Let's HEAL!

What happens when a lifelong people-pleaser hits absolute rock bottom? If you're drowning in overwhelm while helping everyone else, this story will change your perspective. My guest in this episode is my good friend, Cami Foerster, author of "The Selah Journey" and a certified life coach specializing in burnout recovery. Our conversation covers Cami's profound transformation from chronic overwhelm and people-pleasing to radical self-discovery and healing. The episode highlights the power of hitting "ground zero" as a catalyst for complete life transformation and the biblical concept of "Selah" - the healing power of pause, rest, and reflection. 💥Also available on YouTube channel @BethJonesHEALingMentor Highlights of this episode 💛Ground zero or rock bottom can be a powerful catalyst for transformation. Sometimes we must break completely to rebuild authentically. The moment when continuing the same path becomes literally life-threatening is when real change becomes possible. 💙People-pleasing and chronic helping others while neglecting yourself creates systemic inflammation, sleep disorders, and emotional numbness. Learning to recognize the difference between healthy helping and validation-seeking is crucial for recovery. 💛The concept of "Selah" - pause, rest, reflection, and gratitude - provides a framework for sustainable healing. True self-care goes far beyond surface activities and requires addressing the root causes of overwhelm and burnout. 💙Healing transformation affects all relationships. Some partnerships survive major personal changes while others don't, often depending on how both people respond to the growth process rather than the changes themselves. 💛Learning to feel pride in your healing work is healthy and necessary. Breaking free from messages that emotions don't matter or that leading from the heart is weak allows for authentic self-expression and genuine self-love. 💙The physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects of rest must all be addressed in healing. Sleep regulation alone can take 12-18 months, and developing sustainableboundaries and self-care practices is an ongoing lifetime process. Connect with Cami ✨"The Selah Journey" book by Cami Foerster (available on Amazon) ✨The Selah Journey (www.theselahjourney.com) ✨Social media: Facebook cami.foerster | Instagram camifoerster Follow me, the HEALing Mentor 🩵Website: https://empoweredsurvivors.com/ 🩵Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bethjoneshealingmentor 🩵Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BethJonesHEALingMentor/ 🩵TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@bethjoneshealingmentor 🩵LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bethjoneshealingmentor/ Thank you for listening, and please subscribe to my podcast. #healingmentor #healingjourney #letsheal #burnoutrecovery #peoplepleaser #groundzero #panicattack #overwhelm #perfectionism #depression #anxiety #selfcare #boundaries #selahjourney #chronicstress #emotionalhealing #sleephealing mentalhealthawareness #lifeCoach #spiritualhealing #gratitudepractice #mindfulness #naturetherapy #selflove #transformation #HealingIsPossible #BreakdownToBreakthrough

#identitycrisis #lifetransitions "I feel more fully who I really am than I ever have in my whole life. I like myself more than I ever have. I'm using gifts I didn't even know I had..." My guest in this episode is leadership coach, author, speaker, and minister Becky Burroughs, who shares her journey through profound loss, including the end of a 41-year marriage, the deaths of her parents, and a significant career change. Becky describes the resulting identity crisis and feelings of being lost and broken at age 60. She explains how her faith became her anchor and led her toward "resilient healing"—not just surviving these devastating changes, but using them as a catalyst for profound self-discovery and coming home to her most authentic self. The conversation highlights the importance of rediscovering personal identity, celebrating small wins in healing, and reframing gratitude by focusing on lessons learned from hardship.  If you have or are facing major life transitions and emotional challenges (who hasn’t/isn’t??), then this episode is for you.  💥CTA: Please subscribe to my podcast. Your support will help me to continue bringing my HEALing message to the world. Takeaways & Timestamps 💛Resilient healing means transformation, not just survival (00:04:30) - When life strips away the titles and roles that defined you, it's an opportunity to discover your authentic self and become the truest version of who you are, rather than just bouncing back. 💙Grief accompanies all change, not just death (00:23:30) - Learning that with every change comes loss, and with loss comes grief. Naming, owning, and walking through grief for all life transitions—even positive ones—takes away its power over you. 💛Healing has visible progression markers (00:12:00) - You'll know you're healing when you can talk about your trauma without falling apart, moving from sobbing and going fetal to standing strong while sharing your story with others. 💙Reframe gratitude through learning (00:16:30) - Instead of forcing gratitude for awful experiences, find gratitude for what they taught you: "I'm grateful for this because it taught me..." This approach redeems difficult experiences through the lessons gained. 💛"We-ness" can erase personal identity (00:32:30) - Many people lose themselves in long-term relationships, especially when marrying young. Knowing who you are as an individual is crucial before you can successfully partner with someone else. 💙Celebration and reflection fuel healing (00:14:30) - The "hard work of grief" requires intentional effort through reflective practices, honest self-examination, and celebrating even tiny victories to provide evidence that healing is happening. Connect with Becky ✨Book: "Come Back Home to You: Navigating Life's Transitions and Embracing Next Chapter Living" on Amazon ✨Podcast: "Leadership Becomes Her" ✨​Facebook​ ✨​Instagram​ ✨Email: ​hello@beckyburroughs.com Follow me, the HEALing Mentor 🩵Website: https://empoweredsurvivors.com/ 🩵Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bethjoneshealingmentor 🩵Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BethJonesHEALingMentor/ 🩵TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@bethjoneshealingmentor 🩵LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bethjoneshealingmentor/ #healingmentor #healingjourney #letsheal

