Ten Thirty Three

72: Elise Michaels - How Do We Process Our Childhood Trauma To Invite Growth and Reach Your True Potential

Elise also shares her own personal story of what her childhood looked like. Elise believed her childhood was “normal” until she began doing some of the challenging work required to see our childhood for what it truly was. Elise then began to challenge herself to move beyond the trauma of the past and learn how to grow beyond her experiences. This required learning new coping behavioural mechanisms. Learning how to challenge your own anger and resentment. In this episode we focus directly on the concept of forgiveness and how this may look differently for us during different phases of our healing and acceptance journey. We also look at how to create boundaries in order to help us thrive beyond what was imaginable.

71: Jon Archambault - Learning To Heal From Living Life Connected To Nature

Join me this week as I sit down with Jon Archambault. Jon served with the military for over twelve years. He then transferred to Calgary Police where he served for another six years; however, trauma began to impact Jon in ways he would be required to better understand. Jon shares what his journey looked like; however, how it also created an opportunity to reconnect him with nature. This ultimately lead to him launching Wired Different, a veteran owned company focused on providing apparel solutions to those who understand the value of outdoor exploration, adventure and connection.

70: Julia Shelley - Finding Safety In War Torn Countries

Join me as I sit down with Julia Shelley. Julia was a flight attendant for the United Nations and during this time visited many war torn countries. Julia recounts how feeling unsafe in these environments contributed to health issues. We discuss the impacts of unsafe environments and how they can shape us we begin to adapt to them sometimes in unhealthy ways. We also discuss how this impacted Julia and caused her to begin to socially isolate. Julia's journey does not end there. Julia recognized that she this role was having a significant impact on her and reached out for help. Julia's story is incredibly inspiring as she recounts not only the difficult chapter she faced, but how she recognized that this no longer served her and how she moved on. Julia is now a fitness coach and trainer and is helping so many of people in her community achieve their goals.

69: Jeff Brown - Removing The Armour As We Break Free From Vigilance And Embrace Vulnerability

Join me as I sit down Jeff Brown. Jeff is an author seven times over. We discuss how Jeff initially chased the concept of becoming a prominent Lawyer in Toronto. Jeff quickly rose to success in this role; however, faced an emptiness within that could not be avoided. Over time Jeff realized that this was not his true passion and that ultimately was losing himself in this pursuit. Jeff had a pivotal moment where he knew that in order to better connect within and the external world he would have to sacrifice his dream and pursue his own healing journey. Jeff leaped for fate which challenged him in ways he never expected. He began process years of stored emotion through traditional and non traditional ways. Upon releasing years of stored emotion and energy Jeff began to write about his journey and new found passion for life. Seven books later Jeff has amassed a wealth of wisdom and perspective into how society faces so many difficult subconscious struggles that most are unaware of. Jeff highlights how important it is to wake up on this journey in life for yourself and for others. The story doesn’t  change when we pretend it was all an illusion. The story doesn’t change when when we get addicted to transcendence and float above it. The story doesn’t change when  fain forgiveness and resolution. The story doesn’t change when we  confuse dissociation with expansion.  The story doesn’t change when we tell ourselves there are no victims.  The story changes when we own our pain. The story changes when we work it through to the lessons at its core. The story changes when we are truly seen in our suffering. The story changes when we heal our heart. We are made of story, there is no shame in that. Either we work through our story or our story will work through us.  ~ From the Book Hearticulations by Jeff Brown

68: David Sadai - From Chaos To Connection and How We Can Unravel The Madness

Join me as I sit down with David Sadai. David spent years serving in the Canadian Armed Forces and recognized the impact that military life was having on himself. Through adversity David challenged himself to expand his approach to life and ultimately left the Canadian Armed Forces to begin his own healing journey. Join me as David shares how he "unravelled the madness" which later fuelled his project to become an author and write a book "Unravelling the Madness". David shares how the journey into confronting the things he avoided for years ultimately brought him healing and better connection on all realms in life.