Not all wounds and scars are to be seen with the naked eye and yet how many of us carry wounds that we attempt to hide from.

Join us as we have a conversation with our guest, Jo Ann Miles, about distortions physically and psychologically as we examine body image and beyond. Everything is meant to be seen; or is it?

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Georgeann explains the meaning behind the episode title “Invisible Wounds” and introduces the guest of the show, Jo Ann Miles. Georgeann explains her personal experience with having scoliosis and how scoliosis is often invisible, as it isn’t easy to see. Georgeann and Jo Ann explain how they met, and bonded over both having scoliosis. Georgeann explains how with having scoliosis, there are invisible psychological and often physical wounds, as she personally had body image issues growing up with scoliosis. Jo Ann explains her personal experience with her scoliosis and how scoliosis was a taboo when she was growing up, and referred to her scoliosis as various euphemisms until she felt safe saying she had scoliosis. That, she used to refer to her scoliosis in various euphemisms, because of the denial she internalized about having scoliosis.

Georgeann explains how it's difficult for people who do not have scoliosis to understand the physical and psychological pain that people with scoliosis have, and retells a story about a person who didn’t believe she had a handicapped sticker when Georgeann parked in a handicapped spot. Jo Ann explains how she has hid her scoliosis for most of her life, and because of this many of her family members and loved ones believed that she was fine because she presented herself as if she was fine. Georgeann and Jo Ann discuss how scoliosis had wounded them throughout their lives, and how after Jo Ann met Georgeann she had another person to discuss scoliosis with, as she felt isolated because of her scoliosis.

Jo Ann explained how she was a talented dancer, and that dance was both a physical and emotional therapy for her, as she loved to dance and that dancing helped her with her balance and have focus and discipline. This focus and discipline helps her later in life, as Jo Ann now goes to a professional physical therapist, and completes a daily scoliosis exercise regimen. Jo Ann explains her anger she had by having scoliosis, and the anger she felt from the lack of empathy from strangers and family members towards the physical and psychological pain she felt because of the scoliosis. Jo Ann and Georgeann discuss how their scoliosis affected them growing up.

Georgeann explains how everyone has some kind of challenge that they have to deal with, and how if one allows it, these challenges can bring them closer to God, and embrace a depth of themselves that they might not have otherwise. Jo Ann explains that her scoliosis made her more empathic, and that this helped to inform her in teaching, and be a cheerleader for her students. To balance one's ambitions with their limitations. Georgeann explains how Jo Ann’s experience is how she was able to find the stepping stones in what seems like stumbling blocks, and that this is what we are called to do.