How Coronavirus Saved My Life

By Christine Zethraus, PMHNP

How Coronavirus Saved My Life is a weekly podcast hosted by Christine Zethraus, a Mental Health Nurse Practitioner. She takes you on a journey as a healthcare worker, wife, and mother during the pande... more

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March 06, 2022episode 21: the design (Conversation with Human Design Expert and Coach Marielle Honse)
Show notes:
episode 21: the design (Conversation with Human Design Expert and Coach Marielle Honse)
Intro:
After I emerged from quarantine in April 2020 I was a different person. My brain was different, my soul was different, & the things that spoke to my heart were different. I could no longer go back to the person I was before. The person I was before was constantly frustrated, unhappy without knowing why, and living in a world of pressure and dissatisfaction.
As I journeyed through my spiritual transformation, I came across Human Design. The more I read and learned about my own Human Design, the more I was fascinated. Human Design (HD) has helped me understand my gifts & talents, how to use frustration as my superpower, why I had a traumatic childhood.
Today I brought my friend and Human Design Coach and Reader Marielle to discuss what exactly is Human Design and how this can transform your life as well.
episode 21 topics:
Human Design Coach Marielle gives background about herself, how she found HD, and why it resonated with her

Marielle explains Human Design two ways

Bodygraphs

Gates

Marielle explains who developed and discovered HD

Neutrino flow

Energy Types (Generators, Manifestors, MGs, Projectors, and Reflectors)

Profile Types

Marielle HD Coach Resources:
Sign up for Coaching Newsletter here
Follow Marielle on Instagram for more HD topics!

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March 04, 2022episode 18 (audio only): the survival (Conversation with my friend Anthony about his Experience as a Gay Man with HIV)
Show Notes:
In this episode (audio only), Christine has a conversation with her best friend Anthony about his Experience as a Gay Man with HIV
Christine and Anthony discuss the following:
Debate the term promiscuous

Tell the story how they met

Compare and contrast their childhood

Anthony’s Italian Conservative family

Money trauma in childhood Using money to avoid difficult emotions

Anthony’s powerful moment with his bio father

Anthony not knowing any gay people till 18 years old

Anthony knowing he was gay since 12

His first gay experience How is family reacted when came out

Creating his own version of a gay man

Speaking our truth

Sep 11

Anthony’s HIV diagnosis & powerful moment with his dr

Madonna advocating for safe sex

His family’s reaction to his HIV diagnosis
Resources for HIV education and facts:
https://www.hiv.gov/
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Thank you to all of the listeners! Your stories of healing because of this podcast keeps me going!
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February 27, 2022episode 18: the survival (Conversation with my friend Anthony about his Experience as a Gay Man with HIV)
Show Notes:
In this episode, Christine has a conversation with her best friend Anthony about his Experience as a Gay Man with HIV
Christine and Anthony discuss the following:
Debate the term promiscuous

Tell the story how they met

Compare and contrast their childhood

Anthony’s Italian Conservative family

Money trauma in childhood

Using money to avoid difficult emotions

Anthony’s powerful moment with his bio father

Anthony not knowing any gay people till 18 years old

Anthony knowing he was gay since 12

His first gay experience

How is family reacted when came out

Creating his own version of a gay man

Speaking our truth

Sep 11

Anthony’s HIV diagnosis & powerful moment with his dr

Madonna advocating for safe sex

His family’s reaction to his diagnosis
Resources for HIV education and facts:
https://www.hiv.gov/
Christine’s Podcast:
How Coronavirus Saved My Life on 9 podcast platforms
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February 13, 2022episode 20: the conditioning (Society's Conditioned Views about the Black Man Experience)
My open conversation with fellow podcaster Willie Porter from The Thing About Us podcast about his experience as a American Black Man living in Kentucky.
Topics we discussed and explored:
Willie’s experience and frustrations during the Breonna Taylor protests

Why he says “Kings and Queens” instead of the N-word

Conditioning of my racist father, my family's genealogy book with lists of slaves and prices

Exploring why white people are uncomfortable talking about the history of slavery

