December 8, 2024 • 27 mins
TATU: Thriving After Trauma Unashamed Motivational Speech Every Sunday at 6 PM CST starting January 2025 | Hosted by Author Atara TATU Estes Ignite your spirit and start your week with powerful inspiration! Join Atara TATU Estes, trauma survivor, author, and motivational speaker, as she hosts a transformative session every Sunday at 6 PM. Through personal stories, faith-filled wisdom, and messages of hope, Atara empowers you to reclaim your strength, walk in healing, and thrive unashamed. Subscribe, follow, and share to be a part of our uplifting community. Visit ataraestes.com to join the journey towards healing and self-liberation!
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Speaker 1 (00:32):
Beautiful people.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Welcome, Welcome, welcome, greetings to another Tattoo Your well Being.
Today's episode, we're going to be choosing wisdom or reaction,
rising above life's challenges, and there is a much gratitude
I want to give you for my previous episode that
was launched and honoring of our survivors of domestic violence.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Me being a so ver motivational.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Speaker and the author, I'm here too and also a
community health worker. I want to raise awareness to these
important trials, trials, tests and tribulations that we will go
through in life, not no faut of our own. A
lot of things that come upon us, they happen, you know,
(01:24):
they happen. And I want to thank you for all
of those new subscribers to the YouTube page at our
tattoo estus if you want to subscribe. I am the
host of Tattoo Your well Being, which tattoo stands for
Thriving after Trauma, unashamed, and tattoo is a nickname that
(01:46):
I grew up with and I just welcome you all
and thanking you for joining me to another episode of
Tattoo Your well Being. And like I stated, I am
I tied tattoo as this and I'm hoping that we
would get new community members to join us on this
(02:07):
journey of healing for trauma survivors. This is not just
for survivors of domestic violence, but healing for all of
those who are on continued journey from trauma. Rather, it's
an illness that you overcome such as cancer, grief of
(02:30):
a loss of a loved one. Those things are trauma,
trauma to violence of any kind, not just domestic of
dating violence, abuse, and this healing journey is for those
who are continued on their healing path. This would not
be the place where you would get therapy, but you
(02:54):
would get therapeutic practices, holistic wellness well for your well
being to help you along your journey to continue on
your road to healing. This is not to take on
the first step. If this is your first step into
(03:14):
wanting to be healed from your trauma, then you can
reach out to us at Atara at Ari a c
E Bookings. I will place all of that information in
a description. If you are or new to your healing journey,
(03:36):
please know that there are resources for you to get
that type of support and this realm of wellness. We
are on the journey of continued healing, not the first
step to healing. And the reason being because I don't
(03:56):
come as an expert to give you any.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Third repeutic.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Advice that is through no, I don't give you any
therapy advice. Let me stand correct because therapeutic practical skills
I can facilitate to you all because I am certified
and credential as a community health worker, and I have
gained the knowledge and skills to be able to do
so in this field that I am in as a
(04:25):
community health worker, I'm credentialed. My scope of practice is
behavioral health, but that is only for within my professional
or my day job. When I do this on the podcast,
I want you all to be be a peer, a
peer support to one another. This is to build up
(04:48):
a community of other survivors who who just need others
to be relatable. I'm here for different healing aspects that
you may need, that you have thought that you have
let go of. But I'm gonna be sharing me so
I can show you what I had to go through,
what it took for me to go through, and then
(05:09):
we will be offering other things to show you how
to get through. So there will be some things such
as the podcast that will be offering all free resources
of information. All of these things are free to any
and everyone, and then there will become tears to you
all that will be wanting to go further in your
(05:34):
healing journey to begin to take on the workshops that
I offer. One of the workshops will be infused with art.
I am infusing artwork of healing, photo, voice, photography. We
incorporate all type of healing artwork due to writing abilities
(05:58):
to journaling. Nothing to say that you have to be
a professional in any of these things that I will
be offering, but showing you practical skills to help you
of self development on your journey to healing.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
And we can do this.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
We really can. We really can do this together. I
was hesitant at first. Excuse me to do this podcast.
