Clouded Compass: From Barriers to Breakthroughs

Today I share part 2 of piece of Adrienne Maree Brown's book We Will Not Cancel Us: and other dreams of transformative justice ... found here https://www.akpress.org/we-will-not-cancel-us.html We move from Call Out to Transformation, Healing and Solutions... listen up. Follow us on IG and FB.  LifeHacks: Tips and Tricks for Accessing Inner Resilience is available on Amazon. Course launching s...

Today I'm introducing you to Adrienne Maree Brown and her book, which can be found here: https://www.akpress.org/we-will-not-cancel-us.html I do so in effort to raise consciousness of our collective Soul Wounds and how they are expressing themselves in our current environment. "Cancel or call-out culture is a fraught topic these days. Originating as a way for marginalized and disempowered people t...

Listen up everyone,  An Excellent Resource here with Maryann Petri.  I met her in the underbelly of the Court System recently and she is a Powerhouse!  Had trouble with the Courts?  Had trouble in Family Courts?  Had job trouble because of an Abusive relationship?  Had injustice when raising sounds of Alarm?  This ones for you or someone you know.... Consider it...

Nancy Becher has been a business owner most of her life.  She also has a Chronic Illness.  So she started a company to work with other individuals facing the same.  Now... she's off and running with her next venture: a Nonprofit designed to offer support to business entrepreneurs with chronic illness titled The Invisible Entrepreneur.  Listen up as she is asking us to support t...

Where did Cancel culture come from?  You might be surprised. Most of all when I speak about the fact that it is WE who cancel ourSelves first.  Listen up and... Subscribe to the Podcast. Share with 5 friends if you like these. Follow Clouded Compass on FB and IG. Check out my book LifeHacks: Tips and Tricks for Accessing Your Inner Resilience, found on Amazon Work with me at www.cloudedc...

ACES are a critical point of reference to review what our life history provided us.  Listen, learn and love yourself after you hear more about these hidden assets! Please subscribe to this Podcast. Learn more at www.cloudedcompass.com Follow me on FB and IG. LifeHacks: Tips and Tricks for Accessing Inner Resilience available here  https://www.amazon.com/s?k=life+hacks+laurie+smith&cr...

What parts of yourself are you showing the World?  Listen up as I talk about the Costs/Benefits of your Strategies.... as told through my Purple Hair! Work with me at www.cloudedcompass.com Follow Clouded Compass on FB and IG Read more tips in my book LifeHacks.  Available below. Tell your friends if this was helpful and why!  Sharing is Caring and Growing is in the Knowing! https:/...

What color is your Life showing up as lately?  What flavor is it?  If these are foreign questions to you, listen up, I'm talking to you.  Time to expand your resources and learn how to use your wet noodle! Work with me at www.cloudedcompass.com Follow Clouded Compass on FB and IG Read more tips in my book LifeHacks.  Available below. Tell your friends if this was helpful and wh...

For years I diagnosed 'the problem'.  What they don't emphasize is the hidden VALUE of including a diagnosis of ASSETS from those same symptoms.  Hand to God.  This is a good one.  Pay attention and share with your friends! Work with me at www.cloudedcompass.com Follow Clouded Compass on FB and IG Read more tips in my book LifeHacks.  Available below. Tell your friends if...

Many of us are taught to Give. To Others. Rarely are we taught how, why and the value of Receiving. We need Both and here's why. Work with me at www.cloudedcompass.com Follow Clouded Compass on FB and IG Read more tips in my book LifeHacks.  Available below. Tell your friends if this was helpful and why!  Sharing is Caring and Growing is in the Knowing! https://www.amazon.com/Life-Hacks-...

What ARE your Beliefs?  How did you arrive at them? Did you know they can effect your Nervous System?   Want Solutions?  Listen up! Work with me at www.cloudedcompass.com Follow Clouded Compass on FB and IG Read more tips in my book LifeHacks.  Available below. Tell your friends if this was helpful and why!  Sharing is Caring and Growing is in the Knowing! https://www.amaz...

Today we talk about the Value of our Ancestors and what we may have inherited bodily from their experiences.  Then, I read an excerpt from Oprah and Dr Perry's book What Happened To You? https://www.amazon.com/What-Happened-You-Understanding-Resilience/dp/1250223180/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3DCNBBF4JWNAY&keywords=what+happened+to+you&qid=1645474504&sprefix=what+happened+to+you%2Caps%2C108&...

