The Process of Becoming, Healing our trauma and giving it to God with Andrew L. Blackwood and Brigette Heller s. 5 E 2

For more than 18 years, mental health professional, Dr. Andrew L. Blackwood, affectionately known as “Coach Drew”, has been connecting deeply with individuals, parents, and teens to support their growth and healing through coaching, speaking, workshops on his book The Art of a Genuine Apology and his parenting programs, Help Them Be Brave and The Confidence-Cultivating Parent Program. Andrew’s personal healing journey through anxiety and childhood divorce helps him appreciate the painful challenges of those he works with as well as God’s grace and power to overcome. Earning a Master of Divinity in Counseling (Tyndale Seminary) and a Doctor of Ministry to Marriage and Family (Eastern University – Palmer School of Theology), prepared him to serve as a Children's Mental Health Clinician, Guest Expert and Media Consultant on shows like 100 Huntley Street, The Perspective and The 700 Club Canada. His remarkable ability to engage and bring clarity to the complex challenges of healing in relationships sets him apart as a true facilitator of change. His desire to impact relationship culture around the world is made personal every day as he continues to learn, heal, and grow in his most prized relationships with his wife and two daughters.

“Your experience….. It's going to help other people “ - God

 trauma is like pushing pause on someone's emotional development.- Dr. Drew

learn, heal, and grow. - Dr. Drew

healing comes in waves and stages. It's not all at once. You don't go from, I struggle. I had trauma to I'm healed. Overnight, like that doesn't happen. It comes in waves. So you kind of go through this healing and then I feel like your spirit, your body, everything has to catch up with what just happened.

Humans are humans and they're messy. So there's gonna be trauma somewhere.- BRigette

curiosity is what brings the possibility of healing- Brigette

what I've learned is then after you know yourself, now it's time to decide what to do with that. And that's actually the hardest journey yet to come, but the most important.- Brigette

if you want to have these moments where you're like, oh my gosh. I'm facing this and I have to, I can release it, put yourself in situations, go to counseling, put yourself in spiritual situations, do meditation, because when you prepare your heart and mind to see and receive, that's when you can transform.- Brigette

It's time to let this go so that you can be the next evolution of you without the guilt that's weighing you down- Brigette

Tips from Dr. Drew to start on the journey of healing:

1.Journal regularly and often, this gives you an understanding of what your feeling and thinking. Write them like a letter to yourself or to God.

2.If you are stuck, I would definitely say a lot of people think it's overrated, but I like to teach people how to breathe and how to be calm because there's real benefit to being where we are. We try to escape the unpleasantness and logically it makes sense, but just like when we do all the stuff for our kids, we're telling them that they can't handle it.So if you tell yourself, I can't handle, I can't handle that, you're capping your own growth. So breathe, calm yourself, remind yourself that you're actually okay. So that's number one. 

3.Number two, I would just. Listen for God's direction. And I know, I know  it's a journey of knowing how each individual hears God for some people, it is clear voice for some people. It's a feeling, it's a sensation. It's signed. There are so many different ways, but cultivating that openness with that curiosity and the anticipation 

To Connect with Dr. Drew: https://calendly.com/coachdrewcan/30-minute-define-my-next-step-clarity-consultation-call https://www.instagram.com/coachdrewcan/ www.coachdrew.ca https://app.searchie.io/hub/KrplrXbR18 - Effective Journaling Link 

To Connect with Brigette:

https://www.instagram.com/brigette.heller

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