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My guest is Tracy Nelson, a medical assistant who has been on the front lines of COVID. She is a mom and empty nester in a new chapter of her life. Tracey talks about her past history of abuse, how she has changed her parenting style since healing and how she dealt with the trauma of losing her youngest child.Told to Keep Her Childhood Abuse a SecretAs a young child, her abuse started with her father. When she told her mother what had happened, her mother told her not to say anything and keep it a secret. Finally, however, she did report the abuse, and her father only received a year of mandated counseling.Being in and out of rehab from suicide attempts and eating disorders, Tracey wasn’t able to deal with the trauma and lack of consequence her father received for abusing her so severely. Then, at the age of 18, he abused her again. She moved out of her home and, at 24, realized she was pregnant. “My son saved my life,” she says, as she was drinking and doing drugs at the time. Her pregnancy gave her the chan

My guest is Dawna Campbell the Mind Whisperer, who has knowledge that can assist in restoring and creating a life of happiness, prosperity, and love. With over 25 years of experience in the financial advisor realm, Dawna’s book, Financially Fit, is an Amazon #1 Best Seller.She grew up in an environment which set her on the path to experiencing abuse later in life. “I grew up in a household that was pretty angry and I didn’t know that we were meant to live in a state of anger.” No matter the discussion topic, the emotion that bled out from her mother was always anger. As a kid, she received and absorbed much of the anger in her home, including physical abuse. “There was always retribution going on, even if I was just sitting there quietly.” This set the stage for her later in life to receive abuse from others.Modeling Adult Relationships From Childhood ExperiencesSince she didn’t know any different, she modeled her adult relationships after the abusive relationship with her mother. “It’s not until you see that

My guest is Keisher Glymph, a leader, motivational speaker, and creator who is spreading the message of finding your voice as a female. She loves giving space for creativity, being your best self, and showing up in the world as your authentic self to share your voice with the globe.Although she doesn’t remember all the details, Keisher remembers the time, day, environment, and what happened to her the night she had two babysitters, one of them was male. They wanted her to stay quiet about what happened, and it took her years to understand what happened to her emotionally and how deeply this experience affected her. “I started noticing it in relationships,” says Keisher, “I could notice that pulling back and being quiet was an effect over time.” She often closed off her heart and didn’t understand how to say no because she felt that she didn’t have a voice.Having been sexually abused as a young girl at the age of nine, Keisher realizes that being abused can create gaps in memory. “One of the reasons I was insp

My guest is Lana Elco, a relationship and intimacy coach who focuses on the tantric, sacred unity approach and has worked with cross-cultural couples and women from all over the world in their relationships for more than 10 years. She is a proponent of feminine empowerment. Ukrainian-born Lana moved to California, where she met her soul partner and started her life from scratch.Lana has a Master’s Degree in social and political sciences, business administration, studied transpersonal psychology and is certified with Grof Transpersonal Training. She has also trained in NVC (Non-Violent Communication), Zegg Psychodrama, Intimacy, and Tantra.Having a great childhood in Ukraine, Lana experienced her trauma in the United States. She worked on deep healing work on ancestral trauma at a spiritual retreat in the desert when she had a man attack her emotionally. “It took a while for me to process and understand what had happened to me,” says Lana of her experience. In her healing journey from this experience, she real

At the age of three, her mother had a tenant in their home who abused her, along with an uncle who also abused her at the age of seven. As an adult, she was in a constant state of trauma, and as a result, Anu attracted abusive partners into her life. “It was a constant, vicious cycle of darkness and attracting horrible partners into my life.”Jumping from One Relationship to Another“I was so scared of being alone,” says Anu, “and I think it’s because I was so vulnerable and other people picked up on this.” She felt that she needed a partner in her life to give her the love she wasn’t able to give herself. Her choices of partners were manipulative and physically and mentally abusive.Spiritual Healing for TraumaAnu has tried different western and eastern modalities for healing, and one method she has used with great success is reiki. She has been attuned with reiki and has achieved her level 1, level 2, and master reiki levels. “I felt more intuitive and I can pick up on people’s energies,” says Anu. “Reiki has

