Post Traumatic Faith

Johnny Crowder, suicide/abuse survivor, TEDx speaker, touring musician, mental health and sobriety advocate, and the Founder & CEO of Cope Notes shares with us his journey toward health, healing and advocacy. Since his first keynote in 2011, Johnny's refreshingly candid perspective has attracted praise from hundreds of outlets, including Upworthy, CNN and Forbes. His firsthand experience with multiple mental illnesses ranging from bipolar disorder and OCD to schizophrenia uniquely equips him to provide realistic, yet hopeful insight into the pains of hardship with authenticity, levity and unconventional wit.

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Jay Shifman, Choose your Struggle Podcast and event host, tells us of overcoming addiction, two overdoses and coming into recovery. It is Jay's mission to encourage difficult conversations and honest education concerning these and similar struggles. Shifman is now a coach, storyteller and stigma destroying speaker.

For more information visit http://www.jayshifman.com or find him on your favorite social media platform.

John Helton, author of Stop Your Whining shares with us about his life with a brain disease. www.theblindfury.com www.maritalmonkey.com

Jared and Jill talk about all things life, mental illness, faith and the church. Jared is the host of the Louder Now podcast.

My guest Cici Owen has been a warrior her entire life.

She was born in 1958 to a white mother, who abandoned her after her family discovered the father was black.

She endured emotional and physical abuse in the ghettos of Newark, NJ and the surrounding areas, where she was shuffled from one dysfunctional home to another.

She desperately wanted to be loved and shown love but was rejected at home and school.

At the age of 14, she ran away to live on the streets of Newark and New York, where she learned the martial arts to protect herself as a homeless teen.

The martial arts provided the emotional and mental strength essential to develop the determination and resilience she would later need as a black female in white male dominated professions.

Her life has been marked by rejection and abandonment, but the lessons God taught her through the martial arts crafted her into a relentless fighter for good.

Diatra Simpson is a woman who believes that a personal relationship with God makes all things possible in our lives including sustainable healing. When Diatra hit her rock bottom of losing her family she began to question her beliefs about healing being possible. She created and took herself through a 4 part rigorous healing boot camp. while counseling families and writing 'Chains are meant to be broken."

Michelle E. DIckinson, is a very passionate mental health advocate, a TED speaker, and a published author of a memoir entitled Breaking Into My Life. Michelle is out to do her part to eliminate the stigma by normalizing the mental health conversation within the workplace and beyond. She partners with innovative leaders to bring her programs and mental health strategies to help them cultivate cultures of compassion for those living with or caring fo those with invisible disabilitlies.

https://www.michelleedickinson.com/protecting-our-happy/

Vincent Haywood is a Certified Master's Life Coach who specializes in happiness coaching, goal success coaching, life purpose coaching and confidence building coaching for graduating teens, young adults and millennials. Growing up in a tough area Vincent turned to a life of crime, spiraling down in his early twenties. He spent 11 years in the Texas Department of Corrections. He found Christ and turned his life around to help young people make decisions at the most critical time in their life.

VIncent's book "Testimonies over Titles" is available on Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=testimonies+over+titles&ref=nb_sb_noss_2

https://17andbeyondlc.com/

Pastor Jeff Crim talks about childhood sexual abuse by his gym teacher. Jeff is also a cancer survivor and hospital/hospice chaplain. You can find out more about Jeff at http://liminallutheran.com/

Sean Wheeler, founder of Starfish Ministries is a victim of child sex trafficking. A survivor of that horrific abuse, Sean is devoting himself to bringing awareness and stopping sex and labor trafficking of children.