The Safe Haven

Crystal “Zee” Hardy, Zongwe Binesikwe, is a Two-Spirit Anishnawbe-kwe from the Bear Clan, living in Thunder Bay, Ontario. Zongwe Binesikwe shares their stories guided by Spirit and includes their personal experiences healing through intergenerational trauma. They hope to help create safer spaces for Indigenous people through positive media representation, education and social justice.

They make thunder in topics related to decolonizing healthcare practices through cultural humility, empowerment of Indigenous people, and missing and murdered Indigenous womxn in Canada.

In this incredible conversation, Crystal opens up about the trajectory change their life took after their brother’s murder. This new path has included soul searching, ceremonial work, deep self-discovery, reclaiming the inner child, and really asking herself what they really want to do with their time here in this life. We discuss healthy relationships, self-awareness, and success vs. fulfillment.

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Crystal Hardy Zongwe Binesikwe’s Instagram: @zongwebinesikwe

Crystal Hardy Zongwe Binesikwe’s www.zongwebinesikwe.com

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Sylvia Kim’s life changed course quickly in 2017 with some major life events, including her Dad’s diagnosis with cancer, surgery for her 2nd achilles rupture, losing her job, and ending a relationship. Thinking it couldn’t get much worse, her Mom was diagnosed with cancer in 2018, and passed away in 2019.

During the time her Mom was sick, Sylvia was working a corporate job she didn’t love. After realizing the lack of time she had to spend with her mom, she left that role and so started her journey in the fitness world as a boxing instructor.

Through some of the most difficult times in her life, boxing had become the medicine she needed. It became her safe haven. A place where she could release intense emotions, and start her healing journey – navigating the death of her Mom and grieving the loss of a future she’d picture with her. Her grief journey has led her into the deep questioning of her own identity and who she was without her Mom, and eventually learning to shed expectations of others, and coming home to herself.

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Sylvia’s Instagram: @hyeeah

Feel Gud Fitness: @feelgudfitness

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A huge hello and welcome back to the TGIT – Thank Goodness it’s Thursday solo episodes! They won’t be out every week, but you can expect these episodes to drop at least once a month as a fun update and look into the life of yours truly, Amanda Lytle, the host of The Safe Haven.

This week, Amanda jumps into surviving a brutal head cold and her experience getting a COVID test. She shares what the heck a TGIT is, where they went, and why they’re back. There are some updates and things to look forward to as The Safe Haven grows, so buckle up!

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A professional athlete for years, pressure, competition, strict routines, and high expectations were woven into Elisa’s life. A World Cup athlete, she was primed and ready for the Olympics, but placed one spot short of qualifying… she calls this her Olympic failure.

This life-shattering moment sent Elisa into a downward and very unhealthy spiral, mentally, emotionally, physically and spiritually. It was her personal rock bottom that brought her face to face with what she needed to do next in order to climb out of this hole she was in, associated with being a failure.

A loss of sense of self, unhealthy habits, a toxic relationship that became a marriage and some really deep self-discovery, Elisa shares her journey navigating identity and realigning values with her life experiences and designing a life she loves.

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LINKS:

Elisa on Instagram: @elisakurylowicz

Elisa’s Podcast: Elisa Unfiltered: Living Life Out Loud

Elisa’s Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/groups/elisaunfilteredvip

Elisa’s EBook: https://go.elisaunfiltered.com/optin1614209870872

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Vaneeta Kaur had hit her rock bottom while working a job she wasn’t happy in. She was relying on unhealthy habits and patterns to keep her going and communicating with others. It wasn’t until she came in contact with a therapist changed everything. Vaneeta, always a writer, started journaling with more intention, bringing an awareness to her thoughts. Having her thoughts down physically on paper helped her see the thoughts that were controlling her life, and allowed her to literally see and cross off the ones that were unnecessary.

Through a lifestyle focused on over productivity, it was a blessing in disguise to be made redundant at her corporate job. The burn out Vaneeta was experiencing was jeopardizing her health and wellness in various ways.

Taking time for herself and focusing on her writing, Vaneeta began to feel better in her body, mind and spirit. It was the time and consistency choosing herself first that has helped shift her life into a more positive place, and her books are sharing her learnings and perspectives with others in both subtle and more obvious ways.

