Episode #33: Dissociative Identity Disorder, Multiple Personalities and the Process of Healing with Lyn Barrett, Author

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01/13/22 • 60 min

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INTRODUCTION:

Lyn Barrett is an author and a facilitator of Writers’ Workshops and Memoir Classes for People with Dissociative Disorders. Her memoir, Crazy: Reclaiming Life from the Shadow of Traumatic Memory, follows her discovery of and recovery from multiple personality disorder, now called dissociative identity disorder (publication date January 3, 2022 with Koehler Books). Her free eBook DID Unpacked: A Parable is available on her website. She has been interviewed by public radio stations around the country and by Safe Communities Survivors’ Voices series. A retired teacher, school principal, and pastor, Lyn was diagnosed with DID in 1992 while climbing up the career ladder. After considerable therapeutic work, she now lives a happily integrated life with her husband in the Adirondacks. You can connect with Lyn on her website at www.Lynbarrett.com.

INCLUDED IN THIS EPISODE (But not limited to):

· Are you really crazy?

· Dissociative Identity Disorder defined

· Alternate/Multiple personalities

· Insight into the memoir writing process

· Early childhood trauma

· Trauma informed therapy

· Atheistic insight

· Quaker insight

· Healing

CONNECT WITH LYN:

Website: https://www.lynbarrett.com

Books: https://amzn.to/3Ci9ixq

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lynbarrettbooks

IG: https://www.instagram.com/lynbarrettauthor/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lyn-barrett-08642129/

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/devannon

Email: [email protected]

DE’VANNON’S RECOMMENDATIONS:

· Pray Away Documentary (NETFLIX)

o https://www.netflix.com/title/81040370

o TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk_CqGVfxEs

Thanks for listening!!! Please follow us on YouTube + TikTok @SexDrugsAndJesusPodcast

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INTRODUCTION:

INCLUDED IN THIS EPISODE (But not limited to):

· Are you really crazy?

· Dissociative Identity Disorder defined

· Alternate/Multiple personalities

· Insight into the memoir writing process

· Early childhood trauma

· Trauma informed therapy

· Atheistic insight

· Quaker insight

· Healing

CONNECT WITH LYN:

Website: https://www.lynbarrett.com

Books: https://amzn.to/3Ci9ixq

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lynbarrettbooks

IG: https://www.instagram.com/lynbarrettauthor/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lyn-barrett-08642129/

CONNECT WITH DE’VANNON:

Website: https://www.SexDrugsAndJesus.com

YouTube: https://bit.ly/3daTqCM

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SexDrugsAndJesus/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sexdrugsandjesuspodcast/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/TabooTopix

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/devannon

Email: [email protected]

DE’VANNON’S RECOMMENDATIONS:

· Pray Away Documentary (NETFLIX)

o https://www.netflix.com/title/81040370

o TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk_CqGVfxEs

Thanks for listening!!! Please follow us on YouTube + TikTok @SexDrugsAndJesusPodcast

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Episode #32: Life After Getting Fired, Leadership Hacks, Heterosexual Hullabaloo in the Church and Unique Asian American Perspective with Leadership Coach Jerry Fu, PharmD, ACC

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INTRODUCTION:

Jerry Fu was born in the United States, growing up in a Taiwanese family. He encountered conflicts at work, in culture, and within himself. He didn’t know how to handle any of it, and he didn’t know where to look for help. Worse, he lost a job because he continually avoided conflict with an upset boss. But getting fired was the wake-up call he needed. Jerry had to adapt myself and improve as a leader, which meant engaging the conflict he disliked so much. Ironically, his ongoing struggle with conflict became a fascination. Now, Jerry helps others take on the same challenges. Jerry’s clients experience three benefits:

1.Clarity in next steps to take
2.Confidence to take them

3.Closure after overcoming the difficulty

Jerryis also a pharmacist and a leadership coach. He works with Asian-American
professionals on their career and life journeys. He focuses on resolving
clients' conflict at work, in culture, and within themselves. His services
include one-on-one coaching, group workshops, and keynote presentations.

