100% Healing

Hello, Friend -- welcome to the 100% Healing Podcast. Join us on the journey of forgetting to remembering who we truly are within the gift of chronic illness.

Have you ever wondered what it means to be “Highly Sensitive”? Believe it or not, this isn’t an insult but a SUPER-Power. 

“Sensitive” (Amazon Best Book of the Year) by Jenn Granneman is a Game-Changer! Jenn has been featured in the NY Times, BBC, Washington Post (the list goes on and on!). 

Join our conversation where we unpack

Join us in the Sensitive Revolution! If you love this episode as much as we do, please share it. 

Thank you for being in our community as we explore what it means to be in the process of 100% healing. You are unconditionally loved and we are so glad that you're here.

Find Jenn here:

https://introvertdear.com/about-introvert-dear/

On Instagram: @jenngranneman

Hello and welcome to the 100% Healing Podcast. This is where we explore the journey of forgetting to remembering who we truly are within the gift of chronic illness.

2024 is BIG, y’all -- Can you feel it? 

No matter where you are in your journey, we are here to remind you that it’s time to bring your full Self forward and You are Ready!

Join us as we unpack the wild ride & wisdom gained through embodying our sacred words of the year from 2023 (Courage and Joy) and share intentions & intuitions for this BIG year 2024 with our new words (Freedom and Gratitude).

This episode we dig into:

-Spiritual Transformation & Power of Choice

-Radical Honesty (It’s ok to look!)

-Creating Light-filled experiences within Illness/Grief/Darkness

-Authenticity as a Relational, Physical and Spiritual healing tool

-Freedom in Spirit even when the body is struggling

-Letting go of Noise, finding your Voice and Unique Song

-Cultivating Love & Beauty despite worldwide challenges

Thank you for joining us today as we continue to explore what it means to be in the process of 100% healing. You are loved unconditionally and we are so very glad that you're here. 

Beth & Desiree 

Hello and welcome to the 100% Healing Podcast. This is where we explore the journey of forgetting to remembering who you truly are within the gift of chronic illness.

In today’s episode, psychologist Julie Monday joins us as she shares her harrowing and beautiful journey. She tells the story of her unexpected diagnosis of MS and how it seemed to have come out of nowhere. She draws the link between childhood trauma and how the messaging she received as a little girl is undoubtedly correlated to the path that led to illness. She shares how she was really only able to begin truly healing once she started to lean into what lies beyond the physical. 

Julie’s vulnerability and wisdom as she shares her story left us with a feeling of hope and a deep trust that this path is always, undoubtedly for us. We hope you enjoy this episode as much as we did and that you share it with anyone who may be in the beginning stages of their own healing journey from chronic illness.

Thank you for joining us today as we continue to explore what it means to be in the process of 100% healing. You are loved unconditionally and we are so very glad that you're here.

Beth & Desiree 

Get in touch with Julie:

IG: @wholebody.psych

https://www.mondaypsychologicalservices.com/

Hello and welcome to the 100% Healing Podcast. This is where we explore the journey of forgetting to remembering who you truly are within the gift of chronic illness.

Today, Eunice Brownlee joins us as we continue to talk about what healing means to each of us. She vulnerably shares her story of what it was like going though the court systems with her young daughter, who was a victim of domestic violence at the hands of her father. She talks about what healing looked like after the court cases ended… and how long and winding the road to where they are now has been.

In this episode, we also chat about how we believe that trauma, in any form, can manifest in the physical. Eunice shares some of her own health struggles and how she believes they were impacted by all that she has been through. On the flip side of this, we also chat about the healing power of community and how telling our stories is one of the most empowering things we can do for our healing.

Join us for an episode filled with lots of beautiful wisdom from an incredible woman …not to mention all the laughs. 

Thank you for joining us today as we continue to explore what it means to be in the process of 100% healing. You are loved unconditionally and we are so very glad that you're here.

Beth & Desiree 

**Warning: this episode contains references to suicide** 

More about our guest:

Eunice Brownlee has spent her life telling stories across many mediums. As a multi-passionate creative, she’s used photography, marketing, writing, and public speaking to connect her message to the world. Because the heart of building community begins with sharing stories, Eunice uses her stories to connect, heal, and inspire change. Eunice spends time teaching others the craft of story in her speaking and writing practice. She has coached speakers in telling their stories with WomanSpeak and TEDxFolsom. Eunice’s writing has been published in Jennifer Magazine, Motherscope, and Spoken Black Girl, to name a few. When she’s not doing any of the above, she can be found seeking her next passport stamp and drinking wine.

