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Have you ever wondered what the soul's all about? Like, what happens to it after we're gone or what its real purpose is? This week, I bring you a conversation with Peter Alessandria, the producer of Every Soul Knows, and some of the incredible thought leaders interviewed for the documentary—people who have had real experiences with near-death, mediumship, and all things spiritual. If you're curious about soul experiences or spiritual awakening, you won't want to miss this interview with Peter Alessandria, Silvia Rossi, Karen Noé, and Seta Araz Shahinian!

Karen Noé is a renowned psychic medium, spiritual counselor, and healer with a two-year waiting list. She is the author of We Consciousness, Your Life After Their Death, The Angel Quest Oracle Deck, Through the Eyes of Another, and The Rainbow Follows the Storm. ​ Karen is the founder of the Angel Quest Center in Waldwick, New Jersey, where she teaches classes, gives readings, and practices alternative healing. You can listen to Karen on The Angel Quest Show on all podcast platforms.     ➡️ Visit Karen Noé's Website: www.KarenNoe.com  

We are BACK! We've had some time off for a little summer break, but it was past time the trio got back together to discuss the latest debate, the condition of the sitting US President, the water-carrying of the mainstream media for the left, RFK Jr., Trump, and Amy responds to a toxic, cultish internet troll we call "Karen". You don't want to miss this one.

The practice of gratitude and being attuned to signs plays a vital role in connecting with angels, spirits, and the universe at large. I recently had an eye-opening conversation with Karen Noé about the significance of gratitude in our journey of manifestation. Karen Noé is a highly sought-after psychic medium, spiritual counselor, and healer whose services have a two-year waiting list. She is the accomplished author of several books, including We Consciousness, Your Life After Their Death, Through the Eyes of Another, and the Angel Quest Oracle deck. Through her experiences and teachings, Karen delves into the interconnectedness of all beings, the significance of forgiveness, and the importance of paying attention to signs and messages from the unseen world. Her expertise in utilizing the law of attraction to create change from a higher consciousness offers valuable guidance for those seeking to manifest their desires and make a positive impact on the world around them. Whether you want to attract abundance, find your soulmate, heal yourself, or experience more meaning, Karen's guidance will empower you on your spiritual journey. Don't miss these insights! The show notes, including the transcript and checklist to this episode, are at getyourselfoptimized.com/458.

Join Karen Stanley as she shares her journey from confronting health crises to finding renewed purpose. This episode reveals the transformative power of therapy in reshaping our self-belief and joy. We discuss real shifts therapy can spark, breaking down skepticism and fostering genuine personal and professional growth. Dive into introspection, healing, and liberation from limiting childhood narratives with us.Through our conversation, find hope and empowerment. Overcoming trauma, unlocking joy, and achieving calm confidence are all within reach with personal growth strategies. Explore resources to start your transformative journey. Let Karen Stanley's insights inspire you to turn your past into a stepping stone for future success.NOTABLE QUOTES"There's one common denominator in all of my relationships: That'd be me." – Karen"The truth is a belief." – Karen"Install the thoughts and beliefs that you want, and create the habits that you want to have. That will allow you to create that dream that you envision for yourself." – Karen"Every coach should have a coach. Every therapist should have a therapist." – Philip"Everybody needs a little bit of help. I don't care who you are, how old you are, and how much training you have. We all need help." – Karen“[For] a lot of people,... all they need is just somebody to talk to [who's] not invested,  [who] doesn't know you personally, [who] you can just be honest." – Karen"Learn how to regulate your nervous system and establish the truth about who you are." – Karen"Every story matters… because you could be [that] one person, that one story, that one moment that somebody else needed to hear." – Karen“We're best suited to help the person that we used to be.” – Karen“The lack of confidence comes from your thoughts.” – Karen“It's not about perfection, it's about excellence… Create your excellence by preparation.” – Karen“Preparation allows you to let go of the feelings that you may fail or mess up.” – Karen“We need to focus on the audience, we need to not focus on ourselves, and that's that mental shift we make.” – Philip“Rather than with our message, we focus on who we were, and how we overcame that. If we want to go to the next level, we need to look at what we need to change to become that next person.” – Philip“Create new beliefs and habits that allow you to believe that it's possible, and then allow God to put that into your path..” – Karen “If something's really important, then you cannot keep it hidden.” – Karen “The more you speak that and be clear about your vision, your beliefs, and what's important to you, every single person with those same values is going to be attracted to you. You won't even be able to keep them away.” – Karen “You literally can transform, no matter what has happened to you.” – Karen “No matter what has happened in the past, it doesn't determine your future.”  – Karen RESOURCESKarenWebsite: https://createtodaytherapy.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/C5zRhqvPhjl/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/karen.knudsen.333/Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@createtoday4642LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karen-stanley-832653148/Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.ph/karenstanley4/PhilipDigital Course: https://www.speakingsessions.com/digital-courseInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamphilipsessions/?hl=enTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@philipsessionsLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/philip-sessions-b2986563/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/therealphilipsessions Support the Show.

