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S1 Ep140: Episode 140 - Childhood Trauma, Highly Sensitive People, and JournalSpeak with Dani
Dani is my best friend and trusted sister, and also - as life would have it - a person who needed JournalSpeak really badly. Born highly sensitive and raised with a great deal of childhood trauma, Dani found herself...
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S1 Ep139: EPISODE 139 - How To Accept Yourself More
So often I am asked about self-love. "How can I love myself, Nicole? It feels so hard." I get it. Self-love can seem so elusive. In my opinion, the route to self-love runs through the river of self-acceptance. There...
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S1 Ep138: Episode 138 - REAL TIME HEAL: Anxiety, OCD, and the Mother Wound with Crystal
Trigger Warning: THIS REAL TIME HEAL WILL DISCUSS CHILDHOOD SEXUAL ABUSE. Crystal is an incredible, brave, and insightful soul. When she was five, she suffered abuse at the hand of a friend's father and her life was...
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S1 Ep137: Episode 137 - You Are Not Your Trauma Responses
So often we walk through life reacting and responding to situations, with no idea that it's not just "the way we are". Trauma responses are ways of behaving that are created and informed by the trauma we experienced...
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S1 Ep136: Episode 16 - Pelvic Pain Recovery and Bladder Urgency with Hannah Matluck
I met Hannah Matluck of The V Hive (formerly The Women's Pelvic Pain Podcast) somewhat randomly a couple years ago when she wanted me to speak as an expert on her podcast. Little did either of us know how much that...
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S1 Ep135: EPISODE 13 - Our Addiction to Control
I have been in the grips of physical and mental "control addiction" for a lifetime. Well, for most of a lifetime. Through loving, patient, and consistent work on myself, I have been able to let it go to a large...
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S1 Ep134: Episode 134 - Janette Barber, Dr. Sarno & Me: The Beginning of Everything
Anyone who knows my story from the beginning has heard the name Janette Barber. Janette was Rosie O'Donnell's producer in the 90's, when Rosie's show was topping the ratings. She was also in a motorized wheelchair as...
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S1 Ep133: Episode 133 - The Power of "Miracle" Stories (and ocular migraines)
I have a complicated relationship with the word "miracle". Although I balk at any religious connotation, or implication that a "miracle" implies something bestowed upon us (rather than created BY us), I can't deny the...
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S1 Ep132: EPISODE 132 - REAL TIME HEAL: Tinnitus, Inner Child Work, and Overcoming Our Upbringing with Liz
Liz grew up in a religious home with very few choices on what she could think, feel, or do. Her journey led her to uncover some deception which opened her to a new path, and also a lot of chronic conditions....
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S1 Ep131: EPISODE 131 - The "Fawning" Trauma Response and People Pleasing
Wow, did I get a response from my Instagram Community when I posted a video on fawning! Like me, so many of us fall into the pattern of this trauma-responsive people pleasing behavior in order to keep ourselves from...
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S1 Ep130: Episode 130 - From Crippling Back Pain and Vertigo to Freedom with Ann
Who doesn't love a success story?? This one made me smile from ear to ear. I swear my face hurt. Ann has a beautiful understanding and respect for this work, and was so brave and patient as her sweet MindBody system...
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S1 Ep129: Episode 129 - Transforming FEAR (and other big feelings)
There is a difference between fear (and other big feelings) that are meant to alert us to real distress, and those that are simply sent by the Nervous System as a result of the *perception* of danger. Today, we parse...
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