In this post I write about how my garden has taught me to become more mindful and reflective through an embodied experience of gardening.
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Therapy and acceptance.
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It is time we open our mouths to the light. Narrate our lived experiences. This blog discusses some thoughts about this, and suggests that a ground-up movement through alchemising strengths-based stories is the way this can happen. Read more if you wish…
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At the age of 39, Emily was flooded with memories of being sexually abused by her father - someone whom she “adored and admired.”
“At age 39, I was a divorced mother of a toddler, working as a therapist for sexually abused children, and completing my dissertation,” Emily says….And at this same age, this is when her darkest memories came flooding in.
In this interview, psychologist, Emily Samuelson (Ph.D.) and I talk about the book she curated with stories of healing from those who experienced childhood sexual abuse across the United States, and also weaved between her chapters topics from her own story of healing, Soaring above the ashes: Thriving beyond sexual abuse, and the ways she has used resilience too.
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Mary was sex-trafficked by her family when she was little. Her parents were also involved in child pornography.
“My parents were pimps, “ she says. “I am an incest survivor and was abused in ritualistic ways, by men and women.”
Because of the abuse, she experienced during her childhood, she outlines how she has chronic pain, fibromyalgia. Despite this, Mary has ‘risen from the ashes’ and created a life for herself like no other.
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Maz immigrated from Iran to Canada with her family in the 1980s. Fleeing from a war-torn country, she moved to Canada for safety. Little did she know that in Canada the abuse would continue by her father physically, and her Canadian peers through racism. She tells us her story of resilience and healing. Spirituality, strong core beliefs, looking inwards, and using descriptive, expressive images that clearly articulate paradoxes in the physical realm. Maz, in this interview, vulnerably unfolds her wings from her core, and shares with us true messages of love, kindness and peace - wise gifts of words that we can all use to strengthen ourselves along our own healing journeys.
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In this episode, I talk with the creative, vibrant, envisioned, educated, kind, funny, storytelling Teresa…
Raised by a single father in the 1970s and ‘80s, at a time when it was not common and the courts were heavily biased in favour of the mother. Her parents separated when she was a toddler, so she had very few memories of them being together. During her early childhood and teenage years, there was sometimes a lot of conflict (yelling, sometimes physical arguments) in their household…
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A sad, sudden death of a close friend from a snowboarding accident, a difficult marriage separation, and hitting a religious rock bottom left Dave clutching for answers and wanting to look deeper into where he found himself in his ‘age 30 transition’. Yet, a light within him kept him searching for answers, pursuing a new reality, and persevering the most difficult of times to find answers that would help resolve not only him but even his lineage before him…
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Episode #3, Haere mai! Welcome to the FIRST interview on Voices of Resilience Radio! I am honoured to introduce to you Ashley and her story of resilience. Ashley tells us about how resilience for her, when looking back, was all the things she disregarded – until recent years when she identified these as her strengths. Fijian Indian and New Zealand, Ashley shares how her journey of healing has involved choosing, building, and reclaiming her culture and beliefs – according to her preferences. She shares several resilience factors she’s used, without even realising it, throughout her healing journey including creativity, community, culture, dance, music, education, and putting her foot down! We talk a little about posttraumatic growth. Listen now...and prepare to be inspired and even (hopefully!) experience some of the ‘goosebump’ moments we have in this sacred kōrero (talk).
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Meet Rebecca, absolute warrioress and someone who has truly continued to pursue her glowing ball of light in her center, in her core. She experienced sexual abuse when she was 18 in a relationship. However, she made the choice to learn about her experiences, what had happened, and to surround herself with healthy women through sports, pursue sensuality and empowerment over her body through dance, and to remember the words and messages from her childhood. She held onto these during the dark times…
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What do you get when a marketer and counsellor sit in a room together? Is there room for both? Do these sciences have anything in common? I outline a little of my journey of integrating and becoming more congruent when it comes to mixing my professional background with my current profession. Food for thought, more than anything.
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Going through this storm together, it reminds me of how to consider past, present and future actions.
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Remember to go outside for your wellbeing. Let the earth bless you, and carry you - your whole you! Get outside and enjoy nature. What you’re seeking is so often seeking you.
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Some quotes to remember my first 39 years by. I hope these inspire you.
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I outline submitting my research and how this experience was for me.
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