Let's HEAL!

Let's HEAL!

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  • Ep 16: Empowering Kids Through Body Safety
    HONORING CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION MONTH
    ‼️‼️Trigger Warning: This episode contains discussions of childhood sexual abuse and may be triggering for some listeners.
    If you’re a parent or grandparent, DON’T miss this episode, where I welcome Kimberly King, a sexual abuse prevention educator and author. She teaches body safety education for children aged 3-10 and their parents, helping them to protect their children. We talk about the critical importance of body safety education for children and how adults can empower them to recognize and report inappropriate behavior. Kimberly shares insights from her books and her experiences in teaching parents and children about preventing child sexual abuse.
    💥The YouTube link to today's episode drop is in the comments.
    💥CTA: Please subscribe to my channel while you are there. Your support will help me to continue bringing my HEALing message to the world.
    💥Audio version of Let's HEAL! with Beth Jones is available on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
    Highlights of this episode
    💙Body Safety Education For Kids: Teaching children about their bodies and boundaries is essential. It’s estimated that 68% of kids don’t tell anyone, whether that’s because they lack the vocabulary or out of fear. This is why education is so important. Prevention through awareness and education is the best way to stop child sexual abuse.
    💛Say No to Hugs: This is the title of one of Kimberly’s books, and I LOVE the concept and statement for children. I know what it feels like to be forced to hug someone I didn’t want to, even though I had no idea why. When I was young, I was forced to hug my grandfather, who had abused me, and although I did not have the comprehension of what had happened to me, nor the vocabulary to tell someone, I knew that something was wrong. Having to hug him scared me and made me feel unseen and disregarded.
    💙Statistics on Child Abuse: Discussion on the prevalence of child sexual abuse and the need for awareness. Kimberly and I agree that the official stats from most organizations are low, and the prevalence is much higher than we’re told. Our belief comes from our work talking to survivors or others who know survivors.
    💛Top 3 tips for adults: 1) Take a sexual abuse training course as an adult. 2) Start talking to your kids early—when they’re two—about body safety and providing them with proper vocabulary. 3) Teach kids their body safety rules and rights and establish who their safety adults are.
    💙Top tip for children: Read a book on body safety rules and then talk through it to make sure they understand. Giving them specific scenarios to talk through helps them develop independent thinking and problem-solving skills.
    Resources related to this episode
    ✨Books & Online Classes by Kimberly King (Child Sexual Abuse Prevention
    Educator| Kimberly King-Tough Topics Mom, Connecticut):
    ●     "I Said No to Hugs": Teaches young children about body autonomy.
    ●     "Body Safety for Young Children": A guide for adults on recognizing risk factors.
    ●     Courses for parents and children to learn about body safety in a fun manner.
    ✨Darkness to Light (Home - Darkness to Light): An organization focused on preventing child sexual abuse.
    ✨Saprea (Sexual Abuse Healing and Prevention Resources | Saprea): An organization that promotes child safety education.
    ✨Happy Days: The Guided Path from Trauma to Profound Freedom and Inner Peace, Gabby
    Bernstein
     
    Connect with Kimberly
    ✨toughtopicsmom • Instagram
    Connect with the HEALing Mentor on social media
    @bethjoneshealingmentor on FB, IG, LI, TT & YT
    #healingmentor #childsexualabuse #childabuseawareness #childabuseprevention
    56 min
  • Ep 15: The Power of Community - We Are Not Alone
    HONORING CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION MONTH
    ‼️‼️Trigger Warning:
    This episode contains discussions of childhood sexual abuse and may be triggering for some listeners.
    In this episode, I welcome Scott Dille, founder and executive director of Braver Collective, a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing a safe, trauma-informed space for survivors to heal. Scott shares his personal journey and the mission of Braver Collective, which includes sharing survivor stories and offering resources for healing. Our conversation highlights the importance of community in the healing process, drawing from our experiences with support groups and therapy. We also discuss Judith Herman's stages of healing and how community plays a crucial role at every step of the journey.
