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From Trauma to Triumph
by Lia Bandola
Living an Empowered Life through Healing Trauma and Accessing Courage, Faith and Strength
Episodes
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Happy Summer and So Long For Now
I wanted to share a big announcement with you about what I'll be up to for the summer and moving forward. There are times in life that you need to listen to your heart and shift focus to what is really calling you. That is what I'm doing and I hope you will be inspired to also do that for…
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How to Have a Smooth Experience With Property Transitions in Separation/Divorce
My guest this week is Robyn Yack. Robyn and her partner Cheryl Koffman have a real estate business where they do all the usual real estate transactions and uniquely specialize in helping clients who are going through divorce or separation and there is real estate is involved. Robyn's own…
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Regulating the Nervous System to Gain Relief from Trauma
My special guest today Sarah Hart knows all too well the effects of trauma and has taken what she has learned and applied to her own healing to now help others on their healing journey. Sarah is passionate about learning as well as spreading knowledge that helps people find growth out of their…
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How to Get Your Mojo Back When It's Gone Missing
After last week's episode about the loop of disappointment and discouragement that can keep us stuck and feeling depressed and dis-regulated, I also realized that sometimes we can just feel like we've lost our Mojo - refering to your energy, motivation, and confidence. If you feel like you've…
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The Loop of 'D' Words That Keep Us Stuck
I identified a series of feelings that all start with the letter 'D' that can keep us in a really dangerous loop of hopelessness. This came out of my own recent experience with this and also from hearing similar situations from clients and others in my life. Tune in to see if you have also had…
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Ask Lia Anything! Your Questions Answered
The question I'm answering today is: Why Can't I let go of the anger and hurt from things that happened in the past? I get variations of this question as well asking how to let go of resentment, fear, guilt, shame and other difficult feelings. The common aspect to all of these is that they always...
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The Top 10 Lessons from the Last 3 Years
We have just passed the 3 year annivarsary of the Pandemic landing in our world here in Canada. I have been reflecting on what has changed, what got better and the greastest lessons learned along the way. I will relate some of the specific events and situations that strengthened some of my values...
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Are You a Victim or a Creator?
"You're either a victim or creator in any moment, thought or feeling!" This quote inspired me to explore how we communicate to ourselves through our thoughts can either keep us stuck in victim mode or keep us moving forward and living our lives by choice. In this episode you will learn: How...
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Ask Lia Anything! Answering Another of Your Burning Questions
Total I'm answering a common question I hear often and even ask myself from time to time. The question is: I know what I'm supposed to do but I just keep defaulting to old behaviours that don't work for me - Why is that? In answering this question I will give you insight into: The #1 reason we…
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What I Learned and Am Sharing From My Eventful Past Week
There were so many things that went on for me last week that I thought I would share my insights, reflections and learning with you. From a fantastic event where I was a keynote speaker to my grandson being in hospital, and a few things in between I will share: What tools I had to draw on to stay...
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Ask Lia Anything!
The question I'm answering this week is: "How do you handle it when you think you have everything planned and then something happens to mess it all up? Of course, most people have had this experience and it can feel like it always seems to happen at the worst time and can throw you off your game,...
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How to Live the Life of an Essentialist
I am on a renewed mission of living life in a more minimalistic way and to embrace essentialism. If this is something you have thought of or maybe haven't but want to learn more about it, this episode will give you a start to what this lifestyle is all about and why it may be something that many…
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How Do We Break Bad Habits and Stick to Better Habits?
In the new year, people get re-focused on changing habits - letting go of old habits that are no longer working for them and creating new habits that will improve their lives and how they feel. Yet, by this time of the year many people have already let the new habits go by the wayside - if they...
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Are You Experiencing the Effects of SAD?
If you are living in some of the more northern parts of the world you may be experiencing Seasonal Affective Disorder or SAD. There are varying levels of this condition and many people are suffering from some degree of it. In today's episode we will explore SAD and how it impacts people. You will...
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Ask Lia Anything! Answering Your Burning Questions.
Today I am answering a question I get quite a bit and that is: "How do I stay true to what I want when so many people around me are telling me their way to do things or what they want me to do?" Learn what to do to stick to what you want and how to gently tell others what that is, despite their...
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Living Your Life With Intention
A brand new year!! I always love the fresh opportunity to look at life with fresh eyes and decide what you want to change, keep, enhance or throw out - both literally and figuratively. This episode I am sharing my reflections, plans and strategies to really live life on my terms and for getting...
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Year End Review and New Year Excitement
The year is almost over and a new one is about to begin. It can be an exciting time to think about the possibilities of what the future year holds for us. Now is a great time to do a year review and reflect on what went well, what goals you accomplished and which you didn't. Think about what you...
