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Choose To Be with Choose Recovery Services; Betrayal Trauma HealingAfter the Personality Disorder Diagnosis - With Alexandra Repke PhD, CSAT, C-PD, CAIMHP (Part 2)Last week we learned what personality disorders are and how they can impact relationships. This week Amie and Alana welcome back Alexandra Repke, a licensed psychologist (PhD, CSAT, C-PD, CAIMHP), to explore what you can do if your partner has been diagnosed with a personality disorder.Alexandra provides critical insights on adjusting expectations, setting boundaries with consequences, and maintaining your own well-being while supporting your partner’s treatment journey.Learn more about Alexandra Repke. Listen to part one HERE. Referenced in this episode: Karpman’s Drama Triangle The Wi...
2024-12-2455 minChoose To Be with Choose Recovery Services; Betrayal Trauma HealingUnderstanding Personality Disorders - With Alexandra Repke PhD, CSAT, C-PD, CAIMHP (Part 1)Are you struggling to understand the complex world of personality disorders and their impact on relationships? Join Amie and Alana as they speak with Alexandra Repke, a licensed psychologist (PhD, CSAT, C-PD, CAIMHP), who breaks down the myths and realities of personality disorders, especially in the context of addiction and betrayal. Learn about the different types of personality disorders, how they affect connections, and gain insights into treatment approaches that offer hope for healing. Learn more about Alexandra Repke. Coming Up! Unmasked: Paths to Authentic Masculinity for Men - This is a thr...
2024-12-1750 min
Recovery Dialogues & Sober StoriesA Deep Dive into Technology's Transformative Power in Mental Health & Addiction RecoveryWhat role will technology play in the future of recovery? In this special bonus episode, Antonio Matta revisits powerful moments from his conversation with Angela Phillips, PhD, LCSW, CAIMHP, on how digital innovation is transforming mental health and addiction treatment.
From evaluating mental health apps and wearables to exploring privacy concerns and the future of digital therapeutics, this episode expands on how tech can support healing—personally, safely, and sustainably.
🎧 Tap in to explore where compassion meets innovation on the recovery journey.
2024-10-0928 min
Comfort AffirmationsMeet Your Therapist: Transforming Trauma and Embracing Neurodivergence—A Deep Dive into Empowerment and Recovery with a 20-Year VeteranLaurie L Smith, LMSW (CDE, CCATP, CCTP, CAIMHP)
Connect With Laurie Here: https://resiliencecoachllc.com/about-laurie-smith
https://linktr.ee/cloudedcompass
2024-08-261h 04
Clouded Compass: From Barriers to BreakthroughsLadies, is this you? Exploring midlife ADHD in WomenIn this episode I share reflections on living within ADHD.
As a Neurodivergent female, this piece in the Rainbow Goddess: Celebrating Neurodiversity Anthology spoke to my heart and I wanted to share it with others.
If this episode speaks to you, I've created tools that you would dig, available here.
Life is full of hidden internal landmines - do you know yours?
Gain Clarity within the Chaos and improve your quality of life exponentially by understanding how YOUR unique brain and body are wired!
https://linktr...
2024-02-0220 minClouded Compass: From Barriers to BreakthroughsGuest Dr. Sh'nai Simmons, Ph.D, LMHC and I discuss the MH Climate of Floridians, Compassion Fatigue and Spirituality as it relates to wellbeing.Dr Simmons and I had a great conversation about our wellness as mental health providers, the mental health climate in Florida, preventing burnout and compassion fatigue and spirituality as an added buffer against oppressive forces.
Dr. Simmons has been practicing for 15+ years, identifies as Neurodivergent and is the co-owner of the Collective Wellness Institute in Tampa Bay, Florida. She is the author of Fight With Faith, which discusses her journey with breast cancer and is committed to being a "change agent" in her work.
Her tools can be found in the following...
2024-01-291h 03Clouded Compass: From Barriers to BreakthroughsJourneys with healing CPTSD: at home KetamineIn this episode I explore my journey with CPTSD and at-home Ketamine use. Insights are shared as they relate to what my 'sessions' have been like as well as the longer term outcomes I'm seeing in my daily life.
Have a listen if you'd like to learn more about the use of psychadelics in healing mental health!
My additional healing tools can be found here https://linktr.ee/cloudedcompass
2024-01-2642 minClouded Compass: From Barriers to BreakthroughsStumbling into 2024Welcome back!
This episode talks about what I was up to in 2023:
*Bariatric Revision Surgery
*Mental Health
*MH Recovery
*Aligning business, authenticity and mental health
I've also created additional tools for transformation including a new book, several new webinars, etc. https://linktr.ee/cloudedcompass
Let me know what you think!
2024-01-2215 min
Recovery Dialogues & Sober StoriesTraversing the Transformative Power of Technology in Addiction & Mental Health RecoveryIn this episode, Angela Phillips, Ph.D., LCSW, CAIMHP, Director of Digital Clinical Content and Telehealth Services at Advanced Recovery Systems, LLC, discusses the impact of technology on addiction recovery. She explores innovative applications like virtual support groups, online therapy platforms, recovery apps, and wearable devices. Also, she dives into the benefits and challenges of incorporating technology into the recovery journey. Some of these include telehealth services, digital monitoring tools, and social media's role in building supportive communities. This episode offers valuable insights into the transformative potential of technology in empowering individuals, bridging gaps in access to care, and e...