You may hear ms Kitty is my special guest in
the background who may make an appearance.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
But I want you all to.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Know that as a host to this podcast, I am
a trauma survivor and I'm here to walk with you
through the journey of healing and strength and most importantly peace,
going to be at peace in my life. So that's
why this second episode or this episode whenever it airs.
(06:59):
It's it's important to know that I'm going to give
you real, practical things that trauma survivors may get triggered,
may go through. I'm using my life experiences just so
i can show you that I am human with a
professional lens. Of course, I'm human. I want to share
(07:20):
those human every day scenarios to go with to make
sure you understand you're not alone on this journey. So
today we're diving deep into life challenges, the kind that
pushes our buttons. And the reason why I want to
talk about this is because it stirs up a lot
(07:44):
of emotions and it tests our healing when we're challenged. Okay,
it really does. I want to remind you that you're
not alone. You really are not. Every challenge is a
step towards it's becoming an even better, stronger you. So
(08:05):
how do we face negative challenges?
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Because there are positive.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Challenges that sometimes we may consider to be negative and
they really are not.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
But that's a different type of thorough work.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
So what I'm going to be sharing is life challenges
still comes at us and sometimes trying to pull us
back into a space of anger, frustrations, or even depression.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
It's real.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
You might feel like it's proof that you're not healed
just because you're going through life issues. It's just how
many of us truly believe that we are not who
we used to be?
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Do you believe that that?
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Because I know I'm not who I used to be,
I really not, and there that we're striving every day
to be a better version of ourselves, to walk in peace, love, joy,
and even forgiveness. No, from my experience, it's not easy.
Can't say it enough. I've I have to be careful
(09:19):
allowing things to get at me, to get to me.
And I know that you all can relate because there
could be something that just mess up your whole day.
I was recently hit with one of those challenges that
really threw off my whole nervous system. Got an email
(09:42):
and an attack out of nowhere. That's that's how its surfaced,
from someone who just just want to pop up. I
don't I still don't know the reason for the attacks.
You know, it's just them, this is it is a pattern.
But when they jump into this attack mode, let's just
(10:06):
say they be a joker for real, they really are
a joker. So there there was no kindness in it.
It started out giving me some regular information. Then it
turns south really ignorant provocations that I just didn't understand,
(10:32):
and I immediately reacted with anger, and yes I did.
I wanted to retaliate because it's like.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Hey, hey, slow up, what are you doing?
Speaker 2 (10:47):
What's going on here? For a moment, I wanted to
just meet up with them and meet them at that
level that they were presenting. Okay, because you know, if
we're gonna be.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Yea, now we can cut out the yak and what what?
What what? Here's the truth.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
God has been working on me long my self love
journey for some time and been helping me to grow
in spaces and to grow in self control, because you know, hurt.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
People do really hurt people, really do hurt.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
People, and if you're not careful, you will let that
energy come on you and then all of a sudden,
you're operating in that same energy that wasn't even yours.
And this person wanted to pull me into their misery.
Have you ever, I mean really, have you ever had
(11:47):
someone who's just so miserable with themselves that they trying
to get a party going on to pull other people
in it? Look sad to say they really really really
really so I had to step back, I really did.
I had to breathe and remember a foundation of healing.
(12:08):
I chose silence. After a while, after like the second
day went by, that third day, I chose silence, and
I chose to use my block button. And that silence
became my strength because I when I internalize certain things
(12:29):
now that I'm older, I instantly get sick. And I
don't like feeling sick. I don't like not feeling well,
and those are triggers. So just be mindful. You know
what that that may look like. And I want to
encourage you all sincerely, I really do. When you're faced
with that kind of negativity, when someone steps up with
(12:54):
disrespect or a hurtful message, and you have the power,
you have to know the power that you have to
choose wisdom and peace. I mean we have it, really do.
