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IN HER WORDS:
My horses (and animals in general) have always been a huge part of my life. I was kicked in the head by a horse as a child and later in life my horses helped me heal from that trauma and recover the parts of my soul that were frozen in that experience. They helped me, as an adult, recognize and face the incongruence I was living, taught me how to process fears and insecurities to reclaim the most authentic version of myself and guided me to develop my highly intuitive and energy healing skills that I now could not live without, and use to help humans and animals find deeper meaning and clarity in their lives and relationships. The more I journeyed into the realm of spirit with them, the more instances that channeling, receiving energetic downloads and communicating with animals and those who had passed into spirit beings, began to spontaneously happen. The many deaths of my animals throughout my life initiated me and helped me find a deeper understanding around death in relationship within the cycle of life.
www.jesscampmans.com https://www.facebook.com/JessandButteMorganHorsesGuidedbyEquus/ https://www.instagram.com/horsewisdomluminaryjess/
--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/becoming-parents/messageJennifer and I talked about making the pussy nice, getting divorced, blending families, health and working on the relationship instead of giving up.
IN HER WORDS:
I'm just like YOU. I'm authentic and real...I never hold back and I'll answer anything. I made a career out of my divorce and although my Wasbund and I are best friends, I know it's rare and divorce isn't easy.
Bio: Jennifer is known for her no-nonsense approach to all things relationships and is proud to say she's made quite the career out of pretty disastrous circumstances...her own divorce. She’s a Certified Divorce Specialist (CDS™), public speaker, best- selling author, and host of the Doing Divorce Right Podcast.
Divorced since 2014, Jennifer lives in Charlotte with her two kick-ass teenage boys. Through her popular blog, The Truth Hurvitz, and weekly podcast, Jennifer helps people understand what a happy divorce can look like and how to dip their toes back into the dating world.
She loves sharing her insight on how to stay in a successful marriage, too! Jen has also been featured on OprahMagazine.com, Bustle, Scary Mommy, BluntMoms, SuburbanMisfitMom, and many others.
https://jenniferhurvitz.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenniferhurvitz/ https://www.instagram.com/jenniferhurvitzbiz/ https://www.facebook.com/jenniferhurvitzbiz/ https://twitter.com/jenhurvitzbiz
--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/becoming-parents/messagePatricia and I discussed divorce, menopause, teenage girls, ending a career, being a marine, 8 seasons of telesummit, depression and lack of value to the point of wanting to end her own life. How her 14-year-old daughter stopped her desire to commit suicide, being an interfaith minister and launching a publishing company.
IN HER OWN WORDS:
Sacred Stories Publishing is an award-winning and best-selling full-service book publishing and marketing company for authors that want to bring their Divine Voice to the world in a bigger way. We offer traditional and hybrid publishing and expanded brand building and marketing opportunities. Utilizing the resources of our larger media network we help you expand your audience and reach with opportunities for your own podcast, online course at Sacred U, and published articles in The Owl magazine… to start!
https://sacredstoriespublishing.com https://www.facebook.com/SacredStoriesMedia/ https://www.facebook.com/SacredStoriesPublishing/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/revpatriciabrooks/
Chaos to Clarity: https://www.amazon.com/Chaos-Clarity-Sacred-Stories-Transformational/dp/1945026618/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3OAJ4UURFHJ18&keywords=chaos+to+clarity&qid=1576104334&sprefix=Chaos+to+cla%2Caps%2C229&sr=8-1
--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/becoming-parents/messageMel lost her Mom to breast cancer when she was only 17 and then waited for her own diagnosis. She has also started her own publishing company and is an author twice.
IN HER WORDS: I am a breast cancer survivor and philanthropist. My motto is that life can really suck - but it's up to me not to let it suck the life out of me.
Mel Greenberg is the married mother of two sons in their early twenties. She worked as a copywriter and producer in radio and television before having children and making the decision to stay at home with them full-time. Once she became an empty nester, Mel struggled to find her voice and direction.
Ultimately, it was her passion for writing and the discovery that she was not alone that led her to write “Running With Our Eyes Closed.” It is the first installment of a series exploring her characters’ struggle to redefine the next years of their lives. In addition to writing the next book in the Empty Nested series, Mel is working on several projects, ghostwriting and producing. When she's not visiting her boys, and traveling the world, she enjoys life in the Southwest with her husband Dean, her beloved English Bulldog Stella, and German Shepherd
https://www.melmediallc.com
https://www.instagram.com/melgberg https://www.facebook.com/MELMediallc https://twitter.com/melgreenberg17 https://www.linkedin.com/in/melmediallc https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5gAvYnBAkNbr81YZ08sJNg?view_as=subscriber
Gina Roda is a coach with the extraordinary ability to understand relationship dynamics and is able to easily identify positive solutions. I loved talking with her and how she was called to a mission and a purpose. She is a wealth of knowledge and so inspiring!
abundantlight222@yahoo.com
Learn more @https://www.yelp.com/biz/gina-roda- the-art-of-conscious-coaching-los-angeles
--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/becoming-parents/messageFoojan and I discuss being raised by a famous Mom with a father not in the pictures much and being passed around to people to take care of her. The good news is she received love from everywhere, the bad news is she was molested. With therapy, awareness integration, resilience she got through her past. She was first a child in rage, ran away at age 11, moved to the USA at the age of 12 on her own, attended ASU at 15 years old and used her past as her passion to become a therapist.
