Let's HEAL!

Let's HEAL!

By Beth JonesBusinessHealth & FitnessMental Health
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Let's HEAL! episodes

  • Ep 26: Just When You Think It Can’t Get Any Worse… It Does
    My guest in this episode is my good friend, Jenn Brown, a life coach specializing in supporting parents and teens. Our conversation covers Jenn’s journey through profound family trauma and her subsequent path to healing, both for herself and her children. The episode highlights the resilience required to overcome adversity and the importance of building safe, supportive relationships in the healing process. We also talk about her work in helping teens and their parents establish healthy, supportive relationships as the kids navigate the challenges of being teenagers.
     Jenn recounts a series of traumatic events involving her children. Her infant son suffered severe injuries from shaken baby syndrome while in the care of a babysitter, leading to brain surgery for her son and a criminal investigation of Jenn and her husband. Less than a year later, her daughter was diagnosed with leukemia, requiring intensive treatment, home care, and homeschooling. Shortly after her daughter completed her treatment, her middle child experienced a grand mal seizure and was diagnosed with
    a seizure disorder. Each event required Jenn to navigate medical crises, legal challenges, and emotional upheaval, all while caring for her family.
     We also talk about Jenn’s healing journey through therapy, including EMDR, to process trauma and rebuild trust in people and herself as a mother. She highlights the different ways she and her husband coped and healed, emphasizing the need for both shared and individual healing paths. All three children are now healthy, with her daughter in remission and her son having outgrown his seizure disorder.
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    💥Video version of Let's HEAL! with Beth Jones is available on YouTube channel @BethJonesHEALingMentor
    Highlights of this episode
    💛Our emotions related to our trauma never go away, but we don’t have to live in or allow the feelings to control our behavior. Healing is about moving past trauma, but we must make a conscious decision to do the work.
    💙 Seeking help, building support systems, and prioritizing healing for
    both parents and children is critical when a family endures this level of
    trauma.
    💛We all have trauma. Life after trauma, healing, and then using our experience for good are all choices that we get to make.
    💙Grief emotions are part of trauma because we are grieving loss. Talk therapy helps us to deal with our victim mode and release feelings like anger. However, reframing the impact of the events on us, including triggers and emotions, requires modalities such as EMDR.
    💛 Healing is taking back our power and the control that someone else has placed on our lives through trauma.
     Resources in this episode
    ✨Trauma therapy and EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)
    ✨Support systems, including family and community
    ✨Legal support, such as hiring a lawyer and taking a polygraph, to navigating CPS and police investigations
    ✨Educational and enrichment activities, like library classes and music, to aid her infant son's recovery
    ✨Medical care and regular checkups play a vital role in her children's healing and long-term health
     
    Connect with Jenn
    ✨JennBrownCoaching.com
    ✨Facebook
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    ✨LinkedIn
     
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    #healingmentor #healingjourney #letsheal #familytrauma #shakenbaby #childhoodcancer #seizuredisorder #grandmalseizure #ParentingThroughTrauma #SpecialNeedsParenting #FamilyHealing #ParentingStruggles #StrongMoms #traumatherapy
    #EMDR #community #tribe #HealingIsPossible #NeverGiveUp
    49 min
  • Ep 25: HEALing Our Nervous System through Reconnection of Our Natural HEALing Intelligence | NetworkSpinal | Energetic Healing
    My guest in this episode is Dr. Tyler Lewis, and we are onsite at his clinic in Dallas, Self Unbound. Our conversation delves into Dr. Tyler’s chiropractic specialization in Network Spinal, including his story about how he discovered his gift and purpose in serving the clinic’s practice members. We talk about how trauma is stored in the body and how Network Spinal helps release it through gentle, awareness-based care rather than traditional spinal manipulation. Dr. Tyler explains the central role of the nervous system in shaping our experiences and our infinite capacity for healing.