Website: eunicebrownlee.com

Email: eunicebrownlee@gmail.com 

Instagram: @eunicebrownlee

"53 Hours"

https://medium.com/motherscope/53-hours-d662c35140ee

Hello and welcome to the 100% Healing Podcast. This is where we explore the journey of forgetting to remembering who you truly are within the gift of chronic illness.

In today’s show we talk with therapist Jacquie Taylor who shares her journey from childhood trauma to adult codependency with her husband struggling with addiction. As their healing journeys intertwined, Jacquie uncovered how her culture and religion taught her that boundaries were unacceptable—but through her own experience learned that boundaries are necessary parameters for healthy relationships with others and oneself. Deeply informed by her Christian faith, she shares how she ultimately moved away from the “rules of religion” to a Spirituality that allowed for an experience of God rooted in Love and Trust. She ties in her work as an IFS therapist helping people with “love hungry” parts reconnect to their “True Self” which she views as the connection to God within us all. 

Thank you for joining us today as we continue to explore what it means to be in the process of 100% healing. You are unconditionally loved and we are so very glad that you're here.

Beth & Desiree

Hello and welcome to the 100% Healing Podcast. This is where we explore the journey of forgetting to remembering who you truly are within the gift of chronic illness.

In today’s show we interview Karen Newell, an author and innovator in the field of brainwave entrainment & co-founder of Sacred Acoustics meditations. Today we explore Karen’s journey to find the purpose of existence outside of the confines of the religion she was raised in. As she explored various spiritual traditions, she attempted to learn meditation but found she struggled to quiet her mind and connect inside. Here is where she discovered that sounds, such as binaural beats, can provide a boost for meditators to be able to drop into a new state of consciousness with assistance.

She talks about her own process of discovering and healing emotions she had long suppressed related to a perceived lack of love. She then talks about the “binding force of love” and how that can be cultivated in service to healing. She ties in research on heart coherence and some fun stories emerge about the adventures that unfold in meditation when you allow, trust & let go. Karen shares her vision for the future of consciousness medicine & the role of love in healing personally and in community.

Thank you for joining us today as we continue to explore what it means to be in the process of 100% healing. You are unconditionally loved and we are so very glad that you're here. 

Beth & Desiree

https://www.sacredacoustics.com⁠ (to access free meditation & other offerings from Sacred Acoustics)

Hello and welcome to the 100% Healing Podcast. This is where we explore the journey of forgetting to remembering who you truly are within the gift of chronic illness.

On today’s episode, we discuss a subject that isn’t often spoken about in public… that is, anger. We start by sharing our own experiences and beliefs around anger and how that has tied into the ways we express it - both in the past and present. Then we chat about the differences between healthy and unhealthy anger expression (or the lack thereof). This leads us to the role anger plays in chronic illness and how giving a voice to our anger is often a surprising part of the healing process.

Really, this episode is an untangling of what we were taught or conditioned to believe about anger and an honest look at what it might be like instead to embrace it. We hope this episode resonates with you all as much as it has with us.

Thank you for joining us today as we continue to explore what it means to be in the process of 100% healing. You are unconditionally loved and we are so very glad that you're here. 

Beth & Desiree

**Warning: this episode contains references to sexual assault**

Hello and welcome to the 100% Healing Podcast. This is where we explore the journey of forgetting to remembering who you truly are within the gift of chronic illness.

Today, Karen Faith joins us in a discussion about parts work and the profound impact it can have on our lives and our healing journeys. She shares the story of how she came to find parts work and how that eventually led to her incredible Ted Talk, "How to Talk to the Worst Parts of Yourself" (linked below). Along the way, we explore the ideas of unconditional love and welcoming and how it’s often easier to offer those to others than it is to ourselves… which led us to the complexity of defining “love.” 

In this episode, we also tackle the idea of humor as a healer as we chat about Karen’s performance, "Original Coke Jesus" (linked below). We also dive into spiritual trauma and what it looks like to put the pieces of our beliefs back together in the aftermath. This is one of those discussions that left us feeling so grateful for the unconventional path we’ve been invited to travel down. 

Thank you for joining us today as we continue to explore what it means to be in the process of 100% healing. You are loved unconditionally and we are so very glad that you're here.

Beth & Desiree 

**Warning: this episode contains references to sexual assault** 

More about our guest:

Karen Faith is the founder and CEO of Others Unlimited, which is an empathy training company. She is an ethnographer, strategist, and creator of the Others curriculum. With two decades of experience in ethnographic discovery to inform marketing, branding, and product design, her work utilizes tools from multiple disciplines to empower teams to define, understand, and solve problems from the granular to the grandiose.

