How can you talk about deep truth, trauma and finding your path, whilst have deep belly laughs? I found out with the deadly, staunch and tough love Aunty Karen Demmery. In this episode we talk about facing your darkness, how do you find a way out and going after purpose. Karen is a woman is the embodiment of the Warrior Within, Warrior Way movement. She lives, leads and serves from the heart. And will not let you wallow in your own bullshit stories, she will give you tough love, truth and a helping hand up and deep listening space to be seen, heard and valued.

Karen is one power woman who is on a journey to empower the people she works with. CEO/Founder at TLMC Institute - shining a light on you.

Specialties: Mental Health First Aid, Trauma and Healing, Counselling, Coaching, Consultant, NLP Master Practitioner, Coach, Trainer, Women Re-Empowerment Coach, Behavioural Change Specialist, health and wellbeing mentor.

Karens Words - I have a passion for assisting women to be, do and have all they can. I have dedicated my adult life to learning all the skills I could to help me heal, learn and grow to a level where I can now give back to others and help more women change their lives. I have a background in Mentoring, Counselling, Training, Program Development and I love running programs that help change peoples lives.

I teach what I wished was available to me back when I was struggling to figure out how my life got so bad, and more importantly, what was I going to do to change it. I knew I had to change myself first before anything else could change. So I set out on what turned out to be my life purpose, to find tools, skills and gain experience in mind body and spirit transformation. I have a Diploma in Counselling, Grad Cert Indigenous Trauma and Recovery Practice, Masters Indigenous Health and I am currently completing my PhD at the University of Canberra. I have developed the Flashlight Trauma Program which allows you to shine a light on your trauma and gain tools for healing, that are right for you.

And creating a movement through 'Staunch Sistahood (podcast dropping soon).

We are here to create a movement to bring women together to remember who they are and have always been. Solid, Strong and Sacred. This podcast will feature yarns around the journey and experience of being a woman, with #staunchsistas who have their own stories I share. And featuring deep dives of stories, thoughts and wisdom that I have collected throughout my journey so far. My name is Karen Demmery and I am so excited to have you along with me on this journey.