     NetworkSpinal may be considered by some as an alternative healing modality. My experience is that it is a powerful tool that helps me regulate my physical and emotional being and stay connected spiritually. I’ve had profound healing experiences through this modality, which I share in this episode. There is evidence in my physical body that my knee pain is managed. But there is measurable evidence that my body has been
    building and using energy as I’ve worked through deep healing around my
    relationship with my father, most of which has occurred spiritually or
    karmically between our souls. It’s been a fascinating experience that we discuss to bring a real-life perspective to this healing modality.
    The episode emphasizes the importance of alternative healing modalities, community, self-awareness, and supporting collective healing.
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    Highlights of this episode
    💙NetworkSpinal helps the body identify where trauma is stored and release it. Spinal alignment reflects neurological function, which is a reflection of how efficiently the nervous system responds to mental, physical, and emotional demands.
    💛Posture is a reflection of what’s going on in your nervous system.
    💙When people react, they are acting from the layer of their brain that they have developed consciously.
    💛The role that we are in (parent, child, spouse, employee, etc.) is set based on our expectations informed by social, familial, and cultural inputs.
    💙Programming in our brain is akin to apps that we run on our mobile phones.
    💛Catharsis is feeling everything, digesting, dissolving, and transmuting what was once emotional baggage.
     Resources in this episode
    ✨Self Unbound Clinic – The Dallas-based healing center where Dr. Tyler Lewis practices Network Spinal care. 
    ✨Network Spinal – The chiropractic specialty discussed in detail as an alternative healing modality. 
    ✨The Body Keeps the Score – Referenced book about how trauma is
    stored in the body, by Dr. Bessel van der Kolk.
    Connect with Dr. Tyler and SelfUnbound
    ✨Facebook
    ✨Instagram
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    #healingmentor #healingjourney #letsheal #networkspinal #NervousSystemHealing
    1 hr 11 min
  • Ep 24:  Don’t Be Afraid to Be You | Navigating Discrimination in Family and Professionally
    My guest in this episode is my good friend and former colleague, Scott Foster. Our heartfelt conversation covers Scott’s journey as a gay man, navigating family relationships, professional environments, and societal changes from the late 1970s to the present day. More specifically, we
    discuss Scott's experiences coming out, building acceptance with his parents, finding inclusive workplaces, and incorporating his multicultural background and diverse professional experiences into his perspectives on diversity, inclusion, and acceptance. Scott also shares his healing journey, including his experience with two powerful healing tools: therapy and support communities.
    This is an essential conversation about never being afraid to be who you are, and I am honored to have it with and in support of my friend.
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    Highlights of this episode
    💙Look how far we've come, socially. Even though the gay community still struggles today with acceptance and equal rights, we’ve come a long way since the late 70s/early 80s when Scott came out as a gay man. This was during the early AIDS crisis, and when some people thought being gay was a psychotic disorder. Today, we can find many environments where gay people are just people with their individuality, as we all are.
    💛Navigating the family acceptance journey when you’re different. Navigating family dynamics can be tough when we talk about being different and/or in pain. Scott talks about the differences in how his parents responded, including the impact of his multicultural household, where his mother is Japanese and his father is American. While his parents were slower to accept him, his brother’s acceptance was immediate. Scott and I both know that genuine compassion and love for our family members are at the heart of acceptance within the family.
    💙Make the ask to be accepted within your family. Sometimes, there is selective discrimination within families. For Scott, although his parents had experienced discrimination as a couple, marrying less than 20 years after World War II, they struggled with Scott and his relationship with another man. Similarly, I’ve struggled with acceptance from my parents, both the sexual abuse that I have experienced, as well as my interracial relationship. The solution: make the ask, perhaps as an evolving and ongoing conversation, for acceptance to find multi-satisfying and common ground.
