We Need To Talk - Real Talk Unfiltered

We Need To Talk - Real Talk Unfiltered

Real Talk: Unfiltered What does “resilience” really mean? For years, I thought it meant “pushing through.” Then a traumatic brain injury (TBI) shattered my old self and taught me that true strength is found in grace, not grit. This is my story of: Losing my voice literally: I called Portobello ("mushrooms-goblin-pasta”). Almost missing my son’s birthday… and the hug that saved me. Rebelling against doctors who said I’d “never recover past 70%.” Flying to India broken and finding peace in breath-work, yoga, and silence. Learning what healing really means

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August 7, 2025 52 mins

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Real Talk Unfiltered


00:00 - Introduction: The Connected Crisis

We need to talk about pain, focus, and breath, and how discovering they're the same problem with the same solution changed everything


01:07 - The Questions That Changed My Perspective

How do I handle pain with breath work. How do I keep focus with sensory overload? These seemed like different problems I was wrong


02:34 - What Is Going On In...

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We Need To Talk - My Story: When My Brain Said STOP

Before my TBI, hustling until 10 PM was normal. I believed rest was earned — not needed.

Then my brain collapsed.

This is the truth about Traumatic Brain Injury fatigue: why it’s not exhaustion, why ‘pushing through’ destroys me, and how my son’s recognition of my neurological crash (when others saw attitude) became proof I needed radical change.

Rest isn’t weakness, it’s survival.&qu...

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"In this episode, I share the turning point in my TBI recovery when I realized that staying silent could actually protect my peace more than explaining ever could. I'll walk you through how brain injury changed my emotional responses, why my limbic system was stuck in overdrive, and how I learned to use 'down-regulation' as survival medicine.

From lightning fast reactions to intentional silence, from needing constant validation to f...

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Grief, Love, and their Shattering Lessons…


I lost my father to cancer.

Then my mother, far too soon.

Then I lose the love I thought would last forever.

This isn’t just a story about loss, it’s about what happens when grief rewires your soul. How do you survive when the people who you loved so much are gone? When do you need to let go of the one who promised to always stay.

When even your brain betrays you, forgetting words but never ...

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Real Talk Unfiltered - I will be answering your questions soon.


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00:00 - My open invitation to ask me anything. 


02:07 - Sharing the first 5 questions with you.


03:35 - If one of the 5 question was your question, know I see you & I’ll do my best to answer it from my perspective.


Join the WE NEED TO TALK confersation:


#Questions about: #Trauma #Heartbreak #Recovery #Pain #Identity

Grateful for all y...

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WE NEED TO TALK:

Ten years of Pain, India and Learning to Breathe AgainI survived a car accident that deleted my memory and left me with 24/7 chronic pain.


For a decade, I’ve woken up screaming, slept in battles, and moved like every step was war. This isn’t inspiration porn.

This is my raw truth:

🔥 THE PAIN : It lives in my neck, shoulder, back. If I stop moving, it spreads like cancer. I do yoga, gym, running to survive, not ...

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Multiple Storms in My Brain: How my TBI Taught Me to Redefine "ME" Again


Part one: THE SPIRAL - How my mind betrayed me

Part two: THE STORM - Almost five years ago, I danced naked in a thunderstorm. Not metaphorically—literally.

Part three: THE SHATTERING: Sound and other Triggers. How "Traumatic Brain Injury" looks for all the outsiders looking at you.

A ghost injury: No scars. No casts. No visible wounds.

An in...

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They told me I would never be the same again.


And in some ways… they were right.
But what they didn’t see coming,
it that I would build something new from the ruins.


Not the same.
So much Stronger.


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00:00 - The most important thing I will ever say: Brain Injuries are invisible, people don’t see the battles gaining in in my head.


02:46 - Need to take a breath, hard to talk about my pain and damag...

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What does “resilience” really mean? For years, I thought it meant “pushing through.” Then a traumatic brain injury (TBI) shattered my old self—and taught me that true strength is found in grace, not grit.This is my story of:

  • Losing my voice literally: I called Portobello ("mushrooms-goblin-pasta”).
  • Almost missing my son’s birthday… and the hug that saved me.
  • Rebelling against doctors who said I’d “never recover past 70%.”
  • Flyi...
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