Empower 2 Heal

Episode 27: Dissociative Identity Disorder with Channing Valentine Today’s episode is all about Dissociative Identity Disorder (D.I.D.) and dispelling stigma. Our guest, Channing Valentine, is living with Dissociative Identity Disorder and navigates daily life with alter personalities and personas. Today she shares what this experience is like, how it came to be, and how she is coping through this experience daily. Channing provides powerful perspectives to shift the worlds understanding and interpretation of D.I.D. Channing Valentine is a writer for WhatCulture.com and has experience with professional screenwriting. Since her teens, she has been an advocate for LGBTQ rights; as a bisexual woman herself who has been a survivor of conversion therapy. In her adult life, she has been diagnosed with PTSD, Bipolar Disorder and most recently, Dissociative Identity Disorder. Her mission is to dispel stigmas surrounding mental illness and address their negative portrayal in popular media. In her upcoming YouTube series “MissValentineDID”, she will discuss D.I.D., how she copes with daily life, and its evolution as more and more is discovered about this curious illness. What we’re talking about... Dissociative Identity Disorder Sexual abuse and trauma LGBTQ populations The effects of Conversion Therapy Mental Health and Mental Illness Coping strategies Strengthening your mindset Focusing on what you can control Reframing thought processes The impact of healthy positive support systems LINKS MENTIONED Channing Valentine's IG: @misschanningvalentine Channing Valentines TikTok: @missvalentinedid CONNECT WITH EMPOWER 2 HEAL: website: www.empower2heal.com Email: [email protected] FB: facebook.com/empower2heal IG: instagram.com/empower2heal

Welcome to Dena’s Diary…a sacred space where I am sharing it all (said as I take a deep breath and tap into a crap load of courage 😳).  This is a subset of podcast episodes that I will be posting as I journal my experiences in my own healing journey. This is an unedited, unfiltered, and authentic look into who I am, how I think, and what I am processing as I learn to truly be with myself.  If you are on a journey of understanding yourself, navigating this big world, making sense of what you feel and why you feel it, and constantly feel like its groundhogs day…then join me and my diary.  This is for you, so you know you are not alone, that what you feel is normal, that being human is messy and emotions are okay. So, no judgement here, take what resonates with you and leave what doesn’t. And please, be kind. Is this vulnerable leap into sharing my diary making an impact?...fingers crossed 🤞🏻, holding my breath 😳, saying a prayer🙏🏻.  Please rate and leave a review below and let me know how these diary episodes are resonating! Links to reach me: empower2heal.com [email protected] IG: @empower2heal FB: @empower2heal

Link Mentioned:

One World Empowered 28 Day Energetic Reset ->ClickHere<-

Episode 25: From Caregiver to Care-Partner; Releasing Frustration and Harnessing Joy

Today’s episode is all about caring for a loved one who has a medical or mental health diagnosis. Our guest Patti LaFleur shares her journey with being a care-partner / caregiver to her mother who has Dementia.

Patti shares about her journey in being a care-partner and how she engages and supports her mother through a lens of partnership, compassion, and meeting her where she is in her cognitive state. Patti teaches us her powerful wisdom in regulating her own emotions and having a strong support system that allows her to show up and partner with her mother in ways she is proud of!

What an inspiration!

What we’re talking about...

• Caregiving / being a Care Partner for a loved one
  
• Dementia
  
• Meeting people where they are
  
• Providing care through compassion
  
• Quality of life
  
• Self-regulation
  
• Self-awareness
  
• Honoring those you are in relationships with
  
• Repairing relationships after escalated moments
  

LINKS MENTIONED

www.empower2heal.com

[email protected]

One World Empowered 28 Day Energetic Reset ->ClickHere<-

IG: @MissPattiCake

Support Group for caregivers:

-FB Group Young caregivers for loved ones with dementia

Reach out to the Alzheimer's Association, National Council on Aging,  and the Department of Aging for your state.

Episode 24: Beautifully Bipolar: An Inspiring Look Into Mental Illness with Author Erin Callinan 

Today’s episode is all about de-stigmatizing mental health diagnoses and creating hope and experiences that are healing for you.

