Gabriella Rebranded | Healing After Trauma, Spiritual Growth, Brain Injury Recovery & Dark Humor

Send Gabriella a Text Message. Trust your intuition, ignore your inner critic - but how? My ICF certified life coach, a fan favorite repeat guest, Dominique Gold helps me break down how to choose yourself, choose love, and ignore anxiety-inducing attack thoughts. We all need to get better about trusting our intuition, sis is never wrong, but it’s hella hard to trust her when we’ve been conditioned...

Send Gabriella a Text Message. This episode is dedicated to brain injury survivors and caregivers of. Today I sit down with my physiatrist, Dr. Seth Herman. Dr. Herman has been with me from week one of the coma until now and for the forseeable future.  My recovery has been entirely guided by Dr. Herman and I and my brain would not be where we are today if it wasn’t for him. As the Medical Director...

Send Gabriella a Text Message. Me? Patient? Babe, I want things done yesterday. I ride on impulsivity. Based on my birth chart - it's a birth right...but one that needs some mastering. Healing has required me to be patient or try to learn to be patient, but I almost want it to be done? I'm like 'Ok, I've been patient long enough, let's get going!!!' Unfortunately - th...

Send Gabriella a Text Message. Ever had a heart-to-heart with the Universe? I did! - On shrooms, of course. In this episode, I share what was dragged out of me  from somewhere deep inside—truths about who I am, how I love, and why we’re all here (spoiler: the job description for being human is very simple and easy - but we overthink and make it harder  different than you think). We’ll talk trust,...

Send Gabriella a Text Message. Do you believe in giggling? Do you believe in hehe-ing? Do you believe in haha-ing? And do you believe that it can heal you?! I preach it, I scream it, I yell it - and so does Dean Lin, cohost of the Definitely Delusional podcast.  I mandate that laughter saved me and I wouldn't be where I am today - as recovered, healed, happy, and back to life I am today, if i...

Send Gabriella a Text Message. Another episode about hair?! Guys, the curly hair community NEEDS this one, I need this one. The haters will say trauma from curly hair is a stretch - by haters I mean people without curly hair! Anyone with curly hair knows it's a fucking struggle, a beautiful struggle, but still a struggle.  Meet my hair stylist, Valerie or Val of ValCutColor. Val is a curl spe...

Send Gabriella a Text Message. I met Taylor Swift because I was hit by a car. This is that story. And this story reflects the entire moral/thesis of this podcast: Using what you have to work with the Universe, rather than focussing on what you don't have. I was able to take said coma and said 16 surgeries and said two month hospital & rehab stay and said brain injury and said Uh Oh experi...

Send Gabriella a Text Message. Being a party girl can make you a good person! My friend, Emily, cohost of the 'Definitely Delusional' podcast, is here to tell you allllll about that. She wanted to restore the rep of untz untz and tell about how music festivals, the dance floor, and how what most identify as taboo debauchery woke her up to the Universe and connects her to her chakras. At...

Send Gabriella a Text Message. My written plans for my funeral and wake extravaganzas are as follows. It is very important to write down your funeral plans. Make your final farewell specific to your personal brand. It is more important that we all get more comfortable talking about our own deaths because yeah...that's gonna happen.  Win most, lose some You'll discover: Why writing her ow...

Send Gabriella a Text Message. When I left the hospital, I couldn’t walk more than 10 feet. Prior to that, I spent over a decade in a toxic relationship with food & my body defined by alternating between overeating and under eating and over exercising and under exercising. Now, I’m in the best shape of my life and my kink is making boys insecure at the gym.  Hannah Leboff was a key part of tha...

Send Gabriella a Text Message. First time I cried after my accident for a legit reason that wasn't espresso martinis? When all my hair fell out of my head! A combination of significant bodily trauma and being exposed to exorbitant amounts of anesthesia caused my seemingly endless amounts of thick curly hair to abandon me during the time I needed it most.  Unfortunately...that happens to a lot...

Send Gabriella a Text Message. Grab your tea, light that sage (or palo santo if you're feeling fancy), and buckle up—because this episode is a cosmic ride! This week, I’m joined by the radiant and revolutionary Ryan Bacchas, a man whose journey reads like a spiritual superhero origin story. Once navigating life without a roof over his head as a teen, Ryan became a government lobbyist by ninet...

Send Gabriella a Text Message. Making peace, surrendering,  accepting that death is inevitable and not fearing it - a mindset 99% of the world can only dream of reaching, but Bill Hartman did, in fact, inspirationally reach. Today I sit down with my new friend, Annie Hartman, to talk about all she learned about life, faith, trust, empathy, & strength from watching her dad, Bill, battle brain c...

Send Gabriella a Text Message. 9 metal bones? Ya, fitness gonna be a tad difficult, but it's a tons of tads necessary. Since my accident, I've made fitness a priority to rebuild and maintain both my mental and physical strength. Buuutttt with a once shattered body, there is definitely more I need to pay attention to than the average perason.  Meet Dr. Jackson Bates, lead clinician at Myo...

Send Gabriella a Text Message. I have had four sets of boobs in my lifetime. This tetralogy has taught me a thing or two about life, growth, self-forgiveness, redemption, shame, love, persistence, patience, healing - my tits have taught me a lot about a lot of important things. Life lessons can come from yitties? Yes, yes they can. Listen if you would like to learn, listen if you're curious,...

Send Gabriella a Text Message. Two spiritual students brought together by curly hair & boobs. Meet my life coach, Dominique Gold, who teaches through the lens of spirituality. In this episode we discuss navigating the crossroads and transitions we go through in life - especially when growing up and learning how to adult. . Career changes, moves, social life fluctuations, the campy drama that i...

Send Gabriella a Text Message. My accident was written in the stars?! Surgery on the soul?! Meet Danny Santos of Danny Santos & The Crystal Visions. Ayahuasca shaman, spiritual coach, astrologer, tarot reader, reiki healer, breath work instructor, host of the 'Astro Daddy' podcast - he does it all!  From working with trauma survivors to corporate retreats, come hear all Danny has to...

Send Gabriella a Text Message. Gabriella was launched on this mission by the Universe upon waking up from her nap (coma). This podcast is dedicated to fulfilling that mission, showing her up for her assignment. What is said 'mission? Who is this bish? What's she talking about and why is she even talking? Well, you gotta listen to her talk in this introductory debut episode to find out wh...

Send Gabriella a Text Message. Welp, we had to get it out of the way! Detailing the first not very cash money 20 months following my accident. Hear about the car bodying me, the first 14 surgeries (yes - I had two more following where this video ends), the big bad sad, and finally, my spiritual intervention that sent me on the trajectory that I'm on now. A trajectory of positivity, a life of...

Send Gabriella a Text Message. Tuesday, April 15th, 2025 at 11 am PST This specific date and time was selected by the Universe. I am listening to the Universe. Choosing to publish on a date so far delayed from my original launch date is a spiritual assignment that I have accepted. My radical acceptance is a hallmark of my physical healing from my severe TBI and spiritual healing and growth. I choo...

Send Gabriella a Text Message. Gabriella 1.0 was a typical twentysomething who was punted by a Nissan into a coma. She was rebranded during her nap and woke up to rejoin the living as Gabriella 2.0, a spiritual student with a TBI (traumatic brain injury). Gabriella seeks to share all that she has learned about the Universe through dipping her toe on the other side and take you with her on her spir...