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Mind Your Own Karma - Beyond The BandageSEASON 4 MIND YOUR OWN KARMA PODCAST TRAILERMind Your Own Karma is your space for soulful healing and transformation. What started as a journey of self-discovery and adoption awareness has now evolved into something deeper: a podcast for anyone ready to explore out-of-the-box healing modalities, reconnect with their body and spirit, and rewrite their story.Join host Melissa Brunetti each week for honest conversations with radical healers, powerful tools for self-awareness, and reminders that no matter what you’ve been through…You are one listen away from a totally different life.2025-04-2401 min
Wandering Tree ®, LLC PodcastS6:E1 Swimming Back to Shore: Melissa Brunetti's Journey Healing in AdoptionWhat if reclaiming your true identity felt like swimming back to shore after being adrift in the ocean? Join us for a heartfelt conversation with Melissa Brunetti, host of Mind Your Own Karma, the Adoption Chronicles, as she shares her own transformative journey as a domestic adoptee from the baby scoop era. Melissa opens up about the emotional complexities her birth mother faced and the unwavering support of her adoptive parents when they discovered her hip dysplasia. Through her engaging narrative, we explore life’s unexpected connections and the profound impact of humor and resilience in shaping identity and fa...2024-12-1939 min
Mind Your Own Karma - Beyond The BandageS3E51 - HOME IS... WHERE? MESSAGE TO ADOPTEESWe are nearing the end of 2024! With the coming of the new year, it's routine to think about changes we could make to start fresh from the jump.
Today let's chat about what some small changes (and a mind-blowing concept) can do towards bringing the changes we all want to see in our lives. More healing, more peace, self-love, and feeling like we finally found HOME.
I also update you on last week's personal conundrum... and I know you'll want to hear about it.
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Mind Your Own Karma - Beyond The BandageS3E50 - ADOPTION-THE FOG OF REPEAT REJECTIONS & INTERPRETING OUR TRAUMA RESPONSES with MELISSA BRUNETTIIn this episode, I share a personal situation between myself and my birth mother. I don't have all the answers, and I ask you, my listeners, what do you think? Have you ever experienced this, or have you noticed your trauma has caused you to misunderstand others' intentions? Let me know!
If you are interested in finding out more about a light hypnotic therapy that can allow release of buried traumas, I want you to know about something called Somatic Mindful Guided Imagery," or SMGI. It's helped me release some key chunks of my...2024-12-1021 min
Mind Your Own Karma - Beyond The BandageS3E49 - CHOOSING TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE TOWARD HEALING AND EMPOWERMENTBuilding on last week's episode about feeling stuck, this week I've put together some resources for how to make those changes that keep you feeling stuck, and take control of your life from an empowered space.
Below is a link that will take you to a resource, a growing database as a service to the entire adoption community. In
the chart below you will find all types of practitioners – coaches, psychotherapists, hypnotherapists, art therapists, and much more.
https://unravelingadoption.com/healing/
Connect With Melissa:
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Mind Your Own Karma - Beyond The BandageS3E48 - ADOPTEE-FEELING STUCK? HOW TO BREAK FREE, REFRAME FEAR AND FOLLOW YOUR PURPOSEAdoptees can have a hard time breaking away from fear to embrace the life they really want. In this episode of Mind Your Own Karma: The Adoption Chronicles, Melissa Brunetti dives into the often-overwhelming feeling of being stuck that many adoptees experience.
Fear, shaped by rejection, loss, and uncertainty, can hold adoptees back from embracing the lives they truly desire. Melissa shares how to reframe fear, turn it into a source of strength, and take courageous steps toward living a life of purpose and authenticity.
Connect With Melissa:
-Email Melissa...2024-11-2613 min
Mind Your Own Karma - Beyond The BandageS3E47 - THE POWER OF SOMATIC THERAPY FOR ADOPTEE TRAUMA - PART 2 WITH JULIE BRUMLEYWelcome back to the show, Karma Crew! I’m excited to
reintroduce Julie Brumley, an inspiring adoptee and somatic practitioner who is dedicated to helping fellow adoptees heal and find their identity. Last week she shared her personal adoption journey, giving us a glimpse into how those
experiences shaped her and influenced her work.
Today, we’ll dive deeper into her healing journey and
explore how somatic therapy has been a game changer for both her and her clients. Get ready to gain insights into overcoming trauma, fostering a sense of belonging, and uncovering the layers of iden...2024-11-1944 min
Mind Your Own Karma - Beyond The BandageS3E46 - REVOLUTION: UNCOVERING YOUR BIRTHRIGHT - WITH ADOPTEE COACH JULIE BRUMLEY, PART 1After her own birth mother tried to abort her twice, Julie Brumley found herself frozen in an unconscious trauma response for decades until she found the power of somatic trauma healing.
Julie is an adoptee and trauma-informed coach who has
been coaching men and women for more than 15 years to overcome addictive behaviors and heal the primal trauma of abandonment. She is also the CEO of Coming Home to Self, a company dedicated to helping adoptees heal.
Julie now uses somatics, nervous system regulation, personal experience and her masters...2024-11-1245 min
Mind Your Own Karma - Beyond The BandageS3E45 - THE CHALLENGES OF FOSTERING TO ADOPT, FOSTER MOM CRISTAL BAEZ - LOVE YOUR NOW COMADREAdoptees, don't bypass this episode because of a guest foster parent and hopful adopive parent. I think you'll be surprised by a lot that she has to say.
Cristal Baez is a dedicated foster mother whose journey into the world of fostering was driven by a profound desire to adopt and create a loving, healing home for children. She is still in the process of adopting and found the journey complex as she navigates not only the foster system, but her foster children’s needs and struggles as well.
Cr...2024-11-0555 min
Mind Your Own Karma - Beyond The BandageS3E44 -THE LINK BETWEEN SUICIDALITY AND ADOPTEES-KEVIN BERTHIA-SUICIDE SURVIVOR, ADVOCATE AND SPEAKERKevin Berthia is an adoptee, suicide survivor, advocate, and speaker. Kevin pours his heart into sharing his powerful story of growing up in silence, always feeling the need to hide the unbearable pain he was in.
Through high school and into his early twenties, Kevin was
known as the life of the party… until his very public suicide attempt at the Golden Gate Bridge changed everything.
Since 2013, Kevin has captivated his audiences with his
candidness about how he was able to overcome his pain and fully embrace himself in or...2024-10-2946 min
Mind Your Own Karma - Beyond The BandageS3E43 - HOW AN ADOPTED PERSON NAVIGATES A BIOLOGICAL FATHER'S HEALTH CRISIS – ADOPTEE LORAH GERALDLorah Gerald is a Baby Scoop Era, same-race domestic, pre-Roe adoptee. She posts as The Adopted Chameleon on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter. She is a certified Trauma Informed Kundalini yoga instructor and Reiki Master.
Along with her work as a yoga instructor, she is an adoptee advocate. She leads the Adoptee Connect Tulsa group, started the adoptee private group The Adopted Chameleons, where she leads an art therapy group and body doubling group monthly, and works on the steering and implementation committee in Oklahoma for those affected by adoption and foster care. She...2024-10-2254 min
Mind Your Own Karma - Beyond The BandageS3E42 - RACIST FAMILY ADOPTS BIRACIAL CHILD UNKNOWINGLY AND NEVER REVEALS — AUTHOR SHAWN, "BORN WITHOUT A RACE"In 1963, Shawn was placed for adoption because his white
mother's family didn't want a biracial grandson. As an infant, he passed for white, so he was adopted by a racist, rural Indiana family who didn't realize that he was Black. Ashamed of his ethnicity, his mom concocted lies to hide his race from everyone, including Shawn.
