I am so excited to share with you the HEALERS OF HILTON HEAD SERIES!
My goal is to not only shine a light onto the amazing healers of the Lowcountry, but as a reminder for anyone listening to look for the healers in your own community! There are so many empowering and enlightening options available.
Episode 13
Today I welcome Lora Solomon, nurse practitioner with 30+ years of healthcare experience, plant medicine advocate, expert in the intersection between trauma and the physical body, and author of From Wounds to Wisdom.
Bio:
“Lora Solomon is a family nurse practitioner, mother, teacher, visionary, best-selling author, plant medicine advocate, retreat facilitator speaker, and podcaster. With over three decades of experience as a healthcare professional and wisdom teacher, she shines a light on the role of survival programming on our health and our human potential.”
I thoroughly enjoyed this beautiful conversation with Anna Ditchburn, World’s Best Life Optimization Coach and host of the World’s Best Trauma Recovery Podcast! Please join us as we discuss:
Anna’s personal story of triumph over trauma
her insights on recovery from sexual abuse
her philosophies regarding the power contained within sharing our stories
“At the age of 15, my stepfather started what ended up being six years of systemic sexual abuse, threatening me and my family’s lives if I ever revealed my torturous secret to anyone.
I fell pregnant twice because of his abuse and then was forced into two illegal abortions to hide his heinous crimes.
After escaping his evil clutches when I was 21, his legacy continued to haunt me after experiencing 16 consecutive miscarriages, including two ectopic pregnancies – one that nearly killed me in 2019, as one of the abortions was botched and had damaged my reproductive system.
I spent 20 years of my life living in anger, guilt, shame and fear because I didn’t have the confidence, courage, and self-belief to say what had happened to me as a young girl.
I was a workaholic, a people-pleaser, trying to keep the peace, seeking approval from others, saying YES when I wanted to say NO, afraid to make a mistake, procrastinating and worrying about what others think of me.
On the surface, I looked like I have it all together, but inside I was relentlessly beating myself up for every single mistake and frustrated that life wasn’t going my way.
I wasted a lot of energy and time on narcissistic and toxic relationships, in which I put their needs above, and then resent them for it. I would blame myself for their moods and bad behaviour. I was trying hard to prove myself, to dress better, behave better, and love them more, so I can make them happy.
One of the most powerful things I ever learned was that we can’t control anyone or anything else around us. The only thing in our power to change is ourselves.
I now reclaimed my power, freed myself from the tether of tyranny, shame and anger, and made it my life’s purpose to help others to live the life of their dreams.
Imagine what your life will look like a year from now if you take back control of the power that was stripped away?”
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I was giddy with joy during this informative conversation with Erin McKee, PsyD, clinical psychologist and trauma therapist. Please join us as we discuss:
Dr. Erin’s insights on trauma sensitivity
her personal journey as a Navy officer and resulting PTSD
her philosophies on brain plasticity
defining mindfulness practices with examples of healing strategies
“Dr. Erin McKee’s goal is to discuss the important intersection of mindfulness and traditional therapy, especially with the trauma we’ve experienced around the globe, due to Covid, social injustices and more.
Erin‘s areas of expertise include: Attachment disorders, PTSD, Buddhist Psychology, ADHD, anxiety and panic disorders, veteran’s mental health and OCD.
Erin graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Montana. She has a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology and a Masters in Cultural Anthropology.
Erin has some unique, important qualifications, including: A long career as a Clinical Psychologist for The Everett Clinic, a major Seattle area clinical network. Erin served 5 years in the U.S. Navy, spending time as a Ship’s Psychologist on the USS Nimitz. She was the only Psychologist to serve 5000+ active-duty sailors and marines. She also developed and implemented a support group for transgender sailors and their partners, thereby decreasing risk of suicide. In Afghanistan, Erin served as a Staff Psychologist for the Concussion Restoration and Combat Stress Clinic.
Most recently, she received her Certification in Mindfulness Meditation, a limited enrollment three-year course which she was selected to attend, taught by Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach.”
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I feel blessed to have had the opportunity to learn from Latarsha Haughton, author, transformational life coach, and founder of Breaking the Silence Healing the Pain. Please join us as we discuss:
Latarsha’s insights on breaking your silence in order to transform your pain
Founder of Breaking the Silence Healing the Pain, I endured decades of trauma – including sexual and emotional abuse. With the help of God, prayer, and trauma-informed therapy after 30 years, I broke my silence. Today, I’ve transformed that pain into purpose, and now I create community for other survivors.
My entrepreneurial work includes this transformational life coaching practice, guiding people as they release wounds and embrace their power. I also serve as CEO of an assisted living community in Baltimore, We Care First Assisted Living, LLC.
