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Your intuition might not be "broken" at all. It might be doing exactly what trauma trained it to do: scan for danger, brace for impact, and stay ready for the next hit. In Part 2, Maria Aponte and Mindy Jackson dig into what it really looks like to heal trauma from the inside out — not as a glow-up slogan, but as a return to balance, wholeness, and nervous system safety you can actually feel in your body.

They talk through why trauma can amplify intuitive sensitivity, how fear can hijack that signal, and what helps you transmute stuck energy so your inner guidance shifts from threat detection to connection and clarity. Along the way, they get practical about mindfulness, somatic healing, shame, and self-love, including why letting something go can leave a "void" that people often try to fill with shopping, substances, or any quick escape. One of the most useful tools they share is DBT-style "both/and" thinking: you can be grieving and hopeful at the same time, mad and curious, tired and still moving forward — Maria brings this to life with a conversation she'd just had with her own daughter about an upcoming move, hours before this recording, and Mindy reflects it right back with the tools from her own healing journey.

From there, the conversation opens into generational trauma, mental health stigma, and why talking openly now changes what our kids inherit. They explore intuitive gifts, the reclamation of the divine feminine, balancing masculine and feminine energy in relationships and creativity, and the roadblock of scarcity mindset that shows up as "I'm not enough." Mindy closes by sharing her daily rituals for healing and grounding, including reciting the Lord's Prayer in ancient Aramaic — a practice she says brings prayer into the body through vibration and transmutes dense, heavy energy.

If you haven't listened to Part 1 yet, start there for her stroke recovery story, her near-death experience, and how generational trauma shaped her earliest years.

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📖 NEW BOOK: Against All Odds: The Less Than 1% Chance
I wasn't supposed to survive. As the surviving twin with less than a 1% chance at life, I've spent my whole existence beating odds nobody expected me to beat. In this memoir and anthology, I share my story alongside eight other unbelievable accounts of people who refused to let impossible circumstances write their ending, from cancer and addiction to childhood trauma and grief. Eleven stories. One roadmap for anyone who's ever been told "you can't."
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A stroke that changes how you see faces, a hospital stay filled with art supplies, and a decision to not accept "this is as good as it gets." Maria Aponte sits down with Mindy Jackson, LPC, Reiki master, and spiritual coach, to unpack a recovery story that blends real-world rehabilitation with energy healing, intuition, and a fierce kind of hope. After heart surgery in 2023, Mindy experiences a postoperative stroke in the occipital lobe and loses central vision — leaving her, in her own words, seeing everyone's face like Voldemort's. What follows is a deeply human look at neuroplasticity, PTSD-informed healing, and the moment you choose to fight for your life even when the odds feel brutal.

From there, Mindy shares how painting became a tool for healing, including an intense four-month creative arc where she painted the 22 Major Arcana of the tarot and felt herself "live" each card's meaning, naming the finished collection "Return of the Divine Feminine." We talk symbolism, the divine feminine, and what it means to restore balance inside yourself so your relationships and community can change too. If you've ever wondered whether creativity can be medicine, this conversation gives you a grounded and surprising perspective.

We also go back to the beginning: childhood sensitivity, a near-death drowning experience at age five, out-of-body memories, and the way imagination may be less "make-believe" and more a language your nervous system understands. Then we move into generational and ancestral trauma — how a closet-hiding memory with her mother shaped a lifelong freeze response, how her great-grandfather's railroad accident planted a scarcity mindset that passed down for generations, and how a single energy-healing session finally released trauma she'd carried in her body since being sexually assaulted at 16.

This is part one of a longer conversation, with part two coming next week.

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📖 NEW BOOK: Against All Odds: The Less Than 1% Chance
I wasn't supposed to survive. As the surviving twin with less than a 1% chance at life, I've spent my whole existence beating odds nobody expected me to beat. In this memoir and anthology, I share my story alongside eight other unbelievable accounts of people who refused to let impossible circumstances write their ending, from cancer and addiction to childhood trauma and grief. Eleven stories. One roadmap for anyone who's ever been told "you can't."
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A foster placement can turn you into a parent overnight and still ask you to live with uncertainty every day after. Maria Aponte sits down with Jessica Terry, a wife, homeschool mom, foster and adoptive mom, and founder of The Village He Builds, to talk about the real path to motherhood when infertility, courts, trauma, and faith all collide.

We get honest about what it feels like to wait and wait for the life you imagined, then realize your "answered prayer" may arrive in a totally different form. Jessica shares how she learned to love kids from hard places while navigating case plans, reunification realities, and the complicated truth that adoption and foster care both begin with grief. We also dig into empathy, including why understanding a birth parent's story can change how you show up for the child, and why it's never a competition for who matters most in a kid's life.

You'll hear clear guidance on misconceptions around foster care vs adoption, the difference between private adoption and adopting from foster care, and why people need to stop treating foster care like a family-building shortcut. Jessica also explains how she built The Village He Builds to create an intentional support network for foster and adoptive moms and "waiting hearts" walking through infertility.

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Instagram (personal): https://www.instagram.com/jess_christina_t

📖 NEW BOOK: Against All Odds: The Less Than 1% Chance
I wasn't supposed to survive. As the surviving twin with less than a 1% chance at life, I've spent my whole existence beating odds nobody expected me to beat. In this memoir and anthology, I share my story alongside eight other unbelievable accounts of people who refused to let impossible circumstances write their ending, from cancer and addiction to childhood trauma and grief. Eleven stories. One roadmap for anyone who's ever been told "you can't."
Get your copy here: https://books.by/love-your-life

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