2023-11-0246 min
Recovery Dialogues & Sober StoriesTraversing the Transformative Power of Technology in Addiction & Mental Health RecoveryCan digital tools help us heal? In this forward-thinking episode, Antonio Matta speaks with Dr. Angela Phillips—LCSW, CAIMHP, and mental health tech expert—about how technology is reshaping addiction and mental health recovery.
From telehealth to apps, wearables, and online communities, they explore how innovation is expanding access, enhancing accountability, and personalizing the recovery process.
🎧 Tune in to learn how tech can empower your recovery journey—one tap, click, or connection at a time.
2023-11-0246 minClouded Compass: From Barriers to BreakthroughsMeet Therapy Ranch! A new resource in your Mental Health Toolbox!Lindsay Drouillard is a Nurse Practitioner. She is the Director and Founder of Therapy Ranch, which connects Horses and Humans in Healing. She is a graduate of Michigan State College of Nursing and Wayne State with a Master's of Science in Nursing. She is a proud mother of 3, wife, and has been EAGALA Certified as an Equine Specialist since 2017.
Therapy Ranch provides Equine-Assisted Psychotherapy (EAP) as a mental health intervention and teaching method to decrease symptoms of several mental health issues. The benefits of EAP are too numerous to mention, so you can start learning more here...
2023-04-2458 min
Clouded Compass: From Barriers to BreakthroughsGuest Valerie Keller-Bonner discusses Community work around SOOAR, Harm Reduction and ReligiousOur guest this week is a Local Powerhouse and Treasure!
She is fighting with 'boots on the ground' against Stigma as it relates to Mental Health and Substance Use locally, with Youth, Community Groups and in our Surrounding Churches. Her latest project is a new Movie entitled A Sick Church Can't Heal a Dying World (out soon so stay tuned!) in which she explores the Churches role, treatment and shifting perspective on its participants that are struggling with mental health and/or substance use. She is also Host of the Podcast/Talkshow The Real Black Coffee-No Sugar...
2023-04-071h 07
Clouded Compass: From Barriers to BreakthroughsIt's National Social Work Month - I talk about what this profession has meant to me!If we are not careful, we will have ourselves believing that this messy world is the only reality. It will have us believing there is no way out from the distress and pain that we experience on a daily basis...
Want to work with me? Check out my Linktree for my resources! https://linktr.ee/cloudedcompass
2023-03-2414 minClouded Compass: From Barriers to BreakthroughsWho are your Sheros?It's Women's History Month... let's talk about women and their role in our lives. Who are your sheros? Why? And who are mine and why? Why is this important? Listen up for the power of this resource in our lives!
2023-03-1720 minClouded Compass: From Barriers to BreakthroughsDrew Barrymore's Drama and... a therapist that fires you.Let's unpack this current event. Ethics and Expertise of both client and Therapist matter and the media isn't talking about THAT. Wanna know how to spot a Therapist that can handle your stuff (ps, that's our Job, so they better), listen up!
Wanna work with me? I've got Tools that fit.
https://linktr.ee/cloudedcompass
2023-03-1124 minClouded Compass: From Barriers to BreakthroughsGuest Rachel Brown and I discuss changing our Relationship with FoodRachel Kapp-Brown is a Registered Dietician and a long-term colleague. She is currently a Nutrition Coach and, since it's National Nutrition Month, we sat down to have a chat about what it truly takes to change our relationship with food. Behavior Change is only part of the equation so you are going to want to listen up as we 'talk shop' about how to get YOU to your Goals with food or any other substance!
You can find Rachel at Moving Fully Nourished https://movefullynourished.com/about-me/ and her IG is rachelbrown_movefullynourished.
Would you li...
2023-03-0348 minClouded Compass: From Barriers to BreakthroughsWe Do This Till It Free's Us. Exploring Mariam Kaba's book on Abolition as a Practice and Transformative JusticeIt's Black History Month and I'm sharing 4 Authors who wrote 4 books who have impacted my personal and professional life.
This week we are exploring Mariam Kaba's book We Do This Til It Free's Us. It offers an excellent overview of Abolition, why it's important, why defunding the police is practical and necessary and why and how we can use transformative justice in our own lives to create the world we want to live in. It's a great book with several facts and figures.
New York Times Bestseller
“Organizing is both science and art. It i...
2023-02-231h 00
Clouded Compass: From Barriers to BreakthroughsGuest Maryann Petri discussed Family Court CorruptionThis is a MUST listen for anyone struggling with custody, family courts and/or sticky legal situations!
Maryann Petri is my guest today. She was first on my podcast last year (4/8/22) and she is back to share more of her own story and that of Countless guests she's had on her own podcast Slam The Gavel.
We are pulling the curtains back on what REALLY happens in the court room and why it's CRITICAL that you understand your Rights and Resources available to you.
You are going to want to share this episode w...
2023-02-201h 10Clouded Compass: From Barriers to BreakthroughsThe work of Patrice Cullors and her book 12 steps to changing yourself and the world: an Abolitionist's HandbookIt's Black History Month and we are covering 4 Authors and Trailblazers who have impacted my life and my work.
