Crystal shares her journey to becoming an inclusive branding and leadership development coach from accepting experiences in her bi-racial upbringing, stepping into advocacy for sexual assault survivors, and healing the mother wound. Bio: Crystal Whiteaker (pronouns: she/her) is an Inclusive Branding and Leadership Development and Consultant specializing in coaching and consulting for brands and leaders that care deeply about diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. Crystal brings over 15 yea...
Nov 16, 2022•55 min•Season 2Ep. 42
Molly Godfrey is the CEO of Successful Love, a viral content creator, and the ‘go-to’ dating + relationship coach for high-achieving single women in their 30s. She vulnerably shares life lessons of healing from heartbreak and how she deepened her relationship with her greatest desires. Featured on the Today Show, InStyle, and Bustle, she has been recognized as a trusted love advisor, helping her clients get unstuck and land their dream relationships. She works with ambitious women + CEOs who are...
Nov 02, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Season 2Ep. 41
In this episode, Krystal shares her artistic journey with us and how writing and jewelry-making allowed her to express herself and create a strong relationship with her Cambodian culture. Creativity is incredible healing and engrained within our ancestral roots, I believe every one of us has access to this. Krystal's Bio: Krystal M. Chuon is a 2nd generation Khmer-American artist and writer, author of two chapbooks, and is currently exploring acrylic earrings as a new creative medium. She's been...
Oct 19, 2022•1 hr 9 min•Season 2Ep. 40
Kirstie Taylor is a dating coach and writer. She helps anxious daters feel more confident in their love lives. Kirstie is also the author of the book What I Wish I Knew About Love. In this episode, she shares her wisdom in managing relationship anxiety and how couples therapy offered her a new perspective on relationship growth. Follow her on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wordswithkirstie/ Follow her on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@kirstietaylorr?lang=en Buy Her Book: https://www.kirst...
Oct 05, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Season 2Ep. 39
Amira Noeuv is a 2nd generation Cambodian American currently pursuing her doctorate in ethnic studies at UC San Diego. She shares her healing journey with us from navigating ADHD/ bi-polar disorder and how her experience in a psych ward opened her eyes to the broken system we live in, leading her to focus her research on healing transgenerational trauma and its effect on the Cambodian American community and children of refugees. Amira’s Bio: Amira Noeuv is currently pursuing her Doctorate in Eth...
Sep 20, 2022•1 hr 16 min•Season 2Ep. 38
Danielle Vigliotti is a trauma-informed life coach and founder of Stress Less Love More. She shares her story of healing from the traumatic loss of her father through suicide. Through her healing, she recognized pain is temporary the process of moving through post-traumatic growth is moving towards a state of acceptance. She believes everyone is worth healing, love, and a life of less stress. Work With Danielle for 1:1 coaching: https://www.stresslesslovemore.com/ Follow her on Instagram: https:...
Sep 07, 2022•57 min•Season 2Ep. 37
Stephanie Venditto is a life and purpose career coach. She shares her curiosity about this journey we call life and how there is nothing to master but living freely within the present moment. This is how we cultivate radical acceptance of the human experience. By unraveling, unbecoming, and rebuilding ourselves with pieces of our authentic hearts. This episode is for anyone who is challenged to accept things out of our control. Sometimes the only thing we can do is simply feel our way through th...
May 24, 2022•49 min•Season 2Ep. 36
In this episode, I take you through the trauma writing process by writing the toughest chapter of my memoir, my suicide story. If this episode topic is triggering for you, please use your discretion. I go deep within my writing process, my healing process, and the steps I have taken through metabolizing this experience into a story where I reclaim my power and stand in my truth. I also read this chapter, in its rawest form, for you to witness the transformation of my pain into a powerful story. ...
May 12, 2022•42 min•Season 2Ep. 35
In today’s episode, I bring in Miriam Elyse, founder of Pleasure As Medicine, a licensed acupuncturist, and a certified Tantra yoga practitioner. In this episode, Miriam shares her wisdom on the truth of sexual energy, the stigmas around the concept of pleasure, and how accepting the sexual part of us is also activating our vitality. Sexuality is not just about sex…it’s about unapologetically moving in a way we feel alive, this means creativity, this means self-expression, this means living your...
Apr 26, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Season 2Ep. 34
Amanda Castilone is a Self Love & Embodiment Coach who guides women into deeper embodiment so that their relationships explode with so much love and joy - including and especially their relationship with themselves. In this episode, she shares her self-love journey with us by building a relationship with pain in order to open ourselves deeper to the limitless source of love. Amanda's Bio: Amanda is passionate about helping people get out of their minds and into their bodies so that they can ...
