A Quest for Well-Being

— “Trauma often separates us from our own self, leaving us feeling disjointed.  We exile parts of us we feel are “bad”, and shame hides us from seeing our own reflection. Through healing, you can have a mind, body, spirit connection that ushers in a new sense of self-agency and self-alignment. If you have trauma or abuse in your human experience story, you are not alone.  You are not broken. You do not need fixing. While we cannot go back and remove the trauma that we endured, we can find healing now in our present and live our best, authentic life!” - Sara Valeria interviews Sara Miley — She is an experienced crisis advocate and an IFS-informed trauma recovery coach. Through her own learned and lived experiences, she is passionate about helping survivors find the roots of their suffering. By making sense of their trauma, they can make meaning out of their healing. Her focus is on survivors of: developmental/childhood trauma, attachment wounds, emotional abuse and neglect, cPTSD - those who struggle with the emotional and relational aftereffects of dysfunctional formative years.  She is the owner and coach of Full Circle Wellspring LLC, the founder and coachsultant of the Personalized Trauma Healing System™, and the host of the Trauma Survivorhood podcast. She is available for private and group consulting, interviews, press, podcasts, and trauma-informed consulting for businesses. To learn more about Sara Miley and her work, please visit: https://www.fullcirclewellspring.com/         — This podcast is a quest for well-being, a quest for a meaningful life through the exploration of fundamental truths, enlightening ideas, insights on physical, mental, and spiritual health. The inspiration is Love. The aspiration is to awaken new ways of thinking that can lead us to a new way of being, being well.

— This inability to get rid of waste and toxins - compounded by the detrimental effects of chronic stress, dehydration, and a lack of oxygen and nutrients - opens the door for sickness, disease, and other health problems to take root. This is why it's important to look at healing from a systemic level rather than just looking at all the symptoms you're experiencing. They might have a bunch of different names and diagnoses, but at the root of all your symptoms are unhealthy cells that don't have what they need to heal and thrive. Just because you're eating healthy, drinking lots of water, or taking supplements doesn't mean that those nutrients are getting into your cells. Why? Because the cell might be too toxic to accept them. If your cells are unable to absorb the nutrients, then those nutrients just pass right through you. Cells are only as healthy as the environment they live in. If you want to get well, you have to change the state of the environment within and around your cells. They cannot heal in the same environment that made them sick. In order for your cells to start healing, you've got to understand a few important principles. This is what this episode is about! Valeria interviews Heather Creson — She is a Cellular Optimization Specialist who helps people regain their vitality and re-engage in life after experiencing debilitating health concerns.  Her goal is to help people break free from the conventional medical model of chasing symptoms and instead, get to the root cause of chronic health issues they may be facing. With nearly two decades of experience in the health and wellness industry, her passion is equipping people with practical, easy-to-implement strategies so they can approach their healing process with clarity and confidence. To learn more about Heather Creson and her work, please visit: https://www.defyyourlimits.com                 — This podcast is a quest for well-being, a quest for a meaningful life through the exploration of fundamental truths, enlightening ideas, insights on physical, mental, and spiritual health. The inspiration is Love. The aspiration is to awaken new ways of thinking that can lead us to a new way of being, being well. 

— “We either operate our lives from a place of fear or love. It alternates for some based on where they are in their process of growth...or journey in life. The key to life is acceptance: acceptance of who we are, where we are on our personal path, who others are and where they are on their personal path.” — Shana Valeria interviews Shana Dee  — She is a Certified Integrative Somatic Practitioner, Emotional Healing Coach, Mental Health Advocate and speaker. Shana’s dynamic background deep-rooted in life, health & wellness coaching and expertise at guiding individuals through life's profound challenges, from addiction to major emotional transitions, has given her unparalleled insight into the myriad of challenges people face daily and the ability to establish mindful connections and trust. With 15 years of experience guiding her clients as a Holistic Life & Healing Coach and consulting for corporations and executives in the heartbeat of New York City, Shana has seen one common thread: We all need to heal! To learn more about Shana Dee and her work, please visit: https://www.shanadee.com/  and https://www.thehealcandle.com/ Instagram Handle: @healwithshana                   — This podcast is a quest for well-being, a quest for a meaningful life through the exploration of fundamental truths, enlightening ideas, insights on physical, mental, and spiritual health. The inspiration is Love. The aspiration is to awaken new ways of thinking that can lead us to a new way of being, being well. 

