May 28, 2025 • 23 mins
If you’ve ever questioned whether your story is worth sharing — or if you're meant to do more with your healing — this one’s for you
In this powerful solo episode, I respond to a question that stopped me in my tracks: Why didn’t you just heal in silence?
I open up about my life-threatening car accident, the emotional and physical recovery that followed, and the deeper reason I chose to share my healing journey publicly — not just for myself, but for the collective.
I explore the truth about healing, why community and storytelling are essential parts of recovery, and how our greatest challenges are often initiations into our life’s purpose. Whether you’re navigating something painful or feeling called to share your story, this episode will remind you that your experience matters — and your voice could be the light someone else is searching for.
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01:27 Turning Pain into Purpose
02:38 The Power of Community in Healing
04:36 Inspiration from Others' Stories
09:17 The Importance of Sharing Your Story
16:38 Harnessing the Power of the Brain
22:08 Final Thoughts and Encouragement
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(00:04):
Hey friend, welcome to the Feminine Initiate podcast, a
space for online coaches, creatives, and visionaries ready
to do the thing while reclaimingtheir feminine power,
manifesting their desires, and creating the impact they know
they're here to make. Let's get into it.
Hello friend, welcome back to the podcast.
I hope you're having an incredible day.
So far. There's only a couple weeks left
(00:27):
for the Women in Podcasters Award, and if you have not yet
voted, I would so appreciate your support.
I have been nominated for the Women Podcasters Award in the
Personal Development category for this year, and the voting
period is ending on May 31st, sojust a couple days away.
(00:49):
If you haven't yet voted, I've included the link in the show
notes of this episode. Have to go to
womenpodcasters.com and select all of the podcasts that you
want to vote for in each category.
There are there's about a dozen categories available where you
can pick other amazing podcasts in there.
(01:11):
And then of course, I would really appreciate it if you
would select Feminine Initiate Jessica W for the personal
development category. This would help so much.
Winners are going to be announced mid June and I'm
really so excited for that. Earlier this week I was speaking
to a friend and she asked me a really interesting question that
(01:35):
I wanted to share with you and really unpack it more.
So we were talking about my lifethreatening car accident and the
experience leading up to it and then after it and how I was able
to recover and defy all of the limitations that were placed
upon me. And her question was why did you
(01:56):
want to turn that experience andall of that pain into a
profession? Why didn't you just heal in
silence and leave it at that? And I thought, ohk, I was never
asked this question before. This is such a good question and
so I wanted to come and share itwith you and really unpack my
thoughts about it and why. Honestly believe that no matter
(02:19):
what challenge we face, because we all have challenges that we
face in our life, when we learn from it, we overcome it, we heal
from it. It is almost like we have an
unspoken duty to then turn around and help the next person
in line. So first of all, as great as the
(02:40):
question was, and I and I know exactly what she meant by it,
but if I were to take it word for word, why didn't you heal in
silence? I really believe there is no
such thing as healing in silencebecause to truly heal something
it requires community. It requires being able to share
(03:01):
our experience to let it out. If everything is energy, we need
to let that energy go somehow and for us to know how to do
that on our own. I mean, as intelligent as the
body is self-serving and really for self preservation, the body
is we require community, we require another to be able to
(03:25):
guide us through that journey, whether that be a professional
that you're working with, a therapist, a support community,
also other peers who have experienced the same thing as
you experienced. I mean, This is why I support
groups are so powerful and there's so many of them.
And think about it, just in having a support group, you can
(03:49):
walk into the support group and you can be the newest member,
the one who is. The experience is so raw and
you're taking it in and you're learning from some of the senior
participants, I'll say, for lackof better words.
And eventually after a few months that you've been in this
support circle, a new member is going to come.
(04:11):
And that's putting you in such abeautiful position to be able to
help this new member who is exactly where you were maybe a
month or two prior to that moment.
And so already, not even by a real deep desire to want to
share, we are already in a position to share what we have
(04:35):
experienced. I had spent a month and 1/2 in
the hospital after my accident. And probably about a month of
being in the hospital, I was asked by one of the nurses there
if I can go and speak with some of the new patients that came
(04:56):
in, other brain injury survivorswho had come in a few weeks
after me from being in a car accident as well.