IN HER WORDS:
I am originally from Iran. I was sexually molested from age 3-8, come from a divorced family, came to the U.S. at age 12 1/2 alone, graduated from High School at age 15, went to ASU as an international student, the revolution happened and my parents could not support me, so I started working 3 jobs at age 17 to survive, had to quit school since as an international students the cost was extremely high. I worked and put my self through school and graduate school while I paid fully with no loan. Today I am a known psychotherapist with 30 years of experience who has originated a psychological model to minimize depression and anxiety and raise self-esteem and confidence. I am an author and speaker and host my own radio program on KMET 1490 AM an ABC radio.
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Glenda-Ray and I discussed being in the hospital and nearly dying, "we have to feel it to heal it", working with animals, energy healing as an intuitive, having multi-dimensional journeys, talking to animals, being silent and the cost of not speaking up. A published author twice, with a YouTube channel and meditation
IN HER WORDS:
As a child, I had an experience of not being seen nor heard hiding behind the curtain for fear of what might happen if I shared my thoughts, feelings, emotions and spoke my innermost truths. All of these un-expressed thoughts, feelings, and emotions had to "go" & find a voice somewhere.
My soul chose the seat of anger- the liver to scream out there & be heard, acknowledged & received. This led to a near "death" experience as a young adult. Through that powerful life-changing journey, I commanded to be shown another way to heal, transform & empower my life.
Various alternative healing modalities literally showed up at my doorstep.
Through the exploration of these alternative modes of healing, I found my voice & began sharing my truths, deep inner wisdom gleaned from my transformation....books, articles, sacred stories wrote themselves.
Through the sharing of these deep inner truths, giving them a voice, it came into my awareness that the only One that could truly see me, hear me, love me, acknowledge me was myself.
With no longer pointing fingers at my parents & others, casting blame for my experiences, all that interfered with allowing Self-Love, Self-acceptance, fell away.
Today, I now experience a very different Mother- One that sees me, loves, hears, acknowledges the gift that I am- reflecting the self-healing of the Mother-child relationship with-in me.
All other relationships in my life began to reflect the Self-love, self-acceptance from with-in too, as All relationships whether that be to a significant other, friend, colleague, health, personal, spiritual growth, etc., is a relationship to One -Self. There is no Other- The Other is You.
Other gifts and golden nuggets of wisdom that revealed themselves through this powerful journey of Self-Love, of allowing & giving myself permission to love & accept myself, having compassion for All of my experiences, was the awareness that I am and We are the Master Creators of our reality & that we can transform our lives, integrate lessons in the moment so that energy does not get trapped in the body to manifest as disharmony - physical, mental-emotional...or any other form-- rather through Self-realization -integrating lessons & healing by simply having the pure intent of calling the wisdom forth. In this way, we no longer repeat the pattern or create other experiences to learn the lesson. Additionally, by sharing the wisdom gleaned, we All heal. Healing for One is healing for All.
"May We All live from the Sacred Heart, through the Sacred heart, As the Sacred Heart, through every thought, word and deed & integrate through Self-realization."
FIND HER:
https://www.facebook.com/Glenda.Ray.888
https://www.linkedin.com/in/transformativemeditation
www.reikiandbeyond-glendaray.com
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Amber and I discuss starting a business, fighting depression, living abroad, getting married, being a lesbian, getting divorced and living her truth.
IN AMBERS WORDS
I am in a place of life in which I am so proud that I am finally living my truth. It has been a rocky road, mainly due to me trying to fight my inner authentic self. I was born and raised in South Orange County, California. I was also raised in a very conservative, Mormon family, where doing what was "right" was always the most important- far before being authentic. I am the oldest of four kids in my family, meaning I have always been the one with the hardest expectations placed on me and on myself.
I went to Cal State University, Long Beach for my undergraduate degree. I developed an intense attraction to my first roommate in college but didn’t know what it meant. I admitted in my journal all of the feelings I was experiencing and even wrote “I might be a lesbian” but somehow talked myself out of that crazy idea. I decided I wanted a family and kids and didn’t see how that could be possible.
I studied abroad in Granada Spain for a year. I learned Spanish as well as how to be on my own in a foreign country. I got through depression and home-sickness the first couple months through intensive journaling and embracing Spanish culture and language. I got married and had a child and then the realization that I wasn't living my truth hit me.
Now, I have a four-year-old daughter and am a full-time portrait and wedding photographer. I started photographing families and weddings when I was staying at home with our daughter when she was an infant. The last couple of years have been a crazy quest to live my truth. I finally admitted to myself that I am gay and could not continue to stay married to a man.
