Healing is a deeply personal and ongoing journey that takes time, and this process often requires us to be transparent and honest with our truths. It can be painful to face and address the emotions and feelings we've suppressed or ignored for so long, because—it hurts to heal. In this episode, Dr. Niesha delves into the topic of trauma, explaining what it looks like and why it hurts. She explores the reasons why healing hurts and can be painful and offers helpful tools and strategies for navigating the process. Tune in to this episode for encouragement to confront your difficult truths and take the next step in your healing journey. Let it inspire you with the strength and courage to heal and move towards wholeness! You Got This!

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Have you ever felt like you’ve settled for less or compromised your own feelings and values for the sake of someone else? Or maybe you’ve lowered your standards just to make someone else happy or feel valued? Have you ever stayed in a relationship or friendship that, despite causing you more pain than happiness, you continued to endure? Or perhaps you’ve stuck with a job, dealing with turmoil, even though you knew you needed to take a risk and move on? Maybe you’ve given up on a dream or goal because you didn’t feel capable of achieving it. Have you ever compromised your beliefs or faith in the process? If so then this episode is for you.

It’s natural to sometimes prioritize other people's needs, wants, or expectations over your own, and to feel conflicted when trying to maintain relationships, jobs, or dreams that may cause more harm than good. The desire to be accepted, loved, or valued can often lead to sacrificing parts of ourselves.

Letting go of something or someone, especially when there's emotional investment or history, can be really hard. Compromising your faith or core beliefs is also difficult, as those are central to who we are. Yet, when we focus too much on pleasing others or trying to meet expectations, we risk losing sight of what truly matters to us, and that’s when inner conflict arises.

Dr. Niesha talks in the this episode about compromise and how it can be a thief and rob you and steal your joy, happiness, peace, and can sometimes cause you emotional damage that leads to anxiety, depresson, isolation, feel disconnected, and in a place of stuck! Tune in as Dr. Niesha expounds more and also shares her personal experience with compromise and how she escaped the crip of guilt and chose to put herself first.

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Overcoming sexual abuse and the challenges that come with sharing such a personal and painful story is an incredibly courageous act. Maxine Henry's journey of healing and rising above her trauma is truly remarkable. By using her voice to share her testimony, she not only honors her own resilience but also offers strength and encouragement to others who may be facing similar struggles. Her diverse accomplishments—both professionally and spiritually—speak to the power of transformation and growth after trauma.

This kind of conversation is important, as it highlights the power of storytelling in healing and emphasizes that one's past does not define their future.

Tune in as Dr. Niesha and Maxine engages in this conversation of how writing her book was the catalyst for her to recently walk through and process her trauma journey through God, faith, and hope.

You can purchase Maxine Henry's book You Shall Overcome, wherever books are sold. As well as you can visit her on her webiste www.youshallovercome.com

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We are about to wrap up 2024 and embrace 2025. And during this time of year we are often are thinking about the past year and reflecting on things that has happened throughout the year. Some celebrations, some wins, and also some losses and disappointments, or tragedies that have taken place, and maybe just some life transitions that didn’t feel good. With all of the things that have happened some things may be unresolved and we are not able to leave in 2024 and just forget about it. However, they have a lasting emotional effect on us and we still have to deal with the residue of those things and experiences until they are resolved or until we are healed. Life presents situations to us that are not easy to overcome and it may not be something that we can just get over and thinkg we are good. However sometimes there is a process that we have to go through to be in a better space. During this episdoe Dr. Niesha shares with us how to embrace those things that we have to endure the process to get through. She also shares her truths of how there are things she realizes that she has to process and get through. Dr. Niesha leaves us with some strategies on how to get through the process and to the other end of the situation or experience and still have hope, find joy, and healing. Don't be afraid to go through the process as it will be worth it in the end.

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The Holiday season is here, and although many of our stories during this season are joyous and a happy time for us. There are also some of us whose stories are very different during this season. As this is a happy time for some, it is also a sad and difficult time for others. Many people are struggling with the loss of loved ones not being present for the holidays, loss of relationships, loneliness, financial stress of shopping and giving gifts, lack of social and family connections, isolation, and also many experience Seasonal Affective Disorder during this time. In this episode Dr. Niesha shares tools on how we can get through this holiday season whether our story is excitement and happiness or whether we struggle during this time. Tune in as Dr. Niesha speaks to both stories and helps us to find peace and joy in whatever our story may be.

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Have you ever experienced a situation that almost took you out! I mean literally your life could have been gone...but God! You survived it and are surviving it and living to tell your story. Well in this episode Dr. Niesha shares her space with Sheryl Brown, MPA, LMFT, CCDIS who is walking, talking, breathing, living miracle with a story of faith and survival! Sheryl has lived through a serious illness and the divorce of her parents during the process of her illness and while in college. However has survived it all and is living a thriving life. Sheryl is an author, a therapist, a podcaster a facilitator of Authentic Talk Podcast, a licensed minister, the Vice President of Role Model Professional Development , and the owner of her own publishing company. She is doing amazing things in her community and in the world and is unstoppable.

Yall sit back and dive in as Dr. Niesha and Sheryl engages in this conversation of survival, faith, hope, and healing. Life be lifeing yall! However, you can get through it and you can survive it, you just have to have faith and hope and trust God.

You can follow Sheryl Brown on IG at https://www.instagram.com/sheryl_masterpiecewomen/reel/DA8jWYoJ4xs/and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/sheryl.brown.75436 DM her and reach out to her for speaking engagements and training.

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Hope is cherishing a desire with anticipation. It is having confidence in something that you want to happen or come true. Have you ever felt as if your hope was failing and you have been on the struggle bus with holding on to the hope that you have. If you see any light of hope, don't lose focus on that and keep holding on to that glimpse of light that you have. In this episode Dr. Niesha shares this space with Jaubrae Dixon, the Founder of C.H.A.N.G.E.S a nonprofit organization that provides mentorship to youth and incarcerated men. As you listen you will here his transparent truth of how hope was the very thing that he held on to after being incarcerated at 17yrs old and serving a 9 year prison sentence and then being released to now walking in the transformation of his life change! Your story may not be his, however hope applies to all of our lives. Hold on to the light of hope! It's going to happen for you.

You can follow Jaubrae Dixon on IG at https://www.instagram.com/tha_prince_2/ and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100079316045506

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In this episode Dr. Niesha talks about life transitions and moving forward to what is next in your life. She shares a quote.

“ In your journey, there will be “in between times” of transition. You may feel lost, confused, angry, unseen or empty. Don’t confuse these times of transition as a forever state of being or being broken. You are breaking away from what was creating space to welcome what will be” Author Unknown.

Sometimes we don’t know what the next chapter is and we don’t know how to take the next step. However Dr. Niesha encourages you to keep living and not give up hope even amidst the confusion, feeling lost, feeling scared, feeling unseen, feeling empty, being broken, and feeling unfulfilled. Don’t take a seat in self-pity and put on the coat of the victim mentality. Instead tell yourself that transitions happen in life and are normal. Moving from one place that is familiar to you to another place that is new territory and unfamiliar to you is OKAY! One thing to remember is YOU GOT THIS!