Life After: Recent Episodes
Amber
In the middle of the hard things life throws at us, it is easy to feel alone. This is a place to hear relatable stories, practical tips and inspiration from people who have “been there” and found happines and fulfillment after adversity.
In this episode of my Life After podcast, I'm sharing my experience with intimate partner violence, my insights on why I stayed in those relationships, and the factors that led me there in the first place.I also share about what helped me recover and what you can do to help if someone you know is in an unsafe relationship.
If you have your own story to share, feel free to DM me on Instagram at @becomeyoucoaching.
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In this episode, Kate Gutierrez takes us through the series of events in her life that unfolded to ultimately lead her to find self-love and inspire others to do the same.
Starting at birth, Kate was born with Crouzon Syndrome, a rare craniofacial disorder. Kate highlights the pivotal moment when her face reconstruction surgery, initially meant to fix her condition, went disastrously wrong due to an ego-driven surgeon. She candidly discusses her struggles with self-acceptance during her teenage years, learning to find forgiveness and the moment she decided enough was enough with her inner negativity.
Using TikTok, affirmations, and other self-help strategies Kate found self-love and the ability to recognize her gifts. If you want to hear more about her story and find more inspiration, check out her TikTok channel or listen to her podcast, Infinite Love.
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In this episode, host Amber Burnett provides valuable advice for parents supporting their children post-divorce. Self-care, support, and a good dose of fun will make the transitions a little easier.
Book suggestions
Sesame Street Resources for Young Children
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Join us as we sit down with Jason Shiers, who overcame immense adversity to find true healing and transformation. At the tender age of 5, Jason tragically lost his father and his mother was lost in her grief, becoming emotionally unavailable. Having no external support to deal with his loss and grief, Jason sought comfort in food, drugs, alcohol, and criminal activities.
Jason's path of drugs and jail time eventually led him to 12-step programs and therapy. While he did reach sobriety, Jason never found the inner healing he longed for. However, everything changed when he attended an intensive retreat in Los Angeles. and received a life-altering invitation: be fully present in the current moment. This invitation became the key to unlocking Jason's inner self, revealing that everything he desired—healing, happiness, and wholeness—had been inside him all along.
After this transformational revelation, Jason no longer needed therapy or the 12-step approach to cope with his inner world. To support others, he shifted his therapeutic & coaching model to focus on acknowledging the inherent strengths within individuals and encouraging them to discover their own true nature.
Today, Jason hosts the podcast "Misunderstandings of the Mind" and runs his coaching program called "Wide World Coaching," where he guides others toward their innate potential and true selves.
To find more about Jason's work:
wideworldcoaching.com
infiniterecoveryproject.com
misunderstandingsofthemind.com
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In this episode, I share my personal experience that led to a deeper understanding of different approaches to improving mental health beyond medication.
The episode covers various strategies for improving mental well-being so that you can take more control over your own healing journey, including:
- The effectiveness of exercise in reducing symptoms of depression
- Setting small goals to build confidence
- Establishing anchor points in daily routines
- Cultivating gratitude and positive thinking
- Practicing meditation and mindfulness,
- Considering nutritional factors
- Exploring alternative healing practices.
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While Lucy was recovering from trauma, she started taking notes of all the strategies and tools that helped her get better and find alignment each day. Her handwritten list of notes that guided her recovery has evolved into her book, Daily Alignment.
Listen in to this episode to hear more about Lucy's story and actionable tips you can take today to find your own alignment.
Connect with Lucy: https://www.lucybyrdhope.com/ or on Instagram
More about Lucy: Lucy Byrd Hope is a holistic guide, spiritualist, and entrepreneur who received her BA in Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin. Lucy built onto this foundation by learning cognitive-behavioral, somatic, and existential psychology as well as alternative medicine. She initially became certified in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction at Duke Integrative Medicine. further her education in holistic medicine, Lucy received her Reiki Level I, Level II, and Master certifications. She has also received her first and second-level Shamanic Mastery certifications and is currently completing her third-level Mastery.
