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July 16, 2025 19 mins

Most of us spend our lives running from our pain, burying our trauma, pretending it never happened. We think healing means forgetting. We think success means leaving the past behind. But what if that's the biggest mistake we could make? What if your deepest wound is actually your greatest wealth waiting to be unlocked?

April Wyett discovered this truth the hard way.

Growing up in the Pacific Northwest, April's home wasn't safe. Her mother, disabled by rheumatoid arthritis since age 19, was shut down on prescription medication, barely able to get out of bed. Her father, a school teacher and rare coin dealer, escaped the emotional pressure through gambling, leaving April to learn that love had to be earned through hustling and proving her worth.

So April ran to the woods. Nature became her first sanctuary the trees, the animals, the open sky that held her when nothing else could. But it wasn't until a horrific car accident at age 9, where she was crushed under their family car, that April truly understood what it meant to survive when the adults around you collapse.

That little girl who found refuge in nature grew up to create healing sanctuaries for others. Through energy work combining Reiki, sound healing, and biodynamic breathwork, April helps people release trauma stored in their bodies and discover that forgiveness starting with forgiving yourself is the key to unlocking everything you're meant to build.

Her childhood trauma didn't break her. It became the foundation of her empire an empire built on helping others transform their deepest wounds into their greatest gifts.

This isn't just about healing. It's about what becomes possible when you stop running from your pain and start building with it."

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to part two of our
episode with April Wyatt andyes, I spelt her name right, I
said it right, go me.
This is an incredible journeythat she's been through, from
her mother having rheumatoidarthritis, from being aware of

(00:22):
her gifts at a very early age,but now she's embodying them in
a different way.
She helps people rediscoverherself, understand their core
meaning in life, and not justheal but play witness to it in
order for them to come back intoa central place of love and

(00:46):
compassion, not just forthemselves, but for other people
.
April, it's a privilege to haveyou here and hear about your
journey and how you show up forother people.
What inspired you to go deeperwithin the spiritualistic work

(01:06):
and the holistic avenues?

Speaker 2 (01:10):
There's always a calling Baz isn't there and like
a gentle nudge or maybesomething that just comes into
our awareness that we're not sosure about.
But it's oh, what's that overthere type of thing that we're
not so sure about, but it's oh,what's that over there?
Type of thing.
And it happened when I wasworking with people in the
correctional institutions.

(01:31):
I was working with both men andwomen and I would go in and
teach about the they wanted meto teach about.
Oh, what was it?
Basically, you can edit thispart out.
I was going in there teachingwellness, saying that you can

(01:51):
find a cohesiveness within yourbody.
They're returning citizens,they're going to be getting out
in the world, and yet they hadbeen locked away for 18 months
or years.
Just depends and finding aresource, finding some way to
find that inner center, so thatway, when they are going to

(02:16):
their probation officer, theyhave to check in there, they
have to get work, they have tofind all this stuff in a matter
of just maybe a couple months.
That doesn't give that personmuch time, and yet they're
already in that heightened state.
How can I bring them into aspace that it feels a little

(02:38):
easier?
Right that they can managethings.
And it started with a quick boxbreathing.
So that's breathing in for four, holding for four, breathing
out for four, holding for four,and just the looks on their
faces when they came out of that, it was just like what just
happened.
And this is while they werestill in prison.

(03:01):
And only one person said thismakes me feel very uncomfortable
.
And I said why?
And he said because usuallywhen I'm in this peaceful space,
something bad happens.
That's the conditioning, that'sthe alert system saying oh, you

(03:22):
can't feel good becausesomething's going to happen to
you.
So, with that breath work, withunderstanding that and the
nervous system, I decided toresearch and I love to find
things that are also holisticminded but science backed,
because me myself, I need toknow the science and I need I

(03:46):
and I can feel it.
It's yes, this feels good,although how am I going to
explain it to people that way?
People don't.
They understand more.
They understand, as you say,Baz, when they go through the
process.
So that's how I foundbiodynamic breath work and
trauma release system.

