Awaken Heal and Thrive!

Introducing the new podcast “Awaken, Heal, and Thrive!” Host Benjamin Bernstein and his enlightening guests will help you speed up your spiritual awakening, heal more quickly and easily, and thrive like never before! Benjamin will also share stories from his 16+ years of working with ayahuasca and other plant spirit teachers.

How did getting diagnosed with candida launch me into an extraordinary breakthrough?

In this special 20-minute episode, I describe the life-transforming changes I’ve been enjoying from the ketotarian/anti-candida diet I've been on for the last month. They include 20 pounds of effortless weight loss, sharper memory, boosted vitality, consistent equanimity, and the disappearance of anxiety and depression.

This experience has given me a much deeper respect for the profound impact of my food choices on my mind, body, emotions, and everything else. Even if keto isn’t on your menu, this episode should give you plenty of food for thought!

Resources

The Keto Reset Diet: Reboot Your Metabolism in 21 Days and Burn Fat Forever by Mark Sisson & Brad Kearns

Ketotarian: The (Mostly) Plant-Based Plan to Burn Fat, Boost Your Energy, Crush Your Cravings, and Calm Inflammation: A Cookbook by Dr. Will Cole

Free video: Instant Divine Assistance: Your Free Guide to Fast and Easy Awakening, Healing, and More. I lead you through all four types of my invocations!

Check out my #1 Amazon bestseller: Instant Divine Assistance: Your Complete Guide to Fast and Easy Spiritual Awakening, Healing, and More.

• Available as an audiobook narrated by yours truly. (FREE if you're not yet an Audible member!)
• Also available as an eBook, paperback, and hardcover starting at $3.99, and included with Kindle Unlimited.

Every month, I give away a free one-year Awakening Plus membership to an “Awaken, Heal, and Thrive!” listener. Click here to enter!

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In this very special episode, I'm honored to interview the extraordinary human being known as Amanda Kate. She's the author of the wonderful book Divine. Messy. Human. A Spiritual Guide to Prioritising Internal Truth over External Influence. She’s also a kinesiologist, mentor, archetypal life coach, mother and much more.

Highlights of this fascinating 64-minute interview with Amanda include:

• How insights gained from her agonizing decision to end a toxic marriage – and realizing how much abuse she had suffered – changed her self-perception from “fundamentally flawed” to “fundamentally human.”
• How kinesiology succeeded when western medicine failed to cure serious physical and mental challenges – inspiring her to help others heal by becoming a kinesiologist herself!
• Moving past religious intermediaries to experience the God within you.
• The positive role of anger to expose boundary violations – especially for women.
• Why it's so important to complete and release our stress responses.
• Using emotional fluency to identify and befriend all your emotions.
• When to shift a challenging emotion, and when to sit with it.
• How the truth has 144 sides.
• “Wholing” vs healing.
• How your troublesome wounded parts are actually trying to help you.
• Amanda's favorite technique to regain your calm center. (It's so simple!)
• The critical importance of being “of service to,” rather than “in service to.”
• Why serving and loving ourselves empowers us to optimally serve and love others.
• Understanding self-love as a skill that can be strengthened - and how it can be gritty, hard, and firm in setting and enforcing boundaries.
• Why your “comfort zone” is better understood as your “known zone.”
• How to stay alert to the many ways your internal guidance can nudge you onto the best path, and
• How shadow work can help you embody the light that you really are.

This conversation is loaded with life-transforming insights. Enjoy!

Amanda's Links

Amanda's site: amandakate.com.au

Amanda's wonderful book Divine. Messy. Human. A Spiritual Guide to Prioritising Internal Truth over External Influence. (On Amazon, and included with Kindle Unlimited.)

Benjamin's Links

Every month, Benjamin gives away a free one-year Awakening Plus membership worth $189 to an “Awaken, Heal, and Thrive!” listener. Click here to enter!

Free mini-course: Instant Divine Assistance: Your Free Guide to Fast and Easy Awakening and Healing

Benjamin's Amazon #1 best-selling book: Instant Divine Assistance: Your Complete Guide to Fast and Easy Spiritual Awakening, Healing, and More

“Awakening Plus” online membership

While this interview episode focuses on hope – and how Laura V. is healing from severe trauma more quickly and easily than she had thought possible – it does contain graphic descriptions that may upset some listeners. This episode is definitely not suitable for children, so please don’t listen if you’re under eighteen.

Even if you’re an adult, if the thought of a five-year-old girl being pulled into a sex trafficking operation, then experiencing extreme abuse for more than eight years, is too much for you to bear, please stop right here.

Laura V, one of my healing clients, gives frank descriptions of her ten years as a victim of incest and sex trafficking. Her father, one of many men who abused her, sold her into sexual slavery when she was a young girl.

This 80-minute episode includes details of how she and many other children experienced severe abuse, which some did not survive. She also describes how Dissociative Identity Disorder has helped her cope with these traumatic experiences.

Laura discusses her experiences in the context of how she’s healing from these traumas using quick and effective modalities, especially Internal Family Systems Therapy and my Instant Divine Assistance Invocations.

Both Laura and I have been amazed at how rapidly she's been healing during the sessions I’ve been facilitating for her. Our intention with this episode is to show you that, no matter how severe the trauma you've experienced, quick and effective healing might be possible.

After our interview, I’ll give you a brief overview of child sex trafficking. This will help you put Laura’s experience into a larger context. I’ve included links to Laura’s recommended books and support resources for childhood sexual abuse and Dissociative Identity Disorder below.

Laura offers these key takeaways from her interview:

1. No matter how long ago or how recent the abuse, no matter how minor or severe the abuse, healing is possible.

2. Healing doesn’t have to be grueling, exhausting or hard. It can be quick, effortless, and uplifting!

3. With the Instant Divine Assistance Invocations and Internal Family Systems Therapy, you can confront, process and completely heal difficult and even terrifying trauma memories. And you can do it safely and quickly.

Experience had taught me that facing the terrors I experienced would put me in crisis. With Benjamin’s skilled help, I faced those terrors and found compassion for my abusers and myself. After I transmuted those painful, burdensome memories, I found peace and joy on the other side. I did not have to recover from these sessions for even a few minutes!

4. There is hope. It is possible to find freedom, joy, and a future that is good. Your Higher Self, or God, is guiding you to that future every step of the way!

If you or someone you know is a victim of human trafficking, you can get help at humantraffickinghotline.org/, or by calling 1-888-373-7888.

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Laura highly recommends these resources on childhood sexual abuse and Dissociative Identity Disorder:

Discussing Dissociation site by Kathy Broady, MSW.

Treatment of Dissociative Identity Disorder: Techniques and Strategies for Stabilization, book by Dr. Colin Ross.

Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Internal Self-Alienation, book by Dr. Janina Fisher.

An Infinite Mind -- organization dedicated to support survivors with DID.

Child Rescue Coalition.

RAINN -- for adult survivors who need help recovering from childhood sexual abuse.

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Here are Benjamin's sources for the child sex trafficking information he gives after Laura’s interview:

https://www.savethechildren.org/us/charity-stories/child-trafficking-myths-vs-facts

https://oese.ed.gov/human-trafficking-of-children-in-the-united-states-a-fact-sheet-for-schools/