SecondWind with Joyce

Dating after divorce, while raising children, can be challenging. This episode tackles these tough topics in a way that offers practical tools and hope. Rosalind Sedacca, CDC is recognized as The Voice of Child-Centered Divorce. She is a Divorce & Co-Parenting Coach and founder of the Child-Centered Divorce Network which provides advice, programs, coaching and other valuable resources for parents who are facing, moving through or transitioning after a divorce. She is the author of How Do I Tell the Kids About The Divorce? A Create-a-Storybook Guide To Preparing Your Children – With Love! -- an internationally acclaimed ebook designed to help parents get through the tough divorce talk with the best possible outcome for themselves and their children. Rosalind has also created several ebooks and e-courses on co-parenting success strategies including an 8-hr Anger Management Program for Co-Parents. She also hosts the Divorce, Dating & Empowered Living Radio Show & Podcast. In addition, Rosalind is a Dating After Divorce Coach and co-author of 99 Things Women Wish They Knew Before Dating After 40, 50 & Yes, 60! as well as the DatingRescue eCourse and Create Your Ideal Relationship Kit for women and Mastering the Challenges of Dating: A Success Formula for Men. She is a national contributor to Divorce Magazine as well as numerous dating, relationships and parenting websites and blogs. Rosalind is the 2008 First Place Winner of the Victorious Woman Award as well as the 2011 International Women's Day Outstanding Service Award winner for her work with divorce and parenting issues.

What You'll Learn in This Episode:

• The challenges parents face when going through the decision to divorce
• How children can learn conflict communication skills from their parents
• Entering the world of dating as a divorced parent
• Success strategies for dating after divorce
• How to prepare children for your dating journey
• How to find the right person
• Warning signs to look out for

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Everyone experiences stress, though some seasons are more stressful than others. It's important to be able to have the tools and coping strategies before the difficulties hit; then we can grow from them!

Judy Davis is on a mission to help you stress less and improve your mental wellness. She is a motivational speaker, published author and mental wellness specialist with information, products and books that are go to resources to help people reduce stress and find balance in their lives.

Judy is no stranger to turning tragedy into triumph. In fact, in April 2019 everything about her life changed when her husband of 30 years was in an explosive blast while serving in the US Army. The amputation of his left leg, as well as other injuries and an ongoing recovery process, gave Judy an inside look at the challenges caregivers navigate every day.

An entrepreneur and business owner for over 25 years, Judy is someone who believes that stories change lives. She is transparent about their experience and how she has had to pivot both personally and professionally.

Now Judy not only provides support to her husband, but she empowers others in a positive way helping them stress less and feel better emotionally, physically and financially.

What You'll Learn in This Episode:

• How Judy learned about the explosion her husband was in, and how that transformed her life
• The grieving process involved in major life trajedies
• The importance of allowing yourself to feel
• How any challenge can be an opportunity for transformation
• Judy's strategy to stress less
• How to have the energy, capacity, and focus to navigate difficult times

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Many people reach a point in their lives when they feel ready to step away from their current situation and enter a journey to spiritual enlightenment, but not everyone experiences it. Today's episode features someone who did.

Kevin Krenitsky is a medical doctor and author of The Still Point. Despite leading a life deemed outwardly "successful," he lived with a deep background of anxiety, fear, and stress that waxed and waned since early childhood. At the age of forty, in the midst of decades of suppressing tremendous inner and outer conflict, he reasoned there must be another way.

This "willingness" led to a decade of studying non-duality by way of A Course in Miracles. In 2015, at the height of a successful business career as Chief Commercial Officer at Foundation Medicine (FMI), Kevin turned away into relative isolation, and found the direct path to recognizing one's true nature. He wrote The Still Point to help others find their eternal nature, which is happiness itself.

What You'll Learn in This Episode:

• Why Kevin experienced a major career transition after not feeling fulfilled by all his successes
• The sense of fear and separation he felt for a long time until his transformation
• Kevin's defining moment in his life transition
• The background of his book, The Still Point
• The importance of creating self-awareness
• How to live life "in the now" without reactivity

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As issues related to mental health continue to rise, we need tools to support a healthy brain. In the last 15 years, much of the neuroscience research has shown that we have the ability to change our brains...with the right tools.

Leigh Richardson has studied human behavior for over 30 years. Her initial focus was on organizational behavior then shifted to human behavior in 2003 after her son had a traumatic brain injury. Leigh has been in the ICU twice with brain injury and all of this fueled her need to understand how the brain works or why it doesn't work. She can relate to brain dysregulation on a very personal level and she visualized what could be done for many others like her.

Leigh is the founder and clinical director of The Brain Performance Center, utilizing her MBA, MS, Counseling, and board certifications to offer state-of-the-art solutions for "brain problems." She is currently taking her PhD in Psychology.

As a brain health expert, she regularly contributes to radio and television stations across the nation. Whether it is anxiety, ADHD, depression, insomnia, or brain injury, Leigh's understanding of the brain and the different methodologies that can be used to organically change the brain is immense. And more importantly, they will provide the right solution for the problem.

Leigh is the author of Turn Your Brain On – To Get Your Game On, an international speaker, and a popular syndicated radio host. Leigh enjoys educating the general public on how the lifestyle choices and environmental factors impact brain health and the physiology and psychology of your mental state. She has a unique ability to connect with people, understand their situation, and win their trust.

Leigh gets inspiration from her friends, family, and clients. It is the positive change that she sees in others that motivates her to continue to learn. She just recently converted her upstairs office to an in-home art studio where she paints as a way to explore her creativity.