I currently sit on the board of directors at Women and Warriors on Route to Higher Heights Ministries (W.O.R.T.H.H.) and Journey to Joy Ministries, where I’ve received training in prayer ministry and abuse recovery. I hold an award for “Choosing to Live” from The Standing Still Alliance, an organization focused on domestic violence advocacy and awareness.
I believe that remaining committed to studying biblical principles and rooting my ministries in the compassionate love of Christ is the key to my success as a transformational life coach. I currently reside in Tampa, Florida with my husband and my son.“
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Such a beautiful conversation with Kathleen Donnelly Israel, certified Transformational Breathing Facilitator, walker/hiker/runner, and author. Please join us as we discuss:
Kathleens’s insights on spiritual healing and studying with enlightened thought leaders
her personal journey on the Camino de Santiago
her book Wisdom on the Camino: A Spiritual Journey Sharing Forgiveness and Possibilities to Inspire the Rest of Your Life
her philosophies on forgiveness, healing, and faith
“Kathleen Donnelly Israel was born 1949 in San Diego, California where she has lived her whole life. Ron and Kathleen Israel raised their five children in Lakeside, San Diego County. They were a Team Couple for Worldwide Marriage Encounter in the 70s and 80s.
She has a Bachelor’s Degree in Art from San Diego State University. She studied Expressive Arts Therapy at the European Graduate School in Switzerland. She is a certified Transformational Breathing Facilitator, Theta Healer, and has enjoyed a lifetime of walking, hiking, and running.
Kathleen cared for her husband for the 17 years that he had Parkinson’s disease until he died in 2018. During this time, she studied spiritual healing from many enlightened thought leaders and teachers. This is her first book.“
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This was another one of those soul sister connections as I engaged in an enlightened conversation with Kaity Rose Holsapple, somatic yoga therapist and founder of Her Temple. Please join us as we discuss:
Kaity’s insights on somatic practices to heal trauma wounds
her personal journey through sexual trauma into healing
“Women who have experienced trauma are often blocked from their greatest gifts and superpowers. Kaity Rose Holsapple believes that through healing trauma, women also begin a vital initiation into more Soul Power and aliveness than they’ve ever known.
She knows this firsthand, through her own experience healing from severe PTSD after sexual trauma. This experience brought her to her knees, and she experienced some of the darkest years of her life feeling cut off from her own Soul.
In the years following, she sought support that would allow her to move beyond her victimhood to fully reclaim her body AND spirit in the deepest of ways… she committed to an impressive depth of study, therapy, and self work in the arts of yoga, mindfulness, energy medicine, psychology, and somatic therapies to gain insight on how to heal.
But it was through the wisdom and intuition of her own body that she created her own body of trauma-healing work known as Somatic Yoga Therapy – a blend of body, heart, mind, and soul-work for alchemizing trauma into Soul Power. She currently trains others as Somatic Yoga Therapy practitioners and works 1×1 with survivors of sexual, physical, and relational trauma who are ready to reclaim their power and lives.
What she has found in her work is that SO many people are walking around with residual trauma, feeling stuck, and holding themselves back without even realizing it!”
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So very grateful the opportunity to sit down with Diana Raab, PhD, memoirist, poet, and thought provoker, teacher, research psychologist, and the author of ten books and over 1000 articles. Please join us as we discuss:
Dr. Diana’s insights on journaling as a way to process life’s challenges
her personal journey through the trauma of her grandmother’s death by suicide into writing her memoir and books of poetry
her work as a thought provoker and writing guide
her philosophies on the transformative power of writing
“Diana Raab, MFA, PhD, is a memoirist, poet, blogger, speaker, and award-winning author of nine books. Her work has been published and anthologized in over
1000 publications. She frequently speaks on writing for healing and transformation.
Raab blogs for Psychology Today, The Wisdom Daily, The Good Men Project, Thrive Global, and is a guest blogger for many others. She’s editor of two
anthologies: Writers and Their Notebooks and Writers on the Edge; two memoirs: Regina’s Closet: Finding My Grandmother’s Secret Journal and Healing with
Words: A Writer’s Cancer Journey, and four poetry collections, including Lust. Her latest books are Writing for Bliss: A Seven-Step Program for Telling Your
Story and Transforming Your Life and Writing for Bliss: A Companion Book. Her latest creative endeavor are Conversation Cards for Meaningful Conversation,
available on Amazon.“
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I feel incredibly blessed to have been introduced to Holly Copeland by a mutual friend. Holly is a biofield tuning practitioner, coach and meditation teacher. Please join us as we discuss:
Holly’s personal journey of battling an unknown illness only to have it lead her to a new appreciation of life and purpose
the story behind her transition from science researcher to energy healing
her role as a biofield tuning practitioner
her insights on traveling a healing journey through energy work and meditation
“Holly Copeland, MA is a certified Human Potential coach and Biofield Tuning Practitioner, NeuroMeditation and Subtle Energy Meditation teacher, and Reiki Master. She teaches non-dual awareness and subtle energy meditation techniques and uses neurotechnology, Reiki and tuning forks in transformative quantum healing experiences and in her coaching work.