— Over the landscape of time, there is change. Change inherently includes loss. People you love pass on from this life, or move away. Loss can also be a chapter in your life ending and a new one beginning. Or it can be old ways of being giving way to new ones. When you are missing someone or something, give your heart space and time. Whatever feeling is present, breathe into it. Let it be felt. Maybe you cry. Maybe you feel angry. Maybe you laugh in remembrance of a joyful connection. Whatever is felt in the moment, this is part of the richness of your love. Grief exists because of love and connection. Even when there’s pain in a connection, its loss will be a grieving (and an opportunity to heal the pain). Whatever is present in your heart, breathe into it and let it be felt. Breathe it out as a blessing, because what you’re feeling is part of the richness of heart. All the flavors of remembrance, loss, anger, sadness - whatever you are feeling - are part of the richness of your heart. Valeria interviews Megumi Burr-Tolliver  — She is a  Vortexhealing® Divine Energy Healing Practitioner, Founder Of Compassion Tree Healing, Intentional Community Co-Founder, Writer, Teacher And Speaker. An important stream in Megumi’s life showed up in early childhood when she learned to only express in the range of “appropriate.” Probably something of her expression had been too out of the box for others’ comfort. Growing up, she felt everyone was missing what mattered. But she didn’t know what that was, and it wasn’t in the range of what was appropriate to acknowledge. As a teen, she knew she wanted to “understand others and myself” and “help others and myself.” Her adult path gradually uncovered what that meant, as she developed feeling and knowing from within, and stepped into roles supporting others. Another important stream came in as her dad, husband and mom passed. Megumi experiences life as inclusive of death, grief and remembering.  Megumi’s unfolding path currently has her co-founding a small, land-based intentional community in Vermont. Her practice, Compassion Tree Healing, supports moms and nurturers who want to find their center and grounding, using highest-level tools from VortexHealing® Divine Energy Healing. She creates nurturing spaces where people anywhere in the world can be with themselves with compassion.  Leading up to this point, she supported pregnancy, postpartum and moms as Compassion Tree Mama Care, including as a massage therapist, birth and postpartum doula, and yoga and movement teacher. She has also co-led workshops and classes. Megumi’s current and next chapters involve cultivating deep listening and communication with self, others and land. To learn more about Megumi Burr-Tolliver and her work, please visit: https://megumiburrtolliver.com/             — This podcast is a quest for well-being, a quest for a meaningful life through the exploration of fundamental truths, enlightening ideas, insights on physical, mental, and spiritual health. The inspiration is Love. The aspiration is to awaken new ways of thinking that can lead us to a new way of being, being well. 