    💛Navigating workplace discrimination as a gay man… and for me, as a woman. In one career, Scott may have been one of those who helped to pave the way for today’s fight to uphold DE&I within law firms. In another instance, he found inclusivity at FTI Consulting, where I met and worked with Scott for many years. I’ve had very similar experiences as a woman, encountering glass ceilings and exclusive environments early in my career, but also discovered that same organization where my capabilities and contributions mattered more than my demographic statistics.
    💙Authentic communication and making meaningful "asks" are crucial in the furtherance of inclusive workplaces. Find allies, both at your peer level and those senior to you. And find mentors. It’s one of the most potent and supportive types of relationships that you can have at work, both for career navigation, as well as honoring yourself and being your authentic self.
    Connect with Scott
    ✨⁠Facebook⁠
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    #healingjourney #letsheal #BeYourself #AuthenticSelf #TrueToYou
    #BeingDifferent #LGBTQ #ComingOutStory #FamilyAcceptance #WorkplaceInclusion #DiversityAndInclusion #DEI #ProfessionalGrowth #CareerJourney #MentalHealthMatters #SelfAcceptance #OvercomingChallenges
    1 hr
  • Ep 23: When Everyone Is Silent | Body Safety Education for Kids
    ‼️‼️Trigger Warning: This episode contains discussions of child sexual abuse and may be triggering for some listeners.
    My guest in this episode is body safety educator and author Diane Tarantini. We discuss the critical importance of teaching children—early on—about body safety to prevent abuse and equipping them with the knowledge and vocabulary to report to a safe adult if something does happen to them.
    We also share our insights and experiences, emphasizing how we turn our pain into purpose. Diane is a survivor of a niche interfamilial abuse of sibling sexual abuse, and she is one of only a small number of survivors who openly shares her story about her experiences. Recognizing herself as “mean mommy” led her to her healing journey.
    💥CTA: Please subscribe to my podcast. Your support will help me to continue bringing my HEALing message to the world.
    💥Video version of Let's HEAL! with Beth Jones is available on YouTube channel @BethJonesHEALingMentor.
    Highlights of this episode
    💙 The importance of body safety education. Early education on body safety to prevent childhood trauma and abuse is critical in a world where kids are potentially exposed in so many ways throughout their typical day. 80% of abuse cases occur when a child is alone with the perpetrator.
    💛The statistics and reality of child sexual abuse. Only 30% of children disclose abuse during childhood, and the average age of disclosure is 52
    years old, highlighting the long-lasting impact of abuse and the difficulty in coming forward. I am this statistic.
    💙Barriers to disclosure. Children often lack the awareness or vocabulary to describe abuse, and disclosure may be easier to strangers or after the
    perpetrator has passed away. Children also need safe adults to report to, and Diane advises kids she works with to have 5. Because if the first or
    second don’t hear, keep going. Adults… wake up!! No child should have to go beyond the first person they chose to tell.
    💛 Body safety assemblies in schools. Erin’s Law has been passed in 38 states and requires kids in grades K-12 to attend a body safety assembly at least once a year. Implementation of the law varies from state to state and school to school. If you’re unsure whether your child is receiving this essential training, contact their school and ask. And check out SHIELD Task Force (www.shieldwv.com), a nonprofit providing engaging body safety assemblies and presentations in schools.
    💙Our pro tips on therapy: build a relationship with your therapist and
    treat him/her as part of your tribe or support system, but… if you start to
    resent your therapist, the time you're investing or handing over the check, it’s time to go!