As an entrepreneur, Lucy has successfully started multiple businesses. Currently, she operates LucYd Lotus, an energy wellness company, and Wholism, a healthy plant, and fruit-based beverage company focused on bringing nutritional function and awareness to consumers.
On any given day, you can find Lucy connecting with nature, bonding with animals, writing, dreaming up new business ideas, traveling, exploring, and adventuring into the unknown!
What brings you joy? What if you added that into your day?
Christiane walks us through the process of creating mantras to change our self-talk and believes we should all be adding positive habits to our day instead of restrictive strategies.
She also shares the powerful impacts her Cookie Day tradition has had on hundreds of her students.
Cookie Day Reel
About Christiane:
Are you ready for your daily dose of positivity? Christiane from Hello Happy Nest empowers you to start your happy healthy hustle and kickstart your Journey to Wellness! As a Food & Health Coach, she has transformed the lives of thousands of students! With her doctorate in Health Economics, her publications on food labeling & obesity, and her expertise as a fitness instructor, she has a wide area of experience.
Where to Connect with Christiane:
https://hellohappynest.com
Happy Healthy Hustle Podcast
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Is it ADHD? Is it trauma? How do we as parents best manage the behaviors that come with that?
Parenting Coach Jo Mitchelhill draws on her 20 years of experience as a teacher and her observations as a therapeutic foster carer to help parents understand why challenging behaviors pop up and delivers simple, doable, relationship-building strategies to address them.
Curious about your parenting style? Here is Jo's quiz
https://jo-mitchelhill-seasons-coaching.newzenler.com/f/what-s-your-parenting-style
You can find Jo at:
https://www.jomitchelhill.com/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/behaviourstrategiesandsupportforparents
Join me as I discuss how our bodies hold and remember emotions and what we can do to process emotions, ending with a short visualization.
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In this episode, Tammi talks about her very scary experience coming off of psychiatric medicine and how it started a journey of healing. As part of this journey, Tammi talks about finding balance with plant medicine and embracing pleasure as our birthright.
Tammi Lipp is an Intuitive Healer, Coach & Medium who specializes in helping humans understand the intangible parts of life, the subtle energy that we are and we inhabit. She helps to make enigmatic concepts practical and easy to understand and apply. A former Commercial Real Estate Agent, Tammi understands communication and connection on a deep Soul level. Tammi works with people virtually or in person locally in South Florida where she lives with her husband and son. She is a certified student of MCKS Pranic Energy Healing® method, a Certified Master Mind Magic Practitioner® and Certified Clairvoyant Practitioner. Her natural intuitive gifts have been active since childhood but it was only later in life, through post partum struggles that Tammi finally dropped the skepticism and started to take her metaphysical system seriously. Through this healing journey she discovered her own gifts and natural talents for reading, moving and working with energy. Reading the Akashic Records and communicating with your Spirit Team and Ancestors in Spirit, Tammi brings forward a custom experience to coaching that is totally tailored to YOU, the client, naturally for maximized healing and lasting impact on your journey. Tammi helps people become the artist of their reality, learn to create your life from the inside out.
You can find her at www.sacredphilosophies.com or @tammilipp on insta
This week's episode is a solo podcast in response to a request to authentically share part of my own story. This episode is an overview of what it's like having EDS , the journey to a proper diagnosis, and what I do to manage my condition.
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In this episode, Michelle talks about her experiences living with a learning disability and now as a paraeducator supporting students with learning disabilities. Michelle also offers valuable tips on advocacy to get the supports needed for success.
Michelle Steiner is a disability, writer, advocate, and para educator. She published articles on The Mighty, Non-Verbal Learning Project, Dyscalculia Blog, The Reluctant Spoonie, Imagine the World as One Magazine, and Word Gathering. Recently she began a blog called Michelle’s Mission. Her photographs were featured in Word Gathering and Independent and Work Ready. She works as a paraeducator in a school with students with disabilities. She lives in The United States with her husband and two cats.
Taking a different direction this week, we are looking back at the top 3 episodes(so far!) of 2023.