This episode we cover Patrice Cullor's Book The Abolitionist's Handbook.
Think you know what Abolition is? Think again. I am an active Abolitionist and it has changed my relationships and is part of being a Harm Reductionists. She offers practical tips that are relevant to us all to liberate our minds and bodies from the limiting conditions we've been living in.
Cullors asks us to lead with love, fierce compassion, and precision.
In A...
2023-02-1644 minClouded Compass: From Barriers to BreakthroughsAnother school shootingWe live in a violent society. Want solutions? Listen up.
2023-02-1417 minClouded Compass: From Barriers to BreakthroughsExploring bell hooks work All About Love and why it is relevant to all of us.It's Black History Month so I'm sharing Author's who have impacted my life significantly and sharing them with YOU.
bell hooks has influenced my life for the last 20 years. This book, however, is an underutlized resource for how to heal the lack of compassion and hope we have in our world.
A New York Times bestseller and enduring classic, All About Love is the acclaimed first volume in feminist icon bell hooks' "Love Song to the Nation" trilogy. All About Love reveals what causes a polarized society, and how to heal the divisions that cause suffering. Here is the truth abo...
2023-02-0941 min
Clouded Compass: From Barriers to BreakthroughsMary Beth O'Connor discusses her new book Junkie to Judge: One Women's Triumph over Trauma and AddictionWelcome guest Mary Beth O'Connor! Author of Junkie to Judge: One Women's Triumph Over Trauma and Addiction, available here https://amzn.to/3DTWtND
For Mary Beth, childhood abuse and other traumas led to substance use disorder (addiction).
Beginning with alcohol at age 12, she spent several years abusing various drugs. She found methamphetamine at 16 and started shooting up at 17. Mary Beth struggled with meth until she was 32 years old.
By incorporating ideas from multiple sources to build a secular (not 12-step or faith based) recovery plan that works for her, Mary Beth has been s...
2023-02-081h 05Clouded Compass: From Barriers to BreakthroughsDiscussing Intergenerational Trauma with Resmaa Menakem's book My Grandmother's HandsIt's Black History Month, so we are celebrating 4 Black Authors who are changing history by sharing their solutions.
Resmaa Menakem is a fellow social worker who wrote My Grandmother's Hands and I discuss how this book has impacted me, my work and offered incredibly useful tools for HEALING within families and our greater culture.
You can find Resmaa's work here https://www.resmaa.com/about and My Grandmother's Hands here https://amzn.to/3DCnaGo
Stay tuned for our next episode where we explore bell hooks All About Love.
Wanna work with m...
2023-02-0253 minClouded Compass: From Barriers to BreakthroughsGuest Dee Dee Stout and I talk about Harm Reduction and AAI'm so excited to bring you my personal Mentor and Coach DeeDee Stout. When I was in the trenches of a toxic and lethal 'voluntary' program of help that harmed, I had lost hope. Little did I know that MOST WOMEN will experience this in carceral programs (in fact, most humans). DeeDee and I speak about her experiences in the Substance Use community from working IN systems of harm to escaping them and why she wrote her book (I highly recommend) Coming to Harm Reduction Kicking and Screaming. Her work focuses on Harm Reduction and Human-Centered Care and she has...
2023-01-301h 11Clouded Compass: From Barriers to BreakthroughsLet's talk Pacing and Self-Care as it relates to Chronic IllnessI recently had Bariatric Revision Surgery. I talk about Pacing, self-compassion and gut hormones as it relates to so many of our chronic illnesses. This matters because we live in a world that drills it into our brains to produce, produce, produce! Let's think bigger, wiser and more sustainable! These are the guts of genuine healing. Listen up and let me know what you think!
2023-01-2320 minClouded Compass: From Barriers to BreakthroughsWelcome to 2023Let's talk New Year, New Goals, New Tools!
Today's episode I will discuss caring for self as a Trauma Survivor. I will share my own journey from productivity to effectiveness and what I'm doing about that in 2023 through a trauma focused and harm reduction lens. Listen up for those of you with shame, guilt and 'not good enough' feelings...
2023-01-2018 minClouded Compass: From Barriers to Breakthroughs12 days of Gabor Mate: Ch 12 How our 'norms' set parents up to fail!Gabor Mate's latest book the Myth of Normal is VITAL to our well-being. I find it SO relevant to our current individual and social ailments that I'm sharing the first 12 chapters and my reflections on them based on my personal and professional experience as a Behavioral Health Provider and a Trauma Survivor.
Chapter 12: Horticulture on the Moon: Parenting, Undermined
Barriers to parenting and how our ‘norms’ often set parents up to fail
In the following chapters we will be exploring:
How our ‘norms’ are working against our well-being
How mind-body are have been sepa...
2022-12-2047 minClouded Compass: From Barriers to Breakthroughs12 days of Gabor Mate: Ch 11 The Traumatic experience that is Western BirthGabor Mate's latest book the Myth of Normal is VITAL to our well-being. I find it SO relevant to our current individual and social ailments that I'm sharing the first 12 chapters and my reflections on them based on my personal and professional experience as a Behavioral Health Provider and a Trauma Survivor.
Chapter 11: What Choices Do I Have? Childbirth in a Medicalized Culture
The unnecessary Traumas associated with childbirth and why it matters how are doctors are trained
Listen as we explores the ‘lay of the land’ in terms of Trauma and its effec...