Today I’m talking to Lizbeth Meredith is a speaker and former child abuse investigator. She has also authored the book Pieces of Me: Rescuing My Kidnapped Daughters. In addition, she is a retired juvenile probation supervisor. With family violence, parental alienation, control issues, physical abuse, and a large amount of chaos in her home, Lizbeth realized that she wanted a different life for herself from an early age. So she transitioned from her abusive home to an abusive marriage and found herself in Europe in her twenties looking for her kidnapped girls. “I came from a really controlling environment and I was looking for someone to save me.”Her mother had kidnapped her and her female siblings and moved to Alaska to avoid getting caught. Her mother, having been married to multiple men, had children from several different fathers. Lizbeth didn’t know who her real father was until she was 20, as her mom told her that her stepdad was her real father.Growing up, she remembers being physically abused if her si

We know and understand that abuse happens to people daily. We also know that when we talk about emotional or mental abuse it can be partially perception. It is the physical and sexual abuse that leaves physical scarring that we can see and document. The Importance of Having an Episode TakeawayWhether the person that is being interviewed is accurately telling their story or not, the purpose of my podcast is for victims of abuse to learn how to thrive. Learning comes from listening to other’s stories and having an actionable takeaway for them to move forward with their own healing.In this episode, Listen in to find out why healing is a journey and a constant in survivors lives, why I experience anxiety more in the winter months, and my experience with my dad when we visited Hawaii together.

I’m excited to chat with my guest Nadia Bruce Rawlings, a survivor of multiple forms of childhood abuse and whose written two memoirs, Scars and Driving in the Rain. In addition to being an author, Nadia travels the world. She worked in the film industry in Los Angeles for a time. She and her husband live in Nashville, Tennesee, where she writes and raises her six children and fur baby.Almost all of her relatives on her father’s side of the family were alcoholics, including her father. “He was very Jekyll and Hyde when he drank and very verbally abusive to the kids and his wife.” In addition to the verbal abuse, there was a period where Nadia remembers him being physically abusive to her mother. She found that her parents were both emotionally vacant. As a result of her upbringing, Nadia sought out abusive, dysfunctional relationships, not knowing what a loving relationship looked like.Nadia picked up her first drink at the young age of 12. Living overseas at the time, she didn’t find hard drugs but could buy

I’m excited about my return guest, Joe Dennis, from episode 08 of Speak Loud Podcast. Joe is our leading referral partner here on Speak Loud Podcast. Joe blends unique meditative practices and philosophy with highly sought-after techniques such as EMDR, Brain-spotting, dream analysis, and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy to create insightfully inspired and lasting impacts with his clients.REBT, CBT, and DBT are forms of behavioral therapy that are commonly used in Utah. “These are useful with clients that want to form a new habit.” This approach determines how you are interpreting information and the behavior resulting from your interpretation. Joe works with clients using this approach as he finds this format more practical. “But even then, I don’t believe the behavioral approaches tend to go deep enough.”“Existential theory allows integration of other approaches,” which gives Joe and his team the ability to look at the type of trauma and the meaning associated with the trauma experienced in the individual.“When

I’m excited about my guest Renee Sinning, a team coach who helps teens feel confident, motivated, and worthy. She has spent her career teaching and mentoring teens. Her years in the classroom teaching, coaching, and mentoring teens, along with her own personal experience as a mom of three children, have given her tools and strategies she passes along to her teens to create a life where they can find peace and happiness.Working with Teens in a Different CapacityAfter moving several times for her husband’s job, Renee decided she didn’t want to be attached to the school year calendar but wanted to offer teens the benefit of her experience. “I saw a lot of teens fall through the cracks, for different reasons. I had some powerful relationships with some of the teens and I was able to help them with coaching outside of the classroom.”While coaching was the most significant impact and most memorable experience for Renee, she realized there were many more teens with low self-esteem and lack of self-confidence who nee