    💥CTA: Please subscribe to my podcast while you are there. Your support will help me continue sharing my HEALing message with the world.
    Highlights of this episode
    💛Introduction to Braver Collective: A nonprofit that offers an online community, storytelling, and resources built by trauma survivors for trauma survivors.
    💙Importance of Community & Storytelling: We both believe deeply in community's healing power and talk about our experiences with support groups. We look for community in so many other aspects of our lives—socially or spiritually, for example—so why not in the part of our lives that is so deeply seated that we need to heal? Resistance to joining a support group can be misplaced shame that belongs to perpetrators, not survivors.
    💛Focus on Young Adults: When healing begins at a young age, before the average start of the healing journey around 50, suffering as a survivor can end more quickly and move us to a longer life in which we thrive.
    💙Healing Journey Phases: Scott references Judith Herman's stages of healing: safety, remembering, mourning, and reconnection.
    💛Personal Growth and Purpose: Scott shares his transition from a business background to working full-time with Braver Collective, illustrating finding purpose in supporting survivors.           
     
    Resources related to this episode
    💛Braver Collective: a nonprofit organization providing a safe space for survivors to heal.
    Available at bravercollective.org and on social media platforms like Instagram and LinkedIn.
    💙Judith Herman's "Trauma and Recovery": A book discussing stages of
    healing from trauma.
    Connect with Scott & Braver Collective
    Scott Dille on LinkedIn | Facebook | Instagram
    Braver Collective on LinkedIn | Facebook | Instagram
    Connect with the HEALing Mentor on social media
    @bethjoneshealingmentor | Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | TikTok | YouTube
    #healingmentor #letsheal #childabuseawareness #supportgroups #storytelling #communitysupport
    59 min
  • Ep 14: Prevention is the Best Defense
    HONORING CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION MONTH
    ‼️‼️Trigger Warning:
    This episode contains discussions of childhood sexual abuse and may be triggering for some listeners.
    In this episode, my guest is Taura Edgar, founder of TALK Hong Kong, a charity
    focused on child sexual abuse prevention and supporting adult survivors. Our
    conversation explores Taura's pain to purpose journey from survivor to
    advocate, the critical importance of prevention, and the transformative power
    of community healing.
    TALK Hong Kong is where my journey to find my voice began. HEALing in community was an
    essential part of my healing journey, which led me to TALK as a support group resource and the place where I started talking, safely and outside of trauma therapy, about the abuse I have survived. As a natural-born problem-solver and someone who is an expert in prevention, I wanted to do more. So did Taura. And that began TALK’s journey to advocacy. It also started my journey to become the HEALing Mentor.
    Highlights of this episode
    💛Founding TALK Hong Kong: Taura created TALK Hong Kong after struggling to find a support group resource that matched her specific need. Initially, her mission was to create a safe community for female survivors of sexual abuse to connect and heal. Today, the organization also provides awareness and prevention strategies as the best form of defense to reduce the prevalence of child sexual abuse.
    💙Personal Growth and Advocacy: Taura shares her story of transmuting her suffering as an incest survivor to becoming an advocate for prevention. Along the way, she engaged with legal reform, which led her to the TEDx Tin Hau stage, where she shared the findings of her initial
    research on the prevalence and impact of child sexual abuse in Hong Kong.
    💛Community Healing: Finding a community that understands your unique experiences can save your life. When you begin to heal, talking about what you’ve experienced can be
    overwhelming, but as you talk more, the related grief lessens. Healing and getting past the heaviness lessen as you talk more.
    💙Prevention Strategies: A primary prevention strategy is training adults to protect children, including breaking through challenging misconceptions about sexual offenders such as the belief that offenders are strangers. The reality is that offenders are very often known to
    the child. Localized prevention training in the native language is essential, as much training offered globally today is in English.                  
    💛Impact of Unaddressed Trauma: Unaddressed trauma is a public health crisis. The long-term effects on individual and societal levels are costly. Early intervention and support for survivors is critical to addressing the impact.