My guest in this episode is Jessica Hammock, a licensed trauma specialist and director of behavioral and mental health for a large charter school system in Texas. Our conversation covers Jessica's profound personal journey through multiple traumas and her professional mission to help children and teens develop healthy coping strategies early in life. The episode highlights the intersection of personal healing and professional calling, demonstrating how our most difficult experiences can become our greatest tools for helping others. Jessica shares her deeply personal story of navigating multiple life-altering traumas. Three years into her marriage, her husband sustained a traumatic brain injury that erased his emotional memories of their entire relationship, including their courtship, dating, and wedding. This was followed by a ten-year journey with infertility involving multiple pregnancy losses. Through these experiences, Jessica discovered her true calling in trauma work, initially pursuing therapy training to help students overcome learning barriers caused by trauma. We explore Jessica's evolution from a teacher who wanted to improve math education to a trauma specialist who recognized that emotional healing must come before academic success. She discusses her own identity trauma from childhood and how understanding the brain's response to trauma has shaped both her personal healing and professional approach. Jessica emphasizes the power of choice in healing and the importance of helping children understand they have options in how they respond to difficult situations. 💥CTA: Please subscribe to my podcast. Your support will help me to continue bringing my HEALing message to the world. 💥Video version of Let's HEAL! with Beth Jones is available on YouTube. Highlights of this episode 💛Trauma is an injury we sustain in our nervous system. Just like physical injuries, emotional injuries can heal. We shouldn't compare our trauma to others' experiences because each person's journey with trauma and healing is unique. 💙The power of choice is fundamental to healing. Teaching children and teens that they have choices in how they respond to situations helps prevent the development of unhealthy belief systems and shame-based identities. 💛Identity work is crucial in healing. Understanding who we truly are versus the identities that we take on or that others want us to wear helps us stay grounded during difficult times and relationship challenges. 💙Memories and emotions work in complex ways. The brain can store experiences without emotional connections, and healing can happen even when direct memories aren't accessible through patterns of reactions and responses. 💛Safe community is essential for healing, especially for young people. The challenge is helping teens find communities that support healing rather than trauma bonding around shared struggles. 💙Hope consists of three elements: goal setting, pathways to completion, and agency (the belief that you can accomplish something). Speaking into people's ability to heal and grow provides crucial support in their healing journey.  Connect with Jessica ✨Facebook: Jessica Vibrant Hammock ✨Instagram: Jessica Vibrant Hammock ✨Email: vibratevoice20@gmail.com Follow me, the HEALing Mentor 🩵Website: https://empoweredsurvivors.com/ 🩵Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bethjoneshealingmentor 🩵Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BethJonesHEALingMentor/ 🩵TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@bethjoneshealingmentor 🩵LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bethjoneshealingmentor/ 🎥Thank you for watching this video. Click the "SUBSCRIBE" button to stay connected with this channel. #healingmentor #healingjourney #letsheal #traumaticbraininjury #identityhealing #infertilityjourney #pregnancyloss #traumatherapy #childhoodtrauma #youthmentalhealth #emotionalhealing #nervousystemhealing #prefrontalcortex #faithandhealing #generationalhealing #HealingIsPossible #traumatherapist

My guest in this episode is my good friend, Jenn Brown, a life coach specializing in supporting parents and teens. Our conversation covers Jenn’s journey through profound family trauma and her subsequent path to healing, both for herself and her children. The episode highlights the resilience required to overcome adversity and the importance of building safe, supportive relationships in the healing process. We also talk about her work in helping teens and their parents establish healthy, supportive relationships as the kids navigate the challenges of being teenagers.  Jenn recounts a series of traumatic events involving her children. Her infant son suffered severe injuries from shaken baby syndrome while in the care of a babysitter, leading to brain surgery for her son and a criminal investigation of Jenn and her husband. Less than a year later, her daughter was diagnosed with leukemia, requiring intensive treatment, home care, and homeschooling. Shortly after her daughter completed her treatment, her middle child experienced a grand mal seizure and was diagnosed with a seizure disorder. Each event required Jenn to navigate medical crises, legal challenges, and emotional upheaval, all while caring for her family.  We also talk about Jenn’s healing journey through therapy, including EMDR, to process trauma and rebuild trust in people and herself as a mother. She highlights the different ways she and her husband coped and healed, emphasizing the need for both shared and individual healing paths. All three children are now healthy, with her daughter in remission and her son having outgrown his seizure disorder.  💥CTA: Please subscribe to my channel while you are there. Your support will help me to continue bringing my HEALing message to the world. 💥Video version of Let's HEAL! with Beth Jones is available on YouTube channel @BethJonesHEALingMentor Highlights of this episode 💛Our emotions related to our trauma never go away, but we don’t have to live in or allow the feelings to control our behavior. Healing is about moving past trauma, but we must make a conscious decision to do the work. 💙 Seeking help, building support systems, and prioritizing healing for both parents and children is critical when a family endures this level of trauma. 💛We all have trauma. Life after trauma, healing, and then using our experience for good are all choices that we get to make. 💙Grief emotions are part of trauma because we are grieving loss. Talk therapy helps us to deal with our victim mode and release feelings like anger. However, reframing the impact of the events on us, including triggers and emotions, requires modalities such as EMDR. 💛 Healing is taking back our power and the control that someone else has placed on our lives through trauma.  Resources in this episode ✨Trauma therapy and EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) ✨Support systems, including family and community ✨Legal support, such as hiring a lawyer and taking a polygraph, to navigating CPS and police investigations ✨Educational and enrichment activities, like library classes and music, to aid her infant son's recovery ✨Medical care and regular checkups play a vital role in her children's healing and long-term health   Connect with Jenn ✨JennBrownCoaching.com ✨Facebook ✨Instagram ✨LinkedIn   Follow me, the HEALing Mentor 🩵Website: https://empoweredsurvivors.com/ 🩵Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bethjoneshealingmentor 🩵Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BethJonesHEALingMentor/ 🩵TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@bethjoneshealingmentor 🩵LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bethjoneshealingmentor/ #healingmentor #healingjourney #letsheal #familytrauma #shakenbaby #childhoodcancer #seizuredisorder #grandmalseizure #ParentingThroughTrauma #SpecialNeedsParenting #FamilyHealing #ParentingStruggles #StrongMoms #traumatherapy #EMDR #community #tribe #HealingIsPossible #NeverGiveUp

