The Light In My Shadow
Where Medical Insight Meets Yogic Wisdom on the Path to Healing
My Story: Living with BPD, Bipolar, Manic Depression, Complex Trauma & Suicidal Ideation
In this raw and vulnerable episode, I open up about my journey living with multiple mental health diagnoses—how they’ve sabotaged my relationships, fed my addiction to emotional pain, and kept me spinning on a merry-go-round of trauma and shame. I explore how these shadows became constant companions—sometimes seductive, sometimes suffocating—and how I’ve slowly, painfully, but purposefully learned to face them.
Through the healing lenses of yoga and Ayurveda, I’ve begun to untangle the web. It hasn’t been easy. It’s been messy, teary, and filled with setbacks—but also breakthroughs. If you’ve ever felt like your mind was working against you or that your pain had its own personality, this episode is for you.
“Unless we heal the wounds that shame creates, especially wounds from childhood, we carry this crippling shame into our adulthood…” This is the work. And this is my truth.
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Ep:46 Paradigm Shifts - Your Truth is Different Than My Truth.
We have all heard the term, “the truth will set you free,” however, you may not like it. Hence the reason why it is followed by the phrase, “the truth hurts.” It makes me laugh when I hear the words, “I got you,” or “I have you figured out,” because, the only thing they “got” is their interpretation of what they think they know to be true for their own validation. One can really not figure anyone out, like people, places, and environments are always changing. Just like the waves in the ocean, they can not be predicted.
Ep:45 The Whole Journey is the Full Potential. Understanding what BEING means.
The words that follow are my human attempt to put words to what entering transcendence may feel like…
These are the words that express the journey that my beloved mother and possibly all who have fallen and entered into the ancestral realm, along with those who enter into transcendental states during meditations may be experiencing, as this is a reflection of what a glimpse of this experience feels like….