    Resources related to this episode
    💛TALK Hong Kong
    💙Darkness to Light, including its prevention programs and training
    Connect with Taura & TALK
    Taura Edgar | LinkedIn
    TALK Hong Kong | LinkedIn
    Taura Edgar | Facebook
    TALK Hong Kong | Facebook
    Connect with the HEALing Mentor on social media
    @bethjoneshealingmentor
    Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | TikTok | YouTube
    Keywords
    #healingmentor #letsheal #childabuse #childabuseprevention #childabuseawareness #survivorsupportgroups
    56 min
  • Ep 13: Reframing the Hardest Parts
    HONORING CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION MONTH coming in APRIL
    ‼️‼️Trigger Warning: This episode contains discussions of childhood sexual abuse and may be triggering for some listeners.
    In this episode, I share my journey of healing my relationship with my grandfather, who sexually abused me when I was a child. He died in 1994, 25 years before the focused and intentional part of my healing journey began in 2020. So, all the work I have done to heal this relationship
    has been spiritual and between our souls. I have had some genuinely profound experiences, which I share in this episode while also exploring the themes of trauma, forgiveness, and personal transformation.
    💥The YouTube link to today's episode drop is in the comments.
    💥CTA: Please subscribe to my channel while you are there. Your support will help me to continue bringing my HEALing message to the world.
    💥Audio version of Let's HEAL! with Beth Jones is available on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
    Highlights of this episode
    💛Child Abuse Prevention Month Dedication:
    This episode introduces a special series honoring April's Child Abuse Prevention Month. Stay tuned for the next four episodes, which will air each Friday in April.
    💙Healing at the Soul Level: Learn through a real-life example of deep trauma processing about the possibility of completely healing a relationship, even with someone who cannot or does not participate in your process.
    💛Radical Forgiveness: This is a profound, alternative, and transformative approach to understanding the intersection of personal trauma, spiritual growth, and life purpose (or our soul’s work in this lifetime).
    💙Complex Family Dynamics: Respect and affection are often expected in familial relationships, but sometimes those expectations are misplaced or undeserved. Experiencing the demand for these actions compounds our trauma, especially as children, when we cannot comprehend or process either the abuse or the expected behaviors toward our abuser.
    💛Healing Journey Stages: For survivors of child abuse, the healing journey includes confronting traumatic memories, reframing perspective, spiritual transformation, inner child work, and releasing generational trauma.
    Philosophical insights
    💙Belief in souls traveling through multiple lifetimes
    💛Understanding trauma as part of a more significant spiritual journey
    💙The power of empathy and compassion, even towards those who have caused deep hurt
    Resources related to this episode
    💙Book: "Complex PTSD: Surviving to Thriving" by Pete Walker
    💛Book: "Radical Forgiveness" by Colin Tipping
    Part of this story is written in my book. The rest, at least
    as it has developed until now, is written in two blog posts on the Empowered Survivors
    website. All are headlined “Reframing the Hardest Parts” and can be found here:
    💙Read my book Becoming an Empowered Survivor
    💛Read my Let's HEAL Blog
    Connect with the HEALing Mentor on social media
    @bethjoneshealingmentor |
    Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | TikTok | YouTube
    Keywords
    #healingmentor #empoweredsurvivors #youtoocanheal #hopeevolveandlove #trauma #traumahealing #traumahealingjourney #abusesurvivors #survivor #survivorship #heal #healing #healingjourney #letsheal #childabuseprevention #childabuseawareness #generationaltrauma #forgiveness #radicalforgiveness #souljourney #spritualhealing #spiritualjourney
    32 min
  • Ep 12: HEALing from Victim to Victor
    My guest, Aimee Stephens, shares her story about her journey
    from being a victim of incest to becoming a victorious 5x Ironman and 70.3
    finisher. We have a lot of similarities in our stories, including
    suffering abuse by a family member, the unhealthy way in which our abuse was
    handled within the family, taking our healing journeys and marriages that did
    not survive our healing.
    “Without the hard, we wouldn’t get the easy. Without the
    pain, we wouldn’t get the joy. Without the rain, we wouldn’t get the rainbow.”