This lack of racial identity caused depressing confusion and conflict with his education, relationships, and career, but his mom insisted that he was not to search for his birth family
until after she died.
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Mind Your Own Karma - Beyond The BandageS3E41 - THE ANSWERS WE DESERVE, PART 2 — SHELLY DUNLAP JOHNSON AND HER NEW LIFE AS A SEARCH ANGELShelly is a private domestic adoptee, born 2 years post Baby Scoop Era in North Carolina. She was raised a minister's daughter, along with her younger sister that her adoptive parents conceived.
She was forced to become a birthmother at 17. She has 5 children, and her oldest daughter is adopted due to illegal rehomings. Trying to find answers for herself and her adoptive daughter....the journey began.
Shelly fought the system to find out her identity, place of birth, and date of birth. She lost and ended up paying $4,000 to find o...2024-10-0838 min
Mind Your Own Karma - Beyond The BandageS3E40 - THE ANSWERS WE DESERVE, PART 1 — ADOPTEE AND FIRST MOTHER GIVING BACK AS A SEARCH ANGEL, SHELLY DUNLAP JOHNSONShelly is a private domestic adoptee. Born 2 years post Baby Scoop Era in North Carolina. She was raised a minister's daughter, along with her younger sister that her adoptive parents conceived.
She was forced to become a birthmother at 17. She has 5 children, and her oldest daughter is adopted due to illegal rehomings. Trying to find answers for herself and her adoptive daughter....the journey began.
Shelly fought the system to find out her identity, place of birth, and date of birth. She lost and ended up paying $4,000 to find o...2024-10-0150 min
Mind Your Own Karma - Beyond The BandageS3E39 - A PLAYLIST FOR A MISUNDERSTOOD POPULATION. LORI EVANS ERMI, ADOPTION SONGSLori Evans Ermi (she/her) wears a lot of hats! Lori is an adoptee, adopter, daughter, step-daughter, step-sister, half-sister, step-mother, single mom, entrepreneur, and former corporate executive now Professional Certified Coach and leadership consultant.
Professionally, Lori has over 30 years’ experience in
corporate leadership and organizational development and she wants to use this experience to positively impact the Adoption Constellation.
The creation of her book Adoption Songs allowed her to use
all her skills and to get to the core of people’s hearts and stories. She believes in coaching the...2024-09-2451 min
Mind Your Own Karma - Beyond The BandageS3E38 - "BECAUSE SHE'S ADOPTED" CREE DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKER, ADOPTEE KRISTAL PARKEIn her highly anticipated debut feature documentary, titled "Because She's Adopted," Kristal Parke delves deep into her own life story while also weaving together the narratives of other adoptees from diverse backgrounds.
Adoptee Kristal Parke is a talented Cree filmmaker, producer, podcaster whose personal journey has driven her to explore themes of identity, belonging, and family in her work.
Born and raised in the West Coast of Canada, Kristal was adopted into a non-indigenous family as an infant. This experience profoundly shaped her perspective on life, and she has...2024-09-1753 min
Mind Your Own Karma - Beyond The BandageS3E37 - THE HISTORY OF ADOPTION FROM AN ADOPTEE'S PERSPECTIVE! ADOPTEE, PROF. REBECCA WELLINGTONRebecca's career in education started on the ocean, sailing around the world on a traditionally rigged tall ship. Through this two-year global circumnavigation Rebecca trained for a US Coast Guard captain's license and went on to work in non-profit outdoor education, teaching kids to sail on the Charles River in Boston and later on the Puget Sound of Washington State.
Rebecca Wellington is an adoptee and author of the book Who Is a Worthy Mother, An Intimate History of Adoption.
She was driven to write a history of adoption in the United S...2024-09-1048 min
Mind Your Own Karma - Beyond The BandageS3E36 - ADOPTEE, ADOPTIVE MOM AND BIRTH MOTHER: ASHLEY ALLEC TOWNEAshley is an adoptee, birth mother, and an adoptive parent.
After going through foster care and being adopted by a Baptist family at the age of 4, she saw a lot of trauma in many forms. She was surrounded by adoptees and always knew adoption was special, so when she found out she was pregnant, she knew that adoption was the only answer.
While there was plenty of drama that 9 months, she was able to choose a great family and was comfortable with her decision. She says that most of her memories have faded with...2024-09-0357 min
Mind Your Own Karma - Beyond The BandageS3E35 - ADOPTEE FINDS PURPOSE IN THE PAIN, SUPPORTS AND INSPIRES OTHERS WITH TRAUMA: TIM PERDION SHARES HIS STORYTim Perdion was born Thomas Griffin Demchak on March 1,
1969. Placed in the care of an adoption agency shortly after birth, he was adopted by his loving parents on April 28, 1969.
Despite growing up in a seemingly perfect adoptive family, Tim wrestled with deep-seated feelings of anger, depression, and anxiety—a struggle that persisted into adulthood. The discovery of his biological roots at the age of 46 rocked his world, unveiling the complex dynamics and secrets that had shaped his life.
Today, Tim walks with his head held high, continuing his
journey mo...2024-08-271h 04Mind Your Own Karma - Beyond The BandageS3E34 - CANDACE CAHILL, "GOODBYE AGAIN," ON LOSING HER BIRTH SON TWICE: AUTHOR, FIRST MOTHER, PARK RANGERCandace Cahill is a first mother, late discovery step-adoptee, and the author of Goodbye Again, a memoir detailing her experience of losing her son twice.
Candace is a modern-day Renaissance Woman and works seasonally as an Interpretive Park Ranger in Denali National Park & Preserve.
Connect with Candace:
Website: https://candacecahill.com/
Book “Goodbye, Again” https://candacecahill.com/book/
Other Published Work by Candace Cahill
The Citron Review: WORDGAME:
https://citronreview.com/2023/12/29/wordgame/
HuffPost: An Unexpected Tragedy Changed Everything: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mother-daughter-strained-relationship-tragedy_n_63b451d2e4b0cbfd55...2024-08-2050 min
Mind Your Own Karma - Beyond The BandageS3E33 - STEPHEN ROWLEY, PhD, ADOPTEE, SHARES HOW A LIFE CHANGING EVENT GAVE HIM THE GIFT OF HEALING AND ENLIGHTENMENTStephen was born to a single mother at The Willows Maternity Sanitarium in Kansas City, Missouri in 1949. Kansas City was the hub of adoption in America for over four decades, and some 30,000 babies were born here over those decades. Stephen was later adopted by his parents six months later in Iowa.
He always knew of his adoption but at age 13, he told my mother he wanted to know more. She reacted with hostility, and from that moment Stephen vowed he would find his birth mother and the facts of his adoption, no matter what...2024-08-1358 min
Unraveling AdoptionAdoption and Suicidality with Joey Nakao, Dr. Joyce Maguire Pavao, Bruce Porth, Janell Strube, Laura L. Engel, Lorraine Dusky, Terri Dreismeier, and Melissa Brunetti - Ep 158Adoption and Suicidality with Joey Nakao, Dr. Joyce Maguire Pavao, Bruce Porth, Janell Strube, Laura L. Engel, Lorraine Dusky, Terri Dreismeier, and Melissa Brunetti - Ep 158 "Despite working hard on a daily or moment-to-moment basis to stay alive, the poem revealed a thin thread of hope that by turning toward and befriending my pain, I might just find a way through it." -- Bruce Porth, one of the book’s contributors ❤️🩹 If you or someone you know is suicidal, please call or text 988, the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. (Outside US, call your area’s crisis line.) ❤️🩹 Podcast Episode Synopsis: ...2024-08-121h 22
Mind Your Own Karma - Beyond The BandageS3E32 - ABOLISHING ADOPTION: ADOPTEE & ADVOCATE BRAD MIELEBrad is a Gen-X adoptee from the baby scoop era who grew up in New Jersey in the '70s and '80s. His adopters were wealthy, and his experience as a young child was great. However, he went on to experience many negative life events as a result of unresolved maternal separation trauma, and it wasn’t until 10 years ago that he connected the dots and started coming out of the fog.