My guest in this episode is Dr. Tyler Lewis, and we are onsite at his clinic in Dallas, Self Unbound. Our conversation delves into Dr. Tyler’s chiropractic specialization in Network Spinal, including his story about how he discovered his gift and purpose in serving the clinic’s practice members. We talk about how trauma is stored in the body and how Network Spinal helps release it through gentle, awareness-based care rather than traditional spinal manipulation. Dr. Tyler explains the central role of the nervous system in shaping our experiences and our infinite capacity for healing.  NetworkSpinal may be considered by some as an alternative healing modality. My experience is that it is a powerful tool that helps me regulate my physical and emotional being and stay connected spiritually. I’ve had profound healing experiences through this modality, which I share in this episode. There is evidence in my physical body that my knee pain is managed. But there is measurable evidence that my body has been building and using energy as I’ve worked through deep healing around my relationship with my father, most of which has occurred spiritually or karmically between our souls. It’s been a fascinating experience that we discuss to bring a real-life perspective to this healing modality. The episode emphasizes the importance of alternative healing modalities, community, self-awareness, and supporting collective healing. 💥CTA: Please subscribe to my podcast. Your support will help me to continue bringing my HEALing message to the world. 💥Also available on: BethJonesHEALingMentor - YouTube Highlights of this episode 💙NetworkSpinal helps the body identify where trauma is stored and release it. Spinal alignment reflects neurological function, which is a reflection of how efficiently the nervous system responds to mental, physical, and emotional demands. 💛Posture is a reflection of what’s going on in your nervous system. 💙When people react, they are acting from the layer of their brain that they have developed consciously. 💛The role that we are in (parent, child, spouse, employee, etc.) is set based on our expectations informed by social, familial, and cultural inputs. 💙Programming in our brain is akin to apps that we run on our mobile phones. 💛Catharsis is feeling everything, digesting, dissolving, and transmuting what was once emotional baggage.  Resources in this episode ✨Self Unbound Clinic – The Dallas-based healing center where Dr. Tyler Lewis practices Network Spinal care.  ✨Network Spinal – The chiropractic specialty discussed in detail as an alternative healing modality.  ✨The Body Keeps the Score – Referenced book about how trauma is stored in the body, by Dr. Bessel van der Kolk. Connect with Dr. Tyler and SelfUnbound ✨Facebook ✨Instagram  Follow me, the HEALing Mentor 🩵Website: https://empoweredsurvivors.com/ 🩵Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bethjoneshealingmentor 🩵Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BethJonesHEALingMentor/ #healingmentor #healingjourney #letsheal #networkspinal #NervousSystemHealing

My guest in this episode is my good friend and former colleague, Scott Foster. Our heartfelt conversation covers Scott’s journey as a gay man, navigating family relationships, professional environments, and societal changes from the late 1970s to the present day. More specifically, we discuss Scott's experiences coming out, building acceptance with his parents, finding inclusive workplaces, and incorporating his multicultural background and diverse professional experiences into his perspectives on diversity, inclusion, and acceptance. Scott also shares his healing journey, including his experience with two powerful healing tools: therapy and support communities. This is an essential conversation about never being afraid to be who you are, and I am honored to have it with and in support of my friend. 💥CTA: Please subscribe to my podcast while you are here. Your support will help me to continue bringing my HEALing message to the world. Highlights of this episode 💙Look how far we've come, socially. Even though the gay community still struggles today with acceptance and equal rights, we’ve come a long way since the late 70s/early 80s when Scott came out as a gay man. This was during the early AIDS crisis, and when some people thought being gay was a psychotic disorder. Today, we can find many environments where gay people are just people with their individuality, as we all are. 💛Navigating the family acceptance journey when you’re different. Navigating family dynamics can be tough when we talk about being different and/or in pain. Scott talks about the differences in how his parents responded, including the impact of his multicultural household, where his mother is Japanese and his father is American. While his parents were slower to accept him, his brother’s acceptance was immediate. Scott and I both know that genuine compassion and love for our family members are at the heart of acceptance within the family. 💙Make the ask to be accepted within your family. Sometimes, there is selective discrimination within families. For Scott, although his parents had experienced discrimination as a couple, marrying less than 20 years after World War II, they struggled with Scott and his relationship with another man. Similarly, I’ve struggled with acceptance from my parents, both the sexual abuse that I have experienced, as well as my interracial relationship. The solution: make the ask, perhaps as an evolving and ongoing conversation, for acceptance to find multi-satisfying and common ground. 💛Navigating workplace discrimination as a gay man… and for me, as a woman. In one career, Scott may have been one of those who helped to pave the way for today’s fight to uphold DE&I within law firms. In another instance, he found inclusivity at FTI Consulting, where I met and worked with Scott for many years. I’ve had very similar experiences as a woman, encountering glass ceilings and exclusive environments early in my career, but also discovered that same organization where my capabilities and contributions mattered more than my demographic statistics. 💙Authentic communication and making meaningful "asks" are crucial in the furtherance of inclusive workplaces. Find allies, both at your peer level and those senior to you. And find mentors. It’s one of the most potent and supportive types of relationships that you can have at work, both for career navigation, as well as honoring yourself and being your authentic self. Connect with Scott ✨⁠Facebook⁠ ✨⁠LinkedIn⁠  Follow me 🩵Website: ⁠Empowered Survivors - Empowered Survivors ⁠ 🩵YouTube: ⁠BethJonesHEALingMentor 🩵⁠Facebook⁠ 🩵⁠LinkedIn⁠ #healingjourney #letsheal #BeYourself #AuthenticSelf #TrueToYou #BeingDifferent #LGBTQ #ComingOutStory #FamilyAcceptance #WorkplaceInclusion #DiversityAndInclusion #DEI #ProfessionalGrowth #CareerJourney #MentalHealthMatters #SelfAcceptance #OvercomingChallenges

‼️‼️Trigger Warning: This episode contains discussions of child sexual abuse and may be triggering for some listeners. My guest in this episode is body safety educator and author Diane Tarantini. We discuss the critical importance of teaching children—early on—about body safety to prevent abuse and equipping them with the knowledge and vocabulary to report to a safe adult if something does happen to them. We also share our insights and experiences, emphasizing how we turn our pain into purpose. Diane is a survivor of a niche interfamilial abuse of sibling sexual abuse, and she is one of only a small number of survivors who openly shares her story about her experiences. Recognizing herself as “mean mommy” led her to her healing journey. 💥CTA: Please subscribe to my podcast. Your support will help me to continue bringing my HEALing message to the world. 💥Video version of Let's HEAL! with Beth Jones is available on YouTube channel @BethJonesHEALingMentor. Highlights of this episode 💙 The importance of body safety education. Early education on body safety to prevent childhood trauma and abuse is critical in a world where kids are potentially exposed in so many ways throughout their typical day. 80% of abuse cases occur when a child is alone with the perpetrator. 💛The statistics and reality of child sexual abuse. Only 30% of children disclose abuse during childhood, and the average age of disclosure is 52 years old, highlighting the long-lasting impact of abuse and the difficulty in coming forward. I am this statistic. 💙Barriers to disclosure. Children often lack the awareness or vocabulary to describe abuse, and disclosure may be easier to strangers or after the perpetrator has passed away. Children also need safe adults to report to, and Diane advises kids she works with to have 5. Because if the first or second don’t hear, keep going. Adults… wake up!! No child should have to go beyond the first person they chose to tell. 💛 Body safety assemblies in schools. Erin’s Law has been passed in 38 states and requires kids in grades K-12 to attend a body safety assembly at least once a year. Implementation of the law varies from state to state and school to school. If you’re unsure whether your child is receiving this essential training, contact their school and ask. And check out SHIELD Task Force (www.shieldwv.com), a nonprofit providing engaging body safety assemblies and presentations in schools. 💙Our pro tips on therapy: build a relationship with your therapist and treat him/her as part of your tribe or support system, but… if you start to resent your therapist, the time you're investing or handing over the check, it’s time to go! Diane’s Books Everyone Was Silent: A memoir (https://amzn.to/3H6sV3T) The Brave Knight (https://amzn.to/43AtVEN) Connect with Diane ✨https://dianetarantini.com/ ✨https://www.instagram.com/writingdianet/ ✨https://www.facebook.com/DianeTarantiniAuthor ✨https://www.linkedin.com/in/diane-tarantini-b883938a/ ✨https://www.youtube.com/@MommunityPodcast  Follow me, the HEALing Mentor 🩵Website: https://empoweredsurvivors.com/ 🩵Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bethjoneshealingmentor 🩵Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BethJonesHEALingMentor/ 🩵TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@bethjoneshealingmentor 🩵LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bethjoneshealingmentor/ Thank you for listening. Click the "SUBSCRIBE" button to stay connected with this pocast. Keywords #healingmentor #healingjourney #healtolove #bodysafety #childprotection #childsafety #erinslaw #bodysafetyeducation #preventchildabuse #childsexualabuse #childabuseawareness #childabuseprevention #csa #ssa #childabusesurvivor #siblinabuse #childhoodtrauma #parentingtips #safeparenting #protectchildren #parentawareness #childeducation #talkwithkids #childadvocate  #abuseawareness #speakup #breakthesilence #childsafetyresources

