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In this week’s Safe Home Podcast, Beth talks with Leela Davis. She is a neurodivergent who combines her lived experience self-healing her Bipolar 1 and CPTSD symptoms and managing ADHD symptoms with training in the healing modalities that she found the most powerful in her own healing journey. She is certified: as a Holistic Health Coach, in Somatic Attachment Therapy, as a Yoga of Sound and Vinyasa Instructor, in Astrology and Human Design, and has spent decades as a multi-passionate creative finding healing in the process of art-making-performing. Her mission is to mentor and support folks with emotional and mental health challenges or diagnoses and live a meaningful and beautiful life beyond the limitations ascribed to certain diagnoses. Her vision is a world where all medical and healing practitioners will learn to heal by addressing the roots of symptoms rather than covering up the symptoms.
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TIME STAMPS:
2:34 What is the difference between Bipolar I, Bipolar II, and depression?
5:35 Leela’s diagnosis at age 37
7:44 Childhood trauma and genetic predisposition to mental illness
10:41 Did Leela’s Bipolar diagnosis help or make things worse?
12:40 Leela’s Bipolar medication hijacked her body and mind
21:21 How Leela found healing without meds
24:55 Meditation and yoga are key tools, incl. Yoga of sound
28:55 How Leela evaluates medication and substances now
31:15 What does Creative Wellness coaching look like?