And they asked if I can go and speak to them and their family
to be able to provide them with a sense of hope that they can
recover. And that was my first glimpse of
recognizing that, wow, I really have something to share and I
(05:18):
have something that could be a value and really help someone
else help the next person in line by me sharing this.
Once I left the hospital and I moved in with my mom for the
next three years while I continued to heal, I found a lot
of inspiration online by findingother people who have
experienced something similar tome.
(05:40):
And honestly, it's those storiesthat really kept me going.
It's those stories that got me through on some of my darkest
times. When the world seemed to be
working against me. When I felt like I knew where I
was going. I had my eyes set on my desired
outcome, my healing journey. I wanted to get to back to the
(06:02):
same level that I was prior to the accident, but when my entire
outside world was telling me no and it was all so easy for me to
just give up. It was seeing and reading other
people's success stories that really kept me going because I
thought, well, if they can do it, then I can do it too.
(06:25):
Thank God for people who are sharing their stories.
Thank God for the people who aren't healing in silence and
keeping it all to themselves because the world needs them.
Can you imagine if nobody ever shared their story of healing?
None of us would heal honestly because in sharing our stories,
we are inspiring others. One of the first stories that I
(06:50):
had read was from another brain injury survivor, his name is
Lion Goodman. He was shot in the head four
times and survived. When I was reading his story, I
was mind blown. He was still able to even
communicate with four bullets inhis head.
His story is unreal. If you've never heard of him and
(07:13):
if you have experienced a head injury and you want some source
of inspiration, it is jaw-dropping.
Or if you just want to maybe believe that the world is a
magical place, like listen to orread his story because it's just
it's incredible. And now the work that he does is
he helps people reprogram their mind and eliminate their
(07:34):
subconscious beliefs, which really what is held illness,
subconscious mind is forming ourbeliefs.
And I felt like his story was sosimilar to mine, not in that he
got shot in the head, but the point that we're both really,
really aware of the beliefs thatwe're holding and how it's our
beliefs that are limiting us in truly living the life that we
(07:56):
want to live. He was someone that I really
resonated with his story and that was a source of inspiration
for me. I also listened to a lot of Near
Death experience interviews and those two were just so deeply
moving for me and it gave me theinspiration to continue moving
(08:16):
forward. And what I started finding in
listening to these interviews with these near death
experiencers was that they were all facing something in their
life or they were doing something in their life.
They were ignoring something in their life, whether it was like
a little an inner voice or just a knowing that they were living
in misalignment. They were not in harmony with
(08:38):
what their soul came here to do.And after their near death
experience or during the experience, they had an
awakening and true understandingof what was happening and what
they were brought forth to create.
They learnt what it is that theyneeded to know in order to
(08:59):
create an aligned life moving forward.
And when they came back into their bodies, back living their
life, they made the changes and are now sharing it with others
because what they experienced wasn't uniquely to themselves.
And this is the root of all of the problems in the world today.
(09:21):
We think that we're separate, that we're in these separate
bodies and we have these separate egos.
And this is our this is our homeand this is our city and our
country. It's separate from everything
else. And all of this when really we
are all under 1 consciousness atthe core of us all.
If we were to take all of us andput it under a microscope and
(09:42):
compare with one another, we would see that we are very much
the same. We are all made from the same
source. It's our our very fabric is the
same 1 consciousness. We are not alone in what we
experience. I mean, of course the the actual
physical experience are itself is uniquely our own.
(10:03):
But the experience in general were not alone in feeling the
way that we feel in feeling the misalignment and feeling the low
confidence and feeling the lack of self worth and feeling the
self hatred. All of these things we're not
alone in feeling. Everyone can really agree.
(10:24):
And that's why it's so importantto share our story, because even
though the unique actual physical experience is uniquely
your own, there's not gonna be too like it, of course.
But the feeling that you felt, someone else also understands
what that could feel like because they're feeling it in
(10:47):
whatever is going on in their life.
We all feel the same feelings. We can all understand it.
