Wendy Keir has spent her whole life recovering from the traumatic aftereffects of being institutionalized in the United Kingdom's care system. She believes that healing from emotional and traumatic scars is an inside out job. The path to successful ongoing recovery and to breaking the cycle starts with your relationship with yourself and others, how you perceive the world around you and changing your inner world.

In this episode, Wendy and I discuss:

What is trauma and denial?
Recognizing how trauma affects your life
Processing your trauma and rebuilding back your self-esteem
Finding your identity as a fighter

Key Takeaways:

A trauma is any event that leaves an emotional imprint within your identity that changes your behavior. Trauma completely changes your personality, body and mind. Trauma can be passed on from parent to child.
Recognizing trauma starts from diving within yourself, it's a process of healing and that starts with being self-aware. Take the one thing that's affecting your life the most right now and address that right now. Take things one step at a time.
One of the things that is often lost when going through traumatic events is self-esteem. You can regain your self-esteem by connecting with the part of you that's able to see yourself from a loving, compassionate, forgiving, and more empowering mindset.
Fear isn't real, it's an illusion of the mind that has been created from what we experienced in the past.

"When you start reconnecting with and connecting with the part that is able to acknowledge, to forgive, to comfort the child or the young woman, or young adult that had that experience, you naturally start to see a different side of your personality. You start to recognize that it wasn't not your fault, it was out of your control. You can start to recognize who it is you are, as an individual." — Wendy Keir

Connect with Wendy Keir:

Facebook: https://web.facebook.com/groups/CoachingandMentoringCollective/

Website: https://www.consciouscoachingandmentoring.com/

Email: wendy@consciouscoachingandmentoring.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wendykier/detail/contact-info/

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