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This candid podcast features guests Catherine Brown and Christina Tinker who struggled with eating disorders earlier in their lives. While the details around their stories differ, both women agree that to begin to turn the tide of unhealthy body image issues, the dialogue around dieting needs to change. Revealing that eating disorders have very little to do with food, they both stress the need for engagement and connection when interfacing with someone who possesses an eating disorder. Catherine and Christina provide helpful suggestions for anyone who battles with their own negative body image or knows someone who does.

Catherine and Christina co-edited their book, Hope for Recovery: Stories of Healing From Eating Disorders. To find out more about them or how to order their book, please visit: https://www.hoperecoverybook.com/

Catherine is currently writing her second book and is interviewing professionals who work in various capacities to foster body positivity. She is collecting essays from people who have found ways to make peace with the bodies they are in and can be reached at: https://www.catherinebrownwriter.com/book-submissions

Christina is a corporate speaker and courage cultivator and can be found at: http://www.christinatinkertalks.com/

“You’re too much.” “You’re not enough.” “You’re too short.” “You’re too tall.” We’ve all heard the negative messages. This podcast is special for many reasons, one of which is that Megan is a new member of our family! Bias aside, she speaks unabashedly about battling a shame narrative that began in her youth, then manifested as body image issues and continues to affect her pursuit of healing as an adult. Social media plays a profound role in how we see ourselves, as do the subtle messages we receive throughout a lifetime (“enduring vulnerabilities”) that annihilate our sense of worth and cause deep wounding. Megan candidly reveals her journey of self-acceptance with an insight that is both relatable and inspiring.

Megan lives in Colorado. Aside from working as a blogger and educational development liaison, she is active in church ministry alongside her husband, Hunter.

Author of Hugging Trees In The Dark – Finding The Courage To Free The Heart, Robin Jillian joins us for this podcast to discuss what she refers to as her “dark night of the soul”. With transparency, she discusses her own battle with inner demons and the choice she made to take action toward creating the life she was destined to have. Robin eloquently points out that sometimes “we have to fall apart to come back together again”. She can be found at www.robinjillian.com or awakenradio.net. Hugging Trees In The Dark – Finding The Courage to Free The Heart can be purchased on Amazon.

On this podcast, our guest, Spencer Delva lived out anyone’s worst nightmare when he was wrongly accused of a crime he didn’t commit as an adolescent. He was thrown into juvenile jail and then residential treatment with no way to fight back. Spencer rose above the very system that attempted to crush him, with integrity, dignity and purpose. In the end, Spencer found the best justice of all….running his own business and starting his own facility for endangered youth.

In this show, podcasters Shari and Jann Simmons discuss how our experiences can be perceived differently when they are viewed through a lens of gratitude or trauma or pessimism, etc. For example, when viewing life from a lens of positivity, one might see a traffic jam as an opportunity to spend some time alone in the car, listening to music. If a traffic jam goes through a filter of negativity, it will most likely be seen as a frustrating inconvenience that leaves us tense and stressed out. The power of these filters in determining our choices is discussed. Join us for Part II in a couple weeks when we talk about how to throw out filters that no longer work!

In today’s podcast, we are honored to talk with Leah Barrett, who gracefully speaks about her six year journey through three cancer diagnoses. What Leah has endured has been both frightening and freeing. With beautiful poignancy, she describes how life redefined itself and has ultimately left her with an acute appreciation of what really matters.

Leah is a highly sought after therapist in private practice in Fort Collins, Colorado. To learn more about her work and her story, she can be found at www.leahbarrett.com

Wow! This real and raw podcast features Mel Wells, a survivor who rose from the ashes of an adolescence that left her broken, traumatized and fleeing for her life. After years of abuse from a family member, Mel found herself in the clutches of a perpetrator who groomed her and sold her into sex slavery. She spent years running from one state to another to escape his brainwashing until she finally found what she was looking for…herself.

Mel is the proud mother of three adult children and precious grand baby. She started her facebook page, Safe Place for Survivors where she inspires others to embrace their power, own their strength and create a new narrative.

For a PDF on Human Trafficking, please visit www.thetraumaspeakers.com

In today’s podcast, we welcome author/speaker, Neal Brownell. He poignantly talks about his own journey from a youngster who was told he was “stupid” to where he is today, highlighting the teacher that gave him a new narrative to believe in. In his book “You’re Amazing and I’ll prove it”, Neal asks questions you never even thought of asking and then shows readers how everything and everyone has special attributes that make them unique and exceptionally important.

Neal and his wife, Linda travel to audiences young and old, sharing their message of
seemingly unremarkable people doing extraordinary things. His message is simple but powerful…We are all exceptional and when we start to believe it, we are truly free.

“You’re Amazing and I’ll Prove it” is available on Amazon.

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Join us for this beautiful story of two friends who are forever connected through a kidney transplant. Patrick Reed was in desperate need of a kidney transplant and reached out to fellow connections on Facebook. In enters, Dan Evers, a friend from college, who immediately offered his kidney without a moment of hesitation. Both men discuss their journey and candidly express their love and gratitude toward one another. There are 600,000 people in America in need of a kidney. This touching story is a perfect reminder to all of us about what the true spirit of giving looks like.

Patrick is works in California for Lexus and Dan lives in Texas, where he is a college professor. Both men are in regular contact with one another and remain close friends who have truly become brothers…”kidney bean” brothers, that is.

This podcast is jammed packed with nuggets of wisdom from Dale Pierce, a pastor in Colorado. With a humble transparency, Dale talks about his own journey with depression and the things that have made the difference in the dark moments throughout his life. This is no preachy church service…Dale is candid about how we ALL can help others in our lives move through difficult times by simply SEEING them.

Dale is the pastor at United Church of Crook in Crook, Colorado 970-886-3151
(dale@crookedpastor.com.). He is married to Jen Pierce and is father to 3 beautiful adult children and two precious grandchildren.