And by sharing our stories of what we have overcome, we're
helping others be able to overcome what they are currently
faced with and what they're currently going through.
I see it as every challenge we have is like an initiation into
(11:14):
our purpose work because the challenges that we're facing, we
can overcome. I don't believe that we are
presented with anything in life that we cannot overcome.
And so if you are someone who has a really big challenge and
it feels so overwhelming, rest assured that this challenge is
(11:36):
so big and feels so overwhelmingfor you because you are even
bigger, you are even stronger. You can absolutely overcome it.
And maybe the reason why this challenge is so big is because
it's meant to grow you into someunstoppable force because it's
opening you up to the future, toservice that you have to give to
(12:00):
others that you are not yet aware of.
But whatever it is that we're facing, we can absolutely
overcome it. It is our initiation into what
our soul came here to do. And again, whatever it is that
we experience, others are experiencing something similar,
(12:23):
that our story could be a sourceof inspiration for them.
And that's why in listening to all of these incredible stories
and having them provide that source of inspiration for me, I
wanted to turn it around and be that source for others.
I felt like it was my duty, it was my obligation.
(12:45):
If I overcame something and I really healed and I really
transformed my life, well now I can share it with others.
And my life prior to Maya car accident was very much about low
self worth. I didn't feel worthy to truly
experience happiness and love and all of the things that I
(13:08):
wanted. I was caught up in my own self
limiting narrative. My experience in the hospital
made me recognize just how much of A powerful creator I am in my
life, that I literally am shaping my life experience.
And so this second time around on this earth that I am,
(13:29):
granted, I'm going to make different choices.
I'm going to put myself at the forefront.
I'm going to make myself a main character of my life.
And I know that this feeling isn't uniquely to me, what I was
feeling. Pride in my accent is not
uniquely my own. So many of us, because how we
were raised in society to silence ourselves, to not speak
(13:50):
up too loud, that we're not important, all of these things.
There are a lot of people who experience a low sense of self
worth. There are a lot of people who
are afraid to speak up, afraid to be visible, afraid to share
their opinions and how they truly feel.
There are a lot of people who don't truly love themselves
(14:11):
because we were never taught to truly love ourselves.
We were always taught to go outside of ourselves, please
others. It's selfish to put ourselves
1st. And so I know that what I have
learned could be of benefit to many by sharing it.
It's not going to be a benefit to anybody if I decide to hoard
(14:31):
it to myself and keep it within myself.
And if everything truly is energy and I'm just holding out
within myself, really, I'm not even helping myself.
It needs to be shared with others and this is how the whole
world works. Give the knowledge and the value
that you have to share and you will receive it tenfold, not
necessarily by the person that you're sharing it with, but by
(14:53):
someone else. Because again, we are all one.
It is all under 1 consciousness.If we remain in a state where
we're hoarding everything that we have and all of the knowledge
and all of the experience that we have, and we're not sharing
it, we're not allowing ourselvesto heal.
We're not allowing others to heal either.
We're not being that source of inspiration that others
desperately need. I know that I could not have
(15:14):
healed on my own. As much as I want to pride
myself, I could not have healed if I didn't, for one, have the
Internet to go and look and search for all of these
inspirational stories from others.
I know that I wouldn't have healed if I also wasn't able to
learn more about my brain, aboutmy body, about this, a conscious
(15:36):
mind, about all of that. I wouldn't be able to heal if it
wasn't for meditation practices,if it wasn't for journaling, if
it wasn't for people sharing their journal prompts.
Like if we really think every self help that we have today,
someone had experienced it in order to share it, it is so
valuable. And thank God they did.
(15:58):
Thank God they did, because theywere literally changing lives.
And what you are going through right now, whatever challenge
you have overcome, you can change lives too.
And you already are. And I believe that part of you
already knows this. Otherwise you wouldn't be tuning
into a podcast called Feminine Initiate.
The world will heal through the feminine, not through the women
(16:20):
and I know you know by listeningto this podcast, but through the
feminine energy. The world will heal through
collaboration, through self loveand self nourishment, which in
turn benefits the collective. I want to take a couple minutes
to talk about the brain. Whether you are facing a big
(16:44):
challenge right now and you're finding yourself in the midst of
your healing journey or you feelthat you have overcome a
significant challenge and you'refeeling the pull to share it
with others and maybe sort of business around it.