    Diane’s Books
    Everyone Was Silent: A memoir (https://amzn.to/3H6sV3T)
    The Brave Knight (https://amzn.to/43AtVEN)
    Connect with Diane
    ✨https://dianetarantini.com/
    ✨https://www.instagram.com/writingdianet/
    ✨https://www.facebook.com/DianeTarantiniAuthor
    ✨https://www.linkedin.com/in/diane-tarantini-b883938a/
    ✨https://www.youtube.com/@MommunityPodcast
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    #healingmentor #healingjourney #healtolove #bodysafety #childprotection #childsafety #erinslaw #bodysafetyeducation #preventchildabuse #childsexualabuse #childabuseawareness #childabuseprevention #csa #ssa #childabusesurvivor #siblinabuse #childhoodtrauma #parentingtips #safeparenting #protectchildren #parentawareness #childeducation #talkwithkids #childadvocate  #abuseawareness #speakup #breakthesilence #childsafetyresources
    50 min
  • Ep 22 | Spiritual Words of Wisdom to Heal Your Spirit | Powerful Words of Healing and Wisdom
    ‼️‼️Trigger Warning: This episode contains discussions of trauma, including suicidal ideation, and may be triggering for some listeners.
    ✨✨SO MUCH VALUE: This episode’s title is appropriate because it is SO PACKED with words of wisdom from someone who is all about the healing journey. You don’t want to miss one word of George’s message and sage advice.
    In this heartfelt episode, I welcome my friend, George Bryant, for an open and deeply personal conversation about the realities of healing from trauma. Our conversation begins where we are today, as both of us reflect on our current emotional states and recent milestones: George shares his journey navigating divorce and envisioning a new future. At the same time, I’m celebrating the return of homeownership, marking a completion on my healing journey.  
    George is an entrepreneur, speaker, and advocate for healing (sounds
    like anyone else you know??), who uses his lived experiences to help heart-centered people become visible and share their message. His lived experiences include surviving a childhood marked by parental addiction, abuse and instability; homelessness; bullying; time in Afghanistan marked
    by traumatic brain injuries and the loss of fellow Marines; almost losing his
    leg and becoming addicted to painkillers; adopting his younger brother; and accruing his deceased father’s debts.  He also survived his unhealthy ways of coping, including isolation, self-harm, suicidal ideation, bulimia and trauma-bonding with his own story over and over again to escape the work to heal.
    Highlights of this episode
    💙Healing is not a harmful, negative, or burdensome experience, nor is it a finish line. Instead, it’s an active pursuit of personal growth that’s ongoing for our entire lives to become the best version of ourselves. Addressing unhealthy relationships is at the core of healing, but healing is only done on YOUR heart. It has nothing to do with the other person.
    💛Trauma is relative and personal; it’s not about comparing your story to someone else’s and judging either person. You can’t possibly know how trauma impacts anyone other than yourself because the measure is the impact on one’s heart and the amount of fear-based emotion you're carrying.
    💙Use your story as permission to rewrite your narratives, rather than as justification for your pain, suffering, and the way that you treat or interact with other people.
    💛The hustle culture that the world celebrates can become our addiction. George talks about being addicted to his service as a Marine, and then being addicted to entrepreneurship and focusing his entire life on amassing a vast number of followers. Ultimately, he realized that his addiction was about running from himself, which is what we’re all doing through any addiction. Mine was being a busyholic in the chronic chaos of my life.
    💙Healing is simple. Complicated, but simple. There are only two steps, really, awareness and release: awareness that you need to heal, and release of your related emotions.
    💛I love this pivotal moment in George’s journey when God placed a man in his path who told him: “I think you believe in God, but the wrong one because you aren't him, my friend.”
     Connect with George
    ✨Podcast: Mind of George
    ✨Facebook
    ✨Instagram – DM George here, and he will answer you!
    ✨YouTube
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    #healingmentor #healingjourney #healtolove #empowerdsurvivor #selfdiscovery #personalgrowth #selfawareness #growthmindset #selfempowerment #veteranhealing #militarytrauma #ptsdawareness  #traumabonding #selfharm #traumarecovery #mentalhealthmatters #survivorstory #traumahealing #healingwisdom #radicalhealing
    1 hr 11 min
  • Ep 21: Storytelling to Impact Trauma HEALing
    ‼️‼️Trigger Warning: This episode contains discussions of suicidal ideation and may be triggering for some listeners.
