TRIGGER WARNING: This episode includes sensitive subject matter, including details of suicidal ideation. If you have experienced any trauma such as what is described in this episode, I encourage you to seek professional help in coming to terms with it and healing.

National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 800-273-TALK (8255); 888-628-9454 (Spanish); 800-799-4889 (TTY)

This week I was joined by Arzo Yusef, my college roommate (20 years ago!) and founder of @thesexybossbabe to have a candid chat about the road to healing from suppressed childhood trauma.

Arzo gets raw and vulnerable about her personal struggle with depression and coming to terms with her own childhood trauma that left her contemplating suicide; ultimately choosing that low point as a catalyst to start a healing journey.

We talk about the beauty and the mess that comes with choosing to heal and how once you start down the path, there is no turning back.

The Sexy Boss Babe brand identity is all about women empowerment, every box has encouraging messages of positivity. A “Sexy Boss Babe is a breed of woman that is confident from the inside out. She can be curvy, thin, plus size, athletic, tall, short, any size, shape, color or age. Her beauty comes from knowing her self worth and what she deserves. She goes after what she wants in life. She’s fierce, bold and empowered.”

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TRIGGER WARNING: This episode includes sensitive subject matter, including details of sexual abuse. If you have experienced any trauma such as what is described in this episode, I encourage you to seek professional help in coming to terms with it and healing. 

National Sexual Assault Hotline: 800-656-4673

National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 800-273-TALK (8255); 888-628-9454 (Spanish); 800-799-4889 (TTY)

This week I was joined by my friend and fellow coach, Holly Lynch, who is also a two-time cancer survivor, and we talked about healing, childhood trauma, and how it manifests in the body.

After spending a number of years in trauma therapy and battling two bouts of “incurable” cancer, Holly has a powerful story to tell around coming to terms with your childhood trauma, seeking support and continuing to do the work to overcome your trauma responses.

While she shares harrowing details of childhood of trauma, she also shares the power of looking within and having support to explore the deepest parts of yourself so you can learn how to deal with stress in your life in a way that is more productive and allows you to not only survive, but thrive.

Holly Lynch is a 20+ year communications veteran and life-long social impact advocate and strategist who has helped individuals and companies tackle the toughest challenges in their worlds. 

Having survived countless life setbacks and two rounds with terminal cancer, while seeing the country-wide collapse of the systems and safety nets for the most vulnerable in and outside our communities, she is now shifting her life and career trajectories to focus on coaching those facing down fundamental shifts and transitions as they try to navigate and rebuild their lives and businesses during these unprecedented times.

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Thank you so much for joining us for another episode of the Meant 4 More podcast. We appreciate each and every one of you! Now go out there and live each day ON PURPOSE.

This week Kristin and I talk about the turning point in the healing journey.

Once you find your voice and build more and more courage to speak your truth, you come to a point where you can no longer be the person you once were.

You are empowered. And this is where things start to really open up. You start to look forward to speaking up and acting courageously because you can feel your levels of empowerment rise with each opportunity.

You are feeling more yourself than you ever have and you feel inspired to help others start down the path of healing.

This is not to say it is easy to stay the path, it’s very easy for one setback to send us off track, but if we keep coming back to the idea that healing allows us to be more and more ourselves, we no longer like or choose the alternative.

Learning and growing requires that we be willing to keep looking at ourselves and choosing in every moment how we want to show up.

How do you want to show up??

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6. If you’re interested in coaching with Kristin go to Instagram and DM her at @kristinjleazer or email her at kristinjleazer@gmail.com

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