He started advocating for adoptee voices on Twitter during the pandemic and switched to TikTok in late 2023, where he educates about ad...2024-08-0649 min
Mind Your Own Karma - Beyond The BandageS3E31 ELIZABETH BARBOUR: ADOPTEE, ADOPTIVE MOM, LIFE COACH & AUTHOR of SACRED CELEBRATIONSElizabeth is both a reunited adoptee and an adoptive mother. Since 2000, Elizabeth Barbour has coached thousands of women to find their way back to solid ground when life gets chaotic and overwhelming. Elizabeth intimately understands the twists and turns of life’s transitions, having weathered the pain of divorce, the deaths of her parents, emotional struggles surrounding adoption, the heartache of miscarriage and fertility issues, complex family relationships, and a near-fatal car accident.
Elizabeth guides women through a self-care and ritual process where grief and gratitude can live side by side through her coaching pro...2024-07-3051 min
Mind Your Own Karma - Beyond The BandageS3E30 AUTHOR & ADOPTEE KEN DeSTEFANO SHARES HIS STORY WITH MYOKKen DeStefano is an attorney living in New York, who is also a domestic adoptee that was born in the late 1960s. He was raised in a caring and loving home. As an adoptee, he has had a largely happy life, but always wondered about the unknown.
That curiosity led to a search for his own birth mother and a reunification with her. His debut novel, I Will See You Again...Hearts Will Sing, tells the story of two people whose past, present, and future lives are inexplicably linked.
In 20...2024-07-2345 min
Girl, Take the Lead!176. Mind Your Own Karma: Melissa Brunetti on Somatic Therapy and HealingMelissa Brunetti, GenX Certified SMGI® Practitioner, Trauma Healing & Mind-Body Coach with Somatic
Mindful Guided Imagery® & Mind Your Own Karma The Adoption Chronicles Podcaster, joins us to talk about her journey to educate people about adoption
trauma, the Primal Wound and Somatic Mindful Guided Imagery.
Her goal is to inspire people and remind us that we are only one decision away from a totally different life!
She asks all of us to reflect on the question: is it ever too late to reinvent yourself?
She is an example to all of us t...2024-07-1636 min
Mind Your Own Karma - Beyond The BandageS3E29 DR. LIZ DeBETTA, MIGRATING TOWARD WHOLENESS THROUGH the CREATIVE PROCESSWelcome Liz DeBetta to the podcast! Dr. Liz DeBetta, creator of Migrating Toward Wholeness© is an adoptee and independent scholar-artist-activist committed to changing systems and helping people navigate trauma through creative processes.
She believes that stories are powerful change agents and when we write them and share them we connect and heal.
Liz is a proud member of Actor's Equity, SAG-AFTRA, Affiliate Faculty at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, and part of the Diversity Scholars Network at the National Center for Institutional Diversity at the University o...2024-07-1653 min
Mind Your Own Karma - Beyond The BandageS3E28 - EATING DISORDERS & ADOPTEES: DIETICIAN AND ADOPTEE REBECCA BERGRebecca Berg, MS, RDN (she/her/hers) is a Los Angeles-based Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and adoptee who specializes in eating disorders, mental health, and body image!
She is passionate about helping adoptees learn how to connect to and care for their bodies. Alongside you, she gently explores food and body coping mechanisms with curiosity and compassion to cultivate understanding of how they’ve been protecting you and keeping you safe. Rebecca uses a collaborative, weight-inclusive, trauma-informed approach infused with humor and authenticity.
Rebecca is also a domestic, same-race, infant ad...2024-07-0949 min
Mind Your Own Karma - Beyond The BandageS3E27 - JENNIFER BULJAN, INTERNATIONAL ADOPTEE, TALKS SURRENDER AND HEALING THROUGH SOUND THERAPYJennifer is an adoptee and an Arizona-based Sound Healer originally from Queens, New York, and was born in Croatia. She is now living in reunion with most of her birth family, with the exception of her birthmother that died 3 years ago before they could meet.
Jennifer’s background is in social work, and she found sound therapy quite by accident on an emergency trip to the dentist. Her dentist had healed herself from fibromyalgia (using sound and vibration) and inspired Jennifer to delve into sound.
In 2017, she officially got certified in Vibr...2024-07-021h 19
Once Upon A Time...In Adopteeland166. Melissa Brunetti: "Mind Your Own Karma: The Adoption Chronicles"Melissa Brunetti is a domestic adoptee from the baby scoop era and even though she had what she calls a 'good adoption with great adoptive parents' that doesn't mean she doesn't still have scars from her relinquishment. She says that she sees her healing journey as a gift that has shown her hidden treasures among the trauma. Melissa is the podcast host of Mind Your Own Karma The Adoption Chronicles and is a Somatic Mindful Guided Imagery Practitioner which is a newly emerging and highly effective somatic modality that can heal trauma of all kinds. She hopes her story...2024-03-1247 min
Mind Your Own Karma - Beyond The BandageS3E2 - MYOK AND GINA VANCE OF SMGI® COME TOGETHER AND TALK ABOUT HEALING THE PRIMAL WOUND AND TRAUMAGina Vance is a hypnotherapist, mind-body coach, and the developer of the powerful protocol of Somatic Mindful Guided Imagery®. She guides individuals and groups on inner journeys of self exploration, discovery
She’s trained with medical doctors, shamans, and many
healers—some grounded in scientific research, others profoundly intuitive.
Gina created SMGI®, or Somatic Mindful Guided Imagery®, from
some of the most effective protocols, practices and modalities, along with her own unique discoveries.
She teaches simple and effective mind-body methods to create
change—whether it’s growing something, like a business, a relationship, or one’s ow...2024-01-1145 min
Mind Your Own Karma - Beyond The BandageS2E90 JACQUELIN TAYBRON: OVERSEAS MILITARY ADOPTIONS, CHALLENGES WITH CITIZENSHIP PAPERWORK, AND HER OWN ADOPTION EXPERIENCESMeet Jacquelin Taybron, who is an adoptee 30 years post reunion with her biological mother and her siblings. She was born in Landstuhl, Germany, and her adoptive family was handpicked within the military community by her birth mom. At 15 months old, her adoption was finalized, and the very next day she relocated to the States with her adoptive family.
Follow along with all the twists and turns of this episode as Jacquelin's story interweaves with practical information that most may not know about: wartime and/or military placements of children with other families, and the...2023-11-2157 min
Mind Your Own Karma - Beyond The BandageS2E89 ADOPTEE ELIZABETH SHARES HER STORY WITH MIND YOUR OWN KARMAElizabeth was born in the ‘60s in Washington, DC and relinquished to social services immediately thereafter. Her first family was Japanese, and she stayed with them as a foster baby for three and a half months. Her adopted family welcomed her, along with their adopted son, into the family.
The few details told to her parents and then to Elizabeth were that her mother was Greek, and so was her father, who was a chauffeur to the Greek Ambassador. Her father was older, and her mother in her 20s at the time of her birth.