‼️‼️Trigger Warning: This episode contains discussions of trauma, including suicidal ideation, and may be triggering for some listeners. ✨✨SO MUCH VALUE: This episode’s title is appropriate because it is SO PACKED with words of wisdom from someone who is all about the healing journey. You don’t want to miss one word of George’s message and sage advice. In this heartfelt episode, I welcome my friend, George Bryant, for an open and deeply personal conversation about the realities of healing from trauma. Our conversation begins where we are today, as both of us reflect on our current emotional states and recent milestones: George shares his journey navigating divorce and envisioning a new future. At the same time, I’m celebrating the return of homeownership, marking a completion on my healing journey.   George is an entrepreneur, speaker, and advocate for healing (sounds like anyone else you know??), who uses his lived experiences to help heart-centered people become visible and share their message. His lived experiences include surviving a childhood marked by parental addiction, abuse and instability; homelessness; bullying; time in Afghanistan marked by traumatic brain injuries and the loss of fellow Marines; almost losing his leg and becoming addicted to painkillers; adopting his younger brother; and accruing his deceased father’s debts.  He also survived his unhealthy ways of coping, including isolation, self-harm, suicidal ideation, bulimia and trauma-bonding with his own story over and over again to escape the work to heal. Highlights of this episode 💙Healing is not a harmful, negative, or burdensome experience, nor is it a finish line. Instead, it’s an active pursuit of personal growth that’s ongoing for our entire lives to become the best version of ourselves. Addressing unhealthy relationships is at the core of healing, but healing is only done on YOUR heart. It has nothing to do with the other person. 💛Trauma is relative and personal; it’s not about comparing your story to someone else’s and judging either person. You can’t possibly know how trauma impacts anyone other than yourself because the measure is the impact on one’s heart and the amount of fear-based emotion you're carrying. 💙Use your story as permission to rewrite your narratives, rather than as justification for your pain, suffering, and the way that you treat or interact with other people. 💛The hustle culture that the world celebrates can become our addiction. George talks about being addicted to his service as a Marine, and then being addicted to entrepreneurship and focusing his entire life on amassing a vast number of followers. Ultimately, he realized that his addiction was about running from himself, which is what we’re all doing through any addiction. Mine was being a busyholic in the chronic chaos of my life. 💙Healing is simple. Complicated, but simple. There are only two steps, really, awareness and release: awareness that you need to heal, and release of your related emotions. 💛I love this pivotal moment in George’s journey when God placed a man in his path who told him: “I think you believe in God, but the wrong one because you aren't him, my friend.”  Connect with George ✨Podcast: Mind of George ✨Facebook ✨Instagram – DM George here, and he will answer you! ✨YouTube  Follow me, the HEALing Mentor 🩵Website: https://www.empoweredsurvivors.com 🩵Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bethjoneshealingmentor 🩵Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BethJonesHEALingMentor/ 🩵TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@bethjoneshealingmentor 🩵LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bethjoneshealingmentor/ #healingmentor #healingjourney #healtolove #empowerdsurvivor #selfdiscovery #personalgrowth #selfawareness #growthmindset #selfempowerment #veteranhealing #militarytrauma #ptsdawareness  #traumabonding #selfharm #traumarecovery #mentalhealthmatters #survivorstory #traumahealing #healingwisdom #radicalhealing

‼️‼️Trigger Warning: This episode contains discussions of suicidal ideation and may be triggering for some listeners. My guest in this episode is serial entrepreneur Amber Larkins. In our powerful conversation, we talk about her journey from trauma to triumph and how she's now helping others to heal by sharing their stories in various ways, including through photography and her podcast "Through the Trauma.” Her work focuses on storytelling as a vehicle for healing and empowerment. Amber talks candidly about her emotional and mental health journey, including struggling with depression and suicidal ideation. Her healing journey encompasses the utilization of various resources, including self-care through fitness, spirituality, and her relationship with God, as well as the creative outlet of photography. Ultimately, her journey led her to this place where her lived experiences and purpose are to help others to heal. Highlights of this episode 💙 We get to choose. In every situation in our lives, we get to choose whether we react or respond. We can react in a way that is unhealthy and perpetuates our suffering. Or, we can respond in a way that is healthy and advances our healing. 💛There is power in the story. I see you, you see me, but you don’t know what someone has been through until they open their mouth and share their story through their own voice. 💙We are not taught about emotional regulation as a basic life skill. We are not taught about emotions and emotional needs. We’re not taught about triggers. We’re not taught about how to make better choices to respond, rather than react. We’re not taught about how to heal. Life experiences and those who have gone before us can teach us these skills. 💛 The power of synchronicities. When God speaks and leads us to the work we’re meant to do, God tells us multiple times in multiple ways. 💙Manifesting what you WANT is real, possible, and okay. We’ve both experienced this in profound ways, from business to relationships to what our lives look like today.  Connect with Amber ✨Podcast: Through the TraumaPodcast ✨Business inquiries: Through the Trauma Podcast Online ✨Photography: Transformation Through Trauma Project ✨Instagram: @the_amber_larkins Follow me, the HEALing Mentor 🩵Website: https://empoweredsurvivors.com/ 🩵Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bethjoneshealingmentor 🩵Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BethJonesHEALingMentor/ 🩵TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@bethjoneshealingmentor 🩵LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bethjoneshealingmentor/ #healingmentor #healingjourney #healtolove #innerjourney #souljourney #relationships #emotions #emotionalneeds #empowerment #selfdiscovery #personalgrowth #selfawareness #spiritualawakening #spiritualawareness #innerwisdom growthmindset #selfempowerment #knowyourwants #manifestation #rippleeffect #highestandbestgood