And maybe you're feeling like you're very much thinking about
(17:04):
how you're going to do it. How am I going to heal or how am
I going to turn this into a business?
I would suggest that you drop anything pertaining how how am I
going to get there and start focusing specifically on what it
is that you want, what it is that you desire.
What is the place of your healing that you would like to
(17:28):
get to or what kind of business would you like to create and
what kind of impact would you like to create?
Really get clear on that what and start visualizing that.
Start visualizing you at that end result.
When we start really focusing onwhat it is that we're that we're
(17:50):
wanting, we are telling our brain what to look for.
Our brain is truly a serving mechanism.
It is serving us whether we knowit or not.
And when we start actually giving it instructions to where
(18:11):
it is that we want it to go, where we want our life to go,
our body will respond. We all have a network in our
brain known as the reticular activating system, and this
network is tasked to seek in ourenvironment what will be
congruent with our dominant thinking pattern.
(18:34):
Because whatever we think of consistently, we're telling our
brain that that is important to us.
Literally what is in our brain and our what our beliefs are,
It's just a program. It's just what we've been
repeating over and over. Our brain is like a computer.
And if we just bought a computeroff the store and we didn't
install any programs, it would be pretty useless.
(18:56):
What do you do with a computer with no softwares or programs or
anything on it? You need to install it.
It's the same thing with our brain.
All of these things that we have, all of these habits, all
of these beliefs, they're all programs that have been
installed in our brain. And So what we want to do is we
want to start installing these new ideas, a new program to tell
(19:20):
our brain what is important. When we start focusing on what's
important to us, we're creating a new program in our brain, and
our brain will just run that program.
When you continue to think aboutyour ideal healing scenario,
what that would look like or your ideal business, what would
(19:42):
that business look like? What would you be doing?
You are telling your brain that that is important for you and so
in turn it is going to start looking for evidence in your
external world to prove itself correct.
That's another thing. Your brain always wants to be
right. Whatever it is that you want to
put into it, it wants to prove that right even if the beliefs
(20:05):
that you are putting in are complete nonsense.
And we know that with these limiting beliefs, when we get
caught up in these low self worth beliefs that were not
important, like nobody cares garbage.
But if we continue to believe that, our brain will seek
evidence. To prove it right.
And The thing is, is that it's not even that that evidence is
real. It's just our interpretation of
(20:27):
what it is that we're seeing around us and we're going to
validate it. Our brain is going to create
this beautiful story, beautiful or not beautiful to make it
correct. And so then we end up living in
this world that is not serving us, but it's self created.
And so if you continue to think about the what that you would
love within three days, this is how long it takes, 3 days of
(20:52):
consistent thinking. And so it does require an effort
on your part. You really want to program into
your brain, Tell your brain, your brain is going to serve
you, but tell it what it is thatyou want it to look for.
And so brain, this is what I'm thinking of, this is what I
want. And in three days you will start
(21:12):
to see some sort of evidence in your physical reality.
Maybe you're going to see somebody who has achieved the
state of healing that you want or who has the business that you
want. When you see that, refrain from
feeling jealous, refrain from judgment, thinking, oh, they can
(21:33):
do that because they had all of this.
That's this. And of course it works for them
and I had it more serious than them or they had all of the
connections to be able to do that.
No, no, thank your brain for seeing that and reframe it as a
possibility for yourself. I am seeing this and I'm next in
line. I'm next in line for that
(21:53):
healing or that success. And then you can speak to those
people and find out how they didit and get information.
So keep an open mind, but you will end up seeing how this
could be a reality for you. And so this is my long winded
answer to the question that I was asked earlier this week.
Why didn't I just heal in silence?
(22:15):
And it is because I truly believe that we heal in
community. We heal by sharing.
And that during my journey, I needed inspiration from others
who are brave enough to share their story.
And I wanted to be that for others.
And I saw my experience as an initiation into this greater
(22:37):
purpose work that I am meant to be doing.