    My guest in this episode is serial entrepreneur Amber Larkins. In our powerful conversation, we talk about her journey from trauma to triumph and how she's now helping others to heal by sharing their stories in various
    ways, including through photography and her podcast "Through the Trauma.” Her work focuses on storytelling as a vehicle for healing and empowerment.
    Amber talks candidly about her emotional and mental health journey, including struggling with depression and suicidal ideation. Her healing journey encompasses the utilization of various resources, including self-care through fitness, spirituality, and her relationship with God, as well as the creative outlet of photography. Ultimately, her journey led her to this place where her lived experiences and purpose are to help others to heal.
    Highlights of this episode
    💙 We get to choose. In every situation in our lives, we get to choose whether we react or respond. We can react in a way that is unhealthy and
    perpetuates our suffering. Or, we can respond in a way that is healthy and advances our healing.
    💛There is power in the story. I see you, you see me, but you don’t know what someone has been through until they open their mouth and share their story through their own voice.
    💙We are not taught about emotional regulation as a basic life skill. We are not taught about emotions and emotional needs. We’re not taught about triggers. We’re not taught about how to make better choices to respond, rather than react. We’re not taught about how to heal. Life experiences and those who have gone before us can teach us these skills.
    💛 The power of synchronicities. When God speaks and leads us to the work we’re meant to do, God tells us multiple times in multiple ways.
    💙Manifesting what you WANT is real, possible, and okay. We’ve both experienced this in profound ways, from business to relationships to what our lives look like today.
     Connect with Amber
    ✨Podcast: Through the TraumaPodcast
    ✨Business inquiries: Through the Trauma Podcast Online
    ✨Photography: Transformation Through Trauma Project
    ✨Instagram: @the_amber_larkins
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    #healingmentor #healingjourney #healtolove #innerjourney #souljourney #relationships #emotions #emotionalneeds #empowerment #selfdiscovery #personalgrowth #selfawareness #spiritualawakening #spiritualawareness #innerwisdom growthmindset
    #selfempowerment #knowyourwants #manifestation #rippleeffect #highestandbestgood
    1 hr 8 min
  • Ep 20: Finding Your Truest Self
    The Inner Work of Becoming Your Truest Self | The Power of Being Your Truest Self | Mentor
    In this episode, my guest is my dear friend, Amey DeAnne, who talks about her HEALing journey to discover her truest self. There’s so much that Amey and I share in our journeys to heal from long marriages, including that part of our survivorship in those relationships caused us to have no idea we needed to heal and no idea who we really are. We also share childhood pain and emotions that came into our marriages without even knowing it.
    Hear Amey talk about being someone’s something, in several capacities, and being so busy that she was distracted from her true self for many years. Many of us experience this phenomenon where we think we’re just engaging in the normality of adulthood, but is that what we’re doing? Or are we escaping ourselves?
    If you’re divorced from a relationship of any length of time, much of what we talk about will probably resonate deeply.
    Highlights of this episode
    💛The “norm” of life can be a form of escape. Sometimes, our busy lives distract us from the reality of the state of our relationships, and that we are disconnected from ourselves. What we live as our reality may be a form of escape.
    💙Unhealthy vs healthy aloneness. There is a night and day difference between being unhealthy alone, which shows up as being lonely, and being healthy alone, which shows up as being relaxed and comfortable in the quiet. In that peaceful quiet is where we hear God.
    💛Divorce is a trauma that we must heal from. We find ourselves in that place for so many different reasons. Regardless of the reason, we must acknowledge that the experience is a trauma, a macro trauma filled with micro traumas. HEALing allows us to go on with our lives in a healthy way.
    💙Divorce can be a blessing. When we’ve been with another person for any length of time, we can lose ourselves by either taking on their identity, taking on “our” identity, and/or letting go of who we are. Divorce allows us to discover our truest selves.
