Gabriella Rebranded | Healing After Trauma, Spiritual Growth, Brain Injury Recovery & Dark Humor

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Whether it’s sexual trauma, like assault, abuse, violation, vaginismus or nonsexual trauma like a brutal accident, sex after trauma can lead to aversion, hypersexuality, and unsafe decisions. Do you need exposure therapy? Is that a bad idea? How do you feel safe in your body again?

In this episode, I hear from Nadège, CEO and creator of Pleasure Science. Nadège is a sex scholar, bestselling author, teac...

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A quick hack to align with positivity, manifestation, and drop into a state of attraction is to practice gratitude.  There is always something to be grateful for, even if it doesn’t look like it at first glance.

Happy Thanksgiving!! We’re celebrating the week by reminding ourselves what this holiday is about. Gratitude is a lot more hype than ya’ll realize. It’s a shortcut to feeling your way back to po...

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Divulging into my battle with CPTSD and healing my trauma with the help of neuropsychology. A healthy positive mindset that comes allowing yourself to grieve and celebrating the good, but acknowledging the bad.

Refusing to allow yourself grief and denying your loss creates a feux mask of toxic positivity. Instead of moving on, you are pushing down your emotions - which is a big no no because the only wa...

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Fellow automobile-pedestrian accident survivor, actor Kathryn Prescott,  shares the story of her own recovery from being hit by a truck. Together, we chat about our common similarities in PTSD and CPTSD, invisible disability, years of surgeries, the complexity of a patient-caregiver relationship, and life after long-term rehabilitation.

Kathryn (Kat) Prescott, a UK actress known for the titular role of ...

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Trust your intuition, ignore your inner critic - but how? My ICF certified life coach, a fan favorite repeat guest, Dominique Gold helps me break down how to choose yourself, choose love, and ignore anxiety-inducing attack thoughts.

We all need to get better about trusting our intuition, sis is never wrong, but it’s hella hard to trust her when we’ve been conditioned our whole lives by society to not tr...

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This episode is dedicated to brain injury survivors and caregivers of. Today I sit down with my physiatrist, Dr. Seth Herman. Dr. Herman has been with me from week one of the coma until now and for the forseeable future.  My recovery has been entirely guided by Dr. Herman and I and my brain would not be where we are today if it wasn’t for him.

As the Medical Director of Traumatic Brain Injury at Califor...

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Me? Patient? Babe, I want things done yesterday. I ride on impulsivity. Based on my birth chart - it's a birth right...but one that needs some mastering. Healing has required me to be patient or try to learn to be patient, but I almost want it to be done? I'm like 'Ok, I've been patient long enough, let's get going!!!' Unfortunately - that's not how healing works.

Heal...

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Ever had a heart-to-heart with the Universe? I did! - On shrooms, of course. In this episode, I share what was dragged out of me  from somewhere deep inside—truths about who I am, how I love, and why we’re all here (spoiler: the job description for being human is very simple and easy - but we overthink and make it harder  different than you think). We’ll talk trust, friendships, the cosmic inside joke ...

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Do you believe in giggling? Do you believe in hehe-ing? Do you believe in haha-ing? And do you believe that it can heal you?! I preach it, I scream it, I yell it - and so does Dean Lin, cohost of the Definitely Delusional podcast. 

I mandate that laughter saved me and I wouldn't be where I am today - as recovered, healed, happy, and back to life I am today, if it hadn't been for my ability to ...

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Another episode about hair?! Guys, the curly hair community NEEDS this one, I need this one. The haters will say trauma from curly hair is a stretch - by haters I mean people without curly hair! Anyone with curly hair knows it's a fucking struggle, a beautiful struggle, but still a struggle. 

Meet my hair stylist, Valerie or Val of ValCutColor. Val is a curl specialist and the first specialist I fo...

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I met Taylor Swift because I was hit by a car. This is that story. And this story reflects the entire moral/thesis of this podcast: Using what you have to work with the Universe, rather than focussing on what you don't have. I was able to take said coma and said 16 surgeries and said two month hospital & rehab stay and said brain injury and said Uh Oh experience and use it as a way to canoodle...

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Being a party girl can make you a good person! My friend, Emily, cohost of the 'Definitely Delusional' podcast, is here to tell you allllll about that. She wanted to restore the rep of untz untz and tell about how music festivals, the dance floor, and how what most identify as taboo debauchery woke her up to the Universe and connects her to her chakras. At it's core, festivals, partying,...

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My written plans for my funeral and wake extravaganzas are as follows. It is very important to write down your funeral plans. Make your final farewell specific to your personal brand. It is more important that we all get more comfortable talking about our own deaths because yeah...that's gonna happen. 

Win most, lose some

You'll discover:
Why writing her own funeral/wake became a radical ac...

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When I left the hospital, I couldn’t walk more than 10 feet. Prior to that, I spent over a decade in a toxic relationship with food & my body defined by alternating between overeating and under eating and over exercising and under exercising. Now, I’m in the best shape of my life and my kink is making boys insecure at the gym. 

Hannah Leboff was a key part of that journey. An instructor at my gym, w...

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First time I cried after my accident for a legit reason that wasn't espresso martinis? When all my hair fell out of my head! A combination of significant bodily trauma and being exposed to exorbitant amounts of anesthesia caused my seemingly endless amounts of thick curly hair to abandon me during the time I needed it most. 

Unfortunately...that happens to a lot of people along complicated health j...

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Grab your tea, light that sage (or palo santo if you're feeling fancy), and buckle up—because this episode is a cosmic ride!

This week, I’m joined by the radiant and revolutionary Ryan Bacchas, a man whose journey reads like a spiritual superhero origin story. Once navigating life without a roof over his head as a teen, Ryan became a government lobbyist by nineteen—yes, NINETEEN—playing a key role ...

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Making peace, surrendering,  accepting that death is inevitable and not fearing it - a mindset 99% of the world can only dream of reaching, but Bill Hartman did, in fact, inspirationally reach. Today I sit down with my new friend, Annie Hartman, to talk about all she learned about life, faith, trust, empathy, & strength from watching her dad, Bill, battle brain cancer.  

We discuss the harsh realiti...

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9 metal bones? Ya, fitness gonna be a tad difficult, but it's a tons of tads necessary. Since my accident, I've made fitness a priority to rebuild and maintain both my mental and physical strength. Buuutttt with a once shattered body, there is definitely more I need to pay attention to than the average perason. 

Meet Dr. Jackson Bates, lead clinician at Myodetox West Hollywood. Jackson is the ...

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I have had four sets of boobs in my lifetime. This tetralogy has taught me a thing or two about life, growth, self-forgiveness, redemption, shame, love, persistence, patience, healing - my tits have taught me a lot about a lot of important things. Life lessons can come from yitties? Yes, yes they can. Listen if you would like to learn, listen if you're curious, or  listen because ya just need to k...