Website: othersunlimited.com 

Email: karen@othersunlimited.com 

Instagram: @othersunlimited 

“How to Talk to the Worst Parts of Yourself”

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjRhczCz6P_AhUrATQIHVuuAC8QtwJ6BAgPEAI&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DgUV5DJb6KGs&usg=AOvVaw1peokfHZKiMyaXI2ecGgdz

“Original Coke Jesus” 

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiJlISx-KT_AhWUBjQIHfOwAAcQwqsBegQIDhAE&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dciqkk2YtlqQ&usg=AOvVaw2An1Oyz7xB0QWh0RL3jC_L

Hello and welcome to the 100% Healing Podcast. This is where we explore the journey of forgetting to remembering who you truly are within the gift of chronic illness.

On today’s episode, we discuss the idea of peacekeeping vs peacemaking and how peacekeeping is most often at the expense of our own selves... especially as little, perceptive children who were taught to "keep the peace" in order to make ourselves safe. The truth however is that sometimes things/relationships need to be shattered in order to fully heal and ignoring this, is most often at the expense of our own wellbeing. This is how we get sick.... or at least that has certainly been true in our own experiences with chronic illness and also seems to be true in our society today.

We then chat about the ideas of forgiveness and reconciliation and how they are not one and the same. Forgiveness happens in our own hearts and reconciliation happens in relationship… and in order to be invited into reconciliation, someone must be willing to go through the steps of healing along side us. We chat about how this process can feel scary and bring up a lot of shame, but why it’s so worth doing anyways. Like always, this leads us back to the topic of love. We explore the idea that love isn’t just a gentle soothing but can also be the powerful voice of strength. We then share how we have personally learned to speak hard truths, in love. 

Thank you for joining us today as we continue to explore what it means to be in the process of 100% healing. You are unconditionally loved and we are so very glad that you're here.

Hello and welcome to the 100% Healing Podcast. This is where we explore the journey of forgetting to remembering who you truly are within the gift of chronic illness.

Welcome back to part two of our discussion with Cat Jensen. Today, we dive deeper into what it means to exist in truth and how the definition of “Truth" we’ve come to adapt as a society may differ greatly from what we know intuitively deep down. Naturally, this segues into the question, what then does it mean to tell a lie… and more specifically, what does it mean to our bodies when we feel the energy of a lie? We also discuss the difference between fitting in and belonging and how the only way to really belong is by living in truth day in and day out. After all, how else will our real community be able to find us?

Thank you for joining us today as we continue to explore what it means to be in the process of 100% healing. You are loved unconditionally and we are so very glad that you're here.

Beth & Desiree

More about our guest:

Cat Jensen is a practitioner and facilitator of presence who teaches others how to embody and express their light and love as an overflow offering rather than joining others in their shadow. She is here to disrupt the way we live amongst and with others and invites people to stand more fully in choice enjoying the path toward liberation. She believes expansion doesn’t have to be hard but rather a joyful and curious unfolding if we surrender. She supports those who want to release controlled identities of self to have a deeper and more intimate experience of life by coming back into their wholeness - their most wild, vibrant, big, playful, and alive expression of their presence.

Website: wildpresence.co

Instagram: @wild.presence

TikTok: @wildpresence

Hello and welcome to the 100% Healing Podcast. This is where we explore the journey of forgetting to remembering who you truly are within the gift of chronic illness.

As part of a two-part episode, today Cat Jensen shares her story with us. It’s a conversation rooted in vulnerability as she takes us on a journey through her healing process. Cat shares what it was like entering into this world feeling unwanted and unloved. She details how growing up in an environment that suppressed her truth, left her feeling alone and untrusting of anyone but herself. Even from an early age, this suppression manifested in her physical body with a myriad symptoms that only progressed throughout the years. Ultimately, her healing has been the path back to love and community through walking in her truth, even at great cost. Cat is an incredible soul that lights up a room. This is a definite must listen!

Thank you for joining us today as we continue to explore what it means to be in the process of 100% healing. You are loved unconditionally and we are so very glad that you're here.

Beth & Desiree

More about our guest:

Cat Jensen is a practitioner and facilitator of presence who teaches others how to embody and express their light and love as an overflow offering rather than joining others in their shadow. She is here to disrupt the way we live amongst and with others and invites people to stand more fully in choice enjoying the path toward liberation. She believes expansion doesn’t have to be hard but rather a joyful and curious unfolding if we surrender. She supports those who want to release controlled identities of self to have a deeper and more intimate experience of life by coming back into their wholeness - their most wild, vibrant, big, playful, and alive expression of their presence.