Apr 12, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Season 2Ep. 33
Sarah Chung is a multifaceted healer. She is a health & wellness coach, certified meditation teacher, nurse, herbalist, and reiki master. She shares her healing journey of navigating childhood trauma through writing letters, her experience as a travel nurse, and how she uses the powerful tool of Reiki to provide energetic balance to her clients as well as herself. As a coach, she helps women find community and connection so that they can develop their self-awareness and feel fully self-expre...
Mar 29, 2022•57 min•Season 2Ep. 32
In this first solo episode of season 2, I share my story of why I write and how writing helped me reclaim my voice and my power. I dive into the healing process of writing to make a deeper meaning of our past and how being witnessed by our truth-telling can create change in the world. I also do a Q & A from questions asked on Instagram at the end of this episode and share details about what clients experience working with me as their writing coach as well as my personal memoir writing journe...
Mar 15, 2022•21 min•Season 2Ep. 31
Amanda Vazquez, a psychospiritual coach, and soon-to-be licensed therapist takes us on her journey of healing ancestral trauma, building a relationship with the earth, and the wisdom she learned from sitting in plant ceremonies. She shares her deep insight into what we, as humans, can learn from mother earth, and how the current rise of the divine feminine will restore the balance of power and faith in humanity. This is a powerful episode for all of us to have hope for a more compassionate world...
Mar 01, 2022•1 hr 18 min•Season 2Ep. 30
In this episode, Audrey shares her journey to becoming a PMS coach and educates us on the women's menstrual cycle and how to regulate our body, balance our hormones, navigate PMS/PMDD, and the negative side effects of birth control women aren't educated about. This is an empowering episode for all women. If you enjoy this episode, join our women's somatic wellness workshop, Make Your Menstrual Cycle Your Superpower on 2/22/22 at 7 pm ET We are combining forces PMS coaching X somatic writing to h...
Feb 15, 2022•44 min•Season 2Ep. 29
Emily Smith is a go-to spiritual career coach and author of Wholeness Within . A memoir about her journey from fear and victimhood to rapturous self-acceptance. In this episode, Emily shares her journey towards spirituality and creating an embodied connection with her mind, body, and soul. This path led her to heal her perception of the role she played in her family and allowed her to find wholeness within. Emily also reads an excerpt of her book at the end of the episode. About Emily Smith Emil...
Feb 01, 2022•1 hr 9 min•Season 2Ep. 28
In this episode, I interview mental health advocate, Emily Elizabeth. She takes us through her post-breakup growth journey where she rebuilds a relationship with herself, starts her sobriety journey, learns to listen to her intuition, and navigates depression, anxiety, and ADHD. Her healing journey lead her to create The Wondering Mind Podcast to spread awareness and education about mental health. About Emily: Emily Elizabeth founded The Wondering Mind Podcast in February of 2020 after going thr...
Dec 28, 2021•52 min•Season 2Ep. 26
In this week's episode, Sopheak Neak, host of JorJek Podcast, shares his journey of combatting burnout in the workplace, an experience many of us know too well. He dives deep into making the big decision to take a leave of absence from work to put his mental health first and seek a healthier way to balance work and life...this put him on a path to being a community leader empowering underrepresented communities to take up space. Sopheak's Bio: Born in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Sopheak is a first-gen...
Dec 14, 2021•57 min•Season 2Ep. 24
Liana is a confidence, health, and life coach. She works with women to uncover their roadblocks, keeping them from becoming the confident version already inside of them. In this episode, she shares her story of rebuilding a relationship with her body, quitting her fashion job at Tommy Hilfiger, and discovering her purpose of helping women embody confidence inside and out. Liana is also one of my closest friends who I speak about in season 1 of this podcast. She was one of the first to know about...
Nov 30, 2021•51 min•Season 2Ep. 24
Trigger Warning: Childhood Sexual Abuse, Addiction, Trauma In the first episode of season 2, I interview Sophia Ou, host of Diaspeiro Podcast, 2nd generation Khmer-Chinese American, and a trauma therapist in training. She shares her story of healing from childhood sexual abuse, breaking harmful generational patterns, and reclaiming the power of her voice. She now dedicates her life to helping others through their healing journey and the path to resiliency. If this episode was at all distressing ...
Nov 16, 2021•59 min•Season 2Ep. 23
Maryann Samreth is a trauma writing coach and founder of once anonymous Instagram account, Sincerely Miss Mary. In this season she invites healers, coaches, therapists, and writers in the mental health and thought leadership space to share their stories of overcoming adversity. By exchanging our truths, we pave the way for others to feel safe experiencing theirs. When we share our stories filled with meaning and inner wisdom, we create a more compassionate world. Podcast: http://www.sincerelymis...