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Ask Lia Anything! Q&A Episode
Today's question is: "How do I know when it's time to call it quits?" This is a question I get quite a bit. People struggle to make the big decision to quit something they know they really need to get out of. Sometimes they have known for a very long time! My answer to this question may help you…
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A Parent's Guide to Reducing Stress and Worry
My guest is someone I really wish I had access to back when my kids were young!! Denise Marek is someone I have known for a long time, though we recently re-connected over her new book, which I am buying for every mom in my life. When you hear this episode, you'll know why. We are delving into...
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Ask Lia Anything! Answering Your Burning Questions
This week I'm bringing you a new feature - a Question and Answer episode. I will periodically be answering questions I get that I know many of you want answers to. This episode I'm answering a timely question: How do I handle the holiday get-togethers when there is conflict in my family? My…
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Are You An Empath Without Boundaries? The Anchor for Co-dependency
This week I changed it up a bit and got a little more personal with you. I read an amazing article, thanks to my friend Michelle Scrimgeour-Brown who posted it on social media. It hit me in such a powerful way, I just had to share it with you and then dissected it a bit - as much for my own…
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The Insights and Clarity Gained From Life Altering Trauma - Part 2
In this episode I continued my conversation with Robin Fricke about her incredible journey as a stroke survivor. If you have not listened to Part 1 in last week's episode, please do that so you can hear her story leading up to today's discussion. We really delve into Robin's insights as to why…
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The Insights and Clarity Gained From Life Altering Trauma - Part 1
Well all I can say is WOW after having this week's guest come on the show. My guest Robin Fricke has the most incredible story of trauma, illness and shock and then the resilience, healing and growth she received - well that part you will have to tune in next week to hear. Yes there was so much…
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Why Every Woman MUST Have Financial Literacy and Equality
My guest, Shaelene McInnis and I had a very important conversation about the importance of women in particular needing to have more financial equality in their relationships and why it is especially important that women become more financially literate, particularly when things end. The…
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How Negativity Bias May Be Affecting Your Decisions and Life
Why does it feel sometimes that there is so much negativity all around us? Today I am discussiong something I touched on last week that is one of the things that prevents us from naturally going to gratitude or noticing all the good things in our lives. It is Negativity Bias, an interesting and...
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When Practicing Gratitude Isn't So Easy
There is a lot of information out there about the benefits of being grateful and expressing our gratitude and I don’t think anyone would dispute any of it. However, I do know that sometimes it can be very challenging to feel grateful and coming up with anything to have gratitude for. I want to…
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Don't Let Your Past Define Your Present Life
How often do we hear of very successful people having difficult, humble and even traumatic pasts? People like Oprah, Tyler Perry, Ashley Judd and Mark Wahlberg just to name a few. Quite often the success stories we see today had very trying and tragic beginnings. My guest today, Kayann Saunders…
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The Inner Work of Self-Care Necessary For True Health
This week I have the treat of having a previous guest back on - Rhonda Armour. This time Rhonda will talk about her new book "Before You Start Another Diet, Read This" - "Unsubscribe from the Diet Culture, by Focusing on the Inner Work of Self-Care". Rhonda expands on some of the points we…
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Why Don't We Just Do What We Want?
Often we get stuck in situations, jobs, relationships or circumstances that we don't really want to be in but don't feel like we can get out of it or change it. Why does that happen? Well there can be many factors but what I have discovered is that typically what is at the basis is fear that is...
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Post Traumatic Stress and the Early Symptoms That Can Go Unrecognized
We are back with fresh interviews and this week my guest is Orzala Quddusi. Orzala experienced some of the early symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress and was eventually diagnosed with PTSD by her doctor. All too often people are suffering in silence and to the outside world they can keep up the...
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The Trouble with Relationships
Happy September everyone!! I hope you all had a great summer and that you enjoyed our summer re-runs. We are back with our new episodes and I think today's is something that many people will resonate with. I wanted to talk about some of the relationship pitfalls I am seeing now more than ever. I...
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Last Summer Re-Run Episode! Navigating and Thriving Through Divorce
Today's episode will be the last summer re-run and then we are back with new and fresh episodes September 7th!! New school year and we are bringing you lots of new education and inspiration on the podcast. This episode was a very special one, not only because Jenn Laforet was my first guest on…
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Summer Re-Run Episode: Getting to the Real You Through Life's Curveballs
I so enjoyed my conversation with Alana McClure earlier this year and the many, many insights she gave us to help us, I just had to make it one of our re-run episodes. Sometimes we end up having experiences and events in our lives we could never have imagined. And sometimes those things lead us…
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Summer Re-run Episode: Managing Post Partum Depression and Anxiety
This week's summer re-run episode is the one with my guest Ashley Treavajo where she bravely came on to talk about something so many women experience and sadly don't talk about enough. I hope you enjoy this very important conversation we had and hopefully it may help some women to not feel so…
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Summer Re-Runs Episode: How Having Resilience Can Lead to an Amazing Life
I wanted to re-run this episode today because so many people are struggling and dealing with so many things - both personally and world-wide, that I thought this hopeful conversation I had with Karina Sanchez might be just the thing that could shift perspectives. My wonderful guest truly embodies...
