SecondWind with Joyce

We often live tangled up with our past experiences, our limiting beliefs, and our states of stress. In order to bring freedom and healing, we need to untangle the knots that limit us. This episode features a new modality and inspirational story to do just that.

For the last twenty years, Angela McKinney has been helping people transform their lives - including her own. As a somatic guide and expert in addiction recovery, Angela created a unique approach to healing from life challenges called The Untangle Method. She is the author of a new book, Untangle: How to Create BIG Possibilities through SMALL changes, was released in October and can be ordered now on Amazon.

Angela was born in Tennessee. At age thirteen, Angela was disowned by her father and sent to live in Los Angeles, where she and her mother survived feeling lost without a home. At fifteen, after winning Star Search, it all became too much for her, engulfing her in a life of chaos and addiction. Her early adulthood recovery efforts have paved the path to help implement hundreds of complex recovery cases across the country. Angela uses humor as a tool to capture the insanity of survival states and highlights "the terror of success" not often spoken of.

Angela says, "I use evidence-based strategies to empower disenfranchised addicts, CEO's, professional athletes, and stay-at-home parents to emerge from hiding and embark on successful living. Untangling builds creative resilience to realize your best life, even if there is a part of you that says you can't."

What You'll Learn in This Episode:

• Angela's background and the reason she decided to write her book about untangling the knots in your life to bring freedom
• Why survival states are difficult to untangle and the three step process of untangling
• The defining moment that changed Angela's life
• The steps people should take when they want to dig into what's underneath the survival state
• Tools to transform trauma or "stuckness" and redefine it
• How the healing journey is ongoing

Bonus for listeners: Learn How to Untangle the Noise and Find Your Pathway to Freedom: A free audio from Angela to learn the 3 steps that will change your life fast. Download here.

Links Mentioned in This Episode:

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Blessed at a very early age with the Gift of the Holy Spirit, Kathleen Bright found she had the gift of wisdom, faith, word of knowledge, healing, prophecy and discerning of spirits. Within these gifts she was also given the gifts of being intuitive, a medium, psychic, clairvoyant, clairaudient, clairsentient and has the ability to see auras, to channel and astral travel.

What You'll Learn in This Episode:

• How Kathleen cultivated her gift of intuition and prophesy from a young age
• How she bridges the gap for those who are unsure that gifts of sight can be used in the religious community
• Defining moments that helped her realize her gift
• How to lean into a healing spiritual journey
• A guided meditation to help decrease stress and anxiety

Hormonal imbalances can wreak so much havoc on mental well-being. Being able to advocate for yourself and find treatment that is right for you is more than half the battle. Today's episode with Andrea Jones digs into how to get to the root of hormone symptoms and find whole body balance.

Andrea Jones is an RN, BSN and Functional Hormone Coach. She works with women all over the world to get rid of their painful periods, mood swings, irritability, fatigue, insomnia and perimenopausal symptoms...naturally!

What You'll Learn in This Episode:

• Andrea's struggle with hormonal imbalances and why she's on a mission to help other women who struggle
• The importance of advocating for your own body and finding what is normal for you
• Andrea's unique program that supports women
• What the liver has to do with hormone health, plus other contributors to hormone balance
• How menopause and perimenopause influence mental health and what you can do about it
• Why birth control and hormone replacement therapy don't work for many women
• What are the biggest contributors to hormone imbalances

Links Mentioned in This Episode:

Website | Facebook | Instagram| YouTube

Parenting can often create a strain and added stress to relationships. It's important to be able to co-parent in a healthy way, while also maintaining self-care practices.

Eli Weinstein is a Social Work Therapist (LCSW) who has worked in a psychiatric hospital and intense outpatient clinic, and currently runs his own private practice in New York and Nevada. He is married to his wife Ariella and has two beautiful children, Rikki and Max, and lives in the sunny Las Vegas.

He created ELIvation, The Dude Therapist Podcast, and became a therapist to fill a need and create a modern outlook on mental health by creating a more digestible and relatable view on mental health to help those in struggling times, and add some extra inspiration and motivation into everyday life.