And I believe that what we face when we do overcome it, it is
like an unspoken duty that we have to turn around and help the
next person in line. And whether that be through a
book or speaking on stages throughout the world, starting a
podcast, starting coaching offers, or simply sharing the
(23:00):
depths of your experience and your knowledge with a neighbor
or in a local support group, it all works.
The key is that it feels right to you.
It feels like the right space tobe able to Share your story with
others. So thank you so much for tuning
into today's episode. Hope that this resonated with
(23:21):
you and if it did and you know of someone else who can benefit
from this episode, then please share it with them.
I hope that you have a fantasticweek and we will talk soon.
Until next time, be empowered. If you enjoyed this episode,
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(23:42):
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You can find the link in the show notes.
Hey friend, welcome to the Feminine Initiate podcast, a
space for online coaches, creatives, and visionaries ready
to do the thing while reclaimingtheir feminine power,
manifesting their desires, and creating the impact they know
they're here to make. Let's get into it.
Hello friend, welcome back to the podcast.
I hope you're having an incredible day.
So far. There's only a couple weeks left
(00:27):
for the Women in Podcasters Award, and if you have not yet
voted, I would so appreciate your support.
I have been nominated for the Women Podcasters Award in the
Personal Development category for this year, and the voting
period is ending on May 31st, sojust a couple days away.
(00:49):
If you haven't yet voted, I've included the link in the show
notes of this episode. Have to go to
womenpodcasters.com and select all of the podcasts that you
want to vote for in each category.
There are there's about a dozen categories available where you
can pick other amazing podcasts in there.
(01:11):
And then of course, I would really appreciate it if you
would select Feminine Initiate Jessica W for the personal
development category. This would help so much.
Winners are going to be announced mid June and I'm
really so excited for that. Earlier this week I was speaking
to a friend and she asked me a really interesting question that
(01:35):
I wanted to share with you and really unpack it more.
So we were talking about my lifethreatening car accident and the
experience leading up to it and then after it and how I was able
to recover and defy all of the limitations that were placed
upon me. And her question was why did you
(01:56):
want to turn that experience andall of that pain into a
profession? Why didn't you just heal in
silence and leave it at that? And I thought, ohk, I was never
asked this question before. This is such a good question and
so I wanted to come and share itwith you and really unpack my
thoughts about it and why. Honestly believe that no matter
(02:19):
what challenge we face, because we all have challenges that we
face in our life, when we learn from it, we overcome it, we heal
from it. It is almost like we have an
unspoken duty to then turn around and help the next person
in line. So first of all, as great as the
(02:40):
question was, and I and I know exactly what she meant by it,
but if I were to take it word for word, why didn't you heal in
silence? I really believe there is no
such thing as healing in silencebecause to truly heal something
it requires community. It requires being able to share
(03:01):
our experience to let it out. If everything is energy, we need
to let that energy go somehow and for us to know how to do
that on our own. I mean, as intelligent as the
body is self-serving and really for self preservation, the body
is we require community, we require another to be able to
(03:25):
guide us through that journey, whether that be a professional
that you're working with, a therapist, a support community,
also other peers who have experienced the same thing as
you experienced. I mean, This is why I support
groups are so powerful and there's so many of them.
And think about it, just in having a support group, you can
(03:49):
walk into the support group and you can be the newest member,
the one who is. The experience is so raw and
you're taking it in and you're learning from some of the senior
participants, I'll say, for lackof better words.
And eventually after a few months that you've been in this
support circle, a new member is going to come.
(04:11):
And that's putting you in such abeautiful position to be able to
help this new member who is exactly where you were maybe a
month or two prior to that moment.
And so already, not even by a real deep desire to want to
share, we are already in a position to share what we have
(04:35):
experienced. I had spent a month and 1/2 in
the hospital after my accident. And probably about a month of
being in the hospital, I was asked by one of the nurses there
if I can go and speak with some of the new patients that came
(04:56):
in, other brain injury survivorswho had come in a few weeks
after me from being in a car accident as well.
And they asked if I can go and speak to them and their family
to be able to provide them with a sense of hope that they can
recover. And that was my first glimpse of
recognizing that, wow, I really have something to share and I
(05:18):
have something that could be a value and really help someone
else help the next person in line by me sharing this.
