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:30 The Art of Healing Your Heart: Human Doings vs Human Beings: Being Human During Turbulent Times
We get so caught up in the cycle of doing that we forget the importance of just being. Pulling ourselves away from the computer because of working remotely, teaching remotely, and attending school remotely, although is meant to simplify our lives, has also become an incredibly powerful addiction.
Ep:29 Embracing Loneliness. Overcoming the Fear of Loneliness
Healing Your Heart and what’s most important is understanding how to sustain our boundaries and invite times to pause, rest, and explore, while being comfortable alone. loneliness is the fear of looking in the mirror and being comfortable with all your perfect imperfections. It is facing the truth of who you are and finding acceptance within awakening into your wholeness.
Have you ever wondered why every time you misplace something and you are going nuts looking for it you can never find it, and then, when you aren’t looking for it, it shows up? Join us in today's episode to discover the art of embracing loneliness.
Ep:28 The Art of Healing Your Heart: Working Through Grief. The Alchemy of the Heart, working through the symptoms of Broken Heat Syndrome, overcoming the Grieving process.
Waves of grief that come large and small. Moments of stillness, joy, and despair.
Memories that plague the mind and the cycles of the shadow that is cast with no face.
Grief is each person's way of processing deep loss, and also a season, a personal winter of hurt that never truly goes away.
It is what we “grow” through and how we slowly take moments to heal. No one outside can provide that for you, it is the time of human purification through such loss that burns. It impacts every aspect of our health.
Ep:27 The Art of Healing Your Heart. Working through the Quantum Shifts of Life.
Discover what it means to understand the true nature of Self Love. There are times when one may get caught up in the mirage of our thoughts. The elusive mystery of how to maintain a relationship with another knowing that what is shared is not good for our well-being. Only adding to the hallowed space in the mind and spirit that can at times be indescribable. In this episode, I open up about my personal journey and how the methods I used to work through Pragya Apardh the ignorance of the intellect.