Though Karen did research and took birthing classes before her first baby, she didn't realize how much advocating for herself could change the course of her birth. She wanted to be the “good” patient and told herself she could do without the things her body told her she needed during labor. Karen ended up pushing for over four hours and consenting to what she was told was an emergency C-section, even though the actual surgery didn't happen until hours later.Karen had some serious postpartum symptoms of swelling and difficulty breathing that were dismissed and even laughed at until things came to a point where she knew something was very wrong. She was diagnosed with postpartum cardiomyopathy, admitted to the ICU, and transferred to cardiac care. Doctors told Karen very different things about her condition. She went from being told not to have any more children to hearing that VBAC was absolutely safe. Karen discusses how her gestational hypertension came into play with the different advice as well. Karen found her voice. She advocated for herself. She knew what her body was saying and what it was capable of. Her labor was so smooth and she WAS able to birth vaginally!Informed Pregnancy PlusNeeded WebsiteHow to VBAC: The Ultimate Prep Course for ParentsFull Transcript under Episode Details 3:46 Review of the Week06:27 Karen's stories08:50 First labor10:47 Pushing for four hours15:11 Karen's C-section17:43 Postpartum swelling and difficulty breathing21:03 Fluid in her lungs23:52 Moving to Florida and getting answers25:13 Getting pregnant again29:53 Advocating for a VBAC32:14 A spiritual dream34:34 Gestational hypertension39:36 Signing an AMA41:31 Going to the hospital45:20 Pushing for 20 minutes47:30 White coat syndrome51:59 Symptoms of hypertension and preeclampsia54:52 Tips for hypertension and preeclampsia 56:55 Karen's final tipsMeagan: Hello, hello. We are getting into almost our 300th episode, you guys. Every single time I'm recording and I'm looking at these numbers, I am blown away. I cannot believe that we have almost put out 300 episodes. Oh my goodness. I am so glad that you are here. I have this energy this year. I don't know what it is. You'll have to let me know if you notice it, but I have this energy every time I'm recording this podcast. 2024 is vibing. I'm vibing with it. I'm really liking it. We have our friend Karen and are you from Florida, Karen? Karen: Yep. I'm in Orlando, Florida. Meagan: Florida. That's what I was thinking. So if we have Florida mamas looking for providers, this is definitely an episode. I feel like probably weekly we would get 10 messages asking about providers and Florida is huge so Florida is actually one that is really common where we are getting messages for supportive providers. So Karen, along the way, if you feel to name-drop some providers that are supportive, feel free to do so but we are going to get into sharing her story in just one moment because we do have a Review of the Week. 3:46 Review of the Week Meagan: This is from louuuhuuuu. So louuuhuuuu, thank you for your review. They say that this is “very inspirational.” It says, “I knew I wanted a VBAC with my third pregnancy, but I wasn't sure if it was possible. However, I knew I didn't feel like being flat-out told, ‘No' at the first appointment. Listening to the podcast was definitely the start of me really researching birth and looking into my options. I ended up with a successful HBA2C and I definitely don't think I would have had the courage or believed it was possible without this podcast. Thank you, Meagan, for all of the work that you do to provide this information.” I love that review so much. I think that through time in my own research, I was told no. I wasn't told, “No, no.” I was told, “Sure, probably yeah. You could VBAC,” but I never really got that positive vibe. I feel like this community that we have created with all of the people on the podcast and all of the people in the community on Facebook truly is something that I lacked when I was preparing for my VBAC. I'm so grateful that we have this community for you today. Thank you, louuuuhuuuu, and huge congrats on your HBAC, your home birth after two Cesareans. If you didn't what HBA2C meant, that's home birth after two Cesareans. Just like louuuhuuuu, you can too. Make sure to follow us in our Facebook community. You can find it at The VBAC Link Community on Facebook. Answer all of the questions and we will let you in. You can find out as well that it is possible. VBAC is possible. 06:27 Karen's storiesMeagan: Okay, Karen. Welcome to the show and thank you so much for taking the time to share your story today, well your stories today. Karen: Yeah. Thank you for having me. It's a little wild actually being on your show. I've been thinking about what I was going to say even before you invited me like, “What would I say if I finally get my VBAC? It's crazy to actually be sharing my story now so I'm really excited to be talking to you today.” Meagan: Well I'm so excited that you are here and sharing your inspirational message. You know, going through your submission, it sounds so similar to so many of us. You went in for a totally planned unmedicated birth that switched to the complete opposite where you had a C-section. There are so many of us. When I was reading that, I was like, “I bet I could probably find hundreds of stories not even just in our own community that start out like that.” Karen: Yes. That's why I love listening to your podcast so much because for the first time, I didn't feel alone. But yeah. I can get into my story now if you'd like. Meagan: Yes. I would love it. Karen: Okay. So back in August– or, I'm sorry. My son was due in August 2023. This was our first baby and he was a little bit of a surprise baby, but he was very much welcome and we were excited for him. At the time, we were living in Virginia. My husband had just gotten out of the Navy and he was about to start law school. I did prepare for the birth but I don't think I prepared enough. I took a Hypnobirthing class and the doula who was leading the class was super supportive. She was just like, “You're just going to birth beautifully. I can just tell.” The midwives, the nurses at the practice were like, “Oh, you're going to birth beautifully. I can just tell.” I just kept hearing that over and over again. My ego was a little over-inflated and I was like, “I don't need to do much. I've got this.” I don't think I was prepared enough. I didn't know what I was really getting into. 08:50 First laborKaren: So when I actually started going into labor, I got there way too early. I got to the hospital too early. Like you mentioned, I wanted an unmedicated birth. I got there, I think my contractions were about every seven minutes. Now I know that I definitely should have waited at home longer. But everything seemed to be going well. I arrived. They admitted me. They seemed a little bit hesitant, but they were like, “Oh, well she's in labor. Let's just bring her in.” My water broke on its own that afternoon. Things seemed to be going well until the pain really started kicking in. I had a really hard time working through the pain even with everything I learned in HypnoBirthing. I still hadn't quite found my voice yet, my mama voice. I couldn't tell people, “Hey, you're distracting me. I'm trying to do HypnoBirthing.” I felt embarrassed about putting up the sign outside my door saying, “Hey, HypnoBirthing in progress. Please keep quiet.” I just didn't speak up. I was just trying to be a good girl and just listen to what everyone says. I heard so many times in different episodes being a good girl and just doing what I've been told. Meagan: Right. We are people pleasers. I think a lot of us are people pleasers. We don't want to ruffle feathers. We want to stay in line. We want to follow this path that we are being told we have to stay on. Karen: Yes. I mean, I just didn't realize it was something I needed to form as a mama to be able to stand up for myself because pretty soon there was going to be a baby that needed me to stand up for them. Like I said, during the birth, there were just so many distractions, people coming in and out, nurses, and visitors. It was too much. I did end up getting an epidural because I just couldn't hold out any longer. 10:47 Pushing for four hoursKaren: Around 2:00 AM, the labor and delivery nurse told me, “Oh, you need to start pushing.” I was on my back. I pushed for about two hours. I had some breaks but the baby was just stuck. For part of it, we could see that he was crowning but he just would not come out. During this entire time, no one really looked at me. I just had this one labor and delivery nurse. She was so sweet, but the midwife didn't come by. The OB didn't come by. No one really came by and I wanted to move into different positions. I felt my body telling me, “Hey, try this. Try this,” and they would tell me, “You can't move. You have to stay like that.” I pushed for four hours. Baby was in distress. I felt fine but the midwife came in and told me, “You're going to need a C-section.” This was the first time I had seen her. She told me. Meagan: Wow. Karen: Yeah. So she says, “You need a C-section. He's not going to come out vaginally.” I didn't know. I didn't know what to do. I mean, I felt that was my only option. I got really upset. I started crying. I felt like a failure. I know now that I'm not a failure. That wasn't it. But that's how I felt at the moment and my husband was devastated. He was such an amazing birth partner and he felt like he failed me. I was like, “No. You didn't fail either,” but at that moment, we just felt so let down that one, I had to ask for an epidural, and two that I was going to need a C-section. Karen: They told me. I don't remember if the word “emergency” was used or not, but they made me feel like it was an emergency and it needed to happen immediately. When I look at the paperwork and all of that stuff, I'm like, “Where was the urgency?” Because the C-section didn't happen until 10:00 AM. Meagan: Yeah. That's not an emergency. This is another thing that I'm going to be honest– it irks me because there are so many of us who are told it is an emergency. When we hear “emergency”, what do we think? Panic. Scary. Right? We divert into asking– divert. I don't know if that's the right word. We stop asking questions and we say, “Okay. Okay. Okay,” because it's an emergency and we are told that. Karen: Exactly. Meagan: I think a lot of times, truly that we are told it is an emergency and that offers some sort of– it's weird, but some sort of validation where it's like, “But it's an emergency, so okay.” We just agree and then we are grateful. We look at them in a way because it's an emergency so they are saving. Does this make sense? I don't know. Karen: No, it does. To me, when I think about it now, it feels like manipulation. Meagan: Okay, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It can be. Truly, there are real emergent Cesareans. Karen: Agreed. Meagan: We are so grateful for Cesareans that can help us and those are real, true emergent situations, but so many of us are told it's an emergency and then like you said, it's 10:00 AM or they come in and they're like, “We need to shave you,” and it's like, “Okay, that's not an emergency.” If they have time to shave you, talk with you, and leave you for four hours, no. It's not an emergency. Karen: Exactly. So if I had known what I know now, I would have asked for my options, asked to push and change positions. There are so many things I would have done but like you said, I thought it was an emergency. I was treating my baby in danger. I need to do this now even though there was nothing wrong with the baby. There wasn't. Meagan: Or you. Karen: Mhmm, exactly. His heart was fine. Everything was fine as far as I could see as far as I remember, as far as the paperwork says, so it doesn't make sense anymore to me. But yeah. 15:11 Karen's C-sectionKaren: My husband was told to dress in scrubs while they prepped me and then I asked the nurse to make sure that no one was in the room when I got back. When we came back to surgery, they wheeled me over to the OR and they were just checking to see that the epidural was still good. I could feel them touching my belly. I told them and that's the last thing I remember. The next thing I know, I just hear a baby crying in the distance. I was waking up in a different room and there were just these two nurses chatting about their day. To me, it was traumatizing. I couldn't even process what was going on and what happened. That was just so, so scary. Meagan: I'm so sorry. Karen: Yeah. Sorry. So then they wheeled me out and that's where my husband and our whole family were waiting. I was so frustrated because I told the nurse I didn't want anyone here. I knew I would be upset after the C-section and there was everyone in the room waiting. I also found out that my baby got passed around so I didn't even get to be the first to hold him. That was so extremely upsetting. I told my husband, “I want everyone out.” Everyone left and it was just me and my husband and our baby, Luke. We were there for about 15 minutes before they started to prep me to move the recovery room and I was like, “Wait a minute. I thought I got a golden hour where I would get to be alone with the baby for an hour.” They were like, “Oh yeah, you can do that in the recovery room,” and they just wheeled me over. I get so sad when I look at pictures of that time because my baby is so beautiful. I love him so much, but I felt so drugged up that I couldn't connect with him. You can see it in the pictures. I just look like I don't know where I am. I'm in pain. It's just not what I imagined that experience to be. Meagan: Right. Karen: I definitely felt robbed of an experience. I felt extremely traumatized. That was hard in and of itself, but I was trying to come to terms with what happened. It was just a very rough time in the hospital. We had some family drama as well so that didn't help. Meagan: No. Karen: I was discharged less than 48 hours later which now I know is way too early considering the symptoms I was feeling. 17:43 Postpartum swelling and difficulty breathingKaren: My legs were extremely swollen. My whole body was extremely swollen. It didn't even look like I had given birth because I was just swollen all over. One nurse even made fun of my legs and she was like, “They look like baseball bats.” She was just tapping them.Meagan: That's a warning sign. That's something to think about. Karen: Well, I didn't know that. Meagan: Well, of course, you didn't, but as a professional, she shouldn't be tapping on your legs. She should be like, “Hmm, was this like this?” Karen: I've told other medical professionals that story and they are horrified. They are like, “That was a big warning sign something was wrong,” but they discharged me regardless. I felt so completely unprepared. It was just a very bad experience all around. They didn't have a lactation consultant working over the weekend so my baby was crying and crying and crying. He wasn't getting enough to eat when he was breastfeeding. They were just laughing and saying, “Oh, all moms feel like that. He's getting enough to eat.” Sure enough, my son was jaundiced and his pediatrician was like, “No, he needs formula. He's not getting enough to eat.” He had a significant tongue tie so he was not getting enough to eat. When I got home, like I said, baby was starving. I'm not getting any sleep. When he does fall asleep, I can't sleep. I remember explaining to different people like, “I'm having trouble breathing every time I lay down.” Everyone was just like, “Oh yeah. New mom, new baby. Totally normal.” Meagan: What? It is not normal to not feel like you can't breathe. Karen: You're going to love this then. At one point, I called the nurse hotline at the hospital because they gave it to me when I was discharged. I told the nurse, “When I lay down, I can't breathe. It feels like I can't breathe.” Her response was, “Oh, sometimes new moms don't know how pain feels like.” I was just like, “Okay, I guess this is just me.” She was like, “Technically, we're supposed to tell you to come to the hospital if you are having trouble breathing.” Meagan: Technically. Karen: Technically. So I was trying to be the good girl and trying not to ruffle any feathers and I was just like, “Okay. I'll keep pushing through,” but the moment I realized things were not good, I was extremely depressed. I thought that I was going to die and leave my child alone. I was having horrible thoughts like that. Then I realized, “I'm starting to hallucinate.” So after three days of not sleeping, there was one incident where I heard my baby crying and screaming. I went over to the bassinet to look at him and he's sleeping peacefully, but I can still hear him crying and screaming clearly. I'm like, “That's not normal.” 21:03 Fluid in her lungsKaren: Once he woke up because I was trying to be a good new mom, so once he woke up, I packed myself up and my mom and I went to the ER. I explained to them, “I'm not getting sleep. I can't sleep. Every time I lay down, I can't breathe.” They were like, “Okay. Maybe you have a blood clot.” They took me back. They did an MRI scan and when I was lying down for the scan, I started taking these small quick breaths and the nurse was like, “Are you having a panic attack? What's going on?” I go, “I can't breathe.” She finally was the one that was just like, “There is something deeply wrong here. This is not normal at all.” I loved her. She really pushed to make sure that I got seen quickly. They determined that I was experiencing congestive heart failure. The way they explained it is my heart was not pumping strong enough I guess. It wasn't pumping right so that's why I was having trouble breathing because my lungs were filling up with fluid. They were able to give me medication. It was Lasix to help push out all of the fluid. I was kept at the ICU for two nights then they transferred me to the cardiac wing of the hospital. I was there four nights total because they just wanted to keep an eye on my blood pressure and this obviously wasn't normal what was happening. My blood pressure was through the roof. That was a really, really difficult time because one, I was away from my new baby and then I had three different doctors tell me, “There is something wrong with your heart. You won't be able to have more children. Your heart can't handle it.” That was distressing because my husband and I dreamed of having a big family and we were thinking, “This might be our last child.” But weirdly enough, my OB– the one who performed the C-section– disagreed. I don't like how he said this, but he was like, “Oh, don't be dramatic. It was just a little extra fluid. You're fine.” I was like, “Okay.” He said, “You can have a VBAC. You can have as many children as you want. You're going to be fine.” I wasn't a fan of him but that was interesting that he had told me, “You're going to be a great VBAC candidate.” He kind of put that idea in my head. He said that the only reason my son got stuck was because he was 9 pounds, 15 ounces so basically a 10-pounder. I was like, “Okay.” I didn't know what I know now, but that's the reason they gave me. 23:52 Moving to Florida and getting answersKaren: Eventually, we moved to Florida because I'm from Florida so I felt more comfortable with the medical care there. I just kept finding out different ways that I was failed by the medical system back in Virginia. My primary doctor determined that I had postpartum depression. My son was already two years old when she discovered that. It was just like, “Oh, okay.” Here's some medication. Now I feel like myself again. It made me realize, “Okay, what else do I need to look into?” I got a cardiologist. She was saying, “There is nothing wrong with your heart.” She can't definitively say because she wasn't there, but she was like, “They put too many fluids in your body. You are fine. There is nothing wrong with your heart.” She was just like, “You're good to go. You can have a VBAC. You can have another C-section. You can do whatever you want. You're fine. We can keep an eye on you, but you're okay.” I started seeing an OB and I told her everything that happened and I was just like, “I want a VBAC.” I told her everything the cardiologist said, gave her all of the paperwork and she was like, “Yeah. You can totally have a VBAC.” So with both of their blessings, I was like, “Okay. Let's try for baby number two. I'm okay. I'm healthy. I'm fine.” 25:13 Getting pregnant againKaren: So I got pregnant with baby number two and that was very exciting. I thought everything was going well then at 20 weeks, my OB said, “Unfortunately, I can't be your doctor anymore. This practice cannot deliver you. You are too high of a risk for this office.” Meagan: For the office. Karen: Yes. Yes. They only delivered at these smaller boutique hospitals so they said that I needed to deliver at a high-risk hospital or a hospital that accepts high-risk patients. Meagan: Okay, got you. I got you. Karen: I got a little tongue-tied. They told me I needed to deliver at a different hospital that I didn't want to deliver at. I was like, “If I'm going to deliver at a big hospital, it's going to be Winnie Palmer in Orlando.” I'm a huge fan of theirs. So I was just like, “Okay. I can't deliver with this office even though they've been aware of all my situations for a while. I'll find a different office.” But I was already 20 weeks so it's really hard to find a provider at 20 weeks. Meagan: It can be, yeah. Karen: The other disappointing thing they told me is, “Oh, by the way, you can't have any more children. You really shouldn't because, with everything that is going on with you, your body can't handle it.” It was just like, I don't understand where this is coming from. You've been telling me I've been okay. My cardiologist says I've been okay. I didn't really get what was going on. Karen: I called around and only one clinic would take me when I was that far along with this high-risk label on me. Meagan: I was going to say the label. That's exactly the word I was going to say. Karen: Yeah. I didn't feel like it really fit, but that's what they said I was. I found a big practice that had lots of doctors. It is a very prominent practice here in Orlando and I felt like I just had to settle. The first doctor I met with I was already frustrated because I asked for a female doctor and they gave me a male doctor. I don't have anything against male doctors, I just feel more comfortable with a female doctor but he was just like, “Oh. You can't VBAC at all. You had a vertical incision so you have to have a repeat C-section.” I was like, “I don't– I've never heard anyone say that. Where does it say that in my medical records?” He was just like, “I don't see it in your records, but this other doctor said that you had a vertical incision.” I'm like, “Well, how does she know that?” So I had to go and start pulling all of these records and got the surgical notes for my C-section and everything and finally, I found something that said I did not have a vertical incision so once I showed it to him, he was just like, “Oh, okay. Well, you still can't VBAC. Your hips are too tiny. You can't deliver a baby.” Meagan: Oh my goodness, just pulling them all out. Let me just shift this jar around and pull out the next reason. Karen: Yes. I was just like, “Are you serious? Okay.” Meagan: Goodness. 