2022-12-1934 minClouded Compass: From Barriers to Breakthroughs12 days of Gabor Mate: Ch 10 Why prematernal health matters to us allGabor Mate's latest book the Myth of Normal is VITAL to our well-being. I find it SO relevant to our current individual and social ailments that I'm sharing the first 12 chapters and my reflections on them based on my personal and professional experience as a Behavioral Health Provider and a Trauma Survivor.
Chapter 10: Trouble at the Threshold: Before We Come Into the World
Why a mother’s health and stress matter pre-birth
In the following chapters we will be exploring:
How our ‘norms’ are working against our well-being
How mind-body are have been se...
2022-12-1830 minClouded Compass: From Barriers to Breakthroughs12 days of Gabor Mate: Ch 8 - how current 'norms' work against basic human needsGabor Mate's latest book the Myth of Normal is VITAL to our well-being. I find it SO relevant to our current individual and social ailments that I'm sharing the first 12 chapters and my reflections on them based on my personal and professional experience as a Behavioral Health Provider and a Trauma Survivor.
Part 2: The Distortion of Human Development
Chapter 8: Who Are We Really? Human Nature, Human Needs
What are basic human needs and exploration of how our ‘norms’ work against them
In the following chapters we will be exploring:
How our ‘n...
2022-12-1726 minClouded Compass: From Barriers to Breakthroughs12 days of Gabor Mate: Ch 9 Child Development and Irreducible needsGabor Mate's latest book the Myth of Normal is VITAL to our well-being. I find it SO relevant to our current individual and social ailments that I'm sharing the first 12 chapters and my reflections on them based on my personal and professional experience as a Behavioral Health Provider and a Trauma Survivor.
https://drgabormate.com/book/the-myth-of-normal/
Chapter 9: A Sturdy or Fragile Foundation: Children’s Irreducible Needs
Vital Child Development Needs and the generational cost of not meeting them
In the following chapters we will be exploring:
How our ‘norms’ are wor...
2022-12-1638 minClouded Compass: From Barriers to Breakthroughs12 days of Gabor Mate: Ch 7: What is 'Type C' personality?Gabor Mate's latest book the Myth of Normal is VITAL to our well-being. I find it SO relevant to our current individual and social ailments that I'm sharing the first 12 chapters and my reflections on them
Part 2: The Distortion of Human Development
Chapter 7: A Traumatic Tension: Attachment vs Authenticity
When human needs compete we all lose and how ‘Type C’ personality is a byproduct and often causal factor in our future health
In the following chapters we will be exploring:
How our ‘norms’ are working against our well-being
How mind-body are have...
2022-12-1541 minClouded Compass: From Barriers to Breakthroughs12 days of Gabor Mate: Ch 6: Why and how an adversarial relationship with our dis-ease becomes a self fulfilling prophecyGabor Mate's latest book the Myth of Normal (available here https://drgabormate.com/book/the-myth-of-normal/) is VITAL to our well-being. I find it SO relevant to our current individual and social ailments that I'm sharing the first 12 chapters and my reflections on them based on my personal and professional experience as a Behavioral Health Provider and a Trauma Survivor.
Part 1: Our Interconnected Nature
Chapter 6: It Ain’t a Thing: Disease as Process
How we relate to these processes matters! Why and how an adversarial relationship with our dis-ease becomes a self fulfilling prophecy
2022-12-1432 minClouded Compass: From Barriers to Breakthroughs12 days of Gabor Mate: Ch 5: How our immune system responds to external threatsGabor Mate's latest book the Myth of Normal is VITAL to our well-being. I find it SO relevant to our current individual and social ailments that I'm sharing the first 12 chapters and my reflections on them based on my personal and professional experience as a Behavioral Health Provider and a Trauma Survivor.
https://drgabormate.com/book/the-myth-of-normal/
Part 1: Our Interconnected Nature
Chapter 5: Mutiny on the Body: The Mystery of the Rebellious Immune System
How our immune system responds to external threats
Listen as we explores the ‘lay of the lan...
2022-12-1329 minClouded Compass: From Barriers to Breakthroughs12 days of Gabor Mate: Ch 4 How gene expression is impacted by our surroundings and encodes our nervous systemGabor Mate's latest book the Myth of Normal is VITAL to our well-being. I find it SO relevant to our current individual and social ailments that I'm sharing the first 12 chapters and my reflections on them based on my personal and professional experience as a Behavioral Health Provider and a Trauma Survivor.
https://drgabormate.com/book/the-myth-of-normal/
Part 1: Our Interconnected Nature
Chapter 4: Everything I’m Surrounded By: Dispatches from the New Science
How gene expression is impacted by our surroundings and encodes our nervous system
Listen as we explores the...
2022-12-1223 minClouded Compass: From Barriers to Breakthroughs12 days of Gabor Mate: Ch 3: Discussing the relational nature of our healthGabor Mate's latest book the Myth of Normal is VITAL to our well-being. I find it SO relevant to our current individual and social ailments that I'm sharing the first 12 chapters and my reflections on them based on my personal and professional experience as a Behavioral Health Provider and a Trauma Survivor.
https://drgabormate.com/book/the-myth-of-normal/
Part 1: Our Interconnected Nature
Chapter 3: You Rattle My Brain: Our Highly Interpersonal Biology
Discussing the relational nature of our health
In the following chapters we will be exploring:
How our ‘norms’ are w...