    💛Find your truest self. This is Amey’s mission today, where she shares her lived experiences with other women to encourage them to do the work to heal and find their truest self.
    Resources related to this episode
    Amey’s book, Finding Your Truest YOU, is coming in October. Connect with her to watch for its release.
    Connect with Amey
    ✨Facebook
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    ✨LinkedIn
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    #healingjourney #authenticity #selfdiscovery #truestself #findingyourself #authenticself #selfdiscovery #innerjourney #knowthyself #personalgrowth #embraceyourtruth #selfawareness #liveyourtruth #beyourself #healingjourney #spiritualawakening #authenticitymatters #selfreflection #innerwisdom #souljourney #truetoyou #growthmindset #selfempowerment
    1 hr 2 min
  • Ep 19: The Universality of Grief
    In this episode, my guest is Alexa Bigwarfe, an author, publishing consultant, and advocate for grieving mothers. Our conversation highlights the universality of grief and its profound impact on us. Alexa has experienced grief in many forms, including the loss of a child, loss of close friends, and divorce. She shares her lived experience with grief, both the pain and the healing. Her healing journey has been grounded in writing, beginning with a grief blog and evolving to her work today where she helps other people to share their stories in books they write, publish and sell.
     
    Grief is universal. Alexa’s experiences with the grieving process are the same experiences that I have had throughout my healing journey. Whether we’re grieving the loss of our inner child or the loss of a baby,
    the pain we feel and the fear-based emotions that we carry are similar. And it can keep us in a dark place if we don’t HEAL.  
     
    Highlights of this episode
    💛Writing to HEAL: Writing is such a great place to expel the fear-based emotions that we carry inside of us. It’s just you and the paper. No one gets hurt by what’s coming out of you, no matter how painful or ugly it may be. Sharing our stories helps us realize that we are not alone.
    💙Grief Isolates: One way to move past isolation is through community. Women tend to talk more than men do, so there is power in finding (or creating) support groups to connect with. But, talking isn’t just for women…
    💛Expert Tip: When someone is grieving, please don’t say “Everything happens for a reason.” Instead, say “I’m sorry that you’re in pain.” It’s okay if you don’t identify with the experience, but as humans, we can all relate to pain and suffering.
     
    Resources related to this episode
    ✨Permission to Thrive, A Six-Month Guided Journal for Grieving Mothers. This journal is applicable to anyone on a healing journey, not just recovering from the loss of a child. It includes sections on gratitude, breathwork, self-care, journaling prompts, and affirmations.
    ✨Sunshine After the Storm: A Survival Guide for the Grieving Mother, a compilation of stories from parents, offering emotional support and guidance for grieving mothers.
    ✨Find Alexa and her work on the web at:
    Sunshine After the Storm
    WRITE| PUBLISH | SELL
    Womenin Publishing Summit
     
    Connect with Alexa
    ✨Facebook
    ✨Instagram
    ✨LinkedIn
    Connect with Write.Publish.Sell on ✨Instagram
     
    Connect with the HEALing Mentor on social media
    @bethjoneshealingmentor on FB, IG, LI, TT & YT
    #healingjourney #grief #grievingmother #writetoheal
    53 min
  • Ep 18: HEALing to Serve God
    My guest is Charles McIntyre, a survivor, addict, and man of God. In this episode, Charles shares his full circle story about surviving religious trauma, battling addiction, and HEALing to serve God. We explore his experience with hope, evolution, and love throughout his life and talk about Charles's work today ministering to and working with other men in addiction recovery, including that he teaches Sunday lessons regularly.
    Charles and I are more alike than we are different. We are each survivors, each having suffered in our unhealthy survivorship for years, including escape and self-isolation. We experienced events that sent us to do the real work to heal. We took our HEALing journey and did the intentional and focused work to move past our suffering. And now, we are doing work the Divine calls us to do, using our lived experiences.
    If God can work this way in our lives, imagine what God can do in your life.