Al...2023-11-1451 min
Mind Your Own Karma - Beyond The BandageS2E88 ADOPTEE MICHELE SICKLER SHARES HER STORY WITH MYOKMichele Sickler was born and relinquished on Staten Island, NY in 1962. She was placed with her adoptive family at 3 weeks of age after being in foster care. She grew up in Queens, NY. Michele found her natural family almost 13 years ago, when she was 48. At that time, she found out her mother was African American, which wasn't disclosed in her adoption papers. She describes her reunion as difficult, as many adoptees do. Her natural mother died in 2015. She has been married for almost 40 years and has 4 adult children and 1 granddaughter. Thank you, Michelle, for joining us on Mind Your Own...2023-11-0838 min
Mind Your Own Karma - Beyond The BandageS2E87 INTERVIEW WITH ADOPTEE JACK ROCCO, AUTHOR OF "RECYCLED"Jack Rocco, M.D. has more than 30 years as a practicing
orthopedic and cosmetic surgeon. His work has taken him to many countries and cultures, including to Japan, where he served in the U.S. Air Force, and to Madagascar, where, through a nonprofit organization he established, he helped treat hundreds of children with devastating orthopedic deformities, predominantly including club foot.
Recycled, his first book, chronicles the behind-the-scenes, reluctant, and subconscious journey exploring the impact of being relinquished and adopted during the baby-scoop era of the mid-sixties. As he eventually finds his birth families, h...2023-10-3159 min
Mind Your Own Karma - Beyond The BandageS2E86 MEET CARLOS MUNEZ, TRANSRACIAL AND TRANSNATIONAL ADOPTEEIt was in the '90s when Carlos Munez was brought to the UK at 8 months old. As a transracial adoptee, he's experienced a loving home and a happy childhood, despite some big identity challenges. His relationship with adoption has been one of acceptance and growth from a child to adulthood.
He's on a journey now to share his own story about being proud of who you are and making the best out of what life has dealt you. He hopes you will take something from his story, even if it's only a small...2023-10-2458 min
Mind Your Own Karma - Beyond The BandageS2E83 ADOPTEE MELISSA ULVEN, LONGSWORD FENCER, DEATH PLANNING EDUCATOR, ROLLER DERBY ENTHUSIAST & WRITING COACHMelissa is a domestic infant adoptee, adopted by her foster family when she was 1 year old.
Melissa Ulven is a project coach and death planning educator based in Eugene, Oregon. When she's not busy with work, she embraces her eclectic interests, which have included--but are not limited to--longsword fencing, roller derby, and participating in dog sports with her majestic 7-year-old rough collie. In addition to her collection of hobbies, Melissa dedicates a larger portion of her time to writing and helping others understand how to approach novel writing as a definable project.
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Mind Your Own Karma - Beyond The BandageS2E83 INTERVIEW WITH ADOPTEE MELISSA ULVENMelissa is a domestic infant adoptee, adopted by her foster
family when she was 1 year old.
Melissa Ulven is a project coach and death planning educator
based in Eugene, Oregon. When she's not busy with work, she embraces her eclectic interests, which have included--but are not limited to--longsword fencing, roller derby, and participating in dog sports with her majestic 7-year-old rough collie. In addition to her collection of hobbies, Melissa dedicates a larger portion of her time to writing and helping others understand how to approach novel writing as a definable project.
Website: U...2023-10-0345 min
Unraveling AdoptionComing Out of the Fog with Melissa Brunetti - Ep 106Coming Out of the Fog with Melissa Brunetti "As an adoptee, you want to be wanted. I thought, well, shoot, if I don't take this guy, I don't know if anyone else is going to come along." - Melissa Brunetti Even though Melissa was an adoptee with a FABULOUS adoptive family, she realized that she was "in the fog" of adoption trauma in mid-life. In this episode, we delve into Melissa's heart-wrenching quest to unravel the mysteries of who she is, her traumatic relinquishment and reunion story, and her healing path. 📆 Community Calendar: UnravelingAdoption.com/Cal...2023-08-1433 min
Mind Your Own Karma - Beyond The BandageS2E70 PODCAST HOST MELISSA BRUNETTI ~ MY ADOPTION STORYIt's here! I'm finally sharing my own story on the podcast!! I'm closing in on 100 episodes (can you believe it??) So, what took me so long? You have to listen to find out!
Join me for this very personal episode, where I turn the mic and the questions on myself :)
If you or someone you know would like to tell their adoption story on the podcast (anyone in the adoptee constellation), please send an email to mindyourownkarma@gmail.com, and your story will be considered for the podcast.
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Mind Your Own Karma - Beyond The BandageS2E30 ADOPTION REUNION COACH AND ADOPTEE DARYN WATSON***MAY CONTAIN TRIGGERING CONTENT
Daryn Watson's adoption reunion journey began in 1995 at the age of twenty-five when he began searching for his maternal family. Less than eight short weeks later, He found his birth/first mother.
His first telephone call with her was on October 9th, 1995. He says he will never forget that phone call. For the first time his life, he felt truly whole and complete!
Despite reading several books on adoption, He wasn’t prepared for the overwhelming emotions and experiences reunion encompasses. He would be full of jo...2022-11-221h 01Mind Your Own Karma - Beyond The BandageS2E29 DANIELLLE GAUDETTE'S ADOPTION STORY & HER BOOK, HEALING TREE, PART 2***MAY CONTAIN TRIGGERING CONTENT
PART 2 OF DANIELLE'S STORY!!!
Many adoptees fantasize about who their birth parents are. Are they rich? Are they royalty? Are they famous?
In Danielle's case she did have a famous actress as her birth mother, and it was a bit overwhelming, to say the least!
After reuniting with her birth mother – and uncovering the primal wound that lay deep within her – Danielle embarks on a 20-year healing journey of self-discovery, reconciliation, and forgiveness.
For anyone who feels s...2022-11-1545 min
Mind Your Own Karma - Beyond The BandageS2E28 THE KARMA FILES FULL MOON BONUS EPISODE—MY PERSONAL NIGHTMAREDISCLAIMER: LISTEN AFTER DARK AT YOUR OWN RISK!!! MAY NOT BE SUITABLE FOR YOUNG LISTENERS.
STORY LOCATION: Riverbank, CA
FALL OF 1994
Welcome to My Personal Nightmare. When I was 7 months pregnant with my daughter, I was home cleaning house and doing laundry. I was watching a TV show about people telling of their paranormal experiences, only, it was me having the experience.
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Due to the LONG-LASTING EMOTIONAL FALLOUT that can be part of adoption, I highly support the GENTLE HEALING SUPPORT of SMGI: S...2022-11-0915 minMind Your Own Karma - Beyond The BandageS2E27 AUTHOR DANIELLE GAUDETTE'S ADOPTION STORY AND HER BOOK, HEALING TREE***MAY CONTAIN TRIGGERING CONTENT
“Our adopted angel” – that’s what Danielle’s adoptive parents called her. She grew up adored, doted on, and unconditionally loved. It wasn’t until she was in college that she first felt a gnawing curiosity about her roots. From time to time, she would wonder: Where did this face come from? Where did this body come from? Where did this blood come from? Her search to find her biological parents had begun – one full of surprises and revelations.
After reuniting with her birth mother – and uncovering the primal wound that lay deep within he...2022-11-0832 minMind Your Own Karma - Beyond The BandageS2E26 FOSTER CARE SYSTEM AND STATE-AWARDED INCENTIVES FOR ADOPTION***EPISODE CONTAINS ADULT LANGUAGE AND MIGHT NOT BE SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN.
November is Adoption Awareness Month.
Are you AWARE that the states get kickback incentives for adoptions through the foster care system?
Are you AWARE that these incentives are based on how adoptable you are? If you are 14 and older, you are considered 'harder to place,' and the price tag for your adoption is much higher than younger children.
Are you AWARE that almost $900 million dollars have been awarded to eligible states since these kickbacks have started?
