This episode of the Reboots Podcast is about trauma - "Big T Trauma" and "Little T trauma." 

Even "Little T" trauma can be devastating.

My dear friend Ada Floyd and I talk about:

• How she's continually learning to process traumas like sexual abuse and the loss of her twin boys Keeton and Kaden.
• Her role as a therapist in helping her clients heal from trauma. 
• And EMDR, which is a therapeutic approach that can help us process trauma by rewiring neurological pathways that have been stuck because of the trauma we've endured.

If you're interested in learning more about Ada Floyd, check out her professional bio.

If you'd like to learn more about her personal story, listen to Reboots Episode R008.

Dr. Benjamin Hardy is a best-selling author who has been read by - get this - more than 100 million humans.

His work is featured regularly in Forbes, Fortune Magazine, Psychology Today and other well-known publications and his new book Personality Isn't Permanent debunks the multi-billion dollar personality profile industry as something of an excuse for believing we are stuck with who we are.

In this episode, Ben and I talk about:

• Personal growth and change as science
• How the concepts American theologian Reinhold Niebuhr so eloquently expressed in his famous Serenity Prayer apply to the science of change
• The role journaling plays in helping us make peace with our past selves and instruct our future selves.

I’m grateful for Ben's time and his work that focuses on the science of change.

Learn more about Personality Isn't Permanent.

Follow Ben's work.

30 Days of Gratitude

Welcome to a brand new season of the Reboots Podcast!

This summer is all about arriving at reasonable happiness - even in the midst of great hardship and the chaos that surrounds so many of us now.

How is that possible?

Through the now-common prayer in which we ask for help in accepting the things we cannot change, and having the courage to change what we can.

There's a constellation of topics surrounding change navigation, like mental health, behavioral science, the 12 steps of recovery, and gratitude.

We're kicking off the 2020 season of episodes with Dr. Benjamin Hardy - an organizational psychologist and writer. He shares insights into the hope of changing ourselves and debunks popular personality studies that he believes tend to keep us stuck where we are instead of believing we can change who we are.

Can't wait to share this episode and much more with you.

Here's the link to 15 Things I've Learned About Navigating Change.

Check out our 30-days of gratitude - COVID-19 edition. 

Episode 25 of The Change Journals features my friend Caesar Kalinowski. 

In our continuation of our 30-days of gratitude challenge, Caesar talks about how gratitude not only changes us but also changes other people when we dare to share gratitude.

Caesar remembers how difficult it was for him - as an adult - to write a tribute letter to his father because the childhood relationship had been so painful. And how that activity began to rewire remembrance - for both of them, and how it brought profound healing to both of them - and into a deeper relationship with a Heavenly Father.

Join Caesar for The Gospel in Everyday Life later this week.

Sign up for the 30-Days of Gratitude challenge.

We’re teaching quick habits for building and maintaining a gratitude habit - not just through the holidays but for a lifetime.

Steve Austin is a former pastor who nearly died by suicide.

In this episode - which ties in with our FREE 30-Day Gratitude Challenge - Steve walks us through the first hours and days following his failed suicide attempt and how a therapist helped him find gratitude.

Remember when we were kids and we drew hand turkeys at Thanksgiving?

Steve shows us the connection between the hand drawing and gratitude.

Plus, he walks us through what to do when we can only think of one thing for which we are grateful - and how we can use "why" questions to engage our children in a gratitude practice.

Steve prepared a free resource just for this conversation. It's designed to teach you the "hand turkey" gratitude method.

Download it here.

Join Steve and me for our FREE 30-Days of Gratitude Challenge.

Mike Vardy is a long-time podcaster, productivity practitioner, and writer.

Mike’s new book TimeCrafting: A Better Way to Get the Right Things Done is available for preorder on Amazon.

Keep up to date with the book launch here.

Mike’s journaling method is ridiculously simple.

He uses his phone, the Day One app, and the Drafts app - using dictation and photo images to quickly capture the most important parts of each day.

But Mike says that’s not where the magic happens.

You’ll hafta listen to the conversation to learn the secret journaling ingredient that super-charges Mike Vardy’s life and business.

Plus, check out the guest post I wrote for Shawn Blanc about how “The Note” helped me slay the dragon of self-doubt.

The Reverend Vincent Brown spends his days corralling teens and staff members offering adventure therapy at a therapeutic boarding school in Mars Hill, North Carolina.

As the chaplain and program director, Vince sees kids on their worst days - and he gets to celebrate with them during their best moments.

In this episode, Vince and I talk about:

• What it was like growing up with a dad in the United States Navy and how life changed for Vince when the family moved from San Diego to Memphis.
• Why it’s difficult for white people to understand the concept of white privilege and black lives matter.
• How learning to give the gift of grace can help heal our nation from racial injustice.

I’m grateful for Vince’s time, his story, his great humor, and his grace.

It was a privilege to have met him and his lovely wife, Dana this summer - and to know they are part of my Forever Family.

Vince invites you to reach out to him and Dana via Facebook.

Join us for a 4-week gratitude challenge - November 2019.

Tom Lambotte is an adoptive father of four who runs a highly-successful niche company.

Tom also talks openly about his experience with depression.

For Tom, journaling techniques help him work on the right things each day and to turn down the noise of a busy week so that he can think and act with a clear head.

Tom's clarity break is something I've been practicing for weeks now and it works!

Tom also walks us through how each Monday he plans his week by prioritizing A, B, and C tasks and "little 'uns."

You can learn more about Tom and his business at OptimizeMethod.io.

Want to simplify the complexities of life and business so you can make better decisions?

Awesome! Grab a copy of Tom Lambotte's step by step process for executing a weekly clarity break.

RebootsPodcast.com/clarity

Shawn is a husband and father. He’s known across the interwebs for The Sweet Setup - a website centered on reviewing tech devices and software.

Shawn is a self-described nerd, but there’s so much more to Shawn than tech.

In fact, Shawn’s current focus is, well, focus.

He builds products and courses designed to help people do meaningful work instead of just talking about it, fretting over dreams that could be but aren’t, and enjoying life and the people we love, even when we’re chasing audacious goals.

In this episode, Shawn talks about:

• His journaling practice
• How he flipped the notion of writing a book on its head and, instead, created a product that could - and does - help people learn to change behaviors.
• The difficult season in his life following his wife’s miscarriage.

Shawn Blanc put together this special offer for Reboots listeners interested in learning about the elements of focus.

Check out the guest post I wrote for Shawn outlining how "The Note" helped me tame self-doubt.

Elaine Johnston is an entrepreneur who is driven to teach other women her age how to develop business mindsets.

Elaine keeps several notebooks - each is dedicated to some facet of her life, including her marriage to Cody Johnston.

Cody and Elaine co-host The Reckless Pursuit podcast, and Elaine blogs at the Prodigal Daughter. A companion podcast is coming soon.

Read and hear Elaine's work.

Check out Elaine's journaling playlist.

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Loss of a loved one
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