“I'm Not Running Away From Anything Anymore.”

10/10/19 • 48 min

Mitch Pauley can pinpoint the moment he realized he needed support. In this episode Mitch talks about how his personal healing journey was sparked after his wife, Rae Carter, was diagnosed with breast cancer. Rae was a guest on Lucid Cafe last season in the powerful episode titled, “I Didn’t Need to Lose My Boob.”

Now, we hear from Mitch, who candidly shares:

The positive and challenging aspects of being a caregiver
The moment he realized he needed help of his own
The progression of his healing journey exploring:
- Talk therapy
- Having a gratitude practice
- Spirituality
- Shamanic Healing
- His challenging relationship with his father
- His trauma history
- Striving for forgiveness
- Vulnerability and shame
The importance of finding a therapist you feel comfortable with
The impact his personal healing has had on his role as a special educator

To learn more about Lucid Cafe’s host, Wendy Halley, please visit her website

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Now, we hear from Mitch, who candidly shares:

The positive and challenging aspects of being a caregiver
The moment he realized he needed help of his own
The progression of his healing journey exploring:
- Talk therapy
- Having a gratitude practice
- Spirituality
- Shamanic Healing
- His challenging relationship with his father
- His trauma history
- Striving for forgiveness
- Vulnerability and shame
The importance of finding a therapist you feel comfortable with
The impact his personal healing has had on his role as a special educator

To learn more about Lucid Cafe’s host, Wendy Halley, please visit her website

★ Support this podcast ★

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Being Resilient = Being Resourceful

In this episode, career coach Mayda Poc takes us on a journey of her life and work. She teaches us that the crisis is sometimes the only message we get to propel us into the next stage of our personal evolution.

Tune in to learn about:

Mayda’s practice coaching overachievers and the dissatisfaction many of them end up feeling
The challenge of figuring out what you want
The importance of ‘being’ rather than ‘doing’
How Mayda’s relationship with money has changed
The scarcity mentality
The culture of investment banking
Mayda’s early life in Syria living under a dictatorship
The impact of the 2008 financial crisis
Resilience
How Mayda dealt with receiving the news that she had advanced Hodgkin's Lymphoma
Stress and her very shamanic approach to her cancer diagnosis
How she addressed the cancer cells in her body
The role that personal power played in her healing
The role of trust
Career transition
The importance of asking for help

To contact or learn more about Mayda, please visit her website https://www.maydapoccoaching.com/

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Iboga: The Visionary Root

This episode explores the African psychedelic plant medicine known as Iboga. My guest, Levi Barker is an Iboga provider at the Iboga Wellness Center in Costa Rica. He shares the following about this powerful medicine:

The Iboga experience
How an Iboga ceremony unfolds at the Iboga Wellness Center
How a broken wrist led to Levi’s 10 year struggle with opiate addiction...
And how he used Iboga unsupervised to get through the withdrawal experience
How Iboga works and how it’s different from other psychedelic plant medicines, like Ayahuasca
How Iboga is not just for treating addiction
Levi’s path to becoming an Iboga provider
How to prepare for an Iboga ceremony

To contact Levi or for more information about the Iboga Wellness Center, please visit https://ibogawellness.com/

To contact Lucid Cafe host, Wendy Halley, please visit https://www.lucidpathwellness.com/

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