You’ll want to tune in today because we’re talking all things being seen, especially if you’ve ever felt like an outcast or like society just wasn’t built with you in mind. You have so many different parts of your identity that intersect, sometimes you may have to prioritize one over the other to feel safe, but that doesn't mean that the other parts go away. And this is exactly what today’s guest is an expert in navigating — in her own life and with clients — among many other things.

I’m pleased to introduce you to fellow Nashvillian, Aimee Sadler. She has a Masters in Social Work, is currently a masters candidate at Lipscomb University specializing in conflict management. She currently works as the manager of Community and Collective Impact at the Center for Nonprofit Management. She provides nonprofit consulting in DEI, cultural competency, cultural humility, and cultural understanding. She’s also a private practice clinician focusing on therapy for women of color and members of the LGBTQIA+ community. She’s also a mom, partner, and loves all things Disney. She’s won a plethora of awards, including but not limited to being recognized as one of Nashville Business Journal’s 40 Under 40, and serves as Vice President on the board of Nashville LAUNCH PAD, an organization offering safe and LGBTQIA+ affirming shelters and housing accommodations to unhoused young adults.

In this episode, we're covering things like what it means to be seen, why it’s important for people to feel seen, why people struggle with being seen, dealing with the fear that sometimes comes with the vulnerability of being seen, listening to your intuition, and confidently navigating the intersectionality you experience, even while breaking social norms safely. Amiee also get’s personal and tells us about her own experience with intersectionality.

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Now, y’all know this isn’t a political podcast. It’s a podcast about humanity. This podcast serves to unify each other and unify you with your own authenticity. We’ve always sought to humanize one another and therefore understand each other and ourselves better. And with that sometimes comes difficult and necessary conversations regarding the political arena, where policies shape our society and how we interact with it. No one is immune from it.

With that in mind, I’m extremely honored to be bringing you a conversation with local Nashville activist, blogger, commentator, columnist, community organizer, civic educator, and human rights advocate, Timothy Hughes. He oftentimes finds himself working at the intersection of public policy and social justice. He comes from a line of activists, community organizers, and educators who have sought to change the world.

As Timothy and I convened for our conversation, neo-nazis were protesting at the city council meeting in Nashville. This has become a somewhat common sight in the last several years here, where white supremacy has been allowed to flourish in our most basic levels of government —the tip of the spear — as Nashville representative Justin Jones has called it. There has been an ever increasing and louder presence as we’re leading up to presidential elections in 2024.

Speaking of, Timothy and I had decided to do this podcast episode together before the attempted assassination on former president Trump, but the conversation seems to have a special punctuation on it now — what is behind this type of political violence? It’s bigger and older than you might think.

Timothy shares insight into how our systems have evolved from a lens of exclusion and also a lens of prioritized inclusion — something which the neo-nazis of our day, just like the one’s in our grandparents’ day, want to extinguish.

So where do we want to go from here?

Stay tuned for not only a quick big-picture education and context, but also tactical advice for what you can do in your everyday life to change our political trajectory, which is really our human trajectory, even if you’re not a front lines activist.

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I love Hannah Bethel, today’s guest. She’s a singer-songwriter based in Nashville, TN, but she’s also a board certified hypnotherapist with the International Association of Counselors and Therapists, an Usui Tibetan Reiki Master, and Member of the International Association of Reiki Professionals. She’s a healer and owner of Hifi Healing, and y’all, she’s returning to the show in this episode to talk about BIG spiritual practices.

If you haven’t heard her first interview on the show, check out episode 93 where we talk about her journey with Lyme disease and how that impacted her music career.

But today, we traverse the topics of consciousness, accessing the subconscious, duality of the Universe, channeling, creativity, trance, the importance of embodiment to truly know something, reincarnation, transcendence and more.

We start out by talking about when’s the right time for someone to try hypnotherapy as part of their healing journey, what it means to process experiences, and the difference between pain and suffering. While we’re at it, what is the purpose of suffering anyways? Hannah pontificates on this and how it’s linked to the nature of the Universe. We then dive into different types of spiritual guidance and how spiritual teams tend to show up for clients in sessions with Hannah; what the common thread is between healing, spirituality, and even songwriting; and the importance of evolving in this life, and how past life regression can help with that.

Hannah tells us about her process, what past life regression is, and the importance of using past life regression responsibly to show up as our best selves in our present life, in our present families and communities.

She then gives us a really cool story about a memorable client past life regression and also one that she had herself.

We wrap up with the topic of when Christians come in for past life regressions and how they deal with any cognitive dissonance or fear that may arise around this type of therapeutic yet mystical work.

Now, this is a really cool conversation, and you’re in for a treat.

After we talked, we decided that Hannah would do a past life regression for me — I’d never had one before — and we recorded the entire thing. From her intake process to the entire 2 and a half hours of me being under.

She took me through some current life regression, then we dipped into a past life, and then we finished by talking with my spirit guides.

We’ll be bringing you a video of that from my perspective on Human Amplified’s YouTube channel next week. We also have a version of it from Hannah’s perspective in the works as well. The release date on that is TBD for now. I’ll let you know more on that when we know. But, the video from my perspective that’s coming out next week won’t be on the audio version of this podcast. It will only be on the Human Amplified YouTube channel. So, if you haven’t already, be sure to subscribe so you don’t miss it.

And without further ado, let’s talk to Hannah.

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