Once I left the hospital and I moved in with my mom for the
next three years while I continued to heal, I found a lot
of inspiration online by findingother people who have
experienced something similar tome.
(05:40):
And honestly, it's those storiesthat really kept me going.
It's those stories that got me through on some of my darkest
times. When the world seemed to be
working against me. When I felt like I knew where I
was going. I had my eyes set on my desired
outcome, my healing journey. I wanted to get to back to the
(06:02):
same level that I was prior to the accident, but when my entire
outside world was telling me no and it was all so easy for me to
just give up. It was seeing and reading other
people's success stories that really kept me going because I
thought, well, if they can do it, then I can do it too.
(06:25):
Thank God for people who are sharing their stories.
Thank God for the people who aren't healing in silence and
keeping it all to themselves because the world needs them.
Can you imagine if nobody ever shared their story of healing?
None of us would heal honestly because in sharing our stories,
we are inspiring others. One of the first stories that I
(06:50):
had read was from another brain injury survivor, his name is
Lion Goodman. He was shot in the head four
times and survived. When I was reading his story, I
was mind blown. He was still able to even
communicate with four bullets inhis head.
His story is unreal. If you've never heard of him and
(07:13):
if you have experienced a head injury and you want some source
of inspiration, it is jaw-dropping.
Or if you just want to maybe believe that the world is a
magical place, like listen to orread his story because it's just
it's incredible. And now the work that he does is
he helps people reprogram their mind and eliminate their
(07:34):
subconscious beliefs, which really what is held illness,
subconscious mind is forming ourbeliefs.
And I felt like his story was sosimilar to mine, not in that he
got shot in the head, but the point that we're both really,
really aware of the beliefs thatwe're holding and how it's our
beliefs that are limiting us in truly living the life that we
(07:56):
want to live. He was someone that I really
resonated with his story and that was a source of inspiration
for me. I also listened to a lot of Near
Death experience interviews and those two were just so deeply
moving for me and it gave me theinspiration to continue moving
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forward. And what I started finding in
listening to these interviews with these near death
experiencers was that they were all facing something in their
life or they were doing something in their life.
They were ignoring something in their life, whether it was like
a little an inner voice or just a knowing that they were living
in misalignment. They were not in harmony with
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what their soul came here to do.And after their near death
experience or during the experience, they had an
awakening and true understandingof what was happening and what
they were brought forth to create.
They learnt what it is that theyneeded to know in order to
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create an aligned life moving forward.
And when they came back into their bodies, back living their
life, they made the changes and are now sharing it with others
because what they experienced wasn't uniquely to themselves.
And this is the root of all of the problems in the world today.
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We think that we're separate, that we're in these separate
bodies and we have these separate egos.
And this is our this is our homeand this is our city and our
country. It's separate from everything
else. And all of this when really we
are all under 1 consciousness atthe core of us all.
If we were to take all of us andput it under a microscope and
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compare with one another, we would see that we are very much
the same. We are all made from the same
source. It's our our very fabric is the
same 1 consciousness. We are not alone in what we
experience. I mean, of course the the actual
physical experience are itself is uniquely our own.
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But the experience in general were not alone in feeling the
way that we feel in feeling the misalignment and feeling the low
confidence and feeling the lack of self worth and feeling the
self hatred. All of these things we're not
alone in feeling. Everyone can really agree.
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And that's why it's so importantto share our story, because even
though the unique actual physical experience is uniquely
your own, there's not gonna be too like it, of course.
But the feeling that you felt, someone else also understands
what that could feel like because they're feeling it in
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whatever is going on in their life.
We all feel the same feelings. We can all understand it.
And by sharing our stories of what we have overcome, we're
helping others be able to overcome what they are currently
faced with and what they're currently going through.
I see it as every challenge we have is like an initiation into
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our purpose work because the challenges that we're facing, we
can overcome. I don't believe that we are
presented with anything in life that we cannot overcome.