This episode features highlights from:
Your Cycle is Your Superpower with Sarah Jordan
Life-Changing Trips with Harmony Williams
Brave Sober Moms with Leona Shell
After suffering a serious brain injury at 15, Jennifer's care team developed a list of things she would never be able to do. Jennifer made it her mission to accomplish as many things on that list as possible, which has led her to a career as a multi-passionate author and businesswoman.
Jennifer Chambers believes you should follow your creative goals wherever they take you. As such, she writes about strong people in fiction and in women’s history, and she talks about the darker side of humanity in her writing on true crime. She’s a podcaster at The Courage Checklist and Writer’s Radio podcasts. A co-owner of Groundwaters Publishing, she founded TEDxVenetaWomen & attended the Iowa Summer Writing Program. Chambers lives in the rainy Pacific Northwest.
Her latest book, Murder and Mayhem in the Willamette Valley, releases April 24th, 2023
Find her on IG:
@thecouragechecklist
@writers.radio
Or her website: www.jenniferbyerschambers.com
This podcast was featured on Empowered the Podcast with Linda Brand. Tune in to find out how the Life After Podcast started, how to reframe traumatic experiences and what to look for in a therapist.
Shannon shares the real deal story of having a brain tumor, recovering from surgery, wrestling with your identity, and learning to accept help from your community.
These practical tips will help you as a patient and help you better to support friends or family in need.
Shannon can be reached by email at sucksaboutyourbraintumor@gmail.com
After 25 years in Michigan, Linda used the mindset tools to take inspired action to relocate to Florida and create a happy, beautiful life.
Linda Brand is a mindset coach and a women's empowerment coach, she is 30 year entrepreneur who had a successful career in real estate, she is a spirit junkie, a realtor and mentor licensed in Michigan and Florida. She offers one-on-one coaching and courses like Abundant living and a Money Mindset course. She is an animal advocate, a child advocate and a health and wellness lover. She overcame a debilitating illness and raised a son as a single mother for 25 yrs. Linda is the host of her new podcast EMPOWERED! Her podcast is all about Abundant living and living empowered. She will share tools and techniques to create a life of joy and freedom. She will have amazing guests who will inspire, motivate and educate you on all things living healthy, wealthy & Empowered.
https://lindabrandcoach.com/
https://www.instagram.com/empowered_the_podcast/
https://www.instagram.com/lindabrandhomes/
Holly bravely shares her journey of healing after experiencing intimate partner violence and the unique barriers being a lesbian presented along the way. Holly blends her professional training and life experiences to talk about the historical and ongoing barriers members of the LGBTQIA face in accessing medical care, accessing mental health care and accessing domestic violence services.
Holly is a qualified Social Worker with over 10 years experience helping people overcome life challenges and live to their fullest potential. She has now embarked on her career as a life coach and trauma informed breathwork facilitator to further her passion for helping individuals dismantle the structures of who they think they are, and get to know a deeper sense of self love and realise their infinite potential. She has made it her life’s mission to utilise her coaching and transformational breathwork to raise human consciousness and has a strong belief in the power of heart centred leadership in changing the social landscape of the future.
When she’s not working on her mission she is practicing what she preaches, taking lots of time to breathe and embody her highest vision, as well as spending time with her loved ones and her 3 dogs Hugo, Mischy & Yumi.
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How do you go from being a dirt poor kid in Canton, Ohio to America's Most Trusted Fitness Professional? Clark shares how he built on his mother's legacy of honesty, compassion, belief, and hard work to keep taking the next step.
If you are ready to make your own evolution, Clark is taking applications for his personalized 90 day fitness program Maximized Man Elite. You can find out more about his books, mindset advice, and fitness app on Instagram.
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Being born 3 months early left Karen with an immature immune system. As a result, she felt deeply and was highly sensitive to everything around her. Karen used her curiosity and drive to be her best self to finally discover that her sensitivity was a gift, not a character flaw. Armed with this new perspective, Karen went on an inner journey to reparent herself and be the best parent she could be for her children.
