04: What I Learned After 8 Years of Healing: The Art of Being Witnessed

07: I Spent 8 Years Angry at Doctors (Here's What Forgiveness Actually Fixed)

▶️ Watch Next: https://www.naturalisticnurse.com/healing-warrior/06 [https://www.naturalisticnurse.com/healing-warrior/06] Going through 8 years of debilitating topical steroid withdrawal (TSW) left me with deep regret, anger, and a profound sense of betrayal by the Western medical system and even myself. This experience created significant emotional trauma, anxiety, and depression, shaping my perspective on health and trust. In this episode, I share my journey of navigating these complex feelings and the path towards self-forgiveness, emotional integration, releasing resentment, nervous system healing, and breaking free from trauma patterns. CHAPTERS: 0:00 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-vtZFpTyFk] - My journey with TSW, Anger, & Regret 1:17 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-vtZFpTyFk&t=77s] - What Is Forgiveness Really? 2:50 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-vtZFpTyFk&t=170s] - Forgiving Others: The Ultimate Lesson in Staying in Your Own Lane 4:12 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-vtZFpTyFk&t=252s] - 4 Signs You Need to Forgive Yourself 5:39 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-vtZFpTyFk&t=339s] - How I Reached Forgiveness in TSW 6:45 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-vtZFpTyFk&t=405s] - The Most Powerful Tool to Practice Forgiveness 8:12 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-vtZFpTyFk&t=492s] - Applying Forgiveness to Big Systems 9:20 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-vtZFpTyFk&t=560s] - Going from Wound to Wisdom ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎁 FREE 7-minute Video Training: Affirmations That Actually Work → https://NaturalisticNurse.com/affirmations [https://naturalisticnurse.myflodesk.com/affirmations] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WORK WITH ME: 🌳 The TSW Mentorship: → https://www.naturalisticnurse.com/tsw-mentorship [https://www.naturalisticnurse.com/tsw-mentorship] 🪶 Shamanic Healing Sessions (Remote) → https://www.naturalisticnurse.com/shamanic-healing [https://www.naturalisticnurse.com/shamanic-healing] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌞 CONNECT: Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/NaturalisticNurse [https://www.instagram.com/naturalisticnurse] Website → https://www.NaturalisticNurse.com/ [https://www.naturalisticnurse.com/] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ▶️ WATCH on Youtube: https://www.naturalisticnurse.com/youtube [https://www.naturalisticnurse.com/youtube] 🌟 New episodes every Tuesday 👉 FOLLOW so you never miss it! Content Warning: This episode discusses mental health struggles. I'm a registered nurse sharing my personal story for educational purposes only — this is not medical advice. If you're struggling, call or text 988 (U.S./Canada) or visit https://findahelpline.com/ [https://findahelpline.com/]

06: How I Overcame Severe Anxiety & Panic Attacks in 4 Steps

▶️ Watch Next: https://www.naturalisticnurse.com/healing-warrior/02 Do you wake up feeling anxious every day? In this episode, I share my personal journey of battling severe anxiety and daily panic attacks for 8 years while I was healing from topical steroid withdrawal (TSW). In my work now as a shamanic practitioner, emotional integration coach, and registered nurse, I've learned not only how to manage my anxiety and mental health fully, but to help others do it too. I share a powerful 4-step process that's helped me take control and find relief from anxiety. Learn how to notice, locate, and name your anxiety, utilize deep breathing techniques, make grounding statements, and bring yourself back to the present moment. These steps, when practiced regularly (even individually), can bring you immediate relief and lasting calm. CHAPTERS: 00:00 My journey with anxiety, panic attacks, and TSW 00:50 Step 1 - Notice, locate, and name your anxiety 01:16 Bonus Tip - Locating your anxiety 02:25 Bonus Tip - How to connect with your body 04:24 Step 2 - Take a deep breath 05:14 Bonus Tip - How to dissolve anxious energy 06:16 Bonus Tip - Visualization 06:43 Step 3 - Make a grounding statement 08:43 Step 4 - Bring yourself back to the present 09:11 Bonus Tip - How to use a grounding object 09:43 Bonus Tip - My favorite techniques 10:39 Recap and final tips ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎁 FREE 7-minute Video Training: Affirmations That Actually Work → https://NaturalisticNurse.com/affirmations [https://naturalisticnurse.myflodesk.com/affirmations] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WORK WITH ME: 🌳 The TSW Mentorship: → https://www.naturalisticnurse.com/tsw-mentorship [https://www.naturalisticnurse.com/tsw-mentorship] 🪶 Shamanic Healing Sessions (Remote) → https://www.naturalisticnurse.com/shamanic-healing [https://www.naturalisticnurse.com/shamanic-healing] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌞 CONNECT: Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/NaturalisticNurse [https://www.instagram.com/naturalisticnurse] Website → https://www.NaturalisticNurse.com/ [https://www.naturalisticnurse.com/] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ▶️ WATCH on Youtube: https://www.naturalisticnurse.com/youtube [https://www.naturalisticnurse.com/youtube] 🌟 New episodes every Tuesday 👉 FOLLOW so you never miss it! Content Warning: This episode discusses mental health struggles. I'm a registered nurse sharing my personal story for educational purposes only — this is not medical advice. If you're struggling, call or text 988 (U.S./Canada) or visit https://findahelpline.com/ [https://findahelpline.com/]