— “In my opinion, the problem with Christianity (and the Old Testament writings before Jesus) is that we have neglected our Mother Spirit, Sophia. She is clearly identified and discussed in the Bible but the writers and founders of Christianity (all men) have neglected to identify her as a centrical figure in our faith. Why were the early writers, the early Christian founders, and Christians of this day so offended by the idea of God being female? First, Western thinkers struggle with both/and. We like to compartmentalize everything into this box OR that box. We have a hard time understanding that God could be BOTH male and female. Ohhhh doesn't that come a little too close to identifying God as "gender fluid" and we don't like that one! But Eastern thinkers (Jesus, being one) easily embrace the idea of both/and. They easily recognize the yin and yang of most concepts in all things. This is called non-duality. They embrace the idea that two or more things can be true at the same time. Christians today like to think in the dualistic terms of either/or. Everything is either holy or evil. Right or wrong. Bad or good. Unfortunately for them, the Bible is a collection of non-dualistic concepts.  Second, early canon collectors saw women as weak. Let's face it. Men throughout history have seen women as weak. The fragile, too-emotional sex that must be dominated and ruled with a firm hand. Left to our own devices, we are too permissible, too mouthy, too inconsistent, too weak. I don't know about you but I often heard these words spoken about me or my sisters. So, God is described as a strong, male warrior. He provides for and protects his family. Great. But the problem with describing God as only male is that he too often jumps over to the toxic/extreme attributes of masculinity without the much-needed female characteristics. Look around you. A lot of men are so deeply offended by the idea of balanced anima/animus energy. They cannot tolerate the idea that the softer, female characteristics of nurturing, protecting, and emotional attunement could possibly describe them or their God. So, we have an epidemic of toxically masculine men who refuse to recognize the female attributes of God and refuse to grow their own emotional intelligence. Now, in fairness, I have noticed women taking this concept to the other extreme (remember, we are either/or thinkers). Some women have run with this concept and yelling out in the streets, "GOD IS FEMALE! THE FUTURE IS FEMALE!" without recognizing that God is both/and. Ladies, toxic femininity is also a thing. So, how is all of this sitting with you? Do you find yourself angry or resistant to the idea of God being also female? Why? What do you think might happen if Christians began to embrace Mother God? Notice feelings that surface: anger, fear, dismissiveness? What might happen to you if you became more receptive of the feminine attributes of God? How might this understanding of Scripture change you for the better?” ~ Brittney Valeria interviews Dr. Brittney Doll — She is a Licensed Clinical Marriage and Family Therapist. Her doctorate research centered on rebuilding self-agency after experiencing religious trauma. In her private practice, Dr. Brittney primarily works with women who have experienced trauma in childhood, relationships, or religious/cult experiences. To learn more about Dr. Brittney Doll and her work, please visit: https://www.brittneydoll.com/ and https://christinsanity.podia.com               — This podcast is a quest for well-being, a quest for a meaningful life through the exploration of fundamental truths, enlightening ideas, insights on physical, mental, and spiritual health. The inspiration is Love. The aspiration is to awaken new ways of thinking that can lead us to a new way of being, being well. 

— The Simplicity of good health starts with understanding the simplicity of how we are wonderfully made. Everybody knows that our body is supposed to be about 85% water, and as a general rule of thumb, a person can only survive without water for about 3 days. Dehydration happens quickly, causing extreme thirst, fatigue, and ultimately, organ failure and death. A person may go from feeling thirsty and slightly sluggish on the first day with no water to having organ failure by the third day. But there is something that is just as important to our good health as staying hydrated. It’s understanding, how we are wonderfully made and then living our life according to this knowledge. So here it is. Our body is an electrical chemical factory. Every cell in our body is made up of trillions of atoms. For this discussion, there are basically only to types of atoms. You have atoms that have a positive electrical charge to them which we will call, the demolition and clean up atoms. These atoms in the medical industry are called free-radical atoms. When there is an overload of free radical atoms in any of our cells, they can damage every molecule in our cells: our DNA, proteins, lipids, mitochondria and so on. To keep it simple, anything with a positive electrical charge to it is overloaded with free radical Atoms. The other type of atom that makes up each and every cell has a negative electrical charge to it, and the medical industry calls these atoms, Anti-oxidants. To keep it simple, anything with a negative electrical charge to it, is an anti-oxidant. Its anti-oxidant atoms that give every cell in your body the energy to function properly and repair any damage to your cells, tissues and organs. It is a fact, that all diseases start at the cell level, not at the organ or system level. Every cell in you body has to maintain a certain negative electrical charge to function properly. When free-radicals rob the electrons out of your healthy cells they no longer have the energy to function properly and disease and illness will set in. Wherever the weakest cells are in your body, this and this alone will actually determine what health condition that you get. It’s really that simple. Learn more by listening to this episode! Valeria interviews Philip Bresnahan — He is a Clinical Research Analyst. 18 years ago, he was rushed to the hospital with very high blood pressure. In that same year he was diagnosed with Cancer. Philip didn’t to want to have a stroke and end up in a wheelchair not being able to feed himself. He also didn’t want to get Cancer again and be given Chemo or radiation or die from the Cancer. So he spent the next 15 years being a Clinical Research Analyst, studying what had been discovered about the root cause of practically every disease known to mankind. Philip knows that when you treat the root cause of any disease, you are giving the body what it needs to repair itself as it was designed to do. In his studies, he discovered the simplicity of how we are wonderfully made. In so doing, he also discovered the root cause of practically every disease known to mankind even Cancer. Philip now just wants to share this information with the world. To learn more about Philip Bresnahan and his work, please visit: https://thediseaseeliminationspecialist.com/ or call him at (813)244-1135                   — This podcast is a quest for well-being, a quest for a meaningful life through the exploration of fundamental truths, enlightening ideas, insights on physical, mental, and spiritual health. The inspiration is Love. The aspiration is to awaken new ways of thinking that can lead us to a new way of being, being well. 

