energy Touch® Practitioner and Sound Vibration Healer with a practice near Bloomfield Township in Michigan. Judy loves helping her clients discover how the Divine within us can help us heal our own bodies, souls, and spirits.

Judy’s own journey of healing began late in her life, but once she decided to move in this direction, she never looked back and is happier than ever!  She’s now fully immersed in her passions for God, family (husband, four children, and five grandchildren), healing work, nature, and friends. 

In the first part of their conversation on Dare Ah New Belief, Nada and Judy discuss: 

1. The traumatic discovery of her 4-year-old son being stuck under a garage door
2. Judy, her husband and son spending months in the hospital to treat her son’s brain trauma
3. Judy’s son losing more and more function in his body while in the hospital
4. Going through this heart-wrenching time while carrying their 4th child in a difficult pregnancy

Key takeaways: 

• Feeling helpless, but having the wherewithal to use inner resources
• The blessings of a huge family unit to provide help and support
• After the loss of oxygen, brain cells slowly die and affect physical and mental functioning long after the initial event
• The value of forging friendships with other parents enduring trauma with their children

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Take 25 minutes over lunch to feed your soul!

Listen to Part 1 of Nada and Blair’s Dare Ah New Belief conversation here.

In Part 2, Nada and Blair discuss: 

1. What it was like to experience a full-term pregnancy after suffering a miscarriage.
2. Grieving the loss of a birth plan
3. How lack of sleep and carrying the trauma of the hospital experience and previous miscarriage caused a complete breakdown
4. The terror she felt when she had to leave her newborn son and family
5. Moving forward with her husband and making the decision to have another child

Key takeaways: 

• Our words are powerful beyond measure, and can heal or devastate
• Some seeds that get planted are just not what you want
• Being mindful of a mother and father after giving birth, because they are so open and vulnerable
• Will I be better from this experience or worse?
• The healing journey can be long….and totally worth the effort to bring about more rainbows

Be sure to listen to Postpartum Anxiety & PTSD – Part 1 as well!

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Take 25 minutes over lunch to feed your soul!

In the first part of their conversation on Dare Ah New Belief, Nada and Blair discuss: 

1. Blair’s first pregnancy, and the mental, emotional, and spiritual suffering when she learned she had miscarried at 10 weeks
2. Knowing early on that she didn’t want to be a mother … at least not yet
3. The grief and shame and blame that she carried about the miscarriage deep within
4. Therapies that helped Blair heal and continue to heal years later
5. The mental agitation Blair experienced with her first full-term pregnancy

Key takeaways: 

• Health problems occur when we don’t deal with our emotional pain
• Healing is a process, and when we love and nurture ourselves and our journey, we are led to heal
• One in four women will suffer a miscarriage
• The pain of losing a child in a miscarriage solidified Blair’s knowing she wanted to be a mother
• Fathers are deeply affected by the loss of a child through miscarriage

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Take 25 minutes over lunch to feed your soul!

In Part 2 of their conversation on Dare Ah New Belief, Nada and Daniela discuss: 

1. How Daniela found out she was adopted
2. Learning she had brothers and sisters in Romania
3. Why she has chosen to not meet them
4. Daniela’s friend, who was also adopted from Romania, is back in Romania taking care of siblings orphaned by her birth parents, as well as her biological grandparents.
5. Daniela’s first sound bath experience and why she became a sound healer.

Key takeaways: 

• The enormous blessings of being adopted into a loving and caring family
• In some instances of adoption, a person may not have any health history or background, which can create some challenges in health care.
• Daniela’s mother, Olivia Carrescia, filmed a documentary titled Diamonds In The Dark, which “tells the stories of ten Romanian women. We hear and see how they lived under the old regime, and how they are confronting the new problems of the post-communist era.”

Be sure to listen to Orphanage and Adoption – Part 1 as well!

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Take 25 minutes over lunch to feed your soul!

In the first part of their conversation on Dare Ah New Belief, Nada and Daniela discuss: 

1. Why Daniela was put up for adoption after her birth in Romania
2. How Daniela’s adoptive parents from the US were able to find her
3. Diamonds in the Dark, a documentary about Romanian women directed by Daniela’s adoptive mother
4. The significance of circles on the cheeks of infants in the hospital

Key takeaways: 

• At least one parent has to be a Romanian citizen now to adopt a Romanian child
• The enormity of cultural differences
• The lack of physical touch and care is tremendously detrimental to the developing years

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