I want you to do this affirmation with me, Say
this with me. I am not my past reaction. I
(13:19):
am guided by wisdom, peace and strength. I will not
let negativity control me. My silence speaks louder than any anger,
and God is my defender. And a challenge or disrespectful
message arives. Give yourself permission please to pause, and I'm
(13:44):
going to tell you why in that moment, acts yourself
is it worth my peace? By times out of ten
you realize it isn't allow yourself that moment to break
from impulsal reaction because emotions make.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
You be quick to react.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
So it's never good when your emotions aren't taking you
further and deeper in that pit of their misery. Pull
yourself back, pause so you can regroup to have wisdom
to say what it is you might need to say. Oh,
just them stand there and say whatever they need to
(14:26):
say by themselves.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
It takes two to argue that lead them standing.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Now, Remember that the purpose of healing is to liberate
you from reactions based on hurt. In situations like this,
go back to what you know brings you peace. For me,
it was I had to go back into silence and
(14:51):
listen to my meditation music and pull out my affirmation,
pull out my word, and allow God to handle the
battles that didn't deserve my energy, the battles that I
had to let go.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
I really did have to let go.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Life challenges often reveal where we still need growing at.
So some people may have it and graduated like I
just don't let that stuff bother me. There are others
who still snap at the quick of the lip of
somebody saying something step on your toe. We all that
(15:35):
at different stages of our lives. So give yourself grace
when you see your shortcomings and that you have not
upgraded past that it to allow that energy to shift you.
I would say that you gotta remind yourself that we
are equipped with wisdom, but you have to allow it
(15:56):
to grow in you with consistency of disciplines, of new
skills that you have to learn, and instead of reacting,
you have to learn to use wisdom to see the
bigger picture and stay rooted in your piece. Your piece
(16:18):
is so important. Reach out to those who encourage you
on your journey, share the experience, get it off your chest,
talk about your feelings, talk about how it just reminds
yourself of how it's making you feel. But then remind
yourself of your goals to stay crownded in your healing,
(16:42):
because if you stay on what is pulling you towards,
the negativity is going to take you further further off
from your goals. So your healing goal is your job
to stay there, and you have support that will help
you to be reminded when you're going too far. Are
off of the edge. Now the power of self control
(17:05):
and faith, there is so much power in holding onto
your peace. And that's what I had to do. I
had to regain my peace. No matter what someone says
or does, remember it's a reflection of their pain, not
(17:26):
your worst. It's not It's a reflection of their pain,
not your worst.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
That's them.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
We're all healing from something, but understand that doesn't mean
we should be pulled into a negative cycle. Use wisdom
to protect your heart. Please guard your heart.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Self control is one of.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
The hardest but most rewarding disciplines that anyone can actually
learn to apply to their day to day lives. And
when you commit to that thing, when you commit to it,
you will find that peace and that clarity becomes your
true strength, and that what gives you the ability to
(18:14):
walk in it of that self control?
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Are we good? Do we have what we need?
Speaker 2 (18:21):
I'm just so excited for this journey to be able
to share what this is all about, for your healing journey,
where you can get it from right here. Weekly every Sunday,
I will be here at six pm. You will see
(18:41):
throughout the week I will put out little blurbs of
affirmations and letting you know some of the hot topics
that I'm going to be discussing and to help you
to get along your week because we're going to be
challenged with stuff that sometimes we didn't see coming.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
We didn't see coming.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
I want to thank you for once again being able
to be a part of this journey with me. Become
a member of the website. Joined the website the Tattoo community,
so you can be up to date on any and
all things that is going to be hosting from Tattoo
(19:26):
your well Being. We're going to be building up any
and everyone is welcome to join our platforms. Rather it's
Facebook that is Tattoo your Wellbeing to you can find
me also author atara Estas that is my business pages
(19:46):
if you're interested in the infused art, the healing artwork
to photography, those infused workshops where you can begin following
on that business page age on Facebook Atara Healing Photography.