     Highlights of this episode
    💛Addiction is an escape. Escape is the way many of us survive after trauma and abuse.
    💙Becoming relatable. Sometimes, our life experiences are the very things that make us relatable to others so that we can serve them.
    💛What if we saw our ”failures” as lessons to make us credible and relatable in our work to serve others?
    💙The power of therapy. Trauma therapy helps us dig deep into experiences that burden us when we don’t realize it. The things we do to ourselves have explanations, but we need help pulling out and processing the event(s) and our associated emotions.
    💛Sharing our stories of healing for purpose: hurt people hurt people, but healed people heal people.
     Resources related to this episode
    ✨Men of Nehemiah (MON) is a rehabilitation center combining biblical teachings, military discipline, and clinical counseling to restore men to their roles in families and communities. I see MON as a microcosm of the HEAL framework. It is hope. It gives men the tools & resources to do the deep self-discovery work to heal the root cause of their addiction. And it is love.
     Connect with Charles
    ✨Facebook
    Connect with the HEALing Mentor on social media
    @bethjoneshealingmentor on FB, IG, LI & TT
    Keywords
    #healingmentor #healtolove #religioustrauma #addiction #addictionrecovery
    1 hr
  • Ep 17: HEALing Through Room Transformation
    HONORING CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION MONTH
    ‼️‼️Trigger Warning: This episode contains discussions of childhood abuse and may be triggering for some listeners.
    In this episode, I welcome Susie Vybiral, founder and CEO of Room Redux, a nonprofit that transforms rooms for children who have faced abuse. Our conversation highlights the importance of awareness and action in addressing child abuse, emphasizing how Room Redux provides a tangible form of healing by changing a child’s environment and personal space. We
    talk about the concept of unconditional love and self-love as crucial elements in the healing process. Be sure to listen all the way through to hear our final message of hope and empowerment, emphasizing the human capacity for healing and transformation.
    Susie has a beautiful heart and so much compassion for this work. You’ll feel her passion for this work and her love for the kids who are beneficiaries. It’s infectious!!
    I’m a proud supporter of Room Redux! There are any ways that you can become a supporter, too. Susie talks about some of these at the end, including helping to buy items for the room transformations through Amazon. Check out the link below in the Resources section. #weareroomredux
    Highlights of this episode
    💙Awareness of Child Abuse: The importance of raising awareness about child abuse and taking action. We’re talking about the impact on boys and girls, so if you see something, do something because “Compassion + Action = Results.”
    💛Unconditional Love and Self-Love: Unconditional love and self-love are essential for healing. The children who receive a Room Redux room transformation may feel a sense of unconditional love that they have rarely felt. It’s about giving them an opportunity to receive unconditional love and in turn seeing their self-worth which begins to foster self-love.
    💙Healing Through Our Environment: Transforming environments aids in healing. Susie
    talks about some of the specifics of transforming rooms to achieve specific impacts relevant to the child, their well-being and the theme that they love. Room Redux has a structured intake process to plan the transformation (experiences and challenges the child has and does face, theme, color, texture, placement all have an impact), but she has a gift to almost channel
    exactly what the child needs in their personal space to experience healing and unconditional love.
    💛Psychology of Healing: Our brains have an amazing capacity to rewire and change, which can be facilitated through positive environments and self-love. The trajectory of our lives can be changed, and the ripple effects are profound, including the potential to stop the cycle of abuse
    where someone who has been abused becomes an abuser. Room Redux taps into our potential to rewire our behavior and heal by changing the physical environment of the child—starting early!!
    Resources related to this episode
    ✨Room Redux (www.roomredux.org): A nonprofit organization that transforms rooms for children who have faced abuse.
    ✨Children's Advocacy Center: Where Susie gained experience working with families affected by abuse. Search the bold text to find a Center near you.
    ✨Book: The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse, by Ellen Bass & Laura Davis
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