The Inner Work of Becoming Your Truest Self | The Power of Being Your Truest Self | Mentor In this episode, my guest is my dear friend, Amey DeAnne, who talks about her HEALing journey to discover her truest self. There’s so much that Amey and I share in our journeys to heal from long marriages, including that part of our survivorship in those relationships caused us to have no idea we needed to heal and no idea who we really are. We also share childhood pain and emotions that came into our marriages without even knowing it. Hear Amey talk about being someone’s something, in several capacities, and being so busy that she was distracted from her true self for many years. Many of us experience this phenomenon where we think we’re just engaging in the normality of adulthood, but is that what we’re doing? Or are we escaping ourselves? If you’re divorced from a relationship of any length of time, much of what we talk about will probably resonate deeply. Highlights of this episode 💛The “norm” of life can be a form of escape. Sometimes, our busy lives distract us from the reality of the state of our relationships, and that we are disconnected from ourselves. What we live as our reality may be a form of escape. 💙Unhealthy vs healthy aloneness. There is a night and day difference between being unhealthy alone, which shows up as being lonely, and being healthy alone, which shows up as being relaxed and comfortable in the quiet. In that peaceful quiet is where we hear God. 💛Divorce is a trauma that we must heal from. We find ourselves in that place for so many different reasons. Regardless of the reason, we must acknowledge that the experience is a trauma, a macro trauma filled with micro traumas. HEALing allows us to go on with our lives in a healthy way. 💙Divorce can be a blessing. When we’ve been with another person for any length of time, we can lose ourselves by either taking on their identity, taking on “our” identity, and/or letting go of who we are. Divorce allows us to discover our truest selves. 💛Find your truest self. This is Amey’s mission today, where she shares her lived experiences with other women to encourage them to do the work to heal and find their truest self. Resources related to this episode Amey’s book, Finding Your Truest YOU, is coming in October. Connect with her to watch for its release. Connect with Amey ✨Facebook ✨Instagram ✨LinkedIn Follow me, the HEALing Mentor 🩵Website: https://empoweredsurvivors.com/ 🩵Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bethjoneshealingmentor 🩵Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BethJonesHEALingMentor/ 🩵TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@bethjoneshealingmentor 🩵LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bethjoneshealingmentor/ #healingjourney #authenticity #selfdiscovery #truestself #findingyourself #authenticself #selfdiscovery #innerjourney #knowthyself #personalgrowth #embraceyourtruth #selfawareness #liveyourtruth #beyourself #healingjourney #spiritualawakening #authenticitymatters #selfreflection #innerwisdom #souljourney #truetoyou #growthmindset #selfempowerment

In this episode, my guest is Alexa Bigwarfe, an author, publishing consultant, and advocate for grieving mothers. Our conversation highlights the universality of grief and its profound impact on us. Alexa has experienced grief in many forms, including the loss of a child, loss of close friends, and divorce. She shares her lived experience with grief, both the pain and the healing. Her healing journey has been grounded in writing, beginning with a grief blog and evolving to her work today where she helps other people to share their stories in books they write, publish and sell.   Grief is universal. Alexa’s experiences with the grieving process are the same experiences that I have had throughout my healing journey. Whether we’re grieving the loss of our inner child or the loss of a baby, the pain we feel and the fear-based emotions that we carry are similar. And it can keep us in a dark place if we don’t HEAL.     Highlights of this episode 💛Writing to HEAL: Writing is such a great place to expel the fear-based emotions that we carry inside of us. It’s just you and the paper. No one gets hurt by what’s coming out of you, no matter how painful or ugly it may be. Sharing our stories helps us realize that we are not alone. 💙Grief Isolates: One way to move past isolation is through community. Women tend to talk more than men do, so there is power in finding (or creating) support groups to connect with. But, talking isn’t just for women… 💛Expert Tip: When someone is grieving, please don’t say “Everything happens for a reason.” Instead, say “I’m sorry that you’re in pain.” It’s okay if you don’t identify with the experience, but as humans, we can all relate to pain and suffering.   Resources related to this episode ✨Permission to Thrive, A Six-Month Guided Journal for Grieving Mothers. This journal is applicable to anyone on a healing journey, not just recovering from the loss of a child. It includes sections on gratitude, breathwork, self-care, journaling prompts, and affirmations. ✨Sunshine After the Storm: A Survival Guide for the Grieving Mother, a compilation of stories from parents, offering emotional support and guidance for grieving mothers. ✨Find Alexa and her work on the web at: Sunshine After the Storm WRITE| PUBLISH | SELL Womenin Publishing Summit   Connect with Alexa ✨Facebook ✨Instagram ✨LinkedIn Connect with Write.Publish.Sell on ✨Instagram   Connect with the HEALing Mentor on social media @bethjoneshealingmentor on FB, IG, LI, TT & YT #healingjourney #grief #grievingmother #writetoheal

