Welcome in ya'll!  Today I have the absolute pleasure of speaking to Kacy!  She is a cattle rancher in SE Wyoming and an advocate/speaker for the beef industry.  Her familys ranch has been there since the 1880s, raising livestock.

She is a badass woman in what has mostly been a male dominated industry.  Kacy talks passionately about life on the ranch and how she believes we should all get on the same boat in this industry that has become fragmented.  Her knowledge and passion extends to current cattle producers but she also relays accurate information about the beef industry to the general public and beef consumers.

At the end of the day we all want the same thing, to raise our kids, live the way of life we love, live off the land and take care of our animals.  To see what we have built for generations to come.

Cattle Ranching is hard work and I don't pretend i know a thing, this California girl knows nothing about raising no cattle!  Kacy sat down with me just after birthing a calf!  She is real, with manure in her hair and she looked beautiful.  We talk about how we should all come together at one table and move forward with one voice, make the system better if you think its not working.  

I love how passionate she is about the current and future state of cattle ranching.  Kacy does speaking engagements for all types of audiences young and old, those who raise beef or just enjoy eating it.  She is National award recipient for beef advocacy radio program.  See her website www.kaceyatkinson.com to listen!

Follow Kacy on Instagram for some cute baby calf photos and life on the ranch.  If you want to know more about the beef industry, please reach out to her as well at her website!

Thank you SOO much for listening and thank you Kacy for taking the time in between birthing calves to join me.  I hope to get to Wyoming and get down and in the muck.  Love you so much girl.  

 

Hi Beauties!  In today's episode I talk to Andrea, Andrea is an Orgasm coach, sexual trauma and grief specialist.  In today's show we talk about how orgasm coaching helps us in our feminine bodies to be less in your head and be alive.  Andrea puts it best when she says My BIG-O is mine, my body is mine, my sexuality is mine, My life is mine, my choices are mine.  Yes Girl!  We all need to be less in our heads about our sexuality, when we are in our heads your body is not functioning as it should be.  We discuss connecting to your feminine body, awakening senses and relaxing and letting it all flow together.  You will feel alive.  Andrea has this calming voice and we did a 2 min meditation with me and I tell you ladies, it took me to a place that brought tears to my eyes in a good way.  I felt it.  If you want to change and be reborn in your sexual energies I highly recommend reaching out to Andrea!

Lets choose a more beautiful joyful life.  Her enthusiasm for life and for healing is amazing.  She is healing herself and others especially after sexual abuse when we can be so traumatized that we cant orgasm or we feel shame.  Lets heal and explore and awaken your sexuality and the waves of pleasures in your body!  Lets talk about this, lets put it out there, lets heal and be our best selves for us!  Our feminine bodies need healing and to flow together and be joyful.  

We talked about how she can help you online and in person to awaken your senses and increase your body's sensitivity.  I love this topic so much because no one wants to talk about it.  Discuss ladies!  Lets do this!  She is amazing.  

Thank you Andrea for joining me today,  I absolutely loved it.  

You can reach out to Andrea at the following

www.facebook.com/girishaandrea

www.facebook.com/thetatantra

www.girishaandrea.com

[email protected]

For our listeners, Andrea has created a gift for listening, please reach out to her if you've listened to this show, mention Womens Empowerment Junkie!  Love you!

 

In todays episode I speak to Angela!  She is a Breakthrough Coach to empower women to strive for their best lives no matter what they have been through, breaks through the traumas of their past.  I love hearing Angela talk about how she is healing her own past and in the process helping other women who have been through abuse, sexual or otherwise.  We talk about memory triggers and how those triggers can cripple your healing if you dont give yourself the space to commit to whats coming in your memories to heal.  You stop trusting yourself and stop seeing the red flags and then the triggers come in, she will teach you how to handle the triggers and heal.  This is a de-layering process and will take time.  Be patient and kind with yourself.  

Angela shares with us her three things she says a survivor needs to heal. 1,  Healing is a hourney, not a destination, a life long process. Patience.  2.  Just because your healing doesnt mean you are not going to have bad days, that is BS that you won't.  3.  You are allowed to claim yourself as healed "right now"

Ladies, be aware of what is going on and talk about your fear and vulnerability with others.  Connection with others grows and empowers us,  We are taught that our trauma is our shame and shame puts us in a situation to not talk about it and keep it a secret and shame tells us this lie, we are not alone.  Dont quit before the breakthrough begins!