It doesn't break down the end depth of what we're
(20:07):
going to be doing, but those are the different healing
sectors that you can join that would be helpful to you.
I am an author, so I do a lot of
writing journaling and if you are wanting to be a
part of that sector, you can join the author atara
ESEs page to follow me to get all of the
(20:29):
latest of things blogs that I will be offering and submitting,
as well as you can follow me on YouTube, Spotify.
Tattoo your well Being is on Spotify, iTunes, riverside, all podcasts.
(20:50):
I'm trying to get it to go everywhere it needs
to go.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Follow, Follow, Follow.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
You will find all of this information in a description
atara tattoo Es is on the YouTube. Please help me
to build up my subscribers because we're going to be
having a general public in our general places, but we're
about to break down and become very personable. For those
(21:16):
who want to go intense on their healing journey to
go deeper because I can tell you this, Their healing
belongs to you and you can definitely heal from your
trauma if you're ready to face it in a holistic way.
Non clinical practical skills that you can utilize now that
(21:40):
is not open to the general Those would be a
workshop fee for you to go and dive in. Also,
there's a book workbook that's going to be coming out.
There's one that will be a self paced book that
you can do at your own time and leisure. Because
all of your healing is it's up to you.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
You get what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
This is not something that you have to be a
part of the structured class.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
And all this.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
But when that time come and I am offering six
to ten week courses to dive in to create more discipline,
then you can be a part of that as well.
So they are going to be different phases for everyone
to pick whatever works for you for your healing journey.
(22:31):
But overall, let's build up this community to be available
to everyone who is on want to be a survivor
of sharing. This is about sharing. There will be some
other things that I open up, and there will be
some most of it is virtual, but then there will
(22:51):
be some in person circles that will be created in
the Saint Louis area, but there will also be offering
for those who want it elsewhere.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
After.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
You may want me to come and speak, you may
want me to come and do a healing circle. You
may want me to come and do a seminar, workshop.
You may need me to present my book Damage Goods
or next my workbook, but also be on the lookout
because we have that we're working on. Is Bound by Betrayal,
(23:26):
is excerpts from Damaged Goods. That is presenting a movie.
So all of these wonderful things that are taking place
is because of the healing journey that I put myself
in to make sure I was ready for what was next.
And I wanted to be able to share these practical
things that I had to do for myself in order
(23:49):
to get where I am, and I'm willing to show
you the transformation on how you can do it as
well for yourself. So to all of my tattoo warriors
out there, remember God has the final say. You are
walking in purpose, not in reaction. Okay, nothing in your
(24:09):
past can hold you back from stepping too. God's great love,
joy and forgiveness.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
These things are so liberating.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
God has love, joy, and forgiveness and a peace that
pass all understanding. These challenges are just tests of your
faith and they won't last forever. So don't be so
hard on yourself. Give yourself some grace, know when to
pick it up, and that would be pick up your
(24:47):
armor and when to put it down so you can
have peace. There's a time and a place for everything.
There's a time for war and there's a time for peace.
There's a time for you to know which one you
need to be in when it is happening in that
real time. So ask for the wisdom to know which
(25:09):
season you're in, because you can't be in fight mode
all the time. Sometimes it called to be self control
of silence, hold your peace, let God fight your battles.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
As we get ready to.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Wind down, as you can hear Miss Kitty in the
background saying hello to you all. Let's close with this affirmation.
