Neff Inspiration

305 Karen Robinson: Finding Hope After Trauma

Karen Robinson is a licensed clinical social worker in the State of Virginia with 24 years of experience. Her expertise includes recovery from trauma, depression, and anxiety. Karen founded “Heal Thrive Dreams, LLC” with her daughters to create more impact on trauma survivors globally by offering virtual coaching memberships, digital services, and eCommerce opportunities. Her membership, This is Us: Healing From Trauma Together is for female survivors. Karen and her team empower members with accountability in their personal healing, teach them how to thrive in their relationships, and encourage exploring purpose and passions within community service. The holistic recovery you deserve.        
In Karen's words: 
If you're struggling to find hope after experiencing trauma, know that you're not alone and don’t have to suffer alone. Finding hope after trauma will empower you on your journey to healing within yourself, in your relationships, and healing within the supportive community selected or created by you. Heal Thrive Dream, LLC’s Founder, Karen Robinson, is both a survivor and a trauma recovery expert. She understands trauma impacts ALL areas of your life. Her mother-daughter company offers services and products focusing on holistic recovery within a safe, supportive community. Welcome home, dear one. 
 
3 top tips for my audience:
1. Don’t claim the shame - your abuser owns the shame. Just claim your recovery.
2. Have hope. Even if you have to dig and claw your way to it. Take it. Claim it.
3. Believe you deserve recovery. Visualize yourself getting better and take the first step. 

Social media and contact info. 
Karenrobinson360.com
https://www.facebook.com/healthrivedream
https://www.linkedin.com/company/heal-thrive-dream
https://linkedin.com/in/karen-robinson-1277a22b
https://www.twitter.com/healthrivedream
https://www.instagram.com/healthrivedream_
https://www.amazon.com/~/e/B08HXDJQT9
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLg1UucpXVLZ2i0qsTuhzGdUH14CARCsD8
https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/ad9b8cc3-21a5-4e30-97d0-95788bc0870c/the-heal-thrive-dream-podcast

304 Marie Alessi: Hope, Healing and Happiness after Loss is Your Choice

Marie Alessi is a mother to two boys, a bestselling Author, Legacy Coach & TEDx Speaker. After her husband passed from a brain aneurysm, she chose a rather unconventional path. She chose Joy. It was the one they had both wanted for their young boys. Rob had taught her the concept of two choices – and this one was made in his honour to continue his legacy. Marie has become a shining example of choosing Love over fear and sadness.
In her movement "Loving Life after Loss", Marie offers hope, healing and happiness to the world when people expect it the least and need it the most.                        

In Marie's words:
When we experience loss in our life, we often feel powerless, like we didn’t get a say in this. We feel helpless - and, therefore, often forget the choices we do have. We can always choose how we respond to the life presented to us. Healing is a choice - and so is happiness. It all starts with a decision!                
                
3 top tips for my audience:
1. Find those that can hold space for you without judgment.
2. Allow help in - we don’t heal well in isolation!
3. There is opportunity in grief, I call it “hidden gifts”.

Social media and contact info.
https://www.mariealessi.com
https://www.facebook.com/groups/LovingLifeAfterLoss
https://www.instagram.com/loving.life.after.loss
https://www.linkedin.com/in/marie-alessi

303 Josie Warren: Addiction & Autoimmune Disorders: Your past has no power over your ability to heal

Josie Warren is an autoimmune and mental health expert. She developed alcoholism, anxiety/depression, and was suicidal in her adolescence. After struggling for years with her mind and behaviors, Josie has completely resolved all her addiction and mental health issues. She now enjoys road trips, birdwatching, camping, and hiking in her beautiful home state of Colorado. She is thankful for the gift of her past and lives in gratitude.       
                                                
3 top tips for my audience:
1. Your past has no power over your ability to heal.
2. You are not a prisoner of your genetics.
3. You are in control of your emotional state.

www.thehashimotosfix.com
https://www.facebook.com/groups/thehashimotosfix
 
 
#Addiction
#Mentalhealth
#Alcoholism
#Suicidalideation
#Healthandwellbeing
#Graditude
#Personalgrowth
#Healing