Angela creates a safe space to speak and heal to move forward.  

"Your unhealed wounds will lead you to believe that you need to do or be something else to be loveable and worthy, as you heal you will discover this was a lie that held you back from truly loving yourself"

Angela can be reached @ asfreeasyousee.com

www.facebook.com/groups/healingtraumaforwomen

Thank you SOOO much Angela for coming on and talking to us about your amazing journey and how you are inspiring, healing and empowering others!

In this episode I speak to the vibrant and beautiful Anne Bonney.  She is a motivational speaker, fellow podcaster, author and BBQ enthusiast!  Uh, Sweet Baby Rays!  Sponsor??  lol

This enthusiastic redhead shares with us business lessons from crazy life experiences and hilarious stories of growing up overseas, running international marathons, animal training, building morale, volunteering at elephant sanctuaries and even singing opera!  There is SO much more, she is my spirit animal!  

Anne and I had soo much fun on this show, she loves to empower women just as much as I do.  From her speaking retreats to her non profit work with the Warm Hearts foundation and her Passion to Share foundation Anne is such a powerful inspiring woman.  Not to mention her love of BBQ sauces!  

Let's get uncomfortable! Anne will show you how to get out of that comfort zone and keep moving forward on to bigger and better things!  Anne has been working different jobs and exploring her world and been blessed with some really amazing people along the way that propelled her on her path of empowering women.  I love Anne's enthusiasm and laughter at herself and life.  If you cant laugh at yourself...:)  

This was not her dream job as a little girl, she was going to be a broadway star!  LOL  See how life can change? No matter what age or comfort zone you are currently stuck in.   

Positive human culture is what she realized was needed after being in a toxic or negative environment in the work force, so she decided she had to pursue this path in her life and to help others to see the positivity and optimism in life.  

From Womens networking groups to Corporations to get better results in their lives/careers, Anne has a plan to do retreats, both virtual and hopefully in person when everything clears up in the world.  To walk away with action plans to implement in their workplace is the focus of the retreats.  OMG she has soo many plans for these, mindset, fitness, building courage, etc.  Whew, I love it!  Early messaging of women thinking is that we get in our own way.  She will help you figure out how to get to that point to speak up and build that courage!  Let's dive in!  Lets be honest, open, vulnerable and support each other.  

Anne's weekly podcast ignites your courage to embrace discomforts of life and gets the best from yourself and others.  Igniting Courage.

Check out her book, "Get Over It", tips for embracing the discomfort of change.  Change is hard for crying out loud!  

I love all her adventures and how confident and empowering Anne is.  You can find Anne here:

Igniting Courage Podcast

ignitingyourcourage.com

AnneBonney.com

YourChangeSpeaker.com

[email protected]

Lets travel again!  Lets find where courage shows up in your lives!

In today's show I speak to Jessica.  Jessica is a creator, healer and lover of nature!  Plus we had some fun today talking about the truths of getting older.  Ya'll can relate I am sure!  Along with the humor, we talk about focusing on her business of transforming lives by assisting others to know and understand their full potential through identity work, visualization, affirmations, breath-work to find who they are capable of being.

We laugh about shoving food into our pie hole and not realizing it once COVID hit and we were sitting at home mindlessly eating.  How to change and commit to a mindset of keeping your routine.  Giving back and service to others will always give back to you in a rewarding way and keep you humble.  Don't wait until COVID is over, its like waiting til Monday, start now!  We talk about accountability, even if you have to be your own accountability partner.  

Jessica is the owner of Next Level Coaching where she provides individual and group coaching; personal fitness and nutritional coaching.  Jessica always knew she was meant to heal, doors opened and life happened to propel her into her journey. She came out on the other side of all her experiences to follow this life, and allows her to relate to others.

Take a moment to look into your mirror, into those beautiful eyes and speak to your soul.  Speak about how amazing you are...believe it because its true.

If you want to work with Jessica, you can find her @ the following:

IG @nextlevelpmw

IG @Jessica Salquist

http://nextleveltransformationalcoaching.com

http://my.doterra.com/nextlevelcoaching

 

Peace be with You!