I decided to go full-time with my business that I hadn't had the time to nurture over the last couple years. I feel now I am finally living congruent to who I am in every way. I have given into who I am. I am a gay woman. I am a Photographer. I am a Mother. I am a Creative. I am an Entrepreneur.
FIND HER HERE:
facebook.com/amberezellphotography
amberezellphotography.com
Talking with Kimberly is a wild ride and her story is outstanding. Not many us us can talk about having a gun to our head and watching two people die. Here are bullet points of what we discuss: A traumatic event at 10 that altered her life. Mom at 18 From Wisconsin, Lives in Florida. Has 3 boys 15, 21, 28 and two grandbabies 4, 3 yrs. Primary financier For family. Type A, crazy enough to do the impossible, may be the PTS? Left six-figure job, got divorced, trying to be a grown-up. Left comfort for purpose and advocacy for mental health, all in!! Produced an award-winning film with team about lifting the stigma of mental illness and educating about PTSD. Her children got involved with advocacy and journey. She had a theatrical premiere and event with 400 influencers of change and advocacy November 2019.
Produced a film about PTSD www.litdfilm.com
Non-profit : chimedia.org to raise 34 million for educational library
2-minute event promo https://f.io/aYndzI5u
Interview from statewide radio program https://www.wpr.org/listen/1550046
website URL: Www.consciouscontent.org
IN HER WORDS:
KIMBERLY IS A CREATIVE AND DRIVING FORCE BEHIND CONSCIOUS CONTENT WHILE ATTENDING THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-LA CROSSE, SHE MAJORED IN MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS WHICH LED HER TO CREATE AND EVENTUALLY SELL A SUCCESSFUL COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY COMPANY. BY AGE 25, SHE FOLLOWED HER HEART INTO THE UNLIKELY REALM OF FINANCE AND EMOTIONAL WELLNESS EDUCATION, DEVELOPING AND LEADING TRAUMA RECOVERY WELLNESS RETREATS IN 9 COUNTRIES AROUND THE WORLD. IN 2013, KIMBERLY RETURNED TO AMERICA TO WORK FOR A FAMILY-OWNED BUSINESS LEADING THEIR MARKETING AND PUBLIC RELATIONS DEPARTMENTS. SOON AFTER, KIMBERLY DEVELOPED THE IDEA FOR THE AWARD-WINNING DOCUMENTARY, LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS. SHE PRODUCED THE FILM AFTER BUILDING A STRONG CREATIVE RELATIONSHIP WITH SHAMAN MOTION PICTURES. KIMBERLY INTRODUCED THE FILM AND THE PRINCIPALS OF SHAMAN TO BRIAN, WHO, UPON RECOGNIZING THE EXCEPTIONAL CONTENT AND QUALITY OF PRODUCTION, BEGAN TO FORMULATE THE VISION FOR CONSCIOUS CONTENT. WITH HER EDUCATIONAL AND EXPERIENTIAL BACKGROUNDS COMING TOGETHER, SHE DEVELOPED AND LAUNCHED THE COMPANY WITH A VISION OF BECOMING “HUMANITY’S MEDIA COMPANY”, GIVING A POWERFUL AND COMPASSIONATE VOICE TO THE GLOBAL COMMUNITY. KIMBERLY OVERSEES ALL OPERATIONS, MARKETING, DISTRIBUTION, AND FINANCES AND WORKS IN CLOSE RELATIONSHIP WITH PARTNERS AND INVESTORS. SHE IS THE PROUD MOTHER OF THREE AMAZING SONS
--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/becoming-parents/messagePublished author of the book "You're Still That Girl: Get Over Your Abusive Ex For Good" Suzanna discusses what it was like living with a diagnosed narcissist, being stalked, cyberstalked, and terrorized. She's open about her recovery and healing process and shares her story with others to be a beacon of light for women who are living the same hell that she lived. Suzanna offers a way to the light and the life they deserve.
1) https://www.elephantjournal.com/2015/10/understanding-the-language-of-narcissistic-abuse/
2) https://www.elephantjournal.com/2016/07/what-ive-learned-about-surviving-emotional-abuse/?fbclid=IwAR2kXQJLre9iN3m1soU0LPTSVX0UB_yDoGXEWxMig0rKmJi4SzvAjvWZEoE
3) https://medium.com/@SuzannaQuintana
www.facebook.com/suzannaquintana
In her words:
OH SUZANNA
Don't you cry for me.
There was no Hollywood ending when I decided to leave my abusive marriage and the man whom I had devoted my life to, had children with, loved beyond measure, and who was a diagnosed Narcissist. There was no Angela Bassett moment in Waiting to Exhale when she packs up her cheating husband's clothes into his BMW, pours gasoline all over it, then stands back, lights a cigarette, and watches it go up in flames from her tossed match.
I often wish I had a story like that to tell, but the fact is that leaving the darkness and finding your way to the light is a much more complex journey than that, healing is not linear and doesn't allow you to travel from A to Z, which is the reason most victims return to their abuser (as I did) many times over.
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