2022-12-1116 minClouded Compass: From Barriers to Breakthroughs12 days of Gabor Mate: Ch 2 Suppression, Repression and our Bodies Response to such Terrorism per the ScienceGabor Mate's latest book the Myth of Normal is VITAL to our well-being. I find it SO relevant to our current individual and social ailments that I'm sharing the first 12 chapters and my reflections on them based on my personal and professional experience as a Behavioral Health Provider and a Trauma Survivor.
https://drgabormate.com/book/the-myth-of-normal/
Part 1: Our Interconnected Nature
Chapter 2 Living in an Immaterial World: Emotions, Health and the Body-Mind Unity
Suppression, Repression and our Bodies Response to such Terrorism per the Science
Listen as we explores t...
2022-12-1025 minClouded Compass: From Barriers to Breakthroughs12 Days of Gabor Mate: Chapter 1 The Last Place You Want To BEGabor Mate's latest book the Myth of Normal is VITAL to our well-being. I find it SO relevant to our current individual and social ailments that I'm sharing the first 12 chapters and my reflections on them based on my personal and professional experience as a Behavioral Health Provider and a Trauma Survivor.
https://drgabormate.com/book/the-myth-of-normal/
Part 1: Our Interconnected Nature
Chapter 1
Listen as we explores the ‘lay of the land’ in terms of Trauma and its effects. Mate’s work is relatable, digestible and groundbreaking.
In the following chapters...
2022-12-0939 min
Clouded Compass: From Barriers to BreakthroughsInterviewed by Maraynn Petri from Slam the Gavel: Building a Home for the Holidays when its falling apart!I'm not tech savvy, but I wanted to share the interview with Maryann Petri and share her offerings with the world.
In this episode we tackle how to handle being alone for the holidays, through the lens of isolation and loss.
Listen up and tell me what you think!
Then head over to Slam the Gavel and listen to all of Maryann's guest as they tackle the terrain of legal injustice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCMyLd1bOXY
2022-12-051h 10Clouded Compass: From Barriers to BreakthroughsWhat can writing do for YOU? Guest Katie Allen shares her wisdomListen up as my Colleague Katie Allen and I discuss writing, it's benefits, when NOT to write and what and how writing can transform your wellbeing. So exciting to be talking about a FREE tool for Transformation!
Katie also offers resources, retreats and writing support at https://www.katieallen.net/ Join her for a weekend retreat or an hour of creative non-fiction writing weekly!
Finally, we didn't discuss her other endeavor, but she partners with her Senegalese friend to offer unique and hand crafted items here! It's also where you can find her own self-published book...
2022-12-0345 minClouded Compass: From Barriers to BreakthroughsWelcome back! I'm talking about Gabor Mate's new book: The Myth of Normal. Listen up!Welcome back! This book should be offered in high schools across our world! Listed up as I share Gabor Mate's new book: The Myth of Normal. So Important, I'm sharing it all with you! Mixed with my own professional knowledge base! Let me know what you think!
2022-11-1918 minClouded Compass: From Barriers to BreakthroughsKyle Johnston - Drop the LabelKyle Johnston and I recently met when I learned of his movement called Drop the Label. He and I speak about Recovery Alternatives and the Dangers of a one size fits all approach. Listen up and follow Clouded Compass on IG, FB and TikTok (Cloudedcompass2021).
Also listen up as we recently recorded a Podcast on his show Get Happy with cohosts Heather Bellovich and Diamond Morales https://open.spotify.com/show/4oBQzQe3pd79rSX0lVPGrp?si=71c29ab87194452f
Let us know what you think and check out my other offerings here: https://linktr.ee/cl...
2022-08-0153 minClouded Compass: From Barriers to BreakthroughsDara Hoffman-Fox and I discuss work, life and transitions mid-careerMeet my friend Dara (pronouns They/Them)! A colleague who has been passionately working with gender-questioning, transgender, and nonbinary clients for decades. Their YouTube Channel is full of an incredible wealth of information Conversations with a Gender Therapist YouTube channel and their book is a must read for anyone wanting to learn more about Gender Identity and how EACH of us have a right to define that for ourselves! https://discoveryourgenderidentity.com/product/you-and-your-gender-identity/?attribute_pa_format=printed-edition
It was an honor to have this much needed discussion on career transitions mid-career and how to listen to ou...
2022-07-2956 min
Clouded Compass: From Barriers to BreakthroughsDr Jo Lamm and I talk Women, Social Justice and Helping Professions!My guest today is Dr Jo Lamm, a fellow healer based in Minnesota.
Listen up as her and I discuss our mutual transitions from our previous work toward Coaching, Why, Why it Matters to You and HOW we serve the folks we work with and uphold our Social Justice Ethics while doing so.
This conversation was so fun and she is doing great work! Check her out at the following places!
Then stay tuned because we are planning an Trauma/Body/Mind Virtual Workshop coming in Late Summer!
Dr. Jo Lamm, PsyD (she/her)
https://www.tulasoul.com
https://www.l...