My guest is Charles McIntyre, a survivor, addict, and man of God. In this episode, Charles shares his full circle story about surviving religious trauma, battling addiction, and HEALing to serve God. We explore his experience with hope, evolution, and love throughout his life and talk about Charles's work today ministering to and working with other men in addiction recovery, including that he teaches Sunday lessons regularly. Charles and I are more alike than we are different. We are each survivors, each having suffered in our unhealthy survivorship for years, including escape and self-isolation. We experienced events that sent us to do the real work to heal. We took our HEALing journey and did the intentional and focused work to move past our suffering. And now, we are doing work the Divine calls us to do, using our lived experiences. If God can work this way in our lives, imagine what God can do in your life.  Highlights of this episode 💛Addiction is an escape. Escape is the way many of us survive after trauma and abuse. 💙Becoming relatable. Sometimes, our life experiences are the very things that make us relatable to others so that we can serve them. 💛What if we saw our ”failures” as lessons to make us credible and relatable in our work to serve others? 💙The power of therapy. Trauma therapy helps us dig deep into experiences that burden us when we don’t realize it. The things we do to ourselves have explanations, but we need help pulling out and processing the event(s) and our associated emotions. 💛Sharing our stories of healing for purpose: hurt people hurt people, but healed people heal people.  Resources related to this episode ✨Men of Nehemiah (MON) is a rehabilitation center combining biblical teachings, military discipline, and clinical counseling to restore men to their roles in families and communities. I see MON as a microcosm of the HEAL framework. It is hope. It gives men the tools & resources to do the deep self-discovery work to heal the root cause of their addiction. And it is love.  Connect with Charles ✨Facebook Connect with the HEALing Mentor on social media @bethjoneshealingmentor on FB, IG, LI & TT Keywords #healingmentor #healtolove #religioustrauma #addiction #addictionrecovery

HONORING CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION MONTH ‼️‼️Trigger Warning: This episode contains discussions of childhood abuse and may be triggering for some listeners. In this episode, I welcome Susie Vybiral, founder and CEO of Room Redux, a nonprofit that transforms rooms for children who have faced abuse. Our conversation highlights the importance of awareness and action in addressing child abuse, emphasizing how Room Redux provides a tangible form of healing by changing a child’s environment and personal space. We talk about the concept of unconditional love and self-love as crucial elements in the healing process. Be sure to listen all the way through to hear our final message of hope and empowerment, emphasizing the human capacity for healing and transformation. Susie has a beautiful heart and so much compassion for this work. You’ll feel her passion for this work and her love for the kids who are beneficiaries. It’s infectious!! I’m a proud supporter of Room Redux! There are any ways that you can become a supporter, too. Susie talks about some of these at the end, including helping to buy items for the room transformations through Amazon. Check out the link below in the Resources section. #weareroomredux Highlights of this episode 💙Awareness of Child Abuse: The importance of raising awareness about child abuse and taking action. We’re talking about the impact on boys and girls, so if you see something, do something because “Compassion + Action = Results.” 💛Unconditional Love and Self-Love: Unconditional love and self-love are essential for healing. The children who receive a Room Redux room transformation may feel a sense of unconditional love that they have rarely felt. It’s about giving them an opportunity to receive unconditional love and in turn seeing their self-worth which begins to foster self-love. 💙Healing Through Our Environment: Transforming environments aids in healing. Susie talks about some of the specifics of transforming rooms to achieve specific impacts relevant to the child, their well-being and the theme that they love. Room Redux has a structured intake process to plan the transformation (experiences and challenges the child has and does face, theme, color, texture, placement all have an impact), but she has a gift to almost channel exactly what the child needs in their personal space to experience healing and unconditional love. 💛Psychology of Healing: Our brains have an amazing capacity to rewire and change, which can be facilitated through positive environments and self-love. The trajectory of our lives can be changed, and the ripple effects are profound, including the potential to stop the cycle of abuse where someone who has been abused becomes an abuser. Room Redux taps into our potential to rewire our behavior and heal by changing the physical environment of the child—starting early!! Resources related to this episode ✨Room Redux (www.roomredux.org): A nonprofit organization that transforms rooms for children who have faced abuse. ✨Children's Advocacy Center: Where Susie gained experience working with families affected by abuse. Search the bold text to find a Center near you. ✨Book: The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse, by Ellen Bass & Laura Davis Connect with Susie ✨Facebook ✨Instagram ✨LinkedIn Connect with Room Redux ✨Facebook ✨Instagram ✨LinkedIn Connect with the HEALing Mentor on social media @bethjoneshealingmentor on FB, IG, LI, TT & YT #healingmentor #childabuse #transformation

HONORING CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION MONTH ‼️‼️Trigger Warning: This episode contains discussions of childhood sexual abuse and may be triggering for some listeners. If you’re a parent or grandparent, DON’T miss this episode, where I welcome Kimberly King, a sexual abuse prevention educator and author. She teaches body safety education for children aged 3-10 and their parents, helping them to protect their children. We talk about the critical importance of body safety education for children and how adults can empower them to recognize and report inappropriate behavior. Kimberly shares insights from her books and her experiences in teaching parents and children about preventing child sexual abuse. 💥The YouTube link to today's episode drop is in the comments. 💥CTA: Please subscribe to my channel while you are there. Your support will help me to continue bringing my HEALing message to the world. 💥Audio version of Let's HEAL! with Beth Jones is available on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Highlights of this episode 💙Body Safety Education For Kids: Teaching children about their bodies and boundaries is essential. It’s estimated that 68% of kids don’t tell anyone, whether that’s because they lack the vocabulary or out of fear. This is why education is so important. Prevention through awareness and education is the best way to stop child sexual abuse. 💛Say No to Hugs: This is the title of one of Kimberly’s books, and I LOVE the concept and statement for children. I know what it feels like to be forced to hug someone I didn’t want to, even though I had no idea why. When I was young, I was forced to hug my grandfather, who had abused me, and although I did not have the comprehension of what had happened to me, nor the vocabulary to tell someone, I knew that something was wrong. Having to hug him scared me and made me feel unseen and disregarded. 💙Statistics on Child Abuse: Discussion on the prevalence of child sexual abuse and the need for awareness. Kimberly and I agree that the official stats from most organizations are low, and the prevalence is much higher than we’re told. Our belief comes from our work talking to survivors or others who know survivors. 💛Top 3 tips for adults: 1) Take a sexual abuse training course as an adult. 2) Start talking to your kids early—when they’re two—about body safety and providing them with proper vocabulary. 3) Teach kids their body safety rules and rights and establish who their safety adults are. 💙Top tip for children: Read a book on body safety rules and then talk through it to make sure they understand. Giving them specific scenarios to talk through helps them develop independent thinking and problem-solving skills. Resources related to this episode ✨Books & Online Classes by Kimberly King (Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Educator| Kimberly King-Tough Topics Mom, Connecticut): ●     "I Said No to Hugs": Teaches young children about body autonomy. ●     "Body Safety for Young Children": A guide for adults on recognizing risk factors. ●     Courses for parents and children to learn about body safety in a fun manner. ✨Darkness to Light (Home - Darkness to Light): An organization focused on preventing child sexual abuse. ✨Saprea (Sexual Abuse Healing and Prevention Resources | Saprea): An organization that promotes child safety education. ✨Happy Days: The Guided Path from Trauma to Profound Freedom and Inner Peace, Gabby Bernstein   Connect with Kimberly ✨toughtopicsmom • Instagram Connect with the HEALing Mentor on social media @bethjoneshealingmentor on FB, IG, LI, TT & YT #healingmentor #childsexualabuse #childabuseawareness #childabuseprevention

