Let's HEAL!

In this episode, I’m talking about what “showing up in love” means in any significant relationship. Two key learnings for me in recent weeks are the backbones of this piece: 💙The Purpose of Love, a sermon delivered by Pastor Richie Butler, St. Luke’s United Methodist Church, Dallas, Texas. Sneak peek: the purpose of love is: 1) to check yourself and 2) to empower. 💛1 + 1 = 11, a metaphor created...

Highlights of this episode include 💛Words create worlds. When you say something out loud, your body feels it, and what your body feels, the Universe heals. 💙Our bodies keep score. Our lives depend on us forgiving ourselves. Don’t miss George’s thank you body meditation, which is linked below in the resources related to this episode. 💛Being a busyholic in chaos distracts us from feeling and proc...

In this episode, I share part of my story as written in my book Becoming an Empowered Survivor. First, I talk about how I view trauma, abuse, and unhealthy survivorship, generally based on my lived experience and the stories that other survivors have shared with me. Then, you can hear me reading Chapter 3, Acknowledging Walls. In this chapter, I describe the wall I lived behind as a survivor, whic...

This episode is about the benefits of HEALing through a combination of somatic (root: soma, Greek for the body) movement therapy and inner child work, including PLAY. Highlights of this episode include 💛 Trauma-induced dysregulation of our body often drops us on our healing pathway, where we discover that sometimes our worst hurt is abandoning ourselves by trying to get what we need (e.g., love,...

Ambiguous loss. Have you experienced it? Most likely, we all have. I had never heard of this form of trauma before discussing it with my longtime friend, Diane. We’ve known each other for 30 years, yet the topic never came up until recently as she walks her healing journey and has identified the painful experiences in her life. Her ambiguous loss is the result of people exiting their relationship...

I get a lot of questions about the most effective therapy modalities I use on my HEALing journey. EMDR--Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing--is at the top of my list, but I can only give the layman’s description of what’s happening in my brain. Here is Monica, my trauma therapist, giving an expert’s description of what’s really happening in the brain as a result of trauma and how EMDR he...

Mike is inspiring! When I think about Empowered Survivors, Mike is a shining example. His healing journey led him to his life’s purpose, where he works every day to save people—young people—from fentanyl poisoning through awareness. He intentionally seeks out men and fathers with his message, which is essential because, as I say often, trauma and abuse know no demographic boundaries. Highlights of...

Much of my HEALing journey has been exploring and understanding love across various relationships, including self-love. Brian describes the same concept as diversifying our self-worth portfolio, including investing in ourselves. I love the different ways in which we talk about the same actions. Plus, you don’t want to miss our funny (okay…it’s nerdy) conversation as two former accountants applying...

This short story is about my journey to finding my voice, from a place of silence not too many years ago to where I am today, launching the Let’s HEAL! Show. Resources related to this episode 💛Finding Your Voice: A Pathway to Recovery for Survivors of Abuse, by Mannette Morgan (Self Help Book for Survivors of Abuse) Connect with me through the Empowered Survivors website 💙Read my book Becoming a...