2022-05-1844 minClouded Compass: From Barriers to BreakthroughsAuthor Lisa May Bennett and I discuss Women and AlcoholLisa May Bennett and I have SO much in common. I wonder if some of you have similar experiences? Listen up as we talk about our relationship with Alcohol, what it did for us, what it did not, how it's related to early relationships and how we overcame unhealthy drinking!
Oh, and Lisa wrote and published a book about her journey too! Check out My Unfurling: Emerging from the Grip of Anxiety, Self Doubt and Drinking on Amazon!
https://www.amazon.com/My-Unfurling-Emerging-Self-Doubt-Drinking/dp/B09WZJXBCZ/ref=sr_1_1?crid=238IF3QTWPUVJ&keywords=lisa+bennett+unfurling&qid=1651863987&sprefix=lisa+bennett+unfurling%2Cap...
2022-05-1349 minClouded Compass: From Barriers to BreakthroughsBecca Newman and Plant Based HealingYou are going to want to listen to me and this Lady! She is blazing trails all OVER the State. From Wayne State, to sharing plant based medicines, Harm Reduction, Sex Therapy, Tarot and Art - she's one incredible resource!er
I had so much fun talking to her about our similar life paths and how we went from our past and are paving the way towards our future.
Let me know what you think of our conversation and her and I hosting a Michigan-Based Holistic Healing Retreat at the end of June, so stay Tun...
2022-05-0842 minClouded Compass: From Barriers to BreakthroughsMy Why and WHY I want to work with YOU!In this episodes I talk about my own Transformation after 5 years of Retraumatization and Psychiatric Gaslighting.
I'm also a mental health provider and I have *lots* to say about this now that I'm finally ready to talk about it.
Even better: this transformation led me to Clouded Compass.
That matters to you because: I have worked with thousands of humans in my lifetime and I'm bringing YOU the KEY factors that have worked in their transformaiton as well.
Listen up and let me if you enjoy it!
2022-05-0227 minClouded Compass: From Barriers to BreakthroughsBONUS: Grab a Sneak Peak of the Contents of my Course!Share widely!
Back to Basics is coming soon and I want to share it with the WORLD.
I've seen incredible transformations in my clients and myself in utilizing the tools I'll be offering in this Course.
6wks. 12 videos. Group Coaching = Transformation
Find YOUR North, so that YOU can gain Clarity within the Chaos.... in a Choose Your OWN Adventure Format!
Follow Clouded Compass on FB or IG and share widely to those you think may benefit!
2022-04-2907 minClouded Compass: From Barriers to BreakthroughsLet's Play What If.... the hopeful version...Remember when you used to daydream? Imagine? Have hope? Want some? Listen up...
Talking about internal imprisonment and how to unlearn what clouds our inherent light!
Please comment on FB or IG, share with someone you know, etc.
I'm on a mission to lift the whole boat and heal the world from the Inside Out... this chapter in a Group Context!
If this resonates with you, please share with someone you know who may need it.
Course coming soon! Back to Basics launch in May!
2022-04-2910 minClouded Compass: From Barriers to BreakthroughsNeurodiversity Awareness MonthWill you hear something in this episode that will help you on your journey?
I share my Neurodiversity, how it is the NORM and how I've learned to lean IN to the Assets it has given me!
In fact, I've birthed 2 new entities into the World: my 2 businesses.
Wanna know what they are teaching me that could help you too?
Listen up and let me know what was helpful!
Comment on FB and IG, share with someone you think this may help and consider my book (LifeHacks) or my G...
2022-04-2734 minClouded Compass: From Barriers to BreakthroughsHow Clouded Compass can Help YOU (or someone you know!)In this episode I lay the groundwork for the Mission of Clouded Compass and why it matters to every human on Earth.
We dig into how and why we have become disassociated from our internal wellness and how to heal the relationship with self and world from the inside out (my version, there are lots in the world actually lol).
I grew tired of band-aid approaches and I can't wait to share with you what has helped my clients excel, grow and learn their OWN True North!
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2022-04-2510 minClouded Compass: From Barriers to BreakthroughsIs your Screen Cracked? Trauma explained via our Cell Phones!I lost my cell phone recently... and it led me to share this analogy with you on your Worth and how life runs us over! See if it makes sense to you, then leave a comment on FB and IG and/or share with someone who it might resonate with.
LifeHacks is also available and the Back to Basics Course is launching in May!
Stay tuned... never know what metaphor I'll use to describe our basic human functioning!
2022-04-2309 minClouded Compass: From Barriers to BreakthroughsCollective Cancel CultureToday I share part 2 of piece of Adrienne Maree Brown's book We Will Not Cancel Us: and other dreams of transformative justice ... found here https://www.akpress.org/we-will-not-cancel-us.html
We move from Call Out to Transformation, Healing and Solutions... listen up.
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2022-04-1819 minClouded Compass: From Barriers to BreakthroughsWe Will Not Cancel Us...Today I'm introducing you to Adrienne Maree Brown and her book, which can be found here: https://www.akpress.org/we-will-not-cancel-us.html
I do so in effort to raise consciousness of our collective Soul Wounds and how they are expressing themselves in our current environment.
"Cancel or call-out culture is a fraught topic these days. Originating as a way for marginalized and disempowered people to address harm and take down powerful abusers, often with the help of social media, it is seen by some as having gone too far. But what is “too far” when you’...