302 Agape Garcia: Thriving Beyond the Trauma of Domestic Violence

Be Your Incredible Self (BYIS) best describes Ms. Garcia’s tenacious attitude towards empowering others. Garcia, over the past 35 years has navigated through domestic violence, privacy, safety, vulnerability, and the mindset to endure personal adverse events in life. 
Her survival of a double attempted homicide while 8 months pregnant (by the father) and the desperation to survive became the catalyst to the foundation of BYIS while achieving an undisputed outlook of independence.  During her journey to overcome, Garcia learned that extreme independence is a trauma driven response and a natural one which can be defeated through focused, self awareness and intentional control. 
Through her own walk, harsh lessons brought on by extreme independence resulted in areas of her life being sabotaged repeatedly.  Her personal journey of post traumatic growth has led Garcia to dedicating her life in developing transformational programs, various forms of coaching, certification courses and establishing a nonprofit to help real time victims. Her commitment is to provide lifelong transformational habits that can restore your powerful internal sense of control. One of her personal statements, ‘You don’t live anywhere but in your head’  is why some of her laser focus teachings are on aligning your mental and emotional belief system. 
As her passion grew from her own personal struggles, Garcia became active within the community receiving a Mayoral appointment to work with the Citizen Review board in direct conjunction with Internal Affairs.  She received hands-on training from the Sheriff’s department, Department of Homeland Security, and FEMA which also led to the Infrastructure Liaison Officer designation (ILO), through the local Law Enforcement Center. 
Garcia has spent more than 20 years in the corporate world holding positions in Office Administration, Project Management, Compliance, Policy writing, Team building, Training, Leadership and Consulting. She continued to serve other organizations including the American Society for Industrial Security (ASIS), Board of Directors, and holds a current membership in the FBI vetted private sector program of InfraGard. As VP of a Security Consultant Company, she has developed programs with leadership responsible for security and emergency management. These emphasize awareness toward identifying different stages of human behavior leading towards violence mitigation.
While working, attending school, and raising her kids as a single parent, her personal priorities of housing, safety and privacy for her children were of utmost importance. This required Garcia to navigate through various self-help centers, state, city, local programs, systems and assistance to create a stable foundation for her family while providing the ability to assist others. She also volunteers and collaborates with local law writer(s), in support of bills under Public Safety.
Garcia believes in the need to feel loved, wanted, and cared for as a part of life in all of us. Living through emotional tugs of war and learning to apply a controlled healthy mindset to overcome voids, shortcomings, and to break unhealthy cycles is who she is today versus the opposite of where she came from. Today, she prides herself on meeting the daily challenges of being vulnerable and safe at the same time while empowering others to Be Your Incredible Self.
Garcia’s personal mission is to help lead others in transforming their survival of Domestic Violence (DV) into Post Traumatic Growth and to mitigate the depletion of resources for real time victims.
Sharing her personal testimony has empowered so many others. She loves teaching her BYIS formula of: How to combine Situational Awareness with Emotional Intelligence to control your triggers. 

3 top tips for my audience:
1. Post Traumatic Growth
2. Controlling your triggers
3. Preventing Self Sabatage

47-Min Emotional Clarity Session 
https://tinyurl.com/byis47
FB Group
https://bit.ly/3bbK5xd
Website:   www.beyourincredibleself.com/
 FB:   www.facebook.com/beincredible
@BEINCREDIBLE
 LI:  www.linkedin.com/in/agarciabyis/
IG:  www.instagram.com/beyourincredibleself/

#BYIS
#BeYourIncredibleSelf
#DomesticViolenceAwareness

301 Louise McMilan: Unpacking Mental Health: Cancer helped me to start living the life I wanted now

Louise McMilan shares how her struggles with mental health came in the form of limiting self-belief, lack of self-confidence and spiraling in and out of depression. It impacted both her HR career, friendships and romances. Then life threw her two curveballs in the form of Breast Cancer and appendicitis at the same time, which Louise now says is one of the best things that ever happened to her. 
Louise McMilan is a raw and relatable speaker, supporting and inspiring people to join the conversation about mental health and Breast Cancer.  By her own admission, Louise has lived with limiting self-belief and lack of self-confidence for most of her life spiralling in and out of depression. It took Louise to be diagnosed with breast cancer in 2017 to help her change how she viewed herself.
 Louise says she’s “been through the fire … and received the most valuable lesson of all – to start living the life she wants now”.… today.
                
3 top tips for my audience:
1. It is not selfish to do what is right for you
2. Choose what nourishes you, not depletes you 
3. You know your body; if something doesn’t seem right - get it checked

Social media and contact info.
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/louisemcmilan/
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/louise.mcmilan/
Website - www.louisemcmilan.co.uk

#livinglifemorefully #lifeafterbreastcancer #livingwithdepressionandanxiety #breastcancersurvivor #louisemcmilanspeaker #louisemcmilaninspirationalspeaker #mentalhealthspeaker #breastcancerspeaker

299 Greg Wieting: How to heal the pain beneath your addiction!

Trauma can debilitate us and make us feel empty and hollow. It can tie us up in knots of alienation, suffocate and swallow us whole. Trauma can strangle us in unexplained pain and rob us of a sense of hope and possibility.
But it doesn’t have to be this way… 
Your symptoms are the tip of the iceberg. Greg Wieting helps you heal the trauma beneath your pain. This way your inflammation clears up, your immune function improves, your hormones, brain chemistry and emotions balance and you regain your focus.
Then you can transmute pain into purpose, place and meaning.
Greg Wieting helps you heal the anxiety, depression, chronic pain and trauma you can't think or talk your way out of. 