Eli has been featured on The Kelly Clarkson Show, The Trauma Therapist, Mimosas With Moms, Holding Space, Breaking Taboo, Therapy Thoughts w/ Tiffany Roe and on multiple podcasts ranging from parenting, relationships, mental health and infertility. His main goal is to help people on their journey to add support, care, empathy, expertise, and insight. He runs events, seminars and individual coaching on topics from mental health awareness, public speaking, coaching, relationship coaching and confidence boosting.

What You'll Learn in This Episode:

• Eli's work with couples and how to address relationship stress that is based on past hurts
• Parenting in the modern age and how it is different from past parenting philosophies
• How to co-parent in a healthy way
• How to keep relationships healthy while being a parent
• How to care for yourself daily
• Parenting with joy and fun

Links Mentioned in This Episode:

Website | Instagram

The loss of a child is unimagineable, devastating pain. Today's episode focuses on overcoming loss and moving forward to live a full life.

Cathleen Elle is a #1 International Bestselling Author, Transformational Speaker, Suicide Loss Expert, Master Certified Success Coach and Healer, and Podcaster. Cathleen shares powerful healing techniques for parents who have been shattered by suicide to redesign their life and connect to their inner joy and redefine their experience.

She has coped with multiple traumas, but the death of her 19-year-old son from suicide was the catalyst that changed her life forever. Today, she assists in changing the trajectory of parents' lives by providing the tools that aid them in moving through the emotions accompanied by complicated loss and challenging experiences.

After 25 years of political service and extensive experience as a suicide awareness advocate, Cathleen is now a global speaker and healer who has been featured on national media outlets including ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, as well as ModernMom, Authority Mag, and Pop Culture. Top podcasts and radio shows within the emotional wellness space has featured her as the expert in suicide loss.

What You'll Learn in This Episode:

• The devastating loss of Cathleen's son to suicide and the defining moment that occurred after.
• The healing journey Cathleen stepped into after her son's transition.
• The journey of grieving and the step by step process
• The importance of self-forgiveness after tragic loss

Links Mentioned in This Episode:

Website | Facebook | LinkedIn | Instagram | YouTube

Andrew Hahn, Psy.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist and second-time guest on the show. He comes back on the show to discuss relationships, what goes wrong, and what we can do to create healthier ones.

Dr. Hahn received his A.B. Magna Cum Laude in Social Studies/Psychology from Harvard University and his Psy.D. in Clinical Psychology from Hahnemann University. He is certified by Helen Palmer to teach the Enneagram and has also been a faculty member in the graduate Counselling Programs at Lesley University and Northeastern University.

While Dr. Hahn's strong foundation and significant experience in traditional psychology has served his clients well, he has been untiring in his effort to better understand what is going on for people so that he could better help them live more contented and healthier lives. He is the founder of Life Centered Therapy.

What You'll Learn in This Episode:

• How our relationships are shaped by our family of origin
• How to talk about talking in a healthy way
• How to have a better understanding of our partner
• The problem with "marrying the potential"
• Handling reactivity in healthy ways
• How to understand each other's individual personalities beyond our own interpretations

Links Mentioned in This Episode:

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Highly sensitive people, empaths, and over-givers can often find themselves on the edge of burnout. This can be rooted in childhood limiting beliefs and experiences that impact whole body health. This episode peels back the layers of what causes burnout and how to recover.

Anne Bérubé, PhD, (Nova Scotia, Canada) is a spiritual teacher with an uncommon ability to share her story and insights in a way that awakens the inner wisdom in others. She helps people free themselves from the societal and parental conditioning that is holding them back from realizing the highest calling of their soul.

Her work has also allowed her to share the stage with renowned self help luminaries, including bestselling authors Wayne Dyer, Deepak Chopra, Elizabeth Gilbert, Sir Ken Robinson, Julie Daniluk, Anita Moorjani, Gabrielle Bernstein, Neal Donald Walsh, Dr. William Davis MD, and Gregg Braden. Her new book, The Burnout Antidote, is available now.

What You'll Learn from this Episode:

• Anne's own period of burnout that led her to write her book
• How empaths, over-givers, and highly sensitive people are more prone to burnout
• The root causes of burnout, the limiting beliefs and childhood experiences that impact how we relate in the world
• Reconnecting with your essence and who you are
• Why we hold on to trauma

Gift for listeners: Start with Anne's free course "Decoding the Wisdom of Feel." Sign up here.