I’m excited about my guest Kerrie Hummingbird, a soul guide and host of the Soul Nectar podcast. She is also the author of Love is Fierce: Healing the Mother Wound. Kerrie inspires others to lead their life with authenticity, passion, and purpose. She is a catalyst of life-changing and shows others how to find their life path.Kerrie’s Trauma StoryKerrie was a child in the summer of love in 1969. Her mother was raised in Texas with a solid religious background but was rebellious and didn’t want to follow social rules. She was good at rejecting aspects of her life that didn’t lead her to be free. Her mother moved to the city and met her father. Her father was a victim of chronic abuse and neglect. He abused Kerrie, and so her mother left her father for another man who was alcoholic and also physically abusive to Kerrie and her mother.Her Positive Male Role Model After leaving her second husband, her mother found her third husband, who was supportive of both Kerrie and her mother. Although she finally found stab

Denise Bossarte Is a survirvor of sexual abuse and has spent her adulthood healing herself from the abuse she has experienced in life. She is an award-winning writer, author and photographer and certified mediation facilitator and holds a PhD in Neuroscience. Her Past StoryHer mother’s father was the source of sexual abuse to her as a young child. “It mostly happened when we spent the summers with my grandparents on the lake.” her parents didn’t know what was happening, and the abuse continued until her sophomore year in high school when her grandfather died. “I learned to disassociate from my body when the abuse was happening and really disconnected in many ways to survive.Denise’s memories came flooding back after her grandfather died, and she had to learn how to process her trauma. Because she had accolades at school for being a good student, Denise latched onto her schooling for positive reinforcement. She kept herself busy so she wouldn’t have to deal with the trauma.First RelationshipShe started dating

Lisa Tahir is my guest today and a fellow podcaster. She talks about mental health in her podcast All Things Therapy. Lisa is the founder of Psycho Astrology and The Chiron Effect. Check out her online class 20 Spiritual Tools for Change, which has been endorsed by the Dali Lama.Her Past StoryShe grew up in a family which measured your worth from your monetary income and factors you could measure on paper. Her father was an immigrant who came to America with $20, landed in New York, went to med school, and became a doctor. “On the one hand, I was watching my father do everything and on the other hand, I was oppressed and I often did not feel seen or heard.”Lisa didn’t understand her value and worth and ended up becoming a drug addict and following people who weren’t a good influence on her growing up. She realized that this was not a positive path to take and switched gears in adulthood.Driving Force as an AdultAfter she attended therapy to heal herself, Lisa wanted to create a new story in her life. “Through

Tony has his own movement and tasks “The Be Schmaltzy Movement” whereas you let go of your fears and stop people pleasing to find your happiness and success. The German translation of his last name is to be “sappy and cheesy”. Tony has committed himself to working with others to create freedom to connect to their authentic self for the past two decades.Tony’s Past History of AbuseTony’s parents started arguing when he was about 10 years old, and that aggression spilled over to Tony and his siblings. Besides, his parents were always telling Tony and his younger siblings that they needed to be more like his brother Chris, going to university on scholarship.He wasn’t able to move past his resentment until he went to coaching and realized that he needed to confront his brother. “I had to finally tell my brother that he was my biggest limiting belief.”Schmaltzy Method OriginsIn high school, he went to Germany for a school trip and was able to drink as he was 16 at the time. As he drank, he started flirting more wi

In this episode, I sit down with my show producer, sound engineer and more importantly friend, Bryce Prescott. He is the 1st repeat guest on the show!! We had so much fun the 1st time around, we decided to do it again. We talk about what's transpired over episodes past,  what eastern modalities have gotten us through some of the toughest times in our lives, current favorite reads and the future of the podcast.  We hope you enjoy this episode as much as we did. It's a fun one! 