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 mission of Braver Collective, which includes sharing survivor stories and offering resources for healing. Our conversation highlights the importance of community in the healing process, drawing from our experiences with support groups and therapy. We also discuss Judith Herman's stages of healing and how community plays a crucial role at every step of the journey. 💥CTA: Please subscribe to my podcast while you are there. Your support will help me continue sharing my HEALing message with the world. Highlights of this episode 💛Introduction to Braver Collective: A nonprofit that offers an online community, storytelling, and resources built by trauma survivors for trauma survivors. 💙Importance of Community & Storytelling: We both believe deeply in community's healing power and talk about our experiences with support groups. We look for community in so many other aspects of our lives—socially or spiritually, for example—so why not in the part of our lives that is so deeply seated that we need to heal? Resistance to joining a support group can be misplaced shame that belongs to perpetrators, not survivors. 💛Focus on Young Adults: When healing begins at a young age, before the average start of the healing journey around 50, suffering as a survivor can end more quickly and move us to a longer life in which we thrive. 💙Healing Journey Phases: Scott references Judith Herman's stages of healing: safety, remembering, mourning, and reconnection. 💛Personal Growth and Purpose: Scott shares his transition from a business background to working full-time with Braver Collective, illustrating finding purpose in supporting survivors.              Resources related to this episode 💛Braver Collective: a nonprofit organization providing a safe space for survivors to heal. Available at bravercollective.org and on social media platforms like Instagram and LinkedIn. 💙Judith Herman's "Trauma and Recovery": A book discussing stages of healing from trauma. Connect with Scott & Braver Collective Scott Dille on LinkedIn | Facebook | Instagram Braver Collective on LinkedIn | Facebook | Instagram Connect with the HEALing Mentor on social media @bethjoneshealingmentor | Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | TikTok | YouTube #healingmentor #letsheal #childabuseawareness #supportgroups #storytelling #communitysupport

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, the critical importance of prevention, and the transformative power of community healing. TALK Hong Kong is where my journey to find my voice began. HEALing in community was an essential part of my healing journey, which led me to TALK as a support group resource and the place where I started talking, safely and outside of trauma therapy, about the abuse I have survived. As a natural-born problem-solver and someone who is an expert in prevention, I wanted to do more. So did Taura. And that began TALK’s journey to advocacy. It also started my journey to become the HEALing Mentor. Highlights of this episode 💛Founding TALK Hong Kong: Taura created TALK Hong Kong after struggling to find a support group resource that matched her specific need. Initially, her mission was to create a safe community for female survivors of sexual abuse to connect and heal. Today, the organization also provides awareness and prevention strategies as the best form of defense to reduce the prevalence of child sexual abuse. 💙Personal Growth and Advocacy: Taura shares her story of transmuting her suffering as an incest survivor to becoming an advocate for prevention. Along the way, she engaged with legal reform, which led her to the TEDx Tin Hau stage, where she shared the findings of her initial research on the prevalence and impact of child sexual abuse in Hong Kong. 💛Community Healing: Finding a community that understands your unique experiences can save your life. When you begin to heal, talking about what you’ve experienced can be overwhelming, but as you talk more, the related grief lessens. Healing and getting past the heaviness lessen as you talk more. 💙Prevention Strategies: A primary prevention strategy is training adults to protect children, including breaking through challenging misconceptions about sexual offenders such as the belief that offenders are strangers. The reality is that offenders are very often known to the child. Localized prevention training in the native language is essential, as much training offered globally today is in English.                   💛Impact of Unaddressed Trauma: Unaddressed trauma is a public health crisis. The long-term effects on individual and societal levels are costly. Early intervention and support for survivors is critical to addressing the impact. Resources related to this episode 💛TALK Hong Kong 💙Darkness to Light, including its prevention programs and training Connect with Taura & TALK Taura Edgar | LinkedIn TALK Hong Kong | LinkedIn Taura Edgar | Facebook TALK Hong Kong | Facebook Connect with the HEALing Mentor on social media @bethjoneshealingmentor Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | TikTok | YouTube Keywords #healingmentor #letsheal #childabuse #childabuseprevention #childabuseawareness #survivorsupportgroups

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 2020. So, all the work I have done to heal this relationship has been spiritual and between our souls. I have had some genuinely profound experiences, which I share in this episode while also exploring the themes of trauma, forgiveness, and personal transformation. 💥The YouTube link to today's episode drop is in the comments. 💥CTA: Please subscribe to my channel while you are there. Your support will help me to continue bringing my HEALing message to the world. 💥Audio version of Let's HEAL! with Beth Jones is available on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Highlights of this episode 💛Child Abuse Prevention Month Dedication: This episode introduces a special series honoring April's Child Abuse Prevention Month. Stay tuned for the next four episodes, which will air each Friday in April. 💙Healing at the Soul Level: Learn through a real-life example of deep trauma processing about the possibility of completely healing a relationship, even with someone who cannot or does not participate in your process. 💛Radical Forgiveness: This is a profound, alternative, and transformative approach to understanding the intersection of personal trauma, spiritual growth, and life purpose (or our soul’s work in this lifetime). 💙Complex Family Dynamics: Respect and affection are often expected in familial relationships, but sometimes those expectations are misplaced or undeserved. Experiencing the demand for these actions compounds our trauma, especially as children, when we cannot comprehend or process either the abuse or the expected behaviors toward our abuser. 💛Healing Journey Stages: For survivors of child abuse, the healing journey includes confronting traumatic memories, reframing perspective, spiritual transformation, inner child work, and releasing generational trauma. Philosophical insights 💙Belief in souls traveling through multiple lifetimes 💛Understanding trauma as part of a more significant spiritual journey 💙The power of empathy and compassion, even towards those who have caused deep hurt Resources related to this episode 💙Book: "Complex PTSD: Surviving to Thriving" by Pete Walker 💛Book: "Radical Forgiveness" by Colin Tipping Part of this story is written in my book. The rest, at least as it has developed until now, is written in two blog posts on the Empowered Survivors website. All are headlined “Reframing the Hardest Parts” and can be found here: 💙Read my book Becoming an Empowered Survivor 💛Read my Let's HEAL Blog Connect with the HEALing Mentor on social media @bethjoneshealingmentor | Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | TikTok | YouTube Keywords #healingmentor #empoweredsurvivors #youtoocanheal #hopeevolveandlove #trauma #traumahealing #traumahealingjourney #abusesurvivors #survivor #survivorship #heal #healing #healingjourney #letsheal #childabuseprevention #childabuseawareness #generationaltrauma #forgiveness #radicalforgiveness #souljourney #spritualhealing #spiritualjourney

