Clouded Compass: From Barriers to Breakthroughs

Lindsay Drouillard is a Nurse Practitioner. She is the Director and Founder of Therapy Ranch, which connects Horses and Humans in Healing. She is a graduate of Michigan State College of Nursing and Wayne State with a Master's of Science in Nursing. She is a proud mother of 3, wife, and has been EAGALA Certified as an Equine Specialist since 2017. Therapy Ranch provides Equine-Assisted Psychotherapy (EAP) as a mental health intervention and teaching method to decrease symptoms of several mental health issues. The benefits of EAP are too numerous to mention, so you can start learning more here! https://www.therapyranch.org/ To volunteer for Therapy Ranch and/or to learn more about supporting this organization and utilizing their services, all upcoming information is available here linktr.ee/therapyranch. To learn more about Horses for Mental Health and their campaign for mental health awareness Seen Through Horses. (May 1-31), click here https://horsesformentalhealth.org/Seen Through Horseshttps://horsesformentalhealth.org/campaign/

Our guest this week is a Local Powerhouse and Treasure! She is fighting with 'boots on the ground' against Stigma as it relates to Mental Health and Substance Use locally, with Youth, Community Groups and in our Surrounding Churches. Her latest project is a new Movie entitled A Sick Church Can't Heal a Dying World (out soon so stay tuned!) in which she explores the Churches role, treatment and shifting perspective on its participants that are struggling with mental health and/or substance use. She is also Host of the Podcast/Talkshow The Real Black Coffee-No Sugar, No Cream, Straight Talk with Valerie https://www.therealblackcoffee.com/ You are going to want to listen up to hear how Community Action and Change is made! She is a Veteran Change Agent in Belleville, Inkster and the Greater Detroit Area! Please welcome Valerie Kelley-Bonner, who is the founder of Strategies to Overcome Obstacles and Avoid Recidivism (SOOAR) https://www.sooar-nonprofit.org/, a 501C3 nonprofit organization licensed by the Michigan Department of Community Health Substance Abuse Prevention Section and prevention services provider for the Detroit Wayne Mental health Authority.  She is also the  CEO and Lead Consultant of Strategic Transitions Consulting. For over 20 years she has been helping people reach their full potential through business development, mentoring, empowerment coaching, career development, behavior modification, and various life skills coaching programs. Her goal is to provide a level of service that will encourage, enlighten, and empower individuals to adopt the leadership behaviors required to divert life's black hole and make informed choices for their lives. Valerie holds a Bachelor of Business Administration-Marketing and Master of Business Administration with an emphasis in Non-Profit Administration from Cleary University. She has worked in the fields of business, science, education, engineering, and information technology.  She is a Certified Prevention Consultant (CPC-R) under the auspice of the Michigan Certification Board of Addiction Professionals, a Certified Trainer of several evidence-based prevention programs, and has several other certifications and different areas of expertise.  She enjoyed volunteering her time for Kiwanis Club and on the Boards of the Metro Detroit Charter Center, Romulus Mayors Drug Task Force, and the Executive Board of the Belleville Downtown Development Authority. Let us know what you think about this episode, the topics and/or our guests! Find more information about the host here: https://linktr.ee/cloudedcompass

If we are not careful, we will have ourselves believing that this messy world is the only reality.  It will have us believing there is no way out from the distress and pain that we experience on a daily basis... Want to work with me? Check out my Linktree for my resources! https://linktr.ee/cloudedcompass

It's Women's History Month... let's talk about women and their role in our lives. Who are your sheros? Why? And who are mine and why? Why is this important? Listen up for the power of this resource in our lives!

Let's unpack this current event. Ethics and Expertise of both client and Therapist matter and the media isn't talking about THAT. Wanna know how to spot a Therapist that can handle your stuff (ps, that's our Job, so they better), listen up! Wanna work with me? I've got Tools that fit. https://linktr.ee/cloudedcompass

Rachel Kapp-Brown is a Registered Dietician and a long-term colleague. She is currently a Nutrition Coach and, since it's National Nutrition Month, we sat down to have a chat about what it truly takes to change our relationship with food. Behavior Change is only part of the equation so you are going to want to listen up as we 'talk shop' about how to get YOU to your Goals with food or any other substance! You can find Rachel at Moving Fully Nourished https://movefullynourished.com/about-me/ and her IG is rachelbrown_movefullynourished. Would you like to work with me? Want my free workbook on Tools for Transformation? Head over to my Linktree and follow me on Social Media for updates! During the month of December, my Signature Course is 50% off!!!! For $199 you can kick of a year of Me and 2023! https://linktr.ee/cloudedcompass

It's Black History Month and I'm sharing 4 Authors who wrote 4 books who have impacted my personal and professional life. This week we are exploring Mariam Kaba's book We Do This Til It Free's Us. It offers an excellent overview of Abolition, why it's important, why defunding the police is practical and necessary and why and how we can use transformative justice in our own lives to create the world we want to live in. It's a great book with several facts and figures. New York Times Bestseller “Organizing is both science and art. It is thinking through a vision, a strategy, and then figuring out who your targets are, always being concerned about power, always being concerned about how you're going to actually build power in order to be able to push your issues, in order to be able to get the target to actually move in the way that you want to.” What if social transformation and liberation isn't about waiting for someone else to come along and save us? What if ordinary people have the power to collectively free ourselves? In this timely collection of essays and interviews, Mariame Kaba reflects on the deep work of abolition and transformative political struggle. With a foreword by Naomi Murakawa and chapters on seeking justice beyond the punishment system, transforming how we deal with harm and accountability, and finding hope in collective struggle for abolition, Kaba's work is deeply rooted in the relentless belief that we can fundamentally change the world. As Kaba writes, “Nothing that we do that is worthwhile is done alone.” You can find out more about Ms. Kaba here https://bcrw.barnard.edu/fellows/mariame-kaba/ and her book here https://amzn.to/3l65UTB Let me know what you think on social media and take a peak at my other offerings here https://linktr.ee/cloudedcompass

