Category: Abuse
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Ep. 20 Listening with Love: When to Walk Away for Your Own Peace
In this heartfelt and eye-opening episode, we explore the deep power of listening with love—not just to others, but to ourselves. Learn how to identify when a conversation turns toxic, the importance of honoring your mental health, and why sometimes, walking away is the most loving act you can do for yourself and others. This…
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2024 Daily Aligning with Love, Abundance, and Peace #14
Today’s aligning covers a lot of ground. It includes the importance of feelings and centering ourselves. I’ve been trying to figure out when to bring up how we can sometimes get warped definitions around feelings. I may talk about this again in the series, but it’s so important, I need to bring it up right…
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2024 Daily Aligning with Love, Abundance, and Peace #13
Today’s aligning is all about trees and nature as a whole. In my updated 2020 post, I mentioned getting an important message from a banyan tree. What I didn’t say was at the time of the occurrence, I was in a toxic relationship with a narcissist where I felt like an empty shell. I was…
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2024 Daily Aligning with Love, Abundance, and Peace #6
Today’s practice really is a big reason I’m here today, and I mean on this planet. There was a time when I didn’t think I would make it to eighteen. Today’s post may be triggering for some. Please remember I’m not a doctor or psychologist. I just know what’s worked for me. All I can…
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BE HONEST WITH YOURSELF!
Are you being honest? If we aren’t being honest with ourselves, we aren’t capable of being honest with others. Self-awareness is key to living an authentic life. Sometimes being honest with ourselves is downright horrifying. We live these lives where we are just getting by, and we are scared to pick up the rug and…
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SOW #26 Heal from Within with Special Guest Katie Beecher, MS, LPC
After reading Katie Beecher’s book, Heal from Within, I knew I had to have her on Seeds of Wisdom. We covered so much ground in this week’s episode. It gives listeners lots to work with think about all in under an hour. These are the kind of conversations I love having! “Katie Beecher is… eerily…
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SOW #13 Accepting Incremental Progress with Special Guest Mary Beth O’Connor
In this episode we look at childhood abuse, trauma, addiction, recovery, relationships, career, and the incremental progress that is a HUGE part of the healing journey. This is a powerful episode. I’m so grateful I got a chance to read an Advanced Readers Copy (ARC) of Mary Beth O’Connor’s upcoming memoir, From Junkie to Judge:…
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What Can I Do Now? #7 Trauma Trigger
When we have past trauma, we never know what will happen that might trigger a memory. We can be in a conversation, reading, watching or listening to something, the list goes on. Well, today was one of those days for me. I read something that brought me back to a very dark time. I’ve done…
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Seeds of Wisdom: How Intuition can Help Heal Past Trauma with Special Guest Kiersten Parsons Hathcock
Who is Kiersten Parsons Hathcock? Kiersten Parsons Hathcock is a former TV marketing executive turned self-taught furniture designer/carpenter and late-in-life volunteer psychic medium. In 2007, she followed her intuition, which led her to start Mod Mom Furniture. For three and a half years, Kiersten built everything in her four hundred square foot garage until 2011 when…
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Ep.10 Listening with Love: Blaming Disempowers
Last week, I told you we would be digging more into why blaming is toxic to our systems and how it affects our ability to listen with love. The truth is we are actually doing a disservice to the people we are trying to help when we contribute to their toxic pattern of blame. Blaming…
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