Dream to Rise

The scriptures teach, “Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you” (Matthew 7:7). When you turn to God, He promises to answer your prayers—but sometimes it can be hard to recognize His voice.

Sometimes God doesn’t seem to answer prayers right away—or at all. Does that mean He doesn’t care or that He’s not listening? No. Sometimes, God waits to answer our prayers because He trusts us to make the right decision. Other times, God requires us to patiently wait for an answer so we can build our faith and trust in Him. And on some occasions, God gives us answers but they may not be what we’d hoped for. Whatever the answer, take comfort in the fact that God always listens when you pray, and He will give you the right guidance at the right time.

Our prayers may seem to go unanswered because God is keeping us from something that isn’t best. He may answer prayer with a “Yes,” “No” or “Wait.” That might not be what we want to hear, but we see only part of the picture where God sees all of it.

Our guest, Heather Jefferson, is a writer, blogger and photographer with a passion for faith and creativity.  She believes that any gift is useless if she can’t use it to serve others in some way.  Her dream is to use the difficult and traumatic experiences she’s gone through to inspire and teach others how to find the blessings in their own trials and difficulties.

But how did she discover God’s plan for her?  Let us listen to Heather and she will reveal to us how God communicated to her.

Have you experienced trauma in your life?  How did this impact you?  Your relationships?  Your performance?

Trauma is your emotional response to an experience that makes you feel threatened, afraid, and powerless.

A traumatic event could involve a car crash. But traumatic events can also be complex, or ongoing and repeated over time, like abuse or neglect.

Since threats can involve physical or psychological harm, trauma doesn’t always leave you with visible injuries. But it can still linger long-term as this brings back memories.

Trauma can challenge your ideas of how the world works and who you are as a person. This disruption can have a ripple effect on all corners of your life, from your plans for the future to your physical health and relationship with your own body.

Healing from such a profound change often takes a long time, and trauma recovery isn’t always pretty, or linear. Your journey may involve obstacles, detours, and delays, along with setbacks and lost ground. You may have no idea where you’re going or how to get there — but that’s OK.

Let us listen to Melanie Starr, who is an empowerment coach and trauma transformation practitioner whose perspective is rooted in both science and spirituality. She has been a consultant and writer in the medical field for more than 25 years, while pursuing her own deep healing from trauma through yoga, energy therapy and many other practices that engage the body, breath, heart, mind and soul in the vital work of personal development.

Melanie is a long-time yoga teacher, certified Master Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) practitioner, Reiki Master-Teacher, and certified practitioner of Integrated Energy Therapy® and Soul Realignment®. She weaves all of these modalities as well as somatic healing techniques into her woman-centered coaching, to help women heal trauma, release fear and shame, build resiliency and claim emotional freedom. Melanie is the founder of EmpowerYourPotential.ca, as well as Midlife Divorce Transformation, an online support and education group for women going through or seeking to recover from the end of a long-term marriage.

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When we help others, we can feel good about ourselves and our contributions to society. However, if we help too much or too often, we can become emotionally drained and overwhelmed. This can lead to burnout, which is a state of emotional, physical, and mental exhaustion caused by excessive and prolonged stress. It occurs when you feel overwhelmed, emotionally drained, and unable to meet constant demands.

When you absorb other people’s emotions and moods, you may feel more connected to those around you, which can be a powerful experience. However, your ability to attune may also be like a sponge: You end up inadvertently cleaning up the mess.

This was the case of our guest, Erin Luong, is a Mental Health Literacy Specialist and School Counsellor from Calgary, Alberta, Canada. She is also the founder of WingsOut.ca, a community for healing and growth.

Erin experienced so much exhaustion, as she was absorbing the problems of her clients. This impacted her health and well-being, her relationship with her children and her performance.  What action steps did she take to overcome this?

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Parenting is hard no matter how you slice it. You’re responsible for raising, shaping, and disciplining a small human. The stakes are high, and

You want your child to be healthy, safe, and successful — so it’s no wonder that you may find yourself helping a little too much or stepping in to save the day anytime something goes slightly awry.

But that incessant “helicoptering” could be hindering your kid’s growth and development. Overprotective parents mean well, but they often do more harm than good in the pursuit of perfection.

So how can you identify whether you’re an overprotective parent? What are the potential consequences? And, most importantly, how can you stop the inadvertent smothering now rather than later?

Here’s what you need to know as we listen to Alison Lines, who had amazing parents who’s always there for her.  However, it impacted how she dealt with difficult situations, decision-making, and overcoming so many fears.

But as she goes through her journey, with her ups and downs, this made her discover so much wisdom and now living her dream.

She’s an inspiring entrepreneur, empowerment coach and Image consultant. Her vision is to empower women to become the very best version of themselves by combining the unique qualities of coaching and styling. Helping women to work through their past patterns, beliefs, and traumas to become who they are meant to be and by creating their own individual style through the process. Thus, embodying the true essence of who they are. She truly believes that style is not just what you wear, but who you are. Because when you feel good on the inside, you look good on the outside and vice versa.

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“Why do I keep doing this?”

“How does this keep happening to me?”

You might ask yourself these questions when you feel trapped in patterns that create problems in your life and keep you from achieving your goals. Although you try to make changes and disrupt these patterns, somehow you end up in the same place, again and again.

