My guest, Aimee Stephens, shares her story about her journey

from being a victim of incest to becoming a victorious 5x Ironman and 70.3

finisher. We have a lot of similarities in our stories, including

suffering abuse by a family member, the unhealthy way in which our abuse was

handled within the family, taking our healing journeys and marriages that did

not survive our healing.

“Without the hard, we wouldn’t get the easy. Without the

pain, we wouldn’t get the joy. Without the rain, we wouldn’t get the rainbow.”

Aimee Stephens, Turning Pain Into Purpose

Highlights of this episode

💙Sometimes, how our trauma is dealt with after the fact can be worse than the events themselves. Not having the vocabulary to tell someone, ignoring or internalizing it ourselves,

or being dismissed by those whom we tell are reactions that can cause us to create

survival behaviors that can be very unhealthy.

💛Trauma therapy can save your life! Especially when you find a therapist who sees you and wants to help you… not necessarily the relationship. Aimee so beautifully shows us the power of the trauma therapy relationship. I feel the same way about mine!

💙When we feel out of alignment with ourselves, that may be a sign that we need to heal.

💛As we heal, figuring out what happened to us, patterns, and how we have lived can be like putting puzzle pieces together to create the complete picture of our lives.

💙Understanding that we have been abused and hearing the proper terminology can bring a host of emotions, including shock and fear. Still, it can also be liberating as we are awakened

and can begin the work to heal.

💛In familial abuse, sometimes it’s not only our abuser that we need to heal our relationship with but also other family members who either protect our abuser or don’t know how to deal

with the situation.

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