This is a MUST listen for anyone struggling with custody, family courts and/or sticky legal situations! Maryann Petri is my guest today. She was first on my podcast last year (4/8/22) and she is back to share more of her own story and that of Countless guests she's had on her own podcast Slam The Gavel. We are pulling the curtains back on what REALLY happens in the court room and why it's CRITICAL that you understand your Rights and Resources available to you. You are going to want to share this episode with somone you know. It's chocked FULL of information needed for those who find themselves in these anything but Just situations! You can find more about Maryann here: Author of Dismantling Family Court Corruption and Cry Out For Justice, Poems of Truth and the Creator, Host and Organizer of Slam the Gavel Podcast: Slam the Gavel is a podcast to discuss Family Court Issues, Support Court, Support-contempt conferences and hearings and Child Services issues. Advice on how parents can cope with these issues along with Parental Alienation. Based off the book, Dismantling Family Court Corruption, Why Taking The Kids Was Not Enough. This book can be found on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kindle, Apple and Smashwords.dismantlingfamilycourtcorruption.com Keep in touch with my offerings on Social Media and Linktree. Available here: https://linktr.ee/cloudedcompass

It's Black History Month and we are covering 4 Authors and Trailblazers who have impacted my life and my work. This episode we cover Patrice Cullor's Book The Abolitionist's Handbook. Think you know what Abolition is? Think again. I am an active Abolitionist and it has changed my relationships and is part of being a Harm Reductionists. She offers practical tips that are relevant to us all to liberate our minds and bodies from the limiting conditions we've been living in. Cullors asks us to lead with love, fierce compassion, and precision. In AN ABOLITIONIST'S HANDBOOK readers will learn how to: - have courageous conversations - move away from reaction and towards response - take care of oneself while fighting for others - turn inter-community conflict into a transformative action - expand one's imagination, think creatively, and find the courage to experiment - make justice joyful - practice active forgiveness - make space for difficult feelings and honor mental health - practice non-harm and cultivate compassion - organize local and national governments to work towards abolition - move away from cancel culture You can find more about her here https://patrissecullors.com/ and her book is available here https://amzn.to/3wR35s1 Let me know what you think on social media and learn what other offerings I have available here https://linktr.ee/cloudedcompass

We live in a violent society. Want solutions? Listen up.

It's Black History Month so I'm sharing Author's who have impacted my life significantly and sharing them with YOU. bell hooks has influenced my life for the last 20 years.  This book, however, is an underutlized resource for how to heal the lack of compassion and hope we have in our world.  A New York Times bestseller and enduring classic, All About Love is the acclaimed first volume in feminist icon bell hooks' "Love Song to the Nation" trilogy.  All About Love reveals what causes a polarized society, and how to heal the divisions that cause suffering. Here is the truth about love, and inspiration to help us instill caring, compassion, and strength in our homes, schools, and workplaces. “The word ‘love' is most often defined as a noun, yet we would all love better if we used it as a verb,” writes bell hooks as she comes out fighting and on fire in All About Love. Here, at her most provocative and intensely personal, renowned scholar, cultural critic and feminist bell hooks offers a proactive new ethic for a society bereft with lovelessness--not the lack of romance, but the lack of care, compassion, and unity. People are divided, she declares, by society's failure to provide a model for learning to love. As bell hooks uses her incisive mind to explore the question “What is love?” her answers strike at both the mind and heart. Razing the cultural paradigm that the ideal love is infused with sex and desire, she provides a new path to love that is sacred, redemptive, and healing for individuals and for a nation. The Utne Reader declared bell hooks one of the “100 Visionaries Who Can Change Your Life.” All About Love is a powerful, timely affirmation of just how profoundly her revelations can change hearts and minds for the better. You can learn more about this National Resource here https://www.berea.edu/bhc/about-bell/  and her book is available here https://amzn.to/40q6LP1 Let me know what you think on my Social Media and take a look at my other offerings, available here https://linktr.ee/cloudedcompass

Welcome guest Mary Beth O'Connor! Author of Junkie to Judge: One Women's Triumph Over Trauma and Addiction, available here https://amzn.to/3DTWtND For Mary Beth, childhood abuse and other traumas led to substance use disorder (addiction). Beginning with alcohol at age 12, she spent several years abusing various drugs. She found methamphetamine at 16 and started shooting up at 17. Mary Beth struggled with meth until she was 32 years old. By incorporating ideas from multiple sources to build a secular (not 12-step or faith based) recovery plan that works for her, Mary Beth has been sober since 1994. She used similar techniques to address the trauma and related anxiety as well. Mary Beth is a board member for LifeRing Secular Recovery and She Recovers Foundation. She speaks on behalf of these organizations, about multiple paths to recovery, and about all topics related to substance use disorder and recovery. She also speaks about sexual abuse and rape, child abuse, domestic violence, ptsd, anxiety, and recovering from these as well. Mary Beth's book-length memoir, From Junkie to Judge: One Woman's Triumph Over Trauma and Addiction, is available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bamm, Indie Bound, and other sites, and at your local bookstore. She also has placed essays in publications such as The Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and Recovery Today. Professionally, 6 years into recovery, Mary Beth attended Berkeley Law. She worked at a large firm in Silicon Valley, then litigated class actions for the federal government. In 2014, Mary Beth was appointed a federal Administrative Law Judge, a position from which she retired in 2020. https://junkietojudge.com/ If you like the Podcast, you may also like my other offerings! Check out my Coaching Courses, my Webinars, my Tiktoks, my Book, 1:1 sessions, etc. available here https://linktr.ee/cloudedcompass

