Healing Power of Poetry with Brenda Bryan

This time we’re joined by Brenda Bryan to talk about the healing power of poetry. Brenda is an incredible inspirational speaker, transformational coach, and mastermind facilitator who helps women unmask and nurture their genius. That way, they can feel empowered to live in the strength of their passion. Brenda believes communication is vital for feminine power. During the episode, she shares the inspiration for her poetry and what the journey of writing poetry has taught her. She also shares the role poetry played in helping her heal. On this episode of the Live. Love. Engage. podcast: How Brenda became inspired to start writing poetry. The amount of poems Brenda has written up to this point. The divine connection that helped her publish her books. An example of the magic that can happen when a spelling error gets missed. How and where Brenda’s healing took place. The most common way she expressed her healing. The importance of knowing your own dreams and core values. The biggest lesson Brenda has learned through her poetry process. How she learned to survive difficulty and the way this reflected in her relationship. What happens when you learn to stand in full transparency of who you are. How we as humans are not expressing ourselves to our full potential. Why Brenda wants to create a sacred space for women to tell their story. The support women are missing in society and how women can truly blossom. Why there is really no such thing as a mistake. What it means to own the light and the dark in us. Connect with Brenda Brenda’s website: https://brendarbryan.com/ Brenda's book: https://brendarbryan.com/product/inward-beyond/ Quick Links: Join the Live. Love. Engage. Community Intuitive Business Coaching The Live. Love. Engage. Book Support the Podcast with BuyMeACoffee.com Enjoying what you're hearing on Live. Love. Engage.? Subscribe on Goodpods or your favorite podcast platform, and click here to leave a 5 STAR Review. You can also watch the conversation on YouTube. TRANSCRIPT You're listening to the Lived Love Engage Podcast on today's show, How a painful breakup caused one woman to learn radical self care through the healing art of poetry. Stay tuned. I am Gloria Grace Rand, founder of the Love Method, and author of the number one Amazon best seller, Live, Love, Engage, How to stop doubting yourself and start Being Yourself. In this podcast, we share practical advice from a spiritual perspective on how to live fully, love deeply, and engage authentically so you can create a life and business with more impact, influence and income. Welcome to Live Love, Engage. Namaste and welcome to Live Love, Engage, and I am. Super excited today to welcome my guest, who is also a dear friend who I've known for six years now. Yeah, I was double checking the dates just to make sure, that I had the math right and it said, Yeah, we met about six years ago and she is an amazing person. I'm gonna tell you all about her in just a second. But first I wanna welcome Brenda Bryan to live, Love, Engage. It's so good to be here. Thank you for the invitation. Yeah. And it's excited to know that we've known each other for six years and what a journey we've both been on. it's been, you know, to be able to support each other and anchor each other and remind each other. I mean, this is kind of like the journey of that makes everything we do worthwhile. Right? Absolutely. And yeah, it has been an incredible journey, thinking back to where I was six years ago. It's all good. It's, it's been ups and downs and, and, and wonderfulness. So, I wanna read this bio cuz I, I love your bio. I love how she starts off and she says that Brenda is a kick ass inspirational speaker, not just an ordinary speaker. No, she's a kick ass inspirational speaker. The diviner of human potential and as a transformational Coach and mastermind facilitator, she supports women to unmask and nurture their genius, empowering them to live in the strength of their passion. And she demonstrates authenticity, a warm-hearted humor with a deep wealth of knowledge of how important communication is to feminine power. And in fact, we actually had you on the podcast a couple years ago, the first year I started and kind of talking about feminine power, then, but I wanted to have you on because this time around because you actually have become an author and she has a book called Inward and Beyond Transformation is a conscious choice. And it is a phenomenal book. I highly recommend it, and that's what we're really gonna talk about today because I was just blown away by the book, which is a book of poems. But I wanna let you tell the story of what prompted you to write this book. Oh, divine guidance prompted me, in it and, and I needed a way to engage in a creative healing process. That would allow me to, to really speak feelings that I was having trouble speaking in coaching