    Aimee Stephens, Turning Pain Into Purpose
    Highlights of this episode
    💙Sometimes, how our trauma is dealt with after the fact can be worse than the events themselves. Not having the vocabulary to tell someone, ignoring or internalizing it ourselves,
    or being dismissed by those whom we tell are reactions that can cause us to create
    survival behaviors that can be very unhealthy.
    💛Trauma therapy can save your life! Especially when you find a therapist who sees you and wants to help you… not necessarily the relationship. Aimee so beautifully shows us the power of the trauma therapy relationship. I feel the same way about mine!
    💙When we feel out of alignment with ourselves, that may be a sign that we need to heal.
    💛As we heal, figuring out what happened to us, patterns, and how we have lived can be like putting puzzle pieces together to create the complete picture of our lives.
    💙Understanding that we have been abused and hearing the proper terminology can bring a host of emotions, including shock and fear. Still, it can also be liberating as we are awakened
    and can begin the work to heal.
    💛In familial abuse, sometimes it’s not only our abuser that we need to heal our relationship with but also other family members who either protect our abuser or don’t know how to deal
    with the situation.
    Resources related to this show
    ✨https://stan.store/healthyaimee
    ✨Aimee Stephens (@healthyaimee) • Instagram photos and videos
    Connect with the HEALing Mentor on social media
    @bethjoneshealingmentor |
    Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | TikTok | YouTube
    Keywords
    #healingmentor #empoweredsurvivors #youtoocanheal #hopeevolveandlove #trauma #traumahealing #traumahealingjourney #abusesurvivors #survivor #survivorship #heal #healing #healingjourney #letsheal #Ironman #70.3finisher #victor
    57 min
  • Ep 11: HEALing Trauma Through Reiki
    In this episode, hear from a master as she explains what’s happening in Reiki and the power of healing when energetics, spirituality, body touch, and emotions come together. My guest, Jennifer Dennison, is a gifted healer with a shared strength story. Her journey led her to experience the healing power of Reiki for herself and as a lived experience to help her clients. 
    BONUS FEATURE: Listen to us explore what happened to me during some of my most powerful healing experiences facilitated through Reiki with Jennifer, including my experience seeing my grandfather as a young boy before he suffered his trauma and human conditioning. This experience was one of the most profound parts of healing my relationship with my grandfather, the first person who abused me.
    Highlights of this episode
    💙Reiki helps us to remain in love-based emotions associated with higher levels of consciousness. Emotions like depression, sadness, fear and shame can be transmuted to awareness, surrender, joy and love through Reiki practice.
    💛Reiki facilitates physical healing by releasing blocked energy from our bodies. But it can also open us up spiritually and help us discover our life’s purpose.
    💙Often our healing is associated with generational trauma, which is not time-bound. We have the power to heal our generational past and future generations that come from us. I have had this exact experience: healing myself, releasing my grandfather, and stopping the generational trauma from falling to future generations of my family. Ultimately, what’s happening in my family is an elevation of our collective consciousness moving us all toward love.
    💛Healing is like peeling back the layers of an onion. As we move forward, we revisit the painful parts of our lives and sometimes past lives. Ultimately, we heal by allowing the process to unfold, giving up control, and surrendering. Trust in the process and the provider you have been led to is foundational to allowing the process to unfold.
    Resources related to this show
    ✨Connect with Jennifer at Beyond the Veil Higher Healing: https://l.bttr.to/CEmCY
    Connect with the HEALing Mentor on social media
    @bethjoneshealingmentor | Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | TikTok | YouTube
    Keywords
    #healingmentor #empoweredsurvivors #youtoocanheal #hopeevolveandlove #trauma #traumahealing #traumahealingjourney #abusesurvivors #survivor #survivorship #heal #healing #healingjourney #letsheal #reiki #reikimaster #spiritualhealing #energyhealing #energetichealing #emotionalhealing #bodywork #healingpastlives #generationaltrauma #healinggenerationaltrauma
    49 min
  • Ep 10: HEALing to Improve Job Performance
    My guest in this episode, Brian Henderson, and I have interesting similarities in our stories. Our journeys began within months of each other, and we both walked our healing pathways in Hong Kong. As a result of our healing, we left professional services (where we worked with companies on high-stakes matters), found our life’s purpose, and now serve other people as they walk their healing pathways.