 

 

 

In today's episode we talk to Kitty, a Life Coach specializing in Trauma and PTSD,  Kitty's journey of addiction, her son's brush with death and her own brush with death in the 2015 Nepal earthquake, surviving this relationship and the loss of her brother brings her to where she is today. Kitty talks about living with a "covert" Narcissist for 12 years. A Wolf in Sheep's clothing and the dangers of intimate relationships with these covert narcs. Her story is not uncommon, as young girls we become co dependent and want to people please and not say no just to keep the peace or be loved. This, along with other traumas in life causes the trauma bond and continues into our adult relationships looking for that love, for that peace we want, so we don't see the red flags, sometimes til its too late. She thought he seemed like a better than average human, but he had a double life, if not a TRIPLE life. She was devastated. Unlike Overt Narcs, Covert is silence, its the "implied" words and yes its also love bombing, but its subtle and usually no anger, but neglect. Kitty talks about how she had that "gut feeling" something was off, but she couldn't prove anything because he was so good at hiding it and making her believe it was all in her head. He agreed to couples counseling, which is unusual for narcs, but he made her seem crazy in counseling as well. Typical narcissistic behavior, he was the good guy and never did anything wrong, but then again he convinced her of his love. Kitty talks about how we need to heal our co dependency and our self depricating love so we can cultivate good relationships. She will work with you on creating boundaries. Do you attract selfish manipulative people? Do you feel like you often say yes when you really mean no?   www.coachkat.org Thank you Kitty for coming on and telling your incredible journey and how you are helping others cope and thrive! You are truly an Empowered Woman.

Today's episode I talk to Bilinda Blume. Bilinda is a certified NAP/NLP Practitioner with more than 20 years of experience. She specializes in stress/anxiety management and relationships. Biliinda and I have a kindered spirit! I loved our chat! Her passion to help people is driven by her own journey. Bilinda was clinically diagnosed with PTSD from early childhood trauma. She searched to find the answers to how to live with PTSD which meant living with crippling anxiety. Through countless therapy sessions, self-help books, and workshops Bilinda found out that she didn’t want to live with PTSD, she wanted to overcome it. She learned through the years how to not only survive but to thrive. Like most people Bilinda grew up in a dysfunctional home with no idea what a healthy relationship looked like. She felt like she was destined to be with a man that could never understand her. She wanted to be heard, feel safe and know that she was loved. Through her journey Bilinda found that healing the relationship with herself created the unimaginable 14 year relationship she is in with her spouse today. What took Bilinda years to achieve she now offers to her clients in the proven step by step programs such as; “Stop The Anxiety” and “Relationships B.L.U.M.E.” Bilinda traveled, trained, and learned from our top transformational thought leaders, such as; Tony Robbins, Oprah Winfrey, Joseph McClendon the third, Lisa Lieberman-Wang, Allison Armstrong, Dr. Joe Dispenza, Willard Barth and more. Growth and contribution are Bilinda’s top values. Learning and providing for others’ the fastest, easiest, and most fun way to solve life’s challenges is her never-ending quest.

In this episode I talk to "Jane Doe" as she wanted to remain anonymous. Jane is young and wanted to tell her story, but is still working through the trauma. In 2017 at the age of 15, she moved to her fathers house. What you need to know is, her father was not involved too much in her life and she has never lived with him or spent any amount of time with him, It had been on her mind for years to connect with her father. The abuse started very quickly and in her own words, "I was so naive, and didn't see it or I would pretend it didn't happen". Being so young, she thought she was to blame. He would scream at her in her face, verbal abuse and touching inappropriately. Is this really what a father does? NO! absolutely NOT! Jane tried to make it a point to stay out of his way and thought his current wife would step in and stop it. Two years later, he hit her so hard she fell to the floor, that is when he got on top of her and she was so scared she was going to be raped...by her FATHER! HIs wife pulled him off but she blamed Jane for it when she had done nothing wrong. When children, no matter how old, are abused by adults who are supposed to protect them from harm, their ability to trust and rely on adults is shattered. Knowing that the abuser is liked - or even loved-by other family members makes it all the more difficult for children to tell others about the abuse. They are more likely to blame themselves. Jane got out, she is healing with therapy and is on the path to help others heal. She is a survivor and an inspiration! As hard as it may be to report sexual abuse that has been done by a family member, it is the best thing to do to heal you and your entire family. If you are not sure who to contact, please call the Childhelp National Abuse Hotline @1,800,4,A.child (1-800-422-4453) https://www.childhelp,org/get_help