Beforestarting his coaching business, Jerry completed a Biology degree at Rice
University. He also attended pharmacy school at the University of
Tennessee-Memphis. Teaching a leadership workshop in 2012 inspired him to
become a pharmacy manager. He completed the CoachRICE Leadership Certificate
Program in spring of 2020. He is an ICF-certified coach and certified talent
optimization consultant with Predictive Index. His interests include travel,
cooking, playing guitar/piano, and lots of salsa dancing. If you’ve read this
far, then this poses the question: What can JFu do for you?

INCLUDED IN THIS EPISODE (But not limited to):

· Unique Asian American perspective
· Bouncing back from getting fired

· Dealing with conflict on the job

· Leadership hacks

· Coronavirus disruptions

· Heterosexual hullabaloo in the church!!!

· Surviving loss of a business

· Dealing with workplace conflict

· Xenophobia in Harris County

· Salsa dancing lessons and how they transfer into leadership skills

o Command

o Confidence

o Creativity

o Communication

o Commitment

CONNECT WITH JERRY:

Website & Coaching: https://www.adaptingleaders.com
LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/34m6iop

JERRY’S RECOMMENDATIONS:

Barking Up The Wrong Tree: https://amzn.to/3qSqN3F
Designing Your Life: https://amzn.to/33bsn8z
Designing Your Work Life: https://amzn.to/3f0OiCh
The Advice Trap: https://amzn.to/3zANoFV
Decisive: https://amzn.to/3n2lAp8

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Website: https://www.SexDrugsAndJesus.com

YouTube: https://bit.ly/3daTqCM

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Episode #34: "Claircognizance," Soul Connections, Military Mayhem and Coming Out with Claircognizant Psychic, Stopher Cavins

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INTRODUCTION:

Stopher Cavins is a claircognizant psychic and intuitive blogger. His spiritual gift of claircognizance provides him with an uncanny "knowing" of information and outcomes. This psychic ability allows him to provide healing messages and clarity from divine sources.

Stopher offers psychic mediumship readings to those in need of clarity and healing. He also blogs on his website, (https://www.myfatedlife.com), about his personal journey in order to connect with others that have had similar experiences.

Stopher is an open book. He has taken a very winding path on his journey to where he is now. His goal is to share his history of successes, failures, traumas, etc. in order to help others understand the beauty of their own similar experiences.

Stopher spent so much of his life in a “me bubble”. Situations that occurred during his childhood presented him with challenges which he dealt with by going into survival mode. Unfortunately, he would remain in that defensive survival mode for the next 30 plus years. This would present a real challenge to those trying to get close to him.

Throughout his 20’s and 30’s, Stopher didn’t seek answers from within. He liked the idea of spirituality, but he would never make time to connect spiritually. Stopher’s time was spent protecting his “me bubble”. Ego was fully engaged, enabled, and empowered. Let’s just say that he was not the easiest person to be around.

For Stopher, this way of life was getting the job done. His fully empowered ego was protecting him from experiencing the pain and heartache that he experienced in his childhood. The flip side is that Stopher was extremely unfulfilled and always disappointed with where he was in life.

As Stopher entered his 40’s, things changed for him. The universe was tired of hearing him complain about not having what he thought he deserved. Stopher was launched into what he later realized was a spiritual awakening. It is hard to explain, but basically, Stopher felt the need to break free from absolutely everything that was holding him in place. Some might call it a mid-life crisis, but Stopher knows it was something much deeper. It was something that came from deep within his existence. The real “me” finally stood up and took control.

INCLUDED IN THIS EPISODE (But not limited to):

· A discussion of “claircognizance”

· Does everyone possess psychic abilities?

· Spirit team defined

· Soul connections

· Dealing with death

· Hearing from loved ones who have passed on

· Military madness – Don’t Ask Don’t Tell

· Difficulties with coming out

· Life after getting kicked out of the military

· How family can suppress us

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