What You'll Learn in This Episode:

• Leigh's personal history with brain injuries, both in her son who was struck by a car and in herself
• Leigh's training in neurofeedback and mapping the brain support healing
• How the stigma of mental health in the workplace is changing
• The psychological impact of the pandemic
• What puts a brain in a dysregulated state

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Nobody is immune to chronic stress and burnout. Thankfully, there are many tools to support healing and recovery and resilience against future stressors.

Erica Cuni, known as "The Burnout Professor," is a stress and burnout expert, integrative performance coach, professional speaker, #SameHere PsychAlliance Expert, social media creator & fellow survivor. She teaches individuals & businesses how to consciously thrive through a holistic approach.

Erica is the founder of "The C.U.N.I. Method," which stands for Create Undeniable Natural Impact. She is a former Trauma Psychotherapist, Clinical Director, and Adjunct Lecturer and Clinical Professor at Central Connecticut State University. Her mission is to help make the mental health field more effective, accessible, decolonized, and non-stigmatizing.

Erica found her mission in 2014 after being hit by a Mack Dump Truck (literally) while driving to work and having her life fall completely apart over the following two years. This is what she had on her recovery journey - a roadmap that didn't pathologize her for doing her job, life events, her culture and the intergenerational trauma she was carrying around with her.

What You'll Learn in This Episode:

• Erica's major life transition after being hit by a mack truck
• Erica's prior lifestyle of stress and overcommitment and how her car accident completely changed her health and life
• How Erica realized she needed something more than traditional talk therapy to help her heal
• How stress manifests in the physical body
• Erica's integrative approach to mental health

Find your inner peace. Get a free 25-minute Guided Meditation in Erica's Linktree here.

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As family members age, transitions are inevitable. It's difficult to know the best care for our older family members. We live in a time where many options are available. Leighton Boyce is the owner of Synergy Home Care in Longmont, Colorado, where she provides in-home care for the aging population.

What You'll Learn in This Episode:

• How Leighton cares for the elderly with Synergy Home Care
• The most frequently asked questions family members ask
• Finding the right caregiver for your family member
• Individualizing care for those with dementia
• Next steps for family members when they see signs of aging in their elderly family members

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Finding love can be challenging, but making a relationship work can be even more challenging. That's why Dr. Duana Welch is back on the show with her science-based tips and tools for relationships.

Dr. Duana Welch (pronounced DWAY-nah) is the original Love Factually author and coach, known for using social science to solve real-life relationship issues. She has been a professor at universities in Florida, California, and Texas across 20 years, and has contributed to NPR, PBS, Psychology Today, and numerous other outlets, podcasts and videos.

Her first book, Love Factually: 10 Proven Steps from I Wish to I Do, is now out globally in five languages; its fully revised and updated edition released in 2022. Love Factually for Single Parents is the second book in the series, specifically geared for finding the right partner not only for readers, but their families.

All Duana's books rely on science rather than opinion to help men and women find and keep the right partner. She is an expert for Paired, the couples relationship app. Her client practice is global, via Zoom and other technologies.

For more information and free content, see LoveFactually.co.

What You'll Learn from This Episode:

• How science is at the focus of Dr. Duana's work
• The process of forgiveness and releasing anger
• What science says about forgiveness
• What effective communication looks like
• Looking for love and defining dealbreakers
• Dating approaches in the 21st century

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Liz Thompson is an expert on all things related to food!

She previously owned and opened two restaurants and even taught culinary classes. Then she had to pursue a second career change when she lost part of her vision overnight. She had to access her skillset in terms of what angle of the food industry was she most passionate about and she could do mostly at home.

Today she focuses on recipe development and new product development. She also helps individuals launch their own food company and get their products to market.

She is working on her fist book Baking with Herbs. Her mantra is, "Let your passion define you, not your disability."

What You'll Learn in This Episode:

• How Liz was able to deal with overnight news that she had developed a serious vision issue with no health issues whatsoever.
• How she was able to access the skills and passion she had to put together a new plan of work.
• How to understand the importance of help when it is being given and also having the strength to look for it as well.
• How it is up to ourselves to create the story that will play out and never play the victim.

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Divorce touches the lives of people every day. It can often be painful, costly, and life-changing. Finding support during this transition is critical.

Sue Horwitz is an inspirational life transition and divorce coach. She guides women through the chaos and devastation of their divorce into a new, purposeful life the love.

Years ago, as she transitioned her business into a coaching practice, her husband abruptly ended their thirty-year marriage. As a result, she learned firsthand how challenging divorce can be for women and their families emotionally, physically, financially, and spiritually.

Today, she uses her experience and training to help women design a better, less costly, and less challenging divorce, and find the gifts of divorce to build a life they love.

What You'll Learn From This Episode:

• Sue's story and how she transitioned into coaching
• New ways to think about divorce
• The importance of being your best at the worst of times
• How you start the process is key to outcomes and recovery
• Finding the gifts of divorce

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Zoilita Grant is a success coach who uses hypnotic coaching to clear subconscious blocks, change the mindset, and help her clients achieve goals and bring out their own brilliance so they can create a purposeful, extraordinary life. In this talk, she discusses the power of past life regression and finding one's soul purpose.

Zoilita has been involved in human development for over 40 years. She graduated from UC Berkeley in 1971 with a BA in Psychology and got her MSW from UTEP in 1979. She worked for over 25 years as a psychotherapist specializing in hypnosis. For the last 12 years, she has been a hypnotic coach.

What You'll Learn in This Episode:

• Why past life regression is so powerful
• Different ways to work through past life regression
• Finding gifts, talents, and abilities from past lives
• How to complete soul contracts
• Clearing karma from past lives
• Finding your soul purpose today from past life work

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