It's Black History Month, so we are celebrating 4 Black Authors who are changing history by sharing their solutions. Resmaa Menakem is a fellow social worker who wrote My Grandmother's Hands and I discuss how this book has impacted me, my work and offered incredibly useful tools for HEALING within families and our greater culture. You can find Resmaa's work here https://www.resmaa.com/about and My Grandmother's Hands here https://amzn.to/3DCnaGo Stay tuned for our next episode where we explore bell hooks All About Love. Wanna work with me? Leave me feedback? You can find my social media, tools and podcast here https://linktr.ee/cloudedcompass

I'm so excited to bring you my personal Mentor and Coach DeeDee Stout. When I was in the trenches of a toxic and lethal 'voluntary' program of help that harmed, I had lost hope. Little did I know that MOST WOMEN will experience this in carceral programs (in fact, most humans). DeeDee and I speak about her experiences in the Substance Use community from working IN systems of harm to escaping them and why she wrote her book (I highly recommend) Coming to Harm Reduction Kicking and Screaming. Her work focuses on Harm Reduction and Human-Centered Care and she has taught many of us... Dee Dee Stout was named one of the top 10 Harm Reductionists you should know by Psychology Today and is a Harm Reduction Coach, Consultant and Teacher/Trainer with over 30 years of experience in the substance use treatment industry. She has been noted in many media outlets, movies, videos and podcasts and is the Author of Coming to Harm Reduction Kicking and Screaming. Learn more about DeeDee and her services here! https://www.deedeestoutconsulting.com/ If you like the Podcast, you may also like my other offerings here https://linktr.ee/cloudedcompass. Check out my Group Coaching Course (50% off in Decemember!), my webinars, my tiktoks, my book, 1:1 sessions, etc. available here https://linktr.ee/cloudedcompass

I recently had Bariatric Revision Surgery. I talk about Pacing, self-compassion and gut hormones as it relates to so many of our chronic illnesses. This matters because we live in a world that drills it into our brains to produce, produce, produce! Let's think bigger, wiser and more sustainable! These are the guts of genuine healing. Listen up and let me know what you think!

Let's talk New Year, New Goals, New Tools! Today's episode I will discuss caring for self as a Trauma Survivor. I will share my own journey from productivity to effectiveness and what I'm doing about that in 2023 through a trauma focused and harm reduction lens. Listen up for those of you with shame, guilt and 'not good enough' feelings...

Gabor Mate's latest book the Myth of Normal is VITAL to our well-being. I find it SO relevant to our current individual and social ailments that I'm sharing the first 12 chapters and my reflections on them based on my personal and professional experience as a Behavioral Health Provider and a Trauma Survivor. Chapter 12: Horticulture on the Moon: Parenting, Undermined Barriers to parenting and how our ‘norms' often set parents up to fail In the following chapters we will be exploring: How our ‘norms' are working against our well-being How mind-body are have been separated and why that matters, The interpersonal nature of our health, The assault on our minds and bodies of our current ‘norms', The cost of our unnatural inauthenticity, The human needs we aren't meeting (including the basic human needs of children) How we transfer trauma generationally and biologically and; The medicalized trauma of how we birth our next generation. I promise it's not all doom and gloom though, we will be covering solutions as well, so stay tuned, listen up and let me know what you think! Thanks for listening! If you like the Podcast, you may also like my other offerings here https://linktr.ee/cloudedcompass. Check out my Group Coaching Course (50% off in Decemember!), my webinars, my tiktoks, my book, 1:1 sessions, etc. There are lots of ways to work with me. Let's Uncover Your Inner Assets!

Gabor Mate's latest book the Myth of Normal is VITAL to our well-being. I find it SO relevant to our current individual and social ailments that I'm sharing the first 12 chapters and my reflections on them based on my personal and professional experience as a Behavioral Health Provider and a Trauma Survivor. Chapter 11: What Choices Do I Have? Childbirth in a Medicalized Culture The unnecessary Traumas associated with childbirth and why it matters how are doctors are trained Listen as we explores the ‘lay of the land' in terms of Trauma and its effects. Mate's work is relatable, digestible and groundbreaking. In the following chapters we will be exploring: How our ‘norms' are working against our well-being How mind-body are have been separated and why that matters, The interpersonal nature of our health, The assault on our minds and bodies of our current ‘norms', The cost of our unnatural inauthenticity, The human needs we aren't meeting (including the basic human needs of children) How we transfer trauma generationally and biologically and; The medicalized trauma of how we birth our next generation. I promise it's not all doom and gloom though, we will be covering solutions as well, so stay tuned, listen up and let me know what you think! Next up, Chapter 12: Horticulture on the Moon: Parenting, Undermined Barriers to parenting and how our ‘norms' often set parents up to fail If you like the Podcast, you may also like my other offerings here https://linktr.ee/cloudedcompass. Check out my Group Coaching Course (50% off in December!), my webinars, my tiktoks, my book, 1:1 sessions, etc. There are lots of ways to work with me. Let's Uncover Your Inner Assets!

