Speak Loud

So often we dwell on and live in the negative aspects that trauma creates. However, as strong and amazing survivors, it’s critical that our mindset shifts to focus on the positive effects of trauma. Lorrie Richins shares her story to bring awareness to trauma and share her work as a personal and family empowerment coach. Lorrie starts the show off by giving listeners look into her background and the work that she does in her business, Whole Family Mentoring. She recounts how her repressed trauma was brought forth later in her life; what caused the trauma to resurface and how she coped with this realization. After hitting her breaking point and planning to take her own life, Lorrie found her strength and kept fighting, eventually becoming resilient to the pain that once crushed her. Lorrie explains how seeing a therapist helped her step into resiliency and out of the pain she felt. Lorrie so perfectly describes what pain feels like and the reaction it forces it us to have of escape and fleeing from those feeli