I am grounded in wisdom, say after me. I am
grounded in wisdom. My peace cannot be stolen by those
who misunderstand me. I am better, not better, and my
silence is my strength. God fights my battles and brings
(25:47):
me into peace. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank
you for joining me today. I really do. Thank you
from the bottle of my heart. Follow us on everything
that's under the description.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
Know when to be able to help and support.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Our our healing journey, to grow into these workshops and
build out our platform for booking us to be able
to come out and speak and to present.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Look.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
You are resilient, you are wonderful, You are powerful. You
are a testament to your strength of healing. Okay, tune
in next Sunday for more inspiration. Tune in on Sunday
Sunday Sunday Sunday for this episode or any episode. You
may want to go back in and look at the
other ones, but don't forget to subscribe and join our
(26:36):
growing tattoo community on atara ESTs dot com. And until then,
may you walk in peace.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Bless say bye bye.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
She said bye bye, say bye bye, bye bye.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
What my babies be? Blessed? The book the Book to
the mot
Beautiful people.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Welcome, Welcome, welcome, greetings to another Tattoo Your well Being.
Today's episode, we're going to be choosing wisdom or reaction,
rising above life's challenges, and there is a much gratitude
I want to give you for my previous episode that
was launched and honoring of our survivors of domestic violence.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Me being a so ver motivational.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Speaker and the author, I'm here too and also a
community health worker. I want to raise awareness to these
important trials, trials, tests and tribulations that we will go
through in life, not no faut of our own. A
lot of things that come upon us, they happen, you know,
(01:24):
they happen. And I want to thank you for all
of those new subscribers to the YouTube page at our
tattoo estus if you want to subscribe. I am the
host of Tattoo Your well Being, which tattoo stands for
Thriving after Trauma, unashamed, and tattoo is a nickname that
(01:46):
I grew up with and I just welcome you all
and thanking you for joining me to another episode of
Tattoo Your well Being. And like I stated, I am
I tied tattoo as this and I'm hoping that we
would get new community members to join us on this
(02:07):
journey of healing for trauma survivors. This is not just
for survivors of domestic violence, but healing for all of
those who are on continued journey from trauma. Rather, it's
an illness that you overcome such as cancer, grief of
(02:30):
a loss of a loved one. Those things are trauma,
trauma to violence of any kind, not just domestic of
dating violence, abuse, and this healing journey is for those
who are continued on their healing path. This would not
be the place where you would get therapy, but you
(02:54):
would get therapeutic practices, holistic wellness well for your well
being to help you along your journey to continue on
your road to healing. This is not to take on
the first step. If this is your first step into
(03:14):
wanting to be healed from your trauma, then you can
reach out to us at Atara at Ari a c
E Bookings. I will place all of that information in
a description. If you are or new to your healing journey,
(03:36):
please know that there are resources for you to get
that type of support and this realm of wellness. We
are on the journey of continued healing, not the first
step to healing. And the reason being because I don't
(03:56):
come as an expert to give you any.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Third repeutic.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Advice that is through no, I don't give you any
therapy advice. Let me stand correct because therapeutic practical skills
I can facilitate to you all because I am certified
and credential as a community health worker, and I have
gained the knowledge and skills to be able to do
so in this field that I am in as a
(04:25):
community health worker, I'm credentialed. My scope of practice is
behavioral health, but that is only for within my professional
or my day job. When I do this on the podcast,
I want you all to be be a peer, a
peer support to one another. This is to build up
(04:48):
a community of other survivors who who just need others
to be relatable. I'm here for different healing aspects that
you may need, that you have thought that you have
let go of. But I'm gonna be sharing me so
I can show you what I had to go through,
what it took for me to go through, and then
(05:09):
we will be offering other things to show you how
to get through. So there will be some things such
as the podcast that will be offering all free resources
of information. All of these things are free to any
and everyone, and then there will become tears to you
all that will be wanting to go further in your
(05:34):
healing journey to begin to take on the workshops that
I offer. One of the workshops will be infused with art.
I am infusing artwork of healing, photo, voice, photography. We
incorporate all type of healing artwork due to writing abilities
(05:58):
to journaling. Nothing to say that you have to be
a professional in any of these things that I will
be offering, but showing you practical skills to help you
of self development on your journey to healing.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
And we can do this.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
We really can. We really can do this together. I
was hesitant at first. Excuse me to do this podcast.