29:53 Advocating for a VBACKaren: So me and my husband were like, “No. I want to try. We want to try.” I'm so glad my husband was there because he is always so good at being an advocate for me. He was just like, “No. She wants a VBAC. What can we do to make it happen?” So he said, “Well, your weight is one thing because your baby was so big the first time because you gained a lot of weight. We can help you try but if after two hours of pushing you can't get that baby out, we're going to give you a C-section.” It was very frustrating, but I felt like I really had no choice. Meagan: Yeah. Karen: I hadn't discovered you yet so I was just like, “Okay. I guess it is what it is. I will try my best to have a VBAC, but this guy's going to stop me.” So I was very blessed that due to a scheduling issue, I had an appointment with a totally different doctor. She was this young female doctor. She was around my age and I felt like I could relate to her. I just really enjoyed talking to her. I don't know if this has something to do with it, but my background is I am Japanese and Colombian and she was Asian, so it was just like, “Okay. I have someone else who is a person of color who understands at least the cultural differences.” So I don't know if that really had anything to do with anything, but it did make me feel more comfortable with her.Meagan: Which is important. Karen: Yes. After years of different doctors telling me there was something wrong with me, it was so nice to have her say to me, “Oh. You want a VBAC? Yeah. You are super healthy. You are going to be fine.” It was just like, “Oh my gosh. You think I'm healthy? Every doctor had been telling me that I'm overweight. There's something wrong with my heart. There's something wrong,” and she was telling me that I was healthy. That just made me so inspired and I just became a lot more proactive with my health. I didn't feel like things had to happen to me. I felt like I had a lot more control over my situation. 32:14 A spiritual dreamKaren: There was also one other event that happened and this was around Christmas. I'm a Christian, so we've been going to God a lot with prayers and I have been asking for a successful VBAC. So Christmas morning, I woke up to a dream but it didn't feel like a dream. It felt more like a vision and I was giving birth vaginally to a little girl. In the dream, I had the knowledge that this was going to be my third child. I was like, “Wait a second. But I'm pregnant right now with my second child. How did that birth go?” I just was told by God, “Oh, that birth went well too. You're going to be fine. You're going to be happy. You're going to have many children.” So I woke up so happy that Christmas morning. I told my husband with everything I've been battling and all of these negative thoughts, there is no way that this could have been something I produced myself or just dreamed of myself because it was such a positive, happy dream when before that, I had just been having constant nightmares about C-sections.It was just this moment of, “Okay. God really is with us and he's going to make sure everything is okay.” So yeah, between having this great doctor and then having that dream, I just was more motivated to really take control of the situation like, “Okay. I don't have to let things happen to me. What can I do?” Which actually led me to The VBAC Link. I was already 33 weeks pregnant when I found you guys so it was kind of late in the game, but I'm so glad I did. I listened to The VBAC Link obsessively in the car, when I was walking my dog, all the time and I would just hear these different stories and notate, “Okay. This is what she did. This is how she got results. This is what happened to her.” I started taking all of these notes about how I should respond in different situations and I'm so glad I did because I did use some of that later on. 34:34 Gestational hypertensionKaren: Unfortunately, I did develop gestational hypertension but I'm still not completely convinced that I actually had it. They diagnosed me the week I had to put down my dog and I had her since I was 15 so it was just devastating. I was under a lot of stress and I tried to explain that to them. They were like, “No. This is gestational hypertension.” I'm like, “Okay. Here is another label.” But I kept on top of my blood pressure readings. I never had high readings. I ate well. I tried to do exercise as much as you can when you are in your third trimester. Unfortunately, this practice had a policy that patients with gestational hypertension must deliver by 37 weeks. Meagan: Whoa. Karen: Yes. They said that if you are a VBAC patient, they won't induce you. So there's another timeline. I had to deliver by 37 weeks. But yeah, things seemed to be going really well. Once I reached around 36 weeks, I actually started having prodromal labor. I'm like, “Okay, yes. Things are going really well.” Because I had gestational hypertension, I was going 3-4 times a week to the doctor at that point. Meagan: For non-stress tests and stuff? Karen: Yes, exactly. They could see that I was already 3 centimeters dilated so I was like, “Great. Everything is going great.” At the 37-week appointment, there was a scheduling issue and instead of being able to see my regular doctor, they assigned me to a different doctor and that just made me really, really nervous. I was just like, “I don't want to go. I don't feel right. Something is going to go wrong. It's not my doctor. I don't want to go.” My husband was like, “No. It's going to be okay. It's going to be okay. Let's go.” He canceled work so he could go with me. He was like, “Everything is going to be okay.” The other thing that happened that morning was my sister who was going to be in the room with us woke up with strep throat. I was like, “This is not a good week. This is not a good day. I don't want to go in.” So when I went in, my blood pressure was 160/113 which was extremely high. This doctor told me, “You need to get a C-section today.” So I was just like, “Okay. I don't want to hurt my baby. That's fine.” I was really, really upset. I was crying and I told her I was scared and she was like, “Why are you scared?” My husband was pretty blunt and was like, “Because the doctors almost killed her last time.”She was like, “How did they almost kill her?” He was like, “They put too much fluid in her body and they caused heart failure.” She laughed and she said, “That's not a thing.” I was like, “Well, my cardiologist said it was a thing. How could you say it's not a thing?” I went to the hospital. I was really upset but the nurse there was amazing. She was like, “What happened?” I basically told her everything like my life story basically up until that point. She was like, “I checked your blood pressure when you came in. You are fine.” She was like, “This is ridiculous. It just sounds like you are stressed out.” At that point, my blood pressure was–Meagan: Reasonably so.Karen: She checked my blood pressure and it was 117/83 so it was great. It was so funny because she kept the blood pressure cuff on me and the doctor who was working that day was the same doctor who told me I'd never be able to VBAC and kept coming up with excuses. My nurse was just like, “Look, her blood pressure is fine.” Then she took my blood pressure again in front of him and it went back up. She was like, “Can you step out?” She took it again and then it was fine. She started advocating on my behalf. She was like, “You guys are causing her heart pressure to go up. You guys are stressing her out. She does not have high blood pressure because of herself. It's you guys.” The doctor was just like, “Oh, well I guess it's fine, but wouldn't you rather just have a birthday today?” I'm like, “No. I would not like to just have a C-section for no reason.” He's like, “I really don't want to send you home though,” but you really should consider this C-section just in case your blood pressure goes back up. I was like, “Look. I can check it repeatedly and if it goes up, I will come back. I'm not going to be stupid and put my son's life in danger. I will come back.” He just kept trying to convince me and finally, we were like, “No. We're leaving.” I told them, “If I'm going to have a C-section, it's going to be with my regular doctor. I trust her. I'm going to have control over this situation somehow. Even if I have to have a C-section, it's going to be by someone I trust. It's not going to be by you.” 39:36 Signing an AMAKaren: He was not thrilled about hearing that but he said, “Okay fine. You have to fill out this paperwork saying you're leaving against medical advice, but it will be fine.” I was like, “Okay, fine.” I filled out this paperwork. I was scared like, “They're probably going to kick me out afterward, but whatever.” I filled it out and I went home. They did make me schedule a C-section for two days later when my regular doctor was on call. I was like, “You know what? If it has to happen that day, it's fine. I did everything I could. I took control of whatever I could. It's my doctor.” She made me feel seen and heard and she had my best interest at heart, so we are going to pray and just do what we can. The next two days, I walked 10 miles. I drank raspberry leaf tea. We had sex. We did basically everything you can do to get labor going. I was still having prodromal labor so we would get our hopes up and then it would stop and then get our hopes up and then it would stop. Around midnight the night before I was supposed to get my C-section, I was so upset. I was just like, “It's not going to happen. I'm just going to have to get a C-section.” I just gave up completely. My husband was just like, “No. God told you this was going to be fine. You're going to be fine. Let's just get some rest because it's already midnight and we have to leave at 3:00 AM so let's just get a little bit of rest and it will be fine. We will talk to the doctor in the morning.” I was like, “Okay.” So we went to sleep at 1:00. The alarm rang at 3:00 and I was in labor. Meagan: Yay! Karen: I was so excited. 41:31 Going to the hospitalKaren: We went to the hospital. They still prepped me for a C-section. They were like, “Just in case,” but I was having regular contractions. It wasn't going away. My doctor came in. She checked me and she was like, “Okay. If you want to TOLAC, I'll send you over.” I was just like, “Oh my gosh, yes. This is my dream!” We were so happy. They wheeled us over and it just felt so surreal. We just kept waiting for the rug to be pulled out from under us and someone came in and was like, “No, you need a C-section now. You're not allowed to be over here,” or something. We were just waiting. I wanted this to be another unmedicated birth, but our midwife came in and she told me her plan. She said she wanted to try a small bit of Pitocin to see if I could make the contractions a little bit stronger and then she saw my hesitation and told me, “It's only a small amount to help move things along, but you are not on a time limit. You can take however long you need to labor. It's just to help move things along. The max is 10. We won't ever get to that point.” I was just like, “Okay. I'm going to put my trust in you because my doctor trusts you.” She also asked if she could break my water to help move things along and I felt at ease so I was just like, “Okay. That's fine.” My husband was really surprised I was consenting to the Pitocin and to the water breaking. I told him, “I don't know. All this time, I'm always fighting against my gut and my gut is telling me I can trust them fine and this is going to be okay.” I listened to her plan and I said, “Yeah, let's do it.” They also kept a really close eye on my fluid levels– the thing that the other doctor said was not a thing. It felt good to know that they were actually paying attention to me and listening to me. Karen: The other thing that happened was at 10:00 AM, my sister completed 48 hours of antibiotics so she was able to join us and I was like, “Okay. Everything is going to be okay.” My husband and I were finally able to relax. Meagan: Good. Karen: Yeah. Again, I wanted to go unmedicated but I noticed something about my body which was that I could not relax my pelvic floor. I was so tired. I was so exhausted from the last 48 hours, from the walking, from not sleeping, and from everything. I was just like, “I'm trying, but I cannot relax it.” I was just like, “I think I want an epidural. I think that will relax my pelvic floor and just relax in general.” They gave me the epidural so I was finally able to get some rest. Without even having to ask them, the midwife would come in, put me in different positions, and just do different things to help me get the baby down on its own instead of last time where they just left me lying in there with no instructions. Then around 4:00 PM, they told me I was fully dilated and they were like, “Let's do some practice pushes. Let's just make sure you know what you're doing with your body. We can troubleshoot and then when you're ready, you know what to do already.” I was like, “Yeah. That's fine.” They get everything ready, start doing some practice pushes, and the midwife goes, “Oh, these aren't practice pushes.” 45:20 Pushing for 20 minutesKaren: She starts getting suited up and the room starts filling up with people and 20 minutes later, my baby was out. Meagan: 20 minutes! Karen: Yeah, 20 minutes of pushing. He was 9 pounds so he was still a big baby and perfectly healthy and beautiful. It was wonderful. One thing that my husband noticed was that the whole room was all women. It was such a cool girl power moment. They were all cheering and so happy for me getting my VBAC and it was just a total girl power that we were all like, “Yes. We did it. Girl power! The doctor is a woman. The pediatrician is a woman. We did this.” It was such a cool, surreal moment and then they had other nurses coming in and they were like, “We heard your story. That is so cool you got your VBAC.” It was so, so amazing. It was just such a huge difference having this supportive environment. I don't know. In that moment, it was like an instant feeling of relief because I felt like all of this trauma that I had been carrying with me for so long was just lifted. I felt like I was finally healed and I was able to forgive myself for the C-section and realize, “Okay. You didn't fail at anything. Things happen. You didn't know. It's okay.” Finally, I didn't have this label that I was defining myself with for so long which was traumatic birth. I finally just got to have the birth I wanted for it to be pretty smooth after the drama of the earlier morning. Everything just went perfectly and it was so, so beautiful. I was crying. We were all crying. The doctor was just like, “Okay, is this pain crying or is this happiness?” I'm like, “This is happiness!” Meagan: Pure joy.Karen: That's my story. 47:30 White coat syndromeMeagan: That is awesome. I love that you truly got to end that way surrounded with women and somebody that you really like and just having everyone rejoicing and happy and crying together and having that space be such a drastic change in your first birth. That is amazing. Thank you so much. Did you have any blood pressure issues during your labor at all? Karen: No. My blood pressure was fine. They were keeping an eye on it the entire time and I was getting nervous because I thought, maybe if it should up they would wheel me over to a C-section, but no. It was fine the entire time. Meagan: I love that. It's kind of interesting because there have been times where I've had clients where they don't have any signs of hypertension or preeclampsia or anything like that, but then they go to their visit and then they are like, “Oh my gosh. My blood pressure was just through the roof.” They go home and they are checking it at home and they are like, “It's fine.” But then they go and it's through the roof every time they go. We just had a client just the other day. She's 34 weeks and she went and her blood pressure was pretty high. It really was. It was high. The reading was high and they did a couple of readings. They said things like, “Well, we might have to go to an emergency C-section.” This and that. Anyway, she was like, “Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Hold on.” She was like, “I want to go home.” She went home and relaxed and had food. Her blood pressure was fine. White coat syndrome is a real thing and it's something to take into consideration like, “I never have blood pressure issues. I don't have any signs. I don't have protein. I don't have these things. What may be going on?” I love how your nurse was like, “Hey, can you step out? Go out.” She was very able to relate to that. Then sometimes, we have it and we don't know why. With your first pregnancy, did you have any high blood pressure at all? Karen: No. It was just a very uneventful pregnancy. Everything was perfect. It was very strange for these blood pressure problems to happen afterward.Meagan: Yeah. I think it's called peripartum so it could happen before or postpartum cardiomyopathy. Karen: Yes. Yes. Meagan: That's what I was thinking it was going where the heart muscles weaken and can lead to heart failure progressively. The symptoms include fatigue, hard to breathe, and feeling your heart rush. Those are common. Karen: Yeah, so that's actually what is on my medical records is that I had peripartum cardiomyopathy but my cardiologist was just like, “I don't believe that for a second. Your heart is fine.” She kept an eye on my heart the entire pregnancy and after the pregnancy. Nothing else happened. Meagan: I almost wonder if your heart was under stress. You talked about fluids. We get an astronomical amount of fluids during a C-section too. I'm just wondering if your body just went under a lot with a Cesarean. There was a lot of shifting and a lot of things happening and then of course a Cesarean. It just made me curious because sometimes if you have hypertension before, it can be a risk factor in that. Interesting. Karen: Yeah. That's something that the cardiologist said is that sometimes it gets confused with fluid overload. She thinks that's what happened. Part of the labeling that was happening is throughout my second pregnancy, I kept having to tell people that I did not have blood pressure issues with the first because they kept going, “Oh yeah, well you had blood pressure issues with your first pregnancy,” and I'd be like, “No, I didn't. Stop assuming that.” Meagan: I mean, I am no medical professional by any means, but it makes me wonder if it could have been related to the birth itself. 51:59 Symptoms of hypertension and preeclampsiaMeagan: I'd love to talk about hypertension and preeclampsia and things like that because hypertension is something that happens during pregnancy and it can be associated with lots of different reasons, but sometimes hypertension during pregnancy can lead to preeclampsia or HELLP or things like that. I want to give a little educational tidbit here. Talking about just hypertension. High blood pressure or hypertension does not necessarily make us feel unwell all the time. You can have that and not know. So you walking into your visit and them being like, “You have hypertension.” You're like, “Oh.” It's not completely abnormal to just walk in, but sometimes we might have headaches or not feel super great. If you are feeling crummy or especially if you are feeling like you can't breathe when you lay down or have shortness of breath, do not think that those are all just normal pregnancy symptoms that people who told you, “Oh, yeah. It's a new mom.” You're like, “No.” So follow your body. Trust your body. Preeclampsia is a condition that does affect pregnant women and can sometimes come on after that 20-week mark where we are having some of that swelling. We are having the high blood pressure. We have protein in our urine. That's when it turns into that preeclampsia stage. It's really hard. It's still unknown exactly why preeclampsia or hypertension come, but it's believe to be placenta-related so sometimes our placenta doesn't attach in the full-on correct manner and our blood vessels are pumping differently so we can get high blood pressure. I want to note that if you are told that you have high blood pressure or if you have preeclampsia, that doesn't always mean you have to schedule a C-section. It just doesn't. It doesn't mean it's always the best decision to not schedule a C-section if that makes sense, but that doesn't mean you have to have a C-section because you have hypertension or blood pressure. I feel like time and time again, I do. I see these comments in our community where it's like, “I really wanted my VBAC, but I just got preeclampsia. The doctor says I have to have a C-section.” That just isn't necessarily true. They can be induced. I know you mentioned your one hospital was like, “No, we can't induce because you are a VBAC,” which also isn't necessarily true. 54:52 Tips for hypertension and preeclampsia Meagan: Sometimes we also want to be aware of hypertension or preeclampsia getting worse because labor can be stressful on our body and all of the things. I wanted to just give a couple of little tips. If you have high blood pressure, increase your hydration. Go for walks. Cut out a lot of salts so really eating healthy and then you can get good supplements to help. If you are in labor and you are getting induced or something like that, sometimes you may want to shift gears. Maybe an epidural can be a good thing to reduce stress or a provider may suggest that it's not abnormal. But know that if you were told you have hypertension or you have preeclampsia, it doesn't always mean it's a for sure absolutely have to have a C-section. Even your provider was like, “Oh yeah. We've got this high blood pressure stuff. I really wanted to keep you.” You were like, “No.” Then your other doctor was like, “We'll kick you over here to 38 weeks,” because everything really was looking okay. Yay for that doctor for not making you stay and have a C-section that day. Know that you do have options. Time and time we talk about this. Don't hesitate to ask questions. Ask questions. Can I get a second opinion? Can I go home and relax and take a reading there? Is there something I can take to help with my blood pressure? Those types of things and then following your heart. What does your heart say? That's just my little tidbit. Do you have anything to add? I know you didn't have high blood pressure in the first pregnancy and then you kind of did sort of maybe have white coat syndrome or blood pressure with the second but do you have any tips on this situation? You were exactly in that space of they are telling you you have blood pressure. He is telling you he doesn't want you to go home and that type of thing.Do you have any messages to the audience?56:55 Karen's final tipsKaren: One thing I started doing during this pregnancy was meditation and that helped a lot. Whenever I felt like, “Okay. I'm going to go into a stressful situation,” which was most doctor visits, I would meditate before the doctor came in and that would really help a lot. Meagan: Yes. Exercising, eating, hydrating, meditation, and doing something to bring yourself back down can help. It doesn't always help. Sometimes we have high blood pressure and we do not understand it. We cannot control it as much as we are trying to. It just doesn't want to listen to what we are trying to do or receive the things we are trying to do, but all of these things can help. I am just so happy for you that you found good support, that you found the true bubble of love in your hospital room at the very end, and that you were able to have your VBAC. Karen: Thank you. Yeah. I do want to make sure. I'm not trying to send a message of, “Ignore high blood pressure! Do what you want!” It absolutely can be a very scary thing. If you need to have a C-section because of it, totally understandable. It's just that my big message that I tell new moms is to listen to your body and you are allowed to say no. You are allowed to say no to people and ask for options. But the big one is to listen to your body. Listen to your gut. You know what is really, truly going on with your body. Meagan: Of course, right. And typically, birth is actually the full cure for things like preeclampsia. Getting baby earthside is typically the end of that preeclampsia and the stop. That doesn't mean you shouldn't say, “No, I'm not going to do anything,” but just know that you have options. Induction is still okay typically. Ask those providers about your individual needs. Talk about your individual case but yeah, I would agree. I'm not trying to say, “Don't listen to your provider.” I'm just saying that you have options and you often will have options if they say one thing or another. Don't hesitate to ask questions. Karen: Exactly. Exactly. ClosingWould you like to be a guest on the podcast? Tell us about your experience at thevbaclink.com/share. For more information on all things VBAC including online and in-person VBAC classes, The VBAC Link blog, and Meagan's bio, head over to thevbaclink.com. Congratulations on starting your journey of learning and discovery with The VBAC Link.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-vbac-link/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