— It’s never too late to make changes that allow you to have a more meaningful and fulfilling life that reflects who you really are and let go of an image that was created before you even had a chance to get to know yourself. Valeria interviews Kristen Holbrook — She is a Registered Clinical Counsellor in Coquitlam, BC. Prior to obtaining her Master’s in Counselling Psychology, Kristen worked for several years in the helping profession and completed her degree in Psychology. She has always had a desire to work with others and a fascination with understanding what drives people to think, feel, and behave in the ways that they do.  Since becoming a counsellor, Kristen has counselled in an agency that specializes in trauma and abuse as well as treatment centers counselling those with concurrent disorders. Kristen established her Private Practice, Kristen Holbrook Counselling, in 2016 where she works with adults, youth, and couples treating a wide array of presenting issues. She has since expanded her Practice to include a team of counsellors with varying specialties. Throughout Kristen’s career, she has continued her education through workshops and has received her certification in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing).  Kristen uses a variety of therapeutic modalities to help her clients work through their presenting issues, resolve past trauma, and break free of unhelpful patterns to reach their highest potential and live more fulfilling lives. Outside of work, Kristen is married and is a mother of two.  To learn more about Kristen Holbrook and her work, please visit: https://www.kristenholbrook.com/             — This podcast is a quest for well-being, a quest for a meaningful life through the exploration of fundamental truths, enlightening ideas, insights on physical, mental, and spiritual health. The inspiration is Love. The aspiration is to awaken new ways of thinking that can lead us to a new way of being, being well. 

— It is time for you to reclaim your health, happiness, and life! Feeling like you're a victim of your own circumstances? It doesn't matter what you are facing, whether you are struggling with illness, a relationship, money blockages, unhappiness at work, trauma, or repeating patterns from childhood. Let your dreams become a reality by taking charge of your life and making what you desire a reality. Dr. Karen Cureton is passionate about empowering others to do this, and on this episode she show you how! Valeria interviews Dr. Karen Cureton — She is a licensed naturopathic physician, acupuncturist, passionate neuroplasticity practitioner, and co-creator of the Wired for Wellness Program.  Through her own journey with complex chronic illness, anxiety, depression, and PTSD along with treating hundreds of patients with complex chronic illness, Dr. Karen Cureton realized the profound impact that stress physiology has on all aspects of health. By rewiring her brain and rebalancing her nervous system, she was able to free herself from anxiety, depression, PTSD, many physical symptoms and stress patterns. She has since helped many clients do the same with diverse health issues, traumas, and self-sabotaging patterns. Dr. Cureton is now a firm believer that everyone with a chronic health issue will benefit from neural retraining, and in many cases, it is critical to healing. To learn more about Dr. Karen Cureton and her work, please visit: http://www.getwiredforwellness.com/anxiety and http://www.getwiredforwellness.com/ Dr. Karen is offering a gift to you with some information on neural retraining for health that has six free processes in it.  With this, you will understand how to RESOLVE chronic anxiety, panic attacks, and get off benzodiazepines safely. Here is the http://www.getwiredforwellness.com/anxiety             — This podcast is a quest for well-being, a quest for a meaningful life through the exploration of fundamental truths, enlightening ideas, insights on physical, mental, and spiritual health. The inspiration is Love. The aspiration is to awaken new ways of thinking that can lead us to a new way of being, being well.