You may hear ms Kitty is my special guest in
the background who may make an appearance.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
But I want you all to.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Know that as a host to this podcast, I am
a trauma survivor and I'm here to walk with you
through the journey of healing and strength and most importantly peace,
going to be at peace in my life. So that's
why this second episode or this episode whenever it airs.
(06:59):
It's it's important to know that I'm going to give
you real, practical things that trauma survivors may get triggered,
may go through. I'm using my life experiences just so
i can show you that I am human with a
professional lens. Of course, I'm human. I want to share
(07:20):
those human every day scenarios to go with to make
sure you understand you're not alone on this journey. So
today we're diving deep into life challenges, the kind that
pushes our buttons. And the reason why I want to
talk about this is because it stirs up a lot
(07:44):
of emotions and it tests our healing when we're challenged. Okay,
it really does. I want to remind you that you're
not alone. You really are not. Every challenge is a
step towards it's becoming an even better, stronger you. So
(08:05):
how do we face negative challenges?
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Because there are positive.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Challenges that sometimes we may consider to be negative and
they really are not.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
But that's a different type of thorough work.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
So what I'm going to be sharing is life challenges
still comes at us and sometimes trying to pull us
back into a space of anger, frustrations, or even depression.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
It's real.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
You might feel like it's proof that you're not healed
just because you're going through life issues. It's just how
many of us truly believe that we are not who
we used to be?
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Do you believe that that?
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Because I know I'm not who I used to be,
I really not, and there that we're striving every day
to be a better version of ourselves, to walk in peace, love, joy,
and even forgiveness. No, from my experience, it's not easy.
Can't say it enough. I've I have to be careful
(09:19):
allowing things to get at me, to get to me.
And I know that you all can relate because there
could be something that just mess up your whole day.
I was recently hit with one of those challenges that
really threw off my whole nervous system. Got an email
(09:42):
and an attack out of nowhere. That's that's how its surfaced,
from someone who just just want to pop up. I
don't I still don't know the reason for the attacks.
You know, it's just them, this is it is a pattern.
But when they jump into this attack mode, let's just
(10:06):
say they be a joker for real, they really are
a joker. So there there was no kindness in it.
It started out giving me some regular information. Then it
turns south really ignorant provocations that I just didn't understand,
(10:32):
and I immediately reacted with anger, and yes I did.
I wanted to retaliate because it's like.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Hey, hey, slow up, what are you doing?
Speaker 2 (10:47):
What's going on here? For a moment, I wanted to
just meet up with them and meet them at that
level that they were presenting. Okay, because you know, if
we're gonna be.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Yea, now we can cut out the yak and what what?
What what? Here's the truth.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
God has been working on me long my self love
journey for some time and been helping me to grow
in spaces and to grow in self control, because you know, hurt.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
People do really hurt people, really do hurt.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
People, and if you're not careful, you will let that
energy come on you and then all of a sudden,
you're operating in that same energy that wasn't even yours.
And this person wanted to pull me into their misery.
Have you ever, I mean really, have you ever had
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someone who's just so miserable with themselves that they trying
to get a party going on to pull other people
in it? Look sad to say they really really really
really so I had to step back, I really did.
I had to breathe and remember a foundation of healing.
(12:08):
I chose silence. After a while, after like the second
day went by, that third day, I chose silence, and
I chose to use my block button. And that silence
became my strength because I when I internalize certain things
(12:29):
now that I'm older, I instantly get sick. And I
don't like feeling sick. I don't like not feeling well,
and those are triggers. So just be mindful. You know
what that that may look like. And I want to
encourage you all sincerely, I really do. When you're faced
with that kind of negativity, when someone steps up with
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disrespect or a hurtful message, and you have the power,
you have to know the power that you have to
choose wisdom and peace. I mean we have it, really do.
