In today’s episode of the Tranquil Awakenings Podcast, Debbie will be in conversation with Tomato Dave, a retired mental health nurse who took a different approach to working with his patients.
During this dialog, Debbie and Dave discuss their connection, which leads onto a conversation about mental health and spiritual experiences.
Throughout Dave’s career he placed great importance on working with the individual as a whole, looking at how they could be supported in all aspects of their well-being and spiritual awareness.
Dave highlights the significance of being able to safely explore emotions and the different facets of human experience in order to promote recovery, healing and growth.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- The medical model doesn’t currently factor in emotional awakening or spiritual experiences.
- The world around us can have an impact on our well-being.
- Connecting with nature can help to ground us and settle our emotions.
- It is important to find your tribe who speak the same language as you.
- We have the answers within us and when we are given time and a safe space to explore, this can lead to positive and profound transformation.
- It is important to build up resilience and become aware that emotions are a natural part of human experience in response to different situations.
- Taking responsibility for our actions and behaviours is important for healing and well-being.
BEST MOMENTS
- “I think the Western world tends to push most of the time about somebody's mentally ill. And he said to me, he'd seen her, he'd assessed her, and he said, I think this is somebody that you need to see.”
- “And that's how they're trained. There's nothing that they ever do in terms of knowledge gaining that is to do with emotional awakenings or the spiritual connections.
- “I reflected and thought, well, if she'd been seen straight away by one of our psychiatrists, she would have been deemed seriously unwell, diagnosed, medicated and possibly incarcerated, really, you know, sectioned on the mental health act.”
- “But this is something that's fascinated me for years. It's this idea of lunacy. Well, lunar is about connecting with the planets, the moon, the shifting of all those sorts of things. And why are we naïve enough to believe that if the lunar cycles can shift oceans and tides, why can we not be shifted by that?”
- “If people were taken to a tribe somewhere else who understood this idea of voices, seeing things, they would be revered as quite shamanic, quite insightful, quite connected to different things.”
HOST BIO
Debbie is a seasoned therapist whose journey from being a primary school teacher to an adept therapist has been fuelled by her fascination with the intricacies of human nature. Equipped with advanced certifications in diverse modalities like hypnotherapy, neuro-linguistic programming, mindfulness, meditation, past life regression and many more she has honed her expertise to bring about transformative change.
As a full-time therapist and trainer, Debbie's driving passion is guiding others, as well as herself, towards their best selves. Embracing the concept of holistic beings, she firmly believes in addressing the mental, emotional, physical, social, energetic, and spiritual facets of well-being and healing.
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