Links Mentioned in This Episode:

Website | Facebook

This episode focuses on life and loss from a different lens. Loss when viewed from the perspective of the soul is an opportunity to grow spiritually and connect with our inner guidance. This is a gift that allows us to live a happier and more fulfilling life in the future.

Ann Clark retired early from an academic and research career, most recently at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, to go into private practice. Her main focus is stress management and spiritual health. She holds a PhD from the University of Chicago and the following certifications:

• Hypnotherapy - Association of Clinical Hypnosis
• Past Life Regression - Brian Weiss Institute
• Life between Lives - Michael Newton Institute

She is trained in Therapeutic Touch and is a Reiki Master. She is currently the Director of Research for the Micheal Newton Institute.

What You'll Learn in This Episode:

• The concept of life between lives from the Michael Newton Institute
• The definition of the soul
• Past life regression using hypnotic trance
• How the Soul views life on earth and loss
• How to view trauma and grief from a different perspective
• Ann's experience losing her daughter to a drug overdose
• How to support healing after a great loss, and more about her book, Healing from Great Loss

Gift for Listeners: Ann is offering a $50 discount on Past Life Regression. Information on Past Life Regression can be found at her website.

Links Mentioned in This Episode:

Website | Facebook

Eating disorders affect at least 9% of the population worldwide, and close to 26% of people with eating disorders attempt suicide. Eating disorders are among the deadliest mental illnesses, second only to opioid addiction. This episode creates a conversation about the importance of awareness and finding healing through yoga as a therapeutic tool.

Jennifer Kreatsoulas is a certified yoga therapist specializing in eating disorders and body image. She is the founder of Yoga for Eating Disorders, the former creator and host of Real Body Talk, author of The Courageous Path to Healing and Body Mindful Yoga, educator, and mental health advocate.

Through her virtual school, Yoga for Eating Disorders, she offers individual yoga therapy, groups, classes, and continuing education and mentoring for professionals. Jennifer is dedicated to educating about eating disorders and guiding those affected to identify the strength in their story.

Her writing about her personal journey of eating disorder recovery and professional experience as a passionate yoga therapist has been featured in several publications and podcasts.

What You'll Learn in This Episode:

• Jennifer's history of anorexia and what led to her recovery
• The prevalence of eating disorders and the life-threatening danger for those affected
• How yoga played a role in Jennifer's healing her relationship with her body
• How yoga creates a community of support for positive body image
• The difference between a yoga therapist and a yoga teacher
• How eating disorders manifest differently for different people
• Jennifer's virtual school, Yoga for Eating Disorders
• Her new book, The Courageous Path to Healing

Bonus for listeners: Sign up here to receive 3 short Meditations for Creating Inner Calm plus Jennifer's monthly newsletter, Nourishing Notes, for updates on upcoming courses, community programs, and more.

Links Mentioned in This Episode:

Website | Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | Linked In

Vanessa Cloke is known for her acting roles in "The Big Short," "The Walking Dead" and "American Horror Story," but she is also an abuse survivor and Founder of The Escaped Goat, an organization dedicated to reform psychological abuse laws, educate law enforcement, and end the trauma/abuse cycle.

The Escaped Goat's driving objective is to Take Action, and waves the motto "GTFO, Heal, Take Action." The Escaped Goat provides several proactive opportunities such as options to anonymously share personal stories or volunteer expert and professional services.

Vanessa's personal story of escaping narcissistic abuse is what drove her to start this organization. In this episode, she shares her story and her passion for awareness and reform of psychological abuse laws.

What You'll Learn From This Episode:

• Vanessa's personal story of abuse and how a TMZ story about her sent her world reeling
• How to know if you are in a psychologically abusive relationship and the warning signs to look out for
• The growing trends of psychological abuse and narcissism and why awareness is increasing
• Misconceptions with the label of narcissism
• How being in a narcissistic relationship is a wake-up call, and the struggle to find support
• Therapy that can be helpful in healing from abusive relationships

Links Mentioned in This Episode:

The Escaped Goat Website | Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn