Beyond Abuse Radio
Philosophy Podcasts
Are you ready to be known and loved? Is it time to move from mere survival of childhood trauma into a thriving life? Beyond Abuse Radio is a safe place to find healing and wholeness and embrace your own beauty. Overcoming trauma is not easy, but it is absolutely possible, and you don’t have to do it alone!
I invite you to join me each week to learn about tools for healing and receive the resources and encouragement you need on your journey into wholeness. Over 1,000 people are being inspired weekly to live empowered lives as they transform their trauma into beauty.
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United States
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Are you ready to be known and loved? Is it time to move from mere survival of childhood trauma into a thriving life? Beyond Abuse Radio is a safe place to find healing and wholeness and embrace your own beauty. Overcoming trauma is not easy, but it is absolutely possible, and you don’t have to do it alone! I invite you to join me each week to learn about tools for healing and receive the resources and encouragement you need on your journey into wholeness. Over 1,000 people are being inspired weekly to live empowered lives as they transform their trauma into beauty.
Language:
English
Episodes
Spiritual Tools for Trauma Healing, Part 1: Where Was God?
3/19/2015
Spiritual issues come up for everyone as they heal from trauma. To divorce one’s spiritual questions from the healing process leaves survivors with huge gaps in their recovery. One of the things most survivors ask at some point is “Where was God?” and, rightfully so.
IF God is real and all powerful and you believe in the idea of a good and loving God, WHERE was He when you were being abused? It is a question worth asking and one that deserves some honest conversation. Join host,...
Duration:01:35:47
Healing for Wives of Sexually Addicted Men
3/5/2015
Loving someone who struggles with sexual addiction is painful. How do you take care of yourself in the midst of this challenging situation? Darrell Brazell is a pastor and recovering sex addict. His youtube video called Apology to Women is an example of his poignant message. Darrell says, "Ladies, I am sorry that so many Christians and so many representing Jesus don't understand the pain infidelity, in all its forms, brings to God's children. It isn't your fault that he cheated, ever. Your...
Duration:01:38:58
Healing Addiction, Part 8: Kicking the Sugar Habit
2/5/2015
Can we REALLY get addicted to sugar, or is that just a euphemism? How does sugar affect our minds and bodies? Is it connected to emotional problems and mental illness? With sugar being such a pervasive part of our culture, how do we kick the sugar habit? Nutritionist and doctor of naturopathy, Patricia Adams, will be sharing her journey into physical and emotional health and help you on your path to find healing and wholeness.
Duration:01:29:59
Healing Addiction, Part 9: Relationship Addiction
1/22/2015
Relationship addiction happens when one person invests themselves too deeply in another person’s life. A lack of a strong personal identity and the need to please others can create obsessive patterns that keep you from creating healthy attachments to others. Could there be an unconscious belief that you have the ability to do what you think others want or expect and that will earn you the love and acceptance that you desire? Learn about the 7 traits of relationship addicts, the kind of...
Duration:01:49:08
Healing Addiction, Part 7- The High Cost of Addiction
12/18/2014
Addiction costs over 500,000 annually. The cost to families and individuals is incalculable. Why are we, as individuals and as a society, willing to pay this kind of price to continue in the addictive patterns that flourish in our culture? Addiction has nearly become an accepted way of life. Are you willing to continue to pay the price for your addiction, or are you ready to do something different? Listen to the story of Mike Reis, former sex addict and alcoholic, addiction recovery coach,...
Duration:01:30:05
Beyond Abuse Radio: Healing with Art
11/1/2013
Art is an amazing tool to help us reach the deepest parts of ourselves. It speaks to us in ways that words cannot. Art can help us access our nonverbal language to bring personal growth, insight, and transformation. It enables us to connect with our feelings, thoughts, and perceptions. Through these images, we can come to understand who we are and enable us to express that self. Join us as we welcome special guest, Michal Madison, watercolor artist and wounded healer, as she shares how art...
Duration:01:01:12
Beyond Abuse Radio: Play Yourself Well
10/25/2013
It’s no secret that play increases learning and creativity. We also know that play helps build healthy teamwork and intimacy. But did you know that we use play to learn how to give and receive, how to trust, how to be kind, and how to heal? Play can help people grow and develop a sense of self-esteem and can help us to recover from trauma and allow those parts of us that are arrested in development to grow into healthy adults. Play is called the greatest gift of childhood, and can continue...
Duration:01:07:31
Beyond Abuse Radio: Humor that Heals, Part 3
10/18/2013
Laughter adds joy to life and helps relieve stress. It strengthens relationships and helps defuse conflict. Through humor we can ease our anxieties and fears. In our last two shows we have talked about how laughter and humor can help us to heal. This week we will give you some specific ways to see the lighter side of life and to take yourself a little less seriously. Expect some good laughs and a whole bunch of ways to bring humor into challenging situations. Recharge and reduce your stress...
Duration:00:56:15
Beyond Abuse Radio: Humor that Heals, Part 2
10/11/2013
Laughter is not as far from tears as you might expect. In order to laugh, we have to be connected to our feelings. Being able to cry means we are able to laugh as well. The more we allow ourselves to be emotionally present the more we can enjoy all the fullness of life. Laughter feels good and can bring us great release. This week on Beyond Abuse Radio we will talk about the healing experiences of laughter and imbibe in some of the greatest medicine known to man.
Duration:00:55:57
Beyond Abuse Radio: Humor that Heals, Part 1
9/27/2013
We have a surprise guest tonight! Chiquita will be sharing about healing humor and I'm sure we'll have a laugh or 10! Chiquita, also known as God's Girl, is a single Mom of three beautifully gifted, anointed and talented children. Licensed to ministry at the age of 17 and ordained later, she has served the Body of Christ in various capacities. With the graduation of her last child Chiquita recently launched her Full-time Ministry, God's Girl Ministries. God uses her in diverse areas of...
Duration:01:04:34
Beyond Abuse Radio: 20 Tools For Thriving Lives
9/14/2013
What do gratefulness, positive self-talk, play, and exercise all have in common? They are all tools for healing trauma. There are numerous resources available for all of us on the path to lay hold of thriving lives after experiencing suffering. It doesn’t matter what the source of your trauma and loss is, the way into joy has similar components. Every one of our journeys is unique but there is also a lot of common ground. Misa will talk about these four tools along with 16 others to help you...
Duration:00:59:10
Beyond Abuse Radio:Choosing Love
8/31/2013
In the midst of suffering we make choices. Sometimes very difficult choices. The temptation to adopt a lifestyle of isolation, bitterness, and self-protection is strong. Yet those very choices are what determine whether we will live forever as victims or walk into a thriving life. When a mother of two sweet teenage girls suddenly finds herself childless, she has every excuse in the world to cut herself off from community and live an angry, defensive life. But Lynn Wagner chooses love. In...
Duration:01:01:47
Beyond Abuse Radio: The Courageous Survivor
8/24/2013
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. Anais Nin Courage is the stuff that good things are made of. Healing takes great courage. Without it, there is little hope of transformation. How do we become courageous people? Is it an inborn trait, can it be taught or caught? Is it a skill that, with practice, becomes easier? Courage is not the absence of fear; but rather, it is the conquest of fear. Making courageous decisions and taking courageous actions don’t just happen. We...
Duration:00:57:45
Beyond Abuse Radio: Medical Empowerment
8/17/2013
Medical issues can be a challenge in the best of circumstances. For abuse survivors, dealing with health problems can present special challenges. Triggers, low self esteem, fear of authority, body issues, and touch can all add to the mix when addressing medical problems and undergoing treatment. Dealing with medical problems after abuse can stir all sorts of things. Fear of doctors and dentists are not uncommon. The question of how to put appropriate trust in medical personnel while taking...
Duration:00:42:21
Beyond Abuse Radio: Empowering Abuse Survivors
8/10/2013
Duration:01:02:08
Beyond Abuse Radio- Joy Heals, Part 2
8/3/2013
Can we have joy in the midst of suffering? How do we lose our joy? What can we do to open our lives to more joy? Guest Shawn McCain helps us grapple with these questions and more as we consider the role of joy in healing from trauma. With a truly joyful spirit, Sean will inspire you and provoke you to new ways of thinking about what joy really is and what you might do to cultivate more joy in your life.
Duration:01:10:03
Beyond Abuse Radio- Joy Heals, Part 1
7/27/2013
Joy can be an elusive thing. What is it exactly? Happiness? Pleasure? Some see joy as a goal in itself; others find joy on the way to living authentically. Can joy be given and received? Can it be lost, or found again? Our special guest, Shawn McCain says joy is risky. He would know because his live exudes joy. Learn how you can lay a hold of joy and how it can help you to heal from what ails you this Saturday on Beyond Abuse Radio. Shawn Mccain is a priest at Redeemer Anglican Church in...
Duration:01:09:48
Emotional Empowerment
7/13/2013
Emotions can rule us by either our avoidance of them or allowing them to dictate our actions and relationships. We CAN be free to utilize our emotions as signposts in the healing journey. In this episode, we discuss dealing with our feelings, handling anger, accepting all of our self and becoming our own good parent. Tools such as journaling, art therapy, Conversations with Myself, and finding safe people can help us contain our strong feelings. Join Misa this Saturday as we talk about...
Duration:00:59:37
Embracing Your Beauty
7/6/2013
I tell you each week that you are beautiful! But what does that mean? And how do I know you are beautiful- I can’t even see you? Beauty is something that each one of us is created with. Unfortunately, many of us bury our beauty because we come to see ourselves through the eyes of our abusers. Uncovering that beauty and living out of it is part of the process of moving from surviving to thriving. This week we will be exploring what beauty is and why EVERY ONE of you is beautiful. Join...
Duration:00:58:28