From Trauma to Triumph

February is the month of love but I hope we can have every minute of every day be about love. In this episode we will explore a different way of looking at love from the perspective that it is not just something we feel but something we are and embody. It is a shift in mindset and an identity we can bring into everything we do and to everyone in our lives.

I will be referencing a fantastic book called Love for No Reason by Marci Shimoff that really looks at a very compelling way of living with love.

These are just a few of the things we will explore and delve deeper into. Tune in and have a listen - this might just be a life-changing paradigm shift!!

We are coming into one of the busiest times of the year - the Holiday Season. This is a time of year when the doing and overwhelm gets kicked into high gear. Often we let go of all the healthy practices, suspend all those important conversations and just focus on getting through the season to the other side. 

However, what often happens is after the season, illness hits us, difficulties and challenges seem worse than ever and depression and anxiety are heightened. It doesn't have to be this way! Please join me for the last episode of Season 1 where I will help you make this season so much more enjoyable and learn what you can do now to avoid the "inevitable" post-holiday blues.

All too often we allow our commitments to everyone and everything else take precedence over our commitments to ourselves. If we do this repeatedly we start to not believe ourselves when we say we are going to do something. That can start the cycle of falling off plan, being disappointed in ourselves and then when this happens repeatedly, we lose trust in our abilities. We can even fall into shame patterns because we see ourselves in a negative light.

Learn what you can do to stop this self-destructive pattern and stick to plans in a relatively painless and easy way. And how to design your life according to what you truly want and need.

If you are feeling stuck, like no matter what you do, it's never enough or you feel unsatisfied, then you will love this week's episode.

I'm talking about why so often, even though we have all the "things", people, successes, it still feels like something is missing or that there is more. Or you may be at the other end of the spectrum feeling like you just can't seem to make things happen and your life is nothing like you thought it would be. 

I will show you what some of the underlying patterns are and how they started in the first place that may be keeping you where you don't really want to be or feeling like nothing, no matter what, seems to work, in one area or maybe many areas of your life. And to show you that you do not need to stay in that place!

Something I hear a lot and much more it seems this past year is "I'm so tired!" Can you relate at all to this feeling? In this week's episode I look at why there seems to be more fatigue than ever before and what we can all do - relatively easily - to start to eliminate "fatigue" from our day to day experience. 

If you want to have more energy, manage stress better, stick to your healthy habits or generally are just sick of being "sick and tired", then you don't want to miss this episode. There are important practices that we need to make part of our routine that will help us manage the challenges, traumas and general day to day stressors that so many of us are experiencing - now more than ever.

Tune in for you weekly dose of relief!

This week I have had another difficult challenge with my grandson Ollie. And yet again had to utilize my resilience strength to help me to manage it all as effectively as possible and keep living my life without any blips. 

Tune in to hear Ollie's story where I give some of the details of his history and multiple challenges and learn what I have done to heal so I can be in a great place now even when crisis happens. We all have challenges and adversity, sometimes big and sometimes small, and what I know for sure is that they can all either manifest into greater problems OR they can help us to make our resiliency even stronger!

Fear is the thing that holds us back from doing so many things in our lives. I was reminded yesterday of this great quote: "F.E.A.R. has two meanings: Forget Everything And Run OR Face Everything And Rise. The choice is yours!" by Zig Ziglar. We too often forget that we have a choice as to how we respond to things, including fear. This week's episode takes a look at why we end up with the fear responses we have and how we can change our response to one that will create a more joyful, exciting and fulfilling life. 

How often do you compliment someone else, encourage them, support them positively and generally "have their back"? Now how often do you that for yourself? Right! If you're like most people it is far easier to do those things for others, yet when it comes to ourselves - our dialogue is discouraging, demeaning, negative and downright mean! Tune in to today's episode to find out why that is and also how to turn that negative self-talk around and make you your biggest cheer-leader! 

This is the final installment on my work journey and how I built and managed my confidence throughout it all. 

Confidence is not a static thing - it ebbs and flows, plummets and rises high. Our life events, experiences and relationships throughout our lives affect our levels of confidence.

One area self-confidence comes from is trauma informed resilience - as we overcome, grow and heal from traumas, our confidence builds and we become more resilient, trust ourselves more and our confidence rises. It also comes from feeling competent and capable, though this is only one piece of the building and maintaining of confidence. Listen in this week as I bring it all together for you and show you how it all worked in my own life.

In this episode I continue sharing my story of how confidence was built in my my life and also the events that sometimes had it suffering and even completely shattered. There are times in life that can have us questioning a little or a whole lot about ourselves and if we developed some confidence, can stop us and even have us feeling like we're going in reverse. These tragedies, challenges and upsetting events can lower our self-esteem which of course lessens our confidence in ourselves and maybe even in the world around us. I will talk about my experiences and how I turned it around and actually came out better than ever with even higher confidence than before.