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Vaneeta on Instagram: @missvaneetakaur

Vaneeta’s Website: https://www.vaneetakaur.com/

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Christina wasn’t always a heavy drinker. It was after university and into her mid-20’s, her drinking escalated significantly. She began to drink daily, and it became a huge part of her social life. The drinking became an addiction, and the dependence on alcohol that she and her husband shared became a red flag as they came to realize that this wasn’t a lifestyle that they wanted to bring children into.

Lying, binge drinking, and even showing up to work drunk, Christina knew she had to make a change, and that change occurred in February of 2020.

In this conversation, we discuss sobriety, the socialization and societal norms associated with drinking, and Christina’s personal sobriety journey through the initial stages of COVID-19. She shares personal messages to people who are sober curious, and how sobriety has changed her life.

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Christina’s Instagram: @ckimbrough1

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Samukele is a self-described recovering overachiever and people pleaser. She spent a large part of her life pouring herself into projects and others, but not herself.

At the beginning of 2020, her ways started to catch up to her, and her overworking ways took a toll on her body. As her health started to become a concern, Samukele had to let go of her additional commitments in order to focus on herself for the first time.

As her energy slowly returned, she ended up finding so much peace in nature and had the time to really observe the world around her. Never a writer or a poet before, Samukele began to channel her energy into writing. She didn’t start off with the goal of writing a book, but taking walks and observing nature started to heal Samukele from the inside out.

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Samukele Ncube on Instagram: @thesamncube

Samukele’s Website: www.samukelencube.com

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Sara Prodanos came home from two years in Australia in January, 2020. Her visa had ended and she came back to Canada and moved into her parents’ house, leaving a relationship and a lifestyle she loved behind. If that wasn’t enough of a shift, she got a new job, the long distance relationship ended, the global pandemic hit, and she lost her newly acquired job, all within a matter of months.

Heartbroken, jobless, and living with her parents, Sara had endless time to feel, wonder, think, and of course, overthink. Feeling helpless, she began numbing out by jumping into dating online with dating apps and wound up disappointed with the lack of true connection and mutual interest in finding a partner. Questions like “am I good enough? Isn’t there someone else who is putting the same level of effort into this?” had Sara feeling completely lost and unworthy. Was she single by default or by choice? It was her time with a fitness coach that brought some of the most massive mental and emotional transformations into her life, and she ultimately became a coach herself.

In this conversation, Sara offers her learnings and perspectives on being single by choice, and choosing herself first. She shares her observations in social settings and we discuss the idea of worth and what we connect to our feelings of worthiness, and why the word “partner” hold so much weight for us. Sara shares her perspectives on progress, and I love what she has to say!

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Sara’s Instagram: @sara.prooo

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On June 27, 2011, Michelle Salt was riding her new motorcycle east on Highway 1 towards Calgary. She was in a horrific accident, that medics say she shouldn’t have survived… but she did.

Michelle had hardly digested the fact that her right leg had been amputated 10 inches above her knee when she declared that she was going to be a one-legged fitness model and would compete in the Paralympics. In fact, Michelle hadn’t even left the trauma unit and had already called coaches of the national teams.

After five months in the hospital, re-entering life with her new prosthetic challenged Michelle in more ways than the obvious ones, like learning how to walk again. Determined, Michelle went back to work, tackling her new challenges and chasing her Paralympic dreams and World Cup podiums.

A recent diagnosis with Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, or CTE, (en-seh-phe-lopathy) and beginning to open up with her battle with suicidal thoughts, Michelle is an advocate for mental health who is willing to share her stories in order to start the crucial conversations.

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Michelle on Instagram: @parashredder

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A year and a half ago, Annelie graduated from her undergrad program, and was a free bird. Finishing her undergrad on a high, she took a four month trip around the world.

After returning from her trip, she was hired into a job that she loved. A few months later, and with the arrival of COVID-19, she was laid off, and then re-hired a few months after that. In September of last year, she was promoted and holds a job as a Digital Marketing Specialist.

Being an influencer in the Yoga community on Instagram, this new role has really made Annelie reevaluate her relationship with social media as she dives into her job in the industry. It’s also a new relationship with a partner who doesn’t have any social media accounts that has really made her reflect on her time online, as well as what her priorities really are.

In this episode, Annelie opens up about how both the new job and her new relationship have really helped her deepen her sense of self while reflecting on her patterns from her past. Allowing herself to unravel in a safe and grounded relationship has helped Annelie realize what a healthy partnership feels like, while being able to set supported goals for herself, and within a partnership.

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Annelie on Instagram: @annelieyoga

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