Gabor Mate's latest book the Myth of Normal is VITAL to our well-being. I find it SO relevant to our current individual and social ailments that I'm sharing the first 12 chapters and my reflections on them based on my personal and professional experience as a Behavioral Health Provider and a Trauma Survivor. Chapter 10: Trouble at the Threshold: Before We Come Into the World Why a mother's health and stress matter pre-birth In the following chapters we will be exploring: How our ‘norms' are working against our well-being How mind-body are have been separated and why that matters, The interpersonal nature of our health, The assault on our minds and bodies of our current ‘norms', The cost of our unnatural inauthenticity, The human needs we aren't meeting (including the basic human needs of children) How we transfer trauma generationally and biologically and; The medicalized trauma of how we birth our next generation. I promise it's not all doom and gloom though, we will be covering solutions as well, so stay tuned, listen up and let me know what you think! Next up, Chapter 11: What Choices Do I Have? Childbirth in a Medicalized Culture The unnecessary Traumas associated with childbirth and why it matters how are doctors are trained If you like the Podcast, you may also like my other offerings here https://linktr.ee/cloudedcompass. Check out my Group Coaching Course (50% off in Decemember!), my webinars, my tiktoks, my book, 1:1 sessions, etc. There are lots of ways to work with me. Let's Uncover Your Inner Assets!

Gabor Mate's latest book the Myth of Normal is VITAL to our well-being. I find it SO relevant to our current individual and social ailments that I'm sharing the first 12 chapters and my reflections on them based on my personal and professional experience as a Behavioral Health Provider and a Trauma Survivor. Part 2: The Distortion of Human Development Chapter 8: Who Are We Really? Human Nature, Human Needs What are basic human needs and exploration of how our ‘norms' work against them In the following chapters we will be exploring: How our ‘norms' are working against our well-being How mind-body are have been separated and why that matters, The interpersonal nature of our health, The assault on our minds and bodies of our current ‘norms', The cost of our unnatural inauthenticity, The human needs we aren't meeting (including the basic human needs of children) How we transfer trauma generationally and biologically and; The medicalized trauma of how we birth our next generation. I promise it's not all doom and gloom though, we will be covering solutions as well, so stay tuned, listen up and let me know what you think! Next up, Chapter 9: A Sturdy or Fragile Foundation: Children's Irreducible Needs Vital Child Development Needs and the generational cost of not meeting them If you like the Podcast, you may also like my other offerings here https://linktr.ee/cloudedcompass. Check out my Group Coaching Course (50% off in Decemember!), my webinars, my tiktoks, my book, 1:1 sessions, etc. There are lots of ways to work with me. Let's Uncover Your Inner Assets!

Gabor Mate's latest book the Myth of Normal is VITAL to our well-being. I find it SO relevant to our current individual and social ailments that I'm sharing the first 12 chapters and my reflections on them based on my personal and professional experience as a Behavioral Health Provider and a Trauma Survivor. https://drgabormate.com/book/the-myth-of-normal/ Chapter 9: A Sturdy or Fragile Foundation: Children's Irreducible Needs Vital Child Development Needs and the generational cost of not meeting them In the following chapters we will be exploring: How our ‘norms' are working against our well-being How mind-body are have been separated and why that matters, The interpersonal nature of our health, The assault on our minds and bodies of our current ‘norms', The cost of our unnatural inauthenticity, The human needs we aren't meeting (including the basic human needs of children) How we transfer trauma generationally and biologically and; The medicalized trauma of how we birth our next generation. I promise it's not all doom and gloom though, we will be covering solutions as well, so stay tuned, listen up and let me know what you think! Next up, Chapter 10: Trouble at the Threshold: Before We Come Into the World Why a mother's health and stress matter pre-birth If you like the Podcast, you may also like my other offerings here https://linktr.ee/cloudedcompass. Check out my Group Coaching Course (50% off in Decemember!), my webinars, my tiktoks, my book, 1:1 sessions, etc. There are lots of ways to work with me. Let's Uncover Your Inner Assets!

Gabor Mate's latest book the Myth of Normal is VITAL to our well-being. I find it SO relevant to our current individual and social ailments that I'm sharing the first 12 chapters and my reflections on them Part 2: The Distortion of Human Development Chapter 7: A Traumatic Tension: Attachment vs Authenticity When human needs compete we all lose and how ‘Type C' personality is a byproduct and often causal factor in our future health In the following chapters we will be exploring: How our ‘norms' are working against our well-being How mind-body are have been separated and why that matters, The interpersonal nature of our health, The assault on our minds and bodies of our current ‘norms', The cost of our unnatural inauthenticity, The human needs we aren't meeting (including the basic human needs of children) How we transfer trauma generationally and biologically and; The medicalized trauma of how we birth our next generation. I promise it's not all doom and gloom though, we will be covering solutions as well, so stay tuned, listen up and let me know what you think! Next up, Chapter 8: Who Are We Really? Human Nature, Human Needs What are basic human needs and exploration of how our ‘norms' work against them If you like the Podcast, you may also like my other offerings here https://linktr.ee/cloudedcompass. Check out my Group Coaching Course (50% off in Decemember!), my webinars, my tiktoks, my book, 1:1 sessions, etc. There are lots of ways to work with me. Let's Uncover Your Inner Assets!