And so if you are someone who has a really big challenge and
it feels so overwhelming, rest assured that this challenge is
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so big and feels so overwhelmingfor you because you are even
bigger, you are even stronger. You can absolutely overcome it.
And maybe the reason why this challenge is so big is because
it's meant to grow you into someunstoppable force because it's
opening you up to the future, toservice that you have to give to
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others that you are not yet aware of.
But whatever it is that we're facing, we can absolutely
overcome it. It is our initiation into what
our soul came here to do. And again, whatever it is that
we experience, others are experiencing something similar,
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that our story could be a sourceof inspiration for them.
And that's why in listening to all of these incredible stories
and having them provide that source of inspiration for me, I
wanted to turn it around and be that source for others.
I felt like it was my duty, it was my obligation.
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If I overcame something and I really healed and I really
transformed my life, well now I can share it with others.
And my life prior to Maya car accident was very much about low
self worth. I didn't feel worthy to truly
experience happiness and love and all of the things that I
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wanted. I was caught up in my own self
limiting narrative. My experience in the hospital
made me recognize just how much of A powerful creator I am in my
life, that I literally am shaping my life experience.
And so this second time around on this earth that I am,
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granted, I'm going to make different choices.
I'm going to put myself at the forefront.
I'm going to make myself a main character of my life.
And I know that this feeling isn't uniquely to me, what I was
feeling. Pride in my accent is not
uniquely my own. So many of us, because how we
were raised in society to silence ourselves, to not speak
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up too loud, that we're not important, all of these things.
There are a lot of people who experience a low sense of self
worth. There are a lot of people who
are afraid to speak up, afraid to be visible, afraid to share
their opinions and how they truly feel.
There are a lot of people who don't truly love themselves
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because we were never taught to truly love ourselves.
We were always taught to go outside of ourselves, please
others. It's selfish to put ourselves
1st. And so I know that what I have
learned could be of benefit to many by sharing it.
It's not going to be a benefit to anybody if I decide to hoard
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it to myself and keep it within myself.
And if everything truly is energy and I'm just holding out
within myself, really, I'm not even helping myself.
It needs to be shared with others and this is how the whole
world works. Give the knowledge and the value
that you have to share and you will receive it tenfold, not
necessarily by the person that you're sharing it with, but by
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someone else. Because again, we are all one.
It is all under 1 consciousness.If we remain in a state where
we're hoarding everything that we have and all of the knowledge
and all of the experience that we have, and we're not sharing
it, we're not allowing ourselvesto heal.
We're not allowing others to heal either.
We're not being that source of inspiration that others
desperately need. I know that I could not have
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healed on my own. As much as I want to pride
myself, I could not have healed if I didn't, for one, have the
Internet to go and look and search for all of these
inspirational stories from others.
I know that I wouldn't have healed if I also wasn't able to
learn more about my brain, aboutmy body, about this, a conscious
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mind, about all of that. I wouldn't be able to heal if it
wasn't for meditation practices,if it wasn't for journaling, if
it wasn't for people sharing their journal prompts.
Like if we really think every self help that we have today,
someone had experienced it in order to share it, it is so
valuable. And thank God they did.
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Thank God they did, because theywere literally changing lives.
And what you are going through right now, whatever challenge
you have overcome, you can change lives too.
And you already are. And I believe that part of you
already knows this. Otherwise you wouldn't be tuning
into a podcast called Feminine Initiate.
The world will heal through the feminine, not through the women
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and I know you know by listeningto this podcast, but through the
feminine energy. The world will heal through
collaboration, through self loveand self nourishment, which in
turn benefits the collective. I want to take a couple minutes
to talk about the brain. Whether you are facing a big
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challenge right now and you're finding yourself in the midst of
your healing journey or you feelthat you have overcome a
significant challenge and you'refeeling the pull to share it
with others and maybe sort of business around it.
And maybe you're feeling like you're very much thinking about
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how you're going to do it. How am I going to heal or how am
I going to turn this into a business?
I would suggest that you drop anything pertaining how how am I
going to get there and start focusing specifically on what it
is that you want, what it is that you desire.
What is the place of your healing that you would like to
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get to or what kind of business would you like to create and
what kind of impact would you like to create?
