Tangled Tulip Tales

In this episode Meaghan Sopata, a nurse, mom, survivor, and all around phenomenal woman joins me to girl talk about life, love, and loss. She is an open book as she shares the bizarre, brutal, and humbling way grief showed up in her life after losing both of her parents, being single after 40 and how her scope for selecting a partner today has changed. We also talk about friendship and the joy of finding a career that called you straight to it. Talking with Meaghan was a joy! 

Patricia Young hosts the podcast Unapologetically Sensitive, and works with Highly Sensitive People (HSPs) helping them to understand their HSP traits, and turning their perceived shortcomings into superpowers. Patricia is passionate about providing education to help HSPs and non-HSPs understand and truly appreciate the amazing gifts they have to offer. She works globally online with HSPs providing coaching. Patricia also facilitates online groups for HSPs that focus on building community and developing skills (identifying your superpowers, boundaries, perfectionism, dealing with conflict, mindfulness, embracing emotions, creating a lifestyle that supports the HSP, communication and more).

EP # 7 Emotional Turbulence: When the Present Stirs the Past   Today’s guest is BJ Trevino. BJ is 11 years active duty Navy. His wife Melanie was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer in 2013 and its been an emotional roller coaster since. This has brought up deep hidden issues from  BJ’s past and caused him to rely heavily on alcohol to numb his stress and pain, in the end it destroyed more than it could ever silence. He shares his journey towards healing and how through his recovery, he has found a positive outlet to give purpose to his pain. Topics Discussed:  1. Depression & Anxiety 2. Family Illness 3. Alcohol abuse Website: http://whythatpodcast.com/  Podcast:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/why-is-it-like-that-stories-ptsd-anxiety-depression/id1479930771 Connect with me, your host Brooke aka The Tangled Tulip Website: www.tangledtuliptales.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/tangledtuliptales Instagram: www.instagram.com/tangledtuliptales Email: tangledtuliptales@gmail.com   Subscribe to Podcast:   iTunes Spotify Castbox Google Play Music Stitcher

Pradeepa Narayanaswamy is an International Coaching Federation-Certified Professional Coach and a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach with over eight years of coaching experience. In pursuit of starting a family, Pradeepa suffered from a long, lonely and painful battle with infertility.  Pradeepa’s 12-year struggle with infertility involved having three miscarriages, three IUI failures and eight back-to-back IVF failures before she was ultimately diagnosed with “unexplained infertility.”  After this experience, Pradeepa made it her life’s purpose to coach women, men and couples experiencing their own struggles with infertility. Her mission is to help clients on their infertility journey, and to ultimately make the experience “suck less”. Pradeepa strongly believes that both couples and individuals who feel empowered with fertility coaching have a more positive experience overall when battling with their infertility. Pradeepa is not just talking the talk about infertility, she has walked the walk for a very long time.  Topics Discussed:  1. How infertility affects women, men and couples and separately 2. How people going through infertility tend to ignore about the feelings and emotions 3. 1 Tip each for women, men and couples to take control and ownership of their infertility journey. Resources Discussed: Permission to Screw Up: How I Learned to Lead by Doing (Almost) Everything Wrong by Kristen Hadeed Connect with (Guest): Website: https://www.pradeepafertilitycoach.com/  Socials Handles: https://www.facebook.com/PradeepaFertilityCoach/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/pradeepanarayanaswamy/ https://twitter.com/NPradeepa https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvEW6LvvbwTgO34S4TjadfA ——————————   Connect with us! Website: www.tangledtuliptales.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/tangledtuliptales Instagram: www.instagram.com/tangledtuliptales Email: tangledtuliptales@gmail.com ——————————   Subscribe to Podcast:   iTunes Spotify Castbox Google Play Music Stitcher

Jade Stanton, Mental Health Coach  Jade is a mental health coach working with women who have Borderline Personality Disorder and are struggling to find their way through recovery. Since her own recovery, she has devoted her life to those who are lost, hopeless, and searching for a new way of living. One person who cares, who knows what you’re going through, and who can help you learn the tools to change your life, is all it takes. Someone to call when you’re in crisis, a shoulder to lean on for support and encouragement, and a teacher to give you and your loved ones the skills to build the life you never dreamed was possible with mental illness. Resources Mentioned: The Borderline Personality Disorder Workbook by Daniel J. Fox, PhD http://www.drdfox.com/worksheets McLean Hospital BPD Resources https://www.mcleanhospital.org/borderline-personality-disorder-patient-and-family-education-initiative  Dr. Marsha Linehan       https://behavioraltech.org/resources/resources-for-clients-families/ Paradise Lost by John Milton Canva app Topics Discussed:  1. Borderline Personality Disorder 2. Mental Health 3. DBT Skills Connect with (Guest): Website: http://www.bpdbalance.com/  Socials: https://m.facebook.com/jadementalhealthcoach https://instagram.com/jadementalhealthcoach  https://www.linkedin.com/in/bpdbalance/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjSrZPbs8qqY6z8borOsTGg Etc.: jade@bpdbalance.com —————————— Connect with us! Website: www.tangledtuliptales.com  Facebook: www.facebook.com/tangledtuliptales  Instagram: www.instagram.com/tangledtuliptales Email: tangledtuliptales@gmail.com   Subscribe to Podcast: iTunes Spotify Castbox Google Play Music Stitcher Android App Radio.com Mobile App Web Player 

In this episode I continue sharing my families journey with a loved one who suffers with mental health challenges and the battle of addiction, I bring our story that started in 2016 to the current state of where this rollercoaster has taken us.  The course of this episodes outline changed a few times in the midst of recording....because real life was happening simultaneously. It's a lot of heart and a little bit all over the place--but it doesn't get much more real than that.

We pick up steam this week in getting up to date with The Tangled Tulip's sharing her families personal story of recovering from mental health struggles, addiction, and healing from the fractures these obstacles place on a family.  

This weeks episode picks up where last weeks cliffhanger ended.  The story is far from over and in this episode you will get a glimpse into the risky territory being a ride or die kinda mom nearly took me.    

In this first episode, The Tangled Tulip begins discussing how her family became caught in the devastating grip of addiction.    

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