In todays episode we talk to Jacquelyn as she revisits her journey at 48 years old in a very dark place with a psychopath. Of course at the beginning she had no idea he was and was about to change her life forever, in the worst way. Never tried drugs before in her life. She found out he was a meth addict and had been for 12 years before she came along. Soon all his manipulative and abusive ways worked so effectively on her because of her own internal deficits. Her own fear of being alone and intense need for love and affection. So skilled at manipulation it was still her choice to give herself away to him. Jacquelyn talks about how she thought she could fix him, love him more and all would be ok. She took comfort in knowing he would never leave me, his hold on her was inexpicable, perplexing and defied logic or reason. His highs on meth were the good days, the bad days were when he was coming down from the high, where the abuse started. She thought she was losing her mind from all the lies and circles of truths and told they were her imagination. The day came where she knew he wasn't going to stop but leaving him would break her heart. This is common in abused victims, thinking no one will want them or fear of disappointing family and friends, so they stay thinking its easier. That is the love bombing, the intense love words from the abuser that he is the only one who loves you and you are worthless to everyone else. Don't feed into the lies ladies. Please open your eyes and know that this is NOT love and NOT ok. Fast track 4 years and she was a bruised and broken Intravenous meth addict herself. The abuse was horrific. Physical, emotional, financial, moral, every level imaginable. The physical abuse only started once he had isolated her from her sons, her family and friends and once he had her away from them he began to offer her meth. She ended up in a very dark place where death was the only way she could see that would save her from her pain.She fled from him 16 months ago after he attempted to strangle her. In the end, she went back to her home town and recovery has been the most painful yet healing experience of her life. Her book "From the Other Side" is a look into the frightening world of drug addiction and domestic violence. Her story shows that even an educated woman with life experiences can be caught in the dark web of a psychopath. Today, Jacquelyn is healing trauma through Pen and Paint. This therapeutic method works because sometimes, we just don't want to relive it or talk about it. Get it out on paper, in paint. Speak your truth, tell your story however that looks for you. Jacquelyn is such an inspiration of survival through drug addiction and domestic violence, who knows why he stopped strangling her, but I think someone was looking after her that night she needed to survive and tell her story, help others survive and cope with the trauma. I applaud you and love you so much for sharing this story, I knew it would be tough as we shared a very similar story of abuse that no woman should ever share or go through. Thank you Jacquelyn Ann!   You can find her book at https://www.jacquelynann.me/   She is also on Facebook at Jacquelyn Ann if you want to check out her story and read her book. Bring tissues, you will cry with her as she recounts every detail.

Today I speak to the very inspirational Sandra Cooze, she is a Trauma Incident Recovery/Release and Self Empowerment Coach. Sandra takes us on a journey that started when she was 12 of sexual abuse. She loved horses and got to ride at a stable near town and thats when it all started. This abuse continued with other men she encountered until she was well into her teens and early 20's. With no support or the typical "sweeping things like this under the rug", Sandra never knew it was not ok. She knew it felt wrong and didn't like it, but was told to respect her elders. She also felt ashamed and fear of being blamed. She did tell her mom the first time that happened at age 12 only to just be told you will never go there again. No police were involved, what would the neighbors think! At 16 she was old enough to understand what happened to her. Growing up her feelings were dismissed. She, to this day, still carries the memories and the desperation, you never forget that kind of fear and trauma. It goes deep. When anyone else would of given up and fall into pits of despair, Sandra hit rock bottom and she knew she had to get through this and better herself. With the help of crystals and Reike, she is healing herself. She is now a Reike master and helps others release the triggers that hold onto our emotions. Sexual abuse, even today, is still a stigma of victim blaming. Its their fault because of their clothes or they went to that party, they were friendly...this is NOT OK. While we are making progress, we are a very long way from lifting this stigma experienced by survivors or solving the problem of sexual violence. Every TWO minutes another person is sexually assaulted. Sandra survived to become an Empowered and Inspiring source of love and light. She can help you get through your trauma and release it and to live your purpose. Sandra's Traumatic Incident Reduction coachig program releases trauma and PTSD gently and goes to the root of the cause or issue to release it. Look out for her Youtube channel coming soon for "bite size healing" where she will give you small sessions so not to overwhelm you on how to "heal in short segments". She is writing books and book 1 of three is out next spring. "Journey to Yourself". Be on the look out for that as well! She is doing some amazing things and also working with couples on "relationship triggers" In todays day, that is such a great tool to have being at home with your significant other during this pandemic. I love that she is using spirituality to heal others and also sharing her story, being vulnerable and letting us all in. Thank you Sandra!

Guest Links: 

www.riseaboveyourstory.com Author at Sandra Cooze Author on FB