Karen Hall is a spiritual life coach, trained by Marianne Williamson. For over 23 years she has been intuitively helping people be transformed to return to the love they were born with. Karen helps uncover limiting beliefs, empowers and builds confidence, and transforms pain into purpose. She is the host of The Hero Within Podcast where guests share their journey to find hope and healing. Listen to Karen's podcast every Monday and Thursday and help spread the love by following and sharing episodes with loved ones! Karen has been married for over 37 years and she and her husband have 4 amazing married children and 5 wonderful grandchildren. Karen also graduated with a BS in Medical Dietetics, and is a lactation and weight loss consultant. Find Karen's podcast and website links at https://linktr.ee/theherowithinpodcast.
While in school to be a drug and alcohol counselor, Melanie found herself in the doctor's office with severe complications with her back from a car accident. The doctor told Melanie there might be another option, but it wasn't available in their state.
That conversation started Melanie on a path to finding healing with cannabis. Melanie is passionate about sharing her personal story and what science has to say about using cannabis.
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Leona used alcohol, pills, and weed to cope with her internal chaos and early childhood trauma. Throwing up on her dog led and choosing to drink again the next day led her to a moment of clarity that sobriety was what she truly wanted.
Finding a lack of support for young moms in recovery, Leona created a community of Brave Sober Moms. This community provides a safe space and tons of free tools for moms to recover together.
Other Recovery Resources:
https://www.smartrecovery.org/
https://www.aa.org/
https://na.org/
Call 211 for local resources in your area
From small inconveniences to the major trauma of losing a spouse to a progressive disease, Christie Burnett Darnik has used humor, gratefulness, and self-care to embrace the good and the bad. She shares how the challenging experiences shaped her for the good and how she uses those experiences to make the schools she works in a better place.
What is PMS trying to tell us? Do men and women have different cycles? Do we have a personal calendar?
Sarah Jordan addresses these topics in this episode. Sarah helps women bring their masculine and feminine more into balance through the art of cycle syncing. Cycle syncing is understanding that every week you're different. You speak different, you feel different, you react or act different. And, bleeding or not, you have a cycle! In learning these nuances, you become much more intimate with your self and your life comes into much more ease and flow!
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Want to be entered to win the podcast launch prize pack? Share, review and subscribe during the month of January 2023. The winner will receive the Cycles by Workout ebook, a $15 Amazon card, and 3 days of Voxer coaching with Amber.
Imagine going on a date with your spouse and realizing they have the symptoms of early onset Alzheimers-then having to find a way to explain what's happening to your 5 year old.
Kristina share's how she found her bravery, embraced the journey and leaned into her intuition while parenting her son.
Kristina shares stories of other brave women on her podcast, She's Brave. Listen here.
Harmony Williams, host of Life Changing Trips, found herself in the unthinkable position of discovering that her daughter had been the victim of sexual abuse. When conventional therapy failed to help the healing process, she started researching other healing avenues.
This led to the discovery of therapeutic plant-based medicine. Her daughter found new levels of healing. Harmony found a deeper appreciation for life, her authentic self and a message that needed to be shared with others.
Harmony can be found on:
Anchor:https://anchor.fm/harmony-williams
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/harmonyevewilliams/?r=nametag
Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/harmony.williams.5
Free Facebook Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1252969798837708/?mibextid=NSMWBT
Pastor Jeff Crippen takes us through his experiences learning the truth about difficult Christians and individuals who abuse others.
If you are in an abusive relationship and need help, please use a secure, nontrackable device to access www.thehotline.org or call 1-800-799-SAFE (7233).
To find more of Jeff's work:
https://www.sermonaudio.com/source_detail.asp?sourceid=crc
https://unholycharade.com/
https://www.amazon.com/Unholy-Charade-Unmasking-Domestic-Abuser-ebook/dp/B016BWRRTM?ref_=ast_sto_dp
https://www.amazon.com/Cry-Justice-Domestic-Abuse-Church/dp/1879737914/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2E5YPN0EY6WM1&keywords=a+cry+for+justice+jeff+crippen&qid=1672331236&sprefix=a+cry+for+justice+jeff+crippen%2Caps%2C233&sr=8-1