Grief is caused by many things, and is experienced in even more varying ways. Death, divorce, physical separation, even emotional distance, can cause intense feelings of loss, confusion, and despair. It might even seem no one could possibly understand what we are going through. We may isolate and even beat ourselves up for feeling so alone and depressed, denying ourselves the love, support, understanding, and grace we deserve.

In this episode, Dr. Monica Krishnan, Pharm D, joins Nadia for a meaningful discussion about this relationship between grief and shame, what we can do to support ourselves and others, increase awareness, and most of all, prevent shame from harming the healing journey. 

Dr. Monica Krishnan, PharmD, is a Clinical Pharmacist with over 25 years experience, a Mental Health and Grief Advocate, a Medical Writer for @goodrx, and an author of “Finding Pockets of Sunshine,” a children' s book about mental health and grief.

Here, on this podcast, we want you to know - you are not alone on the healing journey. Everyone deserves a safe space to share, cry, and be vulnerable. If you can’t find that place outside you right now, there is a space within you that can heal all - Home is Within You. 

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Ever feel as though you can't get a moment's relief from your own thoughts and mind? Or as though you are your worst enemy, seemingly jeopardizing your recovery and relationships? If you're seeking a new way of living, in this episode Nadia gently walks through the first baby steps anyone can take to begin living differently through a space of refuge, calm, clarity, and love within, rather than solely the ego/mind.

The suggestions are basic and relatable, including a story, life update, and examples of how she mishandled shame-based thoughts in the past, in comparison to what she did/does today, guiding us through steps we can all take to transform shame into recovery and healing power.  

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Part II - Parents in recovery are some of the most courageous individuals around. Practical, financial, emotional, mental, and legal challenges often present themselves as major roadblocks, making the road back home to their children's hearts complicated and, often, very painful for all involved. Yet there is hope!

Listen in to these episode discussions with Janice V. Johnson Dowd, LMSW, and Nadia, as they explore their journeys back home to their children's lives and hearts, as well as how other parents can get there too! 

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Part I - Parents in recovery are some of the most courageous individuals around. Practical, financial, emotional, mental, and legal challenges often present themselves as major roadblocks, making the road back home to their children's hearts complicated and, often, very painful for all involved. Yet there is hope!

Listen in to these episode discussions with Janice V. Johnson Dowd, LMSW, and Nadia, as they explore their journeys back home to their children's lives and hearts, as well as how other parents can get there too! 

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In this Solo Empowered Recovery episode, Nadia reflects on the beauty of building mindfulness and its many unexpected blessings, including being present enough to witness life's most joyful paradoxes. 

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One woman's recovery profoundly positively impacts all women's recovery - LUCKY LISA is absolute proof, having forged a long, arduous path to create the joyful, sober life she has today inspiring countless other women, men, and everything in between, along the way.

"Lucky Lisa," as she is lovingly called today, shares her incredible story in the newest episode of the Home is Within You, Empowered Recovery Podcast, available wherever you listen to yours. Her journey to healing and freedom from the frequency of addiction, childhood trauma, and unrecognized shame is an inspiration to all of us.

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In this solo episode, Nadia reflects on the blessings of parenting in recovery, sharing a story about her son's quest to "beat the world record" and the relationship between competitiveness, shame, and love, as well as lessons on parenting in recovery and chakra-based psychology. 

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In this episode, Nadia gives listeners a view into empowered recovery through a combination of twelve step insight, chakra-based energy tools, and shame-banning work. 

You'll receive specific tips and tools she uses to sustain a sense of home within her heart, including through challenges as a mother in recovery with chronic conditions, as well as sister and daughter of an elderly mother.

Listeners receive an example of how shame shows up and how to use it to empower your recovery, Instead of falling back, as well as what it means to empower ourselves through chakra-based healing tools and gratitude!

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Chakra Medicine is a spiritual and yogic psychology that is empowering trauma and addiction recovery. In this episode, you'll enter the intricate world of energy and consciousness as guest Priya Jain, Founder Seventh Chakra Institute of Spiritual Sciences, guides Nadia in the practical application of this ancient wisdom in her daily life as part of Priya's chakra coach certification program.

You can empower your recovery by better understanding the seven primary energy centers in the body and how they shape human behavior, health, and spirituality, as well as how imbalances impact your life, and what you can do to restore them to balance. Check out Seventh Chakra Institute of Spiritual Sciences through the link below. 

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The universe wants you to play again! Yet often on our recovery journey, past narratives and trauma wounds still get in the way, keeping us stuck.

The key is building awareness of how trauma manifests in the body, having a safe space within ourselves to sit with it, and building the capacity to harness its energy and direct it for our greater good. Sound impossible? It's not! R.G. Shore is proof.

For nearly 3 years, Shore was incarcerated in a racially divisive and predominantly white prison in the Pacific Northwest. During that time, he learned to meditate as well as master techniques enabling him to sit with his trauma, process it, harness the energy trauma creates, and further transform it into new pathways for change.

Today Shore, deeply devoted to his work, directs the non-profit, Northwest Wisdom, helping other released inmates create that safe space within themselves on their own healing journey. "The one thing you have to let go of is the one thing you think you were supposed to fulfill," R.G.Shore explains, "Only in letting go do we allow energy in to manifest it."

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