    I love the part of this conversation where we talk about how trauma and abuse can show up in our performance at work, often through what is perceived to be underperformance. Yet, neither the manager nor the employee has any idea. Rarely do we think about healing from our past to improve performance at work.  
    And I REALLY love the part where we talk about MEN! I am passionate about the reality that trauma and abuse know no demographic boundaries, including gender. Men are emotional beings who can be hurt in all the same ways that women can be and, therefore, also need to heal if they are living in suffering as an unhealed survivor.
    Highlights of this episode
    💙Healing is a marathon, not a race.
    💛Work can distract us from what needs to be healed in our personal lives.
    💙Burnout occurs when stress exceeds the body’s coping ability, and no amount of well-being practice can prevent the effect on the body. Brian talks about having a healthy lifestyle—exercise, meditation, yoga, being in nature—which would typically help offset burnout. Still, he was under so much pressure at work that no amount of his healthy lifestyle was enough to keep him from burnout.
    💛Part of evolving is coming to understand that sometimes we are our own worst enemy—what I refer to as the wretched abuser—because we can contribute to our suffering.
    💙Trauma and abuse can show up in our professional lives through performance evaluations where we are told, for example, that we don’t have a voice, mumble, are not assertive, or do not have “executive presence.” Healing can help us to improve, but as employees, we may not recognize that our past can impact our performance. Managers rarely have the training to recognize healing work to help improve employee performance.
    💛Similarly, we must understand the workplace triggers that make us less-than-effective leaders or leaders without presence and an ability to connect deeply with colleagues.
    💙The benefits of support groups specific to the trauma and abuse you have experienced cannot be overstated. There is so much power in connecting with and being understood and accepted by people with shared experiences.
    Resources related to this episode
    ✨MoveMEN! is a support group where men can slow down, relax, drop the tough guy, be kind, support each other and cultivate some wellness wisdom.
    ✨MoveMEN! on ​IG​
    ✨Insight Dialogue is partner work with expression and listening to develop deep interpersonal relationships and facilitate healing.
    ✨Burnout Recovery Support Groups
    ✨Brian Henderson (he/him) | LinkedIn
    Connect with the HEALing Mentor on social media
    @bethjoneshealingmentor on FB, IG, LI, TT & YT
    Keywords
    #healingmentor #empoweredsurvivors #youtoocanheal #hopeevolveandlove #trauma #traumahealing “traumahealingjourney #abusesurvivors #survivor #survivorship #heal #healing #healingjourney #letsheal #burnout “jobperformance #supportgroups #movemen
    59 min
  • Ep 9: MoJoTiVatioN to Transform Yo'Self
    This is such a fun episode. My friend Amy Sutter shares her strength to MoJoTiVate people to truly transform their lives through mind, body, and soul. To do that, Amy uses her experiences with adversity and healing to give her shared strengths to help others. Just like we’re all meant to do. This is one reason for our unique experiences throughout our lives.
    And you don’t want to miss Amy doing her thang, her signature Rap Up, at the end of this episode!
    Highlights of this episode
    💛You can never lose your MOJO!! It’s inherent to who you are.
    💙Aka, your zone of genius or life’s purpose. But some of us get tossed around on our path to discover what it is.
    💛Amy tells her story about bringing deep preparation, manifestation, and surrendering to the will of God (her Higher Power) together, which resulted in her finding her true purpose.
    💙Our response to adversity can build us up, rather than tear us down. Amy has coined the phrase “Shared Strength Speaker” because that’s what we’re meant to do when sharing our stories.
    💛Positive outcomes from extreme adversity: Amy tells the story of her family seeking justice for her father after a drunk driver killed him. This case went to the Supreme Court of Georgia, and even today, it is a law that helps families who are victims. Out of one extreme tragedy, many have been helped.
