In this episode, I talk with Idalia Martinez, an educator and writer who has dedicated her life to helping women and their families through traumatic situations. Idalia shares her story of domestic violence and gives insight into some of its causes and effects. She also shares practical steps toward prevention, healing, stopping generational cycles. 

1:10 -  Intro to Voicelessness, Anger and Violence

3:30 - Idalia Martinez's Bio

4:30 - How Idalia and I met 

5:45 - What’s not in your bio?

6:10 - What is domestic violence?

7:30 - Idalia explains her experience with domestic violence

10:00 - How can domestic violence affect life later

12:00 - Don't forget about the babies

12:30 - "Children speak when the chickens urinate"

14:00 - Importance of a child's voice

16:00 - The Silent Generation

17:00 - What makes a person voiceless?

19:00 - How can a person identify that they are voiceless?

22:30 - Where does the "Angry Bitch" stereotype come from?

24:00 - What is "the monster"?

29:00 - Is there a morality to anger?

29:30 - How do we identify anger?

32:20 -  What are practical ways to express anger?

38:40 - What advice can you give to someone who is staying silent to survive?

44:45 - How does violence, anger and voicelessness affect the next generation

46:15 - How can we reframe our narrative around anger, especially regarding the gender norms associated with women

50:00 - Contact info for Idalia

BOOK INFO

Turn Domestic Violence to Victorious Dignity by Idalia Rosa-Martinez

MENDING THE SCARRED INFO

ANGER MANAGEMENT INFO -

Total Life Counseling

Orlando Anger Management

Celebrate Recovery www.celebraterecovery.com

Alejandra Proaño

Redeemer Counseling 407-405-7677

New Life Counselors 800-New-Life https://newlife.com

Love UnVeiled

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Overcomers aceovercomers.org

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INFO -

Florida Hotline - 1-800-500-1119

Finding Your Voice - TOASTMASTERS INTERNATIONAL

www.toastmasters.org

Episode 4: Why This Is Hope

In this episode, I share a small part of my story and explain why I am choosing to create this podcast. 

1 - I share about my vulnerabilities to doing the podcast.

2 - I share about a spiritual experience that I had as a teenager, which has guided my journey thus far. This experience has influenced the making of this podcast.

3 - I share a little bit of my background as a missionary in the Democratic Republic of Congo. 

4 - I share about where we find hope.

5 - I share why I want to do this and who it is for. 

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In this podcast, I interview Dave Lockridge, the founder of ACE Overcomers a Center for Resiliency and Trauma-Informed Training. Dave shares a about The ACE Study, the largest study of its kind with more than 17,000 participants. The purpose of the study was to see how stressful and traumatic childhood experiences influence later physical and emotional health. 

The study observed 10 types of adverse childhood experiences: emotional, physical, and sexual abuse, emotional neglect, physical neglect, domestic violence against the mother, mental illness of a family member, substance abuse in the home, parental separation or divorce, imprisonment of a household member. As your ACE score increases, the risk for the following health problems increases in a strong and graded fashion: alcoholism and alcohol abuse, COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), depression, ischemic heart disease (IHD), liver disease, fetal death, illicit drug use, smoking, attempted suicide, unintended pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases, partner violence, obesity.

Dave specializes in teaching survivors of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) how to understand trauma, so they can better care for themselves while overcoming the effects of ACEs. He also trains businesses about trauma, so they can better care for those who are still suffering from adverse childhood experiences.

You can contact Dave at [email protected] and visit the website at www.aceovercomers.org

1:00 - What’s your Origin Story

2:00 Pastors Marry people and they bury people

3:20 What is an ACE?

5:30 Prevention vs remediation

6:30 How God Called Dave

7:30 The ACE Overcomers Curriculum

10:00 Mini ACE Survey 

14:00 What does a person’s ACE Score mean?

15:45 Toxic Stress - How Stress Affects the Body

18:00 Where’s the hope in having a high ACE score?

19:00 Congress Woman Shot and she was able to retrain her brain

21:00 Stigmas associated went mental conditions

22:00 Diagnosis and Trauma

24:00 Medications and Regulation 

29:00 Can someone who struggles with trauma help others with trauma?

33:00 Self Talk and Stinkin' Thinkin'

35:00 Stress and Cognitive Functioning

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This is Hope is a podcast that discovers hope through stories of struggle and transformation // The podcast interviews social entrepreneurs and people who are actively engaged in transforming their communities to better understand the process of hope and social transformation.

In this episode, I interview JoAnn Flett, the managing director at Partners Worldwide, which is an organization that mobilizes long-term, hands-on global relationships to form a faith-based network that uses business as the way to create flourishing economic environments in all parts of the world. JoAnn was a professor of social entrepreneurship and also a Fulbright Scholar for a project that she continues to work with in Trinidad and Tobago. 

We talk about her process of using business as a model for transformation, a theological framework for social entrepreneurship and we explore some of the projects she's been working with. 

What is Social Entrepreneur? A social entrepreneur is a person who pursues novel applications that have the potential to solve community-based problems. These individuals are willing to take on the risk and effort to create positive changes in society through their initiatives. Social entrepreneurs may believe that this practice is a way to connect you to your life's purpose, help others find theirs, and make a difference in the world (all while eking out a living).

You can follow JoAnn Flett on LinkedIn or by emailing her at [email protected]

Postcards from Babylon: The Church in American Exile

The discussion of Christian Nationalism with the Church being front and center of the conversation presents an opportunity for voices on the margins of Christianity in the United States to be highlighted. U.S. of American Evangelical Christianity has a lot of influence, through its money and its loud voice. But it's arguably, on the decline. I want to highlight a Christian pastor Brian Zahnd and thought leader and two intrepid filmmakers, David and Kathi Peters who are presenting a different version of the Christian expression in the U.S. Postcards from Babylon: The Church in American Exile is a book and documentary that deconstructs Christian Nationalism and civic religion. It challenges assumptions, that many Evangelicals have taken as truth or have blatantly ignored. It offers an alternative perspective and some guidance on how to navigate a faith journey outside of the prevailing Evangelical norms. 

Watch the film at https: www.postcardsdoc.com

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This is the promo video for This is Hope Podcast which is launching on January 26, 2021.