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Eric Fong joins the podcast this week for one of the most delightfully profound and honest conversations we have ever had on the show. Eric's traumas as a child came back to haunt him, and as with may of these relatable situations, Eric found himself spiraling into drink and drugs and doing seemingly everything possible to run from his feelings. After slowly losing touch with everything, including his own children, Eric knew something had to change, but still, he couldn't find the strength to stop. In this wonderfully raw and humble episode, we discuss the final straw, the intervention that would finally get Eric on the road to recovery. Eric is slowly piecing his life back together, one step at a time, and has new found success in his  job as a lawyer. It's a moving and literally sobering tale, as Eric continues to work on his relationships with his children, and surround himself with love and support, as he continues on his incredible journey.
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It's just Luke for this very lonely after thoughts section this week, without Kyle! Luke reflects on the previous episode, all about our past traumas often resulting in  obsessive and compulsive behaviors in later life! Not just addiction as we know it, but more than that! from eating habits to over exercising, excessive tidiness, and more!!
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In this fascinating episode, Alisha Carlson talks about how her childhood trauma and PTSD, turned into obsessive behaviors that included borderline eating disorder and obsessive exercising which ended up bringing Alisha to a very dark place. In this highly relatable conversation, we discuss how these behaviors manifest themselves and what can be done to overcome them. Many of us are unaware that the repeated behaviors we think are comforting us, are actually having a negative effect!
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Welcome to our weekly After Thoughts segment where Luke and Kyle your hosts, catch up on the previous episode. Kate Kunkel's story was all about her experience with her Mothers dementia, and she now works in Brain Health, advising and helping people to keep their brains in good shape, to stave off Dementia, quite fascinating!
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Kate Kunkel is a certified Brain Heath specialist. She found herself in this vocation, in her mid sixties,  because her mother died from the most cruel of diseases - dementia.  Losing her one piece at a time was the most terrible thing she has ever experienced, and she swore that she would do whatever she could to ensure that nobody else ever had to suffer that fate. And that no more daughters would have to lose their mother like Kate and her Sister. Everything Kate does, she does because of this, and so, she works as a brain coach and encourage others to do whatever it takes to protect your brain. This is an amazing, heartbreaking, yet inspiring story and hope and courage. Thank you Kate. 
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In one of our regular After Thoughts sections, Luke and Kyle discuss the previous episode, and how it resonated with them. Naomi really went through the darkness and it took a monumental shift in her perspective to start to see the light again. A really unique and compelling episode. Thank you to all our listeners as always!
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Naomi Geidel uses the terms, 'extended singleness' and 'childless, not by choice' as she describes her life up to this point. As the years went by, and especially as she hit her forties, Naomi went into a very dark place, and the realization of a life without a partner, or a child, became a heavy reality that she couldn't seem to deal with. This 'loss', as she describes it,  has touched every area of her life and in the depths of grief it changed the confidence she had in herself and most things in the world.  It was super hard and not pretty, but she leaned into this difficult season, and has come out the other side .... not perfect, yet stronger....not fully healed, yet healing. Its a fascinating and thoroughly engaging episode, and we could have talked for hours! From the bottom of the depths of darkness, she is experiencing joy again, and has the energy to create and see better days ahead. Thank you Naomi!!
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Welcome to the After Thoughts section for our previous episode, where we met Fred Rutman, who was literally a walking, talking, ticking time bomb! Luke and Kyle unpack the episode and touch on their own medical emergencies, and what that trauma can do to us!
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Fred Rutman was experiencing sudden black outs, and literally falling over where he stood. He would awake with bruises, scrapes and confusion, and no one could figure out what was going on. It was the summer of 2009 and these episodes would continue to baffle doctors until finally Fred was brought into hospital to have a digital device and camera attached to him, so that the medical team could actually catch one of these blackouts as they happened. The is a medical trauma story like no other, as Fred takes us through the events leading up to his diagnosis, the journey through adversity, and the resilience he would need over the coming years. Fred is funny, and full of great humor and sarcasm, and we just love this episode and are glad you are still with us Fred!
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