Our guest, Erin Callinan, a nationally recognized public speaker and the Author of Beautifully Bipolar: An inspiring Look Into Mental Illness, is joining us today to shed light on her journey from diagnosis to hope.

Erin shares about her diagnosis of Bipolar 1 Disorder, her first manic episode, and her and her family's journey to adjust and recalibrate the days of their lives as they took steps towards healing.

Erin shares first hand experiences with the hardships of mental illness and provides detailed experiences as well as necessary components of her healing journey.

This episode is an inspiring and hope filled message to anyone with mental illness, your support systems, and for those who work in the mental health field.

What we’re talking about...

• Bipolar 1 Disorder
  
• Mental Illness/Mental Health
  
• Healing modalities: both clinical and organic
  
• The power of support systems
  
• Resilience
  
• Reframing your view on life
  
• How mental health interventions such as higher levels of care are not your only options.
  

LINKS MENTIONED

www.empower2heal.com

Email: [email protected]

Erin Callinan’s website Peace Of My Mind

Erin Callinan's Book: Beautifully Bipolar: An Inspiring Look Into Mental Illness

Beautifully Bipolar Facebook Page

Episode 23: Jerrie Ueberle Creating a Life You Want

Today’s episode is all about changing the world by changing yourself. Our guest, Jerrie Ueberle, the Founder and CEO of World Academy For The Future Of Women and the  non-profit organization Global Interactions,  joins us today to share how she is making an impact on social justice, equality, and humanity as a whole.

What we’re talking about...

• Women’s rights
  
• Bringing Education across the world to teach and empower social change
  
• Teaching others to discover self-worth and self-value and act upon it
  
• Learning AND taking action
  
• Social Justice Issues and Human Rights
  
• The power we have within ourselves to change...which in turn creates change in our world
  

LINKS MENTIONED

Jerrie Ueberle:

Linkedin: @JerrieUeberle 

Facebook: @GlobalInteractions

Global Interactions: https://globalinteractions.org/

World Academy for Women: https://wafw.org/

Dena T:

www.empwoer2heal.com

IG: @empower2heal

FB: @empower2heal 

[email protected]

Episode 22: Pregnancy Loss- Turning Loss Into Love with Mych’Iayla Alexander

Today’s episode is all about fertility struggles and pregnancy loss. Our guest, Mych’Iayla Alexander, AKA #TheWombKeeper is joining us today to share about her journey with pregnancy loss and her journey to becoming a coach and support system for women across the world who are and have experienced infertility, pregnancy loss, and infant loss.

What we’re talking about...

• The ins and outs of miscarriage/pregnancy loss and fertility struggles
  
• De-Stigmatizing pregnancy loss
  
• How to support someone you know who has lost a baby, had a miscarriage, or struggles with fertility complications.
  
• Support groups and resources for those affected by infertility, child-loss, pregnancy-loss/miscarriage
  

RESOURCES:

• Free Community Training on Postpartum Anxiety with POMM Consulting  5/4/21 5:15pm MST 
• #TheWombKeeper: A 40 Day Devotional Through the Wilderness of Infertility
• From Father to Father: Letters From Loss Dad to Loss Dad
• Loved Baby: 31 Devotions Helping You Grieve and Cherish Your Child after Pregnancy Loss (Hardcover) – A Devotional Book on How to Cope, Mourn and Heal after Losing a Baby

LINKS MENTIONED

One World Empowered 28 Day Energetic Reset ->ClickHere<-

Mych’Iayla Alexander:

IG: @thewombkeeper 

FB @thewombkeeper  

Clubhouse: @thewombkeeper

www.thewombkeeper.com

Dena T:

www.empwoer2heal.com

IG: @empower2heal 

FB: @empower2heal

[email protected]

Episode 21: Learning to Change

Today’s episode is all about recreating harmony throughout change.

We’re talking about taking action to create the life you want by attracting the choices, experiences, tribe, and lifestyle that will bring you harmony. In this episode I walk you through some of my life experiences that have directed me on my path in life and that, in hindsight, has taught me about living a life that is in harmony with who I am.

What we’re talking about...

• Learning to change
  
• Live a life that attracts what matters to you
  
• How your vibe attracts your tribe (and the paths that are laid out in front of you)
  
• Taking action in your life in a manner that resonates with who you are and what you are meant for.
  