05: Why You Won't Heal Until You Let Yourself Grieve

Watch next: https://www.naturalisticnurse.com/healing-warrior/04 [https://www.naturalisticnurse.com/healing-warrior/04] In this episode, I'm breaking down why grief is an essential part of any healing journey. Whether you're healing from chronic illness, a relationship, trauma, or a major life shift, grief is the process that allows you to complete old chapters and step fully into new ones. I share my personal experience with topical steroid withdrawal (TSW) and how I spent years resisting grief instead of feeling it. That resistance kept me stuck and drained my energy. Once I stopped fighting it and started moving through the waves of grief—past, present, and future—I finally started healing. Grief has a purpose. It teaches us lessons, helps us let go, and creates space for what's next. If you've been avoiding grief or feel stuck in your healing, this episode will show you why walking through that door is one of the most powerful things you can do for your emotional healing and mental health. CHAPTERS: 00:00 Why grief is essential for any healing process—not just when someone dies 01:07 My TSW journey, grief, and resistance 02:18 How grief is transformational 02:51 Examples (even in unexpected situations) 03:36 3 waves of grief 04:13 Grieving the past, present, and future 05:38 How relationships shift during grief and healing 06:19 The purpose of grief 07:27 The next step: sitting with grief and letting it move through you ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎁 FREE 7-minute Video Training: The Hidden Secret to Affirmations That Actually Work → https://NaturalisticNurse.com/affirmations [https://naturalisticnurse.myflodesk.com/affirmations] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WORK WITH ME: 🌳 TSW Mentorship: → https://www.naturalisticnurse.com/tsw-mentorship [https://www.naturalisticnurse.com/tsw-mentorship] 🪶 Shamanic Healing Sessions (Remote) → https://www.naturalisticnurse.com/shamanic-healing [https://www.naturalisticnurse.com/shamanic-healing] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌞 CONNECT: • Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/NaturalisticNurse [https://www.instagram.com/naturalisticnurse] • Website → https://www.NaturalisticNurse.com/ [https://www.naturalisticnurse.com/] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ▶️ WATCH on Youtube: https://www.naturalisticnurse.com/youtube [https://www.naturalisticnurse.com/youtube] 🌟 New episodes every Tuesday 👉 FOLLOW so you never miss it!

