MY TRAUMA WAS MY BIGGEST BLESSING
Sara Gibbons
Our Conversation Highlights
Sara Gibbons was plucked out of her safe life when her husband exchanged her for another. Through her eyes, learn about her devastation and despair, but also find out how to rebuild yourself a rock solid, peaceful and fulfilled life! Her aim is to guide people to help themselves to the life and freedom they really want in the most effective and powerful way possible.
Tobey Geise
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Tobey Geise started her first diet at 9, which led to her ‘living a life in hiding”. We talk about her journey through discovering bulimia, smoking, drinking and drugs, not knowing how to fulfil her mother’s image of how she should be. “Settling” in dating, suicide attempts, using martial art and investing in yourself in personal development, peer pressure, and not even realizing about ‘eating disorder’: binging, purging and self-loathing… and sexual abuse linked to eating disorders…
FROM CHALLENGED TO BIGGEST LIFE LESSONS
Victoria Lorient-Faibish MEd, RP
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Victoria Lorient-Faibish talks about normalising an abnormal childhood, inherited culture and belief systems, not having children, how we need a Hero’s journey into establishing your own belief system, how our upbringing chisels away at our self-esteem, overcoming our fears, developing resilience, combating the brain’s natural negativity bias. A bountiful content delivery, you will want to listen again!
Elsa Mendoza
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Elsa Mendoza had her turning point when she found herself with a blue eye at age twenty-one. That was the day she turned her back on physical and mental abuse. Key takeaways include “you have to take responsibility for yourself” and “focus on the lessons, not the hurt” and “it is about starting to love yourself”.
MY BODY TAUGHT ME SO MANY LESSONS
Dr Gillian Lockitch MBChB, MD, FRCPC
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Dr Gill Lockitch had to lose her entire very comfortable existence, experience despair, go into deep depression, put on weight uncontrallably, but still managed to pull out of self-medicating through over-eating and escape the dark hole she found herself in, in order to find the solution to ageing youthfully!
Amanda Elize Love
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Amanda Love cannot remember a childhood without being ‘sickly’. Through her journey of getting diagnosed with fibromyalgia, to find healing and thriving, she learned how to help others who are still struggling. We talk about the importance of persevering, healing through nutrition, but also how important healing your mind is.
Antoinette McInnes
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Antoinette McInnes looked like she had the perfect, successful life on the outside, the life that others aspire to, but inside her absolutism, self-sabotaging, over-analyzing, constant unconscious dissatisfunction, chaotic relationships, people pleasing, striving to be zen, following so many coaches, refusing to feeling ‘negative’ emotions, increasing anxiety was playing out constantly. Then a fast moving, deadly cancer brought her to psychneuroimmunology, and the realization the she needed to rewire her brain from unconsciously faulty childhood programming. Letting the butterflies land… and it is more than OK to be imperfect. Choosing the right therapist, BPD and Adult Child Syndrome lack of self-confidence.
TRAUMATIZED CHILDHOOD TO ADULT STRENGTH
Arthie Moore
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Arthie’s Journey started with her earliest memory at 3 years old of being sexually abused by her father. The horrors did not end then, but although she felt unsupported, not good enough, used, unseen and unsafe, she managed to get from being rebellious to self-empowered. She talks about being blamed, feeling alone, unsafe, but how people outside her family circle ’saw her’, and became the spark she needed. And let her tell you why she wears dresses now!
Charmaine Barber
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Charmaine Barber’s family lost all their possessions, her mother became an alcoholic, her father died, she put herself into a children’s home, then running away to her mother. Working through the guilt, being your parents’ parents, scanning, being in inherited victim mode, adrenal fatigue, deep depression, attempted suicide, boundaries, and getting to a place of thriving all gets a turn.
Kelly Walk Hines
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Kelly Walk Hines lost her mother to domestic abuse at 3. She was yanked from her siblings and placed wth her abusive, over-controlling father.She experienced compound PTSD, being invisible and not feeling good enough. She talks about the journey of learning to love oneself, to be spontaneous, to be able to express anger and being a good mom. How finding faith helped, finding hope and light, finding self-acceptance and learning straight-talking.
Layne Smith-Brown
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Layne Smith-Brown started out life without getting tenderness, became so very serious, feeling that she did not have a place in her family. Being raised by disconnected people, being invisible, examining our critical belief systems, changing from not having a clue who you are and what you are capable off, growing accustomed to your inner pain, finding our powerleaks, and growing yourself into being present and empowered.
Louise VN Liebenberg
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Louise experienced an alcoholic father and abandonment as a child. Then when she was 19 she married someone who was an undercover alcoholic, and undiagnosed with ADD. Her years in a codependent relationship led her to burnout, PTSD and being in helpless-and-hopeless for 2 years. It is possible for an intelligent, accomplished, well educated woman to completely lose herself if she has been brought up without self-empowerment tools. It is also possible to rebuild relationships scarred this deeply if 2 partners are dedicated.