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Karen shares her powerful story of growing up in an alcoholic home and the impact it had on her life, including her struggle with emotional suppression and disconnection. Tune in to hear Karen's journey towards healing, self-discovery, and finding peace within herself. She offers insightful advice for those dealing with addiction in their lives and emphasizes the importance of seeking support and approaching these situations with curiosity and compassion. This podcast is a must-listen for anyone looking to overcome past traumas and experiences and connect with themselves and others on a deeper level._____If you or anyone you know is struggling with addiction, depression, trauma, sexual abuse or feeling overwhelmed, we've compiled a list of resources at secretlifepodcast.com.______To share your secret and be a guest on the show email secretlifepodcast@icloud.comABOUT OUR GUEST:Karen Maloney“Your life is like a mirror reflecting your beliefs to you.” Life wasn't always how it is now. To many people I may look and appear the same, but INSIDE I feel like a completely different person. Just like a computer, I've installed a whole new operating system. I've deleted old files & replaced them with new programs instead (i.e. habits, beliefs, thoughts etc) and revolutionised my internal world, shifting the way I think and what I believe about myself. Everything comes from within – ‘as within, so without'. It's been life-changing for me and I know it can be the same for you!Now I can see CLEARLY that for most of my life I lived in the baseline energy of fear. I lived my life in ‘freeze' mode. I felt disassociated, unsafe, anxious and I felt awkward being myself. I judged myself harshly (always trying to be perfect!) and my brain went a 100 miles and hour. But for the most part I never realised there was anything wrong with that. It was my ‘normal'. I thought it was a sign of my ambition and drive. Out of an unconscious fear, I lived from the level of my mind. I thought if I can think, plan, control and rationalise everything in my mind, I would be safe. That need for control provided me with a sense of safety and security inside, that I didn't feel in the external world. But it also lead to burnout. Find out MORE: Soulpowerlight.comCuriosity & Consciousness Podcast_____SECRET LIFE'S TOPICS INCLUDE:addiction recovery, mental health, alcoholism, drug addiction, sex addiction, love addiction, OCD, ADHD, dyslexia, eating disorders, debt & money issues, anorexia, depression, shoplifting,  molestation, sexual assault, trauma, relationships, self-love, friendships, community, secrets, self-care, courage, freedom, and happiness._____Create and Host Your Podcast with the same host we use - RedCircle_____Get your copy of SECRET LIFE OF A HOLLYWOOD SEX & LOVE ADDICT -- Secret Life Novel or on Amazon______HOW CAN I SUPPORT THE SHOW?Tell Your Friends & Share Online!Follow, Rate & Review: Apple Podcasts | SpotifyFollow & Listen iHeart | Stitcher | Google Podcasts | Amazon | PandoraSpread the word via social mediaInstagramTwitterFacebook#SecretLifePodcastDonate - You can also support the show with a one-time or monthly donation via PayPal (make payment to secretlifepodcast@icloud.com) or at our WEBSITE.Connect with Brianne Davis-Gantt (@thebriannedavis)Official WebsiteInstagramFacebookTwitterConnect with Mark Gantt (@markgantt)Main WebsiteDirecting WebsiteInstagramFacebookTwitterTranscript[0:00:00] Karen: Often a child who grew up in an alcoholic home can have difficulties with trust, with identifying, expressing feelings. And they either go one of two ways totally controlled, or feeling like they have no control over their life. This is 1 million% describing me.[0:00:23] Brianne Davis: Welcome to the Secret Life Podcast. Tell me your secret, I'll tell you mine. Sometimes you have to go through the darkness to reach the light. That's what I did. After twelve years of recovery in sex and love addiction, I finally found my soulmate myself. Please join me in my novel, Secret Life of a Hollywood Sex & Love Addict. A four-time bestseller on Amazon. It's a brutal, honest, raw, gnarly ride, but hilarious at the same time. Check it out now on Amazon. Welcome to Secret Life Podcast. I'm Brianne Davis-Gantt. Today, I'm pulling back the curtains of all kinds of human secrets. We'll hear about what people are hiding from themselves or others. You know, those deep, dark secrets you probably want to take to your grave, or, you know, those light or funnier secrets that are just plain embarrassing. Really.[0:01:23] Brianne Davis: The how, what, when, where, why of it all. Today. My guest is Karen. Now, Karen, I have a question for you. Dun dun dun. What is your secret?[0:01:37] Karen: I grew up in an alcoholic home. And actually, the impact that it had on me that I totally did not connect the dots to that at all.[0:01:48] Brianne Davis: Like the denial of what living in an alcoholic home does to you.[0:01:53] Karen: Yeah, well, I don't even because there's so many different I suppose that word was never used. It wasn't a thing. It wasn't as if my dad was out all day every day and coming home drunk and crawling havoc and messing up the place and all this kind of thing. No, he totally worked all day, but he went out every single night and came home, particularly when I was a child, I remember him coming home drunk, like, absolutely obliterated, and I hated it. And I always just wanted to be in bed and I would be like, oh, please don't come in and wake me up. Because sometimes he would he'd come in and he'd wake me up and that's when he'd be like, oh my God, I love you so much. profusing his undying love. And sometimes he passed out as well. With life an arm over me. And as a child, I was just terrified.[0:02:41] Brianne Davis: So terrifying. That overwhelming. It's almost like when a family member would do that, it was like you didn't know what to do with all that energy coming at you.[0:02:53] Karen: Yeah, and that's when I literally stopped breathing. Because as a child and before the age of seven, we're literally in PETA. We've been programmed. It's like we're in a hypnotized state again. I'm looking back now as a journey of discovery and healing and connecting all the dots, but I didn't know this at the time. But that's when I stopped breathing, I'd be so terrified. I went into freeze mode because even my dad, if he passed out with his arm over me, I would stop breathing because I'd be like, I don't want to wake him, because if he starts producing his love again, the smell of drink, it's just not cool for a child. And I live my life in that freeze mode.[0:03:39] Brianne Davis: Like, you would realize you were holding your breath.[0:03:43] Karen: And especially if I felt triggered or vulnerable or particularly when it came to relationships and opening up and expressing feelings and emotions, life, I just did not do that. I was a closed book. And if ever I felt in that space of needing to open up, I would go in that freeze mode. It was like, stop breathing. Shut down. Yes.[0:04:05] Brianne Davis: I want to ask you, so I've taken breath class. As an actor, you work with your breath and all. My teacher told me that I breathe just in my chest, and I didn't connect my breath to my belly. And the lower area, is that how you life? I guess I was disconnected too.[0:04:25] Karen: Yeah, upper chest breathing. Because I've studied a lot and done a couple of courses while on breath work. And that upper chest breathing, is that really kind of panic, fight or flight you're passing extra cortisol you're in fight or flight, essentially. You're not in that rest or digest, like, full, deep, diaphragmic breaths that allow oxygenated blood to pass around your body. So, yeah, it does have an impact. But it's so funny because recently I joined Alanon, and honestly, by joining there and that's through another episode of a person close to me drinking. And I was just like, oh, my God. Even with all my skills, all my tools, all my practices, I couldn't cope. It was really triggering me. So I was like, oh, my God, I need help here.[0:05:12] Brianne Davis: Wait, let's not jump ahead, though. Wait, let's go back. I have a couple of questions. Okay. You're like, I know exactly what I want to say, but no. When your household was in that state so he drank every night. He was a functioning alcoholic. It sounds life.[0:05:27] Karen: Now you can look back and go, yeah, absolutely. Because he was up every morning, went to work.[0:05:31] Brianne Davis: Yeah. And that's the hardest ones to diagnose. If your life is not falling to pieces, it's hard to be like, oh, I have a problem.[0:05:39] Karen: Yeah.[0:05:40] Brianne Davis: So was there a word you guys used for when he was in that state, or was it just not talked about?[0:05:46] Karen: No, like I say, it was not mentioned. That word was never brought up. It was never an issue. It was just like and honestly, when I look back, I didn't see it as an issue. I didn't think, oh, my God, my dad goes out every night. It was just like a normal as far as I knew, it's what everyone did.[0:06:04] Brianne Davis: Wait and where are you from?[0:06:06] Karen: Ireland.[0:06:06] Brianne Davis: Ireland, that's it. You're Irish, right? But I'm Irish too and it's like a lot of people I hear say, well, Irish just drink a lot. Like it's our culture, it's the society we were raised in. Yeah.[0:06:19] Karen: And it definitely was part that. But I could see as well, it was probably his bit of a wind down his sanctuary where he met his buddies and they all catched up, caught up, but also when it's every single night of the year. The only two nights he didn't go out was Good Friday because the pubs were closed during Christmas Day because the pubs were closed and I do not remember a single day when he did not go. That's just how it was. But like I'm saying, it was just so normalized and I think this is what happens a lot in trauma or whatever kind of situation. They're just so normal. You don't see that there's any issue. They're just like your blind spots and those particularly coming home life really drunk and kind of waking us up in the middle of the night to tell us he loves us so much, in that I remember that happening literally a handful of times. But when I was really young, like five, six, seven, maybe around that age, it didn't happen as we got older, but he still went out. But it happened enough times for me to live my life in a programmed state of that not feeling safe, that fear, that living in freeze mode, shutting down. That's what we do.[0:07:40] Brianne Davis: You're supposed to rely on, is not in a healthy state. So the boundaries are crossed. Like your boundaries were crossed as a little girl. A father should not be climbing in bed and passing out drunk with his arm over his daughter. Is that when you had that AHA moment? Because you had it after we talked, right? Like we talked on your podcast. So how did that AHA moment realize, I know you have another family member that's also an alcoholic. Can you connect all those dots when this moment of AHA happened for you?[0:08:13] Karen: Yeah, my AHA moment when it all connected and I really saw the impact that those events had on me was like I mentioned, just another family member and just me not being able to cope and I was like, oh hell, I need help here.[0:08:30] Brianne Davis: And did something happen with the other family member? Did the person bottom out or just.[0:08:37] Karen: Every now and again they're just not in a good place, don't have healthy supportive habits. So it's just kind of like, well, I don't give a shit anyway, so I'm just going to go and get obliterated and maybe on a weekly Davis would just be obliterated and awake all night and singing and Wake Me up and I'm just like, what the fuck? So I was just life, oh my God, I need help here. Because obviously again, that's a coping mechanism and they're not ready to do anything else. But it was really triggering me more than anything else because, like, that I have so many tools and skills of and have been on this journey. So I reached out to Alanon and it's so funny because obviously there's so many groups, but it's not funny because there's no such thing as coincidence. But I ended up joining a group called growing up in an Alcoholic Home. And even though looking at it, I was life. Yeah, but that's not really the truth because you have this idea that Narcolic is drunk all day every day and calls him mayhem, which happens.[0:09:35] Brianne Davis: But I was grown up and well, they call Alanon, just so anybody's listening, you don't have to have a drunk parent to be an Alanon. I also went to Alanon. Neither of my parents were drinkers, but it was a dysfunctional family. So they say Alanon's for alcoholic or dysfunctional family, or if you have a.[0:09:52] Karen: Relative or friend, they say, yeah.[0:09:57] Brianne Davis: Well, they're another addiction. Like, my mom is a workaholic. She'll say that other family members had problems. But yeah.[0:10:04] Karen: So this group jumped out at me and at first I was like, no, I'm not going to join that one. I didn't really grow up in the Melcolic home, but then I was like, because this was a Friday and I was like, I really want to just join now. So this was a Saturday morning, so it was the next day. So I was like, yeah, I'm just going to join it. And oh my God. On their opening paragraph, even they describe this adult child and they describe this person who as a child, if they grew up in an alcoholic home and if they often felt either physically unsafe or psychologically unsafe, and that was obviously me, psychologically unsafe.[0:10:44] Brianne Davis: When a parent crosses a line that is just unsure and not normal, which happened to me, I wasn't as sexually abused by a parent, but there was some line crossing where boundaries that is inappropriate for a child. So if you're out there and something has happened where you're like, well, it wasn't sexual abuse, but it definitely made me really uncomfortable as a child. It was too intimate and it was emotionally a meshing and physically meshing a little bit. You're okay to say something happened and I'm uncomfortable, even if it wasn't sexual? I just have to say that because it was so hard for me doing the work to be like, but nothing sexual happened. And my therapist would be like, no, it was inappropriate at six years old for this to happen to you. So I just have to say that because I had the hardest time admitting that to myself.[0:11:35] Karen: Yeah, no, for sure, you're right. And it does make sense, as I say, although I didn't feel physically unsafe. Of course it makes sense. Like you say, yes, absolutely. Boundaries were crossed that's just not normal behavior, definitely, but, like, that it was more a psychological effect for me and how I life. But they had this paragraph on an adult child and how it impacts them, how often a child who grew up in an alcoholic home can have difficulties with trust, with identifying, expressing feelings. And they either go one of two ways total control or feeling like they have no control over their life. And I swear to God, my jaw dropped on the ground because I was like, this is 1 million% describing me and how I operated in my life. I was a total and not sure control freak because I suppose I didn't feel safe. So I had this story. And again, this was all unconscious at the time. This is through the inner work and the uncovering that my story that I was telling myself was if I could control everything outside of myself, I was safe.[0:12:39] Brianne Davis: Yeah.[0:12:40] Karen: And we obviously can't live that way. It's exhausting. We can control nothing.[0:12:44] Brianne Davis: I was saying I love power and control because that's the only thing I felt, because I felt so not in control of everything. And you can't yeah, you can't go through life trying to have power and control over anyone.[0:12:56] Karen: No, but I did. But more so, even over myself. And it was overanalyzing. It was overly critical. I was overly independent. Like, I was just like, I'll do it all myself. I don't want anyone to help me. I didn't want to ask for help. Life just that pure perfectionism. And that just feeling uncomfortable being myself. And a lot of people do it, but that editing, altering, censoring ourselves in order to be liked, to be accepted by others. And again, it wasn't conscious to me at the time. I wasn't going around going I was the most disingenuous person ever. No, I was completely oblivious. I just felt so unsafe and unconnected and uncomfortable being me that this is just what I did.[0:13:40] Karen: And I see I carried so much embarrassment. I really had so much underlying shame and embarrassment, and I was afraid to be seen. I didn't want to be seen. Why were you hired?[0:13:52] Brianne Davis: Can you explain?[0:13:54] Karen: I was embarrassed because if and I remember, I didn't like having friends staying over purely for the fact I was like, oh, my God, imagine if they stayed and he came in in the middle of night, waking us up, saying all this shite. I was just, like, so embarrassed.[0:14:08] Brianne Davis: Right?[0:14:09] Karen: And that's really where it came from. It was just that pure embarrassment of having someone over and seen this behavior or feel behavior that stuck with me. And still at times, because sometimes our wounds, they're always there. No matter the healing we do, we get triggered. And even recently, life last week, I was meditating on the couch in the sitting room, and next thing I heard my brother coming in, and I got really embarrassed. I was like, oh my God, I'm going to stop. But I've done it so much now it's in that moment going, no, that's an old story.[0:14:45] Brianne Davis: That's life. Life.[0:14:46] Karen: And I just stay there, I'm safe, all is good. Who cares if he sees me? Life, let him think what he wants. It's totally fine.[0:14:56] Brianne Davis: Has this affected your romantic relationships?