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, we wouldn’t get the easy. Without the pain, we wouldn’t get the joy. Without the rain, we wouldn’t get the rainbow.” Aimee Stephens, Turning Pain Into Purpose Highlights of this episode 💙Sometimes, how our trauma is dealt with after the fact can be worse than the events themselves. Not having the vocabulary to tell someone, ignoring or internalizing it ourselves, or being dismissed by those whom we tell are reactions that can cause us to create survival behaviors that can be very unhealthy. 💛Trauma therapy can save your life! Especially when you find a therapist who sees you and wants to help you… not necessarily the relationship. Aimee so beautifully shows us the power of the trauma therapy relationship. I feel the same way about mine! 💙When we feel out of alignment with ourselves, that may be a sign that we need to heal. 💛As we heal, figuring out what happened to us, patterns, and how we have lived can be like putting puzzle pieces together to create the complete picture of our lives. 💙Understanding that we have been abused and hearing the proper terminology can bring a host of emotions, including shock and fear. Still, it can also be liberating as we are awakened and can begin the work to heal. 💛In familial abuse, sometimes it’s not only our abuser that we need to heal our relationship with but also other family members who either protect our abuser or don’t know how to deal with the situation. Resources related to this show ✨https://stan.store/healthyaimee ✨Aimee Stephens (@healthyaimee) • Instagram photos and videos Connect with the HEALing Mentor on social media @bethjoneshealingmentor | Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | TikTok | YouTube Keywords #healingmentor #empoweredsurvivors #youtoocanheal #hopeevolveandlove #trauma #traumahealing #traumahealingjourney #abusesurvivors #survivor #survivorship #heal #healing #healingjourney #letsheal #Ironman #70.3finisher #victor

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 explore what happened to me during some of my most powerful healing experiences facilitated through Reiki with Jennifer, including my experience seeing my grandfather as a young boy before he suffered his trauma and human conditioning. This experience was one of the most profound parts of healing my relationship with my grandfather, the first person who abused me. Highlights of this episode 💙Reiki helps us to remain in love-based emotions associated with higher levels of consciousness. Emotions like depression, sadness, fear and shame can be transmuted to awareness, surrender, joy and love through Reiki practice. 💛Reiki facilitates physical healing by releasing blocked energy from our bodies. But it can also open us up spiritually and help us discover our life’s purpose. 💙Often our healing is associated with generational trauma, which is not time-bound. We have the power to heal our generational past and future generations that come from us. I have had this exact experience: healing myself, releasing my grandfather, and stopping the generational trauma from falling to future generations of my family. Ultimately, what’s happening in my family is an elevation of our collective consciousness moving us all toward love. 💛Healing is like peeling back the layers of an onion. As we move forward, we revisit the painful parts of our lives and sometimes past lives. Ultimately, we heal by allowing the process to unfold, giving up control, and surrendering. Trust in the process and the provider you have been led to is foundational to allowing the process to unfold. Resources related to this show ✨Connect with Jennifer at Beyond the Veil Higher Healing: https://l.bttr.to/CEmCY Connect with the HEALing Mentor on social media @bethjoneshealingmentor | Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | TikTok | YouTube Keywords #healingmentor #empoweredsurvivors #youtoocanheal #hopeevolveandlove #trauma #traumahealing #traumahealingjourney #abusesurvivors #survivor #survivorship #heal #healing #healingjourney #letsheal #reiki #reikimaster #spiritualhealing #energyhealing #energetichealing #emotionalhealing #bodywork #healingpastlives #generationaltrauma #healinggenerationaltrauma

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. I love the part of this conversation where we talk about how trauma and abuse can show up in our performance at work, often through what is perceived to be underperformance. Yet, neither the manager nor the employee has any idea. Rarely do we think about healing from our past to improve performance at work.   And I REALLY love the part where we talk about MEN! I am passionate about the reality that trauma and abuse know no demographic boundaries, including gender. Men are emotional beings who can be hurt in all the same ways that women can be and, therefore, also need to heal if they are living in suffering as an unhealed survivor. Highlights of this episode 💙Healing is a marathon, not a race. 💛Work can distract us from what needs to be healed in our personal lives. 💙Burnout occurs when stress exceeds the body’s coping ability, and no amount of well-being practice can prevent the effect on the body. Brian talks about having a healthy lifestyle—exercise, meditation, yoga, being in nature—which would typically help offset burnout. Still, he was under so much pressure at work that no amount of his healthy lifestyle was enough to keep him from burnout. 💛Part of evolving is coming to understand that sometimes we are our own worst enemy—what I refer to as the wretched abuser—because we can contribute to our suffering. 💙Trauma and abuse can show up in our professional lives through performance evaluations where we are told, for example, that we don’t have a voice, mumble, are not assertive, or do not have “executive presence.” Healing can help us to improve, but as employees, we may not recognize that our past can impact our performance. Managers rarely have the training to recognize healing work to help improve employee performance. 💛Similarly, we must understand the workplace triggers that make us less-than-effective leaders or leaders without presence and an ability to connect deeply with colleagues. 💙The benefits of support groups specific to the trauma and abuse you have experienced cannot be overstated. There is so much power in connecting with and being understood and accepted by people with shared experiences. Resources related to this episode ✨MoveMEN! is a support group where men can slow down, relax, drop the tough guy, be kind, support each other and cultivate some wellness wisdom. ✨MoveMEN! on ​IG​ ✨Insight Dialogue is partner work with expression and listening to develop deep interpersonal relationships and facilitate healing. ✨Burnout Recovery Support Groups ✨Brian Henderson (he/him) | LinkedIn Connect with the HEALing Mentor on social media @bethjoneshealingmentor on FB, IG, LI, TT & YT Keywords #healingmentor #empoweredsurvivors #youtoocanheal #hopeevolveandlove #trauma #traumahealing “traumahealingjourney #abusesurvivors #survivor #survivorship #heal #healing #healingjourney #letsheal #burnout “jobperformance #supportgroups #movemen