• Learning to be present with yourself
  
• Practicing grace through change
  
• Not judging yourself or guilting yourself
  

This episode features a song written by a youth brought to you by the non-profit organization MyTuneIn.org. The youth who wrote, composed and performed this song has navigated hardships, mental health battles and found music as a form of healing. You can participate, volunteer, or donate to this non-profit organization at www.mytunein.org and support our youth in honoring their stories, providing access to resources for self-expression, and supporting them in the production process.

LINKS MENTIONED

One World Empowered 28 Day Energetic Reset ->ClickHere<-

www.empower2heal.com

IG: @empower2heal 

[email protected]

www.mytunein.org

Episode 20: Postpartum with Annie Carpenter

Hello you beautiful souls!

Today’s episode is all about postpartum life! 

Our guest, Annie Carpenter, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker joined us today to talk about her journey with Postpartum depression and provides some powerful perspectives to support all you mama’s and future mamas out there along with your support systems. Annie is a mother to her sweet 7 month old boy, Grey, and the mastermind behind IG account @socialworkymama, a place to normalize motherhood, postpartum depression/anxiety/rage, and to connect you to education, resources, and tips/tricks to try with ZERO guilt.

What we’re talking about...

• Miscarriages and rainbow babies
  
• Pregnancy and birth during a pandemic
  
• Gestational diabetes
  
• Postpartum Depression/Anxiety/Rage
  
• The impact of sleep deprivation
  
• The power of communication, normalization, and validation
  

LINKS MENTIONED

Free Community Training on Postpartum Anxiety 

One World Empowered 28 Day Energetic Reset ->ClickHere<-

Annie Carpenter:

IG: @socialworkymama 

Annie’s Linktree to more resources

Dena T:

[email protected]

www.Empower2heal.com

IG: @Empower2heal 

Episode 19: The Impact of Mass Shootings and What We Can Do to Help

Today’s episode is a bit different than usual. We are talking about the prevalence of mass shootings in our country and honoring those lost in the most recent mass shootings in Atlanta, Georgia and Boulder, Colorado.

We will be discussing the taboo conversations that often come up after mass shootings, focusing on decreasing the stigma of mental illness and erasing the connection of mental illness to mass shootings. Despite polarizing beliefs and politically charged arguments, we all want the normal occurrence of mass shootings and the fear they bring to come to an end.

What we’re talking about...

• Mass Shootings
  
• Reforming background checks and gun laws
  
• Gun violence statistics in America compared to other developed high GDP countries
  
• Destigmatizing mental illness and how you can help
  
• What you can actively do to decrease mass shootings and deaths by guns
  

This episode features songs written by youth brought to you by the non-profit organization MyTuneIn.org. The youth who wrote, composed and performed these two songs has navigated hardships,mental health battles and found music as a form of healing. You can participate, volunteer, or donate to this non-profit organization at www.mytunein.org and support our youth in honoring their stories, providing access to resources for self-expression, and supporting them in the production process.

LINKS MENTIONED

www.empower2heal.com

IG: @empower2heal

[email protected]

www.mytunein.org

Take action with your local Senator at: https://act.everytown.org/sign/Senate_background_checks_2021

Episode 18: The Power of Intuition with Kate McCosham

Today’s episode is all about intuition. Our guest Kate McCosham shares her journey of being a mother, having a child with Autism, and navigating the world as a highly sensitive and empathic individual. Kate shares her wisdom around how intuition has been one of her most profound tools in her journey and shares the ways she has fostered and harnessed the power of her intuition raising her daughter, working with children with unique needs, and in her own healing practices as a life coach and clinical hypnotherapist.

What we’re talking about...

• Intuition
  
• Raising a child with Autism who is non-verbal
  
• Being an Empath
  
• Opening yourself up to heal and connect with others from a grounded space
  
• Clinical Hypnotherapy
  

LINKS MENTIONED

www.sunflowermooncoaching.com - Kate’s website

http://www.mashed-banana.com -blog for parents raising children with Autism. Relatable journeys from when Kate was raising her daughter Jessica.

https://amzn.to/3aGnogk - "A Sunflower Story" Kate McCosham's book

How to reach Dena T:

www.empower2heal.com

[email protected]