[0:15:00] Karen: Totally, yeah. And again, it was all unconscious. But now I can see how and just to say before I go into this, that AHA moment was joining that group and actually seeing because just connecting the dots and it's just like all the cards fell and it was like, oh my God. That really did have that much of an impact on me because it crossed my mind before and I was like that's when I stopped breathing. But I kind of thought that was it. But no, it was everything in how I was. And because that feeling of not being safe or being afraid to be myself, wanting to kind of hide and being that control freak and perfectionist and overly independent, that obviously put me in my masculine energy. I lived in my masculine energy.[0:15:53] Brianne Davis: Me too.[0:15:56] Karen: Which again, when I saw that I was like, oh my God, we're so blind.[0:16:01] Brianne Davis: But that's the thing. I think a lot of women go to the masculine energy when they feel unsafe. As a child, when you have to walk on eggshells with someone in your household at such a young age, not knowing what you're going to get, if it's a rager, if it's drinking, if it's overly infectionate, all that stuff, you usually turn to the masculine energy because it shuts you down and it protects you.[0:16:23] Karen: Well, it kept me in my head. I was totally disconnected from my body. I lived from the level of mind that thinking, planning, doing. Like if I could think every aspect of us, it's going to be fine, I could control us, I could think my way out of things, overanalyze and.[0:16:38] Brianne Davis: Figure it out completely, which doesn't burnish.[0:16:43] Karen: Because you cannot live there. But again, it was so normal to me because I'm a really ambitious and driven person and I thought my constant striving and pushing and hustling and efforting, I thought that was a sign of oh, that's a sign of my ambition. Like, I didn't see that it was so detrimental. So because I lived at that masculine energy, I obviously was attracting people who were men, who were more in their feminine and who just couldn't hold space to me because energy always has to balance. And again, I was just such a closed book. I just couldn't open, I couldn't express. I was life just kind of numb inside. I was just like, oh, shut down. So totally. Yeah, it impacted everything, but especially relationships. And like, that not even just intimate. Even some of my closest relationships with friends. I remember years and years ago we were on holidays and a friend of mine, one of my best friends, even said to me, she was just like she's just like, who are you? I just don't even know who you are. You don't share.[0:17:48] Karen: And I was like, oh, my God.[0:17:50] Brianne Davis: How long did you have this friendship? How long were you guys?[0:17:52] Karen: Oh, we've been friends since primary school.[0:17:55] Brianne Davis: Wow. To have somebody that you've known that long be life, who are you? Yeah, because I were never completely available.[0:18:04] Karen: Not on an emotional level. Never. I was terrified. I didn't know how to speak about emotions. I didn't know how to express feelings. I didn't know how because, again, one of what happened. But two, we're not taught that inside society. We're not taught how to process emotions, how to feel them, how to release them. So, yeah, it was that. And actually oh, my God, this is so awful that I remember, like, an early boyfriend as well, who I really, really liked and like, that I liked him so much. I was terrified. Again, that fear of being yourself. I was like, Fear of fear. But even more, it was how I acted, what I said. I just had this fear of he doesn't life me because I like him so much.[0:18:46] Karen: So it's that editing that constantly not feeling comfortable in yourself, to just be yourself. It's trying to be that perfect person. And I remember at one stage and we were going out and I remember one day he gave me a big hug. We just met and he gave me a big hook. And he was like, I don't know what's wrong with you? He's like, It's like you're dead inside.[0:19:08] Brianne Davis: What age?[0:19:10] Karen: Oh, my God. I was like, early teens, late teens, late teens.[0:19:13] Brianne Davis: Like 1617?[0:19:15] Karen: Yeah, probably 1718.[0:19:17] Brianne Davis: Wow.[0:19:18] Karen: Like, around that age. Those kind of comments obviously don't help a person to try.[0:19:25] Brianne Davis: Were you confused or did you brush it off? Did you guys? What happened after that? I'm just curious.[0:19:31] Karen: Yeah, well, obviously, we kind of still went out for a bit, but obviously, it didn't go very far. But as I got older, I was more curious. I was like, Why? Because, again, like I'm saying, this was all unconscious. I didn't connect.[0:19:49] Brianne Davis: It's those secrets that we keep from ourselves. We are crazy.[0:19:54] Karen: And that's why the inner work is going within. Because what we carry unconsciously to ourselves are our blind spots. So, yes, I had a curiosity and I was like, what's wrong with me? Why can't I feel this huge joy and kind of safety and things like that? That's what led me on my path of healing and discovery and intimacy.[0:20:15] Brianne Davis: I know, but what you just said was really important. When you dead in the feelings of not being wanted or not being enough or scared of intimacy or being loved and all that, you dead in everything. That's what my therapy you dead in the joy. You don't get to pick and choose what emotional you don't actually feel all of them.[0:20:36] Karen: And you know what's even funny? I remember that's why Brennan Brown's talk, the Power of Vulnerability is one of my favorite ever. It is brilliant. And I remember when I first watched that, probably in 2015 or 2016, I was going out with a guy and he was going through different issues or whatever, and he was a bit shut down, obviously, as well. But again, I was totally unconscious. And I remember I watched that Ted Talk and my mind was blown. And she literally says that at the end, she was like, you can't pick and choose emotions. If you're shut down to one, you're shut down to all of them.[0:21:13] Brianne Davis: Yeah, I heard that twelve years ago. And it just blew my mind when she said that, because I was like, wow. That's why I feel like I never am fully joyous, because I was so dead. And I didn't want to feel anything because as an addict, I don't want to feel anything. Like, I just want to feel euphoria. 24/7. If I can't feel that, I don't want to feel anything else.[0:21:33] Karen: But I remember watching that mind blown. Loved it. But then I was like, that's what's wrong with my boyfriend, trying to get him to watch it. And it just blows my mind now, because again, it's that thing of everything as a reflection. It's not outside of us, it's something within us as well. But again, I was so unconscious. And it even makes sense now as well, because I traveled for years after university and life, you're saying there as well. I just couldn't feel the full expression of anything. I was just pretty much like, pretty numb to everything. And people you'll be watching this incredible sunset and people are like, oh my God, it's so incredible. Newly cried. And I'm like, yeah, it's ground, like.[0:22:12] Brianne Davis: Trying to set like, can we go now?[0:22:14] Karen: Yeah. Trying to kind of fake this, going, oh, yeah. And I'm like going, how are they getting so excited about this? I'm like, It's beautiful, but I just can't feel it. Whereas now I'm that person that I'm like. I'm like crying at the sunset, going, oh my God, it's so beautiful. Nature is so powerful, but I just live my life numb. And again, I just wasn't even aware.[0:22:36] Brianne Davis: Can I just say, too, it was really fascinating when you said about the boyfriend, and I just want to point out, and I always love to take these things because they're tips. Like, if anyone's listening and you keep picking that unavailable person, and it's because something in you is unavailable. You pick those people because you're unavailable. And that's when you go inward. Life, you said you have to do the inner work. If there's drama or you're not feeling what everybody else is feeling, usually there's something we're cut off from.[0:23:05] Karen: Yeah, and that's exactly why they say everything does start from within. If we can't feel the full expression of love, of joy, of whatever within us, first and foremost, nothing outside of us can make us feel it. Yes, they can augment it, they can make it bigger, but they cannot make us feel anything that we do not or have activated within ourselves first. So that's why it's all from within. It all starts from within everything. If it's not happening on the external, it's because of something that we hold within a limiting belief, a subconscious pattern, something. And that's why through my own journey and all my learnings and all these AHA like faceplant moments going, oh my God, how could I be so blind? But that's part of the journey. It's not when you have these uncoverings, it's not to get even harder on yourself. It's kind of to be like, oh, well, now I know. Now I've got something.[0:23:58] Brianne Davis: Now you're gentle, you have compassion and empathy, saying, oh, these are the things that happen. This is why I'm the way I am. And now I need to work on them because you can't carry around that baggage through your life or you're responsible for your behavior now that you know. But here's the thing, and I want to ask you, I want to get back to now there's a person in your life. Is your father still around? I wanted to ask.[0:24:22] Karen: No, he passed away ten years ago this year of cancer. But obviously it was all connected. And it's funny, actually, he mentioned to me close to the end, he said to me one day, he was like, you know what, Karen? I always thought I was an alcoholic and the drink would kill me. And he was like, and here I am with cancer. But it was cold on cancer. So there was obviously a connection.[0:24:47] Brianne Davis: Now you are dealing with someone in your life that is drinking a lot, right?[0:24:53] Karen: Yeah. On a weekly basis, kind of going.[0:24:57] Brianne Davis: So how are you dealing with that? How are you taking care of yourself now that you know this journey and you know what you've been through and you have the tools and you're with other people like mine going through the same thing. How? Karen, you dealing with someone you care about having the same disease, and it's.[0:25:15] Karen: Hard the closer the person is to you because you want to. And especially when you've been on a healing journey, you want to share all these tools and everything. I know, right?[0:25:25] Brianne Davis: And they're like, no, I'm not interested. Leave me alone. That happens to me on a daily basis. It's the most heartbreaking when you're like, no, it's heartbreaking the way you can be better. You don't have to be living like this. And they're, like, not interested.[0:25:37] Karen: Yeah, totally. And that's a really hard part. But it's about making peace with that as well. And I suppose for me now, for years, I have so many daily practices. Like it is my jam to be meditating, to be praying, to be doing yoga, to be conscious all day, every day, that is me. And even more so when I feel triggered in this particular situation. But also it was that extra level of me reaching out to get help from Alanon and be in a like minded group of people who are experiencing the same, to just be able to share because a word you mentioned there as well. When you go on this healing journey and really connect back to yourself, you gain so much compassion for yourself going, wow. It's that thing of when we know better, we do better. But that compassion. Again, like I said before, we have to activate things within ourselves. So the fact that I activated it within myself, for myself, I actually extend that to others. So even to my dad, I have huge compassion for him because I'm like, shit, I don't know what was going on in his life.[0:26:39] Brianne Davis: Yeah, what he went through, you have no idea. It's that empathy that we get to have now because we see that we're all going through something nobody does. Hurt people, hurt people and people are trying to function. But yeah, you look at it from a different angle, totally.[0:26:55] Karen: And I don't think anyone is innately bad, so I do that as well in this situation. And also it's the bigger picture of the higher consciousness that we are a soul, we are a spirit having a human experience. And I'm life just because I think it's bad or it's wrong or it's not the best way. I don't know what another soul is here to experience and to go through and it's just to try, hold, to look after myself. But to hold that space of compassion and love and be just like look, I know you're going through a difficult time. I'm here. Please let me know if I can do anthem. But I also know it's your journey and I fully love you. And giving them that space as well, I think is huge. And I know for us it's made a massive difference because although it hurts and it pains, again, it's not my life. Everyone's here to experience their own things and again, I know it's because of something else that's going on and they know as well. And when they're ready to look at another way, then it'll be their time and it's being okay with that. And I think that's the full truth of awakening, of responsibility, it is that making peace with everyone and anyone, however they're living their life, it's like, okay, maybe it's not my choice, but I don't want to take my anger or because you're not meeting my expectations out on you. That's my piece to deal with. If I am triggered, because that's what they say, nothing can affect me unless I have an unhealed wound within me, unless it's touching something within.[0:28:24] Karen: Me. So it's that constant invitation, and that's the way I looked at it. I'm like, it's an invitation for me to go deeper into my work. And I am so grateful. And I've said this to him as well. I'm like, oh, my God. I'm so grateful, actually, that you're going through this phase, because it has pushed me to go deeper within myself. And now I've connected with this whole community that I am growing and learning so much. And I'm like, oh, my God. And it is helping him. He's like, wow, that's really interesting. And he's starting to look for other avenues in that. So we just never know. And it's really hard the closer someone is. But it's not about getting anger, calling, just telling them to get their shit together and stop being such an asshole or whatever.[0:29:08] Karen: And that's really hard. But it's always our work. It's always our piece.[0:29:12] Brianne Davis: Yeah, I 100% agree. And I love talking to you. We could talk forever. But I have one more question before we go. If someone is dealing with an alcoholic or an addict and they don't know how to have a relationship or move forward, what would be your last bit of advice that you wish you would have heard a long time ago? Yeah.[0:29:35] Karen: Well, again, I suppose because it depends where you're at in your journey, because for so long, I was so unconscious, I didn't even see the connection. So curiosity is such an incredible tool. Like, if we live a life of curiosity and more curiosity about ourselves, why am I getting so angry? 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What was it like to break into directing in the 1970s and '80s? Let's find out!Sharon and Susan are honored to talk with Emmy-winning director Karen Arthur. Karen started out as an actress on such shows as “Get Smart”, “The Streets of San Francisco”, “Mannix”, “That Girl” and “The Monkees”. In 1975 she made the transition to directing and has since helmed episodes of classic TV series including “Judging Amy”, “Hart to Hart”, “7th Heaven” and “Remington Steele”, as well as the powerful true story TV movie “The Rape of Richard Beck” and the award-winning mini-series “The Jacksons: An American Dream” starring Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs and Angela Bassett.In 1985, Ms. Arthur was the first woman to win a primetime Emmy award for directing, for her work on the “Cagney & Lacey” episode “Heat”. She has worked with some of the biggest stars in Hollywood, including Ed Asner, Kirstie Allie, Delta Burke, Barbara Hershey, Diane Ladd, Bernadette Peters, Christopher Plummer, Christopher Reeves, Jane Seymour, Susan Sullivan and Angelina Jolie.THE CONVERSATIONHow drinking wine and dreaming of Hollywood with a friend in summer stock led to “Remington Steele” creator Michael Gleason going to bat for Karen to get her first TV directing job: “Rich Man, Poor Man Book II”.Almost getting kicked off the lot for parking in the “Director” spot – and then telling the Security Guard: “I AM the director!”Fun and heartache on “Hart to Hart” with the great Stefanie Powers.Meeting and falling in love on “Cagney & Lacey” with her husband of 39 years -- director of photography Thomas Neuwirth.Winning the Emmy and how it changed everything for Karen – and the women directors to follow.DOWN IN FRONT: How sitting in the front row when the bosses are watching your work is the best director trick she's learned -- and why…Working with Lee Grant and Carol Kane on The Mafu Cage and learning to give actors – and herself – “room to fail”.The choreography of directing and creating intricate shots.Choosing her projects carefully -- and getting the nickname “Karen No”.Filming “The Rape of Richard Beck” with Richard Crenna -- and the message he showed the crew written on his own butt!So join Susan and Sharon – and Karen – as they talk about bumping into Tyne Daly on Broadway, getting checks from Paul Newman and swallowing fire with Pierce Brosnan!PLUS – 80'S TV LADIES TRIBUTE salutes the recent passing of some legendary TV and film ladies…AND -- listener feedback from our fans!AUDIOGRAPHYDefining Women: Television and the Case of Cagney & Lacey by Julie D'Acci. Get it at Bookshop. Primetime Feminism: Television, Media Culture and the Women's Movement Since 1970 by Bonnie J. Dow. Get it at Penn Press or Amazon.Part of Weirding Way Media with Mike White & Chris Stachiw Help us make episodes AND experience them ad-free, plus get cool exclusive content: WE'RE NOW ON PATREON!For more information or to download a transcript of this podcast, visit our website - 80sTVLadies.com. Don't miss out. Sign up for our mailing list.This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5585115/advertisement