If this sounds familiar, you could be sabotaging yourself.

This is what many people do: They stop before they even start, or they start something new and don’t continue to follow through, and this is because of our “emotional glue.” What’s emotional glue? Unresolved issues “buried” in us; it’s where our energy patterning is frozen in time, and it’s from where we’re filtering and dictating our lives. 

Let us listen to Katie Tschida, a military veteran, who was sabotaging herself because she’s not sure whether she’ll make it at the Army even though she did farm work.

Here's Katie.

Have you experienced fear in your life?  How did this impact your health and well-being?  Your relationships?  Your performance?  Are you happy?  Do you feel you are always in the dark?  Why?

Fear is something that can paralyze a person. However, anyone can learn how to deal with their fears. The main problem that people face when it comes to their fears is that they want to cling to the fear because it has become a part of who they are. If you are not ready to face your fear, you are not going to be able to get over them quite yet.

There is nothing wrong with this as everyone does things in their own time.

Listen to Susan Baston, known as Eliora on how she is able to help come up overcome fear with the tools she came up with.

Eliora is both an author and energy healer who specializes in how our emotions have the power, both negative and positive, to frame our lives. It has been her mission to guide others to see what is blocking them from living lives filled with love, kindness and compassion.

Her new book, Drink from the Well: A Guide to Recognizing Your Fears and Letting Them Go provides a pathway and the tools to recognizing those

Have you experienced being raised full of anger within the family? 

When we’re angry, it’s possible to experience other feelings such as fear (of inflicting harm to ourselves or others) or disgust (for the person or thing blocking you from your goal). If you were taught that feeling anger is “bad”, you might even feel embarrassed or shameful for having felt the emotion at all. Furthermore, if you were angry and it led you to do something you considered to be inappropriate, you may feel regretful.

You might think anger should be suppressed, but it can be a motivating force.

Each of our emotions, including anger, plays an important role in our lives by providing us with information. To fully experience and tap into the wisdom of our emotions, we must learn how to experience discomfort. Without discomfort, there is no change and no growth.

Let us listen to Rick Hartley who comes from a very violent and unstable background.  His upbringing was very violent and belittling and spent his entire childhood in fear.

As he grew, the problems were obvious, but the reasons were unclear.  He spent the first of his life destroying himself and hurting the people around him. 

So, can anger be helpful?

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Have you experienced a loss of a loved one who has been veryclosed to you since childhood?  You feel that he/she was your twin or others might even say their soulmate.

Grief has the power to change a person.  Profound grief can change a person's psychology and personality forever. The initial changes that occur immediately after suffering a significant loss may go unnoticed for several weeks or months after the death of a loved one.

As we learn to cope with our losses, the way we perceive things, how we act, and how we interact with others will see a gradual shift from what we used to be to the new person we've become.

How can grief change your mind or personality?  How can it change you in the short run and in the long run?

These changes are irreversible, and we must learn to accept the new version of the person we now are. Allowing the grief journey to take shape without relying on timeline for grief and, instead working towards healing helps us transition into this new existence and way of being.

Let us listen to Naomi Gobits, our guest, who lost her sister, whom she admires so much.  It took her some time to accept the fact that she’s gone.  She was in extreme anger, avoidance, disbelief and in pain.

It took her some time before she made the shift and worked on herself.  Now, she founded the Aloha Spinal Flow, wherein she uses a technique that is designed to enhance your body’s  natural healing ability.  The technique works by removing blockages on your spinal cord. This is something new and interesting.

Naomi is single and lives in Mullumbimby, Australia. 

Her passion is to heal the heart and empower others on your healing journey to sovereignty.

Let us all welcome, Naomi Gobits.

Have you gone through a divorce?  How did you handle it?  Did you blame yourself for what happened?

It’s common to blame yourself for the end of your marriage, even if there was no one specific thing

Whatever the difficulty, there is not only one cause.  There is an abundance of causes. If you seek to find fault in

Let us listen to our guest, Debbie Forth Wigley, a Divorce Coach, who will share with us her agony in terms of going through her divorce after her husband got into an accident.  She blamed herself and had to go through a lot of learning to discover her gift.

When you have gone through so much in life, what do you focus on, especially when you start at a very young age?  I am sure, it is so hard for you to cope up with all the things happening around you.  You don’t know where to position yourself.  If you don’t have the support that you need,

I want you to listen to our guest speaker, Lee Krywko.  He is a person whom I admire so much with such a big heart.  He has gone through so

Lee was born in 1971.  He actively explored drugs and alcohol since he was 10 years old.  He studied addictions since 1986.  He discovered a personal transformation in 1997 and eventually life hit hard in 2019 with the loss of his oldest son.

However, that didn’t stop him from finding his purpose and made a big transformation which made him go beyond the addiction which was 10 times

He is currently the Founder and CEO of two companies:                  

2. Avalanche Recovery Center in Calgary, Alberta known asthe ARC. He is a Professional Interventionist and Holistic Recovery Coach focusing on the solutions and going beyond the addiction.

I am truly excited to share with you his life’s journey, how he hit his rock bottom, was saved and now became wild as an entrepreneur.  Why and how did he do it? What is it that keeps him wild?  Please make sure you listen from beginning till end as you will discover how this wild entrepreneur is making so much impact on other’s lives.  Amazing!

Let us listen to Lee Krywko.