In this conversation, Marcela shares her personal journey of navigating a relationship with a narcissist, highlighting the complexities of emotional abuse and the challenges of healing. She discusses her childhood, the confusion she faced in recognizing manipulation, and the patterns of emotional abuse that often go unnoticed. Marcela emphasizes the importance of self-awareness, understanding red flags, and the difficulty of leaving such relationships due to trauma bonds. She also offers insights on how to support loved ones in similar situations, advocating for a compassionate approach that encourages open dialogue and safety.
Key Takeaways:
00:00: Marcela's Journey: From Confusion to Clarity
07:12: Understanding Emotional Abuse
14:08: The Slow Escalation: Recognizing Red Flags
19:40: Healing and Moving Forward: The Path to Recovery
20:18: Healing from Narcissistic Relationships
26:54: Understanding Trauma Bonds
29:26: The Importance of Support Systems
33:49: Resources for Recovery and Healing
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Freezing your eggs is an option that may help you realize your dream of motherhood when you are ready. Having your eggs extracted and stored for future use may give you the best chance of conceiving later on.
Carla Biesinger lives in Portugal and is a successful entrepreneur and business mentor who teaches women how to grow their existing businesses through online marketing and create passive income.
Single at the age of 36, she decided to go through the process to have options. She explains the procedure in detail, the side effects, how it felt emotionally, mentally and physically and also talks about the cost. Especially the price difference between countries like the U.S .vs Portugal.
Carla shares how to best prepare for the process and mentions egg freezing coaches you can work with to help you through the process.
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My first solo episode!!
I am super grateful for all of you and would love to know if you feel called to come on here and share your story.
If you have topics you'd love to hear about, please reach out and lastly, you can expect some solo episodes from me.
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Lauren, a successful professor and doctoral student and mom of 2 beautiful children was in a long-term marriage. She met her ex husband 29 years ago and they fell in love in college. After they got married, they adopted their son and had a biological daughter. Together, they moved around the US and even internationally.
Their marriage had ups and downs like any other marriage.
However during the pandemic, Lauren discovered the incredibly hard truth about her husband's many lies and his infidelity throughout their marriage.
Lauren shares how she has coped and healed and restarted her new chapter.
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Melody is an empowerment coach, an award-winning author, twin girl mom, founder of the GIRLIFE Academy and Empowering Her podcast host.
She is on a mission to introduce girls and women alike to their personal power. In our conversation today:
- Melody shares her own story growing up with anxiety and chronic stomach aches
- Her aha moment in college when she first learned about the mind body connection
- She started doing her inner work and that led her to want to share her journey with others and empower women
- Melody shares her tools that grounded, moved and inspired her, surrounding herself with people that are good for her soul
- She has created a purpose-led business that trains women to become girls empowerment coaches and run impactful and profitable businesses centered around empowering girls.
In her newest book: Empowered Women Empower Girls: A Guide to Modeling Courage, Confidence + Self -Love For Our Next Generation, Melody shares how the greatest gift we can give to our next generation is the inner work we do on ourselves as women.
Learn more about Melody's work here: https://melodypourmoradi.com/
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Vanessa Emily is a dedicated advocate for fertility preservation and emotional well-being. Originally from Cincinnati, Ohio, her journey took and exciting turn when she embarked on a 7-month adventure in Bulgaria, undergoing consecutive rounds of egg freezing.
During this transformative time, Vanessa noticed a glaring gap in support for women interested in and going through egg freezing. Driven by this realization, she made the decision to study several coaching modalities such as NLP, RRT, and EFT to provide guidance and support she wished she had during her own journey. One modality that really resonated with her is Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), a powerful healing tool for self-regulation and self-soothing in response for the emotional stressors associated with fertility preservation. It is one of the easiest healing modalities to use to self regulate and thrive.
Vanessa shares her own journey, steps you can take to extend your fertility and why Medical Tourism can be a great option for women.
To learn more about Vanessa's work, and download her free guide to assist you in considering egg freezing from a more holistic perspective
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Jana Wilson is an emotional healing educator, meditation teacher, retreat leader, public speaker, hypnotherapist, and founder of the Emotional Healing System. For the past two decades she has taught thousands internationally in group and private retreats. Jana trained and worked with best selling author and physician, Deepak Chopra MD. She teaches emotional intelligence skills that facilitate deep healing.
Jana shares how she found a gift in all of her traumatic experiences. She found a connection with spirit, learned from her mother how to meditate and learned about spirituality.
Jana shares the biggest lessons she has learnt from her teachers like Deepak Chopra, Joe Dispenza and Debbie Ford.