Karen Noé is a renowned psychic medium, spiritual counselor, and healer with a two-year waiting list. Since bestselling author, Dr. Wayne Dyer left the physical plane in 2015, Karen has been receiving profound messages from him for his family and for the world as well. Wayne also comes through with a group of other celestial beings, called the We Guides, that includes Saint Francis of Assisi and numerous angels and ascended masters. Karen is the Hay House author of We Consciousness: 33 Profound Truths for Inner and Outer Peace, Your Life After Their Death: A Medium's Guide to Healing After a Loss, and Through the Eyes of Another: A Medium's Guide to Creating Heaven on Earth by Encountering your Life Review Now. She's so excited to announce her latest project – The Angel Quest Oracle Deck

In this Stellar Conversations episode, I am joined by Karen Noe as we talk about angels and their mission in this realm, reincarnation, and how to hone the light within so that you can be a beacon in your community. Tune in!

In this podcast, Karen Noé, renowned psychic medium and spiritual advisor, joins host Steve Farrell for a conversation on “Helping You Become a Medium,” where Karen and Steven cover everything from how to raise your energetic frequency to connecting with beings across the veil.  Karen is passionate about teaching others to become mediums themselves, knowing that we all have the capacity to tap into guidance from our loved ones, ascended masters, and others at any time.  In this podcast you will learn about… How our Oneness ties us to the Afterlife The awe-inspiring wisdom that Wayne has been sharing with Karen The first steps to becoming a medium What a “without a doubt” sign is And so much more… ***Note: this is a special rebroadcast and any websites, links, programs, or events mentioned may no longer be active (or dates may have been changed). Thank you!*** Learn more about Humanity Stream+, a revolutionary and top of the line conscious streaming platform featuring world class faculty and a vibrant spiritual community. Starting on August 20th, Saje and Serena Dyer and Karen Noé's Masterclass, “Life After Death,” will be on the platform alongside hundreds of phenomenal transformational programs and classes. In Life After Death, you will discover the skills of mediumship and the awe inspiring messages that Dr. Wayne Dyer has been sharing through Karen, Saje, and Serena since his passing in 2015. Explore Humanity's Team and the timeless truth that We Are All One. Learn more about the Humanity's Team free education programs.

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Please enjoy this podcast, “Dr. Wayne Dyer is Present and Available to Us All,” with Saje Dyer and Serena Dyer Pisoni who join host Steve Farrell for a conversation on how their father Wayne Dyer Is present and available to us all. Saje Dyer is the author of a children's book, Goodbye Bumps!: Talking to What's Bugging You and co-authored a book with her sister Serena about lessons they learned from their father, Wayne Dyer, to understand the urgings of our souls.  Serena Dyer Pisoni is the author of Don't Die with Your Music Still in You: My Experience Growing Up with Spiritual Parents, and co-authored a book with her sister Saje about lessons they learned from their father, Wayne Dyer, to understand the urgings of our souls.  In this podcast, Saje, Serena, and Steve will discuss… How belief affects experience How to get into a place where you can receive the things you want How to shift your mindset away from impossibilities toward possibilities  How to think beyond the physical realm And much more! ***Note: this is a special rebroadcast and any websites, links, programs, or events mentioned may no longer be active (or dates may have been changed). Thank you!*** Learn more about the brand-new free online video program “Messages From the Afterlife” with Saje Dyer, Serena Dyer Pisoni, and Karen Noé

In this podcast, Karen Noé, renowned psychic medium, spiritual counselor, and healer, joins host Steve Farrell for a conversation on “Messages from the Afterlife.” Karen and Steve unpack what we can all receive from the “Other Side,” the teachings of Dr. Wayne Dyer coming through now, and the brand-new online program with Karen, Saje Dyer, and Serena Dyer Pisoni, two of Wayne's daughters. In this podcast you will learn about… Why we are all capable of connecting with the Other Side How Karen found her way to the Dyer family How Wayne Dyer first showed himself Personal stories of the impact of Karen's channeling The Afterlife Review and the peace of passing And so much more… ***Note: this is a special rebroadcast and any websites, links, programs, or events mentioned may no longer be active (or dates may have been changed). Thank you!*** Learn more about ‘Messages from the Afterlife: Dr. Wayne Dyer & the Secret to Communicating with the Other Side' with Karen Noé, Saje Dyer, and Serena Dyer Pisoni. In this phenomenal program, you'll learn the extraordinary story about Wayne Dyer after he died (there is actually no such thing as death, as you will see), and how he continues to provide teachings and messages filled with wisdom and guidance through his daughters, Saje and Serena, and spiritual medium Karen Noé. Explore Humanity's Team and the timeless truth that We Are All One. Learn more about the Humanity's Team free education programs.

Enhance direct communication between you and your angels. As you invoke those in the heavenly realm, you'll receive accurate, uplifting messages to help you better understand the steps you need to take to move forward in life. Deepen your connection with the angelic realm. Receive the support from the unseen. Connect to your angelic team and co-create with the Universe. How do we connect with the angelic realm? What is divination? How does the soul speak through imagery, color and symbolism. Tune in as we receive messages from the angels. Two beautiful souls came together for an Angel Quest. Karen Noé is a renowned psychic medium, spiritual counselor, and healer with a two-year waiting list for appointments and consultations. She is the author of several books. Marie Antoinette Kelley is a self-taught artist who has done hundreds of portraits and whose work is well known throughout Montana.

This podcast, “Love is All that Matters: Lessons from the Otherside,” revisits a remarkable conversation from the 2021 Global Oneness Summit with host Karen Noé, and guests Peter Anthony, Jeffery Olsen, and Tricia Barker on Cosmic Awareness from Near Death Experiencers and what going to the “Otherside” showed Peter, Jeffery, and Tricia about the nature of life and what we actually take with us when we pass on to the next plane. In this podcast you will hear about… Peter, Jeffery, and Tricia's personal near-death experiences  The visions they brought back from the “Otherside” and how they are using them to create a better world and the visions they share following the encounter to create a better world. The wisdom they received when they left their physical bodies and went to the “other side”. The improvements in their lives after their encounters with death. And a whole lot more about the “Afterlife Review” ***Note: this is a special rebroadcast and any websites, links, programs, or events mentioned may no longer be active (or dates may have been changed). Thank you!*** Learn more about ‘Messages from the Afterlife: Dr. Wayne Dyer & the Secret to Communicating with the Other Side' with Karen Noé and Saje and Serena Dyer. In this phenomenal program, you'll learn the extraordinary story of what happened to Dr. Wayne Dyer after he died (there is actually no such thing as death, as you will see), and how he continues to provide teachings and messages filled with wisdom and guidance through his daughters, Saje and Serena, and spiritual medium Karen Noé. Explore Humanity's Team and the timeless truth that We Are All One. Learn more about the Humanity's Team free education programs.

Angel Quest: Karen Noé & Marie Antoinette Kelley Enhance direct communication between you and your angels. As you invoke those in the heavenly realm, you'll receive accurate, uplifting messages to help you better understand the steps you need to take to move forward in life. Deepen your connection with the angelic realm. Receive the support from the unseen. Connect to your angelic team and co-create with the Universe. How do we connect with the angelic realm? What is divination? How does the soul speak through imagery, color and symbolism. Tune in as we receive messages from the angels. Two beautiful souls came together for an Angel Quest. Karen Noé is a renowned psychic medium, spiritual counselor, and healer with a two-year waiting list for appointments and consultations. She is the author of several books. Marie Antoinette Kelley is a self-taught artist who has done hundreds of portraits and whose work is well known throughout Montana. Karen Noé is a renowned psychic medium, spiritual counselor, and healer with a two-year waiting list for appointments and consultations. She is the author of several books. This is her first oracle deck. Karen is also the founder of the Angel Quest Center in Waldwick, New Jersey, where she teaches classes, gives readings, and practices alternative healing. You can listen to Karen on The Angel Quest Radio Show by going to www.hudsonriverradio.com . Learn more about Karen and her work by visiting: www.karennoe.com Marie Antoinette Kelley is a self-taught artist who has done hundreds of portraits and whose work is well known throughout Montana. Her art has been featured in local magazines and newspapers, such as the Billings Gazette, Rural Montana, The Bozone, and the Montana Pioneer. In 2019, the Delaware North general stores began selling her artwork in the form of woven blankets throughout Yellowstone National Park. Learn more about Marie Antoinette and her work by visiting: www.makfineart.com Learn more about Simran here: www.iamsimran.com www.1111mag.com/

Enhance direct communication between you and your angels. As you invoke those in the heavenly realm, you'll receive accurate, uplifting messages to help you better understand the steps you need to take to move forward in life. Deepen your connection with the angelic realm. Receive the support from the unseen. Connect to your angelic team and co-create with the Universe. How do we connect with the angelic realm? What is divination? How does the soul speak through imagery, color and symbolism. Tune in as we receive messages from the angels. Two beautiful souls came together for an Angel Quest. Karen Noé is a renowned psychic medium, spiritual counselor, and healer with a two-year waiting list for appointments and consultations. She is the author of several books. Marie Antoinette Kelley is a self-taught artist who has done hundreds of portraits and whose work is well known throughout Montana.

Enhance direct communication between you and your angels. As you invoke those in the heavenly realm, you'll receive accurate, uplifting messages to help you better understand the steps you need to take to move forward in life. Deepen your connection with the angelic realm. Receive the support from the unseen. Connect to your angelic team and co-create with the Universe. How do we connect with the angelic realm? What is divination? How does the soul speak through imagery, color and symbolism. Tune in as we receive messages from the angels. Two beautiful souls came together for an Angel Quest. Karen Noé is a renowned psychic medium, spiritual counselor, and healer with a two-year waiting list for appointments and consultations. She is the author of several books. Marie Antoinette Kelley is a self-taught artist who has done hundreds of portraits and whose work is well known throughout Montana.

Enhance direct communication between you and your angels. As you invoke those in the heavenly realm, you'll receive accurate, uplifting messages to help you better understand the steps you need to take to move forward in life. Deepen your connection with the angelic realm. Receive the support from the unseen. Connect to your angelic team and co-create with the Universe. How do we connect with the angelic realm? What is divination? How does the soul speak through imagery, color and symbolism. Tune in as we receive messages from the angels. Two beautiful souls came together for an Angel Quest. Karen Noé is a renowned psychic medium, spiritual counselor, and healer with a two-year waiting list for appointments and consultations. She is the author of several books. Marie Antoinette Kelley is a self-taught artist who has done hundreds of portraits and whose work is well known throughout Montana.