I want you to do this affirmation with me, Say
this with me. I am not my past reaction. I
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am guided by wisdom, peace and strength. I will not
let negativity control me. My silence speaks louder than any anger,
and God is my defender. And a challenge or disrespectful
message arives. Give yourself permission please to pause, and I'm
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going to tell you why in that moment, acts yourself
is it worth my peace? By times out of ten
you realize it isn't allow yourself that moment to break
from impulsal reaction because emotions make.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
You be quick to react.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
So it's never good when your emotions aren't taking you
further and deeper in that pit of their misery. Pull
yourself back, pause so you can regroup to have wisdom
to say what it is you might need to say. Oh,
just them stand there and say whatever they need to
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say by themselves.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
It takes two to argue that lead them standing.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Now, Remember that the purpose of healing is to liberate
you from reactions based on hurt. In situations like this,
go back to what you know brings you peace. For me,
it was I had to go back into silence and
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listen to my meditation music and pull out my affirmation,
pull out my word, and allow God to handle the
battles that didn't deserve my energy, the battles that I
had to let go.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
I really did have to let go.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Life challenges often reveal where we still need growing at.
So some people may have it and graduated like I
just don't let that stuff bother me. There are others
who still snap at the quick of the lip of
somebody saying something step on your toe. We all that
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at different stages of our lives. So give yourself grace
when you see your shortcomings and that you have not
upgraded past that it to allow that energy to shift you.
I would say that you gotta remind yourself that we
are equipped with wisdom, but you have to allow it
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to grow in you with consistency of disciplines, of new
skills that you have to learn, and instead of reacting,
you have to learn to use wisdom to see the
bigger picture and stay rooted in your piece. Your piece
(16:18):
is so important. Reach out to those who encourage you
on your journey, share the experience, get it off your chest,
talk about your feelings, talk about how it just reminds
yourself of how it's making you feel. But then remind
yourself of your goals to stay crownded in your healing,
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because if you stay on what is pulling you towards,
the negativity is going to take you further further off
from your goals. So your healing goal is your job
to stay there, and you have support that will help
you to be reminded when you're going too far. Are
off of the edge. Now the power of self control
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and faith, there is so much power in holding onto
your peace. And that's what I had to do. I
had to regain my peace. No matter what someone says
or does, remember it's a reflection of their pain, not
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your worst. It's not It's a reflection of their pain,
not your worst.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
That's them.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
We're all healing from something, but understand that doesn't mean
we should be pulled into a negative cycle. Use wisdom
to protect your heart. Please guard your heart.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Self control is one of.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
The hardest but most rewarding disciplines that anyone can actually
learn to apply to their day to day lives. And
when you commit to that thing, when you commit to it,
you will find that peace and that clarity becomes your
true strength, and that what gives you the ability to
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walk in it of that self control?
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Are we good? Do we have what we need?
Speaker 2 (18:21):
I'm just so excited for this journey to be able
to share what this is all about, for your healing journey,
where you can get it from right here. Weekly every Sunday,
I will be here at six pm. You will see
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throughout the week I will put out little blurbs of
affirmations and letting you know some of the hot topics
that I'm going to be discussing and to help you
to get along your week because we're going to be
challenged with stuff that sometimes we didn't see coming.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
We didn't see coming.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
I want to thank you for once again being able
to be a part of this journey with me. Become
a member of the website. Joined the website the Tattoo community,
so you can be up to date on any and
all things that is going to be hosting from Tattoo
(19:26):
your well Being. We're going to be building up any
and everyone is welcome to join our platforms. Rather it's
Facebook that is Tattoo your Wellbeing to you can find
me also author atara Estas that is my business pages
(19:46):
if you're interested in the infused art, the healing artwork
to photography, those infused workshops where you can begin following
on that business page age on Facebook Atara Healing Photography.
It doesn't break down the end depth of what we're
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going to be doing, but those are the different healing
sectors that you can join that would be helpful to you.
I am an author, so I do a lot of
writing journaling and if you are wanting to be a
part of that sector, you can join the author atara
ESEs page to follow me to get all of the
(20:29):
latest of things blogs that I will be offering and submitting,
as well as you can follow me on YouTube, Spotify.
