The Bright Side of Life (Mental Health, Self Care)

Kim and Tara first met 8 years ago and became fast friends before working together in the educational field. Once Covid hit, they lost their jobs and their identity with it. This began their spiritual awakening and continued path on a self-discovery journey.
Kim realized that she had repressed her traumatic childhood and was living with limiting beliefs and a scarcity mindset. Through her spiritual journey, she has become fulfilled, living with an abundant mindset, has found her inner spark and reconnected with her soul.
Tara grew up in an environment where she dealt with parentification, adultifiaction, and a narcissistic Step Mom. Her awakening brought awareness that patterns from her childhood kept presenting themselves. Their journey allowed them to find their purpose of serving others. It is now their hope to walk as many people as possible through their spiritual journey so they can become their higher selves.
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Kibby has been cooking in the kitchen for over 25 years. In his role as a biological, foster, and adoptive parent, he has seen first-hand the affects that trauma can have on a child’s relationships and their ability to receive love, regulation, and support - even from the most well-meaning of caregivers. Over the last year he has became more trauma informed to better understand  all of this. During this time, something amazing happened and he saw first hand the power of connecting in the kitchen and the benefits it can have on breaking through the barriers of trauma and maladaptive behaviors in children. Not only does cooking and connecting have that power, but it also  gives caregivers and parents a voice that speaks love, acceptance, and safety. Somethiing that children need when they have experienced trauma.

Connect with Kibby: https://www.cookinwithkibby.com/cooking-is-connecting
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Trigger Warning: This episode may act as a trigger as it covers a topic of sensitive nature.

Ginn has been on a healing journey for five years after experiencing sexual abuse at the age of five. Throughout her life she struggled with several addictions including sex and drug addiction. She never understood why. She actually had forgotten about her traumatic event until a memory came into her head years later. After remembering this, Ginn went from being a victim to becoming a survivor. In this episode she shares her exact tools that has helped her heal. She talks about why talk therapy and journaling played a huge part in her healing process. She also gives great advice when asked what's the biggest thing she has learned about herself through all of her life experiences.

Check out Ginn's blog here: https://www.themisbehavingmind.com/
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For the past year, I have been on a mental health journey to heal, deal with grief, trauma, and anxiety, practice self love, find my self worth, and find peace within myself. On this journey I have found that there are some important must haves in order to make progress towards this goal. In this episode I discuss these twelve Mental Health Must Haves you need while taking care of your self.
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Rapid Transformational Therapy (RTT), is a hybrid therapy combining principles from Hypnotherapy, CBT (Cognitave Behavioral Therapy), Psychotherapy, Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP), and Regression Therapy.  In Lauren Jean's previous epsiode (36), she explains exactly what RTT is and how it works. In this epsiode, we actually do an RTT session on me. This is my first time ever doing any kind of therapy like this, and I get vulnerable about my childhood and past experinces in hopes to get to the root of some of my self worth and trust issues.

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On Febuary 17th of this year Tim started getting chronic headaches, dizziness, and no energy. He knew something was off. Little did he know he would be in this same painful state for the next three months with the diagnoses of Long Haulers, people living with post-COVID syndrome. Tim has been in hell, but through trusting his self, advocating for himself, and having his community rally around him, he is finally seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. Tim has an inspiring message he wants to share with the world.
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Lauren Jean's is an Inner Voice Facilitator and Rapid Transformational Therapist. Her intuition has always pulled her to helping people. She helps women untangle their inner voice from their ego to live in a body they trust, have fun with  ease and joy in without self sabotage returning. She shares what her process looks like in her sessions and the benefits of inner voice work and RTT. She also gives tips on how people can get in tune with their inner voice and how to quiet down the ego.

Connect with Lauren Jean on IG: https://www.instagram.com/laurenjeansubconsciousy_stuff/

Email Lauren Jean: [email protected]
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Actress Brianne Davis is the author of the book, Secret Life of a Hollywood Sex and Love Addict. She shares what happened in her childhood and teenage years that brought her to rock bottom in her late twenties with a full blown sex and love addiction. With the help of therapy and Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous, Brianne has been sober for over a decade. She talks about what it takes to be able to have healthy relationships and to not become a victim of this disease. She has stepped into her truth and has surrendered to her addiction, and now spends her time serving others that also suffer.   Brianne wants people to know they aren't alone in their struggles and wants to help anyone that might need help.

Get Brianne's book, Secret Life of a Hollywood Sex and Love Addict, here: https://secretlifenovel.com/

Check out Secret Life podcast here: https://secretlifepodcast.com/

Get 40 Questions for Self Diagnosis here: https://slaafws.org/download/core-files/The_40_Questions_of_SLAA.pdf
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Joe Delagrave captivates his audiences by using his heart gripping life experiences, humor, storytelling, and background as a professional counselor to be relatable, authentic, and real.  He believes that we all have the responsibility to take control of our own lives despite our circumstances.  We get a choice to play the victim card or find our victor mindset. 

Joe Delagrave has over 13 years of experience on the National Wheelchair Rugby Team. He is a Paralympic bronze medalist, and as a captain for over eight years, he has proven leadership as the team has been podium contenders each year. With that athletic mentality, Joe captivates and motivates people to find that competitive fire within themselves no matter the obstacle. Life threw Joe a curveball, but he rose above to find the opportunity in his circumstances. Joe works with leaders and organizations to develop plays and action plans for success as we all strive to get that Gold.
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Since 2013 Luke has been on a weight loss journey. He has lost over 400 pounds, but struggles with keeping the weight off. In October of 2020, Luke set out on another mission...becoming a better person while fighting a food addiction. The weight loss is just a small portion of what he wants to change in his life.  Luke shares that he used to be manipulative, selfish, and lazy. He realized, what's the good in changing the outside, without working on the inside.  Luke talks about his new tools from therapy, Overeaters Anonymous, and Facebook Support groups for over eating, that has sent him on his road to redemption.

Check out The Luke Loses Podcast here: https://lukelosespodcast.com/

Facebook Support Groups for Eating Disorders/Food Addiction:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/overeaterssupport/?ref=share&exp=3bcf

https://www.facebook.com/groups/512560489195269/?ref=share&exp=3bcf

https://www.facebook.com/groups/2702968646682531/?ref=share&exp=3bcf

Overeaters Anonymous: http://oa.org/
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