From author Karen Noé and illustrator Marie Antoinette, this heavenly divination card deck was created to enhance the communication between you and your angels so that you may move forward in life with comfort and protection. For those seeking guidance from above, the Angel Quest Oracle will serve as your guide to connecting with the celestial realm. Karen Noé is a renowned psychic medium, spiritual counselor, and healer with a two-year waiting list for appointments and consultations. She is the author of several books. This is her first oracle deck. Karen is also the founder of the Angel Quest Center in Waldwick, New Jersey, where she teaches classes, gives readings, and practices alternative healing. You can listen to Karen on The Angel Quest Radio Show by going to hudsonriverradio.com. Learn more about Karen and her work by visiting: karennoe.com. Marie Antoinette Kelley is a self-taught artist who has done hundreds of portraits and whose work is well known throughout Montana. Her art has been featured in local magazines and newspapers, such as the Billings Gazette, Rural Montana, The Bozone, and the Montana Pioneer. In 2019, the Delaware North general stores began selling her artwork in the form of woven blankets throughout Yellowstone National Park. Learn more about Marie Antoinette and her work by visiting: makfineart.com. ------------------------------- As of this moment, we have over 80 hours of premium videos available at path11tv.com, with new videos added regularly. Watch Path 11 TV wherever you want, on the iPhone, AppleTV, Android, Amazon Fire, and Roku Apps.

Psychic medium, spiritual counselor, and author Karen Noé and portrait and fine artist Marie Antoinette Kelley have come together with their unique gifts to create the divinely grounded and visually enchanting card deck and guidebook Angel Quest Oracle. In this episode, they are giving us quite the treat as they educate us on how anyone can connect with their angels and gain insight from the other side. So get ready to learn how to channel your vibration to see and listen for signs from your unique angels.

Enhancing Your Communication with the AngelsAired Tuesday, March 15, 2022 at 11:00 AM PST / 2:00 PM ESTRenowned psychic medium, spiritual counselor, and healer Karen Noé reminds us that we truly are never alone: our angels are always with us. And introducing her new card deck, the ANGEL QUEST ORACLE, she invites you to enhance the communication between you and your angels so that you may move forward in life with comfort and protection.About the Guest:Karen Noé is a renowned psychic medium, spiritual counselor, and healer with a two-year waiting list for appointments and consultations. She is the author of several books and just released her new oracle deck, Angel Quest Oracle.Karen is also the founder of the Angel Quest Center in Waldwick, New Jersey, where she teaches classes, gives readings, and practices alternative healing. You can listen to Karen on The Angel Quest Radio Show by going to hudsonriverradio.com.Social Media:Website: https://www.karennoe.com/Facebook Biz Page: https://www.facebook.com/KarenNoeAuthorInstagram: @karennoeauthorTwitter: https://twitter.com/karennoeauthorVisit the Inspired Conversations show page https://omtimes.com/iom/shows/inspired-conversations/Connect with Linda Joy at https://www.linda-joy.com/#KarenNoé #Angels #InspiredConversations #LindaJoySubscribe to our Newsletter https://omtimes.com/subscribe-omtimes-magazine/Connect with OMTimes on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Omtimes.Magazine/ and OMTimes Radio https://www.facebook.com/ConsciousRadiowebtv.OMTimes/Twitter: https://twitter.com/OmTimes/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/omtimes/Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/2798417/Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/omtimes/

Karen Noé is a renowned psychic medium, spiritual counselor, and healer with a two-year waiting list for appointments and consultations.  The Angel Quest Oracle deck was created to enhance the communication between you and your angels so that you may move forward in life with comfort and protection.  It was such a  pleasure to welcome Karen back to the show, she is a caring, kind, loving person who truly wants to help others.    

Would you like to communicate with your Angels? If so, the heavenly divination card deck Angel Quest Oracle created by Karen Noé and Marie Antoinette Kelley will enhance the communication between you and your angels so that you may move forward in life with comfort and protection. For those seeking guidance from above, the Angel Quest Oracle will serve as your guide to connecting with the celestial realm. Karen Noé is the founder of the Angel Quest Center in Waldwick, New Jersey, where she teaches classes, gives readings, and practices alternative healing. She is a renowned psychic medium, spiritual counselor, and healer with a two-year waiting list for appointments and consultations. Karen is also the author of several books, and this is her first oracle deck. Marie Antoinette Kelley is a self-taught artist who has done hundreds of portraits. Her work is well known throughout Montana. Marie Antoinette's art has been featured in local magazines and newspapers, such as the Billings Gazette, Rural Montana, The Bozone, and the Montana Pioneer. In 2019, the Delaware North general stores began selling her artwork in the form of woven blankets throughout Yellowstone National Park. Join Karen Noe, Marie Antoinette Kelley, and me on Wednesday, March 9, 10-11 A.M. CT U.S. Our conversation will be about their remarkable life's journey. And how you can use the collaboration of their unique gifts, the Angel Quest Oracle, to communicate and seek guidance with your Angels with ease!

Karen Noé is a renowned psychic medium, spiritual counselor, and healer with a two-year waiting list for appointments and consultations. She is the author of several books. The Angel Quest Oracle is her first oracle deck. Karen is also the founder of the Angel Quest Center in Waldwick, New Jersey, where she teaches classes, gives readings, and practices alternative healing. -- Using simple everyday objects like billiard balls, cats, and computer games, Brent Michael Phillips has an astonishing journey into the science of spirituality waiting you! One that makes it easy to grasp how seemingly miraculous energy healing is validated by engineering and science as we know it today. The world may see “miracles from Heaven”, but Brent sees a repeatable scientific formula that anyone can learn! Join Robert Manni, author of The Guys' Guy's Guide To Love as we discuss life, love and the pursuit of happiness. Subscribe to Guy's Guy Radio on YouTube, iTunes and wherever you get your podcasts! Buy The Guys' Guy's Guide to Love now!

