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Prayers for Your Trauma Healing Journey - Part 1

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PRAYERS FOR YOUR TRAUMA HEALING JOURNEY -PART 1

One prayer I often pray is: “Father - make the crooked places straight in my heart”

I get this prayer from the metaphor often found in Scripture of “preparing the way of the Lord”

In the Old Covenant before Jesus came, Prophets would proclaim His coming and they would declare that One was coming who would make things right with humanity. Who would “level the playing field” against sin, corruption and evil.

One who would heal and restore and repair. One who would light the way both in the world and in our hearts.

I love this metaphor because it is so profoundly true in the context of trauma.

Sin & Trauma creates so much confusion, dysregulation and disruption in our hearts and minds.

As a result, we can see things from distorted lenses.

What is safe seems unsafe & what is unsafe can seem safe.
We can be reactive or easily shut-down as a result of our nervous system’s sensitivity.
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Heal For Real Podcast-Episode 86-Art, Truth & Being Bad With Beth Knight

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In this episode I am talking with an amazing renaissance woman who also happens to be a client of mine! Beth and I worked together for 6 months and she is here to share her experience and the surprising re-invigoration of her artistry that happened as a result.

In this conversation we talk about:
-The difference between thinking your way through something and feeling your way through something.
-How working with her nervous system helped her have space to stop fearing the anger of others
-How her boundaries have strengthened
-How Beth’s personal nervous system work changed her relationship with her mom

-Self-expression, truth and allowing people to have their own responses to your authenticity
-Being “good” and “bad”
And much more!

To see Beth’s art go to: https://www.bethknight.com/

To follow Beth on Instagram go to : https://www.instagram.com/mary.beth.knight/
To work with Shyla 1-1 go to: www.shylacash.com/work-with-me

To follow...

[PODCAST EPISODE 72] - INTERVIEW WITH SARAH SHIOZAWA

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I’ve got another awesome conversation with an incredible client for you this week on the Heal for Real podcast!

This beautiful interview with Sarah really encompasses why I even do this work. To help AMAZING people with inherent gifts and skills heal their lives and soar in the world. Sarah certainly is one of those amazing people. Anyone who knows Sarah knows that she is an absolute shining light and a born leader.

Her optimistic spirit really shines through everything she does.

Sarah is a Certified Leadership & Management Coach. She holds a Masters in Public Administration & is a Project Management Professional. Her personal 16-year professional adventure has led her to share the lessons she has learned about resilience and change. She mentors leaders in ANY transition or stage of growth.

Sarah came to work with me 1-1 after realising she had some stored trauma due to complications she experienced during the birth of her twins. On this episode, she shares...

Working at the Core

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I'm about working with issues at the core.

Because it’s efficient and it works faster.

Deep Healing is physical and spiritual business. The pull to move back into old patterns is mental and emotional - but actually at the core it’s physical and spiritual.

Sometimes you’re fighting a spiritual battle but you think it’s in your mind.

In those moments it truly feels like otherworldly forces are holding you back from your destiny.

And you can’t claw your way out with your mindset tools because the issue is deeper.

This isn’t a scary thing. Because when you understand the core of the issue you are more equipped to solve it. You no longer are in agony looking for a needle in a haystack.

And you can reach out for help - ask for support from the Divine, from heavenly forces.

Strengthen your mind through tending to your spirit. It’s the shortcut.

Humanity is going through a big change in this moment.

While you may have felt...

[PODCAST EPISODE 71] - A SPECIAL CLIENT INTERVIEW: DOREEN KORBA

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On this episode of the podcast I have an incredible woman, entrepreneur, mother and shining star joining me for an interview! One of my beautiful clients - Doreen Korba! Doreen is a life and business coach who became an entrepreneur after 15 years as a marketing executive. She also holds a Masters Degree in counseling psychology. Doreen helps her clients have time and financial freedom with mindset and business strategy tools. She is a wife and mom of 4 beautiful children.

She works with me 1-1 and is also part of the first class of my certification program, Embodied Healing Systems.

Listen to this episode to hear a little bit of Doreen’s story of grief and loss as well as what her experience has been like with the somatic, trauma healing work that we do in our coaching together. She shares how the work has helped her in her life and business journey.