Website: wildpresence.co

Instagram: @wild.presence

TikTok: @wildpresence

Hello and welcome to the 100% Healing Podcast. This is where we explore the journey of forgetting to remembering who you truly are within the gift of chronic illness.

In today’s episode, we sit down without an agenda to let our intuitions direct our conversation. We explore more about what it means to be engaged with a “new paradigm of healing” for both our bodies and our community at large. We dive into ideas about how our personal healing often mirrors what is happening in the collective as our broader community locates what is no longer serving us and needs to be reconfigured. We unpack how that process gets messy and uncomfortable as we have to deconstruct the old before we can reconstruct the new. We talk about how the new paradigm of healing is the process of working with love, acceptance, allowing and presence to transmute and grow instead of bypassing and recreating cycles of fear and avoidance. We also explore how narratives around pitting allopathic vs natural approaches to health don’t typically serve us, and how to move beyond rigid ways of approaching wellness to a new paradigm that includes surrendering to love as an active and ubiquitous component of wholeness and health. We talk about ways to inquire into your own cycles, emotions and start engaging in this new paradigm, no matter where you are on your healing journey.

Thank you for joining us today as we continue to explore what it means to be in the process of 100% healing. You are loved unconditionally and we are so very glad that you are here.

Beth & Desiree

Hello and welcome to the 100% Healing Podcast. This is where we explore the journey of forgetting to remembering who you truly are within the gift of chronic illness.

Welcome back to part two of our discussion with Rowen Mikodah. On today's episode, we chat about the idea of a new paradigm of healing and what that actually looks like. We explore what often stands in the way of healing and talk about how separation from love is the root cause of illness for so many of us. We discuss the gift of sensitivity and what it means to embrace the less conventional gifts that come forth from the healing process. We end by diving into the idea of embodiment, what that means, and how deeply this plays into the feelings of safety and ultimately, physical healing in the body. 

Thank you for joining us today as we continue to explore what it means to be in the process of 100% healing. You are loved unconditionally and we are so very glad that you're here.

Beth & Desiree

More about our guest:

Rowen Mikodah is a student of and the curator of The Way of Becoming, a path of loving ourselves back into connection with the body, the Earth, and opening to become the Authentic Self. She is a nature guide and offers nature-based healing retreats in Sedona, Arizona and studies herbal, crystal and plant spirit medicines.

Instagram: @thewayofbecoming

Facebook: Rowen Mikodah

Hello and welcome to the 100% Healing Podcast. This is where we explore the journey of forgetting to remembering who you truly are within the gift of chronic illness.

As part of a two part episode, today Rowen Mikodah shares her story. Rowen recalls how asking for her purpose led to the unconventional path that has become her healing. In the battle for her life, from lyme disease to cancer, she shares how surrender and love became her most profound teachers. Her words flow like poetry as she takes us on the journey from finding the deepest root of her illness to how letting go of control has allowed her to heal in ways otherwise not possible. Her take on 100% healing beautifully demonstrates just how radical of an act it is in today's world to break generational cycles and to step into a new way of being. 

Thank you for joining us today as we continue to explore what it means to be in the process of 100% healing. You are loved unconditionally and we are so very glad that you're here. 

Beth & Desiree 

More about our guest: 

Rowen Mikodah is a student of and the curator of The Way of Becoming, a path of loving ourselves back into connection with the body, the Earth, and opening to become the Authentic Self. She is a nature guide and offers nature-based healing retreats in Sedona, Arizona and studies herbal, crystal and plant spirit medicines. 

Instagram: @thewayofbecoming 

Facebook: Rowen Mikodah 

Hello and welcome to the 100% Healing Podcast. This is where we explore the journey of forgetting to remembering who you truly are within the gift of chronic illness.

On today's episode, we wrap up 2022 by chatting about a tradition that has become near and dear to our hearts. Instead of making New Year's resolutions, we choose a word we hope to embody for the year to come. We talk about how this tradition came to be, what is means to us, and how it has completely transformed our lives. We share what our words for 2022 were and how that played into the way our year unfolded, followed by what words have come to us for 2023. We hope this episode inspires you and reminds you that, no matter where you're at in your journey currently, there are far greater things ahead than anything we leave behind. 

Thank you for joining us today as we continue to explore what it means to be in the process of 100% healing. You are loved unconditionally and we are so very glad that you're here.

Beth & Desiree

Hello and welcome to the 100% Healing Podcast. This is where we explore the journey of forgetting to remembering who you truly are within the gift of chronic illness.

