Ep 22 | Spiritual Words of Wisdom to Heal Your Spirit | Powerful Words of Healing and Wisdom

‼️‼️Trigger Warning: This episode contains discussions of trauma, including suicidal ideation, and may be triggering for some listeners. ✨✨SO MUCH VALUE: This episode’s title is appropriate because it is SO PACKED with words of wisdom from someone who is all about the healing journey. You don’t want to miss one word of George’s message and sage advice. In this heartfelt episode, I welcome my friend, George Bryant, for an open and deeply personal conversation about the realities of healing from trauma. Our conversation begins where we are today, as both of us reflect on our current emotional states and recent milestones: George shares his journey navigating divorce and envisioning a new future. At the same time, I’m celebrating the return of homeownership, marking a completion on my healing journey.   George is an entrepreneur, speaker, and advocate for healing (sounds like anyone else you know??), who uses his lived experiences to help heart-centered people become visible and share their message. His lived experiences include surviving a childhood marked by parental addiction, abuse and instability; homelessness; bullying; time in Afghanistan marked by traumatic brain injuries and the loss of fellow Marines; almost losing his leg and becoming addicted to painkillers; adopting his younger brother; and accruing his deceased father’s debts.  He also survived his unhealthy ways of coping, including isolation, self-harm, suicidal ideation, bulimia and trauma-bonding with his own story over and over again to escape the work to heal. Highlights of this episode 💙Healing is not a harmful, negative, or burdensome experience, nor is it a finish line. Instead, it’s an active pursuit of personal growth that’s ongoing for our entire lives to become the best version of ourselves. Addressing unhealthy relationships is at the core of healing, but healing is only done on YOUR heart. It has nothing to do with the other person. 💛Trauma is relative and personal; it’s not about comparing your story to someone else’s and judging either person. You can’t possibly know how trauma impacts anyone other than yourself because the measure is the impact on one’s heart and the amount of fear-based emotion you're carrying. 💙Use your story as permission to rewrite your narratives, rather than as justification for your pain, suffering, and the way that you treat or interact with other people. 💛The hustle culture that the world celebrates can become our addiction. George talks about being addicted to his service as a Marine, and then being addicted to entrepreneurship and focusing his entire life on amassing a vast number of followers. Ultimately, he realized that his addiction was about running from himself, which is what we’re all doing through any addiction. Mine was being a busyholic in the chronic chaos of my life. 💙Healing is simple. Complicated, but simple. There are only two steps, really, awareness and release: awareness that you need to heal, and release of your related emotions. 💛I love this pivotal moment in George’s journey when God placed a man in his path who told him: “I think you believe in God, but the wrong one because you aren't him, my friend.”  Connect with George ✨Podcast: Mind of George ✨Facebook ✨Instagram – DM George here, and he will answer you! ✨YouTube  Follow me, the HEALing Mentor 🩵Website: https://www.empoweredsurvivors.com 🩵Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bethjoneshealingmentor 🩵Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BethJonesHEALingMentor/ 🩵TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@bethjoneshealingmentor 🩵LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bethjoneshealingmentor/ #healingmentor #healingjourney #healtolove #empowerdsurvivor #selfdiscovery #personalgrowth #selfawareness #growthmindset #selfempowerment #veteranhealing #militarytrauma #ptsdawareness  #traumabonding #selfharm #traumarecovery #mentalhealthmatters #survivorstory #traumahealing #healingwisdom #radicalhealing