The Safe Haven

By Amanda LytleSociety & Culture Health & Fitness Mental Health Education Self-Improvement Personal Journals

The Safe Haven episodes

August 16, 2021 Eternity Martis on Race, Campus Life, and Growing Up
Eternity Martis is a Toronto-based journalist, author and advocate. She’s also a best-selling author of her first book, “They Said This Would Be Fun - Race, Campus Life, and Growing Up.” Eternity’s work focuses on issues of race and gender, taking deep dives into her own experiences and sharing them with the world. Her stories are real, raw, and relatable.⁣
⁣Our conversation covers so much about the journey through writing this book and many of the topics and experiences shared within. We talk about setting boundaries and the challenge that comes with having to reassert yourself and reestablish boundaries time and time again - but how crucial that is for our physical, mental, sexual, emotional and spiritual health. We talk about what love really is - and what it isn’t, and the hard lessons that come with navigating love on it’s own.⁣
We discuss the theme of abandonment that is laced throughout Eternity’s story, and how she’s had to navigate both gender and race as a mixed woman; her Mom from Pakistan and her Dad from Jamaica.⁣
I get excited about all of my conversations with my guests, but there is something about the level of relatability and raw vulnerability in this conversation with Eternity that really got my heart racing.⁣
**Episode Trigger Warning - Contains content relating to sexual abuse and assault; some explicit language.**⁣
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LINKS:
Eternity on Instagram: @eterniteee
They Said This Would Be Fun: Chapters / Indigo
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46 min
August 09, 2021 Cheese, Happy Glampers, Snowboarding Fails, and Burying the Hatchet - Road Trip #4
This one is good. This drive will keep you in stitches, between our food chats - obviously - and then deep diving into the realm of glamping essentials… including juicy spidey dogs.
Jenn and Amanda both share some snowboarding stories as well as what burying the hatchet looked like one day for Amanda while on a hot springs hiking adventure.
Grab a snack and buckle up!
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39 min
August 02, 2021 Emotional Awareness and Overcoming Addiction, One Day at a Time
Dylan Bromley is a business development specialist working in Winnipeg, Manitoba. His natural gifts in communication and interpersonal connections paired with his incredible level of self-awareness have allowed him to share his experiences over the last few years in a really powerful way. Wearing his gigantic heart on his sleeve, Dylan is a hard working, business minded, family centred man who’s learned a lot from his experiences.
Dylan is recovering from his addictions to alcohol and cocaine. Recently out of rehab, he’s taken the plunge into therapy and recovery with a super focused mindset on the big picture. Always having been self-aware, Dylan’s abilities to connect to his inner self have proven extremely important throughout his recovery journal and connection to his spirituality.
In the conversation today, Dylan takes us back to when he knew his addictions were a problem, and what the stages were moving through that in his relationships with others and with himself. This conversation is so heart-warming and inspiring, shared with a high level of emotional intelligence, acceptance, commitment and compassion.
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38 min
July 26, 2021 Tim Horton’s, Cry Laughing, and Questionable Carry-On Items - Road Trip #3
Today’s drive is the best yet - because we’re actually together! Like in real life! We chat about Amanda’s drive from the Kootenays to the Island to visit Jenn in Ucluelet.
We laugh a LOT, and talk about things from being cheap on gas to squirrels (and the lack there of while in Australia) to Jenn losing her Dad’s ashes at the airport… but did she really?!
You may need a tissue though… not for sad tears, but if you’re ready to join Jenn while she cry-laughs while holding onto her thoughts about meat and cheese sticks. Like, get your sh*t together, Porter.
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LINKS:
Come follow along! @roadtripbuckleup
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37 min
July 19, 2021 Life lessons after breaking his neck: Rick and his Red Letter Days
Rick Werry is a motivational speaker and aspiring author, husband, and Dad. With incredible life lessons and insights from his life, he strives to live his life chasing Red Letter Days.
In the conversation with Rick today, you’ll hear about how breaking his neck changed his life. Besides the obvious physical changes, Rick weaves his story through his challenges mentally and emotionally, too. He shares two of his biggest pivot moments and what kept him moving forward.
A heads up that Rick shares his experience with suicidal ideation and how a goal turned into a moment of pride that took him home to share the news.
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LINKS:
Rick on Instagram: @rickfromroe
Rick on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/rick-werry
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29 min
July 12, 2021 Chats with a Medium, Birds and Charcuterie Boards - Road Trip #2