Why it’s important for Willie’s step-son Zion to learn about black history

Willie’s feelings about not being able to know his lost family history

How every black man has a different struggle just as any other man

What his own personal struggle was growing up as black man and what he had to teach himself

His thoughts on Society’s Conditioned view of the black man aggression

Exploring why some people might view someone as aggressive

Soul Food
Thank You to all the listeners helping this podcast grow! Without We There Is No Me
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January 17, 2022 episode 17: the assumption (Colorism, Pedestals of Race, and Solutions)
Today's episode Christine has a deep conversation with her friend Sandra about the topic of Colorism, the ingrained assumption of “Light Good, Black Bad” from slavery and how the light skin privilege only went so far.
The times of slavery when light skin and dark skin people being separated as light skin was more acceptable to work in the slave master’s house vs dark skin people working in the field.
Sandra discusses the Clark Doll Study where dolls of different shades are shown to black children asking questions if which doll was good, bad, or preferred.
Christine discusses her own family genealogy of owing slaves and how slaves cost less than farm equipment
Sandra discusses her daughter dating white men exclusively, her daughter experiencing racism at an Asian dance club, and why it bothers Sandra that her daughter does not want to date black men.
Topic of a few African Americans being antiblack, the illusion of black people aren’t marginalized.
Diversity in the workplace, different experiences, and being short sighted.
Christine’s own previous assumptions of black people all being in the fight together.
Racism and divide between Africans and African-Americans, African men’s view of black men being lazy and African men’s assumption of African American women when dating.
A powerful conversation about black women’s feelings about black men dating white women, the “shortage of black men” on their level, and the feeling of betrayal.
Christine discusses why she predominantly dates African American males, her theme of not feeling protected in childhood, and how black represents protection to her.
The pedestals of race, placing attributes onto a group of people, finding worthiness in a partner instead of inside yourself.
The black man struggles with getting jobs, career advancement which affects being head of household. Black women getting a job over a black man because of the assumption of being threatening.
Solutions to the assumptions ingrained in the black experience which starts with healing yourself then networking together.
Resource:
https://www.nps.gov/brvb/learn/historyculture/clarkdoll.htm
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January 10, 2022 episode 16: the codependency (How Codependency Impacts the African American Community, Culture, and Family)
In this episode, Christine interviews her friend Sandra about the complex origins of codependency in the African American Community. From her own experience as an African American working mother born and raised in Texas, Sandra shares her thoughts, examples of codependency in her family, codependency in her own life, and her views of where African American Codependency originated from w/ the added complexities of religion.
This episode is not to be missed! This conversation about family dysfunction, consequences of success, slavery, psychological manipulation through religion, what "boujee" means, and the consequences of setting a boundary in an African American family was eye-opening.

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November 29, 2021 episode 15: the narcissist (How I Found Out My Mother is a Narcissist)
Finally, the answer to my mother's unnatural treatment of me my whole life. The subtle "thing" that was hard to explain. I dealt with the subtle abuse, manipulation, sabotage, and constant gaslighting in childhood. It is difficult to understand and know your abuse from your narcissistic mother had nothing to do with you when you are growing up. My hope is for others to discover it was not their fault.

Check out my blog below for more of my childhood story of being raised by a narcissistic mother:
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November 15, 2021 episode 14: the dysregulation (How Anxiety Saved My Life)
In this episode...
I interview my therapist friend Sandy, LPC who blew my mind with her poetic Facebook posts about the effects of childhood trauma on the body, importance of self-protection (two little words saying N-O), and much more. I am excited to venture into an interview style podcast so I, along with others, can get the healing tools for our individual needs.

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October 23, 2021 episode 13: the worthiness (How I Stopped Seeking External Validation)
Realizing I have been seeking external validation because I did not feel worthy. I also could not a find a definition of worthy or worthiness that I could agree with. This by far has been my favorite episode to record because I had one of the most powerful breakthroughs which led to me discovering I am worthy of it all. WE ARE WORTHY OF IT ALL.

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September 21, 2021 episode 12: the validation (How My Ex-Husband Helped Me Heal)
Plot twist: it wasn’t all my ex husband’s fault

Connect with Christine for Mental Health Discussions and Tools for Recovery:
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The podcast currently has 51 episodes available.