2022-04-1119 minClouded Compass: From Barriers to BreakthroughsGuest Maryann Petri talks Slam The Gavel!Listen up everyone,
An Excellent Resource here with Maryann Petri. I met her in the underbelly of the Court System recently and she is a Powerhouse!
Had trouble with the Courts? Had trouble in Family Courts? Had job trouble because of an Abusive relationship? Had injustice when raising sounds of Alarm? This ones for you or someone you know.... Consider it your intro to our Pay for Play System.
Author of Dismantling Family Court Corruption and Cry Out For Justice, Poems of Truth and the Creator, Host and Organizer of Slam the Gavel Podcast...
2022-04-081h 13Clouded Compass: From Barriers to BreakthroughsGuest Nancy Becher talks Tools for Invisible EntrepreneursNancy Becher has been a business owner most of her life. She also has a Chronic Illness. So she started a company to work with other individuals facing the same. Now... she's off and running with her next venture: a Nonprofit designed to offer support to business entrepreneurs with chronic illness titled The Invisible Entrepreneur. Listen up as she is asking us to support this vital work that will lift entire families.
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"Growing a successful business is hard enough but trying to do it while adjusting to a new chall...
2022-03-2845 minClouded Compass: From Barriers to BreakthroughsCancel Culture: Whose cancelling who, why and where the hell did this idea come from!?Where did Cancel culture come from? You might be surprised. Most of all when I speak about the fact that it is WE who cancel ourSelves first. Listen up and...
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2022-03-2512 minClouded Compass: From Barriers to BreakthroughsWhat ARE the ACES really and why should we care?ACES are a critical point of reference to review what our life history provided us. Listen, learn and love yourself after you hear more about these hidden assets!
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2022-03-2518 minClouded Compass: From Barriers to BreakthroughsHow are you Showing Up in the World?What parts of yourself are you showing the World? Listen up as I talk about the Costs/Benefits of your Strategies.... as told through my Purple Hair!
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2022-03-0506 minClouded Compass: From Barriers to BreakthroughsWhat is your Life looking like today? Exploring the Value of your current LifestyleWhat color is your Life showing up as lately? What flavor is it? If these are foreign questions to you, listen up, I'm talking to you. Time to expand your resources and learn how to use your wet noodle!
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2022-03-0413 minClouded Compass: From Barriers to BreakthroughsWhat a Diagnosis Is and Isn'tFor years I diagnosed 'the problem'. What they don't emphasize is the hidden VALUE of including a diagnosis of ASSETS from those same symptoms. Hand to God. This is a good one. Pay attention and share with your friends!
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2022-03-0315 minClouded Compass: From Barriers to BreakthroughsBeliefs, Nervous System and how to get Unstuck!What ARE your Beliefs? How did you arrive at them? Did you know they can effect your Nervous System?
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2022-03-0212 minClouded Compass: From Barriers to BreakthroughsAre you Giving AND Receiving?Many of us are taught to Give.
To Others.
Rarely are we taught how, why and the value of Receiving.
We need Both and here's why.
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2022-03-0215 minClouded Compass: From Barriers to BreakthroughsIntergenerational Trauma and the 'map' it leaves on our Nervous SystemToday we talk about the Value of our Ancestors and what we may have inherited bodily from their experiences. Then, I read an excerpt from Oprah and Dr Perry's book What Happened To You? https://www.amazon.com/What-Happened-You-Understanding-Resilience/dp/1250223180/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3DCNBBF4JWNAY&keywords=what+happened+to+you&qid=1645474504&sprefix=what+happened+to+you%2Caps%2C108&sr=8-1
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2022-03-0118 minClouded Compass: From Barriers to BreakthroughsDevelopmental Trauma, ACES, Trauma, TOOLSDiscussing ACES, Developmental Trauma and how to harness the ASSETS that gave you. You earned the skills you have for Life by all that you've already been through. Let's look at them to see what's helpful, what's not and/or which ones may need to be recalibrated!
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2022-02-2818 minClouded Compass: From Barriers to BreakthroughsYour Story IS Your PowerEveryone has a Story. Many of us have several different versions. Stories, when told and heard, are a Healing balm... Listen as I discuss how they shape our lives...
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2022-02-2516 minClouded Compass: From Barriers to BreakthroughsDiscussing Therapy vs CoachingPeers. Professionals. Fellow Humans. Listen Up.
Are you working in jobs that kill your Soul? Are you asked to do things at work that are against your own inner values?
What do you do with that!?
Who do you talk about it with?
Listen up. It's Juicy.
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2022-02-2516 minClouded Compass: From Barriers to BreakthroughsWhat Clouded Compass can do for US...Today I speak about the Need I saw bubbling up over and over again, which led to my newest venture Clouded Compass. We talk about you. We talk about needed Tools and I offer Solutions.
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2022-02-2316 minClouded Compass: From Barriers to BreakthroughsWhat's Up With These Expecations of Ours!?This episode we talk about Expectations, how to Renegotiate your Future (and why) and how to build Empowerment within while doing so.
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Stay tuned for a Recalibration Course for your Nervous System coming soon!
2022-02-2316 minClouded Compass: From Barriers to BreakthroughsInner Revolution and WhyWant a Revolution in the World? Feeling Irritable, Restless and Discontent? Listen up....
