Episode 194: Do the Work to Heal – Interview Andrea Carver
Episode 194: Do the Work to Heal Interview Andrea Carver Welcome back to the Love Your Story podcast…if you are a regular listener to this podcast you know how the stories you tell yourself create your reality. That’s what the whole Love Your Story movement is about —helping you to realize and take control of…
Episode 151 Finding Your Way to Healing: Interview Bethany Wallace
As we share stories around the technological campfire sometimes it seems the main tale is about the character who causes the harm and their path to destruction or learning. But there is also the other side of the story. The story of the victims, those affected by the poor choices of others. Today’s guest had an alcoholic father, two alcoholic husbands, and survived multiple sexual assaults and exploitations before the age of 20. Stay tuned as we hear Bethany’s story of triumph and her path to healing – a 12-step recovery program giving her the strength and insight to overcome, forgive, learn and take action. Her path to healing and mine were different, but we are celebrating and discussing how our paths to healing are different for everyone. Your path will come if you are open to it.
Episode 146 Carpooling With Death: Finding Peace in Loss – Interview Margaret Meloni
We’ve all heard the saying that “death is a part of life,” but that doesn’t soften the blow of loss or drive away our fears of the unknown. Author Margaret Meloni lost her father, mother, and husband within2 years of each other and found that by using her Buddist techniques she could find peace amidst great loss. She shares how in her book and we get into some great discussion on the impermanence of life and how we can find peace and acceptance.
Episode 140 Healing Body and Mind: Interview Amanda Grow – Part 1
Did you know that the United States has the highest maternal mortality rate in the developed world? Because severe childbirth complications have become very rare, it is easy to forget that childbirth can be life-threatening. Amanda Grow, a wife, and mother of 4 children – 1 daughter and 3 sons, experienced an extremely rare complication of childbirth known as Amniotic Fluid Embolism which has a mortality rate of 80%.
Amanda’s story today isn’t just about a miracle and the healing of her body. It’s also about the toll such an event takes on us mentally as well as physically, and today we’re looking at the total process of finding meaning in brokenness and the process of rebuilding.
Episode 84 Healing Our Stories
Healing is a cyclical event. We don’t do it once. We do it over and over. As I ponder on this topic I think about all the people I have interviewed – people who have lost children to hiking accidents, car accidents, suicide. People who have lost spouses and parents to murder and suicide. A woman with an eating disorder and a man whose father tried to kill him as a child in order to prove himself a prophet in God’s eyes. This is just the tip of the iceberg. The stories are raw, powerful, and illustrate people who found ways to stand up, heal, and move on to make the world better, to make their own lives better, and to rise from the ashes of pain, loss, betrayal and self-loathing. Today’s conversation is about healing, because it’s a part of every story, and the alternative is to suffer.