Discussing ACES, Developmental Trauma and how to harness the ASSETS that gave you.  You earned the skills you have for Life by all that you've already been through.  Let's look at them to see what's helpful, what's not and/or which ones may need to be recalibrated! Work with me at www.cloudedcompass.com  Training and Workshops available. Follow Clouded Compass on FB and IG. Read mor...

Everyone has a Story.  Many of us have several different versions.  Stories, when told and heard, are a Healing balm...  Listen as I discuss how they shape our lives... Work with me at www.cloudedcompass.com Follow Clouded Compass on FB and IG Find more tips in my book https://www.amazon.com/Life-Hacks-Tricks-Accessing-Resilience/dp/B085DRTDHP/ref=sr_1_1?crid=29LBYR573TMH6&keywo...

Peers. Professionals. Fellow Humans.  Listen Up. Are you working in jobs that kill your Soul?  Are you asked to do things at work that are against your own inner values?  What do you do with that!?  Who do you talk about it with? Listen up.  It's Juicy. www.cloudedcompass.com  for Private and Confidential Coaching. Send me a note if you are interested in a Professiona...

Today I speak about the Need I saw bubbling up over and over again, which led to my newest venture Clouded Compass.  We talk about you. We talk about needed Tools and I offer Solutions. Work with me at www.cloudedcompass.com Follow Clouded Compass on IG and FB Read my book for more Tips at https://www.amazon.com/Life-Hacks-Tricks-Accessing-Resilience/dp/B085DRTDHP/ref=sr_1_1?crid=29LBYR573TMH...

This episode we talk about Expectations, how to Renegotiate your Future (and why) and how to build Empowerment within while doing so. Work with me at www.cloudedcompass.com Read my Book on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Life-Hacks-Tricks-Accessing-Resilience/dp/B085DRTDHP/ref=sr_1_1?crid=29LBYR573TMH6&keywords=life+hacks+laurie+smith&qid=1645471195&sprefix=life+hacks+with+laurie%2Caps%2...

Want a Revolution in the World? Feeling Irritable, Restless and Discontent?  Listen up.... This Revolution isn't going to be Televised. Follow me on IG and FB, check out my Book LifeHacks, grab some Coaching and/or keep on Listening to this Podcast! www.cloudedcompass.com 

I love mining for Diamonds.  It's not that the Diamonds aren't underneath the Coal, it's that we are afraid to unearth them.  Today's episode talks about the Value of Storytelling, Ancestors, Sheros and Joy. Work with me at www.cloudedcompass.com   Course on Recalibrating your Nervous System Coming soon! Follow me on Facebook and IG at Clouded Compass.

Hey Everybody, welcome to the Clouded Compass podcast. This is Laurie, I'm your host, I am a social worker, in a lot of other things. And I'm here to talk to us today about one of my favorite frameworks for understanding what to keep and what to let go of. And it's I frame it in the terms of shedding, not shoulding. So if you look back at your life, and I want you to ask yourself how you arrived a...

Hey Everybody welcome back to The Club compass podcast. This is Laurie your host. I'm talking about social issues, behavior change, and empowerment based strategies that provide sustainable outcomes. Today I'm going to read some excerpts of a book from somebody that I appreciate. This book was really helpful to me. And her name is Valerie Kaur. She wrote a book called See No Stranger: A Memoir and...

Hello, everybody. Thanks for joining Clouded Compass. Welcome back in last week's episode, I spoke about women in prison. And I want to talk today about our own internal prison, which most people I have met in life have. And it's such a fascinating thing for me to talk about. Because there are so many angles to discuss it from one of the angles that I will jump into is the fact that so many people...

Hey everybody, thanks for joining the Clouded Compass Podcast. I'm Laurie, your host, social worker of 20 years. Today, I'm going to talk about the criminal justice system and the women in prison. At the time of this recording, it is Martin Luther King Day. And I'm not sure how much you know about that person, but he risked incredibly great things, to share his message with us. And I think his mes...

Hello, everybody, welcome back to the cloud campus podcast. This is Laurie your host, I'm here to talk about social conditions our well being, and how we relate to ourselves in the world. Today, I'm going to talk about the behavioral health perspective of internal and external circumstances. So I'm a behavioral health specialist, I've been a social worker for 20 years, I've studied human behavior....

How are you relating in life?  Are you content?  Are you rageful?  Agitated?  Irritable when you don't mean to be? Listen to what connects us all and how to show up as the person you were made to be!