Holly’s childhood passion for maps, the environment, technology and spirituality initially led her to a 25 year career as a conservation scientist mapping the Earth’s ecosystems with GPS. Heartbroken by the state of the planet coupled with a personal health crisis, she set out on a new path of healing and transformation. She shifted her focus from exterior to interior and rewired her brain to a state of resilience and joy.
Founder of HeartMind Alchemy, and as a former scientist turned meditation teacher and coach, Holly unites ancient wisdom with modern science and harnesses modern technology and neuroscience to empower clients on their path to human flourishing and upgrading from “ordinary mind” to luminous awareness. She guides people out of the muddy waters of the thinking mind to live in flow joyfully and effortlessly from their own inner compass–their own stable ground of being.”
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Such an insightful conversation with brilliant Dr. Pat Boulogne, mentor, coach, #1 best-selling author, speaker, certified Functional Medicine practitioner, Doctor Chiropractic, lifestyle medicine coach, and more! Please join us as we discuss:
Dr. Pat’s insights on overcoming being sick, fat, and tired with Mindset Mastery and other superior wellness initiatives
her roles as mentor and coach using pillars of health
her book Why Are You Sick, Fat, and Tired?
her philosophies on what’s keeping so many of us unhealthy and what we can do about it
the tools she utilizes to help others along their healing journeys including the MDQ and gut questionnaires
“Dr. Patricia Boulogne, DC, CCSP, AP, CFMP is a Certified
Functional Medicine Practitioner, Coach, Chiropractor, Speaker,
and Author. She has helped thousands over the last 35+ years
stop adapting their lifestyle to pain, and chronic problems by
focusing on the whole person. The result is that her clients and
patients, find out the WHY and the CAUSE of the problem, and
identify the starting point: what, why, where and how to begin
their health journey to live longer, better and healthier. Dr.
Boulogne is the founder and principal of AskDrPat ~
HealthTeamNetwork, a company dedicated to skyrocketing
your health, lifestyle, and mindset with strategies and programs
that make sense, and help you age gracefully, think, move and
feel better, and live longer and happier!”
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I feel honored (the trauma-recovery geek in me was doing a happy dance!) to have had this opportunity to sit down with Dr. Stephen Porges, PhD, researcher, author, speaker, and Polyvagal Institute founding member. Please join us as we discuss:
Dr. Porge’s insights on the vagus nerve, Polyvagal Theory, and its critical importance in trauma recovery
his role as a distinguished university scientist at Indiana University where he is the founding director of the Traumatic Stress Research Consortium
his philosophies on threat reactions and the impact of trauma on the nervous system
his recently released book, Polyvagal Safety: Attachment, Communication, Self-Regulation
“Stephen W. Porges, Ph.D. is Distinguished University Scientist at Indiana University where he is the founding director of the Traumatic Stress Research Consortium. He is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina, and Professor Emeritus at both the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Maryland. He served as president of the Society for Psychophysiological Research and the Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences and is a former recipient of a National Institute of Mental Health Research Scientist Development Award. He has published more than 400 peer-reviewed papers across several disciplines including anesthesiology, biomedical engineering, critical care medicine, ergonomics, exercise physiology, gerontology, neurology, neuroscience, obstetrics, pediatrics, psychiatry, psychology, psychometrics, space medicine, and substance abuse. In 1994 he proposed the Polyvagal Theory, a theory that links the evolution of the mammalian autonomic nervous system to social behavior and emphasizes the importance of physiological state in the expression of behavioral problems and psychiatric disorders. The theory is leading to innovative treatments based on insights into the mechanisms mediating symptoms observed in several behavioral, psychiatric, and physical disorders.
He is the author of The Polyvagal Theory: Neurophysiological foundations of Emotions, Attachment, Communication, and Self-regulation (Norton, 2011), The Pocket Guide to the Polyvagal Theory: The Transformative Power of Feeling Safe, (Norton, 2017), co-editor of Clinical Applications of the Polyvagal Theory: The Emergence of Polyvagal-Informed Therapies (Norton, 2018) and author of Polyvagal Safety: Attachment, Communication, Self-Regulation (Norton 2021). Dr. Porges is the creator of a music-based intervention, the Safe and Sound Protocol ™ (SSP), which is used by therapists to improve social engagement, language processing, and state regulation, as well as to reduce hearing sensitivities.”
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