Gabor Mate's latest book the Myth of Normal (available here https://drgabormate.com/book/the-myth-of-normal/) is VITAL to our well-being. I find it SO relevant to our current individual and social ailments that I'm sharing the first 12 chapters and my reflections on them based on my personal and professional experience as a Behavioral Health Provider and a Trauma Survivor. Part 1: Our Interconnected Nature Chapter 6: It Ain't a Thing: Disease as Process How we relate to these processes matters! Why and how an adversarial relationship with our dis-ease becomes a self fulfilling prophecy Listen as we explores the ‘lay of the land' in terms of Trauma and its effects. Mate's work is relatable, digestible and groundbreaking. In the following chapters we will be exploring: How our ‘norms' are working against our well-being How mind-body are have been separated and why that matters, The interpersonal nature of our health, The assault on our minds and bodies of our current ‘norms', The cost of our unnatural inauthenticity, The human needs we aren't meeting (including the basic human needs of children) How we transfer trauma generationally and biologically and; The medicalized trauma of how we birth our next generation. I promise it's not all doom and gloom though, we will be covering solutions as well, so stay tuned, listen up and let me know what you think! Next up, Chapter 7: A Traumatic Tension: Attachment vs Authenticity When human needs compete we all lose and how ‘Type C' personality is a byproduct and often causal factor in our future health If you like the Podcast, you may also like my other offerings here https://linktr.ee/cloudedcompass. Check out my Group Coaching Course (50% off in Decemember!), my webinars, my tiktoks, my book, 1:1 sessions, etc. There are lots of ways to work with me. Let's Uncover Your Inner Assets!

Gabor Mate's latest book the Myth of Normal is VITAL to our well-being. I find it SO relevant to our current individual and social ailments that I'm sharing the first 12 chapters and my reflections on them based on my personal and professional experience as a Behavioral Health Provider and a Trauma Survivor. https://drgabormate.com/book/the-myth-of-normal/ Part 1: Our Interconnected Nature Chapter 5: Mutiny on the Body: The Mystery of the Rebellious Immune System How our immune system responds to external threats Listen as we explores the ‘lay of the land' in terms of Trauma and its effects. Mate's work is relatable, digestible and groundbreaking. In the following chapters we will be exploring: How our ‘norms' are working against our well-being How mind-body are have been separated and why that matters, The interpersonal nature of our health, The assault on our minds and bodies of our current ‘norms', The cost of our unnatural inauthenticity, The human needs we aren't meeting (including the basic human needs of children) How we transfer trauma generationally and biologically and; The medicalized trauma of how we birth our next generation. I promise it's not all doom and gloom though, we will be covering solutions as well, so stay tuned, listen up and let me know what you think! Next up, Chapter 6: It Ain't a Thing: Disease as Process How we relate to these processes matters! Why and how an adversarial relationship with our dis-ease becomes a self fulfilling prohecy If you like the Podcast, you may also like my other offerings here https://linktr.ee/cloudedcompass. Check out my Group Coaching Course (50% off in Decemember!), my webinars, my tiktoks, my book, 1:1 sessions, etc. There are lots of ways to work with me. Let's Uncover Your Inner Assets!

Gabor Mate's latest book the Myth of Normal is VITAL to our well-being. I find it SO relevant to our current individual and social ailments that I'm sharing the first 12 chapters and my reflections on them based on my personal and professional experience as a Behavioral Health Provider and a Trauma Survivor. https://drgabormate.com/book/the-myth-of-normal/ Part 1: Our Interconnected Nature Chapter 4: Everything I'm Surrounded By: Dispatches from the New Science How gene expression is impacted by our surroundings and encodes our nervous system Listen as we explores the ‘lay of the land' in terms of Trauma and its effects. Mate's work is relatable, digestible and groundbreaking. In the following chapters we will be exploring: How our ‘norms' are working against our well-being How mind-body are have been separated and why that matters, The interpersonal nature of our health, The assault on our minds and bodies of our current ‘norms', The cost of our unnatural inauthenticity, The human needs we aren't meeting (including the basic human needs of children) How we transfer trauma generationally and biologically and; The medicalized trauma of how we birth our next generation. I promise it's not all doom and gloom though, we will be covering solutions as well, so stay tuned, listen up and let me know what you think! Next up, Chapter 5: Mutiny on the Body: The Mystery of the Rebellious Immune System How our immune system responds to external threats If you like the Podcast, you may also like my other offerings here https://linktr.ee/cloudedcompass. Check out my Group Coaching Course (50% off in Decemember!), my webinars, my tiktoks, my book, 1:1 sessions, etc. There are lots of ways to work with me. Let's Uncover Your Inner Assets!

Gabor Mate's latest book the Myth of Normal is VITAL to our well-being. I find it SO relevant to our current individual and social ailments that I'm sharing the first 12 chapters and my reflections on them based on my personal and professional experience as a Behavioral Health Provider and a Trauma Survivor. https://drgabormate.com/book/the-myth-of-normal/ Part 1: Our Interconnected Nature Chapter 3: You Rattle My Brain: Our Highly Interpersonal Biology Discussing the relational nature of our health In the following chapters we will be exploring: How our ‘norms' are working against our well-being How mind-body are have been separated and why that matters, The interpersonal nature of our health, The assault on our minds and bodies of our current ‘norms', The cost of our unnatural inauthenticity, The human needs we aren't meeting (including the basic human needs of children) How we transfer trauma generationally and biologically and; The medicalized trauma of how we birth our next generation. I promise it's not all doom and gloom though, we will be covering solutions as well, so stay tuned, listen up and let me know what you think! Next up, Chapter 4: Everything I'm Surrounded By: Dispatches from the New Science How gene expression is impacted by our surroundings and encodes our nervous system If you like the Podcast, you may also like my other offerings here https://linktr.ee/cloudedcompass. Check out my Group Coaching Course (50% off in Decemember!), my webinars, my tiktoks, my book, 1:1 sessions, etc. There are lots of ways to work with me. Let's Uncover Your Inner Assets!