She also shares what she is getting out of Embodied Healing Systems that is helping her in her own...

Spiritual Practice & Embodiment in Business

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For me, relying too much on logic in business creates a point of diminishing returns.

Logic is not the only element to life - it’s important for sure - but our mental logic is limited to our current paradigm! And this is a major flaw of the logic-only way of entrepreneurship.

To me, spiritual practice & embodiment is what brings the HEAT - as in the life force energy to business.

Business is about being in the market place, assessing need, contributing your gifts, creating things, connection, vision, faith and confidence and a lot more than logic.

For me business is also about flowing in harmony with the energetic current. I do have a second line in my Human Design Profile (sacral generator 5/2) which means things must be harmonious and NATURAL for me.

It doesn’t mean things can never be uncomfortable, it just means that discomfort needs to be in alignment with creating more ease in the long run. So the discomfort is about detoxing from old ways of being...

Repairing Relational Trauma

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At its core, repairing relational trauma as in complex and childhood trauma (including family dysfunction) requires intimacy. New experiences with intimacy and being seen in new and safe ways.

That’s messy business!

It FEELS messy and chaotic. It’s not something you can mindset your way into - or intellectualize or talk around.

Sure there’s some mindset involved - but the actual healing and renegotiation work is body stuff. Plain and simple.

The work I do with clients is about tapping into those intimacy and relational patterns at their core.

I work with super smart, ambitious, talented tender hearted people who have been able to figure ALOT of things out with their minds and mindset, and even some emotional work.

They’ve built lives they are proud of and thankful for and accomplish more than most - others wonder how they can do it all….

And yet?

They still have pockets of life that feel mysteriously challenging.

For example:

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Trauma Patterns and our Physiology

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As you age, working with trauma patterns becomes more and more important. Especially if you’re an ambitious, high performing person who wants to, and indeed IS doing BIG stuff in the world!

Why?

For most of us, our bodies move into trauma patterns unconsciously when we are young, adapting to both big and little stressors.

These stressors, if not dealt with properly, create changes in our cellular function, nervous system and DNA - but young bodies are naturally faster at keeping up with the oxidative stress.

But as we move into adulthood and beyond, The physical energy required to push the patterns away or avoid them takes an increasing toll on your cells and biological functions, as well as your executive functioning.

Meaning your body needs more and more energy to do the same things, and the pushing and avoiding becomes less and less available - and can show up in ways you wouldn’t expect (including chronic illness, brain fog, brain inflammation and more)...

Life is Always Calling us Forward

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Struggle. Talent. Art. Performance. Trauma.

Working with high performers who are talented, gifted and skillful - helping them on their healing journey - PLUS my own fascination with work and what it means for us as humans (hello Generator 5/2 Human Design) always has me thinking about these things.

The pain of life and its relationship to our work.

The age-old idea seems to be true that most of our gifts emerge initially from a place of pain or need. This is why I believe we adore superheroes - mostly mere mortals whose powers were born through tragedy or pain.

What I am particularly interested as a healing and alignment coach to excellent people who love to excel, contribute and succeed - people who feel CALLED to a certain work in the world - is how we can evolve our relationship to the work we do.

Acknowledging that much of the birth of talents and gifts happened in the dark places.

Because what I see happen over and over is that the gift saves us when it’s...

Freedom from Survival

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Speak these words over your life and family with a hand on your heart or tummy (or both) and take them into your being

This is an excerpt from the FREEDOM FROM SURVIVAL CLEARING PRAYER we are doing tomorrow inside SUPERNOVA.

I am always writing new healing prayers as they come through me, to address the needs of my clients and the healing of humanity needs as a collective body.

The spiritual hunger in the Western world is massive, and I believe our survival stress around money has a lot to do with this deep need for spiritual nourishment.

We simply cannot expect to neglect our bodies and spirits and feel prosperous at the same time.

Tomorrow’s SUPERNOVA call is all about Embodied Prosperity, with a section on your nervous system and prosperity. I will be going through the different nervous system states and how the body holds patterns and becomes dependent on these states. These patterns have a direct impact on our financial health. Whether you are making 1m per...

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