Adult Children In Recovery - Moving From Insanity To Serenity Vandana Atara

Greetings Beautiful Adult Child,

In this latest adult child podcast, I interviewed Damla Atkien, a kindred spirit and inner child trauma informed energy healer.

Damla shared how she views the clouds as unhealed wounds and the stars as our inner childs shining light and she also spoke about Goddess Innana that we can call upon as our greatest ally to help us die and be reborn again.

She guided us through a gentleness check in to drop into our feelings and bodily sensations as well as an inner child journey to connect with our inner strengths, courage & resilience.

Damla Aktekin is an Inner Child Energetic Wound Healer, Crystal Healing Teacher, Soul Healing Writer, Intuitive Reader, Astrologer, and Podcaster, who helps other self-healers and healers move beyond the energetic wounds of their inner children and shine brighter than they thought possible so that they can fully show up in their lives to heal themselves, their families, and their soul community. 

Through her own healing journey, she discovered a unique way to approach crystal healing which is based on cultivating a loving, co-creative, and respectful relationship with crystals that activates their limitless healing potential. She is the author of life-changing daily practice journals, creator of the Chakra Bliss Vault Crystal Healing Membership, and the host of the Conversations With Healers Podcast.

Find out more about her offerings and take a quiz to determine your energetic wounds and how they show up in your life on her website: https://adropofom.com.

To work with me privately to move beyond survival and thrive again as your own loving parent, best friend & advocate, view my library of offerings at https://vandanalighthealing.com & receive a free guided journey to meet your spirit guides, guardians and higher dimensional light beings in the stars.

Greetings Adult Child.

In my latest episode, I sat down with an amazingly gifted author & magical manifestor who shared her personal journey of how she was able to move beyond surviving in a dysfunctional home as a parentified child and develop new tools to thrive & grow into becoming her own loving parent.

Susan was raised in a challenging and chaotic family system, the middle child of five & wound up marrying her greatest guru also known as her ex-husband who inadvertently taught her to step into her power after eons of hiding behind it & losing her true identity in the process.

To fully thrive, she bravely chose to meet the demons of her upbringing & help others heal from challenges she had overcome. Knowing she needed to share this with other adult children, she authored a book called Toxic Family: Transforming Childhood Trauma into Adult Freedom & now Susan is leading retreats, webinars, workshops and facilitating private sessions to help others drop their outdated storylines and programming to live in authentic freedom as adults.

If you’d like to receive a free audio file of the first pages of Toxic Family & a mini session to connect personally, visit her website at https://www.susangold.us/ and you may order her book here: https://www.susangold.us/toxic-family-book

And if you’d like to get in touch with me, you can schedule a discovery call with me & receive a free healing gift on my website at https://vandanalightheaing.com

To like and subscribe to my Youtube Channel, visit https://www.youtube.com/@VandanaLightHealing/videos

See you on the next episode!

Blessings,
Vandana

Thank you for watching my latest episode where I had an enlightening & empowering conversation about the adult child journey with my special guest Leslie Lindsey Davis.


We discussed the importance of honoring our authentic feelings and becoming our own loving parent & feel safe being seen, heard & remember to trust that we are all perfect just the way we are.


Leslie discussed her own life journey and how she was able to use a mindful approach to eating which allows her to feel safe & comfortable in her own body.


We also shared the challenge of using food as a means of escaping,numbing or stuffing our feelings and how we can heal & repair our relationship with food using the tools of mindfulness.


Leslie Lindsey Davis is an inspirational speaker and the bestselling author of “You
Can’t Eat Love”. She helps you look at your beliefs and thought patterns in a different way and encourages you to not shy away from your emotions so that you learn to love yourself and begin to experience your best life.


You can send her a message if you have any questions & get a copy of her best selling book at https://youcanteatlove.com or leslie@youcantfindlove.com


If you're an adult child whose ready to move beyond surviving and begin thriving, send me a message on my website, receive a free gift when you subscribe & schedule a free consultation at https://vandanalighthealing.com


If you find my podcast helpful & enjoyable, please like & subscribe to my Youtube channel.

Generational Family Trauma

Join me & my special guest Tracey Yokas the author of Bloodlines & childhood trauma survivor in a conversation about strength, hope, resilience & the healing recovery process.

In this episode, Tracey speaks candidly about being raised by emotionally unavailable, neglectful & immature parents and how she was able to overcome years of chaos, confusion & dysfunction and not only accept what happened but hold empathy & compassion for her parents.