Welcome back for another ride with Amanda and Jenn! On today’s drive, we chat about Jenn’s most recent chat with a Medium. Jenn shares a lot about her connection with her Dad, why birds are significant in her life, and how they’ve been showing up for her since her Dad passed last year.
As the food lovers we are, we get into what our must-haves on a charcuterie board are, and why ratios matter.
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LINKS:
Come follow along! @roadtripbuckleup
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35 min
July 05, 2021 Chronic Illness is not a life sentence; a writer’s journey with MS
Life long journalist and creative writer Tamara Sellman went back to school at 47 to study sleep technology. A lover of reading and writing, she was left in total shock and a space of concern when she lost her ability to read or comprehend the words in her textbook while going to study for exams.
Scans and tests confirmed her diagnosis with Multiple Sclerosis, (MS) and led Tamara into a space of grief as she worked through processing this new information. As a writer, she worked through her grief and new diagnosis with words and writing.
Along with finding her people and learning to accept where she’s at in every moment, Tamara’s time camping and being in nature allowed her the time and the space to process and write her book, titled Intention Tremor.
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LINKS:
Tamara’s Website: https://tksellman.com/
Tamara on Instagram: @tamarasellman
Tamara on Twitter: @sellmanwriter
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31 min
June 28, 2021 ROAD TRIP: Introducing your Co-Pilots!
New segment, what?! Welcome to the newest detour on The Safe Haven podcast, our new segment, ROAD TRIP! You already know Amanda well, so today you’ll meet Jenn Porter, Amanda’s Road Trip Co-Pilot!
In this introduction episode, we get to know a little bit about Jenn! You’ll hear all about her 33rd birthday shenanigans, including how she ended up bartending at a bar she doesn’t work at. We share the story behind how this segment came to be, and as you’ll hear through the laughs and the giggles, we cannot hide the excitement! We drop a few breadcrumbs about what to expect while listening to this new bi-weekly podcast segment, as well as what we’re most excited about.
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33 min
June 21, 2021 The Aftermath; a story of grief, healing, and the “Big Messy” book series
Rebekah was a guest on The Safe Haven podcast on April 23, and in the conversation, I asked Rebekah how she was able to be her best self for her kids while grieving. Her answer was that she wasn’t her best self for her kids. I loved how raw and real Bex’s answer was. Today, Rebekah elaborates on what she meant, and the emotions she has experienced along her healing journey after losing her parents, while being a mom herself.
Rebekah is also the creator behind the “Big Messy” book series, and came up with a plot line for a book about death and grief called “Zara’s Big Messy Goodbye.” Rebekah wanted to provide information and tools to children, adults, and families in the process, and so she connected with Gina Moffa, LCSW.
This is a slightly longer episode with a different format, but I promise you it’s worth the listen. The episode starts with Rebekah Borucki, and then we welcome Gina Moffa onto the call. This episode and conversations in this episode mean a lot to me.
The combination of Bex and Gina in the second half of the episode discussing the characters in the Zara Series, what the books cover and why, and in particular what children experience when someone dies is breathtaking.
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LINKS:
www.wheatpennypress.com
Zara’s Big Messy Goodbye
Rebekah Borucki on Instagram: @bexlife
Gina Moffa on Instagram: @ginamoffalcsw
www.ginamoffa.com
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50 min
June 14, 2021 Post Breakup Poetry; overcoming limiting beliefs and publishing anyway!
Gianna Shamone joins us today on The Safe Haven, opening up about how she’d lost herself in a relationship – a relationship that resulted in a groundbreaking break-up.
As she navigated her healing, she began writing poetry. In addition to the healing, writing itself brought forward even more than she could have ever expected. As Gianna wrote, the idea of publishing came to mind. She was flooded with limiting beliefs about how no one would be interested in her work, but she pushed through and promised herself she’d complete the book and publish it.
Gianna shares her range of emotions along this journey, and even reads us one of her favourite poems in her book, Finding Me.
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LINKS:
Gianna on Instagram: @gianna_shamone
Gianna’s Book “Finding Me”
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19 min

About The Safe Haven

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We all have a pivotal moment in our lives that changed the trajectory of where we thought we were headed. The Safe Haven offers a space for conversations about those pivots, and what keeps us moving forward. Amanda is a kind and empathetic host, allowing her guests the opportunity to share their stories as she navigates the conversation from a place of love and natural curiosity.