Nov 10, 2021•2 min0
Trigger Warning: Sexual Assault and Abusive Relationship In this episode, a woman reached out to me who had formerly close relationships with my abusive ex and the man that sexually assaulted me. This woman was my ex's ex-girlfriend. In 3 powerful words, she said, "I believe you" and became the ally I never knew I needed. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Apply to Transform Your Trauma Writing Program: https://for...
Jun 17, 2021•18 min•Season 1Ep. 22
Episode Trigger warning: Depression, mental illness, suicide In this episode, I talk about the curse of generational trauma and how I was conditioned to suppress my emotion because of my parents' unprocessed trauma. It is important to remember if we’re a child of immigrants, and our parents had a tumultuous upbringing, they were parenting from a place of unprocessed pain. They were parenting from trauma and without the mental health resources to help them adjust back to normalcy. Getting to a pl...
Jun 11, 2021•10 min•Season 1Ep. 21
For so long, I shamed my Cambodian heritage to assimilate to American white culture. But after my tumultuous breakup that ignited my healing journey, I began to unravel my family's history and learn about the story of their escape from the Khmer Rouge regime. In January of 2020, pre-pandemic, I traveled to Cambodia with my family and uncovered the untold stories of my family's experience living in the Killing Fields. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------...
Jun 04, 2021•19 min•Season 1Ep. 20
In an impulsive decision, I decided to go on a solo trip to Paris in the fall of 2019. This led me to a journey toward self-love and self-acceptance through reconnecting with my cousin and an old friend from the time I lived in Florence. My solo trip was a journey towards returning to myself and loving the person I was becoming. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mental Health Resources https://www.sincerelymissmar...
May 24, 2021•15 min•Season 1Ep. 19
In this episode, I talk about one of my favorite self-love/self-discovery/semi-solo trips to the Hamptons. This was part of my journey of deepening a relationship with myself, dating myself, falling in love with myself, and doing things for the first time alone like take a private surfing lesson and hitchhiking in the Hamptons. In moments of solitude, we discover who we are. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Menta...
May 17, 2021•13 min•Season 1Ep. 18
Trigger Warning: Stalking and psychological abuse The title says it all in this episode. I ran into my ex at my first half-marathon race in the fall of 2019, believing it was a coincidence when eventually I found out it wasn't. Few people believed me that he stalked me, but eventually, I was validated by Allie Davis, an Ecofeminist Therapist with a Ph.D. in developmental trauma who has helped many women heal from psychological and physical violence. ----------------------------------------------...
May 07, 2021•14 min•Season 1Ep. 17
In this episode, I talk about how writing my vulnerable stories lead me to become the person I am today, an unapologetic badass. Writing was the vehicle towards my healing journey that intertwined my once disconnected mind, body, and spirit. I had never been a writer prior to creating Sincerely Miss Mary in 2018. It was a tool of survival that allowed me to become unstuck from the traumatic experiences I was living and rescue myself. This episode is my love letter to the writing process and how ...
Apr 30, 2021•8 min•Season 1Ep. 16
Today's episode is your guide to navigate through the pain of being cheated on. I share my first trauma story I published about this topic and how I was able to heal through this heartbreaking betrayal within the trauma writing process. I discuss the trauma writing process of writing about this betrayal. The 3 things to remember if you were cheated on How to have compassion for your ex's partner if they moved on before you -------------------------------------------------------------------------...
Apr 23, 2021•16 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Qian Julie shares her story of being an undocumented child in New York City, her experience working her way up the corporate litigator ladder as an Asian American woman, and how a mentor encouraged her to write her book. This is an inspiring and powerful episode. About Qian Julie: Qian Julie Wang is a graduate of Yale Law School and Swarthmore College. Formerly a corporate litigator, she is now managing partner of a law firm dedicated to advocating for education and discrimination rights. Her fi...
Apr 15, 2021•50 min•Season 1Ep. 14
In this episode, I share a story from a current chapter of my life. This is my love story of attracting a love that feels like home. Before I share my story, I discuss the fear of worthiness, a belief I carried with me throughout my toxic relationship and even before. To attract a healthy love is to dismantle the belief that we are unworthy of healthy love. The process of healing after heartbreak is the process of reclaiming the narrative of being worthy of all things good in life. We are worthy...
Apr 02, 2021•14 min•Season 1Ep. 12