Are you...2022-11-0134 min
Electric Ideas with Whitney BakerParanormal Encounters and Messages from the Other Side: A Halloween Special with Melissa BrunettiIn today’s episode, I talk with Melissa Brunetti, a sensitive who says she’s always been able to see, feel and hear spirits, see people’s auras, and connect to spirits who want to give their loved one’s messages from the other side. Melissa is host of the Mind Your Own Karma podcast, which is all about living your best life. As someone who is passionate about authenticity, Melissa revealed her paranormal gifts to her listeners and now features her unexplained experiences through monthly The Karma Files bonus episodes released on her podcast on the full moon. Melissa shares how s...2022-10-2732 minMind Your Own Karma - Beyond The BandageS2E25 AFFIRMATIONS AND MANTRAS TO GET YOU THROUGH ADOPTION AWARENESS MONTH***EPISODE CONTAINS EXPLICIT LANGUAGE.
It's almost November, Adoption Awareness Month and we will all need a little encouragement and strength from each other to get through it. SO, I have a list of Sassy Affirmations that will make you laugh AND will remind you how strong, powerful and wonderful you are!! There's some really great mantras to help get you through if you need a little encouragement!
ADOPTEE POWER!!!
Don't forget Adoptee Remembrance Day is October 30th!
If you or someone you know would like to tell their ad...2022-10-2534 minMind Your Own Karma - Beyond The BandageS2E24 MOTIVATION, AND HOW TO GET IT.***EPISODE CONTAINS EXPLICIT LANGUAGE.
Let me start by saying, I have a love/hate relationship with Mel Robbins. (Really, I love her.) BUT, she STOLE my idea! The one I thought was stupid so I never wrote a book about it or did speaking engagements about it like she did! AND she probably made MILLIONS from it!!
What idea you ask?
The one about how to get motivated. There is a hack! Yes, a brain hack, that you have to try!
I've been doing it for years! It works! It really wo...2022-10-1833 min
Mind Your Own Karma - Beyond The BandageS2E23 INJUSTICE—WHAT CAN YOU DO ABOUT IT? BONUS EPISODE!!!BONUS EPISODE!!!
What can you do when an injustice happens? This happened to me recently. What did I do to help release it? Honestly? Not 100%, but probably about 90% gone!
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Due to the LONG-LASTING EMOTIONAL FALLOUT that can be part of adoption, I highly support the GENTLE HEALING SUPPORT of SMGI: Somatic Mindful Guided Imagery. For more information on this groundbreaking and highly successful method, go to https://www.somatichealingjourneys.com
Please seek professional help if you find yourself struggling with some of the...2022-10-1414 minMind Your Own Karma - Beyond The BandageS2E22 ADOPTEES AND PSYCHIC, INTUITIVE OR SPIRITUAL GIFTS PART 2***WARNING—MAY CONTAIN ADULT LANGUAGE AND TRIGGERING CONTENT RELATED TO ADOPTION.
Are you an adoptee who thinks you may have the gift of being a sensitive, intuitive or psychic? It's Halloween season, and we are discussing why it appears that many adoptees have spiritual gifts. The more adoptees I talk with and interview, I discover that they seem to have heightened senses. Could it be that the Primal Wound has something to do with it? Is it hypervigilance? Or is is heightened senses that were elevated due to early infant abandonment? Also, find out the difference between al...2022-10-1125 min
Mind Your Own Karma - Beyond The BandageS2E21 THE KARMA FILES FULL MOON BONUS EPISODE—JORDAN'S NIGHTMAREDISCLAIMER: LISTEN AFTER DARK AT YOUR OWN RISK!!! MAY NOT BE SUITABLE FOR YOUNG LISTENERS.
Welcome to Jordan's nightmare. Jordan and his pregnant wife were having some strange things happening to them in their home. Paranormal? Imagination? Or just a dream?
STORY LOCATION: Vernal, Utah
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Due to the LONG-LASTING EMOTIONAL FALLOUT that can be part of adoption, I highly support the GENTLE HEALING SUPPORT of SMGI: Somatic Mindful Guided Imagery. For more information on this groundbreaking and highly successful method, go to https://www.somatichealingjourneys.co...2022-10-0913 minMind Your Own Karma - Beyond The BandageS2E20 ADOPTEES AND PSYCHIC, INTUITIVE OR SPIRITUAL GIFTS PART 1***WARNING—MAY CONTAIN ADULT LANGUAGE AND TRIGGERING CONTENT RELATED TO ADOPTION.
Are you an adoptee who thinks you may have the gift of being a sensitive, intuitive or psychic? It's Halloween season and we are discussing why it appears that many adoptees have spiritual gifts. The more adoptees I talk with and interview, I discover that they seem to have heightened senses. Could it be that the Primal Wound has something to do with it? Is it hypervigilance? Or is is heightened senses that were elevated due to early infant abandonment? Also, find out the difference between be...2022-10-0438 minMind Your Own Karma - Beyond The BandageS2E19 YOU DON'T LOOK ADOPTED BY ANNE HEFFRON PART 2***WARNING-MAY CONTAIN ADULT SITUATIONS AND TRIGGERING CONTENT RELATED TO ADOPTION.
Do you feel like your life as an adoptee was a crapshoot that you had absolutely no control over? Do you feel like this crap shoot has carried over into your adult life and you still don't have any control over it? Do you ever feel like you don't deserve anything good?
I am diving into the book, You Don't Look Adopted by Anne Heffron-Anne is an adoptee that uses satire and humor to talk about all aspects of her life as a...2022-09-2737 minMind Your Own Karma - Beyond The BandageS2E18 YOU DON'T LOOK ADOPTED—A BOOK BY ANNE HEFFRON***WARNING-MAY CONTAIN ADULT LANGUAGE AND TRIGGERING CONTENT RELATED TO ADOPTION.
ADOPTEES, boy what a can of worms we can be! It's a rollercoaster of being ourselves AND someone else. I'm sure a lot of us have been told YOU DON'T LOOK ADOPTED at one point or another. What the hell does that even mean?
I am diving into the book, You Don't Look Adopted by Anne Heffron. Anne is an adoptee that uses satire and humor to talk about all aspects of her life as an adoptee. If you are adopted, you h...2022-09-2030 minMind Your Own Karma - Beyond The BandageS2E17 THE ADOPTEES SURVIVAL GUIDE TO TAKING BACK YOUR LIFE—HOW TO FIND YOUR WAY BACK HOME***MAY CONTAIN TRIGGERING CONTENT
Survival Mode...for most adoptees it's every day life. It's a life of being someone you aren't out of fear of more loss. And what's worse is, no one validates your scars. After all, you appear well adjusted and 'fine'. Before you know it, you are a grown adult that has no idea how to make healthy connections, how to make your own decisions without anxiety, how to live a life free of fear, how to love freely and allow love from others. How can one do that when you are in a c...2022-09-1334 minMind Your Own Karma - Beyond The BandageS2E16 ADOPTION AND ATTACHMENT STYLES—WHICH ONE ARE YOU AND WHAT DOES THAT MEAN FOR YOUR RELATIONSHIPS?***MAY HAVE TRIGGERING CONTENT
Do you know what your Attachment Style is? There are four types, and only one is considered healthy!
What does your attachment style say about you and how you approach relationships? Take a listen to the episode and see if you can identify which one you are. Then take the quiz and find out if you were right! Let me know what you got as a result and if you thought that was the one you would get. Mine was right on!