Corbie is a Certified Tarot Master, Certified Psychic, trained medium and ordained minister. Corbie’s energetic services she offers include:Corbie speaks and counsels at holistic expos, seminars, and workshops throughout the US and Canada and in one-on-one sessions with clients worldwide.Her mother was addicted to barbiturates and was physically and emotionally abusive. Both her parents were in the medical field and took turns with hospital stays due to emotional problems. Corbie wasn’t into the traditional life path; she was excited by acting and writing. “My life had become me telling stories up in my mind so that I could process my life.”Being emotionally abused by her mother led her to take on her sexuality in an unhealthy way. She used sex as a bargaining chip which led her into an abusive marriage, rape, and other harmful situations. In 1985, her mom passed away, and her dad remarried a wonderful woman that was more of a mom to Corbie than her own mother was as she had emotional intelligence.She learned

Shantel Reitz is a female business owner, current international beauty queen, a high-level sales and productivity coach. Her mission is to take her experience and shine in her best light to give others the courage to turn their light on and shine. She has a presence and a glow about her that you can hear throughout this interview!Shantel’s Backstory of Trauma and AbuseShe remembers growing up being sexually abused by her grandfather as long back as she can remember until 12. At the age of eight, she and her cousins found out that her paternal grandfather was sexually abusing them and told their parents. Her grandfather made up stories, and their parents did nothing to protect them. Looking back, she remembers her grandmother crying about the abuse, and Shantel didn’t want to make her grandmother sad again.Achieving Accolades to Prove Her WorthShantel went the distance to prove her worth as a child by achieving high grades in school and going overboard with work. “I have to be conscious in checking in with mys

Sandra Cooze is joining me today from Canada. She is a mother, published author of the book Journey to Yourself: How to Heal from Trauma, and is a certified intuitive trauma release and self-empowerment coach. Also, Sandra is a transformed trauma survivor, Reiki Master, and a traumatic incident reduction facilitator.When she tells her story, she says that “it feels like someone else’s story” because she is so far removed from the pain of her trauma. In addition to sexual trauma and raped by her boyfriend’s best friend, Sandra was also bullied in her school.At the age of 12, her mom gave her a horse and sent her for riding lessons with a stable master at a local stable. The stable master molested her one day, and she told her mother and didn’t have to go back. Her mother told her not to go there anymore but didn’t speak to her daughter about the incident.On vacation in Germany, Sandra was invited to a party with the owner of the hotel, who was chasing her in an attempt to touch her. This time, her mom played i

Dr. Rosenna Bakari is a graduate of Cornell University with a Ph.D. in Psychology and is the founder of an international organization that focuses exclusively on empowering adult survivors. She is also a multiple book author, including the title “The Living Open Model of Advocacy and Support” related to mental wellness, and is herself an incest survivor. In addition to her accomplishments academically, Dr. Bakari is also a blackbelt in the martial arts and received her Ph.D. and her blackbelt while raising children.Her incest and abuse came from within her family, and one day a family member who knew of her abuse invited the violator into her home. Although the violator didn’t show up, she felt extremely unsafe around the member of the family who tried to arrange this meeting. “I felt so unsafe that it triggered a PTSD event.” The family member who arranged this meeting thought that Rosenna had healed from her tragedy because she was successful. The violator was the family member’s husband."I hadn't

Rhino Julie suffered trauma and had issues with low adrenals. As a result, she gained 65 pounds and then was able to heal herself. She had gained weight so rapidly that she remembers waking up one morning, and she couldn’t get any of her clothes to fit. Listen in to find out her journey of healing.Filling Up Time to Avoid Dealing with the Pain of Trauma“For most of my life, I’ve been in over my head, always going to escape the things in my head. Just fill up your time and be uncomfortable in all of the ways you want to be uncomfortable.” She decided to put aside time to move through her healing journey and decided to fill her time with work.This way of life affected every minute of her day, including always thinking about what food she would eat next. “It was this constant war in my head that was me being obsessed with losing the weight.”Seeking Out Medical Advice for Weight LossAfter seeing several different medical professionals, Julie was frustrated and sad. She was told it would be hard for her to lose we