Let's HEAL!

HONORING CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION MONTH ‼️‼️Trigger Warning: This episode contains discussions of childhood sexual abuse and may be triggering for some listeners. In this episode, I welcome Scott Dille, founder and executive director of Braver Collective, a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing a safe, trauma-informed space for survivors to heal. Scott shares his personal journey and the mis...

HONORING CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION MONTH ‼️‼️Trigger Warning: This episode contains discussions of childhood sexual abuse and may be triggering for some listeners. In this episode, my guest is Taura Edgar, founder of TALK Hong Kong, a charity focused on child sexual abuse prevention and supporting adult survivors. Our conversation explores Taura's pain to purpose journey from survivor to advocate, th...

HONORING CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION MONTH coming in APRIL ‼️‼️Trigger Warning: This episode contains discussions of childhood sexual abuse and may be triggering for some listeners. In this episode, I share my journey of healing my relationship with my grandfather, who sexually abused me when I was a child. He died in 1994, 25 years before the focused and intentional part of my healing journey began in...

My guest, Aimee Stephens, shares her story about her journey from being a victim of incest to becoming a victorious 5x Ironman and 70.3 finisher. We have a lot of similarities in our stories, including suffering abuse by a family member, the unhealthy way in which our abuse was handled within the family, taking our healing journeys and marriages that did not survive our healing. “Without the hard,...

In this episode, hear from a master as she explains what’s happening in Reiki and the power of healing when energetics, spirituality, body touch, and emotions come together. My guest, Jennifer Dennison, is a gifted healer with a shared strength story. Her journey led her to experience the healing power of Reiki for herself and as a lived experience to help her clients.  BONUS FEATURE: Listen to us...

My guest in this episode, Brian Henderson, and I have interesting similarities in our stories. Our journeys began within months of each other, and we both walked our healing pathways in Hong Kong. As a result of our healing, we left professional services (where we worked with companies on high-stakes matters), found our life’s purpose, and now serve other people as they walk their healing pathways...

This is such a fun episode. My friend Amy Sutter shares her strength to MoJoTiVate people to truly transform their lives through mind, body, and soul. To do that, Amy uses her experiences with adversity and healing to give her shared strengths to help others. Just like we’re all meant to do. This is one reason for our unique experiences throughout our lives. And you don’t want to miss Amy doing he...

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...