Attachment types can greatly...2022-09-0622 minMind Your Own Karma - Beyond The BandageS2E15 DONNA MARIE'S ADOPTION STORY PART 2: FINDING HER BIRTH FATHER AND SIBLINGS. AND WHAT IS THE FROZEN BABY?***WARNING!!! THIS EPISODE DISCUSSES ADOPTION TRAUMA.
Part 2 of Donna's story tells about the strange twists of how she found her birth father's side of the family. We also talk about what the "Frozen Baby" is and what it means to adoptees.
Donna Marie Joseph was with her birth mother for a few months before she was taken and adopted by wonderful parents that loved and raised her as their own. The only problem was, Donna was a mixed race child and her parents were both white. This lead to self esteem issues...2022-08-3052 minMind Your Own Karma - Beyond The BandageS2E14 DONNA MARIE'S ADOPTION STORY: MIXED-RACE ADOPTEE, THE LOSS OF A BIRTH PARENT, AND HOW ADOPTION CAN AFFECT THE ADOLESCENT***WARNING!!! THIS EPISODE DISCUSSES SUICIDE, ABUSE AND ADOPTION TRAUMA.
Donna Marie Joseph was with her birth mother for a few months before she was taken and adopted by wonderful parents that loved and raised her as their own. The only problem was, Donna was a mixed race child and her parents were both white. Donna discusses how this affected her growing up, and how even though she was raised in a loving household that hosted many foster children, she felt alone.
At the age of 12, Donna felt the primal urge to see a...2022-08-2341 minMind Your Own Karma - Beyond The BandageS2E13 ADOPTION AND FOSTERCARE STORY OF RICK FELTNER, PART 2—ADOPTION FOG AND USING MEDITATION TO UNBLOCK YOUR CHAKRAS.What is Adoption Fog, and what are some ways that we can come home to ourselves? Sometimes coming out of the fog can be scary and disorienting. It is so easy to get stuck because there are so many questions and it's difficult to know where to begin. Who am I really? And how do I figure that out? How can we navigate our way back to who WE really are?
Rick has discovered that because of adoptee trauma, sometimes our energy centers, or chakras, can get blocked. What an interesting concept! And so t...2022-08-1638 minMind Your Own Karma - Beyond The BandageS2E12 THE ADOPTION AND FOSTER CARE STORY OF RICK FELTNER, PART 1Rick Feltner is an adoptee that was placed in the foster care system at about 2 years old, and was later adopted at about age 6. Why was he taken away from his birth family at that age? What happened? These are just some of the questions that many adopted children face later in life. The WHY questions that haunt all adoptees, and do we really want to hear the answers? How did we end up as an adoptee, and how can we navigate our way back to who WE really are. Rick is currently on a quest to finding those...2022-08-0939 minMind Your Own Karma - Beyond The BandageS2E11 THE REASONS I AS AN ADOPTEE DECIDED TO SEARCH FOR MY BIRTH FAMILYWhat are some of the reasons adoptees choose to search for their birth families? There are many, but I reveal my personal reasons of why I felt the need to find my biological roots in todays episode.
If you or someone you know would like to tell their adoption story on the podcast (anyone in the adoptee constellation), please send an email to mindyourownkarma@gmail.com, and your story will be considered for the podcast.
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Due to the LONG-LASTING EMOTIONAL FALLOUT that can be part...2022-08-0234 minMind Your Own Karma - Beyond The BandageS2E10 WHAT EVERY ADOPTIVE PARENT SHOULD KNOW, PART 2This episode was inspired from the book Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew, by author Sherrie Eldridge.
Lets talk about what adoptive parents should DO when bringing home that adoptive baby for the first time. Let me tell you, I think the adoptive parents have the HARDEST job of the adoption triad. Adoptees can be hard to figure out and I'm hoping this episode will give you some ideas that will make your job a little easier along the way.
If you or someone you know would like to te...2022-07-2635 minMind Your Own Karma - Beyond The BandageS2E9 WHAT EVERY ADOPTIVE PARENT SHOULD KNOW, PART 1***This episode was inspired from the book Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew, by author Sherrie Eldridge.
Part 1 suggests some things adoptive parents should consider NOT doing when it comes to their adopted child. Part 2 next week will have more suggestions on what TO do for them.
If you or someone you know would like to tell their adoption story on the podcast (anyone in the adoptee constellation), please send an email to mindyourownkarma@gmail.com, and your story will be considered for the podcast.
2022-07-1934 minMind Your Own Karma - Beyond The BandageS2E8 DESI'S ADOPTION AND FOSTER CARE STORY***TRIGGER WARNING-SOME CONTENT MAY NOT BE SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN OR ADULTS THAT STRUGGLE WITH THE SUBJECT OF CHILD ABUSE.
Desi was a very young child when the foster care system took her and her twin siblings away from their birth parents. In the foster system, they were separated, not knowing what happened to their biological family or each other. This is Desi's journey of abuse, adoption and triumph, and how she was able to find her long lost siblings.
DESI'S FACEBOOK PAGE: https://www.facebook.com/terrah.varney
ADOPTION SEARCH AND REUNION FACEBOOK P...2022-07-1251 min
Mind Your Own Karma - Beyond The BandageS2E7 ROE V WADE—ABORTION OPINION COLLECTIVE***WARNING-THIS EPISODE CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT AND LANGUAGE.
This episode is a collaboration of opinions on the Supreme Court's ruling to overturn Roe v. Wade. All sides are represented, and the opinions of the people that volunteered to participate are presented just as they were submitted in their entirety with no editing.
I also give my opinion as seen through the eyes of an adoptee.
Please listen with care and with an open mind.
If you or someone you know would like to tell...2022-07-0527 min
Mind Your Own Karma - Beyond The BandageS2E6 BECCA'S ADOPTION STORYBecca Rae Eagle is a wife, mom to a college age son, debuting author, podcaster, writing coach, journal creator, and soul tender. Becca helps women recall their voice to beckon more joy from life, one pause at a time.
Becca is the owner of Beckon More Joy LLC, that launched 7/7/22, where you'll find 1:1 writing coaching, teen journals, and journal retreat offerings. You'll also find samples of her books that will be published in winter and spring 2023.
Becca was placed for adoption in 1975 and found her birth family in 2017. She sa...2022-06-2846 minMind Your Own Karma - Beyond The BandageS2E5 THERAPIST CARINA KAY PHILLIPS—ADOPTEES AND FOSTER KIDS. WHAT'S WORKING AND WHAT ISN'T.In this episode we get a glimpse of what a therapist sees when an adoptee or foster child needs counseling. Carina Kay Phillips is a licensed social worker (LSW), who has worked as a therapist helping children, some of whom were affected by adoption and the foster system. What is working? What types of therapy gets results, and what needs to be looked at and modified? Carina also shares her story of reunion with her father after 18 years.
Carina has attained her bachelor's and master's degree in social work from the University of Southern In...2022-06-2841 minMind Your Own Karma - Beyond The BandageS2E4 MY ADOPTIVE MOM'S STORY***WARNING-SOME EXPLICIT LANGUAGE AND MAY CONTAIN TRIGGERING CONTENT.
What was the adoption process back in 1968? And why did the adoption agency give my parents an opportunity to bring be back and 'exchange me' for another baby? This is my adoption story, told by my mom, interviewed by my daughter.
If you or someone you know would like to tell their adoption story on the podcast (anyone in the adoptee constellation), please send an email to mindyourownkarma@gmail.com, and your story will be considered for the podcast.
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2022-06-1437 minMind Your Own Karma - Beyond The BandageS2E3 THE PRIMAL WOUND OF ADOPTION***WARNING-SOME EXPLICIT LANGUAGE AND MAY CONTAIN TRIGGERING CONTENT.
