This is My Silver Lining

They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but some pictures move from the eyes, straight to the heart, without any need for words. Erin Borzellino is a photographer who captures such images, waiting patiently to catch unpolished moments of raw joy that might otherwise pass unnoticed. Erin is a storyteller, whose photo projects, Unstoppable , Below the Water Line, and Women Who Rock each evoke and celebrate the best of the human spirit.

After college, Erin’s passion for photography took a backseat to a more “practical” career in financial services. She moved to London, where she met her husband. Shortly after having their first child, Giorgio, in the UK, Giorgio was diagnosed with a rare genetic mutation of the NF1 gene, which is responsible for suppressing tumor growth. Erin and her husband had to quickly adapt to the daily uncertainty of Giorgio’s condition and learned how to care for him moment to moment. Along the way, they also learned to enjoy each day, to focus on the present, not worry too much about the future, and to be grateful for all that they have. Erin says that in many ways, having a child with special needs changed her life positively in unexpected ways.

A high achiever destined to be a "Type A" mom, once she started raising her three kids, Erin was surprised to find that she was actually much more of a "Type Z" mom. Having a child with special needs changed her perspective on a lot of things: career, success, and what really matters. She’s less inclined to hound any of her children about piano practice and soccer lessons, instead maintaining her focus on their happiness and teaching them to be kind to others.

Episode Resources:
Erin Borzellino Photography: https://erinborzellino.com/
Erin’s Instagram: @erinborzellino
The Giorgio Foundation: https://endnf1.org/

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Have you ever had that sense of deja vu? Like you’ve been somewhere before? Or maybe you meet someone for the first time but you have an instant connection and feel like you must have known them before? These feelings and experiences may be clues to one of your past lives. In this episode, we speak with Ann C. Barham, a Certified Regression Therapist and retired Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist. For over 25 years, she has worked with clients of all faiths and backgrounds to explore issues that they are having in their current lives by mining their subconscious memories for key past life experiences. Her book on this topic, The Past Life Perspective, highlights actual case studies from real clients.

Ann’s work is based on the premise that each of our souls is reincarnated across time in order to go through a series of life experiences on the planet. Each of us carry memories of past lives from one life to the next. At a conscious level, we may be unaware of our past lives. However, subconsciously, these memories often have a profound impact on the way we show up and experience life in the present.

Episode Links and Resources:
Past Life Perspective
The Past Life Perspective: Discovering Your True Nature Across Multiple Lifetimes
Many Lives, Many Masters: The True Story of a Prominent Psychiatrist, His Young Patient, and the Past-Life Therapy That Changed Both Their Lives, Brian Weiss, M.D.

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Kevin Sousa is a Program Director and Ocean Therapist at the Jimmy Miller Memorial Foundation, as well as a therapist in private practice in Hermosa Beach, California. While we initially approached Kevin to learn more about the benefits of surf therapy and the work of the JMMF, we quickly learned that Kevin had his own story to tell about his path to sobriety, being present, and the importance of enjoying the wave you’re on right now.

Kevin shared with us his doctoral thesis, Soul Seeking: A Crossing, where he shares his journey from alcohol abuse and addiction to sobriety through the lens of training for the Catalina Classic, an annual 32-mile paddleboard marathon from Catalina Island to Manhattan Beach, CA. Kevin’s story is one of endurance, gratitude, and one of healing himself by helping others. Training for the Classic carried Kevin through the earliest and most difficult days of his path to sobriety. As a professional musician, building up his physical endurance to complete the race was only part of Kevin’s journey. Unleashing new found creativity, songwriting and performing, played a significant role in Kevin’s ability to confront and deal with his addictions.

We learn about the history and the work of the Jimmy Miller Memorial Foundation, one of the oldest surf therapy programs in the country, which provides surf therapy to “at-promise” youth, veterans through the Wounded Warrior battalion at Camp Pendleton, and most recently, first responders during the COVID-19 pandemic.

We talk about a lot more than surfing. Kevin shares his views on meditation and how being mindful has helped him along his journey. “You can’t do it wrong,” he says.

Whether it’s meditating, writing music, performing, surfing. . . Kevin tells us that it’s all about putting yourself in situations where you have to stay engaged and stay present. Kevin’s message is one we can all learn from: focus on the present. “The perfect wave is the one you’re on.”

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It has been a long two years. Correction: two-plus years. We’re all exhausted by the unending wait for this COVID 19 pandemic to be over. Our guest, Dr. Evangeline Thibodeau feels the same way. She’s a mom of three living in a small town on the coast of Maine. But Evangeline doesn’t have the luxury of turning off the news and forgetting about COVID for a few hours. She’s been in the thick of it all longer than most of us, and still is. She is the person that this small town turns to for guidance as everyone tries to live with this virus and adapt to a new normal. Imagine enjoying a Saturday morning soccer game at your daughter’s school as parents casually (or not so casually) ask questions like, “Is it safe for me to visit my parents for Christmas?” “Do we really need to wear masks?” No pressure!

Evangeline likens her role to someone who is flying an airplane while they are still trying to put the wings on. We talk with her about the challenges of being the “expert” while the information available is constantly changing.

Although she has every reason to, Evangeline doesn’t focus on the burnout. In fact, she’s grateful for the lessons that these past two years have taught her. When it is so easy to judge someone who doesn’t see eye to eye with you, she has learned to be more understanding and compassionate. She has become resilient instead of exhausted. She has cherished the extra time with her family, and even tells us about a new sport they all learned together. . . and it’s not a sport that naturally comes to mind when you think about the great state of Maine! For Evangeline, the pandemic has been a reminder of why she entered the medical field in the first place: to treat people whose health is suffering with kindness, dignity and compassion.

If an infectious disease doctor in the midst of a global pandemic can find the silver linings. . . so can you. Tune in to hear more.
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In this final installment of our series highlighting stories of the achievements and challenges faced by some of the most distinguished women judges in our history, we speak with former Chief Justice Peggy Quince of the Florida Supreme Court, who is featured in the ABA’s recently published Her Honor - Stories of Challenge and Triumph from Women Judges, edited by Lauren Rikleen.

Raised by a single father in Virginia with her four siblings, Chief Justice Peggy Quince learned early on what it means to be treated unfairly. In 1954, the United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the policy of “separate but equal” justifying segregation in schools was unconstitutional in the landmark case of Brown v. Board of Education. The decision had little practical or positive impact on the course of young Peggy’s education - many white schools actively resisted efforts to integrate, with some shuttering for years to avoid it. Still she persevered.

Justice Quince tells us about the profound influence her father, Solomon Quince, had on her education. He was determined to afford his children the education he had been denied. Peggy excelled at school and after graduating from Howard University, she was inspired by both the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement, to pursue a career in the law. In 1993, she was appointed to the Second District Court of Appeal and then in 1999, she was appointed as the first African American woman to serve as a Justice on the Florida Supreme Court. From 2008-2010, she served as Chief Justice.

Episode Resources:
Her Honor: Stories of Challenge and Triumph from Women Judges
Justice Peggy A. Quince Bio

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