In this episode the Brooke shares a personal journey with food as a coping skill, tracing childhood experiences, injuries, and lifelong patterns of emotional eating. She explains how awareness, pausing, and simple breathing exercises helped her notice triggers and begin to change unhelpful habits.

The episode offers practical steps, self-observation, a deliberate pause before reaching for food, and grounding breathwork, along with a message of self-forgiveness and gradual progress for anyone struggling with food addiction or other coping behaviors.

Casey Louise Thornton, an intimate motherhood photographer and educator from Seattle, joins me to discuss pregnancy, birth, postpartum anxiety, reparenting, and balancing business with early motherhood.

We cover personal stories about manifesting children, different pregnancy and birth experiences, body image shifts, breastfeeding, and the challenges of regulating emotions as a parent. They also explore practical strategies like gratitude, setting priorities, and reclaiming identity while growing a business.

Listeners will take away simple practices to stay grounded, reconnect with what brings them joy, and feel less alone in the messy, powerful work of motherhood.

Casey Louise is a Seattle-based motherhood and family photographer known for her emotive, timeless imagery and her ability to capture the raw, sacred beauty of everyday connection. Through her art and workshops, she helps photographers build aligned, sustainable businesses rooted in authenticity and intention. As a mother of two, Casey brings a deep understanding of both the creative and personal challenges that come with navigating artistry, motherhood, and entrepreneurship. Her upcoming Aligned Motherhood Retreat invites photographers to slow down, reconnect with their purpose, and reignite their creativity. Casey’s mission is to help photographers create from a place of alignment — in their art, their business, and their lives.

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Welcome to In This Shit Together. I'm Brooke and this is a space for honesty, connection, and remembering that we don't have to carry our stories alone. 

In this episode I share how discovering I am a Manifestor and emotional authority changed my life for the better. It helped me make sense of old patterns, let go of people-pleasing, and gave me the ability to regain my power.

I also open up about how human design changed my perspective and my approach to relationships, parenting, and running a business. Learning my energy type, profile, and emotional wave made decision making clearer and my creative process flow.

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In the first episode of In This Shit Together, Brooke shares her journey through Emily Schromm’s Challenge Retreat—a story of facing fear, pushing limits, and rediscovering trust in her body and spirit. What began as a quest for fitness became deep transformation and connection. This episode is about choosing discomfort, embracing growth, and remembering we’re all in thistogether.