sessions or with my therapist or whatever. Just like it was just getting all mixed up and backwards and somehow I wasn't satisfied. So I just really said, you know, I need a way to, to express these things that are, that's more in alignment with. My language, my, my sensibility of creativity. And so that's when, you know, basically poems started to download. And because of technology, you know, I'm dyslexic, so for me, writing and spelling and. you know, which is why I'm a really good speaker because I bypass all of that to get to where the words matter to me, right? But, but in the process of, of wanting to engage in being a more effective writer and to learn the art of writing, I'd been working on it, but these poems just kind of Kept coming, and I would just take the one line, or I'd take the whole poem, whatever came through, and I would just, Oh. Put it on my phone, you know, And, and I, and I, and it, you know, sometimes it was three o'clock in the morning, sometimes it was in the middle of doing dishes. Sometimes it was, I was out on a walk. It didn't matter if it, if there was a spark of like, Oh, that's a great line, or, Oh, I never thought about it that way. I would write it down. And then the next thing you know, I'm, I'm writing, you know, I've got, probably got about a hundred poems written and different essays written. And, this book, Inward and Beyond Transformation is a Conscious choice, is a selection of, of poem poems that tell a story about the journey of falling in Lust. And falling outta lust. And then the work that goes along with falling out, and then the work that goes along with choosing to use the, the, the journey as a healing process. And that was really, you know, I'm, you know, I'm never without that journey because I think that is the work that I, first of all, I do, and I support others in being that. So this book is very vulnerable and very raw for me, and I never thought I'd expose myself quite this publicly. But, but everything was, everything was, was being said. Was, go ahead and make this the next step. Put the book out. And I didn't know how that was gonna happen. And of course, as, as, as all things divine happen, it's like a really good friend of mine was a publisher. I mean, I know she was publishing her own books, but I didn't know she was gonna help me over, over, over the, over the bridge and, and, you know, to, to a different land. And she did. And it was amazing journey to work with her and to see this in print because, you know, I wouldn’t. You know, nowhere in the journey was I working to be a published author. I was just following guidance and guidance said to do this, and I did. Well, I'm glad that you followed the, the guidance because even I, I wrote a review for, for the book on Amazon and just reading the other reviews, it was, I, I read them after. It was like, I wanted, sometimes when I'm reviewing books, I'll like read what other people say and I was like, No, I'm just gonna go with my gut. And then I, then I read the other reviews. I’m like. Yeah, we all kind of said the same thing. It was just, you know, profound and raw and just, you know, the, and, and the courage, and, and beauty that you really put down into words to describe the joy and pain of, of this relationship that you were in and, and ultimately the relationship with yourself, which I think is the, the most important relationship we have cuz it's the first one we have really. And even though I know they say, you know, with your mother, but really it's, it's, you're with you your whole life and you, you've gotta be able to be, connected with yourself and, and. So it's, it's, it's a hopeful book. I'll say that. But I, I wanna ask you one thing, and it's interesting cuz you talked about the fact that you're dyslexic. So, I noticed something and, and so this may have been unintentional, but I love how it turned out. So in, in yhe poem that you wrote, it's called Let Me, and it starts out, Let me investigate your soul. Let me peek at the heart of my lover and see how to love you more. And when I read that, see I, I'm like my brain. I'm like, I'm always looking for grammar and spelling and it's just, just, I don't know. That's just how my quirky brain works out. So you spelled peek, p e a k, like the top of a mountain rather than p e e k, which means to look quickly and so. I'm wondering. Hmm. You know, this works either way, frankly. And I was wondering if you, if you had, you know, spelled it p e a k in on purpose or, or not, or if it was just a divine sort of cool way to let people make their own interpretation. Oh, I, you know, it's, it's, it's in, in its best form. It is actually divine and in, and in its common thing. It's a spelling mistake, but, But there's the fun of, of all of it, right? Yeah. Is is that when, when a word doesn't get picked up by spell check or by your editors, and it, and it proceeds to go forward,...