Healing from Unprocessed Pain: Overcoming Addiction and Religious Trauma

In this episode, we have guest speaker Dr. Rachel Reinhart Taylor; we talk about navigating religious trauma and recognizing who you are to build your identity and learn to do the hardest thing that we ever do to love ourselves. I asked Rachel to come on the podcast to talk about a few things. One is that she's a Doctor who's overcome some tremendous trauma to look at the science behind the research, what happens to the body in a literal way, in a literal sense of a shift in the DNA from CPTSD, PTSD, and traumatic experiences. Rachel Reinhart Taylor MD is a Board Certified Family Medicine Physician, certified meditation teacher, intuitive health educator, and author of Medication Detox: How to Live Your Best Health. She is passionate about ways to be healthy both mentally and physically in ways that are accessible to anybody and are free! She loves underserved population work and has gone through many traumatic experiences, and is unafraid to talk candidly about them and the growth that occurred during them. I'm going to tell you this; it's really important; we are not going to rain down on religion; that is not what we're talking about here, but we aren't talking about the negative impact and ramifications of religious trauma. So we have a back and a forth here to an extent, I've never really gone in-depth about the religious trauma that I've had on the podcast, and that's not what's happening here. Still, instead, just like anything, we're trying to identify how we got to where we are, so we can get to where we want to go. So, Dr. Taylor came on and helped have this fascinating conversation with me. I'm very excited to share it with you today! Learn more about Reinhart Taylor M.D. at: https://racheltaylormd.com/ Learn more about Coaching Program: https://coaching.thinkunbroken.com/ Learn more about NW Recovery at: https://nw-recovery.com/ Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/think-unbroken-with-michael-unbroken-childhood-trauma-cptsd-and/exclusive-content Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

15 Dec 202155min

In this episode, I speak with Dr. Corey Nigro; we're going to talk about things like excuses, we're going to talk about getting in your way, we're going to talk about setting goals and what it means to architect the life that you want to have, and it was an absolutely profound conversation for me, and I hope it will be for you as well. Dr. Nigro is a clinical neuropsychologist specializing in doing comprehensive psychological and neuropsychological evaluations. His primary focus is on diagnostic accuracy of psychopathology and working with providers on developing comprehensive plans of treatment and intervention. He also focuses on the Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder. He does a weekly podcast called Psychology Unplugged to give legitimacy and parody to psychiatric conditions and instill a sense of hope across all disorders. We talk about what it means to start to take control of your life. How to let go of the past? How to move forward? How to set goals? How to have micro wins, all through, clinical perspective? Take some time to listen because I guarantee you that Dr. Nigro will deliver tremendous value for us today. Come and join us, and we’re going to help you in your healing journey! Learn more about Dr. Corey Nigro at: https://www.inwardboundpsych.com/ Learn more about Coaching Program: https://coaching.thinkunbroken.com/ Learn more about NW Recovery at: https://nw-recovery.com/   Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/think-unbroken-with-michael-unbroken-childhood-trauma-cptsd-and/exclusive-content Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

13 Dec 202151min

In this episode, it's another dive into my book Think Unbroken Understanding and Overcoming Childhood Trauma. As you may know, one of the things that I wanted to do is take the audiobook recording of my number one best-selling book and give it to you guys for free. You can buy the book if you want on Amazon, or you can also download it for free, go to book.thinkunbroken.com Today, I'm going to give you as an episode of the podcast a chapter of the book that was super meaningful that will create massive value in your life on your healing journey. If you are going to change your life, step out of trauma, and into healing, you will have to make a decision to stop making excuses. You will have to get honest with yourself and identify all of the areas in your life where you are riddled with excuses.  NO EXCUSES, JUST RESULTS. Just get focused, listen, come prepared, come ready to learn, and I'm going to do my best to bring massive value to your life and your trauma healing journey. Learn more about at: https://www.thinkunbrokenpodcast.com/ Learn more about Coaching Program: https://coaching.thinkunbroken.com/ Learn more about NW Recovery at: https://nw-recovery.com/ Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/think-unbroken-with-michael-unbroken-childhood-trauma-cptsd-and/exclusive-content Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

10 Dec 202117min

In this episode, I am joined by Casey McGuire Davidson. We take a deep dive and talk about alcohol, sobriety, and indoctrination of marketing and alcohol consumption, and how to start to understand whether or not alcohol is impacting your life. You know, I've spoken about it before at length, but in my mid-20s, it was all about alcohol and partying and drinking and not taking care of myself. I used to drink myself to sleep for a very long time, not having the right coping mechanisms, not having the right tools to manage and navigate stress, social pressures being filling like I'm too far gone dealing with the shame and guilt of it. In cases, approaches are really interesting because it's practical in that we can start to step into creating massive change in our lives around the way that we understand alcohol from a consumer perspective and the marketing that we see every day, especially geared towards women. I'll say this right now, if you are a woman, if you are a mom, if you are a wine mom, you will want to listen to this episode, there's no shame, there's no guilt or anything here. But it's just an interesting conversation that she and I have about this idea of understanding that the social norms of alcohol in the years that we are in right now may be detrimental in ways that we don't even understand. If you're in this place in your life, you're contemplating, or you're in precontemplation about this idea of like is drinking problematically in your life. You may want to take some time and listen to this episode. There were a lot of parallels in the conversation I had with her in thinking about my own journey with alcohol over the last 36 years of my life. And so this episode, I think, hits home for me, particularly in many ways because I think about where my life would be if I did not change the established relationship that I had with the adult beverages. Let’s get into the show and listen to this episode!  Learn more about Casey Davidson at: https://hellosomedaycoaching.com/ Learn more about Coaching Program: https://coaching.thinkunbroken.com/ Learn more about NW Recovery at: https://nw-recovery.com/   Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/think-unbroken-with-michael-unbroken-childhood-trauma-cptsd-and/exclusive-content Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