Gabor Mate's latest book the Myth of Normal is VITAL to our well-being. I find it SO relevant to our current individual and social ailments that I'm sharing the first 12 chapters and my reflections on them based on my personal and professional experience as a Behavioral Health Provider and a Trauma Survivor. https://drgabormate.com/book/the-myth-of-normal/ Part 1: Our Interconnected Nature Chapter 2 Living in an Immaterial World: Emotions, Health and the Body-Mind Unity Suppression, Repression and our Bodies Response to such Terrorism per the Science Listen as we explores the ‘lay of the land' in terms of Trauma and its effects. Mate's work is relatable, digestible and groundbreaking. In the following chapters we will be exploring: How our ‘norms' are working against our well-being How mind-body are have been separated and why that matters, The interpersonal nature of our health, The assault on our minds and bodies of our current ‘norms', The cost of our unnatural inauthenticity, The human needs we aren't meeting (including the basic human needs of children) How we transfer trauma generationally and biologically and; The medicalized trauma of how we birth our next generation. I promise it's not all doom and gloom though, we will be covering solutions as well, so stay tuned, listen up and let me know what you think! Next up we explore Chapter 3: You Rattle My Brain: Our Highly Interpersonal Biology If you like the Podcast, you may also like my other offerings here https://linktr.ee/cloudedcompass. Check out my Group Coaching Course (50% off in Decemember!), my webinars, my tiktoks, my book, 1:1 sessions, etc. There are lots of ways to work with me. Let's Uncover Your Inner Assets!

Gabor Mate's latest book the Myth of Normal is VITAL to our well-being. I find it SO relevant to our current individual and social ailments that I'm sharing the first 12 chapters and my reflections on them based on my personal and professional experience as a Behavioral Health Provider and a Trauma Survivor. https://drgabormate.com/book/the-myth-of-normal/ Part 1: Our Interconnected Nature Chapter 1 Listen as we explores the ‘lay of the land' in terms of Trauma and its effects. Mate's work is relatable, digestible and groundbreaking. In the following chapters we will be exploring: How our ‘norms' are working against our well-being How mind-body are have been separated and why that matters, The interpersonal nature of our health, The assault on our minds and bodies of our current ‘norms', The cost of our unnatural inauthenticity, The human needs we aren't meeting (including the basic human needs of children) How we transfer trauma generationally and biologically and; The medicalized trauma of how we birth our next generation. I promise it's not all doom and gloom though, we will be covering solutions as well, so stay tuned, listen up and let me know what you think! Chapter 2 Living in an Immaterial World: Emotions, Health and the Body-Mind Unity

I'm not tech savvy, but I wanted to share the interview with Maryann Petri and share her offerings with the world. In this episode we tackle how to handle being alone for the holidays, through the lens of isolation and loss. Listen up and tell me what you think! Then head over to Slam the Gavel and listen to all of Maryann's guest as they tackle the terrain of legal injustice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCMyLd1bOXY

Listen up as my Colleague Katie Allen and I discuss writing, it's benefits, when NOT to write and what and how writing can transform your wellbeing. So exciting to be talking about a FREE tool for Transformation! Katie also offers resources, retreats and writing support at https://www.katieallen.net/ Join her for a weekend retreat or an hour of creative non-fiction writing weekly! Finally, we didn't discuss her other endeavor, but she partners with her Senegalese friend to offer unique and hand crafted items here! It's also where you can find her own self-published book about her experience there! https://www.terangamarket.com/ Would you like to work with me? Want my free workbook on Tools for Transformation? Head over to my Linktree and follow me on Social Media for updates! During the month of December, my Signature Course is 50% off!!!! For $199 you can kick of a year of Me and 2023! https://linktr.ee/cloudedcompass

Welcome back! This book should be offered in high schools across our world! Listed up as I share Gabor Mate's new book: The Myth of Normal. So Important, I'm sharing it all with you! Mixed with my own professional knowledge base! Let me know what you think!

Kyle Johnston and I recently met when I learned of his movement called Drop the Label. He and I speak about Recovery Alternatives and the Dangers of a one size fits all approach. Listen up and follow Clouded Compass on IG, FB and TikTok (Cloudedcompass2021). Also listen up as we recently recorded a Podcast on his show Get Happy with cohosts Heather Bellovich and Diamond Morales https://open.spotify.com/show/4oBQzQe3pd79rSX0lVPGrp?si=71c29ab87194452f Let us know what you think and check out my other offerings here: https://linktr.ee/cloudedcompass Sign up for my email and I'll send you a free workbook: How to Calm Your Nervous System Then... stay tuned... I'm lining us up a collective Dinner Date for Decolonizing soon!!! I hope you'll join us!

Meet my friend Dara (pronouns They/Them)! A colleague who has been passionately working with gender-questioning, transgender, and nonbinary clients for decades. Their YouTube Channel is full of an incredible wealth of information Conversations with a Gender Therapist YouTube channel and their book is a must read for anyone wanting to learn more about Gender Identity and how EACH of us have a right to define that for ourselves! https://discoveryourgenderidentity.com/product/you-and-your-gender-identity/?attribute_pa_format=printed-edition It was an honor to have this much needed discussion on career transitions mid-career and how to listen to our own needs and pivot when needed! Follow Clouded Compass on IG and FB and TikTok, stay tuned for Back to Basics Course, coming soon!

My guest today is Dr Jo Lamm, a fellow healer based in Minnesota. Listen up as her and I discuss our mutual transitions from our previous work toward Coaching, Why, Why it Matters to You and HOW we serve the folks we work with and uphold our Social Justice Ethics while doing so. This conversation was so fun and she is doing great work!  Check her out at the following places! Then stay tuned because we are planning an Trauma/Body/Mind Virtual Workshop coming in Late Summer! Dr. Jo Lamm, PsyD (she/her) https://www.tulasoul.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/drjo77 https://www.alignable.com/plymouth-mn/dr-jo-lamm https://my.yogaalliance.org/people/jo-l-e-ryt-200-ryt-500 https://www.spiritualclassifieds.org/minnesota/minneapolis/spiritual-coaching/dr-jo-l Let us know what you think at Clouded Compass on IG and FB, subscribe to the Podcast and SHARE these RESOURCES with someone you know who may need them!!!