(04:06):
And it is not a weekend.
Let's get together online andyou're certified.
This is in person.
This is before the global shiftof I was 2019.
I went to Colorado.
I just told my husband I needto do this breath work training,
I need to go for this retreathere, and he said breath work,

(04:29):
you know, you can, you'rebreathing right now.
And that's what a lot of thepeople say, right, the kind of
gaslight it?
Because they're not comfortablegoing in themselves and
witnessing that parts of them.
So that was a phenomenalexperience and I went there for
myself first and foremost, andthen I received so much more in

(04:55):
that and that's actually whatbrings it forward to healing my
own trauma.
So when I was nine years old, Iwas in a horrific car accident
with my mother.
She, having that rheumatoidarthritis, was under
prescription medication and shedrove with both feet because of

(05:16):
her hips and her knees and soone foot was on the gas, one
foot was on the brake.
We had a new, wonderful, brightorange Volvo station wagon with
power steering and she wasn'tused to power steering and she
dozed off because of theprescription medication, hit the

(05:39):
gravel, woke her up, startledher, so she just jerked the
wheel and she rolled the car andI flew out the back window of
the station wagon and the car,amazingly, landed right side up,
although I was under the car,amazingly landed right side up.
Although I was under the car,my left leg was under the

(06:00):
passenger back rear tire and noone knew that I was outside of
the car.
Everybody came up to thedriver's side having her to turn
off the engine, and so she tookher foot off the brake drove

(06:21):
over my leg.
I was waking up very foggy, very.
What's happening?
I just see this tire go over myleg and I'm coming out of it,
mommy.
And then she goes through thegears, then reverse back over
the leg, and that's when Istarted screaming and a woman
came around the other side andshe just lost it.
She was like there's a littlegirl out here, she's under the

(06:43):
car and my mother.
Literally, roles were reversedin that moment.
She had a mental breakdown.
She just kept saying I couldhave killed you.
All the things in the ambulance.
I'm actually writing about itin a book right now.
And that's when I knew that Icouldn't count on her any longer

(07:08):
, that I had to step into moreof a mother role.
Wow to more of a mother role.
And so I cooked, I cleaned, Idid all the things like a
housewife would, and yeah, sothat was the trauma that I
experienced.

(07:28):
And yet I just put that in thepast, that, yeah, that happened
to me.
But I'm here now and look ateverything I've accomplished.
I've done this, I've done that,all the things.
This is what we tell ourselves,especially women no time for us
.
We got to pull ourselves up byour bootstraps and keep going.
There's no time to feel, haveemotions about it.

(07:52):
And then I had my thirdin-person training in New Mexico
at a Qigong like center whereit was built on a vortex, and as
soon as I got on that property,my skin was tingly and I didn't

(08:12):
know what astro traveling was,but man, I didn't sleep any
night there.
Traveling was, but man, Ididn't sleep any night.
I was gone, and I rememberthinking like during these
interesting dream phases goingplaces, I thought to myself I'm
going to be so tired after allthis, and then I would wake up
and I was so refreshed and wentinto the breath work again.

(08:34):
And so that day we were workingon the heart space, we were
working on the thoracic belt oftension.
That's what we call the belt oftension through biodynamic
breath work, and my supportperson found something in my
lower back and followed it allthe way up to behind my heart.

(08:56):
That's what I had done.
I'd layered and pushedeverything back and she touched
into that space.
It reminds me of Kung Fu Pandawith the skadoosh, if anybody's
watched that.
She touched that acupressurepoint there and I literally my
body contorted and in a flash Isaw my nine-year-old self flying

(09:22):
out the back window.
My mind didn't remember how Igot out of the car, but my body
sure did.
And that's the beauty of theBBTRS the biodynamic breathwork
and trauma release, because it'sbeen proven that emotions and
traumas are held within thefascia of the body, the membrane

(09:47):
between the muscles, and so Ihad a huge release that I didn't
realize that I was.
I had grief about that rolereversal.
I had so much resentmenttowards my mother and I had no

(10:10):
idea, as a small child, that'swhat I formed and how my father
responded, and he just blamed mymother.
No one asked me are you okay?
How are you feeling?
I have this huge bruise on myshin.
It didn't break my leg.
My leg did not break.
It's amazing.

(10:31):
And so I still have a scarthere.
It's amazing, and so I stillhave a scar there, although that
is just.
We have these scars, we wearthese experiences and it's how
we're relating to ourselves.
So that is what I love to do,in person or online, working

(10:53):
with people but it's very gentle.
We're melting the outer layers.
I had that huge experiencebecause I was in it.
Right, I was in that.
This was my third in-personexperience.
I was very aware of how toconnect with the breath and my
body, and that doesn't meanpeople can't have that same
experience either in personworking with a practitioner,

(11:16):
such as myself or someone else.
It's all about being openwithout judging ourselves, and
not second guessing and justallowing to break open, because
this is where we find ourselves.