How does adoption affect a newborn baby? Does a baby experience grief and trauma due to the loss of it's birthmother? I explore the first chapter of The Primal Wound, a book written by Nancy Verrier, that discusses the lasting effects adoption can have on the adoptee.
So, what is the primal wound and how can this wound cause ripple effects in relationships, behaviors, emotions, bonding and even birthday parties of adoptees?
It's time we have the hard conversations. I...2022-06-0746 minMind Your Own Karma - Beyond The BandageS2E2 ADOPTION—IN THE BEGINNINGIn this second season of Mind Your Own Karma, we are tackling the subject of adoption.
Yes, adoption most of the time is a wonderful experience.
You have the generous birth parents, the excited adoptive parents and this lucky little baby. Everyone lives happily ever after, right?
But what I want you to know, is there's so much more to these stories.
I'm an adoptee myself and I want to bring all sides of the adoption journey to you in hopes to educate you and to bring understanding...2022-05-3136 min
Mind Your Own Karma - Beyond The BandageS2E1 THE SECRET IS OUT!!**EPISODE CONTAINS EXPLICIT LANGUAGE.
The wait is OVER! Season 2 of Mind Your Own Karma is here and I'm so excited about what I'm bringing to you! We are digging deep into personal stories this season. Let's get real and raw! Listen and find out what my focus is going to be for us this season!
If you or someone you know would like to tell their adoption story on the podcast (anyone in the adoptee constellation), please send an email to mindyourownkarma@gmail.com, and your story will be considered for the podca...2022-05-2424 min
Mind Your Own Karma - Beyond The BandageS1E26 STOP DOING THAT!! PART 2**SOME EXPLICIT LANGUAGE. MAY NOT BE SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN.
HERE IT IS! The FINAL EPISODE of SEASON ONE and Part 2 of what we all need to STOP doing to live a happier life!
If you or someone you know would like to tell their adoption story on the podcast (anyone in the adoptee constellation), please send an email to mindyourownkarma@gmail.com, and your story will be considered for the podcast.
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Due to the LONG-LASTING EMOTIONAL FALLOUT that can be part of adopt...2022-05-1725 min
Mind Your Own Karma - Beyond The BandageS1E25 THE KARMA FILES FULL MOON BONUS EPISODE—WARREN'S NIGHTMAREDISCLAIMER: LISTEN AFTER DARK AT YOUR OWN RISK!!! MAY NOT BE SUITABLE FOR YOUNG LISTENERS.
Welcome to Warren's nightmare. About 2 years ago, Warren and his wife were driving home from a get together with friends when they encountered something unexplainable.
STORY LOCATION: Rural Southern Pennsylvania. (15-20 minutes from Gettysburg)
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Due to the LONG-LASTING EMOTIONAL FALLOUT that can be part of adoption, I highly support the GENTLE HEALING SUPPORT of SMGI: Somatic Mindful Guided Imagery. For more information on this groundbreaking and highly successful method, go t...2022-05-1612 minMind Your Own Karma - Beyond The BandageS1E24 STOP DOING THAT!!! PART 1STOP IT!!! This episode specifically reveals the first of 8 stop signs that unlock the door to the things you should have stopped doing eons ago! Why are you still wasting time and energy on things that aren't getting you where you need to be? STOP, LOOK and put your foot on the gas! You can't get where you are going if you just sit and idle. The drive is much easier if you stop getting distracted by stupid shit! Put that pedal to the metal and get out of sucky town to live the life you love!!
...2022-05-1033 minMind Your Own Karma - Beyond The BandageS1E23 WHAT IS YOUR SPIRITUAL BMI?***CONTAINS SOME EXPLICIT LANGUAGE.
Have you ever eaten so much that it feels like you can't breath, and there's no way you could even hold one more bite in your stomach or you will literally explode? Did you know our spirit can feel that way as well? We keep cramming more and more garbage into our subconscious and sometimes our conscious minds without letting go of the things that aren't serving us anymore. This causes spiritual obesity. If you are busy holding on to the things that you don't need anymore, you won't have room to hold...2022-05-0326 minMind Your Own Karma - Beyond The BandageS1E22 SO, YOU WANT TO BE A BADASS***EPISODE CONTAINS EXPLICT LANGUAGE.
So, you want to be a badass, but what does a badass look like? Maybe you already think you ARE a badass. If you do, then you better check out this episode just to be sure, because I bet there's a lot more to it than you originally thought!
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https://anchor.f...2022-04-2623 minMind Your Own Karma - Beyond The BandageS1E21 AUTHENTICITY BABY!!!***SOME EXPLICT LANGUAGE
What to keep and what to throw out with the trash when it comes to becoming authentic. It ain't always easy to do! Let's talk about some practical ways that we can navigate being more authentic and what bad habits are you holding on to, that are actually holding you back from living a life you love.
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Mind Your Own Karma - Beyond The BandageS1E20 THE KARMA FILES-FULL MOON BONUS EPISODE-ANGIE'S TRUE GHOST STORY***WARNING-This episode contains some graphic content and my not be suitable for young listeners.
DISCLAIMER: LISTEN AFTER DARK AT YOUR OWN RISK!!!
Welcome to Angie's nightmare. Angie was just nine years old when she started hearing something strange coming from the old church that she had to walk past on her way to school every day.
STORY LOCATION: SAN LORENZO COMMUNITY CHURCH, SAN LORENZO, CALIFORNIA.
***If you have any true ghost or paranormal experiences you would like to share, send me your story and it could be featured on a future ep...2022-04-1614 minMind Your Own Karma - Beyond The BandageS1E19 MEL ROBBINS INSPIRED EPISODE-ARE YOU READY TO PEEL THAT ONION?***EXPLICT LANGUAGE
Mel Robbins inspired me to do this episode with a quote she posted online and it got me thinking. What are you struggling with? I bet I can predict with 99.9% accuracy the ONE and only reason you aren't where you want to be in life right now. Don't believe me? Take a listen and tell me I'm wrong.
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Spiritual AF inspirational cards: Search Amazon for Knock K...2022-04-1223 minMind Your Own Karma - Beyond The BandageS1E18 BEING BRAVE ENOUGH TO DO HARD THINGS *Some explicit language
Is being afraid of failure, judgement, criticism, and being uncomfortable keeping you from exploring new things?
When did we become afraid to be brave?
When did we become afraid to grow? When did We become afraid to be vulnerable? If you are comfortable you aren't growing!!!
This episode inspired by the Messy Can't Stop Her podcast with Judith Kambia Obatusa:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/messy-cant-stop-her/id1603687151
Mind Your Own Karma:
https://open.spotify.com/show/4AktxvDhP1mEGxehThVKI7
2022-04-0537 minMind Your Own Karma - Beyond The BandageS1E17 What Is KARMA?Did you know that there are 3 different kinds of KARMA? Find out how each one affects your life now and in the future, AND how your KARMA can influence future generations to come.
ALSO, find out what weird thing happened when I threw my I Ching coins and why the Tarot card I drew was spot on this weekend.
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https://po...2022-03-2919 minMind Your Own Karma - Beyond The BandageS1E16 DISCOVERING YOUR PURPOSE AND FINDING JOY AFTER LOSS***Some explicit language. Becoming a single mother of two small girls at the age of 29 with the sudden loss of her husband in a sky surfing accident, Quetta tells us how she not only survived, but has thrived!! Find out how she found her purpose and is now living a life she loves! PLUS how the universe turns our scary NO's into our biggest YES!
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Mind Your Own Karma - Beyond The BandageS1E15 THE KARMA FILES-FULL MOON BONUS EPISODE-THE HISTORIC MURPHYS HOTELDISCLAIMER: LISTEN AFTER DARK AT YOUR OWN RISK!!!
