Healing from Abuse! Through the Darkness Emerges Beautiful Light! - Laurette Smith

Born to be Brave! with Colleen Low

Colleen interviews Laurette Smith, Emotional/Binge Eating Coach, Energy Healing/Empowerment Specialist, and Licensed Neurolinguistics practitioner. She is the founder of Emotional Freedom: Women Connecting, Rising & Healing Stories Together, a private Facebook group. For over 15 years, Laurette has been working with women to help them:

- Stop judging and blaming themselves

- Feel happy again

- Find their spark

- Stop self-sabotage

- Stop worrying what others think of them

- And most significant, helping them rediscover their true selves so they can feel FREE and EMPOWERED to live happily!

Join us as Laurette shares her compelling story of courage and taking brave action.

Contact:

Laurette Smith

LauretteSmith.com

• Instagram - @LauretteFaithSmith
• Facebook – Laurette Smith

Colleen Low

[e-mail]

• Instagram - @ColleenLow_
• Facebook - Colleen Barker Low

Chapters

1. Title 00:00
2. Introduction 00:23
3. How we met 01:15
4. Laurette’s shared story 02:24
5. Raped as a child 3:30
6. After leaving sexual abuser’s room 4:00
7. Mother didn’t know 5:30
8. Heavy way to start 7:15
9. Background sets the stage 7:25
10. Our stories connect us to humanity 8:20
11. My Goal for the podcast 08:50
12. Steps in your healing process? 9:25
13. I was bulimic with suicidal thoughts 10:14
14. Extreme PTSD 10:40
15. I knew I had to rescue myself 11:08
16. I asked myself, what do you feel? 11:26
17. Beautiful light awaits us in the darkness 13:20
18. Embarked on a journey of rediscovery 13:55
19. I became intoxicated with my lifeforce 14:35
20. Let’s talk about eating disorders 15:05
21. I walked by Ben &Jerry’s Ice Cream 16:05
22. My program: Food Peace 18:10
23. I messed my metabolism up 19:30
24. Survival skills are a gift 19:40
25. Help you heal your body 20:05
26. Create activities in your life to replace food 20:58
27. 35 years to freedom 23:27
28. It does free you 23:55
29. Self-sabotage 24:30
30. The brain wants to keep us safe and make sense of things 24:55
31. Why does the brain want to keep you safe? 25:20
32. Removing shame from the behavior 27:57
33. Making sense of the world through our lens 28:20
34. Most childhood victims blame themselves 29:00
35. I decided to speak to blame 29:40
36. What is the difference between limiting beliefs and paradigms? 34:09
37. Need to learn to be curious and to play 40:20
38. Who doesn’t want to have fun? 46:34
39. Singing in the rain 48:30
40. Emotions are simply energy 49:12
41. A conversation with anger 49:58
42. How important is asking yourself questions? 51:50
43. Four areas of self-care 56:52
44. Tell me about intuition and energy 58:20
45. Amazing energy experience 1:03:38
46. Let’s talk about tethering 1:05:22
47. I think you mean anchoring 1:06:45
48. What should I ask you that I haven’t? 1:09:50
49. Ask me about my third child 1:10:10
50. I know you have emotions about this 1:13:50
51. Changing pronouns 1:14:19
52. Rejecting birth name and choosing a new name 1:14:45
53. Discovering a totally new person 1:14:55
54. Judgment is not helpful 1:15:47
55. Honor people for who they are 1:16:00
56. My calling is to help people in pain 1:17:27
57. My interview with Dennis Schleicher 1:18:15
58. God wants us to love everyone 1:19:38
59. If you’re a parent have difficulty processing a change 1:21:45
60. You can’t impact someone without a relationship 1:22:30
61. Simple process to accept and embrace the judgement 1:24:05
62. Thank you for trying to protect me, now I’m going to switch to something more helpful 1:24:15
63. Fall in love with yourself 1:25:17
64. Last words 1:29:40
65. When Love Speaks 1:33:30