04: What I Learned After 8 Years of Healing: The Art of Being Witnessed

For the first year of my topical steroid withdrawal (TSW) journey, I was completely isolated in my pain. I couldn't tell anyone what I was really going through—not my closest friends, my family, or even my partner. I was drowning in shame, embarrassment, and fear. So I hid the full truth, sharing only fractions of my experience. I feared being "too much." What I didn't understand then was that hiding my truth wasn't protecting anyone—it was keeping me stuck. The breakthrough came when I finally learned what it means to be truly witnessed. Not just physically seen, but fully held in the depth of my struggle without judgment, without someone trying to fix me, without having to make it smaller or easier for others to handle. In this episode, I share the 4 steps that helped me move from isolation to healing. Being witnessed changed everything for me, and it might be the missing piece in your healing too. In this episode, I share: 0:00 - Why I couldn't share what I was going through 0:56 - The first year of TSW: isolation and shame 2:31 - How being witnessed creates validation and connection 3:53 - Step 1: Practice feeling 4:35 - Step 2: Remove your judgment 5:48 - Step 3: How to find the right people 7:00 - Step 4: Trust the process (even when it's painful) 8:17 - Why your experience matters and you deserve to be seen Content Warning: This episode discusses mental health struggles. I'm a registered nurse sharing my personal story for educational purposes only — this is not medical advice. If you're struggling, call or text 988 (U.S./Canada) or visit https://findahelpline.com/ [https://findahelpline.com/] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FREE RESOURCES 🎁 GET MY FREE 7-MINUTE VIDEO TRAINING: The Hidden Secret to Affirmations That Actually Work → https://NaturalisticNurse.com/affirmations [https://naturalisticnurse.myflodesk.com/affirmations] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WORK WITH ME 🪶 REMOTE SHAMANIC HEALING SESSIONS: → https://www.naturalisticnurse.com/shamanic-healing [https://www.naturalisticnurse.com/shamanic-healing] 🌳 TSW MENTORSHIP: → https://www.naturalisticnurse.com/tsw-mentorship [https://www.naturalisticnurse.com/tsw-mentorship] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CONNECT 🌞 FOLLOW ME ON INSTAGRAM for daily healing insights: @NaturalisticNurse → https://www.instagram.com/NaturalisticNurse [https://www.instagram.com/naturalisticnurse] Website: https://www.NaturalisticNurse.com/ [https://www.naturalisticnurse.com/] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📽️ WATCH ON YOUTUBE: https://www.naturalisticnurse.com/youtube [https://www.naturalisticnurse.com/youtube] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌟 NEW EPISODES EVERY TUESDAY 👉 FOLLOW so you never miss it!

03: I Overcame My Eye Contact Anxiety (and It Taught Me About Confidence)

When I was in the thick of my topical steroid withdrawal (TSW) journey, I had zero self-confidence. I went almost two full months without making eye contact with another human because I was so embarrassed and ashamed of how I looked. In this episode, I share the story of how I set a goal that terrified me—to look a stranger in the eye at the grocery store—and what happened when I failed the first time. This is a story about how confidence actually works. You don't need to have confidence before you start. You just need to be willing to try. Because confidence isn't something you have right away—it's something you build from experience, one small step at a time. Whether you're healing from chronic illness, struggling with anxiety and shame, or facing fears that feel impossible, this episode is for you. In this episode, I share: 00:00 - When I couldn't look anyone in the eye for 2 months 00:34 - The shame and isolation of severe TSW 01:48 - Setting a goal that terrified me 03:38 - Why staying in pain felt scarier than trying 05:01 - What I learned from failing and why I tried again 06:42 - How confidence actually works: willingness over certainty Content Warning: This episode discusses mental health struggles. I'm a registered nurse sharing my personal story for educational purposes only — this is not medical advice. If you're struggling, call or text 988 (U.S./Canada) or visit https://findahelpline.com/ [https://findahelpline.com/] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FREE RESOURCES 🎁 GET MY 7-MINUTE VIDEO TRAINING: The Hidden Secret to Affirmations That Actually Work → https://NaturalisticNurse.com/affirmations [https://naturalisticnurse.myflodesk.com/affirmations] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WORK WITH ME 🪶 REMOTE SHAMANIC HEALING SESSIONS: → https://www.naturalisticnurse.com/shamanic-healing [https://www.naturalisticnurse.com/shamanic-healing] 🌳 TSW MENTORSHIP: → https://www.naturalisticnurse.com/tsw-mentorship [https://www.naturalisticnurse.com/tsw-mentorship] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CONNECT 🌞 FOLLOW ME ON INSTAGRAM for daily healing insights: @NaturalisticNurse → https://www.instagram.com/NaturalisticNurse [https://www.instagram.com/naturalisticnurse] Website: https://www.NaturalisticNurse.com/ [https://www.naturalisticnurse.com/] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📽️ WATCH ON YOUTUBE: https://www.naturalisticnurse.com/youtube [https://www.naturalisticnurse.com/youtube] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌟 NEW EPISODES EVERY TUESDAY 👉 FOLLOW so you never miss it!