On today's episode, we have our first guest, Radha Kalaria. Radha was diagnosed with stage four cancer and given 30 days to live... just over a decade ago. She takes us on a journey through diagnosis to healing and discusses why surrender & allowing became the central themes to her healing process. 

Her story speaks to our hearts as she talks about what she has come to believe about dis-ease in the body, what it was like for her to completely lose and then regain her identity, and how having cancer was ultimately the greatest gift of her life. 

Thank you for joining us today as we continue to explore what it means to be in the process of 100% healing. You are loved unconditionally and we are so very glad that you're here.  

Beth & Desiree 

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More about our guest: 

Radha Kalaria helps executives, rising leaders, and entrepreneurs master disruptive change through personal transformation so that they can live and lead on their terms while making a difference.

Described as “The Transformist," she believes when you're aligned within yourself, external alignment is not that difficult.

Radha has defied the odds and successfully navigated through her own pandemic: stage 4 cancer with 30 days to live and other catastrophic losses. She comes with 20+ years of corporate experience in diverse design & leadership roles, at independent & fortune 500 companies.

A true collaborator with an entrepreneurial mindset and business acumen, she is often admired by her clients for actively listening & genuinely caring.

Besides accountability, psychologically safe space, and a customized integrated approach, Radha commits to providing a high-touch, high-quality, high-value transformational experience as an ICF Certified Executive Leadership Coach & International Keynote Speaker.

Her sole focus is on you & your success! 

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To Contact Radha: 

Email: info@radhakalaria.com - subject "Healing" 

IG: @radhakalaria7 

Hello and welcome to the 100% Healing Podcast. This is where we explore the journey of forgetting to remembering who you truly are within the gift of chronic illness.

On today's episode, we talk about what we "know." After years of battling chronic illnesses, we feel like we've learned a few things. Mostly though, what we've learned is that it all comes back to love. If you're currently on your own journey with chronic illness, our hope is that this episode reminds you of how wise you truly are and that you can trust your intuition... even if the whole world says otherwise. 

We are so very glad that you're here. 

-Beth & Desiree 

**Correction: Elaine Aron is the psychologist who coined the term "Highly Sensitive Person." 

Hello and welcome to the 100% Healing Podcast. This is where we explore the journey of forgetting to remembering who you truly are within the gift of chronic illness.

On today's episode, co-host Beth shares her story and how chronic illness has become the greatest gift of her life. 

Despite a thriving career, a beautiful family, and being surrounded by love, chronic illness showed up when she least expected it. It left every part of her life changed forever. From childhood trauma, to sexual assault, to countless severe and debilitating symptoms, Beth's story is nothing short of miraculous. It's a journey of remembering who she was born to be and a return to love. 

If you're currently on a healing journey of your own, know that you are not alone. Though it may not look the same for any two of us, we have walked (and are currently walking) that path and are here as vessels to mirror back to you that healing is possible. 

You are loved, exactly as you are and we are so very glad that you're here. 

Hello and welcome to the 100% Healing Podcast. This is where we explore the journey of forgetting to remembering who you truly are within the gift of chronic illness.

On today's episode, co-host Desiree shares her story and how illness completely changed her life. She shares the long and convoluted journey to receiving a diagnosis, the many symptoms and treatments she experienced along the way, and ultimately, what led her to the path of healing. It's a story of not only physical transformation but also of spiritual, emotional, and energetic transformation. 

If you're currently on a healing journey of your own, know that you are not alone. Though it may not look the same for any two of us, we have walked (and are currently walking) that path and we are here as vessels to mirror back to you that healing is possible. 

You are loved, exactly as you are, and we are so very glad that you are here. 

**This episode mentions the topic of suicide** 

Hello and welcome to the 100% Healing Podcast. This is where we explore the journey of forgetting to remembering who you truly are within the gift of chronic illness.

We’re two friends, Beth & Desiree, who’s paths serendipitously crossed, searching for our own healing from severe and debilitating chronic illnesses. While our journeys are uniquely our own, we now believe the very core of healing lies in the deep process of forgetting who we were taught to be and remembering who we always were.

This journey can feel impossible but we’ve learned that this process is an invitation into the greatest gift one can ever receive. It can also feel fraught with fear and terror. In that place of darkness, we often feel alone without a path forward. We’re here to remind you that you’re not alone. Out of the depths, we can grow community… built on love and grace. Here, we can mirror back to one another the elements of healing we each pick up along the way. 

These stories are the medicine we hope to share with you in this podcast as we explore what it means to be in the process of 100% healing.

We are so very glad that you're here.