Episodios

  • Nature’s Power To Help The Body Heal Itself with Olga Terebenina, Co-Founder of The Forest Bathing Institute
    Jul 18 2024
    Welcome to the Trauma & Healing podcast series hosted by and inspired by our host Demarra West and her debut book Me Too: A Therapist’s Journey to Heal, Find Liberation, & Joy. This 12-episode series helps individuals understand the universal nature of trauma and its pervasive impacts, and a pathway towards healing and liberation for us all. The book and this series delves into Demarra’s real life struggles and the ways she found healing through holistic and abundant mindset practices that paved the way for a joyous life. In this fifth episode, Demarra speaks with Olga Terebenina, Co-Founder of The Forest Bathing Institute, about the healing power of nature. They discuss:
    • The essence and benefits of forest bathing for healing
    • The scientific support for forest bathing in trauma recovery
    • The importance of preserving and accessing green spaces for urban communities
    • So much more!

    Whether you're a trauma survivor or someone supporting others on their healing journey, this episode offers valuable insights and practical tools to help you reclaim your power and embrace a life of joy and peace. Tune in today!

    New episodes will be released on July 19, 2024, featuring Olga Terebenina, Co-Founder of The Forest Bathing Institute, discussing the healing power of nature. Connect with Our Guests:

    Website: The Forest Bathing Institute

    Facebook: The Forest Bathing Institute LinkedIn: Olga Terebenina Instagram: @olga_tfbi | @tfb_institute

    To get Demarra’s book, visit www.demarrawest.com to learn more or get a free chapter here. For more resources, visit www.bewellbeautifulpeople.org or to schedule a free consultation, reach us through here. You can also subscribe to our mailing list here to receive weekly inspirational content, exclusive offerings, and updates to be the first to know. To support us and the work that we do, please follow us on social media at @bewellbeautifulpeople on all platforms or through here.
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  • Building an Unwavering Spiritual Base With Reiki with Pamela Miles, Spiritual Teacher & Reiki Master
    Jul 11 2024
    Welcome to the Trauma & Healing podcast series hosted by and inspired by our host Demarra West and her debut book Me Too: A Therapist’s Journey to Heal, Find Liberation, & Joy. This 12-episode series helps individuals understand the universal nature of trauma and its pervasive impacts, and a pathway towards healing and liberation for us all. The book and this series delves into Demarra’s real life struggles and the ways she found healing through holistic and abundant mindset practices that paved the way for a joyous life. In this fourth episode, Demarra speaks with Pamela Miles, Spiritual Teacher & Reiki Master, and her first Reiki teacher, about the profound healing power of Reiki practice. They discuss:
    • The benefits of daily Reiki practice
    • Reiki’s impact on trauma survivors
    • Choosing the right Reiki practitioner
    • And so much more!

    Whether you're a trauma survivor or someone supporting others on their healing journey, this episode offers valuable insights and practical tools to help you reclaim your power and embrace a life of joy and peace. Tune in today!

    New episodes will be released on July 19, 2024, featuring Olga Terebenina, Co-Founder of The Forest Bathing Institute, discussing the healing power of nature. Connect with Our Guests:

    Website: reikiinmedicine.org | pamelamiles.com

    Facebook: PamelaMilesReiki LinkedIn: Pamela Miles Instagram: @pamelamoves

    To get Demarra’s book, visit www.demarrawest.com to learn more or get a free chapter here. For more resources, visit www.bewellbeautifulpeople.org or to schedule a free consultation, reach us through here. You can also subscribe to our mailing list here to receive weekly inspirational content, exclusive offerings, and updates to be the first to know. To support us and the work that we do, please follow us on social media at @bewellbeautifulpeople on all platforms or through here.
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  • Yoga as a Pathway to Restoration & Expansion with Dr. Gail Parker, Author, Psychologist, and Yoga Therapist Educator
    Jul 4 2024
    Welcome to the Trauma & Healing podcast series hosted by and inspired by our host Demarra West and her debut book Me Too: A Therapist’s Journey to Heal, Find Liberation, & Joy. This 12-episode series helps individuals understand the universal nature of trauma and its pervasive impacts, and a pathway towards healing and liberation for us all. The book and this series delves into Demarra’s real life struggles and the ways she found healing through holistic and abundant mindset practices that paved the way for a joyous life. In this third episode, Demarra explores yoga’s pathway for restoration and trauma support with Dr. Gail Parker, Author, Psychologist, and Yoga Therapist Educator. In this episode, they discuss the following:
    • The benefits of restorative yoga for trauma survivors and its effectiveness.
    • Strategies to prevent re-traumatization.
    • Centering racial healing in yoga to address ethnic and race-based stress.
    • And so much more!
    Whether you're a trauma survivor or someone supporting others on their healing journey, this episode offers valuable insights and practical tools to help you reclaim your power and embrace a life of joy and peace. Tune in today!

    Next episodes will be released on July 11, 2024, about Reiki featuring Pamela Miles, a Spiritual Healer & Reiki Master.

    Connect with Our Guests:

    Website: drgailparker.com

    Instagram: @drgailparker

    LinkedIn: Gail Parker

    Get a Copy of Dr. Parker's Books:

    • Restorative Yoga For Ethnic and Race-Based Stress and Trauma
    • Transforming Ethnic and Race-Based Traumatic Stress With Yoga
    To get Demarra’s book, visit www.demarrawest.com to learn more or get a free chapter here. For more resources, visit www.bewellbeautifulpeople.org or to schedule a free consultation, reach us through here. You can also subscribe to our mailing list here to receive weekly inspirational content, exclusive offerings, and updates to be the first to know. To support us and the work that we do, please follow us on social media at @bewellbeautifulpeople on all platforms or through here
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    1 h y 2 m
  • Alchemizing Trauma Through Coaching with Guthrie Sayen, PhD, Internal Family Systems Global Coach & Trainer, Elyse Preston, Human Design Coach, and Shelly Ryan, Registered Hypnotherapist & Life Coach
    Jun 28 2024
    Welcome to the Trauma & Healing podcast series hosted by and inspired by our host Demarra West and her debut book Me Too: A Therapist’s Journey to Heal, Find Liberation, & Joy. This 12-episode series helps individuals understand the universal nature of trauma and its pervasive impacts, and a pathway towards healing and liberation for us all. Demarra, a trained therapist, lives with eight of ten ACEs. The book and this series delves into Demarra’s real life struggles and the ways she found healing through holistic and abundant mindset practices that paved the way for a joyous life. In this second episode, Demarra explores how to alchemize trauma through coaching which features the three coaches she worked with her on her healing journey, Guthrie Sayen, PhD, Internal Family Systems Global Coach & Trainer, Elyse Preston, Human Design Coach, and Shelly Ryan, Registered Hypnotherapist & Life Coach. In this episode they discuss the following:
    • What trauma-informed coaching is and how it differs from coaching in general
    • The impact of coaching on trauma survivors
    • How to choose the right coach and what to expect from trauma-informed
    • And much more!
    New episodes will be released every Thursday. Our next one will be with Dr. Gail Parker, Author, Psychologist & Yoga Therapist Educator. Connect with Our Guests:

    Guthrie Sayen, PhD

    Website: https://www.bridgetothedivine.com/

    Elyse Preston

    Website: https://elysepreston.com/

    Social Media Platform: @iamelysepreston

    Shelly Ryan

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shellyryan

    To get Demarra’s book, visit www.demarrawest.com to learn more or get a free chapter here. For more resources, visit www.bewellbeautifulpeople.org or to schedule a free consultation, reach us through here. You can also subscribe to our mailing list here to receive weekly inspirational content, exclusive offerings, and updates to be the first to know. To support us and the work that we do, please follow us on social media at @bewellbeautifulpeople on all platforms or through here.
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    1 h y 1 m
  • Beyond Trauma: Healing as a Pathway to an Abundant, Joy Filled Life with Demarra West
    Jun 21 2024
    Demarra West, author of Me Too: A Therapist’s Journey to Heal, Find Liberation, & Joy, founder of Be Well Beautiful People and host of the Be Well Beautiful People podcast, leads us through the first episode of the Trauma & Healing podcast series centered around her book. This series will feature 12 episodes and include the practices that have been paramount to her healing and transformation as a complex childhood trauma survivor. In the first episode, Demarra discusses:
    • Different types of trauma
    • The research behind trauma and its devastating effects
    • The practices that are proven to help complex childhood trauma and PTSD survivors heal
    • How trauma affects certain types of identities, for example Blacks and women, in a more pervasive way
    • And so much more!
    Whether you're a trauma survivor or someone supporting others on their healing journey, this episode offers valuable insights and practical tools to help you reclaim your power and embrace a life of joy and peace. Tune in to start your healing journey today! New episodes will be released every Friday for the next eleven weeks! To get Demarra's book, visit www.demarrawest.com to learn more or get a free chapter here.

    For more resources, visit www.bewellbeautifulpeople.org or to schedule a free consultation, reach us through here. You can also subscribe to our mailing list here to receive weekly inspirational content, exclusive offerings, and updates to be the first to know.

    To support us and the work that we do, please follow us on social media at @bewellbeautifulpeople on all platforms or through here.

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    21 h y 9 m
  • Your Gifts Will Make Room For You with Akua K. Boateng, Ph.D., CEO of Boateng Consulting
    Feb 19 2024

    Dr. Akua K. Boateng is a sought after psychotherapist and therapeutic coach. As a licensed clinician with extensive experience, practice and education spanning nearly 15 years, Dr. Boateng has been featured in The Washington Post, ESSENCE, NBC News, Refinery29, HuffPost, Pinterest, CNN, and more as a trusted speaker, expert contributor and insightful consultant. She currently works with high profile, high achieving leaders with companies such as Pinterest, Black Enterprise and Architects Association, to provide sustainable emotional wellness strategies that elevates lives and launches leaders into greater levels of success. In our conversation we explored the following:

    1. Experiment to find the wellness and abundance practices right for you
    2. Ambition will only carry you so far
    3. Knowing when to work harder and when to let go
    4. Failure is simply forward movement
    5. So much more!
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    34 m
  • Peace, Pleasure and Liberation by Divorcing America with Tina Strawn, Founder of Legacy Trips
    Feb 19 2024

    Tina Strawn (she/they) is a joy and liberation advocate, racial and social justice activist, author of "Are We Free Yet? The Black, Queer Guide to Divorcing America." The heart of Tina's work is founding and leading Legacy Trips, immersive, 3-day antiracism weekends where participants visit historical locations such as Montgomery and Selma, AL, and utilize spiritual practices and other mindfulness based resources as tools to affect personal and collective change. Tina has been a full-time minimalist nomad since February 2020 and currently lives in Costa Rica. In our conversation we explored the following:

    1) Deep listening is our guide

    2) 5 reflections we can use to normalize replenishment

    3) Steps you can take to find an abundant community outside America

    4) Making your life connect to the way its unfolded

    5) So much more!

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    39 m
  • Surrendering to Abundance with Adia Gooden, Ph.D., CEO of Unconditionally Worthy
    Feb 19 2024

    Dr. Adia Gooden is a licensed clinical psychologist who received her BA in Psychology from Stanford University and her PhD in Clinical Community Psychology from DePaul University. Dr. Adia is a sought-after, dynamic speaker who gives talks and workshops on unconditional self-worth, imposter syndrome, and Black women’s mental health. She is most known for her TEDx talk called “Cultivating Unconditional Self-Worth” which has over 1 million views. In our conversation we explored the following:

    1) Unconditional self worth

    2) Countering unworthiness

    3) Self compassion as a way to come back to our truth

    4) Embracing change as a means

    5) Releasing and accepting to operate freely in abundance

    6) So much more!

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    29 m