Lisa May Bennett and I have SO much in common.  I wonder if some of you have similar experiences?  Listen up as we talk about our relationship with Alcohol, what it did for us, what it did not, how it's related to early relationships and how we overcame unhealthy drinking! Oh, and Lisa wrote and published a book about her journey too!  Check out My Unfurling: Emerging from the Grip of Anxiety, Self Doubt and Drinking on Amazon! https://www.amazon.com/My-Unfurling-Emerging-Self-Doubt-Drinking/dp/B09WZJXBCZ/ref=sr_1_1?crid=238IF3QTWPUVJ&keywords=lisa+bennett+unfurling&qid=1651863987&sprefix=lisa+bennett+unfurling%2Caps%2C120&sr=8-1 Follow Clouded Compass on IG and FB, stay tuned for Back to Basics Course, coming soon!

You are going to want to listen to me and this Lady! She is blazing trails all OVER the State. From Wayne State, to sharing plant based medicines, Harm Reduction, Sex Therapy, Tarot and Art - she's one incredible resource!er I had so much fun talking to her about our similar life paths and how we went from our past and are paving the way towards our future. Let me know what you think of our conversation and her and I hosting a Michigan-Based Holistic Healing Retreat at the end of June, so stay Tuned! Here's here fancy Wayne State Profile https://socialwork.wayne.edu/profile/hb9997 And here is her Private Practice/Business site. https://www.threefates.org/?fbclid=IwAR2wdc15cz2ndb0f6wHaxJwQu-Z6ADseMI1odgb8-nnwzk5X_BOrcb-20qk Oh, and she's incredibly intuitive and is great with Tarot too!!! Stay tuned for more great guests and subscribe to the Podcast. Let us know what you think on Clouded Compass IG and FB.

In this episodes I talk about my own Transformation after 5 years of Retraumatization and Psychiatric Gaslighting. I'm also a mental health provider and I have *lots* to say about this now that I'm finally ready to talk about it. Even better: this transformation led me to Clouded Compass. That matters to you because: I have worked with thousands of humans in my lifetime and I'm bringing YOU the KEY factors that have worked in their transformaiton as well. Listen up and let me if you enjoy it! Follow me on FB and IG (leave a comment, share, etc). If this has value, I also wrote a book (LifeHacks) and have a course launching soon! Thank you for the time you took to listen to this, my strongest passion is helping others in EFFECTIVE ways!

Share widely! Back to Basics is coming soon and I want to share it with the WORLD. I've seen incredible transformations in my clients and myself in utilizing the tools I'll be offering in this Course. 6wks. 12 videos. Group Coaching = Transformation Find YOUR North, so that YOU can gain Clarity within the Chaos.... in a Choose Your OWN Adventure Format! Follow Clouded Compass on FB or IG and share widely to those you think may benefit!

Remember when you used to daydream? Imagine? Have hope? Want some? Listen up... Talking about internal imprisonment and how to unlearn what clouds our inherent light! Please comment on FB or IG, share with someone you know, etc. I'm on a mission to lift the whole boat and heal the world from the Inside Out... this chapter in a Group Context! If this resonates with you, please share with someone you know who may need it. Course coming soon! Back to Basics launch in May!

Will you hear something in this episode that will help you on your journey? I share my Neurodiversity, how it is the NORM and how I've learned to lean IN to the Assets it has given me! In fact, I've birthed 2 new entities into the World: my 2 businesses. Wanna know what they are teaching me that could help you too? Listen up and let me know what was helpful! Comment on FB and IG, share with someone you think this may help and consider my book (LifeHacks) or my Group Course: Back to Basics Find Your North and Move from Chaos to Clarity

In this episode I lay the groundwork for the Mission of Clouded Compass and why it matters to every human on Earth. We dig into how and why we have become disassociated from our internal wellness and how to heal the relationship with self and world from the inside out (my version, there are lots in the world actually lol). I grew tired of band-aid approaches and I can't wait to share with you what has helped my clients excel, grow and learn their OWN True North! Follow me on FB and IG and let me know what you think, consider my book LifeHacks: Tips and Tricks to Access Your Inner Resilience and Stay Tuned as our Course Back to Basics launches soon!

I lost my cell phone recently... and it led me to share this analogy with you on your Worth and how life runs us over! See if it makes sense to you, then leave a comment on FB and IG and/or share with someone who it might resonate with. LifeHacks is also available and the Back to Basics Course is launching in May! Stay tuned... never know what metaphor I'll use to describe our basic human functioning!

Today I share part 2 of piece of Adrienne Maree Brown's book We Will Not Cancel Us: and other dreams of transformative justice ... found here https://www.akpress.org/we-will-not-cancel-us.html We move from Call Out to Transformation, Healing and Solutions... listen up. Follow us on IG and FB. LifeHacks: Tips and Tricks for Accessing Inner Resilience is available on Amazon. Course launching soon!

Today I'm introducing you to Adrienne Maree Brown and her book, which can be found here: https://www.akpress.org/we-will-not-cancel-us.html I do so in effort to raise consciousness of our collective Soul Wounds and how they are expressing themselves in our current environment. "Cancel or call-out culture is a fraught topic these days. Originating as a way for marginalized and disempowered people to address harm and take down powerful abusers, often with the help of social media, it is seen by some as having gone too far. But what is “too far” when you're talking about imbalances of power and patterns of harm? And what happens when people in social movements direct our righteous anger inward at one another? In We Will Not Cancel Us, movement mediator adrienne maree brown reframes the discussion for us, in a way that points to possible paths beyond our impasse. Most critiques of cancel culture come from outside the milieus that produce it, sometimes even from its targets. Brown explores the question from a Black, queer, and feminist viewpoint that gently asks, how well does this practice serve us? Does it prefigure the sort of world we want to live in? And, if it doesn't, how do we seek accountability and redress for harm in ways that reflect our values?"