Speaker 1 (11:40):
I love that quote, how we break open.
This is where we find ourselves, because it's true and what
you're speaking to now isn'tjust a practice.
It's science-backed, it's livedexperience, which is from where

(12:02):
I stand and where a lot of thelisteners stand, and it
resonates more with peoplebecause they can connect not
just from the emotion, but alsoto science and your own
experience and research it, butalso to science and your own
experience and research it.
I want to touch on somethingnow, but I know it's close to

(12:26):
your heart, and it's the mindand body connection, because
through your training, throughyour experiences, through your
teachings and helping otherpeople, the mind and body are
connectede.
Dispenser connect speaks abouthaving heart coherence and brain
coherence and the magnet andconnecting the two.

(12:48):
Can you, in your own words Iknow you're not joe.
I love his work.

Speaker 2 (12:53):
he does phenomenal stuff, yes, but you have a touch
of what he does and you applyit into what you do not yes, yes
, I do, and I do that with theresonance like feeling what's
happening in the body and firstguiding people into that pause,

(13:15):
just a brief pause of yes youmight have.
So I call the snow globe effectokay.
Okay.
So we have this snow globe, weshake it up, this is our mind,
and it's just.
All those flakes are flyingaround, but when we pause and
just take a breath and allowthose flakes to settle just a

(13:35):
bit, it doesn't have to be twohours, it could be just a matter
of moments.
Yeah, we'll still have a fewflakes floating around.
That's going to happen, althoughit doesn't feel as chaotic or
overwhelmed or puts us more inthat hypo mode of shutdown.

(13:56):
So, being aware of where are myfeet right now, how does my
left foot feel from my rightfoot?
What would happen if I justthought about breathing a little
deeper down into my feet, justbeing curious.

(14:16):
What we're doing here is we'reshifting the script of the
thoughts.
We're shifting from thatsympathetic nervous system that
fight, flight, freeze, fawninginto the parasympathetic nervous
system, into the rest anddigest used to.

(14:43):
And that's okay, is just onedrop in the bucket at a time.
I'm not asking for huge shiftsor anything.
It's just that gentle awarenessthat we build and that's
building that relationship toourselves that we've been
disconnected from.
Been disconnected from or thatwe never had before, such as

(15:03):
myself growing up so desperatelywanting to feel worthy, to feel
that unconditional love,because that's what we all want
yeah, I love that.

Speaker 1 (15:14):
Thank you for sharing what.
Where do people get hold of you?
I know linkedin is a given here.
I know you're traveling a lotbecause you're a full-time rv at
the moment.
Where can people go to get holdof you, to learn a bit more
about you and to possibly bookan appointment?

Speaker 2 (15:32):
yes, thank you, baz.
People can reach out to methrough my website,
livingwithintentionco, not comdot co and they can also email
me, april at livingwithintention.
I am on Facebook and Instagramas well, but I do a little bit

(15:55):
more work on LinkedIn because Ipay attention to who's showing
up, who really wants to do thework, and that's what I'm
finding with all people, whetherthey're housewives or
professionals or newentrepreneurs.
Right, people are tired ofself-help books, of weekend

(16:18):
seminars and things.
Yeah, you get a little glimpse,you get a little.
Oh, yeah, that feels good.
Although they're ready to dothe work, they're ready to show
up, have these conversations andbe in that space of being seen,
of being heard and knowing,remembering their value.

(16:39):
That's what we all want.

Speaker 1 (16:42):
Yeah, I like that.
Thank you very much for sharingthat.
I love this conversation.
I carry it on for ages and ages, but this will just drop off,
so it's okay.
Ladies and gentlemen, please goand check out April Wyatt's
website livingwithintentionconot com C-O and look on her
social media Obviously, linkedin, iscom, co.
And look on social mediaObviously, linkedin is where she

(17:03):
spends most of her time.
But also check out the otherchannels.
Do a bit of research foryourself and I really encourage
you to go and have aconversation.
It's just a conversation andmaybe it can help you uncover a
bit more deeper insights withinyourself or possibly be aware of

(17:24):
something you were not aware ofFrom myself.
Thank you very much forlistening.
April, thank you very much forjoining me.
You're an amazing human being.
Please keep doing what you'redoing in the world and my
audience.
Please go and check her out andhave a conversation.
I really encourage that formyself and april.

(17:47):
This was rice from the ashespodcast.
Have an amazing day on purposeand I will see you all on the
next episode.
Talk soon.
Be well.
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