Ep 68 Exploring Spiritual Trauma with Valerie Martin
Have you ever experienced spiritual trauma in your life? A feelings of disconnect, break in trust, or another experience?
In this podcast, we have Valarie Martin, a therapist, psychospiritual mentor, and yoga instructor based in Nashville, TN. She is an amazing individual who helps people get over their spiritual trauma and supports women to deepen their relationships with themselves and others, access greater meaning and freedom in their day-to-day, and unlearn the thought and behavioral patterns that are getting in their way. She shares her experience with spiritual abuse, how she got over it, and how she shares it with others.
Key Points to Learn:
What is spiritual trauma or abuse?
Where we are and where we are headed in terms of spiritual truth?
What are the tools we can use to move forward in this spiritual activation?
How your community can help in healing your spiritual trauma.
Show Notes:
(0:30) Introduction - Who is Valerie Martin and how did she and what is this podcast all about.
(3:10) Valerie shares some interesting things about herself.
(7:17) How Valerie started on her journey as a psychotherapist and yoga expert.
(11:15) What is spiritual trauma ? How does it show up in the world?
(17:17) What are the feelings we might feel internally if we experience spiritual trauma?
(24:00) Valerie’s insights when it comes to disconnection and abandonment and the illusion of separation.
(30:56) Valerie shares her insights on where we are right now and where we are headed in terms of spiritual truth and patriarchal society.
(36:48) How to move forward in creating change from a place of change in systems that are no longer serving us.
(42:02) What are the tools that can help people in the activation we experience right now?
(49:36) How the community can help in your healing path from spiritual trauma.
(54:13) Valerie shares her latest offer in her business.
Quotes:
(11:45) “Spiritual trauma abuse or trauma can show up in so many different ways. It’s very complex and multi-layered.”
(19:50) “It’s really about being alive in a world that is fully alive. That is life source, that is God-source.”
(25:53) “Get up into your spiritual helicopter and when you go up and you look up from that angle, it’s a different view from the ego view.”
(31:15) “We are in a true moment of reckoning. We already care but we are activated in a good way and a new level.”
(32:12) “Freedom is liberation, and spiritual truth is liberation. If we are not liberating all of us, none of us is liberated.”
(51:45) “You are ultimately the divine, you are your teacher. But it’s also okay to hav =e guides along the way.”
(57:53) “Find your feet, find your breath. If you can do those two things, then you’ll be okay no matter what.”
Connect with Valerie:
Website: www.valeriekmartin.com
The Gaia Center: https://gaiacenter.co/
Facebook Group: www.facebook.com/groups/regroupwithval/
Instagram: www.instagram.com/valkaymartin/
Podcast: https://www.valeriekmartin.com/podcast
From Comparison to Confidence: http://valeriekmartin.com/comparison-to-confidence
Links Mentioned:
2 We Believe, a Comics By Matthew Inman: https://theoatmeal.com/comics/believe
Non-Violent Communication by Marshall Rosenburg: https://www.audible.com/pd/Nonviolent-Communication-Audiobook/B00TJJNSQG?ds_rl=1262685&ds_rl=1263561&ds_rl=1260658&source_code=GO1GB13304202090MO&gclid=CjwKCAjwm_P5BRAhEiwAwRzSO7N-SOcmXigyWP63nX5Z6ofMXrfmvJamRR1GpGtR6pPfQpjHIoFOrhoCPpEQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds
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