Launch Your Life Podcast

There’s no easy way to talk about racism. It’s a learned behavior and hard to unlearn without a relaunch to thinking patterns.  I didn’t know anything different. But I actively worked to see how I was raised and change this.  And I'm still a work in progress. Today on the Launch Your Life Podcast, I’m talking about the racist history of my home town and Christmas, among other things What’s Discussed in This Episode: 00:00 Intro 01:40 Racism 07:32 Christmas in the House of Many Horrors 10:03 Baby Grow-A-Tooth 11:17 Unlearning childhood beliefs   Resources: Send me feedback and your thoughts: [email protected] Check my latest podcast or listen to the previous ones (https://www.launchyourlifepodcast.com)  Connect with me on Instagram (@doctormichellegordon) Follow me on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/drmgordon) Check out my LinkedIn posts (https://www.linkedin.com/in/drmichellegordon) For more information, here’s the references used in this podcast: https://www.britannica.com/event/Executive-Order-8802 https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/executive-order-8802-1941-2/  https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/sundown-towns/ https://tumbleweird.org/the-tri-cities-is-a-sundown-town-again/ https://biblehub.com/galatians/3-28.htmhttps://depts.washington.edu/labhist/maps-race-tricities.shtml For more podcast episodes, you may also visit my website. Tune in and subscribe to The Launch Your Life Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Stitcher.   Thank you for tuning in!If You Like It, Donate To My Venmo! Thanks!: https://account.venmo.com/u/drgordonSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In my experience, sexualization caused extreme toxic shame.  Merriam-Webster has a descriptive definition: “A painful emotion caused by consciousness of guilt, shortcoming, or impropriety, the susceptibility to such emotion, a condition of humiliating disgrace or disrepute.” On today’s episode of the Launch Your Life Podcast, I talk about shame, my mother’s secrets, generational trauma, discovering fundamental truths about myself and more. What’s Discussed in This Episode: 00:00 Intro 1:41 Sexualization and shame 2:13 Experiencing toxic shame 3:11 The steps of grooming 4:37 Overcoming toxic shame 5:06 Sex-ed 5:33 The result of my coping mechanism 6:03 Generational trauma 7:46 My mother’s secrets 8:48 The abuse in my father’s family 9:07 My father’s shocking response 9:40 Narcissistic parents 10:39 Fundamental truths (about me) 12:03 My entrepreneurial spirit started young   Resources: Send me feedback and your thoughts: [email protected] Check my latest podcast or listen to the previous ones (https://www.launchyourlifepodcast.com)  Connect with me on Instagram (@doctormichellegordon) Follow me on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/drmgordon) Check out my LinkedIn posts (https://www.linkedin.com/in/drmichellegordon)   For more information, here’s the references used in this podcast: https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/what-is-toxic-shame#:~:text=Toxic%20shame%20is%20a%20feeling,childhood%20or%20as%20a%20teen https://psychcentral.com/blog/psychology-self/2018/09/childhood-toxic-shame#1   https://www.icmec.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Behaviors-of-Sexual-Predators-Grooming.pdf   https://www.health.com/condition/ptsd/generational-trauma For more podcast episodes, you may also visit my website. Tune in and subscribe to The Launch Your Life Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Stitcher.   Thank you for tuning in!If You Like It, Donate To My Venmo! Thanks!: https://account.venmo.com/u/drgordonSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On today’s episode of The Launch Your Life Podcast, I continue with my childhood, reveal some alarming statistics, talk about the time I “woke up” in 5th grade, and more. What’s Discussed in This Episode:   00:00 Intro 02:29 Some alarming statistics 06:45 Disassociation 07:53 Waking up 08:32 Shame and guilt 09:16 The torture lost memory 10:35 The brain's elegance   Resources:   Send me feedback and your thoughts: [email protected] Check my latest podcast or listen to the previous ones (https://www.launchyourlifepodcast.com)  Connect with me on Instagram (@doctormichellegordon) Follow me on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/drmgordon) Check out my LinkedIn posts (https://www.linkedin.com/in/drmichellegordon) Child Sexual Abuse Statistics (https://victimsofcrime.org/child-sexual-abuse-statistics)   For more podcast episodes, you may also visit my website. Tune in and subscribe to The Launch Your Life Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Stitcher.   Thank you for tuning in!If You Like It, Donate To My Venmo! Thanks!: https://account.venmo.com/u/drgordonSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Growth work is change work. It’s not only uncovering beliefs from childhood, but all the beliefs stacked through life experiences and anything we think is “true.” On today’s episode of The Launch Your Life Podcast, I talk about the process of change and why it can be so hard as well as some anecdotes from childhood. What’s Discussed in This Episode: 00:00 Intro 01:54 True growth 04:30 Catholic school 11:44 Consequences of staying out too late 12:51 Complicated mother 13:29 Ballet 14:52 Life is a series of corrections 15:15 Frightening nights   Resources: Check my latest podcast or listen to the previous ones (https://www.launchyourlifepodcast.com)  Connect with me on Instagram (@doctormichellegordon) Follow me on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/drmgordon) Check out my LinkedIn posts (https://www.linkedin.com/in/drmichellegordon)   For more podcast episodes, you may also visit my website. Tune in and subscribe to The Launch Your Life Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Stitcher.   Thank you for tuning in!If You Like It, Donate To My Venmo! Thanks!: https://account.venmo.com/u/drgordonSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On today’s episode of the Launch Your Life Podcast, I share how I developed a deep love of travel, a childhood illness, more stories of the House of Many Horrors, a recurring night terror, and much more. True growth is uncovering the beliefs and stories you created as a child to make sense of perceived or real trauma. It can be tedious, painful, and meticulous work.    But bringing your rational, adult mind to the stories you create in your childhood is freeing.   What’s Discussed in This Episode: 00:00 Intro 01:55 Wanderlust as a child  03:12 Alcoholic mother 04:12 A new diagnosis 05:36 One of my fondest childhood memories 06:16 Getting my ears pierced  06:42 Medical trauma  08:10 Visiting my cousins  10:05 Using my adult brain to make sense of abuse  10:35 Night terror   Resources: Check my latest podcast or listen to the previous ones (https://www.launchyourlifepodcast.com)  Connect with me on Instagram (@doctormichellegordon) Follow me on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/drmgordon) Check out my LinkedIn posts (https://www.linkedin.com/in/drmichellegordon)   For more podcast episodes, you may also visit my website. Tune in and subscribe to The Launch Your Life Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Stitcher.   Thank you for tuning in!If You Like It, Donate To My Venmo! Thanks!: https://account.venmo.com/u/drgordonSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.