He is the founder of PRISMA – a framework overlaying trauma, neuroscience, and energy medicine with somatics and mindfulness. He developed this while healing his own anxiety, depression, and chronic pain while unravelling a severe spinal curvature and standing three inches taller today!
Over the last two decades, Greg has helped thousands heal through his one-on-one practice and has certified hundreds of healthcare professionals in his methodology. His online course and community now make healing accessible to all. 

3 top tips for my audience:
1. Cultivate community and connection. You can’t heal in isolation.
2. Drop identification around illness/addiction/disease/symptoms. You are not your disease.
3. Healing is possible. There’s no one way. Keep exploring until you find what works for you.

Social media and contact info
https://www.gregwieting.com/
https://www.prismamethod.com/
https://www.instagram.com/greg_wieting/

#trauma #traumahealing #healer #energymedicine #reiki #meditation #mindfulness #somatics #anxiety #depression #chronicillness #chronicpain #purpose #spirituality

298 Kristen Donnelly: Radical Hospitality Will Save the World

Dr. Kristen Donnelly (MSW, M.Div, Ph.D.) is an empathy educator, speaker, and researcher with two decades of experience helping people understand the beauty in difference and the power of inclusivity. She is one of The Good Doctors of Abbey Research, COO of their parent company, and an unapologetic nerd for stories of change. Dr. Donnelly lives outside of Philadelphia with her husband, where they are surrounded by piles of books and several video game consoles.

297 Carolina Gutierrez: Is entrepreneurship killing our mental health?

Carolina Gutierrez is a serial entrepreneur who prioritizes & advocates for mental wellness in business. She speaks on and delivers solutions that contribute to the peace & well-being of entrepreneurs. 
72% of entrepreneurs suffer directly or indirectly from mental health challenges. They have a 3-4X higher likely hood of suicide then the general population. 62% report feeling depressed at least once a week. 
Why isn’t this spoken about? Where are the warnings when we start? Help is available for all other aspects of business except to address the emotional & social toll it has on our lives. This needs to change today.
Carolina is a serial entrepreneur who runs 3 businesses and started her first when she was 12 years old. As a mental wellness advocate for business owners, she was diagnosed ADHD in her 30’s has since used her past difficulties to fuel her current business endeavors around the purpose of prioritizing mental wellness in business. Having turned her struggle into a passion she is on a mission to highlight the realities of entrepreneurship on our mental health; by helping dispel stigmas surrounding neurodiversity and empowering business owners to embrace their difference, find their superpower.  
                        
3 top tips for my audience:
1. Know yourself and your tells
2. You cannot do it all or better, ask for help
3. The power of peer support should not be underestimated.

https://bookcarolina.com/
https://soulcircles.ca/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/meetcarolina/

#founderwellness
#businessenlightened
#mentalhealthinbiz

296 Brenden Kumarasamy: How to Become a Top 1% Communicator In Your Industry

Brenden is the founder of MasterTalk, he coaches ambitious executives & entrepreneurs to become top 1% communicators in their industry. He also has a popular YouTube channel called MasterTalk, with the goal of providing free access to communication tools for everyone in the world.
                             
3 top tips for my audience:
1. Random Word Exercise; 1 random word to practice full presentations.
2. Question Drills
3. Sending Video Messages

rockstarcommunicator.com
https://www.youtube.com/c/MasterTalks

295 Adam Gunton: Sharing Your Story - The Ultimate Relapse Prevention

Adam Vibe Gunton has gone from a homeless iv drug addict to a bestselling author, entrepreneur, speaker, podcaster, and founder of Recovered on Purpose. After helping 1,000’s of addicts and addicts in recovery, he believes he has found the ticket to permanent recovery; adding purpose to your life through sharing your story.
Adam Vibe Gunton will be sharing his three step formula to mapping your story into a powerful message. With these simple steps, you will be able to take your story to any stage and be focused on adding value to the world and helping addicts… not fighting cravings.
3 top tips for my audience:
1. Three step formula
2. Share your story publicly
3. Adding purpose to your life makes your recovery stick

facebook.com/RecoveredOnPurpose
Free digital and audio book: https://FromChainsToSaved.com

#AdamVibeGunton
#RecoveredonPurpose
#RecoveryIsPossible
#WeDoRecover