Welcome to my nightmare at the Historic Murphys Hotel in Murphys, California where wine isn't the only Spirit you will experience here.
*** Check out the the CREEPY PHOTO taken in the basement at the Murphys Hotel on my Facebook and Instagram pages at the links below, and tell me what YOU see at MindYourOwnKarma@gmail.com
If you have any ghost or paranormal experiences you would like to share, send me your story and it could be featured on a future episode!
YouTube Epi...2022-03-1818 minMind Your Own Karma - Beyond The BandageS1E14 VICTIM TO VICTORIOUS IN 2,540 SECONDS!Does bitterness have you in a victim vortex that has you spinning out of control? How can you step out of the centrifuge and gain your balance again and turn your bitter into better! PLUS, why this podcast is kicking my ass every week!
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2022-03-1542 minMind Your Own Karma - Beyond The BandageS1E13 LET GO OF MY EGO! AND WHAT DOES INTUITION HAVE TO DO WITH IT?In this episode we discuss the differences between ego and self esteem and what the heck does your intuition have to do with it? Both the ego AND self esteem are there to protect us, but one helps and one hurts us when it comes to living our dream life! Find out the what, why and how's in this episode. Should you let go of your ego? Come find out!!
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FACEBOOK LINK: https://www.facebook.com/Mind-Your-Own-Karma-1100254579775582022-03-0831 minMind Your Own Karma - Beyond The BandageS2E12 RUN LIKE A GIRLWhat do you think of when you hear the phrase that ends in "like a girl"? The words that come to mind are weak, loser and you aren't good enough, right? Well, it's time to flip the script and delete terms like this from our vocabularies for women in general and our future daughters and granddaughters. In this episode I talk about ways we can raise strong, independent, self assured females. Females that are proud to say, "I run like a girl!"
Instagram LINK: https://www.instagram.com/mind_your_own_karma/
FACEBOOK LINK: https://ww...2022-03-0134 min
UnscRxipted15. Healing Story: The Path To An Authentic Self & Life with Melissa BrunettiThis week it's all about our authentic selves. Melissa Brunetti, the host of Mind Your Own Karma Podcast, shares all about her journey back to self. So many people can relate to being in a life that isn't the right fit. Hear how she did it, how it's going, receive her invitation to be your best self. We talk organizations, parenting, marriage, and friendship.
Don't forget your FREEBIES. Rachel loves to give all the things to help you get in tune with your wellbeing. Go to rachelbrumberger.com/free
And remember to join the Facebook...2022-02-281h 06Mind Your Own Karma - Beyond The BandageS1E11 POLYAMOROUS RELATIONSHIPS-YAY OR NAY?**There is some sexual content in this episode.
What does being in a polyamorous relationship look like? What is polyamory anyway? Meet Cristina Stephenson, a now happily married woman in a monogamous relationship, who was once in a polyamorous relationship with her first husband. What happened and why didn't it work out? Nope, NOT jealousy! I bet the real answer will surprise you!
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Mind Your Own Karma - Beyond The BandageS1E10 THE KARMA FILES-FULL MOON BONUS EPISODE!!! MY PERSONAL NIGHTMAREDo you like ghost stories? My life is a string of ghost stories, but these are not nightmares that I can wake up from. This IS my everyday life, ever since I can remember. I'm "coming out of the crypt" to tell you all my real life ghost and paranormal encounters on what I'm calling The Karma Files. Welcome to my nightmares. I think you're gonna like it here...
***If you have any true ghost, paranormal or unexplained experiences that you would like to share for the podcast, send me your story and it...2022-02-1707 minMind Your Own Karma - Beyond The BandageS1E9 BORN TRANSGENDER, BECOMING TRANSSEXUALWhat exactly does it mean to be transgender? Is there a difference between transgender and transsexual? Is someone who chooses to cross dress transgender? Do you have to have gender reassignment surgery to be transsexual? Are you born that way or is it a choice? All these questions and more are addressed by Jamie Shipman who is a Christian post-op transsexual woman. She was born in an era that had no name for what she was feeling, but she knew by the age of 3 that she was a girl trapped in a boys body. She reveals her journey through...2022-02-151h 09Mind Your Own Karma - Beyond The BandageS1E8 THE ANIMAL WHISPERERDo you believe that we can communicate with animals? Do you believe that animals can reincarnate? Do animals have a purpose? Brittany is an animal communicator who has a calling for not only working with animals, but their owners as well. Her passion is not limited to communicating with fur babies, but also healing past life trauma, chakra cleansing and manifesting at a cellular level to bring about positive change in our lives and the lives of our furry friends. Brittany also offers zoom seminars to teach you how to communicate with your animals and so much more! Check...2022-02-0844 minMind Your Own Karma - Beyond The BandageS1E7 BABY, IT'S NOT YOU. IT'S ME.Have you ever been in an argument and you discover that you actually are the problem? Everyone hates eating their words, am I right? These 8 questions to ask YOURSELF will help you win every argument, guaranteed! Where should you look to first when a disagreement happens? IN THE MIRROR! After you answers these 8 questions you might find yourself saying, "Baby, it's not you. It's me."
For a printable PDF of these 8 questions, or to send me your answers to possibly be read anonymously on a future podcast, you can contact me at mindyourownkarma@gmail.com
I...2022-02-0127 minMind Your Own Karma - Beyond The BandageS1E6 Taking Out The Generational and Societal Trash with Cheryl-Anne Snow MurdochThis episode talks about What generational and societal conditioning is and how it affects us as adults, why we should analyze these beliefs, and decide if they are something we want to keep or throw out with yesterdays trash!!
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https://www.linktr.ee/Mindyourownkarma2022-01-2553 minMind Your Own Karma - Beyond The BandageS1E5 The Secret Workout For Your Abundance MusclesHow many times have your heard the phrase, "Hard work pays off." While hard work can get you the results you want, what if I told you that you don't have to do much at all to get what you want. Yes! You heard me. Flexing your abundance muscles hardly takes any work at all! Find out the secret workout to having the best life!2022-01-1840 minMind Your Own Karma - Beyond The BandageS1E4 HOMECOMING-COMING HOME TO YOUR AUTHENTIC SELFDoes coming home to yourself sound weird, unsettling or even scary as hell? If you have been stuck or lost yourself somewhere along the way then coming home to YOU is the most important gift you can give yourself. It's time!! You are worth it, and the world is waiting for you to SHOW UP! It's time to dig deep and get real about the stories you are telling yourself and the labels you have decided to wear all these years. Meet yourself where you are at, shed what isn't serving you anymore and get on with living LIFE! 2022-01-1135 minMind Your Own Karma - Beyond The BandageS1E3 Stuck In Sucky TownBEWARE! Listening to this episode may cause introspection and provoke a controllable urge to make changes in your life that can get you out of Sucky Town! DO NOT LISTEN unless you are ready to fill up the gas tank and drive on out of Self Pity County.
In this episode of Mind Your Own Karma I will be revealing some personal things about me and how I drove myself out of my own self created Sucky Town. The GOOD NEWS is, so can YOU!! You are the driver of the car so start your engines already! L...2022-01-0446 minMind Your Own Karma - Beyond The BandageS1E2 The Code To Cracking Your New Year's Resolution FailuresHow many times have you made a New Year's Resolution and failed at achieving it? I know I have a long list of failures myself! Research shows only about 8% of those that make resolutions on New Year's actually achieve the goal they set. Why is that? And how can we be more successful not only on New Year's, but ALL year in conquering any personal goal we set. Today on Mind Your Own Karma, I will be discussing what research has discovered about why we fail and more importantly, how we can be victorious in making our goals attainable...2021-12-2829 min