How do you find the strength, the fortitude, the emotional resilience to keep moving forward in life after trauma or loss? This week's guest, Dahlya Brown Shook provides tips and insights from her vast background. Listen in as we discuss:
- How Dahlya’s journey led her from being an artist to occupational therapist to becoming a medical intuitive
- Her long path through the Western medical model for treating her depression and anxiety
- Looking for answers and solutions outside of herself that lead to addictions
- Why she thought occupational therapy hung the moon
- Her late entry into learning “the skills of the living”
- Why she used to be afraid to use her voice
- Some of the other self-harming behaviors she engaged in
- The modalities she utilized to wean herself off of antidepressants
- The shift her life took at 40 years of age - and the courageous path she embarked upon
- Realizing her purpose in this life is greater than her certifications and degrees
- The reclaiming and remembering of her psychic gifts
- Turning what she used to think were her liabilities into her superpowers
- Why she’s grateful for the opportunity to change her pain into purpose - and what she’s received in that process
- Learning that empathy is her strength, not her weakness
- The trap of the victim mindset
- The other components of physical dis-ease that are often ignored or overlooked
- What you can see through your own journey
- What Dahlya had to do before exploring her medical intuitive abilities
- What might actually be happening when we have physical symptoms such as headaches
- The effects we may experience of picking up emotions that aren’t even ours
- How I healed two frozen shoulders without surgery or pharmaceutical medications
- Why the “quick fix” for health issues isn’t necessarily the best option
- Where the Western medical model has done us all a disservice - and where it can be absolutely necessary
- Are you making time for prevention or only for damage control, i.e. sickness?
- How Dahlya’s medical intuitive abilities come up when she’s working with her clients
- Dahyla’s advice for sensitives who live with other people
- How old traumas can resurface - and the opportunities we’re given when they do
- The concept of emotional resilience and why it's necessary when we're on a healing journey
You can connect with Dahlya on Instagram or through her website. And be sure to get your copy of her free Brain Optimization Toolkit!
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