Karen: I would say look for the positive in your life and as you're looking for the positive reach out and grab a hand for support because we can do this together. Automated: Hello and welcome to the Beat Cancer Answer brought to you by beatcancer.org the center for advancement in cancer education. Carl: Hello this is Carl Wagner with Beat Cancer and I have here one of our wonderful coaches Karen Holmes and I'm going to let her talk to you about her journey with cancer and how she got to come to us and become a cancer coach. With that, Karen Holmes. Karen: Hi, thank you, Carl It's wonderful to be here. Carl: Welcome. Karen: I mean that with a full heart and gratitude because being alive and being vital and full of energy is the message that I want to convey to all of the people who are experiencing cancer or who have experienced cancer as I did. It's a journey and it's a wonderful time in my life, to be able to come back and to coach other people during their cancer journey as they heal and recover from cancer. I came to being a cancer coach after I experienced inflammatory breast cancer, and that was back in 2011. I've been on this recovery journey for a long time, I feel very happy that I'm here and the journey that I have been on started when I found out that I had obviously breast cancer. I was told that I was going to get chemotherapy, I was going to have surgery, and I was going to have radiation.  And all of that seemed rather intimidating, and I did go through all of that. But during that time period, I did a lot of research. I did a lot of reading about the other holistic practices that would be helpful, that would support me through my cancer recovery. And for me, those were the most important steps that I could take. That I could be my own cancer advocate.  Although, I didn't know anything about cancer coaches at the time and so I developed some of the strategies that I've learned and I've read about in the beat cancer dot org program. And so, that all comes around when I finished my medical treatments, and I'll say that they cured me, and that's in my story. That I became this...okay you're done with all the treatments, you're done with the radiation fine we'll see you in six months. Then it was now, what do I do? That now what do I do, came to me as dance. I knew that food and movement were the best solutions to getting my vitality back.  So, I'll say that dance brought me back to life, and that's where my recovery journey really begins because I knew that I had to change my lifestyle. I knew that I wanted to become somebody who was alive and vibrant and not just somebody who was sitting around wondering what to do next. For me, the dance enlightened my life in fact, I tell people I retired from my job and I flew to Maui and I danced. And that's true, and I came home from Maui and I didn't go back to work. I didn't go back to the career that I'd had for 32 years. Instead, I began this journey of finding out what I wanted to do next and how I could support particularly other women in their breast cancer journey and that's where my focus is. And so, I became a dance teacher facilitator. I facilitate something called Azul, which is a conscious movement dance. now you're going to ask me, what is Azul? Carl: What is Azul? Karen:  Conscious dance is really awakening one's heart and awakening what's inside of you. Through the dance, I was able to embody all of the feelings that Ii was going through. It's somewhat, and I've talked to other women they agree. It's somewhat like PTSD, only for cancer patients, where you figure out that wow, I've gone through all my treatments, I'm supposed to be okay and now I realize what I've gone through and what I need to do to change. Concurrently, I changed my eating habits and I did a lot of internal work to figure out where my path was going to go. That path led me to cancer coaching and that's where I am today. To really believe in the support for other women.  I want to be able to support other women in their recovery.  I think it's really important to make that connection one-on-one.  That's what really keeps us alive, that's what motivates us, inspires us to become all that we can be. That once we've gone through this cancer treatment, we have the opportunity to change our lives. I tell people breast cancer was the worst thing and the best thing that ever happened to me. It was the worst thing because I don't wish it on anybody. It's not a pleasant journey, it can be full of suffering and angst.  And yet, what it gave me was gratitude for my life. It gave me the opportunity to change, reach out to people, to become somebody alive, somebody who can dance her way into freedom of all possibilities and ways of being. Before I logged on to do this interview, I danced for an hour. It gave me that insight as to where I wanted to go and what I wanted to say. That's where I am today. Here I am as a cancer coach. I've spent the past few months clarifying my vision. When I was going through my cancer treatments, they say have a positive vision, so my positive vision at the time was running down the coast of the Pacific Ocean. I was having a new little grandson at the time and with my hair in a ponytail so my hair would be grown and so that was the vision. The vision that I have created now, is one of a three-part vision that I created in something called pillars of healing and that's become my offering to breast cancer and cancer patients, and women who are recovering from cancer. So, in the pillars of healing, I offer three opportunities and the first one is a one-on-one cancer coach. Call me up, text me, send me an email, and I will do a free discovery call with you that we can see what it is you as an individual need. I think of you as my...I have created Lily; I have a blog on my website that lily is the person that I like to talk to. And for her I say, I offer you that one-on-one individual assistance, guidance, I will listen and we can move forward together complementing whatever medical treatment you prefer to take. So, that's the one-on-one coaching. The other two other pieces...and the second pillar is really the dance, and offering dance classes and opportunities for women experiencing cancer. The kind of dance that I do, which is Azul, is very freeing. It can be done by anybody and I say anybody regardless of one's physical attributes, because it's something that you bring from inside. Azul is not something that you're going to have choreographed steps. It's I play music and I facilitate and you move your body to whatever comes up. You listen to your body and say oh I'm going to allow this particular movement or something comes up and you'll say I understand where I'm going now.  So, that movement which I believe is critical to our healthy well-being, it really is. If you had to ask me what are the three things that would be movement and what we put in our bodies, food, and some kind of connection with...that I want to say spiritual or guidance through meditation or whatever you choose to take. That those are the three big things that are going to heal us. And that leads me to the third pillar. The third pillar is one where I am available to do presentations in person at some point or online for people on A how to prevent cancer or what are some of the things that you can do if you are experiencing cancer or somebody you know and love. Because I believe that all of us have known someone who has had a cancer journey.  So those are the three pillars. The one-on-one consultation. the dancing opportunities through Azul and the third one is I am available to give presentations to your organization, to your group, to your meeting, it can be a short one, it can be a fairly lengthy one, and it's really geared to what the organization or your group needs and wants. On my website which is pillars of healing dot org, I give a list of five things but I'm very happy to tailor any kind of presentation using the things that I believe are truly needed and wanted and beneficial to people who experience cancer. So, that in short, is really what pillars of healing are all about. Carl: Well there's a lot to unpack there, but I want to say congratulations first of all for sharing your journey and also getting through from what I was reading a 45 chance of healing and basically going through all the big three, the surgery, the chemotherapy, and radiation and going through all the hardships that go along with that losing your hair and just a fear to finding your life purpose and sharing with others I think it's wonderful. Thank you so much for all of that. I always laughed when you talked about the Azul being something anybody could do because when I dance and I'm expressing myself you better stand back a little bit because you might get knocked over by accident. I'm not a good dancer so I was just trying to imagine that but that's wonderful. So, how long have you been a coach now? Karen: It's coming up on a year. Carl: Wow, terrific. Karen: It's coming up on a year, I do believe that the coach in me stems from...I was in education and had a really nice career and I am very available to listen to people. So, the coaching just falls into line with what I have done for a very long time and being able to help people from where they are to what they want to become and that's in essence what a coach does. Carl: Yeah, so it's a natural progression for you and you have such a soothing voice, I have told you. I think even if people talk to you on the phone and didn't see you or could be an interactive person, I think just that calming voice and like you said I'm here to talk to and to listen. I think a lot of people are missing that, they don't get that in the traditional medical treatment. If they're going through traditional medical treatment, I think it's really great to take on a coach. Somebody who's there to listen to you and guide you, that's wonderful. Karen: I think it's really important when I'm coaching or anybody is coaching, to listen to what the person who's going through the experience wants to do like. I became my own advocate because I studied and I read a lot and I looked at the research and if somebody had been there to guide me, and tell me that there was research and give me the information I would have been able to move forward may be faster and a little deeper. I truly believe that there's a lot of information out there, and a lot of research that's been done and I have to say...repeat myself, that I think it's the food piece is really important. I changed the way I ate, I began to dance, I began to look forward to life and if we look at the research what it shows us, is the people who are the survivors, or the people who move forward, are the ones who say okay I have cancer and I'm still going to be alive and well and full of energy.  It's that vitality...when I was going through my treatments, a dear friend said to me. She said, somebody, has to be on the winning side and I think that's you and so I had to believe that too. And that hope and inspiration that I can give to other people is so important because I've been through...that I've walked those steps and I know that on a daily basis it's not easy. But yet, there's hope. There's hope at the end as we graduate from the medical treatment. That we don't graduate from a way of life. What I clearly see with the holistic practices, is that there is good healthy living for anybody, for everybody, that's what I believe gives us that push to become more of who we can be. Carl: And you're a wonderful role model for people that have been through it and have this great fear of recurrence. That's a big deal, people like you said, what do I do now? Now that my medical treatment is done, they just pushed me out of the nest, so to speak and now you have to fly and you don't know what to do exactly, sorry I didn't mean to cut you off. Karen: No, that's okay, because I was thinking of the word that you use, recurrence, and I hear that a lot.  I'm fearful of recurrence and these steps that we can take as individuals and as a group, to ward off that recurrence, I think are important and in your cancer journey just making it through those treatments but then setting up a lifestyle that will tell those little cancer cells not to come back.  We have them floating around in our body but we don't need them to reoccur, and that's the lifestyle, that's the coaching that we can do on an ongoing basis.  Whether we're one year, two years, 10 years, 20 years, out from our treatment. That our lifestyle changes and our view of life become more positive, that we can be filled with gratitude on a daily basis and that becomes the message that I really hope that people will take. Carl: Yeah, a change of lifestyle is so important and some people don't change. You're a wonderful role model of how you can go from one life and go through cancer and make your cancer mean something. Take it to the next level and show people yes, you can completely change your life. Maybe this new life will be a better life than the old life, but sometimes that wake-up call is all you need. Karen:  It can and you can create that better life you and I and other people have that, I want to say opportunity, to create a better life and I'm here to help other people do that. That's my function as a coach.  It can be just a tiny thing because if you're on a street corner and you take just one step to the left or one step to the right it can change your path. So, we start out with tiny steps that are very doable in your life, in my life that's what happened.  And from that, you can make other changes and you see the possibilities.  You see how it can change you, you can also see the benefits of some of these changes. Carl: Yeah, well some of the benefits you...I hate to say you can't see because it's like a prevention measure, you're talking about preventing.  When you eat better, some people just don't see it but they don't realize how eating in a bad way is negatively impacting their life.  And two, with the movement, the dance people don't realize how critical that is.  I worked with a cancer patient or a former cancer patient when he had some lymph nodes taken out and it was vital for him to do things with his arms which he wouldn't normally do to get the juices flowing because of the lymph nodes.  so yeah Karen: I think many women particularly those who've had breast cancer are fearful of the lymphedema that can occur. There is so much that one can do to contain the lymphedema that it is not just putting on a sleeve.  And there's so much you can do with movement, with the massaging, with some of the other things that are recommended. Those are the little touches, the little changes that really can change your life.  I had to smile about the eating piece because for me, when I changed the way I ate, I could feel the difference. I could feel...I also have to say I lost 50 pounds. Carl: Congratulations. Karen:  So, that was a big deal. That was huge. And when I looked at what I was eating, I could see why cancer had a field day. So, little by little I changed it. It didn't happen overnight, because it's hard to change what you eat but I did it and I would be delighted to help somebody else do the same thing.  And you have to see where it is that you or your client wants to move. Some people are very happy with what they eat and some people are very willing to change little by little. You don't do it overnight as I said but there are small changes. As for the dance, I dance because I love to dance.    I also know that anybody can dance and most people like music. So, you can move to the music in any way. I also want to state that it's very important to find the movement that your body enjoys. If you don't enjoy running or you don't enjoy yoga, if you don't enjoy lifting weights, chances are you're not going to do it over the long term and that's what we're looking at.  I think it's important to discover what the rhythm of your body responds to.  Whether it's a walk outside. Whether it's on an elliptical in a gym and some of the gyms are open and closed right now. Whether it's bike riding with your son or daughter or a partner. Those are the kinds of things that we can discover, will resonate with your body. I go back to the lymphedema piece. One of the things that I learned in my recovery was that I was very careful to build my arm to a state where it had the muscle tone. Where it had the ability to have full range of motion and the lymphedema, I was really careful with but I got that arm so that it is today as strong as it can be today, and that's very important. so that's something to work with, with a lot of people. Carl: Thank you so much, I appreciate that.  People don't realize what someone goes through when you say breast cancer.  They don't think anything's happening to their arms.  So, the eating part...certainly people can feel that benefit by just internalizing the fact that they're changing their internal terrain and making their body an inhospitable environment for cancer to thrive.  When they eat the wrong way, they make their bodies a place where cancer likes to live.  And I like what you said about doing something that people do for a long haul.  It's like you said, it's a lifestyle or making...that's so impactful and I hope people get that message, that it's the long haul. You have covered most of my questions but I do want to ask, when you're taking the course, was there something that stood out for you or you learned that you didn't really know before?  Something that really added to your program? Karen: When I did the beat cancer program, I found first of all that is synthesized and brought together a lot of the information that I had picked up along the way.  And so, it is put in one place, I want to say an encyclopedia, a compilation of the practices in which I believe. And to add to that, it was backed up by research and that's very important to show that there is definite research that there is scientific evidence for these holistic practices. Because when you talk to people, they go oh that's just what somebody's saying and that's really not true.  What we're saying is these practices have developed out of research, out of scientific data, that shows how we can prevent cancer and how we can work with our cancer recovery and that it's not simply what somebody is putting forth in what they think.  But we know that it helps us to see that it's helped people in all different countries and a variety of different cancers, in different stages of the cancer.  So that research piece really was important for me. Carl: Yeah, people don't realize that.  Susan was doing that for 35 years. This is before she ever made a course out of it, so it's not only the science that she researched but it was put into practice for 35 years of helping people.  Oh, I did notice that you said the pillars of healing dot org, is that a non-profit? Karen: No, well it probably will be a non-profit and so I had a choice of what I was going to name this. I was advised that I could use the dot org and rather than the dot com so that's where it is. Carl: Okay, yeah. Whenever I see a dot org, I think right away non-profit. Karen:  Well I will be working with people to build, what I want to say a business, but a business that really goes back into some of the cancer research, some of the cancer organizations that I believe are doing great work. Carl: Good for you. Well, look at that, a whole new you. Who knew? Karen:  It's great, well you ask for like that a one-word aha moment, I think it's gratitude, I think it's vitality, I think it's inspiration, and that's for me moving toward a healthy life for cancer clients, cancer...I want to say people who have experienced cancer, because it's not just people who are going through treatment now, but who have in the past and want to make their lives better. If they've stopped treatments and now wondering what they're going to do, how can I have a good life without a recurrence? That's also important. Carl: Live in victory and not fear. Karen: That's so important, isn't it?  That you live in a positive world and sometimes that's difficult to do. Carl: Especially if you don't have anybody telling you there's another way. So many people their family members just push them towards the doctors and when the doctors are done with them, they push them back. And they don't have anybody like you to say they look, there's a different type of life. Karen: Or they revert back to what they've been doing before they got the cancer. Worst case scenario, if we revert back to that state, chances are it would recur. So, we move forward, we move towards that better lifestyle, that healthier lifestyle. Carl: Okay so I'm going to sum it up here because I think you did a great job of covering everything. So, just a one bonus question, if there is one tip that you could give and then you gave some great golden nuggets all throughout, I mean I could pull out five or six different things I can make sound bites out of.  But if you had one tip, what would that be? Karen: I'm talking to your lily; you are part of my blog and I do tips for Lilly and letters to lily.  lily I would say look for the positive in your life and as you're looking for the positive reach out, reach out and grab a hand for support because we can do this together. Carl: Good one. Well, thank you so much.  Is there anything else you would like to add? Karen:  Check out pillarsofhealing.org and my email is on there and my phone numbers on there. I'm really good about answering emails and would love to connect with you and do a discovery call and see where we can get together...what makes sense for the two of us to work through a cancer journey together. Carl: I'm glad you mentioned that.  I'll put the links in the show notes for YouTube, but some people listen on podcast and it's great to mention that verbally, thank you. All right, thank you so much for your time. Karen:  Thank you for this opportunity.  I really appreciate what Beat Cancer is doing and has done for me and other cancer coaches. I think it's really important that it become and stay a vital organization in the community. Carl: It's a blessing for me to meet the coaches. I had a great time meeting you and again you are going to be a rock star with that soothing voice and positive attitude and being such a good role model, and I think that's great. Karen: Thank you. Carl: You're welcome. Karen: I've been looking forward to this for quite a while. Car Wagner: Yeah, sorry about the delay COVID-19 really just threw a monkey ranch in. Karen:  Well, to you and everybody else.  But it gave me an opportunity to clarify what I wanted to do so it was good for all of us. 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In her new book, Your Life After Their Death: A Medium's Guide to Healing After a Loss, psychic medium Karen Noé shows you how to move on and enjoy life again after you've lost a loved one. As Karen says, “Your deceased loved ones are okay and want you to be too!” Karen offers sympathetic yet practical advice as a person who has also suffered through loss and wants to share what she's found to be most helpful. In this very handy book, you'll discover how you can keep the memory of your loved ones alive while moving on with the rest of your life—so you can heal your life after their death.

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Maria Verdeschi is a remarkable psychic medium. Her ability to connect with teachers, guides and departed loved ones is nothing short of astonishing. Her compassion and genuine interest in each client provides for a relaxed, revealing and down-to-earth reading. The quality and amount of information Maria receives from the Inner Side has led many to simply state, “She is the Real Deal!” Maria is not only a highly regarded psychic/medium but also a Master Reiki Practitioner and is proficient in Pranic Healing. Most important to Maria is that people understand the simple truth that "there is no death - only life."   Karen Noé is a renowned psychic medium, spiritual counselor, and healer with a two- year waiting list. Since bestselling author, Dr. Wayne Dyer left the physical plane in 2015, Karen has been receiving profound messages from him for his family and for the world as well. Wayne also comes through with a group of other celestial beings, called the We Guides, that includes Saint Francis of Assisi and numerous angels and ascended masters.

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Catherine is here today with Karen Noé. Karen Noé, an internationally renowned psychic medium for the past two decades with a two-year client waiting list, was a deep admirer of Dr. Wayne W Dyer, a man whose teachings truly transformed her life. Sh...

Catherine is here today with Karen Noé. Karen Noé, an internationally renowned psychic medium for the past two decades with a two-year client waiting list, was a deep admirer of Dr. Wayne W Dyer, a man whose teachings truly transformed her life. She followed his wisdom to always ask “How May I Serve?” so that she could be a force for peace and love in the world. Like much of the planet, she was profoundly saddened when he left the physical plane on Aug, 30 2015. A month later, as a Hay House author, she had been booked to talk on life-after-death at Hay's House's I Can Do It Conference in Orlando FL. She flew in a day early to attend a tribute to Dyer, along with members of his family. As she walked back to her hotel, Karen spoke inwardly to Dyer and asked him to give her a sign if he could hear her. She then asked how she could serve him. The answers came in minutes...not just a direct response telling her she was already serving, but also a visual sign that highlighted the letters W...E . Delighted with this contact, she thought initially that the W...E stood for WaynE. But she was soon to discover it meant WE. Dyer had opened the way for her to become a powerful conduit to deliver WE CONSCIOUSNESS: 33 Profound Truths for Inner and Outer Peace (Hay House, March 2018), an extraordinary collaboration with Dyer and a collective known as the WE Guides, including St. Francis of Assisi, bringing forth vital information for all of humanity on how we can achieve heaven on earth today. Find Out More About Karen Noé Discover more about Kare on her Website Connect with Karen Noé on Facebook Follow Karen on Twitter @KarenNoeAuthor Connect with Karen on Instagram @karennoeauthor Verve Portraits People are always complimenting on my photos, and they ask me - who is your photographer, and I tell them that I don't have a photographer, I have access to the best photographers – that's the main reason why todays episode is brought to you by Verve Portraits. Let me share my experience with Verve - they genuinely want to know all about you, they are curious about your ‘why' (your purpose) to establish the right elements for a memorable experience. Verve really know how to capture your story and bring it to life that creates emotional connection. They carefully select the best photographers from around the world and their mission is to create unforgettable experiences that will be celebrated for a lifetime. So …  I highly recommend that you check them out and prepare yourself for your own unforgettable experience. It's now time to head over to www.verveportraits.com.au/catherine  where you receive a discount as a special gift for our listeners. It's now time to tune into this one very inspirational human being, enjoy!

Karen Noé, an internationally renowned psychic medium for the past two decades with a two-year client waiting list joins Guy's Guy Radio to discuss her new book "We Consciousness: 33 Profound Truths for Inner and Outer Peace." Join Robert Manni, author of The Guys' Guy's Guide To Love as we discuss life, love and the pursuit of happiness. Have a question for Karen or Robert? Give us a call during the broadcast at (347) 945-5834! Subscribe to Guy's Guy Radio on iTunes! Buy The Guys' Guy's Guide to Love now!

Jason will interview Special Guest Karen Noé, Psychic Medium, Healer & Author of We Consciousness: 33 Profound Truths for Inner and Outer Peace.   As a Hay House Author,  Noé brings forth Vital Guidance From Wayne Dyer and The WE Consciousness Guides.    As The Dyer Family Medium, Noé has brought Incontrovertible Messages From Wayne Dyer to Each of his Family Members, and He Continues To Offer Wisdom to Mankind.   Karen was a deep admirer of Dr. Wayne Dyer, a man whose teachings transformed her life.  She followed his wisdom to always ask “How May I Serve?” so that she could be a force for peace and love in the world.   A month later, as a Hay House Author, she had been booked to talk on life-after-death at Hay's House's "I Can Do It Conference in Orlando FL."   She flew in a day early to attend a tribute to Dyer, along with members of his family.   As she walked back to her hotel, Karen spoke inwardly to Dyer and asked him to give her a sign if he could hear her. The answers came in minutes...not just a direct response telling her she was already serving, but also a visual sign that highlighted the letters W...e.   Delighted with this contact, she thought initially that the W...e stood for Wayne.  But she was soon to discover it meant WE.   Dyer had opened the way for her to become a powerful conduit to deliver WE CONSCIOUSNESS: 33 Profound Truths for Inner and Outer Peace (Hay House, March 2018), an extraordinary collaboration with Dyer and a collective known as the WE Guides, including St. Francis of Assisi, bringing forth vital information for all of humanity on how we can achieve heaven on earth today. 

                     Karen NO-EEEE is a New Jersey based psychic medium with a 2 year wait list. She is the Hay House author of “We Consciousness: 33 Profound Truths for Inner and Outer Peace”, and “Your life After Their Death: A Medium's Guide to Healing After a … Continue reading Karen Noé – Psychic Medium Brings Forth Vital Guidance From Wayne Dyer and The WE Consciousness Guides →