8 Dec 202149min

In this episode, we have a guest speaker, Danna Olivo. I love this episode; I love this conversation. As you know, I am a huge proponent of Entrepreneurship. I believe that, honestly, it is the tremendous sense of freedom that we can have. When I think about this, and people are always, like – how to parlay with trauma like how do trauma and entrepreneurship go hand in hand? What I think about is this, when we're growing up, when we're coming up, when we're experiencing trauma, when we had our rights effectively taken from us when we're in this position, we're trying to figure out who we navigate the world. Someone's always telling us who we can't be, entrepreneurship is the thing that we can be, and that's why it's so important to me, that's why I love it, there's freedom, there's trust and learning yourself, there's the ability to connect with other people. Its community, goal setting, and entrepreneurship are literally everything that Think Unbroken is about. And I mean that in the sense of, in a very simplified way, it is stepping through trauma and coming on the other side and living life on your terms. Let's be clear if you're like – I want to go to a corporate job and at the end of the day, when I come home and watch Netflix with the family, respect, do that. That's the only thing I ever want anyone to do, is live life on their terms, but if you're like, I hate my life, it sucks, I have to wear this suit and tie or this dress I don't want to wear, and I can't stand my job, and my boss is a dick and every single time they take taxes out, I'm like – why do I work here? You know, maybe there's something about entrepreneurship for you, maybe there's a sense of freedom in that, and so having this conversation with Danna is a beautiful reminder for me about why I started doing this and her journey and her mission is really powerful and potent. Danna is a Business Growth Strategist and CEO of MarketAtomy, LLC. Her passion is working with small first-stage entrepreneurs to ensure that they start out on the right foot and stay on the path to financial freedom. Known as the Business Birthing Specialist, Danna understands the intricacies involved in starting and running a successful business. Her efforts extend beyond the initial strategic planning process into the implementation and monitoring phase. She has recently launched the first eLearning environment specifically targeting small micro-businesses called MarketAtomy.Academy. I hope that you'll take some time to listen here today. I'm telling you right now; there's a tremendous amount of value that Danna will deliver for us today! -Be Unbroken. Learn more about MarketAtomy.Academy at  https://marketatomy.academy/ Learn more about Coaching Program: https://coaching.thinkunbroken.com/ Learn more about NW Recovery at: https://nw-recovery.com/     Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/think-unbroken-with-michael-unbroken-childhood-trauma-cptsd-and/exclusive-content Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

6 Dec 202151min

In this episode, it's another dive into my book Think Unbroken Understanding and Overcoming Childhood Trauma. Like an episode of the podcast, I will give you a chapter of the book that was super meaningful that will create massive value in your life on your healing journey; I share with you about PERMISSION. You have permitted yourself to live a life you don't truly want or deserve. You have permitted yourself to be the victim, it's bullshit, and it's time that you permitted yourself to be great. How many times in your life have you sought permission from the people around you to do what you wanted or needed to do? And how do you leverage the life that you want to have? Listen and Be Unbroken! Learn more about at: https://www.thinkunbrokenpodcast.com/ Learn more about Coaching Program: https://coaching.thinkunbroken.com/ Learn more about NW Recovery at: https://nw-recovery.com/ Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/think-unbroken-with-michael-unbroken-childhood-trauma-cptsd-and/exclusive-content Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

5 Dec 202111min

In this episode, I share with you the chapter of my book Think Unbroken Understanding and Overcoming Childhood Trauma and read about “IN THIS TOGETHER.” To put it this way, you know more about me from reading this book than people I knew for two decades; because of my vulnerability, I have become the most genuine version of myself, which in part is thanks to the safety and support of my community. There are so many options at your fingertips to find a community of people that will support you in your journey that you can no longer make excuses about being alone.  Remember, you are not alone in your healing journey even now, as you listen right now! Learn more about at: https://www.thinkunbrokenpodcast.com/ Learn more about Coaching Program: https://coaching.thinkunbroken.com/ Learn more about NW Recovery at: https://nw-recovery.com/     Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/think-unbroken-with-michael-unbroken-childhood-trauma-cptsd-and/exclusive-content Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

3 Dec 202115min

In this episode, I sit with my friend, Collin Mitchell, who talked about tapping into your superpower after trauma. Many people would share their stories, their experiences, triumphs, failures, and all the things in between because, ultimately, it is a continuation of a conversation about trauma, success, and failure. Listen in to this episode, it's profound, but the one thing I will say is this; I believe in what he says, we all have a superpower within us, we all have the ability to be great, we all have the ability to tap into what is next in our life to create it to passionate it and to bring it to fruition, but we have to be willing to tap into that superpower, we have to be able to own it, we have to be willing and most importantly to knowledge that we can be successful. I hope that you'll find that in this episode and lead you to the place of being Unbroken. Learn more about Sales Cast at: https://www.salescast.co/ Learn more about Coaching Program: https://coaching.thinkunbroken.com/ Learn more about NW Recovery at: https://nw-recovery.com/   Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/think-unbroken-with-michael-unbroken-childhood-trauma-cptsd-and/exclusive-content Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

1 Dec 202141min