    💙Forgiveness in action. Amy talks about the healing power of witnessing the courage of the young man driving (the defendant) to stand up, take responsibility for his actions throughout the legal process, and visit Amy and her mom to apologize to them directly. Amy and her mother courageously received and forgave him. Amy healed and does not harbor fear-based emotions that bind her heart as a result of her trauma.
    💛HEALing is all about mindset.
    💙Amy focuses on mind, body, and soul work through an immersive experience in her MoJoTiationN Training Studio to kickstart transformation through a healthy lifestyle and/or competition preparation.
    Resources related to this episode
    ✨Mojotivation (connect with Amy to transform your mind, body, and soul)
    ✨MoJoTiVatioN - Positive Power (Community Page) | Facebook
    ✨MoJoTiVatioN (watch Amy on YouTube, inspiring your transformation)
    Connect with the HEALing Mentor on social media
    @bethjoneshealingmentor on FB, IG, LI, TT & YT
    Keywords
    #healingmentor #empoweredsurvivors #youtoocanheal #hopeevolveandlove #trauma #traumahealing #abusesurvivors #survivor #survivorship #heal #healing #healingjourney #letsheal #mojotivate #mojotivation #transformation #bodybuilding #bodytransformation #bodybuildingmotivation
    57 min
  • Bonus Episode: Showing Up in Love
    In this episode, I’m talking about what “showing up in love” means in any significant relationship. Two key learnings for me in recent weeks are the backbones of this piece:
    💙The Purpose of Love, a sermon delivered by Pastor Richie Butler, St. Luke’s United Methodist Church, Dallas, Texas. Sneak peek: the purpose of love is: 1) to check yourself and 2) to empower.
    💛1 + 1 = 11, a metaphor created by Jessica Zweig in her book The Light Work. Sneak peek: the metaphor is about not bending to a “2” in any relationship, but instead, remaining a whole person or remaining as your “1”.
    💙Together, these teachings create a powerful message about how we can and should show up in our relationships.
    Resources related to this episode
    ✨Pastor Richie Butler’s The Purpose of Love sermon on YouTube
    ✨The Light Work, by Jessica Zweig
     Connect with the HEALing Mentor on social media
    @bethjoneshealingmentor on FB, IG, LI, TT & YT
    Keywords
    #healingmentor #empoweredsurvivors #youtoocanheal #hopeevolveandlove #trauma #traumahealing #abusesurvivors #survivor #survivorship #heal #healing #healingjourney #letsheal #God #universe #spirituality #lightwork #lightworker
    23 min
  • Ep 8: We Are Love Looking for Love
    Highlights of this episode include
    💛Words create worlds. When you say something out loud, your body feels it, and what your body feels, the Universe heals.
    💙Our bodies keep score. Our lives depend on us forgiving ourselves. Don’t miss George’s thank you body meditation, which is linked below in the resources related to this episode.
    💛Being a busyholic in chaos distracts us from feeling and processing our emotions; it’s an escape, just like any other form of escape or flight.
    💙Prayer is talking to God, and meditation is listening to what God has to say to you.
    💛There are many common themes across all religions and belief systems. Spirituality, God, is entirely about love.
    💙We are spiritual beings having experiences as human beings for a time being.
    Resources related to this episode
    ✨www.georgepkansas.com (George's speaker site)
    ✨www.icansir.org (Free videos for cancer survivors)
    ✨www.icansir.com (Books by George)
    ✨www.thankyoubody.love (George's thank you body meditation)
    Connect with the HEALing Mentor on social media
    @bethjoneshealingmentor on FB, IG, LI, TT & YT
    Keywords
    #healingmentor #empoweredsurvivors #youtoocanheal #hopeevolveandlove #trauma #traumahealing #abusesurvivors #survivor #survivorship #heal #healing #healingjourney #letsheal #god #universe #spirituality #thebodykeepsscore
    1 hr 7 min

About Let's HEAL!

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Welcome to Let’s HEAL! with Beth Jones. I’m Beth, your leadership performance strategist and the HEALing Mentor. We’re still talking about healing our survival patterns, but this show is taking the…