Listen up everyone, An Excellent Resource here with Maryann Petri. I met her in the underbelly of the Court System recently and she is a Powerhouse! Had trouble with the Courts? Had trouble in Family Courts? Had job trouble because of an Abusive relationship? Had injustice when raising sounds of Alarm? This ones for you or someone you know.... Consider it your intro to our Pay for Play System. Author of Dismantling Family Court Corruption and Cry Out For Justice, Poems of Truth and the Creator, Host and Organizer of Slam the Gavel Podcast: Slam the Gavel is a podcast to discuss Family Court Issues, Support Court, Support-contempt conferences and hearings and Child Services issues. Advice on how parents can cope with these issues along with Parental Alienation. Based off the book, Dismantling Family Court Corruption, Why Taking The Kids Was Not Enough. This book can be found on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kindle, Apple and Smashwords.dismantlingfamilycourtcorruption.com

Nancy Becher has been a business owner most of her life. She also has a Chronic Illness. So she started a company to work with other individuals facing the same. Now... she's off and running with her next venture: a Nonprofit designed to offer support to business entrepreneurs with chronic illness titled The Invisible Entrepreneur. Listen up as she is asking us to support this vital work that will lift entire families. For more info, follow her work: "Growing a successful business is hard enough but trying to do it while adjusting to a new challenge like a chronic illness can definitely derail the best of us! Nancy understands...she has been there, done that! With 30 years of success, she knows the necessary business hacks to increase your income and relieve the day to day stress of running a business all while living in an unco-operative body! Nancy can help you...go to http://businesssuccessunlimited.com/ to set up a Curious Call today!" They don't call her the Chief Flying Pig Wrangler for nothing! If you like this podcast, please subscribe to this Podcast. Then, follow Clouded Compass on FB and IG! Course coming soon: Back to Basics - a course for Trauma and Transformation.

Where did Cancel culture come from? You might be surprised. Most of all when I speak about the fact that it is WE who cancel ourSelves first. Listen up and... Subscribe to the Podcast. Share with 5 friends if you like these. Follow Clouded Compass on FB and IG. Check out my book LifeHacks: Tips and Tricks for Accessing Your Inner Resilience, found on Amazon Work with me at www.cloudedcompass.com for Coaching, Consulting, Training, and a Course coming soon (Back to Basics) on trauma transformation. ***Warning*** in this episode I misspeak Severely. Near the end, I refer to the historical behaviors as they relate to the Jews. I MEANT to say the 'that's what the Nazi's did', instead, I didn't realize until after I said 'that's what the Jews did'. The Jews did not and I'm not tech savvy enough to fix this audio, so I offer this apology and disclaimer as it was my error and I wanted to set the record accurate.

ACES are a critical point of reference to review what our life history provided us. Listen, learn and love yourself after you hear more about these hidden assets! Please subscribe to this Podcast. Learn more at www.cloudedcompass.com Follow me on FB and IG. LifeHacks: Tips and Tricks for Accessing Inner Resilience available here https://www.amazon.com/s?k=life+hacks+laurie+smith&crid=2JZODCWTRKZGP&sprefix=lifehacks+laurie%2Caps%2C123&ref=nb_sb_ss_sc_1_17

What parts of yourself are you showing the World? Listen up as I talk about the Costs/Benefits of your Strategies.... as told through my Purple Hair! Work with me at www.cloudedcompass.com Follow Clouded Compass on FB and IG Read more tips in my book LifeHacks. Available below. Tell your friends if this was helpful and why! Sharing is Caring and Growing is in the Knowing! https://www.amazon.com/Life-Hacks-Tricks-Accessing-Resilience/dp/B085DRTDHP/ref=sr_1_1?crid=29LBYR573TMH6&keywords=life+hacks+laurie+smith&qid=1645471195&sprefix=life+hacks+with+laurie%2Caps%2C154&sr=8-1

What color is your Life showing up as lately? What flavor is it? If these are foreign questions to you, listen up, I'm talking to you. Time to expand your resources and learn how to use your wet noodle! Work with me at www.cloudedcompass.com Follow Clouded Compass on FB and IG Read more tips in my book LifeHacks. Available below. Tell your friends if this was helpful and why! Sharing is Caring and Growing is in the Knowing! https://www.amazon.com/Life-Hacks-Tricks-Accessing-Resilience/dp/B085DRTDHP/ref=sr_1_1?crid=29LBYR573TMH6&keywords=life+hacks+laurie+smith&qid=1645471195&sprefix=life+hacks+with+laurie%2Caps%2C154&sr=8-1

For years I diagnosed 'the problem'. What they don't emphasize is the hidden VALUE of including a diagnosis of ASSETS from those same symptoms. Hand to God. This is a good one. Pay attention and share with your friends! Work with me at www.cloudedcompass.com Follow Clouded Compass on FB and IG Read more tips in my book LifeHacks. Available below. Tell your friends if this was helpful and why! Sharing is Caring and Growing is in the Knowing! https://www.amazon.com/Life-Hacks-Tricks-Accessing-Resilience/dp/B085DRTDHP/ref=sr_1_1?crid=29LBYR573TMH6&keywords=life+hacks+laurie+smith&qid=1645471195&sprefix=life+hacks+with+laurie%2Caps%2C154&sr=8-1