*TRIGGER WARNING*
This is a heavier episode as our guest shares graphic details about his life-threatening battle with anorexia, mental health and recovery, and violence in childhood trauma. If you are suffering or recovering from an eating disorder, body dysmorphia, trauma, or a mood or mental disorder, please listen with caution, listen with a trusted friend, or skip this episode entirely. The last thing I would want is for sharing these things to set you back in your healing journey or trigger negative thoughts or emotions. Also, if you are extra sensitive or an empath, you also may want to listen with caution. 

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Non Wels is the creator of the podcast, You, Me, Empathy, and the founder of The Feely Human Collective, a space to grow our collective capacity for empathy, vulnerability, and emotional way finding.

Non would describe himself as, "just a silly boy with lots of feelings." He believes deeply in talking openly about our mental health. He once almost died from shutting off his heart to the world. Now he leads with his heart.

In this episode, he talks about the following:

• Living in an emotionally unsafe environment as a child
• His life threatening experiences with anorexia
• Controlling emotions through food & over exercising 
• Healing childhood trauma through EMDR therapy
• Struggling with mental health as a man
• Rebelling against the shame & stigma around feeling emotions
• How vulnerability heals
• What empathy and open mindedness looks & feels like to him 
• How empathy and vulnerability go hand in hand

Tune in to hear the rest of his story and why empathy and vulnerability have become so crucial to his life!!

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Resources:

• Books: 
  • Anti-Diet by Christy Harrison
  • Intuitive Eating by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch
• Podcast: Food Psych with Christy Harrison
• Course: Eating Disorder Recovery with Tiffany Roe
• Ted Talk: The Power of Vulnerability by Brene Brown

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Connect with Non and his work:

• Podcast: You, Me, Empathy
• Website: FeelyHuman.co
• Instagram:
  • @youmeempathy
  • @feelyhuman
• Facebook: The Feely Human Collective

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Song: This Year by The Mountain Goats

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