S2E13: What Led Me to Become a Trauma Transformation Practitioner? - Interview with Melanie Starr

Have you experienced trauma in your life?  How did this impact you?  Your relationships?  Your performance? Trauma is your emotional response to an experience that makes you feel threatened, afraid, and powerless. A traumatic event could involve a car crash. But traumatic events can also be complex, or ongoing and repeated over time, like abuse or neglect. Since threats can involve physical or psychological harm, trauma doesn’t always leave you with visible injuries. But it can still linger long-term as this brings back memories. Trauma can challenge your ideas of how the world works and who you are as a person. This disruption can have a ripple effect on all corners of your life, from your plans for the future to your physical health and relationship with your own body. Healing from such a profound change often takes a long time, and trauma recovery isn’t always pretty, or linear. Your journey may involve obstacles, detours, and delays, along with setbacks and lost ground. You may have no idea where you’re going or how to get there — but that’s OK. Let us listen to Melanie Starr, who is an empowerment coach and trauma transformation practitioner whose perspective is rooted in both science and spirituality. She has been a consultant and writer in the medical field for more than 25 years, while pursuing her own deep healing from trauma through yoga, energy therapy and many other practices that engage the body, breath, heart, mind and soul in the vital work of personal development. Melanie is a long-time yoga teacher, certified Master Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) practitioner, Reiki Master-Teacher, and certified practitioner of Integrated Energy Therapy® and Soul Realignment®. She weaves all of these modalities as well as somatic healing techniques into her woman-centered coaching, to help women heal trauma, release fear and shame, build resiliency and claim emotional freedom. Melanie is the founder of EmpowerYourPotential.ca, as well as Midlife Divorce Transformation, an online support and education group for women going through or seeking to recover from the end of a long-term marriage.   Let’s check it out.