Take 11: What's in Your Trauma Recovery Toolkit?

Wondering how it all started? Want to know more about my personal journey? In this personal interview I granted to Jay Ruderman, yours truly outlines the story of my life, my practice as a UK and US attorney and how I started my non-profit, Pathfinders Justice Initiative (pathfindersji.org). Here's the good, bad and the ugly of how it started vs. how it's going.

As we learn to accept things for what they are, we can choose to start each day with gratitude for all that is. Taking a daily posture of gratitude has literally changed my life and will do the same for yours. Join me in this extended guided meditation/prayer, as I reflect on my own life and express gratitude for all that is-including you!

New to meditation and don't quite know where to start? Start with gratitude. It will literally change your life! In this Take, I reflect on my own life and all that there is to be grateful for- including you! Listen now to the 10-minute short.

Ready to start the process of healing from your trauma but not quite sure where/how to start? Join me and renowned trauma therapist, Dr. Anita Phillips (@dranitaphillips), as we delve into the import of trauma on our bodies and what she believes is absolutely imperative to include in your trauma recovery toolkit. Listen now to Take 11 as Dr. Anita outlines the seven steps to healthy, holistic healing. Here's to an emerging, healed you!

Ready for healing but not quite sure where to start? Here’s what my guest in this Take, Dr. Anita Phillips @dranitaphillips, believes is absolutely imperative. Listen now to Take 11: What’s in Your Trauma Recovery Toolkit?

It's my birthday and International Women's Day!  My mother always said that life would have had it no other way!  In this Take, I celebrate, with gratitude, my own life as well as the incredible women in my life, while sharing my top 10 (well, if you add the bonus, it's 11!) lessons from the last decade of my life. Listen now to the 90-second short. 

I've been an athlete for most of my life. My absolute favourite sport? Hands down: basketball! In this Take, I share the incredible, life giving gifts the game gave me and how they continue to impact my life. Listen now to the 90-second short. 

Is there a correlation between your weight and the toxicity of your relationship? Perhaps. Listen now to how shedding the toxic waste often leads to shedding unhealthy weight. 

How debilitating is shame? Critically so! It took me almost 10 years to get over a point of shame in my life. In this Take, I share the lessons I've learned about shame and how to overcome it- much, much sooner! 

"Ask me whether what I have done is my life?" was the question that changed my life 10 years ago.  Listen to how I finally relinquished the control and courageously stepped into that which my life had been beckoning for me to do.