This Revolution isn't going to be Televised.
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2022-02-2214 minClouded Compass: From Barriers to BreakthroughsDiamond MiningI love mining for Diamonds. It's not that the Diamonds aren't underneath the Coal, it's that we are afraid to unearth them. Today's episode talks about the Value of Storytelling, Ancestors, Sheros and Joy.
Work with me at www.cloudedcompass.com Course on Recalibrating your Nervous System Coming soon!
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2022-02-2116 minClouded Compass: From Barriers to BreakthroughsAre you Shoulding or Shedding?Hey Everybody, welcome to the Clouded Compass podcast. This is Laurie, I'm your host, I am a social worker, in a lot of other things. And I'm here to talk to us today about one of my favorite frameworks for understanding what to keep and what to let go of. And it's I frame it in the terms of shedding, not shoulding.
So if you look back at your life, and I want you to ask yourself how you arrived at the beliefs that you have? In other words, where did you learn these things from? Then I want you...
2022-02-1309 minClouded Compass: From Barriers to BreakthroughsSee No StrangerHey Everybody welcome back to The Club compass podcast. This is Laurie your host. I'm talking about social issues, behavior change, and empowerment based strategies that provide sustainable outcomes. Today I'm going to read some excerpts of a book from somebody that I appreciate. This book was really helpful to me. And her name is Valerie Kaur. She wrote a book called See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto Of Revolutionary Love. She has a history with the social change. And I want to just read you an excerpt because because it's so juicy.
Okay, so here we go.
Wonder...
2022-02-1309 minClouded Compass: From Barriers to BreakthroughsInternal Imprisonment. Are you Defining Your Own Success?Hello, everybody. Thanks for joining Clouded Compass. Welcome back in last week's episode, I spoke about women in prison. And I want to talk today about our own internal prison, which most people I have met in life have. And it's such a fascinating thing for me to talk about. Because there are so many angles to discuss it from one of the angles that I will jump into is the fact that so many people are living in prison like conditions in their brain.
Here's how I know. It looks like playing small, it looks like self doubt. It...
2022-02-1115 minClouded Compass: From Barriers to BreakthroughsWhich side of the bars are we on?Hey everybody, thanks for joining the Clouded Compass Podcast. I'm Laurie, your host, social worker of 20 years. Today, I'm going to talk about the criminal justice system and the women in prison. At the time of this recording, it is Martin Luther King Day. And I'm not sure how much you know about that person, but he risked incredibly great things, to share his message with us. And I think his message is relevant to all of us. So it isn't just a black person's holiday, it's a holiday, inviting us to pause and and look at, you know, are...
2022-02-1016 minClouded Compass: From Barriers to BreakthroughsInternal and External ExperiencesHello, everybody, welcome back to the cloud campus podcast. This is Laurie your host, I'm here to talk about social conditions our well being, and how we relate to ourselves in the world.
Today, I'm going to talk about the behavioral health perspective of internal and external circumstances. So I'm a behavioral health specialist, I've been a social worker for 20 years, I've studied human behavior. And I have been taught to I'm not even going to say, fix human behavior, although that's what many of my jobs have required, or asked of me to do. I'm gonna say more importantly...
2022-02-0919 minClouded Compass: From Barriers to BreakthroughsRelationship to Self and OthersHow are you relating in life? Are you content? Are you rageful? Agitated? Irritable when you don't mean to be?
Listen to what connects us all and how to show up as the person you were made to be!
2022-01-1814 minClouded Compass: From Barriers to BreakthroughsCommon Pain Points and a Solid SolutionDiscussing differences, getting clear on the root of hopelessness and how we are all connected. Solutions for reconnecting with self and others.
Marianne Williamson
A Return to Love (book), A Politics of Love: A Handbook for a New American Revolution
https://marianne.com/a-return-to-love/
2022-01-1816 minClouded Compass: From Barriers to BreakthroughsThe Last Frontier: FearBethel, Alaska and Native Alaskans
Working in Healthcare and Harm Reduction
What if....
2022-01-1316 minClouded Compass: From Barriers to BreakthroughsMy experience in the Land of Both/AndSocial Justice, Change making, Transformation, Disabilities, Hope
2022-01-1316 minClouded Compass: From Barriers to BreakthroughsExploring Solutions for ShameDiscusses a framework for Shame, solutions and its impact on our internal and external world.
2022-01-1212 minClouded Compass: From Barriers to BreakthroughsNew Experiences in the DarkenessMy original 'why' - why I became a social worker
New experiences - what those I have encountered gave to me early on and why it matters to all of us
Hiding our Light
2022-01-1217 minClouded Compass: From Barriers to BreakthroughsDestination Addiction and ACESExerpt from LifeHacks: Tips and Tricks for Accessing Inner Resilience
Intro to ACES Study
https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/aces/about.html
Find your own ACES Score Here:
https://www.acesaware.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/ACE-Questionnaire-for-Adults-Identified-English.pdf
If you'd like to contact and/or work with me, email lsmith@resiliencecoachllc.com
2022-01-1209 min
Clouded Compass: From Barriers to BreakthroughsWelcome: An Introduction to Big TruthsIntroduction to LifeHacks and Laurie and the Three Principles Framework
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