All of our experiences are gifts if we are willing to look deeper into them and find the lessons. From there we can reprogram ourselves to move from a place of peace and ownership instead of reactivity and trauma.

Takeaways
Uncovering Your BS
Limiting Beliefs
Clearing Trauma

Children often take on the fault and blame for what goes wrong in their lives and their parents lives. They are told that the wrongdoings were because of them. “Dad left because of you.” “Dad hit me because of you.” “You ruined my life being born.”

The truth is, it was never your fault. You were a child and whatever happened in your childhood as a result of your parents or caregivers was Not. Your. Fault.

Kathy Sanderson is an inner child trauma expert and joins me to relay this very message.

We talk about:

Abandonment
Shame
Who is your Inner child
The Wounded inner child

I say it time and time again, there is life after trauma and May Alirad is living proof of that. Finding healing after 25 years of assault and rape, May shares her story to show that there is hope and healing is possible.

Takeaways

Healing is possible regardless of how long it is has been
You can take control of your life
Grounding techniques
Your voice matters

We are not born into fear; it is something we are taught. Therefore, we can unlearn this behavior and create new ones once we change the stories we tell ourselves.

Terri Kozlowski’s tragic story is one of a mother allowing addiction to cause sexual harm and then physically abandoning her at the age of eleven. Despite the trauma, she was able to become a survivor and overcome the fear and limiting beliefs and thrive.

Takeaways

What was the turning point for Terri to begin the healing journey to overcome her fears;
What personal boundaries did she set with her mother;
How Terri calmed the inner critic;
What is reframing, and how did she use it to overcome her childhood trauma;
Is mindset important, and how does it affect us.

Growing up in a dangerous country, like Brazil, and spending the first 21 years of her life there before immigrating to Canada, Juliana Leamen knows how to recognize the consequences of the fears and emotional traumas of growing up feeling unsafe.

She share her story on how that shaped her and how she shows up to the world.

She also shares about a new take on confidence and how women can get there, in a practical way most people have not considered before.

Takeaways

A different take on confidence, especially for those struggling with their bodies and how they feel about their weight
A practical way to start shifting how you look at confidence

Most, if not all moms feel guilt at some point during their parenting journey. Some guilt is deeper than others and the weight it has on us as moms can have a major negative effect on our parenting.

Alysia Lyons, author of Good Moms Don’t: Lies, Truths and How to Conquer Mom Guilt, shares her story and tips for overcoming mom guilt.

Takeaways:

Having compassion for your younger self
Understanding how guilt is created
How to let it go

Your life can be whatever you desire, but unless you know what you want, you just keep accepting and doing the same things. Like many women, Adele Brimage has overcome very challenging times in her life and now uses the knowledge of how she was able to turn her life around to help other women do their life on their terms.

Listen to her story...

Trauma comes in all shapes and sizes. Some are what we call Big T trauma, such as our guest, Stormy Hill’s near death experience or ending a passionless marriage. Others traumas are more of a little t…they happen but they aren’t a huge deal. Stormy has experienced multiple traumas and the highs and lows associated with it.

Listen to her story.

After a very scary situation in February 2020, Rachel Dayoub decided that self-defense classes needed to be more convenient and inexpensive so that women and children all over could benefit from having education and techniques that could save their life. And so she began Whispering Force.

When breast cancer took Tara's breasts, she rallied through. When her father passed away unexpectedly while she was battling cancer, Tara persevered.

But when the nurse at the plastic surgeon's office did a botch job on Tara's nipple tattoo, she'd had enough.

Tara took matters into her own hands, trained with top notch tattoo artists and started her business, Pink Ink Tattoo.

Listen to her story...