She reminds us through her art, journalling & creativity that early childhood trauma can be healed & addressed non-verbally since most childhood trauma takes place before the age of 3.

Since the legacy of family trauma gets past down to us generationally, she had the courage and tenacity to heal her own daughter despite never having a strong & reliable role model growing up.

To pre-order your copy of Bloodlines, visit:  
https://traceyyokascreates.com/bloodlines-a-memoir/

To read Discretionary Love because Love is what makes us, visit:
https://www.discretionarylove.com/words-too-small-tracey-yokas/

And to contact Tracey with any questions, visit her website at:
https://traceyyokascreates.com/


Thank for watching my Youtube Channel, If you like to support the adult child in recovery podcast, please like & subscribe to my channel & contact me on my website to learn more & schedule an inner child reparenting session & receive a free spirit guided healing journey at:
 https://vandanalightheaiing.com

You're not alone!

I truly enjoyed learning about how to heal childhood trauma with MDMA Therapy and how to demystify what it really is and how it may help you recover from years of abuse or neglect in our most important & precious developmental years and even while we're in utero in our birth Mothers womb.


Jill Sitnick is the founder of The Journey Sage, an educational platform that demystifies MDMA Therapy for PTSD to help dispel the stigma of psychedelics for mental health. After a lifetime of unprocessed childhood trauma, Jill found healing through psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy, which is expected to be FDA approved in 2024. She is an author, educator, and enthusiastic YouTube advocate for MDMA therapy for PTSD treatment.

Her Website to learn more is www.thejourneysage.com and you can find her @thejourneysage on YouTube.


She's written a memoir called Rescuing Jill: How MDMA with a Dash of Mushrooms Healed My Childhood Trauma-Induced PTSD & is the author of Rescuing Jill Companion Workbook: Intention Setting for Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy.


I hope you enjoyed this latest podcast and found it helpful, informative & relevant. If so, please like & subscribe to my Adult Child In Recovery Podcast.


If you'd like to be a guest or have me on your podcast as a guest, feel free to check out my website of healing services to heal childhood trauma at 
https://vandanalighthealing.com


I appreciate your patronage and look forward to having you tune in to my upcoming episodes!


Blessings to you & your inner child!
Vandana Atara Aura

Dear Adult Child Listeners.


I recently sat down with Dr Joy Bracey & had a heart opening & mind blowing conversation about adult childrens trauma response to eating our feelings which soothed our developing nervous system, helped us feel safe & calmed us down when no adult caregiver was available or able to and how we can love ourselves free of the past with self-care tools to stay present with mindfulness. awareness & self-acceptance.



Dr. Joy Bracey, a licensed therapist, self-love & mindfulness teacher, public speaker, single mom of four, and successful non-profit CEO, has lived with the disease of obesity her entire adult life. After many cycles of weight loss and weight gain and struggles with diet culture, she embraced her curves, claimed body positivity, and let go of her fantasies of fitting back into her college jeans. Then, at age 47, she began a self-love journey that put her on track to get honest with herself about the costs of living in a body that was 337 pounds and climbing. 


Realizing that the life of freedom she wanted for herself was not possible at her size, she started considering medical solutions and documented her journey of self-discovery in a podcast called, "The Easy Weigh Out". In the 6-episode docuseries, she talks to friends and family, a therapist, and an obesity medicine specialist. They get very personal about the emotional reasons for gaining and maintaining drastic amounts of weight, food addiction, "fat-vantanges", what it's like to live in a 300+ pound body, the impact of fat-shaming and fatphobia on women and girls, why it's not about "eat less and move more" or willpower, and the medical and genetic causes and consequences of obesity. She and her adult children discuss what it was like for them growing up in a "fat" family with a mom who was always trying to lose weight, how they wish she'd have handled their "chubbiness", and their fear for her life. Dr. Joy goes to therapy with a fellow therapist who had weight loss surgery and gets deep with her lifelong best friend about the feeling of safety that comes with living in a bigger body, her fear of being thin, sex and dating while fat, and so much more.


Her podcast is not just any conventional weight loss podcast, but a radical, touching, and honest look into the underlying emotions that go along with any unhealthy coping mechanisms- from the perspective of a mental health professional who is willing to be vulnerable in sharing her story while exploring the complex societal relationship between the perks of fatness, cultural obsession with thinness, faulty coping mechanisms, and mental, emotional & physical health. She crosses the line between body positivity and health consciousness in way that few people can, but is relatable to everyone. 


Visit her website to learn more at https//drjoybracey.com 
Learn more & visit my inner child library at https://vandanalighthealing.com