Do you feel like your grief needs to be validated in order to mourn? Do you judge your loss as worthy before you allow yourself to feel it? Have you considered other manifestations of grief aside from death (aka ambiguous loss), one of the most common being divorce?

Join Amanda and her very affable, fun guest, Rachel Garcia as they discuss the importance of giving yourself permission to grieve, focusing on the grief of divorce and how it can be a catalyst for deep healing, one which prompted Rachel to start her podcast, The Grief Informed Podcast.

The ladies talk about what grief looks like after divorce but that's not all. They also dive into:

• Acknowledging, accepting, and embracing the fact that you are affected by certain losses, big and small
• What it means to be "grief informed"
• How to attune to your needs when you feel triggered by past trauma and loss
• Coming back into "contact" with your higher self and heart when you feel yourself dissociating from your grief
• How to create a nonjudgmental and compassionate space within in order to feel safe enough to grieve
• You cannot receive the support you need if you aren't willing to be vulnerable, and much more.

About Rachel

A single working mom with four teenagers in Birmingham, AL, Rachel worked as a Doula and Childbirth Educator for 10 years and dabbled in life coaching. She found her niche for this season of life through having long form conversations about the ways we are each affected by grief and the ways in which we can better show up for ourselves and for others in that sacred practice. Rachel lost both of her parents at a young age, faced early childhood trauma, and understood grief through bereavement. But it was divorce that taught her another level of grief she wasn't quite prepared for! It was this grief that inspired her to start and host her podcast, The Grief Informed Podcast.

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What's your story? Have you told it to anyone, and have you considered the impact it has on those who hear it?

Join Amanda and her guest, Jose Lugo, author, speaker, and founder of We Are All One Story as he shares his story of rising from the depths of childhood physical and emotional abuse, gang violence, jail, addiction and depression into recovery, redemption, and traveling the world to give voice to other brave storytellers: people who bare their souls with the intention of finding healing through connection.

Jose shares his deepest pain and his greatest healing in this riveting and inspiring episode and does so with incredible honesty, candidness, and vulnerability. Men, listen up...this one is for you!

Other topics they discuss include:

• The resiliency of the human spirit
• The commonalities Jose has found among every story he has heard
• Jose's book, Love, Faith, & Violence: A True Song and Story, a testament to the power of miracles
• How emotional pain can hurt more and do more damage than physical pain
• Jose's powerful spiritual awakening and reckoning after battling depression and addiction
• Normalizing the conversation about depression and other mental illness among men
• The power of shared story to lift people out of despair and into hope
• No matter how far down you go, your dreams are always waiting for you!

About Jose

Jose Lugo is the author of Love, Faith, & Violence: A True Song and Story, speaker, and founder of We Are All One Story, a heart-centered organization created to positively impact the world by focusing on human connection and well-being through the art of storytelling. Jose has dedicated his life to sharing his experiences and helping others own their life stories to live a better life.

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Has your family, society, or your own self put you in a box and created an identity that suddenly feels inauthentic? Are you awakening to a reality that your conditioning has defined who you are instead of you defining who you are?

Join Amanda and her guest Betsy Pepine, author of "Breaking Boxes: Dismantling the Metaphorical Boxes that Bind Us" for a deeper look into how people and the world around us have the power to shape us into who they think we should be with tactics like judgment and expectation. Break through your own box as you listen to this enlightening and empowering conversation between two women who have witnessed and broken down their own boxes on their journey toward true authenticity.

A few boxes and topics they explore include:

• The "Good Mom" box and how striving to appear like a good mom is actually doing a disservice to your child
• The "Good Daughter" box and the pressure parents place on their children to be what they want them to be instead of honoring and allowing them to be who they are
• The "Single Mom" box and the judgment that comes with being older and single
• Reasons why we stay in these boxes and how to break free from them
• Somatic therapies like EMDR, bioenergetics, and breathwork as a pathway to healing trauma
• Betsy's favorite word, "next," and how she uses that word to dismiss the notion of failure and keep moving forward when things don't go as planned

Pre-order Betsy's book "Breaking Boxes" here

About Betsy

Betsy Pepine is a serial entrepreneur in real estate. Her brokerage, Pepine Realty, has been named as an Inc. 5000 Fasting Growing Private Company in the USA multiple times and has earned spots on the Top 50 Florida Companies to Watch and Florida Trend Best Companies to Work For lists. The Wall Street Journal has consistently recognized Betsy’s real estate team as one of the top-producing real estate companies in the United States. Betsy also owns a title company, real estate school, and property management brokerage. She is endorsed by her mentor, real estate mogul, and Shark Tank shark Barbara Corcoran, as well as leading media personalities Dave Ramsey and Glenn Beck. Passionate about helping at-risk families with children, Betsy founded Pepine Gives, a non-profit foundation that helps families facing housing insecurity.

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