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Summer Re-Run Episode: Developing Life Changing Habits One Baby Step at a Time
This week's repeat is an episode I did with Rhonda Armour, who spoke about things we can be doing with our health and lifestyle so we can be at our very best. I think summer is a great time to start to implement some healthier practices if you haven't already, though any time is a great time to...
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Summer Re-Run Episode: Embracing Life Experiences to Create Transformative Change
On this week's repeat episode I spoke with Lisa Carberry, owner of Your Empowered Solutions. Lisa and I had a very interesting conversation about how we can use all of our experiences to not only accept the lessons that they bring if we pay attention. but also to have them be the guide for us to...
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Summer Re-Runs! This week - Connecting to Your Inner Child
This week's re-run episode was one that touched so many people. Tracy Turberfield introduces us to her "Lighthouse" theory of seeking and being a lighthouse from and for others. It was such a powerful conversation we had. Enjoy it again or maybe for the first time. We all have an inner child that...
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Summer Re-Runs! This week: Trauma Through Ages and Stages
This week we are bringing you another popular episode we had earlier in the year with the amazing Claudine Pereira. Claudine is an experienced professional, business coach and consultant who assists people with fundamental behavioural change. Her consistent and captivating approach stretches her...
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Summer Re-Runs!! This week: The Layered Trauma of Domestic Abuse
e are in full swing with summer! And here at the podcast we are taking some time to do all the fun summer things as well as taking the opportunity to do some really cool planning for the fall. So we are going to be having Summer Reruns! Each week for the months of July and August we are going to...
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Blindsided by Love
The story of my guest this week is something we see in movies, yet this was her actual life! Vickey Evans tells the story of love gone very wrong and found herself in a different country, alone with her baby boy and suddenly having to pack up and go back to her home country. And all the legal...
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Getting to the Real You Through Life's Curveballs
Sometimes we end up having experiences and events in our lives we could never have imagined. And sometimes those things lead us to discover who we really are at our core. My guest this week is Alana McClure and she knows this trajectory all too well. She had a series of opportunities and then…
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Developing Life Changing Habits One Baby Step at a Time
I am particularly excited to have our guest Rhonda Armour this week as we are going to be talking about something very near and dear to my heart -health and lifestyle. I know all too well the importance of nutrition, exercise, stress management and other lifestyle components, not just because I...
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Having a THRIVER Mindset and Practice
Even though many things have opened up and some of the pandemic anxiety has subsided, there are still a lot of things in the world right now causing stress, overwhelm and anxiety. Rising costs of almost everything, shortages, tragic events, divisions among many groups, and lots of individual...
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Surviving an Unimaginable Tragedy and Coming to a Place of Peace
This week's episode will hit all the feels. My guest this week is Jody Swain and she is here to share a tragic event that for every parent is a worst nightmare. Have your Kleenex ready. Jody is so incredibly vulnerable and real as she speaks about this most difficult time in her life. Her courage...
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From Disempowered to Empowered to Helping Others Be Empowered
On this week's episode I am speaking with Suzy Tamasy about how we often go from experiencing trauma and very challenging circumstances to turning it all completely around and then being able to use those experiences to help others in very profound ways. Suzy's history and past reads like a…
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What Has Happened to Tolerance?
I have noticed that intolerance seems to be something that is happening more and more. Not just around the big things like race, gender, sexuality, religion, politics, pandemic. But I’m noticing a train of thinking that basically says “if you’re different from me or what I think is right – you…
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How Having Resilience Can Lead to an Amazing Life
This week we are exploring Resilience again. I've talked about this before and this week I have a wonderful guest who truly embodies Resilience. Karina G. Sanchez has had many challenges and experienced deep trauma in her life and each time was able to not only bounce back but to rise way above…
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Embracing Life Experiences to Create Transformative Change
This week my guest is Lisa Carberry, owner of Your Empowered Solutions. Lisa and I had a very interesting conversation about how we can use all of our experiences to not only accept the lessons that they bring if we pay attention. but also to have them be the guide for us to embrace and create...
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Accessing Spirituality Through Healing Trauma
My guest this week is Barb Takeda. We will be discussing some of the experiences and traumas that led Barb to the wonderful ways that Barb now helps others with her very spiritual and inspirational practices. Barb lived most of her life in debilitating chronic pain and depression. After she...
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