Really get clear on that what and start visualizing that.
Start visualizing you at that end result.
When we start really focusing onwhat it is that we're that we're
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wanting, we are telling our brain what to look for.
Our brain is truly a serving mechanism.
It is serving us whether we knowit or not.
And when we start actually giving it instructions to where
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it is that we want it to go, where we want our life to go,
our body will respond. We all have a network in our
brain known as the reticular activating system, and this
network is tasked to seek in ourenvironment what will be
congruent with our dominant thinking pattern.
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Because whatever we think of consistently, we're telling our
brain that that is important to us.
Literally what is in our brain and our what our beliefs are,
It's just a program. It's just what we've been
repeating over and over. Our brain is like a computer.
And if we just bought a computeroff the store and we didn't
install any programs, it would be pretty useless.
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What do you do with a computer with no softwares or programs or
anything on it? You need to install it.
It's the same thing with our brain.
All of these things that we have, all of these habits, all
of these beliefs, they're all programs that have been
installed in our brain. And So what we want to do is we
want to start installing these new ideas, a new program to tell
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our brain what is important. When we start focusing on what's
important to us, we're creating a new program in our brain, and
our brain will just run that program.
When you continue to think aboutyour ideal healing scenario,
what that would look like or your ideal business, what would
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that business look like? What would you be doing?
You are telling your brain that that is important for you and so
in turn it is going to start looking for evidence in your
external world to prove itself correct.
That's another thing. Your brain always wants to be
right. Whatever it is that you want to
put into it, it wants to prove that right even if the beliefs
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that you are putting in are complete nonsense.
And we know that with these limiting beliefs, when we get
caught up in these low self worth beliefs that were not
important, like nobody cares garbage.
But if we continue to believe that, our brain will seek
evidence. To prove it right.
And The thing is, is that it's not even that that evidence is
real. It's just our interpretation of
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what it is that we're seeing around us and we're going to
validate it. Our brain is going to create
this beautiful story, beautiful or not beautiful to make it
correct. And so then we end up living in
this world that is not serving us, but it's self created.
And so if you continue to think about the what that you would
love within three days, this is how long it takes, 3 days of
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consistent thinking. And so it does require an effort
on your part. You really want to program into
your brain, Tell your brain, your brain is going to serve
you, but tell it what it is thatyou want it to look for.
And so brain, this is what I'm thinking of, this is what I
want. And in three days you will start
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to see some sort of evidence in your physical reality.
Maybe you're going to see somebody who has achieved the
state of healing that you want or who has the business that you
want. When you see that, refrain from
feeling jealous, refrain from judgment, thinking, oh, they can
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do that because they had all of this.
That's this. And of course it works for them
and I had it more serious than them or they had all of the
connections to be able to do that.
No, no, thank your brain for seeing that and reframe it as a
possibility for yourself. I am seeing this and I'm next in
line. I'm next in line for that
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healing or that success. And then you can speak to those
people and find out how they didit and get information.
So keep an open mind, but you will end up seeing how this
could be a reality for you. And so this is my long winded
answer to the question that I was asked earlier this week.
Why didn't I just heal in silence?
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And it is because I truly believe that we heal in
community. We heal by sharing.
And that during my journey, I needed inspiration from others
who are brave enough to share their story.
And I wanted to be that for others.
And I saw my experience as an initiation into this greater
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purpose work that I am meant to be doing.
And I believe that what we face when we do overcome it, it is
like an unspoken duty that we have to turn around and help the
next person in line. And whether that be through a
book or speaking on stages throughout the world, starting a
podcast, starting coaching offers, or simply sharing the
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depths of your experience and your knowledge with a neighbor
or in a local support group, it all works.
The key is that it feels right to you.
It feels like the right space tobe able to Share your story with
others. So thank you so much for tuning
into today's episode. Hope that this resonated with
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you and if it did and you know of someone else who can benefit
from this episode, then please share it with them.
I hope that you have a fantasticweek and we will talk soon.
Until next time, be empowered. If you enjoyed this episode,
please leave me a rating and review.
It will help me grow the show byreaching A wider audience.
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You can find the link in the show notes.
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