Tattoo your well Being is on Spotify, iTunes, riverside, all podcasts.
(20:50):
I'm trying to get it to go everywhere it needs
to go.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Follow, Follow, Follow.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
You will find all of this information in a description
atara tattoo Es is on the YouTube. Please help me
to build up my subscribers because we're going to be
having a general public in our general places, but we're
about to break down and become very personable. For those
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who want to go intense on their healing journey to
go deeper because I can tell you this, Their healing
belongs to you and you can definitely heal from your
trauma if you're ready to face it in a holistic way.
Non clinical practical skills that you can utilize now that
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is not open to the general Those would be a
workshop fee for you to go and dive in. Also,
there's a book workbook that's going to be coming out.
There's one that will be a self paced book that
you can do at your own time and leisure. Because
all of your healing is it's up to you.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
You get what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
This is not something that you have to be a
part of the structured class.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
And all this.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
But when that time come and I am offering six
to ten week courses to dive in to create more discipline,
then you can be a part of that as well.
So they are going to be different phases for everyone
to pick whatever works for you for your healing journey.
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But overall, let's build up this community to be available
to everyone who is on want to be a survivor
of sharing. This is about sharing. There will be some
other things that I open up, and there will be
some most of it is virtual, but then there will
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be some in person circles that will be created in
the Saint Louis area, but there will also be offering
for those who want it elsewhere.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
After.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
You may want me to come and speak, you may
want me to come and do a healing circle. You
may want me to come and do a seminar, workshop.
You may need me to present my book Damage Goods
or next my workbook, but also be on the lookout
because we have that we're working on. Is Bound by Betrayal,
(23:26):
is excerpts from Damaged Goods. That is presenting a movie.
So all of these wonderful things that are taking place
is because of the healing journey that I put myself
in to make sure I was ready for what was next.
And I wanted to be able to share these practical
things that I had to do for myself in order
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to get where I am, and I'm willing to show
you the transformation on how you can do it as
well for yourself. So to all of my tattoo warriors
out there, remember God has the final say. You are
walking in purpose, not in reaction. Okay, nothing in your
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past can hold you back from stepping too. God's great love,
joy and forgiveness.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
These things are so liberating.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
God has love, joy, and forgiveness and a peace that
pass all understanding. These challenges are just tests of your
faith and they won't last forever. So don't be so
hard on yourself. Give yourself some grace, know when to
pick it up, and that would be pick up your
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armor and when to put it down so you can
have peace. There's a time and a place for everything.
There's a time for war and there's a time for peace.
There's a time for you to know which one you
need to be in when it is happening in that
real time. So ask for the wisdom to know which
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season you're in, because you can't be in fight mode
all the time. Sometimes it called to be self control
of silence, hold your peace, let God fight your battles.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
As we get ready to.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Wind down, as you can hear Miss Kitty in the
background saying hello to you all. Let's close with this affirmation.
I am grounded in wisdom, say after me. I am
grounded in wisdom. My peace cannot be stolen by those
who misunderstand me. I am better, not better, and my
silence is my strength. God fights my battles and brings
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me into peace. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank
you for joining me today. I really do. Thank you
from the bottle of my heart. Follow us on everything
that's under the description.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
Know when to be able to help and support.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Our our healing journey, to grow into these workshops and
build out our platform for booking us to be able
to come out and speak and to present.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Look.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
You are resilient, you are wonderful, You are powerful. You
are a testament to your strength of healing. Okay, tune
in next Sunday for more inspiration. Tune in on Sunday
Sunday Sunday Sunday for this episode or any episode. You
may want to go back in and look at the
other ones, but don't forget to subscribe and join our
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growing tattoo community on atara ESTs dot com. And until then,
may you walk in peace.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Bless say bye bye.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
She said bye bye, say bye bye, bye bye.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
What my babies be? Blessed? The book the Book to
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