She explains the importance of Emotional Intelligence and why a meditation practice is so important.
Jana goes on to share the experience of writing her memoir: Wise Little One and what it was like to go back and relive her past experiences.
To learn more about Jana's upcoming book launch on July 12th, 2023 and her Emotional Healing Retreats,
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Shelley Rahim, a Postpartum Chef and Caregiver, has been cooking "Ayurvedic" style cuisine for over 30 years. She learnt how to cook South Asian food from her beloved Pakistani Mother-in-law. When Shelley become pregnant at age 18, her mother-in-law took care of her. Feeding her delicous meals in bed and taking care of everything so she could rest. She had an amazing postpartum experience. She felt compassion for other women who were without support after giving birth and entered the birth world professionally in 2007. Shelley's advanced -level-certifications with Sacred Window Studies as an Ayurvedic Postpartum Caregiver was the perfect complement to the cooking skills that were passed down to her.
Over the course of her 15 year career, Shelley has nourished hundreds of mothers with her postpartum recipes and methodology. She witnessed how quickly their bodies recovered from birth, how plentiful their breastmilk was, and how calm and peaceful their minds were under her care. These results inspired her to teach others how to do what she does.
Shelley's postpartum cookbook and online course will be available in the fall of 2023 so that every family will have the tools they need to nourish and take care of the new mother in their lives.
To learn more, please go to: https://newmothercaregiving.com and https://sacredbirthjourney.com or follow her on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/newmothercaregiving/
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Michelle Renee and her daughter Breea went through unimaginable trauma after 3 men broke into their house, held them hostage for 14 hours, and forced Michelle to rob the bank branch she was managing at the time.
Michelle is a published author, producer and writer on the film based on her first true crime book, Held Hostage.
In this episode, she tells her story of her spiritual awakening that lead her on a 4,200- mile solo road trip into the rugged terrain of the Alsaskan wilderness where she braved the elements and faced her dark past. She retreated to Alaska to heal and to prepare to endure the criminal trails of their attackers.
Michelle's motivation was to model recovery from this horrific experience which both her and her daughter had to endure, that helps her daughter recover in a a healthy and positive way. Michelle shares that how you respond to a traumatic event is going to determine how long you remain a victim.
Michelle's second book, a memoir, entitled NINE DAYS: Living With My Soul Wide Open After Violent Trauma, will be released June 9th!
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Janis Bush, a certified Lamaze childbirth educator is a real gem teacher. She teaches with all her heart and soul and prepares you for any potential situation that may arise during your pregnancy and birth. She also educates her students about their rights and believes that knowledge is power.
Her mission is to spread the truth that pregnancy, labor birth and breastfeeding are normal, natural physiological processes. Her mission is to empower herself and others working in childbirth and breastfeeding settings to impart truth, knowledge and confidence about childbearing to expectant and new parent couples.
Her childbirth classes will change how pain and other things are perceived in your brain and you will wind up with a pain tolerance level higher than the Home Depot rafters. Janis has used this method to birth her own 3 babies and she uses the techniques of the Lamaze method of pain blocking every day since these are life skills for everyone.
When she was 4 1/2 years old and her mom came home with the new baby, and lied to Janis about where the baby came from and her journey to find out what it means to be a women started.
When Janis was in 2nd grade, she watched her young cat give birth. Janis thought it was so cool how the cat did everything on instinct. It was the most sacred thing she has ever seen.
When she was found out she was pregnant in the 1970s, she read every book about having a baby that she could get her hands on.
Two books changed her life forever: Thank you Dr. Lamaze by Marjorie Karmel and The Joy of Narural Childbirth by Helen Wessel.
She still tells anyone who asks that you need to look no further than those two books to know what to do when the time is right.
After giving birth to her first child in 1976, after having been taught the original, authentic Fernand Lamaze Method of Prepared Childbirth and used it perfectly, she knew 3 things:
1. I have clearly met my Authentic Self.... and she is awesome!
2. If I can do this, I can do anything!
3. I need to change careers to teach this miraculous method to others
She went to UC Irvine for a training program to become a Lamaze instructor and started teaching in 1977. in 2008 she added teaching Infant Instinct Breastfeeding.
Over the decades, Janis has impacted over ten thousand couples and medical professionals by educating patients about their rights, supporting certified and aspiring childbirth professionals to prosper in their chosen birth field. She is in the process of writing 3 books.
To get in touch with Janis and see her teaching schedule, please go to her website:
www.alohalamazeandbreastfeedingservices.com
Email her directly: alohalamaze@aol.com
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