— Kristin believes in the healing power of authentic connection. She uses a down-to-earth, humorous approach to help others achieve the kind of change they are looking for. She offers practical tips to assist them in identifying and relieving root fears with the purpose of realigning their mind/body into its natural state of wellness. Through customized energy and shadow work Kristin guides them to reprogram their nervous system, shed layers of negative thought and realign their energy into its natural state of being. Over time, joy, curiosity, and play will once again become natural parts in her clients’ daily world and living a life of personal empowerment will not only become possible, but a full time experience! Valeria interviews Kristin Opris — She is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor. Kristin was born and raised in North Idaho, she is a small-town girl with a big heart and a wild love for the world community. She identifies as a spiritual mystic and she has, thus far, spent her life exploring the psychological catacombs of what it means to be human. Kristin obtained a B.A. in Psychology in 2008 and an M.A. in Clinical Psychology in 2010. Over her fifteen years of clinical counseling she has worked in Chicago, inner-city Detroit, and downtown Spokane. Kristin spent her time with the downtrodden, the overlooked and the outcast; all of which have taught her a great deal about what she believes it truly means to be human. Since the beginning of the pandemic, Kristin has taken what she learned from her counseling practice and worked to integrate it into a higher form of life coaching. She believes in the positive, growth-minded perspective that coaching offers and she is excited to continue to help people evolve in their personal experience of getting to know who they are on a soulful level. To learn more about Kristin Opris and her work, please visit: https://sacred-soul.clientsecure.me/                 — This podcast is a quest for well-being, a quest for a meaningful life through the exploration of fundamental truths, enlightening ideas, insights on physical, mental, and spiritual health. The inspiration is Love. The aspiration is to awaken new ways of thinking that can lead us to a new way of being, being well. 

— The human race will rise again. We were born for joy, and one day joy will return to us as spring always returns, bursting with life and light after the freezing winter. The human race will rise again as the cold hard masculine mind opens up to the soft warm spirit of the feminine as our solid frozen selves begin to melt and merge with nature again and selfishness gives way to empathy, and hierarchy to equality and the impulse to connect transcends the desire for control. The human race will rise again as our senses begin to wake from centuries of sleep and nature shines with sacredness again and we’re dazzled by the world’s pristine beauty and awed by the depths of meaning which reveal themselves beneath the old flat surface of reality. The human race will rise again, and is slowly rising now. The shift is slowly settling. Balance is returning, a new structure is emerging, a pattern of vibrant new colors and shapes with a new kind of harmony, more complex and dynamic, an order that’s stronger because it incorporates chaos, a sanity that’s deeper because it arose out of madness. The human race will rise again. The war will end, and the world will heal and life will no longer be a frenzied struggle, full of stress and fear but a glorious adventure, full of grace and ease, no longer a punishment to be endured, but a privilege to be savored. We were born for wholeness, and we will be whole again. We were born for joy, and we will return to joy. The human race will rise again.  — by Steve Taylor Valeria interviews Dr. Kiran Syed  — She is a licensed clinical telepsychologist in the states of Hawaii, Texas, and Vermont.  She is also a certified distance reiki practitioner. She has treated clients from many different ethnic backgrounds and all walks of life.  Her current areas of interest include grief, spiritual emergencies, anxiety, depression, treating caretakers/people in the helping professions for compassion fatigue/burnout, relationship problems, quarter, mid, and late-life crises, and psychedelic integration work. She speaks English, Urdu, and Hindi fluently. To learn more about Dr. Kiran Syed and her work, please visit: https://www.globalpsych.com/           — This podcast is a quest for well-being, a quest for a meaningful life through the exploration of fundamental truths, enlightening ideas, insights on physical, mental, and spiritual health. The inspiration is Love. The aspiration is to awaken new ways of thinking that can lead us to a new way of being, being well.